HtpJi •• *1 &AiM I HER LUMINOUS HOUR | 1 BY NELLIE CRAVEY GILLMORE | -r'Ljuuiuu. I'wi.j.ih "i ■■ m v:v»:-.~ mj ««" 1 .... 'twws®' Maynard was distinctly moody. Tlio | BUdden and rather self-surprising con clusion i hat his wife had ceased to care for hini seemed to have flung liim into the depths of gloom. He had hurried home with tickets for the opera, meaning to give Juliet her semi-annual outing, by way of squar ing accounts with his conscience. And when he found her gone a quick feel ing of resentment began to manifest itself in the dull flush that rose to his cheeks .the ugly Hash of his eyes and i the tight, thin lips. Maynard forgot to remember at. this j juncture that his evenings at home | were few and far between, his atten- : tions to his wife fewer and farther — | and that both had gradually acquired ' the custom of finding their own sep- j arate pleasures, or diversions. For some time he stood with his elbow on the mantel shelf, staring at the floor with angry, intent eyes. Presently he drew forth the tickets and contemplated them grimly for an instant; then liis face changed, bright ened, and a ripple of silent laughter passed over it. He changed his dress hurriedly, called a cab, and inside half an hour was bowling rapidly over the gleam ing asphalt. Mrs. Chisholm was at. home, yes, and would bo d lighted to accompany him to the opera, despite tho info;- mality. Af'< 1 the performance Maynard ie turned home moodier than ever. In the note his wife had left him Juliet had mentioned supper at Sherry's; she would probably not arrive for an hour yet. He settled himself as de jectedly—and as comfortably—as pos sible before the fireplace to await her return. Soon there was a swift rush, then the sudden cessation of wheels; the gate clicked as the car chugged off, and Mrs. Maynard came lightly into the room, the swish of her long, graceful evening gown making subtle music about her. A charming pink was in her cheeks; her eyes sparkled from the keen, frosty air and her hair gleamed exquisitely golden high above the black ruff that encircled her neck. Maynard stared at her critically for a moment as she came up to where he sat and began drawing off her long black gloves. She was a decidedly pretty woman; no one could fail to ob serve that. She glanced at her hus band, pleased—enquiring; it had been a long time since he had sat up for her —since he had been home to sit >ip for her. "It was glorious!" she said, break ing the silence. "You ought to have been there, Eugene." She remem bered his quondam penchant for grand opera and wondered if the cares of business had completely absorbed all tlae old tastes. Maynard shrugged. "Perhaps it was your fault that I vas not," he replied. Juliet questioned him with a little startled glance. "My fault?" she re peated, puzzled. "I rushed through my work and hur ried home to take you and —well, you see how it was." He spoke in a hurt voice, gazing past her grimly. "Oh, Gene!" There was a brief, almost painful pause. Then: "Why, if you'd only told me!" Her tone betrayed genuine regret, but her eyes shone joyfully. It was the first time in many months that he had i£iven her any outward thought! Maynard hesitated, drew a long breath —and plunged. "What's the use of trying to keep up the farce," he said, sharply. "I've known all along that you'd lost inter est in me." Mrs. Maynard threw off her ruff and stood staring at him in wordless surprise. Then she laughed, a bit hys terically, and sat down beside him. "You silly boy," she said, tremu lously, "what a travesty!" "Oh," he returned, disagreeably, "you think so, do you? Well, I must 3ay that women are impossible crea- Itures —that is all." "Eugene!" she broke out, a swift (flush of indignation coloring her cheeks, "you are cruelly unjust. You ;know you have no right to talk in this way to me!" Maynard moved restlessly. Some thing in her voice made him wince, but he replied calmly: "Oh, it's all right, I suppose. A man is a iool, probably, to expect his wife to stay at home waiting for him when there are so many more agreeable things in the world; he has no right, perhaps." Mrs. Maynard was silent, her eyes filling with quick tears under the sting of his sarcasm. But after a while she softened and a new light flashed over her face. "Dear," she said, wistfully, "I'm sorry. I wouldn't wound you for the world. You know that, do you not? I would wait for you for always, in preference to anything or anybody on earth —if you would but give me the chance. If you would but let me do this! You believe me, Gene?" She laid one of her white hands on his arm and he