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. Let us have the pleasure of your com-
, that night in one whole piece.
AX
Bellefonte, Pa., June 25, 1897.
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IF YOU KNEW.
You say I'm making game of you,
That goes for granted nothing said,
Ah! if you knew, if you but knew,
ow I had listened for your tread,
aX you but seen me flush and start,
To feel and know that you were drawing
nigh,
Or felt the sinking at my heart,
« When footsteps, not your own, went by.
If you knew that my thoughts, each day,
Defied the mandates of my will,
And from its guidance stole away,
To cluster fondly round you still ;
That in my steep you hold the key -
That opens to my sweetest dreams ;
That you were oftener with me,
Than all their angel band, it seems
Would you be glad if you had read :
My letter wrong? My fooling you
Was in the sharp things I had said ;
And not the sweet ones; if you knew ?
Would you be surer to forget,
In knowing I was fond and true ?
Or would you he more cruel yet,
Or kinder, gentler, if you knew ?
The unattained is always rare,
The gained not always ; does it pay
For what it costs, that with no care,
We trifle human trust away ?
Yet since I eannot tell unless
The years should prove your heart untrue,
Just which I meant, you can but guess,
It I could know if you but knew.
—From
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THE MARKED CHEEK.
“Is this Mr. Robbin’s?’’
-It was a handsome young man who ask
the question. .
And the girl who had opened the door
for him, in that pretty country place where
the richest people were not very fashion-
able, was Mr. Rushton’s only daughter,
Fanny, herself.
“What a pretty
thought.
Then, as she turned her head, he won-
dered for a moment whether somebody had
just slapped her on the left cheek, there
was such a singular spot there, exactly like
the scarlet print of a palm and four fin-
gers.
But that mark had been there all Fanny
Rushton’s life, and it was her one grief,
her perpetual torment.
+ She had grown morbid about it in these |
early days of womanhood.
But there was no cosmetics and no arts
of surgery that could remove it.
There the red mark must be as long as
she breathed, its hateful scarlet attracting
the first glance from every stranger.
“Mr. Rushton at home %’’ said Luke Rob- |
bins, with a how.
“Yes,”” said Fanny.
Then she ushered Mr. Robbins into the
parlor and went away ; in a few moments
the mill owner sauntered in.
It was a busineds call.
The business was casily completed, and
then Luke Robbins rose to depart.
“The hotel is a long way off, and I
should be pleased to have you stay over
night with us,” said the old gentleman.
“There are one or two spare bedrooms, and
Supper will be ready in fifteen minutes.
Vogue.
little soul!’ he
pany.’ ’
“Thanks,”’ said Luke Robbins.
are very kind?’
Then he thought of the pretty face with
the red mark upon the cheek.
Despite the mark, 'he wanted to see it |
again.
It sat opposite hin at supper time.
“The best and the kindest face in the
world,’’ he said to himself a dozen times.
And he did his best to win a little chat
from the shy girl, who could not forget her
tormenting mark uhtil they sat on ‘the
piazza in the twilight afterward.
* Mrs. Rushton had a call from some
neighbor, and sat apart conversing.
Mr. Rushton, after many amiable at-
tempts to rouse himself, went soundly
asleep. + :
Through the evening shadows Luke saw
the girl’s finely-cut profile and exquisitely
shaped head ; and the moon turned all to
black and white soon, and blotted out the
red mark. rT
And he sat. as close to her as he dared,
and her sweet voice charmed him, and he
fell in love. as men do, for an hour.
,» Poor little Fanny gave away her heart
#You
It is always best to keep a little piece, if
one can : but sometimes that is impossible.
“Oh, what a beautiful night 1’ said |
Fanny, as sffe stood on the porch with her !
mother, after the gentlemen had retired. |
“Such a fine breeze and such a bright |
moon.’ :
“It's quite damp. We'd better retire.”
I wonder whether your pa will be suited |
with to-morrow’s breakfast. He does ask |
visitors so unexpectedly,” returned Mrs. |
Rushton. se
Married forty and single twenty take |
different views of life sometimes. = + .|
Fanny went to bed to dream of para- |
dise, and the next day was all happy in|
memory of a parting pressure of the hand |
|
and a whispered hope that they might
often meet again. f
“What a pity that mark is,” thought
young Robbins. ‘*‘Sheis a darling little |
thing, and I suppose that Rushton is a very
rich man. A young man might do worse |
than be his son-in-law. ; i
Then, as the train whirled him away, he |
said to himself : . |
“What a pity that mask is 1? i
Nevertheless, very often after that he |
was with Fanny a great deal.
