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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1900.

ALL THINGS COME TO HIM WHO you take me for? I will not look at a soul till

WAITS.

you come back. I will make you a promide, this very moment, if you like, not to go to a for thinking of another man surely, surely single ball or party while you ta dway. As you know me better than tha

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"Here he comes at last," said Nelly Clifton, in joyful tones, to a girl almost as pretly as herself, and dressed like her, in a short homespun frock, the smartest of leather bound little cunts, and a most becom ing, fur trimmed hat, as they stood toge ther at the door of the farmhouse, in whose best riochton, had meer spied for the par from the Court who had been shooting the outlying coverts on the estate all the morn ing.

LATERRA "Here they come, you mean," corrected her companion, laughing. i know you have no eyes for any one but Dick Paulet just now sült, even. Mr. Barlow Saunderson counts for something."

"For very idle," said the other, ber eyes fixed on the twn figures who were climbing the long and tolerably steep hill to the baton on the side of a Wiltshire Down, in which the farm nestled. "How slowly they walk! Bart that stupid old Saundersen is so fat and short of breath, bo can't get on at all; and Dick is so polite, he won't leave him. Poor Dick! he has only two`more days' now- only forty ey hit hours before he sails for the Cape and he has to waste part of his line with that old hot."

"Don't abuse Mr. Saunderson too much," said her friend, Georgie Stapleton. Quand on n'a pas ce qu'on mine, il faut aimer co prema," and very soon we shall be glad renonph qy an àir. Barlow Saunderson, and inen of his calibre, if we want to make up a theats paty, or anything of that sort, when we get back to town! There will soon not be a young mang left for us to speak to. Before 1 Came down here I was a month in London, and Ian are you we only knew.six men, and we had to ring the changes on them, not to mention that they were all more or less the mained, das ball, and the blind, and much more mother's friends than mine I wouldot' have looked at any of them a few months ago. Their place was the back drawing-room, where they rout play Bridge to their heart! contrat with mother and some of healconades, I am glad caugh nowadays if I can beginte one of them from his duty on the pretext of leaching me a new game of Patience: I aim to repaid tor may trouble, know, but ! get so tired of feminine talk and chatter; and, show as he is, would really rather talk to our find her than to the ordinary woman.

Well, I won't by and cut you out," said the nather, tla lovely colour in her pretty face grow ing a mug exquisite pink, and her, his eyes dang me brightly asthe two men reached the top of the bill at best ...the outward bound man who was so soon to be swallowed up be the wartygąd who would be lost to them either por ev or for many weary months d the stay-at-home, whom like the phor they would have always with them.

.Dick Pack was one of those fortunate beings wtioin' oil wohnen find delightful, and must of the mistible, Young, gay, and good-looking, Nature had lavished on him other gifts as well, We know on the best authority that "to him that hath shall be given" but it denied almost unfair that he would have so many contradictory advantages-that he should not only be one of the best men to hounds that ever tode acluss a rountry, but also be so well fitted to hold his own in the ballroom; that he should have a fierity for every game requiring skill and pluck, and yet be able to shine in society as well. A better fellow never walked, and he did not carry a tick-marshal's datos 'hidden somewhere in his kit, it would be a safe finest prophesy that, bar accidents, he would make a name for himself when on active 51 Vine,

His Compenborg Mr. Barlow Saunderson, on the other hand, was by no means such a favorite of fortune. To begin with, he was tity, whereas the other was barely twenty five; he was also ten fat, though tightly braced into clothes that seemed at the same time bursting and buy. Even the three legged arrange inen for a seat that he carried in one hand had an old womanish effect, and Dick himself would not have looked "fit" if his neck had been, like Mr. Saunderson's encircled with a knitted consienter whose ends waved in the breeze.

While the latter gasped and choked on reaching evel. ground, Dick and Nelly whispered, or perhaps, as is so often the Tas, it was the girl who did all the talk ing and the man who listened, thinking all the while that he had never seen anything more charming than her fair face and wishing for the dedih ime that the Church had made her

his time he sailed

"Conte in to luncheon; there is no time to be lost," was shouted by their host from the best parlour, where the table was spread so lavishly table laden with all good things and many luxuries.

There were two seats at the end of the table, which Nelly thought were meant for Paulet and herself; but Mr. Barlow Saund erson was not of the same opinion, and with a quickness that was really creditable in an elderly gentleman who had almost forgotter what it was to move quickly, he dropped into

the one destined for Dick.

