SEPT, if 
a 
ion has been effected, rowing with it from one 
side to the other, according to the pleasure of 
the parties. 
“The tourniquet is next in importance. It 
is preformed by clasping the hand of your 
friend as far as you can in your own, and 
then contracting the muscles of your thumb, 
fingers, and palm, till you have induced any 
degree of compression you may propose in 
the hand of your friend. 
“The cordial grapple is a shake of some 
interest. It is a hearty, boisterous shake of 
your friend’s hand, accompanied with moder¬ 
ate pressure and loud acclamations of wel¬ 
come. It is an excellent traveling shake, and 
well adopted to make friends. It is indiscrim¬ 
inately performed. 
The Peter Grievous is opposite to the cor¬ 
dial grapple, It is a pensive, tranquil junc¬ 
tion, followed by a subsultory motion, a cast- 
down look, and an inarticulate inquiry after 
your friend’s health. 
The prude major and priule minor are 
nearly monopolized by ladies. They cannot 
be accurately described, but are constantly to 
be noticed in practice; they never extend be¬ 
yond the fingers: and the prude major allows 
you to touch them only down to the second 
joint. The prude minor allows you the 
whole finger. Considerable skill may be 
shown in preforming them with nice varia¬ 
tions : such as extending the left hand instead 
of the right, or stretching a new glossy kid 
glove over the finger you extend. 
MY INDEX. 
About the year 1860, after going through 
work after work, and volume after volume, 
to find authorities which 1 knew that I pos¬ 
sessed but could not locate, I conceived the 
idea of an alphabetical iudex naming the sub¬ 
jects in their order and referring to the vol¬ 
ume and page for a description or for author¬ 
ity. Consequently I purchased a blauk book of 
380 six by fifteen inch pages, lettered each 
page at its head, writing the subject on the 
left hand and the reference on the right. The 
s lbjocts are mainly agriculture, entomology 
and climatology with a sprinkling of all other 
subjects. Thus under the head of Worms 
there a re 24 entries, naming some 15 kinds and 
referring to as many works for descriptions. 
It often occurs that I wish to preserve some¬ 
thing that 1 find in a newspaper- that I do not 
intend to keep. The latter part of the book is 
devoted to this use mid the article cut out and 
pasted in or its main part written and its page 
referred to in the index. Thus I have stored 
up a mass of most valuable information at 
little expense of time or labor. 
At the time of getting up this work I had 
never hoard of such a t hing but I subsequently 
learned that it is somewhat common and that 
blank books are published under the head of 
Index Rerum for this very purpose arid my 
object in speaking of this matter here is to 
recommend their use to my fellow readers as 
being something which they will find of great 
convenience and value. s. b. p. 
USEFUL HINTS. 
Black silk is restored to its deep black color 
by sponging it with a decoction of common 
cheap black tea, which contains all the ingre¬ 
dients of a black dye, viz., tannin and iron, 
with usually some logwood to add to the fla¬ 
vor - . The silk is then ironed with a moderate¬ 
ly hot iron on the wrong side or placed be¬ 
tween two sheets. 
To Perfume Linen. 
Rose leaves dried in the shade, cloves beat¬ 
en to a powder, mace scraped. Mix them 
together, and put the composition into bags. 
Bran on carpets.—Take a pint of any coarse 
bran—a pint is sufficient for an average room 
—dampen with as much water as it will hold 
without dripping, being wet enough to make 
“splashes” on the carpet, sprinkle it, over on. - 
half the carpet, then commence next to the 
wall and sweep the bran over tire other half. 
Keep your shoos off the bran. When the 
sweeping - is finished the bran, if rightly op¬ 
erated, will have absorbed the dust, uud the 
furniture will lie easily rubbed over. This 
applies to ingrain, rag, or other than Brussels, 
and will not soil the finest fabric, wall or pa¬ 
per. 
September is the month for gathering ferns. 
Take an old book with you to the places 
where they are gathered as they must, be 
pressed directly after picking to preserve per¬ 
fectly. In selecting do not pass the “baby” 
ferns as they will be found to be as effective 
for decoration as the larger ones. 
A pretty little device for window decora¬ 
tion, is a sponge suspended by a fancy cord. 
Dampen the sponge and sprinkle flax, mus¬ 
tard and other seed over it, this seed will ger¬ 
minate and the result will be a mass of beauti¬ 
ful green. Flax seed is the best to use. The 
sponge can be washed and replenished with 
seed when decay takes place. 
It is the small leaks that impoverish a 
house-hold. It is the small economies that 
lead to affluence. 
When, from sedentary habits, the muscles 
are emaciated and the digestive system disor- 
erd, an excellent method for restoring the pa¬ 
tient to health and full weight is for him to 
be charged with electricity, applied through 
the handle of a spade, a hoe, an axe, or some 
similar instrument. Apply it daily, and for 
some hours at a time. 
To iuake the colors stand in washing lisle 
thread and delicate cotton hose.—Turn the 
stockings right side out. and wash in a lather 
of lukewarm, water and white Castile soap; 
then wash the wrong side. If very much 
soiled two waters will be required. Rinse in 
lukewarm and then in cold water: dry as soon 
as possible by heat, not by sun. It is better 
not to iron them, but when nearly dry, 
smooth and pull them into shape by hand. 
