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AN AUTUMN DAY.
By Margaret E. Sangster.
A day of sunlight—softly tempered sun-
light—
A haze as faint as smoke wreaths far
away,
A sense of wistfulness, of silen waiting
And shadows shading to a violet gray.
A whisper in the breeze, almost a sighing,
A murmur sweet as all old songs, re-
sung,
A hint that summer time is dying, dying,
While all the earth is thrilling, joyous,
young.
A day of promise, and vague soul stir-
rings,
And still a day of heart-break for the
weak— *
A day when we have pushed aside adven-
ture,
And half forgotten words that we would
speak.
A sobbing on the wind—the sky is sleep-
ing
Despite the hidden, though so poignant,
pain—
When every hour slowly, sadly creeping
Goes far from us, and will not come
again!
A day of sunlight—older, warmer sun-
light—
A radiance before the coming dark,
Trees that shall show warm colors, bronze
and scarlet,
Before the gale has left them chill and
stark.
First autumn, with
outflung;
And yet—a hint that summer-time is leav-
ing—
While all the earth is thrilling, joyous,
young.
her friendly arms
—Christian Herald.
IS DRUNKENNLES A DISEASE?
; By L. A. Miller.
“Why do I drink?”
“Yes,” as the middleman in the
minstrels would say, “why do you
drink ?”
“I don’t know why, but I do, and am
sorry; ashamed of it. No man knows
better than I what the final result
will be, for I have seen my old asso-
ciates go down around me one by one
until I am left almost alone. After
one of my sprees I am so ashamed tc
go out on the street that sometimes I
only venture out after dark until I
think people have forgotten it.”
“You must forget it too, or you
wouldn’t try it again.”
“Forget it? Never! I have before
now, when I felt the spell coming on,
got down on my knees before God
and taken solemn caths that I would
not do it, and before an hour be drunk
as a lord. The last time I went off 1
fought the devilish spirit, and even
. while I was putting on my hat and
coat to go out and get drunk I was
saying to myself that I wouldn’t do
it
“Honestly, I believe the spirit of
drink is a veritable devil that takes
possession of certain poor mortals to
torment them and finally drive them
to perdition.”
There was poor Cassio, officer to
Othello, who was led to exclaim in ag-
ony: “0, thou invisible spirit of wine,
if thou hast no name to be known by,
let us call the devil.” “I have been
there, and know Cassio meant just
what he said.”
There are those whe believe drunk-
enness is not a disease in anv sense,
but a purely voluntary habit. The
foregoing talk with a reputable, well-
educated and talented gentleman
would indicate that it was not volun-
tary in his case, at least. Others have
told the same story. The other side
is supported mainly by those who
were never confirmed drinkers, and
are therefore scarcely competent wit-
nesses.
Disease is defined as the state of a
living body in which the natural func-
tions of the organs are interrupted or
disturbed, either by defective or mor-
bid action, without a disruption of
parts of violence; a morbid state of
the body generally or an organ in
particular.
A great many have the idea that a
disease is an i thing that
comes at will, attacking whomsoever
it pleases, either with or without
provocation. This idea is still preva-
lent among the uncivilized.
That the liver and stomach of
chronic drinkers become diseased
there is no question or doubt. It is
not infrequent that the liver of one
who has died from alcoholism in any
of its forms, is twice its normal size,
or is completely honeycombed. The
stomach becomes tender, irritable and
morbid, its membranes are congested
and thickened, preventing the inflow
of the digestive juices and the ab-
sorption of fluids. This being a mor-
bid or unnatural condition of this
very important organ, it is, therefore,
diseased. Slight irritation of the
stomach produces what is called a
longing for something. The desire
may or may not indicate what par-
ticular thing will satisfy that long-
ing. A still greater degree of irrita-
tion will produce dryness and tick-
ling in the throat, which naturally
suggests drink of some kind.
Even those who do not drink may
have irritable stomachs, and suffer
from the same throat troubles. It is
probably only an accident that these
do not drink, because in their first ef-
forts to satisfy the craving of their
stomachs they resort to tobacco, lem-
onade or even chewing tooth picks, or
eating a few bites of something which
ives relief. The next time the feel-
ing comes on, their minds naturally
turn to whatever it was that offered
relief before. Those, however, who
bring on this irritable condition by
drinking usually resort to their “fa-
vorite” for relief, on the theory, per-
haps that “the hair of the dog is good
for the bite.” Ever after when this
longing comes upon them, their first
thought is of the old remedy. It gives
temporary relief, but the second state
of the patient is really worse than the
first. Thus it goes, until whatever
excites or irritates the stomach cre-
ates a desire for the drink that has
been indulged in previously.
