A Short Biography.
“This is the life of little me.
the wife of Beerbohm Tree.”
Lady Beerbohm Tree when asked to
write her ‘life’’—surely the shortest
Iam
Thus
autobiography on record. Lady Tree
is shortly to appear cn the variety
stage, and patrons of the music halls
will then have an opportunity of see-
ing one of our very cleverest and
most distinguished actresses; for, be-
side her histrionic gifts, Lady Tree
from an early age developed a taste
for classics and mathematics. Her
favorite subject was Greek, at which
~ she was most learned, and many years
ago she took part in a Greek play
before an audience which included
so distinguished a classical authority
as the late Mr. Gladstone.—Tit-Bits.
Success With Dinners.
Success in dinner giving is some-
thing like success with flowers. The
guests must be grouped as artistically
with regard to congeniality as the
flowers are with reference to color
and form, and both must have the
right sort of environment. The room
must be cool, but not too cool, and
the viands must be well chosen, well
cooked and well served. The lights
must neither be too dim nor too
bright, and the flowers should have
hour.
cup of sugar.
to oven to brown.
hot or cold.
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but little odor, for, however delicious,
the fragrance of flowers grows heavy
as the evening wears on. With all
this and congeniality, a dinner cannot
fail, and in those few hours one can
get better acquainted with those on
either side than would be possible in
weeks under less favorable circum-
stances.—New York Tribune.
Commercial Instinct.
“1t is the fashion nowadays to
sneer at the commercial instinct, and
to despise it as something common
and vulgar; but in reality it is noth-
ing of the sort. The essence of vul-
garity is the concealment of vulgarity.
The common man who knows that he
is common ceases to be common by
this knowledge; by realizing that he
is not a gentleman he almost becomes
one. The really vulgar people are the
people who are forever pretending
that they are not vulgar; the truly
ill-bred are those who are constantly
parading their gentility. There is
nothing that is vulgar in itself; it
only becomes vulgar when :t pretends
to be something else. Therefore the
commercial instinct is never a com-
mon instinct, except when it sets it-
self up as not being commercial at
all.”’—Ellen Thornycroft Fowler, in
Home Notes.
No Shame.
In Turkey there is no shame. at-
tached to slavery. Can the same be
said of our domestic service? Should
a servant marry a rich man here and
be raised into the ornamental class
would she not find it hard to live
down her former state? In Turkey
the mother of Sultan Abdul was a
slave, as is the wife of the Khedive
of Egypt, and no disgrace attaches
to the fact. It is this which primarily
differentiates Turkish slavery from
what we are accustomed to associate
with the word—this and the fact that
the slaves do not come from an in-
ferior and servile race, but from
among themselves. There is no caste
in Turkey. All persons below the
Sultan are equal before Allah. Every
man and woman has a chance to rise,
according to his personality—his in-
telligence, charm or beauty.—Metro-
politan Magazine.
Diamonds and pearls are the ruling
jewels for great occasions.
Attractive skirts and waists
joined in semi-princess style.
Broadcloth, in pale shades, is high-
1y popular for evening gowns.
Skirts of zibeline, in stripes and
plaids, are worn with plain coats.
Collars and lappels are wide and
long on nearly all coats and jackets.
Coats distinctively separate and for
dressy wear are long and rather full.
are
Geld and silver cloth is used as lin- :
ing to the sheer net yoke and sleeves.
For evening wear satins of more or
less lustre are holding on tenaciously.
Fur trimming has appeared on
: terial.
some of the most notable opera
ZOwWnSs.
Jersey top petticoats are still pop-
ular and promise to increase in de-
mand.
White gilt buckles are still in evi-
dence; some fancy footwear has buck-
les matching the color of the gown.
The tucked sleeve is smaller than
the one which is plain and either
may be made in the full or shorter
length,
, White jet plays a leading part in
decorating young girls’ dance frocks,
and it also decorates white and black
gowns.
Instead of satin for brides, this
year will witness the dawning star
of all dull finish crepe surface ma-
For dressing sacques flannels and
albatross are very appropriate as well
as cotton crepe and other wash ma-
‘terials.
Duteh collars will be worn in the
house because of their comfort, but
for modish street wear they will be
less seen.
The beautiful willow plates are
coming into their own again after the
rage for fruit trimmings on late sea-
son hats.
