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Bernhardt Courts Irving's Fate.
Sarah Bernhardt, in denying a ru
mor that she will soon retire from the
etage, said to an interviewer :"Th!s
may, of courso, he my last season, a3
the rumor says, for I am an old wo
man ao4 my life is in God's hands,
i hut I shall play until my death, and
the fate I hope for is the death Sir
Henry Irving died."
A Venus the Bald.
The ancient Romans at one time
knew a Venus the Bald. The goddess
was worshipped hy that name in a
particular temple after the invasion of
the Gauls the reason assigned for
this strange fact in antiquity having
been that the brave women of Rome
' cut off their hair to make bowstrings
for the city's defense. London Chronicle.
Fashion Not Fickle.
"People talk about the fickleness of
fashion, but as a matter of fact there
Is nothing more distressingly con
stant," says a dressmaker. "How long
have we worn blouses? How many
years did boleros reign? What ages
It seems since we took to stripes? All
these things are not of yesterday. The
falthfulneB3 of fashion is tedious. Af
ter many seasons velvet is still her
only love. Some of us had hoped for
a change, but it is not to be." New
York Tribune.
Four Kind of Wives.
Some women in marrying demand
all and give all; with good men they
are the happy; with base men they
are the broken-hearted.
Some demand everything find give
little; with weak men they are tyr
ants; with Btrong men they are the dl
"vorced. Some demand little and give all;
with congenial souls they are already
In heaven; with uncongenial they are
eoon in their groves.
Some give little and demand little;
they are the heartless, and they bring
neither the Joy of life nor the peace
of death. James Lane Allen.
Hat Question Agitates Paris.
X 11 CI V O licucuitj UCCM ua wa.
the "mushroom" monster, and, al
though there was a movement 18
months ago in Paris to suppress the
large hat at the theatre, and insist
upon women wearing small "theatre
hats," nothing really came of it.
Today they are bigger than ever.
At the same time It is only justice to
admit that certain theatre managers
have lent an ear to the growing com
plaints of their patrons, and the Paris
theatres may at the present moment
he divided Into three categories
those at which hats are not allowed
to be worn, those where hats are for
bidden in certain seats, and those
where hats may be worn anywhere.
It should, of course, be understood
that in the boxes or the higher bal
conies ladles are at liberty to please
themselves.
At the Opera, Comedle Francalse
and Opera Comlque, they are not al
lowed to wear hats; at the Galte, Gym
nase, Sarah Bernhardt, Rejane, An
tolne. Palais Roval and Athenee The
atres hats are forbidden in the orches-
iro buiiio, ur m leusi iu tuw lrum runs.
At the Odeon, Vaudeville, Varietes,
Nouveautes, Chatelet, Folles Dra
mattques, Porte Saint Martin, Amblgu,
Cluny, Dejazet, Tralnon and the Grand
Guignol Theatres ladles may sit where
' they please and wear the largest hats
obtainable nrv one has the right to
Indulge in u word of protest.
We shall evidently have to wait
some time before the Parlslenne
makes it a rule when she goes to the
theatre to leave her hat behind her.
The Women Who Smoke.
It ig no news that cigarette smoking
by women Is not tolerated in the public
rooms of our hotels and restaurants.
Women who smoke cigarettes in pub--He
are still generally accounted vulgar,
If not actually wicked, in a land where
the prejudices of Puritanism still sur
vive. No thoroughly sophisticated Amer
ican woman of good breeding would
think of lighting a cigarette In a New
York restaurant, because she would
know that the men who were puffing
cigar smoke in her face would con
sider the act unladylike. When you
' are In Buropo you may do as you
please. By the same token American
women visiting Paris will show them
selves in certain well-known resorts
when they would shudder at the
thought of going to a New York or
Chicago restaurant of the same qual
ity. Perhaps in a few- years more the
last traces of our Puritanism may dis
appear. Perhaps not. There may bo
a revival of old prejudices and be-
.Uefs. Meanwhile the managers of
our hotels are to be commended for
prohibiting cigarette smoking by wo
men, because they are acting in ac
cord with public opinion.
" Nevertheless, everybody who knows
the wa 'B of the world at all, knows
that the women do smoke cigarettes
nowadays, and knows also that the
cigarette habit is no worse for them,
morally or hyglenlcally, than it Is
for the men. We are no better than
the Europeans, and they know It;
wherefore our pretenses make them
emHe. New York Times.
The Coed Not Popular.
Those who read the college publica
tions are not Blow to realize that their
editors are unfriendly "to coeducation,
in the institutions where that Bystem
exists. Even in some caBes In which
the girls have a representation on the
editorial board things are written and
published that are not kind.
