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‘Please, Hetty dear, don’t ask to bave a
ty this year,” said her mother. *'I
Pan 1 can do now attending to Chris.
Just rip this roffle off,
are abous.”’
So Hetty dropped the subject, except for
a scattering fire of broad hints, which were
not even recognized as hints by the family.
But, thou, » Arend at home, the theme
ly up at school.
“Isn't next Baturday your birthday,
Hetty ?'’ asked Marion at recess.
The miserable Hetty confessed that it
was.
“You'll be thirteen, woa't Jon ?" went
on the inexorable Marion. ‘Going to have
a ?
Don's bother me, Marion,” said Hetty,
with upaconstomed incivility. “I’ve just
got to finieh this map before school be-
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“Yon’ll be thirteen Saturday, won’s yon,
Hetiy 2 shesaid. ‘‘Isn’t it fun to have
your birthday come on Saturday ? You're
going to bave a party, of course ?"’
“Yes, Hetty," chimed in the eager
ouorus ; ‘‘do sei us. Are you going to
havea party
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there was n possibilisy of eveding the
uestionr. She never knew what spirit of
took sudde sion of her,
“Yes,” she said calmly ; “Iam. All of
you come Saturday afternoon at Shree
o'clock.”
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ed. When she did Boally get to sleep, her
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last waking thought was a t wish :
“She “‘just hoped there would be an aw-
Jul thunder-storm,so that the girls conldn’s
come.” .
a week. But Hetty watohed
everishiy as the hours slipped by.
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The early afternoon sped quickly.
i | was nearly three o'clock when her mother
came up-stairs, where Hesty was studying
her lessons
“Hetty,” she said, *‘I wish you would—
why, child, what have you put on your
best frock for 2”
fairly bursting with importance.
ety,” punted Emy, “is a lot of girls
rs, all dressed np—'’
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ing him out, * 've come to Hetty's
$ in the world are you children
salking ahovs 2” inquired mother, in
a vexed tone. Then, with sudden reali-
zation of Hetty’s words and her dress,
‘*Hetty,’ she said sternly, “‘did you know
gi Solo tr did,” sobbed Hett:
VY-yes, , y.
To Mrs, Macdonald, with her Southern
instincts and traditione of hospitality, that
‘‘yes’’ transformed the girls from simple
sohool-girl comrades into the sacredness of
“invited company,’’ with all its recognized
3.
**Boys,"’ she said, turning to the twins
with swilt decision, “‘go right down nnd
tell the girls shat Hetty will he there ina
minute ; I am joss fixing ber hair. And
she you some bagk ana ges on your clean
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do what I can for you ; but it is a partion-
larly inccnvenient day, and I never heard
of anythiy ~o incousiderate. Now go
downstais and entertain them, and
the parior door shut, and send Ewmy
Omy 10 me, and tell she may leave
her practising mud come to me hese.’
ing of warm comfort around her heart
which she bad not known for days ; and is
was not wany minates before the chatter
aud of she gay girls’ voices con-
vinoed Mrs, Macdonald that the party was
| well under way.
T in the , the afternoon
Py ag caught
flashing past the
moth- | Saturday alteruoon, or the
lace dress, passing around the prettiest
painted plates. Chnistine, in her pretty
new pele green mousseline, witha kpot of
black velvet high up in ber yellow hair,
was pou chocolate into the best
snd d generous “dabs’™ pi
ped cream on top o each one. There were
the moss enchanting little roiled sand-
wiches and brown aod pink and green ice
cream. There were even crackers to pull.
Bat the crowning glory was a massive
white cake in the centre of the table. Hetty
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got out her camera and ‘taken’ the
group of girls in their white frocks out on
and happy Hetty bad received
the assurance of ‘‘the loveliest time,”
“the nicest we ever bad,’’ eto., and
the last white frock bad flattered away,
the little girl flew back to the dining-
room, where her mother was busy ‘‘clear-
ing up.”
“Dearest, darling mother,”’ she cried,
“how good youn were ! I didn't deserve is !
I bad been such a sinner! Bat it was the
heautifullest real party ! How did you ever
manage it?"
Not a word did Mrs. Macdonald say
about the plans she bad given op for that
economies she
must practise to make up for the unasual
expense.
“Well, we did have to fly round,” she
said cheerfally ; ‘'bat we are so glad it
was such a suovess, for your sake, dear.”’
