RIANA TWN NA TAIRA A Rl ti i Er sareliasiy 10 lents the part h Bio Play. Buctess you'll 30RD SON- Hunt and another gentleman seo master, please. i dnt you tell them, Mr. Mowbray i 1 tome yeoi 2’ ‘8'm, and they enid they'd walt. Shown ‘them Into the drawing Very well, 1 shall be down in a ie gentlemen told me not to dis | you, but 1 thought you would jo—] mean 1 think not. She gong al the usual upon = ume the she bas gong Lodge as a gentle hint to ws that 1t was time for them \ Bad dacorered Tone ago. that ity to “master’s friends” was ber Young ‘mistress’ vit £1 ont Blame her, neither,” “to heraell; “it's only nat. | she shouldn't want them always ound and taking master’s off of herself. and she only wl months.” it mun.” she murmured, er looking glass with a then sho began to smile, > pm bo was stil] a to her, and they would talk | s bad ever met her. It made iely aggrieved. She would | tin so many words, | ways pained her a little to :- could ever have had | | terests and thoughts | ry : aushed to herself, she | ith a dehsion which rend always secmed to dee it, that Harry's life hal a dead and dreary blank before : ray galzed bor silver ; Harry's latest nistered half a dog and quite unnecessary 1 Fs must” she sighed | Hghtly downstairs, be civil to her husband's Take warning | and don't get mar | to. Bat how about | one In a thousand, She's ow—but, | say, I sup abuse a man's wife | tt “woman, really—but a A man must ba pretty 8 up everything, as does. You don't think he'll | 1 thelr best halfback, And old Harding iat the door and came toward them {to Usten. I've boen thoughtiess and | bray came home ho was amazed to Bmoker, and when abe insisted on his | How This Strategic Place Was Occu- itor | if he dosen't” “Bo will Mowbray himself. He used to be uncommonly keen on ft. Of course, he'll refuse, simply because he's afraid of hurting his wite's fool “re strikes me he's carving Jovo : he ever cared for. The Growlers are furious in his desertion. They've lost was grumbling to me only last night because Mowbray hasn't put bls nose { Inside the Behool of Arms for months “That must have been a blow to Mowbray, to give up these bavonst competitions. He was a ded cortals: ty for at least ome prize. = “It's the same with everything, He's losing his form all round. It's a ein that such a good sportsman should be aliowad to run tw seed: and & Woman who makes her hustand sacrifice all his pet hobbite must be—" The speaker paused expressively. “Well, of course, we don't know that it's her fault. He never so much as hinted at it. Pretends he's drop OE out of things to piesse himself” “But who believes that?” “Nobody! Oh, you're quite right— Lit is my faait!” with startled faces herself from the shadow of the screen with outstretched hands. "It war mean to listen” she sald, flushing all over hor pretty face “but I couldn't help it. You didn’t hear me come in, and—something you said made me wail, and so I overheard, Oh, please don't think me aa hen pecker!” she added hurriedly. “But when you said that about taking warn. Ing by Harry. and not getting mar ried, tit wasn't In human satire not i selfish. It's done me good to hear he Ltruth, Won't you shake hands?’ Ten mitutes Intor, when Harry Mow. find that his wife had set ber heart on his singing at the Jackdaw's spending the entire following evening a: the club it dawned upon him that something extrsondinary had bap peti. Caan : | | WEST POINT AND ITS BEGINNING. | tion a bit too far. Why, he seems to | | bave thrown over every blessed thing | It was not Jack Hunt's volce that # 1g answered his friend Bundy’s question. | The two men tarred to the Speaker | It was Mrs. Mowbray, who detached | By Mrs, Coulter, of the Utah F Legislature. UR girls need domestic training at school becanse they have, With pew schoo! methods and {he present seelal life, Tittle time at home for such work. The young man who would fill a posi and business managers of the home, the disbursers of the family mitted to go indo this work without a question ag to their sob entific preparation for it. If we would not sacrifice the mental development of ‘woman, If the prhool and coliege clalin the girl driring those foundation veard provizion shonld be made by the school for bestraction which will not only make up for the lost Gpporinnity at Lome, . 