FAINT-HEARTED LOVERS, "he average modern young man gsares only for “tame rabit coursing.” He labors under some newfangled de- lugion that it is undignified to woo un- lesg you're more than half sure of win- ning. Naturally, the sport is dull both to pursuer and pursued. The dainty art of courtship is nearly forgotten.— Woman at Home, PLAIN STOCKINGS FOR MORNING. Tnose who keep a dress book as well as an address book—and as mighty as the other, in Shonts’'s opinion down with their catalogues of and hats It is in regard to ings. A fashion has arisen among s0- ciety women in Paris wear stockings of lace and the morning. Before luncheon hose worn, unless an especial reason for the donnipg an elaborate frock. This fashion will be copied by the elect here this sea- son.—New York Press. one is f gowns 1 SLOCK never to must be of HOUR-GLASS FIGURES The reintroduction of the 1lass figure women is ad. Those professing to that dressmakers have for a long time been making zealous efforts to troduce the tt feminine humanity. Now the of full, and hour-glass corsets, will, be the feature of the coming and the w who would jonable will creasing inches ascribed to the of shirt wi 3 the vogue of hour- for Know say wasp-walsted p: men reduce of the waist have to TO BLANKET FORGOTTEN BADRIRS A baby } brigade |i he lat est proposit ti women of emanates fi som, of tion of Cr dess mot shopping perambul says the inter: the deg "|e expos mati] it is The object after the for removed to are suffering them. — New PERFECT PR WHEN A FOOT IS A woman's foot, when hollowed out well, out, with a high ins and lone, straight toes, s late at the ends. This of the most beautiful foot the whole, a foot not fre« ia its perfection, for often other The rarast beauty towing of the outside o ff any would convince hat the l ] sot is rare, bat seaside bathers tep on a dr; uch footprints smaller hoilow on the foot, but nearly straight, wet says Woman's That water arch of the foot without we an old anc concerned hath OLN element of beauty Ff hao ono watch leave plank ; show every « mark on tae Life conid flow good rule where LAUGHTER AS A MUSCLE MAKER Laaghior i8 a good, health; u ' making lung-developing exer it is as good for girls humor can be cultivated in mind without any dignity and modesty and charm of womanhood Not the unplea constant frivolity evidenced in speech or quickness of rep the humor that looks at with a twinkle in the ite absurdities, its smallness fun, says Woman's Life it should be part of every woman's mental equipment, for a8 DOYys abatement and sees and eye its small worries as well as its ones, The the care of servants, social duties that and the become a many ing sense of humor and of the bright side of life BEES COUNTY. Ah, the happy winter quilting bees of Berks county! Can any other sec- tion of the country surpass this, fn the joys of one cf the most exact ing and least remunerative tasks? No winter is a winter in this part of Be country without its quilting bees, vhere the women's heads bob close ogether over the pretty silken mtches and the labors of love are ransformed Into active recreation, ays a Hereford (Pa.) correspondent of the Philadelphia Record, ‘The preliminary work of making the bed quilt is usually "begun by the grandmother or the school girl, the fatter of whom readily finds an hour of leisure between her study hour and the time she usually retires. The patches for making these wonderful quilts and bedspreads are of every de- QUILTING OF BERKS Pa! 4 seription, cut to and, their first of all, proper sizes they are some tiny others in circles, stars and many others according taste of the housewife, have planned the pattern she thrust the first needle through the calico or silk. This fine work necessitates lots of sewing, and if often takes the entire family—that feminine members—several winters to prepare the patches before quilting ideal who may years before the coverlet is ready for the frame, After all the tiny patches have been sewed into are LOR ther together strips, the and the spread is to be 1 the w BLrips SOW d wooden frame, where the tedious that work } i zr a Spread takes many days, if it at mons only a few women do farm-house, } 1m- around fr se to “quilting” is t take certain ne day Bright and early they to the place, each equipped The them with needles the goes house that a ighbor’'s, all make mistress of the and thread, around sides and work U'sually the the and they sit on fou t LO num- ber is outside i to » occupled, and the | the 1 when work raws to center of the number that