i ft I J ' )' ' "i; Ml! M nn nn u,' nn nn "The mefticE Of matrimony seem to be closing about me," thought Lady Julie, as she finished the letter she bad been retidlng. "Poor Aunt Caro Hoe! She alms to be diplomatic, but ft Is written between every line that the sole object of her house pnrty lj for me to hear, heed nnd wed tho fabulously rich American. I wonder why It Is Americans are always rich. What a novelty a poor American would be!" Further pondering on this subject waa prevented by the entrance of Lady Julie's elder sister, who pro aided over the household. "I suppose you and papa leave di rections after I take my train?" cho aaked. "Papa will, but my plans are changed. Aunt Is making another desperate effort to marry me off, and I am to go to Oak Wilds In a week. In the meantime I will stay with Cous in Dorothy." When Lady Julie had seen her fath er and sister depart on their respec tive trains, jhe felt a delicious sense ef elation at her unwonted freedom. "I am so tired of Lady Julie!" the thought. "How I would like to be some one else for a week some poor, obscure, untitled person. I believe I will yes, I will do it!" The next morntns Lady Julie v.it'.i simple articles of attire packed In a ateamer trunk drove to the station. When the coachman had driven away the took a cab and went to an ad dress she had secured from the Times. Here she engaged a sitting room front with a bedroom back, and proceeded to unpack her belongings. She paid a week's rent In advance to the volu ble landlady, who, volunteered full In formation regarding her lodgers. JThose hupstairs hir all clerks, but the sitting room acroos tho 'all Is let tehan Hamerlcan. 'K 'as Just arrived, f will say for the Hamerlcans, they don't 'aggie." "Don't they?" asked Lady Julie, In terestedly. The next morning Mrs. Todds, her landlady, made a suggestion. "Being has 'ow you har a stranger, alas, and the Hamerlcan being here M see the sights, hit would be nice fcr you to get acquainted. Hafter iweakfast. If you say bo, HI will intro duce you." Lady Julie reflected. "Very well, Mrs. Todd, I should be 3teased to meet your first floor front." Accordingly Mrs. Todd ushered in a jood-looking youth, well-tailored and veil aet up. "You are from the State cf Misery, Ir. Todd Informs me," 1-ran Lady .ulie, when the landlady U..U left the .Don. Be stared at hrr In wonder, and hen broke Into a clear, ringing, In actious laugh. "The State of Missouri," he cor--acted. "1 must confess," said Lady Julie, -ntllng, "that even 'Missouri' conveys - othlng to my unenlightened mind." "Never heard of Missouri?" he ex 'aimed aghast. "But you have sure r heard of St. Louis!" "Oh, St. Louis!" she cried with un signed Interest. "Yes, I've heard of i.-. Louis," recalling the place men oned in her aunt's letter as the home - the rich American. "But is this iur first visit to London?" "Tes; I remain here for a week, 'hen I am going to a house party at ime friends in the country," he re eled. sudden Inspiration came to Lady ille, and her dark eyes shone with 'iterest and mischief. "I, too, am here for a week, and .en I go to the country. I think if iu are to Bee the eights here, you '.ould begin with the zoo. I think -'.at is where tourists begin." "Will you accompany me?" he ns'.c- !, eagerly. "Will you be my tourist .ulde for the week?" "Tes," she replied with dancing res. . So they went to tho zoo in a 'bus, id Lady Julie, viewing the polar ..ar, the elepbantu and the monkey mse, felt like Alice In Wonderland, ae next day was spent In tho park, id successive days found them at e museum, library, cathedral, West Inster and numerous river excur onB. It pleased nnd flattered Halden ;at his fair companion always turned e conversation to St. Louis and the halted States. "Mies Brent," he said, earnestly, as i came into her sitting room for his rewell call, "will you not relent and il me where you go to-morrow?" "No, Mr. Halden. You must be con at with the assurance that you will 3 me within a short time, and when xt we meet, should it be in the esence of others, do not allude to 's week, or to the fact that we have it before." A cloud of doubt camp into his fran'.i SB. ' "Can you not trust me?" she nsV.od tly. "I will explain when I can." "I trust you entirely; and, Miss ' ent Julie, may I tell you v.'hr.'. 