GIRL WITHOUT TALENTS. 6 lie May I.lve a Life of Fulfillment by Making the Mont of Her livery- Day Qualities. "Man}' a modest, unselfish girl, who does not regard herself as remarkable either in mind, appearance or manner, asks: 'Where is there a place for a girl to-day who is not beautiful or talented, who cannot play or paint or sing, can not, permit herself to write an essay f,or a literary club, and has no ability for leadership?' " writes Mary Baldwin in the Woman's Home Companion, of "The Girl Without Great (lifts.'' "For Bm'h a one the history of an every-day pirl who met fulfillment and wrought from common material a wonderful life-fabric may be offered. She was the plainest of a family, and as she grew to maidenhood gave no sign of possessing anything that would not seem possible to the most ordinary person. Her sis ters had each a 'gift.' Hut nobody ex pected anything great from 'Miss Mar garet,' and she never dared to hope that she could fill any place of importance even in the smallest circle. As is often the case with the inconspicuous girl of the family, sli» became a general help er, and was called to assist and fill gaps In the home service. She learned through all this to get away from her self, and in effect said: '1 cannot do this, but my sister can.' As soon as she could accept this she was no longer a lonely girl, but imagined that she had a sort of partnership in the achievements of those whom she helped. Let it not be imagined that she had never experi enced a regret that she herself had been overlooked in the distribution of gifts; there were bitter moments when she suffered on account of the fact, but this w as before she had given herself wholly to the purjKise of forgetting her loss and helping others. As soon as this be came a fact she began to receive of the blessedness of giving, and the mental and spiritual enlargement of her com pensation worked itself outwardly, so that she. became a very attractive per son. Finally the prince came, and the slipper fitted the stay-at-home sister, and she became a princess before whom many hearts bowed in the sincer e»t reverence." HOW TO BOIL CLOTHES. Much llnrm Is Done l»v LeaviiiK Them in Ihe Holler ( n til Tliey are Ylrtuully Cooked. The purpose of boiling clothes is to expand the fabrics by steam and thus to loosen the dirt and allow it to drop out; there is no good, but actual harm derived from "cooking" the clothes; they do not require "cooking," but cleansing, and when they are cleansed that is sufficient. Hence, within half an hour after the water first begins to bubble they should be immediately removed and plunged into clear, cold water. While the clothes are. boiling they may be turned with aclothes-stick, but must not be punched or lifted in such a manner as to tear them. The common custom in many households of putting the second boilerful of clothes into the boiling dirtied water from which the first boilerful has been taken is wholly opposed to good laun dry work. When the cook wishes to keep the juice in the meat that is to be cooked by boiling she plunges it into boiling water. When she wishes to ex tract the juices and have them in the water for soup, etc., she puts the meat on in cold water. If you wish to get the dirt out of the clothes instead of driving it into the fiber, put the clothes on in cold water, and do not allow them to remain in the boiling water soiled by them till they are dyed yellow.— Gentlewoman. VERY LATEST STOCK. It Consists of Wide Itnnili mid Fluffy Trimming?*. and 1M Cnllcd tlip "Adelaide." Fortunate indeed is she who possesses that physical virtue—a swanlike neck, for the prettiest new collars and stocks are so tall and "fussy" that the short necked sisterhood can only look at them with longing eyes: and si/h. The "Adelaide," the latest stock, is higher than any yet seen. It has its THE NEW ADELAIDE COLLARETTE. redeeming feature, however, in the lit tle frill which finishes the lower edge. Slightly low-cut bodices of a summer ago which could not possibly "pass" this season are enabled to do duty by the addition of the "Adelaide." A stock of plain silk covered with fig ured tulle or embroidered chiffon is made and finished with a frill also of the diaphanous material or, to secure an effective contrast, plain goods is used. The frill extends below the de fective neck finish concealing it and at the same time looking like an original feature of the bodice. The True Political Poll. Seeker —It means a great deal of hard pulling if a man gets a nomination for an office nowadays. or leg?— Puck. SALT WATER BATHS. SALT WATER BATHS. They Cilve Tone to the Entire System and Keep the Sktn Healthy. Soft and (>ieur. For a hand bath (a bath given to the body by use of the hands only, or by sponge or cloth) place a handful of salt in a basin as ordinarily filled for wash ing. Allow the salt to dissolve, or hasten the action by stirring it with the hand. The water should be as cold as you have vitality to withstand. Lse 110 soap. Hathe the entire body. J>o not neglect the face and neck in the free use of the salt water. This bath has an exhilarating influence, tones the entire system, and gives to the skin a healthful condition that amply repays for the time and trouble involved. If used in the winter it will be an excel lent preventive of colds, besides being a substitute for face cosmetics. No chapping, no roughness of the skin and no clogging of the pores will trouble the person who systematically and reg ularly takes a bath of this sort. Or dinary table salt or rock salt will do, but will not do so well. The sea-salt contains medicinal properties not found in the others. Whether one ex ercise or not, the body should receive a daily hand bath of cold or cool water, especially in the suntmer, either upon rising or before retiring. —Edward B. Warman, iu Ladies' Home Journal. COSTUME FOR NURSES. Cool and Comfortable Model hlch Is ileinfc Adopted l>y Ilonpltal* and Sanitarium*. Trained nurses will hail with delight the comfortable new costume which is here illustrated. It fs a close-fitting COSTUME FOR A NURSE, affair consisting of skirt and waist which are joined upon the same waist band. In institutions where the rank of a nurse is designated by the color of her uniform, the "head" nurses