— A MOTHER'S LULLABY, fhe winds kiss the tree-tops and mur- mur “good-night,” Sleep, little one, sleep; fhe sun bathes the mountain in warm mellow light, Sleep, little one, sleep; /he birds hush their songs, the lambs cease their play, fhe darkness of night steals the fast. fading day, And fairy lamps twinkle in skies far away, Sleep, little one, sleep, Che tired eyes close with their lashes so long. Sleep, little one, sleep. mother sits rocking and croon ing her song, Sleep, little one, sleep little hand loosens its the toy, now for the land ber and joy, angels keep bright bonny Sleep, little one, ~—Thomas H. Wilson, in Home Companion. Ahile Che hold from And of sweet slum Where watch o'er boy, 1 sleep the . . An Evident Failure * By Mabel Earle. “Miss Marshall will Hunt ley in the office,” said Thomas, the elevator boy, as he appeared opposite the door of Ward 3 Then he went on his upward soaring to St. Mary's Ward Boor above; and Agnes Huntley ped the pillow cases she was putting away in the linen-press, and leaned her forehead against t great door for a moment, steadying whirling thoughts This interview with Miss would let her know within the fifteen minutes, if she accepted as a nurse, to complete her training in the work she had chosen It seem ed to her, in the ment after Thomas had that the hopes of a lifetime were to stand trial in those fifteen minutes She looked back over ths three probation with dread alternating. There were ugly sccasions when she had ly stupid; encouraging from one or two doctors: but them all the face shall, inscrutabl® as always Marshall never gave hints of 1} cision. A probationer could know before she was the fateful interview whether acceptance or follow. Agnes roused herself in another in stant, and walked down the stairs with such seif-possession as she could | muster, For a minute after rhe entered the office Miss Marshall went on writing at the desk and Agnes could not see her face But when those quiet gray eves were lifted to her own. the gir! said to her- self, “It's all Miss Marshall looked as she looked just before a cap ital operation “You are not kind that needs sugar-coated preliminar les,” the elder woman said, in that Agnes remembered hearing once twice by of suffering. “1 am you that we cannot Agnes did not try hands clutched the bac! by which was waited quietly whiis went on: “It's our rule rejected candidate ask her rejection. But something is due you in this case You have a right to know that you are not charged with wilful neglect of duty You have worked hard, with every faithful soe Miss way the drop on oak her he Marshall next Was blind 1 disappear months of nif ner and ¢ fence little memories of bean hopeless bits of praise ¥ above Mar . > 1183 of Mis rose 3 summon in the rejection yfflee was to over.” the of woman only great to tell vou.” * tA ane or yedsides Yery sorry accept 4 1 speak i of Her the chair to she standing Miss but she Marshall know. that the reason for yon no ————. ——_——— So ———————— ST S——— “You are everything [ want to be!” sald Agnes, brokenly. “I don’t want to go away from you! [ don't want to go! But I'm just a wretched fail ure, “My dear.” said Miss Marshall, very gently, “this life of mine has grown out of a failure far more serious than yours. It isn't what | should have chosen when | was your age. Per- haps you hre going back to the oppor- tunities 1 missed. But you may take the word of an old doctor for this there is never a failure up to the very moment of death, which does not bring with itself a duty, a fresh re- spoasibility. And that means oppor: Agnes arose after a moment, and temperament lie outside our control,” she continued. “I have watched you with unusual care, because [ realized something of your love for the work and your ambition But it is better experience of another rather your own, that in the matter of phy- sical sirength alone you are not quali fied for a nurse's life. Your health will serve you very well if you do not lay unnecessary strain upon it, in home life or some other profession. But I have no right to allow you to bankrupt it at the outset.” Agnes had lifted her eyes, and watched Miss Marshall's face intently while she spoke, noticing, as never be- fore, its strength and sweetneds. She thought with dull pain how complete. ly Miss Marshall fulfilled the ideal she had set before herself—the life of successful ambition, of beautiful help- fulness. Beside that vision rose the image of the sleepy little town, the dull, stagnant life to which she must return with her defeai, “You are kind to put it on that ground, Miss Marshall” she said, hopelessly, “But I know--I feel-—so much more than you say; and it all amounts to this—I am a failure.” “Better, then, to realize that at once than a year from now, when some one’s life 18 hanging on help that you are not able to give,” said Miss Mar- shall, inexorably, but with a strange tenderness in her face and voice, That tenderness broke down the re- serve with which Agoes had meant to fence her miser;. Suddenly withom ‘any conscious intention of such un dignified action, she found herself kneeling at Miss Marshall's side, with her face buried in the folda of the gray dress, Miss Marshall did not repulse her or laugh at her; she laid one hand on the brown hair, and stroked It softly. 