P. C. C.—You take v?p a whole seat A CHRISTMAS THE YOUM FOLK'S CORNER W than as 'a screw in the socialmachine.' DEFINITIONS OF A BABY. A daylight charmer, and a midnight ... just like a grown person.. l~^ who can help thinking the attitude alarmer. "Shea under my charge,"butcher" Some Definitions Called Forth more important. than the achievement? About twenty-two inches of coo and mother said she wouldn't have to *,~- If INTERESTING READING FOR THE Prize Contest, The abounding intellectual wriggle, writhe and scream, filled with pay fare. Where's your purse, Lizzie?" YOUNG PEOPLE. curiosity of children, and their continual The London Tit Bits recently offered suction and testing apparatus for L. G.—I haven't any. return to the biggest and deepest $ & $ a prize of two guineas for the milk, and automatic alarm to regulate Miss Raymond, examiningher purse questions,—t£e origin of things, M: Hampton Court—A Cat's Whiskers- supply.-- '§£&£*•&& ri%- and much distressed at the result—I best definition of "a, baby". The following the sources and ends of beings-these are A Trade for B-ys—-Fire haven't money enough. What shall I A troublesome compendium of great what make them superior. What if the was the winning definition.% .Crackers—Little Children do? fv^f possibilities. question can never be absolutely answered? of the Race. T. C.—Pay fare, anyway. Is it not infinitely more respectable A tiny feather of love, dropped into A quaint little craft called Innocence, P. C. C—The little girl can go forward the sacred lap of motherhood. laden with simplicity and love. to nave them earnestly in in one of the regular coaches. mind than, accepting some mumbojumbo &' At Hampton Courts® v^P A wee little specimen of humanity, Miss Raymond finds enough in her reply, to dismiss them altogether The following is a selection from the whose winsome smile makeA. a go^r**man Two American women last summer purse to pay half fare to Buffalo and and to devote existence wholly to best descriptions offered: think of the angels^ Jr J»»- sent one day from London to Hamp.on hands it to the train conductor. the frivolties wecall business, or pleasure, The bachelor's horror, the mother's Court, and spent the mornihg in The sunbeam in the Bouse tfra'l During this scene Jack has been intently or learning? What else was Carlyle's treasure, and the despotic tyrant of drives dull care away. *VA she gardens of the old palace there. looking out of the window in a fundamental raison d'etre but rirs the most republican households? kt noon they repaired to a neighboring decidedly uncomfortable frame of curious bud of uncertain blossom. power to call us to a degree of the nn for their luncheon. The waiter A human flower untouched by the mind. His neart is not by any means serious reasonable wonder with which A thing everybody thinks there is a apologized lor some trifling delay by finger of care. broken at the prospect of losing the we start in life? great deal too much fuss about, unless saying some shop girls from Whiteley's, company of the little girl, but when The morning caller, noonday crawler, it is their own. "Upon my word, I sometimes think their Saturday's outing, had unxpectedly he thinks he seos just a suspicion of a midnight brawler. A thing we are expected to kiss, and that if the world were started now on just ordered luncheon. glisten under Miss Raymond's downcast The magic spell by which the gods a new plan, and peopled altogether look as 3 we enjoyed it. lids, with their heavy, soft lashes, The Americans, annoyed at the transform a house into a home. with the middle-aged, religious, after The one thing needful to make a he can stand it no longer. oming of what they supposed would going on a short time through the impetus A miniature Atlas that bears the Home happy. Jack (producing his one five-dollar De a noisy party, wished they had of customs would die out all whole world of wedded joys and cares There is only one perfect specimen bill with the air of a millionare)—Allow jjone to some other house but it over the world from this simple lack on its little shoulders. of a baby in existence, and every me, Miss Raymond. Here, conductor! ivas too late now, their luncheon had of interest in the question, they primarily Father's rival in mother's love. motner is the happy possessor of it. Deen ordered. undertake to answer. As it is, The conductor takes his money *'I came to ask yon"—his voice was low— They were in a front room which A stranger with unspeakable cheek, The smartest little craft afloat in the children force us to keep some without the slightest scruple, returns "For something"—nib face had a ruddy overlooked the gardens of the palace. that enters a house without a stitch home's delightful bay. sort of theory of existence furbished glow Jack §3 and passes on. Jack devotes [t was a sunny June morning, so still to its back, and is received with open A mite of humanity that will cry no UP- I hope that your answer will not be 'no.' the next ten minutes to assuring Miss hat they could hear the windrustling arms by everyone. harder if a pin is stuck into him than I came for my Christmas present. Raymond that it