. system in this central India is wonder- ! ful and the greatest, so I am told, in the i world, and I can assure you no native done it alone; they | would rather sit down and smoke. | There are some educated ones true, | but generally, the education has not gone \ wii . ' deep enough nor been a family posses- Te waa | sion long enough to give the holder one On the maps of the world you will find it not— | thing except a bombastic idea of his own *Twas fought by the mothers of men. | importance, and we get the most marvel- Ney ok witksCangon, 4% Bas sho, ous letters, demanding all sorts of things rd or Tr pen; —from having our temperature charts Neat wonderiul men, | COpied, to sending them signed. _prescrip- . . | tions of all the medicines we have and But deep in» welled up Woman's hean. | are using on a certain case. Truly itis Belletonte, Pa., August 1, 1913. THE BRAVEST BATTLE. A woman that would not yield, Y But bravely, silently bore her part, funny, if it did not make me so terribly Lo, there is that battlefield! angry, that I just wade in and tell a few No marshaling troop, no bivouac song: what I think (by way of an interpreter) No banner to gleam and wave; and either the poor nurse is so scared he But, oh! those battles they last so long— From babyhood to the grave. Yet, faithful still as a bridge of stars, She fights in her walled-up town, Fights on and on, in the endless wars, Then silent, unseen, goes down. O ye with banners and battleshot, And soldiers to shout and praise. 1 tell you the kingliest victories fought Are fought in these silent ways. Oh, spotless woman, in a world of shame! With splendid and silent scorn, Go back to God as white as you came, repeats verbatim what I say, or my face and voice must convey the meaning, for they meekly subside and I march out. Seven o'clock and I am off to see how the patients are. Again itis a good-morning, and al- though not dry nor dusty, still a fairly | fine day to live in. Ihave been invited to a tea party at a “Begums” today, but am going to send my regrets; it is too hot to take food in a stuffy, small place without a “punkah” and it will The kingliest warrior born. — Joaquin Miller. | Mean several hours anyway, and [I can- su— not afford to swelter even for one minute FROM INDIA unless I have to; it makes me too | grouchy, you see by that I have not gain- ed any in “grace.” | Dr. MecMillan had a bad attack of fe- | ver this week, but she went to bed ear- | ly and stayed for two days so I guess | that is the reason she did not have a JHANSI, JuLy 26th. | longer siege. Having gotten up a lot earlier than The army folks are energetic this usual, since the wet weather came, and | morning as practice-shooting has been wanting to chat awhile, here am I writ- | going on since five o'clock; it seems al- ing this to you before six o'clock, with | most as though heavy blasts had been what looks to be a gorgeous day in front | put off. of us; they have been few since I perhaps told you how badly most of the rains started—in fact, I think none. | these bungalows leak, and it reminded As they say we are fortunate this season | me of the time the roof was off our in having rain nearly all the time so that house. I understand that the wind there has not been a true clearing day; | blows the tiles off and of course down since everything is unusually wet you | comes the rain, as through a sieve. Itis can well imagine how it will feel when! well there is not much of value in this thehot tropical sun comes out in full | Place or it surely would be ruined, but force. 1 must tell you that you never | One need not worry on that score in this saw such variations of the way it can house. It seems so strange, in a place rain as we have had here and I believe it | that has been a home for women for ten is the wettest rain I ever saw for even if | or twelve years, to find it so absolutely it looks like a mist you go out and are | empty or so much of no value, and soaked in a few minutes, unless you are | yet each night it is locked up, much bet- well protected. | ter than our house at home; I guess to Things don’t and won't dry here; yes- | keep bats and bugs from going in as the terday I picked up a pair of white shoes | only other intruder I have seen is a big that | had been wearing, to find them | white bullock that insists upon grazing _ green with mould and the shoe trees in- | on our compound and tiring of other places side were covered with rust, being metal. | decides to come to the bungalow about Your clothes mildew and sour over night | 4:30 a. m., and snuffs and snorts until and the mosquitoes and flies, which had | I have to call the “chow-kadir” and