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.
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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
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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.