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ECONOM Y FOR THE GIRLS. 
PLANNING. 
BV AU.VT BETH. 
care for Planning’s shoulders that it is a won¬ 
der he lives through it all. but he always does, 
and will be delighted to help every one of the 
Rural girls to make a nice list of gifts for ! 
the coming Christmas. His wise head is full 
of ideas for the five cent pieces and the dimes 
as well as the dollars that the cousins will 
have to spend. 
C 0 In’ O MY’S servant, 
Planning, is busy in 
great affairs as well as 
small, and in making 
his acquaintance you 
will know one who has 
sat, in counsel with all 
the great people in the 
land—the generals com¬ 
manding armies, the iti- 
ventors who make sim¬ 
ple eh ments combine to 
do wonders, and archi¬ 
tects who plan houses 
and churches, and buildings of all sorts. He 
helps the farmers in their work, the store¬ 
keeper in his, and the postmaster is indebted 
to Planning for the ease with which he. dis¬ 
tributes the mails and puts each letter in the 
right place, so that it reaches the person for 
whom it is intended in the shortest time possi¬ 
ble. Planning saves many things, but bis 
special treasures seem to be time and space, 
though he saves strength and power, aud ma¬ 
terials of nil sorts. 
With all these g eat things to aid he yet 
will be at hand to help in small, every-day 
affairs, aud the girls may learn many things 
for their work from bis suggestions. In the 
kitchen, where he has had his wise head, there 
is a place for everything; the pots havea cer¬ 
tain place for their own, the skillets and pans 
have their places, the dust pan has one place 
where it is always put, the brooms have cer¬ 
tain places, and those never to be found-when- 
wanted things that nearly all of us have had 
such hunts for when we were in a greut hurry, 
such as sharp knives, the chopping knife, the 
butter ladle, the lid lifter at the stove aud a 
dozen other things you will think of that have 
plagued you by their absence, all these will 
have places of their owu, aud time be saved 
in that way; with all the utensils and tools In 
convenient places, the work can still be light¬ 
ened by Planning, when going to the garden 
for vegetables and to the orchard for fruit, or 
to the cellar for both, bring back a lull load, 
getting both vegetables and fruit, if not too 
heavy, instead of going twice. 
Planning suves a great deal by suggesting 
the best time to do everything. The water 
for washing the dishes will bo put ou before 
meal time, the wood for cake bakiug will be 
brought in before the cake is made, and the 
fire w ill bt* brought to a steady hrat before it 
is needed for bailing. Before baking begins 
some work that ean be done near the stove 
will he ready; apples or potatoes to pare, 
cabbage t<> chop, or something to make the 
time useful while the oven is watehed. You 
will find, I thiuk, if you notice how your 
mothers work, that they know this sprite well 
aud no doubt have taught you many of his 
ways already. 
When cleaning rooms, making beds, etc , 
take broom, dust-pau and dust cloth all at 
ouco to the rooms aud not make a separata 
trip with each: Wheu sheets aud pillowcases 
are to be changed find oul just how many are 
needed, and then it will save a trip to get any 
that might bo lacking or to carry back those 
that might be left. 
This servant of Economy’s is very particu¬ 
lar about the time when everything is done. 
If things are not done as he directs, if the 
breakfast dishes are left until nearly dinner 
time before they are washed aud the pots and 
crocks left all day' with vegetables or dough 
drying on, if the beds ure left unmade and 
the rooms unswept till nearly night, Planning 
runs away and leaves the house to its fate. 
When his counsels are followed he stay's, aud 
when the work is all planned for the day, he 
is pretty sure to suggest some pleasure and 
the way to obtuln it. When the little girl's 
task-, are done he is still near as she cuts and 
makes dresses for her favorite doll, or goes a 
journey ill the big chair with her "very 
troublesome ’ family of dolls. Or the older 
girls are off to visit some friend, or out to en¬ 
joy rides on the loads of fodder, corn and 
pumpkins that their fathers are hauling to 
the barn. Something that they enjoy, any¬ 
how, Planning will suggest for them to do 
after the work is over, for he is a kindly old 
fellow and plans uiuny a merry time for the 
boys and girls; has a linger in their eaudy 
pullings, a word to say about their nutting 
parties, uud is never absent from the games 
on the school grounds. Such au accommo¬ 
dating sprite ought to be much liked, aud the 
girls should listen to his advice about their 
work and do their best to understand his 
ways. 
