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McGee Waters, pastor of the Tompkins Ave- * nue Congregational Church, Sunday preached on “How a Young Man May Find Joy in His Work.” He said in the course of his sermon: The story of labor is a checkered one. It is only in our highest civiliza- tion that work is coming to its own. In his savage state man is the lazy animal. Indeed; it is not natural for any animal to work, save as it is driven to it by the whip of neces- sity. - This is the view of work we find embodied in the old Genesis story, where labor is set down as a punishment for Adam’s sin, where he is told, as he is driven from the Garden, “Thou shalt- eat thy bread by the sweat of thy brow.” This is not only a very uninspired part of the Bible; but this sentiment certifies that it is a very old part. How labor was despised received its most signal illustration from the life of Christ. You remember how over the multitudes who heard Him, He cast a spell. All the people said that no man spake as He spake. The . loftiest spirits pressed about Him and asked Him if He were the Messiah. Yet they scarcely could believe for joy. And what was the basis of their doubt? Their skepticism was all in that ®question of theirs, “Is not this . the carpenter's son?” How could a workman be the real Saviour? They marveled at His wisdom. They con- fessed that He spoke with authority. They followed Him as sheep follow a shepherd. But He was: a carpen- ter, and so the high and mighty set Him down for a fraud. It was be- cause their eyes were holden that they mistook the dignity of toil for .8 disgrace. In some paris of the world that is Still true. But increasingly the world is coming to honor the ({toiler, whether ne works in a profession or .a trade, and is correspondingly com- ding to despise the idler, whether he be rich or poor. How much the United Statess has done with its democracy to bring this about, and with its great men, almost all of ‘them coming from the cabin and the plow, we may never know. Certain it is that New England was the first country since the land of the ancient Jews in which it was counted respec- ‘table to earn one’s living. Little do we think, or have taken time to find out, how much our work contributes to our happiness. - Work is a great character builder. I suppose most of us work in order ‘to eat. I suppose if we were gener- ally asked, we would say that the first requirement we made of our labor was that it should clothe us, and feed us, and house us. That is the first requirement and the lowest. The second and greatest require- ment a man makes of his work, whether he knows it or not, is that it shall make a man of him. Your work must bring you bread, but no less it must bring you culture. Some- how or other we are always pitying the boy who is born poor, or the young man who fails at college. It is a hardship and sometimes a pity. There, is one man, however, moré un- fortunate than that young man, and that is the young fellow who is born in a silken nest and goes through col- - lege in ‘an automobile.. There is nothing wrong about a silken nest, and ‘there is nothing bad about an automobile, except its trail. But you . cannot raise an eagle in eiderdown, and it requires far more of a man to amount to anything in college who goes through it in an automobile instead of walking. We are so made that we must have struggle. The reason why rich men’s sons rarely amount to anything, is because they never develop their muscles. There is no teacher like work. It must bring him bread, but no less it must bring him culture. ‘The Man With the Hoe’’—he needs not so much pity. Moses was a herdsman; David was a shepherd; Jesus was a carpenter; Benjamin Franklin knew no college —he was a printer's devil; Robert Burns knew no leisure—he was a plowman; Abraham Lincoln wore no soft raiment; but these are our stars of the first magnitude. Even -col- leges can give culture only through work, and there are some things col- leges cannot teach. Literature and history and the liberal arts are at last the ornaments of life; even read- ing and writing and the rule of three are all named the ‘conveniences of life.” But these are fundamentals—in- dustry, thrift, courage, honesty, truth, faith, hope, love. These are the threads which. woven togather, make the eternal life of man. If you have forgotten these, ‘though you have gained the whole world, you have lost your own soul,” and these may be had for the receiving in every work and calling open to men. When you stand before a task, look for a teacher. If it offer thee not wisdom, despise its wage. If thy calling yicld thee not culture for mind and heart, it is but a coffin for thy better nature. Demand of your life work that it shall make a man out of you. Work is a great influence giver. ‘And here we come upon another blunder. It is not the kind of work you do that gives you influenes so much. That is what the world thinks. If is the way you do it. Quality counts for more than kind. It is true, of course, thai'there are some vocations that in themselves damn the worker. All labor that makes merchandise out of men's vices is of that sort. It is true also that certain