Bellefon
IGNORANCE CALLED DOWN.
Perhaps some sage can tell me, for, indeed,
I'd like to know,
The secret of the titles that I hear where’er I
0,
There's ‘Brown , who studied medicine, attain-
ing some renown,
Whose wife I hear referred to now as “Mrs.
Dr. Brown,”
What reason for the custom can the wise ones
give to me ?
Why not is well refer to her as “Mrs. Brown,
M.D
Because O'Shea ison the bench why should
we always say,
In speaking of his charming wife : “There's
Mrs. Judge O'Shea 7”
Is she a judge by marriage ? Was she wedded
to the court ?
There would be scme gced reason why the
title she should sport, :
1f one should wed a justice, pray advise me,
would she be . '
Entitled to be known by allas “Mrs. Jones
.PY*
If not, what reason con we give for speaking-
ing as we do :
Of “Mrs. Major Cannonball,” or “Mrs. Bishop
Do tiiles go to families for the use of ev'ry
one ?
And if they do, why aren't they used by
daughter and by son ? :
At least let's be consistent in the things we
try to do.
—Chicago Post.
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A VICTIM OF CHANCE.
The Strange Adventure That Befell Somme Young
People in New York.
~ The young members of the Rewing-
ton family were in New York on one
of their semi-anuual visits. They bad
been there nearly two weeks, and were
now finishing the last odds and ends
of shopping and eight-seeing on this
delightful October afternoon, prepara.
tory to leaving for home the next
day. ;
They were walking slowly along
Sixth avenue, searching for a certain
place where hot-poker drawing mater-
1ale were sold, and had paused in
front of the right number in the crowd-
ed street—for they found that the
salesroom was on the second floor of
the building.
“Don’t go with me,” said Bess, the
eldest of the three. “If you will wait
here I shall be back directly I—oh,
look there! See that man? What is
he trying to do 2”
Jack and Fan turned just in time to
see a man—a young Italian of delicate
appearance—reach up his hand to feel
the texture of a heavy wool jacket that
hung, exposed for sale, from a line
stretobed across the sidewalk above his
head. After he hadapparently satisfied
his curiosity asto the quality of the
garment, he attempted to let it go, but
—as Jack expreseed what followed—it
slipped its mooring, and fell plump
upon his head and shoulders.
His actions showed plainly that he
feared some one would suspect that he
wasitrying to steal the jacket, and after
geveral unsuccessful attempts to re-
place it, he stoed bewildered, still
holding it in his hands.
“Why doesn’t he drop it?’ ex-
claimed Jack, impatiently. “The
goose! They will be out like bees
trom a hive if they see him holding it
like that.”
They all stood for an instant watch-
ing hit, then, as he started toward
the door of the shop, with the evident
intention of taking it inside, Bess went
on up the stair-case, leaving Jack and
Faun in the street.
“Awkward situation for the fellow,”
added Jack, as the Italian again paus
ed, confused as to which shop the jack-
et belonged. “Perhaps he can’t speak
English, either.”
As Jack uttered these words, out
from the shop rushed two clerks and a
brawny porter; and before the unfor-
tunate man could realize what had
happened, he found himself held fast
by the arms. A crowd of people
quickly coilected ; among them a
policeman, who unceremoniously el-
bowed his way up to the group, and
exclaimed grufily :
“An, ha, my fine feller! We've
caught you at last! You weren't
quick enough this time, you see. Come
along now, you dago !"”
