AMBITION.
Float upward on ambitions fire,
To find the skies aflame
With gilded creatures that aspire
To pluck the gems of Fame;
But, wearied with thy struggling flight,
Thou drink’st from sorrow’s cup
To find, upon that towering height,
Are thousands further up.
Cleveland Plaindealer.
A WELL GROOMED WOMAN.
“Hm 1"!
Mr. Fenton put down his evening
paper and regarded his wife with a |
sigh. She sat on the other side of |
the table, mending her way through |
a pile of stockings mountain high: a
plump, little woman of 40, none too
trig in figure, decidedly ruffled as to |
hair, but with a merry twinkle in her
blue eyes and motherliness expressed
in every line of her comfortable per- |
son .
“Well?"’ said she, looking up, feel-
ing with sinking at the heart that
some new complication had come up
in the financial and that
she was about to be treated to views
of bimetallism, addling to the femin-
ine mind. But no. Her lord and
master had been led into a very dif-
ferent train of thought.
‘It's nearly fifteen years that we
have been married, Mary,” he mused,
remembering as he spoke that in all
that time he had hardly ever before
scrutinized her with such a eritical
gaze,
**Tell it not in Gath!" she laughe«
I'm growing old, but let us keep
as long as we
situation,
YX.
it
ik
ti
a secret in the family
can.”
**Yes, you have changed—we have
both changed. What a vain
chatterbox you used to be?’
** ‘Vox et praeterea nihil’
ne in those days. Now
praeterea nihil’ would be
it,’ cried Mrs
flourish
little
expressed
"™OCKSs et
more lil
Fenton, gayly, with a
of her darnin
work basket. * And
Bless my heart! 1
know when I have
vain!"’
“I am afraid you are getting
tie my dear,’” her |
observed, congratulating hi
having so eg t
sion he w
struck
tidy, :
nO
andl
g needle i
as
!
Shou
] i
ad
!
CATO IeRs,
ly led up to the discus-
ante ‘Sometimes it |
me that
t's a sad mistake
woman. If she has the air of
well groomed
great cha
Mr. Fenton wore p
ers, Jundreary like
blush which ros
that
were amo
3
8118 DOSSesses
"Ir
rn.
consciousness
the newspaper
literatim. jut
protection
her very bre
is a cruel s
but she res
her
call
he was
lips
nly
Wh
larly well
course, I suppos
dred ar
four
bors?
ings of
that taint he
ly free
y POY
rep
solutely
dark, he rej
‘Um—ah.
sen, now. She
what you wou
a fine figure ¢
mighty well.
“Mrs. Van Dusen spends $1,000
year for where I spend, p
haps, #150. She buys her
from an exy maker, bi
it is nusele to 0.8
man. She has no ehi three
servants, and nothing to think of but
fixing herself up. I am not ecom-
plaining, James, dear. You remem-
ber you brought up the subject your-
sell, but when you compare me with
Rebert Van Dusen’s wife you should
consider the difference in our cireums-
stances. 1 have many, many cares
and my days are full to the brim.
The rough head bent over the hole
which was being filled with a careful
lattice work of black yarn, and the
needle went in and out steadily. If
the mender's eyes were dim nobody
noticed it.
“But it takes very little time to
keep one’s sell in neatness and order.
Just hear this, now, my dear. A
very good article, very sensible, too.”’
The eloquence of Cicero, the
rounded periods of a Junius would
not have moved Mary Fenton at that
moment. It took all her wits to keep
down the bitterness in her heart.
Without waiting for encouragement,
her husband read on:
** “The woman who has an air of be-
ing weli groomed has a very great
charm for all men.’ [He skipped this
sentence. Why expose the writer to
a charge of plagiarism?] ‘Really,
ladies, you should at least try the |
experiment, and may well devote a |
little time each day to the cultiva- |
tion of exquisite personal detail at |
the expense of some your more |
frivolous amusements. First, do not |
rise too early. Breakfast in bed on
a cup of coffee, a roll, perhaps a little
fruit, and plan your toilets for the
day.’ "
Up went Mary's eyebrows and a |
sarcastic smile played about her |
mouth. Three children to rend to |
school at 9 o'clock and breakfast to |
t before that! Glancing up Mr, |
enton caught the smile.
** Naturally,”” he interrupted him-
sell, '‘every woman cannot follow
in
Du-
me
Foomed
ana dresses
) $183
dress
fiotre
HEE
NSIVe corset
ay enti
:
3
irer
I
i
line is good. You'll see.
