PLANTATION VIOLETS.
To women's enterprise and energy
the preservation or restoration of many
of the picturesque and historic old
Virginia homes is due. By one means
or another they have found the money
to prevent the houses from falling into
decay and the lands from going under
the hammer. From Shirley, one of
the loveliest places on the James
River, its owner a woman, sends
bushels of violets to Northern cities.
Some of the most famous old estates
in Virginia have been converted into
prosperous truck farms, which supply
the tables of Washington
with fruits and vegetables.
THE MONAGRAM STOCKING.
The very latest in hosiery is the
monogram stocking. The stocking is
preferably black, in iisle thread
silk. In the front, just above the
ankle, is a diamond-shaped inset of
black net, and upon this the mono-
gram is embroidered. The letters
may be worked in black silk or in
whatever color the = wearer may
choose, The rest of the stocking is
perfectly plain.—Woman’'s Home Com.
panion.
THE “POVERTY LUNCHEON” NOW.
“Poverty Luncheons” offer
way of combining pleasure
anthrophy. Half a dozen
to meet at the home of
once a week, or once a fortnight,
luncheon. At
guest brings fifty cents,
to some charity, and
pledges herself not to
dollars in preparing
ment. These prices
tions, may, of course,
pleasure. At the «
the hostess must tell
for each article of f«
guests note their menu
A sample menu would be
bouillon (15 cents); creamed codfish,
served in green (40 cents);
two pounds of chops (50 cents); with
puree of French chestnuts (15 cents);
salad of
with mayonnaise, served
ples{ 35 cents); pine
in the whole rind (45 cents); «
cents); bread and i
butter (15
Total $2.23. —Ladies’ Home
a good
hil
agree
in turn,
for
and
girls
each,
meeting
which is given
hostess
exceed three
her entertain-
and contribu
be varied at
of the meal
the price paid
wd which
every
each
lose
the
cards.
Canned
upon
peppers
chopped and celery
in red ap-
apple ice served
PG
appie
offea (8
conts
Journal.
WHAT GIRLS SHOULD READ
Miss Katherine Lee Bates,
f English literat at Welle
College, makes a few suggestic
regard to what girls should read
says that the beginning of English
literature study should be at
home and in the the
girl learn by hea rose
The best and all,
nickle magazines
her young imagination
Olympus and myths of Valhs
Christian Andersen old
Homer, “The Fiery Queen
rim's Progress,” “The
Nights,” and “The Alhambra.”
her know Roland the Cid and
Quixote as she knows Miles
and Horatius. Let Beatrice be
to her as Martha Washington.
Scott with her and Shakespeare.
will read Tennyson for herse Save
her in those sensitive first vears from
the cheap, the flimsy, the corrupt in
books. Every hour spent in reading
thrash is not merely much time
wasted, but it is so much fineness
blunted, so much dignity of mind de
based. —Chicago Record-Herald
THE ENGLISH GIRL'S FOOT.
A sprightly controversy has been
going on for some time in the English
professor
ure ley
She
made
nursery. Let
rt poetry and pr
she will.
from her,
with m
the
feed
of
Keep
but
vths
Arabian
Let
Don
real
Read
She
as
x1 f
ii
580
intimate subject of the young
woman's foot or rather her shoes. The
modern English girl is tall, tall in a
cartoons of the stately. American girl
40 not even adumbrate. In the dris-
tocratic set, more often than not,
towers over the heads of foreign gen
tlemen.
from tall fathers and mothers and vig.
rous years of outdoor exercis:
made her what she is—very occasion-
ally a six-footer and with hands and |
feet in due proportion.