isn't of the slightest A Cat's Whiskers. hrough the branches of the great The sapling of the tree from which he will if the cat won't let him pull consequence that it will not inconvenience "I think your heirt knows what I mean, Daks the avenues, -and the bees Nature is an economical dame, and will be built the bulwarks of our nation's her tail. I feel your eyes must have truly seen him the least bit in the world, Duzzing in the roses which climbed up never indulges in useless gifts. If she future greatness. A crying evil vou only aggravate by How much I love you I want, my queen, etc. Miss Raymond says she will Dutside of the -window. One or two gives an animal or plant an appendage Yourself for my Christmas present. putting down. A bursting bud on the tree of life. send it to him the next morning and Did gentlemen were busied with their of any kind, we may be sure that it A baby is a tiny drop in the vast asks his address in Buffalo. The only precious possession that meal and newspaper in the room, but "My past is dark with grief and pain, serves some wise purpose. ocean of human life, capable of immense But not with any blot or stain. ao one spoke. The quiet wras almost never excites envy. When she finds he's going through Take a cat's whiskers, for instance, Ah! shall I plead, my love, in vain possibilities, and surrounded to Chicago she is more distressed than profound. A bold asserter of the rights of free For thee, as my Christmas present?" which may seem to you to be merely by great mysteries. ever and. declares she will get that speech. "This is very restful and pleasant," ornamental. They are organs of A little stranger, with a free pass to dreadful $2 from her uncle that very 3aid one of the Americans, "but we ''Forget the past, 'tis gone and dead, The human screech owl, whose touch, attached to a bed of fineglands the heart's best affections. Just think"—she bent her graceful head, night when he meets her at the depot. aiust hurry away. Think of thirty warbling sounds are demonical to under the skin, and each of these long The color o'er her iair face spread— Of course her distress gives Jack an ^ggling shrieking girls out on a holiday! The most extensive employer of female some, seraphic to many, and appealing "Just think of your Christmas present." hairs is connected with the nerves of opportunity to say a great many When do the young women labor. to all. the lip. The slightest contact of these things of a sort suited to the circumstances, :ome?" she added, turning to the A padlock on the chain of love. DOLLARS A1SD CENTS. whiskers with any surrounding object The best developer of the most and he feels like hugging—the waiter. is thus felt most distinctly by the animal, beautiful part of a woman's nature, A soft bundle of love and troubld little girl. It is really a very interesting "They are here, madam," he said. which we cannot do without. although the hairs themselves "unselfishness." conversation that is interrupted "They are in that room," pointing to are insensible. A rose with all its sweetest leaves HANKSGIVING by the appearance of a brakeman and A tiny useless mortal, but without in open door covered with a lace They stand out on one side of the yet folded. which the world would soon be at a a sound that resembles "Nellsvillentymintsfreshment." portiere. Day—a lion as well as the common cat. From standstill. The sweetest thing God ever made The strangers looked at each other poor day to point to point they are equal to the Jack, thinking he will get his $2 at and forgot to give wings to. ivith an expression almost ot incredality. The member 6f the family that be travelling-' width of the animal's body. Buffalo, asks if he may get them some They listened, and a moment always cries when wanted to sleep, A pleasure to two, a nuisance to If we imagine, therefore, a lion stealing Ne.ver theless, "refreshments." They declined with ater heard the hum of gentle voices, that always sleeps when wanted to every other body, and a necessity to through a covert of wood in an the Chicago thanks. He excuses himself, invests Df which not a word could be distinguished. keep awake, and invariably sulks the world. imperfect light, we shall at once see in a sandwich," a cup of oftee, and when wanted to show off. express speed An inhabitant of Lapland. the use of these long hairs. They indicate a package of cigarettes—40 cents. The mystery was easily explained. ing towards The latest edition of humanity, of to him, through the nicest feeling, A king who, though his sinews are He then hunts up the sleeping-car conductor The shop-girls were in the habit of which every couple think they possess Elmira,N.Y., any obstacle which may present only velvet, rules with a rod of iron, and pays him $2 for the berth lealing with English gentlewomen of the finest copy. itself to the passage of his body they making strong men quail before him he had engaged, leaving only 72 cents She better class, and imitating them, has on board A native of all countries, who speaks prevent the rustling of boughs and and women to answer and attend to in the treasury. He then draws the aad caught their low, controlled