WOMEN; THEIR FV3DS, jTHEJR WORK1. - GREEN SHADES IN NURSERY. Discard the white shades and re place with green ones and baby will njoy a mid-day nap. The green Is much better than the glare of the white for baby's eyes. INSIDE INFORMATION. A woman who Is trying to "climb" Into Washington society attended a recent reception at the house of Mrs. Taft The crowd was so great that guests were hurried along the line of the receiving party, with merely a handshake with the wife of the Sec retary, of War. The "climber," with determination written on her face, finally pushed her way up to her hos tess and paused long enough to say, "How do you do, Mrs. Taft?" adding with a very impressive manner, "I've heard of your husband." Llppia cott's Magazine. A WATERMELON PARTY. A watermelon party Is a novelty to most people. For this It is well to choose a moonlight night, and have a straw ride precede the "party" pro per, which consists only in having a table loaded with fruit set out under an arbor or a great tree, a huge wat ermelon arranged for the piece de resistance In the middle, and about it all sorts of fruits, each kind by Itself; yellow peaches, white, black and red grapes, red and white raspberries, purple and yellow plums and scarlet cheeked pears; paper napkins, wood en plates and fruit knives are passed, and finger bowls are in plenty on the table half hidden by fruit leaves. Harper's Bazar. t DECORATING WITH FLOWERS. When decorations are very exten sive, the bric-a-brac is sometimes en tirely removed. It depends largely upon the character of the bric-a-brac whether this Is necessary. Surely enough must be removed to prevent an Impression of crowding when the Bowers are added. Very frequently, however, some of the bric-a-brac can be used with the floral decorations to obtain an artistic effect. Pieces of brass and copper are very effective used against green foliage and in brightening up dark corners. Brass candlesticks with burning candles are a wonderful addition. Candle light is the most artistic light possible, and will enhance all the beauties of the decorations. Masses of holly with its brilliant red berries, red candles in brass candlesticks, and the only light that of the candles, and of an open wood Are, and we have a never-to-be-forgotten background for Christmas mysteiies and festivities. Harper's 0 Barar. WOMAN'S HEROISM. WhUe dozens of men looked on In apparent helplessness and indecision, a young woman at Bath Beach leaped Into the water and saved a drowning child. This is but one of many simi lar cases that have happened in the past few weeks. Feminine heroism la increasing in a way to make mere man look like a craven. Not only are women saving lives, but they are ar resting burglars, beating off footpads and assailants, and generally furnish ing themselves the protection that Den were supposed to provide. It is time for the masculine half of creation to look to his laurels. Not only are his sisters and other men's ' sisters doing his work, bnt they are showing themselves Independent of him In a way that to the old-fashioned spirit of gallantry would be dis tinctly aisquieting. While man plumes himself, with more egotism than propriety, on woman's alleged mental and physical Inferiority, she Is proving that this complacent delu sion belongs to some other age. In stead of belittling the other sex, It is time for man to bestir himself it he .would not be actually outdistanced. ' In a recent piece of Action, some breathless girl is made to say: "It is easy for men to be heroes." Yes, it Is easy in fiction. In real twentieth century life the case Is reversed. It Is easy for women to be heroes and for men to look on and patronizingly talk of woman's sphere. New York American, BHB TOOK THEIR SHOES OFF. The surprisingly large vote in the Bouse of Lords (111 to 83) in favor of making women eligible as borough and county councillors, aldermen and mayors may be due In part to the good service that women have ren dered as members of boards of poor law guardians. Nearly 1000 women are now serv ing as poor-law guardians In Eng land, and they are said to have done much to introduce more humane and sympathetic treatment of the poor, and especially of pauper children. Lady Mary Murray, the wife of Professor Gilbert Murray, of Oxford, daring her recent visit to this country toll' an amusing story Illustrating this. One of the first women elected a poor-law guardian In London was taken by the men on the board to Tislt a workhouse which they regard ed as a model. Something excited he lady's suspicions and she made ail the children take off their shoes. Every stocking was footless. The matron had cut all of them off at the ankle to save the trouble of darning em! The rote la the House of Lords, more than three to one in favor of the bill, is