———— A To 7. AO ————— So SN Os. AOS
NEW YEAR,
I welcome thee, New Year! Look!
opened-armed I wait.
upon the gate;
0, swiftly haste, by river, plain and
mead!
My trust in thee is placed and for thy
grace I plead.
I welcomed thee, New Year, with eyes
o'er full of love;
"Twas God who sent thee here from
radiant worlds above;
"Tis God whose voice shall sound and
call thee home at last;
On good or barren ground thy seed.
ling moments cast.
I welcome thee, New Year, by heart
and hand and voice;
and rejoice
With holy will and might with potent
wisdom rife;
all the keys of life.
-Lalia Mitchell, In
Housekeeper.
Minneapolis |
Rooterby had been saying to her any-
how.
The cashier and the typewriter were
the only occupants of the office ex-
cept Mr. Rooterby, and it was not
surprising that the cashier should
wonder what Mr. Rooterby had been
saying to the typewriter, seeing that
he (the cashier; had been saying a
great deal of importance to her him-
gelf, and with some hopes of success,
unless distracting obstacles were
thrown in his path, and Mr. Rooterby
was a distracting obstacle, beyond
peradventure,
Nor did the fact that he had pre
sented a fine suit of clothes to the
cashier as a Christmas souvenir make
it any clearer in the cashier's mind
when he
office with
Rooterby's
(the
her
one,
typewriter
was in the
three hours to Mr.
than any other man thought of her |
“All I've got to say is,” responded
cashier to the typewriter, when |
she spoke to him about the matri-
is that he ought to have |
married twenty-five years ago |
Which seemed so bitter and unkind |
of
can
horror:
you say
in almost
Charley,
a tone
how
Mr. Rooterby was a jack.
That was what everybody said, and, |
of course, what everybody says is
true, whether it is or not.
Nor was Mr. Rooterby a Jack be-
cause his first name was John, and
all Johns are by the rule of diminu- |
tives Jacks.
Not at all. Mr. Rooterby was a jack
because his ears were abnormal, and
he showed other signs of an ineradica-
ble stupidity. '
“Bein’ as you air the best boarder
I've got, ever did have, or expeck to
have,” remarked his landlady many
times during the years he had been!
occupying her second-floor front, “I
won't say as how you air a plum silly,
Mr. Rooterby, but I'd be most sure to
if you wasn't the kind of a gent you air
in every other respeck. Indeed, 1
would, Mr. Rooterby, and the good
Lord knows 1 ain't the woman to de-
prive a man of his just deserts,
that my poor, dead husband was one
of the Lord's chosen. I don't care if
people did say 1 had to keep boarders
80's we wouldn't starve
on the county.”
Some of the much
more emphatic in their remarks than
was the landlady.
“If Rooterby,” said
politician who sat
from him, “wasn’t an infernal
fool, he would have married a rich
woman long ago, and been a member
of congress from this He
would have also had a comfortable
home instead of plugging away in a
beastly old boarding house. If 1
had his chances for about seven min-
utes you bet I'd corner the conven
tion and get the nomination or break
a bank in the attempt.”
So it would appear that Mr. Root.
erby was a jack, or a silly old fool,
with the accent on the profane penul
timate, all on account of his persistent
celibacy.
Let us examine into the testimony
against Mr. Rooterby. A man of
80 well preserved that he didn't look
it by ten years; a man of affairs and
a comfortable competence: a
of good habits and good family: a
man of domestic tastes and somewhat
sedentary life; a man of some per
sonal pulchritude and of excellent
education; a man considerably above |
seein’
to death or go
boarders wer
the prominent
across the table
such
district
50,
above,
against Rooterby, the jury will re-
turn a prompt verdict to the effect
that Mr. Rooterby is guilty with evi
dent malice aforethought prepense.
