46 
JAN .\7 
•work loops and buttons. Begin to work at the 
back of the waist. Make a chain the length re¬ 
quired. Work the design shown In No. 14. 
1 st row: Work up the loops as in ordinary tricot. 
In the backward row draw through two loops to¬ 
gether. one chain. Itepeat. 
2d. row: Draw up a loop through the two loops 
drawn through together, then draw up another 
loop through the hack loop of chain of last, row 
Repeat. The backward row Is worked as described 
In first row. 
The'second back ward rows are repeated through¬ 
out 
The border is worked in point muscovite as fol¬ 
lows : Make a chain of six st itches, work up the 
loops as for ordinary tricot 1 n working hack draw 
through me first loop, three chains draw through 
the next two loops, three chain, draw through the 
two loops.! liree chain, draw through (.he last loop. 
2 d row; Workup the six loops, draw through 
the two first, three chain, draw through the two 
next loops, three chain, draw through the two 
next loops, 
Repeat the Ursl row, then work two rows plain 
tricot, and repeal from first row. 
For the edge, one double into a stitch, one chain, 
pass over oue stitch, and repeat., one double over 
double of last row. live dialu. Repeat. 
NOS. 15 ANh 16. OK HI' KNITTED BAND FOR PKTTI- 
COATS. 
Materials Required: Berlin wool, and two bone 
pins each Nos. 8, si, lu, and 11. 
At this season of the year when ladies are so 
liable to take cold by changing from warm every¬ 
day dresses to thin ball costumes. I his band will 
be found very acceptable. It Is Intended to be 
worn under the light fining dresses, us from its 
elaatlsclty it clings closely to the figure, the petti¬ 
coat being buttoned to t he lower part. The band 
is made of wool, and is warm and comfortable 
without Increasing the size of the wearer. The 
band Is worked without Increase or doorcase, the 
graduation towards the waist, being made by 
working with smaller pins. Commence at the 
bottom. Cast, on 108 sttehes or less according to 
the size required. With No. spins, purl two and 
knit two alternately for fifteen row's, then work 
with No. a pins tor fifteen rows, then with No. 10 
pins for fifteen rows, and with No. 11 pins for as 
many rows as you wish the band to he deep. Cast, 
off Sew six bands of stout tape on the inside as 
shown in No. r>, aud another piece ut the same tape 
for a band Buttons are sewn over the tapes on 
the outside to which the petticoat is fastened. 
PLAYING AT HOUSEKEEPING. 
The Boston correspondent of the Worcester Spy 
gives an account of a “ Kitchen Garden,” estab¬ 
lished for the benefit of poor girls at the North 
End, which we are sure will be read with interest. 
She says: 
The Kitchen Garden ” was first established In 
New Yoi*; city by Miss Huntingdon, an active 
worker in the mission to the poor. She says that 
she spent hours of thought by day and night trying 
to devise some means by which the drudgery of 
the toiling children might be lightened, and they 
come to like the work that then filled them with 
weariness and disgust. The problem for her was 
how to teach the mass of children to put courage 
Into their drudgery. 
A kindergarten solved the problem for her. In¬ 
stead of blocks and balls and colored paper, there 
should be brooms and dust pans and little beds; 
and Instead of lessons In geometry, there should 
be object lessons In household work, given on the 
Froebel method, with music and songs. Site tried 
her plan wit h such success, that she prepared a 
book with the music, the lessons and the house¬ 
hold catechism that the children learn, to be used 
as a text-book by other teachers; she called her 
school a kitchen-garden, and her plan has al¬ 
ready been adopted by thirteen of the New York 
churches for their mission schools. Last summer 
a Boston lady established schools here, at her own 
expense, and they are now in excellent condition 
at the Children’s Mission and at the North End 
Mission. 
A visit to one of them Is very Interesting and 
amusing. The class that I saw was of 24 little 
colored children, the eldest to or 11 per¬ 
haps, aud even the youngest quite capable of 
helping a good deal at home. They had four 
teachers—one who played the piano or organ, one 
who led the singing, the principal teacher who 
gave the Instruction, and an assistant who was 
learning the art of teaching. The first lesson was 
bed-making On the long tables, with 12 children 
at each, were toy bedsteads about two feet long, 
each with a mattress, two sheets, two blankets, 
one spread, a bolster, two pillows, with pillow and 
sheet shams. The children marched In to gay 
music, and before they began their lesson they 
sang together the bed-making song: 
When you wake in the morning. 