. The foreigner, unable to speak
word of English, or to explain the sit-
uation, stood gesticulating . wil al
most frantic with distress, stj
the garment in his hand
“Oh, Jack!” whispered Fan, in a
distressed voice, “‘we ought to go to his
rescue, but then if we do we shall get
into such a sbarl! Bess will never
forgive us if we let him be arrested,
but ; dear! Lets go away. I
don’t’'want to be mixed up in a street
An
“Nor I,” said Jack. “We're timed
to leave the city to-morrow, and how
can we bother about this matter ? Too
bad for the fellow, but we can't stop
over to appear as witnesses. He will
explain it all when he finds an inter
preter, and get himeelf out of the
scrape eome way. You can see that
the officer is set upon arresting him,
and if we interfere we may have tostay
here several days before he will be
tried. That we can’t do. Oh, he
must take his chances, like the rest of
us—that’s all 1”
Bo, together they slowly mounted
the long staircase to wait in the hall
until Bess should reappear. Fifteen
minutes went by before she joined
them, and by that time the slight rip-
ple of excitement which for a few mo-
ments had disturbed the every-day bus.
tle of the street below, bad entirely
. subeided, leaving no trace visible.
Jack and Fan breathed more freely
when they had paesed the shop, for
Bess, whose mind was just then full of
other thoughts, made no allusion to
the incident ; and they both. hoped, to
their unspoken, relief, that she had
quite forgotten it.
Indeed, it was not until the three
were in the rooms that evening busily
packing their trunks with their new
purchaees, that Bess said suddenly :
“Why, there! I intended to ask
you if soy harm came to that Italien
after I went up stairs, Did he take
the coat in, all right
’
Jack and Fan were silent. Bess
looked up in surprise.
“Did be get into any trouble ?”’ she
asked, speaking a little sharply, and
rising as she spoke. :
Jack sprung from the big rocking:
chair in which he had been lounging,
lazily watching his sisters, and walked
to the window his back turaed, to look |
out upon the moonlit street.
“What if he did?” he mattered,
sulkily, childishly resenting Bess’s un-
intentional abruptness. “I really don’t
know that we“are responsible to you—
or to anyone else—if anything happen-
ed to him.” :
“To your own conscience and sense
of humanity, if you allow that inno-
cent man (o be arrested without inter-
fer to help him. Tell me about it
please.” ;
Bess went to ber brother, and put
both hands garessingly upon his
shoulders.”
“Tell me, please, I'm sorry I spoke
so sharply, but it was such a surprise.
That was the reason. We are too good
friends, brother mine, aren’t we, now,
to let anything like that come between
us ?”
“Go ahead, Fan ; if you like,” said
Jack,only half mollified. “We may
as well be hanged for a sheep as a
lamb. Tell her the whole story.”
Bess listened quietly to the account,
and then turned again to her broth-
er.
“Will you go down,” she said “with
me to that shop to-night te find out
where he was taken ? It seems to me
as though we ought to go at once.”
“Why, yes,” said Jack, leaving his
poet at the window, and entering into
the affair with more interest at the
prospect of a tour of discovery.
“That's an idea! Suppose we asked
Mr. Dartmouth to go with us !”
“Best suggestion of all I" exclaimed
Bess. “Wiil you ask him ? He is in
his room, I think, and I feel quite sure
that he will go, for he is always ready
to do a good turn, and he speaks Ital-
ian like a native.
Jack left the room in search of Mr.
Dartmouth, who was an elderly law-
yer, an intimate friend of the Reming:
ton family, and whose home was in the
boarding-house in which they were
staying. It was some time before
Jack returned, but finally a rap at
their door announced that he had
come. :
“He'll go I" he cried, as he entered
the room. “Come on ; he’s downstairs
in the hall, waiting.”
An hour later, Mr. Dartmouth and
his young friends descended from the
elevated road in the vicinity of the af-
ternoon’s adventure, and went directly
to the street where the incident had
happened. The shop was closed but
to their great relief, they met, almost
upon the very spot, a huge policeman,
sauntering idly along, jeuntily swing-
ing his club as he walked.
Mr. Dartmouth told him of the oc:
currence, and of the hope they had of
being able, through bim, to learn
where the man had been taken. The
officer listened in silence—thoughtfully
tapping his white-gloved hands togeth-
er,
“I believe I knows the felly, sir. 1
geen number two hundred an’ wan
a turnin’ in of a Ogytalian. Thry the
station beyant, sir—the wan wid the
horses stan’in’ forenist. It might be
he’s down there.”
