PARIS NOTION.
A new fad was sprung upon the Par
plan public during the Christmas shop-
ing season. The jewellers who cater
that part of the femininepublic with
whom burning money is a specialty,
are turning out tiny jewelled muzzles
for the small “beasties” whose heads
fecorate the furs of the fashionable
Woman,
The notion is an absurd one, but no
sn the Rue de la Paix and in the Bois
ne sees many elaborately gowned
women, whose silver fox,
fiamonds and other precious stones.
But doct 's are
be rocked to sleep.”
{s not so unreasonable as would ap-
pear.
io be undressed ,and laid down in the
erib, with a cool, fresh pillow under
the little head, to drop into a quiet
sleep, than to be held in
and rocked for half an hour or more.
With most babies a very little train-
ing will be sufficient to induce
lo sleep when laid down If they have
pever become accustomed to the rock-
ing. If you are Spartan enough to
protesting against this procedure, sit
by the crib and gently pat him to
sleep.
be necessary. It is not only better for
the child, but also for the mother, as
the rocking habit, if persisted in, soon
becomes a tax rather than a pleasure.
—Arthur W. Yale, M. D, in
Home Companion.
CARE OF THE FEET.
As long as shoas are worn the wear:
ers will probably have trouble with
their feet. It is just as well to know
of one or two things that may bring
comfort to such sufferers.
In the first place it
the tight shoe that does
The loose shoe that rubs the
responsible for callouses and
So a closely fitting shoe that yet does
aot cramp the foot should be chosen
If the feet are lame at night it rests
them to put them in warm water for
a2 while. But this, while it draws out
lameness, is not advisable for feet
that have a tendency to be tender un-
less it is followed by a sponging off
with cold water and good rubbing. A
sold salted plunge is said to harden
the feet and make corns less likely.
When these have once come in all
thelr terrors it is wise to seek a real
iy good chiropodist, and after his
skill has brought relief the spots where
the pain provokers have been should
be touched day two with a
mixture of iodine and belladonna, min
gled in the proportion of two parts of
the fodine to of the
The remedy not be
but applied with a camel's hair brush
or with a bit of cotton twisted about
2 match or toothpick.
is
not
the
always
harm
foot is
corns
every or
belladonna
rubbed in,
one
should
fom of the foot of those who walk
much, may be removed by the applica
tion of a piece of pumice stone. The
foot should first be soaked for a while
in a tub of warm water, to which has
been added about a teaspoonful
washing soda. After that, when the
foot has been dried, the callous may
snd should be resorted to
the callous reappears. Do not
deep enough to make the foot sore.
Soft corns can be preventing
keeping the foot entirely dry. If it
has a tendency to perspire it should
be well powdered before the stocking
goes on. A bunion or corn can some
limes be greatly relieved by binding
m a poultice of vaseline for some
hours.—New York News.
WHAT IS BEING WORN.
In the old-fashioned novel the white
simple. It was the property of the
young girl in whose favor the sympa
thies of the reader were to be enlisted.
ft was worn by no one past the age of
!6—at that mystic date the old-fashion-
td novel relegated a woman to a neat
black attire, with turned back collars
and cuffs of lawn.
The old-fashioned novelist would be
astonished if he could see .the white
gown of this year of grace. It and
simplicity are unacquainted. And it is
fuite as much the property of matron
28 of maid, and of the woman of the
world as of the ingenue. No polite
wardrobe is complete without it, and
high, low, trained and demi-trained. it
is more worn than any other dress at
all sorts of gatherings. But it is not
of that Indeierminate material known
88 “muslin.”
Rennalssance, Brussels and Rus
sian laces over all sorts of fabrics have
been the favorite materials for the
white gowns popular this winter.
These have been either appliqued upon
the foundation material or entire robes
of the laces have been worn over lin-
ing slips of lustrous silk or satin.
One of the prettiest of the part lace
frocks was worn at a recent reception.
