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YOU NEVER CAN TELL.
You can't tell whether a man is gen-
erous or not by the flowers and candy
he sends you. You want to find out
how much pin money he allows his
sister. And it is no sign that he is
brave just because he dives off a ferry-
boat to save your life. You want to
find out how he acts when the lamp
threatens to explode or the hot water
pipe bursts.
REIGN OF THE LONG GLOVE.
While white mousquetaire gloves
reign supreme for smart afternoon
wear, or wherever the elbow sleeve
makes their soft, wrinkly lengths ad-
visable, there is a future before the
new mouse colored suede. This is a
grayish shade of mouse, very pretty
and soft. Undressed kid is preferred
to glace for smart occasions. Deli
cate pastel embroideries are seen on
the backs and around the fastenings
of some very advanced gloves in the
softest white suede or glace kid, but
these gloves, which are known as
Pompadour, ave, of course, not adapted
to ordinary occasions.
BUTTON-SEWING TRICK.
If you've never tried sewing buttons
on over a pin—try it! You'll never sew
them on any other way, especially for
shirt waists and under clothes and
children’s clothes,
Lay the pin across the top of the
button and take your stitches over it,
pushing it around when you come to
taking the cross stitches.
When the pin is pulled out, your hut-
ton will pass through the buttonhole
without puckering the material direct-
ly under it—the extra length of the
stitches gives it room.
And if you want to make it v
strong, wind your cotton several times
around the threads between button and
cloth.
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MUST GET OFF CARS PROPERLY.
Women who get off the street cars
backwards will bother the Clevela
Ohio, Electric Railway no move,
least not on the new open cars. A de
vice, sprung from the inventure minds
of President Andrews and Manager
Stanley, will bring conster: n. to
femininity, but security to the railway
company claim department,
The natural tendency of women on
alighting, Andrews declares, is to
grasp the handrail with the right hand
and thus face the+¢rear. On the new
cars the only rail within reach will be
the one on the seat, which can, of
course, be grasped with only the left
hand. It is believed that this simple
arrangement will prevent many acci-
dents in the future.
A GIRL'S WARDROBE,
Tor a girl with a limited income the
best gowns she can buy are two tailor
gowns, both with walking length
skirts, one of dark blue or ford
cheviot, with a long coat very s iy
made.
Another tailor gown of fine black
broadelota or velvet with an elabor-
ate coat. If she is slight a hip length
or long coat; if stout an Eton. For the
morning gown have three pretty lin-
gerie blouses in white. or the after-
noon gown three elaborate waists.
fhree pretty hats will be sufficient;
one for cach suit and one for theater
wear. Have a reception and theater
gown and two simple evening gowns.
A black three-quarter loose coat ov
cape can be worn over the afternoon
and evening gowns. These gowns
worn with pretty acce ies such as
a marabout boa or furs, good gloves
and shoes will be quite enough.
LIVELIHOOD IN DOLL HOSPITAL.
Aside from the many occupations
svhich women are undertaking nowa-
days there are quite a few which are
not considered by the profession, and
these are the ones taken up by society
girls or those who have become tired
of their present positions. They are
genteel in the extreme, and should one
have a special talent for doing one
thing nicely, advantage may be taken
of it.
A young woman who found herself
face to face with the problem of earn-
jng a livelihood for herself and her
mother, had nothing to start on save
a good name and an acquaintance with
wealthy people. She was about to
study stenography and try for an office
position, when a successful business
woman asked her if she had no special
bent. The girl replied, laughingly, that
the only thing she had ever been good
for was to dress dolls. The experienced
woman saw possibilities in this one
gift, and advised her to start a doll
hospital in her mother’s pretty parlor.
To-day not only is the girl an adept at
mending dolls, repainting their fea-
tures and restoring them generally, but
she makes elaborate trousseaux for
Christmas dolls, furnishes doll houses
complete, and is now gradually work-
ing into the more serious occupation
of providing layettes for babies, for
whose lips there awaits a golden spoon.
