: Never. : conquer the men of Amer- : inst the United States | high that the President of the : tie sent 3 personal request to the | to keep himself 88 secluded as Being a good-humored and ble an, the Consul was about rose his danghter and told hor that he shonid do nothing of She knew that he was not : » was resolved that he ; one, even to Accom | front, {these 18 oman there are some charming fin s in jeweled ornaments, Instead of & Tope of many strings of pearls, litte Jet beads serve to make a thick odil “To wear around the throat are wide bandeaus of jet with an outstanding rosette of curling jet ribbons got in ia rim of steel like & tiny piping at the edges are a favorite form of decoration for the hair or shoulder, while on the front of the corsage will be set a spray i of Sowers, 8 huge POPPY OF A rose. the | face-like petals of each jet with an outline of steel or dinmonds, while the joontres are of quivering yellow fo | pazes. Is not this a novel notion? ‘More novel, though than any of the floral neck ornament, where an iris in siabaster stands oot green leaves clasping the throat and { showing here and there large green stones. For the bair, too, similar bandesux are arranged, but unices foy ; | fancy dreds the large combe are in| finitely more attractive. Here the = y} Broad curving band of light tortolse i shell that comes above the prongs is B | forced, and sn openwork spray of flowers, & scene or a figure enriched | itn gems. is Inserted—New York Gtve Your CMI & Garden. It is an exceptional child who wonld own. Boys and girls alike are delight. od with the very idea of possession a bit of ground where they can “plant | things” and watch them grow. workers in city missions know The that even the most unpromisiag specimens of slum childhood can be won by flow- ers; and among children of more fav. oved classes the moral influence of Sowers is a force, though it is pot rec | ognized por extended as It might be. People living In villages or small cities usually have some ground around their | | hontes In which they can met apart & piace for the children’s garden. The love of nature fostered by this garden. | making will prove a constant source of pleasure through the child's Nfe The cultivation of habits of close ob- { servation and the knowledge of useful jand of harmful plants thus gained | is sure to be of future value. i begin with the early days of spring. | ; Woman's Home Companion. at the 5 Paper Wedding. oy | oF. baper In & warm rose pink. The | gentlemen guests received buottonSole most realistic: favors for the ladies | were tiny baskets made by crocheting filled with violets. Over the | damask tablecloth was laid a second | oie of white crepe paper. the wratly '{ Joined seams hidden by trafling lengths of smilax. The plates were of white pasteboard with painted edges. Caps | for sherbels, ices, Jobster newharg ind | charlotte russes were of white paper | | 08 1n 2 Best of Reps paper made inte the semblance of a rose, tullp or chrys. | anthemum. Little bost-shaped dishes | for bonbons, salted almonds or peanuts | were made by crocheting fine twisted i Topes of paper.—Good Hansekeeping. r floral decorations for millinery. A Popular Flaral Decoration. Poppies are very popular smong the | They ter- | are seen in the natural color and also in such shades as pale green and light | bine. Most of the large fiat hats for children are trimmed with wresthy of | extremely fashion able. : To have the parasol to match the hat | 1s & smart touch. Picture hats are most popular to be | worn with mid-summer toilettes. Aireen ostrich feather boas are among. the latest additions to the fem. Long batiste or linen sashes of wiiite, {ecru or yellow will form a part of {T80Y summer outfits Blue dotted emerald green veils are ood 1a Tine with the fad for the blue and | many ‘green combination. A Dew cherry red, far prettier and {less vivid than forwer tiuts of this J color, is much keg for trimining : Pirured Tawns, diinities and organ dies, In dainty colorings and designs, : mark the prevalence of the gausy ma terial vogue. A For mourning wear, dresses are much {less sombre than formerly, and shirt waist suits combining black spd w bite | quite correct. Very striking are the lace open work inte stockings in white, with a black ; ‘pattern, but a trifle too bizarre to be’ gives the band micas a Roger. | generally popular. ; The surplice collar, the bertha and frilled and ruffled shouider | pieces are among the most liked peck a arrangements of the summer. Very striking | re the entire black in ee servative. Huge bows of jet ribbon with Behates, 8 German scholar. on either side of the face, the long not value flowers and a garden of Ite | | At u recent paper wedding anniver- | {sary the window curtains, portieres, 1 lamp shades and table covers were all order to destroy the vermin with | : which domestic fowls are often infeste ol. a Canadian Inventor, Edwin T. Rrivwart haw devised a nest egg whiend fx hollow go that focan be dilad with an insecticide, The nest sig is of ta pest the insecticide distributed, the fowl npon will be automatically