HOMEKEEPING HEARTS.
My shepherd sings of homely wit,
The simple things of love, 3
This world, rude men that strive in it,
The strong heaven up above.
Brown birds that sing upon the trees,
Quaint flowers that open wide, .
The stars that from heaven’s canopies
Swing out at evening tide.
My shepherd sings of homely ways,
No sterner is his tune
Than the dull round of toilsome days,
The weary heart at noon;
No longer than the woman's clasp
Tired shoulders round about,
Nor stronger than the cottage hasp,
That shuts the whole world out. }
Thus by my door my threads I twine,
Happy the whole day long
To bear this simple heart of mine
That reaches to his song. -
-—Agnes Grozier Herbertson, in the Wind-
sor Magazine.
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‘Helen Chantrey, magnificently beau-
tiful in her anger, faced her husband
in silent, quivering scorn.
“You would have me break my
promise, then?” she inquired in an
ominously calm voice, vibrant with
passion.
The man walked back and forth
several times before he answered.
When he spoke his voice was hard
and stern. “I thought it was under-
stood, Helen, that you made your last
aprearance on the concert stage before
our marriage.”
“But, Philip,” she pleaded, “this is
so different, I could not refuse Eve-
lyn to appear at her benefit. We were
so much to each other in tne old
days.”
“If Miss Lorraine is in need of fi-
nancial aid—” he began more gently.
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But she silenced him with a wo:d..
“You do not know Evelyn,” she said
icily.
“Enough of this, Helen,” her hus-
band interrupted impatiently. “Un-
der no consideration will I allow my
wife to appear on a concert stage for
friendship, charity or any other rea-
son.” .
She watched him leave the room
with a strange quiet smile. She was
as determined as ever to help her
friend despite her husband's obpjec-
tions. Only that afternoon in her
generous, impulsive way she had not
only promised to sing at Evelyn Lor-
raine’s benefit, but she allowed her to
use her name in soliciting subscrip-
tions for the concert.
Helen Chantrey considered it no fa-
vor to do this for her friend, for it
was Evelyn Lorraine who had se-
sured her her first opportunity to Sing
before the manager who had placed
her under competent masters to train
her wonderful voice that had brought
her fame and fortune.
Every step of the rough way she
had to travel over during the long
years of study and training had been
carefully smoothed by the friendly
hand of Evelyn Lorraine, and the
night of her first appearance before a
representative audience of the most
exclusive members of society, Evelyn
had kissed her fondly with tears in
her eyes and voice and acknowledged
her a rival in the world of song. Her
own voice was wonderful, but Helen's
youth, training and bkauty outshone
the older woman, and she had stepped
gracefully from the centre or the
stage content that Helen should bear
the title of the reigning queen of
song.
These and many other memories
connected with the past and Evelyn
Lorraine floated before her and sof-
tened her heart to the brave little
woman who had appealed to her
friendship and charity. And besides
she longed for a touch of the old life;
just one moment of the brilliant, tum-
ultuous applause that swept uver the
breathless, swaying audience when
the golden voice and inspiring beats
of the music were stilled; just one of
those delicious thrills of happiness
that came from knowing that she, a
mere girl, could sway that multitude
by the voice that issued from the slen-
der column of her throat.
Forgotten now was everything; her
husband’s commands, her own diso-
bedience; - even the little daugh‘er,
who had inherited her mother's won-
derful voice and beauty, had slipred
from her throbbing brain. It was a
long way from the position of mis-
tress of an exclusive mansion to the
concert stage, but Helen Chantrey
made the step fearlessly, either care-
less or indifferent to the consequences.
The littie girl had been a silent
witness of the scene in the library, un-
noticed by either of the angry couple,
and her childish mind could not quite
grasp the cause of the quarrel. She
confided the whole thing to her big
French doll Julianna as she went
through the silent halls to her moth-
er’s apartments. ~
Helen Chantrey, radiantly beautiful
in shimmering satin and diamonds,
the famous Chantrey star in the
gleaming waves of her dark hair,
stood by the door. Caressingly she
wound her arms around the little
maiden and her doll. “I am going to
] sing tonight,
| house,” she told her in the ecstasy of
dear, at the opera
her delight. “Sometime,” she con-
tinued, half in jest and half in earn-
est, “you may sing, there, too.”
Philip Chantrey watched his wife
depart with gloomy eyes and stern
white face. She had chosen to de-
liberately disobey him "and he would
not answer for the consequences.
