suau 9IW W' r t 20 -L Ai J& ZM W US ?&3 TREATING SUMMER HOMES. "Colors Should Bo Selected "With Reference to Complexion "Wonderful Tapestry In Ficrpont Jtlorgan's Tacht Brass Bed Mead Notions A Pretty "Wood for Fin ishing. tFEOM THE UrilOLSTEREE. Naturally at this season of the year, -when the thoughts of people are turning toward their summer homes, the furnishings for seaside and country houses come to be a matter of absorbing interest. A thoughtful consideration. -f Ul UU1U1 111 IUU 1U1U13U11I Ul I a room cannot be too em- .S! i : it. a. :ni.!n f & pnaiicauyurgcu. ioorjianu B Antoinette left a world of R disamiointment and sorrow ;fflj behind her, for many a V woman doesn't realize until U late that the fair French beauty adopted the white- and-gold style, simply be cause it was in harmony with her fresh complexion and reddish hair. In Oriental countries .the styles that have lived are the deep tones which harmonize with the swarthy skins of the uati es. The yel lows and blacks look well in Spain for the Eame rcaton because they fit the people. Sow, we of to-day in this country have many types of personality, and for that rea son should select in our house furnishings that which is mos.t becoming. This idea is, day after day, finding a firm place in the acli e thoughts of homemakers, and in ten years hence it will be a source of supreme amazement that the time ever was when all Eorts and conditions of humanity adopted any one character of decoration simply be cause it "prevailed" or was the "rage." Imitations of Rich Good. If there is any one class of people more miserable than another it is that extensive constitueucy having the pate de foie gras taste and the pretzel income. These people invariably waut styles that they cannot get in cheap "goods. They reiterate that they don't care for quality as long as they get effect. Ah, if they could only look'ovcr some of the goods seen recently they would be happy, lor one or two ot the importers have brought' over several excellent things artistic and cheap; imitation bagdad A Screen and Catch-AIL stripes, at 75 cents, dead copies of the ?8 goous: cotton hangings, resembling silk bric.vJc: :i cloudy as cotton pongees, re semble ;he liglit s!ik good., at 8j tints, 50 lwbci vi.Ie things that a man sees in a hasty ieiew of ilie ni.irket and remembers. The color are good and the designs are purt, beiw copies of expensive fabrics; jute, in the daintiest thus and harmonious, on the brocade order, 65 cents a yard, 50 inches wide, and moire antiques at i'i cents. A screen, which is distinctly feminine, "jnst joiely" in every particular, is done upon bamboo or enameled frame, and of daintiest silk. One of the accompanying illu-trations tells the rest. It combines the tcrcen with a catch-alb Another of the illustrations shows something new in the way of a screen. It is medieval in char acter, and should be decorated with one's coat of arms or crest. Bra& Bedsteads and Crank. The general adoption of brass and iron bedsteads has brought about many enrious "whims and theories. Xot long ago a woman called at a New York retailer's for "an elec tric non-conductor." The salesman assured her he didn't know of any such thing. She described the idea as a cup, like a soup-bowl, which stands in one of the corners of the bedstead. "We have," said the dealer, when the lady, with a sense of superiority and con tempt for a man so slow in his business, had departed and he haa thrown lightly to the winds a few hot epithets, "all sorts of cranks here since brass bedsteads have prevailed. One woman is afraid that brass bedsteads will make her nervous, that they will rob her of all her electricity; while another will insist upon having theih because they eha'ge the bed with just that vital force, and then they kick if our charge is too high hs n joke. "Most w omen seem to agree that brass bedsteads attract lightning,' and it is diffi cult for me to explain that they don't. Some few think that they tarnish easily; others ratherimstily fear" that they need a lot of polishiug. Then there is the glass cup fchenie; a woman called here lately, and, in stead of wishing the cup at the top of the bed, she asked tor cups in .which to rest the casters. 1 told her that we luvd sometimes sold such things, bat the people that bought them filled them with vinegar to keep roadies lrom climbing up. I will never for get the look she gave me " Pierpont 3Iorgnn's Ancient Tapestry. The yacht which Pierpont Morgan launched last month had, among its other furnishings, a remarkable tapestry, which was examined with great interest by many members of the Masonic fraternity. It is an antique about 12 feet square and covered with Masonic emblems the terrcstial orb, flanked by trowel, dagger and delta sur mounted by square and compass, and above them, in the center, a blazing star. All of thtsc emblems are embroidered by hand. Eie piece is said to be more than 300 years " old, and to have been one of the decorations of the Mosque of Mahomet Ali. Some months ago we described a means of treating walls with lace. It can be done, but the work is laborious and fussy, and con siderable difficulty is found in combining into a proper wall design the pieces of lace curtains which must be cut up for the pur pose. A net is now being used by a well known importer, which has only a simple design, a little de tached figure; the idea is to tint this net a deep cream and to apply it to a gilt wall not simply a plain gold paper, but a wall that lias been dabbled in fugitive . spots of gold. A beautiful curtain for the dinin; room of a cottage, at one of the MSI r-. rrv ft)'' rfK tnuF Hi t3 ? 