It was of Russian lace, faintly cream
In tone. This was appliqued in a deep
flounce about a skirt of white net. An
pverskirt was also simulated of the
face, The bodice of the net had the
blouse front completely covered with
the lace, while there was a deep yoke
of it in the back. The upper parts of
the sleeves were of the lace and the
lower of horizontally tucket net.
A somewhat similar gown of white
lace was appliqued upon the less dura.
ble foundation of chiffon. A narrow
belt of pale blue liberty satin encircled
the walst, scarcely visible beneath the
bodice’s fullness In front. From it in
the back bell two long, wide, white
satin sash ends painted up half their
length in a bewildering design of pale
flounces. A big crush bow of pale
blue satin was fastened on the left
side of the bodice midway between the
throat and the waist.
BOUQUET FASHIONS IN JAPAN.
In Japan nothing is left to chance
in connection with the arrangement of
flowers, everything being done accord
ing to laws. Vases for flowers and
bouquets differ with the conditions of
{ the environment and with circum
| stances. The vases are extremely vari
able in form and character, and the
matter which composes them is equal
{ ly different. Some are of bronze, rich:
ly ornamented, otliers are derived from
the vegetable kingdom, as the bamboo
flower tubes.
Each month has its flower and each
circumstance, happy or unhappy. Fel
icity is expressed in February by the
Ardisia japonica, ete. Thus it is a
serious mistake to offer the wrong
i lower, and further certain combina
tions of flowers are permitted, but oth-
ers are rigorously prohibited, and to
teach plant js attached a symbolic sig
nification. Special bouquets are
made for birthdays, deaths, for the
first day of the eighth month, on the
i occasion of entering a religious life,
iand for numerous ceremonies.
The place a bouquet occupies in a
| room is algo important. A bouquet has
its proper piace before the Kakemono,
lor painting, which ornaments every
well-furnished room of a Japanese
house. Batween this painting and the
bouquet there should exist a harmony
based on conventions and tradition.
Thus, before every painting of
famous artist To-em-mel, who loved
chrysanthemums, one should always
piace a bouquet of chrysanthemums
La Nature
FASHIONABLE BELTS
Most of the
i leather, ribbon,
are studded or
jewels It
whether
new belts, whether of
satin
treated
impossible
or
most in vogue, for ail
from a flnger-wide strap
snake-skin, piped along
with white kid and fastened in front
with a small filagree gold catch,
Swiss belt. Perhaps the latter is a
bit more showy of the two. Its three
satin straps, studded with mixed
and steel bail
buckles worked in mingled steel
jet and matrix opals
Cut coral nail heads, each one sur
rounded by a thread of minute steel
or elastic
with
is tO say
narrow girdles are
widths are seen
of
both
wide
jet
and
with steel
belt highly
slik fastened
ornaments, is a
teemed, for woman
waist measure is large, there is
of elastic black satin cut in one
This is wide in the rear, tapering
a point in buckles and treated with
two handsome front and two equally
glides. all with gems
white
coral es
while the
a belt
piece,
to
nice set
NEW SHOPPING BAGS
The bag habit used to be the specia
characteristic of Bostonian femininity
and the ugly but serviceable
could stretch to hold all sorts of pre
small
of Ibsen to a safety hairpin, was cele
brated as the bag from Maine
to California. the bag
has spread like an epidemic
shopper, or caller, or
able to venture beyond the shelter of
cious
Boston
Today
her belt or swings
and nineteenth of the feminine popu-
lation wear two bags at a time
To enumerate a few of the various
ly shaped reticules so essential to wo
manly convenience is to mention at
i
|
i
1
i theatre bag and shopping bag. These
{are made of everything from alligator
| skin, with pewter mounts, to the finest
| gold wire network, in the meshes of
| which dozens of tiny diamonds or tur
| quoise beads are inserted. These last
i are 80 very delicate and so very costly
that they will only carry the owner's
cobweb pocket handkerchief, while
{are real, mounts justifiably
{ thousands. The bag, however, in which
the majority find the greatest joy and
convenience, is the stout, capacious
| safety shopping bag of glazed baby
{ alligator skin, lined with suede, fast.
ened not only with a snap lock but
i satchel clips on the side, and adjusted
{by straps and buckle to one of its
i outer sides is an ample purse with
| change and bill pockets,
| Within, the bag is divided, along its
| lenthern walls, in flat compartments,
{on which, in gilt letters, Is stamped
{ samples, hairpins, cards, fountain
| pen, pencil, shopping list, mirror,
{comb and smelling salts: The centre
{of the bag Is left free to hold parcels,
| and as the bottom of the bag pulls out
| like a bellows, a most amazing num-
ber of small things can be crammed
in witaout overtaxing its capacity.
