"FOOTBALL. A pridironed field that huge stands defend, With ft preat Rrim Riillnws at either end, A bullying wind ami a frightened sky And a leather ball that Hues dancing by The hour has struck atain for the doughty football men. And it's "l'ail, there, full, lad. You're snatching at the ball, lad, That's nut the yame at all, lad! Apain, now that's well dene! Quick, now, quick, man, Don't lie tin re like a nick man Lively! '1 hut's the trick, loan, pick up your foot and run!" ." A -sprawl fulllcncUi (in the short brown prass Thev walclt the liamMiuii of kick and 'as, And the slipjiery dummies squeak nnd swing As each in his turn the tackier sprinir And the veteran may shirk hut the novice he must work. While it's "Scoot, now, scoot, lad, l.eaie ynur feet and shoot, lad, That's the way tu do it, lad. You're leatnine, learning fast. Low, t.et low, man, Mustn't he so slow, man! That's the way to (jo, man, you've get the knack at last."' Hark now to the whistle's silver call, "Line U !" and the centre takes the ball. x The signals follow, clear and iiiick. For run end line-buck, punt and trick While the coach trots close beside, to each error open-eyes, And it's "You t-nd, stay there! Tackle, under way, there! Guard, you spoiled the play, there,' Don't stand like that nnd wait! What are you aboutt man? Can't yen near me s lout, man? You might as well be out, man, as halt a second late!" Fo the days pi by nnd with each In turn Comes something new for the men to learn, Hut one preat le.-on is still the same, It's team-play onlv that wins the came! Nothing's doneliy one and one, but by all in unison: For it's "Side by side, there! Let the fullback euide, there! llnlf, don't run so wide, there, Never po nlone! Hard, now, bard, man Tackle, slick to n rd, man!" And the beys who leain the lesson may use it when they're grown! J, W. Linn, in St. Nicholas, MR. (VI AYE'S MEMORY... eel By ESTHER SERLE KEKN Ji'il. "There is one thing you mustn't forg't, lirothcr Tom!" "What is that, Emma?" "Do.t ". to ;i to the hrlp ri'v, i 'lie up a cook. The new p,is! ,.. ' lor nothing, and the old nui- cm i everything. Young or 11. man cr woman, I don't care, OT !y s 1. 1 me up a competent c.:ok by 10 o'chii-k this morning." "I.or'i look so desperate, sis; I'll ren.(-;u:j! r it. 1 want thing3 in pretty good btyl. for Maxwell; he is used to 1t is fond cf good dinners, and I guess I'll send you up a good, smart n.an cook, Emma." ;"I hope Mr. Maxwell won't expect things too nice; but I'll do my best In other matters, Tom, if you'll only provide some one capable of serving a good dinner." Mr. Thomas Maye disappeared with a reassuring nod. He had a pro verbially bad memory; pretty Emma Maye knew it very well, yet In this desperate emergency she trusted him. Dangerous; but what could she do? During the two years she had had tharge of her widowed brother's fam ily, they had been blessed by the most skillful of 'cooks; but Joan had taken a fancy to get married, and her place was hastily supplied by one who Boon proved incapable. At this junc ture Mr. Maye received tidings that his deceased wife's favorite brother, Arthur Maxwell, just returned from Europe, would pay him a visit. The Maxwell family were noted for their wealth and good breeding, and Arthur especially was distinguished lor his agrecability. From the first, Emma had been nervous over the responsibility of entertaining this elegant young man whom she had never seen. She was lovely and accomplished; but she could not cook she bad never tried. Certainly, it seemed task enough for a young lady of twenty to superintend a family consisting of her brother and herself, two boys and their tutor, two little girls and their nurse maid, with two other servants. But though arduous, it had been well performed. The house was the perfection of neatness and taste, the children well trained, and Emma was much beloved , In her brother's family. To him she ' bad been devoted, in sickness and health, and he gratefully intended to make her tasks as light as possible. But h" had a proverbially bad mem ory, and, unfortunately, Emma had been obliged to trust to it. It was half-past 7 o'clock when Mr Maye went down town. He took noth- me uui a uup 01 cuuee at i, ana lunched at his favorite restaurant at ' 11. At half-past 3 the Mayes dined, ' and Mr. Maxwell was expected by the 8.10 train. - j . "There!" sighed Emma, when, two noura otter cer brother s departure, ' the house was- in its U3ual exquisite order, and tho viands and Bowers "I nave heard that Mr. Arthur Max sent up tor