's week has been to me?" "Waltl" Bhe advised, "until we men' aln. '.Then you have my permission dO BO." The next day she returned ho-no d made all her preparations for he? '.it with a Joyous expectancy. "YoU'-are looking your best, Julia." '4 her aunt, when, she. boheld the " 'nlng eyei;and, happy . glow lof !the 'ithful countenance. f.ter. with 'bcMnr: hei-, l.ntr ' 'In entered the library. Her rn' ;:,'.;,; .c? i"rt. As Lady J rile. "raised her eyes to his, a pang of tii appointment went through her. Thi was not Jim Halden, the man she had expected to meet. At dinner she ral lied from the shock. "At any rate they are from the same city," she thought. "They may know each oth er." "You are from the state of Mis souri, Mr. Booth?" she asked. "How cleter Julie Is!" thought her aunt, approvingly. "Yes, from St. Louis," be replied. "Naturally. Every one from Mis souri claims St. Louis." "What do you know of St. Louis?" he asked, laughing. "A great deal," she replied, and launched into a description of his borne city that delighted bim and raised high hopes In Aunt Caroline. "I met a man from thero once," she admitted. "What is his name?" he asked. In terestedly. "Jim Halden. Do you know him?" "Indeed, I do! The best fellow liv ing. He Is visiting not 10 miles from here." "Aunt Caroline." said Lady Julie that night, "Mr. Booth has a friend from St. Louis visiting the Shefflelds. I think he would like to have him here for a few days." "Of course." replied her aunt, heart ily. "I'll write at once." "I don't see," said Halden, gravely, as he and Lady Julie were in the rose garden on the night of his ar rival, "how you could foresee my pres ence here when you promised to meet me again." "Why, aunt wrote mo to come to this pnrty to meet a man from St. Louis. She fulled to mention his name. I had a whim to see what life In lodgings was like. When I met you I Jumped to the conclusion that you were the man aunt was expecting. You can Imagine my discomfltura when I saw Mr. Booth." Halden was silent for a moment. "Oh, yes; aunt dwelt on that fact at length when she wrote." I am not, he continued. "I have only a modest Income. I learned from Mrs. Todd that you were an orphan in modern circumstances, and I had hopes of winning your love and giving you a nome. Jsow it's all changed. I Bee your aunt's plans, and that you were only enjoying a week's respite." He turned and walked away. He had gone but a few steps, when her Tolce rang out clearly: "Jim!" He was at her side. "Mr. Booth told me you were not rich, and I asked aunt to Invite you here." "Julie!" "I lived a whole week without a paid," she said, when they were mak ing future plans, "and I learned to buy the cloth." Gondolas and Windmills Going. As the gondolas of Venice have been supplanted by the electric launch, so the equally picturesque windmills of Holland are falling in the face of the march of modern in vention. In Venice the few gondolas that are seen on the waters of the city are maintained merely to answer a demand on the part of tourists who think a visit to that city Is incomplete without a ride in one of these anci ent crafts propelled by a gayly-clad gondolier. They have long since been abandoned by tho natives, who make use of modern launches. And now the word comes from Hol land that gas engine pumping plants are taking the place of the historic windmills. As the latter are princi pally used for tho purpose of pump ing water out of drain ditches, which must be done regularly in order to keep the fields and meadows dry, their uncertainty for this work Is now rec ognized, and gas motors are gradually being Introduced. Like the Venetians, the thrifty Dutchmen will probably maintain windmills enough to offer attractions for the artlsta and tour ists who flock there from all parts of the world in search of novel sights. Indeed, the statement has been made that the natives of this section have long been Inclined to depart from their old-time style of apparel, but they realizo that it is a drawing card for travelers, and for this reason they cling tenaciously to the baggy breeches and voluminous skirts which the men and women of that country have affected for centuries. A School Boy on Domestlo Economy. My Idea of a Rood Income and how to spend It Is to get forty-four shillings a week from every male in the house If he was working, and In spending it I should get a book and put all the provisions I had in the house In it and the cost of them. I should first see that I and our family would get their stomachs full every meal time, so I should buy' meat that would last. Every holiday time we should go for a day or two to a seaside resort For