At the day dawning, 
Throw off the bedding and let it all air 
Then shake up the pillows, 
In waves aud in billows, 
Aud leave them near windows, if the day is quite fair. 
For beds made in a hurry, 
A fret and a worry, 
Are always unhealthful and musty, ’tds sure; 
But left for airing-. 
Pains-taking and curing, 
And one must sleep sweetly, to know it is pure. 
The rules for bed-making. 
If ever forsaking, 
Yon list to the careless and hurry them through, 
They’ll soon grow so matted, 
So hard ami so flatted, 
You’d wish you had listened aud kept them quite new. 
The beds are already made, and the first thing 
the children do Is to prepare them for sleeping. 
Working together and keeping time to music, 
they take off the pillows and shams, turn back 
the spread, turn down the other clothes, and 
make the bed ready for its occupant. Then they 
take off tne clothes, putting them on two chairs, 
THE BUBAL fiEW-YORKER. 
to air, turn the mattress over and round, and 
make the bed scientifically. The rules are to 
make it level, square and smooth, and they are 
taught how to do this. The children are not al¬ 
lowed to take a lesson unless or until their heads, 
laces and hands are perfectly clean, and this 
rule has been so thoroughly enforced that the 
little bed-clothes, which have been in use since 
June, are still unsolied aud look as If they had 
just been done up. The questions aud explana¬ 
tions take some time, and make a variety In the 
lesson. 
Then came a washing lesson. Each child got. 
her toy tub In which was a bag of clothes, table 
and body linen, coarse towels, and colored stock¬ 
ings. a wash-board and a bag of clotbes-plns. 
No water Is used: but the clothes are carefully 
sorted, the fine ones washed, or apparently 
washed without t he board, then the coarser ones, 
and so to the end, the proper twist in hand- 
wringing being insisted upon; then the clothes 
are properly hung upon a line. A sweeping les¬ 
son Is conducted In the same thorough way. each 
child having a broom, a brush, a feather duster, 
a doth, a dust pan and small broom. Of course 
there is no limit to the lessons that can he given 
In this way. Miss Huntingdon’s book has the 
songs and music for those 1 have mentioned, for 
setting tables and folding table linen, tor dish¬ 
washing, and for simple lessons In molding 
butter pats, biscuits, etc., and for rolling out 
cookies. 
The kttcheD garden Is Intended to be a sort of 
preparatory or prim iry school, fitting the pupils 
for a cooking school, or other advanced course of 
household education. The children have great 
l itu <lc lug a.ll these tilings, and It. seems that they 
really learn a good deal, and even the little one3 
like to practice at home, as fur as they can, the 
les-ams learned and the songs sung at school. The 
Improvement in families at the North End Is s: Id 
to he noticeable since the children learned to make 
beds, set tables and sweep The compulsory 
cleanliness is a great thing; the tun of It, the 
having a read good time, is a good thing, but the 
ladles who work for the kitchen garden think of It 
and believe In It. as something which will give 
children some interest, home pleasures, and some 
ambition. 
There is nothing in our present methods of edu¬ 
cation to foster domestic life, or household em¬ 
ployment. To shirk work, go to school, and race 
t lirough a series of out-door excitements, are found 
to be the dally routine of a majority of children, 
way dowu to those whose out-door employment is 
only rough street play; and this kitchen garden 
seems to he a way to lead them to interests at 
home, to wanting things In order, and to a wil¬ 
lingness to help put and keep them so. There can- 
nor.be a child In the world who does not look with a 
sort of artistic satisfaction at the doll’s bed which 
she has, with her own hands, made so equate and 
smooth ; and a majority of the children are eager 
to try the same thing on a grown-up bed at home. 
At any rate, t he classes are a pleasant sight, and 
the plan is working well. 
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AGENTS NOT WANTED. 
ADELINE E. STORY. 
The book agent and tbe tree peddler are abroad 
In t he land. When I, for one, want trees or vines 
or plants, I prefer to get. them direct from the nur¬ 
series. There Is a middleman whom it Is the 
easiest thing in the world to dispense with. 1 
should do this as a matter of economy, If from no 
other motive. It, will be found In most cases a 
saving of at least fifty per cent., and what we get, 
as my experience goes, Is more likely to prove 
true to name. 
as to the book agent, he might as well turn over 
the leaves of his prospectus aud discourse about 
type, cuts and binding, to the -‘Goddess of Liber¬ 
ty,’’ if that divinity could be found embodied, as 
tome. 