Mr. Saunderson lumbered off; but before he

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heart is, breaking ! I-shall always love Dick better than any one in the world, but I musn't risk being wint the boys.call "left." I should,

should be perfectly miserable" be the sufferer. No one else would mind bat

Mr. Barlow Saunderson is really a very clever man," said Nelly's mother to her daugh ter a few days after Dick's departure. "Lady Stapleton tells me he is one of the best judges of pictures and chian in England. His own collection of Batteriva cimiel is priceless, but his fancies. I hear he has got twenty thousand then" (ecstatically) "he, can, afford to pay for

year at least."

I don't think you will forgot me just at once," he said rather sadly, for he did not over estimate her powers of constancy: but as time rolls on it might come to that. Of course, my child dance and amuse yourself as much as catching Mr. Darlow Saunderson's eye fixed on you like only, don't flirt too much." Then, him with quite a glare, be added in his usuala merry tones I do believe that old boy is an The question never arose in Nelly's mind other of your victims! Well, I don't feel very whether it would be better to starve in the jealous of him; hess welcome to make love to company of handsome Dick Paulet or to you as much as, likes. A short-winded lover collect Battersea chanel and other art is always rather handicapped and no one can treasures with Mr. Barlow Sagnderson as look like a hero of romance who has to sit on a a guide, for she looked on the former alternative three legged stool when he shoots pheasants.". as impossible. Indeed, the transport in which When time is counted by minutes it seems peor Dick had sailed had not arrived at the positively to race. The next forty-eight hours" seemed like a dream both to the fun who utage before there was what her mother called en understanding between Nelly and her then bad been so eager for "the front," and elderly adorer; and the former was still eating to the girl, who, though she could not love his heart out on the lines of communication, him very much, was nearer loving him than and moving heaven and earth to be sent to any one else.

the front," when a few lines in the newspapers from home told him, with brutal conciseness, for how short a time his lave had kept his nic- mory green.

There were last words and wishes to be spoken-a fer hurried kisses-a hasty lele-à; fefe interrupted when hardly begun, and some bitter tears that had to be dried at once; for the other guests at the Court must not see that Nelly's blue eyes were dimmed with sorrow, and a weapon must not be placed in her. mother's hand of which she would not fail to make good use,

There were only a few minutes now left, and Nelly, shivering partly from bodily cold, partly no doubt with excitement, found herself stand ing in the fireless and seldom used library of the Court Dick had given her rendezvous there. He know that there, if anywhere, they would be safe from prying eyes and alert.cars; for it was seldom that either the owners of the Court or the guests staying in the house strafed into that cheerless bork lined vault, and to-day at any rate, when the snow was falling, and the wind howling, and it felt as if the thermometer, must be down to rero in the roum itself, Dick was certain he had made a wise choice. He held her cold hand in his, he kissed her pale lips, and once more he entreated her to be faithful to him.

Give me a chance, darling," he entreated. "If I get bowled over, you will be wise to for get me.... But wait a bit and see. I may be back in a few months, and then it will be all right.

But mother says that even then it would be all wrong that you have no money, and that we could never marry. She says you would have to go out to India, and you know, Dick, 1 could never stand a

He felt as if a child had struck him. The blow did not hurt so very much, but it stung all the same.

THE TIE-DRAWER.

[BY ES]

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Once, ever sa long ago, I tried to convert Lionel in a sense of tidiness. Of course, I know that tidiness is a virtue, not a quality; that is why women always hanker after it and men never do. That is the worst of being a woman; it makes you save up all your defini. teness for the Ten Commandments, and does got leave you a snap over for the ordinary demands a life. If you are a woman, two fuelnek will mean half past any day you have an appointment to keep; but no one will ever get you to see that a visine at best is only the dinion of a quality, I am a woman myself, and I know what it is to possess endless virtues that are not qualities; exasperates other people and is wholly Backing in disting tion. If is no use trying not to be a wontan in these matters. Sargetimes, for instance, I remind myself that literalness is a mere virtue, while speaking the math in a vague, indeter minate sost of way, that used to im punished in the nursery, is a quality but still go on being literal. All the save feel there is something also to be said against the possession of qualities that are not virings and in the days when I lived with Lionel I used to find that there was generally a great deal is be said. I did not always say it, is trad; but on one occasion Lionel's wam of tidiness did force me to speak. It was his tie-dever that drove me to it. "Money isn't everything," he said, as if he Any woman would be griven to any lengths by was teaching a lesson to one much younger the sight of any man's tie-drawer. It is very than himself, and forgetting that he was making diffialt for the feminine mind to grasp the use of an argument that would have no effect altimate significance at the tin-drawer. on his listener, to whom money, position, and number of lies in it is the only thing about a fine clothes meant all that life could offer."1 tic drawer that a womin can be expected to wouldn't care for anything else if I only had to understand, She, too, has a veil-and-glove- you with me You are all the world to me"