Fanny’s mother felt tha though this
suitor was not rich, he was eligible, and |
she-knew that that red mark was a disad- |
vantage to her Fanny. |
'*‘He certainly means something; said |
mamma. |
‘And they could always live with us,”’ |
|
{
said papa ; ‘‘we need never part from our
only one.” ; ; J
Our eyes grow used to everything after a
while. y
Luke Robbins forgot that there was any
mark on Fanny’s face, unless something |
particularly called his attention to it. |
He loved her very much at times, though
there were long hours in which he never
remembered her existence.
Twice a week at least, Luke thought |
enough of Fanny to buy her a bouquet, or |
some music, and to spend two hours on a
dusty railroad for the sake of seeing her.
He felt her love for him in her very
finger tips ; he saw it in her eyes ; he
heard'it in her voice. .
He was a man who is happy in being be-
loved.
And it.was not old Mr. Rushton’s mon-
ey that made him decide to offer himself to
her, despite the red mark. “
Yes, the next time he went he would
ask Fanny to have him for better or worse.
| fortable when any one looked at her.
light heart.
| nothing whatever to do with anything but
And he knew that she would say—
“Yes.”
There are evil moments in every one’s
life—moments that change one’s destiny
for the worse. .
If only it had rained one morning ; if
only Fanny had fallen ill ; if only she had
not undertaken that trip to the city just
when she did, this would be a different
story.
She used to be shy of going into the
crowded streets alone, and, even with her
mouiier, wore a thick veil and felt uncom-
But now she cared nothing for strangers’
eyes.
uti her blemished face had found
favor in his.
Let them stare.
The prettiest girl living was not so hap-
py as she.
She made her little purchases with a
And then she saw Luke Robbins—yes,
j really Luke himself, coming to meet her ! |
“Looks as if some one had slapped her
in the face,” said a giggling girl’s voice.
And he turned his head.
He saw her and went to meet her at
once.
‘Oh, I am so glad to meet you,” said
Fanny. “I suppose I ought to start at
once.’ [ :
“And I'll go with you as far as N—,
where you change carriages,” said Luke
Robbins.
He saw people stare at her as she passed.
Part of the staring was at the mark, part
of it at the pretty face and figure.
He laid it all to the mark, as she bad all
her life.
He grew very grave.
It was a terrible blemish.
‘In those. moonlight lovers walks in the
country he had forgotten all about it, but
in the crowded streets how it forced itself
upon him! : o
Everyone stared so.
In the carriage which they soon stepped
into, a little child opened its round eyes,
and with a child’s innocent Impertinence,
pointed its finger straight at the mark on
fanny’s face. \
At the station there was a crowd.
Luke had passed Fanny in first, and
stopped to pay the fare.
“Two,” said he.
‘The old lady ?*’ asked the man. .
“No.” said LuKe.
‘Oh, that one with the red scar on her
face,” said the man, lowering his voice.
“All right.”
*‘Confound you !’ said Luke, in a rage.
But the man bad meant no rugleness, nor
had Fanny heard him ; but Luke was ex-
cited, confused, agitated.
He hardly knew why then. «
He handed her out of the carriage ; then
he pressed her hand.
“Good-by until we meet,”’ he! said, and |
stepped to the platform. ‘Here is your
train coming up.”’ Ps
There stood one of those white-bearded,
red-cheeked old gentlemen who affect to
be ‘‘judges of women’ in away that is in-
sulting to every woman, since it places her
on a level with wine and horses, having
her personal attractions. = .
“Ah! how de do.?”' said<this old gen-
A Talk About Shrubbery.
Hints for Florists as to Desirable Trees—How
Best to Arrange Them—Practical Suggestions on
Broad Lines That Will be of Interest to Those
Who Wish to Beautify Their Grounds.
. At the latest meeting of the florists’ club,
of Philadelphia, Mr. Edward Campbell,
of Ardmore, said :
The subject assigned to me by your com-
mittee for consideration this evening,
namely, ‘Hints for Florists on Desirable
Trees and Shrubs, and How to Arrange
Them,” is a subject about which I am not
able to lay down any golden rule for your
guidance, either. in regard to what are de-
sirable trees or shrubs, or yet how to ar-
range them. I will, therefore, confine ny-
self more to giving you a few hints in re-
gard to the general principles which shofild
be followed, in making a selection of what
is desirable, rather than by entering upon
any lengthy list or description of particular.
varieties, —
The number of trees and shrubs suitable
for this climate are very numerous, but in
order to make a selection a knowledge is
necessary of the use that is intended to be
made of them, as it may be said that near-
ly all trees and shrubs are more or less de-
sirable, and have their uses in their Propeg
places.
