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Show aor THE oS usually those that are not worthy of the love of a pure girl, and those, too, who are likely to treat your letters in the coarsest and most indecorus manner. lf you want to save yourself from distressing complications let such correspondence severely and altogether alone. <i “- “OUR WAYWARD GIRL.” Eyes a Pearls When When When When Bright Could The Unless one is quite infallible to the effects of sordid example, the enthusi‘ lasmsof the purest and truest sentiments are very sure to give place to thoughts which every-day folk call practical. Not that the sense of common interest is fading out; it is simply being robbed of its just expression by ,an increasing multitude of other cares with an eventuality more near to self. Beside, there arises in one’s daily routine so much that seems to need adjustment, THE IDEAL WOMAN. so many who have some pain of body or mind orsoul from which they would dark pair, cheeks as roses; fain be at ease, so many witha grievance her teeth are, fair her nose is. -|to be righted or error to be explained or frailty which they would have accounted she laugheth, thunders laugh too; to the palliation of their wrong-doing, she frowneth, rainbows have to. | that in general only the most pathetic showing can awaken a response. : she glanceth, all the stars pale, Albeit, I have in mind an example she danceth, all the waves wail. which all who are not figuratively deaf and airy, sweet and dove-like, or blind or devilish have become acquaitthis fairy e’er my love like? © ed within some way. I refer to what is Ideal? Nay. known in domestic parlance as “our way- blood of lords isin her veins, ° The throne of empire is her seat; In court and drawing-room she reigns, _ Andfashion’s world is at her feet. She speaks and it is quickly done, And no one asketh, Is it wise? There seems no la‘v beneath the sun . That is not written in her eyes. Ideal? . Nay. Hers is not race or pride of face, Hers is not pomp of 7 wealth or name; ' A noble grace of mind, in place Of meaner things—a heart aflame. ward girl.” The number is myriad of | the family alters upon which this victim | of chronic displeasure has been sacrificed and her idols plunderd. In contemplating the qualities of such’a person one is scarcely able to determine just where in the procession of time she properly belongs, whether she should have been consigned to the pre-civilized ages or been held in spiritual abeyance for that super-civilization yet to come. She is certainly not the proper material for this epoch. Not uncommonly the first sound that awakens her infant ears is a sigh that she was nota boy, and the WESTERN WEEKLY. ‘double-faced Canton VIOLETS. The south winds hush the strings of a lute, But in their path as they onward pass, Though silenced song, while the strains are mute, Blue violets bloom in the springing grass; Sweet and strong on the air dew wet There comes the breath of the violet, Here’s Love with a wreath of floweis on his head, Royal robed, purple, sweet violets, And be they scented or be they dead, As springing hopes or as vain regrets, Whether sunned with smiles or with tear drops wet, Love breathes with the breath of the violet. If in the future you hold these flowers, These violets that I give you today, They may brighten for you some lonely hours, Ere they droop and die and fade away; But there’s evera friend in the world who yet Will place on your heart Love’s violet. Ruta Ramay. In N. O..Picayune. yr ~~ FASHIONS IN SPRING WOOLENS. tacking it at the edges with arini hues are shown among the new goods. From all this medley of colors refined women will probably choose the natural colors for street-wear, while a red or furniture tacks; it would also be well to cover the bottom of the top shelf, as it is liable to show. Cover the legs and cross pieces also. Complete the table by tacking along the edges of both shelves a pretty worsted fringe of old blue olive and old red coloring, and having a pretty braid edge at the top; tack with plain gimp tacks or the brass-headed ones, and you will have a very stylish table. then Shakespeare,then Robert Browning and you have mastered the science of comprehensive. poetical reading. <i - A WINTER FANTASIE. The apple buds in crystal sleet, The peach tree blooms with snow; The gray hills and the gray clouds meet, The meadow brook runs low, In frost and sad half-silence bound, And yet, it sings not ill; Haply some spirit in the ground Remembereth Summer