dinner; "if Tom doesn't i well is very fastidious in the matter forget, and tf he sends up a good of ladies' dress," mused Emma, twist- took, everything will be nice enough." She did not dare consider the pos sibility of Tom's having forgotten, or that of i the cook not coming for .any other reason; but wheu,. precisely at 10 o'clock, the door bell rang, a Secret weight was lifted from her heart. She. ran hersef to answer the summons. , A medium-sized, well-dressed, mod-st-looklng young man stood at the entrance, and she brightened at sight Of him. - . "I am very glad you are so punc tual,' I was afraid I should be dis appointed," leading the way to the kitchen, without an instant's' delay. Let mo see 10 o'clock. I shall have to sot you to work at' once to prepare a first-class dinner. We are expecting company from New York, Or -0" our cook lias left me, and I do not myself know anything about cooking. What .la your name'.'" relic-Ting the young man of h!3 hat, and hanging it as high out of reach as possible. His reply v.-.n rathe? faint, but she thought she causht It. "Maf1' V.-Ol f.n lint- InnV HL-a on Irishman. But It doesn't make any j difference. Are you a good cook?" The smile of t'ao young man was rather puzzling. "I'll do my best," he said, pleas antly. "You see there's nothing In the house but cold chicken," continued Emma, unconsciously wringing her hands as she continued to address the new cook, who certainly listened very attentively. "But my brother has sont up some pigeons to be roasted, I suppose." "Yes'm." "Can you make a celery salad?" "I think I can." "And mayonnaise sauce for the cold chicken?" "Yes'm." "Can you make a French soup?" "I can." "Oh, well, I guess you will do," be ginning to look relieved. "Be sure the vegetables are not overdone, and the coffee good my brother is very particular about his coffee. And we will have a Florentine pudding?" with an inquiring look. "Yes'm," readily. The new cook was already girding himself with one of the white towels that lay on the dresser, and casting a scrutinizing .glance at the range fire. Quite reassured In spirit Emma was j rntnir na-av ml,... ,.u..i turning away, when she stopped to add: i I will lay the table mrself to-day Mac, and fill the -fruit 'dishes and vases; but if you give satisfaction, I j will intrust you with the key of the china closet, and you will haTe the entire care of the table;" and with a 'gracious nod the young lady withdrew ; from the kitchen, She piled the fruit dishes with rosy ; pears, golden oranges and white ; grapes; filled the vases with-rnRM lilies and ferns; set clusters of dainty glasses, filled with amber jelly among the silver and china, and then, wun a sign or satisfaction at the re sult, ran tvay to dress. j "I'll not go near the kitchen to even smell of the dinner. I don't iknow anything about cooking itand win trust to luck. I have an idea that Mac is real capable is going to prove a treasure. His dress was so neat, and he was so quiet and respectful," concluded Emma, leisurely arranging her hair. ner new ,jreB9 wag very becomjngi and fitted the petite, round figure so pertectty mat Emma felt at with all the world. peace SHORT BUT TO THE POtvt. It was five minutes before noon. Tue . .ate Superintendent had spent an hour talking to the children in an Ohio scnool, and just before the stroke of .the gong the chair man of the local school committee was called upon to follow them. .. - "Children," he said pointing toward the window, "as you go out from the school In about two minutes you will see a gang of men who are now shoveling cinders Into a railway train. They are earning thirty-Are dollars a month. v "Beside them Is a time-keeper earning thirty-five dollars. "At the head of the train Is an engineer getting one hun dred dollars, and over him Is a superintendent getting two hun dred. ,.. VWbat Is the difference between these men? Education. Get all you can of It." 9 9 $ a lug her head over her shoulder to see the effect. "I wonder what his first Impressions of me will be? I should like to have poor Ally's brother like me." . At length the last bracelet was clasped, the last touch given, and re tiring backward from the mirror, with a radinnt face, Emma turned and ran up to the nursery, to order the children dressed for company, and also to speak with the boys and Jlirt a little with Mr. Vincent, the tutor, who was always at her service for this exercise. There was a delightfully savory odor pervading the house when she came down and set out the wine and ice, and made a few