noticed that it was trembling. "It isn't often that I have an eve ning off," he said. "No: I suppose you do not. Why, it's been almost a year since you took me out last." Maynard regarded her thoughtfully a second. "Hut you haven't cared have you?' he asked tentatively. Mrs. Maynard flushed, paled and flushed again. She had never known her husband so critically insistent. "Of course i have cared," she re turned quickly, "more than you will ever know —or guess." Across her mind flashed visions of her early mar ried life, with all its cherished pic tures of a happiness that had seemed, alas, too great to be enduring. Then the first lonely nights, and long, tire some days—the slow bitterness that had worked its way into her life. She wondered vaguely what had come over him, and with a sudden heart-throb fancied she saw in his at titude a return to the spirit of the old days. A long silence was finally broken by Maynard. "I want to beg your par don," he said, "if I have seemed un reasonable. A man, well, I suppose I did expect rather much. Only, a man kind of hates to be disappointed, you know. You'll kiss me now, won't you?" Maynard pushed open the drawing room door and came into the room jn t. aa big wife laid down her pen. 'Tin L.O glad you're going to be at this evening, dear," uho said, coming up to' him. He glanced al her In a half startled fashion and took his seat a trifle un easily. "You've been working entirely too hard. And I mean to put a stop to all such nonsense, don't 1?" she rattled on, flicking a speck of dust from his lapel. The other laughed and shook his head. "I'm afraid—" But her lingers stopped the words on his lips and she handed him tho letter she had written. It was to de cline a long-coveted invitation. But the affair was for that evening, and nothing could have induced her to ac cept it now. "It wouldn't be exactly fair, it would be rather selfish of me to let you do this, Juliet. You mustn't," he insisted, lifting her chin in his palm as he looked into her dancing eyes. But she only shook her head most positively and went back to her desk to seal and stamp the note. After a little, Maynard rose lazily and pulled out his watch. "I must go back to work now," ho said. "I've already overstayed my luncheon hour. Au revoir—till eve ning." The hours passed quickly. Toward dusk Juliet went to her room to dress, expending more care over her per sonal adornment than she had done for many a week. But just as she had finished, there came a rap at her door and the maid brought in a letter from her husband. "My dearest," he wrote, "you can not possibly imagine what a disap pointment this is to me, but unfor seen complications at the office will detain me here until almost midnight. Another evening, many evenings, we will make up for this. Lovingly, Eu gene." Mrs. Maynard dropped the letter, her eyes swimming with tears. But suddenly her face lightened and flushed. "I believe I will do it!" she cried. "When we were first married, how pleased he used to be to have me come and sit with him while he worked!" She started up abruptly, wrapped herself in a long silk coat, donned her most becoming hat and drew on her gloves with excited fingers. Fifteen minutes later she was spinning down the avenue in a coupe and the high office building, from which gleamed innumerable lights, loomed familiarly in the distance. Mrs. Maynard stepped lightly to the pavement and shook out her skirts. Her heart was beating tu multously and a bright color vivified her cheeks. At the entrance to the building she paused a moment and her hand went to her throat, as though to hold back her qujck, excited breathing. After all, would he be pleased? Recollec tions of the past two years, with all the constraint, coolness and unhappi ness came tumbling into her brain, and her face clouded. But almost im mediately she laughed away her ap prehensions and went in. The sleepy elevatcr boy stared at Mrs. Maynard stupidly, then curious ly, as he opened his eyes wide enough to permit a full glance into the pretty flushed face and sparkling eyes. "Third floor," she said, as she step ped into the elevator. "I want togo to Mr. Maynard's office." "His office has been closed an hour, Miss. He never stays down later'n seven." "An hour! Are you sure?" She gazed at him blankly, every vestige of color gone from her cheeks. "Sure enough. The lady—his wife, I guess—was here and they went away together. She comes for him most every day." A shudder crept slowly over the slender figure. Her breath came heav ily and her eyes looked piteously down the joyless vista of years before her. (CoDViiKht. 