tell entirely disappeared during the hot | him to drive the beast out of the yard, weather, have returned in renewed force | which puts me out of sleep, and and show their appreciation of you by |you know why Iam up so very early leaving you neither day nor night, so, some mornings. that the “punkah” does double service; | (Continued next week.) keeps this hot, moist air moving and keeps these pests from making you wish | to commit suicide. Of course, you sleep | [In the June Woman's Home Companion under a net at night and you do have Frank A. Waugh writing about “The peace, although the other morning I Flowers in Nature’s Garden” says in counted nine mosquitos sitting on the | TY ere are two or three practical gar- outside of my net right in front of my | dening lessons which the wild flowers in nose, just waiting to get a good bite; | the fields have long been trying to teach you see 1am nice and green and juicy. | U8 and which are too frequently missed. 1 want to tell you what these rains are i One 12 the a0 OLY 0. Rlufs is . r- hike generally, so I am told; there will | cups cover a whole meadow that they be one hard rain a day and then the sun | begin to be truly worth while, A quar- d | ter section of sunflowers, as 1 have seen iy ot an Aree Flo Gaye gO pas} | them in Kansas when the owner of the ;any may be several | jand was running for the Legislature, is weeks will pass while you simply swel- a glorious sight. One of the most strict- ter, or perhaps it will rain deluges for 'ly magnificsit floral displays I Sar Fav two or three days and then stop for a| Was in a wide swamp in Lanaca. tere long tithe, so that this year, with ts. dal. | Sacre were dugens of acres thickly set ly rains and long cloudy days has been | you! Acres of orchids! And every blos- unusually fair for in truth the heat is |som more splendid than the hothouse much lower and one can sleep well at | orchid which Algernon sends to Gwen: night, for it is nice and cool even if damp. | dolyn for the theatre party. By One on Medical Duty in that Far Eastern Country. The Beginning of the Wet Seasc™, Regular Down-Pour. Flowers Before Leaves. Quinine Eaters. Good Roads Here. Dear Home Folk: Imagine 180 Acres of Sun Flowers. Everything outside looks as though in a forcing house and the vines, especially the “four gauvilla,”” which have looked | so dead are all in full bloom, and the archway into the garden is a mad riot of purplish-red flowers. The bushes that are in this garden all seem to want to bloom before putting on their green coats so that each way you look is a white or | yellow bush with a suggestion of green underneath; it is a beautiful “world and the murky-hot heat does produce splen- did results in the flower world The vegetables, being annuals, fare less well since the rain washes the seed out as fast as put in, so that we can only dream of the early spring things you get in June. To offset this, the dispensary is full of colds and bronchitis, and quinine. Gra- cious! They must produce it in tonefrom | the amount that is used in our hospital. Everybody takes it, and I tried to follow the other's lead, but guess I am not a good Indian yet, as a five grain dose set my head ringing and made me so dizzy 1 could scarcely walk the next day so Ii am going in for a milder preparation. i I wish you had the roads of India. Even with these hard, hard rains and small freshets every day I have seen no washouts any place around here and they are as smooth and level as a floor. 1 do not think these are natural to this country, for it is just the contrary. The usual native road you would put down to being made by a creek and when it dried up—well, we just drive down :he center—rocks, holes and all. has surely spent and is spending much money in this part of the world and of course she is said to derive a big reve- nue from India. 1 guess it is true, but I wonder whether it really would be 80 large if evened up, for the irrigation “Frequently I see in man-made gar- dens a single plant of some sort—peony, phlox, or even golden glow—and it al- ways looks to me both stingy and ridic- ulous. Were it a nurseryman’s collec- tion of samples the single nts might be justified, like the swatches of dress goods samples which Frederika has sent out from the department stores when she conspires toward a new dress. Should she sew the samples together and let that be her gown, she would be following in her dressmaking the same principle which some folks follow in their garden- ing.” How a Girl Can Fasten Her Veil. The following is taken from the June Woman's Home Companion : . “Fastening a veil around a large hat 18 one of the trials of