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Demareaic acon,
Bellefonte, Pa., December 11, 1903.
THE FROST SPIRIT.
He comes—he comes—the Frost Spirit comes !
You may trace his foot steps now
On the naked woods and the blasted fields
And the brown hill’s withered brow.
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees
Where there pleasant green came forth ;
And the winds which follow wherever he goes
Have shaken them down to earth.
He comes—he comes—the Frost Spirit comes!
From the frozen Labrador—
From the icy bridge of the Northern seas,
Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice,
And the luckless forms below
In the sunless cold of the lingering night
Into marble statues grow.
He comes—he comes—the Frost Spirit comes
On the rushing Northern blast ;
And the dark Norwegian pines have bowed
As his fearful breath went past.
With an unscorched wing he has hurried on,
Where the fires of Hecla glow
On the darkly beautiful sky above
And the ancient ice beiow.
He comes—he comes—the Frost Spirit comes !
And the quiet lake shall feel
The torpid touch of his blazing breath,
And ring to the skater’s heel ;
And the streams which danced on the broken
rocks,
Or sang to the leaning grass,
Shall bow again to their Winter chain,
And in mournful silence pass.
He comes—he comes—the Frost Spirit comes !
Let us meet him as we may,
And turn with the light of the parlor fire
His evil power away ;
And gather closer the circle round,
When that firelight dances high,
And laugh at the shriek of the baffled fiend
As his sounding wing goes by !
—By John Greenleaf Whittier,
HER PENANCE.
She boarded the Boston sleeper at Colum-
bus, a tall girl with a figure which her
shapeless rain coat could not spoil, and
wearing, with an effect that went far to
' condone it, a flat, wide bat with a droop-
ing veil. She sank into her seat with a
pre-occupied manner which became a brown
study after the train started, and sat with
one glove half off and her eyes fixed on the
sliding landscape most of the time to
Cleveland.
She watched the jostling crowd in the
gloomy Cleveland station in the same ab-
sent way, for a moment, but suddenly she
started up, and pressed her face against the
window in an endeavor to follow some one’s
movements. Apparently disappointed, she
leaned back again in her corner, but her
reverie was broken. She glanced vareless-
ly at the passing people, and as the train
moved out sat up and pulled off her glove.
She had just slipped off her rain coat and
thrown it across the seat opposite and lift-
ed ber hands to her hat pins, when a man
appeared at the door of the car, and their
eyes met. For a moment each of them was
absolutely still, then the girl dropped her
hands and stood up, and the man hurried
to her side.
‘‘Nancy !"’ he exclaimed.
would expect to see you here ?’’
‘“Then it was you I caught sight of in the
crowd ?"’ she returned. He was holding
both her bands.
‘“‘Nancy !”” he said again. ‘‘What are
you doing here? Where are you going?
Isn’t tomorrow the dav—why, you’re go-
ing in the wrong direction, child !’’
‘““‘How can you say that, when I’ve met
you ?’’ she asked, with a little laugh and a
droop of her long lashes. He dropped her
hands and glanced uneasily about the car.
‘‘Let’s sit down,”” he suggested. ‘‘We
seem to be rather too much the zentre
ring.”’
“‘Oh, very well,”’ she responded, with
splendid indifference to the carious looks
that annoyed him, and when he sat down
beside her, she laid her hand on his arm
with an affectionate gesture. *‘I didn’t
really hope to see yon, you know,”’ she
said. = ‘‘I just thought it was barely possi-
ble that something might call you to the
station, and when I caught that glimpse of
you I didn’t really believe it was yon—I
thought my desire to see you was making
me imagine a likeness. But to have you
get right into the car—why, Ralph! I hon-
estly believe it is a special Providence !”’
‘‘A special delivery would have been
surer,”” he returned. ‘Why didn’t youn
write me?’
The girl smiled at him.
you’re here !”’ she said caressingly. ‘You
see, ‘Ralph, Ileft it to Fate. I’ve made
such ‘a tess of things myself that I simply
put it out of my hands, and here you are.