The heads of the institutions go to
some length to declare at times that
coeducation is a success and that the
male students really like it, but they
are not borne out by the facts, appar
ently. The girls in some of the mid
dle Western universities which are co
educational realize keenly this feeling
against them.
They take their part in college actlv-
itles and on occasion help out the ath
letic associations. They are made to
feel sometimes, as one Michigan girl
expressed it, that the men want to
know them only when they are after
their money.
There was a lot of applause for
some girls In Wisconsin last spring
when they raised money to help to
send the crews to Poughkeepsle for
the regatta, but apparently that has
been forgotten, to Judge by some of
the things that the Wisconsin girls
complain of.
Few of the Eastern universities have
coeducation and most of the men in
them are ungallant enough to say
that they are glad of it. It would take
a deep psyohologlst to explain why
there is that opposition to education
of the two sexes together.
As one man who went to a man's
college in the East says: "I'll bet ten
good looking girls could do more for
coeducation than a ream of arguments
by piofessors." Yet it is a safe bet
that there are many good looking girls
in the Western colleges.
They appear to be resigned out there
but they do not appear to relish coed
ucation. New York Sun.
The Call of Courtesy.
Other women when they entered
the car had been forced to walk down
to the other end before they could find
seats, but when the little, white-faced
nun came in, no sooner had she
appeared at the door than a well
dressed young man, two laborers and
a newsboy arose simultaneously and
offered their seats. The little nun ac
knowledged their courtesy with a
grave smile and a lowering of the eye
lashes. As she sank Into a seat the
car gave a lurch. The young man
caught her by the elbow and gently
lowered her to her seat.
"That was a beautiful sight to me,"
said the man across the aisle to his
friend. "Did you notice how respect
fully all four of those fellows sprang
to their feet when she entored and
how tenderly the young chap handled
her as he assisted her to a seat?"
"Oh, I don't know," answered the
friend. "You didn't see them Jump up
and offer their seats when the other
women entered, did you? To my
mind the incident meant nothing ex
cept those four" fellows are Catholics,
and they were instinctively showing
respect to a woman of their faith."
"I think it meant more than that,"
said the other. "It was the Instinctive
homage that every man pays to the
woman who he knows is good. Her uni
form is a badge of goodness, and the
purity and gentleness in that woman's
face would make any man feel that
yielding her his seat was a privilege.
The average woman enters a car and
by her air and expression fairly de
mands a seat. The result is that
she doesn't get It half the time. I
dare say all four of those men fe'.t
rewarded by the look the little sister
gave them. The average woman mere
ly acknowledges a courtesy of the
kind, when she acknowledges it at all,
by a cold 'Thanks.' New York men
may not be an especially polite set,
but I've never seen a little nun stand
ing in a crowded car yet." New York
Press. .
Fashion Notes.
Rosettes of velvet are used on some
smart coats in place of buttons.
A handsome black waist Is obtained
by using braid on a black India silk.
Among all the colors there is still
none more popular for evening than
yellow.
Black caracul cloth is one of the
fur imitations that is proving popular
for coats.
Graceful galands of satin ribbon
are effective upon evening gowns of
Brussels net.
Triple scalloped and dot-embroidered
collars lie fiat about the neck of a
dainty dressing sacque.
Among the prettiest sleeves for eve
ning gowns are those wh'ch are com
posed of row upon row of lace ruffles.
A well-shaped petticoat is as nec
essary as correct shaping of the
gown, to ensure proper "hang" of the
skirt.
The diagonally striped suitings
lined off in indistinct plaids are quite
popular in the larger cities, and make
uncommonly smart suits.
On one hand everything tends to
elaborateness and or. the other that
severest effects have entirely super
seded over-trimmed elegance.
Buttons made of lace gathered to
a covered mould around a center of
French knots are a very effective
decoration for lace or other blouses.
A filmy aigrette upstanding among
the cluster of artificial flowers that
composes a dainty hair ornament,
gives a graceful appearance of height.
Gray Is very fashionable, and in soft
materials it Is especially beautiful.
To get the best results the woman who
wears it must have bright color or the
effect will be cold.