This sort of bag can be bought all fit-
ted, or the purchaser can put her own
things into its compartments, though
the manufacturer, mounts the bag it
self, the tiny mirror, comb, pen, pencil
and salts bottle in aluminum New
York Sun.
FASHION NOTES, A
vet, with diamonds in centre, figure on
the front of bodices and sometimes on
the points of the shoulders
Moire antique and gros grain silk
are on the fashionable list again, and
Wraps, gowns, separate skirts and
waists are made from these much
prized silks a generation and more ago.
HOW TO MARK STRAIGHT ROWS.
Which do you prefer, straight or
crooked rows for corn, potatoes cr veg.
etables? Of course, if vou believe as
I do, In making straight paths for
your feet, then you will say you like
straight rows best. Then
draw your marker from the
but lengthen vour tugs with a couple
of ropes or small chains,
them by spreading them apart and
putting them over the thills or shafts,
and hitch to the extreme ends of the
marker, instead of the middle. Try
it, and vou will not want to draw from
the centre again, If you want straight
rows. It does not matter whether you
use a two, three or four row marker.
A. B. Benham, in New York Tribune
Farmer,
BLANKET THE HORSE.
left the cold
well especially
when warmed up’ from
Horses easily take coia, and suffer
from catarrh, pneumonia and other
complications which accompany a
cold. Humane consideration should
prompt the clothing of horses, as well
as the of animal's
health, when left standing out in cold
waather, The horse possesses the pe
culiarity of sweating and
when left standing in a draught with.
out the protection of 1 blanket iz al
most sure to catch Many valu
able horses are annually sacrificed by
carelessness and negligence the
part of the owner and driver
warmed by long driving should not he
left standing In a draught even
Horses
should
standing in
he blanketed,
protection the
profusely,
cold
on
Horses
when
draught
the and a
i warm
animal too quickly
resuit GOO
blankets are cheap, and
of a horse should provi
vill add comfor
animal and peace of mind
er—Indiana Farmer
THINGS
The aim
150 to 200 pound
months old
Keep on
herd and
Have the hoge so that you «
them Quietness and
tience doing this
TO REMEMBER
should be to produce from
pigs at six to
the
friendly
cultivate
for greatest
terms with
quiet digs
with ease
will
As
you
aid in
hogs are 1
no further 1
The man
they
aidy sell
rofitable
S000 your
them; have
use for them on the farm
who keeps his hogs after :
ready to go, expegting to get more a
pound, will be very apt to lose mones
while the one who =ells the
hogs are ready generally hits it
The man stuff and
who Is reaps the
greatest
when
with vod
the gn
overstocked
not
reward, while the ¢
ihe
overstocked
and
what he
falls
iaiisg to
accompli
animals to lk
pense and no
with the young br
more stock
¢
Loan can prog
for i
There should
seeing which is the
gue Jersey Hustler
TO
“1 an
ground, which 1 think
rape for a hog pasture mad
vise me whether | am right?” Reply
You are taking a very proper course
Apples never do better than in a hog
pasture or a sheep pasture The
ground is kept in good, clean condi.
tion, at the same time receiving that
amount of food which the trees need
Probably better yet in the result of
destroying all waste apples The
dropped apples are devoured ‘wiore
the worms can crawl into the ground
This is the very beat method fo- catch:
ing the codlin moth; against ‘he ‘rf
peta there is almost no other ramedy
and that is getting to be our worst
orchard pest. If you are not intonding
reguiarly the
hogs will also do the aerating of the
I recommend the ratuer low
heading of orchard frees in sandy
soil.
