IFOR "WOMAN'S BENEFIT, J A Unique Necklace of Mettal*. Mine. Laucelot-Croce, the French artist, has made for the French gov ernment a necklace composed of twelve medals bearing the heads of the twelve most famous women of French his tory. The subject was inspired by : Queen Mavpherita of Italy, and the or nament is to l>e presented to the Em ' press of Russia. To Soften New Cilove*. A new glove stretcher is a treasure to the womau whose patience is short wheu a warm hand and a new glove have to be introduced to each other. The stretcher is of similar shape to those now in use, with the exception that one finger is hollow and contains a powder, which is discharged inside the glove when the stretcher is in operation. A Lotion Tliat Ilemoves Freckles. To remove freckles, mix one ounce of lemon juice, a quarter of a drachm of powdered borax, half a drachm of pulverized sugar, and let it stand iu g!a u s for a few days; then apply it and let it dry on the skin- Or apply with a linen c'.otli two tablespoons of grated horseradish mixe 1 with a teaoupful of sour milk. If a girl freckles easily she should keep this lotion and use it frequently, being careful not to allow it to touch her eyes—Ladies' Home Journal. Tlie Sublimated Sliirt Waist. The shirt waist of linen, severe and tailor-made, and the sublimated shirt waist of batiste, brocade or crepe de Chine are really first cousins after all, aud, strange as it may seem, the woman who is "naturally stylish" looks as well in one as iu the other. Nothing is more becoming, if it is be coming at all, than a linen shirt waist, properly fitted and modish in cut. The woman who has a "natural -tvie" seldom looks well in the severely sim ple blouse of linen or madras, but the artful blouse of soft material can transform her into a thing of beauty. A charming soft little blouse of white mull is arranged in narrowly tucked stripes alternating with insertions of Valenciennes lace. The high trans parent collar of lace is pointed at the sides, and the sleeves have transpar ent cull's that reach almost to the fin ger tips. Silk shirt waists with corded tucks stitched in a contrasting color, batiste waists with simulated yokes and bol eros of lace aud embroidery, and soft crepe waists with lace jabots and gem buttons are delightful additions to the season's wardrobe. A Queen's ( lmrity. We hear less about Portugal than about Spain at any time aud of late have heard less than usual. The Queen of Portugal is a sovereign de serving a long mark for her interest in hospitals and hygiene, aud also in the welfare of the children of poverty. At Alcantara she founded, in 1893, a dispensary peculiarly for meeting the demands of childish invalids, as pleasantly situated as possible and spaciously planned, combining a diet kitchen, consultation rooms, surgical halls and much of the departmental work of a hospital. Almost every day the queen herself goes to the estab lishment aud takes a personal share in the labors of the charity—now waiting in the kitchen distributions,and aga:n assisting in the surgery. Several well known women of her court are equally practical. The general charge of it is committed to a religious order, a favorite of the queen's, but the emi nent Portuguese physician, Dr. Silva Carvalho, heads the staff of medical workers. In one year, (1895) there were given in the building 8559 con sultations, t>8,704 rations from the diet kitchen, 32,521 bandagings, 76,- 180 prescriptions aud 470 vaccina tions. The milk aud vegetables are furnished gratis by the queen, and the medical supplies are also defrayed by her. Fifteen hundred babies were treated in one twelvemonth. It is said that there is not any royal char ity of the sort in Europe so e.Hciently managed, with the additional active co-operation of the founder.—Har per's Weekly. Women HH Druggists. Comparatively few women have thus far become druggists. It certainly has not been ou account of their disa bility for such work, for their deftness and delicacy of touch, aud their pa tience and extreme cleanliness, make them most valuable in the laboratory. Iu business the only women who suc ceed are those who goto their work with a positive conviction that they have selected wisely an J well and whose energies are tireless. It is true they are not often so well paid for the same work as men, but it i? to be hoped that the world will soon realize hat there is no sex in brains, amVtbat this error of the present day will soon be rectified. The course cf study to fit one to irepare and dispense drugs and to earn the principles of immediate use n a diug store usually extends over a leriod of from a year aud a half to two ears; it includes a certain a aount of ustructiou in Latin, chemistry, bot uy, materia uielioa, microscopy, iharmacy, etc. The fees for instruc iou at the various colleges of pharm '.'V throughout the country are mod rate—about .