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IT CAUSES RHBUMATISM.
Too many children are seen with
Short socks and bare legs In cold
weather.- Mothers Justify this on the
ground of its being a toughening
process. This Is a mistake. It should
be unnecessary to urge mothers to
clothe the little ones as warmly as
they do themselves.
HARPS APPEAL TO HER.
Mrs. V.'s fancy runs to the collec
tion of harps. She does not know a
Bote of music, and of course cannot
pick a string, but she loves harps for
their shape and has three or four of
.them in her house. She declares,
much to the annoyance of her family,
that she intends getting as many
more. New York Tribune.
GERANIUMS IN MAIDS' ROOMS.
So much in earnest is Mrs. M. in
her aesthetic crusade and efforts to
beautify the village where her mag
nificent country home is situated, im
prove its schools and churches and
rase the art standard of the com
munity, that she has carried the cam
paign for the beautiful right into her
own home and has provided pots of
scarlet geraniums to decorate the
window sills of her servants' rooms.
New York Tribune.
STAMPS HER OWN INITIALS.
Mrs. X.'s chief diversion is em
broidering initials on face towels,
and the supreme test of her affection
Is evidenced when she presents a
friend with a half-dozen strips of ex
pensive damask with the friend's
monogram done in red embroidery
cotton. Mrs. X. does not go in for
old English, script cross stitch or
fancy lettering. Instead, she marks
the towels in her sprawling, stylish
band, with pencil, and outlines them.
The ; effect 'is dashing, to say the
least.
,WOMAN FAMINE IN GERMANY.
Germany is threatened with a
woman famine in 2007 A. D. Herr
Gustar Kukutscb, a noted statisti
cian, foresees that the male popula
tion, increasing at its present rate,
will a hundred years hence outnum
ber the female Germans by two mil
lions. At present there are several thou
sand more females than males in
Germany, but the sterner Bex is catch
isg ffwlth the fair ones by leaps
t-and boulnds. In forty years, calcu
lates Hycrr Kukutsch, the sexes will
be in equal'iorce, but in 2007 the
women will le the minority.
Ill mis publi.hed prophecy of a wife
faminle, the man of figures asks,
"Whajt will the superflous ttrman
l man in zooy do to obtain a wife?"
Thjere will be nothing for him to
tfo bjit either remain a bachelor or
seek b wife abroad.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Meiji like girls who are original,
gontle and unselfish, and whose out
ward appearance indicates personal
refinement.
To draw threads easily, for hem
stitching or drawn-work patterns,
rub the cloth between the fingers, or
rub a little white soap on the cloth
Where the threads are to be drawn.
For the girl who likes to knit and
wishes to make her brother, or other
relative, a present, the new knitted
'helmet, hood," to be worn with the
sweater, for skating, will prove most
acceptable.
The dainty freshness of a girl's
attire possessas a charm for the mas
culine beholder to a far greater ex
tent than stylish clothes. The care
of the small details, such as shoes
and gloves, Is all important. The
Circle. -
HAD TO KISS HER AUTOMOBILE.
" Just before" the fcoat train left the
St. Lazare Railway station In Paris
for Havre a luxurious automobile,
loaded with lugsnge bearing innu
merable continental labels, rolled up,
and two men and,' two women alight
ed. After attending to the removal
of the baggag9 one of the women
Impulsively kissed the smooth wood
surface of the coach to the amaze
ment of opem-mouthed porters, trav
elers and giggling urchins.
"There, I couldn't help it!" she ex
claimed to a man who seemed to be
her husband. "I know it's fright
fully common to make an exhibition
of one's feelings, but I must show
gratitude to the dear machine which
has given me such good times all
summe". It has never broken down,
never killed anybody nor anything.
I just love it.
"Louise," she said, as she turned
to the other woman in the party, "if
you care for your sister at all you'll
look after my darling motor car,
won't you, until I return next
spring?"
"It is," announced Tibbie, calmly.
"Here he's been coming and Bitting
wi' me all these times, and never a
word o' merrying. So long at last I
said to him: 'If you've no mind to
take me, Rab, ye can Jlst say so, and!
I'll spend nae more on bright ribbons
to sit up wi' ye, but I'll tak my
money and buy one o' those talking
machines, that plays tunes, after I've)
paid for a strip o' new oilcloth to
cover the floor where you've worn out
the old one, and then I'll tnk my
releeglous books and settle down in
quiet.'
"Rabble was so concerned at my
drear prospects and the thoughts o
my savings he said he would hae me
whenever I got ready." Boston
Post
COMBS MUST MATCH FROCKS.