“Will you kindly inform me how io
mingle arsenic and lime to prolece
arsenate of lime, used to destroy pn
tato bugs?’ Reply: Boil togeth:r
for one-half hour in two to five gal
lons of water one pound of white arse
nic with two pounds of unslacked lime.
Dilute, for use, with one hundred gal
fons of water.
stronger solution.
SUBDUL INSEC
have orchard in i
of
1"
be very conservative
great deal more of it is used than
Is necessary. The use of lime goes far
to neutralize the possible injury from
arsenic.~E. P, Powell, in New York
Tribune Farmer.
SHEEP VERSUS GOATS
Frofessor Thomas Shaw. of Minne
gota, thus compares sheep and An
ROra gROAts:
First--There is not much difference
in the size of the two animals when
matured, but the sheep matures much
more quickly than the goat.
Second-—-The goat lives to a much
greater age than the sheep. Some
authorities claim that the average
length of age of a goat is about twice
that of a sheep.
Third-—The goat is ¢ browser, and
will from cholce gather its living from
loaves, twigs, barks of trees and
weeds, whereas sheep prefer pastures,
although they will eat many weods
also, but will also eat leaves and
|
brush, but not in preference to pas
tures, .
Fourth—The meat nf the sheep is
as yet preferred, on the whole, in the
market, but the goat meat is coming
more and more into favor.
Fifth-—The goat produces hair and
the sheep wool. The fleece of the
latter weighs more on an average
than the fleece of the former.
Sixth-—-The great use of the sheep
on the average farm iz to clean up
scattered vegetation, <.pecially what
of the gleanings order, while the
best use of the goat is in cleaning up
the brush land.
Seventh—Sheep will aot do well if
confined wholly on brnsh land, while
just such land furnishes exactly the
conditions which the goats enjoy.
There room for many more flocks
of goats and sheep in a'l parts of the
ttockman
is
Southwestera
TREATMENT OF PEACH
PLUM ROT.
AND
Our experiments in the treatment of
monilia, the rot of peach and plums,
last year were not altogether satisfac
tory In fact, this has been the usual
experience of investigators all over the
country for several years past The
fact is that spraying with bordeaux
mixture either entirely prevents or
greatly reduces the monilia fungus,
but the mixture itself is injurious to
the foliage. This has varied with
the strength of the mixture used and
lime it contains, and In
has varied in
and places,
the amount of
unexplainable
different
We hesitate to advise anyone to spray
peaches and plums after the foliage is
of the danger of njur
The injury is of two
the shot-hole or corrosive
the fungicide scorches
it of thi
after the spraving:
effect,
ym a week
ways it
seasons, times
out, on account
ing the leaves
First
by which
ROS
off ect
and cuts holes « the leaves
f
ollows shortly
and second, the defoliating
which comes on gradually fr
to a month, or even two three
done
the
the
swelling
de
buds
This will prevent peach leaf curl and
for the
the stand
that
ir pounds lime
ured,
RECos-
will also be advantageous
mon For tl urpose
118
ard 1 formula
fry
wordeaux 6.4.50 if
ne
can be
entrated if
bo
if any
the foliage is out,
ould be done with a formula con
water
should sprayed
sprayin
ining three pounds of bluestone to
inds of lime in fifty gallons of
Professor M. B. Walte, in New
England Homestead
nine po
whaler
BETTER CARE FOR POULTRY
thos
bens of
Suppose
They ought to have it
re, and
were
we know it Now
to neglect our COWS 88 Wwe
ason
ct that they would
we be unre
oO expe
@ profitable re
No We
in a profit,
siabled
Was Wa
a good
warm tre leeward
{de of a barn jong the
fle old
all
she
WAZOHLS whwehs, she is
right
f
goes
ungrateful if
the eggs ali the
She is ry
shell
But it
fet 54
not ou
year round
to think this. The hen works on busi
ness pring no guess work about
it. Good treatment, plenty of eggs;
neglect and hard fare, no return.
Why do we treat the hen this way?
