r 
the other on the top of the pockets Is pretty, but 
narrow strips of Borne striped cloth look well, la 
less expensive and more durable. You may also 
make the bag-basket from linen and embroider It 
with embroidery crewels. 
CONCERNING WINTER COMFORT. 
WARY WAGER-FISHER. 
Phybicians and other persons who occupy them¬ 
selves with sanitary matters, always have some¬ 
thing to say as the winter season approaches, 
about tUe infrequency o( bathing among country 
people during cold weather, and the maladies that 
are often induced by It, City houses as a rule are 
warm In winter, while country houses are not; 
and to take a bath two or three times a week In a 
cold room, requires considerable courage for 
healthy persons, while for the frail, the shock Is 
dangerous to wash, dress, comb one’s hair and 
make one’s toller, in general in a cold room, the 
wholo winter through Is very unpleasant. To 
sleep in a cold r< ora, Is for healthy persohs decid¬ 
edly enjoyable. 
HOw to make the house comfortable In the win¬ 
ter, le a question easily answered, If the house has 
a hall In It, out of which rooms down-stalrs and 
upstairs open; 
PUT A STOVB IN THE HALL. 
If the hall Is six feet in width, this can always 
be done. If you cannot decide In what part of the 
hall to put the stove, nor where to have the stove 
FIG. 420, 
pipe holes cut, call In your neighbors and hold a 
council over the matter, someone will have the 
wit to see the way clear for the stove, stove pipe 
and all. The stove should be ror coal, so that the 
Are will keep all night, and never go out. The 
flrst expense will be considerable, as oftentimes a 
line of stove pipe will be needed as long as the 
moral law, and It must be put up neatly, with 
hooks and wire to hold It In place; when pipe is 
run across a room, see that the seam of the pipe Is 
not on the under side. When there is unusual 
length of pipe, and the wood or coal Is wet, so 
much moisture gathers In the pipe as often to fall 
in drops between the pieces unless the joining of 
the pipe is close enough on the under side to form 
a continuous 1 rough for the water to run in, until 
It empties Into tho chimney. 
With a good stove well put up In the hall, you 
may laugh at the cold and be comfortable the 
whole winter through. The hall Is really the heart 
of the house, and It that Is bright and warm the 
whole house will share warmth and brightness. 
The upstairs rooms will be warmer than those be¬ 
low, and it you wish your room cool to sleep In, 
you have but to close the door that opens into the 
hall and open a window. For warming a house 
a stove In the hall Is worth a furnace in the cellar 
beside being more healthful—according to my no¬ 
tion—and very much more economical. It will not 
consume more than one quarter as much fuel, it 
will pay lor itself the flrst winter In economy of 
fuel and work; and also in comfort and health 
and lead you to exclaim a great many times In the 
nipping cold weather, *' Oh that blessed, blessed 
stove 1” 
I have a word to say, too, about “ banking up ” 
the house, although I take it for granted that 
everybody banks up his house to keep the cellar 
from freezing, and to add to the warmth of the 
ground floor of the house. A floor that la always 
cold Is equal to a chronic malady, cannot much 
of the “ banking up ” of country houses be advan¬ 
tageously made permanent? Unless the house 
should be built so that the ground steeply descends 
from It on all sldeB, the cellar wall can he banked 
nearly to the cop, the windows of course being left 
open, the earth nicely graded in Us descent and 
then well and flrmly sodded. In nine cases out of 
ten, tue appearance of the house will be much im¬ 
proved by the permanent embankment, and be 
relieved during the winter of the litter and untidi¬ 
ness that often are produced by the usual tempo¬ 
rary protection, The cellar windows should never 
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NEW-YORKER. 
DEC. 48 
be hanked up; for of all the rooms in the house the 
cellar has most need of ventilation in the winter; 
particularly If it contains apples and vegetables. 
