ahi BE Nx ssp A ct— ET FR te bosses, Be A in THE INTER.VEIL, 1 Into the silent valley, Knee to knee, 1 rode between two riders I could not see, Because the hod had fallen ’twext them and me. 13. We passed a lonely out-fire, And one turned; Across his eyes an "instant The low light burned, And in that flash their biueness I had dis- cerned. In. But he, the other rider, Dimly scanned, Was dark amid the darkness That held the land— Only, upon the bridle, I saw his hand, Out of the silent valley, Knee to knee, 1 rode between two riders I could not see— Known for a day, forever unknown to me. —XElizabeth Foote, in the Century. FETUUEE UG UUUUE Ie THE POPPY BOAT. ARN AANA ARARAARARARAR AOI. HOMAS had ! : of ) leave the room with his Oo ! | \ © Mother, but he looked back at me over his shoulder. turned to © “You may come with me in wwe roppy Boat,” he said, gracious- ly. The Poppy Boat is his, and it trav- els between here and the Land of Dreams. Thomas has such queer no- tions about dreams. He thinks, among other things, that you can al- ways choose the people who are going with you, and he never fails to make up his own party every night. This night he chose me, which was a great honor. “And I'll wait for you at the Bridge,” he added, as his mother drew him out of the room. The Bridge is just where you begin to think that in a few min- utes you will be asleep. Thomas al- ways plans to meet his Dreamland guests at the Bridge, but sometimes they are so long in coming that he has to go on without them, I thought perhaps he would not wait for me to-night, because first I had to talk a little with his father, and then this mother came and talked to me; and after all that, I had to go home and get ready for the journey—and it was late—O! so late—Dbefore I came to the Bridge. But although Thomas was impatient, he waited for me. “And where are we going first?’ 1 asked him. “To the Baby Land,” he said, his face aglow, “to find a baby sister.” ‘And so we started off. The Poppy Boat is like a poppy flower. You sit in the middle, and then, if you are cold, you draw the petals up over your head. Tle river is blue and quiet, and there are many other Poppy Boats which are gliding around here and there all over it. One of them drifted up by us. In the mid- dle of it was something very tiny and very fair. I held my breath when I saw what it was. “Thomas,” I whis- pered, “she’s from the Baby Lang! Perhaps she’s a little sister.” : Thomas waved his hand to Ler, and she waved hers back very prettily. So Thomas guided our boat until it came closer to hers. I wish you could have seen her boat. It was pink—not red, like ours—and the petals were soft and satiny and so delicately shaded. ‘And they were drawn up close around her, as if she felt that the night was cold. Thomas leaned over gently and pushed the petals back. ‘Are you a baby sister?’ he demanded, eagerly. She ncdded a baby head at him. “I’m just going home,” she told him. “We are just going there, too,” he as- sured her. “Come on along home with us.” She said she would, and Thomas clapped his hands. “Let's find my mother and tell her,’ he suggested, *She’s around here somewhere. ‘And Thomas held his hand out to the little sister, who put a dear baby hand into his. And so the two boats came together, and we drifted on. “Do you know where your mother goes in her Poppy Boat?’ I asked Thomas. He thought a moment. she goes with me,” he said, “and some- times with father. Sometimes she goes where they build houses, and sometimes where they make dresses. and sometimes : “If she goes to so many places, we'll have to hunt all over to find her,” I said, ‘and so we better begin right away.” Thomas drew his forehead into puckers, which means that he is think- ing hard. “Dresses first,” he an- pounced, finally; “she’s been talking about them.” Sure encugh, so she had, and to me, that very night. ‘Do you know where they make dresses?’ I asked the baby sister, Yes, she did, and if we wanted to go there, all we had to do was to say, “Dresses! Three dresses! To dresses I want to go!” and then we’d be there; but if we didn’t s: should get it all mixed up and say, for instance, “Dresses! Two Three dresses I want to go!” or * dresses!’ or anything like that, there was no telling where you'd go to, the baby sister said. Thomas picked it up immediately, without a bi : trouble, and before she had fairly Lied telling me about it, he had said the waole thing, just exactly right, and was drifting away from me in his boat, and I was floating » “Sometimes away from him in another Loat which! had mysteriously appeared under me a; from somewhere. | A $ “Thomas! Thomas!” I cried to him in I dismay. “Five dresses! Six dresses! | H All the dresses you want, Thomas, if | you'll come back!” But he had gone; so far that I could only just see him, | a wee little speck on the edge of the | water, next to the sky, and I was all alone, | Then I racked my brain to think how ! it was you said those things about h dresses, but I couldn't remember. The ep more I tried to remember the more I : HEALTH FADS ON THE BRAIN V it just right—if we | | so accelerated that it is quite po { for the tourist to pass through five shoulder yoke and i tercontinental express you proceed to forgot. Presently I forgot what it was I was trying to remember, and just To get all sorts of health fads on the | drifted along, not thinking of anything brain is a disease in itself. It is a ‘in particular. I met several people I| very prevalent disease, too. With a { knew, but no body was going in my {few foolish rules to observe; a whole | direction. And after a while the river | lot of hygienic quirks to adjust to and narrowed until it was just a thread, |a schedule of superstitious «sanitary the trees came down closer to the edge | notions diligently followed by day and and the chirping of crickets, and all | begins as a mental derangement and sorts of land sounds. Then suddenly, | ends in a complete physical fizzle. but gently, my boat pushed on the No room left for a spontaneous life, shore and stopped. no place for free, joyous liberty. Not “Do I get out now?’ I asked of no-| a minute's space for rollicking disre- body in particular. And nobody an-| gard. Everything fixed, every. minute swered, so I got out, anyway. disposed of introspections without I had only to take one look about me number. Forebodings, . misgivings, to be sure that I was in a pleasant | hovering vaguely about the mind like place; flowers were under my feet; the | locks of carrion crows. sky was blue above my head; the air Such a life is not worth living. One was sweet and sunny, and yet I was | might a thousand times better go back not contented. to the reckless regime of a rough “Whatever is the matter with me?” | rider.—Medical Talk. 18 I scolded myself. “Here I am, in a . lovely place, clothed and in my” —I AMERICAN CHILDREN. stopped myself immediately. “That's | American mothers know in the range just exactly it!” I exclaimed. “Clothes | of their gentle appreciation just where is just what I want. Let me see—|lto find and emphasize the gayety. what was that I wanted to say? Ob. | daintiness, the sweet helplessness of ves—I have it now!” And I shouted | very littlehood. A ‘great deal of the triumphantly, “Clothes! Three clothes! | inner truth of things may reside in the To clothes I want to go!” And away | arrangement of curls and sashes; the 1 went in my Poppy Boat, most beautiful intuition may be De- 1 had not yet remembered about] trayed in the cut of a pinafore. Even Thomas, or his mother, or the baby sis- | the much criticised precociousness of ter. I was simply interested in the | American children reflects in some de- scenery as I went along. There were | gree their excellent understanding heaps of dark things along the coast | with their mothers. There is no doubt that looked like rocks. “It's a rock-! an extraordinary stimulus in being met bound coast,” I exclaimed to myself. | more than half way from the very “I've heard of such things before.” | first day of life; it must wonderfully But they were not rocks—they were | help to an early basis of general un- piles of old clothes. derstanding with the world. Other “Now, what did I want to come here | factors may contribute less desirably for?” was my first and only question | to the quick development of American as my feet touches the beach, and I | children, but this one cannot fail to could find no answer to it. I wan: | be there.—Mrs. Everard Cotes, in Good dered around for a little while, and | Housekeeping. then I stepped into my boat and drift- ed away. Where I went I do not now remember. But I heard from Thomas the next day. “I know where mother ARTISTS AND ALDUMS. Ada Rehan’'s favorite autograph m ot- fo is, “Now, 1 am in holiday Aum 4 went last | She gives this to all of those night,” he called to me, running into | honors with more, than a mere, auto- our house soon after breakfast. graph. Ignace Paderewski is very “You don't!” I exclaimed. For who | likely. to write no more than ‘en sou- ever heard of so astounding a bit of | venir de Ignace Pader revwski” uniess knowledge as that? he feels. especially cor dj 1l.to the per- “In the Baby Land!” he shouted, | son. Then he will write J55, nusic fairly dancing in his joy. * “‘And- the | of the luilaby from Mr nr’ 5 8 a few! he baby sister is*at our lfouse now!” bars of his minuet, Jol Pl ancor for “No!” I said, unbelieving.