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Pat (doing look-out duty for the first time) "Hillol" Officer (on the bridge): What is it, Pat ?" Pat: Shure an' Oi dunno." Officer: Well, what do you see P Pat: Oi see a rid an' a grane loight, an' Oi think it must be a dhrug shtore." Young Wife: Bridget, you have been in the habit of boiling the potatoes peeled P Bridget: Yis, mum." Young Wife: "Well, since the cold wea- ther has come don't you think you'd better boil them with the jackets on ? Yes, Mi«s Clara, I went to de meetin house last night, an' how dat preacher did preach agin folks dat dances. He done said it was all wrong, an' how yo' s'pose he prove it? 'De 'postles,' sezee, 'you nevah heern tell o' de 'postles dancin', did you?' I don't call dat no argahmint. Yo' never beern tell o' de 'postles eatin' minoe pie, but dat ain't no sign mince pie ain't good 1

THE Editor of the Medical Annual for 1890 points out that potash is largely used to ndil to the solubility of many of the Cocoas at present sold, but that, in marked contrast, Massns. CADB UHY supply an abso- lutely pure Cocoa of the highest quality; and that the name CAMTOBY on any packet of Cocoa or Chocolate is a guaraneetf of purity,

—a—■MBwaaHMMawMwari-i m m JB WOMEN'S WORLD. -I tBy I- GwF.N."I I Some write a neighbour's name to Jash Some write vain thought f' r idle casli; But I-an aim I never fash I write for fun. DE, RWFAR. The first thing that strikes one in contem- plating the March fashions is not their e!aborate mode or gorgeous colouring, though the bright purples and garish greens, deep ambers and flaming reds rre put together and called a blend, so much as the appalling extravagance upon which we are entering. Kven underclothing has undergone a total change. Coloured garments are in again in soft silk, manve, cream, rose, and blue being the favourite nuances, the whole ornamented with lace and ribbons to match. 'I he corsets are exquisite. Many corset belts are worn, as they are better suited to the present style of round waists. Some are of silk lined with flannel. At this time of the year the subject of the dessms is taken up by the French it is nearly always as dainty as their outer garments, and is generally re- freshened before donning spring garments. The shopkeepers know this, hence the tempt- ing exhibitions and sales of lingerie which always take place this month. BONNETS, as the bouffants of the sleeves increase every day, taking almost alarming propor- tions, grow smaller and smaller, and are worn almost on the back of the head. I do not see strings anywhere. At present black jet bonnets are most popular. The trimming consists of two standing up wings, one on each side of the centre, in fine white lace, backed by jet wings of the same design as the bonnet. All the centres of the bonnets appear to form an insect or animal of some kind. The effect sought after is generally a butter- fly or bee. Very handsome antique buckles are used as a centrepiece for a bow of velvet. Steel buckles are most fashionable. As far as style goes all round, one might say that any- thing is the fashion between the dates of Louis XIII. and ly30. A SUMMER NOVELTY is a shot crepon which must be seen to be appreciated. The white cicpons are exquisite. Some show embroidered motifs, whilst others have mixed colours. The greatest novelty, however, is a material composed of a stripe of thin sille wrought on the weaving, which is crinkled and called bojau. The stripes ate always of a contrasting shade. The Watteau style is still carried out for morning gowns. CAPES AND COATS. With March winds whistling round us, we are glad to turn from the little shoulder enrichments called capes, such as the II Marjorie," "Princess," ''Ruby," and the like, with the knowledge that there is little comfort as yet in their lace and passementerie, their satins and embroi- deries, to a more substantial article for street wear. The Roumanian jacket seems well suited to oar immediate wants. It is arranged with double-breasted fronts, one side turning back from neck to waist to form a revers, faced with the cloth and machine-stitched at the edge. The back is fitted with a yoke of double material, or else of material lined with Italian cloth or sateen, so that the jacket back, which is to be cut without a seam down the oentre, can be arrangedinto a box-pleat and stitched between the yoke, finishing off the neck with a roll collar of double material machine-stitched at the edge. The full sleeve is gathered over the