SYMPATHY,
We are as harps that vibrata to a touch |
From stranger hands, unconscious of |
the strings,
‘While the soul's
wake to life
And through its halls responsive music
rings.
slumbering echoes |
Few are the Davids to these harps of
ours! |
Few iearn the cunning of the instru-
ment;
And those to
denied
Are oftenest those with whom our lives
are spent.
1 the gift has been |
whe
But God's large gift of Love is shower-
ed around.
us be thankful, E:
like Heaven,
If, with the power
long,
That other gift of
Let arth were too
of loving deep and
f sympathy were given
Hamilton Aide,
A TERRIBLE TEMPER.
“If there
noxious to me,”
in solemn conclusion,
with the affairs of others;
case I said to myself, ‘Duty,
Murphy, duty!
“Oh!” gasped Jessica. She had sunk
back in her rose-ribboned rattan rocker
in quite a tremor of dismay
A very charming room this suburban
parior intp which gold bars of sunshine
slanted through the ed Vene-
tiangs, Worthy even of preity Jessie:
it, with its tiled hardwood floor,
ver-fox and bearskin rugs
draped windows, quaintiy
mantel of polished
chairs, its grotesque
aquarelles, its Chinese
slender but admirably chosen collect
of bisque and
eye, however critical
sweeter picture than little
made in her pale blue surah
cascaded with Valenciennes
her bronze-bright rip hair br
childish fashion
just now the
colorless, the
startled under their long
There was silence after
exclamation of Jessica's. Mias
could afford to silent
had dropped her smal
exploded with a most
port. She sat rigidly e
sciousness of duty
her black silk ing
with propriety, every
brow
spectability.
“1 don't bel
clared
If impolite,
gree
terand con vis
Ww not offended
gaze from a gem of Van
opposite wall to fasten
ted little lady in the
some endurance on
sit meekly under the
faded blue eyes —eyes
beaming
COW,
is anything especially ob-
avowed Miss Murphy,
“it is interference
but in this
Mary Anne
all } Aa
half-clos
modern
eccentric
its
cabinets,
its
oak, its
tables dainty
ion
And surely
Crave no
Miss Ray
fea-gown,
Limoges
could
ana
1 y vided in
back
iovely face was curiously
purple-biue eyes wide and
lashes
that sharp
Murphy
She had
1 and it had
satisfactory re-
be
I shel
rect in the con
done, every fold
visi costume
pon
n biege bonnet hris
jfeve a8 wore
Jessica, slowly
mar}
as
tion
the re
insolent It =»
© of a
She
as those
“It is t;
heard bim
yr 11
hy re .
L888 Teaily
ith
Was
in the
sued Miss Murphy, fording
tan-gloved hands with aggrav:
ure and serenity. - sat
behind the portiers,
have stayed could I only
what was coming.
ing about other
ent for awhile
burst out laughing.
her,’ he said, ‘and
eh? ‘Fancy her?” &
1 should say not!'”
“Well?” urged
She would hear it out
self-—she would
“Well, then.” slowly,
suspense the effect
“Ned said, ‘The boys
like her immensely.
she's a daisy!
on"
excuse ti
you really
what he hears.
is only a boy
Ned
go on.”
She gat erect again very pale
perative, indeed.
“If you insist on hearing.” he
Jack replied, ‘Well, I don't |
at first. | confess for a while
eeived me, But a few days gave me
enough of her.’ Ned said, ‘Why, we
all thought you were in great luck to
get her. ‘Luck!’ eried Jack in answer,
$0 loud, my dear, 1 fairly jumped.
‘Lack! Yes, the most confounded piece |
of bad luck I ever struck! I am |
ashamed to say, my dear, bat to be
veracious I must say that here Ned,
quits carried away by his youthful sym- |
“They were front parl
thing
3
You don t
hoed Ja
Jessica
of it!
ghien
narrative
here
word
he
of her
every
tO
around
Roy Pates
moaned Jess
it nephew
must, repeat
know, he
What
Please
ov ity
Bes
yet just ghteoen
aaid
said is of no importance
and im
sitantly
did just
she de-
it?” And Jack said, ‘Confound it,
That's the worst of it.
no!
I can’t break
self. But I only wish some other fei-
low stood in my shoes just now. I've
do it, but it's a deuced bad bargain’
oh, my dear Jessica, you're not going
fo paint!”
Jessica put out her hand with a
slight, repressing gesture,
“No, Miss Murphy, I am not going to
faint. Is that all?”