a family of good eaters It takes a lot of bread, especially If you do not hake, and shop bread takes a lot of butter. But they should have It. I would also buy plenty of coal, with good shoes and stockings; also I would buy two beds to sleep on at night. Gladstone's Four Great Masters. The figure of Aristotle by the emi nent sculptor, O. Walker, has recently been placed in the niche prepared for it outside tho south wall of the resi dence. It Is the. gift of Dean Lincoln and Mrs. Wlrkham. The four niches outside St. Delnlols are Intended for the figures of those four great men who were regarded by Mr.' Gladstone BS his chief masters Aristotle, St. Augustine, Dnnte and Bishop Butler. Three of them aro now In position, all of 'then the wo-it of Mr. Walker It only remains fo that of Bishop Bui Ier to be 'yv ': : THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUTcC t Of Interest I to Women Remarkable Change of Infant of to day New Babylcss Language May Be Responsible Grandma's Tale of Daily Care Administered lo the "h'aujihty" Imp of SO Years Age. It may be owing to natural progres sion or to 'mothers' meetings, or even to the new babyless language that the modern mother has Introduced Into the nursery, but for some reason or another infants have changed most remarkably. Fifty years ago a baby in the house made a great deal more fuss and trou ble than It does at the present day. Judging from an unprejudiced grand mother's description of her progeny of long ago, one Is forced to the con clusion that they must have been squalling, red-faced little creatures, whose deportment was most ungrace ful and undignified. Evidently they were noi possessed with an atom of self-respect and usually succeeded In upsetting tho whole household. Just ask grandma how her babies used to act You will be a pessimist before she has hud Mulshed her story. She will relate tales that will harrow your soul. Your exhausted ear will hear all about the long nights of croup, when the youngster had to bo shaken by the heels, stood on its head, hung out of the window, slapped on the back, greased about the nose, poulticed all over and compelled to swallow spoonfuls of sulet melted over a smoxy lump. If they didn't have croup they bad colic, which required trotting and bouncing and floor walking, rocking tho cradle, not to mention pints of catnip tea. In those days catnip tea was omnipresent. There was always a cup of It brewing on the back of the stove In every properly conducted household. When a dose was admin istered the attendance of the entire family was required. In many cases the farmhands had to be called in to assist It took one person to hold the squirming Infant, another to grasp Its feet and still another to keep its chub' by tints from doing damage to the many faces bending solloitiously above it Somebody held the spoon, while mother adjusted one or more extra bibs. When all was ready a cold-blooded relative grasped the slip pery little nose and in a twinkling me spoon ana its contents were spilled over the bibs and trickling down baby's neck. '. II nothing else was the matter, then Its food didn't agree with it, or It was cutting teeth or had broken out in a rash. It was In a chronic state of swallowing tacks and pennies. It was always hungry and never sleepy, ex cept in the daytime, when there was company that particularly wanted to see its eyes. All that day it would slumber so sweetly and afterward make the night hideous with its screams for light or somebody to amuse It All the Jokes about walking the floor were not Jokes at ull. Newspap er pictures were not caricatures; they were drawn from history and are all that is left to remind us or the old fashioned baby. The twentieth century Infant would not deign to Imitate the conduct of its ancestral Juvenile. In the first place, more than half the ills that a baby was heir to In tho long ago have been forgotten or have been eliminat ed; consequently there is less crying and not nearly so much attention de manded. In the modern baby the imp of the jerverse has beea to u great" extent conquered. If It lies awake at night It is really In pain and not rampaging because Its mother Is worn out or the poor father unusually sleepy. An Investigation of the subject re veals that In these times babies gen erally sleep soundly at night, eat reg ularly, take one or more naps during the day and are usually well-behaved, normal children. They do not insist upon being rock ed to sleep, nor