1906. by Daily fitory Pub eni CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER I.J, 1906 Wireless Telegraph Plant Operated by Boys In Newport, It. 1., are two wireless telegraph plants owned and oper ated by boys, which are perhaps the most complete amateur plants in the country. They belong to Lloyd Man uel. who has his plant ai. his home on Third street, and Henry Ilooney, whose apparatus is situated on Mt. Vernon street. Both boys receive and send mes sages, but are particularly busy in re ceiving the many messages that are sent, to the wireless station at the naval torpedo station. At times the operators at the torpedo station talk with the boy operators at Newport, " 1 The House Used in Wireless Experiments. and the navy men, both enlisted men and officers, are much interested in the work of the amateurs. Last winter Charles Fielding, a mes senger boy employed by the Postal telegraph company, constructed a wireless station and sent and received messages. So interested did Com mander Albert Gleaves of the torpedo station become in the apparatus and work of the messenger boy that he visited the improvised station at Fielding's home, with the result that Filding was enlisted in the navy, though two years under the age limit. This last act was waived, as the navy was anxious to have the services of the young expert. Commander Gleaves made a full report of Field ing's apparatus to the navy depart ment. Fielding is now an electrician in the navy, and is stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard. Manuel and Rooney spend prac tically all their spare time working and experimenting with their outfits, and have made several improvements and additions to their first rather crude apparatus. In the part of the apparatus which used for sending messages, a con denser and a tunning coil are used. This is a brass wire connected with the aerial and to the instrument itself by means of leads or chips, which are CANNON BALL. Measuring Its Velocity by Aid of Elec trically Charged Screens. Measuring the velocity of a cannon ball may seem to be a difficult matter, but it is really one of the simplest of •p JL 112 P -1 1 «mn The Cannon and Targets. scientific problems. The accompany ing diagram shows the whole thing plainly. Somewhere in the path of the pro jectile are placed two wire screens, marked C and D, each formed of a simple frame, across which a wire runs back and forth, forming part of an electric battery circuit in which an accurate timepiece, T, is also inter posed. As the projectile, on being fired from the gun, passes through the • screen C, the circuit of which it is a part is broken and the clockwork is started, the index originally pointing to zero. On passing through the other screen, D, the projectile interrupts the second circuit, with the effect of in stantly bringing the clock mechanism to a stop. Knowing, then, the exact distance between the two screens, usually sev eral hundred feet, it follows that by di viding it by the number of seconds or fractions of a second marked on the clock dial, representing the time that has elapsed during the passage of the projectile from screen C to screen D, wo obtain the number of feet per sec ond that the projectile was traveling. When a man of evil stock tries to do right, he is fighting all his forbears at once. adjustable. The length of the wave is regulated with this apparatus by moving tho chips in either an upward or downward direction. After ascer taining precisely the right position for a certain station, it is an easy matter to keep this in mind, and no further trouble is experienced. Though other stations than the one they are call ing may receive the message, it is heard most distinctly by tT>e station to which the apparatus Is adjusted. The greatest improvement over the earlier instrument is In the wave de tector. Two pieces of carbon, with an ordinary needle placed across tliera, was the way in which the first de tector was made. Now the boys use an elect ro-lytic receiver. This con sists of a hair like platinum wire, which is partly contained in a recep tacle containing acid, to which it is fastened by means of a screw ad justment. Another tunning coil is used, similar to the one used in send ing, but in this coil there are many more turns of wire. A. sliding con tact is employed, and in this manner any part of the coil can be used. A receiver, attached to the head, similar to the ones used by telephone operators, is used. The sliding con tact is then moved up and down un til the apparatus responds. The general aim of all experiment ers in the field of wireless