Miss Murphy was rather disconcerted,
Her shell had not exploded noisily, it
i8 true. But now that the smoke was
clearing away she, at whose feet it had
been flung, was not dead-—not even
wounded,
“Yes, I believe that was all, for just
then someone summoned Jack. But as
went out, he called back to Ned:
night and talk this unfortunate blun-|
| der over again, Be in my study at 10,
I i meet vou there,’
‘And that reaily is all?”
quite her own
self
queried
possessed
again
Miss Murphy started. T more
into similes, her balloon which
had sailed up so straightly and securely
uddenly collapsed and was
startling rapidity
Be Y. 'H
0 once
“I should think, vere! would
be quite enough.”
“Enough?” airily
much! You know
on occasionally counters
of a lesser quantity, and 1 think,”
a smile charmingly confidential, "it
something the same way with gossip
“That's It! it's too
je of pois-
the effect
with
is
an overdo:
cis
you?
It was Mi
Such a girl!
understand Je
88 Murphy's turn to gasp.
But then one never could
ilea Ray. Miss Murphy
time to go. With the
sation of conversation ning
affairs her interest died a nat
She was averse to wading
The in
with village scandal sufl-
feared aught
my dear,” with a
the tin soled bonnet. “I an
you. Li
duties i
other
thought it was
concer
rsonal
in foreign waters dorous pool
scummed over
ficed her
She alge
“Good-by, bewilder
shake of
had
unpleasant
od
80 sorry | to tell fe is full
Of
interfere in
Charity,’ 1
silence.” If
like to
affairs
and
never
people's
always say: ‘charity
there is anything
is tale-bearing
I must going
don’t
Axl be
I'm so glad you mind
“ood by." «
‘We all
1y dear
wrdiall
thou
ght,” pausing at the door
that it was to be
snance,
St,
’ - 1 “ X
a4 mar: ae oony
ge
affair on both sides.”
but a genuine love
‘Indeed!
ing her
And ther
aid Jessica, brightly arch-
pretty brows
door closed on
back
died
last the
black-silk
of bravado
her visitor road
hii
of Hit
The then
went
rock-
Ray's face She
out
rogse-ribboned
in for a
mortified
awl
ul pla
The
I Aan
du
i
I | the Ww
rel-me
from
“10s
lin
ruby
y mand
cioak of
was
wart statured
aired,
though
her 1
itheriand!
suggested the
iy stood
chan
massive
affe
in
ignoran
had
gince the
playmates, at a touch, a
biazed up into a pure, and strong,
gteady flame Of his courtship
Sutherianuy made short work.
ng aside the understanding be-
their fathers like the man he
he woed her for crn aweet
Just two nights ago he haa wid
thei
ing
which amolider
hearts
he
ergy
ing
sorrowful part {
Ot
word, a
look
aul
Jack
Putli
iween
Was,
sake
her
ly he loved her. And Jesgica-—well, last
evening had come the sapp.are ring
| that—only last evening and to-day
If Miss Murphy's neat littie shell had
not brought death it had caused pain |
it.
“It's the money!” moaned Jessica.
“It's the horrid detestable money he |
wants, It isn’t me!” And then a face
with clear brown eyes and a kind grave
amile arose before her and she broke
down erying afresh, i
But after awhile she sprang up rub- |
bing two small resolute fists in two!
very pink eyes. “1 won't see him to- |
night. And I'll be in the library at 10, |
And I'll hear what else he has to—No
I won't! 1 won't eavesdrop. But I'll |
look my very loveliest—] will—1 will!” |
And she did.
As she came up the pariors at Mra.
Bryant's “small and early” Miss Mur-
phy-—always first on the field—looked
at her in amazement. Quite a bewiteh-
ing vision little Miss Ray to-night, |
rose-lpped, star-eyed, smiling, her slim,
behind her, a huge cluster of violets
wns after 10 before
from her companion
and make her the library Her
the port dividing that
she
from the morni
it
ascape
the hosom,
could
at
she
way to
ind on iere
gpartmont ng room,
aused
Voices
1
is
of course it
She didn’t intend (po eaves
was unintentional
over quickly.
drop course, i
all w
Isqually
think
to consider
extreme nlcety
very
said and 80
was dishonorable,
not apt
honor
hearts
as a rule we are
questions of with
when our are
sOre
Jack's
“it's
take her.”
saving
do
decided to
was
I've
voice wearily,
thing |
quiet
the only can now.”
