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,