Good old, Fate; : :
He, 1goke Aker. curiously. “Now, I
wonder,”’" he began, and then broke off.
Where are you going, and how do you
happen'to be way down here? Isn’t the
wedding tomorrow, or am [——’
She nodded with compressed lips. *‘To-
morrow noon,’’ she said.
“Am I to infer——"? he hesitated.
‘‘Anything you please,’ she returned,
proudly. ‘‘Do you really imagine I'd stay
to see that woman marry wy father? T
left Chicago six weeks ago.’
‘‘Where have vou beeu ?'’ he asked.
“In Columbus, with a school friend,”
she answered. ‘“‘And I’m going to Rad-
cliffe to study?’’ .
*‘Hamph I’ be commented, looking keen-
ly at her. ‘Are you so very strong for
it?’ Her eyes fell before his.
‘‘I suppose I should add a pions D. V.,””
she returoed, lightly. ‘But that’s the place
I’m starting for.”” There was a moment’s
silence.
And who
grim little smile at the corners of his
mouth.
‘‘Naney,’’ he said at last—* ‘Nancy turn
around.”” With her color deepening, she
obeyed, but her eyes stopped at the top
button of his coat. *‘Look up,’’ he added,
‘Say please,” she murmured, defiantly.
‘‘Nancy,”’ he went on, ‘‘a year ago you
said you wouldn’t marry me.”’
‘Well, so far—’? she suggested, with a
quick arch glance up at him. He caught
her hand.
‘‘Nancy, are yon sorry ?’’ he asked. Her
eyebrows curved meditaiively ahove her
downcast eyes, but she said nothing. “Be:
cause,’”’ he went on, ‘to study at Radcliffe
—it doesn’t seem quite vour long sait, you
know.”
“Well, I decline to stay at home and
watch her pouring my father’s coffee at my
mother’s breakfast table,’’ objected the girl,
with spirit. ‘‘She doesn’t know what ma-
hogany means. You know that is impossi-
ble, Ralph. What is there for me to do? I
can’t visit my friends indefinitely—it's a
year ago that youn asked me to marry you.’’
‘You've heen away from home six
weeks !I”’ he said, ignoring her lowered
tone. ‘Why didn’t vou write me, Nanoy 2’.
“Good lack ! but isn’t this bad enough 2"
‘‘As long as i
She looked away from him toward
the window, he looked at her with a queer
she demanded. ‘'‘'I made up'my mind that
if I saw you in Cleveland hy any chance—
of course I knew they were twenty to one
against it—IL should tell you—oh, you
know ! but I hadn’t the courage to write
you. I know I treated you shamefully,
Ralph.”
“I agree with you perfectly,’”’ he said,
grimly. ‘‘But you used to whack hearts
about as if they were tennis balls, anyway.
I thought, though, that you were engaged
to that Denver man—what’s his name?
The one who comes on to Chicago every
other Sunday—Crawford, you know.’’ The
girl looked up at him with narrowed eyes.
‘‘How do you know anything abouts Mr.
Crawford 2’ she asked. ‘‘Has Flora told
you ?*’
“Well,
admitted.
‘‘Lately ?’’ demanded the girl.
“The other night when I was calling
there, she read me a part of your letters,’’
he confessed. ‘‘It wasn’t her fanlt—don’t
blame her. I hegged her to. I hadn’t
heard from you for nearly a year, and I was
hungry for a little news. It seemed as if
you were more likely to emigrate to Den-
ver than to Boston.’
‘Flora must have edited those letters, or
else she read you old ones, if you got that
impression,’’ the girl said, quietly.
‘Then Crawford isn’t in it now ?'’ the
man asked.
‘“There’s nobody in it,”’ insisted the girl
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‘Nancy, I should like to kiss you !’’ the
man said, meeting her eyes. ‘‘All this
year I have dreamed of kissing you—
ever since you jilted me so mercilessly. I
wish there wasn’t anybody else in this con-
founded car.”