“I'll never ask for any more parties
again as long as I live,”’ said Hetty, con-
tritely.
“Oh, yes, you will, for agood many, I
hope. No negleot, though, to consuls
our mother first, for yon may be sare that
it is possible and she thinks it wise, you
can always depend upon her permission
and belp.”’—By Elizabeth Elliot, in 8.
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. | Received 101 Proposals When Only 14
Years Old.
‘I wae married at 14,” said an old lady.
“It was my hundred and drst I that
I accepted. Idoubs if there is another
woman alive to-day who bas had as many
proposals as I. A bundred! It is a vast
number, isn's #1?"
She looked dreamily into the fire. Then
che went on:
“My father emigrated to California in
1848 and in 1849, when the gold fever in-
flamed the land, I, a girl of 14, was on the
scene. I was, as my grandson would say,
‘Johnuy-on-the-spot.” I lived in a town
where, to one marriageable girl there were
a thousand warriageable men,
“What a happy time thar was, What at-
tentions were showered ou nie. Drives,
flowers, candy, and daily two or three pro-
posal, some written, some ural,
“The 1 [ accept: d—nunmbher one
bundred one—was nie hy the hent
old gentleman in evening dress, smoking a
cigar and drinking coffee, who ix seated at
thas little table by the window. He is
very old now, wrinkled, feeble, but some-
how he still seems straights and young and
handsome in my ie. 1 ave Sever auc
regretted accepting moposal one ha
and one,’’ said the old ladv, with a tremu-
lous langh.—New York Press.
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— Every time stifle a good impulse
you make i Pind gh 3 the vext dy
NO nest is more uncomfortable than
the one that is feathered with stolen ficery.
—— You cannot cast your care ov Him
until yon are carrying some of another's
care.
—[t's a good deal easier to regulate
this world than it is to set your own house
straighs.
—There are always people trying to
cure this world’s drought by writing es-
says ou irrigation.
~The great question is not whether
you have failed, bat whether you are oon.
tent with failure. ’
—. larity is like sixteen year old
beauty: Nice while it lasts, bus does vot
last long.
——The less experience a man has the
easier it is for Sim to fall in love.
(ar world hae always had room for
everyshing hut Heaven and love,
; —————
——Everything that strengthens home
Or eaven’s bands,
DIET’S EFFECT ON DREAMS.
Eat Fruit to Commune With Spirit
World, Says an Englishman,
A new and interesting point in the
study of the occult is being discussed,
says a London cable digpatch to the
New York American and Journal. Jt
| Is the effect of diet on dreams and com-
munication with the spirit world.
| Mount Veraon.
A Washington's Birthday Dinner,
Uader a graceful fertooning of red, white,
and blue ribbons that pass in loug, droo;-
ing lines from chandelier to walls, yous
dinner-table sparkles with silver and glass.
White liven covers the table ; in the cen:
statuettes representing mythological ohar-
fore Ws your shots for this evening.
At plate stands a silver mug to be
filled with beer. This always appeared at
the first President's plate. The folded
i fin a4 Sucks late covers dfige of bread .
our guests must they live
in a world of grapelruis and salad econrses.
For tonight shey must slip back into those
days of the seventeen buudrede when the
course dinner was an thing unknown to
fashionable America. They are to be led
out to your “‘groaviog board” upon which
the entire dinner is placed. The carviog
and serving are done hy those at the ends
of the 1 Cover with plated ailver
covers your meat and vegetables while the
soup is being served from a tareen. Oar
modernness demands a few alterations, hut
in general this is a fairly representative
menu of the seventies :
Beef sonp. Strips of bread an ioch in
thickness.
Radishes.
Rosset turkey. Baked haw with cloves,
Cranberry jelly. Celery.
Mashed potatoes. Lima beans. Stewed
toes
tomatoes.
Quince jell with cani'la frappe.
Assorted [fruiw. Nuts. Raisins,
oe.
After divver a basket containing the fa-
voix is pa-sed, and it is then that the con-
tent goes Ou——0 Contest that tries the his.
trical kuowledge of every one. These
articies are wrapped in red, white, and
blue tissaepaper, so thas the choice isa
random one, avd po one can complain that
his was more difficult to guess the mean-
ing of than avotber’s.
Each favor represents some incident in
Washiagion's career, and it is the duty of
the one who draws it to relate the incident.
