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, Privilege of Voting.
Miss Grace H. Ballantyne, of Des
Moines, Iowa, is being congratulated
by the women of her State on her
success in securing a decision of the
Supreme Court of Iowa establishing
the right of women to vote at any
city, town or school election on the
question of issuing bonds for munici-
pal or scheol purposes or borrowing
money or increasing the tax levy.
Cheerful Ignorance.
«You'd be surprised,” said the
woman who is supposed to be wise,
‘“4how many people are perfectly ig-
norant of the correct way to write ac-
ceptances and regrets when they are
asked to entertainments. It woujd
pay some enterprising woman to go
arctnd writing them for those who
don’t know how. You'd be ashamed
to see the people who come to me to
ask how it is done or to get me to
write them. And,” she admitted, “if
the truth must be told, I don’t know
so awfully much about it myself.”—
New York Press. :
A Russian Beauty Farm.
A wealthy Russian noticed that
many of the recruits in the Russo-
Turkish War were inferior in phy-
sique. He accordingly established
what really is a beauty farm. He
employs on his estate only the hand-
somest and healthiest villagers.
These he encourages to enter upon
matrimony by free grants of land,
payment of all marriage fees and an
annuity of fifty rubles a year for
every child born. Since the institu-
tion’ of this farm forty model mar-
riages have taken place and more
than 100 children have been born.—
Woman's Life.
Not Merely Fattening.
A noted skin specialist has declared
that chocolate and potatoes are the
two worst things a woman can eat
who has regard to her complexion.
Of these the former is much the more
injurious. :
It used to be that we shunned these
staples of diet only when we dreaded
too much flesh; then we learned that
the potato was bad for the digestion;
now that our skins suffer as well it
would seem as if their doom were
sealed.
But with the soda water fountains
to tempt, and the greatest potato eat-
ers in the world, the Irish lassies,
¢
famed for their exquisite skins, there
is still a probability that neither
chocolate ov the “praty’” will be ta-
booed immediately. — New York
Press.
merely
Young Girl Renounces Sex.
«prom woman,” said Miss Mattie
Currie, an attractive young woman,
of Hamlin, W. Va., “I wish to. be
known as a man.” Dressed in male
attire she visited a barber shop and
had her golden curls shorn, and in-
sisted that the barber go over her face
with a razor.
Miss Currie is a leader of the
younger social set at Hamlin, near
Huntington, and is well known in that
city. She rode into town shortly
before noon astride of a spirited
horse.
“1 intena to open a general store
at Dingess, Mingo County, in a few
days,” she said. “I will go into the
settlement as a man and I wish to
be reccznized as such. In the future
I wish to be known as Matthew in-
stead of Mattie.”
) New Jewels.
One of the latest Parisian fancies
in jewels to be taken up by smart
London women is a corsage garniture
of a fishnet drapery set with dia-
monds, the whole forming®a hrilliant
scintillating drapery.
The fisher net is filet work of ex-
ceedingly fine gold threads, the
meshes formed of diamonds. The
drapery covers the shoulders and
droops several inches, and is made
entirely by hand.
Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck, a sister
of Mrs. Ogden Mills, wore this sort of
diamond meshwork on the corsage of
a royal blue robe, and Mrs. Edward
‘Ward, a recent bride, wore a similar
net of diamonds over a clinging black
satin. Lady Camden was also seen
in a pink robe having the diamond
meshed net, ‘and. in each case two
large diamond tassels and diamond
set cords fastened the jeweled drapery
at the back.
The inverted tiara is another little
fad in jewels. This is a straight band
from which jeweled joints descend,
disappearing in the coiffure.
Mrs. Waldorf Astor wore one of
these inverted diadems the same
levening that the diamond studded
corsage draperies were seen.
The Duchess of Rutland also wore
a new pattern in diadems; in this
instance it was a pointed crown of
wheat cars meeting in tke front, and
Queen Alexandra wore a similar coif-
fure ornament, but instead of wheat
ears a diamond thistle rose from the
centre.—New York Times.
