Bellefonte, Pa., June 12, 1908,
CLAY FLEET.
And Marjeson?'’ Steel asked; old
“Chunky’’ Steel, as we osed to call him.
I bad run down to see him, after ten years
and we were calling the 10ll call of our old
friends.
“Married,” I said briefly. I did not
mean to say more, for he had been the
nearer friend of the two; bus Steel fixed
bis eyes on me. ‘He married money,’ I
added slowly.
*‘And lived unhappily ever afterward?”
Steel suggested.
*‘I don’s know. I never go there.”
“‘Husband’s friends not good enough for
her?”
‘Oh, no! It isn’t that. She's civil
enough. I shink she’s rather a good sort.
It wasn’t her fault—I suppose it was my
own for waking a little tin god of him.”
‘‘Ah!"’ Steel sighed. ‘‘Little tin gode
always bave clay feet, Jobnny. I suppose
he’s vo worse thau the rest of us.”
““The rest of us never pretended to be
little tino gods. We were a little better
than we made out, I think. Most decent
men are."’
Steel nodded approvingly. “We were
shy of our virtues,”’ he agreed.
*‘Marjeson wasn’t. Do you remember
bow he preached so us about ideals, and
all that sort of thing? I can see him now,
leaning forward in his chair.”
Steel shaded his eyes with his hand, as
if the memory hart him.
‘‘Most of us have ideals when we are
young. I remember that yon and I were
going to set the Thames on fire, Johnny.
Thames is still wet; and Iam a comfortable
country solicitor; and you are a comfortable
stock-broker; and we're hoth growing
stout, Johnny—confoundedly stout.”
*‘Confoundedly stout.’’ I agreed, ‘‘but
I'm going in lor golfing.”
Steel notched a fresh cigar precisely, set
it exactly in his mouth, and lit it carefully
all round. It warmed my heart to see
him do thiogs in the same old methodical
ways.
**A stout man was never a hero-worship-
er yes,” he pronounced, with his whimsi-
cal smile. ‘‘Perhaps the fault 1s in us.”
‘‘Perbaps. Do you remember how he
declaimed against Galloway for saying
that he meant to marry mouey? He mar-
ried a governess in the end! It was worse
than selling body and soul, Marjeson said.
It was cheating the buyer as well. Hang
it all, Chunky, we had a right to expect
something better from Maijeson!”
“We expect too much of our heroes,’
said Steel. ‘‘It's all very well to grumble
about the clay feet, but —— Suppose they
have clay feet. It's something to have
the heroic bust, anyhow. If a hero had
any sense—they never have!—he'd stick
out his confounded clay feet first. Then
we should worship him afterward for his
bust. I knew a fellow who did that—un-
consciously, of course. He wasn't the
kind to play up for admiration. It was
over marrying for money, too. I'll tell
you about it after you've wet him. He's
our doctor. You'll like the chap. Let's
go and see if he's in.”
We called on John Franklin, bachelor of
sargery and doctor by courtesy, and found
him at home; a handsome, happy-go-lucky
giant, but shrewd for all his carelessness; a
mao who had seen the world and knew
women and men.
I liked him, as Steel had predicted—
who should know my likings if old Steel
didn’t? —aund be seem to hike me. We'd go
for a run in his motor on Sanday aod
“have a spree,” he proposed.
‘‘While the cat's away!" he explained,
with r nod at a photograph on the table;
she porurait of a thin, pale-faced lady, with
no pretensions to heauty. ‘‘Not that the
mouse bas avy complaint to he make,”
added, with a langh. *‘It isa good little
cat!"
Then a patient called to see him, and he
excused himself for a few moments. While
he was out of the room Steel told me about
it. This 1s the story:
She was Georgina Mason hefore she mar-
ried; the only child of old Mason, the jam
man. He left ber all hus money. A lot of
fellows wanted to marry the money, hat
Georgie saw through them and torned them
all down. She was a clever girl, though she
didu’t look it, and had a mind of her own;
a little foo much wind, fora woman. I
rather liked her myself, but most men
didn’t. She bad a wonderfully sharp edge
to her tongue, and it grew sharper as she
grew older. I suppose she got a bitsoured.
Women need a man to sweeten them—or
children.