For February festivities that take
place on or near the fourteenth of the
month, there are this year a host of
charming novelties. The old-fashioned
valentines are, of course, out of
date for everybody but children, yet
the sentiment of the day still lingers
in the hearts and darts and paste
board Cupids used on the new candy
'boxes. What, for' instance, could be
a prettier remembrance for any young
man to give his "best girl,? or even
a young woman for whom he had no
particular regard but to whose family
he was Indebted for invitations to
dinner or tea, dances or other func
tions of the season, than one of these
candy-boxes? Two different styles
are shown on this page one covered
with bright-red paper and decorated
with a big bow of red ribbon, having
In the centre Cupid himself, with his
bow and arrows; the other simpler,
but Just as effective, covered with
white crepe paper and decorated with
a gilt arrow pierced through - two
hearts. If these boxes are wanted
for souvenirs at luncheons or parties
they can easily be made at home by
a clever girl, for the crepe paper is
very simple to manipulate. The heart
shaped pasteboard boxes can be
bought ready-made at most stationery
stores, and the hearts and arrows cut
out of red and gold paper respec
tively, declares McCall's Magazine.
Even easier to make is the little
round box shown at the top of the
left-hand corner of this group. Any
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round pasteboard box can be used as
a foundation for this. It is covered
with white crepe paper and a big red
heart pasted in the centre. It adds
to the appearance if the edges of the
box are touched up with a line of gold
paint, as shown In our illustration.
For serving refreshments at a val
entine party there is nothing more
effective than heart and arrow Ice
cream or charlotte russe boxes, and
the best thing about tl.em is that they
can be so easily and quickly made.
Buy some rather thin bright-red
pasteboard at a stationery store, and
also a sheet of white pasteboard.
Then get some of the ordinary pleated
paper cases that are used for char
lotte russe, bisqutt glace, etc. An
arrow is cut out of the white paste
board, painted gold or covered with
gilt paper and pasted across the large
heart that has just been cut from the
red pasteboard. A circle is then cut
out of the heart, through arrow and
all, the ice cream box Inserted in the
opening and held In place with a little
paste.
The paper baskets can be even
more quickly made, the foundation
being the same sort of pleated paper
case. In making the red paper basket,
this is given a handle formed of
wire, with red crepe paper twisted
around it and a heart and arrow
pasted at the top. The paper itself
la simply covered with a frill of red
paper, held in place by just a touch
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A Modern Custom.
Frequently it happens that the
modern valentine Is sent by men as an
expression ot courtesy or to show ap
preciation ot social favor received.
For this purpose a pot ot growing
flowers, a daintily bound volume, a
basket ot glaced or tropical fruit or
bon-bons in elaborate receptacles of
satin, porcelain or crystal, are all
welcome tokens to most women, who
gracefully accept them In the same
sulrit in which they were sent
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of paste, and a twist ot baby ribbon,
The white Ice cream basket is made
in exactly the same way, with the
substitution of white paper for red
and a little pasteboard Cupid stuck
on the handle In place of the heart
and arrow. The favors for a valen
tine dance, children's party or cotil
lion are simply fancy paper hearts
fastened on slender sticks, wound
with paper and decorated with ribbon
streamers. The candle shade makes
a most effective table decoration. It
is of white paper, decorated with
red hearts and gold arrows, and the
top and bottom of the shade are fin
ished with twists of the paper touched
up with gold paint.
St. Valentine's Day was originally
the day dedicated to the incoming of
spring. The Romans kept it in honor
of Pan and Juno, and the festival,
which lasted several days, was called
"Lupercalla." The early Christian
church, desiring to effect a change in
this much-abused feast, very adroitly
reconstituted the old practice ot the
lottery of lovers' names. In place of
the names of real youths and maid
ens, whose appellations, written on
slips of paper, were drawn by the
young people of the time, the church
substituted the names of the saints.
The idea had its own beauty, and the
notion of dedication was thus pre
served In a more spiritual sense than
In the old Roman festival. This feast,
and not the existence ot the real St.
Valentine, is the origin of the gallant
nto Htiwr candy-oox um
observances of the day; for it wou.d
be very hard to say which of the three
early Christian bishops so named the
14th ot February is intended to com
memorate. Somo St. Valentine "Don'ts."
Remember that :-ou want to enjoy
the St. Valentine party as well as
your guests; therefore observe these
rules:
Don't fret and worry every hour of
the preceding day until you are ner
vous and sensitive to everything that
goes wrong.
Don't rush your frames too close on
each other's heels. Young people
like to talk.
Don't seem to be making an effort
to entertain them at every moment.
Suggest the games when the talking
grows a little less spirited. -
That Little Valentine Boy.
His other namo is Cupid. That Is
what the old Romans called him.
He had still another name given him
by the early Greeks, Eros. But what
ever he may be called, he Is the same
jolly little sprite that you paint, draw
or paste on your valentines as the
love fairy.
He looks very harmless with his
chubby-baby cheeks and his loving
eyes. But look at him closely and
you will find In those eyes sparks ot
mischief glinting through the love,
like points of mica In a quartz rock.