She simply had a gift for making small
things daintily and effectively.
REFORM IN AUTOMOBILE TOGS.
One of the leading fashion magazines
advocates a reform in automobile togs.
A decided difference, it maintains, ex-
ists between the dress that is appro-
priate for long or for short autumobile
journeys, If we include in the short
ones only the use made of motors in
the summer, while living in the coun.
try, colors in costumes are the driving
fashion for wear while speeding about
country highways and byways—always
with reference, however, to the paint
color given of the machine that is
used. Geranium reds and frult reds
are perhaps more in vogue than other
colors, when they do not conflict with
the color of the automobile. Warm
reddish browns, certain shades of
green and chamois-leather tones, as
well as the deeper, more vivid saffrons,
are used, together with grays and stone
colors, the latter a capital color foil
for the scarlet red machine. For coun-
try use automobiles offer the most
enjoyable and satisfactory pleasure,
and there is no little obligation on
the part of the owners to dress in at-
tractive ways for the drive. It is in
the country use of an automobile that
the only chance is given a family to in-
troduce a picturesque dress appear-
ance by the wearing of costumes that,
while being perfectly fit, are also pleas-
ing to the eye. Greatly needed is this
contrast to the soiled, dust-colored
clothes and wraps which so disfigure
most men and women nowadays. In-
stead of suggesting pleasureable occa-
sions, the majority of motor carriage
occupants appear to be going through
an enforced torture in a grimy, slovenly
glooin that is depressing to the on-
locker.
KNITTING AS RECREATION.
A prominent physician near Boston
advocates knitting as an occupation
especially suited to persons who, for a
time, are equal to little exertion—men-
tal or physical—and who find it truly
hard work to sit in absolute idleness,
says a writer in Good Housekeeping.
Moreover, he himself tried the pre-
scription before giving it to his pa-
tients. Recovering from a long and
severe attack of typhoid fever, he
found that merely to “live out of doors
and keep cheerful’ was much more
difficult than it had seemed when he
had prescribed it for other people.
Even listening to re: : proved fa-
tiguing, and one day, in desperation,
he began to cut out paper dolls, and
then to color pictures in a magazine,
as he had seen his children do. Another
day he demanded silver to clean, and
finally he polished up some of the
1 ly jewelry. All this, however,
ing the necessary occu:
atisfactory because of
It was
not necessary that the er should
be polished daily, and there were
already more paper dolls in the house
than the children could dress in a
month. It was then that he learned
from his mother the plain knitting
which has comforted so many women
who “always want something in their
hands.” There was no counting of
stitches necessary, and the monotony
proved restful, while the occupation
was (diverting. With hands busy on
something to be used by his wife,
daughter, or even by the little girl's
doll, he could soon listen to reading
without wear or impatience
Even now, fully recovered and busy
with a large and varied practice, he
ionally takes up knitting to rest
thus literally working out in action
his theory, that real recreation seldom
although provi
uselessness,
its comparative
Gees
comes to a naturally active jnan
through absolute idieness. One of his
patients—a boy 19 years old—who was
stricken with paralysis several months
ago, now knits with much interest,
and finds the prescription of cheer
fulness more easily taken when his
fingers are doing something worth
while and his mind is free either to
work or rest.
Coral necklaces look well with the
pretty lawn dresses.
The demand for lace on gowns and
wraps is unabated.
Irish and Valenciennes laces are
used separately also in combination.
A preity collar which needs very
little sewing is one made of Cluny
lace insertion.
Fagotting in all colors comes in the
local shops, and in white it is es-
pecially pretty.
In accordance with the craze for
everything old-fashioned, coral sets of
all sorts are in vogue again.
Coral buckles for the belt, both in
front and back, are seen, as well as
coral stick pins for the ascot stock.
