ceremony was concluded, Joan of Arc, who, 
uutil then, had marched by the side of the 
king, wished to retire. Shn affirmed that 
her mission was accomplished, and that 
Charles TII. would speedily expel the 
English and bocomo solo sovereign of France. 
In fact the impulse had boon given, and 
already from a thousand different points the 
king received the surrender of towns. 
Charles VII. opposed tho resolution of 
Jo ax of Arc, who, not without regret, 
remained In the royal army. Some¬ 
time after this, when Charles VII. mado 
an attack on Paris, she was wounded by 
an arrow from a cross-bow. Discouraged, 
she hung up her arms in the Basilica of Saint 
Denis, and again rcsolvod to return to Doin- 
remy. But the king succeeded in retaining 
her, and led her with him to the towns on 
the Loire. 
She, with her companions in arms, soon 
re-appeared in the north of Franco. After 
having, by several brilliant actions, rc-cstab 
lishcd the fortune ol Charles VII. in 
Pioardie, she entered the town of Com- 
piogne, which the Burgundians held in 
siege. In their flight Joan of Arc was 
taken by the enemy. At tho moment when 
the Burgundians repulsed the garrison of 
Compiogne, she found herself in the rear¬ 
guard. Separated for a moment from her 
forces, by hor bravery she succeeded in 
gaining tho ramparts, when she perceived 
that tho gates of tho town were closed. 
Then she surrendered, and became the 
prisoner of Jean di: Luxembourg. 
At that intelligence the English and all 
the enemies of Franco exhibited their exul¬ 
tation, and celebrated the captivity of the 
maid by fetes and public demonstrations. 
Jean de Luxembourg soon suffered himself 
to be bribed by the English, and sold hh 
prisoner to them. When the English ob¬ 
tained possession of the young maiden, who 
had awakened in them so much terror, they 
showed themselves dastardly and cruel. 
They desired her condemnation at any 
price, and Pierre Caucuon, had recourse 
to a thousand expedients to detect in hor 
answers at least the appearance of guilt. 
Joan, during her examination, manifested 
resignation, firmness, and, we may almost 
say, heroism. She protested against the ini- 
unity of her judges, and once appealed to 
the council of Basil. Pierre Caucuon 
caused her appeal to be rejected, and she 
was condemned to be burned alive. Tho 
stake was prepared on the public grounds 
at. Rouen. To it they bound the young 
maiden, who was quickly consumed hy the 
flames. Sho wept, it is true, in her last 
moments, but she implored no pity from her 
executioners. In tho midst of the devour¬ 
ing flames “ Jesus ! Jesus!” were the only 
words she was heard to utter. 
any impropriety in her acceptance of it? 
And as he considers it merely a gentlemanly 
act of politeness, should sho give thanks or 
consider It in tho same light as ho does—a 
pleasure for him? In oilier words, is it 
politeness for her to remark further upon 
the subject after once objecting, and he still 
presses it? I have often been placed in such 
a position of obligation, and fearing to mako 
myself rude have sometimo thought I may 
have over-stepped tho rules of etiquette 
and not appeared ihonJtfuZ enough. I have 
always claimed it a lady’s privilege to boar 
her own expenses, and do not understand 
why a gentleman should consider himself 
under obligations to defray them for her. 
Such kindness greatly embarrasses me, as it 
docs many of my lady friends, and wo ask 
your advice, for which we shall bo very 
than!.ful Lo receive through tho columns of 
tlui Rural.” 
That depends upon the man. It is not 
well to place yourself under obligations to a 
casual acquaintance. It is mere politeness 
and civil kindness for a gentleman to secure 
a lady’s tioket for her, and it is her duty to 
refund the amount expended for her with 
thanks, as it is his to accept them. If you 
prefer to beat- your own expenses, and tell 
him you prefer so to do, in a way ho cannot 
doubt, and ho still insists upon defraying 
them, you need not feel under any obliga¬ 
tions to him whatever, nor bo profuse in 
thanks. Indeed, I shouldn’t thank him at. 
nil for doing what I did not wish him to do. 