4 fie first step is fond fn the department of manual fraising now {fe ito seme of our schools, Financially and practically, we have taken sop in considerable sums of money pledesd: 16 interest fiwngened, fad i ther earnest Co-operation prouiised on every side, Tig tion Is not far off whin it wil be considered soom ir and will become tie prota e of every good wonan aggressively to fuente public apinion for mil that constitutes human wioll-belng Toward this the clubs dre certainly well on thelr way, in that they Are BOW 000 parating with leagies anil socioties specially organised for reforms and smeliorative movement Xx while they have Iba been working apart for the lowering of the {iliteracy record, the suppres shom of unfit erature, the relin? of wage-earning worsen and ehlidres. 4 more practical training in the pulidic schools, and the reign of nobler standirds. £7 \ 'W ar, t hi Geogr apher. By Frank Munsuoy. J the country save ns a poteh of color on the map? How ne ny | Wore cock sure as to the sping of Ce reas? How mony ks Sew | that Vonegoela mvmns “Little Venlee” or had read that tie firs Anvaders, alter thy Bpacish discoverer, were the Lerisang, ant thres eontaries halors James Maovroe framed his famons masim? Even the Daoranrers are nod sssocinted 51 timsately with the | oountry. There 8 only ane refersticn in Esquernelinifs brave | } chronicle where he writes: “Henee they departed, with design | Salad of Curtooa, belonging fo the Hollandera™ The boy who studied geography in the sixties. when the earth was sil Sompatively romantic spl unknown, was Interested in land, or sea, or tow, elilefly through euler or name. ius or purple countries on the map were ecossarily delectable region. No desert Ia as fandy as the “Creut Nerth Amdrican Desert” then Yosirksd, There was Van Dieman's Land a dismal, | susplcian-exeiting country; and after the boy had been persgsded that it was | not lubabited by devon equipped with Lorne and hoofs and talls, he would nevertheless have sworn to the truth of Haziitt's description: "Barren, mises. i able, distant; & place of exiles, the d Ireary sleds of savages, convicts and ad- Yoeuturera™ Bagdad, Damascus, the Galapagos, And Gowhat fasdipelion In te very pam to the schoalboy who delighix | in : the stiell of the wharves or knows his Arabian Nights and Washington Irving as a clerk his ledge! AK the boy becomes man, nainea may still wield their spell; but they are | vague, often {maginary localities. War breaks out: fSeets meet snd wage bat | tle off some obscure fishing town: an army surrenders near sons hamlet | which had hitherto slept pescefully by day as well as by night. The village fu snddenly world-famous, The nume of the falling town is writtsss an banners { ded York News pied in the Revolution, | West Point Military academy, has been 8 question of dispule the last | FFO°Q ly » few days, but it will probably soon Be | § righted, and its proposed regtorption ' MW 10 iis original condition, or something 1 like it, will be carried out. How the : military scademny came into being, and various other facts about it, are of in- | terest to every loyn) American. The § tnet of land owned by the governs | ment atl West Poist contain 2108 80 | acres, and was first settled In May, 1 1723. The greater part of this area was purchased from Stephen Moore on Beptember 10, 1790, for $11.085 The smaller and southerly portion was ; bought from Oliver Gridley on May 13, i 1824, for $10.600. On March 2, 1K, the Blate of New York ceded jorisdic- ton over that part of the property on i which the principal edifices connected | { with the institution stand, and only “reserved the right to execute any pro- cess, civil or criminal, wherein the | . real or personal property of the United Slates wes affected” 5 i vincial congress, pursuant to the wish ies of the continental congress, re The importance of West Point in 4 | the Revolution waa due to its com mand of the Hudson river, then the | thoroughfare tor freight and passenger traffic between the seabonrd and the interior. Barly in 1775 the pro- solved to fortify the highlands, and | sent commissioners, accompanied by Colonel Bernard Romans, with 24 men, to execute {ts plans, Homans was a + willful cholerie Hollander, an engineer | by profession and an employe of the : British Crown. He