Never ask a sick person what he will have 
to eat. Give a variety if possible, and by all 
means servo the food, if only tea and toast 
in the very daintiest manner. 
Ferns, well pressed aud dried, and then 
painted thickly with liquid gold paint, are 
sometimes applied with good effect to the 
doors of a cabinet. One who has tried the ex¬ 
periment and succeeded says : “After gum¬ 
ming the backs, I arranged them on the pan¬ 
els of the door, pressing them with an old soft, 
cloth. Where the gold paint moved off, I 
painted it again when dry. Lastly, I carefully 
laid on a wash of clear varnish, doing it as 
quickly as possible. This preserves the ferns 
and gilding, and improves their appearance.’ 
—Art Amateur. 
A recent improved receipt for preserving 
plants with their natural colors is to dissolve 
1 part of salicylic acid in 600 parts of alcohol, 
heat the solution uj> to boiling point in an 
evaporating vessel, and draw the plants slow¬ 
ly through it. Shake them to get rid of any 
superfluous moisture, and then dry between 
sheets of blotting-paper, under pressure, in 
the ordinary maimer. Too prolonged nrmer- 
FIG. 463. 
sion discolors violet flowers .and in all cases 
the blotting-paper must be frequently renew¬ 
ed. The novelty appears to be the salicylic 
acid.—Art Amateur. 
An excellent remedy when the finger or 
part of the flash is burned, is to wrap it in raw 
cotton. The effect is severe for a short time, 
but is effectual. Sweet oil is often used with 
the cotton, but the latter is all that is necessary 
to remove the fire. 
Ditman’s Sea Salt is very beneficial for 
bathing, also for strengthening weak spots. 
Take a large handful and dissolve in about one 
l 
quart of water ; bathe with it, or saturate a 
cloth with the solution aud bind on the affected 
part. A quantity put in the tub when taking 
a bath is good. There may be other prepara¬ 
tions of the article but the above is the only 
one recalled. 
ABOUT WOMEN. 
Benjamin Asbury Goodridge, of Boston 
University is elected Instructor in Latin and 
Greek at Laspi 1 Seminary for women. 
FIG. 404. 
The late deceased preacher, E. H. Chapin 
bequeathed his entire estate to his wife. It is 
but a short time since the will was proved, and 
now that wife is laid by his side. 
Mrs. Williams, of Norwich, Connecticut, 
has left a fund for the building and endowing 
of a school for young ladies in New London, 
which is now valued at 8100,000 in personal 
property, and #25,000 in real estate, besides 
the site, which is worth $10,000. 
The lecture of Mrs. Hathaway, of Chicago, 
before the School of Philosophy at Concord, 
upon “Schopenhauer,” was a cilr and con¬ 
cise exposition of this German philosopher’s 
theories. Mrs. Hathaway is a Gorman by 
birth, and has a strong analytical mind and a 
mastery of German thought which places her 
ou a level with the other thinkers of the Con¬ 
cord school. The ladies who attended her lec¬ 
ture were proud of their representative.— 
Transcript. 
Citcranj. 
MORAL COSMETICS. 
Ye who would save your features florid, 
Lithe limbs, bright eyes, unwrinkled forehead, 
From age's devastation horrid, 
Adopt this plan : 
’Twill make. In climates eold or torrid, 
A hale old man. 
Avoid in youth luxurious diet, 
Restrain the passions' lawless riot; 
Devoted to domestic quiet. 
Be wisely gay : 
So shall ye, spite of age’s flat, 
Resist decay. 
Seek not in Mammon-worship pleasure, 
But find your richest, dearest treasure, 
In books, friends, music, polish'd leisure 
The mind, not sense, 
Slade the sole scale by which ye measure 
Y r our opulence. 
This is the solace, this the science, 
Life's purest, sweetest, best appliance, 
That disappoints not man's reliance, 
Whate'er his state ; 
But challenges, with calm defiance, 
Time, fortune, fate. 
THORNS AND ROSES. 
(Continued from page C2C.) 
CHAPTER II. 
The morning after my arrival I visited the 
garden, delighting in the cool air, tho roses 
were heavy with dew, and dowel's and leaves 
glittered with the same diamond-drops. I re¬ 
turned to the house, to find aunt Dorothy 
waiting breakfast for me, and I inquired when 
my cousin would arrive. 
“ About uooxi, I think. I shall send some¬ 
one to meet her, unless you would like to do 
so ? You could manage the pony-phaeton per¬ 
haps, and in Stanton no one makes disagree¬ 
able comments on what we do.” 
“ I can’t say that I mind conventionality, 
aunt, anywhere, and I love riding and driving. 
You will come f" 
Aunt Dorothy declined ; Edith and I should 
get on better without her at first, she thought, 
but to console mo for the disappointment, she 
asked me to go to the garden with her, as there 
was something she wished to show me. We 
went <nit, but instead of lingering among her 
flowers, she loti the way to tho stables, where I 
was at once attracted by a beautiful black 
horse. 