habit John De Long the language of none. leaves, which would give warning to every call. parlor-car conductor aside. speech. his prey if he were to attempt to pass An invention for keeping people 1 Chicago. "Conductor, I have a berth in the A key that opens the hearts of all "If our women would but learn it!" too close to a bush and thus, in conjunction awake at night. classes, rich or poor, in all countries. sleeping-car and two young ladies in axclaimed one ot the strangers. "Imagine Time, 5:30 p. with the soft cushions of his my charge have seats in your car as thirty American girls out on a That which increases the mother's That which makes home happier, m. Jack is feet and the fur upon which he treads far as Buffalo. I'd like to sib with loliday! The clatter of voices! The toil, decreases the father's cash, and love stronger, patience greater, hands —the claws never coming in contact feeling down them and see that they get through mrill bursts of laughter the shrieks serves as an alarm clock to the neighbors. busier, mghts longer, days shorter, with the ground—they enable him to safely." ind screams!" purses lighter, clothes shabbier, the -on his luck. Called home by an urgent move toward his victim with a still "Sorry, sir, but if you sit in the parlor This little incident is. a literal fact past forgotten, the future brighter. telegram in the midst of the Thanksgiving A mite of a thing that requires a ness equal to that of the snake. you'll have to pay. But it's only which is worthy of the consideration vacation of his senior year, he has mighty lot of attention. The delightful tyrant who rules the 50 cents. of girl readers. Our climate gives to A Trade for Boys. missed a Thanksgiving dinner with a home, the mother darling and father's A diminutive specimen of perverse Jack hands over 50 cents and rejoins all of our voices certain high nasal If I had my way I would insist that jolly party of his college mates, to say pride, the cause of a thousand innocent humanity that could scarcely be endured Miss Raymond. The little girl tones. The training of the voice in nothing of a broken engagement for every boy should learn a trade, writes joys, the blest pledge of matrimonial if he belonged to someone else, goes to sleep also the passengers. speaking is unfortunately neglected in Foster Coates in the Ladies' Home the german with the prettiest girl in felicity. but being our own is a never tailing Time flies with a vengeance, ana all America, except among the most care'ully Journal. It was so in the olden times, Binghamton. treasury of delight. too soon the train rumbles into the educated people. Hence the and it should be so now. The man When he pays the parlor car conductor depot at Buffalo. They alight to A man or woman, making a start in A.merican in Europe is known as soon EMPRESS FREDERICK has offered hor nevr who has a trade is a thousand times 75 cents for a seattoHornellsville chateau in Hes-je-Nas^au to her nephew, meet Miss Raymond's uncle. The life. as he opens his mouth by his shrill, better equipped than the man who 4 Prmce Albert Victoi. as a place which and engages a berth in the sleeper uncle kisses Miss Raymond with strident tones. The unconscious mediator between has none. Let every boy select the he may spend the honeymoon after his to be put on at that station he aiTection, but looks inquiringly at Two American women in a salon or father and mother, and the focus of marriage to Princess Yictoiia Marv, of trade that best suits his ability, and makes the discovery that he has but Ja^k. Miss Raymond introduces gallery will make more noise than a their hearts. Teck. promises the highest remuneration. $5 1"2 cuirent coin of the realm in addition Jack. The uncle is not what one .arge group of their French or English When he has mastered his trade, if he to his ticket to Chicago. This wouid call cordial. Miss Raymond is sisters. Yet these last are probably dislikes it or it is not profitable, he does not add cheeetulness to histrame distressed beyond measure—"rattled." not a whit more gentle or modest at can begin to study a profession, or of mind. And there is not a pretty Jack relieves the tension by taking heart than they are. But the possession enter upon a commercial life. It he girl in the car. formal leave of Miss Raymond, nodding ot inward and spiritual graces should fail in both of these, he is His gloomy meditation is broken by to the uncle, and seeking his loes not atone for the lack of the outtvard False in One, still master of a good trade—something the arrival of the train at Elmira. On berth in the sleeper. Time, 12.30 and visible signs of good breeding. that no one can take from him, the station platform, in response to a. m, distance from home, several no matter what exigencies may arise. his telegram, are two gentlemen—Mr. hundred miles cash in the exchequer, It is true that a woman may have Richard Robbins and Mr. Alfred Jameson-classmates The man who is master of a good False in AIL 22 cents. Cordelia's soft, low voice with the trade is as independent as a millionaire. and residents of Elmira. It is charity to draw a veil over the coarseness of Regan and malice of He need never want he can find Jack jumps off, and an animated next day—1 5 cents for coffee and a Goneril. But, on the other hand, conversation follows. At this profitable work in any corner of the sandwich for breakfast at Sarnia 5 what girl will be credited with Cordelia's junction a giotip appears upon the cents for a glass of milk for dinner at world. I do not say one word against tender heart if she persists in station platform—two young ladies, Marshall, Mich., noted for its fried a professional career. But I do say 3hrieking and giggling her way through THE ENGLISH OF A LATIN PROVERB APPLIED TO an elderly lady, and a 10-year-old chicken, its cold roast beef, its hot emphatically that the man who has a ife?