a SRA er SR ir AM ANE NBA RE SA er it t Tito racer eftoct : n, ax to why I formed it. 1 net been “out’ many months 3 reed to me tn inguire into of selection apd pro- 23 wely with the man; to it whey It was that be sisonld in many things and nis | mt—&honld have to cons : itn Mexed and wy bit of Tiki out. vo | flections was that 1 decided to sick expert advice; to pick up wrinkles from | one or other of my married friends. | : | piteted on Dollle Dulverton, who had itely absorbed by soung Citi | stock, of the Bays: and to her 1 went. After unfolding to her my schemy in | general online, I sald: that 1 wish to do. at the first | going: off. is to change the personality i of the proposer, pot the method of pro- posing. One must not attémpt too much all at once. Therefore, 1 hive : 10 You to ack if you can give me neeial tips, based upon your own je srionce as A past proposes.” MAB” sald Dollie, smiling, “you wish me, in fact, to coach you up in the | manners and rules of good pripoxing ¥ “1 wish you to tell me” I answered, “what phraseclogy Mr. Cattistock ‘made use of when he proposed to you. It may serve me 52 a useful Hae” Dolls thought for 8 mament or Xa, pleking up the threads of recollection. Then she rejoined: ; "Nery well, my dear, yon shall hive precise recount of all the circum: stances. The affair took place at Lady Xz dance. Frank began by remark. Ling that the room was devilisn- he of that, my dear?" 30 on” 1 remarked. with some tm patience. “I wish to get to the kernel {of the nut. These Mitle preliminary | breakings of the outer shell are im. {| material” : "Ray." answered Dollie, “ron cnn- nit get fo the Kernel without these! sion, upon which iittie preliminary breakings of the ae ir , atom te 5h than the ther fn sivention things ‘are verse, Man, the ab | select and propose to any | kes of the whole fair sex. absorbed. Is limited in her | those few men that may r ¢. While he han thou- k from. she has only units; orst of it. She may see i just salted to her: he could wake hap other woman could; who 1. be the deal mate fg not among those to her. Therefore, practical polities. Ble : else a a pds aller, * who doesn’t begin ractice his own doo p reformer, He 18 a latan, a hbuwbug. 1 am | ~My mito, like Straf. ; bests “Thorotieh > says 1 to myself, ing into woman's in matrimonial Ee od phe entioned my resolve to mam. did not expect support from | but obrolete old dear; and IE mot get It. Manin it been hers to do so. 1 did ) 's displeasure, how- the Eni 0 all re No, Initeedt ri th ant your whole hearted ds, not an ebsiruction, | Ro with me. It 1 resolved to open my | / without 8 moment's | outer shell. It Is an integral part of | Pranks next olmervation referred to the floor, which he declared to be a yi ripper. 1 concurred. Then be sald, | give him such a floor and & partner | whose step suited bia, don’t you know, { and, by Jove, what more could a fellow want? I said nothing. 1 only locked { hard at the toes of my satin fhoes, 1 the less 1 interrupted the quicker it would come. Frank cleared Lis throat | and tugged at bis mustache. Then he 3 | embliarked upon a confused and uy- grammatical vigmarels, In which fare atey suited-tall of life {heaven on earth” were the only distinct | | amd intelligible expremions,” Dullie paused. “And that's all” she sail. “Do youn mean” | demundsd, “that 1 be never aaked you, in so nary words, i to marry him? “Never! Without another remark we were Ina corner of the sonserva. tory behind two oleanders and a plas. ter Apollo—he took we in his arms. 1 offered no ohiection, Bo there we were, That settied 10.7 PWell” 1 sald pfter a brie! rellee. | tion, “1 shall mest Charles Wilton at { Mra, Z's dance to-morrow aight; and I will ses what can be done it 1 get! the opportunity.” "AL my dear?’ ered Dollie. “There Is no ‘if" in the matter The propuser makes biz opporincity.” of "1 suppose be does” 1 was fain to admit. “There are a good many things ty learn about thls new role, after wl” “It ta an art and has its technicalities like every other,” she replied. Which was so undeniable that 1 agreed to # whbont comment, Next evening. I went {vo Mrs, 2's dance. There, as anticipated. 