a girl's life; either holes and the pins come out or there are a general untidy appearance. “Take a long thread of heavy sewing | “Ps silk the color of the veil, run it in large stitches around the veiling, then put it loosely around the crown of the hat, fastening the ends at the back, and ad- just the fullness evenly. “When the hat is put on, pull the veil down, pinning it in the back, and you have a properly arranged veil which will stay, as it can remain on the hat until the veil is renewed, if you so desire.” She Knew Harry. “Now, Harry, go to Smith's, the ” TRE pion. Hg eb ond geet is Mother, and she Handed the young a couple of good-sized hen the boy had gone the vicar’s ie “You didn’t tell him to get anything in he other jug. Is he going to leave it at op “No, ma'am; he’s going to bring it n. England | back here agai “But why send two jugs to get a pound of syrup?” “Well, you see, it's this way. If he has a jug in each hand, he can’t go dip- his finger in the syrup and eating it as he comes along.” A w=Have your Job Work done here. — i FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. 1 hate inconstancy—1 loathe, detest, Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast No permanent foundation can be laid. - ~—Byron. New York.— than ever at the bottom, but with an eight-inch slit to allow locomotion and looser at the top to make sitting down a graceful possibility | ing is the edict for women's skirts evolved from the deliberations of the National Association of Women’s Tailors, which | has ended its convention here. A wrag- Ble oves the session of the delegates six but the scant skirt advocates prov- ed victorious. All skirts will be elabo- rately draped. A “cuff,” like those on men's trousers, will finish the skirts around the bottom, | and, what is more, in the three-piece suits, which will be correct, the waists of em chiffon or net will have straps of the skirt material in suspender effects. The pistol pocket suit, made in black and white cloth, with coat trimmings of | green velvet, which was displayed, show- | ed two patch pockets, one for pistol, the | other for powder, corresponding to a | man's back trouser pockets and covered by the coat tail. : Coats will be cutaway, 36to 41 inches | long. Evening coats will be 42 to 45 | inches and street and automobile coats | 48 to 52 inches long. All will be draped. | Coats and waists will show deeply slop- | ing Japanese shoulders. Charmeuse cloth, | peau de piche, velour de laine, brocaded | eponge and moire will be favored ma- terials. The slit, now that it is recognized, is! evidently no longer to be left to display | any chance petticoat. It is generally | faced either with the material of the | skirt itself, with a self-colored net, or) with the coat trimming. i The favorite suit in the display held | seemed to be La Militaire. It was shown- in a mahogany colored cut velour, or rib | bed velour de laine, asit is to be called. | The skirt, made of a single width of | the fifty-four inch material and contain- | ing only a yard and a-half of goods, was | draped up in the lower centre of the front | to the long ends of a black cordeliore | girdle. Above the drapery was a V-wise | graduated tuck, giving an apron effect. | The front of the coat was double | breasted, with black braid Brandenberges | matching the belt, and cuffs and high | Medici collar of Hudson Bay seal. The bodice was of self-colored silk, mar- | quisette embroidered in floss and finish- | ed with shoulder straps of the skirt ma- | terial. The suit was planned to cost $125. | The pegtop skirt, designed by Max ; Kinkelstein, of Chicago,showed box pleats | at the waist, which were draped into! back and front panels. The cutaway | coat showed a vest of white flowered | broadcloth and bretelles of black velvet. | The pleats over the shoulders were car- ried down in the velvet belt in the back ! and below it inverted to the hem of the! coat tail. A leg of mutton skirt was shown in a mouse colored wool Bengaline with gray fur collar and cuffs. The drapery over each hip fell in a Watteau effect merging | into the narrow skirt, which was slit front 2nd back and turned up in a stitch: cuit. { “One of the earliest and happiest rezol- lections of mother and home were the | little surprises she used to have for us,” | said an elderly woman. “l cannot remember the time when | mother did not have some little treat or | surprise for us. They were trifling in cost—perhaps a page of paper dolls from a magazine she had finished reading, or! some bright colored wrapping paper to | cut out Sometimes it would be a cake | or a tart baked solely for each of us, or: a red apple