constructed the fortifications on Constitution island (then Martelaed’s Rock), but in such | the strictures of the most capable ex. - perts of his own profession. For this | reason, and also because of a report | i | by a special commission of inspection, | made 10 congress on November 23, © 1775, that the words could be assailed | ‘from the higher ground across the Criver without any danger to the enemy, it was planned to oooupy ond fortify West Point, but the proposition was | tiot foliowad, and “ilie key to the pas : gage of the Highlands temporarily fell into the hands of the enone.” Alter “the British had abandoned the High : lands in August 1777, Generals Put pam and James Clinton were detalied Cin supervize tie roconstruntlon of the fortresses, and on July Zo, 1778, the headquarters of ihe commandoerin chief were transferred to West Point. It was here tust Gehoral Washington | | {saued, among his “raany and pointed | orders” one “against that unnecessary . and abominable custom of swearing” West Point had cost $3,000,000, in addition to three years of labor by the local force, and was accounted the “American Goraltar Now York Tribune. May Be Surfeited. “Don’t you think it's unwise,” said the first partisan, “to be so sanguine about your candidate?” “All right.” returned the other, “just wait till after election and then ru i have a right to crow.” “That's what you will, but 1 don’t think you'll care to eat all you'll have ta =Phiadaiphia Prams. The antiquity of Fort Putnam, st the an unscientific manuver as to invite | aud active fe, emphasis on out-of-Goor recresilon. Hl» needs more trawping wore hots | By Edwin Markham. ; r £Te making remarkable progress in wealth-gathering, vet B nil we make manhood stand higher than money. A mere tli onaire, with hls cramped snd sordid life, cate a sorry figure when rmdasured Uy the side of a progressive editor, an Guaelfial tesachir, or a distinguished investor : should be. The thing (important fs that we should coos the suas true heroes, Bol the stuffed anew, Dot the pampons Wathiinge bosoring the JargeRearted gervints of mankind. - nobleman was pointed by wellnigh ell of us to the family of a Str Croesus, fueling, to say nothing of our art and letters Thomas Hughes sald, long ago, that we may pot be able to hindi people | In general from being helpless end vulgar—from letting themselves 201 nw slavery to things about them, 4 they are rich, or from apisg fhe habits and | vices of the rich, If they are poar. But, es Le says, we may lve simple, manly lives, ourselves, speaking our own thoughts, paving our own ‘way, and doing our own werk, whatever that | wey bee We shall remaln gentlemen as long as we follow these rales, even if wo have fo sweep & crossing for a livelihood Bot we shall pet remsiu gentlemen, in anything but the name, If we depart from these ruled, though we way Le set to govern a kingdom. Permissible Recreations By Hamilton W. Mable, Author and Critic. and tho intelligent sclvction of proper forms of recreation have never ben sufficiently developed Many people play too much and unintelligently, others give no thought to recreation and do their work in sg Inferior § way because they lose the Treshness that play binge Work y and play shoul! never be separated; sod this is particelarly true In the bigher forms of work, where play Is sbeslutely essential Vor example, tn art there [3 a tecesiily for the spontaneity of play. The suggestion of tof] instantly destroys the art quality, ‘I belteve in ail amusements that the rational, morally wholesione aud civilized man can enjoy. But I do pot believe in any kind of amuse: excess. It fs a mistake for 2 man to give up his work end devote his to golf, or #0 to overdo with the wheel az to straln the bears I saan Jiteult for the Anwrican to carry maderath an nto hls work or kis pinay, Moderate on In recreation 8 as essential os maderstiion In work. Evciriuing should be done in reason. Again, that revreation is best which takes one further from Ns routine The student, she man of sedenlary covupetion oupht to il back riding avd Jess theatre tan the nan whose vacation mikes im con siantly out of duors. Every wman's life needs all the variety be can possi hiy crowd Into IL The serious man neads to read novels, aud go to the theatre; that is, provided he reads