‘‘Have you dreamed it often ?’’ she asked
with a little smile.
‘Night after night,’’ he declared.
*‘I believe in dreams,’’ the girl returned
softly. ‘‘I consider them prophetic.” The
fleeting side glances she gave him were he-
witching; he was holding her hand firmly,
and the harsh lines of his face softened as
he watched her, but his eyes were sombre.
‘I love you !"” he said suddenly. ‘‘It’s
the last time I'll tell you so, Nancy Bell !
I'm not going to throw my heart into your
lap again to have you pat it and pinch it
into any shape you please. You’re a flirt,
Nancy, a deadly flirt, and a man’s not safe
with you. But I love you.” The girl
looked up.
‘‘Good gracious, Ralph !”’
““You’re scowling frightfully ! Don’t be so
tragic. Have I got to go back and marry
Mr. Crawford,after all?’ He put ber hand
away with a little groan, as she smiled at
him.
‘‘You witch ! you siren !”’ he said. ‘So
Radeliffe’s only third choice and Crawford’s
within call! Got your little umbrella
right with you haven’t you, Nancy Bell!
Well, it’s wise to go prepared for all kinds
of weather.’’
‘‘It was a year ago, you see,”’ protested
Nanoy. ‘‘I’ve experienced a change of
heart, and perhaps, you know—you might
have changed your mind in the meantime.’
‘‘My mind, perhaps;never my heart,’’ the
man responded. ‘‘That’s yours, Nauecy,
even if you marry Crawford.”
‘I do not wish to marry Mr. Crawford,”’
said the girl. ‘‘I am going to Radcliffe to
study, unless—what’s the matter, Ralph?
Don’t you believe in me yet? Don’t you
understand that I want to do penance for a
year ago ?’’ She put ous her other hand and
he took them both.
‘Penance !’’ he repeated.
you mean it ?’’
“Try me,’ said the girl.
“Will you kiss me ?”’ he asked.
‘‘Here ?’’ she questioned.
‘‘And now,” he added. With a proud
indifference to the attentive andience, she
raised her lips to his. His face was very
white and hers very pink as he crushed her
bands together and rose to his feet. *‘I’m
going into the smoker to write a note,”’ he
said, and as she nodded assent, he-turned
and left her. She leaned back in her cor-
she mentioned him,’”’ the man
she said.
‘Nancy, do
careless of the interest that was patent in
the faces of her fellow travelers, as the
train rushed on through the gathering twi-
light. Presently it stopped at a way sta-
tion. She glanced up at the door as if ex-
pecting him to return, -but no one came,
and as the wheels ground on the rails in
their start, she turned back contentedly to
her window. The porter came in, button-
ing up his white jacket, and pausing by her
seat, handed her a note.
“The gemmen lef’ that foh you,” he
said. She took it uncomprehendiugly.
“Left ?’? she repeated.
“‘Yas’m; he got off last stop,”’ the porter
answered as hewent on. She opened-it'de-
liberately. : 4
‘‘Nancy, Nancy Bell,”’ it began, ‘‘I love
you. That’s all I have to say. dear. I
love youn, more even than I did n year ago.
I swore then that some day you should do
penance for your treatment of me, and I
meant, to make you, but God knows I nev-
er meant this. I thought I had forgiven
and . forgotten you, but to-day I know I
haven’t done either. 'I was a coward to put
you to the test, dear, but I'd do it again
for a kiss like that.. The Fate you conjur-
ed up—it hasn’t played fair with us.
You're the only woman in the world Nancy
Bell, and I love yon with every drop of
blood in my body; but last week I asked
Flora to marry me, and I hope I may never
see vour face again. Don’t tty to forgive
me Nancy, but don’t forget that I love yon.
RaALpH.”
She read it through twice, leaning for-
ward to get the light upon it; then straight-
ening herself up, she looked around; and
far the first time met the curious eyes of
the other occupants of the car. She chal-
dropped the pieces from the open window,
in Everybody's Magazine.
Bryan Ruled Out.