If it is a desire, is it curable?
It is, but not in the same way that
cramps or corns are cured. A simple |
dose of medicine, or a few turns of a |
knife will not do it. When it has tak- !
en hold upon the system once it is not
easily shaken off.
It affects the moral nature as well
as the physical, therefore, must be
treated with moral forces. That whis-
key is drunk as a matter of taste is
abundantly disproven by the fact that
the majority of regular drinkers have
to hold their noses while they gulp it
down, and have a glass of water han-
dy to clear the taste out of their
mouth.
The first thing to be done is to re-
solve to stop adding fuel to the flame,
and keep the resolution. It must be
kept if the patient has to be placed in
confinement. The next is to begin a
mildly restorative treatment of the
stomach, live on light diet, drink
small draughts of strong, black coffee,
with frequent copious draughts of hot
water. These are among the most re-
liable stimulants and tonics known !
which are not liable to do harm. They
are refreshing, cleansing and healing,
as well as great aids to the digestion
and assimilation of food. This course
followed, under the direction of a
physician who is able to discover and
remedy incidental disorders, or modi-
fy the treatment to suit any peculiar-
ities of the patient, has rarely, if ever,
failed to affect permanent cures.
A cure cannot be effected in a week
or a month, but it is worth all the |
time it takes. Those who have an |
earnest desire to be cured are the ones i
who get well first; while those who |
really enjoy a “drink” once in a while |
and regard their reformation as a
sacrifice, get along but slowly, and are |
subject to frequent relapses.
Inebriate asylums have been suc-
cessful accordingly as they have
avoided the “tapering off” system, !
which means the gradual reduction of |
the dose until it amounts to nothing.
The substitution theory is nearly as
bad. That is the substitution of oth-
er narcotics for alcohol, hoping there-
by to change the taste. Some claim
that coffee is a narcotic, but the claim
has scarcely a shadow for a founda-
tion. |
The most successful cures have been
where the victim arose in the strength |
of his manhood and said, “I will not
touch it,” and did not. It will cost a |
struggle to succeed, but if the strug- |
gle is maintained the victory is sure. |
The reformation of a drunkard or a
tippler is not wholly a matter of mor- !
al or intellectual change, but physic-
al also. Take my advice if you want
to avoid being a drunkard; drink no
intoxicating liquors. The only way to |
stop drinking is to reform.
SEEK FUNDS TO GIVE REMEDY i
FOR TUBERCULOSIS TO :
WORLD.
As a result of the conferences here
between Prof. Sphalinger, the Swiss
bacteriologist, who has originated a
method ot checking and, in some cas-
es, curing tuberculosis, Baron Henri
De Rothschild, General Sir Frederick
Maurice, Sir Stanley Birkin and a
group &f famous doctors and philan-
thropists, a campaign is being launch-
ed with a view to making the Spah-
linger treatment available to suffer-
ers from the great white. plague the
world over.
Baron de Rothschild, who is not only
a member of the great banking family
but a qualified physician as well, an-
nounced recently that his purpose was
to save the Spahlinger serum al-
together. Private means are insuf-
ficient and to bring in the necessary
financial contributions a public ap-
peal will be issued the first of the
year for $500,000.
A committee now is formulating
plans to make the Spahlinger treat-
ment obtainable anywhere in the Brit-
ish Dominions, and it is hoped that
philanthropists will take up the work
until the sufferers from tuberculosis
of all nations may receive the bene-
fits of the treatment, which specialists
everywhere have declared has had
wonderful results.
The work would have lapsed earlier
this year but for the donation of
$100,000 by Sir Stanley Birkin, Prof.
Spahlyinger having exhausted his
family fortune of nearly $500,000 in
promoting the work. He has been of-
fered large sums by firms anxious to
exploit his discovery commercially,
but always has refused. He is a sci-
entist first and afterward a philan-
thropist, with no desire to reap any
profits, his sole aim being to relieve
human, suffering.