The Cleveland Romance Holds.
The romance of President Cleye-
land’s marriage was one of the most
interesting in our Presidential his-
tory, relates the Kansas City Times.
It was the first marriage of a Presi-
dent of the United States while in
office. Mrs. Cleveland's father had
been a law partner of the President,
and when he died his daughter, then
a young girl, became Mr. Cleveland’s
ward. At the time of the marriage
the President was forty-nine and his
bride only twenty-two. Such a dis-
parity in years is ordinarily frowned
upon, but the circumstances ‘of this
match were extraordinary.
Mrs. Cleveland became one of the
most charming mistresses the White
House has ever had. She bore her-
self with great dignity, reserve and
distinction, vet was quite as demo-
cratic as her station would justify
her in being. Her attitude toward
her husband was at all times wholly
exemplary. She exalted him, but
without ostentation and without in
the least belittling herself. In pri-
vate life she maintained the reserve,
even the seclusion, that her distin-
guished husband sought. Through-
out Mr. Cleveland's illness, in their
common joys and sorrows, in her hus-
band’s long period of suffering, and
now in her own bereavement, she has
set an admirable example of wifely
devotion. patience and dignit=.
The Queen’s Own Fashions.
Queen Alexandra does not follow
the fashion either of long silhouettted
figure or of wide and high crowned
headgear. There is a style, of dress
in England which the Queen has
made her own, which the Princess of
Wales follows closely and which is in
favor with every member of the royal
family. : .
This has gradually become dis-
tinctively their own. “I want a royal
“toque” is a request understood by
any milliner, as is a “Queen’s sleeve”
or a “Queen’s skirt” by a dressmaker.
On the opening day at Ascot. the
Queen wore a dress of delicate orchid
mauve marquisette, lace inserted and
embroidered, and a toque made of
tulle and flowers the same shade.
The Princess of Wales was gowned
in soft rose pink chiffon, lavishly em-
a little grated nutmeg.
Dust your baking
Take out a piece otf
Dust the top
By adding half a pound of cleaned
recipe you will have Shrewsbury
- s Sand Tarts.—Beat half a pound of butter to a cream
a. = and half a pound of granulated sugar; then add the yolks
3 2 of three eggs and the whites of two, beaten together; add a
an A teaspoonful of vanilla and just
es & Mix in sufficient flour to make a dough.
— 3 board thickly with granulated sugar.
. = 2 dough, roll it into a thin sheet, cut with round cuftters, and
—— bake in a moderate oven until a light brown.
= = of the sheet with sugar instead of flour, to prevent the
Da 2 roller from sticking.
2 currants to the above
fea] currant cakes.—Washington Star.
proidered in the same shade, and
wore a cream colored toque with os-
trich feathers.
Another. day, according to the
Ladies’ Pictorial, the Queen wore a
lovely dress of French gray silk voile,
a mass of very beautiful embroidery
in the same color. The Queen’s toque
was of crinoline straw and tulle of the
same delicate shade, and was trimmed
with an aigrette of heliotrope and
crimson damask roses.
PART
Hoon EVEST
Ng SHICGNS.
A novelty on hats is white mar-
abou.
The shades of red are so dyed as
to be softening and seductive.
Flowers and foliage of colored ba-
tiste trim hats of pure white straw.
The hat is not huge, but just big
enough to be a pretty frame for the
face.
Hats are made of tulle and lace
and trimmed with black velvet and
roses.
A sash accompanies many tailor
gowns, either inside or outside the
coat.
The very dressy robes for afternoon
or evening wear are now composed of
marquisette.
Shoulders are made exceedingly
narrow, and there is no curve in at
the back of the waist.
Belt, tie and shoes match in color
where colored shoes are worn with
a white or neatral tone gown.
Soutache is about the only garni-
ture put upon these cotton frocks,
which are, of course, tailor made.
Big buttons of passementerie fin-
ished with silken cords are used, un-
less one selects white or black pearl.