encouraging. As the House of Commons several years ago passed a similar measure by an even larger majority, there is every reason to hope it will go through. Almost at the same time comes the news that Denmark has given women the right to vote for members of boards of public charities and to serve on them, and that Swedes, where women have had the municipal vote for many years, has now made them eligible to municipal office. Alice Stone Blackwell, In the New York World. "DON'T KISS THE BABY." At the meeting of the American Medical Association in Atlantic City, N. J., recently, many thousand physi cians were gathered from all parts of the country, and the newest methods of prevention and cure of diseases were under thorough discussion. It was the consensus of this body that next to the house fly the habit of kissing the baby is the most danger ously vital manner of spreading con sumption and many other diseases of more or less dreadful character. One physician made the declaration that in every home there should be put up a sign reading: "Don't Kiss the Baby," declaring that all the authori ties can do to protect the infant from various infections, through a safe guarded milk supply and otherwise, was rendered of no avail by the ava lanche of kisses rained upon the baby by klnspeople, visitors and callers. Many physicians strongly object to the habit of kissing the baby on the mouth, but think there are other dis eases which are more readily con veyed t'hrough kissing than tubercu losis, but which are as much to be objected to. Persons having decayed teeth, one physician contends, should not be allowed to kiss the baby, as the gums, even of healthy persons, are teeming with germs, and these germs are transmitted to the baby, causing illness more or less pro nounced. It is not a rare thing to find persons with breath so offensive that a grown person dislikes even to talk to them, but the baby is forced to endure even closer contact, and must draw Into Its little lungs this offensive and contaminated odor, whether it will or not, to say nothing of the contact of the germ laden lips. It is very hard not to kiss a baby. A woman would scarcely be a woman without wanting to "get her hands on the baby," and there really is nothing sweeter or more tempting than the warm, wet mouth of the baby. But for the sake of the baby's health even this may be foregone, and the affection satisfied in some meas ure by kissing the hands, neck or cheek, or cuddling the little velvet body close in the enfolding arms. Mothers will sacrifice much for the good of the baby. GRAY HAIR. Although usually regarded as a sign of age, gray hair, or canities, as it is called in the language of med icine, is not alwaya so. It may ap pear very early in life, even in the teens. In that case it usually af fects young women rather than young men. A peculiarity about the gray hair of the young is that it is almost al ways entirely white, and becomes so suddenly. All the hairs are equally affected, and one seldom sees the mixed color, or iron gray, so com mon in those of middle or advanced age. - Sometimes In the young, even in children, there is one gray lock like an island in the sea of normally col ored hair about it. This is usually a family peculiarity, occurring in one generation after the other. The cause of the hair turning gray Is something that puzzles the doctors. The color of the hair is due to the deposit of pigment in the interior of each hair, and grayness follows the. loss of this pigment. That Is self evident, but the puzzle Is what causes the pigment to disappear. Some have believed that it is due to the drying of the hair, which causes a shrinkage of its fibers, and so allows the en trance of air-bubbles, the refraction of light from which then gives the white appearance. The proof which is adduced in sup port of this belief is, that if a gray hair is put into the receiver of an air-pump and the air is then exhaust ed, the color of the hair may return more less completely. Metchnlkoff, the famous bacteriolo gist, says the cause of grayness is the penetration into the hair of wander ing cells, resembling the white blood corpuscles. ' These cells, assisted by other cells the aggregation of which makes the hair, seize upon the gran ules of pigment and destroy them. Nearly every one has read of in stances of the sudden bleaching of the hair even in a single night under the Influence of fear, griet, or some other Intense mental emotion. That such cases have occurred is un doubted, but the explanation by ei ther of the theories above mentioned is difficult There is no cure forxgray hair so tar as is known. The use of curling irons is said to retard its formation; perhaps. If Metchnlkoff is right, by destroying the activity of the cells which consume the pigment Youth's