SHOULD SUIT THE SITUATION.
The desirability of any tree or shrub de-
pends upon its usefulness or adaptability
for the situation in which it is intended of
be planted. Hence the selection of trees
and shrubs should be governed according
| to what use is intended to be made of them
rather than by the merit or novelty of any
particular plant, no matter how beautiful
or rare in itself it may be. In order to il-
lustrate the point more clear] y, we will as-
sume that the florist is asked by his client
for advice in regard to planting a fore-
ground or fringe to a wood gr grove of na-
tive trees. For a selection suitable for
such a purpose itis necessary to choose
from among those ii lands, =
NATIVE SHRUBS.
Our native trees and shrubs are rich with’ pected
abundant variety, both in regard to beauty
of flower and foliage or form of growth,
and it is among them that we must look
for material appropriate for use in such a
situation as I have mentioned.
be more beautiful than our flowering dog-
I scoffed at it.
What can | you are angry.
|
line in a shrubbery border or plantation,
due attention should be paid to the use of
plants of different characteristics of growth
as well as different heights, such as those
of irregular or spreading form, of which
the cercis canadensis is a sample, and the
upright form, such as ceroidiphyllum ja-
ponica. Never arrange or advise a client
to arrange the plants in a shrubbery bor-
der by beginning at the back with the tall-
est” plants and gradually grading them in
height to the front. It isa wrong system ;
it is without variety or grace, and is alto.
gether monotonous, especially when, as is
often seen, they are assiduously “trimmed
into broom-shaped specimens.
The disposition of trees upon the lawn as
well as the shrubbery border is also a mat-
ter which calls for very careful considera-
tion. We do not unfrequntl y see trees
dotted promiscuously all over a lawn with-
out any regard to order or composition.
Advise a client to plant his trees so as to
create or maintain something.
There is no place, however small or un-
interesting, which does not have some feat-
ure about it to lend character to the plant-
ing, and it is from this feature or features
that ideas must be conceived, whether it he
a wall of leafy garniture here or a spread-
ing tree there ; let it at any rate have some
meaning. :
- Anger and Eggs.
it is Daygerous to Get Mad When Eating This
Article” of Food. . Ny
‘Did you know it was dangerous to eat
eggs while you are angry 2’? was the strange
question asked by A. Stuart, a Bostonese,
who is a St. Nicholas guest. “Don’t, ask
me for the reason of it, for I can’t give it,
but I do know from observation that peo-
ple have died in terrible agony after eat-
ing eggs while their passions were aroused.
You needn’t laugh. I don’t mean while the
passions of the eggs were aroused. I mean
the temper of the victims. I mentioned
this to an eminent physician once and he
That was no less than I ex-
him to do. Physicians don’t
know much that lies out of the beaten
paths of their science. They don’t even
know how to‘ cure the grip. But take
warping from me and never eat eggs while
Then you will be on the
safe side, no matter what your doctor may
woods, viburnums, amelanchiers, androm- | tell you about it. .
edas, cercis, canadeenses, pyrus, arbutifo-
lia, wild. roses, vacinum, corybosum; ete.
“My attention was first called to this
strange fact by the tragic and sudden death
This last is a huckleberry, growing four to | of a lady acquaintance in Boston several
five feet high.
pretty white lowers in spring, and in the | tion to dine with them. t «
: Its | going in to dinner a servant did something
autumn the foliage is a deep scarlet.
It bears bunches of very | Years ago. I accepted her hushand’s invita-
Just as we were
form of growth is very attractive, and it is| to cause the lady to fall into a terrible rage.
an admirable plant for massing in the fore| She had been irritable from some minor com-
ground of woods.
grow in almost any kind of soil.
could be very much extended, but I am
merely giving you hints as to the charac-
ter of trees that would be desirable.
catalogues of the leading nurseries throughs
out the country supply an abundant list to
choose from,
IN DAMP PLACES.
In damp situations or near the edges qf
ponds in woods, or places which are ofa
more or less shady nature, suitable plants
The | amount of soft scrambled egus.
|
from which to make a selection would Hs |
tleman, grasping Luke's hand. “Glad to
see you, my bhoy.—Doing the gallant, I
see. No relation, I suppose 2’ -
“No,” said Luke. T= |
‘Thought not,’” said the old gentlemgn.