Pethaps, if you are a bit tender-hearted,
vou will give your guests a bint to rub up
rusty history before coming to the dinner.
Afver the listle stories are sold and the
hostess has read from her key the explana-
tion of auy favor over which there has been
doubt and discussion, a vote is taken as to
who gave the most complete, correct, and
entertaining varration, and the prize, a sil-
ver hatchet, is awarded.
The Rappahannock house is cut ont from
cardboard and painted red witha brown
100f.
The tobacoo leaf is of cardboard covered
with green paper or painted green. Tooch
in the veins with water-color. Be careful
to cut the base in the pecaliar shape shown,
Sor shay is the distinguishing feature of the
ent.
The hoands of the ilinstration are of
china, and were purchased at a soy-store
for twenty-five cents. If you cavnot find
them readily, you may he able to sketch
them on a card.
The batton is made of cardboard covered
with gold paper, and the design drawn
with a needle-pointed pencil.
The flag a painted upon cardboard. The
stripes are and white, the oress red and
white upon a blow field.
The boat is a five cent wooden affair por-
chased in a toy . Row boats of imita-
sion ailver ean be foand where favors are
The horse can be represented by any
white horse.
ar is painted upon a disk of
cardboard.
The bam is a common design, foond
where fanoy candy boxes are sold. It costs
twenty-fus cena, If you ili it, is would
he well to let cinnamon drops represent
the traditional cherries.
The flower-basket was purchased for
twelve cents. Is was chosen for the long
handle in ure in old times. Artificial -
ere are held in place by the bending of their
own wires,
The music is written in water colors upon
a strip of cardboard.
The key is cut from cardboard and paint
ed in ink to represent its dingy iron color.
All the favors should be
white and blue ribbons, and should them-
selves be made in these colors wherever
paniivie. The following key must remain
the Rardin of 0 ms ti the goess.
ing is atan . Itcan be d upon
twelve aun aud: Jo in a pretty hand-
writing, the sirips adorned with the pre-
wailing colors, and given to the guests
the awarding of the prize to the sucoessfal
guesser :
1. The Home of Washington's Boyhovd—
Ti a aaind :
opposite Fredericksburg. Very soon after
George's birth his family moved there and
all the stories of his boyhood are associated
with this little house.
2. A Tobacco Leaf. —Washington was
known in both America and England as
the grower of the best tobacco in Virginia.
3. The Hounds —Riding after the|
hounds was al ways his favorite pastime.
4. The Bution of the Old Military Coat.—
oy mt Virginia, for which the
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22" ou the button stande.
5. The Flag that Washington Unfurled at
,—This was the vew
fime io Neiistundye command of Hie
army. rteen t
a ce ppd hus
British design was adapted for this flag.
6. The Boat that Crossed the Delaware.—
Throngh floating ice, in the night, Wash-
ington aod bis men meade their way across
the river in order to reach Trenton and at-
tack she Hessian forces. This was Christ.
| mas evening, 1776.
1
py Nelson, the Horse of the Revolution. —
This was the veteran bo of he. Washington
was devoted. They grew old together at
8. Whom Now Can We Trust 7—This wes
the grieved exclamation uttered by Wash.
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ward the key, added : “That the principles
of America opened the Bastile is vot 10 he
donbted therefore She key comes tu the
right place.”’—By Kate Hopkivs. in Har
per's Bazar. 5 .
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oLD TIME TRAVELING.
The Stagecouch In England In the
Seventeenth Century.
The first stagecoach between the two
capitals, London and Edinburgh, ap-
pears to have been started in 1658, It
ran once a fortnight, and the fare was
£4. The time taken to the journey is
not accurately known, but between
York and London it was four days.
This lavish system of communication
was not, however, kept up, as in 1763
the coach ran between London and
Edinburgh once a month only, taking
a fortnight, if the weather was favor-
able, to the journey.
In the days of stagecoaches people
sometimes clubbed together and hired
a postchaise for their journey as being
quicker and less expensive, and Secot-
tish newspapers occasionally contain-
ed advertisements to the effect that a
person about to proceed to London
would be glad to hear of a fellow “ad-
venturer” or two bent on the sume
journey to share the expense,
In 1754 a heroic effort was made to
improve the London and Edinburgh
coach. The Edinburgh Courant for
that year contained the following ad-
vertisement: “The Edinburgh stage-
coach, for the better accommodation of
passengers, will be altered to a genteel
two end glass coach, being on steel
springs, exceeding light and easy, to
go in ten days In summer and twelve
in winter, to set out the first Tuesday
in March and continue it from Hosea
Eastgate’s, the Coach and Horses, in
Dean street, Soho, London, and from
John Somerville's, in the Canongate,
Edinburgh, etc. Passengers to pay as
usual. Performed, if God permits, by
your datiful servant, Hosea Eastgate.”