wear costumes of white duck while their subordinates don the familiar blue gingham gown. The only trimming upon these uniforms is a double row of stitching around the yoke and sleeves. Worry Hinder* Dinextlon. The cat has served to teach mankind fir. all-important lesson concerning the working of the stomach. The X rays directed upon a cat's stomach have demonstrated that any irritation or dis agreeable nervous excitement arrests the progress of digestion. I)r. Fritz Lange, of Alunich, who makes a special study of the stomach, performed a series of experiments, which resulted in this interesting discovery. After the cat had eaten the X rays were turned on, and I)r. Lange watched the animal's stomach through a fluorescent screen. Then he irritated the cat by placing a live mouse just beyond its reach. Hr. Lange was able to observe that diges tion was absolutely interrupted by the irritation of the animal. Briefly stat ed. the lesson for man is: Don't let anything bother or interrupt your din ner. lion to Make O rail Re Sponge. Into a saucepan place a pint of cold water, the thinly pared rind of one lemon, and three or four ounces of sugar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved and add one ounce of gelatine which has been soaked in cold water. Stir and strain and when cool add the juice of one lemon and three oranges and more sugar if needed. Whisk the whites of two fresh eggs, add them to the half set jelly, whisk again, and turn the frothy mixture into a wet mold to be placed on ice until serving time. Thei. turn out the sponge and serve with tin grated peel of an orange scattered over the top. Ilolero Cornet Covers. Bolero corset covers are just as fash ionable as bolero* jackets. One of the daintiest of these is formed entirely of biaek Italian lace insertion and white cambric, as fine as the finest of hand kerchiefs, set in alternate strips and drawn together with a light blue rib bon over the bust. Another, to be worn with a pink corset, is of ecru lace and pink mull. The material is laid in line tucks; the neck is ornamented by a narrow collar edged with lace. llellelon* ltiee Illneuitn. These are delicious if properly made. Take equal parts of flour, sugar and ground rice, say a half pound of each, and half a teaspoonful of baking pow der. Mix all into a paste with two well beaten eggs. Shape into biscuits, and bake in a brisk oven. Curled mall flocks in summer and early fall. They need little more shelter than a roosting place that is protected from storms and showers. The cut shows an A-shelter boarded with matched lumber to the ground on one side and end with nests and roosts inside. But the tight side and end to ward the direction of storms. Fowls AN "A"-SHEI/TER. can thus be colonized in many flock* on pasture and other rough land, ob viating the necessity of building many yards, and of furnishing all the feed. Fowls 011 free range will get half theii living themselves. The plan reduces the number of permanent chicken houses required, since the flock is usu ally much larger in summer and fall than in winter after the market chick ens and the old hens have been culled out. —Farm and Home. Remedy for the Hornlly. The hornlly is becoming trouble some in some sections, and the Kansas experiment station reports that they have found the following mixture to effectually prevent them from troubling the agricultural college herd: Two quarts fish oil, one pint crude carbolic acid, ten ounces of oil of tar, one ounce oil of pennyroyal, one quart kerosene. All except the kerosene can be obtained at any good drug store, and the cost is but 85 cents a gallon, l'ut it on with brush, cloth, or in fine spray from atomizer, about once in two or three days. The cost is from one-half to one cent a head each day.and these flies and all others will carefully avoid it. Owes No Man Anything. Sheep are unlike all other stock, if de cently managed. A good sheep can never die in debt to a man. If it. dies when weaned it lias consumed nothing, if it dies the first winter the wool will pay for its keep up to that period If it lived to be sheared once, it brings its owner in debt to it, and if the ordinary course of wool production and breeding goes on, that indebtedness increases with great rapidity as long as the sheep lives. If the horse or steer dies at three or four years old or the cow before breeding, the loss is almost a total one. —Free Press, Ontario. Canada. Cabbages are gross feeders. They re quire a rich soil and thorough cultiva tion if the best results are obtained. Be careful about potato vines which have been sprayed with paris green, | that the stock cannot eat them. Kngllnh Secret Service Money. The t< ;rm "secret service money" is usually applied to a fund placed at the disposal of ministers to be expended at their discretion, in promoting or protecting; the interests of the coun try. These moneys consist of a sum of £35,000 annually included in the estimates, in respect of which minis ters are only required to make a dec laration that the moneys spent have been expended in "accordance with the intentions of parliament." As jnin irtcrs are required to give 110 account of their steward ship, it is obvious we have 110 means of knowing how these moneys arc expended. The reader, however, who carries his mind back to episodes within his knowledge, such as the collapse of the Fenian conspira tors, or of their later development, the "Irish Invincibles," will have little dif ficulty in realizing how indispensable a fund of this kind is to the protection of a state, and of understanding the infinite variety of uses to which it may be applied. —Chambers' Journal. Not So Bad. "How did the family come out in the mat ter of nettling the estate'/" was asked of one of the brothers. "Might have been, worse, but we finally succeeded in effecting a compromise with our lawyer by which he agreed to let us have half." —Detroit Free Press. W hut 11 e 11 aod ioet di gest well, appetite poor, bowels con stipated, tongue coated. It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills, easy and safe. They cure dyspep sia, biliousness. 25c. All Druggists. " ) Wuut your moustache or beard a beautiful « 1 brown or rich Mack? 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