Well, some of us do it because we
were brought up that way Our
grandfathers and grandmothers left
the hen to shift for herself. They
never fed her in summer at all. She
never had a drop of water from them
summer or winter. Why should our
hens expect to fare better than the
hens of our grandparents? We have
too much to attend to. We can’t fusa
with hens. Then don™ growl if they
do not pay Very few of us have
learned the useful art of making some-
thing out of nothing. The hen that
can do it never has been discoverea,
When she is, we will all build forty
hen houses, No more roosting in
trees after that! Well, meanwhile, it
inla
pes
It is profitable to feed
More than one man has
with
hia
In
pays to know just what the hens are
one for every egg the hen puts {ate
the box. Don't praise her up and then
throw stones at her if she gets where
she ought not to be now and then,
She is only a hen with keen hen in.
stincts. And the time is coming when
you and I will own up that good care
is the thing after all.—E. L. Vincent, in
The Epitomist,
§
The German army reserves are
greatly increasing in number. For
next year's thirteen days of drill 5,350
noncommissioned officers and 48.111
privates will put In an appearsnce
This is nearly double last year's num
bers.
A queer country home is that of Me
Val Primsep, the Royal Academician,
It is at Pevensey in one of the big
Martello towers that were built a gen.
eration or more ago for the defence
of the British coast.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
Special
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
Scorched Corpse in a Ditch — Clothes Burned
From the Body of a Man Found Along the
Raliroad at Howeiiville — Priest Ousted by
Court Kidaapping Plot Revealed — Enforce
ing Tobacco Laws Other News.
Pensions William |
$6: Robert ( Parker
George W. Moyer, Bei
Brubaker, Amsbry
Mi Holl;
Craighed
Pennsylvania
deh, Mars,
Pittsburg, $6:
ryshurg, $8;
88; Villiam
Springs, $8: Garrett
Falls, $17
Mitchell Creek. $1
Ary Hanmull $
Erie, $24: A
Bedford, $10
$12: Andrew H
Samuel! B. Mc
Allegheny
$X: Catharine
Jane 1. Southard
nezer H. Hamill {amill
McCoy, McKee
R. Lawrencs
Jacob
Kennedy
M
ver aie
10;
a
aiiit
Ste
Roger
Asylum
H
Hoose
nmgton
hie
ad
3 1
aead
Two theories are
1 Was
re he was thrown from a tram
hat the bods
the way place on a
rated with coal oil and thrown
into the ditch, where it was found. The
other theory is that the man was stealing
a ride and fell off while asleep, and that
matches in his pockets were ignited by
the fall, thus burning him to death. The
body has not yet been identified
s that the
and
was carried to
this on
freight train, satu
«et on hre
In investigating the disappearance of
George Wolls, 2 machinist employed by
the Spring Grove Paper Mills Company,
the authorities have learned that a plot
was concocted last August to kidnap the
12-year-old son of William L (sladfel
ter, an official of paper company
Through a confession of one of the men
implicated, it 1s said, Mr. Gladfelter was
mformed that the plan was to conceal
the boy in an abandoned ore pit near
Spring Grove and demand $10,000 ran
som. 10 thwart the plot Mrs. Gladfel
ter took the boy to Buffalo. N. Y
Fourteen tobacco déalers were placed
under arrest in Wilhamsport for alleged
violation of the act of Assembly prohib
iting the sale of tobacco in any form to
children under 16 years of age. The ar
rests are the outcome of a movement
started some months aso by the Mothers’
and Teachers’ Clubs and the Women's
Christian Temperance Union. Other ar.
rests are expected to be made.
1
the
The Central Pennslyvamia Alumni As.
sociation of the University of Pennsyl
vania held its annual meeting and din:
ner at Harrisburg, Sixty persons were
present, and Dr. John F. Culp was toast.
master. The guests were Vice-Provost
Edgar F. Smith, Dean E. C. Kirk. of the
dental department, and Dr Edward
Martin, of the faculty of medicine.