and-ribbing drawer that would match the tie- Almost the very words that Douglas of Fin-drawer in profusion. But why a pan wants to land had once sung so sweetly to his Annie to keep his ties in that many-hued, inextricable Laurie his faithless mistress, who and con- bundle, and why he refuses to part with any soled herself with a rich husband long before of them, and yet goes on wearing the sanie her lover was killed on a battlefield of the Low one for months on end, must always be past Countries, kissing a bright brown tress of her comprehension. And every week or two her hair, and murmuring with his latest he brings home a new one, and drops it into breath words that have been sung for centuries. the middle of all the others Wellbore Dick Paulet would be as Gaithful. The ques- Lionel's tie-drawer as long as I could, and tion was would his love forget him as easily? then I made a raid on it.

Her fair head lay on his shoulder, his arms held her fast, when the handle of the door tum ed rather quicker than Dick or Nelly cared about, and the uninteresting face and heavy figure of old Barlow Saunderson appeared framed in the doorway. He peered at the lovers with shortsighted eyes; and it would be hard to say how much they saw; now and then, however, elderly eyes see further than they are imagined to do, and perhaps this was a case in point.

His excuses for appearing on the scene sug- gested it,... "a book of reference," nice point in heraldry," sorry to disturb any one;" and then his last words in dicated the real reason of his untimely appear ance. "Your mother is looking for you every where, Miss Nelly, was his parting shot, and he lingered just long enough to make it impos- sible for the lovers to linger still longer.

"We must gỡ, • •

I dare not stay longer," whispered the girl and then, under the very to say his last good bye. nose of Mr. Barlow Saunderson, he was obliged

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It happened that Linnel was late for dinner that evening. He was nearly always late for dinner, by the way, but because he was punctual about once in ten days, we seemed to hink it necessary to endure overdons dinners for the other nine. So I sat and waited for him by the study fire, and read the advertise- mert sheet of the evening paper for the third time, and though; of the beef. In the kitchen, the soup biled merrily or the hob, and the plates cracked merrily in the grate, and the over cooked beef cracked with them. The only discord in the harmony of the home was Dorcas. She never would get used to Lionel's dinner-hour; and she kept on coming in to me and sayings about the beef-things that anybody world have guessed. Leaving Dorcas out of the question, however, the flat presented a perfect picture of happy, humble comfort. Of course, I knew it would not remain that kind of picture for long after Lionel came into it, for it was wonderful what Lionel could do with a flat in five short minutes; but I felt it was the right thing at least to try and train his dye, however unconsciously, to a look of tidiness. I must confess that Lionel's eye remained unconscious of it to the-end.

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of kindness," I-marmured. "Yes, I know," said Lionel. These things always are done out of kindness. I've a perfect horror of kind- ness. Besides, why should you vent it on me? I'm not a crossing-sweeper or a pauper, am 17" "I'm very sorry," said, penitently: "which particular tie was it that I couldn't say," replied Lionel, with great dignity; "it is im- possible to tell one tie from another in the condition to which you have reduced them in THE GREEN LITTLE SHAMROCK, my drawer. They all look exactly alike. I recognize one's own ties!" think it's rather hard lines nut to be able to "Well, you are funny!" remarked: "I prefer to be funny," said Lionel

shooting from a high window at bottles placed | fern roots and shamrocks should Le cleaned in the sea for the purpose.

and pounded well, 'tren mixed with butter Marie Theresa, of Bavaria, is fond of pets, and made on May morning, and holy, salt, till a is always accompanied by fourteen of her fav-paste is formed. This is rubbed all over the orites when she takes a journey. They include back while the Lord's Prayer is said and the dags, cats, magpies, a little bear and an enor Hail Mary; and the paste is by no means to be washed off, but to be left till the cure is per fected." For the liver complaint "The leaves of plantain, witd-se, valerian, the shamrock, the dock-leaf, and the flowers of the daisy, to be plucked by the person before sunrise and tasting, on Mondays and Wednesdays, while the tail Mary is said and the Paternoster; all these boiled and stained and the herbs after- wards burned. A glassful of the liquor to be aken twice a day."