She always told me that she would never
marry, and I half-believed her. She
‘wouldn't be a mug thrown in with a
pound of tea!” was the way she used to
put it; and the rewark gives you a very
fair idea of her style.
Oue day abont a year ago she called to
tell me thas she had changed her mind.
She didn’s think any more of men, she in-
formed we, but she thought less of herself.
“I'm beginning to find myeell unhear-
able,” she stated, ‘‘and 1'd rather quarrel
with some one else! A husband is obvious-
ly the proper person for the purpose.’
‘Who is he, Georgie?’ I asked blonsly.
It’s no nse wasting time over generalities |
with a woman.
“‘I thought of Doctor Franklin,” she
said, ‘but I want your opinion, as my
solicitor.” She spoke as coolly as if she
was buying a house—or a horse.
“Don’t be a fool!” I said—you had to
epeak plainly to her in those days. ‘“‘My
opinion as a friend is that you've gone
mad.”
I suppose you claim friendship so thas
Iu can be rude,’’ she rejoined, tossing her
ead. She had a lot of airs and graces that
would bave been pretsy in a pretty woman.
*‘What is the matter with him?"
‘“There’s nothing the matter with kim,’
I said. ‘He's one of the best fellows I
know; bat he's an incorrigible flirt, and
—— Look here, Georgie, I'm going to put
it plaiuly. Is he in love with yon?"
“I'll pus it to you plainly,” she retorted.
‘‘Are any of them? I suppose’’—she langh-
ed bitterly—*I'm not an easy person to
fall in love with.”
“Umph!” I said. ‘You're all right,
if you'd give yourself a chance. You know
what I mean, you—you acid little !
Waters us e you ohoose Faanklin, of
a ple
OO ot him.”
She shut her mouth with a snap. I knew
farther argument was useless. Look at her
mouth in the photograph! So I only told
her not to be a bigger fool than she could
help, and to let me tie up her money prop-
erly. The next day I heard they were
engaged.
I must say that Franklin played the
game with her. He was very attentive,
and made a show of admiration; and
he |
never flirted a hit after the engagement, !
though he was very popular with the girls.
He was wanly over it, 100, and showed
that, if be bad sold himself, he badn’s sold
bis self-respect. He keps Miss Georgie in
order and curbed her tongue. It did ber
a deal of good. She was (rightfully gone
ou him, and would bave jumped into the
water if be had told her to. She wouldn's
even give me particulars of her property at
first to draw up a settlement. What was
hers would be his, she said, and it didn’s
matter. And she called herself a business
woman!
However, I spoke to him about it, and
be put down his foot, and said she muss.
So she uodertnok to get the details from
her stock-broker and she manager of the
jam factory. She managed her business
nerself, without consulting me. I believe
she did it very well till ashe lost ber head
over Franklin ; but a women in love is—a
woman !
She had arranged to bring the particalars
at two o'clock on Tuesday, but she came
at noon. I never saw a plucky woman so
cut up in my life. She had been swindled,
is appeared, and lost practically the los.
“1 don’t want any pity,’ she deolared,
‘‘but I want your help. Break it to—him ;
and let me get away firss.”’
“‘But—"" I began ; and she snapped
me up.
‘Youn mean that he would hold to his
bargain,”’ she said scorufally. *‘Of course
he would. He's aman! He'd even per-
jure himself, and say be only wanted me.
Me ! I—I'm vot worth having perhaps’’—
she cried for a few seconds then ; it was
the only time—‘‘but I'm hetter worsh
baving than some people think. I'm wot
bad enough to force myself on him without
any—auy compensation. Tell him so to-
worrow ; alter I’m gone.”
I told him thas afternoon, and he went
t0 bher—and perjored himesell | She
wouldn't listen to him and rushed off to
ber aunt's. She sent him a note asking
him not to pain her by any further attempt
at persuasion ; and she sent me a note ask-
ing me to let people know that he had
made the attempt, and bad made it ‘‘very
strongly, sincerely, and kindly” ! She
wanted every one to understand that he
was ‘‘honorably free.’’ She wae leaving for
the Continent on Friday, she wrore.