1 pet Charles Wilton. [I cast about how 1 should make my opportunity. But this proved to be unnecessiry. He anked me if § would sit ont the fourth | waltz with hin 1 di). The ground Twlug thus cleared, it only regained for mers aud rules of good prapeaing. I began: hast BY ecomforiable game rather purnied we. Want wis to do? I derided to ners it and pro eed ax thouga it had not eoeurred, “It you ask me” ho oaosvered, * should say that there x a trifle Too gmch beeswax on it This reply wns still more gpsctting. However, I made a bold dash, want more?” He was not silent. He did not sare at the toes of his pumps. He did not iovidently) know what was coming. Instead, he nnswered genlaily: “Don't matter a buftontip to me, The only dancing 1 ever do ‘= to walk | through a square, But 1 dare say that e { what vou suggest is very Jolly for those | 1 | who like 11" This was too vexing. It quite Killed | | my opening for that metaphor about “The Ball of Life” and “Heaven on Earth.” #0 1 was brought to a stand: 1 still. Soon afterward he took me back mamma; and the chance was gone. ently Delis Method was no 80 | out. The result of my re | begged my pardon-—confonndedly lot. | 1 I aconiesced. Have you made a Hote the process. However, 1 will proceed, | Kaew now what was coming, and that | phe to put Info practice Dollle’s man: | leads up to it. Put a a wWornan propane for the first time. 85 1 wan doing, is in | & very different position. The man, natorally, never smspects her inten- make out what she ie driving 5t, apd #0 her allosiveness ja lost on him. Yes” nid 1 to mysell, “there is only ore way the direct way. | must treat him as ope treats (hiideen. 1 must ba plain, Iiteral, precise. 1 must say tor- | what I mean tn the most simple, un squivoest langeage. Yea! 1 must as 1 it were, propose to him in words of one jeviiable. I Jove you. Will you wed me? Thers can be po mistake about that. It is the formula that © shall certainly adopt.” We next met shamt four days later. It was in a tea shop in Bond street, 1 was drinking chodalate alone at a fifties table. There was 8 bunch of i hyacinths in a vaze on the table He came in; he saw me) he took a chalr oppokite to me. Greetings were ex- changed. I lwoked aliout. No one was near, Here was my chance. Bravely I began: “1 love" There I stopped. The “sou” —simple, cary litle word -vwonld not for some reson come out. It stuck in my throat “Walll What do you love? he ine guired, The “what” frritated me. Was svar uch incorzigible detisencss? A woman onl have had the sense 10 SRY “whom,” sx 8 matter of tourse. Bat he bad invited 8 neuter, and a neater Be should have, If only to punish him. 1 jove-hyseinthi” 1 sald, éromsly, Yet even here there would have been & way oul bad he posses an ounce of perception. He had only to sary, as a woman in Hike ease would have said; YHappy hyacinths Then 1 should have remarked: “1 slwars associate you with hea cinthe” But what do you think the opague creature did say? “Hon’t esre for "em mykelf? Roel ton girong” It was really tmposxitie to du any- thing with such a perfect miracle of obtuseness. Bo my secomd chance was font, > However, & reformer who gives In after two failures is no refortoer. 1 must try again. 1 must be still more simple: still mors vlementary in my language. After all. the "1 love you. Will you wed me?’ formula was what togleians would call a complex proposi- tion-a combivation of the categorical “1 love yon.” which iu view of what followed, wax really superfivous. 1 would only reiain the essentinl por tion, vie, the interrogative "Will you wel we?” Four plain words of one syllable Burely, these admitted of no ambiguity ar misapprehension, Crar nest encountér was in Pleeadilly, on the north side, near Devonshire House, 1 was walking west, he east. We taet face to face, 1 held ont my hand. He took ft. Now was the time. I made the fateful plunge. SWI yore Would you belinve $17 At that suo. preme moment, by the eruvilest stroke {of luck (surely the stars in thelr courses were Oghiting against we, 1 swallowed the wrong way, and bad a violent choke. tng ft which lasted for two minutes. 