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Smart Neck Chains.
Smart neck chains are of rather lerge
ebony beads strung close together.
The Favorite Model.
The shapely seven-gored skirt re-
mains the favered model for women
of generous prcportions.
Glimpses of Mrs. Peary’s Home.
Mrs. Robert E. Peary will have made
her fourth trip to the Arctic regions,
where she joins her husband this sum-
mer, and expects to return with him
about the last of October. Mrs. Peary
has spent three years and a half of
her life in the frozen regions, and her
little daughter, Ah-ni-ghi-to, was born
farther north than ary white child of
which there is record. ,
Her home in Washington in a big
frame Cottage surrounded by spacious
grounds, the inside of which is a regu-
Jar museum of Arctic curiosities. The
hallway and walls are decorated with
curios and relies brought home by
Lieutenant and Mrs. Peary from for-
mer trips. About’ the floors cf the
drawinz: rooms are mounted skins of
the polar bear and other animals of
that cold region. On the walls are
hung Arctic scenes, the various imple-
ments of the Eskimo, and the picture
of little Ah-ni-ghi-to Peary in Eskimo
costume. A cabinet in one corner
contains miniature snow shoes, snow
sleds, pikes and Eskimo dogs.—Wash-
ington Post.
Tribute to Palma’s Mother.
‘ One of the first duties of President
‘Palma when he landed in Cuba was to
‘ind the body of his mother, who died
during the war of 1868 when their
‘home was broken up and the family
separated. The burial place on the
Guacmayo farm at Cauto was located
with the assistance of Angela Santana,
who was with the mother of Senor
Palma during her last hours and
‘marked the grave with stakes.
The body was exhumed and taken
90 the cemetery at Bayamo. On the
marble shaft. erected over the new
grave was this inscription:
“Candelaria Palma, you fell here
tired and sick while following your son
who was fighting for the liberty of his
country. Thirty years you have slept
under the solid layer of earth which
covered you.
“The people of Cauto come to awake
you and to say your son has come with
his head bound with laurels as a re-
ward of his virtues to take away your
precious remains.
“Arise, your country is free, and is in
fthe hands of your son!”
If You Own a Shawl.
The big lace shawls of Limerick or
Honiton which many have stowed
away as cherished possessions will be
able to see the light again this sum-
mer, and shine forth in much of their
original glory. Those who have the
knack, which is a precious gift, of
being able to wear such things with
telling effect propose using them as
they were originally meant to be worn,
as shoulder scarfs, pure and simple.
Others are employing them folded into
pelerine shape, edged with fluffy frills
of chiffon or flower petals, while the
present shape of theatre cloaks allows
_ of them being used that way, one cor-
ner turned over to make a shoulder
cape or collar, the lace itself being
mounted on a foundation of chiffon or
mousseline. In spite of the beauty
to which machine-made laces have now
attained, real lace is being mostly em-
ployed on the best evening and fete
gowns. Irish guipure, Venetian gui-
pure, Honiton and Bruges laces are
being greatly used, while the effective
tinted Paris lace plays an importact
part on dresses, blouses and millinery
alike.—New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Destroy Your Bric-a-Brac.
' The first impulse of those who would
become civilized is to rid themselves of
things, and they hasten the hour of
freedom by presenting their unholy
possessions to less enlightened house-
holds—a cheap vase to a sewing wom-
an; a gilded broiler, tied with blue rib-
bons and used as paper rack, to some
innocent dependent. But this is pro-
foundly selfish and irresponsible. It
purges the original owner of the horror,
but it only passes it along to afflict hu-
manity. There _is but one road to free-
dom—destruction of things.