$50,000 Letter Not Admitted to Probate as Part of
Bennett Will.
The formal decision of the probate court
in relation to the Philo S. Bennett will, of
which W. J. Bryan is aun executor, was an-
nounced Friday by probate judge Cleve-
land. After the decision of Judge Cleve-
land regarding the will, made some weeks
ago after a hearing of the parties interested
the judge left to the attorneys to agree if
possible on the form of the formal decree
based on that decision. Opposing counsel,
an agreement. After reciting the known
facts in the case Judge Cleveland decrees
that neither the sealed letter by which it
appeared that Bennett expresses a desire to
give $50,000 to Mr. Bryan and family, nor
the typewritten document in the possession
of Mr. Bryan, nor the envelope containing
the letter should be admitted to probate as
part of the will. Otherwise the will was
allowed and ordered to be recorded.
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Gift Hints in Brief.
Hit or Miss Suggestions Apropos of Christmas.
To give or not to give is not the ques-
tion. ’Twere easy deciding if that were
the only worry. The great big bugbear of
a question is just what to give! And the
shops, which seem to answer so compre-
hensively, in reality, bewilder us with
their overwhelming stocks, which contain
simply everything from a penny whistle to
$10,000 automobiles. We stand dazzled.
And the more we are dazzled the less we
know in regard to the choices we would
fain make. Here, however, are some sug-
gestions; and they will be followed by oth-
erlists :
FOR A WOMAN.
A fern.
Any fine towel.
One or more drawn work doilies.
A pretty jardiniere.
One of the various fancy spoons.
A chatelaine bag in real leather.
Flannelette kimono.
A bottle of her favorite toilet water.
Handsomely hemstitched collar and cuff
set.
Cut giass for her dressing table.
A nainsook cambric corset cover.
Subscription to a good magazine.
A cozy wool shoulder shawl.
Piece of glass for the dining room.
Ab attractive hook and chain for her eye-
glasses.
Set of andirons.
A good leather purse.
A small plant—Iet it be full and thrifty.
A dozen fringed tray clothes.
Two yards of silence cloth for dining
table.
Gray finish sterling silver hatpins.
Handsome little leather coin purse.
Among novelties and fancy goods one
may mention the visitors’ book, the veil
roll, magazine cover, sewing sets, twine
bags, the new cover for recipes for cooking
and the handkerchief holder.
FOR A MAIDEN.
A book.
A silver thimble.
Seal card case.
Dainty desk calendar.
Irish crochet collar.
Stock and tie of crepe de chine.
Smart embroidered linen stock.
Pretty open work lisle stockings.
Four pair of cuffs or half a dozen collars.
Warm, long sleeved ribbed corset cover.
A rich satin rose mounted on a hairpin.
Pretty spangled gauze fan—carefully
chosen.
Dainty box for her powder and puff.
Mistletoe headed hatpin, with pearl ber-
ries.
A pretty marker for her prayer book.
An eraser to match her desk things.
A pair of party gloves.
A very good pair of kid gloves.
A dainty little pearl pen holder.
Heart shaped locket.
Brooch or chatelaine.
Pretty pair of cuff pins.
Hatpin with turquoise setting.
Pretty glove mending set.
A very pretty silver belt.
A jingly obain coin purse.
Pretty and handsome bag for party im-
pedimenta.
Any handsome buckle.
on slippers, belts and hats.
A handsome fur stole and muff.
These are used
FOR A MAN.
Thermometer.
A necktie.
A scarfpin.
Pajamas.
A business like alarm clock.
A leather belt with a buckle.
A sterling silver shoe horn.
A reading glass in a metal frame.
Printed cushion cover for his den.
! A plain down cushion, ready to cover.
A medicine case for a traveling man.
Fountain’ pen.
The ever useful key ring.
One of the convenient roller blotters.
A pair of suspenders. - .
One of the simple dressing cases.
A pair of alligator slippers.
A household atlas of the world.
A large muffler.
Pair of hath slippers.
A very good scrap hook.
A very good tag for his bag.