Christmas is coming, and such loads of 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark;— I would like to join 
the Youths’ Horticultural Club. I am 13 i 
years old; we live on the Clamath River, and 
father has a sawmill; mother takes the Ru¬ 
ral, and she says she likes it better than the 
other papers. The corn you sent grew well, 
and we liked it very much; we are saving it 
for seed The tomatoes were the nicest we 
had; they were solid with but few seeds. My 
uncle has a potato that weighs four pounds 
and three-quarters, another one, three pounds 
and three-qua tors; they are covered with 
prongs. We have blackberries, strawberries, 
and raspberries. A friend sent some nuts 
from the States; they are growing nicely. 
Siskiyou Co., Cal. clara l. wood. 
[We are glad to welcome you to our Club, 
and hope to hear aomething about the State 
you live in. I am glad you have planted those 
nuts. I would like to know that enough trees 
were being planted by the Cousins to make a 
great forest if planted all together. What are 
your native trees? Your uncle's potatoes were 
very large ones. What variety were they?— 
uncle mark.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I don’t kuow but it 
is too late to send in my report, but I suppose 
it is better late than never. Thauks for the 
seeds you sent me. I sowed them and they 
came up very good; then 1 transplanted them 
into other beds. I had some very pretty pop¬ 
pies aud a little cassia, which I think is very 
cunning, but the ants ate it so bad that I 
didn’t get many seeds from It. 1 had one suu- 
fiovver, which did not blossom until a little 
while ago, and a great many other kinds 
which 1 will not name. I see some of the 
Cousins have asked the name* of some of the 
flowers. I found out by looking in a seed 
catalogue aud ascertaining what flower and 
leaf there looked like my plants. We sowed 
both kinds of pens, and 1 am sorry to say we 
didn’t, get. any seals from eit her; the chickens 
ate them up. We were very sorry, because 
we thought they were going to be such nice 
kinds. We sowed the melons, which were 
very nice. The tomatoes did not have ft very 
good chance; the chickens picked them, and 
then some of them rotted on the end. Pa 
sowed his wheat this Fall; but, of course, I 
don’t know how that will turn out. I will 
close now, for fear I will write too long a let¬ 
ter. Yours truly, 
Kalamazoo Co., Mich. fannik s. ivks. 
Uncle Mark: — I wouder how many of the 
cousins are engaged in gathering and pressing 
ferns and autumn leaves this Fall. A large 
book should be provided with paper* laid be 
tween the leaves, that they may be changed 
when damp, or whut is better still, a press. 
This is, or may be, a very simple contrivance 
and yet effective. A perfectly successful one 
is made of two strips of thin board, each 
about a yard long ; on one of these boards 
several newspapers are spread. If flowers are 
to be pressed, put cotton under them and a 
little over them: put a little paper over them, 
theu lay them between the boards and press 
tightly by means of four clamps put on at the 
corners. In this way autumn leaves may be 
pressed so they will keep their color, and 
ferns seem to lose none of their beauty by the 
process. With a little care In placing the 
cotton uuder the petals of the pansy, it may 
be pressed and retain its natural color. But 
do not remove the cotton from the pansies 
until they are perfectly dry, or they will 
shrink. VVheu they are dry, cut out pieces of 
cardboard, aud fasten the pansies upon the 
cards with a very little mucilage. These 
cards may be tied’together in the form of a 
book witli tis.-ue paper between the leaves; or 
they may be kept in a port-folio made for the 
purpose. Covers for the little books are pretty 
made of canvass with pasteboard liutug; they 
should be bound with ribbon and may be 
further ornamented by having some of the 
pressed pansies on the cover, or pansies may 
bo ] tainted on it. annie krause. 
Wayne Co., O. 