amendments of the table. Before Alice died she had painted an exquisite ebony ring for Her brother, and this Emma placed with the napkin designed for Mr. Arthur Maxwell, thinking how ar tistic nnd pretty everything was, and deciding that the gentleman's first impression must be pleasant. She looked at her watch live min utes past 3. Then she went settly to the end of the hall, and listened to the lively chatter in the kitchen. She could hear Mac chatting pleasantly with the littlo housemaid, Nanny, and all seemed to be well in that di rection. A t 3.10 she renalred to the drawine room and took a seat overlooking the street. Carriages came and carriages went, but none stopped at the en trance. The little girls came down; the boys and Mr. Vincent came down. Mr. Maye's latchkey settled in the door, the dinner bell rane. "Not ccme?" asked Mr. Maye, at sight of Emma s disappointed face. "No," she pouted; "and such a nice dinner!" "Very strange!" he mused, leading the way luto the dining room. "I hadn't th'f least doubt Why, my dear fellow," seizing by the shoulder the new couk, who, acting also as but ler, had just placed the soup-tureen upon the table "my dear, dear fel low, why, how is thiB? Emma de clared you hadn't come!" That young lady grew as white as the tablecloth, and grasped a chair for support. "That Mr. Arthur Maxwell? I I thought it was the cook!" "I came earlier than I expected, ind fu time to make myself useful to Miss Emma," laughed Mr, Max well, divesting himself of his white towel and bowing with exquisite grace fc that young lady, The cultivated accents, the am brosial lociks of the bent head, the clear, eloquent, beautiful eyes oh, why hadn't she known? How could she have fallen into such an error? "I was so terribly anxious I didn't Irok at you twice. Mr. Maxwell, I hope you will forgive me!" stam mered Emma, as red now as she had been pale. , "There is nothing to forgive, If my dinner turns out well," he replied, laughing. "I learned to cook when I was a student in Paris a French man taught me. I have been rather proud of my culinary skifl, but I am a little out of practice now, and am not quite sure of the Florentine." 'Emma!" cried Mr. Maye, "what does all this mean?" "Why, John, you promised to send me up a man cook." Mr. Maye clasped his hands tragic ally. "Emma, I forgot It! "Well, Mr. Maxwell came, Just at 10 o'clock. I thought he was the cook; I ushered him into the kitchen among the potg and pans. I ques tioned him as to what he knew about cooking. I urged him to make all baste and serve the dinner; and and I called him an Irishman!" sobbed Emma, hvufericallv. "No offense, Miss Emma. My .... .. . granoiatner, on my uiotner s side Major Trelawny wag an Irishman," observed Mr. Maxwell, coolly. "And since I have done my best, won't you try the soup before it Is cold?" The others stared, and Emma cried; but Mr. Maye laughed laughed uproariously "The best joke of the season! Sit right down, everybody! Emma, you foolish girl, don't cry. Arthur doesn't care. And as for your Flor entineArthur, tell Nanny to bring it on. The proof of the pudding Is in the eating, you know." "Miss Emma won't cry when she tastes my soup," remarked Arthur, ladling It out promptly, with an air of pride. And then they all fell to tasting and pralsiLg, and urging Emma to taste and praise, until she laughed and cried all together. . But Mr. Arthur was so delightful, so winning and so witty, so kind to his agitated young hostess, and he'd cooked such an excellent dinner from the pigeons to the pudding, ev erything was perfect. By and by Emma was herself again. "This has taught me a lesson," she said. "I will never be so desperately situated again. I will learn to cook." e Let me teach you," said Arthur. Re did. And Emma taught him to love her. There was a wedding by and by. "The blessed result of my mlsera. ble memory!" Mr. Maye said. Sat urday Night. A recent English invention Is a portable circular saw resembling the street outfit of the scissors grinder, which may be moved up to the sta tionary timber to cut It. An Improved aiming device for heavy guns makes It possible to. keep the weapon trained on a moving tar get continuously, without regard to the rolling of the vessel. According to Indian Engineering, plaster of Paris may be used as a flux for melting scrap metals containing small amounts of Iron. About five pounds of plaster are mixed with 100 pounds scrap, and, when melted, the whole is stirred. On cooling, the plaster is removed by a blow with a hammer. The Iron Is thus