TODAY.
By Emma C. Dowd.
We cannot change yesterday-that (s
clear,
Or begin on tomorrow until it Is here;
So all that is left for you and for me
Is to make today as sweet as can be,
~ -Youth's Companion.
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THE LITTLE ~~ §
FOUR COMBINE.
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By Victor Cage Kimbert,
It was the last Saturday in May. Lit
ly before her front door, from which
she had emerged after sweeping
piazzas, and then called to :
the next yard.
“Kathie, Kathie
mamma and Mrs
James to come over h
will you please?’ And
into the clean, sweet
room she sat
rocking chair
Within five 1
women stood
ous, for their
Summons was
comfortable at
chair toward
ance, she s {
“Did you thi
No,” and she
one with
head, another
her hand, and
pinned to the
bits f flour
almost: too !
work, but
thought would
wanted to
tell ur
and I
Raynor,
frown
hore
er
g
smelling sitting
down in the nearest
to await their co g
before
anxiety
ited at her
Whirling
accept
their
thelr
lay
A
a ripple
was her rep!
spoxe—
“Theoretically
nice,
band
pra
hut
would
but of |
“Oh,
or requirin
your dinner.
are four
size,
one dinn
the Johns
family pays
dinner. Mrs.
more for
another pays more
on the whol i
strong resemblance, though
vary. We are all friendly
ing together, and so ¢
we take turns
dinners, and spen
Sundays at the ho t
with no care nor worry. It
worth a small fortune 10 me to dress
for church in the morning and
no changing till night. What do you
think?” And again she looked at her
visitors.
“1 think it would be fine”
Brown, “and then | could keep my
Sunday school class. | had to
rive it up through the summer months
on account of the heat, and Sunday
dinner, but 1 could get
for three Sundays. Just think, only
three Sunday dinners in thre: months.
Count me in on this arrangement,
with many thanks”
“You may count me,
Raynor.
But Mrs. James hesitated.
“If really do not kn. w what to say
I would delighted to make some
arrangement to have the Sundays
more enjoyable and less fatiguing, and
really it is not so very much more
work to prepare a dinner for a dozen
than for half that aumber, but
afraid that Dick would not like to go
away for dinner, he counts on Sunda;
dinner"
“That's all right,
Mra. Fletcher, laughing; “but
James likes to go visiting as well aw
anybody 1 know, and cn the surface
that is all
beefsteal
will be
have
sald Mrs.
Have
100,” said Mrs
be
my dear,” said
one or the other of us, and when it
comes your turn, nobody need be any
the wiser. In the afternoon we can
go out to the park, across the lake,
or anywhere our sweet wills incline,
and have a pleasant and profitable
day.”
“But,” sald Mrs. James, tentatively,
“how about the hostess, who will have
the dishes to do, et cetera? Wi It
not look suspicious for the rest to
leave her and go off together?”
“Well, you will not leave me, for |
have arranged with Granny Wisner to
come and help me and wash up the
dishes on the Sunday | entertain. Poor
soul, she would have been delighted to
have come for the sake of a really
good dinner, but I told her 1 would
give her a quarter, and she half cried
as she sald it would Keep her the next
week. expect that was an exaggera
tion, but I know every extra cent
counts with her, and it is almost an
act of charity to help her get some
thing to do. Of course no one else
need be Influenced by my action, but
1 think it is well worth the cost”
“1 will get her surely if she will
come,” sald one and another.
“How have vou arranged, supposing
there should be extra company? You
seem to have this thing thoroughly
adjusted without our taking any
trouble to think over the matter."
“Wall, my plans are very flexible, |
assure you, and can be altered, modi
fied, amended, or what you please, as
conditions arise requiring it, but so far
as unexpected company 18 concerned,
we could pay the hostess of the day
whatever she deemed a fair pro rata
amount for the extra guests, And for
undesirable company, these dear rela-
tives who do not care how much we
long enough befcre hand to nip thelr
project in the bud. [ know we all
thera
limits to
certain few
are
when a
everything, and
wrder.”
Mrs. Brown flushed a little.
“You have noticed It,
Well, I do gt pretty tired some.
of course | know
are referring, do
for them (n a when those
distant cousins come and bring their
friends
too,
times; te
and though |
way, stil
utterly unexpccted, though
any ti
church,
for them most me, and
and
week,
1
a
and keep home m 1
day in the
here is a new rule in order
oun all to din-
We
who can
r, and 1 shall expect y
2 fOmorrow,
meantim
ths next
time, and
in an
I Suppose
manag:
ther men
ing of such com
ng i
between him and
was imperfect.
