THE TWO DOLLS.
Said the Pink Taper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish that I were made of
wood!"
flaid the Purple Paper Doll to the rink
I'aper Doll.
"I'm sure I think that paper's just as
Rood."
Said the Pink Taper Doll to the Purple
Paper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish that I were made of
wax!"
Said tho Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll.
"Tour facis would soon be seamed with tiny
cracks."
Said the Tink Paper Doll to the Purple
Taper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish I were made of bisque!"
Said the l'urple Paper Doll to the Tink Taper
Doll,
"Of breaking you would run an awful
ri9k."
Said the Pink Paper Doll to the Turple
Taper Doll,
"Oh! how I wish I were of worsted knit!"
Said the Purple Taper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"I don t believe you'd like It, dear, a bit."
Said the Pink Taper Doll to the Turple
Tnper Doll.
"Oh! how 1 wish that I wore made of
rags!"
Said the Turple Taper Doll to the Tink
Taper Doll,
"Then the junkman'd carry you off in his
bags."
Said the Pink Taper Doll to the Purple
Papor Doll,
"Oh! how 1 wish that I were made of rub
ber!
3aid tho Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"We usod to know one, and we used to
snub her."
Said tho Pink Paper Doll to the Purplo
Paper Doll.
"Oh! how I wish I were made of china!"
Said the Purple Paper Doll to the Pink
Paper Doll,
"You'd b<" old-fashioned, and they'd name
you Dinah."
Said tho Pink Taper Doll to the Purple
Papor Doll,
"Well, then I'm glad that I'm a papor
doil."
Said the Purple Paper Doll to tho Tink
Taper Doll,
"I tliiuk it is the best, dear, after all!"
—Carol>n Wells, in Tuck.
J'DEACON"^"GREY'S i
I CHOICE. |
| BV HELEN WHITNEY CLACK. J
"Well," Mrs. FerobiaCymouds laid
aside her new poke-bonnet, with its
lavender ribbons, and slipped off her
plum-colored alpaca dress, while a
smile of satisfaction spread itself over
ha- rather sharply marked features.
"If Deacon Grey don't mean some
thing by his attentions theu I'm mis
taken." It was prayer meeting night,
and Deacon Grey had just esco' ted
the widow to her domicile. "This is
the third *ime haud-rnnning that he
took me home evening; beside last
Sunday was two weeks ago that he
walked to church with me."
Mrs. Ferobia's method of expres
sion was somewhat mixed, but her
facts were undeniable.
The deacon had escorted lier to and
from evening prayer meeting on
several occasions, aud had thus be
come the subject of much gossip
among the village folks.
"Deacon Grey's asprucin' up, "they
caidr "Lookin' rouud for a wife, of
course. Wal, he mout do worse,
though the Widow Cymonds is poor
*3 a church-infuse, fur as property's
eonsamcd."
They £aid nothin' of Widow Cy
mouds' temper, however, which was
js uncomfortable to encounter as the
barbed-wire fence which surrounded
the deacon's well-kept farm.
Possibly, the widow had a talent for
concealing any little acerbities of tem
per frvm tbe outside world, aud be-
Btoving her ill-nature only ou tbe
members of her own household.
"Yes," she mused, tapping the
home-made carpet with her foot, while
a shrewd look shone in her steel-gray
eyes—"yes, to my mind it's just as
good as settled, and I mean to do over
my wedding-dress. I ain't worn it
much,and it'll save buying a new one.
But there's one thing about it"—here
the widow put her foot down emphat
ically— "that old maid sister of the
deacon's has got to do most of the
work, if she lives with us. I don't
have any shiftless, do-nothing folks
about ire; but of course I won't say a
Word now."
"La!" said Miss Letitia Tipes, pop
ping her head into the widow's sit
ting-room, bright and early tbe next
morning—"la, now, Feroby! is it set
tled yet? I'm dying to know!"
"Well —ahem!" said the widow,
looking conscious and trying to blush
" 'taiu't exactly settled—that is,the
time ain't set, but it's all understood
between us, you know."
"Of course," assented Miss Pipes.
"Well, I reckoned it was understood,
that you are as good as engaged, of
course. How soon do you think it'll
be?"
"Well," said the widow, medita
tively," not before fall, I dou't
reckon. You sec, I've got a
light smart lot of sewing on
haud—and some quilting to do,
too. There's that piny-bud quilt I put
together last winter, aud a rising-sun
JJorcas is making."
"Ooing to keep Dorcas with you?"
"No, I ain't" snapped the widow,
tartly—Dorcas was her stepdaughter.
"She ain't nothing to me, an' I shan't
keep her no longer thau to git the
sewing done up, au' the apple-butter
making an' preserving over; then I'm
a-going to tell her to find some
other hon:e."
f 'Jes' so," assented Miss Pipes.
And before night it was all over
town that the Widow Cymonds was to
be married to Deacon Grey, in the fall
—just as Mrs. Cymonds meant it
•hould be.
And at last the gorgeous pinev-bud
and (he refulgent glories of the rising
■un were nearly finished and laidaway
[la the big, old-fashioned chest of
drawers in the best chamber.
