JULY 3 
THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
oe agreeable for persona to be introduced to 
each other or not; but there are so many cases In 
which this inquiry is impossible, that such a rule 
would be moreoften infringed than followed, henco 
the necessity of care and Judgment—tor an un- 
deslred introduction, if made, would oblige the 
one person to whom the introduction was the 
more unwelcome either to treat the other with 
disregard, or else to continue a distasteful ac¬ 
quaintance. 
If, therefore, the slightest doubt Is felt whether 
a meditated Introduction would be agreeable, It 
is best not to incur the responsibility of malting 
it, but to seek an opportunity of ascertaining 
from both parties whetner an acquaintance is de¬ 
sired. 
We are speaking now of ceremonious introduc¬ 
tions, which supposes that the persons introduced 
should recognize each other when meeting else 
where. But there are formal introductions of a 
different character, and which must be carefully 
distinguished. 
For Instance, persons meeting at a house, when 
making a morning call, are frequently Introduced 
to each other by the hostess in an off-hand fash¬ 
ion, for the purpose of facilitating conversation, 
with the understanding that the introduction lasts 
only for that occasion; and persons having thus 
accidentally met, are under no obligation to bow 
or recognize each other when meeting again. 
If, when walking La the street with one friend, 
youmeetanother.it would be optional either not 
to Introduce them at all or only in a formal man¬ 
ner. But if, in such a case, you meet a lady, and 
she evinces a desire to stop with you, you may 
Introduce him formally; but this would not en¬ 
title him to consider himself one of the lady’s ac¬ 
quaintances. 
Naturally, when one person has expressed a de¬ 
sire to be introduced to another, you have only the 
wishes of that other to consult. 
It Is not, however, usual to ascertain a gentle¬ 
man’s wishes as 10 whether he desires to be intro¬ 
duced to a lady or not, for In general, society gen¬ 
tleman are supposed to be gallant enough to seek 
rather than to avoid a lady's acquaintance. 
Should a gentleman desire to be Introduced to a 
lady he must seek out some mutual acqualutance, 
and ask the favor; and the rule Is that the Intro¬ 
duction should be made, as such a request would 
lead to tne luference that he had some particular 
object In view. 
Near relations may, without any ceremony or 
hesitation, be introduced to friends casually en¬ 
countered. 
Personal Introductions at evening parties are 
not now in vogue, except In certain houses where 
a point Is made of keeping up old-fashioned cus¬ 
toms, Instead of coniorinlng to usages of modern 
times. The rule now Is, that on entering the draw¬ 
ing-room, your name Is simply announced by the 
servant, and you greet the host and hostess, and 
any of your intimate friends. The circumstance 
of having been invited should bo considered a suf¬ 
ficient passport, without a personal Introduction, 
for Joining in conversation with others who are 
present. Of course arguments can be adduced in 
favor of the old custom of Introducing each new 
comer to every one of the assembled guests ; but 
we never knew any late arrivals who did not feel 
that the custom would he more agreeable “ In the 
breach than In the observance.” 
ABOUT WOMEN. 
The first painted costume seen In Paris was 
made for Sara Bernhardt, it cost $ 600 . 
Citizens of Warren, N. c., have erected a monu¬ 
ment to Annie Cuatls Lee, the daughter of General 
Robert E Lee, who died while her rather was fight¬ 
ing McClellan during rhe Peninsular campaign. 
The women of iai‘i, owing to the interruption of 
Importations from England during the war, were 
obliged to pay a dollar a paper for pins, and they 
were difficult to get at that, price. 
One of the highest and best-deserved compli¬ 
ments ever paid to our country is embodied in a 
remark recently made by Jenny Lind. After ex¬ 
pressing great thankfulness for the enthusiastic 
reception she had received here, she added: 
“Your nation takes che rabble of all other coun- 
tries and gives them a chance.” 
