A neat country home, everything in order and tasteful, cannot be excelled. The owner is a public benefactor. Ho instructs and inspires others to do well. Stained borders of floors will require doing over once a year if worn places are not to become noticeable. The stain and varnish may be bought and applied separately, or mixed together and applied at once. The latter is, of course, the readiest method, but the former is per haps the more laatine. ' 6 *

The Waywat'i Wldoffi T!h<% •widow (<aays a waiter to the; * World") owty be satfd to have lived one! life to the emd and started to begto an-: Otihep. brfegtog wath iber, however, ail! •Che experience wihiioh she has a-cqiilired to the former. The popular can-! caption of a widow-Ste that tsulie' strongly, resembles a walking adverbisaaaerut tfroni. a mourning establishment, 5s prone too allude to the merits and Virtues of "my pow daw lamented b'usband,'' and 'is rather too apt to force upon geneirail motiiee the facts tiha.t »he lis "lone and lorn," resigned to the worst, aind todfifietrent to 'lilte world—'lake a. well-dressed anad weTl-oommected 1 Mrs. ■Gunirniidge, to ehort 'Another variety of the popular opinion depicts her as, ifalir, fat and forty, possessed of am imp of miseMef whom she detnoin'iina teis her ""darling hoy," addicted to tfnaitatiimoiifiail OvuM'te and misadvemitorqa o*f a. by no ■means dfigniified or reassuring kind, and liable to 'make violent love to any stray ecclesiastic who unay come witiMm her iran go. There sb, however* yet anotiber •Mnd of widow, wlho may be described as the " faeihiioiDjaMe,'' aind Whose dha tracterlistfiics, though they vary with Iftna changing times- and liver own advancing years, possoTS. a suffioieait,; amount of (defi,mteii««sis-y%o enable youf.to. see. that they 'do not. by amy vmeams.i conform 'to. either of the popular ■conigept'ioaiß i*e feiirod to above; : " I wisihrtthat I tod-, •been 'bona a widow," 5s tIM aspiration, of one girl. " Wnd'owS. are designing things wlho ougfh't hot to be -alio wed," £6 the opiiiiikm of another. "Widow® must bare' the 'best time in the world ; wihy they sh|girM want to mainry' agato I ciint dis ■ the openily-ex pressed verdict of a itMrd. The. 