Drapers declared that goods were
to have more body a year or two ago,
but heavy goods have not yet made an
appearance.
An engagement ring brought from
Europe by the wearer is of the finest
platinum set with tiny diamonds, and
inside there is a space for name, date,
and even a motto.
Plain taffetas make up into practi-
cal and pretty skirt and coat suits,
while, if one can wear the bordered
goods, there is nothing smarter for
afternoon frocks.
" Him.
"Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?"—
Luke 6:46.
Jesus is either a force or a fraud.
His word is truth or it is nonsense.
His gospel is either the supreme phi-
losophy of life or the quintessence
of silliness. He is either to be fol-
lowed or not to be followed. If He
is to lead we must do His will. He
is a captain whose commands are
commendable and practicable or an
untrustworthy leader to obey whom
is the sheerest senselessness. There
is no middle ground. Christ is a wise
man—the eternal wisdom of God—
or a fool; a visioned statesman or a
visionary; a religious leader beyond
compare, or the most illogical and
fantastic enthusiast who ever lived.
. The church sof the living Christ
through near 2000 years has pro-
claimed Him the incarnate mind of
God, the glorious embodiment of the
eternal wisdom, the supernal leader,
the only true guide, the: mentor of
the mind as the Saviour of the soul
of man. Saints have sung of His
beauty, - philosophers have yielded
homage to the purity and profundity
of His thought, sages have reveled in
His wisdom, martyrs have died for
We have declared Him Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the
end, the ultimate both as to inception
and finality.
And yet we fail to practice His
truth, to apply His principles, to
obey His mandates, to trust His
word, to live the life that He counsels
as tne only life that eternally is
worth the while. We elevate Him
upon a pedestal of dominating prom-
inence, and then we laugh at Him.
We join His churcd, and then we
misrepresent Him. ‘We swear fealty
under His control, and then we de-
sert Him in every hour of the test.
+« And then we wonder why men of
the world have no use for eccleciasti-|
cism, though they cheer the Christ.
We are amazed at the paltriness of
the church’s grip as an organized in-
stitution upon humanity compared
with what it ought to be; while the
sweep of the influence of Jesus is be-
coming universal. We are astounded
that in an age when the Lord of Life
receives greater homage than ever in
the reach of years, the church of the
Lord—the organized body that bears
His name—is being weighed in the
balance of intelligent criticism and
declared wanting.
But it is not strange. Too long
have you cried, ‘Lord, Lord.”
world demands performance as well
as protestations. It tires of the pla-
titudinous. It expects men who pre-
fess to love the goof to’be something
more than pious. For the piousness
of the day is almost synnoymous
with the most dangerous impious-
ness.
Bad men have a suspicion that bad
men will be bad. They expect good
men to be good. They detest pious
talk and a pious mien that gets no
further than words and loots. And
they are right.
Laodicean Christianity is as trait-
orous as it is inefficient. It denies
that in which it professes to believe.
It betrays its Lord with a kiss. The
world has no use for it aud we ought
to have none. A world that could
contemplate it with equanimity
wouldn't be worth saving. What
shall we say of a church which too
largely practices it?
Too much have we cried, ‘Lord,
Y.ord.”” Jesus says, “Ye are My
friends if ye do whatsoever I com-
mand you.” Have we done His will?
Jesus says: ‘Love your enemies;
bless them that curse you; him that
taketh away thy cloak forbid not to
take thy coat also.” And Jesun prac-
ticed His proclamations. He was the
friend of God. He did the will of the
“Father. They crucified Him. He be-
sought forgiveness for His persecu-
tors.
And yet in a land blessed as is
ours with the heritage of twenty cen-
turies of Christian teaching, cultured
and controlled under the gospel of
Jesus, the best theory of peace that
we can practice is that which bids us
to be prepared for war. The very
church which sings the praises of the
prince of peace is strangely silent be-
fore the militarism of our age. Pre-
paredness for war has yet.to be pro-
ven a guarantee of peace. Indeed it
has been quite otherwise. It is
neither effective nor necessary. Itis
purely expedient and never final in
theory or in practice. Jesus’ way is
a better way. If all the armaments
of the world were wrecked there
would be a surer guarantee of peace
than there is to-day and greater pros-
perity.