“I vow,” said Mr. Rooterby, solemn-
ly, in the presence of witnesses. “that
I wouldn't propose marriage to any
woman on earth. What the dickens”
~Mr. Rooterby was a vestryman and
could not be too emphatic—"do I want
with a wife, I'd like to know? Here 1
disturb me and no one to
my movements or my motives. What
I have is my own, and it is not con-
extent responsible. In fact 1 am
monarch of all I survey, as a bache.
lor, and if I were
there's no
telling what kind of a
fore, when I am perfectly satisfied and
of trying to change the conditions?”
hind which more bachelors hide than
any other, perhaps, unless poverty be
considered as one,
At Christmas Mr. Rooterby had
given the pretty tryepriter in his
employ for two or three years a
present of a handsome street gown,
for Mr. Rooterby was practical, and
she had needed it so badly that when
she told the cashier about it the tears
came into her eyes, and she sald she
thought it such a pity so dear and
good a man as Mr. Rooterby did not
have a wife, and a home and children,
and all those happinesses which go
with matrimony, and there was some.
thing In the typewriter's tone that
made the cashier wonder what Mr,
the life of the cashier
narrow, and he never
saw Mr. Rooterby come into the office
that he didn’t begin to think of those
After that
gue, which Poe tells of, and wonder
what was the price of man-eating mon- |
keys and how long it would take him
to teach one to climb up to Mr. Root- |
erby's window and eliminate Mr.
Rooterby from the emotional problem
which was slowly but surely under
mining the mental equilibrium of the
cashier.
Mr. Rooterby unconscious
was surging and throbbing in the
bosom of his cashier, grew more po-
lite, if that were possible, to the type-
writer day by day. deed, his man-
ner to all women was changing. He
sedmed to be so gentle, when before,
of what
that ineffable
comes
he was lacking in
tieness which only from the
heart of hearts. In other words, Mr
Rooterby impressed the cashier as a
man deeply and dangerously in love.
Strange that the cashier should be
80 discerning, for no one else noticed
that Mr. Rooterby was other than his
old self.
Yet he was
something that
Certainly the cashier
for his manner would have been
different had he known.
The typewriter, who was nineteen,
lived in the same boarding house tha
sheltered Mr. Rooterby, notwithstand.-
ing the cashier had done all in his
power to have her move to some other |
and with her there lived her mother,
a widow not yet 40, and so young and
pretty as easily to pass as her daugh-
ter's sister. The women were con-
fidantes, and all the typewriter knew
the mother knew. Under the cireum-
stances what other results couiu have
been expected than that Mr. Rooterby
was looked upon with favor?
gen-
and the typewriter knew
others knew.
did not know it,
fow
very
As for Mr. Rooterby, he would have
laughed to scorn so much as a vague
hint that he was gradually succumb
ing to the mysterious power of the
feminine over the masculine destiny.
It was New Years eve. The cashier
was calling on the typewriter, or
rather, they had joined the “watch
meeting” at the boarding house after
the theater, and the cashier was com.
paratively happy, for Mr. Rooterby
was devoting himself to the mother,
quite to the neglect of the daughter,
and the daughter seemed to be com- |
paratively happy in the company of
the cashier. There was a sound of |
revelry by night, and all the boarding
house had gathered then, its beauty |
and its chivalry, and they had a wal |
halla kind of a wassail until the clock |
struck 12, when the festivities ended, |
and each member of the company, be- |
fore departing, was called on to make |
one resolution for the vear just usher |
ed in.
Mr. Rooterby popped up first.
“Excuse my haste,” he said, “but I |
want to resolve right now and here
that I will not propose marriage to |
any woman on earth, just to show |
you folks who are everlastingly chaff. |
ing me that I mean business for the |
new year at the same old stand.” i
This was received with great ap |
plause, and the cashier glanced
stealthily at the typewriter as if to
assure himself that she was safe for
another year, anyway. And the type.
writer caught him In the act.
Then with a resolution to the credit
of each one they said “good night”
and in an hour the lights were put
out and the house was still.
It was one o'clock the dead hour
At three, came a terrific banging on
Mr. Rooterby's door, accompanied by
Mr. Rooterby, before
he was wide awake was out in the
ball in his dressing gown.
It was the typewriter in a cloud of
white and the hall full of smoke, and
people below banging doors and shout
ing and a fire bell clanging around the
corner,
“Mamma,” she gasped and down she
went in a faint just as the cashier
dashed in from his house in the next
block, and Mr. Rooterby, dropping her
in the most unromantic fashion, flew
up to the fourth floor where the wid:
ow and her daughter occupled the
front rooms,
There he found her just coming out
of a faint, and as she caught her scat
tered wits, for the widow was a wo.
man of rare sense and presence of
mind after the first shock, she grab.
bed his outstretched hand and groped
her way with him to the head of Lhe
stairs, A tongue of flame met them
at that point, and for an instant Mr.