Was the combine successful
: i one
es and
infrequent
nt he
gecur
no regular
vacancy.
ted, cheerful women ready for
} rk, instead of
was a parti and
x! weeks WwW
ww iL
four well satisfied households
result,
through
out the summer sp
combination
ay
Fletcher h
Mrs
w she
Raynor asked Mrs
came to think of
a delightful arrangement.
it evolved as most things do. When
my sister and I both lived in the same
it was an understood thing that
every Sunday only one should
dinner. One day | thought
nice it would be to enter into
such plan with a neighbor: gradually,
as I thought it over, | decided that
be the right number, nel
city.
other
how
some
as first
either of
4
three to help me,
If for any reason
ed you
ice.
have selected some one else
to try it, and equally
termined you should enjoy it if 1 could
persuade you"
“Well, | can say right now
never enjoyed a summer more
way. that free coming in made me
feel as if | was from responsi
determined de
frog
rest. for it takes strength to
that.” and she laughed a littie con
to
“It certainly does, and it
gense as well. So many
our cares with us continually, instead
if just considering them when It Is
necessary, that we get wrinkled and
old long before we nesd,” was the re
ply.
Ned Fletcher, who was in the secret,
helped ft on with all hiz might, many
a time with his genuine good humor
and sound sense, and also planned
afterncon outings during the week
when the men would do all the work
and the women have a half-day's
pleasure. Fish und chickens ecokod
in mud In a great eamp fire, with
plenty of plain bread and butter, made
a supper fit for a King, he asserted,
and they were fain (0 agree with him,
though when some ‘one suggested
piekies and cheese as an appetizer,
he profited by it
The last Sunday In September he
rose at the end cof the dinner and
toasted the “Little Four Combine,” as
he had dubbed them all summer, and
then he had to explain, and a merry
fangh and a hearty vote of thanks ‘o
the originator followed
“And we are going to do the same
thing next summer,” said Mrs, Browe,
with emphasis. “And | know four
athars who are going to trv the plan”
INTERESTING TREE LORE.
Talk With Man Who Knows All About
Woodland Growths,
“How many leaves do you think a
tree has?’ asked the man who had
read it all up, stopping his friend in
the park, relates the New York Sun.
“Of course, you don't know. Boome
birches have 200,000, and each leaf
has 100,000 mouths, [ know of a 60
year-old birch that had 25,000 leaves
and a 35-year-old one that had only
3,000,
“These 35,000 leaves, dried, welghed
only ten pounds and the 3,000 dried,
only three-quarters of a pound. But
they do tremendous work io a season.
During a spring and summer, birches
and lindens have b2en found to ex-
hale 600 or 700 pounds of waler per
of dry leaves; the ash (ree
about 500; beeches, 400; maples, 400,
The ccnifers give out
To stagger
of, say, B00 trees, would exhale about
nd the funniest part of it all to
me is that the water in a trée, or the
moisture, really amounts to more than
half or from
50 to wood
Wels
welght of the tree,
while the
in a big
weighs
Funny,
the
LU per cent,
but 40 to 45 per cent
don't see
than i
isn't It?
3 and water,” continued
I learned that a partial
Voiga river valley
smendous effect of
un area of water as
ie compar
rata six feet
en off Lake Su
Michigan, 18 off
L.ake Ontario. 1
at defo
red
whaler
island of Jamalic
COTTON FROM THE FIR TREE.
The Fibres After Pulverization, Are
Passed Through Special Machines.
Writing from Rouen, France, Thorn
well Hayners, United States
sends the following to the Department
of Commerce and Labor:
The French Chamber of Commerde
of Milan
i# now made
fir freed from
The after
a special
horizontal brass, leadli
fonist
Yrs]
Lunsus,
that an arti
from the cellul
and knols
by
in a
BAYS ial cotion
we of the
free
fibres, yulverized
machine,
gome 3.500 capacity and
steamed for after which
2 0040 cubic feet of a bisulphate of soda
wash ig added and the whole is heated
for thirty-six hours under a pressure
of three atmospheres
Then the or fibre which has
become very white, is washed and
ground by a series of strong metallic
meshes, after which it is again wash
ed and given an electro chemical
bleaching means of chloride eof
Passage between two powerful
matter, produce
which when re
boiler con-
1
cubic
Po Peuyts 1
ten VU,
wood
by
celul
ge,
heated
ric and nitric acids, to
astor oil, case
a resistance
nsistent
nd hyvdrochl
is added a lit
to give
which
in,
to
pa ® a
Threads ars then pr
and goriatis
fibre, gives a very ¢
tho
ih
fuced bY pass
plate. Thess threads, after being
mersed in a weak solution of carbon-
ate of soda and passed between two
turning drying cylinders. Fi
to give the necessary solidity,
il wily
nally,
which the product is pliable and
works well,
In Bavaria experiments have recent
ly been made to produce cotion from
pine wood, and it is claimed that the
trials have been very successful
Among the Mortalities.
