du the West jeotehman. Bhs promptly n te of hu ty h shus her astonishing feature of this ge was that as a girl the aged had been enzaged fo the curate's amd perhaps it wis the | ness, ¥ of tithe ancient romance which ; mental regard for the youthiol Clorreman, wis under other conditions might have Loen ber own Not lotig agn a maklen lady of over seventy erated considerable sensation sountiry by nmrreing her dissipated any dea that it might be a match of js | sentiment by settling an annuity on _ | “sweet charity.” e804. develop _ oh or wash i ify, elaborated her husband ou condithin that he never 1 eae within twoniy miles of lor house, tand by Jetting 1 be Loown hal rhe ‘had only married In order to hier nephews and neces with whose Epite wedsiet she wos dispdensed and who throush hor marriage would lose the reversion of Lior estas Now York | : LW orld. 7 There are dix women lettescarriors {in the United Blates Tliey are all In the roral delivery service. ; The Queen of Baxcuy’s hobby 1s vrphanuges, sanitariinns, schools and Lomes, The finest set of pearie In England, : belles those of Queen Alexanders, are owned by the Duchess of ariborodgh, formerly. Cousuels Vandetrhiit, Mme. Charest, the widow of | France's greatest plipsician, is oom pelied 10 rent roorus in her house In | poder to wake both ends meel The mother of King Alfonse of Spain i» an accomplished billlsrd tilay- Previous to her marriage she was chaniplon of the Austrian court The clevereet artist mmong royalties is undoubtedly tie Caaring, depicted the Crir and any diplomats of {in all kinds of humorons situations A woman's club In Switseriand some Hie ago Introduced ¢ hb oral elites of giv ing an leg rR 151 diploma rt. fo servants who have remained in one { plnce a given tine, than 1000 of these Sipiomas ‘Were Last year more it . | given. "itor ren beading, etc te, 5 eo - nightzowns - In chemise ay be e Slipped on over the e8 on Hngerte are full or elbow. | bishop style, with narrow or fowing sleeves, with the edge In fancy outline and fin. with lace frills.—Philadelphia LD MAIDS WHO MARRIED. ong ago the silly odinm that at to oll maidship disappeared, but even in the days when popular made a spinster of forty a hope | “mall, records show that there no age limit to matrimonial hopes, : nee, so long apo as 1774 lgson. of Stepuey, Ene to Henry Hulton, of An account of the bride, who bad once been noted fier beauty, and had, so it is said, lovers by the scere had reach. ninety-second summer, and the bridegroom, who bad vainly offered 5 hand and heart seventy years as two years older.” rkable was the wedding ohn Jackson and Annie Bates on 22, 1706, the 101st birthday of bridegroom, who was three years ‘than the bride. It was bis fourth within two years, and 10,000 escorted the couple to the s. of Balcock-on-Herts, married : | Lake, spinster, aged seven- s year, at Bath. Captain Ham. aged thirty, married Miss Man. a ane bride of sank, fortune ¢ | Dickens, in one of his grabddaughters, but to grin an income uot erature be | comes remyunerative Misa Mary Ane i the kind for her to ouimpy. 1 Brest assistant I the department of education aml social economy at the | | Paris Exposition exhibit to the Pan-American and bad er thing for nearly all gowns, Bome up-to-date business Women 1 Are | among the descendants of Chirles The literary bent appears pela Dickens, for that Is ber ame, {manages a shirt waist shop, Miss | Ettel Dickens Is the proprietor of # | typewriting establishment in Lotion, | and a third sister is secretary in the London School Board of Health, Miss Minnie Brobson occupies 8 | unlque position for a woman, She bas Just been appointed superintendest of ay | elementary and secondary education | She lias founded pn. vorile Hm pawer lies In caricature, and she bas | the vustom in sev. ming is the best process for cleaning veils. Wind the vell carefully | with sdegs even around a piece of beoom handle, Iny across a boller or seucepun of water and steasn for three. quarters of an honr. broom handle until dey. end all the dirt and dost will be gove, giving a | new stiffness, THE GUEST ROOM. In preparing a room for a guest, if only for a few days, do not neglect to 4 place a variety of books at his digposal, If there 18 no bookshelf in the room | books and niagasines should be placed | on 8 low table near the window. Many | a visitor has gone throuzh tortured, | sleepless nichis In a siranes hone, with not no Hoe of reading nisiter to be : Bot at. CARE OF LAMP WICKS, If a lamp wick sticks or will not ! move up and down enslly. draw one op two of the threads from one side. In extinguishing the flame of a lamp | never blow straight down vpon it, bot The wick should first be | Again, when wim. ming the wick, do not cut off the brown RiToss It turned far down, tinder, as it helps In relighting. Mersly rab a cloth along #t to remove any loose bite. PILLOW UNDERSLIPR. Pillow undersiips are sensible addi | tons to the bed. When | pass the worn cuter slip along In that way 1 cut off the top and wake it fit the pillow close