““We let our sisters and cousins take care
of themselves for the most part. Pretty
figure; rather ; good step ; but confounded
ugly red mark. A man wouldn’t like |
that, eh, Luke 7”
‘‘No,” said Luke, ‘a man wouldn't like |
1
such as clethra, alnifolia, laurus benzoi )
magnolia glauca, calycanthus floridus, pi-
nos verticillatus, andromeda catesbaei, ett.
This andromeda is a most nseful plant.
is an evergreen and has long
branches with thick shifiy leaves, and jn
the spring is covered with drooping whit2
flowers. It is a plant that I would recom.
mend to be very generously used.
thriv
situation, but on the edges of ponds, with
: |
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es well either ina sunny or shaded | This set me to thinking about the matter.
All of the above will| plaint for some days, and her husband calm-
The list!
ed her ruffled feeling sufficiently for the
dinner to be eaten in good temper. I no-
ticed that she ate an unusually large
Fifteen
minutes after we left the dining room she
was a corpse. She died in frightful con-
vulsions before the nearest doctor reached
thehouse. The doctor was unable to as-
cribe the cause. A few months later I was
visiting a brother in Conneticut and one of
his sons died under similar circumstances.
Before breakfast one morning the bey, who
was about 15 years. old, had a fight with a
neighbor’s boy, who was about 15 years old
Before his anger had subsided m y nephew
It | was called to breakfast. He ate four soft-
arching | boiled eggs. Had I known as much then
as I do now I would have prevented it. In |
less than a half hour after breakfast the hoy
died with exactly the same symptoms that
were present when my friend’s wife died.
*‘It wasn’t long after this before a Beacon
it.” [its drooping branches it is very effective, | Hill friend of mine expired suddenly after
Something rustled at his elbow.
“‘I—I left my parcel, Mr. Robbins,’ |
said a cold little-voice. ' ~
Fanny stood there, so pale that the [
mark looked pure scarlet.
“Thanks. Don’t trouble yourself”?
But he went back with her, and he would
have pressed her hand once more, enly she
kept it from him. iF
She had heard his speech : 4
“A man wouldn’t like it.” |
She had heard the speech that caused his |
answer.
And as he looked after her as she en- |
tered the carriage, two tears came into his |
eyes. = :
They trickled down his cheeks.
He wiped them away. |
Suddenly he felt that he loved Fanny |
Rushton from his soul—that this cowardly |
sort of trouble thatthe remarks and glances
of strangers
nrake him ashamed of himself again.
“Fanny, my darling,” he said to him-
self ; ‘Fanny, my love, your face is dearer |
to me for its biemish. and you shall know |
it before I sleep. You should; were you a
beggar. I'll hide it from the world’s cold |
eyes on my bosom, darling, and I'll love
you all the more for it.”
He followed after her. i
He walked up the garden path in the |
twilight, |
He asked for Miss Fanny.
‘She hasn’t come in yet,” said the ser- |
vant. “They are so fnghtened about her— |
master and missus—but I tell ’em she'll
turn up all right.”
Luke’s heart stood still. : i
A presentiment of evil filled his mind. |
In the gathering darkness two anxious |
men went forth, hoping against hope.
‘She stepped out on the platform sud- |
denly. Either she was bewildered or she |
did, it on purpose. We were going full
speed. She had a blue dress and a white
hat, and there’s a red mark on her face.
i
They’1l know her by that.’
That was the guard's story. :
That was the story that Luke and Fan-
ny’s father fieard at last. 3
Did she step out on purpose or was she
‘‘bewildered 2”? :
God only knows—no living being.
Luke tried to believe that what she had
heard him say had nothing to do with it.
But it was too late now to tell her what
he felt—too late to hide her sweet face on
his heart. ; :
He could only stoop over her, as she lay
in her coffin, and press the last kiss his
lips ever offered to an Y_ woman upon the
cold. cheek that, even in the death hour,
bore still upon .it that fatal red mark.—
New York News.
The Growth of the Empire.
How British Domain Has Increased During Victoria's
Rule.
Since Victoria came.to the throne 275,-
000 square miles—g territory bigger than
Australia—have been added “to the British
Empire ; In India, 80,000 square miles—a
Space as vast as Great Pritain ; in the rest
of Asia, 200,000 square miles—a region as
large as Germany ; in South Africa and in
West and East Africa, 1,000,000 ‘square
miles=—or about half the extent of European
Russia. To-day her possessions.-in North
America and in Australia cover one-ninth
of the earth’s dry land. The population
of Canada has sprung from 1,000,000 to
nearly 6,000,000 ; of Australia, from 175,-
000 to 4,500,000. x
would be desirable to use in the execution
-of natural planting, rather than that of or-
: | wh
namental. My reason for speaking first |» Ail ~
about this kind of planting is because I am | 108 out that it was apoplexy.
| The foregoing remarks treat more of what yo neal.