$75 a term, which covers II necessary expenses. The work is eminently suited to a ellued, educated woman, though to ain admission to any of the colleges nly a good general education is neces ary. Once qualified as a dispenser acre isi always employment to be jucl The work is not usually well enough paid to attract an overplus of men, and is consequently too frequent ly in the hands of indifferent persons, a condition to be deplored when it is remembered that for this particular enterprise women's abilities are un questionably titted.—American Queen. Women Work While Men Fight, "Half of the crops raised in Kan sas are sown and gathered by women," said Seymour Davis, one of the lar gest agriculturists in Southern Kan sas, in a recent conversation. "This may seem a rather startling state ment to comprehend at first, but I know it to be absolutely true. Since tho war in the rhilippines nearly 1000 more women have begun work in the fields. Nearly every member of the Twentieth Kansas volunteers was a farmer, and they left wives, sisters and sweethearts behind them. These women resolved at once to do the proper thing, and they are running the farms themselves while the boys arc away. It's a patriotic thing, but there are more widows, orphans and spinsters who run farms than the otfter class. Altogether, there are 4000 women in the state who farm. I think that is about 50 per cent, of tho farmer population. I mean the heads of families who reside on farms — women and children excluded. "After they were gone the women went nobly to work. Mrs. Mary Dix and her two daughters run a 250-acre farm in Wilson county. Father and son both enlisted. Mrs. Sample, a widow, whose son is with Colonel Fuustou, lives on a small tract of land in Sumner county and does the work herself. Her crop yield will be ex< cellent this year. "I came to the state in 1875 and women had alrevly commenced to farm then. My wife has plowed in the field many a day while I was out hunting after cattle the Indians had stolen. Many of the frontier women of the state did likewise. The girls of this state who work on farms are as highly educated as those who work in stores or adorn the drawing room. In deed, I have seen some of the pretti est girls in the state on the farms. They wear sunbonnets and do not get tanned. Of course their hands are a little coarse, but that only proves that they are not afraid of work. After all, the Kansas woman is a heroine." —Philadelphia Press." Fashions A?ain.«t SuflYaffe. Mrs. Elizabeth Cacly Stanton, in speaking to a club woman the other day, expressed herself as entirely out of sympathy with that kind of femi nine taste that induces a woman togo about with a trailing dress and no pocket. She spoke on the matter in this wise: "To me one of the saddest sights in our streets today is an educated woman wearing a trailing dress that is destitute of a pocket. Behold her! In one hand she carries her umbrella, fan, cardcase, pocketbook and hand kerchief; with the other she holds up her dress if she attempts to prevent it from trailing in tho dust. Thus en cumbered, her skill in getting in and out of cars, etc., passes all under standing. True, she occasionally falls, twists her ankle or drops all her possessions, and these the sous of Adam kindly pick up and restore to her." "I have tried," went on the aged reformer, pathetically, "for fifty years to bring about the equality of the male and female of the human family, but in view of this everyday picture what can I sav? I, a mother iu Israel, have no influence with my country women comparod with the Parisians who set tho fashions. All my peti tions, appeals and protests have thus far been iu vain. Skirts must have a graceful sweep on the ground; they mnst be tight to the figure to show the outline of form. The por-ket was banished from the front that it might not interfere with the set of the skirt, then some one had it sequestered in the gathers at the back, but now the edict has gone forth that the skirt p.iust be tight and smooth all around, so the deathknell of the pocket is heard throughout the length and breadth of the land. "Suppose some new Beau Brummell should send forth a decree that one's aire and sons should have a flonnce on their trousers, or their outer garments should be too tight aud smooth to per mit them to have a pocket, think you they would submit to such folly? Not they. "I tremble to think what I have done to get the suffrage for women, fearing all the foolish fashions they might by law cause to appear in our midst. "—New York Tribune. Gleaning* from tile Shops. White silk stockings having the openwork instep threaded with white baby ribbou. White aud colored taffeta silk para sols, plain and corded, mounted on bamboo sticks. Pique stocks in all shades with white ends attached tln?t can be tied in any preferred form. Long neck scarfs made of delicate pink crepede Chine showing appliques in rich black thread lace. A great variety of allovers in taste ful combinations of valenciennes lace and openwork embroidery. Costumes of figured or striped mus lins trimmed with groups of narrow frills arranged in bayalere effects. downs of white foulard lavishly decorated with lace finished on the lower edge with a narrow silk fringe. Many chemisettes composed of al ternating rows of fine lace inserting aud bouillon nes of mousseline or gauze. Costumes of white taffeta made with pointed tunic finished with a broad flounce of rich guipure headed by sev eral rows of matched inserting and lace sleeves.