CURFEW, “over the fire, put out the lights, The weary work of day is done. The shadows of night are on vale and heights, We may sleep and sun. i rest till another the fire, put out the lights, tasks of the done, Cover The year are over and We have trodden our valleys, and climbed our heights life's hard fight won, have lost or In we Cover the fire, put out the lights, smile in the dark, the day done, We are God's and nights, And safe in His love ong run, when dear children, in days swift years Harper's Bazaar ROJTIANCE OF A READING ROO. A curious friendship sprang tween two frequenters of the room at Cooper Union a ago. Both habit of spend ng the part Ver there, and both had developed a pref erence At fir it was table which attrac up be reading two Year of were in the Of every evening better particular table that } + Out for a the location of alone ted them time they became other's in Course accustomed to and y they felt a i company although perfect strangers, though they met by One with a surly that with honest was a well-read mecl lor an he the or a a dr acquainted, and appointmen i ' Ol was a florid, stout siern ia faces usuaiiy an and , and having, aversion fi passed his seclusion of his t Cooper faced, with Dilue ey and long waxen ora + § Ci08e to his head childis} Englishman ing at he trie he gaze up was them seemed woner instead ing, had a him And three hours sSOr SO nights in the greet each otl The Dane fluency, ar was ing called “Whetl not goin’ grumbled ti All right, then misery. Just a vear a blow-——or, tinder and writhing ever rather which I 1} iversary of after when ann an ive me know am no Well, then. it am going to story of which I am the Is it not amusing—a h feated and miserable? three vears ago I fell in poor but accomplished Swedish Copenhagen. Have love, gir?” “That's neither here or there just go on,” snarled the “I beg your pardon. sir I meant no offence. As to myself, | had been in love a dozen times before [ met the Swedish young lady, and when I saw that I was infatuated with her | thought it was something like mv prs vious romances—a passion of a werk or a month, after which these is noth. ing but "smoke, smoke,’ as the hero of one of Turgenell's novels puts it. Ars you fond of Turgeneff? But excuse my impertinent questions, Well. I had made up my mind to be a bachelor. Yon wish to know why? Because ! was the most forlorn fool in creation In the first place, I had taken it into my head that I had been bora to fil the universe with a new sort of sun- shine—with the dazzling rays of my poetry. Accordingly, for me to marry and be bothered with a wife and ehild ren and the sordid details of family life would be a erime against the in. | teregts of humanity, don't you knovr, | all, dr vou find that | ieast recount some love with girl you ever heen Yon Englishman of my wife before the honeymoon was | half over, and marriage would be ster. | brevity of my former passions. | an idiot; the greatest on earth’ “No you weren't,” the Englishman interruptec Aim “Yes 1 love Wis Well, the last girl 1 fell singular not pretty for then 1 long ago was with She had should forgotien But she a genius of kindliness-—-an | that she loved me in was a sort woman WAS been, hey No I wish she 1 have was good it goes without also called crazy perately, and [ know it and that helped to spoil it all. 1 made a frank explana tion her and told her I liked her, but that my life belonged to humanity Oh, the idiot that 1 was' She gave me a sad look and bade me farewell, and that is the last I have of her—in Europe, at least “1 subsequently learned that she emigrated to America and that was what brought me over here Why Because 1 could not li without hes when gone I became of the nature of my love Ah, dear friend! I was too late that 1 had No other woman left £0 deep And the I, unprecedented had still will be saving was She des to seen had ve because she aware her it Was real for found when ne ves loved before an } impression S80 Cruel faceable fefing itself, SO £ emed tirely nove unlike anything I perifenced It is beart) ) ie al) + i hell to ever hefore there pointed to his and make exist “1 abandi dear of Was {t not to long me a ned sand things 1 thot and over here came her na quixotic not foolish even in what cit and here the gre days. He BE al ¥O OF of his lonely had dependence three thousan aside for dollars, and ha apt riisements the might the Dane that his ved ha French embroidery h his advertisements, tha “want” columns English Ge man dailies, accordingly. in to having “personal” in the various SBeandinavian of this country A month passed. another and a third Every evening his landlady would hand him a pile of latters. They all