A CANINE CUPID (Copyright, V.>" 7, by I'aily Story Pub. Co.) The fact that the Fort Wayne club faces the park on Madison avenue riiay go far towards explaining why it is that this is the favorite drive for the younger society women of the city, for the club contains handsomely appointed bachelor suites. I can't prove this, of course, but I have my suspicions. One afternoon late in the spring, one of their members was just mounting the steps. lie was a young man of that distinctly American blend of so cial distinction and keen business abil ity. He was looking up the street, and once or twice lie whistled authorita tively to a Boston terrier who was running to him with all speed possi ble considering the large parcel the dog carried in his mouth. "What now, Spud?" the young man inquired, indulgently. Ho took tho package from the dog and as he drew forth the contents, tho carriages trailing by were surprised by the sight of Mr. Morris Van Tassel standing like a statue at the entrance of the club and holding up in tho morning sunshine—a lady's hat. "It's a stunner!" he said with a whistle under his breath. "Spud, how could you?" The bull dog, sitting pridefully at his master's feet, looked up with a lolling grin. "Spud, I bought you for a gentle man and you're nothing but a common thief. What am I to do with it?" The dog offered no suggestion as to that. He merely gazed up at it with a leer of pride. "Wednesday it was sausages. Yes terday it was a garter. You heard what the fellows said when they found it in my basket. But this, Spud—" Words failed him. He stood eyeing the creation in his hand, a look of amusement overspreading the habitu ally keen expression of his face. "Oh, you've got my hat!" broke out a girlish voice from below. She had appeared suddenly at the foot of the stairs. She had evidently been running and was trying hard not to pant. "Oh, please don't hold it that way!" By this time she was on the step beside him and had it safely back in her own hands. She twirled it around, viewing it carefully from all sides. "I don't believe it's hurt a 1*51." she said, with frank satisfaction. "It couldn't be prettier," Van Tas sel answered. At the sound of his voice, all the amusement and the unconsciousness fled from the girl's face. Her eyelids dropped with a quick little wink and fluttering for a minute, hung down like half-drawn curtains over her eyes. Her cheeks flushed with uneasiness. You see, her impulsive delight in her purchase had lead her to carry it home herself instead of waiting for it to be sent. She was not quite sure what her society-bred, conservative mother would say about it. She looked, at Ihis minute, like a guilty schoolgirl | waiting to be scolded. The change in her expression filled Van Tassei with amusement. He had been dealing of late only with the trained society women of his set and realized with something of surprise that he had been forgetting what sim ple girlhood was like. He started to apologize for the mendacity of his dog, but she lifted her eyelids for a second and looked him full in the face while she shook her head deprecatingly. "I'm nst going to talk with you," this sign language said. So he picked up the wrappings from where they had fallen and the girl hastily tucked the hat in. Once again at the foot of the stairs, her concern began to lessen. She gave him a little nod of farewell, but there was still apparent in her hurry ing feet a very childish desire to run away. He glanced at her for a full half minute, and then, being a gentleman, turned. "Thank you, Spud," he said to the dog. That night, when some of the men dropped into his room to smoke,though more than once the incident came to mind, he did not speak of it. It would have been a good story, too. The next afternoon, at the same hour, when Van Tassel was coming back from his office, he caught a glimpse of her driving in the park. She was holding her face with im pulsive determination so that she looked straight before her, though it would have been perfectly evident to the whole world —had they boon in terested —that she had seen him. Mr. Morris Van Tassel was a little hurt, which he argued, with some amuse ment at himself, he had no right whatever to be, as of course he had not formally met her. I will confide to you that it had tak en some innocent contriving by tho girl to leave her mother at home and bo driving at this particular honr on this particular E. venue alone with her maid. It was some days later that he saw her again. As he was crossing the park, he met her on horseback 011 one of the farther drives, iter trim figure in its smooth, black habit looking all the more winsomely girlish. Her groom had fallen back behind her. She was holding her horse in check with one hand, and leaning far over, pat ted her skirt coaxingly as she talked By EDITH STOW to a Boston terrier that jumped joy ously on the ground below her. It was evident that she and Spud hail grown to be 011 terms of friendly un derstanding. The girl was honestly surprised to see Van Tassel, and when, in her pretty bewilderment at being caught playing with his dog, she nodded him a little greeting, he lifted his hat in response with a smile that was pretty near to gratitude. The men who dropped into his room that night stayed too long to suit