—Dry Goods Economist HE LOST HIS PENCILS. But tho Reporter Wrote Ills Story with nu Klectric Light Kulb. •'Did I ever tell you about the time that I wrote a story with an incan descent light bulb?" said the police reporter to a few of his professional friends. "Xo? Well, it's a fact, just the same, and all I had to write with was one of these glass globes." The hearers moved uneasily and one was heard to say something about taking another draw. The police re porter was undaunted, however, and went on: "This is no pipe dream. 1 was working on the Brooklyn Eagle aud had been sent down to a small inter ior town on one of the 'hottest' stories yon ever heard about—double murder with a good mystery end —dead peo ple both prominent, and suspected murderer a prominent citizen. "I pulled into the station at exactly 11 o'clock and of course went into the station, the ouly telegraph office in the town, to tell the operator that I'd have some 'stuff' to file not later than 1 o'clock in the morning. He was an agreeable fellow,and he said he would go home and get two hours' sleep and be back in time to handle my story. I jumped in the town and in tin hour was back to the telegraph office, which the operator had left open for me. "I peeled off my coat and vest and sat down to write the crime story of my life. My hand sought my upper vest pocket, where I carried my pen cils, and, jiynpiug Jupiter! I had lost every one of them. I remembered that I had them a little while before when taking some notes, but they were gone now. "I then began to gaze around the office. The operator had plenty of ink, but nary a pen or pencil could I find. I was in a beautiful hole. Within an hour of tiling time and not a thing to write with. I just thought and thought, aud in doing so hap pened to look again at the operator's desk. There lay a pad of thin paper aud between the first and second sheets was a piece of carbon paper. Ihe way out of my difficulty came to me like a flash. "In the little office were three in candescent lamps. 1 turned the key and put out one, unscrewed it, and in another moment had the pad of paper with its carbon sheet in front of me. At the big end of the bulb was a pro truding point of glass. I took the globe in my hand, holding it like a stylus, and marked on the top sheet: 'The Eagle, Brooklyn, X. Y.' Imag ine my joy when I lifted the upper carbon paver to find that it had taken the impression perfectly. Then I went to work aud at 1 o'clock when the op erator arrived, had a starter for him of a thousand words." "Did you finish the story that way?" was asked. "Yes. The operator offered me writing material, but the novelty of the thing had taken hold of me. So Iran the other 1500 words out in the same way." "Then,"drawled the court recorder, "you waked up." Atlanta Constitu tion. Tactful Messenger Boy. "One of the beautiful traits in the makeup of Washington messenger boys," said a railroad man who lives in Washington, "is their tactfulne-s. I think otherwise. They are chock full and loaded down with tact—with the copper on. To illustrate: "My wife went over to New York city a few weeks ago to attend the bedside of a seriously ill relative, who was not ex] ected to live. This morn ing I was sitting in my office, wonder ing why I didn't get a letter from her by the lirst mail when a tousle-headed messenger boy joggled open tho door. " 'Wliere'll I find de office o' Mr. " 'Right here, son,' said I. 'You're talking to him.' " 'Well,' said the kid, measuring me up with the probable expectation that I'd do a stage back fall, 'l've got a death message fer you, an' they tole me at th' office that it was im portant.' "Nice, mild, tactful way of putting it, wasn't it? He just left it up to me to wonder, while I was ripping the en velope open, whether the message announced the death of our aged rela tive or the decease of my wife. It happened to be the former, but I an? inclined to believe that that boy would have been just a bit 1 ettei pleased had it bi<eu the latter." Washington Post. How They C.ttch Scorchers in I.ondon. A great many communications have recently been sent to the London papers saying t at the Kingston police always catch the wrong person when they attempt to stop the wheeling from furious riding. The policemen have contradicted these accusations. There seems to be a mistake some where. Possibly the