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- ' ; Li ; ! ,':!f 4 uphri, M Mil MP y l;" af 'rd h plowing.; ' Ironi' fi 4 tinAjli!ikl ulvliUlUUi WhpnihpFrpUmfmin bs an ! 'This last nart of. the corned v r.li mnsi J. ' i I H hi 11 E"1 rilf J I jl iPi IliilVllllinU . w . fj t : : - - - - l, if- ' i : rv r . i w lie II x nil riactive as a itcucuk ntu -" i j . .... . - " aia. Mail l - ..- By MAX V ijLLr Author of ; Jonathan i . it ll-r : T 11 ana mi. u raiment, jomi etui and K 3 Inland." ' John Bull's Drightersyf tc. 7-LUVE ! IN FRANCE. All Frenchmen Love Because They Can't Help It Restrictions on Unmarried ' - i "Young Folks" French Marriage Cus toms, j . t There is probably no being in whom the bump of arnativenss is more devel oped than it is in the Frenchman. The jpoor fellow must love; lie cannot help it. I At 12 years of age; he! is deeply in love With a little girl lie has met with her pajuma in one of the public gardens of jthe town, and to whbni he prettily lifts ihis hat before beginning a game of ball or hide and seek. . He does not declare Ihis lovei In. the distance he throws rapturous kisses at "her;" when near h6 casts down his eyes and; looks silly. He dreams that his little lady love is being Icarried off by some! miscreant, that he come3 to her rescue, s&ves her, throws Hmself at her feet, and. declares himself her slave forever. j : At fifteen he lovesj a portly matron of some forty summers; to whom he sends anonymous verses. ; Hej loves in silence once more. , p 'j From eighteen to twenty he loves pub lic characters. Actresses have drawers full of poetical eff lisiohs addressed to jthem by jthe upper forms of our public schools. ; J r; j .1 I j' At twenty well, "at twenty the less we speak of what he loves the better. tThe best jexcuse that cant be advanced in his favor is that his -education as I have Attempted to explain? i& another chap ter, does pot prepare hiin for manhood. Indeed, the French Iboyfs change from outh to manhood is like a hooting of rapids. He has never known what it is to be free; how can he be expected, as a rule, to make good j use! of liberty the first time he is thrown into the world? The break is sudden,! a piunge that often i hreatens a capsize. 1 j j From twenty to twenty-five he seldom marries. When he (Joes'he often makes a bad match. He has noticed a pretty little milliner passing ey&ry day at the same place. He has admired her; bv ;tnd by he follows her, proposes matri mony and marries her. The parents at first grumble, will have nothing to do yvith tho young couple if or some time, dnd generally relent on the arrival of the first baby. ' j : . As a rule, the Frenchman does not marry before he has reached the ago 6f thirty. From thirty to thirty-five is the age at which he takes the great step, j Old bachelors are not impervious to Cupid's dart3. You often! see Frenchmen Entering the holy estate for the first time at fifty or sixty. Their'decided love for good cookery and white linen frequently beguiles them into marrying their cook -or laundress. These are jthe brides often jed to the altar by retired officers, and installed in apartments bf Paris. in some suburb The Frenchman has his characteristic- feature in common with jmenof all coun tries: each time that he loves, it Is for -ever. When crossed in love, he seldom vgoes the length of committing suicide, lie does not go in for such extreme meas jures: he generally prefers resorting to homoeopathy; he loves f another." Like 'cure like: similia similibus curahtur. j Flirtation is not a French, pastime. A few married women mav induhre in it: but girls, whatever may be said to the contrary, very seldom do.! A woman iwho flirted would pass; . ! in France for giddy, not to say fast; she knows her countrymen too well for that. She is ja ware, when she "coquettes with them, 'what she is exposing! kerself to. i ! If Fre.nch girls felt inclined for a little Imi tation, how could j they indulge in it: .Good heavens! What would her mother jand father say if they s.w;lier taking i walk by herself during the day if it came to tueir Knowledge that i a young man had actually dared to whisper word of love into her ear before he had laid bare his heart - and made a clear state ment of his linances to iheih in the first place? i' Even when lie lias obtained con sent of the parent, and his visits to the house where his fiancee; resides are per mitted, the young couple are not allowed to soo each othes even for a! moment without the presence of- a! third party The pleasant operation familiar to Eng lish lovers i by, the term of "spooning" is absolutely unknown to courtship as j practiced in, France, f, ! i 1 As soon a3 two yoian French people arem love, they want to die, unless their parents immediately! consent to their marriajw1, i which is very 