A man who thinks himself too poor to take a 
magazine for his wife and children, and who set¬ 
tles the matter of a subscription to a circulating 
library the moment ibe subject Is broached, with 
a positive “ can’t afford It.” will suffer himself to 
be cajoled by the persistent agent., who generally 
** knows his man" oefore he has talked at hlrn a 
minute, into buying a hook which, ten to one, he 
never heard of before and for which he has no 
need, and which he doesn’t read alter he gets it. 
There are books he does want; hooks he has 
longed for many a day; but he has allowed him¬ 
self to be talked into subscribing for this one that 
Is worthless to him, and what he wants he must 
go without. 
“ Ah!” thinks the hard-working farmer as he 
seats himself on his plow—for you are no more 
out of reach of the wide-awake agent In the field 
than you would he in the house—to listen to the 
glib sing-song of the charmer, we want some 
books. I’ll buy this one. It is coarse print and 
tbe pictures will amuse the children.” 
The pictures do amuse the children certainly, 
and that Is about the only satisfaction that is ever 
got out of the new book. 
f itcrarg Ulisdlanjj. 
CONQUERED, 
CHAPTER II. 
IN BATTLE ARRAY, 
When he had helped her to mount to the seat 
beside him and they were driving rapidly towards 
! Arundel, Katrine, between laughing and crying, 
told her hair-credulous auditor the story of her 
trlgliL, and described to blm the pale, stern face 
she had seen in the lonely cottage. 
I Maria Weddell, spinster, called, out of respect 
to her years and matronly appearance, Mrs. Wed- 
■ dell did not profess to let lodgings. The cottage 
was her own, Inherited, with Its half-acre of gar¬ 
den find orchard, from her father, and she lived on 
a small annuity bequeathed to her by an elderly 
lady, whom she had nursed through an Illness that 
lasted from the time she was young and comely 
till her good looks had fad'd and her hair was 
turned gray. 
So Mrs. Marta Weddell lived “Independent,” as 
her neighbors were wont to say, and kept her 
cheerfulness, though her cottage was the most 
solitary one In or near that secluded Sussex vil¬ 
lage. 
Not that she was always alone. Though she 
steadily refused to follow the example of Mrs. 
Jones at the shop, and put up a bill with lodgings 
to let" neatly written on It, she sometimes con¬ 
sented to vacate her best rooms for the accommo¬ 
dation of any friends of her late mistress who 
wished for quiet and country air; and as these 
friends recommended other lfiends, who were wil¬ 
ling to respect Mrs. W eddell’s oddities, and con¬ 
sidered themselves favored by being permitted" to 
occupy her apartments, they were lately vacant, 
except to the depth of winter. 
Mrs. Weddell was debating whether to spend 
her Christmas Solus as usual, or accept an Invita¬ 
tion of some years’ standing from a married cousin 
at Horsham, when the question was settled for 
her by the arrival of another claimant tor Uer 
rooms and her household cares, 
A gentleman this, young, handsome, courteous, 
yet apt to be seized with irritable or restless moods 
during which he«. liber locked his door and smoked 
and wrote unceasingly, or else shouldered his 
knapsack, mounted his bicycle, aud was seen no 
more HU lie scared the country folks on their way 
home from market, by the glare of his Utile red 
lantern and his swift, noiseless rush past them. 
IIe had come luio Sussex, he told Mrs. Weddell, 
to be quiet while he prepared a volume of t ravels 
for the press; aud he had engaged her rooms be¬ 
cause he was assured that ho was not lilcely to he 
worried with the intrusion of callers; and so he 
Uttered the table to Mrs. Weddell’s parlor, which 
was just la r ge enough tor him to take, three strides 
across the floor, with manuscripts and books of 
reference; disfigured her mantel-piece with ills 
German pipes and tobacco pouches ; and half af¬ 
fronted her by bundling a huge feather bed and 
three of the six blankels heaped upon It, out of Ills 
chamber, and telling Iter he could not consent to 
be smothered. 
