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Show THE MUSHERY. <br><br> "Minnie Myrtle" says "she wishes to be good and beautiful if she only knew how." We can't help you out on the beautiful very much, Minnie, but if you really want to be good, and don't know how to go at it, just look at us. And then use your powers of imitation. <br><br> "Annie of Argyle" wants to know "who was the Lochiel of Campbell's poem?" He was proprietor of a hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. <br><br> "Oh, the changing scenes of life; the ruthless hand of time," writes "Claribel," "the spring time of my life is past and gone; where will I be fifty years from now?" If you are as old as Mr. Tilden, "Claribel," you will be dead, and you can bet money on it. <br><br> Harry Hazen, of Circlevilla, Ohio, writes, "I see again my childhood's home; I see the rippling brook and I hear the wind that knees the bending wallows. Sweet vision of the home that watched my boyhood-"<br><br> Yes, yes, Harry, we know all about that. We knew your folks. We know your childhood's home like a book. You were born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and when you were two months old your parents moved to Salamanca, New York; then about ten months afterward they moved to Coshocton, Ohio, and remained there just long enough for you to get over the measles and then they went down into Tennessee and your father run a saw mill nearly a year and then you all came back to Ohio and settled in Butler county. When you were about four years old your family moved over to Warren, Indiana, and lived there about seven months, when they went down into Christian county, Illinois and had the ague for ten weeks, packing up and going on to Muscatine, Iowa, as soon as they were strong enough. They lived there a year and a half and moved to Montgomery, Minnesota, and there your father joined the Methodist church, and you lived there three years and at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a year and a half while he read theology, and then he entered the ministry and since then you haven't lived in any one place longer than two years. Oh yes, Harry, if you have any memories of your "boyhood's home," your memory must by a polyglot, that's all. <br><br> "Rose Geranium" wants a little information in floriculture. "How do you propagate roses?" she asks. Well, about the best way is to depend on a ten year old boy to fasten the front gate at night, and if everything in your garden isn't propagated before ??? it will be because all the ??? neighborhood are dead. <br><br> "How," asks Mrs. Worrit, of Nashville New Hampshire, "do you clean paint splashes off window panes?" <br><br> Well, about the easiest way is to k? out the glass. We don't know of any other way that does not demand an expensive and useless expenditure of elbow grease. You might prevent their getting on the glass, if you could kill the painter in time. <br><br> Mrs. Youngwoman wants to know "how she can tell a fresh egg from a stale one?" Taste it, goosey, taste it. What do you want to know for? <br><br> Mrs. Huntswan? says, "I can tell you how to keep moths out of your carpet. You just-"<br><br> Well, we don't want to know. We haven't a carpet to our back, and we ain't afraid of moths anyhow. But if you can tell us how to keep the laundress out of our handkerchiefs, Mrs. Dustman, trot on your prescription and we'll send you the chrome. -Hawkeye. |