The exhalations irem decaying vegetation must 
go somewhere, and if there Is no other outlet, they 
escape through the house. There are always 
bright sunny days In tho winter, when for two or 
three hours at midday at least, the cellar can be 
thoroughly venttlated. This ventilation should be 
carefully attended to. To live over an unwhole¬ 
some cellar Is suicidal; and the most dark, 
wretched and muddy hole that was ever dignified 
by the name of cellar can be made a decent and 
comfortable apartment by glvlrg it a dry bottom 
and sufficient light and air. When al l other means 
of lighting your cellar fall, cut a hole t hrough the 
floor above it, and put in a large pane of flint glass. 
It will cost a dollar and a half perhaps, but will 
last until doomsday, and will enable you to go luto 
the cellar without a caudle, and without fear of 
breaking your neck in the darkness. 
Far, far better for you than Beer, Ale or Porter, 
and free from the Intoxicating effects, Is Hop 
Bitters. 
fiterari) HUstfUanj). 
INMATES OF LESTER HALL. 
(Continued from paire 821.) 
This time the tableau was “Elaine; the Lily 
Maid of Astolat,” and the song Cecil wasslnglDg, 
as she stood half In light and half In shade, was 
the song of ** Love and Death.” Miss Uerlot was 
the Lily Maid, and when Cecil stood behind the 
curtain, Dr. Carewo could see the erect, graceful 
figure; the beautiful pale face; Lustrous eyes, 
which had grown tragic as she sang : 
“ ‘ Sweet in true love, tho’given in vain—in vain, 
And Bwoet ia death, who puts au oud to pain ; 
I know not which ia sweeter, no, not I. 
“ ‘ Love, art thou awoott thou bitter death must be. 
Love, tbou art bitter; sweet ia death to me; 
O, love, if death be sweeter, lot me die! 
“ ' Sweet love, that seems not. made to fade away, 
Sweet death, that seems to make ns loveless clay; 
1 know not which is sweeter, no, not I. 
“ * I fain would follow love, if that could be; 
I needs must follow death, who calls for me; 
Call and 1 follow—I follow—let me die!”’ 
The last words died away, and Cecil turned with 
a quick, sudden, groping movement, holding out 
her hands. Dr. Carewe made a step forward, but 
Ernest was Instantly by her side, and Lawrence 
drew back with a bitter smile, 
“ What Is It, Cecil?” said her lover, anxiously. 
“Are you faint?” 
“ No—no,” she said, faintly. " It Is nothing, it 
was the heat, 1 think. Leave me alone for a mo¬ 
ment and l shall be quite myself again.” 
“ You must not fall us, Miss Lester,” said Mr. 
George, who had been watching her rather uneasi¬ 
ly. “ Remember your tableaux from ‘ Guine¬ 
vere' will be the grand event or the evening. Doc¬ 
tor, come and prescribe for Miss Lester, I can’t 
have her fainting yet, you know.” 
“If Miss Lester will allow me, 1 will prescribe 
a glass of champagne,” said Dr. curewe, smiling 
slightly. 
“ Thank you, doctor,” said Cecil, coldly. “ That 
Is a pleasant prescription, but I do not need It.” 
After a pause of breathless expectation the cur¬ 
tain rose on those two last tableaux from “ Guine¬ 
vere.” The flrst, was the fallen queen at the con¬ 
vent at Aimesbury, with the little novice, after 
her flight from the court. Cecil was Guinevere, 
clad In flowing white garments-her face white, 
wild, haggard, desperate; Lottie Tyrrell the little 
novice, who tries to console her, and yet stabs her 
to the heart. 
Both girls looked their parts to perfection— 
the guilty, despairing queen; the simple-minded 
child, looking at her with half-fearing, half- 
pity ing eyes. But It was almost too true to 
nature; and as Cecil's face met their view, tears 
came into the eyes Of one or two among the audi¬ 
ence. And when the curtain fell there was no 
applause, but a silence which remained unbroken 
until It rose again on the last scene—King Arthur’s 
visit to the convent, and hla parting with the 
queen. 
Lawrence Carewe personated the king. He stood, 
erect, very pale and grave, but with a wonderful 
tenderness on his face, as he looked at Guinevere 
as she grovelled with her face against the floor. 
“ There, with her milk-white arms and shadowy 
hair, she made her face a darkness to the king.” 