7 i "My time is just up sald with are like to go home at for g'clock today, Miss soma willing, 1 onee-—it me, I can train.” well, if *f you should will be inch ecasle yr Marshall answered ary Miss She came a st her hand; sudden you choose.” ep ont by a no other girl holding nes, moved what impulse hospital bent Mar. in the ver ventured to d gsed cap and the gray hair be She the border of 1 8 The nurses were ve ry kind when she up-stairs to say good-bye been of them But condol- popular with most and they were sorry to lose her there was and and spared to go with A train window no for none time of Ta eT long them the be to station rain falling as her pulled out. She looked from her a of com monplace and the dis un kempt cottages and ragged on the edge of the city Very different quiet coun- try town to which she was going: but the dull her heart grew sharper as s thought of it To ro aimless forever ished for 8, could drizzling was over landscape full ouraging flelds was the in misery h ne back emptiness of To days, nesgy SAY good-by she had cher A renewed baby the aisle ACTORS persistence, and she roused She herself to notice it had always last been and the had a “knack” with bables probation This baby, of his mother, fixed his gaze upon Agnes and enunci ated a appeal, out his hands She laughed, and took him in her arms, while the mother sank back with a sigh of relief “I'm all worn out, miss Yes, he's my first, and I'm not very handy; and I'm always caresick “1 think 1 have something here that will help you" said Agnes, it always helps me There dissolve in your mouth. Now head back and shut your ‘11 attend to this young man.” In twenty minutes the baby waa sleeping quietly, and the mother look. ed upy refreshed and grateful You're the kind of young lady that's born to help folks, ! guess’™ she said. as she left the train. “You'll be making some home a happy place.” Agnes laughed again, but a little sadly Years before she had thought this ready helpfulness was part of her call to work. Did it only mean “fill ing up the chinks after all? But, upon reflection, there were unnumber. od chipls of human need to be filled in this world! Her father met her little country station-—slightly alarmed at her telegram. anxious to be sympathe- 5 } 1 a the heipiess ness little 8000 fresh stretching let it lean ayes Your 1 at the unable to conceal his delight at hav. ing her at home again “Your cough is worse.” proachfully, as they drove the rain. “A little” this raw weather she said, re he acknowledged And somehow | lately. Viola tries hard, but understand . my dyspepsia, Didn't 1 write you that Bridget was You see, dear, “I'll make some broth for your sup per myself,” said Agnes, laying her cheek on her father's shoulder. “And I know just what to do with that cough.” How she blessed the course of dry lectures on bronchitis, and the days she had been allowed to help in the diet-kitchen! “Her health was good enough for home life” Miss Marshall had said. How had she ever imagined that there could be a lack of duty and oppor tunity in her mother's home? And the little woman on the train—was not “keeping some one’s home happy” a career large enough for any girl? “Robert Carr is back,” her father sald. suddenly, flicking the whip over gray Mollie's tail. “He's finished his medica! course and hung out his shingle. A: fine fellow.” The color came to Agne’s cheek and she turned her face away. She ask od herself, in sudden bewilderment, whether she had been really forget ting Robert in the pressure or ambi. tion and disappointment. “A fine fellow,” her father repeat. ed. “Does me good to hear him speak. I wish you had a brother like that, Agnes; I'd like to have him in the house all the time.” This remark made Agnes laugh out. right—and this time the laugh was not sad. ‘hat evening, when the tea things had been cleared away and the fire light shone out brightly over the hearth, Viola brought a book to her sister for help. “You don't know how good it is to have you home again, Agnes! algebra has been worrying me dread- fully; but that's nothing to the other worries.” Agnes kept the pencil! in her hand a moment after Viola's problem was solved. She glanced at her father, reclining peacefully in his armchair, his cough already soothed; at Viola's happy face; at the room, many de grees cozier and neater since she had entered it; at a little note from Rob ert, which lay on the table beside her. : Slowly, with a smile dimpling her lps she drew a sheet of paper to- ward her and wrote “1 Fallure plus Opportunities.” i “What are you writing, dear?” i ed Viola { Agnes crumpled the her hand and threw it “Just an equation I have been study. ing today,” s! aid with a gay laugh. Youth's Companion ask bit of paper in ie What Happens to the Advance. Experiments 18480 in that a Austri 1} a from 1886 to show 500 ie Of in thr its off o tive | five cartridges tions of a « to paces a | loses ea minutes 50 from a a ompansy per cent, of man, and that skirmishers advancing over flat coun. i try can be completely three minutes by enemy firing about a man; and yet the the