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FAIRY STORIES.
Ah, how we used to like the dear
Old fairy tales our mothers told;
Although we knew they ne'er were
true,
We used to gladly hear them through;
We loved the gentle princesses
And princes brave and bold-—
We heard them o'er and o'er, but still
The stories ne'er grew old.
Ah, how we like to hear the dear
Old fairy tales sweet women tell;
Although we know they can’t be true,
Still, still they thrill us through and
through
A pretty woman's flattery
Still makes man's bosom swell;
He knows ‘tis but a fairy tale,
But oh he likes it well. —S. KE.
in the Chicago Record-Herald.
Kiser
FIREMAN.
Beyond a doubt the property had
been a marvellous bargain. The land
asked for the house and lot together,
with carpets and fixtures thrown in.
The former owner had had
the world, and having found himself
the
Dan-
had wisely concluded to convert
superfluous house into cash. Mr.
small sum, and felt’ that he ought to
be congratulated.
But although good Mr. Danvers was
jubilant over the purchase, Mrs. Dan-
vers, on her first inspection
in carpet and burst into tears.
The moment she beheld the parlor
wall paper she forgot a: else and gave
herself up to grief.
It was really enough to make
obvious of other things. Mrs. Dan-
vers was a woman, who loved pink
and white rooms. The late occupant
of the house had been a g red and
yellow man, who liked red and yel
low rooms, and his taste .n wall paper
was certainly deplorable. There was
only one thing in the worse
than the paper, and that was the car
pet.
“What, don’t you
exclaimed astonished Mr. Danvers,
who was not artistic. “Why, that's
splendid paper! It must have cost
three dollars a roll. Pattern’s a trifle
large, perhaps; but just think how it'll
wear! It will last a lifetime!”
But strange to say, this
information only made Mrs.
weep the more
“There's great stuff in that carpet,
too,” said Mr. Danvers, eyeing it
provingly. “It'll wear like in
spite of the children running over it.
Those big magenta roses stand out
well, don't they?”
Mrs. Danvers shu
pet was a calamity
Reasonable as the price had been it
had taken all Mr. Danvers
to make the pm
no money to be foolishly
replacing the perfectly good
and carpet. Poor Mrs. Danvers,
ering as much of the ugliness as she
could with her and furni-
ture, wisely made the best of but
Il her day dreams for the
years centered about the
of the disfigured parlor
Her daughter Margery understood
and sympathized with her mother,
and together they would the
durability of the obnoxious paper and
carpet.
“It would be such a room,”
Mrs. Danvers would mourn, “if only
something would happen to that out
rageous carpet and that horrible pa-
per!”
“Wouldn't it
gery would say,
one
house
like the paper!”
consoling
Danvers
iron,
rari lad aries
COUuIG spare
there
wasted
irchase, so was
ictures
pi il
it
deplore
pretty
be Mar-
chimney
glorious.”
“if our
Browns’ did? The paper was torn
off the dining room wall, and soot
from the chimney ruined the rugs. The
Browns seem to have all the good
luck.”
monopoly of the
hated paper
charmed life.
ever raised when the little Danverses
approached the parior wall with sticky
fingers; and although Mrs.
lightning, and the
continued to
none ever came,
teen, both paper and carpet showed
unmistakable signs of wear.
“Do anything you like about it. it's
your house,” said Mr. Danvers, gen-
erously, when Mrs. Danvers pointed
yut the defects. “Yes, get anything you
like; all paper looks alike to me.
Hardwood floors? Ye-es, [ don’t mind.
Still IT am a little disappointed in that
carpet. I thought it would last for
ever.”
“So did 1,” sald Mrs. Danvers: but
if she felt any disappointment it was
well concealed.
Then came delightful weeks. The
house was all torn up and turned over
to the carpenters and paper hangers.
Mrs. Danvers and Margery spent all
their days and part of their nights
studying samples of wall paper. Mr.
Danvers spent all his in trying to
dodge the pails of paste and varnish
that lurked in every corner.
At last, however, it was all finished,
to the complete satisfaction of Mra.