F Wide, t Separate ¢ Mudby Junction, assait, late presides ed the city far out, and, smal} and the travelled to zs of automobile exclusively. Deciding after a time to keep chick ens, he ordered a patent chicken coop, on the day it was expected set out in a dray to fetch it home from the freight office. “He reached He moved road was train service poor, he and from town the railroad station, an hour's drive. NO one was in sight, but there wag his chicken coop, and with his man’s help he soon had it on the dray and set off homeward again. “A hundred yards or so down the road he met a chap in a blue uniform, with the title ‘station master’ in gold letterg on his blue cap. “ ‘Hey, there!’ exclaimed this chap, excitedly, ‘what the dickens have you got on that dray? “ ‘My new chicken coop,’ the broker calmly answered, “Chicken coop be hanged!” shouted the station master. ‘That's Mudby Junction!’ "~~Philadelphia Press, A London firm of electroplate mak: ers has in its service eighteen men md women who have been working for it from fifty-six to sixty years. American exports to Brazil were larger by $4,196,143 last year than the year before, ~ Man's Dependence on Women woman is has lost woman—if By Marie Corelli. O my mind, the very confession of for a vote weakness—a desire on the part of proof that she For if she is if she has the natural heritage of her sex, which is the mystic power to enthral has no need to down from her throne of his political inasmuch as she is and front of government, Let those who will laugh at or sneer down the statement: the fact remains that a man Is seldom anything more than a woman's representative, No man, in either business or pleasure, can ever quite shake off the influence of the woman with whom he is most privately and intimately connected, Good or bad, she colors his life. It is always a case of cherchez la femme, Beak, and you will find Behind a slovenly workman there is generally a wife. Behind the obstinate and stupid man, behind the timorous and time serving man, behind the hasty politician who insults his Prime Mini will be found, In their several turns, the common place woman, the hypocritical woman, and the disappointed, egotistical, vain woman Man is what woman iim She bears him his sovereign and supreme From the first breath he draws, she alone, possesses him is born he at once displ that and fickle disposition 4 of his future developmen and woman has | £ him, or, as it is way, an open ground, and is not sure of herself real persuade, and subjugate man-—she come frays, and already mingle In the very any head sluttish ster, and rears him She in and fractious makes ruler ah or often signifi cant tO CArry I nd down in ruage.”’ 3} id n tand se: who 4 biame yr thi er! men? the DEC OTT because he But among they show thelr sex oneou women themselve start ur r manner 16] tongues will not run wi neelve Thov all every da schoolboy hig mother's prettier girl such are t tives on a yo to manhood, ret Ness, smile A Transportation Millennium By Francis Wayland Glen. TOPPING in New York there are at all times somewhere between go to the theatre in the evening. It ia this enormous money spending crowd that has caused the theatre district in New York to become a world-famous curiosity in electrical street illumina tion. All day long this part of Broadway is a crowded and busy district, full of shops and restaurants, and a great thoroughfare of a great city; but at eight o'clock of an evening in the theatre season it is de laged with a crowd which quickly disappears and is lost for three hours, when it surges out again, and fills the streets, the restaurants and lobster palaces, the carriages, the motorcars, the cabs, the Subway, the Elevated stations, and the street-cars A part of this crowd goes home immediately when the thea tres let out: part of it disperses to various hotels and restaurants on Fifth ave drinks in the light of its radiance. Wherever this uptown theatre crowd pauses, there the lights are bright and the streets are lively until after mid. night. It is to catch the eyes of this evening crowd that the theatre section of Broadway has been so bejewelled with all manner of electrical contrivance. Advertisement is the motive. The result js somewhat binding, but it is undoubtedly interesting, and, softened by due distance, {t stirs the imagination and becomes even beautiful.