A fire in the back yard, fed with
wooden shoes, can be relied upon. Pur-
ple jars, not being combustible, might
be drowned in the depths of the sea;
brass dragons with curly tails, called
candlesticks, awkward to hold, with
no human touch of imagination or han-
dicraft about them, therefore neither
useful nor beautiful, might be disposed
of to the junk man; plush things with-
out a name seem to demand the ash-
barrel, for the vital purity of fire repu-
diates them, and they do not burn
well; tidies are prehistoric, but if any
have survived, the ash-barrel is also
their true home.—Margaret Deland, in
Harper’s Bazar.
Summer Sunshades.
The popularity c¢f green almost
amounts to a fad. These parasols are
most favored in plain green taffeta or
a grass linen crash or similar fabric
lined with green.
* x =
In past seasons lined sunshades were
the exception rather than the rule; this
year this has been just reversed.
* *® ok
For every-day use nothing is more
serviceable, as well as stylish, than a
plain one-tone taffeta parasol, with a
narrow contrasting hemstitched edge
and two-inch wide border ef heavy silk
French knots. A green sunshade and
black border and edge is a very pretty,
yet durable, combination.
* %* *¥
A novelty after the Parisian style is
a hand-painted parasol. The vogue is
confined to the woman who can afford
several sunshades, and can get another
as soon as one becomes in the least
passe. Elaborate floral designs on a
black background are oftenest seen.
* * %
Very tiny buttons, used i. t orig-
inal fashions, are very cmart adjuncts
to the more elaborate sunshades, and
are oftenest used in applying lacz2 ne-
daliions.
*x x =x
A strikingly new effect is produeel
by an uausually long bambceo handle,
attractively bronzed, that is a novel
feature of some of the latest parasols.
*
White moire antique parasols for
nidsummer use are much favored be-
cause of the wide vogue of rieire this
season.
* % =
As oppcsed to the extremely long
handled sunshade for dress occasions
the plain coaching parasol. with very
short handle and small frame, espe-
cially designed for packing in a trunk
or grip, is in high favor for morning
use.
Cultivate Time For Leisure.
There is one rule that should be 1m-
pressed upon every young wife at the
very beginning of her married life—
that is, to cultivate time for leisure.
Housewives are frequently heard to
compalin that they have no time to do
this or that needful work, and that
they will breathe more freely when
the children have grown out of the
way, when the winter's or the sum-
mer’s work is done, and so on. With
such it would seem that time is always
borrowed, with a view of paying it
back in the future.
It would be idle to lay down a cer-
tain set of rules by which wives and
mothers may rid themselves of this
evil genius of haste and unrest, yet we
would earnestly endeavor to persuade
the unhappy victims that the fault is
most always their own, and springs
frem the very spirit in which they go
about their work; that, in truth, hurry
is an evil spirit much to be dreaded.
Especially among women of moder.
ate means, the wives of struggling
men, is the habit of always being in a
hurry observable. Good housekeeping
and hurry should be utterly divorced
one from the other. It is a fact of com-
mon experience that the most success-
ful housewives are the least hurried,
for haste is an cpen transgressor of
the law of order, and order is certainly
the foundation of good housekeeping.
And here we find the secret of a restful
life, cne which has freedom without
the never-ending push from behind.
Besides the spirit of order, which
should lead every housekeeper to ar-
range her work so it will not always
be behind her, and the courage which
enables her to refuse to do what she
cannot do satisfactorily, there is an-
other element of good housekeeping,
which, indeed, is but the true spirit of
order and of courage combined—the
resolute reserve of leisure.
It is absolutely necessary for every
mistress of a home and family to have
and jealously guard some period of
time each day which shall be given to
leisure—the leisure of perfect rest—for
she will find that in this age of hurry
the woman of moderate leisure is the
woman who will best discharge her
duty to herself, her family and syciety.
—Philadelphia Record.
sashes of silk.
Crepe lisse is to supersede crepe de
chine in fashion’s favor.
Waists with transparent yckes are
becoming effective and fashionable.
Guipure lace in black is much fa-
vored for trimming filmy black gowns.
Braided and knotted effects are the
latest in ornamental corsage or millin-
ery bows.