Straight back invoice book.
Two blade pocket knife.
Pair of knitted gloves.
Good pair of office shears.
A waste basket in willow.
Very pretty magazine cutter.
FOR A"BOY.
Blackboard.
i. A kite. ;
An umbrella.
Subscription to a good magazine.
‘A game. C3
Magic lantern.
A megaphone.
Pair of gloves.
Handkerchiefs.
Boxing gloves.
Pair of bath slippers.
A yacht that sails.
Good, strong wheelbarrow.
Football of real leather.
A muscle building striking bag.
Trim case for hie collars-and cuffs.
Pocket comb in a convenient case. .
A gold collar button.
Hat brush in handsome wood.
A needed golf stick.
Chest full of useful tools. i
All sorts of meghanical toys.
Pair of mittens. :
A cushion, rug or picture for his den.
. Printing press or typewriter. ':
.-Some replenishing to his favorite game
outfit. 5
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FOR A BABY.
A spoon.
Gold finger ring.
Gold safety pins.
* A hand~ome new cloth animal.
A gold pin. i
A very pretty silver bib holder.
A dainty cap of white bengaline.
A tame chamois animal.
Becoming. crochet cap in silk and wool.
_ Crochet sacque in wool, with dainty
silk edge.
A music ’box that *‘goes.”’
A bank warranted not to burst.
Subscription to a pretty baby journal.
A set consisting of knife, fork and spoon.
Dear little doll if she be old enough.
Go cars. :
Rag doll.
A red ruhber rattle.
Carriage hoots or dainty afghan or cush-
ion.
Porridge bowl or a handsome silver se.
Pretty little dress pins:in'silver or gold.
A gay clapping figure or a roly-poly, if
the baby is nos too young.
FOR THOSE WHO SERVE THE HOUSEHOLD.
Gloves.
A hook.
The money.
Marked handkerchsefs.
Suitable piece of neckwear.
Work basket for a girl housewife for man.
Tickets to some’ really enjoyable enter-
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THE AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE.
The appropriation hill for The Penu-
sylvania State College as passed hy the |
Legislature and approved hy the Governor,
May 1551903, included the following
items of special interest to the friends of
agricultural education,
‘For the maintenance of the Department
of Agriculture twelve thousand dollars or so
much thercof as may be necessary.
For the purpose of assisting in the erec-
tion, equipment and furnishing of a building
or buildings to be used for the purpose of in-
struction and investigation in the various
branches of agriculture and for the purchase
of all necessary apparatus therefor, the sum
of one hundred thousana dollars; provided
that, before any part of this appropriation
shall be paid, the trustees of the State Col-
lege shall file with the Auditor General
plans and specifications and estimates satis-
factory to him, showing that the entire cost
of erecting, completing, furnishing and
equipping any building or buildings upon
which any part of this appropriation is to
be expended will not exceed the sum of two
bundred and fifty thousand dollars.”
In accordance with those provisions of *
law, there have been filed with the Aundi-
tor General plans and specifications for the
group of agricultural buildings shown in
the cut, viz.
resseroms
One or more suits of good, honest un-
i
derware.
In case one gives money never fail to
let it be a bright gold piece, or an equally
bright silver piece, or a fresh, crisp bank
note.
——Mayhbe its an umbrella? The Fauble
Stores are showing the kind men like to
carry. A big variety. You will be sure
to find what yon want.
——The Fauble showing of suit cases
will help you solve the Xmas gift problem.
From a dollar to twenty ——and every price
between.
Double Murder Revealed.
Aged Buffalo Couple Found With Skulls Crushed.
Buried Beneath Woodshed—Charles Bonier, Aged
65, Arrested On Suspicion. Woman Also In
Custody.
The decomposed bodies of Franz Frehr
and bis wife, an aged couple, who dis-
appeared from their home at 338 Jefferson
street, in Buffalo, on November 20, were
found early last Friday buried beneath a
woodshed in the yard back of their house.
