Show DAUGHTERS I OF EYE A Very Handsome Engagement Present BOW TO PLEASE THE CHILDREN A Romantic StoryA Prompt and Popular MilkPeddler The Ideal Girl A Professional Bugaboo For THE SUNDAY HERALDS In the Sweet By and By Tim summerj fled the leaves are shed On country path and open highways Tho trees ore bare and wintry care Is stealing through once pleasant byways And yet It sterns that after dreams From older haunts can ramble never nuL fondly show In loves warm glow Those summer walks bright as ever So may It be In years that wo Will backward view this life together Lit by the sun of labor done Forgetting all the adverse weather That thus we may with fancy stray To golden days no trials sever And hearing chimes of those loved time In memory bo young former The Care of Canaries All caged birds are more or less liable to become infested by mites to their great discomfortin fact to their total ruin if not relieved The troublesome insects are so small as to be hardly visible to the naked eye but the mischief they accomplish is immense Like human backbiters they are tho more to be dreaded because insidious insidi-ous and your carefullytended pets may be murdered through their agency without your dreaming of the cause Their presence pres-ence is indicated by the following general symptoms The bird refuses to sing and finally loses his voice altogether he appears ap-pears alternately sick and drooping or spasmodically lively hopping and fluttering flutter-ing nervously abouthis cage Anon ho sits for hours upon the perch with halfclosed eyes continually picking and pluming himself him-self he cats little and his feathers scatter scat-ter about as though ho were perpetually moulting By and by the upper part of his bill turns black and some fine morning you will find him on the bottom of the cage with his toes turned upward a victim to the destroyer Now for the treatmentwhich you can easily apply if you have cause to suspect that they are thus troubled and which will not injure them in tho least in any event Put a little fine cut tobacco in a bowl pour some boiling water on it and keep it for future use Wash the cage clean in scalding scald-ing suds into which put a little of the tobacco to-bacco water and dry it well over the stove If a wire cage you can heat it hot enough to kill a salamander by first removing the perches Then bathe the bird in weak tobacco water taking care not to wet its I eyes or allow it to swallow any and then put it into the clean dry cage near the fire covering the cage with a white cloth on which the mites if any are left alive will soon collect when you can quickly dispose of them Every day or two put enough tob c water into the birds bath to give it the color of weak coffee If not too strong it wl not hurt the bird if he does happen to swallow a little beyond perhaps making him drowsy a few minutes After repeating repeat-ing tao process a few times no more mites will appear and the pet will become perfectly per-fectly well It is well in the winter time to occasionally sprinkle a little sulphur over the cage and into the feathers of your bird All through the year canaries should have German grape Sicily canary seed and millet mixed in equal partsand care should be taken to have the seeds always fresh and of the best quality Besides the seed it is well to feed the bird dairy about onequarter of a hard boiled egg both yolk and white mixed with as much cracker dust as can bo taken up on a 10cent piece Fresh water both for drinking and for the bath and plenty of coarse washed gravel every day will usually keep the songster in good health Twice a week give him a bit of sweet apple lettuce While moulting keep the bird in an even temperature of about 70 degrees Fahr and let his cage hang where thcri is no possibility of draught If not yet in song put half an inch strip of raw fat pork in his cage and lot him pick at it for a week or so Tho Engaged Girl of Today The engaged girl nowadays is bound by fetters of gold set either with sapphire and turquoise and diamonds or else one glowing ruby perhaps surrounded by diamonds dia-monds 1 know a girl who wears on her engagement finger a beautiful pink pearl set about with diamonds around her plump throat is a very thin gold chain scarcely thicker than a strand of silk and on this is hung a heart of diamonds Diamonds on each side and a huge one in the centre of each Of course it opens and inside repose re-pose the usual photograph and lock of hair On her wrist is a chain bracelet set with rubies and cngraeJ about it in the most curious fashion is this wise warning Fool not to know that love endarcs no tieIlther inappropriate it seems to me as a forrunner to tho tie of matrimony In return for these bejeweled fetters her sweetheartwho is a well known society manwears a heavy chain bracelet which she had made on purpose for him just tight enough to stay on the upper part of his arm without slipping below the elbow There are no jewels on it and no d cora tion except the legend exquisitely engraved en-graved My love is us deep as the sea and as pure as its foam Brooklyns Prompt MilkPeddler The most prompt and popular milkped dler in Brooklyn New York is a good looking young woman about twentyfour years old She has her regular route over which she drives every day in a milk wagon of the usual pattern with white covered top windows in front and sliding doors on each side She is very regular in serving her customers her sober old horse drawing up in front of each gate every morning of tho year at the same hour almost al-most to a minute She wears a pretty rather coquettish print gown with a bright ribbon at her throat a neat little sailor hat and generally a bunch of country posies stuck into her belt The milk she sells Is quito as good as the average and she looks very rosy and jolly as if life went exceptionally excep-tionally well with her The business washer was-her fathers and when ho died her friends advised her to sell out and invest