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-<heav-
ing a sigh of relief and murmuring:
‘Well, If there's any afterdinner
speaking to be done on this occasion,
at least it won't be done by me