someone had brought in, or | a bunch of pretty red leaves or nuts found on a stroll. The value was com- | paratively nothing, but it was the fact | that it was a surprise and the evidence | of mother’s love and thought for us which made us so happy.” } i It takes so littie to please children. They are happy over such trifles and it is such a privilege for the mother to be able to add to the happiess, to create little pleasures and surprises for them. It takes very little thought and extra work on her part, but the result will be joyous little ones and recollections of mothers and home happiness which will be carried far into the years. Have little surprises for the children, | mothers! Do all you can to make their | lives as sunny and happy as you can | now, for the years fly only too rapidly. | Before you realize it they will be men and women locking back on their child- hood and home. It is the mother’s privi- lege to see that the children’s recollec- tions of that home shall always be hap- py—always an influence for good in after years.— The Housewife. Sleeveless coats in black or white lace, long enough to reach the knees and sometimes draped jer fashion, are very much worn. With a black chiffon gown arranged with three flounces, one of these coats in Chantilly is worn. The hat accompanying it has the orthodox three brims in unlined black tulle super- posed, each wired round the edge, the three forming a shade for the eyes. The frill has now invaded the toque and, in some instances, displays a very t- tulle itis effect. In black to this objection. The frill in some cases is so deep that at the back it rests upon the shoulders, while in front and at the sides it almost completely masks the features. This has been a season of frills and we must ex- pect that they will exhibit much extrava- gance before they leave us entirely. Green Corn Balls.— Beat a whi Sig. Iwo toasiiouns ih) buts one of white sugar and salt to taste intc two cups from the cob and put mixture enough flour to enable u to handle it and form it into balls. | these in raw egg and then in flour and fry in deep fat. A delicious way to bake halibut is to cover the fish with milk in the baking pan and baste it with the milk times during the hour. ~For high class Job Work come to the WATCHMAN Office. — ———— FARM NOTES. —The proper temperature at which cream should be churned varies. Usually from 5 degrees Fahreneit is the i —Although certain pessimists claim that the dairy market will soon be over- stocked, present prices give no indication of the sign. —The silo today furnishes the most economical, the safest means of storing the corn crop for feed- purpose. Purebred Poultry. — Statistics prove that the American hen is not doing her i duty. With lessthan seventy eggs per head each year to her credit, where she might have twice that number, statistics prove that a better quality of stock should be encouraged The recent egg- laying contests indicate that there is not so much significance in the breed as in the strain, therefore my subject should properly have been “Pedigreed Poultry.” The most successful breeders of the present day are pedigree-breeding; that | is, they are recording the ancestry of each fowl, just as do breeders of cattle and horses. This method is carned out by the use of trap nests in the breeding pens, which identifies each egg. Each hen's eggs are kept separate from all ! others, and those from the best layers, having been mated to cocks of an equally good laying strain, are hatched. The chicks are identified by foot marks and the grown birds by leg bands with name and number. Careful records are kept, and after a few years of breeding by this method, it is possible to build up a strain that will double the productiveness. Sometimes it may be possible to pro- duce a laying strain by accident, but how much more likely it is to be done by careful breeding. gree-breeding is still comparatively new, but as fanciers follow the method, there will doubtless be built up more of the strains that will produce 250 eggs per year, or even more. One well known breeder of pedigreed stock estimates that the cost of producing birds on his farm is about ten cents per head more than by ordinary methods. This is to hatch them, and it costs no more to raise the pedigreed chick than the barnyard type. His entire crop was sold in one year for $4.50 per head. The demand far exceeds the supply, and many farmers might profitably take up the industry. It costs a little more to build the houses, equip with trap nests and fixtures; then there is more work, of course, in keeping separate the eggs and recording the data, but breeders of fancy stock find that they are producing better market birds by this methed, in- dicating that it is not alone in the laying qualities that pedigree counts.