VALENTINES.
In Shakespeare's Day.
In Shakespeare's time there was a
practice of greeting the person met
by saying, "Good morning, 'tis Val
entine's Day," and the one who made
the salutation first wbb entitled to a
present. At this time the element of
choice appears to have Joined forces
with chance, for It is written that
divers young persons contrived to ac
cidentally see each other before they
saw anybody else on the morning of
St. Valentine's Day.
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Cows for the Dairy.
Some cows of mixed breeds set
the dairy marks of the experts at de
fiance and give large yields of good
milk. Nevertheless, the good dairy
cow should show certain features in
size, shape and general make-up. Scrub
cows on scrub farms, fed on scrub ra
tions, cared for by scrub persons, pro.
duce millc and butter that is hardly
worthy of the name. The best kind of
cattle for the dairy are the pure-bred
dairy breeds. Very few graded cows
equal the fine breeds. Epltomlst.
Black Leg In Cattle.
When black leg 13 prevalent In tho
community, mix pulverized sulphur
and salt until well colored and place
where stock will got It. This is a
good preventive. When nn animal
is affected, take equal parts of sul
phur, charcoal, saltpeter and pow
dered ginger, mix thoroughly and give
a tablespoonful twice a day in half a
pint of warm water until cured,
drenching the animal from a bottle.
This remedy has been known to cure
when the animal's logs had become
stiff. Epltomlst.
Farmers Home Journal.
I have had some of my chickens at
tacked this fall with roup. I had some
very strong carbollzed vaseline made,
and rubbed their combs and head thor
oughly with this, following immediately
with powdered boric add all around
the eyes, head, and with a little of
each In their throats. The result was
so very satisfactory, I am thoroughly
convinced that if taken in the Initial
stage, fully ninety-five percent can be
thoroughly cured of this dreaded dis
ease. I only lost one chicken, a very
small one which had gone too far with
the disease before discovered. Three
applications invariably arrested the.
ihe b and re;-to.ed the eyesight whl'
was very much impaired. Robert t.
Dulaney, in Farmers Home Journal.
Apple Pomace.
The milkman to whom I sell com
plains that the milk sours easily this
time of the year, Nov. 10th. He had
the milk all summer and never com
plained of sour milk. I take the best
of care with the milk; yet he has
"kicked" hard three times within a
week, and the last time threatened to
quit taking my milk. I have done
considerable thinking, and don't know
what can be the matter unless the
trouble comes from some apple pom
ace that I have been feeding for about
10 days. The pomace has a rather sour
smell and taste; could that he trans
ferred to the milk? The rest of my
feed Is good hay and grain. I have
fed pomace for years and never had
trouble before, but always made but
ter. This Is the first season I have
sold to a milkman. A. D. P. It is
probable that the Bour flavor of the
pomace passes over into the milk. It
would noturally be much more pro
nounced in milk than in butter. It
can be obviated to a large extent, if
not entirely overcome, by taking care
that the pomace is fed only Immediate
ly after milking. Country Gentleman.
Preservation of Fence Posts.
Experimental tests made by tho
government with a number of inferior
woods have shown that it is practica
ble to subject them to preservative
treatment by which they will be ren
dered durable and as lasting as the
soundest oak In many cases. This is
of the highest importance in connec
tion with the use of fence posts, tel
egraph and telephone poles, cross ties
and constructive timbers of many
kinds. It is of special Importance to
farmers In many parts of the country,
with whom the fence post problem is
serious.
The preservative treatment can bo
employed more successfully with cer
tain kinds of wood than with others,
but it fortunately so happens that the
open-grained, quick-growing, quick
decaying timbers, are the easiest of all
woods to treat Among these are old
field or loblolly pine of the South,
iodgepole and western yellow pine.
Cottonwood, willow, buckeye, beech,
sycamore, and others In the West and
Middle West. Woods which decay
most rapidly in their natural state,
with few exceptions, are best adapted
for preservative treatment Indiana
Farmer.
To Select Clover Seed.
When it comes to paying from $10
to $12 a bushel for clover or alfalfa
seed, one should be able to judge some
thing of the quality of the stuff he
buys. A first rate quality of red clov
er seed should be of fair size, purple
and yellow colors predominating and
always with a luster. If a sample Is
small, with many shriveled, brown
seeds In it, It should be rejected, with
out hunting for impurities. Many ask
how to tell Red clover from Mammoth.
It is Impossible to distinguish the seed.
