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THE BIRTH OF THE BUTTERFLY. 
A CRICKET. 
FTER HANGING, as if dead, 
for a loug time, he began to 
squirm and twist just as he did 
before, after having partaken of 
a hearty meal of raw eabbage. 
Under the expectation of what 
was coming, I looked along his 
back, just below the head, and 
sa w his skin open just as it had 
before, but through the opening 
appeared something that was 
considerably different from the 
green worm that had hung it¬ 
self up by the tail. It soon 
worked its head out of the slit, 
and then commenced alternate¬ 
ly lengthening and shortening its body, the 
old skin beginning to shriuk aud creep up, 
till it was all close up to the rail. Examining 
it more closely, I sa w that the hooks by which 
it was suspended, were a part of this outer 
skiu which it w'as throwing off, and I said to 
myself: “Now, Mr. Butterfly Baby, you are 
surely beaten. When you get quite out of 
your old dress, you will leave it hanging by 
its old hooks; you will tumble to the ground 
aud break your blamed little neck.” And 
how could he help doing so? Here be was, as 
I could plainly see, without hands, feet or 
legs, head do w t u ward, crawling out of his skiu, 
which was huug by the tail to the silk he had 
so carefully spun. But as he had found 
a way out of every difficulty before, I thought 
it possible for him to Hud a way out of this 
also: so I racked mv brains to guess how he 
could possibly do so, and watched him still 
more carefully. When he had wriggled his old 
skiu into a little wad, close up to the board, 
I noticed that the upper part of his skin was 
made of just such rings as I had seen in the 
skins he had crept out of when ou the cabbage; 
and that he could pull these out, one from the 
ottier, as oue pulls out the joints of a telescope, 
only that he could pull the separate hard 
rings quite apart, and that they were con¬ 
nected by a much softer ring of skin. Open¬ 
ing as wide as he could, two of those hard 
rings, close up to his wad of old clothes, he 
caught a little piece of these between the rings, 
aud shut down upon it as tight ly as he could. 
Thus banging on, he worked the last extrem¬ 
ity of his bodv out of his skin, and lo! at 
the extreme end, and coming out of the hooks 
by which the skin was suspended, were two 
other hooks just like them. Reaching upward, 
he entangled these books in the silk, and 
when sure they were quite fast, let go his grip 
on the old skin, aud hung quietly, head down¬ 
ward as before, and I thought I saw a slight 
jerk of bis head toward me, as much as to say 
“ You see, old fellow, it is easy enough if you 
onlykuow how.” After he had been quiet for 
a little time, and before I had recovered from 
my astonishment, he commenced whirling 
about like a Crazy Cricket, swinging from 
side to side, writhing, whirling and twisting 
so that one could hardly see him, “ What is 
he up to now?” I said. “ Does he mean to 
shake himself loose?” But I saw that he did 
not like the smelt of his old, soiled clothes, 
aud he soou tumbled them to the ground; 
then he became quite still, aud I had a good 
chance to see how he looked. He was uo 
longer a worm; lie had no mouth, no eyes, no 
legs, no wings; except for the want of these, 
he was shaped somewhat like the butterfly I 
saw laying eggs o*lthe cabbage.. But he was 
not a butterfly; be was not a worm. 
I have heard that men who go poking about, 
studying bugs and such kinds of cattle, would 
call it a chrysalis or pupa; but pupa, I am 
told, means a little girl, aud he did not look 
much like a little girl, except that he might 
resemble a girl baby of a great many years 
ago, when they used to wrap up babies from 
their heads to their toes in what they called 
swaddling clothes, and that is, I suspect, the 
reason they called it a pupa. 
Through many long dajs of sunshine and 
rain, this pupa hung without changing, I be¬ 
came almost starved while watching it, aud if 
it had been late in the season, would surely 
have starved to death, for I have been told 
that these pupa. 1 , when hung up late in the 
season, remain without any change through 
all the cold Winter and “come out” in the 
Bpring, just as this one did. During all the 
time I was watehirg it, it occasionally moved 
a little, just enough to show that it was alive. 