Moire and moire velour will hold the
prominent position ia the sil world
throughout the seascn.
Fichus are most effective for the
waists of bridesmaids’ gowns to be
worn with picture hats.
White clothelaborately trimmed with
Irish crochet lace is used in the crea-
tion of extremely swagger: seashore
coats.
The newest guimpes are a-ranged to
put over the waist, producing a much
more becoming offoct than those going
inside.
Materials with a white ground and
black figure, in any weave from silk to
cotton, are used for ninety per cent. cf
the summer costumes.
Heavy linen basket weave cottons
and piques in white, blue, pink, tan
and red are the fashionable midsum-
mer coats for little girls.
Silk and linen grass cloths, made up
over a green taffeta slip, with green to
match trimming the hat, is the smart
Parisian costume of the hour.
Black muslin gowns, sprigged in self
color and trimmed with black Valen-
ciennes lace and velvet ribbon, form a
black toilet much infavor this summer.
* Ruches of very heavy Brussels nét,
sually box-pleated and adorned with
a row of moire ribbon, with moire sash
width ribbon for ends, are very fash-
ionable.
It is confidently predicted that by
fall the Colonial footwear will be no
more. Extension edges, rope stitches,
double deckers, Klondike eyelets and
perforations are also entirely passe,
according to one authoritaetive fashion
arbiter in shoes.
DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY. THE NOTED
PASTOR-EVANGELIST.
Subject: A Man Without a Country=A
Text Which is the Saddest Expression
Possible in Human Language—-Pity
For Those Without a God.
New York Crry.—The Rev. Dr. J. Wil-
bur Chapman, the noted pastor-evangel-
ist, continues to excite popular interest
by the series of remarkable sermons he is
delivering in the Fourth Presbyterian
Chureh. Apropos of patriotic celebrations
he has prepared the following discourse
for the press. entitled “A Man Without a
Country.” It is preached from the text,
Ephesians 2: 12, “Having no hope and
without God in the world.’
This is one of the saddest texts in the
New Testament, for while it describes our
own condition when we were aliens from
Christ and strangers to the covenant and
promise of God, vet I take it in my pre-
sentdtion of this subject to describe those
who have wilfully rejected Christ and
who have deliberately decided that they
will not accept Him as a Saviour. With
this interpretation put upon the Scripture
we have in the text the saddest expression
possible in human language. I suppose
there is no one of my hearers to whom the
words may be strictly applied, for if we
take hope out of a man’s life it is not
worth the living. The young man may
have failed yesterday, but he has hoped
that he may succeed to-morrow; the busi-
ness man who has lost his fortune in the
wreck of past days is not discouraged be-
cause hope buoys him up, and he is confi-
dent that prosperity will be ‘his once
again. Take hope from our lives and we
are of all men most miserable, and if in
addition to being deprived .of hope we
have no God we are not only hopeless for
time, but hopeless also for eternity, for
since we were made to be filled with God
and all our being was so adjusted as to be
at tune to His nature, there is no sadder
picture than to be without Him. Some
years ago I came across that interesting
and pathetic story written by Edward Ev-
erett Hale entitled “The Man Without a
Country,” and it has furnished for me an
illustration of this text to which your at-
tention is invited. I found in the man
who drifted everywhere across the sea
without being able to enter a harbor a
presentation of many a man who has bur-
ied Christ out of his life. The man was
Philip Noland by name. Whether the
story be truth or fiction it does not mat-
ter. for the illustration is the same. "This
young lieutenant in the army had come
under the influence of Aaron Burr, and he
had fascinated him. The young soldier
wrote to Burr long letters expressing his
hopes and his desires that he might serve
him, but had no letters from Burr in re-
ply. At list he came one day to see the
young man, and then ‘his hold upon him
was complete. The regular life of the sol-
dier became tame; he was utterly un-
fitted for service. There came a time
when in company with others who were
also under the influence of Burr he must
appear before the army court to be tried
for misdemeanor. The others for one rea-
son or another escaped sentence, but
Philip Noland was pronounced guilty.