Thanking him for the possible clue,
they hurried along to the building
‘foreninst the horses.” Ascending the
broad granite steps, they entered a
long hall, which echoed noisily with
i the heavy tread of a squad of police,
who, marching two,by two under the
leadership of a superior in rank, were
just starting out soon to separate, each
Av an open door, which led in
large room, where a number
duty men were lounging abo
quired the way to the majn” office, and
were directed to the edd of the hall.
Here they found arge room, with
two heavily barred windows in the
rear. It wagdivided by a partition of
t ire’netting into two parts, the
of the partition being used
sergeant’s public office. In the
ting were two openings, one giving
access to a desk, the other to a large
door now closed, through which all
must pass, if they wished to reach the
inner office.
The young people shrunk instine-
tively as they caught sight of dozens
of heavy steel fetters and hand-cuffs
hanging upon hooks screwed into the
yellow tinted wall, but the pleasant
face of the sergeant, as he politely
turned to inquire their business, partly
restored their courage.
“Oh I” whispered Fan, drawing
close to Bess. ‘Isn't this dreadful ! I
feel as though I had been doing some-
thing wrong myself, and were going to
be put into prison.”
“Just think of that poor man !”
whispered her sister in answer.
The sergeant listened to their story,
and then turned to a subordinate, who
stood near, saying :
“Brown, let these visitors have a
look at that Italian. The one that
was brought in by Kerry for coat-steal-
ing. It's the little man—the one that
cried so hard.”
Brown came forward, and threw
back the wire-screen gateway. He
then took a key from a hook and in-
serted it into the lock of an enormous:
heavy iron door thickly studded with
big steel bolts. This second door led
into the waiting-rooms, where the pris
oners arrested during the day was con-
‘fined until they were brought out for
trial and conviction or release, as the
case might be,
Ag they descended the cold stone
steps, the girls could hardly resist the
place ; but the door was now locked
behind thew, and, for the time being
they were as closly imprisoned as were
the poor wretches who lay about upon
the hard floor, or were stretched un-
comfortably upon the wide bench built |
along one side of the apartment. |
“This way, please,” said the police- '
man, threading his way among the
prisoners. “We had to put him into
tor his nightly beat.
impulse to turn and run away from |
a cage by himself, he got so wild.
There was a fellow here who could
talk his lingo, and he says the man
swears he’s innocent—but, sir—they’re
all that!” :
At one end of the room was a row
of cells, or cages, made of heavy iron
bars. As the officer paused, a low
as though the human heart, from
which it was wrung, was quite worn
out with anguish. In one corner was
a dark heap, but it remained motion-
less, until a sharp command caused a
moment.
The officer snaped his fingers, and
the figure arose, and came slowly to-
wards the visitors. The full glare
from a gas-jet fell upon his face, and
Bess and Jack and Fan instantly rec-
ognized the Italian.
He looked listlessly at them until
Mr. Darthmouth spoke a few words in
+his native tongue—then the change
was startling. With a loud ery of joy,
almost fierce in its intensity, the pris-
oner clung to the iron bars, chattering
a stream of Italian to his newly-found
friend.
The girls could see that Mr. Dart
mouth was explaining to him their
connection with his misfortunes, and
as his quick, excitable brain grasped
the situation, he seemed quite in dan-
ger of losing his wits over the unex-
pected hope of rescue. He thrust both
arms between the bars, the slender
brown fingers trembling convulsively
a8 he attempted to seize the hands of
his benefactors in his delirious joy.
Then, as they drew back beyond his
reach, at the advice of the officer, he
stood for an instant motionless as a
statue—then fell unconscious upon the
floor of the cell.