If you would be numbered among
the elect, provide yourself with Jew
eled combs to match every gown
street, house and calling. Mrs. Long
worth, who has ten affecting brown
this autumn to the utter annihilation
of her former favorite, "Alice blue,"
has been displaying a high-backed
comb in her golden tresses, dotted
with sardonyx set in dull gold. The
side-combs are similar, only in small
er pattern. At the opera the other
night Mrs. Longworth looked her
best In pale green tulle, with gar
lands of leaves, and her hair, piled
high and adorned with little clusters
of curls, was gay with pins having
emerald tops. A big comb studded
with emeralds looked imposing. Sev
eral fashionable women have sets of
coral studded combs and hairpins to
wear with afternoon gowns, while
pearls and diamonds are common
now in fashionable throngs as tiaras
and necklaces. New York Press.
AMERICAN GOWNS SMARTEST.
Among the passengers who ar
rived yesterday on the American Line
steamship New York were Mrs. Stuy
vesant Fish and her dauster.
Mrs. Fish said that she was very
glad to get back to America. She
took occasion to boost American
dressmakers when a zealous reporter
asked her if she had brought back
many Paris clothes.
"No," smiled Mrs. Fish, "I did
not. I brought back very few, for
the reason that American-made gowns
are far better than those one gets in
Paris. The materials are more dur
able, they are better made and the
dressmaker in this country is, to my
mind, more original in her ideas than
are the dressmakers of Paris. The
American woman is the best dressed
in the world because she is not bound
by style. She is original, and her
Individuality is expressed in her gar
ments. In Paris that is not so. The
women there are Blaves to mode.
They are all of a pattern." New
York Sun.
. THE MARRYING POINT.
Tibbie was a Scotch lass, hard
working and comely. She ruled over
a grateful and suppressed family of
New Englanders for eight years, and
then announced her intention of mar
rying within six weeks.
"I suppose it is Rab whom you
mean to marry, Tibbie?" asked her
nominal mistress, referring to a tall,
mild-faced young Scotchman who had
spent more or less time in Tibbie's
spotless kitchen for the lost three
irssjrs.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS.
Dress Is an expression of charac
ter. The higher a woman's social
position the more subdued should be
her dress in public.
Extreme smartness in dress is
usually the result of simplicity.
Good taste in dress, as in music
or painting, harmonizes the whole.
A cultivated mind is always asso
ciated with graceful and elegant at
tire. Nothing is in good taste that is
worn at an inappropriate time.
There may be little money to lav
ish on dress, but a certain quality
will always prevail In the selection
of color, material or style that at
once proclaims the woman to the
manner born.
A well-dressed woman bears the
Imprint of a lady.
The selection and arrangement of
the dress usually reflect the wearer'
taste, no matter how slender the '
purse.
To be well dressed gives one ease
and self-confidence.
Self-respect will win the respect of
others, and to gain this one must be
suitably and well dressed.
A woman cannot be at perfect ease
and have sweet peace of mind when
she sees herself reflected In a mirror
as having a bodly hung skirt and a
coat out of fashion.
The knowledge that her gown is
a good fit, becoming in color, grace
ful in lines, will impart to a woman
a superior air and a sense of comfort
produced in no other way.
We aro judged by our dress as
well as by our manner of speech. To
bo appropriately and well dressed is
one of the signs of good breeding.
A becoming hat and a well-made,
becoming dress may bo a pasBport
into good society.
To be well dressed will be found
of great assistance to the courteous
stranger in hnving the doors of hos
pitality or success opened to her.
A woman need not be either hand
some or rich to be well dressed.
Good taste will embellish even
poverty.
The love of beauty will create a
desire to express good taste, which
even the rich, who are without it,
might well envy.
The artist has only a bit of cheap
canvass and a few oil colors, yet he
creates a masterpiece; so a woman
may transform the simple things
about her into pictures of good tasts
with the aid of needle, thread, scis
sors and brains. The Circle.
On the estate near Perm, in north
east Russia, of a wealthy man named
Reshetnlkoff, a' singular marriage
took place recently. The bridegroom,
Vasilieff, was a handsome peasant,
the bride a beautiful girl of 18. M.
Reshetnlkoff gave them a large wood
en cottage and a plot of land, and at
the wedding breakfast greeted them
as the second generation of his nurs
lings "who are to make of holy Rus
sia an earthly Olympus peopled with
Apollos and Hebes.' At the time of
the Russo-Turklsh war M. Reshetnl
koff, struck with the inferior. Ill
nourished physique of many recruits,
set aside annually out of his large for
tune 10,000 rubles for the purpose of
eliminating the unfit by encouraging
marriage only between young people
of exceptional beauty, health and In
telligence. He employed as workers
on his estate only the handsomest
and healthiest villagers. These he
encouraged to enter upon matrimony
by grants of land, payment of mar
riage fees and an annuity of fifty
rubles a year for every child born.
He removed from his estate all de
formed and sickly persons and at
tracted handsome giants from all
parts of the province by granting
them valuable privileges. Those who
refused to marry the partners he
selected were unceremoniously de
ported. ' Since the institution of his
scheme forty marriages have taken
place, and over 100 children have
been born, nearly all of tnem being
Immensely superior to the average
Russian peasant children in strength
and beauty. Vasllieff's marriage was
celebrated with exceptional display,
he and his bride being the first couple
both of whom sprung from unions
arranged by M. Reshetnlkoff.