i
no attention, and that nature will care
for them. As a maiter of fact frum
the moment the first little teeth make
their appearance the care of the teeth
should commence. The strength of
the second or permanent teeth de-
pends largely upon the good and sound
condition of the first. As the decay of
the teeth always commences from the
outside, the first care is the mouth, It
should be kept clean and none of the
germs which cause decay be allowed
to remain there. Acid Is one of the
first causes of decay in the early teeth,
and the cause of acid in the mouth is
often that after each meal a small por:
tion of the milk is allowed to remain
in the mouth, where the warm tem-
perature causes fermentation. In a
small baby the mouth should be wash:
ed with water containing a pinch of
borax or boricacid solution after
every meal and at least two or three
times a day in an older child. A soft
bit of linen or a little absorbent cot:
ten wrapped around the finger is suffi
cient for this process. When the
child's double teeth come, a small soft
Be sure
to use the brush gently, employing the
horizontal motion and the perpendicu
lar as well, as by doing this the
brush get between the
teeth and dislodge the particles of
food which cling there. The mouth
also should be opened wide, and the
crown of the teeth well brushed.
After the teeth are washed, the mouth
should be thoroughly rinsed. It ig not
soaps or tooth pastes
or powders. Plain bolled water
water with a pinch of borax, or a satu.
rated solution of boric-acid waih, the
last being mildly antiseptic, can be
used. —Marianna Wheeler, Harper's
Bazar,
or
in
PERSONALITY OF NAPOLEON'S
MOTHER
The personality of the mother of Na-
poleon Bonaparte seldom better pre
sented than in the following brief sen
tences, which make one feel very much
at home with her. She was married
at sixte to Charles Bonaparte, an
humble nbtary of and bore
him thirteen children had very
little education, knew nothing of
literature, and Pri after passed
middle life could talk no language but
her native Corsican dialect; yet, when
she was le with the slender
est means, her family
f them ex-
one ol
is
en
Corsica,
She
she
ft a widow
she educated
lived to
Laud
and
soe
ien and Be
i Lucein dec
[ by no means e
‘imperia
edingly sensitive
her to
learn-
French
was
position exposed
her k of
r to speak
a ried
Gna
strong character
ry interesting person
For
dismal
twenty-two years
old palace at
gtreet known
Piaz
he occupied
¢
the corner of
as the
za Venetia, and there
the famous
and the
court with gre
ladies in wait
retary and
ord
vat
two cham!
attaches Chics
beriainsg
y
ing,
$
B64
this
silk
Empire scarfs are
and they are made of
with
spring
trim:
worn
med
White Ci
laces which
new hats
of the
used in
acy is
ing much
one
are
the
The postilion effects are modish on
gowns, although they may be
the most delicate and dainty stuffs.
The contrast between moire and the
taffeta is singularly effective,
whether one or the other be the: foun.
dation, and exceedingly smart cos
tumes are the result,
Elaborate volks and sleeves
skirt bands are the rule, and in some
is a decoration in yoke
effect on the top of the skirt which
corresponds with a trim
part of the
This gives a princesse effect
and
Coarse linens in natural color prom-
sounded. 't is held that “the daugh-
ters of Anak” are exercising too
freely, if they would wear the dainty |
shoes that are women's traditional
adornment. While the answer is
made that the apparent size of the
English girl's foot is due to her sen
sible preference for loose easy shoes,
it is admittedly an incomplete explan-
ation. One reason for the growing
popularity of the American shoe In
London is that it looks neater and
trimmer and decidedly smaller than
the English shoe of the same size.
But another reason is that the Amer.
ican woman resident in London can
not find an English shoe small enough
to fit her foot. One shopper re
lates in a London paper that the small.
est sizes she could find in a Regent
street store were sixes. The exhibi-
tion of royal relics recently opened at
the New Gallery furnishes interesting
testimony that a generous understand.
ing is no mere development of the
modern Amazonian spirit. The boots
worn by Queen Elizabeth as princess,
preserved in the collection, are almost
as capacious as the slippers worn by
George IV. at his coronation. New
York Mail and Express,
BABY'S FIRST TEETH.
It is a mistake to think that the
child's first set of teeth need little or
gowns, Made in tallor fashion, with
or bands of silk for trim-
they are natty and service
able,
A sash worn with a white gown is
four or five inches
and tied once at the left side in front
cut
with white
These edges are
and finished
ringe.