So ho traveled down the columns
of directions, for the bath with bran
pedicuring, the manicuring, the
elaborate brushing of hair and teeth,
the gymnastics for the developing of
the figure, the careful examination
of eneh article of clothing to see if
a single stitch be wanting, the hun-
dreds of little details which it takes
80 few minutes to write down, =o
many to carry out As he went on,
Mary's natural sense of fun came to
her rescue, and, beginning to appre-
ciate the absurdity of the situation,
she held her peace, adding up as they
were mentioned in turn the twenty
minutes for this, the thirty minutes
for that, and her husband drew a
long breath at the end of the evolu-
from top to toe
“It seems to me,”’ observed she,
demurely, ‘‘as if cleanliness were
getting ahead of godliness nowadays.
Well, it must be delightful to
through such a thorough process,
and yet four hours seems a long time
to devote to dressing every morning. ”’
“Four hours!” eried Mr. Fenton,
taken by surprise. ‘‘My dear, you
must be mistaken. Why, the half
hour for the bath is the longest item
in the lot."
“*Many a mickle makes a muckle,
papa, dear,” rejoined Mary, earnest-
ly. '‘Do you think there is ever a
morning in the whole year's round
when I could take four hours for the
adorning of my own person? Where
would your breakfast and the
:hildren, and the orders to the
matcher and the James
what are you going to do to-morrow ?’’
suddenly asked, and adimple ap-
her cheek which made her
te young again
repeated, n
y
go
be.
grooer?
she
peared in
I IK gu J
‘To-morrow ?’’
chanically.
**Yog: at the o
Anything especial?
“Why, no. 1 have a
to collect for Mr. Snow:
Why?"
163 16
fice, you know.
x 1
dozen bills
that's all.
Omi
‘If it is
ted Mr. Fe
changed so much, a
had outgrown her
vivacity was still
’ Oh.
S¢ me
nO
what I want 3
28 with me
and collec
I warrant that 1
ves. This is
for
‘hange pla
Let me go
» seemed to
f care. Was it
en growing carcle
earance? Like a ran
mind about
Irs. Van Dusen, and staring earnest-
thrill of
there
words
flash
across he those
ly at the glass
sim pride in irance that,
with such adorned that
lady, they would be more on a par in
good than a casual observer
would imagine. Then she thought of
her husband and the experiment that
was to be tried and, laughing softly
to herself, she turned out the gas and
got into bed, hearing that unfortu-
nate man in the cellar below, mut-
tering like the ghost of Hamlet's
father as he put the coal on the fur-
nace fire.
The memory of the following day
is even now a hideous nightmare to
James Fenton. Never had the office
where he kept books for a peppery
and unreasonable coal merchant in-
volved him in 80 many trying situa-
tions. His wife, true to the arrange-
ment, had presented herself at break-
fast arrayed in her walking dress,
and offered to make suggestions
about curling Mabel’s hair, tying on
her pinafore and mending a mitten
brought to her just as the one maid
rang the bell for breakfast. Han-
nah was in the secret, for she had
siready been to ask his advice about
the muffins with a giggle, and Tom
nnd Harry had been told by mamma
that her father would lay out their
clean clothes and give them any help
they needed in the toilet line. By
3
bid
clothes as
looks
was a desperate man. His own
minute to think. Mary, ir the gay-
the washing
the day for sweeping the
to your back hair, James, dear.”’
The pen refuses to record what
James replied under his breath to
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:
this heartiess taunt, for when a man
hard to be reminded of it. The day
wore on. He hardly knew why he
didn’t fling off the yoke and go down-
town as usual, but some dogged per-
versity in his nature kept him at his
post, and to his own grim amuse-
ment, Hannah's delight and the
children’s astonishment he did his
best to tuke upall his wife's forsaken
duties. She had not exaggerated
when said that her house was
full, and that she had no time to
think of herself. A thousand and
one little tasks sprung up on every
Housework seemed to him a
many-headed hydra, and one being
knocked off another instantly ap-
peared in its place to distract and
bewilder. Late in the afternoon, as
he sat down for a moment to rest,
seeing a spare quarter of an hour be-
fore it was time to lay the table for
supper, a loud outery rose below
stairs, and the twins appeared, bear-
ing poor little Mabel between them,
a damp, doleful object, covered from
head to foot with mud. The children
taiked all together, and at the top of
their lungs, trying to explain how
Harry had playfully poked his sister,
and how had lost her balance
and had fallen headforemost into the
gutter, “in the very gutterest
mapa,’ and the poor
ew remaining locks
daughter off to
complete
ing the intricacies of bi
she
side,
she
place,
man tore his
as he bore his
the bathroom for a
change of involv-
strings
ciothes,
ittons
With u sigh, made out a check mind
wrote to the fishing club that he
could not take the trip with them
after all, Then he went round to the
office of the Evening Comet and
stopped his subseription to that un-
fortunate newspaper
As They Will Reason It Out.