The doctors, as usual, were divid-
ed in opinion on the cause pf death. Some
of them contended that it-was heart failure,
atever that is, and others are still hold-
Inquiry by
: e : me developed the fact that my friend was
ine 4 3 CN | L
ied a Sons ar pment he | angry when he sat down at the table and
. . i that » flv rors
sirable for such a purpose than in .a selec- | that he ate five eggs
tion for ornamental use.
ORNAMENTAL PLANTING. .
..For ornamental planting the evergreens |
and exotic trees and shrubs play an impor-
tant part. With the varied varisty of
these at our disposal the most elegart and
artistic arrangement is possible, eitter for
the embellishment of the circumscribed
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5, with these develop-
ments I searched no further the cause of
his death. He was angry, he ate eggs and
he died.
lect is “incapable “of logical thinking.” —
St Louis Republic.
Spanking an Elephant.
area of the city or small suburban lot, or | 4, Occurrence in India in Which One Animal
for the place of more pretentious. So
much depends upon the circumstanzes at-
tending each case, such as the taste or-ca-
ground and style of house, that I will not
attempt to offer you any selection, but it
should comprise all the choicest sarts for
which proper rooni and a suitable situation
[ can be found. -A good principle to bear in | Killix 1
is that the higher , polished the | picking him up “by the legs and crushing
mind
groundg'the richer can be the chamcter of
the trees used. and vice versa.
THE ARRANGEMENT.
The arrangement of trees and shrubs is
really .of as much, if not more, importance
than their selection. An arrangement
which appears simple and’ graceful in its
composition and which has utility and fit-
ness in its parts isalways to he reconmmiend-
ed in preference to novel and extravagant
displays without any regard of their fitness
to the surroundings. There are always
some peculiarities about .every place which
should determine: the character of the
planting and the disposition of its parts.
| Every situation presents difficulties and fa.
cilities, and it is in a close study of these
that the key to both what is desirable and
how to arrange them is to he found.
There are, however, some pho which
govern nearly all planting arral igements,
such as r-pose, which never can be found
where trees are indiscriminately planted
all over a lawn.
TO OBTAIN (00D EFFECTS.
An irregular or broken sky-ling in thick
plantations and shrubb _7 borden, so as to
get the effect of light and shade. which is
altogether wanting in a plantisg of the
same general height. To obtain] good ef-
fects in a shrubbery border it & a good.
plan to mass together in i form a
quantity of the same variety. This is par-
ticularly true of the smaller groying kinds
of shrubs, such as hyperium calycium,
spirea-Anthony waterer and su like. A
plant of such as these dotted her{ and there
do not produce the effect ob inable as
when a quantity of them are assed ‘to-
gether. Of course, such a system can be
carried to extreme, with the result that the
composition would appear pathy, but a
judicious arrangement of the pitts and the
proper placing of the larger growing shrubs
will form bays and juttings ominences,
thus creating intricacy and v iety, which
is the charm of all shrubbery borders. I
think it was Mr. Wyedale Pdce who de-
fined intricacy to be ‘‘that d position of
objects which by a partial aid uncertain
concealment excites and nourghes curiosi-
ty.” Kemp puts it as ‘‘thit artful ar-
rangement of single plants jand groups
which produge freshness of aspect and new-
ness of vista.’’ !
In producing diversity in eight or sky-
i hollow square stood Lalla
Had to Punish Another.
Did you ever see an elephant spanked ?
id caused him would never | price of the owner, the character of the | Scarcely, for they don’t do such things in
this country, but they do in India. Captain
Martin, of the British, ary stationed at
Campbell-pore, vouches for this story. El-
ephant Abdull (Xo. 15) was on trial for
killing his keeper, Syce Ramboucles, hy
his skull against a tree.
The president of the court-martial was
Major - Cameron, of the Thirty-fourth Ha-
gras Native Infantry.
and then witnesses proved that Abdul was
guilty as charged. The president then sen-
tenced the culprit to fifty lashes and to two
years imprisonment.
Two elephants led Abdul‘ to an open |
space and in the presence of the whole bat-
tery the punishment began. The cnlprit
trumpeted in fear and made an unearthly
noise.