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BY KATHERINE TYNAN HINKSON.I

St Patrick is said to have used the shamrock With patience and tact I at last managed to

to illustrate the mystery of the Trinity for those extract from him a description of the tie he did to whom he was preaching. The fish trul want, and finding it was a ragged, worn, and tion is that this occurred in the plain, outside ancient specimen I had generously presented Tam on an Easter Sunday, and that the i to the porter a few hours before, I had to call | cident resulted in the conversion of King hung- in the aid of Dorcas, in order to recover it by haire, him and his. For this reason, no doubt, secret means. When Lionel had put it on, the shamrock is worn on the Feast of the Sam, with great tenderness and care, the power of and used as a national emblem:; but there is speech was restored in him, and he gave me

no reference to the incident in early lives of his views on tidiness in general.

the Saint. The shamrock occurs is one or "Women have no sense of proportion," he two legends of Irish saints, some of whom, began. had heard this so often that I did apparently, walked on not trouble to respond. They wouldn't mind and "One day St. Swithin was walking on seeing your tie hitched up to the top of your the sea, when he met St. Barn of Cork, who collar at the back, if they knew all your other was in a ship. Why do you walk on the sea ties were folded neatly in your drawer," he said Band. It is not the st. auswered continued, bitterly. "What has that to do Swithin, but a plain flowery, shamgorked'; and with it?" I demanded. Lionel looked at me cast it to Barré in the ship, and said, "Why critically. Your drawers are all tidy, aren't does a ship: swim on the plain? Then Barre they?" he remarked, blandly; "but have you put down his hand into the sea and took asal- ever seen me with a hairpin hanging over ny

mon therecut, and cast it to Swithin." There Ich war I hastily put my land to my left

is much evalence, from outside, at least, that car, and took refuge again in silence

the shammock wie used as food by the Irish. "You ought to live with Silvester," suggested Maths Lobel, a Flemish botanist, from whom Lionel, presently. "It wouldn't be proper is derived Lobelia, says, in a book published in wouklit 7" objected. "Wouldn't it though!" Lundon in 1570, and dedicated to Queen Eliza- cried Lionel. Nothing could be anything beth. else where Silvester is concerned. Proper isn't the word for him; he trots after you, all over his rooms, and picks up your match-enils and your cigarette asks, and everything else you leave about. He's awful!" "Por must keep him pretty busy," cbserved. He's always punctual at meals," continued ione!, with scorn in his voice, he he puts on evening dress like

whenever he's to, and if his sister is him he's ready half an hour before the

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time, with both gloves on. And he only smokes on the doorstep of his own home. He's a treasure, Silvester is !" I don't want to hear about Silvester," I said, impatiently. "Why," exclaimed Lionel, I thought you wanted to be like that" "Codiness, no answered, incautiously! "I hate silly, precise men, who do everything they're told, and paused suddenly, but it was too late. Linnel had began to chuckle.

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medick, or black such, and the wood-sorrel The purple clover, Trifolium prateme, the have all been claimed as the true shamrock;

is either Trifolium repens, the white clover, or ut the plant worn in fecland as the shamrock Trifolium minus, the yellow-flowered clover. Stemish is an oil stone font in the shape of a to the Church of the Braid at the foot of shamrock said to have come down from the time of St. Patrick.

The four-leaved shamrock represented the Cross, and so was supposed to be powerful Flence the idea that it brings against evil good luck, The trefoil is the emblem of Hope, who is picturesl as holding a three-leaved grass. Lady Vilde says: "The owner of a fours leaved shamrock cannot be cheated in a bargain nor deceived, and whatever he undertakes will prosper. It enlightens the brain and makes one see and know the truth; and by its aid

drous things can be done. So the people say: Whoc'er has the four-leaved shamrock can work miracles Bitt it must never be shown to man or antal, or the power would, exist no more." If you accomplish any feat of great diffraky they will say to you in Ireland leaved shapitack." to this day Why, you must have the four-

The Meadow Trefoil, with a purple flown is cailed Purple Trefoil and with a white flower White Trefoil. Nor is it from any other than this that the mere Irish, scorning all the delights

It would be a holy and wholesome thought and spurs of the palate, grind their cakes and to plant shamrocks on the Irish graves in South loaves which they knead with butter, and thrust

„Africa. into their groaning bellies when, as sometimes

Ar imaginative Irish florist, who makes metry of his trade where another would happens, they are vest, and nearly nudenédly see kunselling, is prepared to supply any with a three days hanger. But it is chietly with anyount of shamrock seed for this tender pur it is, renver, with the soldiery." the freebanners the like endurance is used, as | pose.---Pull Mail Gazette.