'OaStS)" M' ?r m p V" M fashionable watering places, is composed of a sea-green material known as harness cloth.. Over this is thrown a net of ivory colored cord, the meshes perhaps an inch square, or rathe, of diamond shape. The effect is of rippling sea water, and is indescribably beautiful. This unique curtain will be looped back with a cable cord, and the Jbr a Coat-of-Arms. catch may be a row lock or some other ap propriate design. A line of small sinkers across the bottom of such a curtain would not be at all out of place. Bird's Eye Maple for Finishing. A very beautiful summer house is to be furnished entirely, so far as the bedrooms go, in bird's eye maple. This charming w ood, which gives alwavs the effect of light someness, freshness, cleanliness, harmon izes always with the colors effected in dainty bedrooms, whether of pale pink, robin's egg blue, sea green or even yellow. Exquisitively carved dressing cases are shown, dainty table and cnte chairs in this pretty wood. The decorative possibilities of burlap as a wall covering are manifold. A very effect ive way of using it is by applying the plain fabric Jo a tufted wall, and instead of using a simple brass nail to fasten it there, use something which forms the design on the wall, a nail, for instance, with a head of flat brass annoriallv designed, or with some little shape, like the conventionalized iris. We can all remember with what open- mouthed aw e we, as children, used to listen to the tales ot tne "Uloth ot ijold." Xhe oriental splendor amazed ns by its very vastness, and yet, to-dav we know of a rue 'worth $100,000. inla'd with precious stones, ana ot a masja grandeur which even Alladin's lamp never revealed, and the cloth of gold business is being profitably conducted by a New Tork firm, who put into some of the furnishings of a few years back, in the Vanderbilt home, a cloth of gold literally, not figuratively worth 580 a yard. Novelties for the Home. Tile old-fashioned dinner bell is not nearly as agreeable as the chimes that are now largely used, and usually hung near the din ing room door. The ormulu effects which are shown upon high-class French furniture of the sixteenth century are now being imitated in wood and plastto gilding. Ax outcome of the coffee stands borrowed from the Orient is a stand and seat com bined. The cushion top is adjustable; with out it, we have, the stand. A wxsTEiur manufacturer, who thought It would please the women, has brought out what ho calls a "shoe-and-stocking-stool," and nine women out of ten ask what it is for. It won't do; the fair sex won't have-it. Ik some of tho cabinets and closets, which are now being made in England, tho doors aic displaced by swinging cranes oVer which curtains aro hung. The idea gives quaint rcliofto pieces of furniture otherwise staid and prim. A bed-table is arranged with a view to tipping it In any direction, forward, back or sideway, over the bed, without touching the occupant thereof. It is an English device, and it is much used in hospitals, although it appears to us to be rather cumboisome. BaocATiXLEs will bo as much used next season as heretofore. From tho sample colors that havo been called for, it is evi dent that tho sales run to light tints, for in a collection of IS colors recently inspected, ICof them woieon the soft and washed-out ordei. A HASH0NALAND DECORATION. Ideas 1'rom the Heart of Africa Find a Place on the Dinner Table. Kcvr York Son.J Eider Haggard and the Boers boomed Mashonaland pretty thoroughly some time ago, and now it lias found recognition where a great many Americans can't. Some thing called a" Mashonaland hut has been devised as a floral ornament for the dinner table. It w ould probably put very foolish and civilized ideas into the heads of Mashonalanders. It is ten inches hich. B inches in width across the top of the hut and 2 across the well, which forms a re ceptacle for flowers oi any kind. Being lined with tin, the well can be filled with water or wet moss, and to insure the abso lute freshness of the flowers for a consider able length of time. The top is ornamented with a spray of flowers, tied by a bow of ribbon of the same color, and can, if so wished, be further finished off by a little Mashonalander astride the ridge pole. This device was first made for the dinner table of Lord Bandolph ChurchilL THE TAINT OF THE PADPEB. An English Girl "Who Slaved for Tears to Get Free From It Fidl Man Budget. An extraordinary case was reported at a Huddersfield Guardians' meeting. Five years ago the guardians gave relief to the extent of nearly 50 to Matthew Messenger. Since his death his daughter, who follows the occupation of a charwomt . her maxi mum wages being 8s weekK, baj denied hersclf'all "luxuries" for the sake of repay ing the money and maintaining the "honest independence of the family. A few weeks ago slie accomplished her nuroose.and to the surprise of everyone concerned repaid the j m The Mashonaland Hut whole amount, ihe sacrifice tasking every penny of her savings. - The guardians did, not want to take the money, but "no persuasion would induce her to accept one penny back. It was repre sented to her that illness would find her badly off, but she was so much in earnest in wishing to remove the pauper taint from her family that at length the guardians de cided to invest the money in the .names of the chairman, treasurer and clerk of the union for the time being to be used for her benefit in case of necessity, and at her death the balance, if any, to be paid into the funds of the union, as she has no known relative. The case was described as perfectly unique, and the hope was expressed that such, an in stance of honest poverty would be made known throughout the country. AN ENGLISn UTENSIL. American Housekeepers "Would Do Well to Be Anglo-Maniacs In One Particular Economical Way of Slaking Tea Elllco Serena's Becipog for frugal Dishes. WKirazy Ton the dispatch.! Every kitchen of any pretension should be supplied with a bain-marie, or water bath a vessel as common in theldtehens of England and Prance as a coffee pot. The bain-marie is partly filled with hot water and in it arc placed the sauce-pans contain ing cooked food. This vessel serves the purpose of a double-boiler or steamer in cooking food; but its primary use and'object is to keep the food after it is cooked. Espe cially is it convenient when meals are kept waiting, as by this process meals and vege tables are not dried out. In the absence of a bain-marie a large, deep pan may be used as a substitute. Where economy is necessary in the use of tea, reduce it to a powder and use one-half the quantity taken for a cupful. ITor this bit of information we are indebted to Mr. Thos. J. Murrey, formerly caterer at the Astor House, New York, who advises the use of powdered tea for charitable institu tions. 