kinds of work give more congideration than others. The minister, because he is a min- ister, occupies a larger place in the community than the day laborer. That is, he does if he ministers. His great calling will not serve in itself. Many a laborer in many a village has been more the voice of God to that village than the parson has been. For, after all, the thing that counts in influence is not money or posses- sions. It is a quality, a thing, an at- mosphere. It is personality. So the fineness of a man’s work, or the coarseness of -it, is the thing by which he is at last judged in the community, x There is a little town out in Min- nesota called Rochester. A few years ago when I was there it only had a few hundred people in it. It was a niece little, commonplace, prairie town. It is not the capital of the State; it is not the seat of the uni- versity; the penitentiary is not even there; nor have they a church with relic working miracles. It is not the home of a United States Senator, nor any politician. And yet it is the Mecca of a pilgrim host. From every State in the Union, from across the sea, from every capital and country of civilization men are journeying to Rochester, Minnesota. . And those who are going are the scholars, the authorities, the masters in surgery. What takes them there? Simply this: An old doctor by the name of Mayo has been practising in that little town for a generation. His two sons, now in early maturity, practise with their father. The fact is that they have been doing such marvelous things with the knife, and such fine work as surgeons, that the great mas- ters from Paris, Berlin and Vienna, as well as this country, are singing their praise, and go out to that little town to sit at the feet of these men, and pay homage to the superiority of their work. 3t is always so. If you are re- membered at all it is by the things you have done well—whether you have raised a field ‘of corn, sewed a patch on an old garment, made a pumpkin pie, or writien a poem. Work is the great happiness bringer. You all know what a game of nine pins is. You set up so many pins, and you roll two balls, and you make a “strike” or a ‘“‘spare,” or else you don’t. The game is to knock over as many pins as possible. Men become very .skillful in it and gain a great deal of pleasure by doing it. That is the philosophy of all play. It is the erection of artificial difficul- ties or barriers and learning to over- come them with ease and skill. That makes the exhilaration of tennis, and baseball, and bowling and golf. I am told, and I do not know any- thing about it myself, that therein lies the mania for making money. That is a great game. Now, in reality, work is just exactly. the same thing. The difficulties to be over- come are not artificial, to be sure, but very real. ‘But they are there, and work is the game of bridging them over with skill and ease and oy. s : In its final analysis, for a healthy man there is no game in the world so exciting and so exhilarating as his work. I suppose you long- suffering folk who sit in the pews and are more or less at times tempt- ed to somnolence, have never real- ized that there was anything exciting about the preaching business. And vet I want to say to you that I know of no keener joy than when well and ready I take a theme and look it through and analyze it, and illustrate it, and mark out the points to be made in its illumina- tion, and then sit down to write a sermon. Your fingers will not fly fast enough. If it turns out well there is a great exhilaration and state of happiness and joy. Making a sermon is a great game. Now the reason that there is so much happiness in work is because of this fact. All true work is a man expressing himself. We have gener- ally thought that work is drudgery. We want to think about work as ex- pressing a man’s message. Stephen- son’s engine is Stephenson’s thought dressed up in steel; Tennyson's poem is Tennyson's thought set down in letters: Watts’ “Hope” is Watts’ heart hunger put on canvas; St. Paul’s is Sir Christopher Wren’s praise to God put into stone. Why, then, shall not the house builder make his house declare his thoughts? Why shall not the blacksmith make his hammer and anvil express his hope? Why shall not the farmer pub- lish his secret? Almost any man can learn the technical part of any work from carpentry to poetry—but no man hath mastered a trade till it be- comes a language through which he can express himself to all men. O the drudgery of life lies in the fact that we bend above our work like dumb driven eattle with never a secret of our heart told in our work. And this shall be the joy of our life, that we make our vocation proclaim to all the world the truth that God hath put into our hearts! The Narrow Way. Matt. 7:13, 14. ‘Narrowness is Christ's idea of the way of life, a straitened way, the way of truth. For a moment pause and ask: Could it be otherwise? It is 11 o'clock, the orthodox regulator at the watchmaker’'s points with exactness to that hour. “Very narrow,” exclaim all the cheap timepieces of the neigh- borhcod, and they persistently point to all hours from 9.30 to midday, but their boasted liberality is only inex- actness, which is another word for untruth. So orthodoxy in the harbor channel marks with exactness each rock of sunken hulk, and puts its danger sig- nals out. A liberal pilot might be careless of these signals, but the pas- senger would prefer that the pilot should be overcautious rather than too liberal.