in 1571, contains the first mention in English Campion's "Historie of heland," published literature of the shamrock by that name.

dae nourish the sune with all their cunning; Proud are they of long crisper glibbes, and to erop the front thereof they take it for a notable piece of villainy. Shamroks, water- cresses, and other herbes, they feel upan; oatmele and butter they consume together." Derricke, in his "Image of Ireland, with black-fester in 1578, thus delivers himself on a discoverie of Wood-Krane," published in

Women are never satisfied," he said, as Le knocked a solid inch of cigar ash on to the palest spot in the pattern of my new carpet.his subject :-- P. M. Gazette.

LIVES THERE A WOMAN, WHO

HAS NO FAD

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The daughters of ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York, have a mania for learning how to do things and recently they even learned to shoe a horse, not only hammering out the shoes on an anvil, but nailing them to the horse's foot. experts in the use of rifles and pistols, Among A long list of American women have become then are Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Havemeyer, Mrs. Alfred Seton, Mrs. Seward Webb and Mrs. Valentime Molt. All of these women by diligent practice of their pet fad, have routed the ancient creed that a bull's eye must be the size of a barn door in order for a woman to hit it,

Many women have a habit of collecting some. thing The teapot fad is pretty common. Mrs. Charles T. Barnes' collection in Chicago is one of the largest in the country-or was, until half of her let were lost in the fire that destroyed her house several years ago. She still has several hundred.

Mrs. D. Harry Hammer has 10,000 buttons which came froin all over the world, and many of which are interesting as souvenirs of various wars. Several of the butions bear crests of distinguished families, among which are those of Gladstone, Sir Robert Napier, Lord Raleigh, the Duke of Argyll, Count Hatzfeldt and the Marquis of Lorne.

Mrs. Franklin McVeagh collects palms. She has one, a dwarf palm, which is said to be 250 years old.

Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Jr., collects plates, and owns more than 2000 exquisite ones.

Mrs. S. Ogden 'Amour has harboured a mania for boxes ever since childhood, and has 200, among which are big and little, new and old ones.

In the home of Mrs. Alice L. Williams, of New York, four rooms are devoted to her collection of shells, which come from every part of the world.

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It was quiet and decorous-hardly more than a clasp of the band-silent, too, for it would seem as if the hardest partings call for the fewest words, and Dick, with a heavy heart, left the girl he loved so truely; and she reflec Then Lionel did come in. ing that she needn't put on the mask that we all wear in society for the next hour or two,

gar, putting his hat on the writing-table; is dinner ready "It will be by the time we've A society bud has made a collection of stone, retired to her own room to indulge in the luxury hired a steam saw for the beef." I answered, of woe and to wave her hand from her window "Oh!" said Lione, cheerfully; and he dropped and all were given to her by friends.

jewel and metal charms in the shape of hearts, to the accupant of the dogcart that took Dick his gloves, his stick, and his latch-key on the

A rich New Yock woman has attended every Paulet on the first stage of a journey about sofa, and proceeded to take off his boots. "Per important auction in the city for several years whose ending there could be no certainty. This time Nelly's blue eyes brightened to

haps I had better go and get ready," he continu- and is so well known by the auctioneers that, some purpose and an angry sparkle shone in forget the parting between Rawdon Crawley you had," I agreed meekly: "but don't bother always given a front seat. Yet the woman Who that has ever read Vanity Fair cane, when this was accomplished, "Perhaps although she does not buy heavily, she is them, but she was not the girl to submit tamely and his wife on the eve of the battle of Water to hurry, will you? I don't suppose anything would probably object if auctions were called to an arrangement that suited her. so badly, loo, or has failed to be struck with the contrast matters to the beef now." Lionel did not hurry. her fad,

wish you would get me my coat," she said between his departure with something like a He turned all the money uut of his pockets first Another woman who has has always been is commanding tones to her next-door neigh prayer on his tips for the woman he was leas and put it on the manteleshelf, and then he busy, and it well known as a writer and "I have left it camewhere aboutoning, and her review of the situation next morn-stiched off with a boot in each hand. He drop philanthropist, prides herself upon the number one of the seats outside, I think-and it is ing? rather chilly sitting here."

ed one in order to open the door, and did not games of solitaire with which she is familias What mattered it that his face was purple trouble to pick it up again; and I heard and her skill in winning. and his eyes dim when he held her in his arms the other go in the hall outside. I waited Many of the nobility of England are said to

depressing occupation for the dining-room treme, and put to the blush the poor little make. room and waited ten more. I found a themselves. Some of these are costly in the ex-