Cocoanut Pudding.—One pint of milk, two eggs, two ta-
blespoonfuls of cocoanut, one- -half cup cracker scrumbs, one
saltspconful of salt, one teaspoonful of vanilla.
separately, adding yolks to the milk and then mixing with
cocoanut and salted cracker crumbs; flavor and bake a half
Make a meringue of the whites of two eggs and one
Put on pudding after it is baked and return it
Serve with cream. This is good either
Beat eggs
~ There is no trimming on a waist
which gives it so much individuality
as a touch of hand embroidery work
or braiding.
Pekin messaline is the name given
to a particularly alluring silk striped
chiffon cloth that is quite a favorite
for blouses.
Among the new umbrellas are
those with palmetto handles. The
handles are handsomely carved and
highly polished.
Very pretty with coats and colored
blouses is the deep cuff of linen with
embroidery buttonholed scallops and
pleated lace frill.
Sumptuous wraps for the afternoon
as well as for the evening are made
with wide, loose sleeves, and many
have the burnous drapery.
Beads and braid combine to make
some of the new and unusual caboch-
ons on hats and gowns. They are
to be had in a variety of colors.
Philippine Waterways.
The city of Manila has a perfect
system of canals running in all direc-
tions. These canals are extremely
valuable to business houses having
their warehouses and go-downs along
their banks. Cargoes are taken from
the ships in the bay and transferred
by lighter over these streams and the
goods landed in storehouses, ofttimes
far back from the bay shore in the
heart of the city. The city recently
appropriated a large sum to extend,
dredge out and deepen, and to wall
up this valuable system. Persons are
often transported from their homes
into the shopping districts by water,
the covered bancas resembling the
gondolas of inundated Venice. Small
motor boats will evenutally carry pas-
sengers and tow barges over these
canals.
There is sufficient idle waterpower
in the unharnessed mountain streams
and falls in the islands to turn every
wheel used in manufacture in the
archipelago. Several of these falls
are located near Manila, and plans
are already on foot to utilize their
energy. There is scarcely a province
which has not from one to a dozen
big waterfalls, nearly all of which
will some day be valuable to man in
more ways than one.—Cassier’s Mag-
azine.
The Secret of Bronze.
It has been supposed that the an-
cients had some method of harden-
ing bronze tools, the secret of which
has been lost. Professor Gowland,
of the British Institute of Metals,
says that the ancient bronzes were
very impure, so that their hardness
could not have been due, as is some-
times assumed, to their exceptional
purity. On the other hand; inasmuch
as modern bronzes by careful ham-
mering can be made as hard as the
ancient ones, the legend of a lost art
(in bronze-hardening seems to be ex-
ploded.—Youth’s Companion.
Difficulty is being experienced by
Japanese banks in finding employ-
ment for their deposits. The First
Bank is said to have 8,600,000 yen
($4,200,000) lying idle and the Mit-
sul Bank 7,200,000 yen ($3,600,000).
they may marry
titles? Talk about lookin’ forward to |
A remarkanly long wireless {fans
mission was recently recorded by the
steamship Tennessee, five days out
from Honolulu, which succeeded in
catching a message from Table Biuif
on the coast of California. The mes-
sage was a weather report, which was
afterward verified by the Navy De-
partment. The distance of trahsmis-
sion was 4580 miles. — Scientific
American.
A little salt in one’s drinking water
is ‘good medicine.” Salt applications
to the skin are wonderfully soothing
and wholesome. There is nothing
better as a wash for the throat and
the nasal passages to prevent or to
cure catarrhal troubles than a solu-
tion of common salt in plain water
—the cheapest remedy one can find.
Many persons give their eyes a daily
bath of cold salt water, with Sai ly
factory results.
A recent test of wireless telephony
was made to show its value for trans-
mitting “music. Several selections
were sung in a transmitter at Park:
avenue and Fortieth street, New
York, and were listened to by a group
of newspaper men at the Metropolitan
Tower. At times the singing was
very clear, but frequently it was im-
possible to hear anything but a con-
fused blur of sound. — Scientific
American.
Dr. E. E. Barnard, of Yerkes Ob-
servatory,
Comet A 1910 on January 21, 24, and
February 1, 3, 4 and 6. Cloudy
weather prevented the taking of any
other photographs. Dr. Barnard in-
forms us that one of the interesting
features of this comet was an exten-
sion from the head about one-quarter
of a degree long toward the sun. This
extension was in a line with the pro-
longation of the southern edge of the
tail.—Scientific American.