—Youth's Companion. girl. rolls the 8 o'clock supper at the trade and a profession as well, need A CONCERN WHICH IS NOW IN BUSINESS. De Long mansion in Chicago that "Jacko." Jack—Boys, who's the young lady have no fear of the future. The boy in the ulster I've seen her somewhere?" frightened his mother aiid astonished who wants to can master a trade between "Jacko" is a tame rook, whose his father. sixteen ancLtwenty, and if he owner, a lady, writes to the London Dick—Miss Dodge you met her last A week later a dainty letter postmarked dislikes it, he still has time to study A Business started upon shams, must resort to shams, or Spectator that she had kept him for "Winter at our german. Don't know "Buffalo" arrives. Jack medicine, the law, or any other of the opens it and finds a $2 bill and a conventionally Give years, when one afternoon she the one in sealskin. learned professions. But if he waits retire. The young lady in the ulster bows polite note of thanks, regrets noticed him march by her two or until he is twenty, or over, he may for any inconvenience, etc. It is to Jack's friends. The girl sealskin he Royal Baking Powder Company garbled official not haye an opportunity or feel h? ihree times with a stick in his mouth. signed, "Yours sincerely, Isabel Raymond." enters the parlor-car, opens the win-dow, clined to learn either. Be was hard at work on the foundations But Jack thinks he can read documents to give it standing. and converses with her friends. between the lines, for below is "No. of a nest. For a fortnight he Whispered chorus—Can't you introduce Fire-Crackers. For this it was publicly branded. 173 Rhodes avenue." me. boys?.—Don't know the worked almost without cessation all The reason why the smell of burnt girl.—Haven't the nerve look at the Thanksgiving Day again. A bad iay long. powder and smoke from fire-cracker he Food and Dairy Commissioner of Ohio caught the day for traveling, but John De Long eye on the elderly party. I really felt sorry for him, and stumps is so grateful to boys is not Jack—m fcerrupting the conversation of Chicago does not look as if he regarded Royal Baking Powder Company in the act of misquotin his sometimes tried to help him by it as a hardship as he gets off going on through the window and far to seek. It is the sudden force holding up sticks one at a time, which the Chicago express at Buffalo. And making a most profound bow to Miss shown in the explosion and the little report, to make its goods appear unadulterated. tie took from my hand as he wanted this fragment of conversation has Dodge—Pardon me, Miss Dodge! Ah them. When at last the nest was spice of danger as well as the noise rather a sound of thanksgiving than —um—you remember me—Mr. De finished he often had his afternoon that pleases the youth. The origin of otherwise: he same Company stole the livery of the Board of Long of Chicago? nap it. "Do you remember, Jack, how you Miss Dodge's face reveals the fact firecrackers, according to Mr. W. There is a small rookery here, and Healt of the State of Ne York and went on dress parade in stalked away that night in the depot at she doesn't, but she murmurs Woodville Rockhill, the Thibetan explorer, this year, instead of building on his at Buffalo? I never expected to see something politely indefinite. is as follows: own account, Jacko tried to help the the garment you again. You looked positively "I see you have a friend—we're in wild rooks. He followed them about savage. I fairly hated my dear old Firecrackers were originally joints the same car—ah—um—won't you be he Board exposed this. W the apparel was removed, with a twig in his beak, and kept with Uncle Bob." of bamboo. They are made of paper kind enough to introduce me?" them all day, often running after them "He was a trifle chilly. And then at present, but the Chinese name At this critical point the conductor of course the deformity was left alone. on the lawn with some of his dinner "bamboo gun," shows what they were. to see you waste a kiss on him and shouts "All aboard!" in his beak, wanting to feed them as peek out of the corner of your eye, as The bamboo crackers made a very Miss Dodge—Why, certainly. Delighted, he feeds the tame jackdaw, between the Royal Baking Powder Company resorted t" much as to say. 'Don't you wish?'"