'seldom the casj: Well, to w'isli; to die under these circumstances i.s a trifle irrational, but i - Hove and reason seldont iro tosrether. Of course they, never do diet ! They live all the . whilej and are j almost inclined tc f think that in love nuuters plain sailins f is not so sweet or so romantic as obsta Icles to overcome. NVJiat lovely letters crossed loye suggests to' them! Letters invariably; written at! midnight French ! lovers' never write bv day- -midnight, "when all is i:i repose (around them. Letters mil oi -.vii i is Known; we are lost! What will beebmebf us?! Ah! for get me as. soon astyouJ can; ; we shall j newr lo each other's, r As for me, 14 j shall die of it; I knowj I shall. Then you will marry another woman. 1 will pray in heaven for your happiness. Per haps now land then vou will come to the cemetery and lay a buuch of violets on my tomb.: Vou know, beloved one, thai violets are my favorite! flowers. Too won't forget that, will Vou? j I weep, weep and I weep. Farewell !n j And thii shiver gi ving letter how to post it the following day? The poor chHd cannot go out alone. The housemaid ! is coaxed and bribed. She becomes the confi dante. ; She posts the letter, receives the answer, and plays the; part of love's messenger.' , -. -.j . . ; ! 'ji: :" Cupid may delight in mystery, but this is nonbusiness. ECoweyer, thing come ri, ently. , '' : ' . When the Frenchman in love has an opportunity of making a viva voce dec laration to the mistress '. of his heart, he generally sets ! about it , in theatrical fashion. : He goes down ; on ' his knee. Now, a man, except he be very -young, with irreproachable features, can scarce ly afford to do this: he runs a thousand risks of appearing ridiculous and show ing his little defective points. While he is on his! feet, that small bald spot on the top of his head is not noticeable, and the unpicturesque male attire of the Nine teenth century lboks well enough. But let a man who is no longer a slim Apollc get down on his knees, and pour pas sionate protestations to a woman with the slightest sense of the ridiculous, and I i maintain he is funning a risk of killing what little tender sentiment she may have for him. His face is red, or perhaps j purple, with the unwonted ex ertion and excitement as he warms to his subject. Out of this red face gleam two eyes! that show all their white. All the time the little demon of ob servation may take inventory of all these blemishes. No, no; a man should not allow a Woman1 to contemplate him in such a servile attitude. He should not abdicate j his dignity in going on his knees to implore favors that the dear fellow is probably destined to pay enough for. .v I j : j v - j . All this puts me in mind of a play of Emile Augier, in which an aristocratic lady Telate3 how she was saved from a foolish entanglement of her affections by her lover going down on his knees and declaring his passion, j He had on his nose a little wart, which at ordinary times was scarcely noticeable; but as the poor fellow grew more and more carried away by his fervor redder and redder grew this innocent , little excrescence, till at last jthe comicality of the thing struck her, and she could not help burst ing outlaughing. "That wart saved me !M she exclaims, to the delight of her lady friends on the stage and of the audience. Let us now come to matrimony. I have already said that j young people in France; cannot j marry; without their parents' consent, and that at no matter what ag4 'However, when a man is over twenty-five and a girl over twenty -one, they may compel their j parents to give them that consent. This extreme measure is very seldom resorted to, for it has to take the form of a summons through a 1 notarv; but re lentless; parents ; sometimes wish to re ceive such I summonses,! in order to be able one j day to tell their children, in case the match should prove an unhappy one, that they wash their hands of it. As soon as the ! young lover is accepted by the girl' parents he is received family; not, however,! on terms i . . . i m trie of in- timacy, as in England.! He pays fiieuuent put official visits, brings presents young lady, many of which afford him the opportunity of conveying to her a little billet doux. The day before the wedding he brings the corbeille; that is to 6ay, a casket containing valuable pres ents of lace, jewelry, etc The contract of marriage, settling money matters, is signed before a notary and in the pres ence of the relatives and the most inti mate friends of the j bride and bride groom. As a rule, they are married by the mayor of the town on that day. The eal wedding rs a religious ceremony that takes place the following day in the morning. j . ! People! with a little pretension to style have for! many years followed the Eng lish fashion of going away for the honey moon as soon as the wedding break fasl is over. ;rmt twelve or fourteen years ago smell was not the practice; high and low spent their wedding day much alike that is to say. as the lower middle classes still do. ; . ; j , .'"j ..'