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warm ១១ the study shifts of women in the ordinary walks of life. it, never

is and there was something The Princess of Wales for example, has an sad about the surface of the boiled soup, I especial liking for lace, and her collection is long. It always a mystery to me why he spent by the wedding present to her from the King of began to wonder what was keeping Lionel so said to be valued at $200,000 It was begun so much time in dressing for after a disppear. Belgium, which was worth $40,000. ance of half an hour he would generally appear The Czarina of Russia is also fond of lace, in a negligent kind of costume that would have and a remarkable pince of Chantilly was pre done justice to a tennis-lawn. But this even sented to her as a birthday gift by the French last emerged from his room, ing he was longer than usual. When he at Goverment last year,

I saw immediate- ly there was something unfinished about him. At first I could not think what is was. There She on her side was very unhappy at first, was not much to be gathered from his face, though she could see as clearly as her mother, though I did notice a deeper shade of reser. and understood that the whole business affect-vation in his expression than usual; but I felt ed her in a much more personal manner, the soup might well account for that. Then,

In the maternal words, she too realised that all at ounce, it flashed upon me. "nothing could ever come of it."

"Form veric trothe my harte abhorreth these dealynges, and my soule dreth deteste their wilde shangocke manners."

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HOW TO EAT ASPARAGUS.

these in all things is said to be the mue sign of Life is made up of details, and attention to a great anind. All the details of good breeding am as familiar to the well-berd person as is the alphabet. Although mest of our social usages and customs are borrowed from the English, still there are a few points, especially in this matter of table etiquette, upon which we differ. For instance, it 18 said that an Englishman can teil an American wherever he sees him by his use of the fork. In England it is amsidered to be very bad form ever to transfer the fork from the left to the right hand. To hold the fork in the left hand and then push the food up trenchment, is quite English, you know. To on it, as though one were building an in- change the fork to the right hand convey the food daintily to the mouth in small morsels is. quite as American, and, to my mind, far more graceful than the other method. fidently assert that it should not be eaten from In eating asparagus there are those who con-

should be eaten in no other way. the fingers. There are others who claim it

Both are right."

In one of the poignant and terrible things of Berature, Master Edmund Spenser's "View of the Prescat State of Ireland," the port des cribes the condition of the Monster peasantry after the great Desimond Rebellion. Ere one yeare and a halfe they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stonye larte would

Out of every corner of foorth upon theyr handes, for theyr legges the woodes and glinnes they came creeping could not beare them; they leaked like anatoses of death, they spake like ghostes crying out of theyr graves'; they did eat of the

Whether or not one cats it from the fingers dead carrions...and yf they founde a

depends entirely upon circumstance. When platte of water-cresses or shamrokes there they with people with whom one is well acquainted, dining in the privacy of one's own home, or locked as to a feast for the time."

Fyne's Morison tells as of a Bohemian barena dinner in a hotel, or other public room, it one is privileged to eat it in this fashion. At who came to Ireland with letters from the King should be taken from a fork. Never use a of Scots to the trish lords then in rebellion, and knife in removing the tips from the white stalks, for the space of eight days had found no but use a fork for this purpose. In taking it bread--not so much as cake of oats-till he from the fingers take the end of the stalk in the wild Irish, in times of the greatest peace, came to eat with the Earl of Tyrone. Yea, the right band and eat only the tips. impute covetousness and base birth to him that hail any cerne after Christmas, as if it were a point of nobility to consume all within those festival days. They willingly eat the herbe schamrock, being of a sharp taste, which us they run and are chased to and fro they snatch like beastes out of the ditches." Waller, the port, refers to the supposed shamrock diet of the Irish-

Had we found either leaves or grasses or weeds, We could have lived as now at this day can Many a fellow subject Irishman. There is a more curious reference in the nonsense verses of John Taylor, "The Water Post"-

While all the Hihemian kernes in multitude

Did feast on shamroge stew'd in usquabaugh. in his treatise on diet, Commentarii de Aère Henry Mundy, a vegetarian doctor of Oxford, vitali, Esculentis ac Potulentis (1680), uses the shamrock diet among the Irish as a piece of special pleading

When asparagus is served with a cream sauce, or as a salad, the stalks should not be chapped into little pieces, but should be placed whole on a long, muros, porcelain platter. The servant passes it and each guest helps himself with the assistance of asparagus tongs, or, failing these, à fork and kuife.