telegraphy at the present time is to discover a selective system of transmitting mes sages. This is a system whereby it will be possible to messages from one point to another without outside stations being able to inter fere or "butt in." This latter is now tho greatest de fect in wireless telegraphing, as other stations than the one intended get the message. Of course, these may not understand the message If it is sent in a code, but they are able to bother the sender and receiver to u greater or less extent. BEHIND HIS BACK. A Trick That Will Amuse an Evening Company Immensely. Public entertainers of all kinds are always anxious to get on good terms with their audiences. One of the Bur est methods of attaining this is to de* ceive the spectators with some, appar ently genuine, trick, and to then, as it were, allow them to discover that I the feat is really a bogus one. A good example of this is afforded by a conjurer, who, putting a plate on top of pedestal, plc,ces a billiard bah upon it. Facing the audience, he steps in front of the pedestal, then steps aside again, and, 10, and behold; the billiard ball has disappeared. The performer "searches" for the ball, and soon, pretending to see it "dropping from the clouds," he catches it, and holds it aloi® in his right hand for all to see. In reality, the performer's left arm— fixed in front of him—is, from elbov downwards, a dummy one, and it Is with his real left hand that he picks up the billiard ball, behind his back. Soon, in the "search" the ball is se **ll The Trick Illustrated. cretly transferred to his right hand, and the trick neatly finished. A shout of laughter invariably arises as, after bowing low, the performer retires up the stage, his left forearm and hand now, of course, showing plainly against his bjack cloth coat. Power of Light. The extraordinary resuscitating power of light recently received a curious illustration in the silver mines at Laurium. A mine had been aban doned 2,000 years, when some poppy seed was found beneath the slag. The slag being removed, in a short tune the entire space wa« covered with the most gorgeous show of poppies. After their 20 centuries' rest they had bloomed as vigorously as ii they had been borne by flowers trf yyuterday. \*OMA W.i . v «-"-. r ' .«•••■••■V.'-' .'V; : . s y. V. fey ..', S&i&H .'■■s§ Fine Table Decorations„ SOME APPROPRIATE AND HAR MONIOUS ACCESSORIES. Hostesses Now Devote as Much Atten tion to This Feature as to the Menu —Recent Ideas That Have Met With Favor. Every host and hostess realizes the importance of appropriate and har monious table accessories, which to day occupy quite as much attention as the luncheon or dinner menu itself. Indeed, these festive details so far in imparting character and beauty to the Whole, charming the eye as well as spurring the palate. A branched electrolier may be very effectively employed as a center piece for the dinner table. Bank the base with little pots of asparagus or maid en hair fern, putting them 011 inverted bowls or broad llat dishes. At the base, to prevent the pots from show ing, lay a strip about six or eight inches wide of green crepe paper. Arrango the pots so that they will partly overshadow the green paper. Choose yellow and white chrysan themums of good size, entwining these around the electrolier and placing here and there among the greens, finally encircling around the green paper, leaving on their own foliage. For an entree or an ice a chrysan themum case would be an excellent choice. If you are clever in fashion ing such things you can easily obtain the yellow crepe paper and the plain | green for the stems. An appropriate form for an ice would be a miniature Cupid encircled SHAPED LIKE AN UMBRELLA. Pincushion Made of Old Pieces of Silks and Velvet. A pretty, and at the same time dur able pincushion, may be made in the form of an umbrella. It will, per haps, meet the needs of those who, when renewing their toilet table ac cessories, want to use up old pieces of silk and velvet. Its shape makes it particularly suitable for hanging upon the mirror frame. To construct, ob tain first of all a wooden stick (such as a pen holder), upon the end of which fix with a pin a glass or colored bead, and stick this through the cen tetr of a circular pincushion. Then cut out 16 triangular pieces of card board to form the folds of the um brella, and cover each one on both sides with silk, velvet or any conven ient material. Then sew them togeth er as in the diagram, taking care to keep the ends as close together as possible, and bind them firmly round the stick with a band of narrow rib