him. He was actually impatient for them to 'leave. Hut when they did at last go. all he did was to settle him self comfortably before his open lire and sinile up into the smoke that curled and wafted above him. "Next time, Spud," he said, "don't stop at the hat. Take the girl." This young man, who had played his part in the social functions of that city for the last five years, knew by heart the list of girls he would meet on such occasions. Here was some girl fresh from finishing school, he and Spud reasoned it out. He would be introduced to her at a crush at some of the houses, but those were not just the surroundings in which his fancy liked to picture her. As for asking the men who she was, he did not think of doing that. The shelter ing silence that the first day had prompted him not to speak of the girl's adventure with Spud still held, only now it was a sacred luminous thing. Spud still occasionally brought home to him in loving tribute such gifts as old shoes and discarded vegetables, but this did not materially help the problem that was slowly working through Van Tassel's mind. The girl's friends noticed, in the meantime that she was growing rest ive. Wireless telegraphy a new thing —not a bit of it; it's as old as love. She knew just how things stood, and that all she could do was to wait as patiently as possible to be discovered. But what girl is there who does not tire of waiting, especially when she is so young still and it is her first ro mance? Spud never explained it —he is a dog to confide in—and, of course, you or I would not imply that the girl planned it. The facts are these. Late one afternoon Spud came walking in to his master with a strange and quiet dignity as though he realized the re sponsibility of a commission. In his mouth he carried with great nicety and precision as to the placing, a little morocco card case. Morris Van Tassel opened it with a quick laugh of masculine satisfac tion. "Why, she's Newton's little sister," he said, tenderly; and straightway lighted his pipe and fell to making plans. PEPPER CURED THE HICCOUGHS. New Remedy Has Been Discovered by Philadelphia Physician. A new and immediate remedy for hiccoughs was discovered at the Hahnemann hospital by Dr. Peters, by whom George McClellan was cured of hiccoughs, which began two days ago, by means of a pinch of pepper. McClellan had tried all kinds of remedies before coming to the hos pital, but without avail. Two hos pitals were visited, but the treatment he received was apparently as little good as the drugs ho hr.d taken at home. He became weaker and weak er and could not eat or sleep. It was in this condition that he ap peared at the Hahnemann hospital. "Here is something that you never tried," said Dr. Peters. He gave the man a pinch of pepper. The man waß hiccoughing violently at the time, but managed to inhale the stimulant. Tears came from his eyes as he did, pnd he sneezed violently. He sneezed again and when he was through sneezing the hiccoughs were gone.— Philadelphia Inquirer. BELL CHANGES ITS TONE. Tolled for Man Who Rang It for Fifty Years. While Samuel Minnick, 88 years old, of Burlington, N. J., the oldest sextan in the state, was being lowered to his grave, the old bell in the steeple of the First Baptist church, which was being tolled for his fu neral, is declared to have suddenly changed tone. On over 12,000 occa sions the Qld man, in half a century of service, has sent the call to serv ices or the notes of w«4ding joy or funeral sorrow from the church tower. Superstitious persons regarded with awe e strange change iu the sound of the hell notes. He would permit none but himself to ring the bell, and suffered the fall from the belfry which caused his death, because he re fused to allow an assistant to offi ciate. Some declare that the stronger stroke of the new ringer gives the bell its new note. It is sharp and clear, while heretofore it had been deep and sonorous. It. costs $100,000,000 a year to main tain the army in British India, au in crease of $10,000,000 a year in 35 years. SKILL IN MENDING ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF WIFELY ARTS. Many Garments Can Be Saved from the Rag Bag and Made Neat and Serviceable if Prop erly Handled. In darning damask a square of card board is basted on the right side of the cloth and the darning is done on the wrong side. The worn edges of the hole should not be cut away, thus making a square or round darned patch; instead, I lie jagged edges are left and the needle woven skilfully in and out until the space is filled. Start this mending one-half inch outside the hole and continue until the rent is en tirely surrounded. These stitches must lie taken so they will not show on the right side, and the needle should bo passed through the raised pattern of the damask, taking up the threads as though one were darning, and in working back those left are taken up. and so on, just as one would darn. This strengthens tho linen around the hole and prevents the darned hole from tearing away, as is always tho case when it is not rein forced, thus making the last state worse than the first. The holes that come from ordinary wear and tear are mended in this way, but accidents will happen and jagged tears and clean knife cuts are sure to appear some time. These require