Dainty white crepe de chine stocks
flowers and
At the front of the
is a deep point of the color
Rare Bird. ®
A specimen of a very rare visitor to
the British Isles, the American bittern,
is reported from Ireland. The bird's
breeding grounds are in and about
Texas, and in the autumn it migrates
in great numbers to the Bermudas.
According to Howard Saunders, it has
only been seen some twelve times in
Ireland. This specimen met, of
course, with the customary reception
extended to rare visitors, and was in.
stantly shot.—London Globe,
Japan's foreign trade has in thirty
years increased from less than $1 te
nearly $7 per capita per annum,
Of London's policemen 3.32 per
cent. are daily on the sick lst.
ISS sa re
5 : For the Housewife. :
20:0:0:0¢0¢ HOI UEI00000S
AN ACCOMODATING PEOPLE.
A hint, which the housewife who
has ts be her own doortender may
appreciate, is, before using a stuff for
the door panel, make a test hanging,
to see if a caller can be seen without
seeing. An accommodating peep
hole of this sort is, at certain times,
something for which to be truly thank:
ful.—Good Housekeeping,
COT FLOWERS.
One who has found the experiment
successful says that if the ends of cut
flowers are clipped and the blossoms
put into a pail of water sufficiently
deep to let the blecssoms float on the
surface, they will be es fresh in the
morning as when first cut. Further-
more that they will keep fresh looking
according to this process much longer
than by any other.
TO GIVE CHILDERN CASTCR
OIL.
refuse to take
ake no fuss if it is given
Take one cup of milk, one of
half a cup of sugar, half a
cup of castor oil, a teaspoonful of car
bonate ginger, a little
salt mi stiff
pasts and
bake two are
HOW
castor
in this
Children who
oll n
WAY:
molasse
two of
h flour
out, cut
of soda
and enoug to
Roll
in a qui
into shapes
Ong
1
O14,
K oven or
dose
; COVERS
One
in the
ored lace y . blue, pink,
of r »
a frame
ater ¥
round plain transpare
dn slips for tollet
edgings,
NOw «
table
mpioye «
white
i et]
et or gull
hionable
purpose,
sel threads ¢
CONT
Many
are
"RASTS NEEDED
matrons desiring hs
i get monotony bs
too many of their
match A little
{oo prooe to
ing
contrast
warmth
green
will 1
RECIPES
Put half pi
pan over the
of
a sauce
wonfuls
smooth
the h
and thi
oh
Laler
of the
yolks
them in; peel, core
ix them
ustard «
them in a pan
chot
and
the
apples: m into
buttered « two-thirds
of b
ip
stand
and
in
a moder
h hard or foamy
i
bs ne
ate oven
sauce
Orange Dainty. -
two
add
Beat thorot
with
large
small tablespoonful
star ch “dissol ved in
pint of
ut three
yolks of eERs one
of sugar,
of flour, o
one » tablespoonful
of
milk; pour
milk and let
flavor with
Ie
cook abo
half a {
cupful of
and pour into a baked leat
the whites to a stiff froth: add one
half cup of sugar; flavor with half a
teaspoonful extract of orange: spread
on top, put in oven and let slightly
brown
Glazed Turnips-
turnips, then
sweet orange
crust
Juice §
Boll and drain the
rather thick Melt
butter in a pan and when hot lay in
the slices of turnips, sprinkled with
salt, pepper and sugar Brown well
on both sides and serve,
Banana and Cornmeal Gems
Cream third of a cup of butter: then
add one tableapoonful of sagar and
beat until creamy. Stir in three wall
beaten eggs; one pint of milk: one
cup of cornmeal; two-thirds of a cup
of flour; three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and one teaspoonful of salt
sifted together. Bake in a hot oven
in gem pans. If the pans are deep
allow half an hour and twenty-five
minutes for shallow pans. Slice twu
bananas into batter, just before going
into pans.
glice
Collector and Dealer.