Frontier life so often has a more marked effect 
In developing aggressive and heroic qualities than 
in making the gentle virtues, that it is not sur¬ 
prising that a hand-to-hand light, recently oc¬ 
curred between a teacher and her laudlady in one 
of the new mining camps of Colorado, and that 
the landlady pasted near the door and window 
which had been battered by her antagonist, the 
following inscription: “This is the work of 
hineryet swarfs the akule marm.” 
A Parisian lady Is earning a large Income in 
Boston by keeping in good order the fingers and 
nails of the members of iaslilonable families. 
She claims that through her ministrations the 
hands are rendered soft and white, the fingers Un¬ 
proved in shape, and the Unger-ualls trained and 
polished to a high degree of brllfiancy. Mondays 
of each week, are reserved for appointments at 
houses, aud Saturdays are devoted to gentlemen, 
Introduced by lady patrons. On the intervening 
days she receives lady customers at her own resi¬ 
dence. 
According to report, a woman in Michigan has 
sued for divorce on the plea of a breach of busi¬ 
ness contract. The husband had, before marriage, 
promised to give her lorty acres of land if she 
would marry him, and has since failed to redeem 
his promise, it is to be feared that the plea will 
be regarded as Insufficient by the stronger sex, 
and scouted out of court as too dangerous an 
inroad upon prerogative to be recorded for a prec¬ 
edent, lest many an error, by tho same example, 
might rush into the state. 
An extraordinary marriage recently occurred 
In Odessa. The bridal party assembled In the 
church with due formality, but the priest unex¬ 
pectedly refused to perform the service on the 
ground that the bride-groom was Intoxicated. 
The father of the young man, furiously angry, 
seized his son, dragged him outside the church, 
and undertook to sober him by a good Hogging. 
Meanwhile the father of the bride Instantly pro¬ 
claimed her engagement annulled, and invited 
aDy eligible candidate for the vacant place to of¬ 
fer himself. Two young suitors promptly pre¬ 
sented themselves; the bride and her father, after 
a few minutes of decision, politely dismissed one 
while the other took his station before the altar 
and was married to the insulted bride. 
A Canadian village possesses a curiosity In the 
form of an electrical girl. Thl3 damsel, once 
strong and fleshy, suddenly became strangely 111, 
lost her flesh, and was confined to bed. Having 
in health been of a silent disposition, she became 
In disease subiect to occasional conditions of in¬ 
tellectual excitement. In which she talked with 
great eloquence and iluency, followed by absolute 
prostration. Without visible cause she recently 
began to rally, became strong and lively, moving 
vivaciously around the house, and marking the 
curious re-establishment of vigor by discharging 
from her person electric shocks, which can he 
transmitted to a circle of fifteen or twenty per¬ 
sons. Her hands possess the qualities of a magnet, 
and any person shaking hands with her Is sub¬ 
jected to a violent shock. 
THE TIME IS SHORT.” 
BY AUTHOR OF “ STEFS HEAVENWARD,” 
I SOMETIMES feel the thread of life is slender, 
And soon with me the labor will be wrought; 
Then grows my heart to other hearts more tender. 
The time Is short. 
A shepherd’s tent of reeds and flowers decaying; 
That night winds soon wifi crumble into naught; 
So seems my life, for some rude blast decaying. 
The time is short. 
Up, up, my soul, the long-spent time redeeming: 
Sow thou the seeds of better deed and thought: 
Light other lamps, while yet thy hght is beaming. 
The time is short. 
Think of the good thou might’st have done, when 
brightly 
The sun to thee life’s choicest seasons brought; 
Hours lost to God in pleasure passing lightly. 
The tirno is short. 
The time is short. Then be thy heart a brother’s 
To every heart that needs thy help in aught; 
Soon thou may’st need the sympathy of others. 
The time is short. 
If thou hast friends, give them thy bast endeavor, 
Thy warmest impulse and thy purest thought, 
Keeping in mind, in word aud action ever, 
Tho time is short. 