It was not often Ills bell rang, fortunately for 
himself, as Mrs. Weddell was no obsequious Lon¬ 
don landlady who studied the wants of her lodgers 
and made them pay tor It in the bill. Bhe had 
asked him on his arrival at what hour he would 
like to dine; the answer was at four, five, six, 
seven, he did not care; so she set fils dinner be¬ 
fore film at two o’clock, because that left her time 
for a nap before her own tea. .she hud inquired 
want she was to Call film, anil fie replied that ho 
wasn’t particular, but would respond lo any name 
she preferred; so .Mrs. Weddell examined his port¬ 
manteau, aud finding on It a torn label gummed on 
at Dieppe, after muon study of the strangely-spelt, 
word, decided to call him Mr. Hippy, which was 
the nearest pronunciation or It at which she could 
arrive. 
Hometlmes, but very rarely, Mrs. Weddell would 
volunteer a little conversation while she laid or 
removed the cloth, and her lodger leaned back in 
his chair and rested the eyes that ached with pur- 
tog over his books. But It, required a great deal or 
painful thought to fix upon a subject that would 
Interest him, for he had only said " Oh!” when she 
informed him that-cattle fair was coming off 
next. week, and ditto t seem to hear her at all when 
she announced the arrival of a circus to the 
village. 
Mrs. Weddell was unconsciously regarding him 
so fixedly as slic debated this point that at last he 
perceived it, and with one of the faint smiles that 
made his ordinarily stern face so pleasant, he put 
to her an Inquiring “ Well 7” 
“ Don’t you never want no amusement v" 
“ None but what 1 find hereand he pointed to 
his books. 
••Seems to me,” .Mrs. Weddell observed, “ that 
it can’t be good for anybody to study alt day and 
everyday. There’s some fine big pictures up at 
the great house. I can get the keys for an hour 
or two any afternoon.” 
For my accommodation V Thanks; but why 
should I go and see the pictures you mention? 
Are they chrf wmivies ? 1 mean are they the 
works of any of the great masters, or merely 
modern?” 
“ There ain’t been a master at the great house 
for years and years; it belonged to a maiden lady 
like myself, buL she’s dead, and the pictures were 
all hers." 
“lsee; bow well we always understand each 
other, Mrs. Weddell 1 Thanks for your offer, but 
I had a surfeit of paintings when I was In Italy.” 
“Then you've been abroad? That’s another 
reason why you should go up to the house and 
have a look about ye, Mrs, Wyllis—ihe lady as 
used to live there—had been to toieign parts, and 
brought home no end oi fine, things which she 
dldn t, live to enjoy.” 
“ And you think It would be pleasant for me to 
go and stare at her collection? To be admitted on 
sufferance chat I might envy the inheritors of 
Mrs. WyIlia's pictures and curiosities 7 o, chant a 
Why do you propose It v I was assured that you 
are not in any way connected with the owners of 
the ‘great house,’ as you call It.” 
Mrs. Weddell looked dubious. 
“ Connected—that means related, don’t it ? No; 
I’m the only Weddell to this part of the county 
since father died; there might be some sort of a 
tie betwixt uh and the old lady, for both our names 
begin with a W, hut 1 never heard of it.” 
•• Are you one of Mrs. Wylfis’s old servants?” 
.Mrs. Weddell folded her arms and looked digni¬ 
fied. 
•*1 never went to service to my file; vve were 
very respectable people—father and me. I only 
went to ’tend an Invalid just to oblige our parson 
As tor Mrs. Wyllis, I don’t think 1 ever saw her" 
She only came here nows and thens after she 
bought the estate; and she didn’t buy It for her¬ 
self, but for a great-nephew she had adopted, 
only they say he contrived to offend her, and so 
she—” 
“ That will do; 1 don’t want, to hear any gossip¬ 
ing details,” he Interposed, brusquely. “ If you'll 
take the tray away. I’ll go on with my writing." 
“ But If you’d like to go overt tie house, now’s the 
time; and-” 
With an ejaculation In German, the heathenish 
sound cf which made Mrs. Weddell drop a saucer, 
lie demanded why she Insisted In harping on such 
a distasteful subject 1 He would thank her never 
to mention it again, aud the discomfited spinster 
went away to a huff. 
A few evenings after tills, Mrs. Weddell was 
hastily summoned to her lodger’s sitting-room. He 
was siarnling at the window, from which he had 
pulled back tbe curtain, and was pointing to the 
direction ot the Hall. 
“ What does this mean ?” 
“ Fires,” she answered, laconically. 
" Good heavens! the great house on lire!” 
“ Lor’ bless'ee, no. sir. 't hat smoke, and them 
lights you can see betwixt the t fees, means that 
some of the family has come at last, anti they say 
they’re going to keep their Christmas In the old 
house.” 