A ten-gallon keg was filled with
translucent, crimson-clear apple-bat
ter, and the swinging-shelf in the cel
lar was covered with jars of preserves
and umber-lined jelly—all made by
Dorcas Cymouds' deft fingers.
And now the sparkling frosts of
October had turned the dogwood and
sassafras leaves to red, and the cliiu
capins and over-cup acorns were drop
ping ou the crisp, brown grass in the
woodlands and now pretty, brown
eyed, industrious Dorcas was told that
she must find another home, and look
out for herself in the great future.
"For I expect to be married before
long, and shan't want to be burdened
with any hangers-on, "said the widow,
heartlessly.
Tears sprang into tbe sweet, brown
eyes, but Dorcas turned away to hide
them from her stepmother's sharp
gaze.
Poor Dorcas! She knew no more of
the wide world and its ways than a
half-fledged robin, but she started out
with a brave heart to seek her fortune.
One text from the Eook of Divine
Revelations came into her heart to
comfort her—"l have never seen the
righteous forsaken, nor his seed beg
ging bread;" and somehow Dorcas felt
that kind Pro\idence had not forsaken
her.
Mrs. Cymouds put ou her best dress,
tied her lavender bonnet-strings in a
becoming bow under her chin, and
looked at herself in the mirror with a
smile of satisfaction.
"He'll be certain to come to the
sewiug-societv today, and who knows
what may happen, as we walk home
together! My, but won't Letitia Pipes
be mad! She almost turns green with
envv now, when the deacon walks with
me."
But Deacon Grey did not make his
appearance at tbe sewing-circle, and
the widow returned home in a some
what different mood from that in which
she had set out.
"What in common sense he means
by not coming I don't see!" she said,
crabbedly. "And that Letitia Pipes
was glad of it—looked like she wanted
to titter l ight out, when I had to put
on my bonnet and start home alone."
The afternoon bad worn away, and
the sun was sinking fiery shafts
of crimson beneath the far-off western
horizon.
"Who in creation'sa-coming now?'-
grumbled the widow,as a lithe, slender
figure swung ffpen the front gate, and
tripped up the path to the cottage
door.
It was Dorcas,her brown eyes shin
ing and her cheeks glowing like a full
blown Jacqueminot rose.
"Back again, like a bad penny!"
cried the widow,crossly. "You'll have
to stay all night, I s'pose; but I've
told you once I couldn't keep you—
and I can't!"
"I've only come for my things,"
said Dorcas, deiuuredly, her cheeks
dimpled with smiles and blushes.
"The deacon's out in the buggy wait
ing for me."
"The deacon?" gasped the widow,
astounded.
"Yes. I—l'm married to Deacon
Grey," exclaimed Dorcas, while her
stepmother glowed in wrath and dis
may. "I met him at the stile, this
moruing, and I think he married me
out of pity, for I was crying a little,
you know, to think I had no home to
goto. So he took me to the parson
age and we were married, and went
home to dinner. Aud here's the dea
cou coming in uow for my trunk."
"Well,well!" exclaimed Miss Letitia
Pipes, when she heard the news. "But
a body might a-known it was Dorcas
the deacon was a-courting. But I'll
bet a button Feroby is as mad as a wet
hen about it!"
And so she was.—Saturday Night.
Source of the American Temperament
The American over-teusiou aud jerki
ness and breathlessness aud intensity
and agony of expression are primarily
Social, and oulv secondarily physiolog
ical phenomena. They are bad habits,
nothiug more or less, bred of custom
and example, born of the imitation ol
bad models and the cultivation of false
personal ideals. How are idiom?
acquired, how do local peculiarities ol
phrase and accent come about?
Through an accidental example set bv
someone, which struck the ears of
others, aud was quoted and copied till
at last everyone in the locality chimed
in. Just so it is with national tricks
of vocalization or intonation, with
national manners, fashions of move
ment aud gesture, and habitual ex
pressions of face. We, here in America
through following a succession of pat
tern-setters whom it is uow impossible
to trace, and through influencing each
other in a bad direction, have at last
settled down collectively into what,
for better or worse, is our own char
acteristic natioual type—a type with
the production of which, so far as
these habits go, the climate and con
ditions have had practically not hi up
at all to do.—Professor William
James, in Scribner's.
The Forto llican Leuion,
The thin-skiuued le.nou is not in
digenous to Porto Rico; there is,how
ever, a small citron which looks like
au immense lemon, with a rind nearlj
half au inch thick, which cracks open
as the fruit yellows. It is rather dry,
and not very sour, and the juice i»
used with sugar aud water as a bever
age. Tbe rind is highly aromatic anc
has an economic value. There are nc
drawbacks to future lemon-culture,thf
soil and the climate of the mountair
uplands being very suitable. Sweet
lemons with a bitter-sweet taste grow
very profusely in several sections,
though they are seldom gathered, un
less it be to make from them a sort o'
conserve, or to use them medicinally
sinte they are considered of some tlier
apeutic value in malarial fevers.—Har
per'a Weekly.