A pretty blouse, cuff and turnover
coral set is seen in the shape of good-
sized beads mounted on tiny gold pins,
Corset covers made of batiste with
hand-embroiedlerry as the decoration are
among the dainty articles for the trous-
seau.
One of the newest and most fashion-
able silks is called radium, and as its
name implies, it is soft, filmy and has
a wonderful sheen,
The handsomest Irish lace shows
heavy raised flowers, These add to
its richness and beauty and incidently
quadruple the cost.
Cooler than the long gloves, and
hence quickly launched into popular-
ity, are the adjustable cuffs of lingerie
or of lace, reaching from the wrist to
the elbow, and ready to be hasted into
place at a moment's notice,
FARM TOPICS
RO IIT
SOME USEFUL HINTS,
One of the best things and quickest
for cleaning hair brushes and combs
is gasoline; It will make them like new,
will not take more than five minutes,
and will not loosen the bristles, After
cleaning fish, rub the hands with salt;
it will remove all odor. If you have
had kerosene oil in a jug or dish of
any kind, wash well and rinse with
vinegar; it will not taste or smell of
the oil. These recipes have all been
tried and found to be good.—Mrs. Kate
Morehead, in The Epitomist.
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POULTRY ECONOMY,
Use sassafras poles for perches or
daub such poles as you may have with
a liberal supply of oil of sassafras to
keep the coop free from roost lice.
Throw some river sand or gravel in
a sunny corner of the chicken park.
The poultry will enjoy a good sunning
and dust bath.
For constipation in your flock give a
sprinkle of red pepperin the food. When
the bowels are loose use black pepper.
Keep plenty of clean water where the
poultry can get at it all hours of the
day.
Send your poultry to roost with a full
crop.
Give the poultry a pan of buttermilk
or thick skim milk occasionally.
Don’t let the poultry roost in a draft
or they will get colds in the heads and
consequently will not do as well for
laying or market as they will if well
cared for.—Cecil Abel Todd, in The
Epitomist.
RAISING FIELD CORN.
Corn is a rank feeder and will make
good use of well manured and properly
prepared ground. There should be
more or less, according to the fertility
of the land, of stable manure applied
and thoroughly incorporated with the
soil, and then a sufficient amount of
some good corn fertilizer put in the
hill along with the seed. This will give
the crop an early and vigorous start,
and last until the roots of the growing
plants come in contact with the
manure. The plantings should be done
reasonably early, or as soon as the
soil has become sufficiently warm and
dry after danger from frost is passed.
After the land is fitted for the crop
with present methods but little time is
required for the planting, so it can be
quickly done when it is considered
most desirable or the conditions are
all right.
When the writer was a young man
the growing even of a small amount
of corn was attended with much labor,
as everything had to be done by hand,
and much more work was required
than now when machinery takes the
place of manual labor.
Where the seed is put in with a
planter having a marker, the rows
should be of uniform width and
straight. If the field is long rather
than wide, the succeeding work of cul-
tivating the crop can be more readily
and economically performed.—Massa-
chuseits Ploughman.
HOGS AND ALFALFA,
There will be a greatly increased
acreage this year of alfalfa in this
and adjoining States, as farmers have
come to understand better how to grow
it. In view of this it is interesting to
have all experience possible for the use
of it for live stock. The Western
jréeder’s Journal, a Nebraska paper,
in which State alfalfa is grown largely,
refers to experience in pasturing al
falfa fields with hogs, and says that
in pasturing hogs on alfalfa without
feeding any corn was unsatisfactory,
and the Farm Journal says:
“They would gain in flesh nearly as
much in a day as the corn fed. We
also found that the total number of
pounds of gain on a drove of 100 head
of hogs that this small ration of corn
did not cost to exceed two cents a
pound for the gain made. We found
that three or four hogs to the acre,
and then cut the alfalfa three times,
just the same as we would had it not
been pastured, was much more satis.
factory than to run ten to twelve head
of hogs to the acre and not cut the
alfalfa. We can safely run thirty to
fifty head of hogs on ten acres of al-
falfa, cut it three times, and hardly
know that the hogs were on the alfalfa.