shoulder, also at the lower edge, where it is stitched between a ouff of cloth and lining, this being machine-stitched again just above the wrist. UMBRELLAS are playing a very important part in the outdoor dress. Never at any period were they so pi-eponderously got up. I met one the other day in Queen-street. It was tall and graceful, terminating in a heavy silver head, which was highly polished to a glitter- ing degree. This umbrella was ably supported by something elaborate in the male line-a masher," I suppose. SOLE AU GRATIN. I had a good deal to say about other mat- ters, but they must wait till next week. I suppose everyone has already revelled in the description of lovely gowns and bouquets noticeable at the Drawing Room, so I will con- clude with a couple of Lenten dishes. To prepare a sole au gratin you require a large sole, about a pound and a quarter in weight. It must be skinned, and with a sharp pair of scissors all the fins must be cut off. ykin and chop very finely four button mushrooms and two eschalots; wash, dry, and chop two teaspoonfuls of parsley. Butter a gratm tin, and put in half the mixture; cover it with bread raspings, flavoured w:th pepper and salt; lay the fish on it, and ooi fc- with the rest of the mixture and more rasp- ings. Add sufficient strong stock (with one glass of white wine in it) to come up to the fish, but not to cover it; bake it for twenty minutes, basting occasionally. Serve in the tin. FILLETS OF WHITING A LA CARDINALE. Skin and trim the fillets of three small whiting, lay them smooth side upward on your board, and mask them with a layer of force- meat made with the flesh of a small whiting, with which has been incorporated a small quantity of pounded lobster spawn; fold them over, and arrange them on a buttered baking- sheet, squeeze a few drops of lemon-juice on each fillet, dust them with salt and pepper, put a greased paper over, moisten the top with a little cold water to prevent it burning, and place them in a moderate oven to cook for about twenty minutes; dish them neatly, and pour round them a nice sauce, which should be coloured pink with tammied lobster spawn. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. F. J. G."—I am glad you read Woman's World" with very great pleasure and find it very useful. Our rules forbid my repeating the recipe, but you will find what you want in the Western Mail of Friilay, January 27,1893. lie recipe you require appeared in the Western Mail Friday, January 27, 1893. Y"U should remove the superfluous parts ofyour nails, not with a pair of scissors, but by scraping them instead with a keen-edged knife or an ivory file. This prevents splitting. Soften your nails by bathing them in very diluto sulphuric acid. Dilute the acid yourself, as that you buy reiv.ly-prepared at the druggist's is too strong. To onclounce of sulphuric acid add half a pint of watt r. Immerse your nails in this for two minutes every oay, b"ing careful that there is no scratch or cut upon your fingers afterwards wash your finger tips very thoroughly in pure water. But before applying this treatment rub a little oil of almonds two or three times a day round the edges of your nails. 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POLITICAL NOTES. [ BY WESTMINSTER. J Ministers have begun this week to realise the unpleasant truth that two parties can play at the famous Parliamentary game of worrying officials on the Treasury Bench. No one who passed through the weary ordeal can have forgotten the innumerable nights on which, during the existence of the last Par- liament, Conservatives and Liberal Unionists were compelled to sit silent in their places while the Irish Nationalists, with the aid of their fellow conspirators, the Radicals below the gangway, discussed with monotonous and ceaseless iteration every single Vote on the Estimates, and when motions of urgency and motions to report progress were made night after night for no other purpose than to delay business and harass her Majesty's Government. If Mr. Balfonr left the House even for five minutes to get a breath of fresh air, Mr. Swift MacNeill would rise and demand, in tones of stage thunder, to know where the Chief Secretary was, and would then move to report progress in order to give the right hon. gentleman an opportunity of appearing in his place. While all this was going on the respon- sible leaders of the Opposition left their own Front Bench empty. One after another Mr. Gladstone. Sir William Harcourt, and the others siunk out of