It is as much your right to pay your own 
bills as it is a man’s to pay his; but if a well 
known friend deems it a pleasure! to defray 
them for you, you can probably make an 
equivalent return in some other way, on hia 
birthday, or Holiday week. .Mintwood. 
vamuxB 
DEAD LOVE, 
ON THE WAY. 
TVo are fuoe to face, and bot'voon us hero 
Is tho k’ve r o thought could never dio; 
Vv’iiy has !t only lirtsd a year? 
Who has Murdered it- you or I ? 
No matter who—tho Joed was done 
By oaa or Noth, nod thero it lies; 
Tiie sralio from Ibe Hp forever gone. 
And darkness over tho beaut iful oyos. 
Our Jovo I? dead, and our hope !s wrecked: 
So what does it profit to talk and rave, 
Whothcr it perish by mr neglect, 
Or whether your 'cruelty dug its grave I 
Why should you say that I oin to blame. 
Or why should I charge tho sin on you ? 
Our work Is before us uli tho same, 
And tho guilt of It llos between us two. 
We have praised our love for Us beauty aad gTuoc, 
Kow wo idaml here, and hardly dare 
To turn the face-cloth back from tho faco, 
And sethe thing that Is hidden there. 
Vet. look ’ ah, that heart has beat its lust. 
And the beautiful life of our life is o'er. 
And when wc have buried a mi left the past, 
We too, together, cars walk no more. 
Ton might stretch vouvself on the doad, and weep, 
And pray as the Prophet prayed, in pain ; 
But not like him could you break thosluep. 
And bring the 30ul to Us cluy again. 
T* i head In ray bosom I can lay, 
And shower my love there, kKs on kiss, 
But there never was resurrection day 
In tho world for n loro so doad as this ! 
Faith Is tho polar star 
That guides tho ChrUttan’a way. 
Directs bis wanderings from afar. 
To realms of endless day; 
It points the oourso, wliore'or he roam, 
And safely loeds tho pilgrim homo. 
FaUh ts tho rainbow's form. 
Hung on tho btow of hoavon. 
Tho glory of the passing storm, 
Tho pledge of mercy given; 
It is tho bright triumphal arch 
Through whioh tho saints to glory mar 
Tho faith that works by lovo. 
And purities the hoax t, 
A forotpsto of the Joys abovo 
To mortals can impart: 
It boars no through thus earthly strife, 
And triumphs tn immortal lifo. 
then tho utter carelessness with which they 
apply powder and paint 1 About tho nose 
ami temples, in tho eyebrows and eye cor¬ 
ners, in the edge of the hair and dimple of 
the chin, it lies in prolusion, speaking sig¬ 
nificantly of haste and. carelessness. Wo 
cannot well withhold our admiration from 
au act well and neatly done, although it bo 
an abominable one. And so, if I painted 
my face, my sisters, I would endeavor 
to do it artistically and skillfully. Philip 
asked mo tho ether day why women 
painted ? 
“To look pretty and please the men,” I 
answened. 
“ Well,” and he mounted his feet a few 
inches higher,” if they think a man Iovo 3 a 
painted lace, they make a huge mistake. I’d 
us soon kiss tho side of the house.” 
“ Yes, and so long as you smoke, the side 
of the house is good enough for you.” 
The best way to keep cuffs in position is 
lo sew a button on tho inside of the top 
seam of the sleeve, near enough the wrist 
end to allow the Clift' sufficient margin after 
it is buttoned, by means of a button hole 
wrought in the lower edge. This method 
does away with pins, which tear the cuffs, 
and keeps them from sliding one way or the 
other, 
Gored aprons may bo cut on the bias of 
the cloth, without requiring any seams. In 
linen or plain fabrics they arc very pretty so. 
