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Mrs. Fairbanks a Horticulturist.
Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks is an
enthusiastic horticulturist and is rec-
ognized as one of the leading authori-
ties in the country on the varieties
and the growing of bulbs. Many con-
servatories in New York, as well as
in Washington and Indianapolis, her
home city, are the richer for her gifts.
Many of the bulbs she has distrib-
_uted among her friends add to the
natural beauty of their bloom the in-
terest of historic associations. The
narcissi that grow in the Campo San-
to, in Pisa, the cemetery soil of which
was brought into Italy from the Holy
Land, are famous among flower grow-
ers all over the world, and several of
Mrs. Fairbanks’ friends have been
delighted recently by presents of a
few of these precious roots which
Mrs. Fairbanks had imported for her
own hothouses. A few fine varieties
of eyclamen, hitherto unknown in
America, also have come into Mrs.
Fairbanks’ possession in the last few
weeks, and her friends are waiting
hungrily for cuttings of these.—New
York Press.
Treat Husbands With Politeness.
If a woman spending the evening
with friends would treat her husband
with the same politeness and consid-
to be exceedingly popular are soft
almond and a pistache.
Black net collars, studded with nail
heads or embroidered with jet bugles,
are being worn with black waists.
Loose weaves and heavy threads
are characteristic notes of many of
the popular materials for walking
suits.
Colored correspondence stationery
is once more in vogue. The delicate
grays, dove and pearl shades are ex-
quisite.
Shoes are a bit less pointed, and
the new vamps are very short, the
effect being to make the foot look
rather shorter.
Because most of the lingerie gowns
will be cellarless and with short
sleeves, comfort will be characteristic
of the season’s wear.
Narrow bands of fur are supplant-
ing velvet and ribbons for the coif-
fure. Chinchilla is, of course, a fa-
vorite for brunettes, while sable is in
favor for blondes.
However elaborate a scarf may be
in itself or in its trimmings, the edge
is usually finished with a selvage all
around. The selvage varies from a
quarter to twe inches in width.
On many of the handsomest dinner
and evening gowns the decolletage is
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eration she gives to other men, host-
esses would less often dread asking
husband and wife to the same func-
tion. For many women know. there
are married men and women who are
agreeable if alone, but who, when ac-
companied by wife or husband, as the
case may be, are almost offensive in
their behavior. And the trouble of-
ten is that the wife does not make
the same exertion or show the same
consideration for her husband when
they are with others that she natural-
ly gives to other men.
Few persons enjoy playing bridge
at the same table with a husband and
wife because often one or both criti-
cise the play of the other. The same
woman, if sitting at another table,
would tell her partner or opponent
what she thought of his game. If
she ventured any comment it would
be tactful and polite. But she seems
to feel privileged to descend with
verbal onslaught on her husband with
total disregard of others present. No
one fancies that a wife is always go-
ing to talk to her husband with the
same formality she would use with
other men, but all agree, if they stop
to think, that to adopt the informal-
ity of home when in company is not
always pleasant to others. :
It may not be sweetness of nature
that restrains woman from comment-
ing or retorting to her husband when
she is annoyed; it may be wholly con-
sideration for others. The fact that
she does keep still then may be en-
tirely a matter of good breeding, for
consideration is that sometimes,
should she possess an opinion that is
decidedly contrary to her husband's,
she shall hold it and tell him later,
but she must make the communica-
tion when no one else
Nothing is more unpleasant than to
be obliged to hear a matrimonial crit-
iecism or altercation. Listeners are
not intercsted, and any atmosphere
of entertainment is in this way entire-
. ly destroyed.
If a woman is playing bridge at
the same table with her husband she
must treat him, for the time, as she
would any acquaintance. If she does
not like his manner of playing she is
not at liberty to tell him then, be-
cause she will make the other two
persons uncomfortable. If she wishes
to discuss the hand he has just played
her own manner must have the same
politeness that it would with her host,
and if her husband does not agree
with her she must drop the matter
then, taking it up later when at home
if she thinks it best.
No husband and wife have the
right to make other guests uncom-
fortable when they are out socially,
and politeness with. each other will
increase their popularity.—Rosanna
Schuyler, in the New York Telegram.
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Fashion Notes.
The splendor of black velvet is
everywhere,
The new flat-front coiffure means
death to rats.
Small hats are predicted, but none
are yet in sight.