a different treatment. If the knife cut is discovered before it goes to the laundry the trouble of repairing is lesseued, for all that is necessary then is to draw the edges together on the right side, baste a strip of cardboard over the rent and darn neatly on the wrong side, as di rected above. In this case tho rein forcing previously described may be dispensed with, as the linen will not lie thin on the edges of the cut as it always is around the edges of a hole. Of course, one must go outside of the cut sufficiently far to give the neces sary strength, but the aim in this work is to conceal the darn. When complete, cut away the stitches on the right side that wore used to draw the edges together. Supposing such a rent has not been discovered until after the linen has been laundered, then the simple darn ing will seldom suffice. Instead darn the cut and at the back hem down neatly a strip of white linen tape. This should entirely surround the slit. Three cornered or other jagged tears are more neatly mended if the tape is used. When possible do the darning fire* and apply the tape after ward, but when the jagged edges are very open the better way is to sew the tape at the back and darn down to it on the right side. Quilting Ruffles on Machine. Hern the strips of goods which you wish to plait and proceed as for com mon machine ruffling, making the stitch long and loose. Set the ruffler at its highest notch and after the en tire length has been gathered go over it again with the same side up. This time stitch through the hem at the opposite edge. If you are careful to start witli each stitch or plait cor responding with the one on the op posite edge, the little plaits will con tinue evenly to the opposite end. Now pross the strip with a hot Iron and then sew it on the garment. Pull out the unnecessary row of gathering and shake out the plaits, and you will find the quilting handsome and ao curate. Economical Suet Pudding. One cup solid suet, chopped fine. To this add one t-np best molasses and one cup sweet milk. One toaspoon cin namon, one-lialf teaspoon cloves. Sift one level teaspoon soda through three cups sifted flour, using a little of the Hour to dredge one cup seeded raisins and one cup currants, pinch salt. Steam three hours. Keeps well to re steam when needed. Sauce for above: Beat one cup pulverized sugar and one-half (scant) cup butter to a cream; add one cup milk slowly, lemon extract. Set In a bowl on top of teakettle and stir till white and creamy. Serve when well dissolved. O'Brien Potatoes. Four cups potato balls or cubes, one good slice onion, one level tablespoon butter, four canned pimentocs, pars ley. Fry the potato balls or cubes In deep hot fat and when done drain on brown paper and sprinkle witli salt. Cook the onion in the butter for three minutes, remove the onion and add to the butter the pimentoes cut fine. Heat thoroughly, add the potatoes, and stir until mixed. Turn into a hot serv ing dish and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. An Unusual and Nourishing Soup. One seldom sees this delicious soup, made of watercress as follows: One quart of meat stock, two bunches of chopped watercress and one table spoonful of butter. Put into a sauce pan and let simmer 20 minutes. When it comes to a boil add another table spoonful of butter, two cups of cay» enne. This soup may be greatly im proved by garnishing just before serv ing with a cupful of whipped cream and half a cupful of fresh watercress tips. New Dressing for Potato Salad. Make the ordinary potato salad, us ing French dressing. Just before serv ing add three-quarters of a cupful of whipped cream into which has been beaten half a teaspoonful of Worce - tershire sauce. This should be enougLi for a quart of salad. A NOVELTY IN PUDDINGS. Carrot Fruit Pudding a Delicious Ad dition to the Menu. A fruit carrot pudding is a novelty ■which 1 urge you to try- A. hostess never makes a mistake in Laving a hot fruit pudding at a dinner where men are present, for It is a universal favor ite. Free one cupful of beel suet from membranes, and work until creamy, which may be most easily ac complished by using the hands. Add two and two-thirds cupfuls of stale broad crumbs and one cupful of grated carrot. Heat the yolks of four eggs until very light, and add gradually, while beating constantly, one and one third cupfuls of brown sugar. Combine the mixtures, and add the grated rind of one lemon and one tablespoon fill of strong vinegar. Mix one cupful of raisins that have been seeded and cut in pieces three-fourths of a cupful of currants; then dredge with one-third cupful of flour mixed and sifted with one and one-half teaspoonfuls of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one half teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of cloves. Add this to the mixture, then also add the whites of four eggs beaten until stiff. Turn into a buttered mold decor ated with raisins and citron cut in diamond shaped pieces, and adjust the cover. A few currants will adhere to the mold if it is well buttered. Place tho mold on a trivet in a kettle contain ing boiling water, allowing water to come half way up around the mold. Cover closely, and steam three and one half hours, adding more boiling water as needed. Remove from the mold, and serve with sterling sauce. Cream one-fourth of a cupful of butter, using a small wooden spoon; then add gradually, while beating constant ly, one cupful of brown sugar mixed with three-fourths of a tablespoonful of flour. Add very gradually three tablespoonfuls of sherry or Madeira wine, the yolks of two eggs well beat en, and one-half cupful of milk. