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Bellefonte, Pa., March 30, 1894,
THE CURTAIN.
BEFORE.
A thrill of rapturcus applause,
From every row ascending;
The actor gives a gracious pause,
I'o those before low bending;
Admired of all the ladies rae!
What compliments they u ter!
Ho many hesrts amid the fair
Are now set in a flutter?
The play goes on, the enrtain falls
Upon the act of sptendor;
Each heart emotional recalls
Its incidents so tender.
Oh sweet the glamor of the scene,
With nothing coarse to break it!
Imagination rules serene,
And fancy’s what we make it.
BEHIND.
The leading lady, jnst deceased,
Has go! a fit of langrter;
The leading man, from toil released,
A sandwich has sent after.
The pasteboard rocks are put aside,
The lovely sylphs are yawning.
The dancing girls in plain clothes hide,
No beaux around them fawning.
The funny men are scowling now,
And he who gold dust scattered
Upon the scene, with happy hrow,
Looks dole ful now and sha'tered.
And so it is throughout the days.
Of this ovr life uncertain.
To view it truly, von must gaze
On both sides of the curtain.
— Mark Meredith.
A AAI
A BERKSHIRE STORY.
It was away up in the Western
Massachuselts, just where the famous
‘old post road through the Berkshire
hills winds itself into New Ashford.
The black vanguard of an approach-
ing summer storm crept. along the val-
ley behind us, aud a few stray rain:
drops already warved that it was time
to seek for shelter. We turned in at
the open gate of the first farmyard,
and riding up to the vine covered
porch of the quaivtold house lifted our
wheels to protected spots at either side
of the paneled door. It may have been
presuming upon hospitality as yet un-
‘extended, but then no one stops at
such conventionality in the Berkshires,
and were we not in the Berkshires?
The storm burst, and we eat on the
porch besides our faithiul steel steeds,
watching the ciouds hurry by. the tall
trees bend in the eddying wind and the
cooling water fell to the thirsty earth,
Somehow the smoke ot our cigarettes
seemed strangely out of place in that
‘old-fashioned spot, and Harvey observ-
ed that be would teel more comlorta-
ble with an old brier pipe and a pack-
age of plug cut. A quiet half hour
slipped away, while the storm increas-
ed rather than diminished, and real
izing that we were to be weather bound
for a few bours at least the necessity
for a luncheon became apparent, and
Harvey arose to (he attack. Harvey
is an actor in season, aud what he bas
learned in the matter of picking up
meals on the western circus belps
him immedsureably in summer vaca-
tions. Repeated beating upon the door
failed, however, to elicit the slightest
response from the inmates, and my an
ticipatory dreams ot-a soit eyed, rustic
Ganymede went glocmily to preces.
“There must be a corpse in the
house,” remarked Harvey reassuring
ly, leaning upon his bicycle asd turn-
ing ou me a look of hungry resigua
tion. I was framing in my wind a
neat reply more sarcastic than .apros-
pos when the oaken door suddenly
opened inward, and ao extremely pret-
ty girl with long curly golden bair and
big blue eyes conlronted us, Burprise
was mutual, but she seemed the most
confused,
“Why, why,” she faltered, “I—I
thought to find one of the neighbors
but—but”’—- :
- “There is no cause for alarm,” in:
terrupted Harvey in the voice of his
most approved stage father. “We are
perfect gentlemen, although our ap-
pearance is adwittedly against us, We
took the liberty to use your porch as a
shield from the weather and trust that
we are not intruding.”
“Qh, no—no,” she answered confus-
edly. “You will excuse me. Dave
is burt. I must go for the doctor,”
and she ran by us and down the steps
into the rain, lilting ber calico skirt
juet high enough for us to see that her
pretty leet were but thinly covered
with light slippers. Harvey was at
her side in a instant.
“Pardon me,’ said he.
does the doctor live ?”