Belts, —Now that every dress has its own 
peculiar belt, to have it always in reach, 
when taken off, roll it around your two 
fingers and put. it, in the pocket of tho dress. 
Bibs for Children. — It requires careful 
manipulation for an adult to cat, without a 
napkin, and keep his shirt front clean. But 
what of a child without a bib? The result 
is apparent enough at nine tables out of ten. 
Boys and girls, with jackets, Garibaldis and 
aprons, besmeared from the chin downward, 
and that, too, from the most inexcusable 
carelessness on the part of seniors. Thu best 
shape to cut thenv 1 ■ like that of a man’s 
shirt bosom, meeting. around the neck with 
two short straps, a button on tho end of one 
and a but ton hole, in the end of the oilier. If 
folded and laid by tho child’s plate, it is 
never forgotten or unused 
TEE LIGHT OF THE WOULD. 
Vert beautiful, in description of that ma¬ 
terial light which makes morning glorious, 
and very suggestive, as having reference to 
that spiritual illumining which ought to 
glorify all the earth, is tho following from a 
recent address by Rev. O. B. Froth ingha.m : 
A sunbeam every morning re-creates tho 
world. All night thi3 planet of ours is 
bat lied in darkness, and things begin to take 
an appearance of decay, but in tho morning 
tho first breaking of the sunbeam from tho 
eastern hills brings tho whole universe in 
the attitude of praise. 
I stood one morning before sunrise on tho 
top of Mount Washington. Thero we were, 
a small company of us, on that little rocky 
point, that seemed like an island floating on 
tho surface of au infinite deep. There was 
no world 1 the world was buried in an 
ocem of vapor so deep, no dense, r.o palpa¬ 
ble that it was us if tho primeval chaos had 
conic, again. The wind whistled and roared 
about us, the damp sunk through our gar¬ 
ments, wo stood sheltering ourselves behind 
the stones, crouching them that we might not 
bo blown away into the vast, inane; clinging 
as wo could to tho slippery rocks beneath 
our feet and looking out with expectant eyes 
toward the East, which showed no sign. 
But at once, in a moment , a beam of light 
sliot up like a sword from behind that ocean 
and laid itself liko a scepter upon the sea. 
For a moment, there was no change percep¬ 
tible. That fii thornless fog-bank held its 
own, and ever and anon the jets of foam 
from it flow up into our faces as if it would 
bury us. But then, by degrees, tho vast 
bulk began to move and sway, rifts appeared, 
and from second to second wo could get 
glimpses of nn organized world —bill and 
valley, river and town—lying beneath us. 
That sunbeam kept on playing upon tho 
mass, and by-nml-by where was it? It, had 
crept away; it was hiding in tho ravines; it 
was rushing up tlirough tho chasms; it wa3 
hiding itself behind tho great shoulders of 
the hills. Borne of it, becoming little whita 
sheep, pastured ilbclf on the sunny flanks of 
tho hillsides as if to escape the destroyer in 
that way, but tho destroyer pursued them 
until rising to tho top of the hills they 
changed into white doves, and all that was 
left of that vast sweltering chaos took wing 
and flew up towards the sunbeam itself. All 
the world needs its light. Let it be pure, let 
it bo sweet, lot it be steady, and it will bo 
created again and again, and tho new world, 
the original world of God with whom all 
things are old and all things are new, will 
be revealed to all of us. 
Anil sinco to cnnno*, lesson tho bln 
By mourning over tho «!oe<J ivo did, 
Let ns dr.TT lira vfijsding-r.’.icct up to tho chin, 
Aye, up tLl the death-blind ores aro hid I 
[Ptiabe O.iry. 
JOAN 0: 
TUAKStATED BTIOM TIIE FHEN'CH BV ETIITII 
UBLBOOnjfK. 