‘“This,”! sald the professor of
ancient history to the class of '87
(forty-third century), ‘is a portion
of a woman's gown preserved in the
Metropolitan museum of antiquities
since the nineteenth century. It is
valuable both historically and for
scientific research, showing as you
and pins all over again
At 5.80 Mrs. Fenton ret
t principally |
roved a veri
day spen
Y 8]
had p
was a
3
Lecom
grated up
prostrate
after the exhausting prog
hii
it i:
nusoand,
ah not
nt Over him
th from
be s0y
St
1
JABINes il
had
nave
from
somo i sent
Mrs. Van igen's own
You shall never
gion to compinin of me agnin, Jumes,
i I than)
g me that word.”
As she went into the closet to put
away her wraps she stole a glance at
her husband. It found him in a state
of collapse and in the remote depths
of that closet she broke into a little |
flurry of laughter only to be heard |
by the moth balls among the furs. |
Just then the supper bell tinkled. |
““Come!’’ called Mrs. Fenton, gay-
ly, pulling her husband up from the
They went and by tacit con-
sent the day's doings dropped out of
the conversation.
James Fenton slept the sleep of a
penitent sinner that night and the |
morrow restored the old regime. But |
the seed sown had dropped into good |
ground and the next Sunday morning
the head of the housekeeping de-
partment was mysteriously long over
her toilet When she emerged at
length she was a vision of gored
skirt; huge sleeves, smart cape, wide
bowed bonnet, new boots and gloves.
Her hair shone like satin, and as for
her figure it was as trim and trig as
a fashion plate. Mr. Fenton oponed
his mouth and shut it again. He
wasdumb. But the children shrieked
with delight and pirouetted around
the dazzling apparition and curi-
osity.
“I say, isn’t mamma a daisy?’
eried Tommy, tossing his hat into
the air.
Mabel crept up timidly, fingered
the folds of the flaring skirt, and
looking up into her mother's vivid
face, sho said, hesitatingly :
‘Are you pretty, mamma?’
‘No, dear,” answered Mary Fon-
ton, demurely, ‘but I am well,
groomed, and I possess a very great
charm.”
There was n small pile of bills on
Mr, Fenton's desk the first of the
woman. have occa~ |
1 gro Jim
r .’
Mea
for teachin
sofa
will see from c8e extensive
that the w« of that peri
i rmally developed muscles
of 1
nmmen
abn
Mis
nysicul prowess i
howing that
that
Dolicate* Instruments.
IANY vot
iGNnYy you
son
Protty Pastime in italy.
oll the
custom
"or cutting
{ne
pleas
that
pretry
mob.
she ironically deseribes
pastime, practiced by t
dren of all ranks
ures of th
as a
chil-
' ' :
$10 jittie
snared, a custom in which they find
great pleasure.
A Novel Letter Box.
In Vienna a novel letter box has
been introduced, the main point of
to unlock it. When the collecting
bag is slid into the groove at the bot.
tom of the box the latter opens and
drops its contents into the bag. But
one motion is required for the opera.
tion instead of the usual cumbersome
series of movements necessary to
unlock an ordinary box and take out
the letters by hand in bunches. No
other instrument can open the box,
as the groove is of a peculiar shape
and will not admit of anything else.
Combinations of locks may be ar
ranged for certain routes or districts,
and the system is said "to be looked
upon with favor.
Self Rocking Cradle.
An English invention is a self rock-
‘ing eradle, warranted to go forty min.
utes, with a motion easy, slow and
pleasant In appearance the cradle
is like the ordinary graceful bassinet
of white iron and brass that is swung
from a frame, with a hook for the
canopy over the head. As the most
progressive mothers do not rock their
abies to sleep the invention seems
month. He counted up the total
to have come too late to fill a genera)
| want.
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ISLANDS 6
FRANCE'S PENAL
WHERE LIFE
COLONY
IS TORTURE.