The Origin of "Kickers"
"I believe that the origin of the ex
pressive bit of slang 'kickers' may be
found in the very lowest form of
occupation any member of the human
race follows," Mr. W. M. Robinson
states.
"Between Wormsley's and St. Hel
en's in Cornwall, is an underground
canal connecting the lower levels of
the coal mines at Wormsley's with
the surface station at St Helen's,
which saves a great deal of money
for the mine owners in handling the
coal, which is simply loaded on the
barges in the mines and transported
by the canal under the mountains to
the harbor at St '. Helen's. When the
canal was de'1 ' A, however, how to
provide for wcomotlon for these
barges was a problem.
"Mules couldn't be used, and there
were circumstances which made
steam impossible, but an inventive
eenlus finally solved the riddle bv susr-
gestlng that cross pieces of timber be
placed along the roof of the canal,
which was very low, and men could
lie on their backs on top of the loaded
barges and 'kick' the vessel along.
After the barge was once started this
was found to be feasible.
The men could easily keep the load
In motion by the means suggested,
and It has ever since been In use.
There is no question about the low
grade of this sort of work, and even
the men who follow it are constantly
'kicking' around the villages where
they live. They were known at the
mines officially as 'kickers' because of
their work, and their vocal complaints
continually indulged In, caused every
one at Wormsley's or St. Helen's, no
matter what their station or employ
ment, who Indulged in complaints to
be called 'kickers.' I presume that
the origin of the word, as we use it,
Is Just what I have suggested." St
T iiils GlobA-Demnrmt.
Gustam is truly a connoisseur, and
the culinary feats he can perform up
on a two-burner gas stove in his apart
ments Is the wonder of his friends.
He has been on the lookout for de
lectable delicacies potent to cool and
refresh. The luxury that tickled his
palate most was a watermelon that
had been doctored with rum and
claret and cooled to the freezing point.
Inspired by this work of art, Gustam
forthwith planned a surprise for a few
of his friends. He procured a huge
watermelon, the necessary rum and
wine, and, in accordance with the re
cipe, stirred up a mixture, plugged
the melon, poured in the liquid, in
serted the plug and set the whole in
the refrigerator to cool for two days.
Then, summoning his friends, he cut
the melon.
Before taking a bite himself, Gustam
proudly awaited laudatory remarks
and exclamations of praise. His
friends ate in silence. Upon tasting
his slice Gustam could detect but
the faintest flavor of rum and wine.
What had become of the two quarts of
liquor he had put in? Much mysti
fied, he explained the circumstances,
but all the comfort he got was the
accusation that he had been "stingy'
with' the booze" and the admonition
"to put more In next time." As it
was, however, they got away with half
of the melon and then Gustam called
the Janitor and gave him the other
half.
An hour or so later the Janitor's
wife knocked at the door, and as she
faced Gustam and his guests she be-'
gan with a great show of righteous
wrath: "Mlsther Chus (hlc) turn, wot
did yez put (hlc) in thot maion? Me
ould mon (hie), me ould mon me
ould mon (hlc), ish down there yellin
wld (hlc) th jlmjams! 01 want
know whash yez put (hlc) in thot
In thot malon! Ish ut a joke (hie)
a Joke thot yez put up (hlc) on
um? Oi wanta know (hie) "
The truth dawned upon Gustam. By
reason of the melon lying two days
in one position the rum and wine had
all settled in the lower end and ht '
had given that end to the ianltor. '
New York Press.
Odd and Fanciful Idea
An odd and fanciful Idea is advanc
ed by Zona Gale, writing for Outing,
in which she gives her reason for her
"discovery" as "the coming of Seml
ramls." Now Semlramls is evidently
a cute, furry little kitten, and so the
owner of this dainty feline says:
"It has long been my belief that
fairies are the little souls of some
thing. . At first I was puzzled to know
of what, but since the coming of
Semlramls It Is quite simple. Her
mysterious amber eyes and lithe little
body of furry sliver have taught me
the truth; fairies are the souls of
all little kittens. And let only him
deny this who can cast the first proof
to the contrary!
"I say let 'him' deny It; for what
ever is fragrant to believe and pleas
ant to preach about the kittens of the
world, every woman is fain to accept
and to repeat. How gladly, then,
will she welcome such a fair doctrine
as this concerning the kittens that
have left the world! And If her own
'little lion, small and dainty sweet,'
be still her dally companion, she has
only to sit with it in her arms for
an hour some night when the moon is
full, to understand that to all strange,
sweet Influences and potent, hidden
presences the reticent, eerie little
creature is akin. Especially will she
feel this if, as I trust every woman)
who loves a kitten knows, it has beeni
named for some beautiful dead'
queen."
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