annoy those within hearing distance by howling hour after hour Just because they cannot have the electrolier for a toy or the auto horn to cut their teeth upon. The. transformation does not seem so remarkable when one gets down to the philosophy of the matter. How can two human beings act alike, when one Is talked to like this. "Mower's 'ittie lam, turn det oo mlki," and the other is addressed, "Dorothy, come get your milk." Little Load Lifters. When the rubber water bottle leaks, fill it with hot .water ready for use and place a patch of surgeon'B plaster over the hole and hold It in place un til th'j beat causes adhesion. If kept in a cup end covered with cold water, yolks of cgg3 will keep fresh several days. When finely chopped nuts are need ed for cake, salads or sandwiches, run the nuts through the mincing machine. Wring chamois out of the soapy wa ter without rinsing; when It dries It 1? soft and serviceable. Instead of stlj iTable oilcloth Is the best materia! to cover schoolbooks with, as It Is water-proof and cau be kept clean. The pretty colored patterns are very attractive to the children's eyes. , When running your curtains on the road, first run the tandlo of a tea spoon through so as to separate them when they have been starched, then put a thimble on the ecd of the rod and It will run through without any trouble whatever. r .- IVKtfi (WHEN REGISTER .The Hctcl Clerk Explains Vhy the Blotter It Necessary During ar.d After the Ceremony. "Hotel dirks get to be great ob servers of human nature," said nn o'A hotel "lobbyist." "During the many hours out of each day that I spend warming this chair I have learned many tricks of their trade which go to prove my statement. "In fact this clerk here has a pe culiar trick of his own which shows how keen an observer he Is. If you watch him at work yon will find when ever a woman Is registering he holds a blotter so as to hide the other namei on the page. At first when I noticed it I thought that he was merely hold' Ing the blotter in readiness to use It on the newly written name, but when I found that he only did it when a woman was registering my curiosity got the better of me nnd I asked the reason. "'Why,' said he, "women are the most nervous creatures In the world, I hold that blotter up to show that I am not watching her write her name, and at the same time to keep her from trying to excel the other handwriting on the page. If she noticed that I was watching her closely It Is a safe bet that she would get nervous and make an awful botch of her signature, trying to be fancy. On the other hand, If she saw a particularly pretty signa' ture on the next line the chances are that she would try to improve hers with a flourish or two which gen erally means a choice blot to be scratched out by yours truly." "I decided to test his theory by looking over a woman's shoulder while she registered. The result was Just w hat he said it would be." The Romance of a Composer. Benedetto Marcello, one of the most famous Venetian composers, fell In love with a beautiful girl named Leo nora Manfrottl, who married Paolo Seranzo, a Venetian noble. She died a short time after her marriage, a vic tim to the harsh and Jealous treatment of her husband. Her body was laid out In state in the Church of Wei Frarl and her lover actually succeeded In stealing the corpse and conveying it to a ruined crypt in one of the Islands, and here he sat day and night by his lost love, singing and playing to her as though by the force of his art he could recall her to life. Leonora had a twin sister, Eliade, who was so like her that her closest friends could scarcely distinguish them. One day Eliade heard a singer In a gondola singing so exquisitely that she traced the gondola to the de serted island, and there she learned later the fate of her sister's corpse and the Identity of Marcello. Aided by a servant Eliade substituted her self for her sister's body, and when he found out the deception, was quite satisfied and married Elaide, but hla happiness was short lived, as he died a few years afterward. Home Notes. A Gymnastic Maine Hen. Zenas. Dudley, of Hampden, has a hen that will lay every day, provided she can lay where she wants to, and that is sitting on top of a pole. The reason why this hen wished to perch on the tip end of a pole when laying can be accounts for only by the fact that she laid her first egg on top of a pole. When she was a small pullet she was frightened one day and flew to the top