Here 18 a little story about the col
lecting mania, which has the advant-
age of being quite true. A certain
German professor of my acquaintance,
who is an expert as to ancient Greek
statuary, went the other day into a
shop in Paris to inquire the price of
a beautiful bust, which appearad to
him to be authentic. The price was
forty thousand francs, and the bust
would not have been expensive at the
price kad been real, but it was not.
The details by which the fact that it
was not genuine was proved were
pointed out to the ®ealer, who made
no other remark than this: “So be
it, but now I have an offer to make
to you. You doubtless like traveling.
I will give you a ticket to any place in
Europe you care to go to if you will
only get out of Paris. I must how:
ever, insist upon sceing yon off at
the station.” The professor did not ae-
cept this generous offer, and the
dealer is doubtless still on thorns.
London Globe,
Women may not have brain power,
but they have wits enough to make
brain power crawl to. them om its
knees.~New York Pref
THE FAD IS A SNAIL FARM.
MME. PERNOT HAS THE ONLY
ONE IN THE UNITED STATES.
She Thinks the Raising of These Lit-
tle Creatures Might Prove a Profita-
ble Occupation for Women—How
the Toothsome Delicacies are Eaten,
Southern California has a
farm.
the United States. Of course, it is a
French snallery—each original mol:
lusk having been imported direct from
France, and imported for its gastron-
omic features alone. This snailery is
a few miles out from Los Angeles, at
the ranch of Mme. V. A. Pernot. It is
located under the tank house of a
huge windmill a short distance from
the driveway
not home. Vines growing over the
framework of this particular spot ren-
der it cool and shady. Inside of the
inclosure, running all around the sup-
ports, are box shelves, lldded with
wire gauze, where the snails are con-
fined.
Snails are great travellers. If not
guarded they wander far from home,
80 here they have
comfortable quarters, Each
furnished with sections of
earthen pipe, where the little
may retreat at night or in cold weath
er, attaching to the inner
surfaces by of a viscous Ruid
Ww itich OOZe8 d the «
the
The
France by Mme. P
variety }
did not
variety
then tr
box is
porous
creatures
themselves
means
from aroun wiges of
from
of the
1, but they
imported
ernot were
Bourgogr
i The smaller
were
which
» three dozen
arrived mth of June in good
condit!
numb
had ela
thousan
year
than three
id now the snallery
all for the
pulmonary sac
ed. The egrs
earth about
not
erage period
natch
CEES, 1
ish gr
the
having
ay
when grow
a Now
repre “thi y
or they
consists of
peniative must
eat each other
lett
various kir
ie
bage and
before wi
matic
mer savory, whic
A mont
them in bran
time they
are then
vinegar
at
flavor
pack
this
hey
At
ready
thrown sat
eéxiracts the sii
Then they are placed in boiling water
for a few moments. After being stuff
ed with parsley, bread crumbs, pic
bacon, butter and parsley, they
placed the oven and browned,
have the
are
in
which
me
me
led
in
then you
dis! h
“About f«
though
they shrink greatly
other method of preparation is
them with an onion in butter.
ing them a little with flour
other method is them
water and half white wine
parsley, thyme, gar and laurel leaf.
After baking for half an serve
them in a high pyramid, with thicken
ed sauce made of the yoiks of eggs.
butter and lemon juice. The stuffing
and seasoning so chanie the flavor
that really the taste of he snail be
comes a secondary consideration.
course, there is none of the fishy
taste found in the bivalve. In France
snails are a great pes’ in vineyards,
and boys are hired to pick them. The
large ones are taken to market, where
they are sold as a regular article of
diet. The small ones are fed to poul-
try.
“While my fad for snalls is only
for the pleasure of the family table,
yet I supply many of my French
neighbors with these tosthsome delica-
cies. Considering their easy and very
rapid propagation, there is no reason
why snail culture might not be a
very profitable industry in Southern
California.”
The Romans considered the snail
a great delicacy, and portions of plan
tations were set apart for their ecultl
vation. From Italy the taste spread
throughout the old world, and colonies
are yet found in Great Britain where
the Romans encampments were.