—Chambers’ Journal.
IRELAND'S RUINED CASTLES.
The Green Isle Is Rich In These
Ancient Landmarks,
Ireland is rich in castles and ruins,
One of the most ancient of these is the
Grianan of Aileach, a ruin that stands
on the heights above the Swilly and
which was centuries ago the stronghold
of the northern princes.
Around this fort many battles were
fought. Hosts swarmed over the ad-
Jacent hills or fled down the river, and
in those deadly engagements scenes
were enacted that often cast a gloom
over the whole country and wrecked
the social life of Erin,
As England gained power she strove
again and again to exert her influence
over the sister isle, but warriors like
Strongbow spurned a “foreign” su-
premacy and when the battle went
rgainst them found a safe retreat in
the bogs, the valleys and the hills of
that lonely country, only to sally forth
The picturesque ruins of Sligo abbey,
built by Maurice Fitzgerald in A. D.
1253, and the more imposing propor-
tions of Donegul castle are silent wit-
nesses of a progress that proceeded
steadily in spite of these disturbances,
—Pearson’s Weekly.
Vital Heat of Vegetables.
The following are among the brief
and curious epitaphs seen: in European
cemeteries: At Worcester, i
the slab erected over a departed auc-
tioneer is inscribed with a single word,
“Gone.” In Sussex the initials and date
of the death of the deceased are fol-
lowed by two words, “He was.” On
the skill of the old this particu-
lar line. While the work was in prog-
ress the chief's son, who had reached
“Every sapling,” answered the old man,
“out of which the arrow is made has
some defect, however faultless it may
appear to be. The good arrow maker
oiling and heating, but the wood In
time will spring back because of its in-
herent defects unless these grooves are
cut In the shaft soon after seasoning
and straightening.” — Southern Work-
man. .
SOURCE OF THE MISSOURI.
Bix Rivers Joined Together Form Its
The actual head of the Missouri river .
or what should be known as such had
it been intelligently named is-De Lacy’s
or Shoshone lake, in the National park.
This lake, a considerable body of wa-
ter, is the source of the Madison river
and forms with the river the drainage
outlet for most of. the water of that
portion of the National park. The Gal-
latin, or left source of the Missouri, is
formed by two streams, the East and
West Gallatin, which unite about a
mile above its junction with the Mis-
sourl. The Madison and Gallatin are
both somewhat smaller than the Jeffer-
son,
Had Lewis and Clark ascended the
Madison instead of the Jefferson, which,
becoming the larger stream, they natu-
rally mistook for the continuation of
the Missouri, they would have discov-
ered the famous geysers in Firehole ba-
sin, Shoshone lake and all the country
which is now incorporated within the
limits of the National park. The Big
Hole and the Beaverbead rivers flow
into the Jefferson at Twin Bridges, a
few miles from the confluence of the
Jefferson with the Missouri, so that in
reality there are six considerable riv-
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commissioned officer, unaware that his
colonel was just behind, returned the
salute, a thing not permissible under
the circumstances. Arrived at his
quarters, he was surprised to find an
order for him to attend before the colo-
nel. On presenting himself he was
asked how he came to return the sa-
lute,. knowing full well he was not en-
titled to it. Not in the least embar-
rassed, he promptly answered, “Sir, I
always return everything I am not en-
titled to.” The colonel, taken aback by
his ready wit, laughingly dismissed
him, i
Sarcastie,
way and not passing the horse?” said a
London cabman with exaggerated po-
liteness to the fat lady who had just
paid the minimum fare. “Why?” she
inquired. “Because if 'e sees wot ‘e's
en carrying for a 'e'll ‘ave a
it,” was the freezing answer.
A Bold, Bad Man,
The phrase, “A bold, bad man,” now
worn threadbare and comic, belongs to
Spenser, who applied it to the Archima-
80 of “The Faerie Queene” (i, 1, 87):
A bold, bad man that dared to call by
Great Gorgon, prince of darkness and
dead night.
Self Denial.
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