Companion. W Farm Topics. fB DEHORNED CATTLE. Packers probably pay more for de horned cattle because they have less trouble in handling them. They al ways ship better, resulting in less bruising, and while the scratching of horns on the sides rarely does any great damage, it is frequently dis criminated against by buyers. The dressed carcass is also blemished it any bruises occur. In the main, therefore, dehorned cattle dress much better. Where cattle are kept up we should by all means say that the de horning system is preferable for pack ing houses. The Epltomlst. THE BREEDING SOW. It is not so generally appreciated, as it should be, that the breeding sow while she is bearing her young, needs Just the kind of nutrition that the growing pig will require. Sows fed heavily on corn fatten and bring thin, stunted pigs, with very little ability to care for themselves. Such pigs will never do so well as those whose dams were fed milk and wheat bran with some kind of roots while bearing their young. These will have good digestion and will grow rapidly, while the stunted pig will never fully recover from the improper nutrition It received before it was farrowed. The Epltomlst. HELP OUT THE CORN CROP. Notwithstanding the increased acreage put into corn this season, the crop is still in a critical condition, and it will be wise to put in any and every crop which will make feed for live stock. One thing is certain, corn prices will rule high during the com ing season, and no doubt much cheap feed can be put up for most of the farm stock, thus releasing the bulk of the corn crop for -market. Sow sorghum, millet and rape, and plenty of it. These will help out both short hay and high corn. Don't neglect this matter, thinking that a favorable change of weather will set things right. Better be on the safe side. Indiana Farmer. VALUE OF WATER FOR COWS. A cow having water always accessi ble, never drinks because thirsty. She never drinks in the morning on an empty stomach; horses do, but the cow drinks to keep the contents of her stomach in the best condition for rumination. She wants to drink a little and often. If she can have water accessible she will drink twenty times in twenty-four hours. When we say a cow is eating she is doing nothing of the kind; she is simply gathering a , supply into her store house, the first stomach, and then she gets Into some qnlet corner and with eyes half closed she does her eating ruminating. Then is when she wants the water. Hence we see how very important that a Bupply be al ways within reach. Weekly Witness. CARING FOR THE COLT. A little extra attention paid to the colt's feeding and trimming of his feet during the first year will well repay any breeder. If he has a ten dency to turn his toes outwards or Inwards you can generally correct that defect by trimming the feet, which at that early period are in a soft, cartilaginous state. If, tor la stance, he is inclined to turn his toes out, trim down the outside, and that will rectify the tendency. If he "toes in," just trim the Inside in like man ner. If you allow these habits to go on for a few years you cannot after wards change thenVand it is highly Important that the horse goes straight when you come to sell him. New York Witness. PRIZE ANIMALS. While some of the beet breeds are capable of producing individuals that attain great weight, yet at the fat stock shows and fairs the largest ani mals may not win. After the prizes are awarded the butchers come in and test, and it is often surprising to find that the sweepstakes steer, which se cured all the ribbons on foot, is far below some other steer after being chopped up on the block. The blood from the throat Is caught in a vessel, and -every portion of the animal is weighed sides, tallow, liver, blood, etc. a careful examination being made of the "ripeness" of the meat, the relative portion of lean and fat, the prospective steaks that can be cut and the value of all parts, not except ing the offal. BREAKING A SETTING HEN. Because r. hen wants to set and you don't want her to is no reason that you should abuse her by grabbing her by the head and throwing her forcibly from the nest or by ducking, her in a barrel of cold water. It is just as easy to break her desire to incubate by gentle treatment One of the best ways is to take a clean, dry coop with a bottom made of slab boards, having a tight roof to protect her from the rain. Feed her oats and raw potato cut into small bits and give her plenty of water, taking away all fattening food. A hen that is fat has more animal heat in her body and will be more inclined to become broody. Another plan is to confine her in a reasonably small coop in company with a vigorous cockerel for from four to five days. After a few days she can be let out early in the morn ing about