WINDOW CURTAINS 
Joan was born about tho year 1410, in 
Domremy, a little village situated between 
Neufcliatcait and Vaucoulcurs. Her father 
was Jacques d’Arc, and her mother Isa¬ 
bella Romee. Joan was reared from child¬ 
hood as the young maidens in that country 
were. She tended the flocks, and within 
the paternal dwelling gave herself assidu¬ 
ously to household cares. It was observed 
nevertheless that she had nn extreme ten¬ 
dency to devotion. Shu often retired to a 
neighboring forest, and there offered fervent 
prayers. In consequence of her pronencss 
to contemplation sho had visions. She said 
it frequently occurred that she saw angels 
find saints, and heard voices, counseling her 
an 1 directing her course. 
Tiic inhabitants of Domremy were parti¬ 
sans of the Armagh acs, and several times 
they had serious quarrels with tho inhabit¬ 
ants of a neighboring village, who were 
adherents of the Duke of Burgundy. Joan 
was struck by those vast dissensions which 
were the sole cause of all the disasters of 
France. From that time she gave a precise 
aim, if we may thus express ourselves, to 
her mysterious inspirations. Sho believed 
she had received from Heaven the mission 
of driving from France tho English, tho 
allies of the Burgundians, and of restoring 
Charles VII. to the throne of his fathers. 
Impressed continually with the same idea 
by her voir.es, as she said, she resolved to go 
to Vaucoqleurs, and to confule in Captain 
Bandricourt the projects which site had 
conceived. Bandricourt hod little con¬ 
fidence at first in the mission of Joan, but at 
length he decided to conduct her to the dau¬ 
phin. She parted from her family in grief, 
and sought pardon from her father and 
mother for her abrupt departure. 
When she arrived at Chi non she singled 
cut Charles VII. in the midst of all his 
courtiers. IIo had purposely taken his place 
amidst his nolfle chevaliers, with no mark 
by which he could be recognized. Joan 
announced to him her mission, and spoke 
with assurance. There was some hesitation 
in tire royal camp at first, but the king and 
the principal officers of his army soon had 
full confidence in tho divine mission of the 
young maiden. 
Ail who remained faithful to the causa of 
Charles VII. soon became oath isiaetic.an.i 
Joan, profiting by uw ■.-eutiuicnn which an¬ 
imated captains and soldiers, counseled the 
king to direct Lis course to want Orleans. 
During that expedition A v always at 
’, head of tho , y, :.n,i he exposed her- 
j 1 L'ibe reatest penis. At length Orleans 
\\ ;i - rosened from the English. Joan wished 
1 ting, without further delay, to proceed 
to Rheiins to be crowned. But he previous¬ 
ly seized all the towns situated upon the 
Loire, in the vicinity of Orleans. In every 
encounter, in the sieges of places, as in tho 
battle of Patay, the young maiden stood in 
the foremost rank, with the Duke d’Alen- 
cox, de Rieux, and the famous Dunois. 
Then, after the contest, she sought silence 
and solitude. At that time she was seen re¬ 
peatedly to rise during the night to give her¬ 
self to contemplation and prayer. 
It was at length decided that Charles 
VII. should be crowned at Rheims. IIo 
commenced his march, and during his pas¬ 
sage, the towns of Troyes and Chalons sur¬ 
rendered to him. When the coronation 
Eastlake’s Hints on Furniture has tho 
following: 
In the early part of this century window 
curtains were only made of silk or damask. 
Tho material known as “ rep" was next in¬ 
troduced, ami was in many respects superior 
to what had been used before. But tho Ger¬ 
mans have invented a still better stuff, a mix¬ 
ture of silk, wool and cotton, called “ cotelan” 
in tlio shops, which is often worked in diaper 
patterns of excellent, design. It is ono of 
the most artistic examples of modern textile 
fabric which I know, To the French wo 
are indebted for a heavy ribbed material, 
decorated with broad bands or stripes of 
color running transversely to its length, and 
resembling the pattern of a Roman scarf. 