! This isi how the eventful day i3 passed The ihorning is like the proverbial April one, all smiles and tears. The process of the elaborate toilet is inter rupted at every moment by tender em braces. Mamma between the pauses ol the petticoats, must clasp her dear Firtne in her ai'ms. and listen to her assurances that "she can never, never be so happv as she has !:en with her dear petite mere," lit any rate not happier Bu neither tears nor ehibriices have hindered the little .white robeu ji''ure trom being decked very effective!;,-. At last all are quite ready, and the bridegroom having arrived, the brida! party sets out for church,! the bride and her father occupying the first carriage. and the bridegroom and his future mo-ther-in-latw the second. The friends fol low, and in this order the little proces sion inarches up to the altar. The ser vice is l'(j)Ilow!ed by a short address to the happy pair a sermon; on matrimony bv one who! knows nothing about it. This being duly, administered,' the company proceed jt'o the vestry, and no sooner are they 'there than mamma falls again, on the neek of her sweet child, and I again gives yay to her feelings. Indeed, by this j time the event is felt to be a great one all -round, and one that demands much outlet for the feel ings. Everybody kisses everybody else. and there is a general chorus of felicita tions. The next item in the programme is the wedding breakfast. a simple affair given inj ; the family appartement to the member of the family only. If the fa ther lives in Paris, and his purse will ad mit of the carriages being retained all day, 'the bridal party drive to the Bois de Boulogne or Vincennes to pass tho after noon: but this time the young - couple are not j separated, and mamma has tc hand her daughter over for the first tete- a-tete wth Adolphe. It is awful to think of, but she has to bear it. . The most festive part of the day's pro ceedings comes in the! shape of a dfnnei and bail at great restaurant. To thU entertainment acquaintances to-the num ber of a hundred ortwo are frequently invited. Of course, in the case of a brid taken from a home large enough to ad mit of it, this takes place in her parents rooms. At l midnight; when all are en gagea in tno wnrri oi a waltz,, a ume - u discreetly, led away from the ballroom by her mother and an old lady of stand ing of the j family, but not befpre the bridegroom has had a whispered intima- tion of her departure from tba lips of the This last part of the comedy 13 the most solemn of all Arrived i in the home which is to henceforth, of be her daughter's; abode course the dear soul can not help feeling moved once more, and this time terribly. The process of the morning's toilet is reversed to the same accompaniment of tears and embraces. The honor of! faking off the garter is claimed by the old lady (generally an aunt of the bride"). Adolphe, punctual tc the whispered! rendezvous . given him in the ball room, arrives, and it is mamma who comes to open the door to him. This scene may be more easily iniagined than described. The moment is awful for all concerned. The poor i mother throws herself into her son-in-law's arms, anid, with all the fervor of her heart, ex horts him to take care of bhe treasure she has handed over to him and make her life a bed Of roses. . And she goes. ! Adolphe and Fifine are happy at last; anil now we will take leave jof them and wish them long happiness and ' pros perity. ; There is something to be said in favor of all this. j j The ceremony of matrimony i3 the prologue to courtship, instead of the epi logue, as it not unfrequently is in coun tries where society imposes no restric tions upon engaged people. X . HOW TO MAKE GOOD MILKERS. Directions for Treatment That Besin with ! t the Rirth of the Calf. Treatment in raising calves for milk ers is necessarily somewhat different from that in raising a beef animal or an animal for labor. Begin as! soon as the calf is a day old; see that it lias sufficient to eat and is kindly treated and attended to. j Never pamper or overfeed, but give it good, generous food, to cause a reg ular, early and! steady growth. Accus tom it to be handled, but not to such an extent as to acquire objectionable habits as a cow, but rather to be fond of the presence of a keeper. Kindness ' helps to create a quiet disposition!, so import ant in a dairy cow, and this education must begin when the calf is young any habits acquired when young are apt to cling to the cow when grown. j For a milker the heifer ought to conie in at two years; old, says