The theory that some of the ab | : il The > Indictment of the mental qualities of : shapes creatures that abound in pagan mythologies were sugpesizd hy human raonstrositios is advancsd by Professor According to him the Cyclops corresponds to A one eyed monstrosity; the Siren Is iden- | tiled with ome whose lower Hmbs are united, and the Centaur was suggested by a8 monstriaity having two pairs of | legs. He believes that many mooted points in comparative mythology might be sleared ap by additions] study along this line, Ss A perpetual cloud of soot, gradually is known to overhang every large manufacturing city. To determine the amount of this wasteful | dirt deposit in Manchester, England, Mr. W. Irwin weighed the solid matter obtained from a sample of snow that pertling down, had been Tring on the ground fen days, and has found sn equivalent of 10.7 pounds per square mile od the condition over at least 100 squares tables the chiimnevs of Manchester are convicted of throwing out 501 jess than | Anniyvsis 300 tons of soot in en days showed 488 per cent. of carbon, 6.9 of Benvy ofl and greass amd 44.5 of ash from which it appears that each day's thirty tons of soot is given adhesive ness hy about two tons of oily matter, I Interesting ohservations on toe Influ- | 10.000; if now we roughly estimate the | ence of mountains on the fall of ball | have just been published by the Italian | yuu at jeust on the average one fur each During seven | meteorological service. years of investigation there were forty- one days of Ball at Rome snd eighty ‘days of hail at Monte Cavo, about 3200 fest above that elty. There were, how: ever, 178 thunderstorms at Rome, and only 120 at Monte Cavo, which Indi tates that the greater fall of hall at the higher sititude has nothing to do with & greater intensity of stmospheric elec tricity. Signor Monti, who communi. cates these facts, suggests that moch i of the hail that fell at the higher sta. | tin melted on reaching the lower and Warmer strata, and appeared as rain, in the Popular Selence Monthly of 8 gear ago Professor J. J. Thomson de- seribed his important jovestigations : | G2monstrating that atoms can be split booquets of paper flowers that were | | up into smaller bodie tof the sme in Professor J, i Fleming. the eminent British ie wers such an important contribation. All ideas regarding slectrieity, whe have followed the progress of phy. sleal scfence, must, it appenrs, De re vised It ix necessary to regard elec tricity as atowle in strociure, the atoms of electricity being sttached to the sioms of matter and separable from them. The regular free movements of electrons create what we call the slece trie current In a conductor, whereas | thelr vibrations when attached to atoms are the cages of ether waves whether of light or beat. The stom Is & kind of planet accompanied by other smaller satellites which are cupable of an in dependent existence and are then the socalled negative slectricity. The ine ertia of matter Is due tn the electron, and all mechanical and material of fects must be translated info the lan. Euage of electricny. : The Orla of Baranetams. On May 22 1511, Baronetage was first baronets fnstituted. and the erented Two hundred patents were sxoed at the price of S000 apiece, and it was promized that the number shonld pot be excesded This promise was kept | daring the reign of James, but the re. striction soun beontaes olmolete, amd the number (8 pow pearly 500, exclusive of | the Beotch and Irish ereations. In G13 BH owas ordained that baronets | psight bear on their shields the aruss of Ulster. a red left hand known as “the bloody hand.” There was formed a few years ago a society for the puri. cation of the barunetage, it being al Cleged that a somber of “spurious bare pets” had asscmed the title without proper qualification, The origin of the red hand on the shield of the barabets in time came to be forgotten and people were driven to invent legends fo account for ib Thus the baronetx of Aston kad their sirmis acecunted for hy a story that a former Bir Thomas Holt bad murders his couk in the cellar by running him through with a spit, and that he was compelind to assume the rd Band as his ¢rest on thar sccount. The picture in a painted window in Aston Churel From this it came to be believed that each generation of the Holts was allowed 10 | take away thus much of the disgrace | ful symbol unt the band had been eb i tirely eradicated —Lopdon Dally News, Won by a Siagle Vote, A curious election result is reported | fron Mootaoban (Iie - et - Yiiaine:, where, ont of a gtaeh eonstraction that by the movement of acre, or three tons per Aw the sample represent. In a jate age : the Order of the! hy James I, avowaedly for the defense of Ulster, bat sctoally for the sake of the feen constituency number. {ing about 30.000, the Radical candidate obtained 12.994 votes, and wen the | seat by one vote, bis opponent, a Cone receiving 12.993 votes | phe entiemen.” —Wasagus Post. Is absentmindedpess indicative of mental failure? This question is sug. grated by such facie as the large pom. . ber