A GRATEFUL WOMAN. Has Only One Kidney, But is Sound and Well. Mrs. L. Wick, 287 Dewey Ave, Pittsfield, Mass., says: ‘I ran down in health until I only weighed 95 pounds. Finally a consultation of doctors was held. They decided I had a fibroid , kidney and said it must be removed. 1 had the operation and came out of the ever. At last it was my good for- tune to begin using Doan’s Kidney Pills. They strengthened the remain- ing kidney and increased my weight to 121 pounds. [| have no more trouble.” Remember the name—Doan’s. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ee Toilet of Early Belle. No less extravaganc in the matter of toilet requisites than the beauty of today was the Egyptian belle of 500 B. C. She required, among other things, a long stone palette, with a] hollow in the center, in which to mix her green eye paint. This palette also held a small, delicate sea shell, where- in she mixed the paint with the neces- sary grease for stiffening her eye- lashes; ivory hairpins, which rivaled in length the hatpin of the present day, and quaint ivory combs.—Chicago Journal. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢ a bottle. More Big Guns. The new principle which has been adopted in the latest English and American battleships is that with the elimination of the secondary arma- ment the increased number of big guns shall he so disposed as to enable all of them to be fired on either broad- side. The result is that at a given mo- ment of battle British and American ships will be able to concentrate on either broadside the whole of their main armament, and at the supreme moment there will be no weight car- ried or guns’ crews of the main guns unemployed in the main business of war. In the German navy the design- ers have still clung to the old princi- ple of multiplicity of guns, and conse- quently a proportion of the weight al- lotted to the main armament of the ships is ineffective at every moment during the period of action. For in- sance, whereas the British and Amer- ican ships which are now Deing com- pleted for sea can bring 10 12-inch guns to bear on either broadside, the German vessels, although they carry two more guns, can only bring the same number to bear on either broad- side, and they suffer from the disad- vantage that, owing to the introduction of the extra two guns, the weights as- signed to armament are not only great- ly increased, but, owing to the closer disposition of guns, there is liability to greater interference, and the strain “upon the structure of the ships at fir- ing is also probably increased.—Cas- sier’s Magazine. Finance. All successful financial operations begin with the issuance of as large an amount of stock as possible. Then prices must be raised as high as pos- sible, in order to pay as nluch divi- dends as possible. Then as much more stock as possible should be issu- ed in order as well as possible to conceal the dividends and warrant an additional increase in prices in order to pay the dividends on the additional stock so that it will be necessary to is- sue more stock in order to conceal the excessive dividends, and so on. No man is entitled to be called a philan- thropist until he has repeated this pro- cess at least a score of times.—Life. Rewards of Toil. There is a time in every man’s edu- cation when he arrives at the convig- tion that envy is ignorance, that imi- tation is suicide, that he must take _ himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide uni- verse is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn' comes to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows . what that is ‘which he can do nor does he know until he has tried.—Emerson. There is a reason Why Grape-Nuts. does correct A wreak, physical, or a Sluggish mental condition, The food is highly nutritious And is partially pre-digested, So that it helps the organs of ; the stomach To digest other food. It is also rich in the Vital phosphates that go" Directly to make up The delicate gray matter Of brain and nerve centres, Read “The Road to Wellville” In pkgs., “There's a Reason,” POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY, Ltd. Battle Creek, Bich. hospital as sick as ( ceit, of the fashionable photographer 1 that it was time to pay another visit The Finishing Touch. No Chinese lady goes anywhere without her powder box, or fails to touch her face with powder whenever she catches sight of herself in the bit of mirror in the lid of her box. When she is going out for a formal call or a wedding party or a dinner she is apt to paint her face with a paste made of wet rice flour.—Home Notes. Marriage Superstitions. “Blessed is the bride that the sun shines on.” ; ; A bride should use no pins in her wedding clothes, and she should avoid looking in the glass when she is completely dressed for church. The wedding ring should not be tried on before the service, and to take it off afterward is unlucky. “If you marry in Lent you will live to repent.” May is an unlucky month for weddings, and June and October are specially lucky. It is an old Yorkshire custom to pour hot water over the doorstep after the happy couple have departed, in order to keep the threshold warm for another bride. When the bridesmaids undress the bride they must be careful if she have any pins about her to throw them away. A single pin left might cause her ill-luck. And if a bridesmaidof cabochons in smoky shades of blue end of the platter. - This Draw thighs close to the skewer under the middle its breast. Paste in Your Scrap-Book. knot, and cut off ends. Our Cut-out Recipe. ‘thing was done. in the family Bible.” — New York { To Truss a Chicken.