the House and went home to their beds, after bestowing their parting beTH dictions on Mr. Tim Healy and Mr. Labouchere, and urging them to keep the ball a-rolling. Many a Conservative member vowed in those days that, when his party went into Opposition, he would show he had not studied such tactics in vain, and the expe- rienoe of the past few days has shown that retaliation is easy and amusing. Mr. James Lowther is a first-rate guerilla leader in warfare of this kind. As excellent a specimen of the English gentle- man as the House of Commons can boast of, he is always cheerful, good-humoured, and imperturbable, and he evidently enjoys with the utmost zest the sport of hunting down the crew of greedy and hypocritical adven- turers who are now in office, and who have broken with every tradition of honourable public life in England. He has been well backed by Mr. Chamber- lain, Mr. Balfour, and many private members of the Opposition. The angry yells of the Irish Nationalists,who complained of the violation of their own patent rights of obstruction, and the sulky rudeness of Mr. John Morley, who woald not answer a oivil question because he had been sent for while engaged on business elsewhere, only gave fresh delight to the Opposition, and it was not till Sir William Harcourt, smiling a grim approval of the way in which the campaign had been carried on, made a humorous appeal to Mr. Lowther, now he had had his jest, to let the Vote under dis- cussion yesterday be taken, that the merciless critics of the Government, with a final burst of merriment, gave way. Eresh opportunities in abundance will be provided during the next two or three weeks for the exercise by the Opposition of that PO most cherished privilege of the private member of Parliament, the right of criticising with extreme freedom and at the greatest pos- sible length the estimates submitted to Parliament for the expenditure of the money taken out of the pockets of their constituents. Mr. Mellor, the new Chairman of Committees, tried on Thursday, out of gratitude to his patrons who have thrust him into a posi- tion for which he is manifestly unfit, to curtail debate on a supplementary estimate for a farther expenditure on Lord Cromer's house at Cairo, by ruling that the whole Egyptian policy of the Govern- ment could not be discussed on this vote. One can imagine what clamorous shouts of indig- nation Mr. Labouchere and his gang would have raised if Mr. Courtney had made a ruling of this kind. We should have been assured by every Radioal paper in the country that the liberty of free-born Englishmen had been outraged, and that the instrument of a Ministry of coercion had brutally trampled upon the rights of the House of Com- mons. Mr. Mellor's ruling, however, was, of course, upheld by the Ministerialists, and it required a reference to the Speaker to obtain a decision, made in guarded but at the same time very intelligible language, that the Chairman of Committees had made, a very great mistake. Mr. Mellor will not offend again in the same way. The Speaker has expressly rit-ated that on the vote for the expenses of the mission of Sir Gerald Portal the whole policy of the Government with regard to Uganda may be debated, and a week may be profitably spent on the disoussion of this question alone. Then there is the estimate for the cost of the Evicted Tenants Com- mission, on which Mr. Carson and Mr. T. W. Russell will have a good deal to say. These two matters alone should occupy the time of the House of Commonytill beyond the date fixed by Mr. Gladstone for the seoond reading of the Home Rule Bill. But this is of no consequence. Nobody is in a hurry for Home Rule, and it will take seven years more for the country to so much as understand the provisions of the revised edition of Mr. Gladstone's soheme for setting up a Legislative Assembly in Dublin. Naturally, Mr. Gladstone is in a hurry about this busi- ness, because he has no time to spare, but all the rest of the world, including even Mr. Healy and Mr. Sexton, who would be as sorry in their hearts to leave Westminster for Dublin as Mr. Irving would be to abandon the Metropolitan for the provincial stage, would be quite content if Home Rule always re- mained a mere chimera. Many other questions must engage the attention of the House of Commons up to the adjournment for the Easter holidays. There is the discreditable evasion by the law officers of the Crown of the self-denying pledge they gave when in Opposition to, reduoe the expenses of their