I thought this was the end of it ; bus
that was when the hero appeared. Frank -
lin wens up to town on Toursday morning
and got a special license and arranged with
a parson. Ou Friday morning he went to
ber aunt's house,aud carried off, her almost
by phyesicial force and married her. When
he brought her home he worked like a
Trojan at his dootering, and now he's
doing well. So perbaps it hasn't turned
out #0 badly for him.
Anyhow, the fellow’s a gentleman. I
don’t know any man who is more attentive
to his wile in public ; and I imagine he's
pretty decent to her in private, for she
seems contented enough. In fact marriage
has iwproved her wonderfully, and she's
grown almost popuolar. It's improved
Franklin, too. Trouble always does im-
prove a man ! Still, he could have married
almost any girl in the town. And a man
likes a pretty woman—even if he’s heroio.
I wonder it Marjeson —
He stopped abruptly, for Franklin re-
tarned, and we covcluded the arrange-
ments for Sunday. He bad been longing
for *‘a breakout’ for ages, he declared, and
we bachelors couldn’s realize tbe effect of
‘*a life sentence,’
‘*Even when the jailoress is a model one’’
be added, with a vod at she portrait. He
always took pains to speak well of his wife,
Steel assared me.
‘The collar pinches a bis,” Steel re-
marked, as we walk<d back to his house.
“Georgie isn’t a bad sort, in her way,
but —"'
‘‘But Fravnklin is a jolly good oue,” I
pronounced. “‘I don't know that a man
who marries for money is altogether to he
envied, after all. I think I shall go and
wee Marjeson sometimes, poor old chap.
He'll be glad to have a spree, t00,n0 doubts,
Tbere’s one comfort. He can’t preach to
we now about bis ideals.”
‘Ideals are troublesome things,” Steel
remarked, ‘‘hut your own are worse than
other people's. I remember sometimes how
vou and I—but we've ountgiown them,
Johony. We're stousr— confoundedly
stout.”
‘Comfortably stout,’’ I corrected ; aud
we both laughed npioariously. It wade
we feel young aud oheeifuil again to be with
old Seeel. You have to pick up friends at
the begiunivg of you: journey. They don’t
lie about the road afterward.
I'his was on Friday. On Saturday we
went to see a leeal crickes-matoh. Frauk-
lin was playing. He had given np cricket
for motoring with his wife wince he mar-
ried, Stee! said, and only played because
she was away. He made sixty-swoand sook
four wickets, and everybody was enthusi-
astic about bis reappearance, and especially
the girls. Pretty gitle some of them were,
and one who talked to us called him *‘poor
Doctor Fiankhn.”
In the evening he came to Steel’s to
play bridge, but she fourth failed us. So
he sat and told us stories that made us
hold our sides ; and he laughed as heartily
as we did.
“I baven’t told them for nearly a year,”
| be said ‘‘so they amuse me. Now and then
I try to Bowdlerize one for Georgie —that's
my wife, you kuow'—he looked at me—
“and she makes a gallant effort to be
amused.” He roared at the recollection.
‘Bat, of course, she isn’t ! There's just
one advanta-e that men have over women.
They have a sense of humor. A woman
basn’t. Did yon ever know one buy a
comic paper, for example ? I never did.”
Then he sat down to the piano avd sang
comic songs—seongs that were really comio.
‘It brings back the old bachelor days,”
he declared, when he had finished.
“They’re awful rubbish, of course, but—
well, they're a change. I've been singing
classical musio lately. My wifeis a good
rousician, and she thinks she has dis-
covered that I havea voice. She's always
discovering virtues in me. It’s a hard life
living up to all the virtues. But I suppose
they grow by exerocise.’’
Steel shook his head when Franklin bad
gone ; and I shook mine.
‘Poor old fellow I" he said. ‘‘Poor old
fellow | She means well hy him, too. It’s
hard lines tor her, as well.”
‘‘He wou’s let her find out,” I said.
*‘He’s too good a fellow.”
Bat Steel shook his head again.
‘A woman always finds out that,”’ he
insisted. ‘‘She doesn’s let him know that
she has found ous. That's all. She's plucky.
Poor old Georgie 1"
I shook my head again.
‘Poor old Franklin !"’ I corrected.
‘‘Anyhow,” Steel observed, ‘he'll! he
able to have a good time to-morrow. He'll
know that we won't tell.”