1 give below some general recipes that will be useful for the housekeeper: Drawn Butter. Drawn batter Is tho foundation of most sauces for meats. It is therefore advisable to have a formula for making this propara- tion, which is at all times In demand. Try the following: Take ono heaping teaspoonfnl of butter, tho samo of flour, stirred in while tho butter Is boding. Add (gradually a pint of water. one reasponmui oi gait ana one-iourtn tea' inoi spoonful of pepper. One-half beef fat may be used and one-half butter, cat in pieces when about to serve. JCream Sherbet. Beat un the yolks of six esas and stir into two quarts of cream, with a dessert spoonful of orange liower water. Let come to the boil onco, strain, add three-fourths of a pound of flno loaf sngar and stir until dis solved. Set on ice, or freeze like ice cream. Tomato Griddle Cakes. Bemovo the skins from ripe tomatoes, slice, cover with fritter batter and fry on a hot, well-greased griddlo. Strawberry Pudding. Beat to a cream a cupful of sifted sugar and a tablespoonful of washed butter. Stir in the beaten yolks of five eggs, two cupfuls of sifted bread crumbs, which have Deen soaked in a quart of rich milk. Flavor to taste and bake until the custard is set. Tako a pint of fresh strawberries, add to the pud ding and cover with a meringue of the beaten whites sweetened and flavored. Sift sugar over tho berries before adding the meringue. Set in an open oven until the meringue Is of a light brown. Serve with rich cream. German Trifle. Put a pint of strawberries, or any other fresh fruit, in the bottom or a dish, sugar the fruit, put in a layer of macaroons and pour over it a custard made of a quart of fresh milk and the yolks of eight eggs, beaten to a froth, sweetened and BavoreUTto taste. Corn Omelet. Six eggs, four ears green corn, one table SDOOnfulof flour, ono cud of milk, salt and pepper. Add the beaten whites, mix gently and bake 30 minutes. Good Plain Cake. Cream together one-half cupful of butter and ono and one-half cupfuls of sugar. Add three well-beaten eggs, and when tho mix ture is light and creamy, pour in one cupful ofsweotmilk. Stir in gradually three cup fuls of sifted flour, flavor to taste, and last, add three level teaspoonfuls of baking pow der slftine It in. Mir the powder sentlv Into the batter, but thorqushly. Pour into greased pans. This will mako two cakes. A cupful of stoned raisins may be added to half the battor. Ham Croquettes. Chop flno, remnants of cooked ham. To ono cupful add two of mashed potatoes, one of cracicr crumbs, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one egg, one tablespoonful of milk. Mix well. Add a little minced parsley and shape as desired. Boll In crumbs ana fry in hot fat. Johnny Cake. One cupful of sweet milk, ono of sour, or both of sour milk, ono teaspoonful of salt, one teasjjoonful of soda, ono tablespoonful of lard or butter, three cups of Indian meal and one of wheat flour. Pour into a greased pan and bake 40 minutes. Tomato Omelet. To a cupful of warm milk add three beaten esjgs the strained juice of two largo tJJmatoes, one tablespoonful of sugar, oue tablespoonful of sweet herbo, seasoning of salt and cayenno pepper. Bake in a buttered pan and serve with the gravy from roasted meat. Here are some frugal dishes: Bice and 3Ieat Potpourri. Take nny kind of cold meat, chop fine, with cold ham or cold salt pork. Season with salt pepper and herbs. Add a little butter and two l)eaten eggs. Arrange In baking dish with cold boiled rice and bake 30 min utes. This mixture mav be shaped into cakes and fried. Baked Tomatoes. Beat into cold stewed tomatoes an egg or two, a few bread crumbs and a little minced parsley. Bake for 20 minutes. Cold Mutton. . "Wrap the mutton cold-boiled or cold roast in thickly buttered papor and put in the oven until thoroughly heated without cooking. Servo with gravy. Hints for the Household. To boil green vegetables so that their color is retained, be suto that the water bolls when ypu put them in. Kcop the boiling up hi ccasingly until they sink a sign that they are done. Cuehaxts, as soon as purchased unless prepared for cooking should be placed In a -colander and washed under the faucet until entirelv free from sand. Pick them over carefully, rub in a cloth to froo from stems, and placo in tho sun or in an open oven to dry. Store in Jars. Peaches may be pared in a neat and expe ditious way "by placing them In a wire basket and immersing for a moment in boiling water. Tninsfer immediately into a pail or waternndpare atonce. Thepoaches should be ripe, but lirm. Granulated flour, the mostccoriomlcal for bread, requires one-third less than other brands. It is not so acceptable for pastry. The quality of b read depends on the kneading, which should be thorough. Knead until tho molding board requires no flouring. This should be the case in 15 or 20 minutes. To mako good coffee the water should be freshly boiled, and soft, if possible. In boiling flsh use hard water (firmness being desired), adding salt when tho boiling point is reached. Emcx Sebexa. A Chance for Yankee Utensils. The Chilean farmer, as a rule, still plows with a sharp-pointed piece of wood, some times shod with iron, sometimes not, and has never known any better harrow than a bundle of brush; while all the threshing of his enormous crop is done by the primitive method of driving horses to and fro over the grain. A Fact About Coffee. ' Coffee, as a good disinfectant and absorb ent, takes in a great deal of the flavor and smell of anythihg it stands near, and hence in some places the Identical brand will taste quite dilferent from what it docs in others. To avoid this, ground coffee should, be kept in an air-tight receptacle. . CTEpjrrsBimG-'-DKPXo POETRY IN TIE DIET. -1 ' - , Delights of the Blooming Flowers and the Budding Trees. THE GARDEN IS" WOMAN'S REALM. "Forms of Grace and Complexions That Charm Come With Digging. AN IDEAL OCCUPATION FOB THE SEX fwnlTTESrOBTBX DISPATCH. J T is hard to tear one's self from the young plants In the garden, the young carnations which show new col ors in tempting rich ness, the tender mim mulus, the lemon verbenas which make the very earth at their roots fragrant, and the dark rosemary, whose leaves are scented with remembrance. Everything calls to outdoor life, and yet it is pleasant to turn from the May cold when the east wind comes up and read such pleasant letters as unknown women write. One which has interested me more than any comes from a city teacher who desires to change her vocation for healthier work in the open air. She is anxious to learn gar dening to support herself, but laments that she has never neon able to find any family in the country that would receivo and teacn her how to raise flowers and fruit, The let ter is lost, but its gist is well remembered. The Case Is Bather Bare. It is not quite the only application of the kind ever received, but the women who wish to learn gardening are usuallv driven into -it by circumstances, and