“Only a mile, or so,” she replied,
without stopping, “up the road.” (She
pronounced it rud,” but I am writing
this in Euoglish.) Harvey caught her
‘arm and pulled her back to the shel-
tering porch,
“But you must not run a mile or
80,” he cautioned, “in such a storm as
this, without hat, shawl or shoes. It
would kill you. I will go for the doc-
tor. My wheel moves faster than
your little feet.” The girl hesitated a
moment and then, as Harvey stood
ready to start away, thanked him
shortly and gave directions for finding
the doetor’s house.
“All right. Goodby,” he shouted,
leaping into the saddle. You take care
of Dave.”
“Oh, dear, I hope he'll hurry !” said
the girl, turning to me as Harvey shot
out on the road and sped away through
the mud and rain faster than he ever
run from the villain in the play. I
thought a reply unnecessary.
“Perhaps I might assist you,” I ven-
tured. “I am a bit of an amateur phy-
sician. May I see Dave?”
She led the way into the narrow
hallway, up the creaking staircase,
wall papered at the sides in imitation
of white marble, and into a stuffy little
chamber just under the dripping
eaves, A great, deep-chested, sun-
burned young fellow lay upon a tiny
iron bedstead, while one muscular leg
hung over the edge, shattered and
bleeding. Aon old woman with soft
gray hair and the eyes of the girl bent
above him and called his name again
and again in tones of the most piteous
tenderness. As we entered she turned
to my pretty guide, and regardless of a
strange presence, cried :
“He is dead,) Clemmie, dead! My |
Dave is dead !"” and fell at the side of
“Where
the little bed, sobbing and crying.
Tue girl quickly glided by me, and
placing her band upon the man’s chest
said quietly ;
“He is not dead—only unconscious.”
[ drew near and saw at once that ehe
was right. The limb had been injur-
ed in some farming accident and an
artery broken. I set about 10 stay the
flow of blood. The girl brought me a
bit of tape, and together we bound it
t ghtly about the bleeding limb, but it
was not strong enough, and the flow
was only decreased. I tore aslip from
the counterpane and wound it over the
tape, and this was a decided improve-
ment, Meanwhile the poor mother
had faioted of nervous exhaustion, and
‘the girl busied herself administering
restoratives. I was just beginning to
wish myself back on Park row when
Harvey's familiar voice resounded
through the house, and in avuother
minute he and the doctor, covered
head to loot with mud, were with me.
“Brought the doc along on my
coasters,” explained Harvey. ‘His
horse was too slow for the case.”
The doctor ordered the girl to re-
move her mother, and then with our
assistance set the broken bones, bound
up the lez and gave the patient a
slight injection of morphine, By this
time the old lady bad recovered and
was back again. The doctor reassur-
ed her in a few words and cautioned
against disturbing the sleeper.
“Let him sleep as long as he will,”
be said, “and I'll have him about in a
fortnight.”
“A fortnight !"’ exclaimed the moth-
er. “Why, vhat will become of the
farm ? He was getting in the hay
when the horse shied, and he went un-
der the rake and was hurt. We caa-
not do that work. Clemmie can only
look after the cows and chickens and
the garden, and I'm too frail to help
her. Oh, Dave, if we should lose you’
—turning to the bed—*it would be all
over with us.”
The alacrity with which Harvey
and I offered to remain on the scene
and play farmbands until Dave was
well wag, I thought, only equaled by
Clemmie's seconding of the proposition
and we staid.
Those three weeks—it was three be-
fore Dave could walk—were a beauti-
tul Arcadian dream—a breath of life
we had never known before. It was
all a novelty, all interest to us, and
Clemmie was a most excellent instruct:
ress in the gentle art of farming. Every
night when we had done milking the
cows, feeding and watering the stock
and all the hundred and other things
that rustics have to do, Harvey would
gay :
“There is no getting around it,
you've got to write & pastoral play for
me when we get where there are pen
and ink. It after this 1 can’t out.
Whitcomb Whitcomb and. out Prouty
Prouty I want to know why.” Audit
seemed like dropping the curtain on
the prettiest sort of a play when oue
sunny August morning we rolled our
wheels ont and poinied them for Pitte-
field. The trio of the old house stood
apon the quaint little porch and watch-
ed us oil up and make ready. Dave
was just abtleto be about and help
himeelf. There were tears in the old
mother’s eyes when she held our
hands and said :
“Goodby, my sons, and God be with
vou. Ycu have helped me save my
Dave, and he will bless you for it.