At hie feet, her hair faLilng over her In heavy 
waves, lay Cecil, ner Lands, trembling hands, 
lay upon the mailed feet, of the king. Her face 
was half hidden, but the expression of agonized 
entreaty on her features was inimitable. And 
when the curtain fell there was a unanimous shout 
of “ Encore 1" 
When It arose again the attitude of both were 
unchanged, but tho face of the king had lost Its 
pitying tenderness, and was stern and set as mar¬ 
ble ; while Guinevere’s face was hidden 
“I wish she would sit for me just as she was,” 
said Mr. George, as the curtain tell again. 
*• What, an expression! Where did she get It?” 
Where? In the depths or her aching heart, 
which was longing for a pardon which It could not 
obtain—from between the pale lips which had 
whispered, “Ah l forgive—forgive 1” In a voice of 
anguish which reached hla ears alone. And the 
forgiveness had not been granted—the whispered 
word she had prayed for had not been spoken l 
CHAPTER XXV. 
DR. CAREWE RECALLS CECIL TO A SENSE OF HER 
DUTY. 
“ Doctor, let me congratulate you! Your King 
Arthur was most admirable, although It was a 
wonder to me, and to all of us, how you could re¬ 
sist so beautiful a suppliant.” 
And Mr. Brayburn looked up smilingly at Dr- 
Carewe’s grave face, as they stood together In the 
drawing-room an hour after, when the children 
had gone to bed, and the elders were reeling after 
their labors, and waiting for the Clock to Btrlke 
twelve, and usher In the chrlstmas-day which was 
so near at, hand. 
Dr. Carewe bowed gravely, but made no answer. 
“She Is very beautiful. Is sbe not?” Mrs. 
Brayburn went on, looking over at Cecil, mu¬ 
singly. 
‘•Very beautiful!” answered the young man, 
calmly. 
“ Poor child !’’ her ladyship said, softly. 
And Dr. Carewe turned quickly to her. 
“ Your pity seems singularly misplaced,” he 
said, rather bitterly. “ Miss Lester seems a very 
fortunate young lady.” 
“You are right to say ‘ seems,’” said Mrs. Bray, 
burn;shaking her head. “In this case ills all 
seeming.” 
“Whatmakes you think so?” said Lawrence 
Carewe, dubiously. 
"Her face,” Bald Mrs. Brayburn, shortly. 
“ Why. doctor, Is It possible that you, who ought 
to be able to read countenances fairly well by 
ibis time, can think Cecil l.estera happy woman I” 
He looked over at Cecil as Mrs. Brayburn spoke; 
and as his eyes fell on the beautiful, weary face 
—the sweet mouth, with Its sorrowful enrves-the 
unutterably-sad expression which never left her 
eyes, even when her lips smiled—he felt the truth 
of his hostess’s remark. 
“Whatcan she need to make her happy?” he 
said. 
“ Something. I don’t know what, hut she wants 
something she has not got.” 
“She will find happiness In her husband’s 
love,” said Lawrence Carewe, In a constrained 
voice. 
“Never,” said her ladyship, abruptly. “That 
Is if she marries Ernest. Doctor,” she went on, 
Impatient ly, “ where are ycur eyes ? Do you think 
she loves her fiance?” 
“Why should she not?” said Dr. Carewe, 
calmly. 
“Why should she not? There is no reason, 
oertalnly,” said the little French lady, but she 
does not love him. And when a woman like Cecil 
Lester marries a man she does not love, she soon 
hates him.”—To be coutinued. 
peoples’ easy good nature, which can De so cun. 
nlngly twisted as to bear a meaning very different 
from that Intended by the writers. In attacks of 
nog oholera, there Is always a Hme when the dis¬ 
ease having run Its course, begins to subside, and 
a remedy used just then gets the credit of effect¬ 
ing the favorable change. But that has really 
been Nature's work. This Haas’s Cholera Cure, 
may stimulate the appetite, tout according to ex¬ 
perience, It neither prevents nor cures “ hog 
cholera.” 