the time the other fowls are coming off the roost. As soon as she forsakes the habit of going on the roost at night she will get ready to lay again. Above all things do not half kill a ben in order to cure her. Farmer'! Call. Fofihe Younger Children... THE BLUEBIRDS. Twos a tiny place where the bluebirds built A rift in the heart of a sturdy tree; But one was as snug as she could be, And one on a neighboring branch a-tilt Sang that hia heart was satisfied However the land might beckon. wide Caroled that well content was he! It was love and hope that had made the neat, Seeking and bringing with tireless wings Spoils of grasses and twigs and strings lo weave for the brooding mother-breast. It was love that hovered secure and warm And hope that twittered through shine and storm The secret of five little hidden things. They had no fear that a grief would come; They rocked with the breezes and heard the rain Beat on the leaves a low refrain Around the walls of their sheltered home. They had done no wrong and they feared 'no wrong; They had given the world their best a song, And they looked for good from the world sgain. But there's room and to spare where the bluebirds built Quiet and desolation there, And only a hush in the waiting air Where the lilt and laugh of the music split; Somewhere the stolen treasures are Hid by the hands that were raised to mar And two little heart-broken birds some where. Nannie Byrd Turner, in Youth's Com panion. THE DANGEROUS DOOR. Oh, Cousin Will, do tell us a story. There's Just time before the school bell rings." And Harry, Kate, Bob and little Peace crowded about their older cousin until he declared himself ready to do anything they wished. "Very well," said Cousin Will, "I will tell you about some dangerous doors I have seen." "Oh, that's good!" exclaimed Bob. "Were they all iron and heavy bars? and, If one passed in, did they shut and keep him there forever?" "No, the doors I mean are pink or scarlet, and, when they open, you can see a row of little servants standing all In white, and behind them is a little lady dressed in crimson." "What, that's splendid!" cried Kate, "I should like to go in myself." "Ah! it is what comes out of those doors that makes them so dangerous. They need a strong guard on each side, or else there is great trouble." "Why, what comes out?" said little Peace, with wondering eyes. "When the guards are away," said Cousin Will, "I have known some things to come out sharper than ar rows, and they make terrible wounds. Quite lately I saw two pretty little doors, and one opened and the little lady began to talk like this: 'What a stuck-up thing Lucy Waters is! and did you see that horrid dress made out of her sister's old one?' 'Oh, yes,' said the other little crim son lady from the other door, 'and what a turned-up nose she has!' Then poor Lucy, who was around the corner, ran home and cried all the evening." "I know what you mean," cried Kate, coloring. "Were you listen ing?" "O, you mean our mouths are doors?" exclaimed Harry, "and the crimson lady is Miss Tongue; but who are the guards, and where do they come from?" "You may ask the Great King. This IS what you must say, 'Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.' Then He will send Patience to stand on one side and Love on the other, and no unkind word "will dare come out" Southern Churchman. A SUCCESSFUL PREPOSITION. I was once a preposition, but I found that by taking different heads I could be various things more or less Interesting and agreeable. The first head I took made me something to lay on the floor, but after a time I decided that I would be trampled on no more, so I took off my new head. Although I did not want to wear this head, I put It away care fully on a shelf because I thought It might be useful some day. The sec ond head I took made me a grain, and I lived in daily fear of being eaten by a horse or made into a breakfast food. This fear finally in duced me to put my second head on the shelf beside the first My third venture in heads made me very com fortable, but at last I wearied of my condition, as I did nothing but occupy a chair all the time. Thus it came about that a third head went to the shelf. My fourth head made me an Irish boy, but as the state dt Ireland was enough to make any one commit suicide or perish in the attempt, the shelf soon held another object that might some time be useful. When I took a fifth head I became a kind of head covering. I soon concluded that one head covering was of very little use to an individual who changed the form of his pate so fre quently, and another head went to the shelf. My slith head made me somewhat gluttonous, and I gave that up for one that made me a small animal. I then lived in such fear of cats that I put a seventh head on the shelf, although there was nothing better to be bad at the time In the way of a bead than another the same as the sixth, that already reposed In the row with the others that had been discarded. After using my eighth head for a time, I found that excessive Indulgence In food was In juring my health and resolved to get along as well as I could With no head, hot the one I had always-had as a preposition. One day I climbed up to my shelf and settled myself com fortably beside the first head of the row. At last I bad found my true vocation In life, for I and my row of heads made something without which no living thing oou'd exist. New York Trlbune.