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. Pour onto the well beaten whites of two eggs, cook one minute, and serve.—Wom an's Home Companion. THE HOME. Tiling is not only used in the bath room, but is becoming popular for the vestibule and conservatory. In making cheese balls to serve with a lettuce course, work ground nuts into the cheese and note the de licious flavor this imparts. A new idea is to servo raarshrnaliow on a cup of chocolate. It softens the marshmallow and gives a dainty flavor to the chocolate. When making apples or any fruit pie always place the quantity of sugar required on lower crust first and it will bake more satisfactorily. Keep a supply of emery paper in the kitchen as it removes rust and bad blemishes from the stove and is also useful for cleaning rust from any of tho kitchen articles. For a housewife who does her own work a one-piece white oilcloth apron, with bib and sleeves, bound with white tiipe, protects dresses and saves laundering of shirt waists and kitchen aprons. To clean plaster of paris pieces brush as clean as possible, then give a coating of whiting and water. Your pieces will look like new. When very dirty wash carefully, dry and brush with the liquid whiting. Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding Remove the ribs and pull firmly aud fasten with skewers; place in a bak ing pan, dredge with flour and lightly with popper. Pour into this pan some hot water, bake an hour and a half. Half an hour before it is done sprinkle with salt, make tho pudding and put under tho meat In the dripping pan. Yorkshire Pudding,—One and one lialf cups of flour, two even teaspoons of baking powder, one small teaspoon of salt; mix well, sift them together, add three eggs well beaten, one table spoonful of melted butter, one pint of sweet milk. Pour tho batter into the pan with the drippings and bake 20 minutes. Cut into squares and serve around the roast, Bechamel Sauce. Three levni tablespoons butter, three level tablespoons flour, one-half level teaspoon salt, dash of nutmeg, dash of cayenne, one and one-half cups hot stock, tlp'oo-fourths cup cream, two egg yolks beaten lightly, one and one-half tablespoons lemon juice. Melt the butter and when hot, add the flour, salt, nutmeg, and cayenne. When blended add the hot stock grad ually. Stir until thick and smooth, and cook for five minutes; add the cream, cook one minute; then beat in the egg yolks and lemon juice. Ironing Pad from Old Blanket. A three cornered pad made from several thicknesses of old blanket or table padding and covered with a man's old pocket handkerchief or a piece of old linen is convenient to slip undornouth embroidered monograms on table and bed linen or the hand embroidery on waists and lingerie, which are so much more effective when ironed over a heavy pad. If a loop of tapo 1m sowed to one corner the pad can be hung on the ironing board. Baked Turnips. Peel; slice thin and cook 15 min utes in salted water; drain, place in a buttered baking dish and pour over them a cup of good, clear stock, sea soned with salt, popper, nutmeg, and, liked, a teaspoonful of sugar. Bake 1 tender, basting often. Servo in a dish with the pan gravy, whic'» id be slightly thickened, poured over them. J yjp©Crafe v-A ' ? v ' ~ ROBBIE AMD THE SOUP. His Dislike for the Letter Got Him Into Trouble. Robbie detested soup. It was so much trouble to < it, and there really wasn't a great deal to it after all. Hut mother said that soup was good for him, and that by eating it he would soon grow to be a great, big man. Cuts His Sleeves. This didn't cause Robbie to enjoy eat ing soup a whit more, however. To-day Robbie felt less like eating it than ever before. At last lie gulped it down and walked slowly from the table. He had been so very naughty that mother sent him to his room to think over what he had said. Like a little thunder cloud he looked —not at all the bright, cheerful boy ho should have been. "Only wish I would grow, so I wouldn't need to eat any more of that nasty soup," he muttered. Just then he saw before him a pair of scissors. "Wonder if I couldn't make mother believe I have grown a little," he said to himself. Without thinking how very wrong it was to deceive his mother, Robbie carefully cut a little strip from the bottoms of his trusers and from his sleeves. That evening Robbie's father ob served to mother: "Do you know,l really believe Rob bie is growing." Robbie's mother glanced at the clothes, which appeared too small, and Ridiculed by Playmates. told Robbie that it was because he ate soup that he was growing so big. The little fellow was pleased, indeed, with the success of his plan. There after, he ate every bit of the soup without grumbling, and then went up stairs and cut off tho bottoms of his trousers and sleeves again and again. Mother wondered and wondered that Robbie should grow so quickly, but when ho was togo to a party one afternoon, and she saw