“Oh. Fan!” gasped Bess, as the
tears poured down her face, so unac-
customed was she to human suffering ;
all this might have been avoided !"
Don’t Bess, don’t! I can’t forgive
myself. Come, let's go away,” cried
Fan.
“Better take the visitors back to the
office, sir,” said the policeman, as he
dashed a jug of cold water through the
bars upon the prostrate figure. “These
are not fit sights for them.”
Mr. Dartmouth escorted them back
to: the main office, leaving the two
girls under the care of the sergeant,
and then, with Jack, he returned to
gee what could be done for the unfortu-
nate man.
“Don’t be alarmed ladies,” said the
sergeant, as he placed chairs for
them ; *he’ll come around all right,
for it takes more than a little thing
like this to kill one of those fellows.
He will be released to-morrow, just as
soon as we can hear from the shop:
keeper. If you can satisfy them that
he is not guilty, they won't bother to
push the case any further.”
After an early breakfast the follow-
ing morning the Remingtons and Mr.
Dartmouth started for the scene of the
precéeding day’s experience. As they
stopped in front of the shop where
misery—the ' woolen jacket—again
swung idly from the cord, Mr. Dart-
mouth glanced quickly at the sign that
bore the firm's name:
“Doeppelschlager & Ershalpf,” he
said: “Oh, we'll not have any trouble
bere! These men were clients of mine
in my former law-practicing days. I
once won an important suit for them
and they are my friends, of course.
Come! We'll go at ouce.”
At that early hour—for it was only
9 o'clock, there were but a few custom-
ers in the shop, and the proprietors
came quickly forward to greet Mr.
Dartmouth, whom they instantly rec-
ognized, with true German effusion.
| - He returned their salutations with
all courtesy, and then stated the busi-
ness on which he and his friends had
come. At the reference to the suppos-
ed thief, the face of Mr. Doeppeischla-
ger changed noticeably.
“I shode be ouhabby,” he said, “to
make dese young ladees any anxshus-
ness, bote we haf bin mooch tried a
long time mit dose stealers. Dey dakes
all tings, und we not able to” kadsh
dem ontil yes'd’y. Ts dese ladees sll
sure dose feller no stealer
“They can swear to it,” replied Mr.
Dartmouth witb decision, “and their
brother was another witness. You
have the jacket—so that there has
been mo loss to you. It was a case of
circumstantial evidence. I have tali-
ed with the man, and I believe him to
be innocent. Very likely there are
many sneak-thieves about. here, but,
gentlemen, I am willing to be responsi-
ble for this man. Will you let him
go ”
“So ?" eaid Mr. Doeppelschiager.
*‘So," replied Mr. Ershalpf.
They then turned with smiling faces
to the girls.
“He shall go mit you!” they ex-
claimed. “We shall haf Mister
Abrams dake a brief—a letter—dese
moments—und der boliceman will let
him go w'er you weesh.”
The girls were so overjoyed at the
success of their visit that they thanked
the two fat Germans with tears in their
eyes, and soon after, with the addition
of Mr. Abrams to their number, they
hastened to the police station.
They went up to the desk and pre-
sented the letter to the sergeant, who
smiled cordially when he saw the re-
sults of their efforts.
“That's capital,” he said, “for it
saves delay. Brown, get that Italian,
and bring him here. The prosecution
i8 withdrawn, and he is at liberty.
Bess and Fan awaited with breath-
less eagerness the return of the officer,
and even Mr. Dartmouth, accustomed
as be nad been in days gone by, to hu-
man misery in every form, shared
their interest.
Presently the policeman and the
{talian entered the main office. The
latter looked as though he were dazed
by his sudden release. Then, as he
gradually understood that he was
again at liberty to go when and where
he likely, he fell to weeping as help-
lessly as any sensitive woman, i
“Queer now, how that fellow’s eyes
run,” meditated the sergeant aloud.