true explanation may be found in what is said to be a "true American story" printed in the Loudon Mail. This story, says The Mail, has a great bearing on the ca w e at hand. There is a certain time when tho vision of the officer loses Uie real offeuder and he never gets him within tho range of his eyes again. Here is the story, which is said to explain matters: "A gentleman was leaning out of a railway carriage winAow to kiss his wife, who was on the platform bidding him good-by. The train,how ever, moved on with that celerity for which American trains are fatuous in anecdote; so fast, indeed, that the chaste salute was bestowed on a por ter at the next station. The sugges tion is that, as the cyclists travel so fast in Kingston, the police do not catch the scorcher, but the slow rider who is coming nu iust behind him." SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. Charcoal used to be the fuel in tho manufacture of steel. Coke has taken its place. There are in the world about ninety establishments devoted to spinning silk waste. Pennsylvania coal-mines are prepar ing to substitute compressed air for . mules as the motive power for the cars in the underground workings. Platinum lias been drawn into smooth wire so tine tbat it could not be distinguished by tho naked eye, evon when stretched across a piece of white cardboard. A Turgan steam boiler is now made in Paris, France, which, with a weight under a ton, gives sixty horse power. It only occupies rather more than a cubic yard of space. Liquid nir expands 130,100 foot pounds to one pound of air, and is capable of developing tremendous power, but only the most skilled chem ists dare to handle the new force. Milk has been shown by experiment to have advantages in extinguishing burning petroleum. It forms an emul sion with the oil, and in a limited space is thus made to quench flames upon which water could be thrown with little effect. To establish a steel-vail works, an expenditure of 53,000,000, is required before a single rail can be turned out. The steel is made to conform to an accurate chemical composition—the most accurate in tne ordinary range of technical operations. A writer in the Edinburgh Medical | Journal declares that many fancied I disorders of the stomach are really , the results of the metabolic misdeeds ' of bacteria in the intestines. Rest, | milk diet, aud cheese are among the ! remedies suggested. Electricity, when unretardeil by at | nospheric influences, travels at tho rate of 228,000 miles a second. Along i i wire it is of course" vastly slower, i md a perceptible period of ti_ne is ! occupied by the electric current in ! sending telegrams over long distances. It is said that some 9,000,000 acres ! of laud in Italy, the cultivation of which ha* been abandoned because of j malaria, are to be developed by the ; aid of American capital. Land of this | nature can be reclaimed by drainage | and proper attention to sanitary laws. | Sawdust is turned into transportable fuel in Germany by a very simple | process. It is heated under high | steam pressure until the resinous in | gredients become etickv, when it is pressed into bricks. One man, with a two-horse power machine, can turn out 9000 bricks a d"Ty. . •* HOW WE WASTE FOOD. It Costs Twice What It Should to Fetvl Tlii» Family. The results of a single dietary study j will show the general trend of the in vestigations of Professor Atwater, the expert of the United Sta'es food com i mission. It was made in the family i of a meshanic con-isting of father, mother and three small daughters. According to the standards the family | should have had a little more than the I daily food required by three men. This family paid for food 312.22 in ten days, or at the rate of about $37 I per month. Their rent was 312 per ; month. When the man had work, he • earned about 350 per month. Deduct ing the cost of food and rent from this j only 37 per mouth remains for fuel, light,clothing and the numerous other re juirements of a family. With good j management in its purchase aud pre j paration, food sufficient to meet the I needs of a mau at moderate work for ; a day can be obtained at a cost rang ; ing from fifteen to twenty cents. The j food of the family of a well-to-do pro i fessional man, whose dietary was re cently studied, cost eighteen cents per day, or but little more than half the cost of that of the family quoted in the table. By the proper expenditure of their money the New York family would have been able to buy their food for 375 to 320 instead of 330 per month. The purchase of condensed milk, pre pared tlour, poultry and most kinds of fish, was unwise. Ordinaly milk and j flour and the cheaper cuts of beef ' would have beeu more economical. The amount of food purchased might well have beeu reduced twenty-five per cent., with some intelligent substitution this would have effe -ted the saving indicated. The cost of their living would have beeu extrava gant for a well-to-do family, and for people in poverty such as theirs it was ruinous. In general, the investigations show that we waste food in two ways. We throw away a great deal that might well be eaten, and we eat too much. The cure for the former mistake can be found ouly in more careful house hold management. The remedy for the latter evil must come from the more general spread of such informa mation as is contained in the tables accompanying this article, and from an appreciation of the fact that in the matter of food, economy and frugality are not only respectable but eminently desirable in giving us healthful bodies aud efficient minds.