offioes. Jobbery of the rankest kind has, it is alleged, been practised in regard to this matter. Nor can the Army and Navy Estimates be dismissed with merely perfunctory criticism. Sir John Gorst. as the real friend of the working man, intends to bring forward a motion urging the Government to act, in its relations with the dockyard workpeople, as a model em- ployer of labour. Mr. Campbell-Banner- man has been able to produce a very re-assuring statement regarding the Army. Recruits have come in very freely during the year, and all the regular battalions are now full. But surely this will seem a most objection- able state of things in the eyes of Mr. Labou- chere and Sir Wilfrid L*wson, who last year moved a resolution, which was supported by Sir William Harcourt, to reduoe the strength of the Army by the garrison maintained in Egypt. The mere fact that his own friends are in offioe will not, of course, prevent so high-minded and independent a politician as Mr. Labouchere from re-asserting this view of our position in Fgypt, If he were to carry his motion for a reduotion of the Army he might, it is true, drive Lord Rosebery out of office. Bat righteousness ought to prevail, whatever the oonsequences; and, in the event of Lord Rosebery's resignation, Mr. Labouohere is, no doubt, prepared to oblige Mr. Gladstone by talcing the office himself. It seems unlikely, then, that the second reading of the Home Kule Bill can be taken before Easter, and meanwhile there will be an amazing pronouncement of public opinion with regard to the Bill. Ministers have in nothing shown their folly more clearly than ia sneering at the threats of resistance to llolile ¡uJe uttered in Ulster. Their followers who take the cue from them, think it a olevei thing to laugh at the idea that Ulster wil' fight. Mr. Broadhurst, the Gladstoniar candidate for Grimsby, is quite merr; lover the suggestior. that Home Rule could never be enforced. But mer. of the stamp of Mr. Broadhurst, and of Mr. Allan, the newly -elected member for Gateshead, who said that he would hav< nothing to do with" foreign policy," seem to i, me to revel in their own savage ignorance o the facts of English history. Such men are mere barbarians, and, if they bad the guiding ha; d in political life. England would soon sink into a very low place among the nations of the world. The men of Ulster have their faults, and they are not waiitijig in the intolerant spirit wh i(h is characteristic of intense and fiery spirits. But no one who kllows them can doubt their capacity for fighting. I wonder that any man belonging to the English Liberal yariy should be ignorant of the fact that, but for the heroic resistance of he North of Ireland to James II. and his French allies two hundred year; ago, the Whigs would have been crushed out of existence, and Louis XIV. of FraneA would have succeeded in deatroyiug civil and religious liberty throughout the whole of Western Europe. From that time to the present day Ulster has been fruitful of able administrators and gallant warriors, as well as of men whose industry and foresight have created the industrial and commercial supremacy of the North oi Ireland. In the annals of the British Empire no names shine out more brightly than those of capable leaders from the ranks of the loyal minority in Ireland. Not to go back to the past, we have had in our own day the Lawrences, the Montgomerys, the Goughs. Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberts, and, carrying on the succession, Sir George White, the new Commauder-in-Chief in India. A race which produces men of such fibre will not give way without a struggle to the rebels and Anar- chists who long to reduce it to slavery. The vigorous letter of Lord Ranioipb Churchill denouncing the "abominable" Home Hule Bill of Mr. Gladstone is a sigu of the aid Ulster may count upon receiving from the majority of the English people. If Mr, Gladstone, with bis eyes open, chooses to rush upon civil war, upon his head be the consequences. It is so very obviously the game of the Gladstonians to try to arouse rivalry and ill-feeling between Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Balfour that I would warn you to accept with a good deal of distrust any stories that are circulated with regard to the leadership of the Conservative party. Theae two distinguished men may not see eye to eye in everything, but they are both working loyally to promote the interests of the loyal party in the United Kingdom. I have never concealed my own