I've always heard that actors and
newspaper men were very bad indeed,
but I'll never believe it again. Good-
by.” And then Dave, on Clemmie's
arm, hobbled down to the old vine-
wound gate, and there we left them
standing in the shadow of the great
elm and » aving a parting that we had
promised should not be for long.
Neither ot us had much to say as
we glided along at the foot of the emer-
ald hills, and, for my part, tears would
have come easier than words,
“That was an odd remark of Clem-
mie’s this morning,” eaid Harvey at
length, “about losing a ring and mak-
ing us all swear to return it when
found.”
“I thought so atthe time,” I an-
swered.
Just then he dived into his coat
pocket, and, producing his cigarette
case, opened 1t with an exclamation of
surprise,
“What's wrong ?’ I queried, riding
alongside. In reply be beld out the
case, and there on the cigarettes lay
Clemmie’s little turquois ring.
“Shal! you keep your promise 2’ I
asked.
“Of course,” said he, tastening the
jewel securely to his waich chain.
“Qt course 1 will—but, say, you might
postpone writing that pastoral play for
me until I return the ring. There
may be a new suggestion for you.”
— George Taggard in The Journalist.
The Survival of Ear Wagging.
Darwin says that the ear-wagging
characteristic is the survival of a power
onee possessed in common by both men
and the lower animals, but he does not
even hint that the accidental crossing of
two muscles or cords and their subse-
quent adherence to each other in such a
manner as to wake the movement of
one impossible without that of the other
would orshould in any manner affect
the intellectual faculties or moral status
of their owner. Slater says that but
comparatively few persons possess the
power to wag the ears, but Prof. Aaron
bas proven that the majority of men
“will exhibit a slight instinctive move-
ment of the muscles of the ear’ if the re-
mark. “What was that noise ?’ is sud-
denly pronounced in their presence.
——Book agents are a much abused
class, but there are few occupations
which pay better, or furnish pleasanter
employment. P. W. Ziegler & Co., of
Philadelphia, one of the most reliable
houses in the business, are making liberal
ofters for agents. 1t will pay any one,
who would like to add something to his
income, to read their advertisement in
another column.
EC EER.
——More than half the English
clergy get no more than $750 a year.
New National Library.
Uncle Sam's Book Palace and Its Many Wonder-
ful Features.—Golden Dome and 1800 Win.
dows.— There Are Electric Lines for the Trans:
portation of Books.
'W AsHINGTON, Feb. 17.—T spent an
afternoon this week in going through
the new National Library buiiding. I
can’t begin to describe 1. It will be
the finest public building in the United
Suates, and it will be the most beautiful
livrary in the world. It covers nearly
four acres, and 1t is already under 100f.
Its walls are us high as thuse of the tall-
est New York flat, and you can lose
yourself in 11s long corridors and wind-
ing passages. It bus a dome plated
with the purest of gold, larger than the
largest circus tent, and the golden torch
flames over its top, though 1t looks not
bigger around than your fist as viewed
from the Capitol, 1s 1n reality as big as
a hogshead, und it may be seen from
lexandria and far down the Potomac.
This new library building is 8 work of
wonderful art. Its exterior is wade of
drab granite cut in pieces 80 smooth
that it looks like marble and ornament-
ed here and there with wonderful carv-
ings.
The building has about 1,800 win-
dows, and the four sides of the main
gallery have 83 great arches, the key-
stones of which ure images representing
the heads of ail the races of the world.
every type of man known to ethnology
bas a place in one of these arches, and
the taces are marvelous in their execu-
tion and character. Over the main en-
trance are the types of the highest order
of men, such as the Greek, the Latin
and the Saxon, while at the back of the
building you find the lowest types, such
as you find in Africa and the South Sea
Islands. I can’t describe the wonder-
ful execution of these figures. They are
the most lifelike pictures in stone I bave
ever seen, and they seem to almost talk
to you as their stern stony eyes look
down at you from over the windows.