iy. then haste the hem together so that what was the bottom of the outer silp 8 the top of the under one. When sheets become thin through the middle I tear ont the worn part and seam them up for pillow slips. “glummber pillows” sre soft downy affairs, 1 have {go pairs of ready bemuned slips ont of each sheet, besides a strip that may go into the ting of old Hnen for home uae, or 10 the in New Eogland Homestead, LIGHTING OF A CHILI'S ROOM. The Ughting of the child's room is a ‘very important matter from a sanitary standpoint and also from one of con venience, writes Gardner C. Teall, In Good Housekeeping. If gas ia the filo. minant it should never be left lighted longer than is absolutely necessary. If a night Hight Is required, then a Hite night lamp should be procured. but even then it In a pity that more moth. ers do not train thelr children to be acs customed to sleeping in un room with. out 8 light It Is so wmneh tore ‘healthful, Where lumps are in tise wo far too often see children squinting be. cause the strong lamplight is directly on line with thelr faces. Their elders seldom step to think of this from thelr superior heights, A light should never be placed so that Hts rays flare into a child's even. 1 think one of the most prevalent causes for poor eyesight in young children 1s this very negligence on the part of their elders to provide shaded Hehty in rooms where childen are sittiog or playing, for the logisiana Purchase Expost 1 tn tion, This will be the third position of Bhe was Ble transferred the charge of i there, being at the same time assistant superintendent of the department of liberal arte. Before be. coming an expert in exposition work Miss Bronson tau Bounets for elderly women are very ow and broad. The latest new skirt shown is ene annposed of three flonnces from wales! to hattom, Many of the prettiest of the new hats are made of allernaling folds of sik and net or stk and chiffon, A vert of emahirpldery In Blues or dull orange lipen is excendingly effective and smart for a bise voile gown. Changeable silk jinings are the prop- both tallor-made and wore dressy gowns, Light gray English friezes or Beoteh homespun gre the correct style for the Norfolk Jacket walking sults at pres ent. Figured and shot effects In velveteen are considered ninch smarter for young girls’ coats and skirt costumes than the plain, Little gilt pins that ‘securely clasp the bow worn low on the back of the halr In the new low coiffure are among thie novelties, - The proper angle for the hat algrette in lying on top of the crown from the back toward the front, not standing In military fashion, as formerly. “To be dressed In the height of fash- fon a woman must have a hat to miateh each gown, an all-black hat and a most perishable but extremely smart white hat. “Down in front” seems to he the watchword of the neckwear world, as the fronts of thie most Mlesirable stocks ght mathematics in i the high school of Bt. Paul of stale bread broken In pl of butter; add one eupful of sugar, then ope eg well beaten and one and a half cupfuls of flour, alternating with one ‘half cup of milk; bent well and add two and one half level teaspoonfuls of baking powder; tum Into a greased cake pan and Lake twenty minutes Delicious Cheese Cake — Mix with two cups of cottage cheese four cutices each of fresh butter and sugar, a small nutmeg grated, two stale, grated lady fingers. Btir into this misture ths white of one and the yolks of four eges, an ounce of simond paste mined with two teaspoonfuls of rose water atid the same of white wine, Then add six ounces of well washed and died currants, Mix all well together al pour ato patty pans lined svilh paste and hake til paste is dot Cocoanut Pndding viiy PF SAGE to about haf an Loar, Moak Jar 2 in wd quarts of milk one ho Lent three eggs with half a cop of suger: add two level teaspoonfuls of salt and stir Inte the bread sed milk; then add one cup ful of prepared cocoanut and half a cup of finely cut citron: turn into a pudding dish and bake three-quarters of an hour or steam oe and oneanar ter hours: serve with a gauce made by creaming cuv-third cup of butter: add two-thirds cup of powdered sugar; when worked together until creamy add one tesspoonful of vanilla exirast and pile en a fancy plate and grate Over some numer. Orange Pancakes—Pat two cupfuola of sifted four io a bowl; add one and a half level teaspoonfols of baking pow der. half a teaspoonial of salt and twa £3 pon Fak x £1 3 well beaten eggs; beat this mixture fir | five minutes; add one tablespoontul of | ene ecupful eff nilik; butter a frying pan, ponrina }it-§ tie of the mixture and tip the pan sof | that the batter will spread over the powdered sugar and surface: when ready to roll spread over some orange pulp and a little] powdered sugar; roll ag for Jelly dake: 1ift to a hot platter and pour over a glaze made by boiling tozether the juice of one orange and ene cup of granulated sugar: when it bas belled | } cite minute pour it over the pancake, As ouf fa | ation bax Just imsasd is circular of rr