“Perhaps he may not bea common
| moaning was heard—very faint now, |
that. unconscious cause of so much |
lot, after all. Guess he’s down on his
luck, as they say."
At that moment several other priso-
vers were brought in, and Mr. Dart-
mouth and his companions, biddin
the sergeant aud Mr. Abrams go
morning, left the station-house follow-
ed by the now happy Italian.
was a wood-carver, and Mr. Dart.
mouth, having obtained his address,
promised to get him a place he knew
of. Fa
“1 say, Bess,” said Jack, shortly af
ter their train had left the station,
“I'm awfully ashamed of the way I
treated that Italian yesterday. If I
had spoken at the time, he'd have been
saved the night in the station-house.”
“Oh, never mind, Jack,” answered
Bees, with a smile, “it’s all right now.
Besides, Mr. Dartmouth is going to be
his friend. and that wouldn't have hap-
pened, you know, if the poor fellow
had not been arrested. It's strange
how things turn out, isn’t it?"'—E. §
Traymore.
RS EE REESE SRE
. A Great Feat in Engineering.
One of the greatest engineering feats
of modern times is the construction of
the wonderful jetties built to secure
deep water for ocean steamers in the
bay of Galveston.
From 1870 until four years ago the
United States Government has been let-
ting contracts intermitfently for this
work. Each appropriation would be
something like $100,000.
In 1891 Uncle Sam took the bit in
his teeth and entered into a contract for
$6,260,000 of work. The contractors
have already expended about $4,000,000
and they say will require $1,800,000,
more.
There are two jetties, known as the
north and the south jetty. The south
jetty begins at the narth end of Gal-
veston Island, and runs in a northeast-
erly direction 32,800 feet, or 6.2 miles.
When it is completed it will be seven
miles long.
The north jetty starts at Boliver Pen-
insuls, and is now built for four and a
half miles. The two jetties, probably
two miles apart at the shore end, gradu-
ally approach each other as they run
into the gulf, so that at the water end
there is but a narrow channel, and a
sort of funnel is formed.
‘Within the bay thus formed the water
is sufficiently deep for the safe anchor-
age of the largest ocean steamers, but
near the head or small end, of the fun-
nel these jetties make a sandbar. It
has been growing in recent years, and
there was great ear that big vessels
would be shut out of the harbor.
This is the simple duty the jetties are
supposed to perform : When ths tide
comes up into the bay it comes from
deep water, and brings little sand.
When it goes out through the narrow
channel formed by the jetties the cur-
rent is naturally stronger and swifter,
and the water is more shallow, and it
carries the sand into the sea.
That portion of the jetties nearest the
shore is made of ordinary limestone ;
further out it is made of granite. These
jetties at the top will average about 15
feet in width, at the base about 100 feet.
They are on an average about 18 feet
deep. The quarries have been sending
to the Galveston jetties 20 carloads of
30 tons each 26 days in the month for
the past four years—nearly 750,000 tons
—and yet not more than 40 per cent of
the material used so far has been gran-
ite. A five-ton block of this granite is
the minimum used—the waves would
make playthings of lighter weights.
Out over these jetties, on a trestle
built over the rocks runs a railroad
track. 3
———
Human Voice Carried From One End
Eighteen miles is the longest distance
on record at which a man’s voice has
been heard. This occurred in the Grand
Canon of the Colorado, where one man
shouting the name of Bob at one end,
his voice was plainly heard at the other
end, which is 18 miles away. Lieut.
Foster, on Perry’s third Arctic expedi-
tion, found that he could converse with
a man across the harbor of Port Bowen,
a distance of 6,696 feet, or about one
mile and a quarter, and Sir John Frank-
lin said that he conversed with ease at a
distance more than a mile. Dr. Young
records that at Gibraltar the human
voice has been heard at a distance of 10
miles. Sound has remarkable force in
water. Calladon, by experiments madey
in the Lake of Geneva, estimated that a
bell submerged in the sea might be
heard as a distance of more than 60
miles. Franklin says that he heard the
striking together of two stones in the
water halfa mile away. Over water
of a surface of ice sound is propagated
with greater clearness and strength. Dr.