good stories and sees good plays Half of the mistakes of the reformers the philanthropists and (he ethical tonchers arise from their lack of perspective. Ther are too puch interested in ene fleld, All followers of earnest pursuits especially need recreatitio We all ought to enitivaty the sense and use of humor properly to balance Iie, A great many admirable people make serious blunders because they are constantly at work amd never at play. The wan of narrow am! Intense inter esis Is the man of all others who peeds to ok over the wall | ©All wholesome, normal forms of recreation ought to be recogniied apd mule legitimate. This is the first step toward making recreation rational and clean, It Is a significant fact that so many of the great organivers of busineas ene terprises and leaders of gigantic interests at the present time take lodiz vaca: gctivity is destructive unless the strain 1s constantly relieved by Intervals of ply. The colossal workers of to-day almost without exception are nen who pursue some form of recreation as earnestly and methodically as thay push their work to completion, And it 1s pot too much to say that the sreat nancial men of the future, the great organizers, “Ye students, and the leaders in ‘he professions wi by | necessity be great de tees of some torm ot Fecreation = tion of resporeilility and power fits himself for it by stady and | practical fraining, but our daughters, who are to be the builders | dncome, and the mothers of the coming generation are pers! ¥ ut Bt her to mest the Increasing demand for skilled labor in this Audd. Edu | EFORE these roubles In Venerssla heer many of ns thought of | to take and pillage the elty of Caracas, sitaated over aguinst the | ood Higher Than n Money one hing Is certain-we shall reach no enduring dTvatness | Wo are naturally hero-worsbipers and ft fe right that we strotting out their Uitte hour pon a painted stage 1a us chee for our Once wpon a tinie a distin ginahad fureismn sobleman visited var ind, and | Sesired to ment 8 representative Atoerican family! To whom wes be pointed? | To the family of that worthy nilnlster of the Gospel who stapds fof & clean | life and the sacred rights of the people? To the fansily of that condclentions | tencher who 1 touching young souls with bleals and loapirations? Ne: the | and Amusements LAY is as much 8 man's duty as work. Our taste for play | ssa ames: ticns and wake time for their recreation. They have discovered that tretiendous | New York City —-Bmall capes alwys make Gesirabio wraps for pilld wenthor weour. The very styvileh May Manton one [lustrated Is adapted both to the : 3 WOMAN 8 CAPE, : conte and to the separate with, but ak shown In of tan colored olith snd makes part of an entire suit. The stole | fronts are trimmed with drop otna- ments, but the edges and seaimx sre simply machine stitohed with geirtioeili RK. The cape 1a ont to give the of fect of a poluted yoke at the back nnd with circular portions that ffl over the shoulders aud are Joined to the centre portion with ioyerted niente at fronts and on centre Yack, The peck iis finished with a flat collar thar ter. minates In stole ends : The quantity of material vinquired for the medium size is three and cue fourth yards twentyoue inchey wide ong and fveeighth yards forty fonr i NEW YORK ES sti front, or shoulders neually. and the pretoiest of the models have open work wings, while the lLody of the fying figare In embroidered solid) ¥ or in ont line applications. These pretty pate J term are especially suitable for decors ating yowng girs’ garments. They rival flower designe in present popular. ity. But every one wears them, pro- vided they cin secure the novel decor { wtions for the usefal blogs, SSS eg As te Wenving the Veil, Frenchwomon, while doing justice fo American wamman's taste in dress, aver 1 that not all of us ktow how to wear 8 face veil. They eannot understand why these tiewes should be strained comely over the face. Their argument i$ that the modal veil should be Jonge iy deaped over the countensnoe, hang ing Ike & valance from the Kat oF togue, Kind never dragged tight over the fave. It Iz not meant by this that the veil must necessarily be gathered tinder the chin or balloon out with a gust of wind, Ir must simulate loose fess, however sid sot be drawn like a HARK