The mechanical laboratory of the
Polytechnic Institute, of Worcester,
Mass., has undertaken a study of the
relative thermal conductivity of rolled
copper and of copper deposited by
electrolysis and not rolled. The con-
ductivity of the rolled copper was
found to exceed that of the electro-
lytic copper by thirty per cent. This
is an interesting instance of the
change in the internal structure of
metals which is produced by mechan-
{cal treatment.—Scientific American.
Girls’ Prospects Best.
The lady who demanded equal
rights was speaking.
“Every boy born in this country,”
she said, “may have the proud hope
that the people will some day elevate
him to the Presidency. That is very
fine for the boys. It gives them some-
thing to look forward to. But what
about the girls? What glorious
future do you picture for them? Why
should aot they, too, have the right
to—"’ :
“Paraon me, madame,” interrupted
a little man who had a front seat in
the gallery, “we do give the girls
something to look forward to. Ain't
every man who has a daughter trying
his best to get rich, and don’t all the
girls from the time they get through
the kindergartens begin to hope that
foreigners with
a glorious future! Why, for every boy
that grows up to be President twenty
girls get titles.”—Chicago Record-
Herald.
, Etiology of the “Rum Blossom.”
"In a recent address before the
New York State Medical Society Dr.
L. Duncan Bulkley, one of the lead-
ing specialists on skin diseases, dis-
cussed the very interesting and, im-
portant question of the effect of al-
cohol on the skin. Briefly summed
up, his conclusions were that taken
internally in any considerable amount
alcohol tends to weaken the resisting
power of the skin, as well as the rest
of the body, to infection; that in
many diseases of the skin its effect is
bad; but that applied locally as a
wash or dressing or disinfectant it
might be useful. The common al-
cohgdlic beverages, he said, differed
very considerably in their pathologi-
cal effect, from which, it seems fair
to assume, that other substances play
a part in the result..—New York
Press.
Not the Sealskin,
Simeon Ford, apropos of wifely
sympathy, said at a recent dinner in
New York:
“How hard it is when the wife is
unsympathetic!
“Poor Jones trudged home through
zero weather the other night and,
blowing on his frozen hands, said
solemnly:
“ “Well, I've got the sack.’
“ ‘Oh, you dear!’ his wife cried.
‘The sealskin or the other one?’
‘““ “The other one, said Jones,
laughing, bitterly.” .— Washington
Star, :
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J. T. LUCAS,
Moshannon, Pa.
secured . photographs of:
How to Build Fire in a
Cook Stove or Range For
ANNEL |
1st. Empty the Ash-pan.
ond. Take off one or two griddles, (and the short spider over the §
fire, if necessary) and with a stiff poker, rake down all
fine ashes, even to the grate.
8rd. Pick out all large ‘“‘chunks’ (not clinkers, for Cannel-Coal
Makes no clinkers) and you are then ready to start the
re.
4th. Use DRY kindling, light it in the way it suits best, and let it }
burn for a few minutes,(until you get the tea-kettle filled,
then place a few lumps on the fire, and let it burn until a
good fire is secured, afterward fire in the usual way.
: A pair of Cotton Gloves is an excellent thing to wear while mak-
ing a fire. |
Always keep the Ash-pan from getting TOO FULL.
Keep the stove, pipe and chimney clear of soot; the tubes of all
boilers have to be cleaned frequently.
If any dirt is made in building a fire, clean it up immediately ; and
do not blame the coal for making dirt—all coal is dirty, in a sense.
Follow these instructions and you will have no trouble to burn the
BEST coal, for household use.
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House Cleaning and Fur-
nishing Time Is Here.
Now is when the house-wife will go
all over the house, and dust the accu-
mulations of the winter’s coal burning.
She will find that so many articles
need replacing with new ones. We
wish to let all know that we have just
what will be needed for the purpose.
To enumerate a few articles only: Cur-
tain Rods, Curtain Fixtures, Picture
Wire, Moulding Hooks, Clothes Bas-
kets, Chair Seats, Hat and Coat Racks,
Salt Boxes, China, Crockery, Glassware,
Toilet Sets, Etc. The most important
of all is, we have all these goods at the
right price. We mark the price all in
plain figures and have but one price to
all customers. We find that it makes
us too much trouble and very unsatis-
factory to the public, to work price
with the percentage off plan.
See Our Ilustrated Bulletin For Bargains.
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Je Tn. LUCAS
MOSHANNON, PA,