—H. E. Partridge, Pomo- na, Tenn. A Prayer. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Giver and Guide of all reason, {hat we may always be mindful of the nature, of the dignity, and of the privileges Thou hast hondred us with. Grant us Thy favorable assistance in the forming and directing our judsg- ment, and enlighten us with Th truth, that we may discern tho things which are really good, and, having discovered them, may love and cleave steadfastly to the same. And, finally, disperse, we pray These, those mists which darken the eyes of our mind, so that we may have a pei- fect understanding, and know both Ged and man,” and what to each is due. — Simplicius (translated by George Stanhope, Dean of Canter- bury, 1704). Commit Yourself to Ged. Grief for things past that cannot be remedied and care for things to come that cannot be prevented may easily hurt, but can never benefit nie. y e I will, therefore, commit myself to God in both and enjoy the present.— Joseph Hall. DOG'S GHASTLY FIND Bedy of Man Hanging in Park Pa- villion Near Cresson. Altoona.—While hunting near Cres- son, Albert O'Hara's dcg led him to discover the body of a man hanging in a pavillion in Rhododendron Park. The body, which is that of a man aged ahout 35 years, was frozen and both eyes were gone. In the pockets were found $23.13 in money, a railroad ticket from Cresson to Graceton, Indiana county, dated November 3, 1907, and a duplicate of a telegram he had previously sent from Patton, Pa. It was addressed to “Annie” and was to the effect that she should meet him in Virginia. The unknown is supposed to have hanged himself ahout three months ago. FLEES THE BLACK HAND Pottsville Italian Goes to Italy—Al- leged Murderers Taken. Pottsville—Antonio de Salvo, a wealthy Italian contractor, who was three times made the victim of an attack by the Black Hand, sailed from New York for Italy. He was at- tacked in his home a week ago by six men with shotguns, and since had not left the house. Shamokin.—The state police arrest- ed 10 Italians of this place and Mar- jon Heights, charged with being mem- bers cof a band of outlaws in Italy, and for the alleged killing of Anthony It is alse alleged the men conspired to kill Constable Anthony Mirarck of this place, and Joseph Nestico of Marion Heights. Mercer County Prohibitionists. Greenviile—At the Mercer county prohihition convention here the fol- lowing ticket was nominated: Con- gress, Dr. 8S. W. Gilkey, Mercer; as- sembly, Ralph C. Allen, West Middle- sex, snd L. .G. McClelland, Sandy Lake: sheriff, Walter J. Craig, Grove City; treasurer, John Hodge, Green- ville; clerk of courts, W. W. Braham, ‘Wolf Creek, recorder, J. J. Foults, Cool Spring; commissioner, J. A. Dil- lon, Transfer, and William Alexander, Fairview; poor director, R. 8. Madge, Shenango; district attorney, C. KE. Mec- Conkey, Grove City. Disappointed Lover Fails at Death. Brownsville.— Unable to win the love of Katie McClelland, a handsome mulatto woman, Frank Kobash, an italian, is said to have shot and seri- ously wounded her, fired at persons who attempted to rescue the girl and then directed two bullets at himself, onc which took effect in his mouth. Both were taken on the same train to a Uniontown hbspital, where it is said they will likely recover. : Cambria County Mines. Johnstown.—Data from the annual report prepared by Josiah T. Evans, of this city, mine inspector for the Sixth bituminous district, indicates that Cambria county’s contribution to round numbers 12,000,000 tons of ¢oal. Mr. Evans’ district was remarkably Raise Intercst Tc Sell Bonds. Greensburg.—The borough of Great- er Greensburg, unable to sell im- provement bonds at 4 per cent inter- est, last night repealed the ordinance authorizing the $50,000 issue at that rate in order to pass another, raising the rate to 41% per cent. Newburger, Henderson & Loeb of Philadelphia, who purchased the $1,000,000 issue of Courthouse bonds, will buy at the new rate. To Improve County Road. Washington. — The Washington county grand jury approved improve- ments to tae Williamsport pike which, if carried out, will entail an expenditure of about $175,000. 'The pike extends from Monongahela, 18 miles. eriy a private It was form- turnpike, which it passed and more recentiy became county property. Headache Powders Kill, Latrobe. John Jenkins, aged 55 years, a well known farmer of Derry township, died suddenly at his home supposedly from the effects of head- ache powders, which he purchased in Latroobe. He reached home at noon, took the powders, lapsed in uncon- sciousness, and died within an hour. The Pittsburg Chamber merce’s Lincoln day of Com- banquet at the notable in the city’s history. his candidacy for the presidency the feature that aroused the wildest en- thusiasm. Greensburg.—In criminaj ccurt the trial of Jechn and Frank Krupic, broth- ers, charged with the killing of Vete Jerrick with a coal pick near Penn station, was begun. Uniontown.