it is rare that one issensiDie enougn lojaKeuup oi ner own accord. Here and there a widow left with an orchard and garden readj made to her hand manages to make a living for them, but most of the successes which read so charmingly in domestic stories are evolved solely from the writers' inner consciousness. Gardening is hardly easy or light work for anybody. It is not solely picturesque training of vines or gathering painted fruit. It means getting up at 4 or 5 o' mornings, to pick green worms off the salad plants or burn the webb off of apple trees, going over lots from end to end with a daisy cutter, clipping the dandelions before they run to seed and sow destruction for acres. It means getting up in the middle of the night to see that the sash is not blown off the hot beds and keeping up fires cold nights when the mercury dips below freezing about mid night. It means ten to twelve hours' good work each day in the growing season and steady care and forethought, the rest of the year. It will not do for the gardener to mind sun or shower, damp or chill Some Small and Sour Jealousy. As for the encouragement a woman finds in the occupation because she is a woman, that is gone by. The small market garden ers and greenhouse men do not weloome competitors of either sex. Some of the sourest, smallest jealousies ever met are found among small florists. A woman's garden is always the last to get plowed, because men think it isn't worth while to consider her. Laborers who work by the day or month will do little enough for men employers, but when it comes to working for a woman I know I could do as much myself any day when well as the lazy Jakes pretend to do for me, though they are always ready to charge the highest wages for the favor of working for a woman at alL All Ihe encouragement I get from a farmer editor of 'experience is that a woman can't do anything with a gar den. She can't, weighted with the shiftless, indifferent, usual sort of workers, with ill health herself, and interference and upset ting of all her plans, where she should ex pect help, which is the experience of most women stepping into open fields of labor. Neither one s neighbors nor one's friends are apt to prove encouraging to new ven tures. Hiving Poetry In Gardening, "What then? Give up? Never, nor yet set your teeth nor clinch your hands, as demonstrative little women do, and end there. But quietly in the depths, of jour mind clinch resolution to succeed or die in making it unpleasant for whoever gets in the way of your success. Gardening is too sweet, brave and life-giving a pursuit not to be taken by women. Only the best sort of womanhood has the will and enthusiasm to work through it, and no calling has richer rewards. What is it to work from 4 in the morning to 8 at night in planting time when one feels lithe as a hickory bow and drops to dreamless sleep to wake in the flush of dawn as if new created? All day long living poetry is about one. To live and work among flowering boughs or fruited ones, fed by fragrance ofvine and aromatics, with Virgil, Theocritus and Ten nyson running in one's head while one plants, prunes and dibbles, every day to be greeted dv some now, lovely fruit or blos som, is a life worth living. Yott can work either as clowns do, reluctantly, or as poets do, for love of labor, Very soon the work will-captivate you and you cannot let it go. I have worked in spring rain all the fore noon, setting out raspberries and sweetbrier lrom the woods, without catching a sneeze of cojd, and wrought from dawn till dark uvci uiiuiig lur sucur uuiigub xu tue juittjr, with far less fatigue than six hours' desk work costs. Any woman who has to earn her bread cannot do so in a sweeter way than gardening, and everyone who is not afraid of work, and is willing to learn it, ought to be encouraged by every mcan3. Not the Task of a Day. The only way to learn quickly and com pletely is to enter some gardening family and give one's time for a year or two for the sake of learning. It is not a craft that -can bo picked up as one goes. A novice, to whom the names of most plants are strangers, will be yery well paid by receiving board, instruction and practice for the first two years. t English women of the better class are much less afraid of real work in gardens than our finical American ladies. Even a village woman here feels it beneath her dignity to dig a flower border with a fork or spade. Ifshe docs not fancy it ungenteel she has been taught that it is injurious to hqr health. I have questioned physicians about this and the reply has invariably been that if a woman wants to strengthen her self so as to be free irom the ordiuary ail ments of her sex she can do nothing better than to"use spade, fork and wheelbarrow to real effect. Beginning with what her strength will bear she will find strength and suppleness and increase surprisinglv and delightfully working in the open afr and using tools which call out exertion. Gardening is vastly better for physical de velopment than indoor gymnastics, because it calls muscles into such varied play. Why Farmers Get So Crooked. Old farmers grow stiff-jointed and bent, noj; by work, but by the utter neglect of hygiene, which prevails in rural districts. Tne high riding boot with thin cork sole is the proper shoe for the gardener, -and loose flannel trousers held by elastic around the waist and falling below the knee protect from chilliness and from insects. There is no particular need of a woman dressing like a scarcerow to rake her flower borders, but it is far less appropriate for her to go to work in the trim ruffles and fancy hat which she would, wear for a stroll on the street. She does not wont to get herself up as a garden ornament to go with the cost iron seats, terra cotta urns and fili gree trellises. Something like a flannel mountain suit clearing the ankles, with a hat just large enough to shade the eyes, has far more the beauty of fitness, and any woman who doesn t see possibilities of pictnresqueness in such an outfit has small taste. She will probably find that a daisy complexion of 1 sltkdat, - mat z pink and white is best set off by bine flan nel or gray linen, and this complexion she can have with open air, sound sleep and a little care with a good cosmetic. She need not become a Blowzaund because she lives among daises and hybrid perpetual roses, and there is no earthly needf of a coat of freckles and tan if one begins the season with the right kind of cosmetic. The