Dear Uncle Mark and Cousins:—I re¬ 
ceived the flower seeds and I tbaub you very 
much for them. I planted them aud dwarf 
poppies, sweet •williams, balsams, foxgloves, 
snap dragons and one pink came up. 1 like 
to raise flowers, especially pretty ones. I bad 
a vegetable garden this year: it contained 
potatoes, peas ami beaus. 1 took all the care 
of it myself, and weutto school all tbe time. 
Several years ago papa gave my sister aud 1 
au apple tree; be thought it was dead but my 
sister thought that it was alive above the 
graft, and we planted it, aud this Spring it 
bore one apple; it proved to be a Bellflower. 
There were more apples here this year than 
have ever been in one year since this place 
was settled. I will not. write more this time. 
Your oiece aud cousin, 
Clatsop Co,, Oregon. edith z. Jones. 
Pi-scfnancou.s §Mverti$itt0. 
The Experience of on Eminent Lecturer. 
The magic lantern, which was in former 
days only a toy with its coarse and gaudy 
pictures for the amusement of uproarious 
children, has been improved and dignified by 
the introduction of photographic art. Com¬ 
petent scholarly gentlemen and finished 
speakers have done their part in elevating 
lantern pictureings to their proper place in ar¬ 
tistic education. The lantern and the lecturer 
now combine instruction with entertainment 
in graphically getting before the public 
illuminated evenings of travel among the 
wonders of our own country, or the antiquities 
and curiosities of foreign lands. 
Prominent among the gentlemen who have 
dignified the lantern bv bringing to its aid the 
triumph ol pnutography is Mr. Edward L. 
Wilson, of Philadelphia. A natural artist, a 
superior photographer and a fascinating 
speaker. Mr. Wilson, has attained a national 
reputation. In winter he addresses large city 
audiences, and in summer he gives his illus¬ 
trated lectures at the various camps of moral 
and religious instruction throughout the 
country. His photographic establishment is 
known throughout the nation and is 
enriched with many original works of photo¬ 
graphic art taken by himself in his tour 
through foreign lands.' 
In consequence of his intense devotion to 
the duties of his profession, Mr. WI Lon some 
years ago became a confirmed invalid. The 
labors which crowded him in connection with 
the photographing of tbe Centennial Exhibits 
in l*7fi first contributed to impair his naturally 
strong constitution. In these labors he bad 
tbe constant charge of over one hundred 
artists and assistants, and was worked day and 
night beyond the reasonable capacity of even 
a very vigorous man. It is not surprising 
that his health gave way completely, nor that 
life became a burden hard to bear. 
To one who called upon him u short time 
ago Mr. W i isoti told the stoi y of his illness, 
and bis restoration. 
"Run down?’ 1 he said, "Well you may say 
so, when 1 tell you that the Insurance men 
wouldn’t touch iue. I had policies in two of 
our best companies, and 1 wuuted more in¬ 
surance. Both of them refused me. And 
yet, one year afterwards one of them very 
gladly took a new risk on me, and tbe other 
was willing to. This was. of course, after I 
had fully recovered. Tell yon how it was. 
The strum ou me had been too great I ran 
down, down, down, gradually. Although I 
had au excellent constitution, and had lived a 
strictly temperate life, 1 was so much pros¬ 
trated that tor a long time 1 could not sleep 
more than an hour or two in the course of a 
night. I suffered with acute neuralgia , and 
with headaches, which, when then came on 
suddenly , would rentier me powerless to think 
or act. My appetite became capricious, and 
I could eat. only a small quuutity of food at a 
time. My digestion was demoralized. My 
throat gave me trouble , and 1 began to be 
af raid 1 had chrome bronchitis. 
