Show a DAUGHTERS OF EVE S Some Sunday Salad for Our lady i Readers KEEP YOUR EYES OX THE BLUE iA New and Novel Sir Oclock Tea Fancy Napkins Nap-kins and Their Uses Hew to Make Literary Ealad For THE SUNDAY 1IEntLDl I Keep Your Eyes Ftod on the Blue Whateer yotir lotas you journey throughlife Let your troubles be many or few Be sure if you wish to succeed In the strife To keep your eye fixed on the blue You may find it sometimes a hard matter to tre d The path that is marked out for you But should this bethe case do not bang down your head But keep your eye fixed on the blue In your dealings with others be upright my friend To your neighbor be generous and true You may lose at the time but you will gain in the end If you keep your eye fixed on the blue Let your life be unselfish do good where you can I For good is your father to you I Should you meet no return tis an excellent clan To keep sour eye fixed on the blue Whan lifes course is finished when lifes work is done And eternity breaks on your view You shall dwell in His presence who helped you to run With your eyes ever fixed on the blue Fascination is Not Lore The other day I received a letter from one of the many daughters of Eve which contained con-tained the following paragraph Dear EditorI want to know if there is any such thing as love Now please to take notice I want you to publish this I am not telling you my wants in a private way for then you might think I have intentions which I have not because I do not know but what you are a woman but whats the use of giving an editor a reason What lslOvel We shall bar out dictionaries diction-aries liave always had an idea that it is som thing once living lived as long as we did and in discussing this I wish to take only the period of life extending from The time one reaches the years of discretion until five years after ones marriage All other loves are born in one or are the result re-sult of long association Does love exist during the period I mention 1 Our young people grow up with the idea that it does that there is some one with whom thev will fall in love therefore they are it may be unconsciously on the lookout lor what they deem the signs within them which prove to their own satisfaction that such an one is known to them The sums if they but knew it are only the response of a handsome face or feature or a romantic situation or are but the obedience to a stronger mind than their own This feeling which we shall call love generally results in marriage and then who dare tell them they have not beea nor are not in love I They float above this hard world and floating is so pleasant If a rock shows itself or makes itself felt ever so slightly tile love bids defiance and and for a time they float a little higher This love is thoughtful kind obedient compassionate tender considerate and everything else so pleasant to one but I alas 1 alas there comes an hour when the bright fire in the grate darts out wicked little flame snapping fooled ben the wind dismally howls fooled when the dog looks with sad eyes into your face saying I am sorry but you arc fooled Even the clock seems to measure off oh so evenly fooled fooled There seems a stillness in the house something is dead and you know itis Humanity does not like to be fooled The worse it is fooled the more it will try to hid3 it A wife finding her husband uncongenial un-congenial will kill him kill herself divorce I di-vorce him run away or make the best of I it To kill him would likely involve her in a somewhat similar death That and killing herself woman naturally shrinks from therefore she keeps these two alternative alter-native till the last To divorce him is almost al-most impossible in Canada and is looked on as a sore of disgrace almost equal to runninsr awn therefore we may class these four as desperate means in the I tie way tauufctib moat respectable n nteentn century is to make the best cf it itLet some of the thousands of wives who are making the best of it candidly tell what it means Poor creatures they hardly knew what another experience would feel like So many people have no character 1 By their lives they say I was born to live and die let what is to be come along They do not know the great truth that what is to be will be unless they make an effort to bring about a realization of their own ideas of what should be Happy married mar-ried life is no proof that love existed before be-fore marriage The lioness has a love for the lion Marriage is never the result of love but rather the desire of wealth or position fear of old maidenhood necessity the prevalent prev-alent idea that marriage is the usual customary cus-tomary proper thing to do expected of you by the world as it were and that sentimentality senti-mentality widespread and most dangerous danger-ous falsely called love I do not say that marriage founded on any of these will turnout turn-out unfortunate This world is almost equally divided between happy and unhappy un-happy exceptions but if girls but knew that this love is a thing to be spurned loathed and avoided as if it were some dread disease if they recognized it as a form of insanity we would have more happy healthy looking households in our land People in this age laugh at Jacob being engaged seven years to Rachael They believe in short engagements and the result is so usual it has ceased to be wondered won-dered ata man ard woman agreeable nVirm rirpnmstanees are very favorable cold quarrelsome or sarcastic generally the children if any in about the sonic latitude lati-tude and longitude as their parents Different causes can be brought forward for this great evil the belief that love exists ex-ists before marriagethe evil effects of which are boundless It is harder removing remov-ing a cause than giving a cure A long engagement en-gagement is very efficient I should like to have some other opinions on this topic I wish to say closing I do not discourage marriage nor yet love but I maintain that happy married life can best be attained by a long and careful study of each others habits and nature and marriage mar-riage will always be very liable to fail as long as its foundation is built of a beautiful I and crazy idea called love A Six Oclock