—If a bird is properly trussed it looks much more attractive when ready for serving. a roast turkey brought to a table with both the legs and wings in awkward positions and the long neck lying over the It should come out under the middle joint on the other side. Cross drumsticks, tie securely with a long string, leaving two ends of equal length, and fasten to the tail. close to the body (having the tip ends removed, remember), and hold them by inserting a skewer through the wing, body and the wing on the other side. the back, and fasten with a small skewer. Turn the bird on Cross string attached to the tail piece, and draw around each end of lower skewer, again cross string and draw around each end of upper skewer; fasten string in a This may seem like a long story, but it is not so difficult after all. younger than when the subject is in ber own room with sidelights and rose colored shades. Furthermore, the woman is so proud of it that she makes no bones of telling how the’ She says it’s every woman’s privilege to be the age she chose for insertion in her marriage license and for her best photograph, even if she can’t blot out the record Press. . A Fine Effect Secured. The alliance of foulard and satin is one of the most noticeable features in the new season’s fashions. The color of the satin is usually suggested by the pattern on the foulard, and black satin, too, takes a prominent place in the new combination. A handsome costume shows black satin used in combination with black and white foulard. The satin forms the deep hem which comes to the knees al- most, satin in soft folds swathes the waistline, and it is used for the lower part of the sleeves. A narrow line of the black satin also borders the top of the corsage below a short vest and collar of white mousseline de soie. The foulard bodice is cut in one with the upper sleeves, and an inset I have seen is the correct way to truss a bird: body, and hold by inserting a steel joint, running it through the body. Place wings 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. COME AND SEE J. T. LUCAS MOSHANNON, PA, Draw the neck skin under Hg aS keep one of those pins she need not expect to be married before the next Whitsuntide, or Easter at the very earliest.—Home Notes, Suffragettes Favor Flirtation. The question whether married couples should flirt is now agitating suffragettes in England. Lady Me- Laren, author; Lady Treubridge and Mrs. Elizabeth York Miller, author, all agree that flirtation is an excellent thing, provided it is confined to the family. They do not think that a man should flirt with another wom- an’s husband. They believe only in flirtation between husband and wife. Concerning this kind of flirtation Mrs. Miller pungently says: “Fbirting ought to be spontaneous; nothing could be more ridiculous than mar- ried people flirting determinedly. Husbands should flirt with their wives, as women miss flirtation more than men after matrimony. Flirta- tion consists in an occasional kiss, a frequent holding of hands, a spirit of tenderness and chivalry, and a study of the other’s interests and feelings. Flirtation is the panacea of all married ;people’s troubles. All husbands and wives should cultivate it.” Latest Deceit. “You must not imagine,” said the woman of the world, ‘“‘that just be- cause the camera is of necessity truthful one can depend upon the veracity of a photograph. One can’t. The very latest conceit, I may say de- seems to be worth telling about. “Now, just about once in her life a woman gets a picture that satisfies her, and I don’t mind confessing that when it is my picture I want it to be a fulsome flatterer. I know one wo- man who had her one, faultless pic- ture taken ten years ago. She has now reached that painful period when birthdays are no longer hila- rious occasions, and the picture is out of date in the matter of sleeves and hair. So when she felt recently to the photographer, she sought out the one who had treated her so well a decade ago. She took with her a print of the old negative, and she had herself posed in precisely the same attitude. This was for the hair and dress of the new picture. As to the face, I don’t know by what mys- terious means the photographer ac- complished it, but the face was lifted from the old picture and put into the new one-—a picture that is entirely satisfactory. The hair and sleeves cf the new picture are of 1910 model, ‘1 of lace in a new shape comes round ‘play and a foul fly. and the face doesn’t look a biti head lightly, and down they go.’ ”— Ne, centres the front with a pretty effect. These cabochons in small round sizes are used as a border above the hem and round the corsage, while a band the bodice on the left side and runs down the front of the skirt to the side, where it is caught up with a large blue cabochon. . The hat is in the black safin, ‘the white, black and blue shades of the dress being introduced in the ostrich plume... The new shoulder wrap which accompanies the gown is in black, shot with blue, the ends weighted with heavy silk tassels. Foulard-«is also being used with heavy crepe de chine with good ef- fect. In a trousseau gown made for one of the society brides of this week there was a beautiful “little girl” dress made in foulard in a soft rose shade of pink, traced with the tiniest of pink spots in a pale shade and pink crepe de chine. : The baby bodice, slightly gathered to the figure