The Spahlinger serum is produced
by injecting the poison germs into
horses and the process is expensive
as the best results are obtained only
from well bred, dark Irish horses cost-
ing $400 each. He needs to maintain
fifty in order to produce the serum
properly, but at present has only a
dozen.
Prof. Spahlinger said recently that
if he was relieved of all financial anx-
iety now it would take another two
vears’ work before the serum would
be ready, so for the present it is use-
less for sufferers to appeal for it at
Geneva. He will make it available
for test purposes as soon as possible. '
He warns that it is not a lightning-
quick remedy, but takes a vear and a
half in advanced cases.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Highway Pedestrians Urged to Use
Side of Road as Safeguarded.
Pedestrians who walk on rural
highways where there are no side-
walks should keep to the left hand
side to prevent accidents, auto clubs
of the State have warned.
Motor vehicles keep to the right
and if persons walking would keep to
the left they can see approaching au- |
tomobiles while if they walk on the
right hand side of the road they do
not know a machine is approaching |
until it comes up on them, according i
to J. Barton Weeks, president of the!
Keystone Auto Club. |
“In the interest of his own safety
a pedestrian on a road should keep to |
the left,” Weeks said. “Track-walk-
ers must face the direction from
which trains come and it ought to ap-
ply equally to automobile roads.”
—For all the news you should read
the “Watchman,” -
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
We give Thee thanks, O Lord,
Not for armed legions marching in their
might,
Not for the glory of the well earned fight
Where brave men slay their brothers,
also brave,
But for the millions of thy sons who work
And do thy tasks with joy and never shirk
And deem the idle man a burdened slave.
For these, O Lord, our thanks!
The Thanksgiving feast is practic-
ally always the same—an. old story to
the seniors, a familiar program even
to the youngsters. Yet somehow it
never loses by its regular recurrence.
No one tires of it or says when the
subject of Thanksgiving dinner is
broached, “Let us have something dif-
ferent this time.
One of the charms of the occasion is
found in just the fact that the dinner
as we eat it that day follows the lines
established by great-grandparents,
and that when we gather about the
board we see it spread in substantial-
ly the manner we recall when as chil-
dren the Thanksgiving feast was one
of the great events of the year.
No matter what “high-fliers” after
fashion may be in the family there is
a stir of resentment at the suggestion
i that innovations should be introduced
into the Thanksgiving bill of fare.
Certain items are immutable, as
they were in the beginning, are now
and ever shall be, so long as Ameri-
cans celebrate this, probably the most
American of our festal occasions.
A family celebration it is, too, cen-
tered in the home and having nothing
to do with outside glorifications. From
far and near the sons and daughters
come home for Thanksgiving, and it
| has a hold upon the affections of the
people at large that is hardly possess-
ed even by Christmas.
Well known as are all its details,
however, there are always new house-
holds where a word of counsel is of
service or older households in which a
suggestion or two may prove helpful.
Even if the staples are the same,
the roast turkey for the majority of
homes or the roast chicken for those
establisiments where the family is
small, the inevitable cranberry sauce,
the pumpkin or mince pies, possibly
a plum pudding or a Marlborough pie
or some other dainty peculiar to soine
special locality, there are different
ways of preparing all of these, and
the only lawful modifications of the
menu are when new methods are
found for doing old things.
For example, there is the roast tur-
key. How shall he be dressed? Is he
to be stuffed with an old-fashioned
bread dressing—never soften it with
water or milk, I beg of you, or with
anything except butter or chicken or
turkey fat—well seasoned with pep-
per and salt and minced herbs and the
merest delicate suspicion of onion
juice? Or shall he be stuffed with
oysters and the dish garnished with
fried oysters?
This bivalve should appear in some
form at the Thanksgiving feast and
it is a heresy to begin the meal with
soup. Perhaps it is better to serve a
big dish of scalloped oysters and have
this balance the turkey at the other
end of the table.
Or shall we stuff the turkey with
sausages and hang a necklace of them
about his neck? Shall chestnut stuf-
fing be introduced into an American
Thanksgiving dinner or shall mush-
rooms be used in the dressing and
broiled mushrooms be laid about the
bird in the dish?
On all this must the housekeeper
debate and decide as her purse or her
preference or the taste of her family
shall incline.
In any way the turkey will have the
place of honor at the board and will
be received with enthusiasm, no mat-
ter how he is stuffed or garnished.