removed, and the flux, being neutral, does not attack the crucible. An Interesting item of astronomical news la that of the discovery of a new ring of Saturn. It Is stated to be a dusky ring surrounding the well known bright ones. It was discov ered at the Geneva Observatory. A correspondent of the London Times calls attention to the need of an automatic recording speed indi cator for railway trains. Both of the most recent important fatal railway casualties In England were undoubt edly caused by excessive speed at points where the regulations required a slowlng down. Engine drivers be come reckless and disregard rules, safely at first, biit ultimately meet with disaster. If the record of speed during each trip were to be submitted to Inspection there would be less dis obedience and greater safety. Pos sibly the recording speed indicator has been invented, but it appears not to be In use anywhere. The many uses and Inflammable character of celluloid have led to an active search for substitutes. The new material of C. Trocquenet, a French inventor, Is a mixture of cel lulose, asbestos and the organic mat ter contained in oyster shells. The cellulose is obtained by treating sea weed successively with acid and alkali and washing. The asbeVt.cs is ground with petroleum oil, while the ground oyster sholls are treated with hydro chloric acid and the insoluble residue is boiled with water, washed with weak alkaline solution and collected on a filter. The mixture contains from fifty to sixty-five parts of cellu lose, two to twelve parts of the oiled asbestos and twenty to forty-five parts of the oyster shell substance. The mass li treated with formaldehyde, suitably colored, and then pressed into any form or object for wh.'ch cel luloid can be used. A Test For Coal Gas. Do you suspect your hot-air fur nace of leaking coal gas Into the heat flues and Into the house? A simple and effective way of testing for this trouble Is to throw upon the furnace fire a large wad of cotton which has been saturated with oil of pepper mint and thickly sprinkled with sul phur to make It burn quickly. ' CloBa tho furnace door tightly and hnve some one who has not smelled the prepared cotton wad try to detect the odor In the rooms above. If It Is found you will need a new drum for your furnace without delay. . Too Fast For Him. Hans came in from his ranch, two mile this side of Olney, this week to buy a horse. "I'to got the very thing you want," said Ike Bergman; "it's a fine road horsa, five years old, sound as a quail, $175 cash , down, and he goes ten miles without stopping." Hans threw up his hands skyward. "Not for me," he Bald, "not for me. I wouldn't gif you five cents for him. I live eight miles from Astoria, und I'd hat to walk back two miles." Harper's Weekly. rear-Shaped Balloon. Pear-shaped balloons are the fash Ion la Belgium. The point Is up ward, the base of the balloon is spher ical. It 13 claimed that balloons of this shape pierce the air vertically with far greater speed than the ordi nary spherical balloon. Consequently they are steadier. Also the upper pointed end prevents the accumula tion of moisture or snow on the sur face, which frequently weighs a bal loon down and destroys its power to rise. The Roomy Attic. -Radiantly lovely, she had come to see the poor poet In bis attic room. "The view Is divine," she said, "but aren't you crowded for space?" "Oh, no," said he. "I get on nicely now. But, to tell the truth, I was decedly crowded till they took off the wall paper." Judge. Lot Us Overcome Afflictions. . Let us set all our past and present afflictions at once before our eyas. Let us raaolve to overcome them, in stead of flying from them, or wearing out the sense of them by long and Ignominious patience. Lord Boling-bvok.. Fotihe Younger p3L Children.... STAYING UP LATE. One evening when my bedtime cams 1 didn't want to a, F.a mother said I might stay up For just this once, you know. And so I staved and stayed and stayed, Through all the niirht, I think, And never went to Led at all ' Nor slept a little wink. Eut when nt last the sun arose, A-shinine warm and red, " , I found 1 'had my nie.hty on, And was sittirij? up in bed. Alden Arthur Knipe, in St. Nicholas. A HOME MADE DOLL HOUSE. It sounds very ambitious to make a doll's house as well as all the furn iture at home, but It la not at all dif ficult, and a very delightful way of amusing one's Belt and others cs well. It will certainly prove a most fascin ating ocupatlou for the long dull win ter days. The doll's house should really bo