still, CORRESPONDENCE. For in the copse, near by, she bides, Chilled by the whistling blast; But in the frozen breast she hides Her hopes, till grief be past. “What are the points of superiority of so-called poetical literature dver prose writings upon similar topics? I have tried to interest myself in some of the most celebrated poetical works, Sing on, ye wimpling waters clear, Though snow and ice enfold: Cease not—though all the world be drear, Your song charms, as of old. as, for example, ‘Paradise Lost,’ Byron’s ‘Child Harold,’ and others of alleged superior merit, but reading them has always been irksome to me; while I can read prose that seems to me equally subjective and imaginative with deep interest.”—Dr. Holland it was who said that the next thing to being a poet was to understand a poet. The distinguishing element between poetry and prose not, as you seem to think, ing prose you may have been following a poetical flight of the highest order. Prose in the true sense is employed with facts, theories, propositions, etc., and in such composition the metaphorical language, which is the crowning em- behshment of high grade poetry, is quite outof place. In flights of the imagination, or expositions of the inner feelings and inspirations there necessarily > a ~<hte ~<ije- wet One OA These joys, which with the year depart, Come with the following year; It is the winter in the heart Which makes an end of cheer. . The apple buds in crystal sleet, The peach tree blooms with snow; The gray hills and the gray clouds meet, Ths meadow brook runs low. —RoBERT B. WILSON, In Baltimore Sun. + belong entirely to the form of expression. The art of expression does indeed take a higher stand in poetry than in pure English prose, but a thought that is truly poetical is sé identified in whatever language it might be. clothed. So that while you presumed you were read- more vived tints will be used in the house. enters more or less of the personality of baneful echo of that same disappoint- The distinctivety new feature of the the writer. It is said of Byron’s several A pen of. fire, an Orphean lyre, A strong command of-men who think; ment is likely to follow her on through season’s importation of woolen goods is works that throughout all of his atearly life. As already avered she is to the revival of an old one, the introcuc- tempted portrayals of hitman character With sceptered truth in fadeless youth, She breaks oppression, link on link. be seen in or near to every household, tion again of the elaborate broche wool- could be distinctly traced some proand is evidently kmown by the clamor en of the age of Pompadour and Wat- nounced feature of his own personality. Ideal? Nay. that follows her. Having in the judg- teau. This work produces a raised fig- He is perhaps the most characteristically Her form is bowéd, her eye is dim, and ment of the family sire been modeled of all the great poets. ure which simulates in artistic shading subjective tremulous her well-worn hands; for a boy, whatever she says or does is and outline Homer was the other extreme. His the work of embroidery, But she has won the crown of crowns in necessarily wrong or out of time, and and for this reason it is superior to the productions were all objective in every executing love’s commands. from the cold browed matron who by brovaded work of the Jacquard loom. particular. Hisown personal reflections She gave her life that we might live, and. virtue of authority, vested and natural, Every shade of twilled woolen is shown seemed to have no place in his work. ‘then she lived that we might gain . directs the household morals, along the in plain goods, and in goods with brocad- The inspirations of his pen originated to do so, in the Some fairer future among men, some entire line of censors down even. to the ed grounds the leaf, tlower or fruit of entirely, or seemed monarch upon the elevated stool, re- the design is wrought in thread of silk, things he saw and heard. Yet to one honor worthy of her paix. sounds the alarm of her “bad behavior.” mohair or wool ina deep border on one who reads his works with a clear and Her Master’s law has made her great; she If illogical restraints, cross and multi- side and anarrow one on the other. mind, his personality On- comprehensive served, and so we crown her.queen.. farious directions and» perpetual ill- ly ayard and three-quarters or less of stands out as bold and distinct as if his She rocks the cradle,rules the world; you temper are the breeders of evil, she this double width