— loudnoise like our "cannon crackers." I'm sure. Isabel' Let me introduce whom and himself there is a strong Perhaps the fragments of bamboo "I didn't—and s'pose I did?" my friend, Mr. De Long, Miss Affection. But they snubbed him constructing a speaking machine. "By the way, how much do you flew about when they exploded, making Raymond', Mr. De Long. He's in dreadfully. suppose I had in my pocket when I them dangerous, so that paper was your car. It called this machine A Governmen Chemist W One day poor social Jacko must said good-by?" substituted. In making bamboo "Mr. De Long." have thought he had at last found a "I don't know. You put on airs crackers the partitions in the joints of "Miss Raymond." it mouthed its words to order, the Roya Company quoted the responsive companion, for I found the bamboo were pierced, powder sifted enough for a millionaire." Jack takes a hasty adieu of Mr. him bowing and cawing to the rook in "Just 22 cents." in and a fuse introduced. It is interesting Robbins and Mr. Jameson, who respond same a passed them around. words represented he the looking-glass! And more than "Why, you poor fellow, you must to see the way the present feebly, being in a'state of menta once since then he has been seen going fire crackers, with their partitions of have starved! It served you right, collapse, encounters for one briei Royal Bakin Powder as pure etc. ap-stairs with some delicacy in his though, scraping acquaintance with clay, follow the old bamboo pattern instant the shocked and indignant beak evidently intended for his shadowy strange girls on a train. You won't "Government is a stately word. Lik everything good, gaze of the elderly personage, and loye. Jack's Answer. do it any more, will you, Jack? There! springs on board just as the long train Once while I was calling on a friend, it is abused by unscrupulous tricksters. there! —will that repay you?" •starts up. He enters the parlor car The chaplain of a man-of-war was a lady whom I did not know came in. and takes a seat opposite Miss Raymond. "No you'll have to take that very fond of catechising the young sailors, She owns a rookery, and my friend same trip with me to make it square.'' Beside her sits the 10 yeargirl. MAKE A NOTE. much to their disgust. told her of mine, adding that I was He'd forgotten all about "But, Jack' Do take more than 22 fond of rooks. "What is.your name?" he asked a cents—there'll be two of us, you know." •her. ,J* re is no such office as that of Government Chemist "Ah," said she, "so ani 1. I often new arrival one day. Taking a much worn letter from his "Hum—pleasant daf." say that through the season we pocket-book, opening it, and producing "Yes, delightful." "Why, Jack Bowling, sir, to be, almost live on rook pie." a $2 bill, Jack said: "Isabel Raymond, A THOUGHT. "Do you think it will snow to-morTOW? sure." ,. When I suggested that I should not did you ever see that before?" like seeing my rooks in a pie, her really "Who gave you that name?" proceeded With this auspicious beginning the "Yes—no I don't know.'' If a concern garbles official state papers, misquotes Boards delightful answer was, "No some the chaplain.* -conversation proceeds pleasantly and "Yes, you do. Read what's written people prefer them stewed.fc.-s»*•&>$ $i& right under your name in this letter." easily until interrupted by the en•trance %oi Healt and Creates Official Mouth-pieces, for its own pur- "My godfathers and godmothers," Isabel, reading—"I hereby dedicate ot the train conductor and the replied the man, going on to answer I iai Little Children of the Race. this filthy lucre to a dinner for one, to 1 ^|pases^,what will it do in adulterating its goods? *parlor-car conductor. Miss Raymond the question correctly. The following interesting view of be eaten at Marshall, Mich., the one •gives up her ticket and pays $2 for "What have your godfathers and M£yb&$&s* & to be John De Long and Isabel De "Childhood" is from an article by •her seat to Buffalo, her destination. godmothers further done for you?" Price7 Long, his wife. D. V." ,-^B stands a foe to impure goods and tricky Miss Roseboro', on that subject, in "Well, sir," replied Jack', getting "Ah, Jack, you won my heart that Train Conductor (tapping little girl the Christmas Century: "The little tired of the lesson, "they promised to night in the car. But you wouldn't methods of advertising. on shoulder)—Ticket! children of the race are intellectually do a great deal, and it's precious little be stingy enough to leave out that Parlor-Car-Conductor (tapping little 1% they've done yet." more respectable than the majority of dear htle girl"— girl on the other shoulder)—Two dollars its adults. To be sure, it is their attitude "Wouldn't I? There wouldn't be to Buffalo! Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the only Pure A Quiet Door. Si any little girl around that trip to"— Little Girl—I don't pqL' any fare. and not their achievements ^1y little df is very quiet Hush, you wretch!"—JohnD. Sherman T. C—Under 12 and over S half He's new known to rush that makes them so but in estimating Cream Tartar Baking Powder now to be obtained, in the Chicago Tribune. About the x»v,Tise in noisy riot, the human being as a mind rather Because he'r^aade^ plush. the thinking public are finding it out.