Show DAUGHTERS OF EYE A Lesson For Mothers Inclined to be Showy LOVE SCENES IN CENTRAL PARK Theres Nothing Half so Sweet in Life as Loves Young Dream Trifles Light as Air For THE SUNDAY HERALD A Domestic Idjl After the baby came how channel the place The old home brightened with a newer grace The roses grew more thickly round the door And softer were the sunbeams on the floor Full sweeter was the song of every bird From that glad day his little voice was heard Crowing and cooing in such queer delight But there was more walking done at night After the baby came 4 r After the baby came it seemed as though Earth could not be so full of grief and woe That all the gate of happiness and bliss Were opened to us through that baby kiss I Master was he of wondrous tricks and arts By which he won his way into our hearts From that first hour was heard his feeble wall Yet how I barked my shins at midnight pale After the baby came A Lesson for Showy Mothers Writing from a fashionable watering place Bab speaks of the contrast between be-tween the children of the rich and those of the poor in the matter of clothes and the fact that the former can afford to enjoy themselves in simple gear while the children chil-dren of those whose position is not assured must be eternally on dress parade She says Bright hued ginghams are smocked to fit the little figures and great big straw hats that give them a quaint look shade the < eyes and protect the hair There is a regular reg-ular morning parade of tubs in which the children and their friends are packed each one driven by the eldest of their family or if they are too small a tiny groom holds the reins of honor Out they go into the country a search made for wild flowers the lunch is eaten and the tub comes home gorgeously decorated with golden rod and or o full of children who have grown decidedly mussed and dirtylooking but who have had a really good time You see thats the beauty of the kind of frock they weara IJi good time wont hurt them and yet there the-re most of them the children of millionaires million-aires If one happens to be the child of some hardworking clerk the chances are that it would be arrayed in a silk gown elaborately trimmed with lace and ribbons a hat gorgeous with flowers or plumes and poor little souUlife would hold no pleasure for it because its best gown was in continual danger and to sit up and look nice was all that was possible I wish all mothers were brave enough to dress their children simply I wish all of them knew that it is not only better sense but more fashionable and I am sure hat every little heart would beat with greater glee under a gingham gown than it does under the nonsensical mass of lace and silk which Mary has to work so hard to achieve and which is not only unsuitable for Johns child but gives it no pleasure and makes it look like a wax doll Fancy frocks Certainly Cer-tainly but they are made in the same simple way though they are of the finest mull and it is possible that a big blue sash with an enormous bow is tied at the back L Loves ouns Dream 9 Theres nothing half so sweet in life as loves young dream So sang the bard of the Emerald Isled Isle-d every mothers daughter of us knows it to be true Observe please that the wellposted poet said and poets are supposed sup-posed to be better posted on such subjects than every day mortals Loves young dream not the love dreams of young folk only It makes no difference the years of the dreamer if the heart has remained young enough to harbor a heavenly guest love itself is always young and fair and age like beauty is generally but skin deep If you have forgotten how you used to feel in the green and salad epoch of existence exist-ence renew your youth by taking a stroll any of these line evenings under the umbrageous um-brageous shadows of some public park Byron was right when he remarked forgetting for-getting in his momentary earnestness that chaste elegance of style that distinguished himThe devils in the moon for mischief I mis-chief Or is it cupid instead of his satanic majesty If you are a crusty bachelor wander alongin meditative mood or if you are a spinster staid and solitary take a big dog for company and protection If you are married take the other half along the contagion will do you both good It is not malaria alone with its attendant sprites yclept rheumatism neuralgia etcetera et-cetera that you will encounter o1 nights by the light of the moon but another malady more catching than either to which all flesh is heir An observer in Central park New York thus relates one eveningss experience ex-perience Eminently proper people laboring labor-ing under the idea that this is a public place might object that these straying couples are a bit reckless of the conventionalities conven-tionalities not to say the proprieties of society They are certainly very human and very natural The mere freedom of their intercourse is a refreshing thing to one wearied by the dull and decorous sound of artificial restraints They are not wise with the wisdom of the serpent perhaps but if they are foolish it is as the cooing doves and blushing roses and the fluttering butterflies and tho melodious nightingales What a desert this merry world would be without just such folly I How many sages would exchange all their wisdom for just such happiness Hello What is this Three coming up I the walk together That young man ha not read his donts of etiquette or he would not walk between the two maids Besides one cannot tell to which he is partial par-tial for they are strolling along idly without with-out touching one another while the girls I talk across him Is it a case of How happy could I be with either were the other dear charmer away No as they pass into the shadow tho young man and the young woman on his right are drawn together to-gether by some magnetic attraction and their hands are clasped while their heads touch In a moment they are in the lamplight lamp-light again and have separated with a shy side glance at the other girl It is plain that she has been brought as a concession to conventionalityDiscreet little chaperone how well she pretends to see nothing Ah They take a seat just below us t 1 She is a very youthful chaperone sister of the maid or of the swain I wonder Of the swain it is clear or he would not so boldly move away from her with the maid at the other end of the bench Their passion pas-sion is in its very infancy that is evident I or there would be no such pretense of propriety pro-priety But the emotions bud and blossom I quickly in Central park He is sitting very close now to the maid of his choice in another an-other minute he holds her hand in his and is pressing it Tho other arm steals around the back of the bench and somehow or other she is not sitting so primly as before Her head is resting on something that encircles en-circles her neck at the back of the bench and seems to draw her face around They are looking into each others eyes Suddenly Sud-denly they seem to have something to sato sa-to each other By a simultaneous impulse their heads approach one another Will they whisper softly into each others cars i I Closer and closer como away it is too sacred for words or ears certainly for other eyes the lips meet The tale is toldThe little chaperone is awfully embarrassed embar-rassed She turns