- Ais friends, gives his. “amities,” | put: “You come and see,” Hé&¥said, draw- | coldly writes fon, stamgen “Pol Ll ing me by the hand. And I went; And con.” it was just as Thomas. said.—Helen Sometimes the artists have thet “own Lockwood Coffin, in the Club Woman, | formulas and need no suggestion as 4 te a to what they should write. For Jorty. Music as Medicine. years Adelina Patti hias been. w i iting From the days of Saul: and Pavid| “A beautiful voice is the aiff ofr Goa.” music has no doubt been the medns of | In whatever country she might’ be'and alleviating, if not actually curing, | whatever might be the language spo- many ‘serious cases of mental disease. | ken in it, she steadfastly wrote only Modern experience has’ proved this | this phrase. conclusively, and many instances may Nowadays she rarely writes in al- be quoted from antient history: bums or troubles herself to give pho- Pythagoras commended music in the | tographs to anybody, unless the books treatment of the insane; and Thales | are brought by some very infiuential when the pestilence ravaged Sparta, | friend. But during her last visit here found in music his most powerful | she did consent to write in a few al- means of combating it. Henocrates| bums. In every one appefied in a soothed maniacs by it, and Theophras. | hand, still firm and legible, The mbtto. tus held that even-tlie bites of venom- | “A beautiful voice is the gift'8f God.” ous reptiles were rendered less fatal Mme. Sembrich usually writes *In by subjecting ‘the victims to the influ- | kind remembrance” on photographs, ence of melody. unless for very particular friends she When Philip of Spain was in a mor-{ transcribes on the photograph the bid and desponding condition; ‘Farin- | notes of the Chopin waltz she sings elli, the vocalist, was sent for by the | so much.—Indianapdlis News. y queen, with a party of musicians, to Eni sing and play in the adjoining room. GOWN FOR BRIDE'S MOTHELL The effect was a speedy and rapid A handsoine gown for the I eure. ” mother to wear at the Both Buckman and Hafeland relate her instances in which music ‘has cured cases of St. Vitus’ dance, and Becker and Schneider demonstarted practical ly its influence in different cases of hysteria, e's wedding of daughter may be fashioned of soft gray silk or voile, trimmed with rich lace of a deep cream color, vest and lingerie sleeves of white chiffon, trim- mings of cut steel beads and tcuches of violet and black embroidery on the bodice. Of the embroidery may be of black and white, dik Whence Comrys It. When a small magnet kept in a The stylish toque or bonnet should drawer has been ready to act On 2a) pe of black or tulle, the edge and compass any time during the "Iast| ..own embroidered “in: steel and jet. twenty years, and has not altéred-its| pjack and white osiricli pofupor sand appearance in any appreciable - tay, aigrette of paradise plumes, whence comes the continuous supply? If preferred -the:-gown may be of Again, when a lady ‘has had for a| pack ring-dotted net embroidered ‘great many years a cedar 'WOrk-box,{ sats and worn over a lining of white which has never failed of its charac: | ok. preferably peau de sole. The toque teristic odor, it is a natural question may be of ‘black and white tulle, jet to ask, whence comes the smell? The ornaments, black and white tips. statement in text books both of phy- Delicate heliotrope silk, sics and physiology is that something material is given off from the wood which alights on the thc a white chiffon and inserted motiffs of brane of the nose. MS IS POrelYi vy, vicivans trann, : ak ave gratuitous, as the statement is with PS pone fre as Nr out a shadow of proof, the box being) wy;n would be entirely suitable. to- all appearances in no way dim- While the latest fashi dotnnnds inished in size or otherwise altered. horizontal trimmings a woman inclined 1 the hypothesis for it is nothing to embonpoint will eschew this mode more, fails, how does the case differ and insist largely upon vertical lines. in ,rinciple from that of radium? A skirt with.a narrow fromt panel ET with side and back ‘es pleated at the top will be becor Outline the Facitities for traveling nowadays are | front panel and foot of skirt with a ble! band of trin £, and tne drop narrow vest to match, or, with set-in lace. Have a narrow crush girdle carefully boned and closely fitted. voile or ne of