—The line of the West to Orient, 10 miles from Uniontown, cir the way to Brownsville. Orient is the center cf big coke operations. —— eee. Samuel Hamilicn, pr al instit ment dealer ci a prominent resid died at hs home, 1435 land avenue, Pitisburg. Harrisburg —The executive commit- tee of the state Democratic committee North High- gencral committee to meet city to select the time and place of the convention; 10 select the four delegates at-large to the Denver con- for the superior bench. Greensburg. — While skating on snow crust in Mt. Pleasant township, Charles Brothers fell and broke a leg. ped on an iey step and hig right leg was fractured. Nestico here last spring for robbery. PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS NEW RAILROAD AT WORK Taps Rich Coal Field In Jefferson County—Will Reach Pittsburg. Brookville. — Coal in large quanti- ties is now being shipped to Buffalo, over the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railrcad, whose officials ac- cepted the completed section of the Brookville & Mahoning Railroad be- tween Brookville and Brockwayville, and placed it under lease for operat- ing purposes. The new section has been three years in building, and its southern spur reaches Conifer, the new mining town in Jefferson county. The coal field opened at this point is the 'argest body of virgin coal in the western end of the state, and it is estimated it will take 30 years to market all the output. The new road passes through the Knox township gas belt, which is now furnishing gas for Buffalo, under contract with the Standard company, which has been paying fabulous prices for wells in this section. The Shawmut exten- sion will -ultimately reach Pittsburg by way of Freeport. GRADUAL RESUMPTION Plants In McKeesport and Vicinity Taking On More Men Daily. Following the return to work of 200 men at the W. Dewees Wood mill in McKeesport Sunday night 60 more resumed their places Monday, and 50 former employes will go back. Seventy-five per cent of the work- men at the National Tube works are now back in their places, and addi- tions to the force are being gradu- ally made. At the miils in Glassport 50 to 75 per cent of the employes are at work and more men are being put on from day to day. It is said that within a few weeks practically all the big industries of the McKeesport district will be op- erating full time with their forces of workmen. Grantg Five New Licenses. Sharon.—Judge Williams handed down his license decisions granting all the old licenses and five new ones. At Mercer, which hag been dry 15 years, the Reznor, Waverly and Humeg hotels received licenses. The Central Hotel, Sharon, and Coleman Hotel, Greenville, are also grantcd the privilege of selling liquor. Erie Alderman Indicted. Erie.— Alderman Taylor Tome of the Sixth ward wag indicted by the grand jury. He is accused of issuing em- ployment certificates to children under 14 years of age on affidavits of pa- rents who did rot appear before him and swear to the affidavits as required by the factory laws. Farm Hand Kills Girl. Phoenixville. — Normg Tholan, 15 vears old, daughter of Hiram Tholan of West Pikeland township, was shot the world’s fuel supply ,in 1907 was in | free from fatalities during the year, | only 25 violent deaths being reported. | Washington to | was later | turaed over to the township through ! Hotel Schenley was cne of the most | Sena- | tor Knox the tne great attraction and ! Penn Railways Company was extended | minent music- | Pittsburg, and | ient of the Kast End, | fixed February 25 as the day for the | in this | vention, and to nominate a candidate | Harry Teeters, a delivery man, slip- | and killed on the highway near her | home by John Miller, a young farm | hand, who afterwards shot himself in an cffort to end his life. Gets Big Cana! Tool Contract. Beaver Falls.—The Beaver Falls { Manufacturing Company was notified by the United States government that its bid for a large order for mining and construction tools for use on the Panama Canal had been accepted. Two Fatally Injured. In a headon collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Ebensburg branch of the Penn- sylvania railroad near Cresson, two men were probably fatally injured and four otheps severely hurt. Three en- gines and six cars were piled up. Woman Is 103 Years Old. Meadville—Mrs. Mary Smith cele- brated her onze hundred and third birthday at her home in Meadville. | She was born in lMiddlefield, Mass., ‘and has resided in Crawford county since 1528. Mrs. ‘Smith is still active. Black Handers to Penitentiary. Sharon.—Judge A. WW, Williams sen- | tencea Mike Fanelli, Tony and Alex- ander Micco, glicged Black Hand members, to the penitentiary for one year each. They were convicted of rchbhery, extorticn and black mail. Washington. — William Lawton of West Widdletown, who came to Wash- ington to serve &s a grand juror, was tound uitcouscions at the foot of a flight er stairs at his hotel. His body i was covered with cuts and bruises. | When he regained consciousness he was unable to tell how he was injur- ed. It is believed he fe!l while walk- ing in his cleep. Butler.