- FA8T FRIENDS. A dog and a pigeon are the wonder of the village of Pennsgrove, N. J. The pigeon was left an egg orphan by the shooting of Its real mother, but Mrs. M found for It a haven of refuge under a bantam hen, which had the setting fidgets about that time. In due time the pigeon came forth, but It took a lot of care and attention to bring it up, tor the ban tam positively refused to have any thing further to do with her foster child when she discovered it could fly. The little pigeon cast about for a friend, and the family dog Just an ordinary dog looked kindly upon It One day the bantam hen savagely at tacked the pigeon, but the dog put himself between them and saved the Infant from a pecking. The pigeon knew from the moment that It had a friend, and from that day It never has had cause to change its opinion. Bird and beast have been almost insep arable. When the dog creeps Into the kitchen to lie by the stove, the pigeon finds Its way to accompany him, and, with one eye comically open, it roosts upon the dog's back like a winged sentinel. They eat out of the same trays, and drink out of the same founts. They take trips to gether into the woods, and while the pigeon can move much faster, It never leaves its shaggy companion. THE MAN IN THE PANSY. The Little Sister came In from the garden, her hands full of flowers, and begged her mamma for a story "a brand,-new one, mamma." So mam ma caught sight of a pansy among the flowers the Little Sister held, and this Is what she told the Little Sister: "In the middle of every pansy there lives a little old man. He must be a very cold little man, too, for he is always wrapped in' a little yellow blanket, and even then has to have an extra covering of velvet pansy leaves to keep him warm. And he Bits in the flower with only his head uncovered, so that he can see the world. "But the queerest thing about this little old man is that he always keeps his feet In a foot-tub. Such a funny little tub, too so long and narrow that you wonder how he manages to get his feet in It. He does, though, tor, when you pull the tub oft, there you will discover his two tiny feet, Just as real as can be." The next time you pick a pansy, see it you can find the man and his little foot-tub. A FLY SEE-SAW. Here Is an amusing little trick that you will find lots of fun: Stick a long lead pencil in the end of a spool of thread so that It will stand upright. Now get a piece of very stiff blotting paper and from It cut a strip two inches wide and about a foot long. In each end of this put a drop of molasses or syrup. Now balance the strip of blotting paper, with the syrup side up, on the point of the pencil. You should have two players, although one will do. Each player chooses an end of the paper. In a moment a fly will alight on one end, attracted by the syrup, and that end of the paper will go down a trifle. Then another fly will light on the other end, or per haps several will come there tor the sweets, and things will be reversed. As more flies come, alighting on the ends, the paper will lean first this way, then that, till it overbal ances and falls to the table. Then the player whose end grew so heavy as to cause the tumble wins. Good Literature. CHICKEN STEALING .RATTLER, Recently I lost seven of a brood of choice Plymouth Rock chicks. I was confident that neither cats nor other four legged thieves could reach the brood, so I kept a clost watch over the coop. One day last week I reached the place Just in time to find a big rattle snake stretched out on top of the screen in which the chickens were kept. The snake had a foot or more of his length pushed down through one of the segments of the screen, and already another chick had fall en prey to his appetite. The snake was despatched and measured more than tour feet. It had evidently taken up a resi dence in an old stone fence near the chicken yard, and every day or so crawled to the coop and selected a plump specimen of chick and crawled away with it. Correspondence Nash ville Banner. SOME QUEER BABY CARRIAGES. Gypsies carry their babies in old shawls slung over their shoulders and tied about the waist. North Ameri can Indians carry their