Jesus’ theories have never had an
honest opportunity to prove their
worth. Those that have been tried,
however little, have revealed the wis-
dom of the Lord.
have ceased to war and have brought
their difficulties to the bar of divine-
ly guided counsel there have they
found the best results. The individ-
ual who follows in the footsteps of
his Saviour and forgets injury, for-
gives injustice, requites good for evil,
may seem impractical, but hes the
happiest as the most honored among
the sons of men. The man who sub-
mits to persecution while his trust
remains in God may lose his head;
he will not lose his soul. External
forces cannot steal away that life
eternal which is the gift of God.
The church must either follow
Christ or it must cease to be. The
reason for its existence is resident in
its recognition of His authority. The
secret of its ancient power lay in its
willingness to do His will. And as
the guiding spirit in a larger era
gives her visions of wider ministry
and impulse to a service the like of
which she has never known she must
move on with fidelity and fervor or
be discredited and disowned.
The church is not the kingdom
save as the church labors for the
consummation of the kingdom. Itis
not an end in itself. It is a means to
the attainment of divine conclusions.
The trouble has been and is that we
have mistaken theology for Chris-
tianity, the organization for the life,
the membership roll for the test. of
' membership. Quite otherwise is the
mind of Christ. The test of member-
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ship is not how warm we make seats,
or how loud we sing, or how vehee
mently, we pray. The final testing is
the testillg of service. Do you work
as you.pray? Do you warm hearts
as well as benches? Do you make
souls to rejoice? Do you regard
yourself not as your brother’s keeper
so much as your brother’s brother?
Are you true to Christ? Have you
keenness to serve the King?
“Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?” The
question is as timely and applicable
as it was when it was propounded.
For there never has been a time when
the church more largely was cogniz-
ant of the ineffectualness of lip serv-
ice and convinced of the need for re-
sultful and helpful labor than she is
to-day. :
The Protestant church is in danger
of becoming priest-ridden—the worst
that can befal the organization of the
church; ridden with a priesthood
shorn of compulsory authority and
in whom _the authority of the Christ
is too precariously admitted to re-
side. The laity of Protestanism are
‘too largely guilty of hiring men to
do their work for them—at salaries
on the average that are an insult to
the Lord whose work they send their
employes to do—rather than of call-
ing leaders whose business it shall
be to direet the energies, rebuke the
sins, vitalize the: virtues, clarify the
thought. inspire the minds, intensify
the spiritual conceptions and percep-
tions’ of" thé sons of God. who are
members : of the church of Christ.
The church of Christ is full of men
and .women who have their names
upon its rolls for no better reason
than that it is politic or proper or
polite or’ profitable socially and com=
mercially so to be enlisted. And the
consequence is that enthusiasm has
gone outvof the most of the meetings
of the church, the gatherings for
prayer are generally so dry and cold
and uninteresting that they are a
distress to earnest pastors and a. re-
flection not only upon the intelligence
and spiritual experience, but also
upon the gratitude of the church.
The reason for this is not far to
seek. The laity, and not infrequent-
1y the clergy, have been so busy seek-
ing material success that they have
had no time to serve the Lord after
the manner of the Master. The dol-
lar has supplied so many wants that
men have ceased to feel the pressing
need for spiritual supplies. It has
been declared impossible for a nation
to believe Christ. disarm and be pre-
served against the rapacious agres-
sions of the armed. . Business men
have declared it impossible to follow
Christ and succeed. The best we
have’ done, till. very lately, in the
management of criminals has been
to jail or execute them. The. spirit
of the lex talionis—the lowest law of
Judaism—is rampant in the settle-
ment of disputes between nations and
pations. society and its members, in-
dividuals and their fellows. We have
forgotten the God of life in the ex-
cellency of our livings. We have
prayed for reforms that we have
neither advanced, expected or de-
sired. We have thanked God for the
might of His power while fearful to
trust His sufficiency against the on-
slaught of Satan. We have talked
brotherhood and practiced an indi-
vidualism that has broughts sorrow
where there is no need for aught but
joy, and strife where co-operation
would more thoroughly fulfil the
plans of God, by and with the con-
sent—tacit or active—of the church.