Development of the Figure, The well bred English women who love gardens arc excellent examples, both in complexion and good sense. Mrs. "Lou don's Gardening for Ladies,.' written fifty years ago, remains the most complete guide for the amateur bower gardener, a work which shows an author of ability and cul ture far beyond the common. Tet-she recommends the labor of garden work, spading and digging, picturing garden tools which are anything but the childish affairs now sold for ladies' gardening; and a wheelbarrow which looks to be particularly meant for service. Digging with a light-handled garden fork in sunshiny air is particularly strengthening to the muscles about the hips, while for that particular development of the figure which women crave the best possible pro scription is a course of work out of doors which brings the muscles of the shoulders into play. English wbmen of refinement are most, fond of real garden work. Ono of the rewards open to any quiet gardener is that of bringing some new hybrid into flower which will enrich the world long after he or she is under the mould. The burial of all others one could wlBh would be to have one's ashes after cremation scattered at the roots of one's flowers. It Is an Ideal Occupation. In truth gardening is to be the physical .regeneration of women, and, I believe, their most successful mode of income. Cultivators cry out "there is no money to be made in gardening," because they cannot make fortunes in the turn of a hand, as in business speculations. But women will be glad to reap what they disdain, A living does not content the "rousing young business man" of the day, but women who toil hard for un certain returns, teachers fretted by the irk some supervision of school boards and the worse pecking of "the parents," office women growing grizzled in nair and temper by lives shut away from sun and fresh air, and all the doubtfubclass who want some thing to expend their energies upon with out particular talent for anvthintr. will find gardening the open way to a living and satisfaction in it- I hear the buzz of angry protest against this opinion. "It is too hard workj" from women who stand from morning until night behind counters and faint in dog days for want of air. "It is too coarse," from dress makers twho cannot imagine existence possi ble without tight corsets and the last cut of skirts, who lunch on beer and strong cheese in foul workshops, and whose gossip is often fouler yet. "It doesn't pay and is not re fined,' from women who are haggard over stock concerns and scarcely have time to glance at a book or picture long enough to even talk about it; who must concoct and cajole, stoop, flatter and endure slights 1o carry out their business projects, whereas people must have fresh flowers and fruits, and the finest command almost their' own prices. Trash That Gets Into Stomachs. Nothing is harder to find to-day than fine fruit or really choice flowers, though the markets maybe choked with inferior stuff I have gone this spring through the best markets of the metropolis hunting high price shops for fruit fit to be eaten by a per son in delicate health and found little or it, even at fancy prices. India river oranges at 60 cents a dozen, and Hamburg grapes at SI a pound, were the only things relishing or suitable to im paired nutrition. What is not good for a sick person to eat is not very wholesome for the well, and is certain to pull down the strength sooner or later. We have a good deal to learn to be choice in our eating. We know enough to reject tuberculous meat, but are insensible to tuberculous diseased fruits and its corrosive acids. The trash that goee into the mouths" of a city is unspeakable. People will know the difference just as soon as really goo,d fruit becomes plenty in the market, and that will only Come by the careful cultivation of small gardens, a work for which women are suited by their painstaking taste, and it will be a public, benefit to assist them to undertake it. The Corsets Must Go. ' The disagreeablencss and drawbacks of gardening are not few, but every year's ex perience convinces me that thev are bv no means invincible. Women" will be quick est to devise remedies for uncomfortable conditions. They will find that they must give up corsets, and that gardening' can't be attended to in a blue veil and ruffled muslin frock. They will be vastly more comfort able in the flannel blouse or the cool linen which the English lady chooses for her gar den and country dresses. They will also find that a mat to kneel upon, a low seat for many operations with a portable awning are all practicable, and that it is possible to leave wbrk in the noon sun for the sorting of fruit and flowers in shady, airy sheds. The College Boys "Will Help. The best fruit gardensare so planted as to secure shade from parching suns,and though second rate cultivators will laugh at the no tion J do not say this without the best authority. As for help, all the idle factory hands will line fences rather than handle the spade, but the ministers' sons and the boys preparing for college are not above working out of school hours, I am proud to learn, and we can look to them for help un-til-tsiur slender, firm-built Dianas gain strength and practice to lay out the garden themselves. The Order of the world is reversing itself. The lower classes disdain labor, slight and shirk it by every possible means, while ed ucated young men of good families are find ing a charm in intelligent culture of the soil. Best of all, women of taste and char acter begin to look into the garden for their best paradise of independence and security. There is no getting through the world any how withgut work, and the sweetest work in it is gardening, without committees or stockholders to worry one. - SlHKLEY DABB. LATE MnXTNERY NOTIONS. Simplicity Is to Be Aimed at, but There Aro Some Bather Complex. Simplicity is most desired, and milliners are now robbing hats of everything .they possibly can, and seldom put more than three different materials on one hat A dainty confection for a brunette was made of four straight strings of larga jet beads forming a bond with a jet aigrette in the front and falling over the open crown. An Empress Josephine crown of jet is placed at the back, and back of this is a bunch of full blown La France roses, waving and nodding with each movement of the wearer. A striking Spanish hat is of the placque shape, the crown of which ismadc of crushed yellow roses, and through this crawls a golden serpent. So little is black used that it is almost a. novelty, and some of the strange designs have black upon them to in tensity the effect. A hat of extreme originality is a fine white Neapolitan, the brim of which is cov ered with black oats and a bunch of bats standing high at the back with a small black bird picking the oats at the brim's edge, -which is a gentle reminder of harvest time. Flowers are now tinted to exactly match the predominating color of the hat, and the soft blending of the same shades produce our "'poems of gray or tan or one of the many shades of brown."