AN IMMENSE GOLDEN DOME.
This building covers nearly as much
space as the Capitol. Its domeis not so
large, but its plate of gold makes it in
finitely more conspicuous. If you will
ake five city lots and carpet them with
24-carat gold you will geu an 1dea of the
golden quilt which covers this immense
dome. There 18 no room 1n the United
States so large that it would fit this
great golden carpet, and 1t is the largest
golden dome in tbe United States, It
nas been called the largest golden dome
in the world. But this is a mistake.
The dome of St. Isaac’s in St. Peters-
burg bas a smaller diameter, but it cov-
ers more space, and it cost infinitely
more than this. Ittook 200 pounds of
solid gold to cover it, and when you re-
member that gold at the mints 18 worth
$17 un ounce you will see that even at
that low rate the St. Petersburg dome
cos. $40,000 to gild.
The gold on the dome at Washington
did not cost one-tenth of that amount.
It was put on in little sheets, each of
which was about four inches square and
one one hundred and fifty-thousands of
an inch thick. Iv takes two-thousand
such sheets to make an ounce of gold,
and this amount will cover a space
about as large as that of the average
ball vestibule. The gold made in this
form cuss $27 an ounce, and at that
rate it must bave cost over $60,000 to
gild St. Isaac's. Russia bas many cath-
edral domes plated with gold, and the
gold plated temples of the world are
many.
A BASEMENT LIKE THE CATACOMBS.
I can’t describe the wonders of the
interior of the National Library. My
head buzzed aus I walked through the
many rooms and tried to understand it
all. You could lose yourself in its base-
ment as in the catacombs of Rome und
wonder for bours trying to find your
way out. The grand staircase, which
takes up a space equal almost to that of
a quarter of an acre, is to be finished in
white marble, and the great marble col-
umns which rise one above another sre
already in place and surrounded with
wouden boards to keep them from inju-
ry. The reading room will be in the
rotunda in the center of the building
and it will be covered with the dome.
This room will be as large as the rotun-
du of the Capitol and its area will be
about a quarter of an acre.
It will bave seats for 300 readers and
the desks of these run in concentric rows
around the central desk in which the
manager of the reading room will sit
and trom which he will have connec-
uons with all parts of the library by
pneumatic tubes or other modern 1nven-
tions, which will enable him to senda
message in the twinkling of an eye to
any part of this great bouk palace, and
by the touching of a button bring back
the book he wants. Electricity and
everything that the modern mind can
think of has come toaid in adding to
the conveniences of the library, and it is
now thought that an electric railroad
will be built to carry the books from the
old library of Congress to the Capitol
over to this new Luilding.
AN 1DEA OF THE SITUATION.
From the great central dome run out
like arms massive buildings in which
are to be housed our national library of
the future. These are knecwn as book
stacks, but the word conveys no idea of
their character. Imagine a great long
warehouse with glass walls as high as
one of the largest New York flats and
bundreds of feet in length. Let the
sides of these be walled with glass set in-
to square columns of white enameled
brick and have the plate glass wedged
into these columns without framework
us is the case in windows. Make the
interior to consist of one mass of iron
network running from the floor to the
roof, so that when you stand within it
you see nothing but iron frames rising
one above the other and filling the
whole vast high room.
This may give you some idea of the
book stack. The iron network consists
of book shelves, and these are reached
by stairs which run from one tier of
iron to another and by walks of iron
paved with marble, which are suspend-|
ed between the tiers at regular intervals
from the floor to the roof. There ard
several of these vast book warehouses in
the building. The one I have just de:
seribed will contain 800,000 books, ot
more than are now in the National
Library. The walls of glass give per
fect light and the hooks are so arranged
that the greatest number can be packed
into the smallest compass, making every
pamphlet thoroughly accessible.
THE BUILDING T0 cost $6,000,000.