* There were fourteen clephants on one
side and the officers and men of the battery
on the other three. In the centre of this
(No. 1), the
flogger, and the prisoner. The latter was
chained by the four legs to as many heavy
iron pegs, and could not move, ;
Fastened to Lalla’s trunk was an im-
meénse cable chain. When all was ready,
the Major gave the word, and down came
the chain with a resounding whack. Ab-
dul roared for all he was worth. Fifty
times was the operation repeated, and then
Abdul was taken to a compound, where
he remained a prisoner for two years.—
New York Journal.
a ———
Earthquake Kills 6000.
Appaillng Results of the Devastation in India
Reports from the Province of Assan,
India, that was so violently . devastated by
earthquakes, show that about 6000 people
lost their lives in the falling of buildings.
Queen Victoria has sent a message of con-
dolence to the Governor of the province.
Twenty-seven fishing boats on the
Belgian coast have been lost, with
all their crews, and 20 fishing boats have
been lost off Scheveningen, on the Dutch
coast, as a result of the cyclones.
——The record of great fatalities for the
week is not reassuring. Six thousand per-
sons Killed by: the earthquakes in India,
thirty to forty of the smaller craft lost in
the storms on the other side, a hundred
killed and injured by a cyclone in France,
a Kansas town wiped out by a tornado—
these are not, events over which even the
thoughtless can smile. They seem, also,
to prove, not for the first time by any
means, that misfortunes never come singly.
1g
If these are not links in the |
chain of cause and effect the human intel- !
He read the charge |
Sixty. Ye ars—a Queen.
All Great Britain Joins in Honoring Victoria.—Pro-
gram of the Jubilee.—The Passionate -Demonstra-
tion of Loyalty Which Greeted the Aged Ruler in
England's Metropolis. +
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. Martha Kyler, of Huntingdon, aged
85 years, has just completed a quilt con-
taining 2,900 pieces. She began work on
it in April last. Some years ago she made
one containing 6,000.
Victoria, Queen and Empress, has sat
upon the throne of Great Britain for sixty
years—one of the longest reigns in history —
and this week her loyal subjects throughout
her vast domain are entering upon the
celebration of her Diamond Jubilee. Never
were the kingdom. and empire so pros-
perous.; never so content, and from in-
numerable islands and -provinces all over
the world ' testimonials of loyalty poured
into London.
The jubilee celebration began Sunday
with “look a services, in which the royal
lag
In the Woman’s Home Companion Kath-
erine B. Johnson writes :
‘Manufacturers have evidently learned
that however attractive in design and color-
ing they make cheap casement muslins, that
are faded and stringy with a month’s nse, the
woman who knows what economy really is
cannot be deluded into buying them a sec.
ond time, for the shops show less of sugh
trash than heretofore. For sash curtains—
either half or full length—plain swiss ;
dotted, woven, figured and cord and lace
striped white muslins are far more popu-
lar than those with woven or printed color-
ed designs. The cord and lace striped va-
rieties are shown in unprecedented num-
ber and beauty. Such muslins come with
plain selvage, scallop and hemstitched
edges ; are 27, 36 and 45 inches wide, and
range in, price from 15 to 45 cents a yard.
Tamboured muslins are little in favor, con-
sequently no new styles are shown. Lace
striped and plain scrim has regained much
of its old time popularity, and there is a
beautiful quality of cream cheese cloth
at 15 cents a yard that is in every way
desirable for casement or long drapery cur-
tains. In colored draperies there are print-
ed gossamers 36 inches wide, at 25 cents ,
a yard, they are beautiful in quality of
weave, but like cheaper muslins, the great-
er number are printed in strong colors
and bold designs. Penang muslins show
smaller and more dainty designs, in soft-
er tints of color, 54 inches wide, at 35 cents
a yard.
“Nottingham, Tambour, Irish point,
Brussels and all other kinds of pattern lace
curtains come by the piece in white, or
both white and ecru, for sash curtains, are
27 inches widé, and range in price from 38
cents to $1.50 a yard. Point d’esprit lace
ish “‘influences” not prominently repre- | is charming for either casement or long cur-
Sented were Egypt, Afghanistan and | tains, but it is too flimsy, unless Fhe best
Uganda. v quality is purchased. Colonial and Calcut-
Wednesday was devoted to banquets. | ta net come in white or ecru, and have
At Buckingham Palace a large garden | everything to recommend them. eside:
party where those standing highest in the | the plain net there are many effective
British service—civil, military and naval— | signs, some of which are delicate and artistic
were handsomely entergained. Officials of | enough to ornament a handsomely fur-
lower grades were feasted at other notable | nished drawing room. “Im Tact, these nets
places. Even the tramps and beggars of | have to some extent-Supplanted medium
the English metropolis were not forgotten. | priced lace curtains and are far more re-
Thanks to the largeness of the Princess of | fined, Whether edged with lace or simply
Wales, a large fund was raised for their en- | hemstitched.