Danvers and Margery, who ceased to
covet the Browns' share of devastat-
ing lightning. Indeed, the renovated
parlor became the object of Mra. Dan.
vers’ tenderest solicitude, and the lit
tle Danverses began to see imaginary
“Keep off the grass” signs on every
side. And then, when it was no longer
wanted, the disaster came.
Just a week after the departure of
the last workman Mrs. Danvers went
with her husband to a concert, leav
ing the house and sleeping children in
Margery's care.
Margery spent the first hour in the
kitchen, making peanut taffy, When
at last she returned to the front of the
house she was greeted by an odd pung.
ent odor.
“1 wonder,” said
have burned my
she, “if 1 could
candy? No; the
smell seems to come from the front
hall. Perhaps something
upstairs.”
She stopped appalled when she had
reached the top step. Something cer-
tainly was burning. The
was full of thick, gray smoke.
“The children!" gasped Margery,
darting through the smoke and into
the nursery.
® Here the smoke was dense,
where a closet door was standing open
Margery could see a dull red glow,
“Quick!
ging the heavy, half stupefied child-
ren out of their beds, out of the suffo-
room, through the hall and
“Oh, do hurry! The
is all on fire! There!” sald
she, snatching a vase of flowers from
a table in the lower hall, and dashing
house
by producing two indignant howls.
“There your lungs are all right if
you can cry like that! Now go sit on
the carriage block,
call and don't you
that this house is afire.
put it out myself,
you, tell a soul
I'm going to
Oh, I must—I must
cried Margery, seizing the two
which Mrs. Dan-
vatory for the purpose of watering her
plants. “The fire is all in that one
If 1 let the firemen in they'll
ruin the new flo with their muddy
and they'll flood the whole
with Oh, I can’t let
them spoil that lovely pale-green pa
per and those lovely floors!”
So, never thinking that her mother
would rather lose a thousand beaut.
ful parlors than one little loving
daughter, Margery rushed into the
smoke and hurled the contents
straight at the scarlet
house water,
ge
ff her
glow,
The smoke stung her throat
almost blinded her, but she groped
way from the :
across the
and refilled her the kitchen
sink. The bath room was nearer, but
Margery remembered that the
there were small,
pails
and
her
room, felt
ran d
pails at
her
the
way
hall,
wn
stairs
fan
and knew » would
going to kitchen
little cold water, fill
with fresh air at the
and tucked rts.
save time by
She
the
drank a
ed her lungs
open door up her sk
den, not spilling a drop on the prec.
ious floors. After third urney
Margery noticed that the scarlet
had diminished in size
the
spot
although the
smoke was quite as d
“1 must be not to
a scrap than 1
ald this model fireman, as she toiled
upward her heavy pails i
musn't spoil the
» fire
onse
careful put
on
y
more water need
with
lining ro
is in the
in that
and thr
did,
ant task. The
pto flames as
and the sparks her
hands But wit}
was
+h
Lae
the window open it
possible to breathe when
had been added
to the blazing heap on the lawn helow
was decidedly
ed, although till by no means
As they aner
fire started from a few oile
ranking rill
Freeing plows
sphere improv.
clear
discovered wards tue
ir used
and
ARES
in polishing the hardwood floors.
tucked into the t by a
maid. It had burned almost
baseboard, and would in a
moments have eaten its way into the
partitions, where it would have boen
beyond control.
Margery had undoubtedly saved the
day and a great many dollars although
without realizing it
more is
She had bathed her face and hands,
had opened all the windows to let out
the disagreeable odor of
feathers, and was going down stairs,
careless
ugh
fow
clos
thr
ar
risked
preci
when her father and mother appeared
at the front door. Perched on
newel post in the front hall, she told
them all about the catastrophe
“Where are the children?” was Mrs
Danvers's first question
“Goodness!” sald Margery,
must outdoors ua the
stone yet.
until I called them.
And there Mrs. Danvers found them
sound asleép in their little
night dresses, but none the worse for
their unusual experience, for the night
WAS warm.
Mr. Danvers opened his mouth and
the
be
aged to find words to fit the occasion.