Where summer winds, aroma laden, hover, 
Companions rest, their work for ever wrought; 
Soon other graves the moss and fern will cover. 
Tho time is short. 
Up, up, my soul, ere yet the shadow fallctli, 
Some good return in latter seasons wrought: 
Forget thyself, when duty angels callelli. 
The time is abort. 
By all the lapses thou hast been forgiven, 
By all the lessons prayer to thee hath taught, 
To others teach the sympathies of Heaven. 
The time is short. 
The wealth of heaven never perishes, never de¬ 
parts, never ceases, never brings with it care, o' 
envy, or blame, destroys not the body, corrupts 
not the soul, Is without lil-wlll, heaps not up mal¬ 
ice ; all which things attend on earthly wealth 
That honor lifts not men Into folly, doth not makt 
them puffed up, never ceases uor la dimmed. 
Again, the rest aud delight of heavea endureth 
continually; ever being immovable and Immortal, 
one cannot find Its end or limit. Nothing which 
comes to au end la much to be desired; whatever 
ceases, and to-day la and to-morrow la not, though 
it he very great, yet It seems little and contempti¬ 
ble. Then let us not cling to fleeting things which 
shp away aud depart, but to those which are en¬ 
during and immovable.— Chrysostom. 
Yes, It la one thing to describe nature; that the 
atheist may do, and this with the precision of a 
micrometer; but even then he speaks but a Uttle 
fragment of the truth, it Is another and vastly 
larger thing to Interpret nature; mat no one can 
do who does not believe in a purposeful God—that 
la to say, a Providential Creator ,—George ixtna 
Board! nan. 
CHK1ST1AN1TY is the true citizenship of the world; 
and universal peace, and the free exchange of all 
lands and tributes of their several peculiar goods 
and gifts, are possible only' as aU are grouped 
around, and united by the cross of a common Re¬ 
deemer, and tne hope ot a common heaven.— 
William K. Williams. 
Remember you cannot be any better than God 
has made you, but you may be very much worse. 
Toucan always find more reasons for doing as 
you wish than doing as you oi ght. Aud It is this 
tendency that separates you from truth, purity 
and goodness. 
Microscopic holiness is the perfection of excel¬ 
lence, If a life will hear examination In every 
horn- of It, It Is pure ludeed. To live by the day 
aud watch each step, is the true pilgrimage 
method. 
As to being prepared for defeat, I certainly am 
not. Any man who la prepared lor defeat, would 
be half defeated before he commenced, i hope 
for success, shall do all in my power to secure it, 
and trust to God for the rest .—Admiral Earragut. 
When you are reading a book In a dark room, 
and come to a difficult part, you take it to a win¬ 
dow to get more light. So take you Bible to 
Christ .—Me Oheyne. 
Several large and influential churches, In va¬ 
rious sections ot the country, have recently, taken 
strong action against all kinds of lotteries at 
church fairs. 
“Godly sorrow Is the sorrow of God reproduced 
in a tender, beautiful soul, by which the creature 
1 b brought Into closest sympathy with God.”-A non. 
From each cross we are called to bear, If we 
take from It the cross-piece—which is our will— 
t’ will no longer prove a cross.— Independent. 
A home where Christ abides Is a little remnant 
oj Eden. The benediction of God falls vertically 
upon Its ’■ blessed l nmates.” 
“No person can be said to pray sincerely, who 
does not employ all natural means to secure the 
oOj l tun. 
As the pebbles are whitened by the beating of 
the waves, so are our souls purified by the flowing 
of the grace of God. 
God never meant this life to be a desert, utterly 
barren of all that Is good and beautltul and re¬ 
freshing and glad. 
“ A eooD Christian Is not a grave to bury God’s 
mercies, but a temple, to sing his praises.”— T/ios. 
Watson, 1657. 
Flowers are the alphabet of angels where¬ 
by they write on hills and fields mysterious 
truths. 
Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials 
Hold on ; hold fast; hold out. 