tertainment and the poor banqueted as well a
as the rich. There is really : in
oi S really an art in the proper wash-
Thursday the Queen returned to Wind- ing of hair brushes ; the best DE may
sor, passing through Eton in order that the be ruined by careless washing ; and if the
college lads could have their share in the bristles are allowed to become soft a hair
festivities and Friday she will banquet | pr;q) becomes practically useless for its in-
them at W indsor as her special guests. tended purpose. Many people cleanse hair
Saturday will see the conclusion of the brushes by covering them with wheaten
family téok part.
Mon “the court went to London,
where the Queen entertained her royal
guests at Buckingham Palace and received
the Diplomatic Corps.
"Tuesday, London was crowed to see the
grand procession. The streets were
gay with bunting, banners floats
from Venetian * masts and at night
the city “was brilliantly illuminated.
Rarely, indeed, has there been such a gath-
ering of dignitaries as graced this magnifi-
cent pageant. The Queen herself rode six
miles, and with her the King of Siam and
numerous princes representing all the sov-
ereigns of Europe, and followed by the Gov-
ernors of British colonies and officers of the
army and navy and other services. Rep-
resentatives corps have been drawn from
every part of the empire to he the peo-
ple with striking evidences gf the extent of
their dominion. Hong ong, Burmah,
the Straits, Ceylon, India, Beluchstan;
East Africa, South Africa, West Africa,
Ganada, Guifna, Australia and the islands
of the Pacific, Cyprus and Malta, sent
specimens of their various races to take
part in the march. The ‘smartest’ men were
picked for the wlisplay, so that each coun-
try and race Inade its best possible in
pression. The only countries under Brit.
jubilee programme—the naval review by | four and simply rubbi ] ; =
| the Prince of Wales at Spithead. Eng- gether. Ply mbhing the bristles to
land's vast naval power will be represented | = rpg method, however is not thoroughly
| by a fleet of battleships, cruisers and torpe- satisfactory. To keep your brushes
do-hoat destroyers which will exceed in
number the ‘entire navy of many strong
countries. Foreign navies . will be repre-
sented also, so that it is estimated that the
line of war ships reviewed will be over
twenty-five miles in. length. Such a dis-
play of naval strength has never been seen
afloat. {
Pennsylvania Legal Holidays. | out of them as if by magic, leaving, thet
The Provisions of the New Law Which Has’ Recently | beautifully white. .
Passed the Legislature. Now dip upand down several times in the
| second dish, containing the clear water, to
rinse them, shake well and place to drain
across a rack or towel horse. No soap is
needed,and no rubbing with the hands. 1f
you adopt this method of cleansing your
brushes you will find that they will last
three times as long as if cleansed with hot
water and scap, and that the bristles will
preserve their stiffness,
in good condition, proceed ‘in the follow-
ing manner: Have two dishes of cold—not
hot—water. To the first dish, which con-
tains, say a quart of water, add a desert-
spoonful of ammonia. Now, take your
brushes, one by one, and keep dipping
the bristles up and down in the water
(being careful not to wet the backs) and in
Senate bill No. 73, designating the days
and half days that are to be observed as
legal holidays in Pennsylvania, which was
prepared by William F. Harrity, the pres-
ident of the Equitable trust company, and
presented in the Legislature by State Sena-
tor J. Henry Cochran, of Lycoming county,
has just passed the House of Representa-
tives finally. It had previously passed the
Senate, but will be again sent to that body | The BANdS. even i. \
for concurrence in some unimportant 4 hans even more than the face, de-
changes in phraseology. It is likely to manc eXteting care, for the reason that
receive the approval of Governor Hastings | they nat be washed oftener, 25 fey col-
promptly afte: it is sent to him; there be- lect more dire than the face. _ Warm Water
ing no opposition to the measure. Under fine Soop and a little horax dissolved in the
the provisions of the new law, the follow- | Water RL es for cleansing purposes ;
ing are to be hereafter observed as legal | Tinse the 1ands well, and after drying
"holidays in Pennsylvania, viz. : | plunge them in a bowl of oatmeal 7 finally,
. January 1st. New Year's Day. rub well with . lemon Juice. Take the
| 2. February 12th, Lingoln’s Birthday. | i nail stick, dipitin the lemon
| 3. Third Tuesday of February, election-| J21C€, clean under the nails and run around
i day. * i the base ; rough places may be smoothed
|
4. February 22nd, Washington’s Birth- | "With Pumice stone. It is said that soaking
dav. 2 : | the hands for ten minutes every night in
I Goud Friday. | 10" warm olive oil will render them plump.
i & May 30th, Memorial Day. | A cure for red hands can be made of one
7. July 4th, Independence Day. | x of honey i one ps al oll ;
el ; : 4 -; one lemon, and. the yolk of an egy -
8 First Monday ‘of September, Labor | beat well, and spread thickly on the Bors
| before retiring, putting orf a pair of old
| Day.