When he finally succeeded all he said
was:
“Margery. you smell just like a lit.
tle dried herring.”
But there was something besides
smoke In his eyes, and Margery know
she was being thanked Youth's
Companion.
Perpetual Wellspring of Enjoyment.
To rob oneself of the means of en:
joyment which education and culture
give has no compensation in mere
money-wealth. No material prosperity
can compare with a rich mind. [It is
a perpetual wellspring of satisfaction,
of enjoyment. It enables one to bear
up under misfortune, to be cheerful
under discouragements, trials, and
tribulations, which overwhelm a =tal
low mind and an empty heart. Bue
ceas,
The copper cent of 1801 ia worth
from 2 to 15 cents.
A VERSATILE BODY.
Many Lines of Activity Represented
in the Senate.
The Senate of the United States Is
the most versatile organization In ex-
istence, considering that its member-
ship 1s at present limited to ninety.
Indeed, there are now but elghty-eight
difficult to conceive a torm of profes
sional or business occupation that hag
not been embraced in the life of some
senator.
Fifty-nine
law and
farming,
senators have
mining, banking,
steam, sall and
are branches of activ.
that have occupled numbers of
them. Senator Perkins went to Call
fornia, which state he now represents
practiced
medicine,
railroad
mast and has ever slice been engaged
in shipping enterprises, Senator
Hanna has large shipping interests.
Clark of Montana, Jones of Nevada,
Stewart of Nevada, Bard of California
and Kearns of Utah have all prospect.
ed for the precious metals and all
have had the exciting experience of
“striking it rich.”
Their good fortune was preceded
by hardships and discouragement, and
no better informed men on the sub.
ject of mining from beginning to end
than they are to be found anywhere,
Senator Teller of Colorado is every:
lawyers of the country on the subject
of mining.
There are
have been bankers that it is
to name them all
Senator Millard came here from be
ing president of a bank, and
Bard and Kean have also been promi
nently identified with the banking
business. Senator McMillan of Michi
80 many senators who
well as president of a raflroad when
elected to the and promptly
resigned both Senator Gal
linger of New Hampshire was a prac
ticing physician for many years before
his election to the and in
emergencies he has frequently been
called on to treat patients at the
tol,
emergency
Senate,
positions
Senate,
Capi
and he always responds to such
keen
Deboe of
r
calls ith a
interest
Kentucky has graduated in both medi
cine law He
a short time and then turned to
law,
Senator
profe
sional Senator
and
practiced medicine
the
Tilman
recorded
is the only senator
antobiog
Congressional
farmer” be
but « ery
who
raph
Directory that he
coming to the
many of the southern
planters, as most of
Of senators of
country there are
worked
has his
sketch in
Was a
fore Senate,
genators
are
are
them law.
other
years,
of the a very large
farms
boys, sud Senator Allison
recalling his younger
» about how
in Jowa and
the wvark
to the final
number who
they
of lowa,
on
were
days,
in the Sens
plant “our”
to them through
from the planting
of the
Stewart
likes to talk
“wa
tend
gtages
1
t ie
disposition
Crops
Jus
Senator probably
to
gives
farming
He has
Va. and
rday he gos hie and re
re personal attention
w than any other
a dairy farm at
ery Sati
» semtil
His farming, however, is
lowed as a i ing
} i , after his
in the
been
much as
a Ereat
as
are
Senate reproson
of professional and indus 1 activity,
f it Were
but many of it
enced in legislative
to the Senate,
¥
8 members experi
work before
Of the
twenty-aix
com
ing
gonators gerved In the
House Fifteen
genators have served as governors of
gtates Warren dur-
ing two terms as governor of the ter
ritory of ws ming, and his
of Representatives
Senator served
He
fate,
’
governor oi
territory as a then
firet gtate
Fifteen senators have a record of ser
vice in the Confederate army and one
was in the Confederate navy. Nine
were in the Union army
waa
the
of Tennessee
war —Washington Star
were in the Mexican
A Relic cf Witcheraft,
A curious discovery has been made
at Lynn, in Lincolnshire. In an old
house a heart-shaped plece of cloth.
pierced with needles and pins. has
in a “greybeard” bottle.