The buyer must depend upon the hon
esty of tlvs seller. Alfalfa seed has a
light, olive green color. ' It is about the
same size as red clover seed. It has
various forms, but Is quite easily dis
tinguished. The dead and worthless
seed are the brown colored ones. Any
sample which contains brown seed
should be rejected. Shrivelled seed in
dicates that thp crop was not mature
when it was harvested; ' brown seeds
Indicate old seed. That is, when eith
er alfalfa of clover seed contains a
AGRICULTURIST f5f
large percentage of very dark seed, it
Is safe to assume will be an immense
help ia determining the quality of any
seed which may. be offered for sale.
Indiana Farmer.
Hampshire Sheep.
The Hampshire is becoming very
popular and justly so, for I don't be
lieve there is a breed of eheep in
existence today that will bring better
results when crossed on other breeds,
or that will turn the food consumed
Into more dollars than the pure bred
Hampshlres. I am talking from ex
perience, for I have bred, Imported,
and sold, pure bred sheep for 35
years, and have tried soveral ot the
leading breeds and some of them
along with the Hampshlres, and have
now been breeding and Importing
Hampshlres for 25 years, and find
them hardy, prolific, quick growers,
well wooled and of large size; and
for crossing on other breeds they have
no superiors and few that equal them.
This has been found out in the past
few years by lamb-feeders and by
early lamb raisers, until today every
Hampshire rain of breeding age has
been picked up, and there was not
enough to supply the demand. The
south and southwest, and southeast is
becoming a great country for raising
sheep t and especially, early mutton
lambs, and the call for Hampshire
rani3 in those places has been more
than doubled in tho past year, and It
looks good for the Hampshlres when
we see men that were leading breed
ers and importers of other breeds of
sheep, now bringing over large Impor
tations of Hampshlres and rushing
to the front to meet the ranchmen, the
lamb feeder the early lamb raiser, the
general farmer and- everybody who
want to Improve their flocks by in
troducing a Hampshire ram or a few
ewes in their flock.
Hampshlres are not delicate eaters.
But they are good strong feeders.
They will eat almost any kind of
rough feed and will do well on Ilj
What they need is plenty of rough
feed of a variety, and outdoor exer
cise. I believe more Bheep are in
jured or diseased by too close hous
ing than by the rains and storms,
Hampshire sheep if in fair to good
flesh can stand a lot of rain and bad
weather, for their wool Is so close
that they do not get wet to the skin
and it rarely goes in the fleece to any
considerable distance.
A flock of Hampshlres in good flesh
look very pretty, if they are of the
type that they should be. Large well
formed, with whlto wool. Black or
very dark fate oars and logs, of good
strong bone, stand erect, with bright
eyes, largo soft ears, and are gentle
and easily kept in an enclosure. Any
one wanting to raise and keep a flock
of sheep on the farm will find that
Hampshlres will pay a good Interest
on the money Invested. P. W. Artz
In the Indiana Farmer.
Farm Notes.
AH milk utensils' should be cleaned
Immediately aftor being used.
Cow comfort and good care go a
long way toward filling the milk pall.
A really good cow will lose flesh
rather than gain it when in full flow
of milk. .
Do not 'expose the cows to a cold
rain. There Is great danger of per
manent injury.
Stop the churn as soon as the butter
granulates If you want to work out
all the buttermilk.
It the heifer calf Is to become a
good dairy cow she must be fed as
though she were a good cow now.
With a thoroughly good cow to
manufacture it we can always afford
to put in feed and take out butter.
Dairymen who keep poor scrub
cows and keep them half starved
steal from themselves twice over.
All cows do not like the same kind
of food, neither will they do so well
as they would on some other kind.
Spots in the butter are the detec
tives that tell on the lazy one who
does not work out all the buttermilk.
Never scald the milk palls or cans.
but rinse well with cold water and
scald last. Sunshine and air help to
keep them sweet
Cows chew foreign materials like
bones, boards, rags, etc., to satisfy
a craving for some element lacking
in their bodies 'that is supposed to
have become exhausted by giving it
out In the milk. They are satisfied
by feeding them salt wood ashes and
bonemeal in equal quantities.
The Roosevelt Cpllar?
Photographs of 103 members ot
Congress, most of them newly elect
ed, printed by the New York Tribune,
show that Ofty-elght are clean-shav
en and all save twenty-seven wear
turndown collars. The New York
Mail concludes from this that the
country Is drifting away from whisk
ers and stand-up collars. It may be
added that the smooth-face era of a
hundred years ago was one also of
high collars. Now apparently It Is
to be one of low collars. Springfield
Republican.
The colonies ot Great Britain hare
nearly- 100 times more area than tho
mother country, of France eighteen
times and of Germany 0v time,