I buve spoken of the 1.800 windows
of ibis building. These of the interior
avd of these stacks are set into the walls,
great, mussive pieces of plate gluss, #8
It is
pot possible to raise or Jower them, and
they are made so for the protection of
the books, in order that no dews may
The venullation 1s ail done {rom
the roof, and these windows are washed
¢n the outside by means ofa little rail-
them from
story to story, on which the washers can
The acres
of floor in this great book palace wili be
The walls of the rotunda
are of colored marbles from all parts of
the United States, and in the whole
vast, high, four acres of wonderful rooms |
pot a splinter of wood has been used.
All is composed of iron, stone, cement
and glass, and, as Mr. Green, the en-
gineer in charge, told me, there will not
be enough wood in the building when 1t
jarge as goud-sized store fronts.
enter.
road which ups arcund
stand and scrub them clean.
of marble.
is completed to make a match.
This building is to cost $6,000 0CO.
The State, War and Navy cost $10,000,
000, and upon the Capitol has been ex-
pended, all told, something lke $18,
000,000. Uncie Sam will get more for his
money out of this than out of either of
All the work is being done
under the Government, and evervthing
is built to outlast the ages, and of the
very best material. In one of the rcoms
I found an army of carvers at work
making wonderful decorations which
are to adorn the exterior, and through-
out the whole building everything went
on like the work o1 an army under per-
The
building will be completed in about two
years, and within two years and a half
the new library will be in thorough op-
the others.
fect control and in perfect order.
eration.
A CHAT WITH LIBRARIAN SPOFFORD.
From here I walked over to the Capi-
tol and took a stroll through the hbrary
Every available room in
the building is packed with books, and
the library proper is so full that you
have to march through single file in order
of Congress.
Coxey's Men March To-day.
A Pittsburg Alderman Enlisting a Troop of
Cavalry.
Mussion, O., Mareh 24.
Nearly a hundred recruits tor Cox-
ey’s Army oi the Commonweal Lave
arrived during ibe day trom dificrennt
pointe. Most of them are tramps, who
camped in the woods surrounding the
town during the night, A number ol
them slept in the lockup, but were re-
leased this morning. Awmong the arri-
vals is Douglass M, McCallum, repre-
genting Mrs, Leave, who asked permis
gion to have her address the army at
Pitsburg, which Coxey refused, Hen
ry Vincent, editor of the Chicago Eur-
press, eon of Henry Vincent win was
associated with John Brown in the uu-
derground railway movement, also ar
rived this morning, and will marshal
one wing of the army.
Coxey received letters and telegrams
from nearly a hundred people this
morning, who assured him that
- | they were en route or on the march Lo
Masillon with wagons, provisions and
- ‘money. It is now estimated that Cox
ey will start from Masilion with every-
where from one to five huauiived follow-
ers. Most of those now here to join
the movement are hard looking peovle,
but up to the present time have shown
no dir position to be unruly.
Coxey ard his lieutenants are elated,
and declare they will have 10,000 nen
in line when the word “Forward” is
given, at 2 p. m. to-morrow. Balle
uns and orders are being issued from
army headquarters almost hourly, and
great excitement prevails.
DIVISION COMMANDER BROWN,
The most cheering of all Coxey’s let-
ters so lar came trom J. Brown, of
Piusburg, who declared that three-
fourths of the people of that large
town were ready 10 join the Common
weal Army. Brown concinded his let-
ter as follows : **Lead your men like
a new Joshua, and go ahead as if God
to get from one part of it to the otheririg with you, and who shall dare be
I pushed my way past a mountain of
bound newspapers up to the main desk,
and asked Mr, Spotford, the librarian,
to tell me something about the condition
of the library to-day, and as to how the
great American brain was acting. Ev-
one at Washington knows Mr.
Spofford. He has been with the library
and be
knows more about books and their con-
tents than any other man in the United
ery
for more than a generation,
States.