made first so as to have a place to put the furniture In as you finish it. There are several ways of making the doll's house, and we will describe two of these. To make it in card board you will want four small hat boxes all the same size, and of as strong a cardboard as you can get; these can be had at a draper's shop for a few pennies. They are then glued together two on top of each other, so that you have four rooms. To make' them firmer it is a good way tc put a piece of millboard between the two top and bottom rooms; this must of course be glued on; it makes the floors so much stronger; also cut a piece of the millboard an Inch big ger all around to go on the top of Khe house; this makes the eaves, and the roof is then put on to this. The roof is made of two straight pieces of cardboard Joined together, with the two ends also glued on. The be3t way to Join them is to glue a strip of coarse tape on to the two pieces of cardboard, forming it into the right Bhape and gluing tho two side pieces on In the same way. The next ihlng is to paint the house; it must be sized first or the paint will sink in too much; then paint the roof, the two Bides and the back. The roof looks best In black with a white chimney pot. The front part of the house, which opens, Is made with two pieces of millboard glued togeth er to make it stronger; they Bhould be cut the size of the front of the house; any stationer will do this for you, as it is rather hard to cut your self; this is fastened on to the side with two small hinges. The windows and door are drawn In before the front is painted, and these are done last; the door might be dark green with the panels picked out in c. light er shade; the windows are painted gray to represent glass with white lines across to divide the panes of glass, and curtains may also be paint ed to give it a more home like and furnished appearance; these could be either white or yellow. The house would require two coats of paint but need not be varnished. When the paint la quite dry the rooms are to be papered each a different color, and then the furniture can be made to match each room. . The colling3 Bhould be all papered in white; the bedroom carpet might be of some pretty chintz, the dining-room and drawing-rooms of some thin serge or any other suitable material you may have; you can get samples of floor c.lo-th In paper which do splendidly for the kitchen; most drapers have this and would give you a piece. A more elaborate way of painting the house is to first put on a good thick coat of white paint, and when this is dry to put a thick coat of red. paint over this, and before this Is dry to mark out the bricks with a piece of stick pointed at the end. This requires care, as you must not put your hand on to the red paint, but it looks very pretty when finished. To make the other doTi's house you would want a sugar box from the grocer's or a good sized soap box, then you put in one or two shelves according to the size you want your rooms to be. The shelves are made of a much thinner wood, and it is best to get a carpenter to cut these out the correct size; then nail some thin strips of wood on the two sides and back of the house on to which you slip the shelves and fasten them down firmly on to these with nails. Partitions can be put between the rooms if thought necessary In the same way that the shelves were put in. The ltd on the box does for the door, and the whole must be sized before painted, and then proceed in the same manner as for the other house. This makes a stronger house, but Is more difficult to make, and the other way is a very good one, and cannot be broken very easily, The Girls' Own Paper. HOW THE DOLLS HELPED ISABEL Monday morning In vacation is hor rid. Isabel thought bo as she rue fully eyed the big pile of breakfast dtsheB. Washday minima always did the dining room and kitchen work, while Janet was busy In the laundry, .and always In vacation time Isabel had to help. To-day mamma had some extra work, and it was Isabel's task to waflh and dry the dishes all alone, "They're Just mountains high) " she declared. They weren't at all, though I mast confess that there ivere a good many of them. When mamma had called to her the dishes were ready, Isabel was busy placing with her numerous fam ily of dolls. Vary reluctantly shjjald Gertrude Maud back Into her bed, and covered Gladys Emily carefully In the doll carriage, and Btarted with lagging footsteps toward the kitchen. She filled the big dlshpan with hot water, and gave the glasses, then the silver, their