Rooterby's heart falled him. He
knew there was no fire escape at the
front of the house, and access to the
back was cut off by the fire which
had taken possession of the stairway.
jut the widow was in no wise daunt-
ed.
“Come,” she sald, “I have a rope es-
cape in my room. We can go down by
that, 1 had it built for two.”
Mr. Rooterby had told her at first
that her daughter was safe on the
floor below.
The flames were vet some distance
from the front windows, with a door
shut between them and the outer air
and in a second Mr. Rooterby had se-
cured the rope's end to the window
and had adjusted the widow and bhim-
self for the more or less perilous trip
to safety.
Whoever's make the fire escape was
excellent one, and be-
fore Mr. Rooterby had got to the sec-
ond story window he was perfectly at
home in controlling the thing and
he stopped it twenty feet from the
ground.
The widow, who was dangling below
him, gave a nervous start, fearing
some accident.
“What is it, Mr. Rooterby?”
quired.
“My dear madam,” replied Mr.
Rooterby, with as much feeling as the
circumstances would permit, “will you
be my wife?”
“Who, what do you mean?” gasped
the widow, almost losing ‘her balance
at the unexpectadness of it.
“1 mean will you marry
course. How else could you
wife?”
This was a poser,
“But your resolution, Mr. Rooter
by?” replied the widow, looking up at
him as shyly as she could, “considering
her position.
“What resolution?”
Rooterby
“Why the one you made when the
New Year came in, that you wouldn't
Marry any woman on earth.”
Mr. Rooterby was stumped but for
instant only
“That doesn't apply
he sald confidently. “You arg mot on
earth, and never will be If you
don't accept me right now, for 1 have
wasted time enough, and the thought
a few minutes ago that 1 was BOIing
to in that frightful blaze-
The widow had recovered her
again
“Mr.
with
You soe
making
io anything to get
And it was even a
spectacle five min when Mr.
Rooterby, in his dressing gown. with
his arm around the widow in a fluffy
smoked wrapper, met the cashier in
an overcoat and boots holding fast
she In-
of
my
me,
be
inquired Mr.
an
here at all”
you
lose you
senses
Loot rby.” she
of asperity.
interrupted,
“don't
are
I'm willing to
from this.”
gome degree
what a spectacle you
of vourself?
down
more
ites later,
and the firemen trying the
hose on all of them
fully insured, and what a happy New
Year it was to the cashier.—New York
Sun.
to turn
Teaching Her a Lesson.
“lI think,” said the kind old lady,
“that you will find work right around
the corner there.”
“Madame.” sald Sauntering Sim, “I
was born and bred in Boston. I am
sorry that you used those words. Care.
lessness in the use of our sacred lan-
guage is to me far more distressing
than hunger.”
“What you you mean?” she demand-
ed, with considerable spirit, for she
had once been a school teacher, and
prided herself on her parts of speech.
“That little word ‘will,” " he replied.
is misused! Have
you ever heard of the lady who fell
from the steamship and called ‘Help!
“I don’t remember it.” she answered,
“Well,” he went on. “this poor wo-
man fell into the water, having neg-
lected to inform herself concerning
the proper use of the words ‘will’. and
‘shall.’ It happened that no heroes
were on deck when she went over
board, therefore her appeals for help
were made in vain. ‘Help! Help!
to her assistance, and in despair she
‘Nobody shall help me; 1 will
What she meant, of course,
help me: 1 shall
drown!’ You see what a difference
the transposition of those two small
words makes?”
“But | don’t know what that has
to do with me,” the lady said.
“Alas!” he almost sobbed: “alas!
alas! Why will people who are other.
wise fairly intelligent make such woe
ful assauits upon our beloved Eng
You said: ‘1 think you will
Mark
misuse of the word ‘will’ If
you had said: ‘I think you may (or
might) find work around
But she let the dog out just then
and the lecture was off.—Chicago Rec
drown’
The Bank of England 1s a prosperous
institution, with a capital of over $72.
000,000 and a surplus of about $16.070,.