Southern Culti vator, authority for the foregoing. She 13 then old enough to lecome a cow. Do not, as a rule. Sallow her to jgo farrow j but milk her Up to within a few weeks of calving, everi if you do not obtain but little at a milking. A cow thus trained will give more milk and be more likely to hold out long! in milk, if her after care is judicious and liberal as it should be. Such treatment; tends to form the ( habit of giving milk; and, as we knowhabit is a sort of second nature. Couple the heifer with an older bull; one two or three years older than she is preferable to a yearling, and better stock is likely to come from such. - j When the heifer has come in her feed should be regular and liberal. , Good clover hay is the best of all, but we all may not have this for stall feed; then make up for what is lacking in some con centrated feed, such as oatmeal, shorts, oil meal or the like, but great care and good judgment must be used not to over feed or crowd, as the future cow may be ruined. Undue f orcing shortens the use ful life of the cow very rapidly. ! I Mole Catching. fine little "gentlemen m velvet are not held in high esteem by the farmers. Their presence is generally regarded as indicative of good soil; yet the farmers' first object on acquiring such soil is to get rid of them. ; They are destructive to drains, and deadly enemies to the com mon earth worni which Darwin lias ap praised at high value as a medium of fer tilization in the soil. Indeed, their food consists mainly of the common! earth worm, though other insects, such as mag gots, which fall j into their tunnel, are readily devoured; These latter no person will grudge them, but they work irrepar able havoc to crops. There are various systems of mole catching. Traps of various kinds are used. The wire trap has been' in vogue for well nigh thirty years, and is an ef fectual method if care is taken to use it in a proper part of a fresh tunnel. In some instances the wire trap, however, has been thrown aside superseded by the use of poisoned worms.! This system is held by its advocates to be equally as sure as trapping,! while it is lighter work. Either of these methods in the hands of a skillful mole catcher will effect a com plete eradication of the little foe, but the j mole pest is not now so prevalent through out the country as it has been earlier in the century. j The Farmer's j Library. There is nothing more conducive to genuine enjoyment on! the farm than a collection of good books, either for read ing or reference. Farming! is full of suggestion. The variable ! character of the soil and the functions of life in its different forms, are subjects bf the! great est possible interest. These are matters which it is absolutely necessary that the farmer should study, and reading will do much to aid him in this. ! It will also serve to divert his mind from the toils and vexations of his work. The amount of reading that is profitable depends upon the receptivity of; the mind. It is of less importance to read much than to read wisely arid well I S There is now no lack; of good agricul tural books, and these i are furnished at comparatively low prices. It need hard ly be said that a farmer's library ought to include an unabridged dictionary, a full encyclopedia set and a good cyclo pedia of practical receipts. ' Pis Feeding Experiment. Experiments carried on under the aus pices of the Danish Agricultural society go to prove that skimmed milk has double the feeding value of buttermilk; that rye and barley are of about equal ; Talva, with a slight percentage in favor of rye, and that six pounds of skimmed milk have the same feeding-value as one oauni of rv aaiarley. When ThM Practice Is a Benefit and Wuen I . a-s - v . , ' . . I fl - m n 'ii. - j.Aammm . ... . a a a Detriment. ODiniditl and practices differ so much among 4irmers as to the benefits of fall plowing ijiat no one can lay down ' any ralevn ti sub ject that will meet all the cases. fclfch piec of land must be con sidered lJitself and broken up at a sea son and la! the manner best suited to its especial lijecessities For iisfii.nce, there are some heavy clay soil! Birt require thealternate freez ing aniltjawings of winter to pulverize them. fjeft until spring for the plow . ing the iit. wilibe ahard, cloddy .field, vetjf difniit to cultivate and in which the root J jf the plants will scarcely be able to lilfaintainj an existence. Such grounds Ijlould have all the benefits that can be drved from fall plowing, and in no case caii they ! be injured by it If left! unfflqwed, the compact surface onl is ecosed to' the air, while if swell broken ilpthat which is thrown to the top gets hp benefit of the exposure and the whofebecoines better subjected to atmbsphlrlc action as the result of fall plowing.! :, . . j