of unaddressed letters posted each | year. im avidencs the official list of articles ‘left fn one year in the Loudon cabs and omnihoses, It includes S50 canes, 10.00 urabreliag, glasses 026 articles of jewelry 180 watches, 3210 purses, besides birds, | dogs, Gi ete, The list seems like a pretty severe the modern oity dweller, and If the hard pressed newspaper reporter hap ‘pens To ses it, he “send off & harrowing syndicars litter tiy all the Runday editors on this alarm. ag demonstration of mental degen- ‘eracy of the twenteth century mah. | Even our medical contemporary sug. | gests the advisalillity of those who ride in omnibuses and who forget things of consulting a physician i The more marvelous thing, however, | be that thoy do not forget far more suddenly ineressed a thousandfold the piecssgary aml synchronous preocen. pations of the mind time PV intion of bewildering Naot interests and to have learped the {rie of polsing In the attention at ope In-| stant snch a multitude of objects is: certainly pot a demonstration of men. tal failure, but rather of nopacquire | nent of a difficult art Tondaner wi in omniboses and ! Flages. ‘Jost articles, and pot the total at fiumber of rides each day in London, twentieth citizen. we calculate that In 100.000,000 trips made, tn the average, a person forges some {aken. The alarmist adviser of consultation of an alienist isemory would probably smile at this evidence of his own menial fallure~ : r | tropleal views, tropical plants, and bri. | American Medicine, A Philadelphis Man's Thrifty. His acquaintances have been laugh ity and tight-fstedness. He had been devoted In his atientions to the prety Cdanghter of a wealthy widow of the | ieighborboood: bat the mother is a bit | a a Mrs Malaprop who has sncon- | «+ eiously rolped pore than ode good | | sppartunity for the daaghter. | rolled strips of white crepe paper; these | oxoining in clear and readable language were The ‘lean in question had heen a persistent the electronic theory of electricity, to which Professor Thomaon's reseurches | ‘Wooer, but, the #2 far as is known, bad | | kept expenses of his courtship | down to mers earfare, matter and the ether. as bell even by those He called one recent evening amd was rompletion of the daughter's tolleite, The mother showed him # box of sn. big they had been sent “monotonous withont any card, you koow.” Thrift had sent them. “You 47" auestiosed the mother. “Well, if you bought the flowers you ire no jonger monotopoos” He told the whole story in penuys wise glee to a friend, who a day or two ater, dropped into the florists to learn the identity of the spnonymous sender, and was told that the mother | t herself had bought the Rowers and bad | sent them to the daughter Those who | daddy's serve in the face of the Deaw's | Pie amd wonder as to the meaning of | her second employment of the word | “monotonous.” ~Philadelphia Times, Nothing to Concent. ings bunk fo deposit his first 2300 was surprised at the searching questions asked him by the young man beliind the rafling as to bis ancestry. Ha agswered them all, however, amd then volunteered a little tion. “My mother” he anld, with digsity, “had a wart on the end of ber nose | My father had a squint in his Jeff eve sud had lost oa front tooth fond of horses took snuff and walked with a slight limp and a large hickory ene? anybody should ssk you"— Chicago Tribune, The Beave Robins. The most singuiar instance that 1 was the kind of military jnstinet which some yours ago led a pale to male their nest at the back of a target at Alder stot! It was in the shooting range of the fourth battalion of the Sixtieth Rifles, amd the colonel of the regiment tid me of it at the time. The little pair paid not the least attention to the cahwot thundering on the target just at j the back of their pest were careful not 0 meddle with them, amd the yonng brood hatched and were | brought up in safety — The Cornhill : A Queer Greeting. ! A paval officer recently returned | from a trip around the world tells of an amusing greeting he received from one of the wealthy planters In Austra Ha, who entertained the officers of his ship. “1 am delighted to meet you Captain Diauk” said the Australing “delighted to meet a man who coms from A country where there are mis An English contemporary ¢ites | I0T rugs. 742 opera will undoubtedly | often than they do Clvilization has Binglenoss of attention was the predominant char |; aoteristic of mental action before cur. Rut the more convincing proof of the Py #etnnl triviality of the amonnt of for. | getfainesy is shown by the comparison | [of the number of memory slips of the th tie aumdwr who ride | other public ear. | Tet 08 double the number of # year there are surely as many as Consequently, Article once in about every 2000 trips for such failures of L Times jog for the past fortnight at ag up- | town bea renowned allie far his van. entertained by the mother pending the | perl roses from one of the most fash. tonable of the local foriets, and told | led him into mendacity, and be sald he | know the persots concerned are db vided