the new crepes with trimmings of Venice lace dyed to -mateh; eam Doing Europe. { European countries in fourteen hours, barring accidents—ramely, England, I'rance, Belgium, Germany and Hol; land. Take the express from Charing | is Cross to Dover and cross over to Ca- STYLES IN STATIONERY. lais—two countries. Then with the in. The tendency in st: 1tionery for spring 1se is to go back to the old styles, and Brussels—three countries. From the what are known as regular shapes. n capital ‘by train to Aix-lad The envelope is long, with a long flap Chapelle, which is German territory, and the paper is wide and fo making the fourth country, and after all tno ioe for vq ive 1 allowing time for a meal a drive ta the same shape is Pp Vaals, in Holland, makes the fifth In 13 AS once s drved country—and all in fourteen hours. rage, with light bine ss a close seco and I could hear the singing of birds | dreamed of by night is a malady which across the eentre. In small note paper | | flowers, new tints pale gray dis all thejar ] some contend that as much Indeed, grayish blue paper is sold as gray— and the fashionable gray has a blue cast. Lavender, or gray paper with a lavender cast, is entirely out of use among exclusive people. The sticklers for correct stationery avoid any of the extremes in styles. To be old-fashioned in their choice of new stationery is their fad, so they go in for linen lawn and organdy in the popular colors. The monogram and address are stamped upon the top of the sheet and no longer appear upon the flap of the envelope. The monogram and letter- ing are small and refined and there is no- effect at display. A marked fancy is also being shown for ‘what are known as handkerchiefs or hemstitched borders on stationery. Young girls are fond of these and also of long, narrow and large square gray and white paper. The stationery extremists select im- ported mecire antique, and fine paper in the style of envelope and paper all in one piece, folded to form an enve- lope on the outside. Tor invitations and short notes the moire antique comes in little colored borders, fastened with a small silk bow. Another new paper has the little scenes at the top, diversified by paper with dogs’ heads, horses’ heads, and the heads of women. Ameng young people college paper has quite a vogue. It is popular in light tints and is decorated with the flags and colors of different colleges. Mourning paper, too, has its fash- jons, and the very narrow border is now in style, instead of the wide bor- ders that were formerly New Haven Register. popular.— According fo an old Greek idea of a perfect woman, her height when fully attained sould be five feet five inches, and she should weigh 138 pounds. Anong--her many Mme. Rejone possesses a ring given to her by King Edward, a ruby bracelet from the Czar, and some splendid sapphires, a present from the ex-Queen of Spain. The pet jewel of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra is an exquisite cross known as Queen Dagmar’s cross, says Home Chat. It is.a perfect replica of one made for a Danish queen in the twelfth century. A good recipe for a lotion for weak, tired or.inflamed eves: Fifteen drops of spirits of camphor, one tablespoon- ful of powdered boric acid, two-thirds of a cup of boiling water. Strain through muslin, cool and apply twice a gay. Lady Aberdeen, whose husband was formerly viceroy of Ireland, has done more, perhaps, than any one else to encourage Irish industries. She is president of several women's organ- izations, and an enthusiastic advocate of them, treasures Before massaging the face the skin should be perfectly clean. Use the compiexion brush, with warm water and pure soap, When rubbing in a cream always have all the motions up- ward and teats Send the fiat- tened palms from chin up to the ears. Move the finger tips about in little circles, pressing inward gently and the flesh being careful not to push up into tiny lines. One or two flounces on almost every summer skirt. Automobile veils for only twenty dol- lars—think of it! Loops instead of buttonholes on some of the new blouses. Frilly lingerie collars and cuffs on the French shirt waists. Tan shoes with brown gowns on the street—and very effective, too. ted is becoming a fashionable color, especially in the dark, sombre shades. Beautiful robe costumes of voile with wide borders of French crochet. Blouse sleeves seamed and joined to the shoulder by lines of delicate vein- ing. Straw hats with as many as eight hades of cre color woven into the is of white and colored dainty summer Adorable coa iace to wear with the frocks. softest qual- Pin-check taffeta of t ity for tiie summer shirt waist suit par excellence. fight little bunches of tin white and all pale that’s to copy Pa Among the new more effective cloth and velvet tak f Man’s Love Versus Woman's By Helen Oldfield HERE be some subject of never-ending discussion, all the more so, it would seer, because they are such as can by no possi- bility be definite ¥ decided one way or another. Among these unprofitable questions few are more thoroughly and con- stantly thrashed out than this: “Which loves best, a man or a woman?’ To this there would appear to be but one answer. Feeling cannot be measured excepting by results, and even this measure is but partial. Some men love more deeply than other men, more devotedly than some women, and vice versa. It seems the fashion of late to insist upon analy zing feelings and emotions, to strive to grasp the impalpable, to discuss men and women as though they were of different species instead of one flesh, members, ail, of the same family. Humanity is much the same, male and female. At one time so wholly selfish that it thinks only of its own gratification, of its own trials, vexations and suffering; at another it will welcome the greatest sacrifices with the spirit of a martyr, will yield everything and endure anything for the sake of the beloved. It is truthful, yet suspicious; timid, yet bold; Liumble, yet arrogant. One moment it is reproachful and complaining; at an- other it pours forth praises and tender protestations. Weeping one hour and smiling and singing the next, no one knows what to expect of it nor what phase it may assume. All this applies as well to men as to w omen, and none can determine upon which side the balance sways lowest. The balance of proof of strong and irresistible affection, as evidenced by desperate deeds, such as murder and suicide, is largely upon the masculine side of the ledger. But against this fact may be charged another—namely, that a man may, if he be so disposed, shout his love from the housetops. Peo- ple may consider him a fool and suspect him of lunacy, but, since love is not infrequently accounted madness, he will have no such measure of scorn and contumely meted out to him as is the portion of the woman who openly parades ar unrequited attachment. Tradition and custom are inflexible in demanding that she shall be silent in such case and hide her wound, however painful. It is as instinctive with a woman as with a wounded deer to creep to cover when hurt through the heart. No one can dispute the fact that men often love devotedly and suffer cruelly from the inconstancy or heartlessness of women, but fate, here as in many other things, is on their side and against the woman. A man has many re- sources, chief among which is his business, for hard work is a sovereign anti: dote for mental troubles. He can get away from the familiar places which speak constantly of his sorrow, can make himself a new life and create a new atmosphere; while the woman, poor soul, must usually ‘stay put,” with no chance of escape from her ghosts nor ability to seek ‘fresh fields and pas- tures new.” Woman's faith and unfaith, man’s unshaken truth and man’s contemptible treachery, these are to-day, as they have been from the beginning, the never- failing theme of poet and romancer, the threads interwoven with all human history, the underlying currents of life and love. Some ships are wrecked and cthers arrive safely at their desired haven, and none can prcphcsy befcrehand which shall be saved and which shall be lost. az 7 Every Man's Ear Tells the Story of His Life By Loeb Weintrob P24 HE ear, to have any significance at all, must Lave the outer rim corresponding to the skull. Whatever point on the skull is more eminent, that part of the ear corresponding to it should be the most in evidence, and you will note that what- ever group of faculties predominates, to those: faculties does the whole ear point. The principal thing to notice is “the convolution inside of the ear, whether.the ear protrudes from the head or is ciose to the same; and whether it is large or small. a the convolution is well in evidence, healthy in color, and running parailet to > rim, you will always find keen intelligence. If the rim of the ear is thick, turning over on the inner convolution, it de- notes a thick skull. The brain has not yet fully expanded. If the ear is shapeless, cramped up, or large and flaccid, either flat without any prominence inside, or the shape of a clam ‘shell, and empty without any convolution, no matter how large the head, it has no capacity. It is a failure. There