- An illus tration of this is a medium large shape de signed for a demi-blonde trimmed in gray chrysanthemums exactly matching the straw braid. The crown is of silver cloth edged with galoon and held in place with silver daggers. An equally attractive hat is of straw colored fancy braid, the brim of which is covered with yellow hyacinths and faced with yellow crepe-de-chine. The brim is stylishly tied up "with a gold ribbon and a bow of the same is placed at the back. No matter what merits different materials may have none will be so popular as the fancy imported braids of straw, wood Belgrade and moss. tyTH isqv: A SPASM OF ECOSOMT. Desperate Effort to Get on the High fioad to Great Hiches. A tfOVEL SAYINGS HSTITDTIOtf. The President Was a Pretty and Bather Indulgent Young ladjv ENDED IN A MORTGAGE FOREOIOSUBE twnirreN job ths dispatch.) 'When Jack Hartley told me" that he was going to save money I wa3 absolutely cer tain of two things: First, that he wouldn't do it, and, second, that he wouldn't try if he hadn't fallen in love. "I've discovered a new system of economy," said he, "and it's a sure win ner." "Is it as good as that system Of beating the races " "Don't, Howdy!" he cried; "I'm done with all that now. Ah, old fellow, how To Sank JUs Spare Change. poor, and weak, and silly all those forms of wasting a man s time appear when he has learned what love is I I'd rather sit in 'that little 7x9 coop which Mrs. Sand rents me for S4 a week (and expects it in advance, too; may remorse deyour her eternally!) I'd rather sit in that cheerless cage and think of her " "Her? Do you mean Mrs. Sand?" "You know whom I mean," he said, rer proachfully, "Miss Leigh." "The heiress?" ' "Yes; and, Howdy, I have won her. I speak of it with reverence as a blessing un deserved, and "to yon alone as my best friend, but it is true." A Firm Financial Basis Needed. "Andler aristocratic family? Do they have the remarkable penetration to approve of her choice?" "Her mother bows to me," said Jack, "and her uncle doesn't shoot me.-1 know he wants to do it, but never mind. I cannot expect too much recognition immediately. I must get upon a firm financial basis first. Don't laugh at me; the richest men are those who began without a cent." "In the last three years," said I, "you have lost no opportunity of puttingy"ur selfi into that condition so favorable to the accumulation of wealth." He did not heed my sarcasm, and I re pented it immediately. "Seeing how matters stand," said I, 2 our Uncle David ought to help you ing. He could give you $100,003 and never miss it." "Miss it!" exclaimed Jaok, "you don't know him- If he dropped a penny into the Atlantic Ocean, he would go down to the bot tom in 'a thousand fathoms of water to get it." "Well, let us hojio that he may," I said, cheerfully; "I believe you are his heir." "Yes; so he says. But while he lives I can expect nothing. He believes that spare Qiet, thin clothes and his own shining ex ample are all that I can possibly require in the struggle for wealth. Did you ever know a man whom blind, blundering luck had made rioh who wasn't always preaching patience and frugality to the young? 'Look at me,' says Uncle Dave. 'I started at the foot of the ladder.' So he did, and he'd have been there yet if fate hadn't turned the ladder upside down. How Uncle Have Was Frugal. "A relative left Uncle Dave a" tract of wild land out in Indiana in .the old days. Eiaminlng the Sank. Dave tried to "sell it for 9 shillings and couldn't. By and by somebody came along and wanted to found a town there. Dave tried to.drive him away. He wouldn't go. A lot more men came, and before long they'd built a city. They encroached on Dave's land. He didn't do anything about it, but one day a lawyer got hold of his claim and offered to push it. He did so and won over f 800,000, though Dave nearly ruined the case by his testimony. Of course the lawyer expected to steal it all, but just as he was ready to do it, he got converted at a camp meeting in New Jersey and turned over the whole boodle to. its rightful pos sessor. 'Industry and frugality, industry and frugality,' says Uncle; David, 'those are all you need. Look at me!' " . Jack was beginning to look downhearted, so I asked him about that, system of econo my of which he hnd-spokon "in such glowing terms. He brightened up at once "It was her idea," he said. "I confessed to her that I had never learned to save money, so she said that she would teach me. She bought onj of "those toy banks, and every time I call she makes me put all my small change into it except a nickel to get home .with. We're going-to open it in a year, and she says that it "will surprise me to find how much I have .saved.' " Not an Entirely New Idea. I told Jack how glad I was that he had at last found somebody whose wise precepts he would obey. I' pointed out to him that Mis Leigh's ideas Were exactly in line with the advice which I had always given him. I said that she must be a very sen sible girl. I showed him that if he had followed my advice earlier he might now have something in bank. I have nothing there myself, but it was not necessary to say so to Jaek. In short, while endeavor ing to avoid an appearance of egotism, I called his attcntibn to the fact that, pri marily, he had to thank me for everything which would result from"his present course, unless it turned out badly. I believe that I understand the duties and responsibilities of friendship. But after he had gone I began to have doubts whether he could re.TJ" y be trained to walk in the way of frugality. It is pretty nearly a lost art in New York. Experience has shown that, the old way of accumulat ing a fortune by- fasting and the mortifica tion of the flesh is too slow. It is much better to find on old-timer who has been through this painful process, and then sell him valuable real estate, in the Great Amer ican Desert, The