Two shades of green which bid fair
‘stay where they belong.
is present. |
Macaroni Cutlets.—Cook one-half cupful of macaroni
broken in half-inch pieces.
for the croquettes, using all milk in place of milk and oyster
liquor; then add one-fourth of a cupful of grated cheese, and
season with salt and pepper; cool, shape in the form of cut-
lets, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat,
and drain on brown paper.
piece of uncooked macaroni in each cutlet, arrange cutlets on
Add a thick sauce the same as
Insert a one-and-one-half-inch,
modified to something net far from
the low Dutch neck, the very low
neck being now considered by some
authorities as outside the mode.
‘Wool embroidery will be a favorite
trimming on the mew gown. It is
heavier and coarser-looking than the
silk handwork to which we have been
accustomed, but when the design is
attractive and well done it is decided-
ly attractive.
A new writing paper fashion. high
in vogue among college girls, con-/
sists in having the name by which
you are best known engraved in color
across the top. The paper is to be
used for correspondence only with
intimate friends.
A Helpful Suggestion.
“I tried to get a chance to speak to
you at church Sunday,” said Mrs.
Oldcastle, ‘but the crush was so great
that I couldn’t push through to where
you were.”
“Yes, wasn't it awful?” replied
her hostess, as she flicked a bit of
dust from the Gobelin tapestry. ‘All
the common folks in town seem to
want to crowd into our church lately.
It’s too bad they ain’t satisfied to
How did
you like the sermon?” :
“Well, as a sermon it was fairly
good, but I do wish Dr. Goodman
would quit gplitting his infinitives.
I try not to let it make me nervous,
but I can’t help from being shocked |
every time he does it.”
“I never let them kind of things
bother me, but that’s where the Epis-
copals have the advantage of us. If
our preacher would wear a long robe
he could split them and you'd never
notice it.”’—Chicago Record-Herald.
. Sheep as Land Cleaners.
In discussing the value of sheep
on a country place, their services as
land cleaners should not be ignored.
They like pasture grasses, but they
seem to like weeds and bushes even
better for browse. They will often
clean upian old field in a year or two,
so that what was a tangle of unsightly
weeds and shrubs will appear a
smeoth-shaven lawn. Angoras are
simply wonders at this sort of thing,
but the common, everyday sheep of
the ordinary breed will do mighty
good work, if you confine her to her
job and put in enough of her. Five
years ago one small pasture of mine
was a veritable chapparal of thorn
bushes and solidago. I set the ewes
‘at it and to-day it’s as pretty a bit
of sward as there is on the ranch—
bushless and weedless and thick-
turfed.—Country Life in America.
Success.
Brother Eefaw—""How am ¥0’ son
gittin’ aleng in his new job as a
Pullman po’thar?”
Brother Smoot— ‘Fine, sah. Dat
boy kin make a few passes and put
de’ dust on a pusson dan he brushed
off, and it didn’t take him two weeks
to learn to slam a do’ in de way dat
nobody but a railroad man kin slam
it. Yessir, Cla’ence is sho’ dein’ ele-
gant.” Puck.
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THE HINDU WIDOW,
Indian Author Explains the Sacrifice
of Suttee.
Contrary to the usual Western be-
lief, said Sarath Kumar Ghosh, the
Indian author, Indian women are
more highly esteemed by their hus-
bands even than their Western sisters.
The Indian is taught veneration for
women from his earliest boyhood. |
| Any unkindness to a wife is supposed
to be swiftly followed by misfortune
and a man’s prayers are of no effect
unless his wife joins in them with
all sincerity. At a coronation the
presence of the sovereign’s wife is of
the utmost importance. Should she
be unable to appear a statue of her
must be placed at her husband’s side.
Otherwise the ceremony is not legal.
The standard of morality, the lec-
turer asserted, is higher in India than
in England. The Indian, it is true,
is legally allowed -to take a second
wife should his first marriage prove
childless, but it is most rare to hear
of an Indian availing himself of this
privilege.
‘When the Princess of Wales visited
India she was regarded with the
greatest veneration, not merely for:
her charm of manner or the fact thas
one day she would be Empress of
India, but for the fact that she had
five sons.
Death was not forced on any wid-
ow, the lecturer asserted. They were:
free to choose for themselves. If
they did not feel called upen to make
the sacrifice of suttee they were al-
ways at liberty to refuse. However,
should they desire to sacrifice them-
selves the act brought them a erown
of martyrdom, earning for them-
selves the title of ‘Devi.”’ It was an
error te think they were burnt alive.
A cup of poison was drunk and cre-
mation followed.
