A Widow for a Day.

Not over ioo miles from the boarding housekept by a most estimable lady, 'here President Foshay, of Broadway railway fame, died recently is a high toned boarding-house, and the lady who keeps it is a jewel in her way. She sets an excellent table and is kind ness itself ti» her guests, and has folding beds in nearly all the rooms. This last «ct is verj gratifying to her lady boarders, who can thus transform their sleeping apartments into cosy little parlours during the day. Her 'second floor boarders' consist 0 two ma"ied couples. The husband «one of the ladies is employed in the custom house and the other man is a featrical manager, whose business ™, ders sequent absences neccessary, ™o so to two wives are left alone the grater part of their time, and they Passed much of their time in one room or the other.

n each of these ladies'rooms had 2 aC?mfonable lounge, which was ! ll UUe a necessit-v' considering that TJrT ! ere tubed into ostensible go^dunngtheday, and head fee, ~and meanness made the ladies Khft i rep°sinS for a while. 2J elounl es^ere faded and worn 4J e t f°d landlady had long in -shal ha; c? efn re-coveredf but Wson, yaffordlt ' However, one custLu and carri^ away the t C2 house man's wife's lounged b? »«to S^ 11" neighbour's sofa she wen l f ,nd her own neglected, h«Sc " aif ady ' With 6ie in %h L/V nd w^tedto know 8la * and «L mUCI? Worse lhan sh Mdidn>t make ha'f n^Wnt n aS^ Blankand fur- In vain ?,WntOwe!s besides!' ?? landlady tried to f«in VryL"Ue Klady' telling her s?** BVcki ayherS ' bitbt^, and f ? 8 OUt lnto the hall •^Ca n dJV atdowninher Th^T y "b^d a good cr-Vf feel" 'ft *K*£i f** ]mxi& tba* had kde «tok e sd dldnot/Peak. The ■ UQ»'«des,.and Mrs Dash,

being younger and prettier, received rather the larger share of sympathy, and the poor landlady took to her bed with a nervous headache.

The morning dawned, and pretty little Mrs Dash was just beginning a letter to her absent husband, who was in San Francisco, recounting all her woes, and how Mrs Blank had called her a 'hateful, spiteful, jealous little thing,' when she had refused to shake hands with her. Suddenly the bell rang and a card was brought to her from a gentleman friend of her husband asking to see her very particularly.

The yopng wife went tripping down stairs, without a thought of sorrow or disaster, into the parlor, where the gentlemen met her gravely and solemnly, and after some preamble gave her a telegram announcing the sudden death of her husband in San Francisco.

After the first dreadful shock was over the poor little woman tried to rally and give instructions that the body should be brought back.to New York for interment, and when the bearer of the sad tidings had gonje; Mrs Dash crept slowiy back up stairs, but there was no place whereon to throw herself to weep away the first bitterness of her sorrow, and she1 mechanically went into the bathroom and threw herself upon the despised old lounge, and there Mrs Blank found her sobbing and moan ing.

The memory of the old friendship came instantly to the surface and dissi pated the little cloud that had come between them, and Mrs Blank, with her own sweet face bedewed with tears, drew the lonely little woman into her own room and down the newly arranged lounge, placing soft cushions thereon, and bathing ber forehead and offering hundred of tender womanly little services. The other inmates heard of the dreadful grief that had fallen on her young head, and began to come with their sympathic caresses, when suddenly she raised her tear stained face and sobbed.

' How comfortable this lounge is now. It was too bad of the landlady, and she knowing I was going to be a widow so soon. 1

Again they all consoled her as well as they could until the bell rang for lunch, and they took turns in going down, so as not leave her alone. The landlady prepared a dainty lunch for her, which was brought back untasted. She could not eat. All the gentlemen felt very sorry for her, and three hur ried away as quickly as possible, and in a very short time three messenger boys came to the house bearing bouquets and choice confections for her. She

ate a few, smelled the flowers, and de clared that this blow would kill her, and, indeed, the poor child felt so.