between admiration for the old: eR : : : ha : He oh ithe white of the egg beaten still turn Being unnasd to the ways of bhasiness i Mr Puggins, when Be went to the sav. farther informa; and parted her hale a little on one side, | He was | ‘have known of x robin's fearlessness The soldiers | Destrable Pfevtn. Some very novel and desirable flower | and vine effects are doticenble among the latest olleloths snd lHnoleums. | There seems a decided tendency to pot. ting away from the gpiversal tile and geotnetrionl patterns toward something more grusmentasl SA Fur Leather Covered Chalr, To renovate leather furniture, wash It with a little soap aud water, and when dry apply a little vaseline rubbed in with the hand next moraing, then polish with a soft distor, the leather from eracking. Seveown Tost Ave Novel. The Huninated sereens of pegamold | are someihing entirely pew, usually developed, make an especially | am, The Hgure is often & heraldic dexign, shout oight inches high and afmost as broad. One figure is placed | yh panel, and, far from seeming | ap efiective background Making the Linen Last. io not allow Boles to appear in table ued amt] it i= sn (hin thet i hes to A Intl aide sew are sorted for the washing, look | re atl the solled tableclotbs and pap. Eins, holding (hem to the light. Use spnbraidery toss to correspond with He guality of the linen sod every in piace shoul! be darned or run as 13! ty as possible. You have no idea Bow much longer linen will ust when | caved for in this way. wal Paper Pestens: Molre effects are to be sen in some | seni eolors and have as 8 rile Bower | yoilow paper has a fimrrow border of | yellow in festoonis In each polst where the drapery effect Is caught op tiers Are & few roses. Three strips of the paper make up & landseape In the wall coverings, with sivnle effects. Bome of these have ' Hantly feathered birds --New York The Modern Refrigerator. The usp-toddate bousewife belleves most thoroughly I the doctrine of peattess and cleanliness aud in having things on view as much as possibile, The old fashivued foebox bas given way to the modern refrigerator made of tiles with heavy plate glass panels in the doors so that the contents of the shelves may be readily {napected aad Rept in a wholesome condition at | the same time. The metal water cooler i : that has been doing duty for several generations has now been displaced by an lee water receplacie of gisss the larger one being supplied with a tin cylinder in the centre. so that the filtered water shall not be contaminat. | of by coming In contact with the lee Ia the smailer receptacle the low cylin. | der is of glass, but naturally more lia ears than the metal holder. New York Post. SI I Fes RECIPES . “Water Sponge Cake Bost the yolk’ of one egg: add half a cupful of sugar apd beat again; add one temspoonful of lemon juice and three tablespoontuly of water: then add two-thirds of a cup ¢ ful of flower, and one level teaspoonful | ~ of baking powder: then add carefully: ¢ into a greased pan and hake in a mods erate oven fftven minutes Peach Blane Mange--Srrain off the | liquor from ope ean of peaches; put this Juice Into an agate pan over the fire: rub three level talivspoontols sorn starch in a Httle cold water; add it to the betling ijolee, stirring five min. titea; cut the peaches in small sections) add them to the syrup: pour inte & monkl that has been rinsed In cold stiffened; serve whipped cream. with sweeteoed from the upper round cut an loch aml a half thiek; it will probably weigh three pounds; put io a fryiog pan one tablespoonful of butter; lay io the steak and brown gguickiy on both sides: then potr over boiling water to cover the steak; add two tabbsspoonfuis of chopped onlon, one teispoonful of tover closely aod shimmer two hours; after the first bour add one teaspoons ful of salt and a little pepper; lift the Henk to oa bot platter: own a litle four over the fre; rub it smooth in cold water: then add it to the Hguid in the frying pan; add seassoing and Eggs in Bread Sance-8ilce one good sized anion, poor huiling water aver it, aod let it stand five pinutes; then milk; add four claves, one-fourth ten spoonful of sait and simomer ball an “hour; press through as moeh of the ohio as possible, put ene tablespoon one tablespeonful af four; when son with sale “and tern into a baking dish: break in ‘#IX eggs. dust with salt and pepper i and put iu a bot even ull ®ss are nt Let it remain 01 bare, the surrounding plain space sets | {af the illomioated design sod ferns On Saturday, before the | i water; stand in a cool place until fweet herbs and goe cup of twmaty] when boiling strain it over the meat. | drain and cover with two cnpfuls of meited and stirred tl smooth, add the milk, storing vat thickened: add halt LC & cup ol stale bread erunibs, aml sess pepper aul a pinch of ground moee; siinmer for five minutes i | This treatment will prevest | atiraciive bavigronnd for the gold fg. i i ol the new wall papers. These are in ‘eurtag a ‘beat’ In this hordery, which are rather narrow. Ope | | vigilant as ever. % i ¥ ¥ The glass cooler comes In two sises, | 10 F ble to become broken if not handled | °! ! with special the outside and not from the In the departments. The green apd brown shades in which they are | cinls to dissover the source of the : leak’ of a plece of news which it was i tot desired should be given ont at that particular time” oo ; old Washington correspondent, “and “without giving the solution to the secret escapes of public juformation, aw they vary, [ will tell you of one in- | stance whic serves to show how news sippeary ip print in what is considered by sll concvrned to be & very mys terious magper. Like all m | when unraveled, it is wondered that % | was not thought of before. My story or ix entirely a part of the secret » : of foformation which all correspon .