—At Eau Claire W. A. Ros- enberry was eclected burgess a year ago but failed to qualify. The towns- | people tired cf getting along without » tive head and applied to Judge James M. Galbreath to appoint one. The court named Rosenberry. In the interim counci] performed the duties of the burgess. | Vashington. -— Judge J. FF. Taylor { refused a motion for a continuance of the case in. which O.- PF. Piper, cashier of the Peoples Bank of Cali- fornia, faces seven indictments in | connection with the baak’s troubles. | Piper will be placed on trial Febru- ary 18. Washington.—Fire destroyed . the | only express car on the Washington | & Canonsburg trolley line. The car wags the property of Ben Reynolds. New Castle.—Will Fleming, 15 ycars cld, was arrested on a charge cf rob- bing the home of Willie Hodgetts while the family was sleighing. Three diamond rings and a gold watch were stolen. Fleming is said to have con- fessed. m Oil City.—A six-year-old daughter { of Gios Tumburino was killed by a | passenger train. The child was walk- ing with its miother when it broke | away from her and ran jn front of the | engine. Japanese Women To-day. We do not deny that in the days of old Japan women were taught and trained to hold and did occupy a po- sition inferior to that of man, al- though as mothers they were regard- ed with the highest respect and devo- tion. But those days are gone, and to-day our daughters are given full freedom to live and act with perfect equality ag their sisters of the West, while our mothers retain their old position of honor and esteem.—To- kio (Japan) Times. The Fear cf Age. Why do so many women regard age with such afiright? Viewed from the vantage ground of youth, it seems to them that the end of youth means the end of love, and to many women the end of love is even more appalling than the end of life. They forget that the love which depends only on youth and beauty is as likely to take to itself wings. in the heyday of life as later. Nothing is potent enough to hold an emotion as evans- cent and unstable as thistledown.— The Gentlewoman. Sarah Bernhardt's Book. Sarah Bernhardt says some pleas- ant things about the Boston woman in her “Memories of My Life.” She was struck bythe “harmony and soft- ness of their gestures,” and the Bos- tonian race seemed to her “the most refined and mysterious of all Amer- ican races. The women adore music, the theatre, literature, painting and poetry,” she writes. “They know everything and understand every- thing, are chaste and reserved and neither laugh nor talk very loudly.” —New York Tribune. In a Railway Station. It was easy waiting at the Grand Central Station for the leisurely coming of a way frain to enter into conversation with a .cordial neighbor, a middle aged, shrewd, yet refined faced, woman, who ventured a remark about being glad her day’s shopping was over; she was evidently from the far-away suburbs. “Don’t you like to watch people?” she questioned, with delighted un- expectedness. ‘I do. And I always make up my mind what they are. That man who has just come in is a minister; he doesn’t dress especially like it, hasn't one of those collars cn wrong side, either; but I know he is 2 minister by his face and the cut of his side whiskers. Do you see those two women? I am sure they are club women, they look so earnest. There is a married couple opposite us whom I have been noticing. She has the say of things. Can't you always tell when you see a man and his wife together which one rules? Oh, here’s my train! Goodby!”'— New York Tribune. An Excuse For Coquetry. Feminine coquetry has one capital excuse—its cause is entirely mascu- line. For the craving of women for elegance, luxury in dress and their extravagance in jewelry and other or- namentation are merely an outcome of their desire to please man, to at- tract his attention and conquer him. As Sig. Cadalso discovered not long ago, the instinct is irresistible even amorg women in prison, writes Pro- fessor Lombroso, in the Chicago Tri- bune. Complete isolation from the outer world, the fact that they can never be seen by men, is not sufficient to stifle in them the desire of being ‘beautiful and elegant. Prison rules in Italy are most strict, especially so far as the dress of the prisoners is ccncerned. Powder, scent, cosmetics and all other handmaids of vanity are forbidden, but coqueiry is strong- er than rules Several prisoners found the means of powdering their faces. They pa- tiently licked the walls of their cells, masticated the whitewash and thus optained a kind of white paste, with which they proudlycoated their faces. One woman was found with her cheeks covered with rouge like a bal- let girl. No one could realize how she had managed it. Her cell was thoroughly but vainly searched. Eventually the mystery was solved. In the nightgowns used. by the prison- ers there are a few red threads. This woman had patiently pulled out these threads one by one, had soaked them in water, and in this original way had made some rouge for her private use.