the proceeds pro-ceeds in a little shop but she preferred to continue the outofdoors trade and says that sho makes more money by it for the support of her mother and herself and is much healthier and happier To Please the Children If you want to please the children and yourself as well by somo good oldfash ioned molasses candy hero is the way to make it Two cupfulls of molasses one cup of sugar one teaspoonful of vinegar and a piece of butter half as large as a walnut wal-nut Boil until it will harden when dropped drop-ped into cold water which usually takes from twenty to thirty minutes Poor on a buttered dish and when cool enough pull it until white and twist it into sticks For peppermint drops take two cups of white sugar and half a cup of water and boil fiveminutes Flavorwith a few drops of peppermentor if you prefer use lemon or strawberry instead of peppermint Stir until it begins to thicken then drop on buttered paper The Ideal Girl A mans ideal girl is one who does not know that she is pretty and then he immediately im-mediately spoils his ideal by telling her that she is beautiful and expecting her to I believe every word ho says As a rule the model husbands are the men who never marry The girl who Is really worth loving lov-ing is bne who is fond of a jolly good time 1 And who can joke and laugh and be gay withouttmca overstepping the bounds of < propriety who has pronounced ideas of right and wrong and tries hard to live up to them who is careful of her behavior without being prudish who does not drink ki champagne i play poker for Jlo stakes and who does not think it necessary to be fast in order to be popular who can talk plenty of nonsense if occasion requires re-quires without emerging into silliness and who has read books and thought about the social problems of the day and can put them into words without being pedantic who does not care to startle the world with her knowledge nor does she want to vote or make lawsbut infinitely prefers to be a true woman and to live up to the nobility that the term implies A Romantic Story A romantic story is told about Mme In Marcehalo Cavrobert who lately died in Paris Twentysix years ago the marshal who at that time was in the height of his glorywas present at an official ball when a young lady approached him and modestly said Monseiur will you dance with mole The surprised soldier begged off in few confused words then turning to a young officer beside him he said Will you kindly take my place beside the young lady and remember that this night a marshal mar-shal of Franco envies a sublieutenant But though snubbed the matter did not rest hero for the young ladyMiss Flora MacDonald who was a great favorite with thu Empress Eugenie and under her patronage subsequently became the wife of the marshal A Queer Occurenee Not long ago a queer occurrence took place in a Buffalo theatre A young lady wearing a high hat asked a little girl sitting ahead of her to remove a similar hat that she was wearing The little girl willingly complied with the requestwhen instantly the young lady herself was asked to remove re-move hers by a lady just behind because it obstructed the view of the latter Of course the young lady having made somebody some-body else take off a hat was obliged to remove re-move the offending headgear as gracefully as possible and no sooner was it done than a young man sitting still farther back nerved himself to ask a similar i favor or lady No3 and the latter like her predecessors pre-decessors gracefully gave in By this time the contagion began to spread and soon the wearer of every big hat in the audience was seen bare headed A Professional Bugaboo The latest importation from England is now established in New York on upper Broadway She is a tall and rather hard featured woman from Manchester who displays dis-plays on the door of her flat the extraordinary extra-ordinary sign Disciplinarian of Children Nearly two years ago this womans sister established in London the singular profession profes-sion that is now transplanted to New York Mothers and fathers may judge for themselves them-selves whether the idea is worth encouraging encour-aging Allowed to speak for herself the Manchester woman said My sister realizing real-izing that the majority of mothers love their children too much to punish them severely conceived the idea of setting herself her-self up as a public disciplinarian She is a woman of great force of character and unerring un-erring judgment in all matters concerning children and she had extensive experience as a visiting nurse before adopting her present business It is her idea that children chil-dren are more severely punished when they are frightened than through any physical means To slap a child in the heat of passion pas-sion while the child is excited and unruly does not have half so salutary an effect as the more mature and considered punishment punish-ment such for instance as imprisonment in a dark wardrobe or sending the little one to bed without its supper Even better than this is it to threaten the child with a visit from the bugaboo The dread of the arrival of this awful personage will act as an incentive to cood conduct with the most fractious children My sister is a bug a boo and that is about what I am The fee in England for visiting a house and disciplining the children is two shillings This involves medical advice drawn from the fund of considerable experience in the world besides whatever suggestions the condition of things may naturally lead up to Besides the bugaboo part of my business busi-ness I hope to teach doctor and nurse the little ones Of course there are points of antagonism between these different functions func-tions but the effect is good upon the children chil-dren I hope there are not many poor helpless unhappy t ear victims in this broad l land whose parents are too weak or so cruel as to call in outside help in matters where the law of love should rule and not fear or brute force |