000, yet the governor receives a salary
of only 810,000 a year. The pay of its
twenty-four directors is $2,500 each per
annum. The bank is a vast building,
one-story high and perfectly isolated.
There is not a window to be seen in
its walls. The offices are lighted from
the roof or from the nine inner courts
and garden. At night a detachment
of Foot Guards, commanded by a cap-
tain watches over the safety of the
"Old Lady of Threadneedle street.”
During the day the private watchmen
of the company itself suffice to main.
tain order. The bank Is Intrusted by
the treasurer with the arrangements
for the interest on the national debt,
consols, annuities, ete, and receives
from the government as payment for
its services about $1 200.000,
A FEMININE PREROGATIVE.
It is ever the feminine prerogative
to burden the raiiroads with trunks
and hand luggage. A recent {llustra-
tion was the trip of Baron von Zuilen's
automobile party from Paris to Ber-
lin, when sixty-seven pieces of bag:
gage were sent on by rail. There were
six In the party, and naturally the
women were held responsible for the
bulk of the luggage. Queen
mina had on her honeymoon no fewer
than forty pleces of baggage. A
Duchess of Manchester, born
Zimmerman, took with her on her wed-
ding trip forty-five trunks and valises,
Women are supposed to have more
country, but in some respects that is
a mistaken impression. The recent
decigion in France to admit women
lawyers into the courts applies to all
France, while in America there
some States where this is the
and others were it is not allowed. 1
do not know of any American women
that have the influence in affairs that
some English women have, and the
movement in Germany for higher edu.
cation for women beginning on a
legal basis that will eventually admit
them to the position for which their
education fits them. Therefore, while
progress in this direction has seemed
more rapid in America, it may be sur.
er in some other countries. —Mary M.
Patrick, in Weekly.
is
Leslie's
LEADER OF 5,000,000 WOMEN.
world has a larger
Wright Be
International
organization
sixteen
This council has three great
No woman in the
following than Mrs. May
wall, president of the
Council of Women, an
with 5.000000 members
countries.
i
reasons ior existence
War to spread
., to find and pub
the
purposes, or
to
throughout the earth
lish to the world the
prevent peace
nwa aifor 2 GF
AWS affecting
domestic relations of women in all the
countri
and
concerning
dustries
different nations
Sewall
nresented, and to ceoliect
distribute accurate information
the
¥
1nd
nbors of
tatus,
and
Mrs framed
peace which was the onl
ed by the Commiss
w
Peace
18 the
Comms
at The
woman
of ong of ths
in the country
the latest
manifest
{Age She
in the world and the pre
$
first women's clubhouses
methods of education
in her lectures
and in the classical scl
ois, to which she d tes her morning
hours the
, famed
guests
for three-quarters of
Here she holds a weekly
alike for its hostess and its
This strong. sere
an is a great power {or go
progress of the world. —L
iy.
od in
dger Month
GOING UP AND DOWN STAIRS
Walking u
made an excellent exercise
p and down stairs can be
for devel
arranging the dress or affecting its
little arma and legs is of vast import.
ance to the child's future well-being.-
American Queen.
THE YOUNG GIRL. IN SOCIETY.
Mrs. Mary 8t. l.eger Harrison, a
daughter of Charles Kingsley, known
as a writer as Lucas Malet, has been
giving some consideration to questions
relating to “American Bociety.,” She
finds that “society” has draw.
backs, and instances as the most nota-
ble among these that in the United
States “the young girl is of too much
importance.” * Ordinarily we resent
the imputations put upon us by foreign
critics, but in this instance we are
our
*
No man ever lost any-
No reconteur ever found great-
the body, if performed in the correct
and easiest way As usually
hips, the heel of the foot
and a great strain is put on the back
tending to increase
of the housewife
effect are obtained, and if much stair
climbing is done there will be a great
difference in the feeling of vitality.
Ascending stairs rapidly by springing
from the ball of one foot to another
forms an excellent means of strength.
ening the ankles and curing a tenden-
cy to fiat feet
The following exercises is excellent
as a nerve and muscle rest in change
of position: Lying at full length on
the back, raise the arms forward, up
ward over the head, then stretch the
of the fingers. Hold this position for
a few seconds, then relax completely
Repeat several times Good House
keeping.