Then the cranberries. What form
shall they take? Shall they appear
in the old-fashioned sauce, with the
berries broken and stewed in or in the
equally known way of a sauce stewed
and strained? Or shall they be serv-
ed as a jelly, either plain or with the
berries, formed in a mold and turned
out, a ruby form beautiful to behold ?
Again it is a matter of preference
and it is hard to tell how the berries
are best.
Vegetables, too, what shall they be?
This is not a time for frills of any
sort or for foreign delicacies. Spa-
ghetti or macaroni or artichokes or
other unfamiliar dishes are not for us
today. Instead of these we will serve
sweet potatoes, boiled or baked or
glazed or scalloped with brown sugar,
oyster plant, stewed or fried or per-
haps turnips in some form—I know
two or three people who would think
the Thanksgiving d‘nner no dinner at
all if they did not have mashed tur-
nips—celery, of course, stewed or
scalloped tomatoes or creamed onions,
perhaps, and a big dish of boiled rice
to serve as a vehicle for the giblet
gravy.
Of course there are other vegeta-
bles from which to choose, cabbage,
cauliflower, egg-plant, beets, carrots
—the name is legion. Don’t have too
many of them. Two or at the outside
three with the cranberry and celery
will be all that you want.
Then the pies. In my young days
there was a tradition that mince pies
should not appear until Christmas
time and that pumpkin pies were the
only fit sweet to serve on Thanksgiv-
ing day. But since then I have found
many households in which mince pie
and apple pie and cranberry pie, as
well as pumpkin pie are considered
essential for Thanksgiving.
Follow family tradition in this and
if you are keeping your first Thanks-
giving in your new home, find out
what your husband always considered
the necessary pie in his old home and
have that, no matter what else is left
out.
These are the main items of the
Thanksgiving dinner. Such details as
a display of sweet and sour pickles,
other jellies than the cranberry, nuts
and raisins after the pie and the like
mav be left to the individual decision.
Salted nuts and olives are bette
omitted from the Thanksgiving bill of
fare and there should be no thought
of a salad course. Every one will eat
too much—that is one of the ways in
which we prove our thankfulness!-—
and there is no sense in making the
eaters even more uncomfortable b
tempting them with dainties whic
are all well enough at other dinners,
| but have no real place at this partic-
' ular meal.
Mincemeat must, of course, be made
"at least a week or ten days before-
hand that it may have time to ripen
properly. The cranberries may be con-
verted into jelly or sauce on Tuesday
of the great week and at that time,
too, the pastry may be made. It will
be all the better for standing on the
ice or in a cold cellar for twenty-four
hours before it is made up into pies.
Sit down quietly alone and write
down all that must be done and the
times at which you plan to do it. For
instance, Tuesday: Make pastry, pick
over and cook cranberries, stew
pumpkin. Wednesday: Make and
bake pies, select vegetables and par-
tially cook those which require long
boiling, pick out linen for table, de-
cide what china shall be used and how
the table is to be decorated.
This leaves Thursday free for roast-
ing the turkey, cooking the vegetables
and oysters and for the numberless
trifles that cannot be accomplished
until the last minute.
The Harris Touch.
Phelps Phelps, young millionaire,
said in one of his Greenwich Vil.age
success talks: ,
“Successful men have what I call
the Harris touch. Harris—Sir Au-
gustus, you know—wound up as the
proprietor of Drury Lane.
“And how did Harris make his first
entry inte Drury Lane? Well, he
blew in there one morning on his up-
pers. Bruce, who was boss at the
time, looked at him coldly from the
mass of papers on his desk.
“‘Do you want a stage manager?’
said Harris.
“ ‘No,’ said Bruce.
stage manager.’
“‘Do you want an acting mana-
er?’
“ ‘No.
er.
“‘Do you want a press agent?’
“‘I'm my own press agent.’
“‘Do you want an actor?’
“‘No!’ roared Bruce. ‘No. I don't
want anything. For heaven’s sake,
man, clear out! Can’t you see I'm so
busy I don’t know where to turn?’
“ “Then you want help,’ said Harris,
peeling off his coat. ‘Ill stay and
help you.’
“And stay he did, and he soon own-
ed the theatre.”
‘T'm my own
Im my own acting manag-
Hetels and Restaurants May Not Sell
Wild Ducks.