preference for Lord Randolph as a leader, because he is a man of broad ideas and generous sympathies, and his political insight bears the stamp of genius. The Radical papers made a great fuss the other day about bis onslaught on Tory policy, because he objected to a some- what vindictive Bill introduced by the Proteiitaiits of Ulster for the purpose of excluding from State aid the Catholic schools in Ireland founded and maintained by the zeal of the Christian Brothers. But there is nothing new in the discovery that Lord Randolph will not let any faction in Ireland lead him by the nose. It jrfhould not be forgotten that few of our public men know the oountry so w ell a he does. While his father, the Duk« o! Marlborough, was Lord-Lieutenant Lord Randolph spent much time in Ireland, and studied Irish questions with great assiduity. This is not the first time that he has pro- tested against Orange intolerance, and, although he is determined that Ulster shall not be trampled upon, he is none the less determined that there shall be no revival of Protestant hscendenoy in Ireland. Thr policy is marked, not only by magnanimity but by foresight. The Tory party should na treat the majority of the Irish people at irreooncilable foes. Some day we shall want the help of Irish Catholics to resist the attacks of the Radical pa!-ty on religious education in our schools. When the Home liule frenzy is over-and no Irishman in his sober senses can say what he has to gain by Home Rule-it will be found that the senti- ment of the Irish people is mainly Conserva- tive. I need not spend my time in speaking of Sir William Harcourt's Local Option Bill, which is not meant to pass, and which ite own author must regard as a practical joke of the broadest character. There is an excellent letter in to-day's Times on ihe results of pro- hibition on the other side of the Atlantic, where, as the writer says, the people found that in trying to exorcise the demon of in- temperance they had merely given themselves up to the seven devils of intolerance. I am glad to recognise the good work done by Mr. Gladstone on Tuesday in smashing tbt bi-metallists- Perhaps the most impudent fallacy put in circulation by the advocates of a double standard is the suggestion that silver is the money of the poor and gold of the rich man. It is by means of artful representatiour of this kind that the wealthy men who forn the Silver Ring of this country, anc who have their pockets stuffed full of silver securities which they wish to unload upon the public at an inflated price, have per- suaded the working men in some distriotf that it is to their interest to get as much silver money as possible put into circulation. As one Trades Union leader, with much sim- plicity, observed—" I don't know anything about bi-metallism, but I think the mor< money we have in circulation the greater wil be our chance of getting hold of some of it." The marvellous thing is that this doctrin* has found some favour with Mr, Gosohen o' all men, who spoke the other night as if a* inflated currency and artificially enhanced prices must yield larger profits. Mr. Gosohen probably spoke in this heretical fashion out of complaisance to Mr. Arthur Balfour, who if as crazy as the Manchester Guardian itself with regard to the imaginary benefits of bi- metallism,

Pride is increased by ignorance; thos- assume the most who know tne least. A man's curiosity never reaches the femal. standard until someone tells him bis nam< was in yesterday's paper. The proud have no friends; not in pros perity, for then they know nobody; and no in adversity, for then no one knows them. A paper heads a personal column, Mer and Things," which certainly is not a verj gallant or gentlemanly way of referring i. the other sex. Your uncle is the man who plays the three ball game with unfading success; It is hit cue to take great interest in it—never les: than twenty-five per oent. Douglas Jerrold one day met a Scotch Ren. tleman, whose name was Leitch, and who ex- plained that he was not the popular caricatu- rist, John Leech. I am awar* of that- you are the Sootoh Leitch, with the i-t-ch,' said Jerrold. An American editor says he knows a yotln man who attends the churoh regularly, an clasps hisbands so tightly during prayer tim that he can't get them open when the oontri bution box comes round.

THE Editor of tho Medical Annual after a c.nt' ful examination of Cadbuby's Cocoa pr°N°U"C^F be both a food and a beverage of tne quality. Ask for Tyler and Co'a Prize Medal Yatf>».