“During the last summer we made
a gain of eight-tenths of a pound daily
on hogs weighing an average of 100
pounds each by feeding only one pound
of ground wheat to each hog. On this
pasture we run only about five head to
the acre and cut the alfalfa three
times, and we could not tell the differ
ence between the pasture carrying five
hogs to the acre and the adjoining one
not pastured at all. We have found
that it was almost an impossibility
to get a hog to eat enough alfalfa hay
during the winter to sustain life, but
by cutting the hay fine with a feed
cutter and mixing it with ground corn
meal, wetting it well, we can get then
to eat from five to six pounds of dry
alfalfa a day, and in this way wad
winter them very satisfactorily, secur-
ing steady gain during the entire sea-
son. Alfalfa, a laxative food, keeps
the system in perfect order and males
it safe to feed a larger quantity of corn
than without it. The greatest trouble
in getting the small pigs or shoats tc
eat alfalfa is that it is too coarse for
them to digest, and we were not sab
isfied even with the cut alfalfa. Re»
cently we have been grinding the al
falfa, mixing it with ground corn and
feeding it as slop. Not only the small
pigs and shoats, but the old brood
sows have done much better than ever
before on alfalfa meal and ground
corn.”
THE SEARCH FOR THE
$100,000 MAN,
Fabulous Salaries For Unknown
Abilities a Part of the Present-Day
Fever For Consolidation and Crab
The search for hundred-thousand-dol-
lar men, one of the popular pursuits
after the formation of the Steel Trust,
has not yet run its course, though some
of the finds have proved to be men
who could sink a hundred thousand
dollars quicker than they could earn it.
Charles M. Schwab is supposed to
have been the first of these round-
figure gentry. He is said to have torn
up a five-year contract with Carnegie
when he learned that it stood in the
way of his friend selling out to Mor-
gan, This is the biggest thing Schwab
ever did. As manager of the Steel
Trust he did not rise high and as pro-
moter of the Ship-Building Trust he
fell very low.
Then the Equitable had its hundred-
thousand-dollar President and Vice-
President. They have succeeded only
in bringing the company to shame, the
policy-holders to tears and the direec-
tors to blows. Their value appears
only in the expense account. The
President did not find a one-hundred-
thousand-dollar man to dig the canal,
and perhaps it is as well—-they are
hoodoos.
Fabulous salaries for unknown abili-
ties are a part of the fever for consoli-
dation and grab. There is a good deal
of the circus poster about the business,
and the immense salaries paid or ad-
vertised to be paid appear to have heen
part of the scheme.—Minneapolis Jour-
nal.
T WISE WORDS.
Patience pays.
Let love not vigit you as a transient
guest, but be the constant temper cf
your soul.
Let nothing that is divine be left
out of my faith, let nothing that is
human be left out of my fellowship.—
Henry Doty Maxson.
Those who attain any excellence com-
mony spend life in one common pur-
suit; for excellence is not gained upon
easier terms.—Samuel Johnson.
“Holine is an infinite compassion
for others; greatness is to take the
common things of life and walk truly
among them; happiness is a great love
and much serving.”
Love is not getting, but giving; not a
wild dream of pleasure and a madness
of desire—oh, no, love is not that—it is
goodness honor and peace and
pure living—yes, love is that; and it is
the best thing in the worid and the
thing that lives longest.—Henry van
Dyke.
Always say a kind word if you can,
if only that it may come in, perhaps,
with singular opportuneness, entering
some mournful man’s darkened room
like a beautiful firefly, whose happy
convolutions he cannot but watch, for-
getting his many troubles.—Arthur
Helps.