THE UP-TO-DATE BABY.
The Layette which formerly was
great amounts of lace and embroidery,
added to yards of ruffles, puffs and
tucks, has within late years been super
seded by a much less elaborate and
much more sensible outfit. In the old
order of things the baby was first
wrapped in a flannel band, then the
“pinning blanket” was arranged so
that the tiny feet were well protected,
and incidentally closely confined with.
in it. Over the pinning blanket came
the flannel skirt, then the cambric
akirt, each with a band that had to be
fastened about the little body, and fin.
ally the robe heavily trimmed and
measuring one and a half to two yards
from shoulder to hem. Now the prop
er way to dress an infant is to substi.
tute a knitted band for the unelastic
flannel band and the woven or knitted
shirts and stockings for the “pinning
blanket,” which is eatirely omitted or
left loose. The skirts are only suf.
ficient in number to secure warmth,
and the dress, measuring not more
than thirty-six inches from top to bot:
tom, is as light as possible. The baby
now wears one waist which buttons
on the shoulders and to which all the
skirts are fastened, thus enabling one
to temove them all, replacing them
with others withant tn the lasst die
comes through the knowledge that the
ear of a fresh and eager mind is hang
No brilliant con-
dimmed in the of
creature whose appreciation of his wit
and wide range
vet undulled by the long years of con-
tact with a blase We unques-
tionably pay a great deal of
tention to the young girl in this coun-
try, and it has been one of the
ing elements of our
presente
world.
do
social
young girl in the sacred precincts of
the shall not only stunt
her development to her own very great
wrong, but build up for
society which shall
sham; devoid of charm;
devoid of life,
nursery, we
ourselves a
new be a
of freshness;
and happiness;
of erudite egotists
is bore
Harper's Weekly.
than whom there
no greater in all creation. —
VICISSITUDES
ESS.
THE OF
has
Paris strange vi
The
ighter of Admiral
|
fv ane
many
16iress
faded of her
splendors
treat at Ville d'Ay
t ugh no
ray
fault of her own,
this eighty
1 food for thirty hot
lame of two, depriv-
ATS,
nourishment for
her dogs
the Marne
property,
Inside
doors
rovide
she had
ile d’Avray,
erted
» wide open
h the
on
a des of
+, Of whic
similarly
dozen
by the
of the aged recluse, paid
He found the
antily clad in
garments, sitting writing
open window She evinced no
urprise on the intruder. “I
Oe you bailiff was the
, and on hearing that her visi-
had not come to seize the remain
of furniture, the old
to tears, and
story and troubles
{ree
Ut were a
half.
One, who merest
Countess,
WAS B( WH
rn
threadbare
geeing
supp are a
sticks
moved
immensely rich, owning many
much real estate in Par
on which she had
revenue nothing remained.
unscrupulous men of business,
her to make unsafe investments,
once the
tainebleanu, and St. Cloud, found her
world.
ing:
tramp would
Record-Herald.
flowers
little lace !
White satin slippers have
painted on the toes and
bows above the painting.
Old-fashioned cameos are set in|
buckles and umbrella tops. and the |
small ones are used effectively as but. |
tons,
Soft twills, in place of taffeta. which
has held long and undisputed sway, !
are coming to the front, urged there |
by the reign of velvels.
Carnations are not popular, as a!
rule, in millinery; but one pretty hat!
has a row of carnations over the face,
the hat itself is of white tulle, and
upon the back of the crown a clump
of foliage. -
Small black velvet buttons are to be
#oen on some of the shirtwaists in
which black appears, or when it is in
troduced into the stock, and they are
very pretty. They are particularly
good on white,
Tight fitting skirts have provoked
rivalry in petticoat makers, who are
vying with one another to produce the
petticoat which shall occupy the !»ast |
space. One of the most recent has
lightweight jersey cloth for a top, the
elastic fabric fitting like a glove to |
the figure. Silk ruffles furnish these |
skirts to a depth of twelve or fourteen |
inchea
There are various ways of breaking
banks, but the burglarious route is not
the most destructive of public confi.
lence
A Hungarian killed himself on his
wife's advice, And yet there are peo
ple who claim that women are losing
their influence in the home.
