Show THIS AND THAT Interesting 1 items for the home and fireside HOW LADIES SHOULD BIDE some clever for boys and girls A GENUINE MIND CURE A lady at the south end was en a visit from her mother who had been stricken with paralysis bome years previous As soon as she arrived at her daughters home she stipulated that she must sleep down stairs as her health would not permit her to climp up stairs the man of the house like a dutiful son in law gave up his bed helow and wen tup stairs himself finally a broke out and the lightning and thunder were terrific the lady of the house a little timid thought she would ligat the gas in the dining room As she bad done so aud turned to go back to the bedroom bed room she was startled to see the face of a rough looking roan peering at her from one of the piazza windows the woman in her night clothes was chained with fear for only an instant and then without uttering a sound she fled up stairs to awaken her husband in the meantime the old lady her mother heard her daughters bare feet swiftly pattering across the floor heading for the stairway and intuitively feeling that something was going wrong and entirely forgetting her own condition sprang from the bed and fairly flew after her daughter she reached the stairway and in spile of her paralytic infirmities which she had so carefully nursed for years found herself rushing upstairs her daughter heard the steps behind her and supposed that the man she had seen nn the piazza had broken in and was pursuing her not for an instant did she imagine that her invalid and paralytic mother could move so rapidly this added to her fright and increased her pace she rushed up to her husbands bedside shouting save roe save me and looking around saw her invalid mother i why mother is that you I 1 thought you i walk up r stairs T thought I 1 hut I 1 nev er tried before then the man of the house went below to reconnoitre as to the visitor on the piazza and grandma crawled into bed she alleys went upstairs ups taira to sleep after that A squad of fifteen gypsies had taken possession of the piazza to shelter them from the storm and the gentleman not having the heart to turn thorn out until the rain was over allowed them to remain times HELPS FOB THE FUTURE A well known journalist recently advised all boys and girls at once to begin keeping a scrapbook in which they should set down descriptions of any noteworthy place or scene which comes in their way also accounts of any remarkable person whom they met with their photographs or little personal details in thirty years ha eaid such a book will bo invaluable to the owner especially it alist or literary man the most thrilling details of such a book as diary or the memoirs of madame de are read now with keen interest as they make flesh and blood of historical tor ical characters who else would be but shadows totua there are other habits which boys and girls can cultivate that willbe to them hereafter made it a rule atten years of ape to commit one verses of scripture to memory every morning while he was dressing aud kept it up all his life jt became the daily bread of eife to him in his years of suffering benjamin franklin counted that day lost in which he had not mastered a sentence jn a foreign lau guage certain families have adhe generations to the cus of putting beside each childs bed some light gift which would be a pleasant surprise in the morning the gilts are of value a fruit or flower bi picture cut from a paper but the child wakens to the consciousness of a watchful tender love witha its first sight of the day delcamp most cheerful of philosophers prepared such pleasures for himself when he was a boy always managed to haya something plea santto chichi could bookfor ward on wakening if it were a walk or a page ina fairy story gome what might 1 was resolved to force happiness into my life the germans with the same pur in observe all birthdays and other anniversaries in the bamily and crowd ini ohe daily eife as many cheap simple pleasures as possible if american young i 1 I i HIT people homely cheerful customs our households would be more liappa and we should hear of fewer deaths from overwork and nervous disease com nr HOW LADIES SHOULD HIDE tho horsewoman should ait so that tho weight of the body falla exactly in the center of the saddle without heavily bearing on the stirrup able to grasp the upright pom thiel with the right knee yet not exerting any muscular action for that purpose for this end the stirrup leather roust be neither too long nor too short the ideal of a fine horsewoman is to be erect without being square to the front and until quite at home in the saddle looking religiously between the horses ears the shoulders must therefore be square but thrown back a little so as to expand the chest and make a hollow waist such as ia observed in waltzing but always flexible on the flexibility of the person above the waist and on the firmness below all the grace of equestrianism all the safety depends nervousness makes both men and women poke forward a stupid trick in a man unpardonable in a woman A lady should bend like a willow in a storm always return ing to an easy yet nearly upright position this seat should be acquired while the ladya horse is led arat by hand then with a leading stick and finally with a lunging rein which will give room for can bering in circles but where the pupil ia encumbered with reins a whip and directions for guiding her horse she may be excused for forgetting all about her seat or her position the arms down to the elbows should hang loosely near but not fixed to therides the sides and the hands in the absence of reina may rest in front of the waist delphia times |