He was asked by the judge if he had any-
thing to say why sentence should not be
assed upon him because he had been
alse to his country and had sinned against
the United States. His reply was an
oath, and in the presence of the court he
cursed his country and said that he
wished he might never again hear the
sound of the name United States; that he
hated his native land. The judge. with a
white face, answered, “It shall be as you
say, and subject to the approval of the
President of the United States, you shall
never again hear of your country.” At
this Philip Noland laughed. but no one
else did; there was a deathlike stillness
over the court. He was taken to New Or-
leans, given over into the charge of a
commander of one of the vessels, with the
distinct understanding that no one was
ever again to speak to him of the United
States, and he was to be allowed to speak
to no one of his old home. He was at
last put upon a Government vessel and
given quarters befitting his late rank. It
was expressly stipulated that he was to
be exposed to no indignity; he was not to
be reminded of the fact that he was a
prisoner, and while he could wear the uni-
form yet he must not have the buttons of
the United States Government upon this
uniform. Indeed he was to be a man
without a eountry from this time on. He
was permitted once each day to dine with
the officers, but they did not care to have
him, because when he was present they
could not talk of home; under no circum-
stances was he to ever see his country
again and never was he to hear of it. He
was not permitted to go on shore wher-
ever the landing might be. If he read
books at all they must contain no refer
ence to his home, and if he read the for-
eign papers it was only after some one
had carefully cut out every referemce to
the United States. If the vessel upon
which he was a passenger came near
his country it must wait until it would be
overtaken by another vessel going sea-
ward. Philip Noland became a passenger
with his face set away from his home. It
has ever been to me one of the saddest
illustrations I know, and yet a perfect pic-
ture of the man who has deliberately re-
jected Christ, has said, “I will not have
this man to rule over me,” and who is,
therefore, described by the words of the
text as “having no hope and without God
in the world.”
We have rejected Him. He has said in
His word, “He that is not with Me is
against Me,” and not to accept is to re-
ject. It is true we have never said in so
many words that we would not have Him
as our Saviour, but we have resisted the
entreaties of the minister and spurned
the prayers of our loved ones, and what
we have not been bold enough to say with
the lips we have said in our hearts, and
God knowszth the language of the heart
as men know the language of the lips. 1
am very sure that Philip Noland did not
mean what he said. He had spoken in a
passion, and I am perfectly positive that
no one here could for a moment reject
Christ if he felt that Christ would take
him at his word, and possibly he might
never have a chance again. Mr. Moody
used to say that no one wanted to be ex-
cused. “Would you sign a letter like
this?’ he said. “Sitting in the house of
God this Sunday evening I ‘received a
pressing invitation from one of your serv-
ants to be present at the Marriage Sup-
per of the Lamb. I pray thee, have me
excused.” o one would sign it. Then,
would vou sign this? “Sitting in the
house of God this Sunday evening I re-
ceived a pressing invitation from one of
your servants to be present at the Mar-
riage Supper of the Lamb. By the grace
of God I will be there.” If you could but
sign that there would be joy in heaven
and joy in your own heart.
11.
We are by nature afar off. Our hearts
are deceitful above all things and desper-
ately wicked. Our minds are carnal and
therefore at enmity with God; our wills
are stubborn and will not yield to the
touch of His power; we are in midnight
darkness, and it is in this condition that
He comes to us. In the 13th verse of the
second chapter of Ephesians we read,
“But now in Christ Jesus, ye who some-
times were afar off are made nigh by the
blood of Christ,” and to all the unsaved
it is my privilege to say that by the grace
of God you are brough nigh to Christ.