is an ear that is often mistaken for a sign of the harmonious tem- perament. The rim has no particular point in evidence more than another— almost round. The interior of the ear is pretty well developed, but not very prominent and defined—rather meaty, and of a healthy color, with fair-sized lobes. The people who have such ears are at all times satisfied with them: selves, and most of the time with everybody else.. They are neither mental nor physical giants, and less so in a spiritual direction; but they strike a good balance between the individual who is in a tremendous hurry to go to Heaven and the one who is running post-haste to the other place. The ear that has the upper part developed (judging from the opening, which is the centre,) and narrow at the base, without any indication of a lobe, indicates activity and industry in the direction in which the ear points, but those whe have this ear suffer from mainutrition. An individual with an ear like this must be judicious in the selection of his foods. The theory that to eat a potful of peas and be able to lift an ox, and to eat the ox and not be able to lift the pot of peas, may not be as foolish as it sounds, in their case. Be that as it may, the diet of peas will not suit the people with a fair-sized lobe on their ears and a fair width at the base. The larger the lower half of the ear the keener is the relish for the good things of mother earth. Whether they will share their substance with others depends on how large the ‘toper kalf of the ear is. The perfect ears are those that have fair and shapely development, with a broad and prominent convelution running parallel to a fine rim all the way around, a fair-sized lobe and the cavity in the centre not obstructed. The whole ear is not too low toward the jawbone, nor too high up, of a good color and when viewed in profile with an inclination to point upward and forward. When looked at from the front the inner convolution will be the most in evi dence, with little of the points and lobe protruding. I do not expect you will know this ear at once when you see it, so I will tell its works, and you wil} know it thereby. The owner of this ear will shake the whole world to establish justice, and a little harder for mercy. He will shake the trees of the celestial kingdom for the heavenly fruit, as well as the terrestrial, and more. He will move botb places in order that all of the human family may edt their full share.—New York Journal. 2 7 If the Wrong Man Proposes By Winifred Hall $1 a OW does a girl feel when the WIONng man proposes to her? Ask the woman who knew herself waat love meant, and then ques: ’ R tion the girl who had yet to be touched by Cupid's arrow. Teo ) this latter it is merely a trying time, with a certain romantic Perri charm about it. : ¥ Probably it is a first proposal—that something that comes into the life of nearly every woman. It is enjoyed. Unexpected or not, there is a flavor distinctly novel and interesting about the experience. It is amusing, too, she thinks, and she lingers over the thought of it unti? she realizes that she has to give an answer, and that, of course, she cannof think seriously of the proposal; she must say “No.” This is not easy; the lover is persistent, begs her to think it over, to let him try again in a little while. 1t is difficult to make the ardent lover realize that his love can never be reciprocated, and whether the man hovers around her or gees right away the girl bas a trying time keeping the unpleasant part out of her mind. If she has tasted of love herself, the proposal from the wrong man means untold misery to a girl. Perhaps it happens her own love is unreturned, unsought, unknown, and yet she sees a love equalling her own being poured out at her feet, and knows that by no wiil of hers can she take it up, caress it, love should be t sured. LF and trea » it as al] true Ske has to wound the man who would give his life for her, to gently crush out all the sweetness of his h hopes. To fail to do it completely would spell rroienzed trouble to them both. Her task difficult, but with an infinite LLC n of pity, she will do what she knows to be right; she will send this lover away, and try hard to overcome the sadness that is left “ehind for her dc battle with.— New York Ncws. frici Ma: {.ib¢ eas! mai det grot eigl Seve side visi witl to b this pen to t upo: Lou of ( the a m and cide the elab com not. retu the ovel Hea it i Yros: took A by “op min terf for: in eief lenc keom mat fut er Wor this has ing ed nate the and eief] tion pow Ott: that enli into four thro for ish enli wei; Jou