head of field manoeuvres, mounted men to £00 yards of the firing lin and pack mules to 500 yards, If alry approach within 806 yards of in- fantry they suffered troops to well-conducted ser only get up to 800 yards The experiments in experiences in show that at least vards be added to the distance our drill That is advancing to the attack fire for at or for say fifteen to twenty they cannot then rush over the x of effective fire in three or four tes, as they they must take it quietly ning, for the annihilated two sections five drillbeok, single approach Closed when severely without bodies cove opposed { {9 Ce Tie Austra and the South Africa R00 should given in to say, tr on book will be under jeast Wi vards, minutes, ne former at the thelr 1 National could in days, 80 A8 10 reserve rush energies Re. | y 1 tl 4 final It Attractions of New Orleans. “Talking about cities.” sald an old timer who in Loulsville during the convention of the chiefs police recently, “makes me think of a t was ¢ Of with New Orleans Some man was making a speech in favor of New Or | leans as the next meeting place. He | called attention the fact that the National Bankers’ Association would | meet here: he said the manufacturers had decided to meet here, the Confed rat Veterans would meet here, the | Daughters of the Confederacy, the In- | ternational Association of Woman's | and other organizations | to year, and made a strong and eloguent plea for the association involved to hold its annual session in the city of | This claim did not have any serious effect But he re counted some of the peculiarities of the city, the love of music and the brass band, how the factory hand left is work to go to the windows, and all that sort of thing and concluded by saying that New Orleans was the hap- | piest eity in the world. ‘Why,’ he | said, ‘New Orleans gets more pleasure | out of life than any other city. We play and frolic like no other city. Wa the time. The | fact is’ he said, ‘we simply work as al matter of amusement,’ and this last | phrase caught the crowd and New Orleans got the convention.” —New Orleans Times Democrat. Spread of Peanut Culture, The spread of the culture of the | peanut is nothing short of phenom |enal. A native, probably, of Surinam, | in Central America, it was introduced | in Brazil and Peru in the days of that | mysterious eivilization of which evi | dences remain in records and monu- ‘ments. Then it traveled, perhaps long | before Columbus set out on his hap | | hazard journey, and reached China | By that enterprising people (enter | prising in those bygone days) it was | carried to India, Ceylon and the Malay | | archipelago. Thus, Asian tropics were ! | blessed with a truly American plant. Then, again, Portuguese adventurers, after the discovery of America by be | lated Europeans, carried the peanut in their slave ships to the African coast; and thus another continent was added to the fonquests of the Ameri can. Later days have seen it invade Australasia, and its cuiture there is urged, not only for the sake of food! for man iz the nuts, but also for cat | tle in the foliage Outing. Right in It. “1 have been making a tour of the South” remarked J. B. Joseph. “I was greatly amused on alighting from the tratn in Savannah. The station is surrounded in all directions with a lot of saloons and cheap restaurants | In great illuminated letters over one of these saloons was the sign: “Open all night.” “Next to It was a restaurant bean ing with equal prominence the legend, ‘We never close.’ “Third in order was a Chinese laun dry In a little tumbledown hovel and upon the front of this building was the sign in great scrawling letters ‘Me wakee, too. "Milwaukee Sentin el, AAT RI No man need expect to cut a dash by cutting his acquaintances. REVIVAL OF CARNATIONS The carnation has been decorative purposes, but instead ing massed as formerly the blossoms Are artistically blended with thelr foliage and maldenhalr fern or aspar angus. There are so many varieties of carnations that pretty effects may be achieved in revived for of be any desired color scheme BEAUTIFUL FANS Fans are shown in a bewildering ray of and while the old standards o silk and ostrich feathers mother-of-pearl! and hold thei: dainty are the ians, ar and 4 repe, i on of beauly varied design, { lace, {mounte« tortoise shell smart Chinese sticks) and Japanese paper folding, with dainty and marine views, Own, very new both iittie suggestin dream the ¥ tdvll OF GY ner mountains and at T woman GET OU if a things mother laid by ion wi he: have to and out the that pres ent diving into taat belonged and or 4 great-aunt bean # of fash because they may find and undersieeves lently the who has in the embroidered were she among mn some collars Ww fit in exce with Deen chest ligcovered a old attic some batiste collars and of dis sleeves which are tae her They we otherwise ar envy re slig odd but These are sul light the of washabie fabrics dition with well woOien as batiste DRESS ACCESSORIES les w Ir than Very are oi mors men ordinary gance wh nu, pretty belt (FIOVOS waist they are ned cannot be gol in every Details and gpect belts, is 100 Ieans Collars veils—everything, in fact of the but which ' tout ensemble of a perfect not dress, the The very round he proclaim the taste © collars lawn ur ur s« in her hand, the the combs in f the we of vy neck > Let BAD in the latest is embroidered or lace over an under collar of BEAD PURSES A FAD more the A popular actress is Wearing one in her part on the and ia the street This purse an oid fashioned sack purse embroidered with colored beads in a design of little June The the lady of fashion one hundred years ago as an elegant article of personal adornment. This purse has been mod ernized with an oval gold band ded with diamonds which fits centre of the purse. The ring fastened a gold chain, which | pendant from a bracelet worn on her wrist. These purses were used at the time of Shakespeare and even al an eariier period Once bead is style purse in stage is pink roses purse was worn Ly stud is to 8 WOMAN'S JOYLESS EFFORTS Protesting against woman s numer joviess efforts” to establish her in an independent position, aa Englishman says of women architects demands genius mere not wore talent pro duces the horrors we see in our streets every day in the shape of red bricks with white copings, or yellow bricks with brown glazed tiles as a relief. Now. as it happens, there never was a woman genius, either as a painter, a sculptor, or a musician, and if we are to have bunglers, let us have bunglers whom, in virtue of their sex, we can unreservedly tell they are bunglers and whose pride in their pro. fession is not sufficient to make them inveigh agains the principal law of modern society, namely matrimony. New York Press ous do. HOUSE CLEANING CONTRACTORS. “A new industry has opened up for the gentlewomaa in reduced circum- stances,” sald a society leader recent. ly. “1 know of one woman who has taken advantage of it, and [ don’t see why there should not be a lot more. 1 suppose you might call them house cleaning contractors, The idea is that a lot of women who have large establishments do not care to be both- ered with the supervision of house cleaning, so they give out the contract for having this done. The woman I know who has gone into this business fs a widow, whose husband lost his money and then inconsiderately died. She had always moved in good society, had a positive genius for household affairs, and was blessed with a host of friends. So when her reverses came she conceived the idea of supervising the household details of other people, and she now has a number of clients, for I dare say you might call them such. She has a force of wo men working for her, and makes out very well, ind Fad RIBBONS FOR THE SPRING. Ribbons are high in favor with the New York girl, and she is using them in the most or‘gioal of ways. At her | corsage she pins a bunch of violets, the very latest substitute for the chou But It Is nol composed of patural flowers, as one would suppose at a first glance. Iustead it is made of ribbon violets, the sort that never fade, They are made of half-inch violet ribbon in two shades, and the effect is produced by tying the ribbon in tiny bow-knots, Bometimes they are bunched together, and then again they form the shower-ends for a clus { ter of shaded loops of ribbon. The | bunch of ribbon violets makes a pretty corsage decoration, and it gives a new i touen to a It looks substitute for real spring tallor- made bunches of ibbon are as fragrant This is ot theatre-bodice worn as a the also Wii violets gown | violets made with Some of the af 1 al bros med DOW-KH as the natur by us Ooms gone Ty 5 in rib hiding ol 5 pert bon AWAY the its tiny Home Cop bags ark rit Lu ¥ Vioied ue Ye OWA #3 panion MISS ANTI} Those Mi and {ONY AND THE who are accustomed Anthony upon ture pl her A ie ren many herol woman s flercourse the nation én her e brated, among re present was & eight-months-old + mother iq OY Ty a og 15: ? 4 important had to melt iKINIeRS heavy snowfall which Wy Vas! began routn whe the baby staying, ir the om a leak water began water came the stan Was away gee how the baby t! wered thi was alarr SOME NEW change uited admiracle Une the is {rue ¢ , irom 8 waved softly the 100% Sar 10 ear ! and dour act combed back a not too high on the top th The loose, yas the lop of head pompa nor in 100 broad on ¢ sides hair is doub knot arranged in a Jong atl one side mst | coiffure can who back twisted and the thick curl, hind the arranged in a large ends are falling ear Thi easily by thick, long There are also two other pe 4 be those with biessed WAY y desirable hair-4the Antoinette iy adapted the the former the front before and undulation, h is iy arrangements and h mig nt front Marie perfect With ro the are Undulation both of whi to new ples pair is described cot hed the nade natural on a Ane Normandy lace over 4 ot whi wavy hair foundation The Marie Antoinette more especially is designed for those whose front hair is too th for graceful arrange ment. It is so made as to adjust per | fectly over the front of the head with {out the possibility of defection This season there is quite a bewild ering assortment of exquisite hair or | naments Quite the newest thing is i the “Juliet cap This is a revival tof the little netted cap of pearls or brilliants worn by [tallan women of rank