This is undoubtedly a relic of witch-
craft. According to the Rev, H. J.
secretary of the British
Association, the wi
mento was designed for some one's
“It is part of the paraphernalia
The most Interesting
thing about this discovery Ig that it
should have occurred at Lynn, |. eo.
in a part of the world where the super.
stitions belonging to magic and witch.
The house iz said to be
‘old,’ and the fact that the cloth was
contained in a ‘grevbeard’ or ‘bellar.
mine’ bottle would seem to show that
the time of ite deposit belongs most
probably to the sixteenth or early
seventeenth century, at which period,
of course, a bellef in witcheraft was
universal "—8t. James Gazette,
Any Emergency.
Of the many curiously worded signs
to be seen about town one on West
Fifty-ninth street doubtless takes the
prize for oddity. “Elder Jones, di
rector of weddings and funerals.” is
the trade announcement In the wig
dow of the residence of a licensed
clorgyman-—New York Syn.
)R. THE
LADIES
AND LORGNETTE.
and novel favors were
distributed at a cotillion recently
given for the younger members of
the smart set. Lorgnettes of gilded
wood without glasses and monocles
for the men of the same pretty make
were instantly put into use on being
received,
For another figure
MONOCLE
Bome pretty
the leader dis
for the men, transforming them to
admirals or general officers. These
chapeaux were made of crep paper.
[Por the girls there were large picture
hats of Japanese crepe paper with
long streamers, very effective.—Phlil-
adelphia Record.
THE CAPED COSTUME.
Of capes and collars there seems to
be literally no end. They are made
of every fabric from broadcloth to lace
and put on every garment, from the
to the traveling cloak.
One on a costume of Quakerish sim.
plicity, although of French design,
cloth, with a little “priest's”
buttoned up to the throat with
lar gold buttons and fitting
into the back, where it was cut
fastened with a
had a simple
skirt, a style which
own, and the sleeves were
elbow, fastened Into a tight-
cuff and slit up to show a
of muslin undersieeve,
closely
into a
large gold
“three-tier”
holds its
full below
still
stitehed
peep
BATHS FOR THE HAIR.
that frequent sun baths
known tonics for a wo
The Greek maidens of old
the walls of and
sald
are the best
gat on
the city
their tresses to the sun's rays. When
the hair is washed sit
ered window the
stronger glass, and allow
beside a
as sun
through
hair to dry as it
bleach has
the sun, which
beautifies generally
Waen the hair shows a tendency to
fall out the
its coming out and promote the growth
ig being brushed
been found
streagth
very best thing to stop
use of
abundant of
oil. Saturate the hair t
A week
dry scalp has absorbed all it
wash with pure soap and
this operation is repeated
ithe the effect is
The Publi
HAND SHAKE
or
be
three mor
marvelous Ledger
THE
Every now and
nary fad turns in societ b
NEW
then some extraord!
Comes
leaving
that
Do we not
Years ago
another's
oh
ga
wonder
“one
id ha
i ave been so sil
all remember how, 1 w
people used to pull ie
down
hands, as if
Lately there has
a new thing
from _ 3
from i h
when
pulling a bell
appeared here
th
ere
ng hands Take
wit Yo §
ought } wo gtivi
shake ' Home Cha
A WOMAN'S PLACE
th ontrary
iuding the
piace is the home,
Arguments to
anding, in
‘woman's
$
one
the ordinary
by education to
» I8 b
1ife ¢
of 1if to j
prepare herself » that if
comes she can make her
At a recent charity conference
the demand for
workers among girls and
largely exceeds the supply
industries in New Yorx City. Here are
some of the lines aside from school
teaching and nursing open to women
Girls and women to trace, and en.
in the glass
and jewelry departments of the shops,
d
Tod necessity
living
it was
gkilled
women
in many
own
ome
{very few to be had
Eliteh took up was the zoologleal cob
lection. Bhe found herself losing val
uable specimens from time to time, al-
though she was paying a high priced
attendant, who resented any attempt
at suggestion from herself. She dis
charged him, hired a boy who would
ido as she told him, and assumed charge
{of the animals. She studied them
| as if they were children, watching
| the effects of different kinds of food
{and care. Bhe read everything that
icould be found on the subject, cor-
| responded with well-known keepers,
{and visited the large cities for the
purpose of talking with the heads of
zoological gardens.