The situation cannot endure. The
church must refqrm or relinquish her
‘claim to primacy and to the privil-
eges of leadership. Saying ‘Lord,
Lord,” will make her acceptable
neither to.coming generations nor to
her bridegroom. Vain repetitions
are valueless to produge results. Ac-
tion only is qualified to transmute
ideas into achievements. To do His
work we must do His will.
Jesus gives us a picture of the end
of the institution or the man guilty
of lip-service or of lukewarm adher-
ence to the propagation of the truth.
“Not every one that saith unto Me,
Tord, Lord, shall enter into the king-
dom of heaven, but he that doeth the
will of My Father.” He forecasts
the fate of those insincere and paltry
Christians who stand beiore Jehovah
at the great assize.
1t is to be hoped that Jesus’ pie-
ture will not prove a photograph of
us. It is not necessary that it should.
We shall be recreant and without ex-
cuse if it shall so prove to be. No
man and no church need call upon the
Lord in vain. He who hath called us
and upon whom we call is both will-
ing and able to perform through us
effective service for the welfare and
the salvation of individuals and the
race. God summons us in Christ to
supreme labor. He provides contem-
poraneously the power necessary to
succeed. He energizes and verifies
and inspires and enthuses every soul
and every society that with high de-
sire and dedicated purpose calls upon
His name.’
Not “Lord, Lord,” but “Lord, here
am I, send me,” “What wilt Thou
have me to do?”
Brooklyn, N. Y.
ee —
Emotion is the Bud.
Emotion has no value in the Chris-
tian system save as it stands con-
nected with right conduct as the cause
of it. Emotion is the bud, not the
flower, and never is it of value until
it expands into a flower. Every re-
ligious sentiment, every act of devo-
tion which does not produce a corre-
sponding elevation of life, is worse
than useless; it is absolutely per-
nicious, because it ministers to self-
deception and tends to lower the line
of personal morals.—W. H. H. Mur-
ray.
ea
The Work of the Spirit.
The great work of the Holy Spirit,
what is it? To make Christ present
with us. Look at the disciples; they
loved Him, but they were under the
power of the flesh. The rule of the
flesh had not been broken, and Christ
could not get a lodgment in their
hearts; but He said, the Holy Spirit
will come; and I will come again to
you (in the Spirit) and the Father
and I will take up Our abode with
you. The Spirit's work is revealing
God and Christ in our very hearts.—
Andrew Murray.
He is All in All.
God is all to thee; if thou be hun-
gry, He is bread; if thirsty, He is
water; if in darkness, He is light;
if naked, He is a robe of immortal-
ity.—St. Augustine.
NEW WORK FOR GIRLS;
COLLEGE TO FIT THEM
Women Needed to Head
Big Institutions Will Be
Trained at Columbia---Building Fully Equipped---New
Addition to Teachers’ College Will Afford Students of
Domestic Science Every Advantage. e oe os
When the new School of Domestic
Economies now being erected as part
of Teachers’ College, at Amsterdam
avenue and 121st street, is finished
it will present a most complete equip-
ment for work of this character, an-
nounces the New York Times.
The hall will house the three
branches of domestic instruction now
carried on in the Teachers’ College
greatly hampered by lack of room.
The courses to be given come under
the headings of Domestic Science,
Domestic Arts, and Institutional
Economies. At Columbia now only
one feature of this last department is
under way, the courses in Hospital
Economies, but with the new plant
the scope of work will be enlarged.