—E. \V. Mayo in Ainslee's. The I'ncertalnties of Life. Colonel Andrew .T. Smith, who was in Atchison a day or two ago, has had seven bullets putin him and is well aud hearty. Mrs. Henry Wallenstein of Wichita picked up a rose, pricked her linger on a thorn and died within a week. Death is not always met where people mo-t expect to find it.— Atclihou (Kail.) Globe. The state of Pennsylvania hatched 30,000,000 jhad in tho Delaware river this year, aud the United States hatched 200,000,000 of the same fish in the Deiaware aud Susquehanna rivers "You see, madam, Ivory Soap is really the most economical. The cake is so large that it easily divides into two cakes of the ordinary size. There is twice as much soap as you get in the usual cake of toilet soap. Then it is very economical in use, for although it lathers quickly, it is always firm and hard, even in hot water. As it floats, you can not lose it or leave it to waste in the bowl. We sell it to all of our best trade for general USJ.'I COPYRIGHT «V THE PROCTER ft GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI Fun on n ."Military Transport. When the United States transport Zelandia carried part of the second expedition of troops from San Fran eisco to Manila during the early part Df the war now in progress aboard were the Tenth Pennsylvania volun teers and the now fatuous Utah bat tery. To divert the monotony of a long voyage the yet untrained soldiers in dulged in all sorts of games and pranks during the intervals between drill and school. The officers were not all inclined to stand upon military dignity, and so when the privates had exhausted each other's good nature they dragged in the "noncoms," who in turn dragged the commissioned officers into the various traps the skylarkers set for each other. Says a former private who took the voyage in question: "Some of the boys were gathered together on the forward deck; quietly they passed the word back that so and so was wanted. Corning forward one of the group would beckon to him mysteriously and as he stooped to listen 'whack' would come a tremen dous blow from a barrel stave from some unknown source behind him. "After a yell of laughter had sub sided he would be handed the stave and given the privilege of naming the next victim. "This happened in turn to private, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain and major, and the boldest held their breath as the major, with a grim smile, said: " 'Private Smith, present my com pliments to the colonel and tell him Major respectfully desires his presence forward.' "The colonel came, stooped over, received his whack, straightened up and to the delight of the boys shouted: " 'Tell the chaplain to come forward at once.'"—Chicago News. Robert Bonner's Methods* Eobert Bonner read every manu script that was submitted to the Led ger before relinquishing control to his sons. There was an old bench in the hall in front of his private office, <m which the hungry literates used to sit hour after hour, waiting to speak to him. He followed religiously the barber-shop principle of first come first served. Cards were taken in over a counter in an ante-room, and to this counter the publisher would step from time to time, calling cut the name of some visitor. The person would rise and begin a speech, which Bonner would interrupt with the most patient voice imaginable: "We haven't time to talk now; come back on Thursday and I will tell you whether I want the story or not." Before another word could be said he disappeared behind his private door with the precious manuscript.—New York Press. A Lou, a Puncture and a Find. A Melbourne lady whose husband is in the bicycle trade lost a gold-nug get brooch the other day while whirl ing along on her wheel. A St. Ivilda hotelkeeper got a puncture in his tire the same day, and took the bicycle to the shop of the husband aforesaid, with the result that the wife's lost brooch was extricated from the punc ture.—Sydney (New South Wiles) Bulletin. VJ.J.J.J.JLJ.J.AAXXXAJ.J.4.JLXJLXAAAA< 1 Doesn't your boy write well ? Perliap9 1 * 2 he hasn't good ink. {m 1 CARTER'S INK i 4 IS THE BEST INK. I' 2 More used than any other. Don't cost „ ] you any more than poor ink. 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