of a tall pole In the yard. The dog kept her there for some time, and during the time she laid her first egg. Never a time since then has she laid an egg except when she has been on top of some pole. A pole has been set up in the henyard where this hen can make her daily layings. A small net bag Is placed around the pole to catch the eggs. Kennebec Journal. Workers Pay Death Toll. Between S4.000 and 35,000 deaths and 2,000.000 Injured is the accident record in the United States during the last year among worklngmen, ac cording to a bulletin of accidents is sued December 14 by the bureau of labor. Of those employed In factories and workshops, it is stated that prob tbly the most exposed class are the workers in iron and steel. Fatal ac cidents nmong electricians and elec tric linemen and coal miners are de clared to be excessive, while rallwnv trainmen were killed in the propor tion of 7.46 deaths per 1,000 workmen. The bulletin declares that it should not bo impossible to avert at leant oncthlrd and perhaps one-half of the accidents by intelligent and rational methods of the factory Inflection W. islation and control. Our Need of Music. We need music In our modern lifo almost us much as we need bread; we need it in our schools almost as much as we need the multiplication table. We need it in our lives, not only to help us worship, but that we may carry away something better than a ringing headache from our precious hours of diversion. We need it In our schools, not as a tolerated fad, but as one of the things that shall make our individual and national char acter. Elmer Elsworth Brown, Unit ed States Commissioner of Education. The Coloring of the Clouds. The gorgeous coloring of the clouds, especially those of sunset, Is due to the circumstance that the yellow and red rays of light have a much greater peuetra momentum than the blue. They muke their way through vtietches of the atmosphere which en tirely arrest and .urn back the blue and they do this the more markedly If the air Is at the time laden with ex traneous particles thiit augment tho BHiiul opacity. ..... ; Notes and Comment Of Interest to Women Readers SHALL WEDDED WOMEN WOR . Eminent Authorities Discuss the Ques tion of "The Woman's Invasion." "Shall women work after marriage? That Is so large a question that It will be merely suggested and then laid on the table for future discussion," says William Hard. Only three Incidental remarks will bo here made about It. First: It Is a question that may set tle itself without much help. Many students think so, among them the President of Hiyn Mawr College, who raid not long ago that "everything seems to indicate that women will not only make their way into all except a few trades and professions, but thut they will be compelled by economic cniiFes to stay In them after mar riage." Second: Work nftcr marriage, aside from Its economic aspects, has seemed to many persons who have given It much thought to have possibly an in tellectual and moral value. In his au thoritative book on "Sex and Society," Professor W. I. Thomas seems to adopt this view. "The remedy," he rays, "for the Irregularity, pettiness, 111 health, and unservIceableneBs of modern woman seems to lie, there fore, along educntlonal lines; not in a general and cultural education alone, but In a special and occupational in terest and practice Tor women, mnr ried nnd unmarried. This should be preferably gainful, though not oner ous nor Incessant." Third: Virtually every mother who can afford It has a nurse-maid who re lieves her of the children, nnd the children of her, for part of ench day f-1 night This is thought proper. Also, It Is thought proper for a fam ily to live at u fashionable hotel and have Its meals sent up to It from the cafe. In this way the family avoids having a food-factory In Its suite of living rooBis. Now If at some time in the remote future, when society Is somewhat better adapted to social needs there should be co-operative nurseries and cooperative kitchens which would leave women free for four hours a day to do work which, as Professor Thomas discriminatingly says, should be gainful but not oi.er ous nor Incessant, would society then he any more shattered at Its founda tions than f: now Is at its top? FAMOUS AMERICAN SONG BIROL EMMA EAMES. Madame Err.ma Eames is now In Europe and will not slna In this coun- try this year. French Women Busy Workers. There are 7.000.0UO women in France who earn their own living. In Paris women now