—Harper's, The Blood. Bet Bill a million he doesn’t know the color of his own blood, It can not be blue—yet Bill may be one of the Dblueblodded aristocracy. Ask him If his blood is all one color and bet him a million. Then explain | always seeking the heart. This sim- that it isn't. The blood In the ar-| ple fact Is worth knowing In casé of tarles is a bright red; that in the | an accldent-—~New York Press. vein a dall red. The former 1s | changed with oxygen, the latter with { earbonie acid, How can Bill tell a vein from an artery? Tell him that veins, when pressed, do not fill from fbove; because blood In the veins ls NAIL WOUNDS IN HORSES FEET. | It has that nail | pricks and other similar injuries in | the horse's hoof may lead to an in- fection followed by the formation of | pus under the horn of the hoof, and | a serious general disease of the horse | or at least the loss of the hoof. | In a bulletin of South Dakoif | Station, Moore has recently reported | results obtained in a number of cases | from applying a strict antiseptic treat. ment to Injuries of this sort. The | method consists in paring away the horn of the affecled part until the The hoof is then golution of long been known the hoof from the blood thoroughly 00zes out bichloride mercury, the proportion of one part to five hu dred parts of water, after whicl bent ime and wound by quent The eryligtd “ial cotion have it is If it 4 ever, and fed received and not to cannot meat give stand as chicks, says J culture, DRYING COWS English dairyman has foun An the usual practice of dry. continuous milkers, giving from sixteen quarte dally, does not answer at all. Instead of trying to dry cows giving large quantities of milk, he now finds it hetier to turn | them in a loose hox and feed them By this means the flow | ing dry themselves, no evil effects follow ing. The practize of suddenly check. | ing the flow of ndik of good milkers by the common mcthod 1c:ulted, in Whenever it was attempted to dry large milkers at once, the organs be- came inflamed. Dairymen will find it highly important to pay particular at. tention to their cows, especially those of the Jersey and Guernsey breeds, which are great milkers, FALL PIGS. Not very long ago fall pigs were con. sidered a nuisance. They were left to shift for themselves among the old- er hogs, and if any happened to live ed himself just that mach in pocket, If fall pigs aré given the right start at weaning time they can be baadled 0 make some profit. But it es a losing game to make them “root hog or die,” They need more room for exercise than the fattening hogs, They need warm shelter and plenty of bed- ding Give them some green stoff, potatoes, mangles alfalfa or clover hay steamed, and then oats and mid- dlings will Corn is all right, but it should not whole ration. You say, “that’s lots of bother.” It is lots of bother to care for and feed fall pigs to keep them growing. But if you will them sensible treat- ment and feed will as well Farmer help the give Laey pay +h ririr vio iris 2114 as the sgpring pi Indiana FOR DRIFTING SANDS Awnless brome grass (bromus mis) will be found excellent for use driftin is a perennial, aad iner- AES deep plant inch of well up and after add more row is filled DIFFERENCE A differ fr a day for earth ence Secks the Garden of Eden. ¥ % | fickle ni No Knee Breeche s for Us. ee" sald r. Si % editor “trous- are no We've : Ohm The man knock- nection. legs and nown fact of today grand- transit tacilities t : that is wining him Nowadays, if a man Nas any $408 45 74 #0 flesh it's under is alist. New York Imagined to Death, thought of execution can kill tremend- nb m1t 3 Ot ali yel realize the ts of imagination One of the grimmest examples ia that of the French criminal condemn. ed to die who was offered the choice execution or of being priv. bled to death. For the sake of his family's feelings he chose the lat ter alternative. He was placed upon a table in his cell, he felt pricking sen. sations in various veins, he heard what he thought was his blood escap- ing into a bowl. Soon he died. But he was unwounded He been pricked with pins. of public ately had The renning water, Pa had succumbed under a scientific experiment —Lon- don Evening Standard. Dreaded Speaking. O'Connor, the Irish politician, began an afterdinner speech in Philadelphia in this way: “l must confess that I dread to make after-dinner speeches, At the mdst sumptuous dinners, even at such a dinner as this one, if 1 know that at the end 1 must make a speech, I am nervous, 1 have no appetite, I find little to admire in the best efforts of the chef. “In truth, gentlemen, I can readily imagine Daniel, if he was at all of my mind, heaving a sigh of relief as the lions drew near to devour him-