and fashion when Romeo wooed | Juliet. It is charming with the low i dressing, and is worn on the top of { the head. | Another dainty novelty is the tiara | shaped wreath of maidenbair fern | gleaming with dewdrops. Small ivy { leaves, with tiny flowers intermingled {are used in similar fashion, and roses, {buds and other floral arrangements are all fascinatingly pretty New York Tribune. in Stole a Ride on King's Auto. While the King and another gentle. man were riding in a fast automobile through a narrow street in a village near Windsor, and while the machine was not running very rapidly, a boy who saw a chance to steal a ride got on the seat behind King Edward. The King glanced around and caught sight of! the youngster. He pretended to take no notice of him then, but when the road was clear he signalled to chauffeur for full speed ahead. The car darted off with the urchin clinging on for dear life and not daring to jump. After the motor had gone a few miles, King Edward signalled to the chauffeur to slacken speed, and the child climbed down and turned slowly and ruefully homeward, when he was cheered by a coin thrown to him by the King —New York Sun. A Boy. The first six months that a boy earns his own money you can always find pemnuts in his pockets. —Atchison Globe, It sometimes happens that cheap no- toriety is dear at half the price. a sin io “ Household Colum. ENGLISH BREAD SBAUCE, Cook together in a double boiler for fifteen minutes a cupful of milk, as eighth of a cupful of bread crumbs, a half dozen whole peppers, a small white onion and a half teaspoonful of salt, Remove the onion, add a tea spoonful butter, putting it in in small pieces, and cook five minutes longer Strain and add a half cupful of cream. Berve hot BREADED CHICKEN Take a young roasting chicken tablespoont twa butter feve] f a Cug chickew 01 One tablespoonful rd onethis and of salt 0 teaspoonful of of pepper half a dried bread crumbs The should eigh pounds Bpiit it « and it dry » h a damp clot Turn Wings wipe the place, with a skewer pres the chicken out and ering them It ba in fasten the 1 dy fiat the legs bas n the body, skew Season with salt and roasting pan ub 8 oj 1 sver the with ven breast bread and reduc i fifteen water in in the ice ripe rha wash and cut Put 3 with the into low rind of ise] and rhubarb « of three n paper iark place SWEETS The custo TATE 13 FOR Bl LEAKFAST m if serving was originall English Now it gens 3 adopted in he United States, and a little bitter ¢ marmalade or some finale to The sweets at the begin fresh fruit is too cloying for food. They should the meal practi and only a small amount eaten. When there is on the table marmalade or CRSAry sWests on breakfast tabls ¥ an fruit 3 is a pleasant Ameri« should ning of served and would more substantial served after an breakfast never be served the meal as They would De destroy the appetite be is cally ended ite f tar confection OTAnEes in nd r skin of the prange torn away from the pulp. Grate a little of of the or- ange with Put the whole in jar and sweeten it bake like an earthen form a thick marma a bright color in sev eral hours’ baking. Apples cooked in this slow way, with sugar added at the beginning. and garden rhubarb make excellent breakfast conserves. The flavor is entirely different from apple sauce rom stewed oranges cooked more rapidly on the top of the stove is Neces breakfast made cut Q with the outer inne the yellow peel puip Hick taste and with the well covered It plate lade and acquire or HINTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Silverware best brightened by rubbing it with oatmeal For burns, equal part egg and olive oil will if applied at once A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will aid in the whitening process Pipe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth; also from the hands Clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain and thus prevent it spreading aver the fabric. Boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm or a little salt, or a little gum arabic dis solved. To clean articles made of white gephyr, put in flour of magnesia, changing often; shake off the flour and hang in the open air a short time, Rub tins, faucets and nickelware with a flannel cloth dipped in kero sene oil, then in whiting or ordinary soda: polish with a dry flannel Jn baking bread with the dry heat of a gas range oven a pan of bot water should be kept in the oven dur ing the baking to generate moisture. So-called chocolate trifies are tasty for five o'clock tea. These are ordi pary oblong oyster crackers dipped in hot melted chocolate, taken out in a skimmer or wire basket and left to cool on waxed paper. It is not generally known that wringing out a cloth in hot water and well wiping the furniture before put. ting on a furniture cream will result fn a high polish and will not finger mark. According to one housewife, the tin. est pinch of salt added to hot choco. jate or cocoa is exceedingly efficacious in bringing out the flavor of the bev. orage. RE AA ASA Sct bboards worn by Russian officers iB % of white of prevent blisters are made of papier-mache, #
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