This stuff has boen much in voguo of Into 
years, particularly among artists and peoplo 
of good independent taste. Another French 
material, called " aigerine,” appeared for a 
abort while ki the London shops. It was 
made chiefly of cotton, and was also designed 
with horizontal stripes of color on an un¬ 
bleached white ground. In effect it was all 
that conkl be wished, and it had, moreover, 
the additional advantage of being washable; 
hut, of course, because it was cheap, and 
about the best thing of the kind which had 
appeared for many years, it found few ad¬ 
mirers, and but little demand. 
The material 
may be coarse linen, such ns used for towels 
or napkins, or any other fabric that bears 
washing. But supply your children with 
bibs of something. Make them with two 
thicknesses of the cloth. Next to bibs, teach 
them good manners at table. An ugly ill- 
behavod child is a torture to moderately 
sensitive people. I’d as soon have a pack of 
savages ransack my house, if I had one, as 
to have some women visit me with “ the 
children.” It is so cnjoyblo to have them 
handle over every fine book, or engraving, 
or bit of artistic beauty and skill, as if they 
were mud marbles, with the fond mother 
looking on and thinking nothing too good 
for he)' children. I shall never forget an 
adventure I onco had with a wild boy threo 
years old. I was stopping for n few days in 
a city hotel with a married frien.i, who Lad 
gone out shopping and left her little girl in 
my care. 
Daisy was playing before the grate with 
h doll, and I was sitting near by at my 
’ 1 king, when bang! went the door, and in 
marched a small human being. His face 
was red and angry, and be began a mutiny 
at or.c. Ho began to boat Daisy, knocked 
my writing desk on the floor, threw over the 
chairs, scratched my hands, until, in my dcs- 
deratiou, I was obliged to seize the poker, 
spring to the door, and drive the littlo ani¬ 
mal out in self-defence. I could have seen 
him thump down the stairs from the third 
floor to the'pavement with genuine delight. 
There is nothing on earth lovelier than well- 
trained children, ancl nothing uglier than 
wild ones. And it is characteristic of par¬ 
ents who have disobedient, uncivilized off¬ 
spring, to make long and frequent visits with 
them, and take them to church, and show 
decided ingenuity in devising ways and 
means for Inflicting the beauties of their 
savages on other people. But bad behavior 
at table is something we must all witness and 
cannot well escape beholding Children who 
have no cvery-day training cannot be ex¬ 
pected to put on good manners for company, 
so that fathers and mothers are often cha¬ 
grined and wonder “ what does ail the chil¬ 
dren ! ” and suddenly realize what barbarians 
they are rearing. 
Laura of Cayuga, writes ns follows: — 
“ When a lady in traveling chances to meet 
with a gentleman friend or acquaintance, 
who insists upon paying her fare, is there 
AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. 
To all thoughtful young women every¬ 
where we commend the following, clipped 
from the Vermont Chronicle. The example 
it gives ought to be followed by all girls, in 
reference to nil young men of any evil prac¬ 
tices whatsoever: 
“ Why did you not take tho arm of my 
brother last night?” said a young lady to 
her friend, a very intelligent girl, about 
nineteen, in a large town near Lake Ontario. 
She replied: “ Because 1 know him to be 
a licentious young man.” 
“ Nonsense!” was the answer of the sis¬ 
ter; “if you refuse the attentions of ali 
licentious young men, you will have none, I 
can assure you.” 
“ Very well,” said her friend, “ then I can 
dispense with them altogether, for my reso¬ 
lution on the subjoct is unalterably fixed." 
now long would it lake to revolutionize 
society—and for the better—were all young 
ladies to adopt this resolution ? 
PROPER SIZE OF A LADY’3 FOOT. 