The next morning Franklin drove up in
the snorting car punctually at nie, manag-
ing it like a professional. He laughed, as
usual, when we came out ; but it struck
me that be was not quite at ease.
“I say, you fellows,” he asked, rather
sheepishly, ‘‘do vox care very much which
way we go ¥'
I nudged Steel and Steel nudged me. He
bad some old flame to look up, we thooghat.
“You shall choose,” I offered. ‘‘It’s
your Sunday oas.’’
“Well,” he said slowly, “I was thinking
that it's nota bad run to London. The
roads are better, and —and my wife's auns
would give you lunch. She—she’s staying
there you know. My wife, I mean.”
We stared at each other for ten fall
seconds in blank amazement.
*‘I—we thought—yon were going out for
a apree ?'’ Steel said, at length.
Fravklio flashed and laoghed uneasily.
“Ye-es,”” he agreed, ‘‘bus—I thoughs is
would be rather a surprise for her.”
I looked at Steel again, and Steel looked edncation. It has been their aim to raise | Waists. A few morning mushins. A sailor
at me. There was such a thing as carrying | the staudard of the schools, and they are bat for sports aud country wear.
sell-sacrifice too far, we thought.
‘She hasn's been govea week,” Steel | advancement ba- heen made along this line. | D00D has with aigrette or flowers.
eaid at length. “She won't miss you for
one Sanday.”
Fraoklin looked him quickly in the eyes
and set his mouth firmly. What s strong |
mooth it was ! Then he suddenly swiled.
*‘It is I who miss her,’ he said simply ;
and Steel drew a deep breath ; and they
stared at each other.
“I'm glad it’s like that, old man,” said
Steel presently. ‘‘I—I thought— Let's
shake hands.”
They shook bands ; avd I shook hands;
and then —we broke the speed limit ali the
way to London.
Mrs. Franklin was sitting at the window
reading when we drove up. I thought her
a pale, severe, unprepossessing woman, till
he tooted the horn, and she looked up.
Then she dropped the hook and langhed
and ran. He jumped out of the car and
ran, too. She wae flashed and smiling,
and positively good-luoking when she came
forward to greet us.
‘,How very kind you are to let Jim come
and see me!" she said. ‘How very, very
kind!"
“I can understand now why he was so
anxious to come,” I told her; and she
laughed merrily.
“I am not used to being flattered,’ she
said. ‘So I like it very much! Mr. Steel
thought that Jack was quite heroic to
marry me."’
‘‘And now I think he’s only—hbappy.” |
caid Steel. There was a very kind look
about bis eyes.
When I returned to town I called to see
Marjeson.
with Steel; and that led us on to old
times; and at Jast I asked him about his
ideals; and he shrugged his shonlders.
‘‘Ideals are fragile things, Johuny,’’ he
#aid. "They get broken. But'’—he leaned
forward in his old impulsive way—‘‘there’s
one for keeping; just one for every man, if
he can find it. I've found mine, thank
Heaven!" He picked up a little photograph
of Mrs. Marjeson!
Alter all, she is a pretty little woman;
and a man might easily like her withous
ber money. I ought to have thought of
that before, knowing Marjeson.
grasp when I shook hands with her, and
smiled up at me quickly. She is a very
bright little thing.
“Yes?” she asked.
“I have found out something, Mrs.
Marjeson,” I owned, ‘‘but please don’t
ask me!”
**No," she agreed. ‘‘I won't ask yon.
Some day you will meet some one; and
then you will find out how little money is
—I shall laugh if she has money!"
‘I shall be ahle to laugh, too,” I said,
*!it she is like you.”
She was. It was Mrs. Marjeson’s sister.
I met her there that evening, and proposed
within the week. She smiled at me when
they told her thie story.
‘Iam glad you have clay feet,’”’ she
said. ‘‘Enough of earth for loving !"’ she
added, when we had walked away from
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We do mot deny that in the days of
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sition inferior to that of man, although
as mothers they were regarded with
the highest respect and devotion. But
those days are gone, and today our
daughters are given full freedom to
live and act with perfect equality as
their sisters of the west, while our
mothers retain their old positions of
honor und esteem.—Japan Times.
Siege of Gibraltar.
There have been many sieges of the
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the combined land and sea forces of
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Answered.
“Do you dance on your toes, Miss
Quickwit?”’