over nose and cheeks Ribbon mom The ever-present gripes are made of ribbons and soll In butches for rng ptents, Ope bused la winds of black ribbon each grape Iwing as large as a good sized satarsl grape. round and full, and there Is a knot of bright green tibbone 4¢ the tap. Another bunch of grares is made of green ritbon, and it has 2 knot of white ones at the top. Flatshiod Wik Nevrow Rotders Many of the now spring goods are fnithed with narrow borders. These hayeders Are efoctive on the bottoms of the skirt or applied in lengthwise % § $ who had inherited unearved millions, and who was in no wise a representative of our American grit and generisity, of our democratic simplichty wn Cello | FASHIONABLE SHIRT WAIST. inches wide, or ome and Hyewighth | yards Sry two inches wide A A Tr AO { Warman's Shirt Wats. i Shirt wilets are among the damizilile things of wileh no wam aver Fat | bad too many. The stylish midel oo) | lustrated in the large drawing lie tudes | the latest features Io the graduated | box pleat and the wide tucks that ex- | Ltend to yoke depth The oviginal la | made of white mercerized vesting. with | | dots of blue, and ls trimmed with orna- | mental pearl butions, bar all walstin Dmatesialy eodtor, Lined wool abd ik | Gre appropriate The walar consists of fronts back | ‘and pleut The hock fe plan and: [ drawn dows in gathers at the wilst fine, but the fronts are arranged fo] blouse slightly ower the beds. The | graduated pleat is tam tw the of ght | edge, and is boukad over lnvisilly onto the left. The siceves are the new ones that 1 spocothly af the sbogidera but form wile paffs over thy arrew stralght cuff At the peck le it stink cut with the fashionable ¢letlonl puln The quantity of material required for | the media size is four sol fresighth yards twenty-one inohes wide, four yards twenty-seven inches wide two and opeball vards thirty-twh Inéhes i ; i ; 8 io Ne A MAE Co EN SH AS aS sn cide, or two vanly forty-four Inches wide A Shirt Watst Suis, You- dresecnnker will be sure to per. sunade you, or at least to eadeavor to Ful de you In baviog her make up a shirt walst sult for you In Bote good pattern Tor a fouland or semaner silk, which will be used 4s a street pown, tes Many of the so-called shirt waist eiiite show Jacket fronts ad a narrow waistooat efect. The back of the bad. teow Is made Hike a shirt walst and the tic phrase permits a good deal of varias tion from the fitalar model. aml todi- viiual cholee can determine to what original design. Openwork Wings, Winged ornaments are ornamental | additions to the spring blouses, both of silk, linen or soft woolen cloth. The butterfly with “sail set” in full Bight, or the gausy dragon fly are favorite! The “shirt waist” Ldea dows not neces | sarily condemn you to this foros of beds | Jacket fronts ade never loose, bat are | stitched down to the ning. The elas | measure you wish to deviate from the | models. They are set on the hlowse | Etrape on the sean of the skirt as well #4 on the bodies and sleeves. They are in all the daiutier wash fabrics (nen Land eotionsi, as well as slike. mohairs fd Saneels, Rinok no i i aah Biklons, Many backedged sash ribbeotis are betng shown with the new light gowns They are hright-coloped, flowered rib bons, and the black on the odges 1s half an lnel deep an same of the ride bone, and on others there are severs) pareow lines of black. Hr" Toekhed Coat, Laon fitting tucked cogs are pres tly in yoga for lode girls and will be ¢ Wiaek worn during the season to come The styiiah litde model shown ts made of pongee with trimming of heavy Bren sce of the mune shade but al) pliable materials are appropriate. The coat cousiets of fronts and back, beth of which are tucked and stiteliod with corticelll oiik to founce depth. freer the shoulders fs arranged a cape collar that is shaped with send oped outline. The sleeves gre in bell shape amd oan be sipped on and off with vase. The right side of the coat aps over the lvfr, and is closed tn double-breasted style with buttons and ,ttoalmies, The quantity of material required for GIRL'S TUCKRD COAT. medium size (four years) is four and one-half yards twenty-one inches wide, i four yards twenty-seven lunches wide, or two and one-fourth yards forty-foup inches wide
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