How Horses Catch Fatal Diseases.
Persons who fancy that a horse can
get his feet wet with impunity are in
error, according to a local veterinary
surgeon. This man's practice is con
fined principally to public cab horses,
and for the last ten days he has been
up night and day in attending cases
of spinal meningitis. All of them, he
declares, have been caused by the pa.
tient's standing in the snow and slush,
with which the streets have been cos
ered,
“There are few abuses to which the
horse is subjected,” sald this doctor,
“more disastrous than leaving him for
any length of time in snow that ia
even fetlock deep. If it does not
bring on spinal meningitis it is almost
most delicious
wiy are
many
considered a meal
be eaten, as
An
to fry
more may
in cooking
Still an.
to stew half
in
lie
nour,
| founder. Pavements on which salt
has been sprinkled to melt the ice or
i snow are particularly dangerous. The
galt when it becomes saturated plays
| the mischief with a horse's hoof. |
{have known cases where the animal
| has been made absolutely worthless.”
i Spinal meningitis iz considered fa-
tal, and unless the patient Is an ex.
| tremely valuable animal it is put out
{ of its suffering as soon as the disease
Seveiops—New.. York Press.
| | CURIOUS AMERICAN CHARACTER.
James Jesse Strange, the Michigan
Usurper and His Ways,
The curious American character is
{the subject of .an article in the Cen-
| tury, from which we take the opening
| paragraphs:
The fact that about fifty years ago
ia kingdom was established on Beaver
| Island, at the foot of Lake Michigan,
| which flourished for seven years, in
| defiance of our government and its
|laws, is one of the episodes in our
national life which has not yet pass
{ed into history, and is consequently
| unfamiliar to most of the present gen-
eration.
The strange
Mormon community
the strong personality
constituted king.
James Jess Strang born in
the 3, In Cayuga County
Yorl of farmer, he
siucation
{isolated
around
the self-
of this
centers
of
story
© WAS
181 New
had
of a
year
The son a
country las { that period, but as he
Was an fatigable reader and pos
sessed a retentive Was
ynstantl
knowledg
nent pa
| temperan
ed marked
was extremely
and visionary,
promisin
in character
ita
Young
where
Nay IVOO
Jay Saints
Nauvoo, where
the bell
blessings
dly recog.
well
ambitious at.
were on-
Strang
material in the
juent, and
his arguments
ing that in a
again Nauvoo,
and, was or
thority
their
of Zion,
sconsin
BO
few weeks
was he re
lained as
to organize a
HORY,
within the
where
nt
at
ived baptism,
with au
he - toy
: Oi, 43
elder
Jhrased
plant a stake
of Wi
The Wrong Letter.
Letters of introduction are not in-
For on
frank. Harry Fur
in his “Confessions of a Carica
says that when a brother
was setting forth on his travels
{in foreign climes, he was provided
{ with a letter of Introduction to a cer.
| tain British consul
The writer of the letter enclosed it
to the artist, saving that he
| would find the consul a most arrant
| snob, a bumptious, arrogant humbug,
|a cad to the back-bone. Still, he would
1
:
i
variably servicable.
ti may be
Lazy 1on
niss,
¥
turist,’
f | artist
in one
{ probably offer some courtesies to any
one who had a good social standing,
| and thus compensate the traveler for
{ having come in contact with such an
insufferable vulgarian.
On the return of the artist to Eng-
{ land, the writer of the letters asked
{ how he had fared with the consul
“Well, my dear fellow,” drawled the
artist, “he did not receive me very
warmly, and he did not ask me to din-
ner. In fact he struck me as being
rather cool.”
“Well, you surprise me,” rejoined
hie friend. “He's a cad, as I told you
in my letter, but he's very hospitable,
and I really can’t understand this state
of things. You gave him my letter
of introduction?”
“Why, I thought so: but do you
know, on my journey home 1 discov-
ered it in my pocketbook: So I must
have banded to him instead your note
to me about him!”
The explanation was quis adequate
When a Mint Failed.