Hutton relates that on a quiet part of
the Thames, near Chelsea, he could
hear a person read distinctly at the dis-
tance of 140" feet, while away from the
water the same could only be’ heard at
76 feet. Prof. Tyndall, when on Mount
Blane, found the report of a pistol shot
no louder than the pop of a champagne
bottle. Persons in a baloon can hear
voices from the earth a long time after
they themselves are inaudible to people
below,
A —.— = ———————————
The Bill Was Not Collected.
A young lady walked into a Mifilin-
town store and, after selecting a piece
of cloth, asked what it was worth.
“Four kisses per yard,” said the polite
clerk. The young lady stood abashed
for a moment and replied that she
would take four yards. The cloth was
cut off, nicely wrapped up and handed
to the fair purchaser, who received it
with a smile and said : “Send the bill
around to my grandmother ; she will
settle it.”’—Altoona Times.
Means You Should Advertise.
The man who saws wood and says
nothing usually makes a living, but the
man who blows his horn with discre-
tion does better.-- Washington Demo-
erat.
——
—— “Circumstances are like wives,”
says Henpeck. “We are governed by
them.” . :
i ——
——Some men are born tired, and
others get run down by bicycles.
_ It turned out that the young man |
Watterson on Democracy.
If Democracy Would Live It Must Open New |
Books and Get New Bookkeepers.
If it is to live, to do business and to
prosper, the Democratic party will have
to open & fresh set of books and get a
new set of bouk-keepers.
The party which in 1900 is to come
to the rescue of the country, as the Re-
publican party under the lead of Jeffer-
son came to its rescue in 1800, must be
laid in elightened convictions and it
must have the courage of its convictions.
It must not bea party in opposition,
composed of quiddities and factions
thrown together by the upheaval of the
times. It must have definite and con-
sistent aims, all tending to illustrate
and confirm the Democratic principle
of the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber. It must not imagine that, in order
to be popular, its office is to assail cor-
porations and railways and banks, and
organized capital wherever it appears ;
but, comprehending the vastness of the
interests embarked under the govern-
ment of the United States and the
changes which have come into the life
both of the government and the people,
it must seek to make itself the organ of
that great middle and conservative ele-
ment, made up of all the better classes
who labor and produce—whether they
work in mines or in banks, whether
they dig in fields or toil ir shops—be-
cause this element will for at least an-
other generation, may be for another
century, rule the destinies and control
the policies of this country.
We may not touch the tarift just now.
Every intelligent man knows the evils
arising from frequent tampering and
constant uncertainty. But. as it stands
it is a very bad tariff ; a tariff full of in-
equalities and jobs, and the time will
come when we can find a leader
who will not be afraid to lay
down the principle that the government
has no right to tax the people except for
its own support, and to follow this doc-
trine to its logical conclusion in an act
of Congress ordaining a tariff for reve-
nue only.
The money question we shall have in
one form or another until it is settled
upon an enduring basis. The Treasury
‘must be lifted out of the banking busi-
ness. The banks must be given that
stability which can only come through
the common interest.” Banks must
have, and we saould build them in a
friendly, not a hostile spirit. Gold and
silver, and paper convertible into coin
on demand, lie at the foundation of a
healthy, fiscal system. The silver mono-
metal illusion is passing away, Those
who persist in it are worse than blind ;
they are perverse. But the extremists
who believe in fiat money will be left
upon the scene, and the Democracy of
the future should avoid them as war,
pestilence and famine.
The national government, its powers
and its glory, everywhere, at home and
abroad, must be not only universally
recognized, but its emblem, the flag,
must be universally adored.