In response to inquiries as to
whether it is lawful for hotels or res-
taurants to serve wild ducks and
geese, the United States Department
of Agriculture states that the provis-
ions of the migratory bird treaty act
and regulations make it unlawful to
buy or sell wild ducks or other migra-,
tory birds or parts thereof, except un-
der proper permits for scientific or
propagating purposes.
Migratory waterfowl raised in
captivity under proper Federal and
State permits may be bought or sold
and served in hotels or restaurants,
but this does not apply to any wiid
birds, including those that have been
captured under permit for propaga-
tion purposes, as birds thus captured
can not be killed or sold for food pur-
poses at any time.
The serving of the flesh of wild
birds with meals in hotels, restau-
rants, or other places is unlawful if a
price is charged for the meal, and the
statute can not be avoided under a
pretense that no charge is being made
for the flesh of wild birds.
~ Must Guard Our Pheasants.
The shots and shells of the world
war are even now damaging the game
birds of America, indirectly but none
the less vitally. Lee S. Crandall, cur-
ator of birds of the New York zoolog-
ical park, in a 1eport to the American
Game Protective association warns
that unless the few fortunate possess-
ors of aviary pheasants cherish and
increase them during the coming
breeding season all species aie in
danger of becoming virtually extinct.
The industry of collecting and distrib-
uting wild birds and animals has been
badly demoralized by the war and
American breeders can no longer de-
pend upon European importations for
supply, he explained. The seed stock
of many kinds of game birds and wa-
terfowl has become dangerously re-
duced and even if it is possible to ob-
tain fresh stock, the newly-imported,
wild-caught birds often breed with
great reluctance and years must pass
before a prolific breeding strain can
be developed from them.
Bottled Papers Travel Far.
Knowledge of the direction and
speed of ocean currents is of great
importance to nawigators. Since it is
very difficult to measure these direct-
ly the United States Hydrographic cof-
fice accomplishes it approximately by
means of what are known as “bottle
papers.” These are small paper slips
with directions for their return to the
proper authorities printed in the prin-
cipal languages of civilization. They
are given to vessel captains, sealed in
bottles, and thrown overboard with
the time and place they were put over
noted on them. After months or years
they come back to Washington. One
drifted nearly across the Atlantic and
back. Another made a drift across
the widest part of the Pacific, taking
more than two years, another drop-
ped near the Cape of Good Hope was
picked up on the west coast of Aus-
tralia.
Furs Will be Lcwer.
This is a big year for skunks, they
being more numerous than fro» some
years past. This may be due to the
fact that many trappers do not care
to engage in this particular line of
furs. However, the fur market v-ll
be somewhat lower for these pe t-.
They are divided into four grade-.
Pure blacks are known as No. 1, and
bring the best price; No. 2 have only
a short white stripe; Mo. 3 Fave full
narrow stripes, and No. 4, brinring
the least money, have as much v™i'e
as black. Muskrat pelts, it is believ-
ed, will be lower than last year, ow-
ing to the falling off for the deman-i
for Hudson seal coats, whi~h are
made from notking more than the
common muskrat.
I
BLACKBIRDS FEAST ON FISF
Make Raid on Trout Fishery Estab
lished on an Estate in
Scotland.
Those who study nature find that
age-long traits and habits are being
in some cases modified and in others
entirely changed.
The writer knows of a case where a
bird has its habits changed by altered
conditions.
A trout fishery was established on
an estate in Scotland. During certain
seasons a large number of the fry or
voung trout are crowded together in
shallow ponds. as their Inclination is
to keep together just where the water
enters.
One day a backbird. drinking at one
of these ponds, got hold of a young
trout, probably accidentally, but found
it was excellent feeding. A blackbird
does not by habit get its food from the
water, but this particlar one, having
tapped a new source of food supply re-
turned to it again and again.
The following season this bird had
by some means been able to impart its
newly-found knowledge to all the other
blackbirds on the estate, and instead
of one bird stealing the young fish, all
the birds got into the way of doing
so! The owner had either to shoot
the blackbirds or give up trying to rear
trout, :
That an entire change of food is not
detrimental may be proved by the fact
that many of the cows kept in Norway
are fed on fish, yet who will say that a
cow’s teeth were made for dealing with
a diet of this sort?—London Tit-Bits.
cVIL EFFECTS OF HASHISH
Acts on Nervous System in Various
Ways, Which Differ According
to the Individual.
fhe Arabs call a man who indulges
n the drug hashish a “hashash,” the
plural of which is “hashhasheen.” A
band of Moslem fanatics who flour-
ished in the Eleventh and Twelfth
centuries and devoted themselves te
murdering secretly the enemies of the
prophet used to fortify themselves
with hashish for their desperate deeds.