The “ Monarch Lightning Saw company,” of 
168 Randolph street, Chicago, was shown up in 
this paper nearly six months ago, when Its adver¬ 
tisement was thrown out of our columns, our 
agent not toeing satisfied of the reliability of the 
concern after having Investigated It on the spot 
Several of our contemporaries have just discovered 
that, like the heathen Chinee, “for ways that are 
dark and ror tricks that are vain. It Is peculiar,” 
and so are warnlDg their readers against dealings 
with It—we repeat our old warnlDg for the benefit 
of new readers. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
flow I Found M North and iSciulli_ Boston. 
Leu & Shepard. Taper,50 cents ; English Cloth, $1. 
Born and reared on a New England farm, the au¬ 
thor, like many another New England boy of bis 
younger days, went to sea, before settllngdownln 
life. At the age of twenty-one, however, he mar¬ 
ried, and rook charge of the “ old farm,”—the pa¬ 
ternal homestead. Loss by lire, and a desire to 
get along faster tn the world, led him atter some 
years to the ctiy, where he soon learned that “ all 
If not gold that glitters.” To relieve himself from 
the anxieties and perplexities of the city, he at 
length turned back, with ardent longings to seek 
the former peace and quiet and true-heartedness 
or the country. 
But the old home being then In other hands, he 
must look for a farm elsewhere; and It is here 
that his story begins,—“ How I Found It.” 
Appended is “ Mary's Statement,” in which the 
ever-loving and devoted wife gives some pleasing 
reminiscences of those earlier years at the old 
homestead, with an account of David’s monage- 
menr of the farm, the profits derived, and also a 
vivid description or the event that shrouded their 
home lu gloom, and was the Anal cause of their 
leavlDg It for the city. Tho whole forms a story 
which no lovor of the country and or rural life can 
fall to And pleasure in reading. 
THE EYE-OPENER. 
Haas’s Hog Cholera Remedy.— This nostrum Is 
extenstvely advertised and sold throughout the 
country; but especially In the West, In spite of the 
fact that according to the opinion of the Commis¬ 
sioners appointed by the Government to investi¬ 
gate tne disease, there la no known remedy for It. 
In his advertisements Mr. Ilaas gives testimonials 
In favor of his “cure" from several prominent 
swine breeders and raisers la the West and it is 
upon the strength of these that his remedy has 
gained most of its sale. The National Live Stock 
Journal for some lime has been emphatic In Its 
opinion that this Haas’s “ Hog Cholera Cure” Is a 
nuMiiua, and that it would neither cure nor pre¬ 
vent the disease, and in Its issue ror last October 
It proposed to Mr. Haas that. If It was a genuine 
“ cure,” he should obtain certificates from several 
well-known hog breeders to ihe effect that It 
would either cure or prevent the disease, promising 
on their production that It would accept them as 
conclusive evidence that Lt had been mistaken In 
Its expressed opinion of the character of the “cure” 
and thenceforth speak well of its efficacy. 
in its issue lor December the Journal returns to 
the subject, giving three certificates received from 
Haas, purporting to be Indorsements received from 
well-known swine raisers. Of these the Journal 
has this to say: “Six days after the date of their 
testimonial to Haas, Shepherd Alexander of 
Charleston, 111, wrote to the editor that, they had no 
faith In any man or medicine that claimed to cure 
hog cholera, and that they would ask Haas to dis¬ 
continue the use of their name lu connection with 
the medicine. In a former letter they had said, 
“our flrst experience with Dr. Haas’s medicine 
was favorable, but we are sorry to say Lt does not 
hold good." The second Indorser, A. 0. Moore, of 
Canton, 111., speaks lrom hearsay only, giving no 
opinion of hla own belief of tbe efffeucy of the 
“cure’’either as a preventive or remedy. The 
third certificate was from II. C, Castle of Wilming¬ 
ton, Ill., and on the day lt was received, the editor 
of the Journal met him at the Fat Stock Show, 
when he denied having ever Intended to give Haas 
any certificate as to the merits of the medicine as 
a cure or preventive of hog cholera, and then he 
dictated the following words. “1 have not seen 
Mr. Haas’s medicine tried In a case or hog cholera, 
and I do not know whether lt will prevent or cure 
this disease.” This was three weeks after the date 
of the certificate to Haas. 