Ned spoke,
She's skittish, I know, but
may outgrow
d involuntarily
the cui
p the subject
like a g
know |
taken
and drugs
plump as a
(by
that."
Jack
WAY
i
Gi $ he
consolation)
Jessica
glanced toward
Well, dr
ce Kesp it dark
Broan
tain
In a lower
oil boy,
I don't want to am such
a young fx
bag of
Joasic
ple
to be in by a
pones, ali paint
partridge
‘blo
The
Was
and her complexion im’
patented morn
from
that! She
the
dizzy
could it
aint and
Inughed Ned.
uch mind
break her of that, I flatter myself
temper!’
Jessica told
som
she has a terri
She faint,
Oh,
must n
antically
that
she must
her in the
self fr
dark thing ide
the
bes
ww of fauteuil? Si
portiere i
portiere a
lown on it heavily, weakly, ex
f horrors it at
haust
first sud
edly OIror «
cumbed & second to her weight
then movi protested wilh vigorous
energy, shrieked
All faintness be
to her feet, her oft
mingling wi
rheumatic agony
“That's aunt’
“Jessica
ward and
Jessica leaped
light from
the
shadowy
Jession stand
tremti
mor
and
floor
crushed
:
ng ¥ acl Feyts ts! iso
eavesdropping
cheeks,
hateful
a deuced
gain.” slowly if I've got
here's you
wrenched
dumb
did not take
turned to uproarious mirth
a noisy polonaise was
the drawing-room
laughing
misunder
He
whole
Kev pt on
ienily the ludierons
Ned he
of delight
standing bursting on struck in
a very howl and they
arms like a
§
into each other's
razy boys and supported each
Jessica
xplaines
into aught
knew
noun ing
nine
a Mand 8
beat
ther]
an
relapses
I thought I
Bh I knew
het the
had found
amos nag could
gave a thousand for her
an, now you understand!
For Jessica had sprung forward,
mouth and eyes three sweet, remorse
“Or?
“Jack
idiocy is
fancied
ilev's
She's
worth
how | talked just
miuet
of a
Jacek! And
now!” all riotous blushes “1
have, after all, a—-a the kind
temper you said the horse had.”
“I'll risk it!” laughed Jack.
Heedloess of Mrs. Bryant's small
nephew, who had entered and stood
quisitive deiight: heediens of Ned, who
clung in suent, spasmodic convulsions
heedlesas even, this rash
young man, of Miss Murphy---that anc-
ient virgin who, rigid and frigid, glow-
Le took his sweetheart in
his arms with a good. long, loving kiss,
“Doubted me, did you? You-con-
temptible Inttle-— wretch!”
The Prince of Wales, who as Duke
nington oval, the great South London
cricket ground, has inserted a siugular
He
stipulates that soldiers, sailors, police.
men and postmen in uniform are at
all tins to be admitted to the grounds
| free,
ami
Church cars are a recent Russian {m-
provement. They are intended for the
Siberian Railroad,
=
GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR SEX.
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST ON THE
FASHIONS
Taffeta Silk Hats=~Cutting the Eyelashes
= Professional Housekeepers — First
Cerman Ladies’ Club.
HATS
the
silk is doubled
brim. The ¢
and the trimming consis
black and
SILK
are
TAFFETA
TaNets silk
in millinery The
shirred for the
high pufy,
feathers
hats Intest cry
and
rown is one
Of
of
fancy
black velvet
ornament
CUTTING THE EYELASHES
Sometimes cu } rye
them
lashes (0
* BUCH enaful, but
For this re
pracuid
make gr
in most cases if CASON
discourage the
I should
some cases which have come
knowledge
out
eyelashes
never
who
biris
have ETOWn
glides even they (30)
and
four
ought
York
frequent!
PROFESSION
The pri
SEX. THE
Hopkins
he jegisiature
MERIT, NOT
Assemblyman
and female ieacher
ng under the same
roceiyve the
shall
We
do not sed what
He mane 1
’
publ
than
no Letior
than they are men
the
physic
gee mn
In other occupations, where
of service depends the al
strength or
upon
power of
the endurance
possessed by the man may
be worth more (0 his employer than a
woman, but the female
who labors the same number
as the male teacher, does the same Rind
of work and possesses (he same mental
qualifications for performing that work
which is evidenced by the certificate
that the board of education has given
her, is certainly deserving of the same
compensation as her male competitor.
Heretofore there has been a large dis.
crimination against the female teacher.