There are now ninety students of
Domestic Science, sixty of the Do-
mestic Arts, and fifteen in the hos-
pital course, but even ithis number
cannot be accommodated with labor-
atories, and difficulty is encountered
even in arranging lecture room as-
signments.
The point of departure, wherein
the School of Domestic Economies at
Teachers’ College will be superior to
similar courses offered at’ many like
institutions, will be the continual
emphasis on preparation for institu-
tional work.
This change of base is due to the
complaints coming back from all
parts of the country to the different
schools of domestic science, whose
graduates have gone to fill positions
in large hospitals, schools, or other
institutions. A typical stricture
from a hospital is, “You do not train
your pupils to deal with large quan-
tities. When we put them in posi-
tions of responsibility they are sim-
ply swamped for the first six months,
merely by the numbers. The woman
in charge of Marshall Field’s restau-
rant told an officer of Teachers’ Col-
lege: ‘I cannot use your graduates in
my work, where we serve thousands
daily, until they have had experience
in handling large quantities.” ”
Hitherto domestic science courses
have not had the requisite equipment
for such training and the experiment-
ing has all been done on an individ-
ual or a family scale. To meet this
valid objection the new building at
Columbia has been planned in all its
details to give the students just this
necessary opportunity for working on
a larger scale, which will add to the
practical value of the training.
The plant is to accommodate 500
pupils, and although it will not be
ready for use until a year from this
coming fall, a sufficient number of
applications and queries has already
been received to show that there will
be no lack of students when the
building is completed. The struc-
ture, five stories and basement, is to
face an inner court, and will be the
north side of ‘a future quadrangle.
Entrance from the street will be
through a gateway, topped by a
square tower somewhat resembling
that at Magdalen College, Oxford. All
the architectural elaborations will be
reserved for this inner court.
The basement will be devoted to a
locker room, where the 500 cooks
may change their caps and aprons for
gymnasium suits, and the large icun-
dry laboratory. This is to kave all
the machinery of a regulation com-
con-
insti-
merical steam laundry, and is
sidered an important part of
tutional training.
size nowadays has its own
said Benjamin Andrews, secretary of
Teachers’ College, "and any woman
inficharge has got to be able to un-
derstand it.” Besides learning the
true inwardness of the washwheel
and extractor, the students are ex-
pected to solve the problem of doing
quick work with a minimum of chem-
ical assistance. It is hoped that the
graduate will be able to operate a
steam laundry, with all the speed of
the strictly commercial, but without
the disastrous effects of its bleaches.
In addition, the girls are to. study
hand laundry work with a view to
seeing how much labor-saving ma-
chinery may be practically adopted in
the home. The main floor is to be
given over to the offices, the reading
room, and lecture room, and on the
second comes the three large labor-
atories for the domestic science ex-
perimenting, which will be the pride
of the college. The most novel is
that for “cooking in large quanti-
”
ties. This will be equipped with a
small model hotel apparatus, includ-
ing the hotel range, the steam boilers
and cookers, the steam serving table,
the dish-warming ciosets and dish-
washing machines, said Mr. Andrews.
Each student will have several op-
portunities in a term to purchase,
cook, and serve meals for ®t least
thirty persons, with occasional prac-
tice in dealing with much larger num-
bers. With the model hotel kitchen
goes the demonstration dining room,
and next to this a special cooking
laboratory for compounding new
recipes.
This “large quantity apparatus” is
the chief point of vantage which the
Columbia School of Domestic Econ-
omics will have over its rivals, and
its particular use will be in develop-
ing the study of Institutional Econ-
oniics.
“The time is coming,” explained
Mr. Andrews, “when the matron of
every college dormitory will be re-
quired to have such training.
ualversal complaint of all
The
students
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against the food served them is
bound to produce a change. Dore
than this, there are hundreds of po-
sitions in hospitals and other insti-
tutions open to women with this
training. The establishment of res-
taurants in the public schools gives
another field right inside the school
system.”