under a round frill of flesh-colored pink tulle at the neck, was encircled at the waistline with, folds of the crepe de chine. A line of tiny flat buttons, covered with the crepe de chine, ran down the centre of the front to the deep hem of crepe de chine, which came up to meet the upper part of the skirt in the foulard. The sleeves to the eltow were rucked and caught in with bow-knots of pink bebe ribbon velvet. — Philadelphia Record. Light, Facetions Tone. At a base ball banquet in Cleve- land, Neal Ball, the famous short- stop, who made last year the only unassisted triple play in the history of the major leagues, said in the course of a neat humorous address: “Women are more intelligent, on the average, than men. Of that I am convinced. Why won't women, then, learn to understand base ball? I have never yet succeeded in mak- ing clear to one woman the differ. ence between an unassisted triple “So, with the ladies, I adopt a light, facetious tone in base ball matters. A lady once said to me: “'T love base ball, Mr. Ball. I love especially to watch the man at the bat. It is so cute, too, the way he keeps hitting the ground gently with the bat’s end. Why does he do that, though?’ ; : ~ “ ‘Well, you see, madam,’ said 1, ‘the worms have an annoying habit of coming up to see who’s batting, and that naturally puts a man out a bit; so he just taps them on the Washington Star. | activities. . yo The “ Old Masters’ ET —— iD ¢ Zy Paul De Longpre 2 2002900000 N the last fifty years several hundred millions of ol 3 : have been spent for thousands of ugly, smoky, cracked 0 - masters (most of them spurious). Ch i Is there any real beauty (outside of a limited number) $ in the thousands of so-called old masters to be found in the 900000003 United States? Most assuredly not! The majority of thef ° represent commonplace, woeden, stupid subjects, full ot 0000¢ 00000 faults of drawing, with the dead coloring of mummies. | If the real old masters could only see the many atrocl- ties sold under their names! If they could see the numberless factories In America and in Europe where old masters are painted by the gross! : Oh, rich art-lovers, read those few lines about the great Millets 884 life. Time after time his first masterpieces were rejected by the jury of the Paris salon. In order to keep his wife and children from starvation he would accept any offer and paint signs for the smallest sums. So late as 1848 a friend, learning of his plight, raised $20 for him from the Minister of Fine Arts. At that time all Paris was talking of his paintings. And those same paintings, which command now fabulous prices, nobody would buy. . Instead of enriching dealers of old fake paintings, why do not our rich art patrons extend a helping hand to needy geniuses? : And does the study of the old masters (with few exceptions) help tiie youngest artist? It is very doubtful. To study from most of them is simply starting those young artists on the wrong road. Copying uninteresting subjects, color-faded and faulty in drawing, will never breed enthusiasm, and no en- thusiasm in art means very little progress. : Without exaggeration it can be said that for one genuine old master in the United States there are now a hundred spurious ones. ; : Does not that fit admirably the words of Barnum, “The Americans like to be humbugged”? 7 , 00000000000000000006000000 Helping Itali ildren. elping italian Children. — HE Italian House of the Children’s Aid Society is at Five Points, in the heart of the downtown East Side Italian district, a stone’s throw from Mulberry Bend, once a synonym for conges- meee tion, misery and crime, now the site of one of the best of HER the small parks that afford breathing space for New York’s Years ago as the Italian Industrial Schaol, last autumn the school removed to two large buildings formerly occupied by the Five Points House of Industry, and opened a hew epoch in its history as the social center of the greatest Italian colony in the world. The old Leonard street parents who were too poor to clothe their little ones well enough to send them to the public schools, even if many of the children had not been too backward, by reason of their ignorance of English, to profit by the instruc. tions given in those. schools. The school not only helped to clothe these children decently, but also furnished a hot midday dinner every school dress-making, embroidery, English, [talian and gymnasium work. On its re- moval to the new location in Worth street, the day classes were continued on the same lines as before, but the work of the evening classes was devel- oped into that of a trade school and social center. This resulted in the addition of certain classes, such ag those in power sewing machinery, Eng- and the establishment of a model flat and the general housekeeping training naturally associated with it, of a “business boys’ club,” and many social ; Twelve hundred pupils—men, women and children—are enrolled, representing five or six thousand Italians directly reached by the formal and informal teachings of the "House, and perhaps fifty thousand of the alien By Henry V. Andrews. : tenement population. Founded in Leonard street about fifty school had for many years maintained day classes for the children of Italian day. It also provides instructions in evening, classes in carpentry, cooking, lish stenography, Italian Stenography, typewriting, printing, sign painting, Fommnily more or I2s9 indirectly influenced. —Leslie’s- Weekly.
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