— Paolo Lombroso. Explcded Theories of Colors. I wiil not insult the intelligence of my audience by insisting upon the now exploded theory that there are certain colors exclusively dedicated to the brunette and others the sole possession of the blonde. When crude dyes only were obtainable, it was perhaps necessary to say to the dark woman, ‘“‘For you there must exist only yellow and pale blue,” and to the blonde, .‘ “You must look upon no other color save green and light red.” But now contempis nuances of every dye; contemplate, too, the changes that are rnng on the defini- tion ‘‘bruipette’’ and ‘‘blonde.” Be- sides, if there is one point upon which women are usually good judges for themselves it is color. { While, however, roughly speaking, { white is for everybody, mauve for the | very fair, blue for the brunette and in the lax time of red for the blonde, I would add that age should be circumspect in a de- cision as to color schemes. With white, black, gray and purple at her command, why should the woman of sixty insist upon pink, which is cer- tain to make her appear years and years older than she really is? It is just the same with jewelry. When my daughter was about to be married I took from the bank a sum of money that her grandfather, the founder of our house, had left by will to be expended upon a wedding present for her. The amount was sufficient to purchase a necklace of diamonds. But I did not wish such a possession for my daughter. Instead of presenting to her in her grand- father’s name an ornament composed of stones of which not one would be really uncommon, I bought just a single stone — a solitary blue dia- mond, flawless, superbly cut; in point of fact, perfection. Few people may, notice that diamond when my daugh- ter wears it, but she owns a gem that is immaculate, and that is enough for me and for her.—Worth, in Harper's Bazar. A Happy Marriage. A few marriages are happy. This ¢heerful fact is gleefully recorded here, in the hope that it may make a bright spot in all the doleful record of divorces and desertions of which every newspaper is full. A man, a woman and a small girl seen on the train this morning, are prcof of the statement. . The small girl had the man’s nose and the woman's eyes. The woman was gay and pretty, with fluffy gold hair and beautiful furs, and a round, white chin with a dimple—a firm chin, though. And when she talked the little girl looked at her in open admiration, and the man—who was dark and smooth-shaven, with*slight- ly gray hair, and a fine, clear-cut boyish face and wrinkles around his eyes, as if he laughed a lot—Ilistened as if all her words were golden. And when he talked, she listened the same way. % And they laughed together exactly like % happy boy and girl, who ad- mired each other more than anybody, else in the world, And the little maiden, who was about ten years old, and rosy and happy, sat and looked at them as if she, also, thought them the most extraordinary people. The woman was lovely, and capable and sensible, and happy. Any one could see that at a flash. And the man was perhaps not quite so reso- lute a person, but fine and gentle and appreciative, and very much in love with his wife, and just as happy. That was plain. 3 And it was such a tremendous re- lief to look up from the aforesaid record of divorces and desertions in the morning paper and behold this jolly contradiction to the lie that all marriages are failures, that one had all one could do to keep from step- ping across the aisle and asking for the recipe, for the benefit of all the poor wretches who bungle and lose at the game these two were playing with such evident joy.— Philadelphia Bulletin, ‘Wide collars of lacs are inset with cameos. The colored slips are being brought into favor again. The wood colors are especially soft and rich in the new foulards with their satin surfaces. Combination’ effects continue mod- ish in laces and the use of soutache introduces a touch of novelty. Fine floral patterns are character- istic of the new embroideries which are commencing to appear. Fringes and tassels, long ago fav- ored among fashionable women, are coming to their own again. The hyacinth proves to have been the flower selected most often this season by the debutante for her bou- quet. Of all the gowns that are being made for wear among the birds and flowers there are none prettier than the batistes. There are many silky jacquard ef- fects among the new fabrics, some- times in self color and again in a con- trasting shade. The latest fad in boning a collar is to place a single bons at the centre of the back instead of on either side, rounding the collar from the front to this high point at the back. Delft blue is one of the colors that develops well upon the heavy white linen foundati¢n of the turnover col- lars; simple dots of two sizes with scalloped edge form a favorite de- sign. Same True of Spelling. When I was in England, before the ““entete cordiale,”” I discussed the metric system with an Englishman. The English system of weights and measures, he admitted, was complex, but he said it was precisely because i of its innumerable difficulties that it | constituted a marvelous instrument !{ for making supple the young brains | which filled the Engli | Journal of Paris. lish schools.—
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