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if unc bas used one's fingers in eat- ing the asparagus finger bowl is quite necessary adjuct and the hostess should see that one is supplied. To neglect this small courtesy is a breach of table etiquette. As for- salad, unlike asparagus, the lettuce should always be eaten in the fingers. To cut lettuce is a deadly sin-equivalent boiling a peach.

The well-bred woman always breaks her bread instead of cutting it or eating it in huge crumble it in a slovenly fashion. The old way slices. At the same time she is careful not to, of using the bread as a sort of barrier against which the food on the plate was pressed by the fork is happily never seen now, and gravy on bread is the must delicious thing in the world

and the worst form,

There is frequently considerable doubt in passing one's place for a second helping, where there is no servant to perform the act for one, whether one should leave the knife and fork on. the plate or remove them. They should be left obvious. Aside from its being awkward to onthe plate side by side. The reason for this is hold them while the plate is being passed, bits of foort or gravy are liable to drop from them and soil the table cloth,

Never grasp your wine glass by the bowl,. but hold it by the stem, and never take wing that you do not wish to drink. The servant should mention the wine before pouring it, and by touching the rim of your glass,

You are at perfect liberty to refuse any dish. that you do not wish to cal.

found the coat, which after all had not been for a minute, pressed her against his strong ten minutes, and then I went into the dining have cherished, fads upon which they pride † groat of their masters, which they goe express if you do not desire any you can indicate this..

left outside at all, Dick was safely ensconced the other's place, and he and Nelly seemed in to have utterly forgotten the very existence of Mr. Barlow Saunderson. She even looked Annoyed when he handed her the coat that he bad found at last.

Oh, put it down anywhere, Mr. Saunderson," she said hastily. "I don't want it now,"

The poor gentleman felt extremely indignant, and though Dick was the last man in the world with whom he wished to pick a quarrel, he certainly muttered the word "whipper-snapper" under his breath when he saw how he had been outgeneralled.

"If he was'nt geing off so soon I would make a row about it," he said to himself magnani mously" but I don't want to make things up pleasant for him just at the last."

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beating bear" She was too busy in a few hours "disposing, ordering, looking out, and locking up her properties in the agreeable manner' to give his emotion a thought. It is we who see so clearly the white. The parting of our lovers was "as strong relief of the bold picture in black and

cal leave-taking but in one way it was run on water unto wine when one recalls that histori- much the same lines.

Blue waters did not make Dick forget, and, hard worked and generally knocked about as he was on the voyage to the Cape, at least he sleeping, had Nelly ever in his dreams, waking and

Thus the Irish that nourish themselves with their shamrock (which is the purple clover), are swift of foot, and of nimble strength." 1 is in the Journal of Thomas Dinely, an English gentleman who travelled in Ireland during the reign of Charles II., that we find the first men tion of the shamrock as a badge:-The seven-. immovable feast when ye Irish of all states and teenth day of March yearly is St. Patrick's, an conditions wear crosses in their hats, some, of pins, some of green ribbon, and the vulgar superstitiously wear sham-reges, three-leaved grass which they likewise cat (they say) to cause a sweet breath. The common people and servants likewise demand their Patrick's

8d. or icd. apiece, and to town, though half a dozen miles off, to spend where sometimes it amounts to a price of

In this Patrick's groat one divines the Patrick's Pos of the pre-

and you are supposed to give a small gift of sent day. "My Patrick's Pot on you" is the salutation of the

peasant on St. Patrick's Day, money. The crosses referred to by Dinely are still worn by pensant children in Ireland. They consist of paper adored prominently with a green cross, and more or less gay with gilt paper added. The custom belonged to a higher class of old, as witness Swift's Journal to Stella under date 17th March, 1712-"The Irish folks were disappointed that the Parliament did not meet today because it was St. Patrick's Day, and the Mall was so full of crosses that I thought all the world was Irish."..

are found sober at hiery few of the zealous

To use a toothpick at the table, even though

of the most glaring type. Holding the it be concealed behind the the napkin of one's banditoat once to stamp oneself as a vulgariası before the mouth does not in the least deceiva napkin

any one as to what is going on behind the napkin, and the act is quite as disgusting in it suggestiveness as though it were done in plain view of every one at the table. Occasionally some small bit of food lodges between the teeth, It is annoying and uncomfortable, but unless one can excuse oneself from the table he should refrain from removing it until in the privacy of of his own company-S. F. Chronicle.