“ That is youi-s, Kate ; see how well I know 
your tastes 1 Brandon selected him, and we 
named him Black Diamond. 
It was useless to try to thank aunt Dorothy; 
to nil expressions of gratitude she turned a 
deaf ear, saying, “ I am thanked if you are 
pleased but she understood me, I am sure. 
We returned to the flowers, find gathered a 
fresh bouquet; and then entered the house, it 
being aunt's custom to dust her china, too pre¬ 
cious to be entrusted to a servant; and this 
done, she had to consult on preserves and 
pickles with her old housekeeper, so I was left 
to myself. Tho morning passed quickly, and 
soon I was prepared to meet my cousin. I 
drove away merrily through the lanes, receiv¬ 
ing stray curtseys, aud hearing sentences to 
the effect that “ Yon was Miss Lovel.” Every¬ 
thing had an attraction for me, from the 
thatched cottages to the noisy ducks on the 
wayside ponds. I drove through the village 
until once more I saw the white railings of tho 
station; and leaving my equipage in charge 
of a flaxen-haired laddie, ascended the steps. 
Tho train was in ; among the homely-fneed 
women, bearing great baskets, and sunburnt 
laborers with red bundles, I certainly did not 
look for my cousin. One lady was arguing 
with a porter ; another stood laughing and 
talking with a gentleman slight and young ; 
and as I could not see the face of either, I hesi • 
tated. But my doubts were soon solved ; the 
latter-montionod lady turned away, and see¬ 
ing me, gave a long stare, then crossed the 
platform quickly. At once T recognized Edith 
Lovel from the likeness to her mother. She 
was of medium bight, and slender in figure : 
her eyes were bright, under straight, delicate 
brows, her hair fair: 
“ Coral on coral her lips did meet, 
Or parted, to show the gleam o’ the pearl 
Altogether she was very pretty, veiy grace¬ 
ful, and attired in the hight of fashion ; she 
advanced, surveying me from head to foot as 
she came, and greeted me without ceremony. 
“ You are cousin Kate ! I thought so. Did 
aunt send you ! Do let us get off this stupid 
station." 
I explained my fondness for driving, and 
hoped the journey had been pleasant, as we 
descended the steps, soon discovering that my 
cousin was gifted with peculiar frankness. 
“ I hope we shall like each other,” she said ; 
“ I don't know - whether you go in for dignity 
or ceremony, but it is so absurd for cousins to 
meet stiffly, that I’m going to bo as though I 
had known you all my life. You’re a model, 
aunt tells me, and you will soon find me out. 
Do you agree to my proposal ?” 
“ Willingly,” I replied, charmed by hor 
fresh, off-hand manner. 
“ That’s settled,” she cried, as I gathered up 
the reins. “ Don’t drive straight home, be¬ 
cause I want to talk to you ; and I shall fall 
into boredom’s clutches if wo go home.” 
Thus commanded, I went in an opposite di¬ 
rection, Edith rattling on with wunderfill vi¬ 
vacity. 
“ What kind of a girl did you expect to see, 
Kate J Edith would lead you to imagine 
some one dark and dignified, I suppose. Ev¬ 
eryone says my name does not suit me, but it 
is a thousand times better than these hideous, 
old-fashioned Dorothys, Barbaras, and Cathe¬ 
rines—I beg your pardon—in which the Lovel 
ladies rejoice. What do you think of our 
home ?” 
“ I like it; it is only natural that I should.” 
“ Are you what aunt Dora would call a gen¬ 
uine Lovel ! The place is horribly dull, and I 
speak from experience. I should not have 
come now, only I wanted to see what kind of 
a girl Kate Lovel was.” 
“ And now that you do see her, what is 
your opinion ?” I asked, much amused. 
“You have not seen as much of the world 
as I have, for really I have knocked about. I 
daresay you know that I can’t live at home. 
Papa is kind enough, but his wife is very re¬ 
ligious, and it is as much as I can do to he civil 
for a week. There are ever so many little 
ones, and I can’t amuse them—children are 
such a nuisance—so papa always seems glad 
w'hon 1 am invited anywhere, because, ho 
says, there will be peace. Ho spoiled me until 
he got someone else, so I go my own way,” 
“ I wonder that yon don’t live here.” 
“ Thanks—it is too quiet. Aunt, is a dear 
old body, hut don't you think she gives one 
tOO much Lovel t I generally fall asleep in 
the midst of those tremendous legends. Papa 
says that if I play my cards well, she will 
leave me her money. But people tell me that 
I am the image of mamma, so I think aunt 
must dislike me." 
“ I don’t think aunt could dislike anyone,” I 
replied, and Edith laughed. 
“ How bluntly you speak ! I’ll stay awhile 
and see if there’s any amusement to be hail. I 
am sorry there is no society.” 
“ Is there not Brandon 1” I asked. 
“ Brandon I What amusement, my dear 
girl, could anyone have with Brandon, a mel¬ 
ancholy, grave-faced old man, buried alive in 
books and musti-fusti papers, always reading, 
writing, and studying i" 
“ I thought you liked him ?” I said. 
“ Oh 1 he’s kind enough ; but he seems to 