When the average announcement ol
gix deatns from heat is analyzed I
“pans” about as follows: item 1
died anyway, not from heat, but really
from lack of heat, say at the ages ol
1. 2 and 3 months respectively. Item
9—One small boy was drowned? R
hot he wouldn't have g ne near
drownad, not because he was hot, but
because he couldn't swim. Item 3
An old lady died of pneumonia. Item
$—An old gentleman, who had long
suffered from a complication of dis
cases, including diabetes and dropsy,
but who [» thought to Lave died from
heat because when found he had a
fan in his land. One moraiag paper,
deerme iaed to roll ap an Imposing 10
1al, actually enumerat x horses am. ng
the morialtos, lsat the humidity
enough without this sort of thing?
Pittsburg Press
——————————
WHEN YOU
A milliner's advica
Is to observe the effect
ting well as well as standing.
times a hat is too large for a seated
figure when it does very well while
the wearer is standing. No one wants
BUY A HAT.
of a hat sit
ture, any more than she wants 10
wear a hat that is becoming in front
and hideous in back.
the
FATENT LEATHER GOING OUT OF
STYLE.
shoes for women
spring,’
presents a
will re
[| am
‘Patent leather
will be out
Charles
loston shoe
them
next sald
Torry, wio r
“Tans
place extent.
now
f 1905
change |
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a
shou
uniing
maing tual
pate in nel
low cut
The
which
r ry
A COND WOM
# ine ¥
Wai §
length
supposed
and ran
when frightened
iA
into
einnati Commercial-‘ Tribune,
JAPANESE FACTORY GIRLS
One adimerer of Japan would
glad if the Mikado could manage
secure to the working cinsses a reg
ular Sunday hcliday. It would be es
'
he
pecially welcome to the poor little
dots who work as apprentices in fac
tories and through the winter far into
the night. They prefer this to re
tiring early into thelr cold dormito
rea. Fortunately for them, they do
not need many hours’ sleep. The
factory girls and ell women workers,
whether in rice swamps, about
Osaka coiileries, as shrimp and
cockle gatherers, feeders of silk
worms or winders of sux from co
coons receive only starvation wages
In the paddy fields and at the collier
jes they seem unsexed
they are at work. The moment they
leave off they wash
80
the hair, and, if the sun is not down,
paper parasols, looking almost ele
gant. —London Truth.
AN AMUSING PARTY.
park. There were: about twelve In
the party and {t was too warm to even
think, so the hostess declared that
they would hold a Quaker meeting,
snatches of popular songs cr a lifeless
whistle broke the silence, until an
agonized volee from the end of the
perch cried out: “Nellie, please get
that infernal June bug out of my cock
lar, he bites like an alligator.”
It is needless to say that he went
for sodas, It is not the elaborate
plan for keeping the guests amused
that appeals to most of us these days;
we like to sit still and be comfort.
able and an easy chair, a few pleas.
ant companions, and a seasonable bit
of teed fruit or a glass of cold bever
ago ls all thal the average man needs
to maks him eternally grateful —-
Seranton (Pa) Truth,
PUBLISHING THE BANNS.
The custom of publishing the banns
{ of marriage dates back to the primi
tive church, for Tertullian, who died
A. D. 240, states
tended marriages was
the early Christians.
that warning of in
given among
It appears
YANNDS
that the publication of
many
any
since
speaks of
was
before
habitual in
there
places
general
Gregory
i
i ng = 0 i
a was
law an
IV. (1108-1216)
he subject
the banns
{ fo; annie y !
{from Latin bannum, a proclamation:
Anglo-Saxon, ban) being given out in
The
France
; custom
intr »d into
ainou he ninth century and
2
Was
church, according
pract.ce wes int
enforced in t} cese of Paris
The earliest enactment
Pe iva
Lagland was
oH Wests
on the sub
an order made
1200
man's Prince
Even the
SEASON arrayed
mostly tiger
New
hanging «
sailor
sharply down
When
range the
throat and omit all collar.