“One day. five or six yeurs ago, when I was 
suffering with out* of my terrible headaches, a 
friend w hose mother had been cured of rheu¬ 
matism by the Compound Oxygen treatment, 
said to me ‘Why don’t you try oxygen?’ 1 
laughed at the idea, for I had no faith that 
such a thing could reach my case. Mill I 
went to Starkey & Pnlen’s office in Girard 
street, and inquired into it. 1 took a few 
inhalations, and lau-hedat it again. But 1 
saw that. Drs. Starkey & Palen were fair aud 
truthful gentlemen, and 1 determined to give 
their Compound Oxygen a very thorough 
trial. There was nothing unpleasant in it, 
aud 1 had no fear that It. would harm me. In 
any event it could not make me worse than I 
was. 1 took the inhalations hopefully and 
faithfully Hoon. say in less that a month, l 
began to feel a great change for the better. 
My first symptom ot improvement was that 
the headaches were Jess frequent, and by no 
means as painful as they bad been. Then 1 
began to get better sleep That strained and 
wearied feeling of hotly departed, and with it 
the mental depression under w hicb 1 had 
labored. \Vta«n those frightful headaches 
were at their worst, they would sometimes 
last all day. Kow when ttiey came. It would 
be hardly an hour from the first indications 
by buzzing iu my ears and tingling in my 
finger tips until the headache wus over. 
"Well, l might tell you a loug story about 
it, but to lie brief, 1 recinrrcd my health. 
Throat trouble went away and I had a decid¬ 
ed increase of lung power. My yood appetite 
returned as in former days. My digestive 
organs became able to take care of ail the 
food I gave them to dispose of. In short I was 
good as new. 
"Most of this was accomplished in three or 
four months. But as 1 had been so much run 
down ami wanted my restoration to lie noth 
complet e and permanent, I continued the treat¬ 
ment for over a year, varying it from time to 
time in amount and method. At times I 
would omit it for several weeks, and then 
return to it again. It is about three years 
since I finished my regular course. Bow 1 
• rt to it ODOfl iu a while in case i take 
cold or am subject to any extraordinary phy¬ 
sical or mental strain. 
"I went abroad iu 18*2, taking a protracted 
and somewhat laborious trip through Egypt, 
Arabia, aud Palestine. 1 was beyond the 
ordinary conveniences of comfortable travel 
and had to spend much of mv time on camels 
and lodo a great deal of walking and climb¬ 
ing. I found l could stand any amount of 
exposure. 1 could. tramp tue hill of Arabic 
Tel via, as easily as anv of my three compan¬ 
ions. So hearty and joyful was l that our old 
dragoman said to me "You always make my 
heart glad when 1 am in trouble.’ In all my 
tours abroad 1 bad but two returns of severe 
headache; one at Mount Serval, the other at 
Uesorse Philippi. 1 could eat anything that 
was set before tue, and eat it freely'. 
“Since my return to this country, I have 
engaged in my old duties with more than for¬ 
mer activity. 1 have lectured a great deal, 
and often in the open air, without any ret uni 
of th roat trouble. 1 have attended without 
difficulty to the details of my large photo¬ 
graphic business. I used to be susceptible to 
colds: having them, in fact , from November 
to May; one on top of another. Now' I have 
had, as far as I can remember, only two colds 
in three years, though I have been fully sub¬ 
jected to every description of drafts. I enjoy 
my eating aud I sleep w ell It used to tire 
me to work my lanterns for an hour. Now I 
can easily do it for hco hours without fatiffue. 
My weight is about tbe same as of old; say 
185 pounds. I can work, as a regular thing, 
about seventeen hours a day , and my work 
never I ires me. 
"I do not recommend Compound Oxygen 
for the man who wants to get well in such a 
hurry that he Is not satisfied unless cured in 
twenty fonr hours. But. for those who have 
patience and try it faithfully, and to obey 
directions implicitly, I consider it the grand¬ 
est vitalizer and restorer in existence. To my r 
use of it 1 attribute my present state of good 
healt h. You may quote me as say ing all that.’’ 
In t hese busy days of mercantile and pro¬ 
fessional activity, t here are thousands of over¬ 
worked gentlemen who arc as greatly run 
down as Mr, Wilson was. Their restoration 
may be as complete as his, if they wilt try a 
course of Compound Oxygen. To know all 
about this invaluable vitulizer and restorer, 
call on or address Dns. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 and 1111 Girard St., Philadelphia. 
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