«It will be one of the finest libraries
of the world, ard it will be as perfact as
modern invention and modern science
The three great enemies
As
to heat and fire, we bave prevented this
by putting the heating arrangements
away from the main structure and there
will be no possible chance for anything
There will be nothing in
the building ttat would burn except the
books, and I hope to have the heat so
can make it.
of books are dust heat and moisture.
to catch fire.
arranged that the whole building wil
never be at a higher temperature than
68. The windows areso fixed that the
It isst.
park end surrounded by
streets which are not much used. The
windows, save those of the top, will nev-
er be opened, and it will be one of the
As to
moisture, we wentdown 50 feet to get
order that there
might be no dsnmpness connected with
and our heating arrangements
are such that there will be no possible
Another
great advantage will be the having of
all the work connected with the library
under one roof. As it is now wesend
valuable books every day from here to
the Government Printing Office to be
bound. The danger of lossis in many
ways great, and 1 tremble when I let
building will be dust proof.
uated in a
cleanest buildings in the world.
the foundations in
them,
from
danger dampness.
them go.”
May Be Ruined.
Unless the Leader of the Commonwealth Army
Can Raise $24,000 This Week He Will Go Un-
der.
NEw York, March 25.—A epecial
to & morning paper from Massillon, O.
signed by Hugh O'Donnell, the labor
“Unless Coxey can maun-
age to raise $24.000 by next Wednes-
leader says:
day he is probably a ruined man.”
He still ownes that amount on the
celebrated stallion Acolyte, and the
former owner o! the horse, Colonel
James E. Pepper, the well known
whisky man and stock raiser, of Ken-
tacky, holds a mortgage on the horse
and other property of Coxey to protect
that amount. Coxey purchased the
stallion for $40,000 and gave notes for
He paid off $16.000
aod owes $24,000. The former owner
alarmed by the reports of Coxey’s in-
gane movement sent his son here this
week to take a survey of the situation.
The result is that attorneys were in-
structed to proceed againet Coxey to
day, but after a long conference, it was
agreed to give the president ot the
Good Roads association until Wednes-
that amount.
day to settle.
This is very likely but the beginning
of the end. Coxey’s entire property is
heavily mortgaged and this move of
the Peppers, it is thought, is calcula-
“ted to start up his other creditors, and
if they come in force Coxey is done
fore, as his first wife predicted, and 8s
t
remains to be seen whether Coxey will
desert the army at Alliance on Tuesday
evening and burry back to protect his
material interests or remain with the
army and let his property be gobbled
bis second wife feared he would be.
up.
A Revised Version.
It happened in Sunday-school. The
subject under discussion was Solomon
A little girl was
asked to tell the story of Solomon and
the women who disputed the possession
of a child. She timidly rose up and an-
“Solomon was a very wise
One day two women went to
him quarrelling about a baby. One
woman said, ‘This is my child,” and the
and bis wisdom.
swered :
man.
other woman said, ‘No, this is my child.
But Solomon spoke up and said :
Magazine.
‘No,
no, ladies ; do not quarrel. Give me my
sword and I will make twins of him, so
each of you can have one!”’—Harper’s
against you?"
“That man,” said Marshal Browne,
“must be placed in command of a di-
vision as soon as he joins the army.
He is of the right sort.”
Frank Evax, of Clearfield, has made
formal application for a job as chap
lain of the army. He writes that he is
a member of the Salvation Army.
I'wo recruits (rom Media, Ohio., ar-
rived this morning aud state that their
commune ot 150 men will be in by eve-
ing. Captain Fitler, of the Salvation
Army, confirms the report that Cleve-
Jand members of the Army are on
their way here. Incoming freight
trains, east-hound, had many free **pas-
gengers’’ to-day. One train had 25 of
this class on board. The railroad peo-
ple seem to be unable to cope with
them, but are taking all possible meas
ures for protection.
| A PITTSBURG CAVALRY TROOP.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 24.—Alder-
ma « McNierney, Major Thomas Cur-
ley, of the Keystone Bridge Company ;
John J. Rogers and Captain Joho
Conley, well-known and well to-do citi
zens of the Eighteenth ward, Pittsburg,
are actively engaged and desperately in
earnest in organizing a cavalry troop
to join with Coxey’s Army ot Peace in
ite march to Washington. At ncon to-
day the names of 75 volunteers were
on the list. Alderman McNierny,
who is at the head of the orgamzation,
says that hv Wednesday he will have
at least 200 members in his troop.