A Scorching Climate, Cxsassivaly
Hard Labor and a Dissase Breed.
ing Atmosphere Flendor Existence
Hideous
Graphically
ings of
they eannot
bunislhiment
where France
anarchists and hardened
is here that Captain
Franchman convieted
having to Gi
the plans of French
will be taken to spend the
of his life.
The fierce tropical sun
humid atmosphere would
selves kill any but the
but when to these is added
unremitting
the
portrayed as the suffer
Biber have been
horrors of
de Litt
send her
felons
Dreyfus
f
01
ni exiles
surpass the
to the Isles
has begun to
Ni
Fs
ii
the
in
0 treason
revenled rman officers
fortifications
remuinder
and eve
them-
hardiest
and
iat
of
or
ail i no wonder t
IISCErai«
hat the
pecially pl
and
prisoners
§
0 i
h a
ing which are
barred hut In
rows of ham-
fetid atm
vith the
outer air and
r present swarms of sti
render any |
sxhaustion impossible
From the
the conviet
known only
hammock
hard.
&
le {1
YE
ght the
noisome vapors of the
tha + ’
Lie evi 4 git or
insects the sleep of
ol 1
{ his arrival
has no He
by the number of
The work is excessively
The new arrivals ars put at
the most tasks—draining
marshes and clearing ground—‘to
break their spirits.”’ though it would
seem they would have little inclina-
tion to rebel after the sufferings of
the voyage. ?
They are conducted to their work
by armed guards, who are ordered
to fire at the least attempt a‘ flight.
Few try to escape. for they know if
they evade the bullets of the guards
and their pursuit, which seems im-
possible, it will by necessary to tra-
verse the sea and the virgin forest.
At every step will lie in wait for them
death by hunger, hy fatigue, by dis-
ease, or by the poisoned arrows of the
natives, who receive a reward for
every convict they bring back, dead
or alive,
Meanwhile, with bodies broken by
their awful toil ina climate where
a walk of a hundred yards is a formid-
moment
name is
his
severe
sun with spades and picks,
insects whose bites swell their faces
and hands. Great
onous serpents twist
ankles and inflict mortal wounds
They stand in trenches up to their
knees in water and mire, und the
putrid exhalations rising from the
earth consume them with fever or
set their teeth chattering with cold,
while the swept rolls from their fore.
heads. /
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Fe Values Brains in College Above
Brawn.
Prof. Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell
university, Ithaca, N. Y., who re-
cently exhibited a brainless frog, has
become known ns of 1
skillful experts in brain anatomy in
the United Btates,
He spends all
' /
thie comparative anatomy of brains
one he most
his spare time on
important
of 1
sights of the institution.
who 1m find
him a gen warm hearted
encer
To
iti
hus made
and
{ti
ai ne
many
ies, hig collection
Gli
Those know |} well
nimaost
to help
those
ial
overconscientious man
tudents
not
Lie Ong
painstaking
students who are
i$ known ns
5
% ClARges
man in the
acuity who has made
Hinceast
twenty years on
“Very year
+
the athletes af
y 3
shall sUCCHd
tnessed an in
mntributed a ce
voted
ce or
any team
nown.
Dr. Wilder’
a great source
stud
been raided and ailowed to
It us in
orchard, now occupied by a handsome
building, and there isa record of a
of arson when it was burned
night and the cals were sent
scurrying over the campus to disap
pear in the neighboring gorges Dr.
Wilder and his cats have been cariea
tured repeatedly in college annuals
and their memory has been made se-
cure in a college song.
3 ent
nts more than
the cats
i to be
s Ang
MRR Ph t 4 . 1ittla
escape, Out 8 11003
Caso
one
Buried in His Paper.
Some New York undertakers, whose
customers are poor people, are using
coffing made of paper. The coffins
are made in all styles of progsed
paper pulp, just the same as the
common paper buckets. When they
are varnished and stained they re
semble polished wood, and in point
of durability they are much better
than wooden ones, it is claimed.
These coffins will do for the burial of
the man who is always reading in a
street car whenever a lady who
needs a seat enters, He claims that
he is buried in his paper and does
not see the lady. The paper coffin
“ns been made so that at the end of
the road for him he can be buried in
paper.
Parfect, Except Me 1s Tongueloss
John Fellows is the 19 year old
tongueless son of a farmer near
Louisa, Ky. He has not even a rud!-
mentary organ. In all other respects
the boy is perfect. Heo is bright, a
splerdid athlete and a favorite with