“As a man must he torn, so he must he taught 
Horn above.”—Old Divine. 
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CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
LOG - CABIN SKETCHES; OR JESSIE 
SEABRIGHT’S DIARY, NO. 12- 
MAY MAPLE. 
Ap bil 10, 18.—Mrs. Blossom’s little girl has 
just been in to borrow a “few spoonsful of 
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Sirup," and when I 
told her that I never used the article, aud 
therefore did not keep it, she seemed greatly 
disappointed, and then inquired how I man¬ 
aged to keep our little Alicia so good-natured. 
Their baby cried almost all the time, and her 
mother could not get a bit of rest unless she 
gave the baby its “ rations ” of Soothing Sirup; 
then it would sleep all the time. It fairly 
lived on this baby medicine; and she did not 
see why I didn’t use it. After playing with 
our frolicsome pet for a few minutes, she 
started up with a sigL, saying, “ Weil, I must 
go back and take care of Ray, though I hate to 
do it when he cries so much." 
Poor little girl! how sorry I felt for her, and 
how my heart ached for the baby boy; but I 
was glad that I had never practiced using the 
vile stuff. “ Years aud years and years ago,” 
as a wee little six-years-old friend says, I saw 
in the school-room the evil effects of dosing in¬ 
fants with sleeping potions. Many a mother 
has herself to thank for her child’s dull intel¬ 
lect. She either did not have the patience she 
needed or was desirous of using the time which 
baby's nature demanded ; so a dose of “pare¬ 
goric" or Soothing Sirup, containing a large 
percentage of laudanum, was resorted to, not 
only daily, but many times a day. A few drops 
were given at first, but the quantity was in¬ 
creased till a large spoonful was considered 
none too much. 
The heavy eye and dull, thoughtless attitude 
and stupid blunders of at least one-fourth of 
the pupils of every district school will show 
any one the disastrous effects of using Sooth¬ 
ing Sirup in its various forms aud under its 
myriad names. Many children are verily 
robbed of their God-given talents by the inju¬ 
dicious use of opiates, aud uot a few are sent 
to untimely graves by the use of Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Sirup alone. 
So long as the infant is quiet the mother can 
go on with her reading, sewing, or whatever 
takes up her attention until hours pass away 
unheeded. The child really needs attention in 
various ways, but it still sleeps until its vital¬ 
ity is nearly exhausted. Day by day the little 
one grow6 less active, and evidently weaker, 
till it cares not for food, and thus it actually 
pines away, or starves to death before its 
thoughtless mother’s eyes; and then she 
mourns for the loss of her baby, and perhaps 
blames the All-Father for robbing her of her 
jewel. 
It seems strange that a people who read so 
much should ute their opportunities for 
knowledge to so little purpose. Not long ago 
I asked a young mother how she liked Mrs. 
R-'s articles on the care of infants. Bat 
she had never read them, although 1 knew her 
husband waslakiug the paper which published 
Mrs. R-’s excellent sketches. She read the 
stories and recipes every week, but the articles 
that would have taught her many good things 
about the care and culture of her little "olive 
plants" were entirely passed over. Only the 
light literature pleased her fancy. Not a sin¬ 
gle thought of how she could best develop the 
health and strength of her treasures was given I 
the subject. 
CAKE-MAKING HINTS. 
Cbeam the butter before adding the sugar. 
Cover cake with a paper cap when first put 
in the oven. 
A few drops of water in white of eggs will 
prevent their whipping to a stiff froth. 
When 6oda and cream-of-tartar are used, 
sift with flour the same as yeast powder. 
If more than two eggs are used beat separ¬ 
ately. 
To secure tenderness and delicacy, the Hour 
measure should always be rather on the side 
of scantiness. 
Beat fruit jelly to a paste before spreading 
between layers. 
Lard is better to grease cake tins with than 
table butter. If lard is objectionable, keep on 
hand a small quantity of unsalled butter. 