They came to be known as ‘“hashash-
een”—hence the English word “as-
sassin.”
Hashish acts on the nervous system
in various ways, which differ accord-
ing to the individual and the strength
of the dose. A small dose produces
cavety, a larger one hallucinations, de-
lirlum and sometimes catalepsy. An
average dose induces a dreamy state.
when the indulger becomes the sport
of rapidly shifting ideas. The habit
ual “hashash™ can rarely collect his
thoughts, his memory goes and he is
prone to curious errors of perception.
Herodotus records that the Scythians
burned the seeds of hemp during the
purification ceremonies that took place
after a death and that they became
intoxicated by the fumes.—Detroit
News.
Rhode Island School Leader.
fhe first public school in New Eng
and, believed to be the first in the
United States, was launched at New-
port. R. I, 283 years azo. when the
men of Rhode Island voted to suppor:
such an institution to be conducted hy
the Rev. Robert Lenthal, a Church of
England clergyman,
In the colonial days in America lit-
tle thought was given te the education
of the children of the “common” peo-
ple, and among the well-to-do the
opinion generally prevailed that such
people were better off without any
education,
The Lhode Islanders did not share
this view, however, and when Rev.
Mr. Lenthal proposed to “keep a pub-
lic school for the learning of youth”
he found ready support for his proj-
ect. He was granted 100 acres of land
to he “laid forth and appropriated for
a school, for encouragement of the
poorer sort, to train up their youth
in learning.”—Capper’'s Weekly.
When Tin Catches Cold.
Zou would scarcely suspect a meta.
-uch as tin of being able to catch cold.
but it can do so for all that. In coun-
tries like northern Russia all sorts of
utensils are likely to become useless
in winter time. A tiny grayish spot
makes its appearance on the surface
of the tin; it grows in size, and then
others appear. In time the metal
crumbles into a dark-colored powder.
Some years age a whole shipload of
hlocks of tin, stored in the customs
house in Petrograd during the win-
ter, was found the following spring
to have crumbled to dust.
What really happens is that the coln
causes tin to change from one of its
forms to another, Tin is often founda
in mines in the gray powder form
which is quite useless, When it is
heated it turns into the well-known
shiny metal, but under the influence
of extreme cold it may return to ity
other form,
Reverse Action.
ittle Esther was hardly more thar
+ baby, but she objected when bed-
time came around, as children will
Finally, father offered to lie down on
the bed until she was asleep, and for a
while everything was quiet.
The minutes passed—ien. fifteen.
twenty, and mother. sitting in the par-
tor, wondercad why father didn’t re-
turn. She continued her sewing, how-
ever. and presently the silence wus
broken by the pit-u-pat of naked feel.
Next moment Esther appeared in tha
doorway, her tiny fingers raised for
silence,
“Sh-sh, mummy, I've just got daddy
oft to sleep ut last."—Boston Tran.
script.
THANKSGIVING
ENTERTAINMENT.
Songs of the States.
A very appropriate and delightful
evening’s entertainment for Thanks-
giving is made up of a series of cos-
tume songs and dances featuring the
States. ‘I'he idea is capable of wide
variation, from the simplest grammar
school or high school affair to the
most elaborate occasion.
Should printed programs prove too
expensive, an easel may be placed at
one side of the stage with announce-
ments of the different numbers, just
as they do in a real vaudeville.
Costumes suggesting the different
States of the Union are worn by the
pertormers, and the flower or emblem
of the State may be used, too. Arti-
ficial flowers are sold almost every-
where, and mail order catalogues will
help out in the more remote places.
A concert like this was given in our
high school for the benefit of a popu-
lar cause, and was such a success that
it was twice repeated. The entire
stage was hung with dark draperies,
effective but not costly. The draper-
ies should hang straight across, about
eight feet back from the footlights.
In the center is a small platform with
a short flight of steps leading toward
the front of the stage. The curtains
part over this platform, but another
curtain exactly similar hangs behind,
so that the effect is unbroken.