babies on the backs of squaws cradle and all. But the Eskimo women of Labrador car ry their babies In their boots. These boots come up to the knee, and are tied at the top with a flap in front In these the little brown babies live and are happy. BUSINESS CURDS. JUSTICE OF THB PEACE, Pet.slon Attorney and Rear Estate Agent. JJAYMOND E. BROWN, . attorney at law, Brookvillh, Pa. (J. M. MCDONALD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Real estate scent, natenta secured, col lections made promptly. OSlc Id Syndicate building, Reynoldsrllle, Pa. gMITH M. McCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Nntarv nuhllc and real estate aaent, Col lections will race ve prompt attention. Office in the Beynoldsvllle Hardware Co. building, Main street ReynoldsTllle, Pa. QR. B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, Resident dentist. In the Hoover buildlai Mala street. Oentleness In operating. )R. L. L. MEANS, DENTIST, Office on second floor of tha First National bank building, Main street. DR. R- DeVERE KING, DENTIST, oftlce on second Boor of the Syndicate build Ing, Main street, tteynoldsTllle, Pa. HENRY PRIESTER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral cars. Main street. Beynoldsvllle, Pa, HUGHES & FLEMING. UNDERTAKING AND PICTURE FRAMING. Tha tJ. B. Burial League has been tested and found all right. Cheapest form of In surance. Secure a contract. Near Publla Fountain, Reynoldsvllte Pa. D. H. YOUNG, ARCHITECT Corner Grant and Ftfttt at., Reynolds- f llle. Pa. THB NATIONAL GAME. In Detroit Jennings Is regarded as the Napoleon of baseball. Lou Rltter bes been Brooklyn's mainstay behind the bat. Cleveland has several minor league first basemen in view for try-out The Cincinnati team has dropped thirty games this season by one run. Chesbro still has a thing or two tip his sleeve. Ask Mack and Jen nings. Pitcher Mullin, of Detroit, eats but two meals a day, but weighs 220 pounds. Alexander Shields, owner of Go Be tween and trainer ot Hermls, died of typhoid. Catcher Tom Madden, the New England recruit, has Joined the Bos ton team. Games with time limit attachments will be-tabooed by the Detroit Club In the future. " Charlie Wagner, of -the Boston Americans, seldom says a word while on the diamond. All the new recruits were taken with the Boston Nationals on their last Western trip. Dan Broutht.a. the Giants' scout, has his eye on pitcher Frank Reed, of the Albany Club. It Is something tor the Boston Na tionals to have landed two double headers th!s season. It may be accepted as a settled fact that Lajole will again manage In Cleveland next season. Ed Hanlon says that Duke" Far rell was the most valuable catcher In the business In his day. The Philadelphia Athletic Club has secured pitcher Charles Frits, the New Orleans Club's southpaw. Had the . Plttsburgs held on to Beaumont it would have meant at least eight more victories tor the Pir ates. SPORTING BREVITIES. Pennsylvania had an easy victory at football over North Carolina. . George Bonhag, the American champion, Is taking a short rest. Contests on land and on the sea now pale in Interest before those In tho air. "Jack" Johnson outfought "Sailor" Burke in their six round bout at Bridgeport, Conn. Major Del Mar trotted the fastest mile ot the year at Syracuse, turning the State Fair track in 2.04 Vi. The University of Pennsylvania track team has lost the services ot Guy Haskin, ' champion middle-distance runner. - Captain C. E. Ide, of the Yale Varsity eight, will not return to col lege this fall, having decided to enter Into a business enterprise in San Franciscc. Brown football candidates are to do their early practice on a farm be longing to an alumunus. Twenty men will report there and live under tents for a week. At the State Fair in Indianapolis, Kentucky Todd, owned by J. W. Johnson, of Boston, established a new world's record of 2.09 for three-year-old trotting stallions. The action of the committee of the Anglers' Club, ot New York, in limit ing a salmon rod to fifteen feet, in stead of eighteen, is regarded as an Important step toward breaking away from the style employed by English men. Two Massachusetts automobillsts have had not only their licensee to op- . erate cars revoked, but also the reg istrations of their machines. One was charged with reckless driving, and the other with driving while drunk. Walter Christie, hurt in an auto mobile accident In Pittsburg, an nounced that he would race no more. Man is said to be still the favorite tood of the Congo savages, avers the Louisville Courier-Journal, but Leo pold, ot Belgium, does not agree with tnem. It Is really a reflection upon Walt street, observes the Atlanta Journal, that prosecutions for criminal prac tices should produce a panic.
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