11 was top exasperating To be put off «just st the critiml point-by a silly little affair of the windpipe. Of oars, T eoubin’t complete my setifene after thet. It would bave been like Enishing one's best slory when one has been interrupted ln the middle. Bo when Charles Wilton, having waited in polite syinpathy stil 1 hae done choking, remarked: “You were shout to ask me" *To come to ton tomorrow after neen” 1 replied. Teeling obliged to pay something “With the greatest plesnury.” be re Joined, When § rétormed home 1 found--to my satisfaction that mamma would be ant the following afernoen, “1 shall see Kim Sonn And this tie I will succeed” maid 1 to myself, SeTTing yay tweeth nits x } should Bave sucvesded, too, There fg mo doubt sbest that Bat an une Ioaked for accident sgaln bafied we. Before © bad tings to say a word, Charles suddenly exclaimed: En i say! By Jove! don’t you know Hhen't yon think the room -er—very | th Now be ought to have aiquiesoed. | But be didn't He shswerad instend: } “Do you think so? 1 find it Just iy § rei This departure from the rules of the | (3 E piopose to Charles, being “Given such a floor and 4 partner | whose step suliy one, what evmld a girl er pore por Wee Naot mush on fs thee? Buoy somebow, like nile wonnd, (ley served. He 3 The ino his armas It was He leaving ont all the pont ht fran the hypothesis to the hed? Troe. i $1 placed 9 a v fares ar Wy prospects | a opraotieal relormdr In the field of atrimonind eclection 1 could net Caged to in por could 1 Jor the tie pesaant ded atty propose 0 any x Wa x * GIN ele, {have volte (0 the tof clusion that In Pie presiot backward condition of bu. thon 13, after all, prematige, So long as 3 man oan propose intel Hginly by merely exclabming: “1 say! iy Jove! doen't vou know” whereas 8 sand thoes more suggestive and yet | fall to suggest anrthing: so long, 1 gay, as this irrational state of things obtiing, the female proposer is simply handicapped out of it. It f& iniquitous, Rut it is the fact. I therefore advise my sisters, like wise woinen, to accept the fact—-and the male proposer.— Truth, tion (having always regarded ber as a Here passe propose; he canndt were his peocise words, 1 fier find 8 bares called fa ii axl 'Y solids prep” and jumps | already ens | man affairs, my scheme of reform. woman may make remarks ten thou. piel li twee Mg fo "| because the mont killing guns are tin high velocity nitro guns which are #1! smal bore compared with the hlack powder guns. The best aliround rifle $2 now the thirty calibre nitro, not bes eatse it will do all that §s claimed for it, birt because it makes so much flat- | ter a Time to everyibing within reasons able distance than any black powder gun can do. The ball goed ton much to plese on some shots, and ail that I have {ried throw ten per dent of | balls wild, five slightly wiid and five professing to deal with eternity, souls exist forever In happiness and in badly as. But the awiftness of the hall overbalances the ether deflects An allround rifle is almost impossinle, apd sovpe sserifice must be made, Racrifiee for flat trajectory is not si- ways a sacrifice of accuracy, but often one in favor of It. Between seventy. five and two hundred yards, the place wheres most shots on open ground fall no black powder gun small enough to be carried with comfort can make up In sccuracy what i loses In enrve of trajectory as compared with the | thirty-caiibre nitro rifle. T refer to the § high velocity shell and not the smoke less carizidges of the sane streng’h as hiack powder, The soft-nosed bullet driven with the high power nlirs a the most killing form In which a bal of equal diameter can bes made for all round work, Those of topper or stow] do pot taake a large enongh hols for most shies on the softer parts of the body From Handling the Rite on Game, rom Outing. The Paper of To Day. Only paper of the very best quality ix now nade from rage the balk of that employed for newspapers and Book werk being maasnlacnirad from wood pulp. (rhe? materials are alee domine Inte Gee to pet the enarmons demands for paper, and plants which were at ane the supposed 14 be of ne pear opie Importance are fontrilating thelr iar to the manulacture,. Among the new materials may be named ba dnsse the refuse of the sugar mills, {formieriy A waste product, save that it was snployed for fuel Rice straw, {loug only used ag bedding for cattle is also enlisted in the service of the paper mitker. Spruce is the wobd now | generally need In making paper pulp, and of this there 1a a vast amount pot yer drawn upon in the Dominion of Canadas, which is only waiting for mii way fadilitles to trauspory. In the megntime, protests are being raimed against he guality of the paper we fron these substitutes for rags. It av wwerg the purpose of ephemeral Litera ture; but there Is good reason to Leo fleve thut If rapidly deteriorates and that hooks made