The little girl left alone wandered
through the empty rooms, her only
companion, her big doll, clasped tight-
ly in her arms. Her little footsteps
made no sound on the heavy rugs, and
her father seated at his desk, his head
bowed in his hands, was not dis-
turbed by the light footfalls entering
the library.
The child felt more than saw that
something serious had happened, some.
thing concerning her mother’s aepart-
ure, and she determined to go to the
Opera House and bring her home, as
she was sure that was the cause of
her father’s grief.
Without difficulty she left the house
unnoticed. She knew the way to the
Opera House and reached it in safety.
The mere telling of her name at the
door and that she had come to see
her mother, together with the offering
of her precious doll to the man at the
rear door, the latter being gently but
firmly refused, procured her admit-
tance to the theatre, and she finally
found herself standing in the wings,
trembling and afraid.
Helen Chantrey had just swept out
on the stage amid thunderous ap-
plause. The sight of her mother, the
thought of her father at home bowed
in grief, gave the child courage, and
taking a tighter grasp of her doll, she:
rushed out after her mother amid a
death-like silence. The very audience
held its breath, while a look of fright-
ened wonder dawned in the beautiful
eyes of Helen Chantrey. Recovering
her self possession she raised one
slender hand and stopped the orches-
tra, then bending over she whispered
something to the child. The little
one nodded brightly, and the vast
audience composed of some of the
most exclusive members of society,
listed in rapt wonder to the song that
fell from the lips of Helen Chantrey
and her little daughter.
It was not so much the song they.
sang as the way they sang it; it was
just a quaint little lullaby that she
used to sing in the pleasant firelit
nursery, and the beautiful, birdlike
soprano of the mother mingled with
the sweet, clear treble of the child.
Many famous song birds had stood
on that same stage and felt their
hearts swell with pride and pleasure
at the tumult of applause that greeted
them, but never before had the house
rang with such thunder as the night
of Evelyn Lorraine’s benefit when the
quaint little song was done.
Grasping the child by the hand she
hurriedly left the stage. Outside a
tall, commanding figure awaited them.
“Take me home, Philip,” she sald,
tremulously, placing her hands in his
outstretched ones. Gently he drew her
cloak around her, and his eyes were
soft and tender as he helped her and
the child into the waiting carriage.—
Boston Post.
CANNIBALS HONEST MEN.
Apart from Their Lust for Human
Flesh, They Were All Right.
Details are published of the work of
the expedition sent out by the British
Museum two years ago to study the
native tribes in the Kasai basin, a
vast unknown area of the Congo Free
State. The expedition consisted of E.
Torday, W. Hilton-Simpson, a well-
known traveler and explorer, and N.
H. Hardy, an artist. When Messrs.
Terday and Hilton-Simpson reached
the coast their arrival caused consid-
erable surprise, as it had been report-
ed that they had been killed and
eaten by cannibal tribes among whom
they Lad been living.
They say they never had the least
- difficulty with the people who formed
their expedition, although eighteen of
their twenty-five porters were canni-
bals from the Kwilu River. Of these,
Mr. Hilton-Simpson says that they are
some of the best natives he has ever
met, mild, obliging, honest, and indus.
trious. —
In all cases they possessed an ex-
tremely shrewd idea of the value of
curios, the price demanded and paid
being in most cases in excess of what
they would fetch in a London auction
room.
As a “juju,” or “medicine,” the ex-
plorers took out with them a small
English clockwork elephant, which
greatly impressed the natives, says
the Vancouver Province. In every
village the exhibition of this elephant
with its moveable trunk and legs
evoked the greatest interest and sur-
prise. All the inhabitants of the vil-
lage would come out wnen they heard
that the white man was going to show
them his medicine, but they were
careful never to go near the myster-
ious toy. On cne remote village where
paper had never been geen, the people
offered what they regarded as a high
price for a single page of an English
weekly journal.—Washington Herald.
A rosebush in a garden at Freiburg
covers - 99 square yards and bears
10,000 buds.
New York City.—No garment is
prettier than the over blouse. Just
now it is being extensively worn in
thin material to match the tailored
suit and over any pretty guimpe or
lingerie waist. This one is peculiarly
well adapted to such treatment, al-
though it’ ean be utilized for any en-
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sort. The sleeves are cut in one with
it and consequently there is almost
no labor involved in the making.
This one is made if chiffon cloth with
trimming of messaline, but marquis-
ettes are much liked for the trans-
parent blouse, and as already stated
the model can be utilized in.number-
less ways. Trimmed with soutache
as shown in the back view it would
ing material is preferred silk of any
or figured, can be used as best suits
the foundation material. Dotted
foulard on plain fabric is fashionable
and pretty.