“Never, Mr. Clumsey, Other people
do that for me.”
And he didn't know just what she
meant untill he tried to get another
dance with her.
Very Handy.
Closefist—It cost me over $3,000 to
give Harry that course in Industrial
arts. Herdso—But he must be quite
wandy with his tools now? Closefist—
Yes, and the first job be did was to put
up awnings on the shady side of the
| house
Itold him I had been down |
High School Scholars as News Writers.
Following are the remaining three items
submitted by the pupils of the Bellefonte
High school in the George R. Meek literary
contest :
| THE ADVANCEMENT MADE BY THE PUB.
LIC SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY.
ANNA DAWSON.
The question which bas been continually
on the lips of the people of Centre Coanty
| for the last few years, is the question of
{certainly getting it accomplished. Great
| Only ten years ago there were very few
| High Schools in the county. These were
! in the largest towus such as Bellefonte and
Philipsburg. These schools were not very
| well equiped. They bad wot very many
| teachers and bad only a few hooks. Then
the yoaug people had to be contented with
| a common school education ualess their
| patents could aff rd to sevd thew to college.
| But very few had the means to go to col-
| lege, so thus there were a great many who
| just got a taste of education.
| Now besides there being only a few
| High Schools, the Primary and Grammar
| Schools were not nearly as far advanced as
| they are to-day. There were only three or
four months school iu some places. They
| just taught a few branches and the child
| teceived very little knowledge.
Now in the last ten years a great step has
{ been taken aloug this line. Great progress
| bas been made towards haviog a better
school system through the county. Nearly
| every townehip bas vow a High School
which is well equiped with teachers. The
| higher branches are taught here and the
; scholars bave a good chauce to ges an edu-
cation,
| Besides the progress made in town-ship
| Behools, there has heen advancement made
in the borough schools, especially, the
High schools. Many improvements have
| heen made. New High Schools have heen
| huilt, A larger staff of teachers are em-
| ployed by the schools. Recently a change
| bas been in the line of studies in the High
| Schools. Some of the higher branches of
mathematics, snch as «olid geometry and
trigonometry, have been pat into use in
| these schoole. Every year these Schools
| prepare many young people to enter col-
| lege and also to secure a teacher's certifi-
| cates. Then great improvement has heen
made in the Primary and Grammar schools.
| New studies have been introduced into
| these schools. Some of the studies are
| Painting and Nature Study. It certainly
|
| has been a good thing for the children.
| They now take more interest in school
| work and are profiting by is.
| Now if the children of Centre County
| grow up in ignorance, it certainly is their
Mrs. Marjeson noticed the change in my | own
{ fault. Bat we most sincerely hope
| that all children will have enough interest
tn get a High School education. It, indeed,
has heen a good step and the county should
| prosper by is.
Tre FrLoons oF THE SPRING OF 1908.
MARY SHOWERS.
The excess of snow and the heavy rains
during this spring caused several floods
which did a great deal of damage to Cen-
tre and adjoining counties. There were
many minor floods which did slighs dam-
age to property but those which caused
greatest havoc occured February 15, and
March 19.
These floods both destroyed a great deal
of property aud rushed into factories and
mills to sach an extent that in several of
the mills of Bellefonte work was suspended
until the water subsided.
The first of these floods occurred Satar-
day February 15, 1908. This flood was
the least severe in Beliefonte but in the
north eastern part of the county it was the
most destructive of the two. In Bellefonte
work was suspended in the Bellefonte lum-
ber Co’s mill and at the [factory of the
Bellefonte Match Co. daring the afteracon
of the flood.
The waters of Spring Creek rose ahout
six feet in several hours. It sweps through
Centre county carrying with it small
hridges and any other small objects which
could be caught by is.
The second large flood occarred March
19, 1908 and caused greater damage than
the one which occnrred February 15. On
Wednesday evening March 18, the water
was not much above its usual height but
until the morning of the 19, the water had
risen to a great height and several of the
factories of Bellefonte were again ehat
down. A great deal of property was de-
stroyed by the high water. The wall un.
derlying the stone walk on Water street
was partially torn ous and the pavement
rendered impassible for a time. Great daw-
age was also done to the Centre County
Fair Grounds. The stables which were on
the Fair Grounds were carried ous of their
places and deposited in a corner almost op-
posite so where they had been. The fence
was torn away from around the race track
and the track was covered with sediment
which had heen oarried by the water.