goods is selected to own biography was embodied in his know your chiefest friend, I ween. holds the title by precept and primo- combine with the plain fabric. It is ar- language. His soul wasenraptured with Ideal? Yea. geniture to the full category of temporal ranged usually as the front breadth only the picture he was making, and every B.. A. Marsa, shortcomings. with the deep border at the bottom, fiber of his being thrilled with the grand in N. O. Picayune. As a child her sole incentive aside while the narrow border is torn off to harmony of his thoughts. Shakespeare from an immature sense of propriety form the trimmings of the bodice. In is called the many-sided bard, yet every is the fear of punishment. In youth some cases the bordered material forms line ef his great and numerous’ producthe pang of bodily affliction is evolved the entire underskirt, while the plain tions exposes in some sense his divine ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENCE. into the more acute one of periodical material falls over it, merely displaying personality. Shallow critics are racking humiliation. usually all the front breadth. There are their brains over his biography; but his There is a habit among thoughtThus in those filial associations that many woole s brocaded in all-over de- best delineators tell you that no better less girls,“ just for fun, you know,’‘ should be the fountain of perpetual sign with bramble leaf or with clusters mental image of the man could be to write letters, anonymous or other- confidence and love develop the germs of raspberry fruit and flowers. Such wished than that obtained from a wise, to persons, presumably of the of bitterness. The heart that should be woolens are especially pretty in pale thoughtful perusal of his dramas. the shrine of life’s dearest and sweetest suede color or old fashion mode with Somuch for the distinguishing points opposite sex, whom they know nomemories is a void or a_ torturing broche figures in silver white or in the between poetry and prose. thing of. Perhaps it isin answer canker. So is the rarest fruition of The comprehensive reading of rhymed cool blue-greens, which seem exactly to some newspaper advertisement, mind andsoul poisoned by their burning suited to spring, with brocaded or white or rhythmical composition is largely an perhaps it arises in one of the hun- resentments. figures of fleur de lis, the graceful leaf acquirement. The forms of such lanWhen from such a moral shamble and flower on this long slender stem ar- guage are peculiar, the terms are quaint dred other manners which are always open to those seeking oppor- she does finally make good her escape, ranged to form adeep border to a tablier and unusual. Thethought is condensed if she is so blest of reason as to chose front.—Good Housekeeping. and oftimes mystic or obscure. The tunities of that sort. The pastime the ways of peace, of love and of hope, reader is presumed to exercise his own is a dangerous and a reprehensible together with afree expansion of that imaginations along with those of the A Pretty and Inexpensive Table, one; itis destructive of those quali- wealth of sympathy and emotion with author and in some degree to fabricate A very pretty table may be made as a portion of the chain of ideas. When ties which are woman’s greatest which such souls are so liberally enT'wo squares of ordinary deal. he finds he has no imagination, or taste adornment, and without which she dowed, to an unyielding repression of follows: the holy instincts that under more gencannot win the highest respect of: ial influences might have born the rarest or white wood, say about two feet for the ideal side of nature, he would square, or three feet if a larger one is better leave off poetry at once and emright-minded people. The lan- of gifts alone may she ascribe her vic- liked, are to be set upon four legs of ploy his leisure moments in the perusal guage of such letters, there being. tory. the same wood, forming a top and a of literature that comes more directly God bless the “wayward girl” who lower shelf; the lower one must have a within the narrow limits of his thoughts. little restraining influence to keep. In your own case we suspect you have them within seemly bounds, are’ from her prison-house of evil omen two and a half inch square cut out at | comes forth with a brave heart and an each corner to accommodate the square missed simply ‘in the selection. You commonly so exuberant in expreshonest will to be a womanly wife and a legs which