—Charles H. Chesley, Strafford Co., N. H. -—Cleanliness is an important factor in both milking and the care of milk. In these days of germs “floating about the air” it is imperative that the best of care must be taken. The necessity for thoroughly washing the cow's udder before milking will de- pend entirely upon the places where the animal has been accustomed to forage and lie down, together with the condi- tion of the hands of the milker at the previous milking. If the paddock in which the cows have been accustomed to lie down during the night is not clean and there really are very few paddocks so clean that some of the cows’ udders should be washed before milking is pro- ceeded with. Also, if cows are allowed to forage in unclean places, especially during times of drought, then undoubted- ly it will be necessary to wash the ud- ders before milking. Included in this latter must be the general conditions pre- vailing in the farm-yard during wet weather. As the cow walks to and from the barn she generally does so on a beat- en path, and in wet weather this track is nothing more or less than a continuous manure track. The consequence is that she kicks up on to the udder pieces of this contaminated soil, with the result that the udder is unclean by the time milking begins. Another fruitful source of dirt on the teats of the cow, though one not generally associated with con- tamination in the mind of the farmer, is the unclean condition in which some milkers allow their hands to get during the process of milking. In other words, the damp, dirty hand of the milker coats a portion of the cow's udder with unclean matter, and between milkings bacteria will develop frequently in this matter which sometimes contains a certain amount of milk, and thus we get per- haps the worst form of uncleanliness on the cow's udder, necessitating the wash- ing thereof before milking is proceeded with —Most uncleanliness connected with milking occurs because of the fact that a man prefers to milk with a moist rather than a dry hand, and for the matter of that the cow also prefers it, as there is less friction; and also less chance of irri- tation should there be any slight cracks or sores on the cow's teats. An easy way to get over this difficulty is to have placed in every cow pail a tin of cheap vaseline to which about one per cent. of carbolic acid has been added; the hands of the milker, after having been washed may be moistened with a small amount of this vaseline, the result being that un- necessary friction and sore teats will be avoided, and there will be no excuse for the milker to have recourse to the dirt habit of dipping his fingers into the mil pail in order to moisten them as he con- tinues the process of milking. Not alone will this result in clean milking, but it will prevent any contagious form of sore teats being transferred from one cow to another. Of course, as will have been gathered from what has been said up to the pres- ent, the whole of the industry so far as quality is concerned, practically speak- ing, lies in cleanliness. If it were pos- sible that every dairy-farmer should understand from a bacteriological Poise of view the meaning of uncleanliness, then undoubtedly we would be on the NE nm daiing condions: ons ean y Eo models in this respect, but unfortunately their efforts are ren: dered less valuable by the negl and carelessness of others in their ict en- gaged in the same industry and who send cream to the same factory. —No matter how well the farmer may do his work, if the cream has been held too long it will undoubtedly contain the injurious fermentations. Lactic acid development pro- oe already pointed and the best! In this country pedi- | ~~ i 1 i | cate grasses grew in the crannies, glow- ! ing green. giving accent and harmony | work.—New York World. om | Se a—— Buying Versus Observing. To buy wisely has its true satisfac tion. hut just “buying” seems to have irresistible attraction for the human mind We were spending a golden hour ut the top of a great headland. Far below the sea showed opal color and violet light. The clay of the cliff ranged in tone from black. through red. blue and yeliow. to a creamy white: patches of sweet fern and deli- to the whole. Far below, the line of the golden beach, the white curl of the surf. were like poetry and music, and yet among the people who jour- neyed that day to enjoy a fair place only a few had time to go out on the cliffs and revel in color and beauty. hecause at a neat little stall there was a collection of perishable souvenirs fot sale. and so great was the demand fot them that the buyers had no time to feast their eyes elsewhere—a proof that purchasing is more interesting to the majority than observing.