The kaiser's barber is an incorrigi-
ble latecomer. Some time ago he
kept his royal master waiting several
minutes. On his appearance the
kaiser, in a fit of generous irony, pre-
sented him with a costly gold chro
nometer, leaving it to the barber to
guess the real reason of the gift. The
servant's inability to arrive up to time
continued, however, until at last the
kaiser demanded, impationtly: “Have
you still got the watch I gave you?”
“Yes, your majesty,” was the an-
gwer, “here it is.”
“Well,” came the royal reply, “as
it doesn’t seem to go very well, here
is another,”
And the next moment the stupefied
hairdresser had in his hand a nickel
plated timekeeper valued at five shil.
certain to result in acute lamdnitis or
lings.
A APA SSAA
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Magacled Madman's Suicide Threw Himself
Backward Through the Window of a Car—
Temple of Labor for Pittsburg Cannot
Tell What Hit Him — Skyscraper's Dire
Record Tax Collector Accused.
Pennsylvania patent: Jos. E. Baines,
Pigsburg, threading tool: Murray C.
Beebe, Pittsburg, system of distribution ;
Edward C Brice, Colwyn, kiln for burn-
ing bricks, etc. : Harry H. Butler and
WwW. A Daule Brockwayville, waste
cock; Frank Con nrad, Wilkinsburg, ind
strument for indicating the phase and
frequency relations of alternating curs
rents; James wohesnville
nut lock; po
east, thill coupling harle 3ulland,
Pittsburg, stand pipe; | Ww
Hanks, y 1 i heater for
electric lamps; John New
Kensington, spinning to
Coal Valley,
Lamm }
eieciri
Culbertson,
(yeor
na ting
distri
cur
umping
JUTR ram ;
two
ago,
agreed
Werks
1IPSS08,
deaths
gas,
the
acetylene
ye eing caused by
Wi th both hands n
ed to a belt his waist, George |
Anderson himself backward
through the window of a passenger
car and was killed. Anderson was being
taken to insane departmer it at Clare
mont on the West Rasl-
road. When the nearing
Claremont, Anderson asked his attend
ant for a drink of water. As the at
tendant was returning with a glass, he
saw Anderson project himself back-
ward and head first through the car
window, taking the sash with him. The
train was running at high speed. When
it was backed up to where the man was
lying he was found to be dead
Policeman A. B. Simmons, who two
weeks ago was severely injured during
an encounter with Chief of Police
Stryker, of Williamsport, has recovered
sufficiently to make a statement regard-
ing the affair, so far as he remembers i
He denies that there was a fight He
says he went to see Chief Stryker to ask
for permission to go to supper one hour
carhier than usual. The chief was sit-
ting in tie sergeant’s room and Simmons
called him to the door and presented his
request. From that moment Simmons
says all 1s blank to him. He remembers
nothing more until he came to his senses
at his home several days later. He de
slares positively, however, that he had
no quarrel with the chief.
Constable Joseph Matthews, of
Schacfferstown, attempted to arrest
Henry Hoffman, a tramp, who is charg-
ed with robbing Samuel Missley, of Lin-
soln, Lancaster county, of $150. Hoffman
was armed with a knife and revolver and
resisted arrest. A posse was then organ
ized and Hoffman was overpowered and
guarded in a room of the hotel, until the
arrival of Lancaster county constables.
The Altoona & Logan Valley and the
City Passenger Electric Railway Compa-
nies granted an increase of one-half
cent an hour in the wages of conductors
and motormen.
Benjamin Dorrance, of Wilkes-Barre,
who had an exhibit at the annual show
of the American Rose Society in New
York city, won eleven prizes and the sil
ver medal for the best collection of
roses. He had 2000 blooms. Mr. Dor.
rance was also awarded a certificate for
the new rose, Sara Nesbitt, named for
the daughter of Abram Nesbitt, of
Kingston,
At a meeting of the charter members
of the board of trustees of the Pittsbu
Carnegie Libra , ex-Judge James i
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