While going home from a sick eall
Father Stanislaus Spotanski was held
up by burglars who forced him to wit
ness the De up of the safe in the
postoffice at Hudson,
Arthur Grant, aged 23. was found dead
Iving in a picnic wagon, at the stables of
William Corcoran, West Chester. An ia:
vestigation showed that he had been
choked by his collar button, which was
pressed deep into his throat by the pe-
culiar manner in which he was lying.
A note for $800 was burned by the
Evangelical Congregation of Lewiston.
at the services Sunday morning.
As he alighted from a trolley car in
Center Square, Marietta, Charles Jota
son was run over and seriously injured.
He is suffering from of the
3
COMMERCIAL, REVIEW,
vGeperal Trade Conditions,
R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of
frade” savs: "Good news predominates
n the business world, notwithstanding
wo somewhat serious drawbacks, Wea-
her conditions have been unsatisfactory
it many points and still more of a hand
ap is the strife between wage-carner and
Manufacturing is exception
in not disturbed by
there 1s a vigorous move
nent of goods through regular channels
“Not pig iron, but bars, billets
ind structural shapes are all sold so far
thead that new business is comparatively
ight. he situation may briefly be sum
ned up in the ¢
eption when
or full capacity
o2
“More
peculatiy
smployer
dly active lines
drikes, and
only
tatement that 1t is the
t are not fille
toward the end
order book
ey t3ea eal
appeareq
2 ies
Pi
noved i rrow limits, vary
r to the preponderance
Ar .
vv estern
1,722,542 bush
and the
1.
y
Pp news re
Were
a year ago
r is gradua
fiorvir es
Our
fall-
Cotton
£ «1
tf point Of the
i
sca
he week numbered
against
against
fe.
States last
251
24 last
anada
ST QUOTATIONS.
ar, $200a81.15;
est
, refrigera
tor
vid JOK
Sem admis
nasxket
Cans
Separator gathered
; prints
thor
a 3 s13t3t at 3a Ph
2a 2; mitation, 22823
OR IC
Md,
rolls, 2-1h., 30a31
Pa. and Va 2Raax
Eggs ~—Western Maryland and Penn
sylvania, per dozen, ——aisc: Easters
(Maryland and Virginia), per
~atsc: Virginia, per dozen, —a
dairy
Southern
Duck—Easterr
iga2oc; do
dozen, 14'a15¢
fancy. per dozen.
Goose, per dozen, 20a23¢
Cheese—New Cheese, large 6olbs.1274
do, flats, 37 lbs, 13a13%c;
Live and Dressed Poultry—Turkeys—
young toms
Chickens
roosters
young
accord
Ducks
small
per Ih. —a12bic: oid
ng to size, 28a18; winter Razz
Fancy, large, per Ih, —atic:
trat2; muscovy and mongreis 12313
cach, goass. Dressee
We quote: Capons, fancy, large
small and
:
an.
Live Stock.
Chicago—-Cattle—o0d to prime steers
S660ar.35; poor to medium $4 5086.30
and feeders $2.7%5a5.25;: cow
$1.50a5.50; heifers $2%0a6.15. Hogs
Mixed and butchers’ $6.70a7.10; good te
choles neavy $6.0%a7.12%5; rougn neavy
$2306.00; hight $600a6.05; bulk of sane
$6R5a7.05 Sheep—Strong ; lambs weak
ood to choice wethers $3.2%%78
Vestern sheep $4.50a600; native lambs
$4.75a0 82: Western lambs $5.25a6.83
East Liberty—Cattle—Choice, $6.7:
ERs; prime, $6.40a6.65; good, $5.r0a6.20
Hogs higher; prime heavies, $7257.30
best mediums. $7.2007.25; heavy Yorkers
$7.10a7.20; light Yorkers, $6.00a7 00: pig
$o60ab Ro; rough, $sommb60. Shey
strong best wethers, $600a6.15; cull
and common, $3000400; veal calves
$5 soa6.00.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Chicago street railway men are being
organized.
Waukegan, 111, trades are to have a
eigie hour day
uffalo building trades have a brigh
outlook this year. :
Muncie. Ind. with 22000 population
§
for ve work, intludin
and $4.50 for an eight
ld