morning bath. Some how the large kitchen seemed lonely without either mamma or Janet, in spite of the ract that the sunshine was streaming in brightly through the windows. Then a sudden thought came to her. "I'll bring the dolls out here and make believe they are helping me," she said to herself. So Gertrude Maud and Gladys Emily, find the smaller dolls, Hetty and Lillian, and black Alice with her apron and turban, looking very much fitted for hei" task, were all seated in a row on the big table, with their backs against the wall and their feet sticking out straight in front of them. Then Isabel began her game. "The plates you shall wash and wipe," she said, addressing Gertrude Maud, " 'cause you're the biggest." So Isabel carefully washed . and wiped the plates, and placed them in front of Gertrude. "And the cups and saucers belong to you, Gladys. Be sure to do them nicely," she said. Then they were done, and plied on the tablo by Gladys. The smaller dolls, Hetty and Lil lian, had the little "butterplates and oatmeal dishes to do. It was great fun. Isabel made be lieve that they didn't want to do them at all, and then had to scold them a little iind remind them that such tasks had to be done by little girls, and it was well to learn how to do thet.i properly. Black Alice had the frying-pnn and oatmeal pot to do. But the next time Isabel had the dishes to do alone, and the dollies helped, Gertrude Maud did th" vans, " 'cause it doesn't seem fair, ' ist. Ys.se she's black for her to do the 1 .-I.! part always." Wi, :.! ; ima came In and saw the row of ii ''!; , and the nicely washed diKhca, si: was much pleased with rnlii-i's little game of dishwashing ar.d dells. Woman's Homo Com piinlon. IN OLD HOLLAND. It was an Englishman who said: "The children of Holland take pleas ure in making What the children of England take pleasure in breaking." If he had seen the Breiben School of Laren he could hnve made a newer and a better proverb, says St. Nich olas. Every bright day four little Dutch maids sit on the bench before Mev rouw ICosta'g door and Janlke teaches them to knit. Anna, who la ten, clicks her needles fast and even ly, but Wllholmina, who is only six, crooks her fat, pudgy fingers pain fully round the yarn and sighs. She knows well that it Is necessary,' to be clever to live In Laren, for Laren, let me tell you, is a most dis tinguished place, very different frcin the rest of Holland; and Wllhelmina knows it is quite mountainous there, for it is thirteen feet above the sea. But to be clover it is necessary to knit heels as well as legs of stock ings; so she keeps at it, while, inside the cottage, Mevrouw Kosta is spin ning yarn on a big spinning wheel, and you can hear the cheerful hum of the bobbin. When the sun sends out long, level rays across the flat, green fields, and th8 windmill throws Its queer shad ow down the hard, white road, Wil helmlna's and Nettje's plump legs carry them home with a right good will, their wooden shoes clattering down the road toward the sunset, as the long Dutch twilight begins. What Teeth Answer For. It is to the teeth that the patholo gist should first look for an explana tion of those emotional crises in the lives of all of us which assume. now the form of an exaggeration of tha sentiment of romantic love, again an intensification of Insomnia and some times a development of religious sen sibility to the boundary line of mania. In making good this theory the pro fessor of diseases of the nervous sys tem In the Western Reserve Univer sity, Dr. Henry S. Upson, ascribes many of the ordinary cases of nervous wreck met with in dally experience to a misunderstanding of the dental mechanism of man. Not only Is tooth ache the cause, but disease of a dental nature Involving no pain whatever to the victim, works its havoc and leads men and women to madhouses, do mestic miseries and every kind of exesss. Current Literature. Saving Street Car Patrons. The pay-as-you-euter cars possess other advantages besides that of se curing fares which are ordinarily lost to the company. It is reported that the introduction of this type on tha Chicago City Railway had reduced tha number of fatal accidents by over six teen per cent. It has also reduced the number of less sesious accidents due to getting on or off the car. Scien tific American. - Perfectly Honest. "I hadn't been talking with him three minutes before he called me an -ass. What sort of a person is he?" "Well. I never knew him to tell a U.'WTit-Blts.-
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