This is true because vou have been under
the influence of the Spirit, and you may
be saved if you will, but if you reject
Christ no word can describe this sin of
Lae
which you ‘are guilty. In the Old Testa-
ment the man who despised Moses’ God
died without mercy among two. or three
enemies. of how much greater need of
mercy shall he be that hath trodden un-
der foot the Son of God, hath counted the
blood whereof He was glorified a common
thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace.
In this picture of Philin Noland, a sailor
on the sea without a harbor, I find an
illustration of the man who in spite of
(God's grace has rejected the offer of mercy.
IIT.
We begin to break away. not by great
sins, but by small sins. Have you ever
noticed in the three verses in the first
chapter of Romans that wonderful de-
scription of sin, indeed the most remark-
able of any the world has ever seen. In
the 24th verse we read, “God gave them
un to uncleanness;” in the 26th verse,
“God gave them up to vile affections,”
while in the 28th verse we read. “God
gave them'up to a reprobate mind.” The
uncleanness may have been sin of an insig-
nificant character; to be given up to vile
affections is to be vermitted to set our
hearts upon those things which are not
right, and draw them to us as with hooks
of steel. but to be given over to a repro-
bate mind is to be hopeless. I make an
appeal to-day in behalf of those whose
lives are in the least touched by sin; it
is a dangerous position.
IV.
What is the greatest sin in all the cata-
logue as written in God’s word? If this
question were put to men there would be
almost as many answers as there are men.
It is not impurity, nor dishonesty. These
things are not even to be considered in
the light of the greatest sin of all, which
is unbelicf. When we read in the gospels
that the Holy Ghost is to come, it is said
that He will reprove the world of sin,
and that sin is described as not believing
on Him. To reject Christ. therefore, is
the chiefest of all transgressions.
Vv.
‘Having no hope. I cannot imagine that
any of my hearers would for a moment
think of giving way to unbelief or taking
refuge in infidelitv. That is, indeed,
hopeless. Tt is said that Adoniram .Jud-
son when he was a student in Brown Uni-
versity came under the influence of a fel-
low student who was an infidel. On his
return to Providence at one time he was
obliged to stov at a country inn. The inn-
keeper told him he had but one room,
and that was next to a man who was sup-
posed to dying. Judson cared nothing
for this. and said he would take the
room. All through the night he heard
this man eryving ont to God for mercy,
shrieking in terror because of his unbelief,
and at last Judson utterly worn out fell
asleep. When the morning came all was
quiet in the adjoining room, but the man
was dead. What was the student’s horror
to find out that the dying man was his
companion in infidelity, and when he came
to the end there was no hope for him,
and infidelity prevailed him nothing. Tt
is an awful thing to be without Christ in
the world.
Yl
Without God. If you could imagine
God taken out of vour life for a moment
it would be a position of terror. No one
would ever again say no to Him if they
realized that they might say no for fhe
last time. To have no help in temptation
and no comfort in the hour of sorrow.
and no support in the day of death would
indeed be an awful thing. A friend of
mine told me of a man in the West who
had been constantly besought by his
friends to come to Christ. and had resisted
all their entreaties. He had been en-
treated by God Himself as He called him
in prosperity and in adversity. and at
last the calls became so marked that it
was as if God had actually spoken to him.
and at last in a heat of passion he cried
out as if he were speaking to God, “Oh.
God, let me alone,” and He did. and until
the day of his death it is said he never
again had even a faint desire to go to
Christ. Tt is dangerous to resist. God
pity the man who says no to Christ and
speaks for the last time, and then comes
to the place where he had no hope and is
without God in the world.
Was True to Her Colors.
A beautiful instance of Christian fidel-
ity was that displayed by a distinguished
Christian young woman who was spending
a few weeks of summer at a certain hotel
in a favorite resort in the Kast.
An efiort was made to induce her to at-
tend a dance, in order that the affair
might have the prestige bestowed by her
presence, as she stood high in society. She
declined all. the importunities of her
friends. *
Finally’, an honorable Senator tried to
ersuade her to attend, saying: “Miss
——, this is quite a harmless affair, and
we want the exceptional honor of your
presence.”