. Another little flight of steps behind
is hidden by the drapery, and by
means of these the performer reaches
the platform, where a spotlight plays
on him, showing off the costume to
the best advantage. Then, after a
moment’s tableau, he descends to the
stage proper, does his stunt, and exits
at either side.
We used the easel to announce our
numbers, and at the beginning of the
performaance a little girl dressed in
the national colors placed in it a large
map of Maine, which was followed by
others as the program proceeded.
The maps were merely outlined with
charcoal, with the name boldly print-
ed below.
Maine was a tall, stunning girl
dressed in white with decorations of
pine branches and cones and carry-
ing a bunch of the same spicy ever-
green. Artificial cones may be fast-
ened to pine branches if real cones are
not at hand.
New Hampshire, the Granite State,
was an engaging youth who entered
from one side of the stage, wheeling
a barrow piled with alleged granite—
but it was only irregular blocks of
wood painted gray. He set down his
barrow while he sang his song, and
then wheeled it off at the other side.
P As New York could not sing, she
spoke her piece” to the accompani-
ment of two violins and piano, with a
spirited little dance at the finish. She
{ was dressed in old-fashioned costume
and carried roses.
The oriole colors, black and yellow,
i were for Maryland, who carried a
‘bunch of black-eyed-Susans. South
i Carolina was a young man in white
flannels, carrying a palm-leaf fan,
: symbal of the Palmetto State. Ohio
is so widely known as the Buckeye
tate that the girl who sang “Beau-
tiful Ohio,” wore a long chain of buck-
eyes, or horse chestnuts, around her
neck, another around her waist, while
the hem of her russet gown was
‘ringed with buckeyes on strings.
iuichigan was. a young girl in pale
blue with her hands full of apple blos-
soms and with clusters of the same
lovely flowers in her hair and at her
belt; and Louisiana was in pink with
and arm full of magnolias.
Nevada wore traveling costume,
hat, gloves, veil, and carried a suit
case, with a bunch of sage for a cor-
sage bouquet. At the conclusion of
her song a train whistle blew, off
stage, and a loud voice proclaimed,
“This train for Chicago, Kansas City,
and Ren!” Wheieupon she made a
hasty exit.
‘'exas had quite an elaborate pre-
sentation. A horse was heard to gal-
lop in from an apparent distance, and
then stamp and prance outside as his
rider dismounted, said rider being a
gallant cowboy in chaps and sombre-
ro. He was met, as he entered from
the side, by a pretty girl who appear-
ed at the top of the steps dressed in
white and wearing a blue bonnet. She
carried a little banner with the “lone
star” and a cluster of “blue-bonnets.”
‘I'he cowboy sang “San Antonio”
while the girl listened, and at the end
of it they dashed off together, and the
horse galloped away-—all this by
means of a pair of clappers used in
the wings by a skillful and diserimin-
ating pair of hands.
Wearing a red bandanna turban and
a yellow dress, Georgia was blacked
up a la minstrel show. She sang
“Georgia Camp Meeting” and danced
a hoe-down. Alabama was a man al-
so blacked, who carried a basket of
cotton bolls. A pretty contrast was
Florida in white, garlanded with Flor-
ida moss.
A dark Spanish beauty wore a thin
black gown wreathed with poppies of
all shades, for California; and Ten-
nessee was in yellow, ornamented
with butternuts. A white dress with
red hat and sprays of svringa were
Idaho’s costume.—By Jessie V. K.
Burchard, in Woman’s Home Compan-
ion.
Watching Sale of Old Nuts Mixed
With New.
The season for nuts is at hand and
with it comes the time-worn - actice
of mixing od, stale nuts with the
new and foisting the mixture upen
the public as a product entirely of this
season’s picking.
“Y'his shell-game with the neople
i'l not be tolerated,” says di-ector
James Foust of the Bureau of Fords,
Pennsvlvania Department of Ag-i-
culture. Wherever the specio! food
agents of the department find that
aged and wormy English wa n‘s, pe-
cans, hazelnuts and other nf: are
being washed to make thr "ls ap-
near bright and fresh, an’ the doc-
tored nuts mixed with » ne supply
the investigations will lead to prose-
cution.
To pay the =zverage railroad
employee's annual “age—which was
$1622.00 last year--it v-as necessary
for the railroads tn haul one ton of
freight 237,925 miles, or more than 45
times across the American Continent.