Among those who have already joined
are men of means and influence who
occupy prominent positions in busi-
ness.
RIDICULE FROM THE CAPITOL.
Washington, D C., March 24.—
Notting but ridicule is heard in re-
gard to the Coxey movement among
well-informed persons here. The gen-
eral opinion ot Congressmen and others
was expressed by Representative Dal-
zell, of Pennsylvania, to-day, who said:
“No party is at the bottom of ir,
and it would bave fallen long ago if it
had not been heralded in the press.”
There is not the remotest prospect of
any Congressional action to graot a
permit for any mob to assemble in the
Capitol grounds in violation of a spe-
cific act of Congress. The police are
keeping a close watch upon certain
persous here, who claim to be Coxey’s
lieut+nants and to be actively partici-
pating in the movement. At'the first
overt act which can be taken advan.
tage of, the vagrant laws of the Dis-
trict will be put into operation.
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EA RA TS
. Paper Hanger's Pastes.
The foundation of good paste is good
flour. The best wheat flour 18 the cheap-
est in the end, as it goes farther and
works smoother.
To make a bucket of paste—Take
about four pounds softsifted wheat flour
and stir in enough luke-warm water to
make a stiff batter. Keep on stirnng
until lumps disappear and the batter 1s
smooth. Then pourin boiling hot wa-
ter briskly until the batter swells and
has a cooked appearance. When ready
to use thin down with cold water it can
be spread on the paper easily.
Some paper hungers add about two
ounces of powered alum, but do not use
alum in paste when made for felts or
solid gold grounds.
To make rye flour paste—Mix enough
sifted rye flour with cold water to get
the consistency of cream. Stir until all
lumps disappear, then place on a fire to
toil. Keep stirring until it thickens
and becomes yellowish in color. When
cool add enough cold water until quite
thin. Do not use until cold.
Sizing—To make a strong size for
rough walls, dissolve one pound of good
ground glue toa bucket of hot water.
Stir and use while warm. Apply with
an old paste brush or whitewash brush.
For ordinary sizing on new walls and
walls that have been papered, one-half
pound of glue to a bucket of water will
be sufficient.
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— “We have all used Hood’s Sar-
saparilla to, purify the blood and think
it is an excellent medicine.” —Harry
Clevenstine, Hublersburg Pa. 89-18-2t.
For and About Women.
1 he bride ot this season will choose
for fier going away gown one strictly
Lalor nade, ol Cheviot, serge, or canvas
weave, Daviig a cul-away or olher cont,
witli ves: 8 aud shirt waists w make
tiem eon forindls no the varied temper.
wiutes el do ber journey. Her church
and calling gown wil be of tan or green
Crepon or ol the new nyuacioth vlue that
is almost violet, and rhe will add a
preity atfela tor afternoons, and one of
toe oli-uime French cashmeres in datk
viue lor morning and shopping to al-
wrnnw with ber tailor gown. Preity
ititie voleros will be made as part of
these dresses, or else separately to wear
a- a jacket with ail of them, and a short
coliew wiil be provided of cloth or moire
with luce trimmings.
The smart English walking hats and
Russian turbans ure suitable for brides
wo wear on the wedding journey and in
mornings tuereafter. L'o these may be
added a larger hat of fancy straw for
atternoon drives, and a small bonnet,
ipade mostly of a ribbon bow, towers,
and an aigrette, for calling and formal
occasions,
In women’s umbrellas biack is fast
disappearing, giving place to colors, and
changeable ones at vbut! When first
Lacy Lezsn Lo come In they were prealc-
wd a lad, but that is proved an error;
and red, blue, green and brown are sta-
pie colors for umorelius, and no one
need fear gelling one on the score that
next season 1t will be passe. It two
toes are in au umbrella— which is one
of Lhe smart styles—one is usually black
and that is the only appearance ot the
lawter save for mourning. The latest
color 1s green —a dark soade, let it be
undersivod ; none of them are brilliant
w any degree, and a shade of brown
dubbed ‘“‘tobaccu’ 18 quite one of the
most euie. Suitability and the general
fitness of things have led wo the umbrel-
lus with handles that have some refer-
ence the shade of silk. A green no
longer is topped with a sky-blus kaob
or sume other glaring 10conZruity.