And, I am told, very strange changes were 
going un all this time in it; changes similar to 
such as turn the contents of an egg into a beau¬ 
tiful bird. Finally 1 saw a crack commencing 
in the skin of the back, behiud the bead, just 
where it bad opeued every time before, and I 
began to wonder how many jackets the fellow 
had tucked away inside of each other. It 
opened wider and wider, and out of it there 
came gradually something very different from 
what had appearedat anytime before. It had 
six long legs, large eyes, two long horns or feel¬ 
ers, ho jaws like those of the cabbage eating 
worm, but a long tube instead, with which it 
could suck the nectar out of the flowers. It 
was just like the butterfly I first saw, only in 
place of the golden wings, it had two little 
wads that looked like bunches of thin, wet 
impel*. It moved very slowly and stiffly a 
short distance, as if very weak. But very 
quickly these little wet wads began to expand, 
to take ou a bright, golden color; and after 
the fellow had crept up into the suulighc aud 
was a little dried and warmed by it, lo! he 
could not lie distinguished from his gay mam¬ 
ma, who so long ago left her eggs ou the cab¬ 
bage. As he flew away, he did not. even stop 
to look at the rows of cabbages where his in¬ 
fancy aud youth had been passed, Put hastened 
to the flowers, sipping their nectar as though 
accustomed to doing so all his life, aud had 
never known what the taste of raw cabbage 
was. I wonder if he ever met his mamma, 
and if he did, whether she remembered the 
little egg she left on the eabbage leaf? 
YOUNG QUERIST. 
M. W., Philadelphia, Pa. —I wish to learn 
something of wild convolvulus, and where can 
it be obtaiuedf 
Ans —There are two species of convolvulus, 
one knowu as Field Bindweed, which is bub a 
weed that grows along the Eastern coast, and 
the other a species found iu gardens, that was 
brought from Europe. It. is a hairy, low 
plant, with ascending branching stems, and 
almost spatulate or lance-ovate, sessile leaves. 
The flowers are blue and rather large and 
showy, opening iu the sunshine. You can get 
this plant of James Vick, Rochester, N. Y. 
R. B., WiMer, Neb. —1. Ought the flower- 
seed to be planted in a box or out of doors? 
When should tile seed be planted, aud wbat 
kind of care should it receive? What kind of 
soil should they be planted iu? 2, What is a 
good remedy for cabbage worms? 
Ans. —L. Separate the different kinds of 
seeds, and plant them in boxes. Plant the seed 
now, in finely pulverized rich soil. Give the 
best care, and when large enough, transplant 
the young plants to the flower beds. 2. Young 
folks' fingers make an effective remedy. A 
mixture of kerosene in skim-milk or soap¬ 
suds is good. Mix four ounoes of kerosene in 
a gallon of milk; add this mixture to five gal¬ 
lons of water, and sprinkle it ou the cabbages. 
C. Y., Spring Valley, Minn. — 1. How 
should radishes and onions be planted and cul¬ 
tivated? 2. Give me a little poultry advice. 
3. Should a person write ou both sides of the 
paper? 
Ans. —1. Radishes grow best in a light, 
sandy loam. Bow in drills four or five inches 
apart, and half an iuch deep. Enrich the soil 
with well-rotted manure. Keep out the weeds, 
and see that the soil is well pulverized. Plant 
ouious in rich, warm, sandy loam. Sow 
three to four pounds of seed per acre, in drills 
12 inches apart, and ono-balf inch deep. 
When the plants are three or four inches high, 
thin to one to two inches apart in the row. 
Keep down weeds, and pulverize the soil well. 
Do not be afraid of manuring onions too high¬ 
ly. 2. Feed your fowls regularly, and give a 
change in diet frequently. Let their water be 
pure. Allow no vermin on the fowls or in the 
house. Have a neat, well-ventilated house. 
Clean up the dropping at least every week. 
Put sulphur in the nests. See that the hens 
have plenty of egg-food. Be kind to the 
fowls; keep your eyes open, aud learn all you 
cau for their best interest. 3. Write only on 
one side of the sheet when writing fyr newspa- 
papers. 
K. H., Leonardsvilte, N. Y. —1. How far 
apart should I set cabbages? 2. On what kind 
of soil should cucumbers be planted? 3. Ought 
manure to be put iu a box in which seeds are 
to be started l 4. Were any of the seeds sent 
out in the Distribution, from perennial plants? 