Many pavements of Milesburg were taken
away and much damage done to other
property. The recent rains have raised
the water to aslight height but not enough
to do any damage.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN AND AROUND
BELLEFONTE.
SARA F. BARNHART.
Daring the last two years there have
been great improvements made in and
around Bellefonte.
One of the greatest of these, was the
building of the State Road between Belle-
foute and Milesburg. Before the building
of this, the road between the two places
was very rough and uneven. It is a road
on which a great deal of travel.
ing is done, and now, since the building of
this road it is very pleasant to go driving
on this thoroughfare.
Another great thing done for the oom-
munity, was the laying of the underground
drainage pi All but one or two streets
are supplied with this drainage, and it is
a great benefit to the town as it prevents
the water from forming streams and run-
ning down the middle of the street.
r. Hughes, head master of the Belle-
fonte Academy is also making a great im-
provement. This is the building of the
new athletic field which is located on the
outskirts of the town.
Weare also receiving improvement in
the form of amusements. Within the last
year a theatorium bas been started in the
Petriken hall, which attracts large crowds,
and an Electrio Theatre has been started in
the Opera house,
In these two places they have life mov.
ing pictures,
Bellefonte, as a whole is receiving great
improvements in every line.
| FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. |
—The cranberry vine blossoms in Jase.
: —Do not let the breeding sows get too
at.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Let today suffice today, |
For itself tomorrow may
Fetch its loss,
Aim and stumble, say its say,
Watch and pray,
And bear its cross.— C. G. Rossetti,
—Sommer pinching is very satisfactory
for raspberries.
—Separate the brood sows as soou as they
begin to get heavy.
SHE'LL NEED FOR THE SUMMER. | —Always select the young sows from the
A liven suit. Several pretty dancing | most prolific old ones.
frocks. A gown for luacheon, church and | ;
for bridge parties. A lightweight snit for | wary Pigs are more profitable if the
chilly days and travel. About eight shirs. SPPliauces are right for good care.
| —Never use a scrub sire. His pigs will
A street ' always be sorubbier than he is himself.
bat with quills and ribbon chou. An after- | —Keep a careful record of the date of
; breeding. This will be a guide in feeding
| and care.
—The principal dairy breeds are Hol-
stein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire and
| It is a season in brilliancy in footwear. |
| Ail that can he thought of 1s she fashion.
| Stockings of every bue to match the | t
| marvelous colors used in costumes are | DFOWD Swiss.
| worn, Strange tosay the colored shoe is | —Itdoes not pay to breed for early
| not as much in fashion as last summer, | pigs, and then lose them all on account of
| but the variety in black and tan makes ap | improper bandling.
for its absence.
Coral pumps as well as turquoise bine
| ones are worn in the hoase or for dressy |
afsernoon occasions with fine wuite frocks |
| or ones of coral aud blue.
—Keep a record of the number of pigs in
each litter. It doesn’t pay to rely on mem-
ory in these things.
The dark green and the lapis lazail blue
| that was so popular last year have nos
| made their appearance. However, some
| well-dressed women have these pumps
| made to order to match suits of that color.
For instance, a green linen coat and
skirt looks very well with bottle green
stockings aud pumps with leather buckles,
and the sapphire blue linens and mobairs
with stockings to match.
ARTISTIC TAN SHOES,
The popularity of the russes oxford and
pump bas not waned. This fashion holds
1s own with the shittwaist. Every season
one hears it is going out, and every season
sees it fully intrenched.
There are three favorite styles. The reg-
ular oxtora which ties at she instep : the
low oxford with only two eyelets and the
three-cornered tongue, whioh ties just
above the toes, and the pump with a tiny
buckle avd a forked tongue above.
The plain pump without the tongue is
also worn, but it is pot quite as much in
first style as the other. It is used for gen-
eral walking and comfort wear.
The toes of all three are moderately
pointed and the heels of all are high,
straight Spanish—the best heel yet made
fashionable.
While the pump is the coolest and the
most hecoming low shoe, it cannot he worn
with comfort by hosts of women. These
have straight heels and thin heels, and she
back of the shoe slips at every movement.