i Many flfrmers holdj the opinion that the hearrl the freezing season . plowing can be dnJe the better, as at that time a multitude jfof insects will be unearthed and destroyed. Ground on which there is biit liltle vegetation, if plowed too early, wl settle down and become so compact pain before freezing as to re ceive bul fpttle benefit from it. In the spring I vould apply the manure, plow shallow snip harrow thoroughly to break the iumiill Usually ground that is fall plowed rl be rady for work earlier in the srdg, which is in itself quite often ant "advantage. The fertilizing matters $tbught' down from the air by the siiowjjand rain are more readily ab sorbed bVi a plojved than by an un plowed lleld. Gravelly, sandy or mel low open 'soils are better when plowed in the spr-ifrg, near the? time of seeding. Si;ch soili would be injured more than benefited by fall plowing. ; -!.., i '.; . ' ' j l.tlairiiiij Wlet by Cattle. . The resells gf two years' experiments to test the influence of close pasturing upon " growing jjvh eat at the Kansas station is thus'repoKed upor by Professor Shelton: An accurately -measured half acre was fed off cfolely during the fall months. This half iijre was' pastured by a consid erable hed1 at different times, the total grazing amounting to 161 hours by a single ankttsal. The wheat upon this pas tured aresiseemed not to suffer much from! the iirJcreased demands upon it; it was slightly shorter than the unpastured portion of $ the field, and the time of blossbmirig' .and ripening seemed to have been! sorujjewiiat checked, although not enough, to) influence the time of harvest ing, j ; f, this pastured half acre with an adjoining half acre, unpastured, we find thaj. the pastured area gave a yield of 1 1 & bushels of grain and 1,156 pounds of "straw, 'while the unpastured area "gave! bushels of grain and 1,302 pounds ofj sjraw. These figures seem to show a losi by i pasturing. The differ ence in y ied, however, is clearly charge able to ahbther cause the unpastured area had better soil and a thicker and more; even stand to begin with than that which was ilpastured. This difference is amply siifplient to explain the variation in yield III the two areas. This fact serves further strikingly to illustrate the difficulty I Experienced everywhere in using a point. fejwj large plats to test a given I ' 3. The Silo versu9 Dry Storage of Fodder. Professor? Sanborn has made experi ments atl the Missouri station to settle the tjuesijn of the silo versus dry storage. ie tacts secured, it ! ap- Ml. ! - . Dears, uut iot warrant him in advising Missouri radical t rulers to build silos until a i&n ;3H e in the effectiveness and ecotiomy the silo is made or a radical change ofikirs in surrounding condi- i. tions. Unquestionably silo preservation is more: vah;!o in sections of the country where ti. winters are long than in others w-e clflap food abounds and where thjffwintefs are milder and of shorter diatia. Practically, the best test will blithe one which each farmer makes f o fefmself , in which it will prob ably befqufd that conditions and sur rounding! ifvill so greatly vary results that- iwhiv one farmer will regard the silo as a fiiecessity, another in the same neignooi iopu may succeeu cquauy wen without ijf ..,5 - im i " ' ; Insecticides. . , - HA. J. book says that he finds strong tsaftcco decoction an efficient remedy flrjtlea beetles; and that London purple is f more injurious on plants than .Paris green; the latter, a pound to 200 gallorsjtf water, did well. The Lon don purple al ways did some harm, and of terf seripiis damage, j It is worst on the peach. Drf Collier observed similar re- ults. Notes and; News. .! A recetf estimate places the amount of South Carolina phosphate rock mined and sold ril888 at about 510,000 tons, or 300,000 topis' rnore than in 1880. Severaljcases have, been reported dur ing the pt season of honey bees that have been;killed in their search for honey oh fruit iblossoms sprayed with Paris pilossoms sprayed green for the codling moth. , The Ne,v York Poultry and Pigeon associatiofihas been organized as a stock company xd will hold an exhibition in New Yor &ity Feb. 12 to 25, 1890. T. F. Eackharn, East Orange, N. J., is sec retary. ;! !!!; The acreage of i rye is steadily on the decline inuropei ProfessqrJ E. M. Shelton,, director of the Kansalsexperiment station, has re ceived an I Appointment as manager of the agricultural experiment and educa tional'! department o Queensland, Aus tralia.! j , ; ,: '.: . Within the past few years the actual area of grapevines destroyed by phyl loxera in prance is 1,200,000 hectares, or about ! one-lialf the vineyards of that country, ra-; 1 m .;a detriment. --yJ: A-A.-" ...rw ;:r: ; .. . . A" ROBT Lar M. 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