The third floor turns from science
to art, and there are placed the labor-
atories for all the needed arts. The
studios for designing, on which great
stress is laid, are located on the north
side of the top floor, with dormer
windows in each room to supply the
desired lighting for art work.
Laboratories for chemical analysis
of food, and two for “household
chemistry” occupy the fourth floor.
Here the girls will study the science
of nutrition, and also the value of
different cleansing substances, of
heating and lighting material. On
the top floor is located the textile
laboratory, where elementary weav-
ing will be taught, not from the com-
mercial point of view as in the Phila-
delphia or Lowell School, but from
the consumers’. The graduates will
know the wearing qualities of various
materials, of the lasting powers of
certain weaves, after chemical and
microscopic examination of different
materials. ’
«This is of real practical value,”
the secretarysaid, “for at least twelve
per cent. of a family income goes for
the purchase of textiles, and an un-
trained buyer has no protection
azainst cloth adulterations, which are
as plenty as the much-discussed food
adulterations.”
For all this thorough training
there is certainly a considerable out-
lay. The expenses are naturally
heavy. Outside of laboratory fees,
the expenses for,a study year of thir-
ty-eight weeks are averaged at $580.
This does not include an out of town
student’s carfares to and fro, any pro-
vision for the Christmas and Easter
vacations, or for the girl's wardrobe
or personal expenses. Laboratory
fees for the domestic science course
come to over $30, while the “extras”
for domestic art amount to $77, not
counting: two millinery courses,
where the students provide their own
materials, but all finished work is the
property of its maker.
While this seems to make the cost
for such training rather high, it was
explained that some students in the
domestic courses cut the expenses far
below this by practicing their culin-
ary art for themselves. Frequently a
group of three or four girls doing
this work take a small apartment and
do their own cooking and caretaking,
thereby reducing the price of board
and lodging to from 35 to $8 a week.
Many also are their own laundresses
making another considerable saving.
As this is only so much practice work
along the line of their future work,
this economy comes easier to them
than to the student in a strictly
classical course.
——————y,
Strange Capture of a Salmon.
Fishing a well known river in Nor-
way this June, one of the tenants of
the fishing lodge opposite ours caught
a fish of twenty-nine pounds in the
morning and lost another, his spin-
ning line being broken by the rush
of a heavy fish. Fishing with prawn
the afternoon of the same day, the
same angler, in the same pool, got
into a gcod fish at his first cast. Af-
ter a long fight the fish was gafied
and landed. Then revealed a
strange state of tr . The prawn
tackle had never touched the fish; in
fact the hooks were a {cot or more
from it. They had ca 1t in the cast
which had been lost that morn
and was now twisted into knots and
was
tangl no doubt py.the salmon en-
deavoring to get rid of the trebie
Norsk cast and nooks. The line had
been got rid of.
down the pool it
lost cast still attached to the salmon,
and fish (thirty-three pounds), cast,
and tackle were recovered. We
watched the incident from the road,
and crossing the river handled the re-
covered cast. Many maintain that
salmon once hooked and played for
any length of time ieave the pool.—
W. H., in London Field.
The Practical Suitor.
Senator Kean, at a dinner in Chi-
cago, said of a political maneuvre:
“1 smell a rat in this contract. It
reminds me of a contract made by a
wily earl.
“Lord Reginald Bareacres courted
ardently last year the daughter of a
New Jersey millionaire. At a sea-
sonable moment, in a dim conserva-
tory, he laid his heart at the young
girl’s feet. She, however, being of a
rare type, spurned him.
“Rising to his feet, Lord Reginald
said:
“ ‘1 shave bared to you the most
sacred feelings of my inmost heart.
May I ask that you will never reveal
to a living soul what has passed be-
tween us?’
“I am not a gossip, Lord Regi-
answered haughtily.
‘Give
nald,” the girl
« ‘But promise me,’ he said.
me your solemn promise.’
“ ‘7 promise,” she said. ‘But
Lord Reginald, are you so
ent?’
“ ‘Because,’
with relief, *
turn my a
ter.’ ”
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