signatures and plenty Swedish names in their number, the name which had become idee fixe wag not there adve which expenss absorbing ATT pursuit of his all obejct involve Having le from bel taught framed and in and addition inserted of notices weeklies bora sorts of of wut one his The two friends met at the library as usual and frequently took supper to. gether. Their intimacy grew apace, through the Englishman listened moro than he talked You aren't a crank at all.” he once reassu: 1 the Dane. “You're queer a little bit, that's about all. If you met your good lady and got married von might settle down.” “Ah, dear fellow.” sighed the other without the remotest suspicion of what the Englishman was doing for him. One evening, as the mechanic sat rammmaging through hi: Yoiky mail, he suddenly leaped to his feet. “Good! I've got her,” he exclaimed, so loud tat his landlady heard him through to her husband that their boarder was getting crankier day He at once dispatched a letter every - he Hex evening Swedish and he 1 When dropped her gaze “What is he do then inquired He nas “For me? young lady alled to see hey he heard the come of she of her head Why ure ried Engli manded, hig heart sinking within him vid shake "¥¢ for you ule the blunt hman She shook her head more sadly than hefore Very fairly Will Vou her inte still He well then shouted “Do you vou marry him? don't “How do you know ued Are did he? und She obbingly Durst tears and then pur true, sir? YOu say Why himself? Where Is “He is 8a my vO he realiy sure oil not coms what but weeks fe anda s« friend, it Is two mas-—will you have patience hen | shall give the dinner | e that long? Ver and let awhile’ But where hand Would you mind ha dinner with me? part Mill work fied + igh \ th} Nig Wish Have Like ident and accor Was which he was 20 long memorated in this way iment was erected soon af iv the mon ter his death, in 1802 No id have ar gite for such a found in in fact. in all it is on the brow of a high view of the f the cits finer whole Rives com- the Fall hill been ceineiery manding a portion where many of the mills a Nearly forty tall chimneys can be seen against the dis tant ETAY buildings of windows visible and then the sun light strikes their glistening panes The majority of the mills in the city including the Stafford Mills, are built with slightly sloping roofs, but one great structure seen from the cemetery in the foreground ghows the sharp peaked roof which had been chosen as more ornamental for the monument New York Times located as many stone their rows where and with now Paper Windows. Paper has been used for a larga variety of purposes, but one of the newest is for the glazing (if one may uge the term) of windows. The new paper panes have the appearance of “milky glass.’ They intercept the light rays while letting the heat ravs Paper “glags” Ds | i ! i GOSSIP FOR THE FAIR SEX | ITEMS OF INTEREST ON NUMERGUS FEMININE TOPICS. Dainty Candleshades..-Used By the Best | Tailors««Any Material Suitable for Ties. Newest Head Dresses---Etc,, Etc, DAINTY New CANDLESHADES and dainty hades are of white silk, candle embroidered with small blossom IOBeH forget nots and with a me pan gles, buttercups violet The cen tre is encircled circular of i through which peep out gum beads row aperture 11 HHKe studs or ervstal or colored glittering effective The anda very little window af add USED BY THE BEST TAILORS fabr irfaced lourette e 1 ” slightly which so hal: and rough -# camel's the to many popuiai suiting belong are « ¢ talon 101 the he tumes, They and ma) hats and ite, lowers of course French iime take a Crooks laminated f enam the Some of the artists are devoting their {to i which variety of f and with gold, and various been elaborately beasts and the with is ex- orme, as well the balls as the Turqguoises, kinds o els also have pressed into service, and wood carved into the semblance of birds fishes, makes ing modern "“para-plui Gun the monogram in pearls or for metal, gold and studded 1 fr: RIiTIK tops this dull, dark metal, with bright jewels when is also very smart FRENCH BICYCLE COSTUME The feminine bicycle suit in France has become almost uniform. One sees so few culottes now, either in Paris or in the country, that, forgetting how common they once were in France, one regards them as something strange and bizarre. The various patterns of the entirely divided skirt have also been discarded in favor of the close, habit. like skirt, divided only behind. with the division concealed under heavy plaits. This is the model accepted now by the best tailors. It does not permit ne to ride a machine with a crossbar, | the division being designed simply to help one in mounting and to enable | the folds of the skirt to drop inte. place with no assistance, The short | bolero does not appear now on many smart habits, (0: even the Frenchwo- | mas bas concluded that 5 tight-walst | neither does one much of those iraight, loose jackets, which, in some appeared smart, but suggested a form of to old and figureles; the JAC ket and Hee iistances Hey in most cases Iressing-sack dear women hiazey collar open made mall revers rolling This th Detlier with preferred 108640 WwW na ue worn 1 button-holes method open flap, u if wishes the one than havi jacket holes made through the with galter-tops are worn Alpine hat presents a that and dame wh ieyeles figure ry different now from of HEO ORIENT] Ihe WOMEN WEAVERS Al Si. omewhat popular concept of “rronse on tal ntl woman ig rathe) who | Yet the majority qu do their harder, for West whereas of one dest luxury sim Of ite a ard the large WOrk read as ven ad women in the husbands ‘ ‘ married women app women her without man bullets fire on the while the When he got » found that out of the gix shots enrs had perforated the overalls wore, while another had torn rim of hat. The other three Lullets came within such close proxim- that their ings in hi ears Miss Main has, since she took the farm. performed all the work on the place without any mals assistance, and She goes to market with week, and day she the his ity whistle still 1 does it well a load of vegetables every them herself Every cleans out the stables, feeds the live g®ck and rubs down the horses. Only in harvest time does she seek outside | heip. and then she hires strapping young women. All the tramps who come in the county know of her and | give her a wide berth — Chicago Chron- icle 1 BEN FASHION NOTES | The cape is a popular shape for! wraps, and some of the handsomest! garments of the season still cling to this model fisher holding a bunch of cherries in his bill. This hat made its appearanes London stage voung woman who is devoted to 1 the i the right side is a vividly blue king- on a 1 he wheel is given wearing of a which is at comfortable and appro the 1 blouse of corduros becoming Vhen characteristics priate she has secured these { thy megratulates her a in a garment she pelf, and takes great pleasure in wearing what an ideal of Lindeome Comes ver near to being garment In | rece Slike ULly * Array y corded gi Ke, ate gra with dainty fig % of and violets thelr Ose grounds; white with tones woven on BiOBSY brocaded shaded carnations in deli | French gilke in vivid watered silks ate and COIOring# whose wonderful film gives design them a which and 3 of cross. ceedingly elegant hag a skirt Hight ground wrap of COs ne barred velvet bars in shades on dari velvet the | of the dress js ich applique, It Ing collar with fits the sleeves are in color of the dar almost covered throat cape f masgges Of rich wrap, whic aiINoOst ev garment liked. Some tion the ength fre 10 garments ompanies garments {hese omplete wit Congress id require supplementary vessel How She Took Down the Line. A Philadelphia lady tells this story fot Record of ¢ ty “We had at one time in our employ & very green young woman, whose nationality is ty- pified by an emblem of the same ves dant color This young woman, like the one your sterv speaks of, also came to us through an intelligence office. She showed her intelligence on the first day of her service in onr family. She was told to go out in the 1 3 0 the that which was stretched among half a dozen posts set up for that purpose. She was at the job for so long a time that we began to wonder what on earth was the matter with her, Wa went out to see what she was doing, and there we found her working away She had al- ready dug up three of the posts, and She didn’t stay with us long.” Coats-o’-Arms. The use of coats-of-arms as a badge for different families did not come into The A charming poke bonnet is very | smart, and the lines are excellent. It! is of medium size with wide brim of | black velvet put on absolutely smootb. | The crown is small, round and high, and the trimming consists of ostrich | tips. There are ribbon strings, which | are tied under the chin. : A hat which is pretty but rathes | blue straw, trimmed with blue ribbon, ! edged with black. Tt is held on the it, while the French developed tae science, In the carly daye it was eas. tomary for a knight to adopt any de- vice which suited him. and his sons either inherited the device or chose ane of their own, as best suited their tasts, Good-Natured People Some people win a reputation for be. ing good-humored because they lack the backbone to fight when they are imposed upow.— Atchison (Kan. i Gabe
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