They had been murdered. The skulls of
both had been crushed, and a hammer,
such as would have inflicted the blows,
was found in the shed. Several hairs
were found clinging to the head of it.
A search for Charles Bonier, who moved
into the house of the Frehis on the day of
the disappearance had been begun hours
before the finding of the bodies, but the
hunt was renewed by the entire staff of
headquarters detectives as soon as word
came that the bodies of the old couple had
been found. :
On Tuesday Bonier appeared at police
court in response to a summons in a John
Doe proceedings regardiug the disappear-
ance of the Frebrs. The case was ad
jurned, and Bonier was ordered to appear-
in court yesterday, but he did not come.
It was then that the suspicion of foul play
grew stronger with the police, who bad
believed up to that time that the old
coupie had been taken away by relatives
who hoped to inherit their money.
Descriptions of Bonier were gent broad:
cast, and Friday morning Police Superinten-
dent Bull received a telephone message
from Erie, Pa., stating that Bonier had
been arrested there. Bonier is 65 vears
old.
Bonier’s housekeeper, Louise Lindholm,
is in, custody in this city: The police
found on her person gold pieces to the
value of $70. The Frehrs were supposed
to have a great deal of gold in the house.
The woman says the money was given to:
her by Bonier.
Kate Kahm, a relative of the Lindholm
woman, was also taken to a police station,
‘a ttunk in which some stuff, which had
belonged -to the Frebrs, having been found
at her. home.
The Frehrs owned another house and
lot’ besides their home in Jefferson street,
and had money in the bank. It was well
known in the neighborhood that they kept
large sams of money in their home.
The Lindholm woman was closely ques-
tioned by the police officials. She said
Bonier told her the old couple had sold
the house to him, and that they had gone
to a house of refuge to spend the remainder
of their lives. The gold found upon her
she insisted had been given to her by
Bonier.
Last spring a man said to bave been
Bonier came to them to buy their home.
He is said to have offered $2,000, which
the! Frehrs refused. On November 20th the
man moved into the Frehr house and on
thas day the old couple disappeared- A
female relative of the Frehrs called at the
house Thanksgiving day. She was told
they bad moved away. The police were
notified, and an investigation was begun,
which. resulted in the discovery of the
bodies.
—— The Fauble stores are showing wore
hath rohes than all of Bellefonte’s other
storeg, combined. The right kind at prices
hat will please
If you think a traveling bag woald
answer take a look at Fauble’s. We have
‘em as cheap and as fine as vou will want.
Ifa man or boy wears it; it’s at
Faubles.
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A main agricultural building, forming the
frons of the group;
A dairy building in the rear, connected
with the main building hy a corridor;
A building for the Respiration-Calori-
meter, connected with the main building.
Ground was formally broken for the
Dairy Building at the Annual Commence-
ment of 1903 and it is expected that it will
be available for the Creamery Course of
1904, beginning in January.
This building ir the rear wing shown in
the cut. The building for the Respiration-
Calorimeter is already in use. The con-
struction of the main building will com-
plete the group and give the College what,
it is believed, will be one of the finest
agricultural buildings inthe United States.
The buildings are in the Italian style
and continue two stories 2 dove a high base-
ment. The base is of Hummelstown
brownstone, the superstrncture of a rich
Roman brick with terra cotta trimmings.
The buiidings are being constructed in the
most substantial manner and will be fire
proof throughout. The corridors and work
rooms in the Dairy Building will have tiled
floors and a tile wainscoting 6 feet high, the
remainder of the interior finish being of
red oak. A tunnel connected with the
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
The girl with clever fingers is making
some pretty sets of stole collars and ount-
side cuffs in the colored-thread embroidery
in various stitches. Northern and Central
Europe have been ransacked for pretty de-
signs and gray color combinations.
You can purchase collar and cuff sets
stamped in desirable patterns on best linen
and then buy canvas for executing the
Russian cross-stitch embroidery, and skeins
of best imported cottons warranted to he
fast colors, with smal! book of directions
and patterns.