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Tale of Babu Officialdom,
An amusing story of Babu official
dom comes from Aden. An officer in
charge of a post in the hinterland had,
in addition to his military duties, to
look after the dispatch of the mails.
One day he learned that he had in-
curred a reprimand at the Postoffice,
and that an entry to that effect had
been made against his name. He
treated the matter lightly, and inquired
whether the reprimand involved a fine
or imprisonment or both. He was then
informed that by this misplaced levity
he had incurred a second repriraznd,
Further inquiry disclosed that his orig
inal offense lay in sealing the mail bags
improperly. He had not been proveded
with an official seal, and in lieu thereof
he had stamped the wax with a large
uniform button. As this gave the im-
press of a crown and the royal arms,
he mo doubt considered it a rather
happy makeshift, but the Hindu official
at the other end was of a different
opinion, with the dire results above
mentioned.—London Truth.
How to Learn to Swim.
Give a boy a board or a piece of tim-
ber large enough to support him so
long as he rests only his hands upon
it, and keeps his body well submerged.
Let him learn now the lesson of the
supporting power of water by raising
his feet from the bottom, by jump-
ing and dancing, while holding the
board to avoid an involuntary duck-
ing. It will not require much time for
him to find that the water will all but
hold him up, and ‘hat his dependence
on the board need not be very great.
Teach him that the less he exposes
his body or arms above surface the
easier it is to keep up. Let him ralse
his arms above his head and see how
much’ easier it is to keep his feet on
pottom, and then, putting his arms
under again how easily his feet seem
to leave the sand.—Country Life in
America.
Kaicer Dines With Sailors,
The Kaiser, while at Kiel, inspected
the cruiser Luebeck and partook of
the rough fare of the sailors, says a
Berlin cable to the ‘hicago Inter-
Ocean,
He arrived at dinner time and found
that the crew was being served out of
a huge pot containing a mixture or
peas and salt beef.
“Well, my children, what have you
for dinner to-day?’ he asked.
“Peas, your majesty,” was the reply.
“That is excellent fare if it is well
cooked,” said the Emperor, and he
seized a plate, which he heaped high
with the food.
“That is culinary luxury,” he re-
marked when he‘ had finished.
The armies of continental countries
pre the first bran:h of the service.
DEMOCRACT.
There is a Bowery restauranteur—they call
him “Coffee Jake'-— :
Who makes a humble specialty of servisg
Hamburg steak.
He shouts your order down the tube, “A
chopper—make it flat!” .
The meat comes hot and costs a dime—
and isn’t bad at that,
But at the new St. Rich Hotel more formal
airs you'll find,
And one who goes to luncheon leaves the
simple life behind.
A footman meets you at the steps, another
at the door,
And lined up to the dining room stand
many, many more.
A butler bows you to the room, a waiter
to your ¢ air,
And Tuncheon takes the aspect of a serious
affair,
A flunkey brings a menu card with rev-
erent aspect—
The heavens are hushed and waiting for
the order you select.
You pause. You're rather short on French,
but then you'll make a bluff.
A Something a la Something Else scems
nourishing enough.
The waiter takes your order and attends
to your commands,
As grave as an ambassador with nations
on his hands.
With portents of a great event the atmos-
phere is stored.
The silver forks and crystal glass gieam on
the snowy board,
And hark! the corps of servitors attention
seem to stand—
The waiter is approaching with your order
in his hand!
A silver dish of fair design he sets beneath
your nose,
And hits the cover tenderly its wonders to
disclose,
When--lights of poorer, humbler days and
shades of “Coffee Jake!”
You recognize no other than your friend,
the Hamburg steak!
MORAL.
When one, through change of circumstance,
becomes p gilded denizen,
It’s fun to see a Hamburg steak assume
the airs of venison.
—Wallace Irwin, in Life.
Can't you give me a little
hope?’ She—“Why—er—yes. I have
a maiden aunt who is dying to get
married.”—Life.