—Eliza- | beth C. Billings in Atlantic Monthly. Daredevil Photography. A naval photographer gets many Anckings and, after a time, takes them | as a matter of course. Being thrown into the sea isn't considered by him | at all a serious event. It is during hattleship practice that he encounters | grave dangers. for much of the work done nt this time is from the tops of the fighting masts, which are at an| elevation of 120 feet above the sea. During different practices I have taken | my position in these masts in order to! get detafled pictures. Once in these hasket-like tops the question is how to ugtick.” The gunfire photographs it- self. 1 suppose you wonder what I mean, but it is just this: Every time! the big twelve inch guns fire the aw- ful concussion they cause invariably! gives the snap to the shutter of the camera. and the exposure is made.— BE. Muller. Jr., in St. Nicholas. Odd Bankruptcy Proceedings. They had a peculiar way of going into bankruptcy among the Marawaris in India, now unhappily giving way to, the less picturesque method of the! white man. When a man could not pay his bills he would summon his creditors. They were ushered into a room in which the thakur, or house- hold god. was enshrined. but covered up with a cloth and with the face turned to the wail in order that it, might not witness the scene that was | to follow, The insolvent would then, | in garb of mourning. lie on the floor, presenting his back to his creditors, who on a given signal would fall on him with shoes and slippers and bela- bor him till their wrath was exhaust- ed. The beating finished. honor was declared to be satisfied all around.— | Calcutta Journal. Quaint Signs In Peru. ! An Indian custom which adds a pie- turesque touch to the roadsides bhe- tween Cuzco and Machu Picchu. in| Peru. is the presence of quaint signs. indicating what is for sale in the In- dian huts. A small bunch of wheat or | barley tied on the end of a pole and, stuck out in front of the hut indicates that there is chicha a native corn beer) for sale within. A bunch of flowers on the end of a pole also has the same significance. A green wreath means that there is bread for sale. while a piece of white cloth or white paper waving in the breeze indicates that the wayfarer may here purchase aguardiente. a powerful white rum made of cane juice and containing a large percentage of raw alcohol.—Ar- gonaut. “Galley West.” The phrase “he knocked everything galley west” is credited to the United States by Webster's Dictionary. It has really a far wider extent, and there is no reason to credit it to this or any other solid land. It had its beginning in sailor English, essentially a migra- tory dialect of extent as wide as the unending sea. Galley west. or. in its full form, galley west and crooked. means higglety piggety, all in confu- sion. It has the same sense of dis- ordered direction as appears in other locutions in sailor English, such as “Paddy's hurricane-straight up and down the mast"—and "Tox Cox's traverse—twice around the scuttle butt and once around the mast.” —8t. Louis Times. Quite Wil ing. Kirby Stone—l hat? to mention it. dear, but [ must tell you that business has been awfully poor lately. If you could economize a little in dresses wear something plainer— Mrs. Stone—Certainty, dear! [I shall order some plainer dresses tOmMorrow.— Puck. His Protest. The Dentist—Let me see! I'll have to treat four teeth—elgzht teeth—elght- een teeth— Mr. Pildo - Hold ou! Four teeth. eight teeth, eighteen teeth! What do you think | am—a comb? — London Telegraph. His Ignorance, “I don't suppose you know what be comes of all the pins?” “] should sa not., [I don't even know what becomes of all the battle- ships.”—Birmingham Age-Herald. A Hard Loser. “Whatever became of that woman who was married on a bet? “She is now giving her time to a cru- sade against gambling.”