Finally Mr. Ghosh related that a
prediction calling down disaster on a
man passed harmlessly over a woman,
her moral standing being the higher
of the two. The great diamond of
India, the Xohinur, carried with it a
curse to the effect that its wearer
would rule over India but die a sud-
den death. A woman might wear
the jewel safely. The late Queen
Vietoria had it placed in the reyal
crown, but now, said the lecturer, it
adorns the one made for Queen Alex-
andra by the order of the King, to
whom ‘the prophecy was sent from
‘India.—London Chronicle.
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Suffragettes and Female Police.
During some of the suffragette
riots in England last year, complaints
were made of the roughness with
which in some instances the female
demonstrators were treated by the
police. One wenders how suffrage
ettes would fare in Indianapolis,
where the Mayor, Mr. Lewis Shank,
has announced his intention of ap-
pointing a number of wemen to the
city police force. The female con-
table! will perform the ordinary duties
of the policeman, and will have a
regular beat assigned to her. If there
{Is any gallantry among the men of
Indianapolis her duties ought to be
light, except in cases where she comes
in contact with sister women, then
the virtue of her sex will make for
severity, stern and unbending.
It is, however, said that the Mayor
of Indianapolis is a bit of a humorist,
and that he anticipates some amus-
ing results from the constitution of
his new civic force. As chief magis-
trate he gave rise to considerable
amusement by his method of punish-
ing publicans who defied the law by
opening their licensed premises eon
Sundays. He sentenced them, not to
jail, but to attend church for a cer-
tain number of Sundays, threatening
to revoke their licenses if they failed
to ebey his order. This unconven-
tional style of punishment has, it is
said, greatly pleased the people of
Indianapolis, and they look on the
idea of female constables as only an-
other instance of their Mayor’s bold
and unorthodox methods.—The Irish
Independent, Dublin.
Taking Exercise.
The worst error of exercise, the
most dangerous fad of physical cul-
ture, is not to take enough of it, and
to sneer at every form of it that does
not bear the dollar mark. By one
of those cynical poetic justices of na-
ture the very men who denounce all
physical culture and recreation as
fads are those who pay the heaviest
personal penalty for this delusion.
They use the vigor that they have
gained in early youth in nature’s
‘open air school to chain themselves
to the desk, to bury themselves in
dungeonlike offices or airless work-
roems twelve or fourteen hours a
day. They “feel fine” and are sure
they are going to live to be a hun-
dred; but one day, to their astonish-
nent, a little artery, whose coat has
en hardened for twenty years un-
noticed, becomes so brittle that it
snaps suddenly—and down they go
with a stroke of paralysis, like a
winged duck. It is never safe to jeer
‘at the gods, whether the imaginary
‘ones of Olympus or the real ones of |
modern science.—Dr. 8S. Woods
Hutchinson, in Outing.
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How to Build Fire in a
Cook Stove or Range For
CANNEL
_ COAL
1st. Empty the Ash-pan.
2nd. 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.
3rd. Pick out all large ‘‘chunks’ (not clinkers, for Cannel-Coal
it 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 air of Cotton Gloves is an excellent thing to wear while mak-
ing a
Dante keep the Ash-pan from getting TOO FULL.
Keep the stove, pipe and chimney clear of soot; the t
boilers have to be cleaned frequently. ubes of all
If any dirt is made in building a fire, clean it up immediatel
do not blame the coal for making dirt—all coal is Honig in a ad. ang
Follow these instructions and you will have no troubl
BEST coal, for household use. y e to burn the
~ For sale by,
WM. H. LUCAS, Woshanon, Pa.
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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 Illustrated Bulletin For Bargains.
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: Sensations of Youth ¢
& By G Stanley Hall, of Clark University.
| OUNG people need to tingle ‘with. sentiments, and the appe-.
tite for excitement and sensation is at its height in the
teens. Here is where the principle of vicariousness gives
-the teacher one of his chief opportunities and resources.
Excitement the young must have, for feelings are now their
life. If they cannot find it in the worthy, they are strongly
predisposed to seek it in the grosser forms of pleasure.
I Hence, every glow of aestletic appreciation, every thrill
aroused by heroism, every pulse of religious aspiration
weakens vy just so much the potential energy of passion, because it has
found its kinetic equivalent in a higher form of expression. It is from this
point of view that some of our German co-laborers have even gone so far as
to advocate a carefully selected course of love stories, chosen so as to bring
out the most chivalric side of the tender passion at this age, when it is most
plastic and capable of idealization; while others have advocated theatre-
going to selected plays, palpitating with life, action and adventure, that emo-
tional tension may be discharged not merely harmlessly, but in an elevating
way.~-American Msgatloe
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