that his best clothes fitted him as well as ever, the secret came out. Robbie was made to wear the spoiled suit of clothes to the party and to ap pear among his playmates in them for one long month. And although he had hoped that soon he woul I have to eat no more soup, he was still made to eat quite as much as ever. Waking Up a Boy. Henry Johnson, a laboring man liv ing in Fond du Lac, Wis., lias a son 13 years old, named Charles. Charles is so hard to wake up mornings that the father has to wake up several of his nearest neighbors in getting the boy out of bed. Last month they threatened togo to court about the matter, and since.then the father has taken to throwing the boy out of the window into a pond when it is time to get up. Charles goes into the pond with a great splash, the feel of the water arouses him. and he wades ashore and gets ready for breakfast with no harm done to anybody. The invention is not patented, and any father can use it. When winter comes the boy can be pitched out head first into a snowbank. The Same Old Mother. "Now, Jamie," said a school-teach er, "if there were only one pie for des sert, and there were five of you chil dren and papa and mamma to divide it among, how large a piece would you get?" "One-sixth," replied Jamie, prompt ly- "But there would bo seven people there, Jamie. Don't you know how many times seven goes into one?" "Yes'm —and 1 know my mother. She'd say she wasn't hungry for plo that, day. I'd get one-sixth." —Youth'.* Companion. WhAT Sirs; ) "• ' * ' My Gran'ma .«,IVM when .she was just A tiny little girl like m •. .She always kept her hands so clean. And looked as tidy as eould be. Sho says sho never smeared lior face, Nor lost the ribbon from ii < 1 r hair, Xor tori' lit-r frock, nor anything, And of her hooks she took grea.t care. That in her day it was not thought Polite for little girls and boys To gallop all about the house, And sing and shout and make a noise. That "Children should be soon njt heard," Oreat-gran'mamma to her would say; And that she simply sat and worked Her 'broidery many hours a day. I'm very sorry for Oran'ma, And ask: "Would she not like to play. And skip, and shout, and ! tvi some fun. Now that griat-gran'mamma's away?" ELIZABETH B. PIERCY. HOW TO MAKE A PANTOGRAPH. Here Is a Chance for the Boy to Mako a Drawing Instrument. Secure four pieces of wood from which cut and dress down to 3-1 Gin. by % in.: make two of them 31 in. long and the other two 24 in. long. These pieces of wood may be of any material, but it is best to make thein of some hard wood. The "screw" in the sketch is a screw-eye long enough to pass through the arm and an old i Fbncil The Home-Made Pantograph. silk spool. This will keep the arms up from the board or table so as to al low a point at tracer point and pencil to be a little above the work. At trac er point a round-headed brass wood screw is used which is filed to a point and slightly rounding so it will not scratch. A lead pencil is sharpened and fitted in a hole marked "pencil." At point marked "roller" a screw-eye is putin from underneath to allow a rounding edge for this point to rest. The small holes on all arms are mark ed on the left from 1 1-3 to 6 on the right from C to 1 1-13. When matched and clamped with a screw-eye will enlarge sketch or pattern from trac er point to the size of holes that aro numbered in the semi-circle. If holes marked 1 1-3 on left are matched and holes 1 1-3 on right are matched then it will increase the size of the drawing I 1-3. If No. 6 on the left and No. 6 on the right are matched then the in crease will be six times. The distance the holes are made one from the other, says Popular Mechanics, is shown with the figures and inch marks. IMMOVABLE CARD. Simple Trick Which Will Cause Your Friends to Wonder. Strange as it may see, if a card is bent at both ends and placed upon a table in the position shown in the il l__ J The Bent Card. lustration you will find that it is only with the greatest difficulty it may be moved, no matter how hard you blow. By drawing off to a distance, how ever, and blowing sharply you may cause it to flutter across the table. A Loaded Shotgun. A curious incident comes from Brit ish Columbia. A settler named Gra ham, living in the wilderness, return ed home one day after a hunt and stood his shotgun in a corner of the cabin and went out to chop wood. While he was chopping and while his daughter, 12 years old, was prepar ing supper, she accidentally knocked the gun down and it was discharged. A wolf had followed the father home and wjjs then standing in the open door looking around before at tacking the girl. He had not been heard nor seen, and the first known of his presence was when the shot struck him and he fell down to kick a few times and become a dead wolf. Too Much Walk. A citizen of Burr Oak, Mich., named Taylor, has a son 9 years old who is a sleep walker and goes about uo often at night that the father has put a notice in the papers that the boy is asleep and should not be harmed. He enters houses, climbs trees and steals melons in his slesp, and sonio folks think he is more "Vide awake than his father. They ar.«» going to nail him down to his bed if thwy can't keep him home nights any oihor way.
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