—Judge. onan n ae a Trouble Above. The Sun—I'm going to strike for shorter hours. The Mooun—I'll join you I'm getting tired of so much night A FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF. BSsattle, the Statesman, After Whom the City Was Named. At Fort Madison, ou t'uget sound. fifteen miles northwest of Seattle, Wash. stands a wonument to Seattle, or Seaith. chief of the Squauusb and allied tribes. This aborigine was re- guarded us among the greatest of the maps Indian characters of the western ! country. He ruted tis people for more than half a century with superior tal- ent und wus lvoked upon as u states- man who had no equal among the tribeswen At the time of his death, in 1866, he was the acknowledged head and chief sachem of ail the tribes living on or near Puget sound. He bad reached the age of eighty when be passed away and bad made many warm friendships with the white pioneers in Washington. Over 100 white men were in attendance at his funeral. In 1890 his friends erected a monn- ment of (talian marble. seven feet | high. with ua base or pedestal sur mounted by a cross bearing the letters “1 H 8" On one side of the monu- ment is the following inscription: SEATTLE Chief of the Squamish and Allied Tribes, Died June th, 1865 The firm Friend of the Whites, and for Him the City of Seattle was Named ny its Founders —Magazine of American History. FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCKS. They Kill by Attacking the Heart or Respiratory Organs. While every vue knows that ap elec. tric shock. it powerful enough, will cause death. there are very few who know exactly the cause, and from a de- seription given in a recent English magazine, quoting an authority on the subject, the whole matter Is simple. Death produced from electric shock, says this magazine, usually is the re- sult of contraction of the fibrils or | muscular fibers of the heart or of par- alysis of the respiratory organs. While doctors have been unable to find any treatment that will cure the former, artiticial respiration often over- comes the respiratory paralysis. The effects of direct and niternat- ing currents vary with the current strength. the duration of contact and the puth through the body. and with alternating currents low frequency usually is more dangerous than high. The lower animuls ure more suscepti- ble to electric shock than man, dogs often being killed by a direct current of seventy volts. In the average wan a direct current of 100 volts is scarcely felt. 200 to 300 volts give rise to muscu- lar cramps. while 320 voits will stop respiration suddenly.—New York Press, tr a cn “Be the friend of your house servant and let her realize that you are inter- ested in her well being,” was the ad- vice of a lecturer hefore a housewives’ meeting at Vienna. A woman who at- tended and listened to the servant problem discussion wrote a letter to the lecturer n few days later in the course of which she said: “1 agree with you, but did you know that in this city a nursery maid, a mere child herself, threw the child intrusted to her care out of a window and then followed, intending to kill herself? And that on the same day another child servant attempted to take her life? And why? The first one had been denied a part of her earned wages because her lady wished to teach her thrift and the second was not allow- ed to leave the house after a certain hour at night Our ‘friendship’ is of- ten misinterpreted.” A Heipful Letter. A letter that Rev. W. M. L. Evans, rector of Saxby. North Lincolnshire, wrote to the London Times added an amusing contribution to the discussion then going on in that newspaper con- cerning the alleged decay of hand- writing Mr Evans says: “The nume ot Dean Stanley will oc cur to many of us as that of a cele- brated cacographist of the pretype- writer period. When Mrs. Kingsley was Iying very ill ber busband re- ceived u letter from the dean. “He conned it earefuily and slowly and then said: ‘Here 1s a letter from dear Stanley. | um sure it is sympa- thetic and affectionate. but there are only two words that | can make any- thing of. aud | don’t thiok | can have got them quite right, for they seem to be “beastly” and “devil.” " American Colleges, Whatever the defects of American universities way be. they disseminate no prejudices, rear no bigots. dig up the buried ashes of no oid superstitions, never interpose between the people and their twprovement, exclude Do man because of bis religious opinions— above all, in their whole course of study and instruction, recognize a worid. and a broad one, too, lying be- yond the college walls.—Charles Dick- ens. The Focus. Three sons who traveled west (0 make their fortunes in cattle raising wrote home for an appropriate name to give their ranch. The reply. “Focus,” did not seem especially suitable until the explanation wus forthcoming, “The place where the sons raise meat’ --Ex- change. Takes Time to Dress, She (getting ready tv go outi—What are you looking at? He—I'm just watching whether that bouse opposite will be finished first or you.—Fliegende Blatter. a —————— —— Success Is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.—A. Bronson Al- eott. J
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