I THE REALM OF FASHION. 1
NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Clus
ters of fine tacks are an important
feature of the fnew shirt waists, wheth
er made of silk, wool or cotton fab
rics. White Persian lawn, with frills
WOMAN'S TUCKED SHIRT WAIST.
of fine white embroidery edging the
box pleat in centre-front, forms the
ideal warm weather waist here illus
trated. Six tucks are represented in
each cluster on back and fronts. The
novel adjustment of the back brings
the straight lines of tucking to meet
at the waist line. The fronts aud
back join in shoulder and under-arm
seams, and are smartly adjusted with
out linings. The fronts are held eas
ily between the groups of tucking at
the top, and gathers give a slight
blouse effect at the waist line, the back
being drawn snugly by gathers at
the waist. A narrow baud finishes
the neck and holds the studs with j
which the standing collar of white
linen is adjusted.
The stylish one-seam sleeves have
the slight fulness now approved by
fashion, gathered at the top and
wrists, the straight link cuffs being
shaped with rounded corners. Laps
finish the cuff openings to the sleeves
BOLE R l W A WO MA V.
in back, and a white leather belt with
silver buokle is worn around the waist.
White or colored taffeta made in this
style is exceptionally stylish, with
narrow knife pleating edging the box
pleat in front. Cords may be inserted
in the taoks if that effect is desired.
Zephyr, madras, wash cheviot, per
cale, dimity, nainsook or wash silks
in plain, striped or checked effect
make up smartly by the mode.
To make this shirt waist for a
woman of medium size will require
three and one-quarter yards of ma
terial thirty inches wide.
A French Organdie Costume.
In the accompanying large illustra
tion French organdie that shows yellow
carnations with their natural green
foliage, on a ground of pale blue, is
effectively made up over pale yellow
nearsilk. The foot ruffles, bolero and
sleeve caps are of plain blue organdie
trimmed with narrow frilled blue satin
ribbon. A stock of blue satin rib
bon is daintily bowed at the left of
throat, and a crush belt of the same
encircles the waist. Fitted body lin
ings that close in centre-front support
the full fronts and back portions of
waist, the under-arm gores giving a
smooth adjustment. The bolero fronts
are included with the shoulder and
under-arm sean\s,nnd, with the round
ed sleeve caps, may be omitted if not
desired. Fitted linings are aUo pro
vided for the sleeves, but both waist
and sleeves may be made up without
linings if so preferred. This method
is advisable when the gown may be
worn over different colored slips.
The wrists are completed with
pretty, flaring cuffs, and the neck has
a collar that flares to match. The skirt
is especially designed for thin or wash
fabrics, having smooth front and side
gores that flare stylishly, while the
straight back breadth is gathered
closely at the top and falls in graceful
folds to the foot. Narrower frills or
only those of ribbon may be used,bands
of insertion or ruchings of the organ
die forming effective decoration. Soft
India and wash silks, foulards, grena
dine, challie and veiling, Madras per
cale, lawn, sateen, gingham and other
wash fabrics may be daintly trimmed
with lace, edging, bands, of insertion,
braid or ribbon, frizzed or applied
plain in lattice or vandyked style.
The Round Waist In Vo&rue.
The round waist is still very much
in evidence, not only on fancy day aud
evening toilettes, but also on cos
tumes of vicuna, drap d'ete and fab
rics of similar character designed for
general wear.
Imparting a Dremj Eltect.
These fashionable accessories im
part a dressy effact to otherwise plain
waists, and lend just that charm of
variety that is essential -to style and
necessary where the wardrobe is lim
ited. No. 1 shows a plastron vest
with pointed revers that reach to the
waist line. The fancy stock collar is
shaped in one piece and rises to points
in the back, where the closing is made
in centre. The plastron, vest and
collar are made of white satin, over
laid with all-over cream point deVenise
lace. The collar has a narrow edging of
lace and is lined with satin. The revers
are of finely tucked satin, the tucks be
ing made in the material before the pat
tern is laid on, and the edges are
finished with insertion and iace edging
to match. Canvas or stiff crinoline is
used to interline each portiou, the vest
and revers having a lining of white
China silk.
No. 2 shows a chemisette extending
to the bust with short revers and
pointed tie ends. White corded taffeta
is the material chosen, lace and inser
tion furnishing the decoration. To the
stock collar are joined two rounded
sections of velvet in some becoming
color that flare stylishly at the sides
and back. Pointed tie ends are gath-
erod closely nnder a knot of the silk
and joined to the end of chomisette
where the lapels meet. Pique, duck,
linen, all-over embroidery, tucked
lawn, lace, insertion or plain ribbon
make attractive aooessories.
To make No. 1 will require five
eighths of a yard of twenty-two inch
material for plastron and collar, five
eighths of a yard of tucking for revers,
one and one-half yards insertion, one
and one-quarter yards of lace and one
yard of lace to edge collar. To make
No. 2 will require one-half yard of tuck
ing for plastron, collar and revers; one
and one-quarter yards insertion for
revers and tie, and two and three-
WOMAN'S WAIST DECORATION.
quarters yards of lace, three-quartors
of a yard of narrow lace to edge flare
collar, and one-quarter yard of material
twenty-two inches wide for strings.
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