work as outturn nf precious stones, and they have proved bo skillful that they may" win supre macy from Amsterdam as the centre of tho stono-cutting Industry. The women cutters receive $1.80 a day, against the CO cents paid the Paris' iieamstress. Women are found in al most every line of work In France. for examplo, a woman is in ehari? nt the railroad station in Froissey, a runs siiDuru, while her husband works under her am a imriar only barber shop in Vrolssy Is run by "Mile. Jeanne." who works only on Tuesdays and Fridays. Mme. Lesobre holds tho Joint position of telegraph nesHenger and postman. She aver ages twenty miles a day, seven days a week, and has not missed a day In fifteen years. A woman tuwndi th. big drum In the Frolssy brass band, na a woman bolris the street clean Ijtf contract ' 1 POETRY WORTH I READING n.n.t Middle Age. When youth's denlro of pleasure cloya And II fo liar, reached a wiser stngf Tis sweet to count the placid Joys Of middle age. No more tho love of frmzicd sporl No liioro the things to do and da'ra With mild philosophy I court My easy chnlr. There with my soothing pipe 6t And watch Its graceful rings arise, Feeling my vision and tny wit Grow ripe and wise. No more I Join tho weary wights Who dangle In n maiden's trail, Giving their duytiuioB and their nights To woful wall. I seek no mad emprise to Jog And goad me In a perilous way, But meditate that every dog Must have his day. I note the price of stock nnd share With cautious speculative ends. And to the credit side I bear Life's dividends. Perchance to golfing fields I faro. To enterprise with putt nnd tees- And scorn tho cuddle's furtive stare At what he sees. I never B3k of life too much; And she rewards with ample whr Of peaceful Joys that are in touch With middle age. Pall Mall Gazette. Settling Down. Cvo roamed tho earth e'er since my birth. And mado tho most of time. By sun-baked sand and frozen land And every other clime. And I've discerned and dearly learned A truth that kills unrest Tho slmplo thought my elders taught: Tho old place is the best! I've chucked the Hindu maiden's chin; Bronze goddesses I've wooed; In velvet eyes of tropic skies, I've often misconstrued; But this, at least. Romance's feast Has taught tho' somewhat late; The northern hue of gray or blue Is trusty for a mate! I've learned the grip of fellowship In stole fatalism; I've quite a store of Eastern lore And every other schism. The Spaniard's way I've learned to Play. I've dallied with the Turk, But I must say I like the way A white man docs his work! I've roamed the earth e'er Blnce my birth, And mado the most of time. I've learned a lot that's good and not. And here's my little rhyme: My wild oats sown a roof, my own; A wife with binding hair, . And Just a chance to break a lance In fighting fair and square! Stephen Chalmers. A Pilgrim Song. Ah! little Inn of Sorrow, What of thy bitter bread T What of the ghostly chambers, So I be sheltered? 'Tis but for a night, the firelight That gasps on thy cold hearthstone; To morrow my load and tho open road And the far light leading on! Ah! little Inn of Fortune, What of thy bluzlng cheer, Where glad through the pensive even ing Thy bright doors beckon clear? Eweet sleep on thy balsam pillows, Sweet wine that will thirst as tillage But send me forth o'er tho mornlni earth Strong for my pilgrimage! Ah! distant End of the Journey, What If thou fly my feet? What If thou fade before me In splendor wan and sweet? Still the mystical city lureth The quest Is the good knight's part And the pilgrim wends through th end of the ends Toward a shrine and a Grail In hit heart. Charlotte Wilson. "Just Mother." (A Burlesque Song.) The courtroom It was crowded All the witnesses wa3 thero Tho big Judge he sat u frowning In his big upholstered chair Theywas trying a old lady For the stealing of a horse They had brought her to the court room They had dragged her there by force Then up rose a handsome lawyer Who refused to give his name He defended the old lady And well he done the same The verdict was not guilty Tho old lady got quite gay And when the lawyer spoke up To them he then did say: Chorus. - She was my mother once In years so long ago And I'll not desert her now That Bhe has fell bo low I hnve many other mothers All over this broad land Rut I'll not desert this mother, evea . Though I'm rich and grand. Booth Tarktngton, In Chicago Even- . log Post. : u i , t ..:
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