Ans. 1. It will depend entirely upon the va¬ 
riety you wish to plant. If a small, early 
kind, 23 ^ feet apart; If a large, late variety, 
or four feet. 2. Good gardeu soil, well 
manured aud pulverized. 3. A little chemical 
fertilizer is a good thing, or soil well mixed 
with finely pulverized manure may be used. 
4 . Yes. 
W. Godfrey, III, — Recommend eight 
ever-blooming roses for flowers. 
Ans —Coquette de Lyon; a Tea Rose; color, 
canary yellow. Hermosa: large, double, aud 
fragrant; color, a beautiful rose. Mareehal 
Neil; flower extra large and deliciously per¬ 
fumed; color, deep golden yellow. Glorie do 
Dijon; large, perfectly double; color, rich 
creamy-white. Mad. Camille; extra large; 
color, delicate rosy flesh, changing to salmon- 
rose. Perlo des Jurdincs; very rich aud beau¬ 
tiful; color, clear golden-yellow. Niphetos; 
an elegant tea rose; color, pure snow-white. 
Agrippina; very double, lull aud sweet; color, 
brilliant fiery red. 
pimUanfoutf gutvjcftbing. 
Mrs. Mary Livermore’s Trip 
to Europe. 
As one of the clearest tbiukere on the vari¬ 
ous social problems of the day, and as a lectur¬ 
er of rare attractiveness and ability, Mrs. Ma¬ 
ry A, Livermore bas long been widely knowu 
both in this country and in England. ‘ Among 
women who have taken the platform for the 
discussion of questions particularly affecting 
their sex, Mrs. Livermore is without doubt 
the ablest representative, and the most con¬ 
vincing in her arguments and illustrations. A 
few years ago her health liecatne so much im¬ 
paired that she was forced to retire from the 
ecture field. But the interregnum iu her 
work was not of loug duration, aud her wide 
circle of friends aud admirers snou welcomed 
her back again. How aud by what means she 
was restored to health is related in the follow¬ 
ing deeply interesting letter: 
“Mklrosk. Mass . Feb. 1st, 1884. 
Drs. Starkey <fc Palkn, lion and nil Gi¬ 
rard St. Philadelphia. Dear Sirs: - 1 am en¬ 
tirely willing to make a statement of the ben¬ 
efit i have received from the Compound Oxy¬ 
gen Treatment, and that you should make such 
use of it as you please. 
“Four years ago this Spring, at. the end of 
a very severe and exhausting winter’s work, 
I found myself utterly brokeu down in health. 
My superb constitution had hi thorto carried me 
triumphantly through every task I had im¬ 
posed on myself, and had been equal to every 
phase of protracted labor that had fallen to 
my lot. But I was now- completely prostra¬ 
ted, with no power of recuperation. I could 
sleep but two or three bourn of the twenty- 
four, and then only in a semi-sitting position, 
because of a difficulty of breathing—suffered 
excruciatingly from sciatica aud neuralgia of 
the stomach—experienced the torment of indi¬ 
gestion, and the train of ilLs that follow, and 
w*as harassed by optical illusions which were a 
source of great, discomfort although I knew 
them to be illusions. My mental depression 
was as severe as my physical prostration. I 
believed the hopeless invalidism which I had 
most dreaded, had come to me and my chief 
aun was to hide myself from the friends and 
acquaintances who were afflicted ou my ac¬ 
count. 
“My physician recommended a trip to Eu¬ 
rope and my husband accompanied me thither. 
The change brought only palliation of my 
troubles, but no radical improvement. While 
in England some American aciiuaintances 
told us of the Compouud Oxygen Treatment, 
and they were enthusiastic in their praise of 
it as the surest remedial agent in cases like 
mine. They emphasized tbeir statements by 
narrations of complete cures which bad been 
wrought by it ot which they w*ere personally 
cognizant. 
“My husband immediately ordered from 
London the materials for a Home Treatment 
Of two mouths I used it. for a month, punc¬ 
tiliously obeying the directions seut for its use 
before 1 began to rally. Then mv return to 
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and almost youthful vigor. I resumed work 
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“ I have never discontinued the use of the 
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from a depth of physical depression. 
" Yours truly, Mary A. Livermore.” 
Iu another letter to Drs. Starkey <fc Palen, 
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