“Senator,” said the lady, “I cannot do
it; I am a Christian. I never do anything
in my summer vacation, or wherever I go,
that will injure the influence I have over
the girls of my Sabbath-school class.”
The Senator bowed and said: “I honor
you; if there were more Christians like
vou, more men like myself would become
Christians.”
+ God’s Work Must Be Done.
A peor field negro with a wooden leg
hobbled up to the collection table to lay
his offering upon it. He took from a pock-
et a handful of silver, and said, ‘‘That’s
for me, massa;” from another pocket, an-
other handful, “That’s for my wife,
massa,” and from still another pocket, yet
another handful, “That's for my child,
massa.” The pastor remonstrated with
him for giving se much. “O massa!” said
be, “God’s work must be done, and I will
have a part in it.”
Commenting on this incident, Ida Q.
Moulton says: “You and I want a part in
it. Heaven's treasures will be given us
throughout the eternal ages for a brief life
of self-denial and self-sacrifice here, out
of love for our dear Master. Take this
motto to your strong, true, loving heart,
fellow-Christian: ‘God’s - work must be
done, and I will have a part in it.” ”’
Rest in Christ.
When you come to Jesus and rest in
Him you discover how God loves you, not
because He made you, not with a love
which depends upon your goodness, but
with the everlasting love of a Father, a
love so great and wise that He would not
if He could make your sins be less a bur-
den to your souls, but would increase that
burden that you might be driven to be
rid of your sins. And, when you come to
Him and find how He loves you and takes
the burden from your soul, you will love
Him. That is what you want. Our sins
arc greatly aggravated by the stony hard-
ness of your hearts toward God. Jesus
takes it all away. Your mind has the
repose of faith, your conscience the re-
pose of forgiveness, your hearts the re-
pose of love.
Christ’s Transforming Power.
While Christ used the common things
of life, He made them very uncommon,
says the Rev. Dr. O. P. Gifford, the well-
known pastor of Buffalo. He took the
common bread and said, “This is My
body.” He took the common wine and
said, “This is My blood.” The artist
takes up his canvas and colors, and as
vou look at the canvas you think of
nothing but the different colors of paint.
When the artist combines them, you
think neither of canvas or colors, but of
the picture. Christ
est things of life s
divine; He makes
made the common-
>d; He made drudg-
ery E every burden and
trial a stepping stone to life itself, and
life a long, sweet psalm. This He does
when you surrender everything to Him.
HOUSEHOLD
AFFAIRS
! Tea Ice Cream.
The very best and most fragrant tea
must be used for this. Make a strong
infusion; sweeten to taste with sugar
and let get cold. Then mix it with a
cup of orange or lemon custard and
freeze. Stir in a cup of whipped cream
and pack and let stand for two or three
hours.
Asparagus Salad.
Wash the asparagus and tie up in
punches and boil in plenty of salted
water; as soon as it is tender imme-
diately transfer it to cold water, so as
to preserve its natural fulness and
color. When perfectly cold drain it on
a cloth and arrange it on an oblong
dish on a bed of crisp lettuce leaves
and serve with French dressing, which
should be sent to the table in a sep-
arate dish or mixed at the table by
the host or one who serves the salad.
Potato Puffs. -
Ingredients: Two cupfuls of mashed
potatoes, two teaspoonfuls of butter,
two eggs, one cupful of cream, and
salt and pepper to season.
Beat the eggs until light, and after
melting the butter stir it into the eggs.
Beat this mixture into the mashed po-
tatoes; then add the cream and season
ing, and beat the whole until light.
Grease popover pans or gem pans, and
have each half full of the mixture.
Bake the puffs in a quick oven until
brown, and remove them from the
pans with a flexible knife to prevent
their breaking. They should be served
immediately upon being removed from
the oven.