- a re or hat at Dan poeal, and which often comes from “Some time ago, the precise time time to bs mot essential to the story, & ey ; portant pubile matter was up for de : termination by the President. All of the larger metropolitan delltes were particularly interested, as di mot have to do especially with W top, snd the entire ndents” world at the capital was on eof : vive to ‘get i including myself. A | channels which were usually 2 ! by the initiated were found to ba 88 barren as a desert stream In mideom mer. Telegrams from the home offices poured inte our various buresus bere couched in imperative inpguage that the news ‘inst’ be obtained, evidently in the belinf that all correspondents have to do is to go out, ask officisls for the desired iaformation and re _ vive it coupled with a good eclgar and As a matter of fact, ‘a bottle of wine. i when officials wish to keep secret 8 | plece of information sil possible loop. | holes of escape are securely ed, and it is the exception that it gets ox . “1 had aboot given up hope of see particular : stance, though 1 wus, of course The time for the | maturieg of the project wae close St | band, and oy day it might by officiel announcement become public pn Due aight ne | was iting 107 o lobby of an uptown Botel, half in my chair waiting for the app of a Senatur with whom I bad an p= | polntment on an inconsequential mat ter, 1 overtieard one of two gentle who were sitting behind we drop the words “the President.” The bigh backs | of our chairs pearly touched, and by instinet my drowsy senses became car, and {| woke up : * “The President,” remarked one or the gentlesen.’ said that Rt was Alp intention to adopt that course, irre. spective of the consequences either 20 Blimsell or te party.’ “ ‘Bat yon pointed out to Bim what ft meant to us; that he was dearly In (error? replied the other gentleman. “ “Elaborstely,! responded the fret speaker, ‘Bot the President sald that he wis continced that acersing results would prove that we, and not be, were in error. “ ‘Then we may as well go back to New York to-morrow,” was the answer, and both gentiemes arose and walked toward the cafe apparently = = vary despondent frame of mind, “1 was un verti. tn wl r to shy A ‘the Presdancs scion, iniondnd te take ‘the afirmative in the pro . news side of which the had so fom snd Be eoeniens to mscertsin. With s straight tip as 3 | to the cowme of the Government the eorvespondint could do the rest, while with the wrong tip Le couid not only make his paper ridiculous, but would lin all probability Jose bis position; | hence the care in making a scare-head, page wide story. “In the furtherance of my conclu ston my paper bad the ‘bent’ of the of season the following morning as 1 (stated the facts aw though they came | from offichil sources, as, indeed, such 1 considered them: to my mind an 8 correspondent it was as clear as if | the President bimsell bad given me Stewed Beef Steak ~Have a steak | ful of butter in 3 frying pew and add | following: the information. Two days sfier » member of the Cabinet gave out afficially what I bad wired over, and with fr the snnouncement that the Teak’ had occasioned much ‘annoy. ance. and (ts source would be invest. gated thoroughly’ It is here given ! correctly for the first tie. "Washing fon Star. Poniing In Sunshine. In the early days of the glow lamp it {aed to De a papular experiment to flight up a tiny lamp inside the stomach of a sh. Possibly in this harmless ex. periment ny the beginning of 5 Dew and now only partially developed method of treatment of organic dis ease. If the ingenuity of inventors can devise means by wlich vital op guns within the Dody ean be safely maintained in the sunshine of nealing says, what an infinite blessing will have been conferred on mapkind! Means while rapid progress is being made In the construction of apparatus for skin treatment. ~The Electrician, Records in Kings. The pupils in a school were asked to write original compositions on “Kings.” The prize was carried off by a bright youth, who perpetrated the The most powsrful king on earth ts Wor king: the laziest. Shin king: a vury pleasant king, Smoking; the wittiest, Jo-king: the loanest, Thin. king: the thirsiiest, Drinking: the siy- est, Win-king; the most Saxulous Tale ing~TH Bite. remarkel am
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