You can also purchase your linen, and
with the aid of patterns do your own
stamping from your choice patterns, baste
on the canvas to direct your Russian em-
broidery stitches, and so attend to the
whole matter yourself.
The long French collar is supplied with
an elongated pendant. It is corfortably
shaped to the throat, and neither rides up
ander the chin nor pinches in at the back
of the neck.
French collars can be embroidered either
with open or solid work. Yeu can buy a
Russian or Hungarian collar or cuff set,
with the work already started, for $1 a set,
and materials ample to complete the em-
embroidery.
Some of the embroidery to be applied to
silk or velvet collars is meant to be execut-
ed in solid head work.
Bead needles are to be bought by the
paper, the proper size which will not split
a tiny bead.
For school wear the regulation suit in
navy chieviof serge has no rival !
Note the young daughters of wealth and
fashion as they start for the smartest halls
of learning. As a rule they are clothed in
the regulation suit which is built of the
richest cheviot serge, than. which there is
no more beautiful fabric among the ma-
terials inteded to endure real wear. ' When
of the best quality and properly cut such a
weave is proof against that most glaring of
faults, sagging, a fault which is too apt to
appear ‘in cheap dressing. 1t is for this
very reason that the best is the. cheapest.
The cheviot adds an attractive touch of
emartness. While the regulation suit is
the first choice, many girls of 15 or more
are dressed ina Norfolk suis if it be more
becoming. The jackets of these saits are
not tight, like those glove-fitting arrange-
ments worn by some of their mammas, but
are rather square built, with belts, "which
do not confine them in
waist line. Tiny maids are most smartly
garbed on the regulation coat over a dress
of fine white linen.
A felt hat the color of the dress,
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College heating plant serves tobring high
and low pressure steam and electricity to
the building, which will he heated and
ventilated by the Sturtevant system. The
machinery will be operated by electric
power. but high pressure steam for operat-
ing steam turbine separators is also provid-
ed, while the laboratory will be supplied
with gas from a gasoline plant.
The basement of the Dairy Building
contains a room 22 by 44 ft. for inssruction
in private dairying, a workshop 21 by 35
ft., two cheese curing rooms, one with re-
frigeration, a fan room and an ice machine
room.
On the main floor is the butter room, 34
by 35 ft., and intake and wash room, a
large refrigerator, a commodious toilet and
locker room a milk bottling room and an
office.
The second floor contains a large lecture
room, 34 by 44 f6., a small lecture room,
22 by 35 ft., a milk testing lahoratory,
22 by 32 fe., and offices for the Professors
of Dairy, Husbandry and of Agricultural
Bacteriology.
Ample storage room is provided in the
atticand a large lift connects all the
stories.
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take up the veriest scrap of material which
it seems possible to fold into a seam. In
consequence pinch tucks are popular as a
finish for the lower edge of pleats or folds.
We see gowns pinch-tucked vertically
chiefly, except on the lower edge of a
flounce, where the arrangement is usually
horizontal. The fashionable cloth sleeve
is famous for its pinch tucking, but this
demands a smooth finished surface and nos
too beavy a material. A fleecy zibeline
would be very clumsy arranged in this
way. Indeed, it would be impossible to
undertake the task with ‘heavy or shaggy
dress goods.
Ladies cloth is the approved medinm,
and it can be done with voiles,camel’s-hair,
chevoits and tweeds. The diagonal weave
is not so favorable a medium for it as the
plain, soft lady’s cloth.
It is quite true that the new winter furs
and wraps repeat the drooping shoulder
lines and wide-elhowed effects of early
Victorian days. Some shoulder pieces
have shawl-shaped collars, and even these
are fringed to help the effect of drooping
outlines. Even the winter coats are pro-
vided with split collars or shoulder drapery
to carry out the 1833 idea.
Do not alter your fine furs to carry out
what may prove an epbemeral fashion.
The taste for pronounced shapes generally
proves evanescent.
A conventional shape is better for the
muff of valuable fur. It never goes out of
commission, one might say.