There's no denying that a woman
never looks so ang» lic as when clad
in white from top tn toe
Victoria lawns in biege and browns
make up into useful petticoats trim:
med with wash bandings.
It looks as if the short full sack,
reaching barely to the waist, will tri
umph over the fallen db
This is a good year to observe the
striking difference between wearing
clothes and being well gowned
Surprisingly nice effects are pro
duced by an odd white blouse and one
of the ready made white skirts
If you are of the world worldly you
must wear hung from a chain a tiny
the yoke
scall
Pn
Liagt]
Star is Far Away.
“In July I always look for this fel
low.”
The astronomer fixed his grea: tel
escope on a star that looked no bisger
than a pin point—a small, bright vtar,
“That little star,” he said, “is so
far away that it takes its light 3.
500,000 years to reach us. The beam
forth 3.500000 wears ago. What |
wonder, was the world like then?
“And do you know how fast those
star beams travel? They trave! at the
rate of 12000000 miles a minute
Think of it—12,000,000 miles multi
minutes-~that is the distance from the
star to us. .
“Here is a strange fact. The star
may have besn annihilated 2,500,000
years ago, but we, in that case, would
know nothing of its annihilation till
1,000,000 years from now, for what
ever should happen on this star would
take 3,500,000 years to reach us,
“Imagine a Russo-Japanese war on
the star, The war news would come
to us a little stale, eh?"—Port'
Oregonian,
Of the 90,000 Catholics In Japan.
10.000 Uva in Tokio
SOME USEFUL HINTS.
A plaster cast can often be thor
oughly cleaned by a mixture of starch
and water, Make a scft paste of or
dinary starch and cold water, rub it
well over the cast and place the lat
ter in an out-of-the-way corner. Let
it stand for about a day, and then
remove the starch with a tiny brush
Lamp wicks soaked in a little vin
egar and then allowed to dry before
putting them in the lamps will make
the light much clearer,
Equal parts of listerine, lemo
and make
mouth wash oul s used
gargle in the morning upon
Salt, though not agreeabls
any il
Cutis rapidly. it
cellent
Bits
fulce
excellent
as 8
arising
glycerine an
small
disinfectant
soap which
Rhouid
grate
Bea: stiff one cu
ai3n
rf two PEZES
beat into them
wm
Re move ©
with grated pineapple
a boiled custard flavore
juice. One pineapple w
five or six persons. A pint
will suffice.
ple Servs
{ custard
large,
finger
eves and
Preserved Pineapple—Selact
- i
them in
ripe
thick slices, peel,
aut the slices in small square pieces,
gefecting the Then weigh
fruit: for six pounds cut pineapple
place four pounds sugar and one quart
water in the preserving kettle and
%oil to a syrup, removing all black
scum that rises: put in the pineapple
and k forty-five minutes ut in
pineapples, cut
remove the
the
core,
COOK
dar, close at once and set aside,
Soup Malagr: Put in stewpan six
cold dolled potatoes, half a can of to
matoes, one thick slice of onion, one
stalk of celery, one sprig of parsley,
three pints of water, one teaspoon of
sugar: alt and pepper to season; let
boil fifteen minutes: rub through a
fine strainer: return to the fire; melt
two tablespoonsful of butter: add two
tablespoonsful of flour; when smo th
add it to the boiling soup; serve hot
Merinzue Shells—Beat the whites
of four eggs very stiff: then fold care
fully half a pound of sifted powdered
sugar: put one tablespoonful of the
mixture on greased brown paper and
hake in a very slow oven half an
hour. or until thoroughly dried
through: remove and press the under
gide through toward the top of the
shell: when cold and ready to serve
fill two shells with ice cream and
press together,
Beef Heart Potted—Wash and re
move the tough membrane from a
trea! heart; sprinkle with salt and pep
per; put a quarter pound of lardiag
pork in a saucepan over the fire; fry
it until brown; dredge the heart with
flour, and put it in the hot fat, turn.
ing it several times; add one cup of
bolling water, one sliced onion, a sprig
of parsley, two cloves and one carrot
sliced: cover the pan and let cvok
slowly three hours; when tender re
move to a hot platter; skim off the
fat in the pan; add flour, and stir un:
til brown: add boiling water, salt and
pepper to season; strain into a bowl
Smallet Island.
The smallest inhabited (sland in
the world is that on which the Eddy
stone lighthouse stands, for at low
water it is only thirty feet in diame
eter. At high water the base of the
lighthouse, which has a diameter of
only a little over twenty feet, is com