ban to form the ferrule. Attach the umbrella to the cushion firmly with glu? or strong thread, and finish each point with a fancy pin of some kind. The alternate folds might be of con trasting shades; but it would look better to keep to one color for the outside and another for the lining. The cushion should be of the same tint as the latter. Finish with a bow of ribbon tied to the handle. Most Useful Gown. No other gown is more generally useful and adaptable for the filling of a gap than one of white or black lace, and if a robe gown in either of these choices can be secured a wise woman will possess herself of iL with kisses. Or the slipper would be charming for an ieo. These an- also made to order in white satin, arid, of course, are elegant, the heel 3 belts?; gilded. For a souvenir a little wed (ling bell made of white paper and decorated with artificial orange blos soms or lilies of tho valley, is symbol ical. The top lifts off and a iitUa case three inches high is revelaed. Another very pretty little ban-boo souvenir 13 a L. " et of crepe papei with handle entwh, <d in iiov.u Tha miniature work basket of flo >cred paper flUcl with would make a charming souvenir few luncheon for bridal attendants. Footballs are seen in all sizes sncT make graceful shapes for sweets?, tied with college colors. These are also chosen for cases and are realistic looking specimens of the genuine pig skin. Among the newest fruits and veg etable favors are inclosed fanciful caps and bonnets of paper. That Iha gardens have been well ransacked far ideas is shown by the following list,, all reproduced in a most realistic manner. Pippins, Lady Blush, snow apples, besides those temptingly striped peaches, pears, plums, oranges, banan as, grapes, big ripe quinces, cucum bers, potatoes, ear of corn, pumpkin,, pickles, besides hosts of others. Other favors include a ham, flask, steins, canteen, telephone, gilt bas kets, cognac bottles, carpet sweeper, typewriter, box of oranges, case of wine, darkey on watermelon, turkey, automobile. Indeed, there seems to be no limit to tho surprising list o* l'. vors reproduced with striking fidei PRESENT A CHILD CAN MAKE Inexpensive Materials Only Necessary for Collar Case. I took two pretty Japanese paper napkins, with a goldenrod design (price five cents a dozen), and cut off two inches of the plain part of one side of the napkips, leaving the fiow>» ers for the design <vti top, says a write* in the New York Tribune. I fold«*S one napkin over and put cotton wad ding between (four cents a sheet}, scented with sachet powder (five cents worth of which only a little is used J. 1 bound the edges together with gold colored satin one inch wide. I did the other napkin in the same way, and then had two pads. I sewed the corners and middle of one si&s of the pads together and fastened bows of the ribbon over the sewing, and closed it with the ribbon sewed in the middle of each edge and tUstt in a bow. About two yards of rtblxio. at five cents a yard, are needed. I then had a very pretty present, n<> costing over IB cents. It can be used for either gloves or collars and ruad» of any color desirable. Pastel Colorings Popular. Pastel colorings still hold the fort where frocks of formal intent are con cerned. Especially is this so whvu one comes to consider the tailor-made The palest of pale blues, soft, saffron shades of yellow, a tender willow or almond green and a blush pink com prise the season's favorites in tb«se„. and broadcloth is far and away tfi& [ first choice. Velvet, moire and hand some braids that match exactly ave the favored trimmings, and where a touch of fur is introduced, as it so often will be this year, a scrap or two of real lace is expected to accom pany it. The combination of fur and lace in the trimming scheme is one that is always well liked, since it gives an air of luxurious extravagance at a comparatively small cost —one always has such little scraps in the catch all bag, and one is given to savins such things—that can be pulled out and made to do duty time and again, and always with delightful results. Stationery for Children. Letter paper is for the most part square, that size being considered th« best taste for notes—and is usually diminutive, even for the use of young sters, for the envelopes are only about' one and a half inches square, while the sheets are a triile less than three inches square, or just large enough tc fit smoothly in the envelope after be ing folded once. The flaps on tbow envelopes are long and pointed, react ing almost to the bottom. 13
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