of it will have but » short life It Is somewhat Bamitiatios for us to have to seknowledge that oi modern documents cannot compare permanence with those written on Egyptian papyrus before our own Lis | | torical period began ~Chambers’ Jour- | [2 The Henvichenbury Canal Levk. A novel end unusually powerful sevator for lifting canal boats and barges {rom one level to another is sitaated at Henrichenbury on the Dortmund -Ems Canal, in Germany. is capatie of Hililng a canal boat of a tors burden 8 dlEtanee Bl slool fifty-two feet in slightly over two palpation, The slevator Neel! that is the trough io whirh the beat floats is about 239 fet long and tweniy-eigly feet wide. 11 Is raed by a 100000 power electric motor, which rotates four seyticsl threaded shaflls one A sxch corner of the IHL and on each of which Is 8 threaded traveling blocs Enpporting the trough. As these shuts Are tured around by the motor the four blveks are dren up slog oe (adn, sd FAITE tha & levator als with thea peath the ek oR 3 ¢ rests Reilanee 180 ois ht ol the fr sad She water Wochantalng any yg ¥ in Bil to et « FENN er TIRE To na #F Lat the energy expended fn lowering is Bitle mors than gired 10 oy # thar frie rated by elvetrh fore The slevtric generating past | sitaated plotgside the lock un the canal bani. owl -galtig ape o A AO NASR ACTA AION “Lang rum Fur Ane." Banmior Eiking of You his voir diye wag a om age HY el - West, hia gud Fhagd of | Tigra WH. Hie was ia po wf = Vigorous young Bl pot Jowe in the Bill Bo be wired the ship ng agent: “ i 13 Am 8 oft pan bs AE BLEW v9 A Yon Are 'S W And. on thinking the matter over, 117 The yung A day he tool thus Xi te LiF BR hima sual bough aftermoun tie 8 anil he putishe Lad just p 4 fog, when be cage wesbhon gala, It was found. Just then there came a ving at bell, It was the saddler the ‘whi hand, “Your dag, 30 he sahl “Frought this to the Wop in bis muintih this afternoon sod id it on the four | atid rau off quickly.’ — New York Tele une wil take care of Itself, will keep In perfect tondithn wit YSN - > %e 5 La ¥s §T Win 1% ; we 1 are nnder the Deoich Soe they am by a, ley. Na one Kndiws win edly, mest to ow ’ | the status qu gu ant pain. It is hardly neceseary ot enumerate’ 0 Bow many ways they are suppossd to be capable « pleasure and preventing pain: each one Knows for him it matters not that fhe knowing is so different. Ni surer. however, than that ‘possessions do not always giv [mire nor prevent pain. In many, if not the large ma cose, neither of these ends 1s attained. In sixty years I known many rich, some wiry rich and a few altri-rich, sod my memory bmpression of tho lot is that they averages op on thy wrong side of the jedges o happiness compared with the rmess moat of toem having nothing of value, | less perchance it he a good same. In the doctrines of the orthodor. of itll creeds snd nations and in alt One soul in the lapse of unending eternity will enjoy more or suffer mare ~ al mortal beings that may live on earth or earths planets or stars no ‘how many there may be ror how long they may live, provided only that the succession end. The logical conclusion is thilt one soul is of greater value than ki the possessions of aif mortal belugs The point [ have to make iy whether jt is reasitable to suppose 80 50 weak & | vosse! cond De loaded with so weighty a cargo on so Susgurous & sea? It would look, having reference to the eternal verities, like the lacking common sense and common prodences. shipper was 4 nist of Love and Quarrelling; but every one of us Viole : lived deeply enough to know that eicperience worketh hope, Will dmit that when Love quarrels with its beloved, it is Just fe | & virtue has gone to seed: a divine quality has developed a 9 3 fort The outlook for quarreisome love is not so hopeless Winn we can anderstand this See Bow It would work if those twe squabbling sisters would either of them stop to remember that it f= only Love, foolish, exasperating. wnbalanced love, that is responsible for the Hi-bred domesile eriticiam that spoils the Dome: life. If Jane ance honestly believed that Mary's love made ber so anpleasuot, she would ston aghast, amused, po doubt, and very likely touched; but shisost certainly silenced. And that would be the snd of the guarrel 3 To bring about this same friendship between people who Jove each other, respect for each other's individuality ls of course necessary: but such respect is, after all, an abstract thing, snd cannot be onliivated in a moment. Whi waiting for it to struggle through our stony egotism, there is one thing we oan do: We can vow that wiles doty setiousiy and lovingly demands it. these shall be no snssked criticisms between people win love ench other! Think Row it woald make for peacs If domesths criticism were forbidden at every breakfast table Think of our own happiness if our brothers and sisters will stop telling ns wsplessant truths’-think of their bappiness If we could refrain from nolighteniog them as to thelr dress, or manuers, or pellofa Ha» per’s Bazar. By Dr. T. D. Wood. Director Physical Culture, New York. . Prevarcs for the larger work n the world after he is metuve. | The first factor necessary for the proper physical training of the ebild Is the full appreciation by the mother of the import ee TO anon of that phase of the oblid's training. The second factor 4 i the Snowledge of his organic physical condition. It ts folly tv suppose that so delicate a machine as the human badly Attention. There should, arxordingly, ales be a properly educated tencher. If physical training ia to prepare the child hetter for his life in human sock ety, for his work in the great world It must help foward the attaliasent not only of physical health, bot of every desirable chameteristie and quality which the child should have. Physical training should conniernct every tendency to bad position and posture In order that the dady may be Kept and grow straight and symmetries] Physical training shardd make Joasins fe a more perfect mental development, that will power, courage. seif-continl «iouid be effective and a very beneficial way: that the nsoral and soc! qiedties y shoud ihways be gained even from the very earviles! years In the physical training of the child, as lo all education, the two persons most concerminl are the mother and the teacher. The proper pliraieal training of the child fap only be scovonapiished where the schon {8 concerned with all of the influences which affect the child at home, und the home Is also tell gently concerned with all the Infuences which affect the child at school /est EREMANY'S nolttleal ine i for the Unite ¥ gues have more than a passing interest 2 omresent time If the secret history ew realy pegotiationg wears ever pub Wabed. it wonal pr tobe diseoversd that Germany bad 8 Yery large finger in oo One is Inciloed to ask why Dene agrk. after Raving apoarsaily walvsmed the thought of ri Teraeet of De Doubts of the Dmnlsh West Indies, should Gey deo tha + were of value te her and defeat the any was possessed of sufficient infu. a st] of sentiment. Nor would it be Bo diBenlt to discover ber motives 4 pany, fo sdilithon to seeking a foothold fin South An , fa extannely snxionw to obtain a point Qappud in the Can ithean Sea: a sbe cso plant her flag bs the Danish Wezt Indies Germany gains two preventing the transfer of the Danish Wet Inciies to the Uiiitwl CRE a ae 2: Thoeoias and he adliacent idiands 7 the posession of the Unite] States; N° things, meh may be gained by dee Rh the suns of 2 few yours Undounb , if, Germany prefers to sie Do change fins waft as well wade fn the Dmg nt thers puiky Germany regards the existence of se would Re to abserd Demmark Inte Bere are poopie, of course. who fe, net Teeanse of any oppodithon tes Bigeriy hostile fo Germany to nothe sebnire of Schiefwis Holstein, ving the close dynastic tics existing wi and Gerteany, 12 8 bt 2 Canetdnl Bat the German En nperar may be woe te oleate a sentiment a favor of ~ N opin Emperor Wiliam 5 pers sie; Dut epacty what he can offer to ol inte the German Empire, what then The obvious answer would hat would be a transfer of sovereignty VS i oA traasler of severelrnty In the waters ar the ie ; Pow og violation of the Mawrse Doctrine. Would the from ol i 1d Und 4 it fn the circumstances? An extremely in aw en woud i to od if that should happen. snd 4 question that might aot be so vay of =o especially if at that time, as already suggested, Lerspany powsensed a navy superior to that of the United States and felt that she conlil afford to disregard the warning of the latter country. That is {a phase of the West Indigm negotiations that has been given by ven whose business | it I 0 give sorious cunsideratiin to the | ‘oestion.—-The Forum,
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