thrifty Wall street farmer who rises with the brandy and soda, and goes merrily forth to mend the fences which confine his stock to a 1 per cent margin, is the pattern of industry held np before the I WMl rwiVife PtVjSB m1 FT-"' Fv3?f I WmJL Eka MsM I Era f&ZiiSi :3 young men of the metropolis. The frugal youth who saves 15 cents by eating a cheap lunch, and then spends $11 on a dinner for two l? quite common in these parts, and nothing short of the limited express for Canada is regarded as fast. I had known Jack to have spasms of economy before. I had seen him buy a pair of shoes for ?0, instead of $8, as he had at first intended: and for- tha next six-weeks whenever he had an inclination to spend 12, he aid so, Decause, after ail, it was only tne ?2 which he had saved on the shoes. He really was frugal in that way; he could make the thought of a little saving last through more extravagances than any other man I ever saw. And sometimes he carried his frugality into small things. He wouldn't think of smoking a 23 cent cigar after din ner: he would buy three for 60 cents and smoke two of them. Jack's Hetuods of Economy. Knowing him so well, I was anxious to hear the story of the little bank, and I had no idea that it would be necessary to wait a year for it. I felt reasonably sure that a financial panic would overtake that institu tion long Defore its charter ran out It was inNovemberthatlhad the first conversa tion with him about it. Lajt week he came to see me again; and, with a countenance in which pride and humility struggled for the mastery, he presented the first (and last) annual report of the Leigh-Hartley institu tion of savings. "I won't hear anybody say a word against that bank," said he. "It was a splendid idea, and the most convenient thing that ever was. It made monev, too, at the start. I made it a point to have quite a lot of dimes and quarters every time I called. When I happened to be out of change I would go into a candy store not far from her house and get a bill broken. Of course I had to buy some candy as a return for the accommodation; but that didn't count. I should have spent'the money anyway. Kept Drawing on the Surplus. It was awful handy, having the bank, because sometimes when I called I'd be utterly busted, and wouldn't know where I was going to get half a dollar for breakfast next morning. Then we'd draw on the bank, and it was great fun fishing out the. quarters with a hat-pin. She was president of the bank and I was cashier, and we used to learn the principles of banking by watch ing each other all the time. Sometimes I'd play that I was trying to get the money and abscond, Then she'd have to hold my hands " "Don.V Jack," said I; "let's stick to finance." "It wa3 wonderful the way the funds held, out," he continued. "We got any quantity of theater tickets out of it. She would always protest against making such an im proper use of the bank's money, but I would show her that we had a rattling surplus, and Had OverdrawnZSis Account. 1 that would settle it. Well, last week, you know, I was in a difficulty. I had only ?20 coming to me, and I owed ?65. Payment couldn't be put off any longer; I had. tried every scheme but flight and suicide. The case was getting desperate, when suddenly I bethought me of the bank. It didn't seem possible that there could be as much as $45 in it, but there was only ono way to find out, and that evening I laid the case before the president. Most fellows would be ashamed to mention such a thing, but she has always urged me to be perfectly frank with her. Some Securities "Were Left. "The president looked serious. She said in a hesitating way that she was afraid there wasn't quite so much money in the safe, but there were various securities, etc I knew what she meant. She proposed to put the balance into the bank herself. Of course I couldn't permit anything of that sort. While we were arguing the question I detected her in the act of examining a little piece of paper on the sly. I said, 'what is that?' " 'It's the President's private account with the bank,' said she holding it .behind her. " The cashier has a right to see it,' I in sisted. " 'Oh, no he hasn't,' she cried, and made a motion to throw it into the fire. I grabbed it ana tooc it to tne iignt. "Howdy, when I had digested the con tents of that document I felt small enough to crawl through the little hole in the top of the bank. It was a memorandum which the dear girl had been keeping, and it showed that I had overdrawn my account $79 50. Nothing but my natural indecision saved my life! We were on Fifth avenue and I couldn't make up my mind whether the East river or the North river was the nearer. She saw how badly I felt and she came and took my hand. Mortgage Offered, Accepted and Foreclosed. " 1 was only trying to encourage you, Jack,' said she. 'What is mine will be yours some day, and I thought that if at the end of the year you found a good round sum in the bank it would help to teach you prudence.' " 'What can I do about this? said I. 'Without a penny in the world, what return can I make to you for this money ? If I mortgage myself to you, body and soul, I'm not worth 579 50. " 'If you do, Jack, said she, Til fore close it right away.' , "So the document is drawn, Howdy; signed and scaled in heaven, where matches are made, they say. We are to be married in May. Her mother has consented." "But how about her uncle," I ventured to inquire. "He'll shoot you now, certainly." "The strangest part of it is that he offers no objection, said Jack. "I think he mnst have had private advices 'regarding my Uncle David's health." HOWAKD FlELDIXG. STOCK ENTIRELY NEW. FINE WALL PAPER AT ALL WM. TRINKLE&CG 541 WOOD STREET, (bask or comrencE Bunsnro.) DEALERS IN L1NCRUSTA WALTON -j.