Boots, ladies’ boots, are the subject of a 
letter from Mr. Buomi to the London Builder 
— a strange medium for such a topic, by the 
way. lie lias been measuring the foot of 
the Venus de Medici, or rather (it amounts 
to the sumo thing,) of an accurate cast of the 
statue. Tho exact height of the figure is, as 
is well known, five feet two inches, and ho 
finds the length of tho foot to bo oxactly 
nine inches, or as nearly as possible ono- 
seventh of the height. The breadth of the 
widest part of the solo is three and three- 
eighths inches, a fraction over one-oighlocnl h 
of tho figure’s stature. From those data, 
and a knowledge of her height, every lady 
can determine what should be the size of 
her boots; she may exceed the dimensions 
given in tbe formula if tho secs fit, but woe 
to her health, and according to Mr. Buomi, 
good-by to 1 lie symmetry of her pedals, if 
she tries to squeeze them into anything less. 
But doc3 tho Venus, or any other idealiza¬ 
tion, represent every ease of the humanity 
it typifies? If, as is certainly the ease, soma 
feminine extremities exceed the sculptor’s 
proportions, others as certainly fall within 
them; and it is hardly likely that the pos¬ 
sessor of these will wear boots too big for 
the sake of conforming to a fancy standard. 
Tiie Forest Leaves of Humanity.— 
Forest leaves are, we all know, turned by tho 
wind of circumstances, each at a different 
angle to the light of God, and the shadow of 
evil. \ud the leaves blow softly or are tossed 
suddenly together or apart; the leaves kiss 
or clash; the light glistens aslant on this, 
quite full on that; these arc sent away and 
vanish; those hang gulden in a still sunset 
and clr»p—sorno a little, but a littlo sooner 
than tho rest. 
MARRIAGE OF WIDOWS 
Tn*, frequent marriage of widows seems 
to have been alwu; more or loss discouraged, 
men being allowed in uh-,- reapect much 
greater liberty; bin M .Toronto mentioned a 
widow who married tier twenty-second bus- 
band, lie in his turn having been married to 
t wenty successive wives. The championship 
appears, however, to belong to a Haarlem 
women spoken of by Evelyn in his Diary, 
whose propensity for remarrying had to be 
checked by law :—“ She had been married to 
her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a 
widow, was prohibited to marry in future." 
Watch and Pray. — Tho eyes of tho 
world are upon Christians to detect their 
frailties, inconsistencies and delinquencies, 
and thence derive an argument against the 
holy religion they profess. Hence it be¬ 
hooves them to ho continually aware of this, 
and bo circumspect, watchful and prayerful, 
that religion be not dishonored, their good 
influence diminished, and opportunity bo 
given to the Lord’s enemies to blaspheme. 
Beginning in Life. — Our fathers and 
mothers were content to marry in a quiet 
way, begin life in humble, economical cir¬ 
cumstances, and to gradually work up to tho 
top of the ladder. Their children want to 
begin where their parents left off; to be 
ushered into matrimonial life with a royal 
wedding, and then live on an expensive scale. 
Unless a different public sentiment can be 
developed, we fear the present tendency of 
men to remain single will continue to in¬ 
crease, and ambitious mothers will experi¬ 
ence more difficulty than ever in finding a 
market for then marriageable daughters. 
Simple Faith. —When a child who had 
lost her mother was once asked, “ What do 
you do without, a mother to tell your troubles 
to?" she sweetly answered, “I go to the 
Lord Jesus. Ho was my mother's friend, he 
is mine.” And in reply to another question, 
whether she thought Jesus Christ would at¬ 
tend to her, “ All I know," she at ©nee re¬ 
plied, “ He says Ho will and that's enough 
for me /" 
■-♦-*-*- 
Sabbaths should be retrospective points 
in the week, from which to look back in 
self-judgment. 
Sacques.— Long linen sacqnes, which are 
trimmed in various ways, arc worn over 
handsome traveling dresses. They protect 
the wearer from the dust, and are easily 
thrown off when stopping for rest and refresh¬ 
ments. The frequent showers have given 
quite an importance to water-proof cloaks. 
It is in style for ladies who go out dressed in 
elegant walking suits to carry a water-proof 
on the arm. When made in the latest style 
—that is, with botli cape and hood—these 
garments have quite u stylish appearance. 
They should be made as long as the dress. 