Whene'’er I buy a suit of clothes
The mirror makes me very sad.
I cannot, howsoe'er I pose,
Look like the picture in the ad.
—Washington 8
your idea of a ck
“A classic,” said Mr. Cumrox, “is some
thing you have to listen to
somebody else said it
Washington Star.
Hawkins — “That pickpocket they
caught is really a very intelligent fel
low.” Sampson—"“No doubt of it. He
proved that by his ability to locate a
lady’s pocket.”—Judge.
“She's still encouraging Mr. Hug
gard, although her mother told her she
must keep him at a distance.” “Well
she’s keeping him at a distance—fromw
the other girls.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Mrs. Hicks—“John, I'm sure there's 8
burglar down in the dining-room.” Mr
Hicks (sleepily)—'"CGood! If we keep
quiet maybe he'll take away that chaf
ing dish of yours.”—Philadelphia Press
“What is
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was g
ood.’’'—
It is easy enough to be cheerful
When pleasures come fast and thick,
But the man worth while
Is the man who can smile
When his ‘““woolens” begin to stick.
—Chicago Record-Herald.
“Don’t let it happen again, that's
all,” said Johnny's mother when she
heard Johnny had played truant. “If
didn’t happen this time,” replied John
ny between his sobs. “I did it on pur-
pose.”—Boston Transcript.
Bleeker—“Say, old chap, I'm in
beastly bad luck; need money badly
and haven't the least idea where I can
get it.” Baxter—“Well, I'm glad tc
hear that—I thought perhaps you had
an idea you could touch me for it.”’—
Puck. &
Mrs. Grawf{ord—“Now that the hon-
eymoon is over I suppose you find
vour husband has grown economical
with his kisses?’ Mrs. Crabshaw—
“He has reached a worse stage than
that, my dear. Ile has grown econom-
ical with his money.”’—Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The Chinese Coolie,
Lieutenant-Colonel Mainfield, of the
British army, writes: “My admi-
ration for the Chinese coolie is un-
bounded; there is no man in the world
who does the same patient, laborious
work so cheerfully. Farther on, when
we came to the mountainous water-
shed country, where only load backs
are possible, I became still more con-
firmed in this opinion. Often after a
long and weary day with the sur-
veyors, in the course of which we
would have climbed up from 5000 to
8000 feet, and made several such as-
cents and descents, having, perhaps,
been on the move from 5 in the morn-
ing until dusk, we would come in,
rather inclined to pat ourselves on the
back at the thought of what a hard
day's work we had successfully ac-
complished, only to find that the Chi-
nese coolies had made as good time,
each man having covered nearly as
much ground with a load of 100
pounds on his back. This done on a
few bowls of rice and bean curd, for
a wage of less than ninepence (18
cents).
“Then, on their arrival, one might
have thought that the coolies would
have been glad to vest; but if, as was
often the case where aecommodation
was limited, I slept in the same house,
I found to my annoyance that to re-
tire to bed was far from their thoughts
and that my sleep was often disturbed
by the noise they made as they say
up gambling long past midnight and
yet they would be again on the road
before 6 in the morning, having risen
to make up their loads and get their
food cooked before 6 o’clock,’—Chicag
News,
THE MOSQUITOES OF
MMAUBIN, IN BURMA.
In Number, Size and Virulent Ae
tivity They Are Unsurpassed in the
World ~Fortrestel.ike Protection.
Maubin, in Burma, says the author
of “The Silken East,” possesses its
greatest claim to notice, or rather noto-
riety, In its populace of mosquitoes.
These, in number, size and virulent
activity, are unsurpassed in the world.
One's first visit to Maubin in the
mosquito season is an experience, and
to see them under the flare of an elec.
tric light, coming over the ship's sides
in hordes, and occupying like an irre-
sistible army every fraction of its sur-
face; to see them hanging in festoons
from the white awnings, the mosquito
nets, the table linen and the punka
flaps, and from every object on which
they can secure a footing, is to have
lived indeed.