The over blouse is made with front
and back portions and there are
shoulder and under-arm seams only,
¢ so that making means almost no labor
' and very little time. * The trimming
' portion for the neck, which gives a
yoke effect, is applied over the blouse,
and the bands are applied over the
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| The quantity of material required
for the sixteen year size is three
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ty-two or one and one-half yards for-
ty-four inches wide, with one-half
yard of silk twenty-seven inches wide
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Bordered Gingham.
One of the newest things is the
Scotch gingham in plain color with a
striped border. Gray grounds with
black and white stripes, green with
lavender or lavender with green
stripes, pinks and blues with darker
stripes and tans blended with soft
browns are among the blends. White
linen crash with a colored stripe bor-
der is one of the practical things
among the linens.
Stamped Waist Patterns.
The stamped waist patterns are ex-
tremely dainty, and a length of Per-
sian lawn, designed for embroidery
in a variety of stitches, such as blind
eyelet and heavy satin, includes suf-
ficient floss for working. :
be exceedingly smart, and if contrast- |. |
sort, either plain with a satin finish |.
Embroidery For Sleeves.
To complete the one-piece frock,
wide embroidery is brought into use
for sleeves and bodice, thus making
a perfect garment at less expense
than the robe, which is always valued
at the high price of exclusive pieces.
Printed Cottons.
Quaintly printed cottons in old
world designs are being made up into
blouses for wear with coat and skirt
suits, the plain color of the suit being
echoed in slight touches on the
blouse, or the blouse material finds
its way into cuffs and collar on the
coat.
Initials and Names.
When working the first name or
initial in seript upon kerchiefs or un-
derwear, the French now use the
same shade of embroidery floss which
they have chosen to introduce upon
these dainty lingerie articles. Since
it has become a fashion to use coarse
linen and cotton threads for the em-
broidery of fine mulls, these heavy
threads are split or separated for the
working of initials and names.
Polka Dots.
Polka dots provide ornamentation
for a plain lawn shirtwaist and en-
rich the trousseau of a recent bride.
The colored dots form a line down
the front box pleat and the pleats on
each side. -They also run down the
top of the sleeve and cover the entire
four-inch cuff and the attached high
collar. A pleating of the plain white
material extends down one side of the
front pleat, and this is edged with a
narrow line of plain color.
A Lovely Robe.
Our sketch shows one of the lovely
chiffon robes veiled in gauze. The
robe is creamy white with a shaded
pink border, while the overdress is
a deep pink. A black satin hem
makes an effective and practical finish
to the skirt.
Gilt On Linen.
On many white linen coat suits
gilt buttons are used to carry out the
military air. Crochet buttons that
are works of art are used sparingly
on linen frocks and shirtwaists, and
buttons of pleated braid carry out
the decorations of many cloth cos- |
tumes.
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Effective Cotton.
Some of the most effective cotton,
and cotton and silk voiles are spotted
or striped in self-color with satine
finished disks, dots or lines.
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Progress in the South.
There is no disuputing the reality
The “Man-
ufacturer’s Record” presents an ime
posing array of building contracts for
Dixie. Atlanta is going to have a $1,
250,000 office building; Tampa is to
have one worth $200,000; San Antonio
one at $500,000, and Houston one at
$400,000. Richmond ‘is building a
$250,000 addition to its best hotel, and
Lexington, Ky. (which needs it), is
raising a new hotel to cost $300,000.
Birmingham and Louisville are to have
new Young Men’s Christian associa-
tion buildings, at $250,000 each, and
Little Rock is equipping itself with a
new court house. The Southern rail-
road is preparing to spend $6,000,000
on improvements and the Chesapeake
& Ohio is to follow suit with $5,000,-
000. About all there is left of the
South’s old doece far niente is con-
fined to the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
shows.—Waterbury American.
Among Papuan Cannibals. 2
It is well known that New Guinea
is the home of cannibalism, and that
the natives have murderous tendencies
of a pronounced kind. Yet it may
honestly be said that the life of the
ordinary settler or traveler in Papua
is rather safer than in Sydney or Mel-
bourne. You could not, in Sydney
or Melbourne, sleep on your veranda,
in a house that has no doors to speak
of and windows that are never shut.
You could not if you are a woman,
wander alone at night in solitary
‘places, secure from all annoyance.
You could not spend a day in the sole
society of leg-ironed convicts, and find
them good company, decidedly polite
and obliging. Yet you may do all these
things in Papua the impossible.—Wide
| Wold Magazine.
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