Where it 1s impossible to match the cols
ois they at least blend.
Isu’t ita pity that so many elderly
women will pesist in wearing round
hats? Nowhere does advancing age
show wore plainly than in the curve of
ihe cheek and neck thai 1s so charming
10 youth, so unattractive in later hfe.
The teil-tale line 1s shaded by tue Kind
ly bounet strings, aod some women rec=
ugnize this and take advantage ot it.
Many others continue on their way, gor-
geous to oehold, in Gainsborough hats
that would be quite appropriate in wom-
en ten or fifteen years une juniors of the
well sauislied wearers. And the worst
of 1018 that there’s absolutely no help
forit. You may tell a woman tbat her
husband drinks, ber sun bets and her
daughter flirts, that she herself is ex-
travagant or bas the reputation of veing
an atheist, a cc quette, or a blue stocking
without sericusiy affecting her equanime
ity. But as you value ber goud will
never dare to hint that she wears a hat
00 youthful for a matron of her years,
Tosweeten the breath, use a tooth
powder which contains orris root.
Worry is a curse and a source of un-
told evils. Lt sens the face with lines
and furrows, und has a most depressing
effect upon that hyper-sensitive organ,
the stomach, which at such times be-
comes a most unwilling and laggard
servant,
unless encouraged by a cheerful temper
and bright or at least hopeful thoughts,
the stomach will play truant and do no
work which it can shirk. The physio-
logical explanation of this is the close
alliance of tbe great : ympathelic nerves,
which are worse than the telegraph for
carrying bad news ; the worry and anx-
ety which depress the brain produce
simultaneously a semi-paralysis of the
nerves of the stomach, gastric juices will
not flow and presto! there is indiges-
tion.
One sign of mental health is serenity
of temper and aself control that enables
us to bear with equanimity and unruf-
fled temper the petty trials and jars of
life, especially those arising frown contact
with scolding, irasci’ le, irritating folk.
It is well to remember at such times,
that these unfortunates are their worst
enewies, and a cultivation of the art of
not hearing will help us very much.
Its a very useful art all through hfe
and well worth the trouble to acquire.
art
Blazers and double-breasted Eton
jackets of heavy pique, Holland, duck,
etc., will be muen worn this summer.
Pearl buttons and stitched edges are the
only trimming, and a necessary part of
the costume is a double-breasted vest,
tailor-made shirt or regular shirt waist.
With the advent of the draped skirt
for day dresses, “combination” costumes
are sure to come in. the favorite mat-
erial for the underdress is likely to be
black moire antique, while the draped
overskirt will in most cases be of pule-
toned cloth. Green is decidedly to be
the leading color this spring. At the
same time, there 1s undoubtedly a dis-
tinct partiality shown for brignt shades
of blue.
Buckles of all kinds, particularly the
narrow ones of rhinestones and cut steel
seem to be very numerous on every-
thing, from little bonnets to large hats.
Little pink, blue or white sunbonnets
will be the correct thing for little maids
this summer. They will be made just
like ‘the larger article of that name, but
of finer material. Some may be trim-
med with embroidery or narrow lace,
and tied with soft silk ties, but most of
them will be plain and untrimmed.
nn
There is only one woman in Ken-
tucky who has authority to officiate at
a wedding in a clerical capacity. Her
name is Munns and she is a licensed
Baptist preacher.
Brown must have been invented es-
pecially for the blonds. A knot of pale
golden hair, beneath a brown velvet hat
and a fair face above a close brown cos=-
tume, make an artistic heart rejoice.
Why don’t they wear brown more than
they do?
Indeed, it 1s safe tosay that
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