Roman Panch.—Put a pint of water
and the same amount of granulated sugar
in a saucepan over the fire, Let them boil
twenty minutes, then add the juice from
six lemons, add two oranges and one pint of
weak green tea. Take the pan from the
fire and set where the contents will become
cold.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a stiff
frost. Cook together balf a cup of sugar
and half a cup of water, and when it has
boiled five minutes pour in a thin, thread-
like stream over the whites, beating all the
time. When the first mixture becomes
cold, freeze Jike ice cream. When ready
for the dasher to be removed pour in the
second mixture of the whites and syrup, a
gill of sherry and two tablespoonsfuls
Jamaica rum. Turn the dasher enongh to
mix them, then remove, cover the freezer
closely and repack with ice and salt for
two or three hours until ready to serve.
Shaped roffles of cloth are noted on both
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very
simply trimmed, is the most desirable
headgear. The various sailor shapes are
most in evidence, though some of the
maidens whose families are yet staying at
country houses have ¢lung to the narrow
brim straw sailors long after it is a serious
offense for a man to be seen in one at the
Stock Exchange. Low tan shoes of finest.
calf, with hosiery to match, is another
mode which has lasted into too eold weath-
er, The trim black boot, - neatly laced,
with black hosiery, seems more suitable,
in spite of the budding damsel who insists
she is going through the winter in low
shoes and warm golf stockings. As for
gloves, the boyish-looking, red-tan, pique
sewn, heavy sort are the most approved
style.
As all may see, this simple elegance gets
away from the patchwork style of dress,
which makes many ill-dressed little ones |
look commonplace. No wonder, when
they wear a red hat, a blue dress and a |
green coat, or worse.
A corn portieres, a suggestion that comes
from Japan by way of England. It will
have to be pigeon holed until aeorn-time
comes ronnd again, when they should be
gathered in generoas fashion a Vachel be-
ng none too many. (widark’h wn cord,
heavily waxed. string long lines f acorns,
mixing the tans, hroyn, golde. yellow,
and green as fancy dictates. The nuts may
be stored into piles, according to the color
ing, and each strand threaded with ane
tint, or the lines way be variegated. When
enongh strands are finished and the ends
of each securely tied, arrange on a rod or
bit of grille-work as a portiere. If liked,
the strands may be caught together, mak-
ing, diamond-shaped squares about half-
way down their length. The portiere is
effective in a den or summer cottage.
Pinch tucks are well named. for they
handsome coats and costumes, and even on
capes.
The Christmas Greens.
There is, happily, a revival of the custom
of trimming the home with Christmas holly
and cedar, though a few years ago it had
waned to a great extent, leaving these de-
dighsful aromatic decorations to the
churches.
A wreath hung in each front window
gives an outward and visible sign of the
home’s inner joyousness, and the hall
should be decked in pungent greenery to
grees the visitor with its cheer of the sea-
son, and a holly garland, thick with clus-
tering red berries, hung on the roll be-
tween the portieres at the entrance to the
parlor. !
Is makes a beautiful effect to twine the
large pictures with cedar rope and to mass
the large vases and jars full of odorous
‘branches.
In the dining room the central window
is the place to decorate, for here house
plants can help toward the desired effect.
Have a bunch of mistletoe, with some
‘holly berries, in a tall glass vase on the
table and a sprig of cedar at each plate for
a boutonniere, all of which helps to make
the feasting bright and jolly.
The mother and father will feel pleased
and bouored to find on Christmas morning
that their children bave adorned their por-
traits, or even their mere photographs,
with symbolic green.
Also hang a bunch of it over your Sis-
tine Madonna, and in addition to the
greenery round the pictures of those gone
to their rest hang sycamore halls, as the
sycamore tree figures in all the old ‘Il
Reposa’’ pictures by the great masters.
The blueberry cedar is very effective in
some decoration and so is the feathery run-
ning cedar.
It does not require a great deal of holly
to give the brightening touch when stuck
in among the cedar, spruce and pine, and
even withont these it will give a festive
look to a room,