Dainty Mushroom Dishes.
Fresh mushroom savce is one of the
best adjuncts to a chop or steak if
prepared as follows: Slice an onion
from the top to the bottom and fry
in one ounce of dripping till it is a
golden color. Peel and wash eigh
nice mushrooms, chop them small and
place in a saucepan with half a pin
of water and simmer till cooked.
Work one ounce of flour into the sauce
and boil all together for five minutes
Color with a few drops of browning,
season highly, and if the sauce be too
thick add a little more water.
For a savory, one of the best ways
of using mushrooms is a 1a reine. Take
some good, fresh mushrooms, wash
them, remove the stalks and peel care-
fully. Spread the inner side with but-
ter and dash with pepper and salt.
Price on a grill over a clear fire and
cook until they are soft. A few drops
of anchovy sauce on each mushroom is
an improvement. Have ready as many
croutons of fried bread as mushrooms,
squeeze a little lemon juice on to each,
and then place the mushrooms on the
top. Set a tiny sprig of parsley in the
centre of each and serve.
Another good dish is mushroom toast.
Peel mushrooms of equal size and fry
in butter till cooked. Have ready strips
of buttered toast, arrange a few mush-
rooms on each piece and season with
salt and cayenne. Sprinkle with a
little grated cheese, pass & salamander
over and serve very hot.
It is rarely that one has this veg-
etable in soup, but try the following
recipe: Boil a quart of thin white stock
or milk with an onion, a stick of celery
and a carrot for two hours. Season the
soup nicely, strain and thicken it.
Have one pound of mushrooms washed,
peeled and chopped small. Add the
mushrooms to the soup and simmer
gently till cooked. If the soup boils at
all fast, the mushrooms will break up,
and the appearance of the soup will
be spoiled. Serve grated Parmesan
cheese with this soup.
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Stains play an
important part in
home decoration these days.
A little vaseline, rubbed in once a
day, will keep the hands from chap-
ping.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water about a
minute.
Paint splashes on glass may easily
be rubbed off with the edge of a penny
dipped in cold water.
Mud stains on black material may
be removed by rubbing them with a
raw potato cut in half.
Dainascus lanterns, decorated with
chains and jewels, represent one of the
latest novelties in hanging ornaments.
When anything boils over on the
stove sprinkle salt quickly over the
place. This will prevent the fumes
from rising and making the house
smell disagreeable.
A substitute for cream may be made
by beating the white of an egg with
a teaspoonful of sugar and a very little
water. Put it into the cups before the
coffee is poured into them.
For tying back sleeping-room cur-
tains of soft, white material a silken
cord and tassel is preferable to ribbon,
unless one possesses the knack of being
able to arrange ribbon effectively.
When earthen pudding and pie dishes
get brown and unsightly from the
juices and grease of many bakings,
scour them with ashes from the grate
mixed with a little good soap. They
will come out as fresh as new.
An unusually piquant flavor is ob-
tained by cooking dried fruits in a
covered earthen dish in the oven. Soak
any and all of them except prunes
overnight to give them back their lost
moisture, and then simmer slowly in
the oven until done.
WHEN BOBBY COES AJCOURTING.
-— l
When Bobby goes a-courting ho
’Tis a nobby suit he’s sporting,
And its blue all dotted brightly with two
rows of buttons yellow,
Shining like the stars above him;
Sure, what lass could help but love aim
In his haughty stripes and helmet, he is
such a naughty fellow?
And it’s oh! for dear Bobby just come
from the force,
With a smile for his sweetheart,
more, too, of course.
There’s a ring in his pocket—sweet boy,
let me see.
Now, Bobby, stop teasing—I know it’s
for me.
and
When Bobby comes a-swinging
Down the street my heart is singing.
Like a lark at dawn, and always it is
“Bobby loves me true!”
And my cheeks they blush unduly,
For, my soul! they're so unruly!
And I tremble and dissemble, for I don’t
know what to do.