If the Republicans do right, support
them. Antagonize nothing because it
does not emanate from ourselves, So
shall we most effectively and most cer-
tainly gain the public confidence, and
be able tv smite wrong with reason and
truth whenever we are right and they
are wrong.
Every turn of the wheel brings new
issues to the front. Details, applicable
to the foregoing generalisms, all in their
order. Meauwhile, let Democrats stop
their faction fighting, have done with
useless regrets, with crimination and re-
crimination, resolved as far as they can
to wipe out and begin over again, It
is a long lane that has no turning.
—Louisville Courier-Journal.
——re—
A Royal Stable.
‘A Foree of Sixty Men to Look After the
Queen’s Horses.
Queen’s Mews, the home of Queen
Victoria’s horses and carriages, is a
most interesting place. The word
mews is of old English origin and means
variously an alley leading to stables or
an inclosure of any sort or is & synonym
for the French cul-de-sac, blind alley.
It is built around a quadrangle, on
the left side of whichis the harness
room, a lofty apartment fitted with high
glass cases in which the gorgoaus trap-
pings are preserved from damp and
dust. There are eight sets of state har-
ness in red morocco, which means out-
fits for 48 horses. They are mounted in
hand-cut copper covered with gold.
There are also black harnesses of many
designe mounted in hand-cut copper or-
namented with designs of St. George
and the dragon. In another chamber
are the 40 sets of plain harnesses used
on semi-state occasions. There are
three kinds of horses in the stables—
cream, bay and black. The blacks are
used by the Prince of Wales for leves
and by the Princess when she holds a
drawing room for the Queen.
There are 32 bays. The creams are a
Hanoverian breed and are preferred by
the Queen, tour or eight being used for
the State coach. The Queen’s state
carriage was made in Dublin and is a
marvel of building.
- The Queen’s state coachman is named
Edward Miller and has held his post for
36 years. The supreme control of the
stables rests with the master of the
horse, an office held at present by the
Duke of Portland. The immediate con-
trol of the mews is in the hands of Mr.
Nicholas, who was formerly a lieuten-
ant in the army and who has a force of
men under him.
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Baby's Letter to Santa Claus.
Is the name Yof a new song
just issued, the words and music by the
well known composer, W. L. Needham.
We must say that the words and music
are very pretty, and the song will, no
doubt, reach a iarge sale. In order’ to
introduce this song the publishers will
send a copy, postpaid, for eleven two
cent stamps. Address orders to J. C.
Groena & Co., 19 Arcade, Cincinnati,
0.
She Obeyed Orders.
“I thought you had a good girl, Mrs
Bloom 2”
“#1 had.”
“What became of her 2"
“I told her to get up early and
dust.” ;
“Well mn -
“She got up and dusted.”
For and About Women .
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i
| Says Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the
| New York World : The most desirable
| qualities in a woman are self-reliance,
self-respect ; the common sense that
enables one to know and do what is
| right under the circumstances. In this
{ struggling world men often lean on the
judgment of mothers and wives, hence
women need a fine sense of justice,
rational views of the duties of this life
and a clear understanding of the vital
questions of the hour.
At this season it is especially im-
portant to ‘keep the mouth shut.”
Physiologists tell us that respiration
should be carried on through the nos-
trils because their lining membrane is
better able to endure it. Cold air being
conducted through the nose is warmed
before it reaches the delicate lining of
the pulmonary passages, and in a cli-
mate where the mercury often sinks rap-
idly down toward zero, the ill effects of
a draught of that temperature upon tha
delicate throat are not easily over-esti-
mated.
With closed mouth much more effort
is required to fully inflate the lungs,
and this strengthens the muscles of the
diaphragra. Besides the nostrils with
j feor moist lining, are designed as a
protection against contagion. They are
the wet curtains of the disinfectant, and
to a certain extent protect against ma-
laria. Moreover, being supplied with
hairs they become a defense against
dust and insects. ,
Though the new skirts still ripple and
require material enough to make sad
the heart of the economical woman, yet
they are not lined with haircloth from
hem to waistline, as they were last year,
the stiffening now extending but a few
inches up from the bottom.