{ 9. First Tuesday after the first Monday | loose gloves perforated in the tals.
of November, election day. |
10. December 25th, Christmas Day, and | —.
| nun Every Saturday after 12 o'clock, Braiding is a feature of the tailor made
| "The gown, and just about doubles the usual
The changes made by the new law are as price of making.
follows : : 7 a . |. The fashion of the day becoming, only to
. LI February 12th, Lincoln's Birthday, | gander figures, is to arrange the skirt in
is made a legal holiday for the first tine. inch-wide tucks around the hips. A smart
_ 2 The third Tuesday of February, elec- gown for morning wear in town or for call-
| tion day, is inade a full holiday instead of ing, is in shepherd’s plaid check in roy-
| a half holiday, ag was provided by. the aet | 4) Hine and white, ’ ?
| of assembly of May 23th, 1893. The skirt is tucked at the hips. A smart
3. Whenever May 30th, Meniarial Day, | yoier; of blue velvet, in the same shade
shall occar on Sunday, the following day, was cut with rounded fronts, arid a curv-
Monday, is to be observed as the legal | ing pattern of white suede laid upon the
holiday, instead of the preceding day, [ velvet in bands about one half -inch in
Saturday, as was the case herotofore, width. These band are braided to the coat
4. The first Monday. of September ‘is | with a fine bluesilk braid in a loop pattern
designated as Labor Day, instead of the | elaborated in different lengths. A vest of
|
first Saturday of September, as was the white lisse run inte the smalles’, possible
case under the act of assembly of May 31st, tucks is to be worn with this chic gowaii,
1893. . Lk and the collar band was also. composed of
The changes under which Meinorial Day | this frilly tucked lisse, over which two
and Labor Day will be celebratéd on Mon- | pointed ends of braided velvet were ar-
days instead of on-Saturdays will, it is be- ranced. :
lieved, enable financial institutions and the | =
business interests of Pennsylvania gen- . ®
erally to avoid much of the confusion, an- In every house there is one member who
noyance and stoppage of business that have | awakens earlier then the rest, and whose
heretofore been caused by the fact that the | duty it is to get all the others out on time.
banks, #rust companies, stock exchanges, | It is usually the mother, and she has to see
ete., of Pennsylvania were obliged to sus- | that her husband is up on time for his work,
pend business on the Saturdays on which | that her sons and daughters who work down
these two holidays were observed here, | town get started in season and get the lit-
while similar institutions and interests in | tle ones off to school, If by chance she lets
New York and nearly all the other large | anyone oversleep, she is asked in a whining
States were open for business on these same | tone why she didn’t call him earlier. She
Saturdays, but closed on the” following | probably called a half dozen times, and he
Mondays. . . turned over and went to sleep again.
Though she often has extra work of her
own todo, she has to rely upon her own
efforts to get up earlier. No one ever has
to call the mother of the house out of bed,
but she has to serve as train dispatcher for
the balance of the family, on scant pay and
no thanks.
——The population of the Hawaiin is-
lands is about 709,000, and of that’ num-
bor 35,000 are males of 21 years of age
and over. Yet all the elections in the
country under the present regime not one
tenth of the males have been permitted to
vote. It would be ridiculous to say that
there is a Republican government in the
islands. They are governed by an oligar-
chy—there are few masters and the rest
are serfs. There is no hope that the condi-
‘tion of the country will ever be much dif-
ferent from what they are to-day. It looks
if there will always be a few dictators in
the way of wealthy sugar planters and rich
merchants and the rest of the people will
be subject to them and will continue in the
state of viciousness and ignorance in which
they now exist. ;
—Side combs never were worn so much
and never were they so long. Some re-
semble the combs which extend from ear to
ear which are worn by children. The ma-
terial is shell or imitation. But they must :
be put in carefully (outside the strand over
the roll) in such a way as not to destroy
the rotundity of the halo. Sets of three
combs, each four inches long, are also sold.
enieBtismibe for the WATCHMAN.
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