Tea A very pretty and effective entertainment entertain-ment came within my experience a short time ago It is what is called a G oclock tea for young ladies the guests numbering about seventyfive After supper was served the hostess brought in a large silver tray on which was what appeared to be a heap of the freshest lettuse leaves crinkled and tender looking at the stem of each was a slip of white paper on which were written quotations from standard authors The attention of the company was attracted by the call of a bell when the hostess announced that she would further serve her gUests by giving them u jierary salad each was to tako a leaf and puess the author of the quotation should sue guess rightly she was to keep the leaf and wear it in her corsage if she could not guess it was to be returned to the platter and she might have the privilege privi-lege of trying again and as many times as she liked Those who guessed correctly could also repeat the trial one or two succeeded suc-ceeded in securing a large coreairc bauquct of the leaves while some obtained none at all Card tables and cards were also provi ded in the meantime for those not interested in the literary effort a n3 in another room was instituted a spelling game for those not liking cards or relishing the salad This afforded much amusement for even well t o hISIi1 known spellers who never made a failure to spell correctly when writing often develop de-velop a great weakness when called upon to spell a word verbally and this weakness is often most manifest in the simplest and commonest words In this game everyone is to spell his very best and if you choose a prize is to be given to the best speller and a booby prize to the poorest speller The words to be spelled should be on a printe slip of paper with a definition added anfl placed in a box on the table arourj vnich your company is seated Theoevson who starts the game selects a word without seeing it when selectingpronounces the word and gives the definition to the one next to him If number two spells the word correctly he takes the card and draws another and pronouncing it to the one next to him if he misses the word the one pronouncing it spells it and places it by itself The last speller draws the next card and no one is allowed to spell twice en a word Each participant should keep his own pile of correctly spelled and mispelled words being careful not to mix them The prize goes of course to the bestspeller Like all games to be interesting it needs interested people but having these it affords a very great amount of amusement for only too often where the greatest confidence con-fidence is displayed on a word do we find the amusing mistake As the supper was excellent and well served and the diversity of entertainment met the various tastes of the company and had also the merit of being novel and new the departing guests expressed in a most pleasing manner their appreciation of the effort and their congratulations on its success suc-cess To make the leaves of the literary salad get some tissue paper of a light green shade as near the color of tender lettuce leaves as possible cut in shape like the leaf leaving a little strip at the bottom I for pasting on the quotation notch the edges and fold over lengthwise through the middle slip over a hairpin on this fold and press closely together in the rounding part of the pin then take off and if it is rightly done the centre of the leaf will be beautifully beauti-fully crinkled write your quotation on a white slip of paper number and paste on the little strip of paper left below the leaf Have a book with a corresponding number in it with the authors name that you may be able to tell when the quotation is rightly guessed Fancy Napkins For fancy napkins used at dinner we have the finish napkin the carving napkin and a variety of other napkins each with I appropriate design The finish napkin is to be laid first in the big dish when a baked fish is served the fringed edge falling fal-ling over the edge of the dish the embroidered em-broidered side overlapping the narrow one which covers the fish The embroidery em-broidery is done in gold or seaweed tints a pattern of seaweed shells or coral the latter in shell or coral pink is quite as appropriated ap-propriated as a fish design A carving napkin is a long piece of linen with hemstitched hen to be placed under the dish containing the roast intended to protect the tablecloth from soil It may have an outline of carvingknife and fork or a roast turkey goose or flying birds in the corner A droll legend at either end sometimes comes in well such as Ye have meat and we can eat And so rue Lord be thanked All special napkins are always removcl when the course is served The gossamerlike doilies are still an important part of the dinner furnishings They are made of tiny squares of China silk Turkish cotton embroidered in gold muslin huckaback or linen crash The designs for these are as numerous as the stars Geometric broken squares sprays of flowers vine or berry or some dainty sketch where a few dextrous lines define a sabmarine picture encircled in a crystal frame by the rim of the delicate finger bowl The edge of the doily is hemstitched hem-stitched or fringed to suit the fancy Sometimes the threads are drawn and a narrow edge of drawwork put in the openings at the corners are filled with wheelwork of silk or linen thread In a large set sas from eight to twelve to have four stamped and etched with some legend makes a variety Very fine silks must be used to work these dainty morsels of stuff filo floss or the regular etching silk is best It is marked differently by different makers The wash silk must always be used on linen As I companions to the cutout center pieces a large leaf is sometimes used for the doily a maple grape or fig The edge is worked over a cord with rope silk or > > in silk to match the center piece the veining takes the place of the darning The edge is cutaway cut-away when the work done so as to leave the natural shape of the leaf It is a question ques-tion yet whether these things will hold their place They are a novelty and make a table look pretty besides having the great advantage of being useful |