Entimation,

AN APPEAL.

Queen Victoria's fads are gardening and dogs and ponies. Her old black jessie is her favourite. She also has a collection of bull- finches which afford her great amusement. No cat is allowed near the royal apartments on Still, he felt glad to think Dick would so soon

that account. Queen Victoria prides herself on exchange woodcock-ple and champagne for

the excellence of her omelets, which she do bully beef and Modder-river water, and that

fights in making herself. All of her daughter The first statement of the legend of St. he would not he in quite such good quarters

Why, you've forgotten your tic!" I gasped. are good cooks as well as accomplished needle-

Patrick and the Shamrock that wo find is in "Poor Dick, talks so much about my waiting Considering that Lionel had been known to lose on the veldt as he was at the present moment for him "and the teli quite injured when she

women, The princess Louise boasts of the Caleb Thealkeld's "Synopsis Stirpium Hiber- a train before now because he could not get his numbers of dishes which she has invented. nicarum," published in Dublin in 1727. "This There was, he thought, a good deal of sense in thought of his efforts to drag hier down" but tie to set properly, such an omission as this was

Her favorito pastime is salmon fishing, and that well-known proverb that every dog should how could I marry a man without a penny in truly serious,

plaat is worn by the people in their hats on wish, have his day, and he felt that, old dog as he the world? I know that he has got five hund-thetically, "that I could forget it." "What do in buying old and quaint silver, for which she

March 17th yearly, which is called St. Patrick's answered Lionel, pa when in London she spends much of her time

Darit deug a current tradition that by this was, his good times were coming, and that red a year, but people call that, beggary. All you mean?" I asked; but I knew, all the same. has a passion.

three-leaved grass he emblematically set forth forty-eight hours of the situation...

see him master my friends say that anything under four figures. I had just remembered about the tie-drawer..

The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, prided to them the mystery of the Trinity. However means starvation, and I don't want to starve. Look at old Barlow Saunderson," said Even when the

If you meant that I have been tidying your herself upon her pastry cocking, and her that be, when they wet their scamaroge, they war is

over, he won't come Paulet, whispering into Nelly's pink little home. His regiment is under orders for terrupted, just as hastily by Lionel himself, "I plished in the methods of the ancient and right keeping of a day to the Lord; efter gene often: carried excess of liquor, which is not a draver I went on bastily, only to be in, daughter, the Archduchess Valerie, is accom- shell of an ear. He's pretty mad with me, India, so I shouldn't see him for years and and in limes of peace really would not

didn't mean that," he observed, "In fact, if modern cupsine..

rally leading to debauchery." Linnaeus refers have

years, and what should I be like then? you hadn't mentioned it, i shouldn't have known

to the shamrock as a food. "The swift and been so rude as to take the Fancy my being old and passer 1" (and being

The Queen of Italy collects gloves, boots, old boy's place; but when I shall be in her bedroom at that moment, she jumped op you would mind!" I remonstrated. "Naturally sonages. She has shoes which belonged to rock, which is the purple trefoil, for they make it was tidying."My dear boy, I didn't think and shoes which have been worn by royal per agile Irishi nourish themselves with their sham- leaving you to soon, Nelly-dear Nelly." and ran to the glass to see if the emotions she

The rest of his words were barely audible; had already gone through had dimmed her folded neatly, so that you could pitch upon the of Mary, Queen of Scots.

I thought you would like to have your ties Queen Anne, and a fan which was the property from the flowers of this plant, breathing but, judging from the look of rapture that, beauty or traced lines on her fair face). I know

honeyed odour, a bread which is more pleasant The Queen of Greece is said to be the first than that made from the spurry already men for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made The Superioress will also be most grateful transfigured ber face, she did not lose one...

one you wanted I've been trying to pitch Forget you I care for any one else she and Dick would be the first person to hate is the result cared davity did it out on the seashore at Caldas, amuses herself by Here is an ancient cure for lumbago Dog

myself very well. My good looks won't lust, for quite twenty minutes," said Lionel, and this needlewoman among European royalties. The tioned."

Tinto Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, whispered in her turn, Dick 1. what do having to marry, an old woman. No, un My collar-stud, and sighed beavily,

uncovered Dowager Queen of Fortugal, when at her home The fliamrock had its place as simple. how are taught by the Sisters,

Hongkong, sand April, 1897,

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CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs must HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Fost Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that of NEEDLE WORK. she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds

and Collars renewed on old ones

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs

dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery.. Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Chil Materials can be supplied, if requireds

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