How to continue to live after the
novelty of the spectacle has worn off
is the definite problem of existence in
Maubin., It is achieved in the main
by entrenching oneself within an iron
fortress of fine mesh,
A European house in Maubin is thus
a curiosity. Every window—and in the
tropics there is an infinity of windows
—is protected by sliding curtains of
iron gauze; every ventilator under the
eaves, every open space between the
room partitions and the roof—and for
the sake of air such spaces are large
and frequent—is barred against in-
vasion by sheets of gauze. In soma
houses there is a special room, a kind
of inner citadel and last refuge, which
is wholly of iron gauze, and within it
the master of the house sits like a vans
quished lion in a cage.
To enter this fortress in advance of
the enemy calls for the exercise of
agility of a high order. The doors have
springs, and are made to close the in-
stant they are released. Outside them
the light cavalry of the enemy hovers
in clouds. The man within, this Eng-
lishman in his strange castle, observes
your approach with furtive and anx-
ious eyes. He begs of you to be care-
ful in entering. Immediately you en-
ter he falls with astonishing onslaught
upon such of the enemy as have come
in on your back, in your hair, in the
creases of your clothes.
Work.
‘fhe work which presents no difficul-
ties to be overcome soon grows un-
interesting.
If it is true that good work implies
that the workman knows himself, it
is equally true that the best work
shows that ne has forgotten himself.
There is only right way to work—
and it is neither in doing things before
tuey are started, nor in doing them all
over again after they are finished.
Go to some successful workman and
ask him which of his days were the
happiest, and it's long odds that he'll
say to you, “Those in which I began
my career.”
It is only when at work that man
fulfills his proper place in God's crea-
ture scheme. They are indeed rare
exceptions who “also serve, who only
stand and wait.”
The world is altogether too restricted
in its use of the word “art.” Work of
any kind, done superlatively well, is
art—dusting pictures as well as paint-
ing them.
A good worker is pretty much like a
horse, after all. When it's. up-hill
going, don't worry him; when it's
down-hiil going, don’t hurry him; and
be sure and take good care of him
once he's in the barn.—Success Maga-
Zine,
The Missing Chickens.
‘A banker in a Western city bought
some chickens of a ranchman and told
tho man to deliver them at his house.
When he went home at noon his wife
met him at the door and told him with
great consternation that the mar
brought in the chickens as he had
promised, but instead of putting them
in the hen house, had left them on the
‘lawn, and they had all disappeared.
Forgetting his dinner, he started off
in no very amiable frame of mind in
pursuit of the missing fowls. After
scouring the neighboring alleys for
‘some time, he came back triumphantly
driving the lost chicks.
When in a few days he met the of.
fending ranchman, he demanded, se-
verely: “What did you mean by leav-
ing those chickens on my lawn the
other day? I hunted the neighborhood
over for them, and then could sind only
eleven!”
“You did mighty well,” was the mild
reply. “I only left six.”—Grace M
Crawford, in Harper's.
tf A Box For Buttons.
TThen replacing the lost buttons of
garments it is very important that the
new buttons should be of the same
size as the old ones.
Jareless menders pay no attention
to this trifling detail, and the conse-
quence is that buttons that are too
small will not remain fastened, and
those which are too large tear the but-
tonholes. A button box for storing
reserve buttons should find a place
in every mending-basket.
In this receptacle should be put all
buttons which have been ripped oif
old garments, as well as any complete
set of butrons there may be.
Housekeepers who pick up and put
away in its allotted place every button
which falls into their hands may save
themselves many purchases.—New
Advertiser.
Military Correspondents.
A recent British Army order states
that officers acting as press correspond
ents with 2n army in the ‘field are
forbidden to use their military rank
or to describe themselves as military
correspendents in their published cow-
munications.