Denmark leads the world in per
capita interest in agriculture. Each in.
habitant has on an average a capital
of $5685 invested in farming.
The metric system of weights and
measures was adopted by France In
1790, by Holland in 1816, by Belgium
in 1520, and by Sweden in 1889.
Have you noticed an extra nickel in
your pocket? Director of the Mint
Rogers has reported a net gain in the
per capita circulation of five cents,
In Paris rats destroy
worth $1,000,000,
each year food
the value of the
food destroyed by these animals year
ly all over the estimated to
amount in the aggregate to $70.000 000
a vl
ang
world is
Apple growing in America began ip
1640, only twenty vears after the May
flower came. The first orchard was
an island in Boston harbor. The
nursery was set at Danvers by
on
first
Germany, in her
causes leading up to
demonstrated that
the cases in that
traced to habitual
tainted with
is possible that
hunt, the
consumption, has
fifty of
countiy could be
breathing dust
substances. [It
untainted d might
to the breath
ing apparatus of the average individ
ual
after
per cont
oy #
Os
fry vd 311 6
injurious
ist
work considerable harm
Although
Dawson,
Or
prices have fallen greatly
there {3 still no for
ten cent pleces The price of
as 8
“Take
i % ng
dollars
4
at
five
use
a few articles only is so low
The adage
the
fe + ’ lay
quarter of a dolla:
care of ithe pennies and
will take care of themselves
1is ¥
fittie to the
children who are growing
will thus
hun
up in
meaning two
far
¥ red » «
northern city
Blackwood’'s Magazine
life in Lab
pet in @
snow. The
owner of { animal, a black bear, by
the way, up the barrel twice dur
ing
occupant, who was pers
QUE
the winter, but did 1 awaken the
itted to sleep
Hibernating pets give n«
t¢
11
on till May
trouble to their owners y others
and are hs in their reg A bar
rel may thus be the abode of greate:
felicity than is to be found in a palace
O71
py
Re
in more than three thousand
in Great Britain the boys are studying
text books on Canada which set forth
her history, explain her system of gov
ernment and Jay stress upon he
natural resources These books are
supplied free by the Dominion, and
Lord Strathcona, Canada’s high com
missioner to the mother country, wil
give valaable medals next spring tc
the scholars who pass the best exam
instions on them. The laudable gin
of Strathcona and his countrymen is
to impress British youth with the ad
vantages of the Dominion as a field
for emigration.
schools
The French academy has honored
itself by awardirg a prize of 1.00
francs to Cecile Morand Mile. Mo
rand is a scamstress, dwarf and @
cripple. But she has supported a par
alytic father and ten brothers and sis
ters—one of the brothers being an in
valid. Virtue, of course, is its nwn re
ward, and one who has so much of #
as Mlle. Morand is incomparably rict
~~rich in fine qualities of industry, an
selfishness, affection. But it is pleas
ant to hear of public recognition ac
companied by a substantial offering
in cold cash. The money may lighter
this poor girl's labors for a scasor.
Not long since an interesting topic
of debate was started at the Diet of
German Women, then sitting in El
genach. The mover of the subject dis
cussed the common practice of womet
of running down as much as possible
the prices of the articles they pur
chased. “Was thie,” she ssked, “eothi
cally defensible?” “Women rush fron
£hop to shop in order to purchase thei
goods a few farthings cheaper, ant
often under cost price, and in doing
#0 they are quite ignorant of the fac
that wages have to be thereby dimin
ished and the number of hours of ia
bor lengthened.” She suggested alse
that people have uo idea of the misery
they cause to many small traders by
unpunctuality in the payment of smal
accounis. Also that women who insig
ipon making their purchases Iate iz
the evening do not seem to conside
that by doing so they rob thousands o
thop employes of the hours of repost
and recreation they greatly need. The
Diet resolved to send a petition (o the’
federal government of Germany, beg
Zing that women inspectors of factor
jes shouid have an academic training
putting them upon an intellectual
equality with male inspectors. ane
that they should be assisted by womer
of the factory class who have had
practical esporicnce in the work is
question.
wr.
She Wants to Melp the Homeless.
A Washington paper publishes this
advertisement :
A young lady with college aducation
would like position as private teacher
in some family without board or lodg
ing, ¥