should be of that thickness; have chosen the most abstruse producsion that no modest girl would care’ dutiful and intelligent mother! She fasten this lower shelf.to the legs by tions of English literatureto commense to own herself the author, and we has earned a general benediction. means of screws passing through two -with, when you should have read first LinDa. sides of the legs and run into the shelf. the products of minds less exalted and would like to believe, such as no Strengthen the table by running one more simple in their style of expression. modest girl would care to write. and ahalf'in_h square cross pieces be- Read from Whittier, from Burns, from Girls, don’t do it. When you are **Under the ice—under the snow tween the legs below the lower shelf. Longfellow the sweetest and simplest Our lives are bound in a crystal ring; tempted in this way just remember’ Now proceed to cover every part of the and most sympathetic of the poets, By and by will the south wind blow, table with either the best quality of read Scott, Cowper, the novels of HawAnd roses bloom on the banks of spring.”’ Setting gghg eo REE ECS Bi thorn, Dickens, Thackery, then Mrs. Browning if you will, then Tennyson, eg ee does The first woolens which will.be selected for early spring gowns are light soft serge with a perceptible twill. ‘he woolens are imported in a variety of artistic old colors revived from the Directoire period and notably in natural grays and suede colors. Green, in the new bluish cast called Dragon-green, and in the already familiar grayish greens known as Empire, will continue to be popular. Rosewood brown, copper-red and new shades of blue as intense as the old Maz- flannel,of blue shade, or with flax-velours or any pretty colored stuff of good coloring, drawing it tightly over the shelves and Choice Recipes. VEAL CROQUETTES AND STRING BEANS. ——Chop up two pounds of: cold roast veal with two: boiled sweetbreads; moisten them with a little clear soup and bind together with the yelk of two eggs; season with a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, salt and cayenne; roll the mass into cones, dip them in beaten egg, roll in crumbs, dip again in roll in crumbs, and fry range neatly on a dish, upright; around them . egg, and again in hot fat. Arwith small ends put a border of string beans, boiled and nicely seasoned, and serve. : VrAL Curuer SavuTe with. PuREE OF Carrors.—Select a cntlet from the thick part of the leg, beat it with a bat and brown itina little hot butter. Boila dozen two-inch young carrots for half an hour in water slightly salted; mash them fine, rub them through a sieve and season with salt, pepper, and two ounces of butter. Cover the bottom of a hot dish with carrot puree; place the cutlets on top and serve. Sprinc Curcken, Hunearian Disjoint a four pound chicken; astew pan with a quart of water, half ateaspoontul of spoonful of paprika, a blade Sryun.— put it in lukewarm salt, a teaof mace, half a teaspoonful of wet flour; simmer slowly two hours anda half. Paprika, Hungarian red pepper, made from the sweet pepper, is very mild and pleasant to the taste and is highly recommended for dyspepsia or those troubled with a torpid liver. It may be secured from | wholesale spice dealers and first class Hungarian resiaurents. SWEETBREAD CROQUETTES WITH Pras.— Boil four sweetbreads, chop them very fine and pound them to a paste, season with salt and pepper and add the yolks of two eggs, two ounces of butter anda tablespoonful of cracker crumbs; mois- ten with a gill of cream, roll into balls or cork shaped forms, dip these in beaten egg, roll in crumbs; repeat the last process and fry in boiling fat. Arrange a border of green peas serve. around them and CAULIFLOWER AU PARMESAN.-=Boil a head of cauliflower, in water slightly salted, fifteen minutes; while boiling put an ounce of butter, a tablespoonful of flour and a pint of water into a saucepan; whisk, and simmer ten minutes; add half an ounce Parmesan grated cheese and boil a little longer; cut the caulitlower into neat pieces, put them ina deep dish, add salt and pepper anda sauce; sprinkle layer of Parmesan cheese apat of butter; bake .in and send tothe table in in which it was cooked. over it a thick and finally add a quick oven the same dish CreLEeRY Braise witH GrRavy.—Take six heads of table celery, trim off the green topsand cut off most of the root end; simmer in hot water five minutes, put them inastew pan with enough thick brown gravy tocover them; simmer ten minutes and serve. | |