her head away blushing blush-ing without doubt Halfrising she rustles her dress nervously and turns her back upon the rapturous pair in superfluous superflu-ous consideration for by this time they J have quite forgotten her with all tho rest II J of tho world Poor little confidante That rascally brother has placed her in a very I awkward position Gazing wistfully into I the darkness she seems to echo the cry of I the girl in the Scottish song Every lassie has her laddie I Neer a one have I Jf J g u There on the bench nearly opposite sits another an-other couple whose wooing has evidently progressed a little farther There is a world of truthfulness in the curve of the young girls arm loosely claspingher young knights neck as there is in the way her little head is resting comfortably on his shoulder His arm around herwaist is pressed close in answering confidence Tho relation of possession is proclaimed in his firm grasp of the hand lying idly on her knees as in the proud poise of his head They remain thus for some moments mutely eloquent Suddenly the young manshead bends lower He is tempted by a sudden impulse But bark I The sound of a breaking twig or the passing of a bird through the branches has startled him His head is raised suddenly and his eyes peer athwart the darkness Then ever so slight a movement of the little head resting on his shoulder draws his attention back All is silent again and as he bends over the sweet girl her mouth comes halfway to his And their spirits rushed together at the meeting of the lips This is simply harrowing isnt it said a park policeman who all unobserved had joined us in our nook and with us had gazed entranced on the spectacle He was a rare sort of English sparrow this policeman police-man with a devotion to the Tennysonian muse This I divined from his first remark re-mark as we walked away together Its my experience he rattled on that the young mans fancy is lightly turned to thoughts of love not only in the springtime spring-time but in all mild and moonlit weather The favorite night is Sunday All through July August and September you seethe see-the couples swarming through the park every Sunday night filling all the benches and tho summer houses and gliding as softly as shadows through all the paths Sometimes they seek sequestered nooks but I have noticed that it is only a small part of the whole number who seem thus shy of observation For the most part especially in the advanced stages of attachment attach-ment they sit down and hug and kiss anywhere any-where and even kiss as they walk along with their arms around each other like that and indicated couple a little distance dis-tance ahead of us Trifles Light as Air Up stairs down stairs and in my ladys chamber The same kind of easy and very effective work may be applied to many objects Table scarfs treated in like manner are extremely ex-tremely decorative and may be covered with the outlining or have a deep border only Sofa pillows are also mad in his way and the designs admit of infinite variety A novelty in chair cushions is a pillow and receptacle for fancy work combined A very pretty one is made of linen and plush Cut two pieces of gray linen eight inches wide and ten inches long Outline in maple leaves as described for the bedspread bed-spread using buttonhole stitch for the edges Cut out the leaves on one edge of each strip of lines and paste them on goldenbrown plush Wnen quite dry make it into a cushion stuffed with cotton Then make a bag of gray linen the size of the cushion and tie the two together with ribbons over the back of the chair There is a new summer fad in servant giris particularly indulged in such showy resorts as Saratoga and Long Branch and It consists in the selection of extremely pretty girls only and then in this embellishment embel-lishment says one Nothing marks the distinction between the aristocratic and the parvenue more plainly than the manner in which they treat their servants A lady is known by her consideration of her inferiors in-feriors and her manner becomes doubly gentle when she is addressing those who are precluded by their position from ever making an irritating reply She feels proper respect for the people on whom so much of her comfort depends and her dependents de-pendents treat her with respect in return And though gentle she is firm expecting and always securing perfect obedience to all her requests A novel and handsome bed spread can be made for upstairs with but little expenditure expendi-ture in time or money in this way Get some of the bolton sheeting now so much in use lovely and soft and creamy Over the entire surface draw maple leaves not arranged in any set pattern but scattered as by the wind These leaves are tinted with yellow and brown dyes giving a shaded effect Each leaf is then outlined with heavy linen floss fn harmonious shades brown and yellow The best results re-sults will be obtained by using one shade of floss for a leaf and varying the different differ-ent leaves so as to get a good effect of tone After outlining the leaves they should be veined with the same color of floss The edges of the spread may be finished with a wide hemstitched hem or into it may be knotted a fringe of white floss combined with all tho shades used in the outlining It may be no kindness to a maid servant to excite vanity in her breast by malting a beauty show of her but it wouldnt be a particle of use to say so for a woman will not be convinced of a folly which delights her A rich young wife at Saratoga who is herself a beauty out does all the rest by having the prettiest creature attend her on the lawn when she plays tennis or grace hoopThe latter game by the way is a revival re-vival of the old exercise of tossing and catching hoops with sticks and is just now all the rage The maid is a Swede tall and beautifully blonde who looks more like a duchess than a menialand she dresses almost as well at any rate more picturesquely pictur-esquely But this is a fad that will never obtain among homely womenfor who not dowered with the fatal gift of beauty fatal when abrent is going to enhance defects and parade her misfortune by going go-ing to the expense of hiring and dressing up a beauty to which she herself will act as foil There is Mrs Westinghouse the wife of the famous inventor who is so absurdly rich that it seems as if one might catch the fever of wealth by getting close to her Rather a remarkable looking lady isnt she She used to come to her box at the Grand opera house last winter dressed all in whitewhite gown white shoes white gloves a large hat of white felt trimmed with white plumes and a liberal dash of powder on her very blonde hair that is naturally na-turally almost white After she was seated the maid would bring in the boa perfect beauty of a child with soft eyes and long light curls who always looks just like a cherub Off came his white fur coat and there was the darling in a little gown of white satin with a white felt hat and a general get up in perfect harmony with his mammas At other times when Mrs Westinghouse appeared at matinees she I was all in bright scarletthe boy and all and then the powder was left off her hair Though perhaps not quite so aesthetic in red she certainly looked more chic for every day real life in dirty New York in winter time than in white |