The curtain was hastily dropped over the win¬ 
dow, aud a wave ot the hand dismissed Mrs. Wed¬ 
dell, but ere she could close the door she was re- 
caUcd 
•• Look here, I can’t be disturbed by these peo¬ 
ple. 11 any of them come prying Into jour cot¬ 
tage, don’t mention me; or if yon must say any¬ 
thing, tell them I’m a gouty, ill-tempered,fanatical, 
Irritable old bachelor, with a chrome aliment that 
makes me eschew society. You must never admit 
them into my rooms on any pretence whatever, 
aud if they want lo do the benevolent and force 
themselves upon me, tell them—tell them it will 
have the effect of driving me away.” 
“Lor’l” cried Mrs. Weddell, her cap borders 
standing on end, “ for sure I needn’t tell ’em all 
That 1 If they do come here and ask me any ques¬ 
tions about ye—which H ’taint likely—won’t it be 
enough to say that you’re a bit querlsh to the head 
with studying so much?” 
“ Man, do you mean?” he queried, smiling to 
spite ot himself. •• Oh! well just tell them what 
you choose; only keep them away from me.” 
And for fear Mrs. Weddell should not carry out 
his Injunctions, the first time he heard voices ap¬ 
proaching the cottage, he laid down his pen and 
hastened to lock the sash-door leading into her 
kitchen. 
WliilB doing so he could not help seeing through 
a crack to the curtain drawn over the panes of 
glass that one of Airs. Weddell's visitors was the 
same slender, lady-like brunette who had visited 
tho cottage a few evenings previously. -She was 
accompanied oy a pretty cifilcL and a livery ser¬ 
vant carrying a small hamper which he set down 
on the floor, and at a signal Irorn Ills young mis¬ 
tress retreated. 
The young man resolutely turned his eyes from 
the bright, speaking face and graceful figure of 
this lady, but ue could not shut his ears against 
the liquid toues of her voice os she greeted Mrs. 
Weddell, admired her cosy kitchen and her cat, 
while CUe child, making friends with the latter, 
sat dow» on a beehive- chair drawn close to the 
hearth, aud warmed her feet. 
“ We heard In the village, Mi’s. Weddell, that 
you have a sick person staying with you ; is that 
correct ?" 
“ quile, miss ; leastway s he Isn’t sick, not ex¬ 
actly so,” was llie hesitating reply. 
“ But he is iu delicate health, 1 suppose V and he 
has no friend residing here with him, has he ?” 
“He do look pale tor certain,” reponded Mrs 
Weddell, who was very much afraid of saying any¬ 
thing that was not in her tost ructions. 
“ Is he obliged to keep bis bed ? No? Has he 
seen a doctor since he has been here?” 
“ lie dont won't, no doctors, miss, unless they 
could persuade him not to sir, studying so much.” 
“ Ah ! He is literary, I sup pom ?” 
“ No: lie’s chronical; that's wlmt. he told me to 
tell anyone that asked after him. And he’s fre- 
natlcai as well, and can’t be spoken to by any¬ 
body not on no pretence "whatever, or he’ll pack 
up aud go away.”—[To be continued. 
DIPHTHERIA. 
Causes, Restriction and Prevention. 
IMPORTANT PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FROM THE STATE 
BOARD OF HEALTH OF MICHIGAN. 
Diphteria Is, primarily or secondarily, a consti¬ 
tutional, or blood-poisoning disease. It attacks 
persons ot all classes and ages, bu 1 most frequent¬ 
ly children under 16 or age. In ordinary oases tbe 
poisoning principle of diphtheria probably enters 
the blood by way of the mouth and the air pass¬ 
ages. The period of Incubation of diphtheria, or 
the time from a person’s exposure to the disease to 
his coming down with tt, varies somewhat, being 
usually from a few hours to seven or eight days; to 
some cases It Is 12 to 14 days, 
The specific contaglum developed by the disease 
Itself, and by which it spreads, is diffused by the 
exhalations [breath, perspiration, etc.,) of the 
pattern, through the ah’ Immediately surrounding 
him, as well as by clothing or other solid sub¬ 
stances that have been brought into contact with 
i the products of the disease. As a rule, the vl ul- 
enee or malignancy of the ooutagium Is lu direct 
I proportion to the severity of the ease from which 
it emanates, though malignant cases may result 
from exposure to a mild case. 
The more this contaglum la allowed to accumu¬ 
late to the room where the patient lies, the more 
powerful does It become. 