Not only does walking become more dif-
ficult ander this strain, for nne cannot he
sure-footed when the foot is strained to
keep the shoe on, but it also wears out the
eniire heel of a pair of stockings in one
day.
The oxfords are the most comfortable shoes
made, bus they are not dressy. They do
very well for street an' morniog, for
short skirts and linen suits, but they do
not look well with a frock of thin material,
whether or not the skirt is long.
The low shoes with two eyelets and a
broad ribbou how are more dress and can
be worn with thin frocks, although, if one
is correct, on: gets a pair of the pumps
| with the elaborate buckles and pointed
tongues.
on as trimming, but they are not to be
advocated for the woman who wears over a
No. 4 shoe. While stylish they do make
the foot look larger.
The soft tan leather which is in style
this season is far prettier to use without
any ornamentation. Its softness gives it a
dressy appearance, and makes it fit to wear
for social occasions in the afternoons.
WEARING COLORED STOCKINGS,
Tau shoes still carry tan stockings, al-
though women of fashion have no hesitancy
iu wearivg oolored stockings to match the
gown combined with tan shoes. It is not
a very pretty fashion, hut it i= correot.
With black pumps of all kinds colored
stockings are widely worn. To be correct,
however, they should match the color of
the skirt. When this is white or linen
colored then black stockings are best, al-
though both green and blue ones are
worn.
The light tones should not be put with
black slippers. They should be kept for
low shoes of their own shade.
For a long time now we have given a
very lukewarm allegiance to one of our
staunchest allies in the millinerial world,
namely, the ostrich *‘tip,”’ which cost in-
finitely less than the long Pine, and
when recurled and steamed, did yeoman
service long after the original hat is adorn-
ed had heen consigned to the limbo of the
past. Nowadays, however, it is once again
coming to the fore, some of the new hats
being entirely smothered iu these minia-
ture feathers, which conceal both crown
and brim alike, and render any additicoal
decoration entirely superfluous. As a rule,
the tips are dyed in a tone contrasting with
the basis of the hat, avd all manner of
striking schemes are evolved in this con-
nection.
Really, the new pocket handkerchiefs
seem to be nothing less than scraps of fine
gingham, hemmed. For there is not even
a pretension of a horder in many cases, as
he 'kerchief is just a bit of striped ging-
am,
Stripes are newer than checks, though
handkerchiefs of the latter certainly bei-
ter suggest the real thing.
The iy however, are the hess sel-
lers. These colored accessories can be
bought as low as 75 cents the half dozen,
while very dainty, sheer handkerchiefs
showing button-holed, scalloped borders
sell for 25 cents.
It goes withont saying that colored
handkerchiefs are not for dress wear.
LUNCHEON HAM.
Fill a mediam-sized baking dish with
alternating layers of stale bread and cold
chopped ham. Cover with two cupluls of
milk well mixed with three beaten eggs.
Salt to taste, and bake one-half hour.
A DELICIOUS CUSTARD.
Into each individual custard cup pat
the yolk of one egg; add one heaping tea-
spoonful of sugar, two gratings of nutmeg
and five tablespoonfuls of sweet milk. In-
corporate thoroughly, and set the cups in
a pan of water. Bake in a moderate oven
until firm. When cool, cover with a
meringue, using the whites of the eggs for
this purpose, and allow one tablespoonful
of powderd sogar to each egg. Through
| the very tiptop of each snowy mound drop
| a teaspoonful of orange marmalade.
| are equaily set off by the dark blue pumps, |
Some of these have stitched bands out}
—Each farm in the United States, ac-
| eording to the Government census, averages
i $10 for commercial! fertilizers.
| —~In using a fertilizer tor fruit trees let it
| contain a sufficient amount of potash. An
! apple is about one-half potash.
| —The United States Government ex-
| pends nearly a quarter of a million dollars
| to gather the crop reports of the country.
—By successive replantings and a little
, extra attention, radishes, lettuce and va-
| rious other vegetables can be had fresh all
| summer.
| —A nice full-bred hog gives the farmer
| who takes care ofl ita great deal more
pleasure than one that has nothing attrac-
| tive about it.