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Hair-dye. 
The best and most harmless hair-dye that I 
know of is made of litharge and lime in equal 
parts. Mix with water to make a thm paste. 
Care must be used in applying not to soil the 
skin, as it is almost indelibJe. When dry, rub 
the hair or beard to get out all the powder, and 
wash thoroughly. It will last for a long time. 
To make brown use more lime. 
W. T. Butterfield. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Nice Fried Liver. 
C ut into small strips, put on a platter, pom- 
over boiling water and immediately pour it 
off. Place a frying-pan on the stove with 
some beef dripping in it, dredge the liver with 
cracker dust, seasou with pepper aud salt and 
put into the pan. Cover and fry slowly until 
the pieces are well browned. A little chopped 
onion cooked with the liver is very nice for 
those who like the flavor. 
Boiled Ham. 
A small corned—not smoked—ham was 
boiled on Saturday for Sunday’s dinner. When 
tender, I eut out the bone from one end, peeled 
off the skin, covered the outside with beaten 
egg and dusted thickly with fine cracker crumbs. 
It was put into the oven and there left until 
the grease from the ham had penetrated the 
crackers and the entire top was brown and 
crisp. When served, the platter was garnished 
with lettuce leaves. This way of preparing 
ham looks mueh more inviting than the com¬ 
mon way of removing the skin alone without 
glazing with egg aud cracker. e. m. 
Egg Omelet. 
The yelks must be beaten until thick and 
creamy, then the milk and seasoning added, 
and lastly the whites beaten to a stiff froth. 
Have heated in a skillet a tablespoonful of 
butter. Pour in the mixture which should at 
once bubble aad flake. To keep from burning 
slip under a thin, broad knife and raise up the 
edges every few seconds. When the eggs be¬ 
gin to set, fold over, shake the skill tit aud turn 
on to a hot platter. When many eggs are 
used, divide and make several, sending each 
to table as soon as done. i. l. 
QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
YVholeaomenesg of Bye Bread f 
Is rye bread wholesome ? Please give bes t 
method of making. Subscbibek. 
Ans.— The analysis of rye flour, as given by 
Prof. Johnson, is as follows : Water, 14.0, or¬ 
ganic matter, $4.4; albuminoids, 10.5; carbo¬ 
hydrates, 73.5; crude fiber, 1,5; fat, etc., 1.6. 
That of wheat flour is: water, 12.6; organic 
matter, 86.7; albuminoids, 11.8; carbo-hy¬ 
drates, 74.1; crude fiber, 0.7; fat, etc., 1.3 By 
these analyses it will be seen that wheat is rieli- 
erin albuminoids and carbo-hydrates than rye, 
but, nevertheless, rye bread is considered very 
healthful. — 
To make: Take one quart of warm water, 
one teacupful of yeast, and thicken with rye 
flour. Put in a warm place to rise over-night. 
In the morning scald—well cook—one pint 
of Indian meal. When cool, add to the sponge, 
with salt, a little molasses, a pint of warm 
water and rye flour to knead eery soft. Let 
rise, then put into pans. Again let rise, then 
bake. The dough should never be molded stiff 
for rye bread, and, if preferred, the flour may 
be wholly worked in with an iron spoon instead 
of the hands. 
Raisin Delicate Cake. 
Please give the above recipe. Mbs. G. L. 
Ans.—T wo cups of granulated sugar, good 
half cup of butter, whiles of six eggs beaten 
to a froth, three-fourths of a cup of sweet milk, 
three cups of flour, one cup of seeded raisins, 
cut flue, two teaspoonsfnl of yeast powder, 
and two teaspoonsful of lemon extract. Cream 
the butter, then the sugar aud butter ; stir in 
the milk, then part of the flour—one cupful 
should be reserved for the raisins—then the 
whites, and, lastly, fruit. After adding the 
flour, whisk in the whites and fruit as quickly 
as consistent with thorough mixing. 