The journal gives extracts from letters received 
on the subject from several other prominent swine 
men who have no faith In the “cure.” L. N. 
Bonham, editor of the I’oland-Chlna Record, says 
of Haas—” he is one of those vampires which, 
when attacked, are hard to shake off. 1 have no¬ 
tified him to discontinue the use of my name, as 
he makes me say what I never said.” Some of his 
pigs had a cough. Haas Insisted on trying his 
medicine on them. It was done, and soon the pigs 
recovered, and the owner gave Haas a testimonial 
to that effect, though he didn’t know that their 
recovery was due to the medicine. This pa¬ 
per Haas used as a certificate In tavor of his 
remedy as a cholera cure, though thu pigs never 
had the cholera, and Mr. Bonham had distinctly 
told him he had no faith whatever In the medicine 
as a preventive or cure of that disease. H. M, & 
W. P. Sisson of Galesburg, ill., say that “after a 
thorough trlul, Haas's medicine will neiiher cure 
nor prevent the so-called hog cholera.” Other 
letters are to the same effect. It Is the easiest 
thing in the world to get certificates from some 
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Bringing to the work all the advantages of a 
rich and ripe experience, with helpful suggestions 
from a vast correspondence with ministers and 
musicians, and rare facilities for the production 
of a work that should In Its completeness surpass 
all others. Dr. Robinson has, lt Is believed, suc¬ 
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Baby Ballads: Airs. Follcu's Little Songs : 
New Sonus Dir Little People. Boston, Dee & 
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Besides the songs, these three little books are 
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---. 
MAGAZINES FOR DECEMBER. 
Uaki'ER’s Magazine 1s a striking Number, pre¬ 
senting many novel features. The flrst Instalment 
of a new novel, “ Anne,” by an Amerlcau author— 
Miss ConBtauce Fenimore v* oolson—la very prom¬ 
ising. The story la sharply American. 
The city of Pittsburgh is the subject or a very 
interesting paper by G. F. Muller. 
The Number opens with twelve Christmas Caril¬ 
lons by Annie Chambers Ketchum, with four ex¬ 
cellent illustrations by Fredericks. 
Monoure D. Conway contributes the flrst of a 
series of papers, entitled “ The English Lakes and 
their Genii.” 
Wolf’s engraving of Abbey’s full-page Illustration 
of Henrlck’spoem, “To be Merry,” 13 one of the 
finest pictures that have ever appeared in the 
Mugazlne. 
Rose Terry Cooke contributes another of her 
characteristic New England stories. 
“ The sixth Year of Quong See,” is an interest¬ 
ing description by Catherine Baldwin of a New- 
Year’s celebration In Chinatown, San Francisco. 
Mtea Sarah o. Jewett contributes a poem; “ Two 
Mornings,” other poems are also contributed. A 
short story, “Miss Cabot's Guest,” la contributed 
by Horace E. Scudder, 
Charles F. Thwlng shows in an able article the 
results of “ Ueoent Movements In Woman’s Edu¬ 
cation an article by W, T. Davis, “ The Queen, 
Ministry, Lords, and Parliament,” gives a satis¬ 
factory explanation 01 the operation of the British 
Government; and Mr. Edward Howland contrib¬ 
utes a suggestive article, entitled “A Great City.” 
Henry James, Jr’s., novel. “ Washington Square,” 
Is concluded tn this Number. 
The Editor s Easy Chair treats of the Newspaper 
ana Orator, the Influence of Byron, the Rugby 
Colony In Tennessee, and the Irish Agitation; and 
contains a communication from Wendell Phillips 
correcting a very common error In the use of De 
as a prefix to French family names. The other 
Editorial Departments are well sustained. 
The Herald of Health.— Contents; Common 
Mind Troubles; Health ror Girls; Two or Three 
Health Maxims; The Most Abused—The Moth; 
The close of the Year—Management and Care of 
the Singing Voice; Rugby—A Christmas and New 