- a. B Our large sales are reducing our stock, and those who desire the advantaj. of selecting from a large stockof fine new goods should come at once. - .,- - , , - war. tbciklh a cotS THE TROLLEY SYSTEM. A Point Pittsburg Is Likely to Forget in Its Transit Progress. EiECTEicrrr in chukch organs. Comets Will Hereafter Announce Tfcjfer Mh rival by a Call BelL THE UTILIZATION OP WATER POWEB rwaiTTES POE TflX DISrATCH.J A technical paper, in a very sensible ar ticle on "The Fear of Electricity," points out how much the interested opposition to the introduction of the trolley system into some cities is maintained and strengthened by the popular fear of electricity. It says: Men havo a great dread of the Invisible, and it is probable that this Is the secret of their fear of electricity. What thoy see they can provide against; but an invisible danger goes direct to the marrow; Will men ever overcome this dread of electricity? It is to he bopod not to the measure that will serve to make them careless, and it is to be presumed not until they become universally indifferent In a thunder storm. They may, however, so far overcome it that in the cow ardice of the multitude can be no longer found a ready means of obstructing elec trical enterprises. The perversion of facts as to the danger and working of the trolley system, which has, unfortunately, been allowed to influ ence publie opinion, is at hut having tie ef fect of eliciting from the press of various cities the actual truth as to how the system is regarded in their communities. A lead ing Syracuse paper says by way of rebuttal of the charges of danger and inefficiency which had been leveled against the system i The trolley has been found to do its work In winter and summer. Syraouse, in a spirit of justice, thus makes known its state of mind. We also observe that Rochester is of the samo way of thinking. The trolley Is In deed a means of rapid transit infinitely superior to the quickest service it is possible to give with horse power. Until the problem of the storage battery is solved, the over head wire must supplant the lumbering gait of the horse. An Auburn organ says that, with the ex ception of some slight drawbacks, "Auburn has nothing to complain of, but very much to rejoice over and is really happy in the possession of the trolley." The city of Washington has established a wise prece dent. Recognizing that improved transit facilities were Imperatively necessary, it gave a franchise to the promoters of tho trolley system for a short term, on the stip ulation that at its expiration the overhead wires should be removed, and the system superseded by the storage battery. The con sequence is that Washlngton.where the stor age battery has been successfully intro duced, will soon be supplied exclusively with that system, and that without subject ing the ptfblic to the inconvenience which tho want of a quick and safe street railway in the meantime would have caused. Pittsburg and Allegheny might profit by this exam ple. The new electric lines are such an Im provement over the old horse systems that the possibility of getting rid of the overhead wires have been forgotten. Though infin itely superior to the system in vogue on the lines crossing the Sixth street bridge, the sights along which, when travel Is brisk, have come to be positively abhorrent, so great Is the burden placed on tho horses and mules, the greater improvement of thetor ago system has been overlooked. Revolution In Mining "Work. Electricity Is effecting a complete rovolu. tion. in mining work. A large number of mtoe3 in this country are being fitted out with equipments which will practically put an end to manual labor in all the most im portant operations. This change is destined to have a further result. The colliery sta tistics of the last two years show that during periods aggregating about one-third of each year a suspension of mining was necessita ted by the inabllityof the market to absorb a larger product, with the introduction of electrical maohinery the cost of production will be so reduced that anthracite coal can be used where hitherto it has been impossi ble to adopt it. These advantages are now betas appreciated in other countries, and an order has been received by a Jfew Torkflrm of electrical engineers from a Canadian mining company for a plant that will include an underground tramway, with power suffi cient to maintain a uniform speed of eight to nine miles an hour, with 130 loaded cars con tinually moving. There will bo 600 incan descent lights in tho mines and the drills and cutters will be operated by tho same current. The Benefits of Cheap Electricity. The pleasing p'rospect in store for cities possessing available water power is indi cated in the letter of a Spokane correspond ent, who says that through the utilization of tho falls of the Spokane river the local electric companv Is able to sunnlv current at such low rates that electricity for motive power Li generally used throughout the city. All the printing presses and most of the elevators of the city are run electrically, as well as fans for cooling and ventilating nurnoses. and motors for drivlni? nmnm machines, puming water and an Infinite number of other pnrposes. .tjecino Applications to organs. The application of electricity to organs in various ways has greatly increased the re sources of the Instrument, and the ease with which the organist can produce any desired effect. For Instance in the Garden City Cathedral, L. L, two portions of the organ are in the chancel, one in either side, another down in the crypt, another in the tower, and Still another in the roof of the nave. The organist seated at the console on the right hand side of the chancel can play on any one or more of these portions, or on all simul taneously as desired. In Grace Church, New York City, the old organ standing in the west gallery Is connected with the new organ on the sonth side- of the chancel, where the organist sits and controls from one key board Doth organs at hia pleasure. The key board of an organ can. now be moved with ease to any part of a church, and played on there, greatly to the advantage of the per former, who can thus judge more clearly of the balance of the various tones of his In strument. Tho musical effect as heard from a distance is a complete revelation to an or ganist, and leads to the use of entirely new combinations, and to effects of harmony not before suspected to be within the range of the instrument. Another remarkable feat ure about this new method of organ playing is the Instantaneous response to the pressure of the keys It renders possible. The touch seems absolutely lighter and more rapid in response than that of a'piano, and it appears impossible to press the key, no matter how delicately, without the corresponding pipe instantly connecting its note. The recovery is equally surprising and the note will "re peat" when it is struck in most rapid suc cession. To the organist this will suggest possibilities that are little short of marvel ous. The pedals are illuminated by a small Incandescent lamp placed inside the console. 3 PRICES. vM" cecals? .&r - i .th 3a
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