Cake—Cream one ~t fg a moderate oven dis Yeave on the | } ‘ron Production. The American Iron and Hise] Asoc xanoal statistics regarding production i the tron trade. It gives the output of pig iron for 1902 as 17.521 300 gross tims, which siress substantially with thie estiraate recently pubilshed by the! Iron Age, and can safely be regarded a an accurate figure As compared with 1001, last year's maaks of iron lo. creased 1.942 900 tony or 12%, per cent, while the second half of 1902 showed an increase of 2047500 tons over the first ball Yet will be remembered | that owing to the scarcity of fuel Be | csbomad by the cual sirike a lary namber of blast furnaces were com- plied to shut down, and that 1 wes nid really until July and the suerendd Ing months that this began to afer: the outrun of fron for certain powerful oimtaclon-—one o which was the strike of the anthracite niners and another the congestion of freight traffic growing ont of an insuf. ficlent equipment on the Paliroads— | the expansion of our iron product, in, stead of pursulog a normal mate of growth during the last 12 months, | would have bv enormous and might have been excessive. AR it is now, production sot only In pig fron bot in| a] other branches of the Iron and ates] industry Is sill held salely within the | Hie of consumption. Annual Sprat Banguetl. The annual spratl banquet was held | at Yarmouth England. recently, when A Select cUmDALY consisting of a score of courses. bikngiet opened with sprats and In gulek susosiion came SUN, BHrSIK do and deville gprals Rippered, sprats soused and | gras a la poration-—a clever ar- ri rement of Sileted pole wound round | the buy of wah Httle yprar Anoth quaint dish was sprats on horseback the fish being served on tiny moands | of bacon. The more lordly herring had | Its turn. There were sides of silver! horring, smoked herrings, Yarmouth blioaters and kippored herrings Coins al Kaioniions. “There are now at w of the middla izland of New Zealand work in the rivers | alivat 240 dredges, each costing from $15,000 to $70,900, with the object of ex- | tracting gold from the deposits in the bids of the streams The conrloaion naturally follows that had it not been down to a nwal pn el Feu by The: ine s | A, wae esate, | store | expect to be cured permanently. . Novel Test for Office. Persons aspiring to becoms bali | at Alnwiik, In Northagiberiand, Eng and, have to go througs a curious anil Before the winction the warions casdidates: somewhat unpleasant vrdeal ride up in a body to & horse pond, and thers, dlumounting from thelr stoedn i plage into the water and struggle as The | musle of x brass band cheers thew in the dirty | water, This ancient custom dates frown beet they may to the other side, during thelr stracglieon the relpn of King John, who once pal a vials 10 the town in i210 and found no Sting welcome prepared for Bim The binme of thin state of unprepared- ; nesx wis fastened va the uckless ball | is who were promptly thrown into. the harss pond by royal command. Ara It is proposed to ent a rallroad tun | ined through the mountains Kgows io the Fauscille, in the Jars Alps, and wo shorten the journey between Paris and Switzerland by two and a half hours, ta RSA Kisaing a woman's lips is considerud | € & great insull in Finland PROVE DOAN'S FREE HE Those who doubt, who thisk because other Kidney no good, who fee! discouraged, they profit most Remedies do them’ of Doun’s Kideey Pills. The wondrous results st nr oP Ra ANAS L1H SATII Aching barks are eased, Flip, b KX. anal} kein pans overes Fwelng of the! Hema sod dropsy They correct urise W ith wi endored fd wet ting salve and remure FERRETTI Rares, xn, Feb. the trial package of Dan's Kidney Pills saod 1 wast confess they Jil me woosleriul goosk, 1 pees strange wo my tha I had tied several kinds of Jidney medicines without doing me any ginal. Thad © Back: | ache, pals In wy tinder and scialdie urine, and the sample package sent we bE i stopped italiina few days, and with the | package | am pow using from our drag Iti ts wonderfizl, but sure and certain the med. | icine does its work misery nitil | commuinced the use of Poan’s Kidoey Pills “--Cpsa R Coox, |B 0. Box 80, Balms, W sshington Co., HL a 100d 1 received 1) brie ck dust sedis | , Exeradve, palin in pass : raw Fo he willie, BOTT OGAD ma : 3 5 fos 1 received (f 1 waa in constint | | el Bern Bamrvowvraz, hae, rave : the trial : of M urs Kidney Ae Pills and have bought x boxes of my druggist They hatte : 3 Tie Sr bh pooch 1 was hardly able y ihn say work until 1 began taking themg Brn Guat. 2 FREX-TO mane YOU A FRENG.. ie the rast bit teed” Xagne Pust-ofive 4 At rick Fo gy = doind phere of ha 11 Mudical Advi Pron Stricty Contin El BUY, he wa xy i 1 oy i Now Ru ae a witch prove thant - Py > ame dalise Ye | lean so wrapper HY HAY rE snd Prosristor, Now : Evening Rows, 47 Broadway, Sew Jock. be ago and Sciatica is no such ward os | a Price, 250. and 500. Gok fall dew ans Jie af Biya an work all day and oy back does
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