But it’s Bobby, sweet Bobby, who know
the best way
For arresting such rn
never say!
Now, Bobby, be easy!—You've rumpled
my hair!
Sure, lad, you are crazy—not one more!
—well, there.
—R. C. Rose.
troubles—how,
Mary had a little lamb,
She sold it to the trust.
She’s cutting coupons now so fast
Her scissors never rust.
—Judge.
He—“Many a girl wears a sailor hat
who can't row a boat.” She—*“Yes;
and many a man wears a silk hat who
can’t set up a stovepipe.”—Chicago
News.
It’s queer that people who are always
railing at the world are nevertheless
willing to pay the doctors a fortune fo
keep them from leaving it in a hurry.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Miss Fortysummers—“I had a pro-
posal last night and refused it.” Miss
Crusher—“You are always thinking of
the welfare of others, aren't you,
dear ?’—Ohio State Journal.
First Reporter—*“Our city editor has
been discharged for wasting time.”
Second Reporter— “How?” First Re-
porter—*“Asking the reporters how they
got the news.”—Town and Country.
Physicians have him in their gvip
Whichever way he fares;
He either pays the final debt,
Or else he owes them theirs.
—New York Herald.
“It seems to make Scaddington’s wife
as mad as a hornet every time he boasts
that he began at the foot and worked
his way up.” “Well, he started in as a
bootblack, you know.”—Chicago Rec-
ord-Herald.
“How clean and fresh the landscape
looks to-day,” said Mrs. Hilland to her
husband. “I read something in the
paper about detectives scouring the
country,” explained Mr. Hilland.—
Pittsburg Chronicle.
“Come here, Johnnie,” called his
mother, appearing at the window with
a cake of soap and a scrub brush.
“Goodby,” said Johnnie sorrowfully to
his playmate. “I gotter go an’ take th’
water cure.”—Boston Post.
“How many quarts in a gallon?”
asked the teacher. “Six,” answered
the little son of a market man. “No,
no, Johnny. Only four.” “Huh, I
guess I've seen ‘em sell enough straw-
berries to know.’—Baltimore Amer-
ican.
Intimate Friend—*“The assessor
hasn’t listed your property at sne-
tenth of what it is worth? Then why
don’t you increase your assessment
voluntarily?’ Millionaire—“I did that
last year, and everybody said I was
making a grand stand play for popu-
laxity.”—Chicago Tribune.
“We ought to do something to keep
the public reminded that we are re-
markable men,” said one statesman.
“That's so,” answered the other. “Let's
have a little tilt on the floor of Con-
gress.” “Good. Come around to my,
hotel next Wednesday and we'll re-
hearse the affront.” “Very well. And
you come to mine on Wednesday, and
we’ll run over the apology.”—Wash-
ington Star.
That Persistent Microbe.
“Mary, have you sterilized the milk?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you soaked the beefsteak in
antiseptics ?”’
“1 have.”
“Have you burned sulphur
pantry?”
“Of course.”
“And boiled the ice?”
“Why, certainly!”
“And notified the undertaker to call
in an hour and see how we're getting
along?”
“Yes,”
“Then I suppose 1t will be safe to
go ahead and set the table.”—Balti-
more News.
in the
Mere Opinion.
You can't always judge a man by hig
clothes, but you generally can by the
swiftness of his automobile.
Opportunity uses a battering ram
when she knocks at some men’s doors.
The more -men have the more they
want of about everything but children
and boils.
There is little encouragement for the
great man’s son. If he amounts to
anything the people say influence did
it.—Chicago Record-Herald.
Velocily of a Rifle Bullet.
It appears that the greatest velocity
of a rifle ball is not at the muzzle, but
some distance in front. An average
of ten shots with the German infantry
rifle has shown a mu i
le ve ity of
2063 feet per second, with a 1
velocity of 2132 feet per second of
feet from the muzzle.
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