Finally her friends told her that she must make an effort to see the dress maker, and a couple of hours were passed in selecting the suitable gar ments and bonnets sacred to grief, and then another long interval of sobs and tears and loving consolation, and the afternoon wore away. Earlier than usual the gentleman began to return to dinner, and all proved that they had not forgotten the desolate little widow; each carried something which he hoped mightbringheramoment's forgetfulness. One contributed a lovely harp of immortelles, with a beautiful white dove attached, and another gave her a hand some cage with a fine canary bird in it.

These two gentlemen at once re garded each other with infinite scorn. ' To give her immortelles and a stuffed pigeon !' said pne. JTo think she wanted a screeching canary at such a time,' said the other.

This was all very w^ll until the mar ried men began offering their tokens of sympathy. The wives thought things were going quite far enough. Finally Miss Birdie Bell discovered that her own Charles Augustus had sent an anchor of violets and a box of choice candies; and she went direct to her room, locked the door and wrote a bitter, sarcastic note, cancelled their en gagement and returned his ring, and he neither committed suicide nor begged forgiveness. Birdie shed a few angry tears and went to the theatre to show him that he was entirely indifferent to to her.

The old lounge had mysteriously disappeared from the bathroom before lunch, and just before daik it. was brought back again gorgeous with a new and splendid covering of silk and plush and brass nails. The landlady kept her council, but she never saw the bill, and the sofa was quietly placed in the poor widow's room that she might have a place to keep in quiet comfort. Charles Augustus gave a grateful sigh as he saw the sofa, but heaved a bigger one as he looked at the vacant space in his purse.

But good Mr Blank capped the cli max when he rushed off and brought a tiny black-and-tan pup, no bigger than a rat. His wife gave him a freezing look, and then began to suggest that the poor, dear child should go and lie down and try to sleep in her own quiet room, and so try and rally from the shock, and she would give her some lavender and valerian, and finally the women half led, half carried her to her own room, where, as may be imagined,

the newly covered sofa created quite a diversion, and then the little woman, being dazed and cuddled, and petted, was left to 'try and sleep a little,' while they went to give their respective hus bands some useful lessons on the con duct right and proper under the pre sent circumstances.

As soon as the word was passed around, ' She is asleep,' the house became quiet as the grave, and so re mained for about an hour, when a sudden sharp ring at the door caused every one to jump. It was paid for and the boy sent away, and a council was held as to whether it was best to rouse her or not, and it was finally de cided that Mrs Blank should take it, and if she slept she should not be roused, but to give it if she should be awake, She was awake, and when the despatch was opened she read :

ITo Mrs Dash : Yours received ordering my body shipped on ice. I ain't dead, and guess I'll keep without ice till I return next month. Who said so ?'

Roots as Foods for Milking Cows

Prokessok h. B. Arnold says that carrots make better-flavoured milk and butter, and rather more of them, than mangels when equal weights are fed. Mangels are notoriousfor making thin and low-flavoured, but not unwholesome milk, like that from brewers'grains. They have a good value, as compared with carrots, as seven to nine, but mangels are raised with less labour and will produce about 50 per cent, more weight to the acre than carrots, about 600 bushels of carrots and 900 of mangles being the usual crop for an acre of good ground, if gnod care be taken of them As measured by analysis, 5£ pounds of carrot?, or seven pounds of maugels, would have a value equivalent to one pound of oats. Owing to the quicker and more complete digestion and greater efficiency of green food than dry, something less than the weights above nsmed, perhaps a pound le^s of each, would be as valuable as a pound of oats. Ah a quart of oats we:ghs a pound, 18 pounds of carrots or 24 pounds ot man gels would be a fa r exchange for four quarts of oats. In substituting roots for oats, it should be remembered that they differ so much in composition that one can not fill the place of the other. Oats alo:»e make an excellent milk - producing food, being well balanced as to fle h-form: ng and heat-producing matters, while roots are much lacking" in flesh forming material Something that will make more flesh than roots should be fed with them. Wheat bran and middlings would help them very much, or an equal weight of early - cut clover hay, or one eighth of their weight of linseed, cottonseed or pea meal. When fresh (not fermented) brewers' grains aro fed with roots in equal weights, each serves to correct the defects of the other, and the two make a much better milk than either v•ouM alonei

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1887.

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