Summer after summer she has been
| offered exorbitant inducements to
| grant concessions for the selling of
beer and alcoholic drinks, but has in-
variably refused. Every summer,
every child in the charitable in-
| stitutions of Denver is given a free
outing in her garden, and the aged in-
mates at the old ladies’ home near by
all have season passes, indicating
that business success Is not Incompat-
ible with generosity and high prin-
ciples, Mrs. Elitech is a beautiful,
charming, elegantly gowned =oman,
the last in the world =hom one would
suspect of being at the head ofa gr
business.
100,
SASHES
Sashes will occupy an important
place in the wardrobe of the summer
girl this year. They wili be of flow-
ered crepe de chine, wide pompadour
ribbons, and of narrow velvet and lace
insertions will finished
with silk tassels, and otners will have
long fringed ends. They will bé shown
in great variety, Many a smart touch
will be introduced the sash. ¢ The
fashionable girl will study to have her
sash original —not like other girls. A
novelty which is 1 to
her is the in
an entirely of
ribbon roses
tin
pink
the
two
Some be
by
sur= to appeal
h, which is tied
made
Liberty
rose sa
new way It is
and
and
Instead
walst-line
ribbon,
conventional
made ribbon.
which
sash Is
ends,
knot
AM Ers
Each
nearly
near
gown
OOpIng «
roses,
PROFESSIONAL FLAT HUNTER
One you yman has
That isn't
NE wi been
lately
ther
money gurprisin
I
won
But 1
Many
the
young en
are going
Woman wu
iettante way
to tell the trutt
story likes the wo
long been a dwell
the eff
the
herself has
in fats n iris to
for $25 a month all
with a few mundane ¢
in, and a younger sister
miles climbed im
numerable stairs and bearded count
less janitors in their dens The ex-
perience gave her he idea. Now she
has a profitable business hunting flats
for persons who wish "to avoid the
trouble. She selects two or three
that seem to answeor the requirements
of her client and generally succeeds in
giving satisfaction.
M———
dine ymiorts
hrown she
tramped weary
Parlor Polo Now.
trained needle workers and girls and
women fs trained cgeks. There is al
ways a place for the good cook. and
The trade schools
are doing much tg supply the demand
occupation to fall back on. fn these
his income, a good occupation
trade, If you please) is a good thing
for any one --New York Bun.
WOMAN KEEPER OF Z0O.
Mrs. Mary Elitch is the only woman
keeper of a zoological garden, and het
name is known in this regard among
people interested in voological gardens
the world over. Elitch Garden is one
of the features of Denver, where, since
1893, it has been the most popular of
the circumstances, Mra. Elitch’s suc
cess there has been nothing less than
phenomenal. She started in the panic
year, when Denver was prostrate fi-
nancially, She was entirely without
experience, not only in that, but in any
business; a big debt overhung her,
and she had omly fourteen weeks’
business in a year.
8he learned everything that had to
do with the bedding of piante, the
making of lawns, and the care of the
the attractions of the place.
Thy last feature of the business Mra,
Parlor polo is second in favor only
to ping-pong. Being introduced just
after the ping-pong rags began, it did
not meet with the same popularity it
would otherwise have enjoyed during
{the Lenten weeks. As polo is, more:
{over, rather an aristocratic game, its
devotees are naturally not 80 numer
| ous as those of ping-pong.
"The parlor game has all the features
i of outdoor polo except that it is played
| with sticks instead of ponies. The
| players straddle the sticks and follow
| the regular tactics of the sport. This,
{of course, presupposes an acquaint.
{ance with the game. Some of the sets
provided by the hostesses Include
sticks ornamented with the heads of
ponies, but as a rule ordinary sticks,
or, in an emergency, canes, are good
enough for the sport.—New York Sun.
A Green Blackboard.