—Look well to it that the mother hogs
| bave the driest, most comfortable quarters
| ible. This often tells the story of the
ittle rooters she is able to bring to mark es
| for you.
|
| —Wood ashes not only help to keep
| borers from the roots of trees, but the trees
| make a bealthier and more vigorous
| growth and bear much sounder fruit when
they are used.
| — Pregnant animale should receive laxa-
tive, cooling feeds for a week before de-
| livery. Bran is one of the very best feeds
| to give to any animal for a few days before
| she drops her young.
—Beets and carrots for the winter supply
| should be sown, according to locality, from
| Jone 10 to July 1, and in some localities
even a little later, and the culture is essen-
tially the same as for parsnipe, eto.
— Well sifted coal ashes are excellent as
loosing material for clayey soil that is too
i dense. They also convey a share of chem-
| ical plant food to tbe roots. They are high-
| ly obnoxious to earth-inbhabiting grubs.
—Soapsuds will discourage caterpillars,
rose aphis and scores of other bugs. Ap-
| plied in a thick lather to the stems and
leaves, they will often make is unnecessary
| to resort to the more heroic remedies, such
|. kerosene emulsions.
—Do not work the life out of your land,
your mules and yourself by thinking of
{only the next crop ahead and not of the
! soil. Keep so much vegetable matter in
| the soil that it will work easily and soak
| up water and hold it for dry periods.
—Never water trees in dry times by sim.
! ply pouting water on the surface of the
| ground, as this hardens the surface and
| causes the soil to dry out all the faster. A
| hollow should be formed to receive the
water, filling is up again when the water
has soaked away.
—A queen hee lays ahout 3000 eggs a
day, and from the egg to the matured bee
{ is about 21 days. At the age of 37 days it
| will gointo the fields, and the life of a
worker is 45 dave, so that to have working
colonies when flowers are in hloom is one
| of the most important points in enccessful
beekeeping. ®
—Twenty vears ago there were only 100
silos in use in the United States. There
are now nearly or quite 600,000. Silage
feeding was at first limited to dairy cows.
Now it is fed largely also to beef cattle, but
the great increase has heen in the dairy
line, as it bas been found that silage is al-
most indispensable as cow feed.
—The following garden orops can he
sprayed with Paris green: Cabbage for cab-
bage worms; cucumbers, squash, pampkins
and melons for the striped cucumber bug;
tomatoes for the tomato worm. Spray the
potato with Paris green and Bordeaux for
the Colorado beetle and flea beetle, when
they appear. This spray will also prevent
the potato blight.
—The Secretary of Agricolture an-
nounoce= that last year the poultry products
of the United States were valued at $600,-
000,000. This is $100,000.000 greater than
the value of the wheat crop for the same
period, and exceeding the combined value
of the oat crop, the potato crop, the rye
crop, and the flaxseed crop by $1,000,000.
Only three crops exceeded products in value
-——corn, hay and cotton.
—1It is said that the chestnut tree lives
860 years; the oak, 1600 years, and the yew,
2880 years. A white pine will measure 25
feet at 20 years and gain 25 feet more in
the next 10 years. An oak of average size,
with 700.000 leaves, lifts from the earth
about 123 tons of water during the five
months it is in leal. The smallest tree in
the woild is the Greenland birch. [Its
height is less than three inches, yet it covers
a radius of éwo or three feet.
—Milk weighs about 8} pounds to the
gallon, varying a little according to the per-
centage of solids. Cream will weigh about
8 pounds to the gallon, varying some ac-
cording to the percentage of butter fat.
The richer the cream the less it weighs.
Pure butter fat weighs a little less than 7§
pounds to a gallon. Liquids expand when
heated and contract when cooled. A gal-
lon of milk or cream when heated will be
less than a gallon when cooled.
—If a sow has fever at farrowing time
and eats her pigs, it is your own fault, not
hers,
Keep her active, give her a laxative diet,
no corn, and plenty of pure, olean water to
drink, and there will be no tronble.
You will be the gainer by working for a
good, big frame now. Let the aotual work
of fastening go for a while, —till warmer
weather comes. Yon can.make pork then
a good deal faster than yon can now.
What ! Sweep the hog pen ? Yes that is
what one of the best hogmen does every
single day. Do yon think he would keep
it up if he did not think it paid ¢