The hell, being the first apartment
one enters in a house and the last when
one leaves, should be bright and well
appointed, not less so than any room in
the house ; yet it is odd that itis neg-
lected more than any other space in a
home. An. ingenious woman over-
hauled hers the other day, going to very
little expense. The hall was small with
painted walls. These she covered with
cartridge paper in a warm red. The
| bat, rack was pulled down from the
wall and instead she purchased a rack
with a plate mirror for $5. Beneath
this she stood a shoo box made from a
soap box. Two heavy partitions were
arranged Dy driving the nails through
the front and back of the box, the box
itself being covered with a warm red
cretonne, and fastened on the cover
with binges, the top of it being padded
to make a convenient low seat for put-
ting on rubbers. Inside this cover she
tacked a strip of leather to hold a whisk
broom and a bag for driving gloves.
She then placed on the polished floor a
bright rug to match the general color
scheme, tacking a slender gilt molding
around the wall about 10 inches from
the ceiling to simulate a frieze. If one
i has a long old-fashioned mirror lying
upstairs half-forgotten it may be framed
or the present frame stained and put
against the wall lengthwise, over a strip
of wood similarly treated, and contain-
ing coathooks. A bright carpat rem-
nant on the floor and the walls neatly
papered will produce a wonderfully im-
proved effect at a very slight coat.
Shepherd’s plaid waists in both silk
and woolen are very popular. The
woolen waists are perhaps the most ser-
viceable. A pretty one seen lately was
made with a few gathers at the neck
and a few at the waist line. Regulation
shirt sleeves with a narrow band were
employed. A shaped girdle sort of a
belt was made of red and black ribbon
one width of red and one of black rib-
bon. The collar was of plain red rib-
bon, with a black bow at the back of
the neck, and the sleeves were treated
likewise. These black and white waists
always look neat and can be washed,
thai is, if they are all wool, until the
last thread remains.
Thin women, says the New York
World, should dress to conceal their an-
gles and to keep their bones in the
background. Plain bodices which per-
mit the collarbones to reveal their pres-
ence, tight sleeves which announce the
existence of sharp elbows and backs
calling attention to conspicuous shoul-
der biades are all to be avoided.
In order to give herself the gracious
roundness of figure, the thin woman
should have skirts that flare as much as
fashion wili permit. Scant skirts make
her look like an exclamation point.
She should wear bodices shirred at the
neck and at the waist, allowing the full.
ness over the bust. The sleeves
should be full to a point below the el-
bow in order to avoid a display of sharp}
ness at that crucial point. If wrist
bones are prominent, long cuffs or frills
of lace should help to conceal the pain-
ful fact. Collars should not be plain,
but they should be gathered or laid in
folds.
Coats and jackets are all high col-
lared and show nothing of the gown be-
neath.
Water boiled in galvanized iron be-
comes poisonous, and cold water passed
through zinc-lined iron pipes should
never be used for cooking or drinkin
purposes. * Hot water for cooking on
never be taken from hot water pipes.
Take from cold water pipes and keep a
supply heated for use in kettles.
The hot water remedy is always the
best one for making the complexion
beautiful. It is very simple and equal-
ly safe, iwo good points in its favor.
If persisted in blackheads will soon de-
part and the complexion will assume
the pink and white appearance of a baby.
The hot water treatment should be
indulged in every night and morning.
At night the face should be bathed
in water as hot as one can stand and
then thoroughly rubbed with a good
cold cream. Be careful to use a circu-
lar motion.
In the morning the cream may be
omitted and the face first bathed in very
bot water and then dashed with cold
water, The diet should be watched
| with care and much fruit should be
{ eaten. Grape fruit is specially noted
"for its good effect on the complexion.