A “blackboard” of green artificial
slate, which, it is claimed, is more rest.
ful to the eye than the old boards,
has been invented by A. F. Pearsall,
and was first adopted by the public
schools in Little Rock, Ark. In fact,
many large cities have utilized this
new Invention, and oculists give it the
highest recommendation. [It i= believ.
ed that children with weak eyes are
often subjected to serious personal in.
jury through the constant use of black-
boards, which are known to be injuri-
ous to the eye. Green is nature's color,
and is naturally restful to the eye.
80 far the invention has met with fa
vor among those who experimented
with it
, For the Housewife.
SICKROOM COMFORT.
A valuable makeshift for preserv
ing ice in the sick chamber is to place
the cracked in two soup plates
one inverted over the other, and then
to imbed the plates between heavy pil
lows. It is asserted that shaved Ice
may be kept in this manner for twen
ty-four hours. Wrapping in »
piece of olled or waxed paper and
placing it in a box of sawdust will al
preserve the where such
preservation is necessary for a con
siderable period
foe
foe
80 joe,
ALUMINUM WAFFLE IRONS
Walle irons
num; they
and the ex
quiring no gr
not that
AR
alumi
handle
of re
do
gecret of
the but
of the
until
in
to
come now
very light
cellent quality
Perhaps
the simple
waflles, as far
ter goes to beat the i
ees to a stiff froth and not
ready the
are
have
ase you
know
guccess in as
Ww h ie v
add
to bake; must be hot
irons
SPRAYING FURNITURE
furniture
tected from the ravages
Upholstered may be
moths
times during
benzine
of
spraying two or three
the summer wit
if You
h naphtha or
have n ilar sprayer, take
a small watering such
piants,
used
and
sprinkle } and August,
These materia fil ot harm
most delica 3 the un
pleasant off, if
air
as
for
the
the
article Care
mu carry on this
gasiight on
inflamnmability of
oy
the
FOR A BAD HEADACHE
Pour some bo
on
AA
Lata
into 3
cologne
lavender water or even
nd bathe the
kt below the halr, using
pear it
ling water
a littie
“ana ae
back
same and
does
‘9
ot
OT
on
ex nose
wi
¥ ninty all
uncertainty in refit
SUMMER CURTAINS
than th
$4 fa ES
IIAETR i
Cream madras,
having
over
face, mu
boon to
may be made of any desire
sary length. They
over the window poles, whether these
be of wood or brass Two sets of cur
tains at each window are now almost
obligatory, if fashion is to be fol
lowed. The set next the window may
consist two narrow panels of net
lace patterned or ruffled; or of ful!
curtains lapped the full width across
the pole and looped back about five
inches below the middle of the win
dow on each side The full inside
curtains may be hung straight or
looped at line of the There are
endless varieties of soft-shaded In
dian and Oriental weaves of curtain
gauze which also are designed for
summer curtains, asd which may be
used advantageously in connection
with the cream or two-toned madras.
~Harper's Bazar.
housekeepers
are best shirred
of
x
gill
RECIPES.
Puree of Peas Boil the peas until
very tender; mash and press them
through a sieve. Place them again
in the saucepan and stir into them
enough hot milk, pepper and salt te
moisten. Season them and add a lit
tle butter and a very little sugar
Peas cooked in this way are usually
used as a garnish for shops and other
broiled meats.
Vegetable Salad. --An acceptable
vegetable salad is made of cold boiled
potato cut in cube shape, beets and
carrots cut in the same manner, al
lowing a cupful of such vegetable;
sprinkle with salt and pepper and add
one tablespoonful of minced chive,
and mix with a French dressing. Chop
the whites of two hard boiled eggs and
place on the top of the mixed veg
etables and sprinkle over all the egg
yolks rubbed through a sieve. Gar
nish with the hearts of lettuce.
Pulled Bread Take the crumb out
of a hot loaf of bread and divide it
into rocky looking pleces by pulling
it to pleces quickly, Place these
pleces on a tin lined with paper and
bake them over again to a light
brown. Do them in a quick oven to
insure them being very crisp. Use
forks for pulling the bread.