In New Jersey the average salary per
month paid to male teachers is $79.84,
while the average salary paid to female
teachers is 8345.45, which is a falling
off since 1882-93 of $2.24 a month.
The profession of school teaching is
a high and exceedingly important one.
servant, a
school teacher
of hours
eral compensation, and there is no
teachers working under the same grade |
certificate should be conisdered as of |
less value than that of male teachers.
Trenton (N. 1.) State Gazette,
THE NEW AESTHETIC GOWNS.
Aesthetic gowns are once more the
rage, and the fashionable maid this
season will adopt artistic designs for
all her home dresses,
A shop in London is responsible for
the revival of this
and every variety
this firm
{this new, or mther
{old, freak of fashion
of quaint gowns is sh
its displays
There are
ian and tall,
for
His
ing debut, and for
Jwn by
in
maidens
matrons plump and
middle
dreaming of
tiny
artistic designs fo
for
women, for
short, red
school their com-
LOR
nursery
The
three
aceompanyin
of the
Been in London this
ted
pred
#0
wal shows harmingly
of the
brought
dre i {
Empire st
ht up
righ
fashion
planned creation yle,
modernized and to
by adapting the present
The mate
in texture
Liberty
sing the
in
ial is white
and posses
NECORBAYY Hes
yoke, girdle and body
o
aged will
imming
id-colored
fo rihe
[ 5% | in
WARM
Wed
solid
ates] ii odd
The
allow
wire frames Crowns
this vear. to YOO knot
it the op af the
owns
of hair um
fall bell-shaped «
RARE CTOWHE appear,
narrower in the back than
wide at the back, are turned
up high Hutz are large, but do uot
reach the size of the Gainsborough
Malines, chiffon, soft India silks, and
tulle will be used with braids in hat
manufacture,
used for shirred rims and soft crowns.
They alternate with laces for veiling
the brim and swathing the crown of
hata, The lace barb is shown in place
| of ribbon strings on some French bone
net models, the fashion of the moment
save,
Ribbons of plain color will be used,
‘and ribbons with gauze and satin
| stripes show strong contrasting colors.
| Black ribbons, fine and light, are of
| taffeta and watered moire. with a satin
| back. There are ribbons with mousse
line and grass-linen effect, and some
i of the old glase ribbons are to be seen.
These ribbons of the thinner varieties
{io DEO
front, or i
effect and some are in Roman colors
| A feature of the lightweight ribbons i=
i their width. They range from five to
wide and taffeta four inches,
Jot bonnet crowns and ornaments arn
to be { and French gold ornaments
yund
cut and
gold
these,
n the place of glee]
ion jewels, but
ot with
have tal
the
will be all
iety of forms, Hose
% 8iill continue to be ne i anf
imitat arog
uf
$4 and
a vat and
blossoms
nent
bird
white
ire various
Jacgueminot in differ
and r
{to Hla
Of, LUrquo
dahlia
Ereen “mol
and ribbon
braids
Cetting Cut L
himeelf J
oa
mine; wn
iform
fiamond
appendix
appendl
dasap
disappears
LwWo
hes
about
IX Ind
in
patent sles
this maoch-
and ons
oa
h diamete
the wheat
machine
begins 10
the
hrough
whole
Thi
bake
ion
was first
in Belgium, From there
Germany and England,
d into Canad:
Odessy
two Russians of
put in practice
iF an
i Ei
read to
{and is now introduce
Deafness Among School Children.
that myopia frequent
among school children is well known
It is not well known that the im-
paired hearing is also frequently me:
with The children thus affected are
joften accused of being lazy and inat-
| tontive, when in reality their ears are
at fault. Helot shows that these cases
are quite common, are easily recog-
| nized, are generally curable, and when
{enred a large number of children are
transformed. =0 to speak. both from a
physical and a moral standpoint. Ac
cording to Weil, of Stuttgart, the pro-
portion of school children with impair-
ed hearing is 35 per cent.; according to
Moure, of Bordeaux, 17 per cent. Helot
agrees with Gele and other aurists that
the proportion is always 25 per cent, or
one-fourth. All the children in a clase
should be carefully examined, and these
somi-deal pupils will always be found
among the “poor scholars.” The cause
of infirmity is to be sought for--naso.
pharyageal catarrh following measles,
scarlatina, whooping cough, adenoid
vegetations, hypertrophied tonsils, ete
«and normal conditions are to be re.
stored by appropriate treatment.
There are about 1100 artesian welt
in South Dakota, and about half m
many in North Dakota.
The fact is
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