Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limits OFFICE: MAIS SI-MEET ABOVE CENTBE. FREELAND, PA. SUliSCltli-riON RATES: On# Year SLSO Bti Month. 75 four Months 50 Two Months . .25 The date which the subscription is paid to la on the address label o( each ;sr-'r, the change of which to a subsequent date be ootnes a receipt Tor remittance. Keep the figures In advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever pape/ Is not received. Arrearages must be pait When subscription Is discontinued. Make all mon>y orderi, check*, tic,, payabU to the Tribune printmj Company, Limited In his fast day proclamation Gov ernor Llewellyn Powers, of Maine, styled this "the sunset year of the nineteenth century." The word "inoircamscriptibleness" has been included in the new Oxford Dictionary, where it is explained "as the quality of being incapable of lim itation." The "policeman's lot" in Boston appears to be a "happy one." A vet eran member of the force died the other day, leaving an estate of 853,000. Munkacsy, the famous painter, whose "Christ Before Pilate" is one of 1 the immortal triumphs of art, died in an insane asylum. Ouo more verifi cation of the familiur saying "between genius and insanity there is only a thin partition." _ There seems to be an excellent chance for paper making in the South, j Every Southern State has one or more varieties of trees suitable for paper I making, and there is almost an inex- j liaustlble supply of wood in the South. Paper is made out of bagasse, or | sugar cane, in Texas, and out of pop- ! lar and spruce in Virginia and West Virginia. The technology of the automobile has been enriched by a new word, namely, "bubbling," meaning to nde an automobile. The word has been derived from "automobubble," a cor- j rnption of "automobile." To be in good form in automobile circles one must not speak of riding, driving, | conducting or operating these new vehicles, but must describe thg act as "bubbling" in them. An lowa young man not loug ago proposed marriage to a young woman ' und was accepted. But hearing that her hair was false he declined to ful fil his engagement. She brought suit against him for breach of promise, ' and, being put on the stand, ad- 1 mitted that she wore a wig; where upon she was non-suited ou the ground that she had won the young mau'3 affections under falso pretences. Invention is essentially continuous and progressive. It grows partly by development from within of the orig inal idea, partly by the incorporation of various modifications and improve meats fiom without. There is prno tically no such thing as finality in in vention—no stage at which the in veutor may fold his bauds and say, with absolute certainty, "it is fin ished." The recognition of this truth has been the foundation rock upon which the majority of the epoch-mak ing inventions of history have beeu built np. Something in the nature of a bill of rights has been granted to the Fili pinos in the new system of procedure which has been put in force in the islands. The feature of secrecy iu the Spauish procedure is abolished, and in place of it the American sys tem of a public trial of the accused, with the right of confronting wit nesses and cross-examining them through counsel is substituted. There is also exemption from unreasonable searches, a novel degree of liberty for the islanders. All residents accused of crimes are tried before the ordinary tribunals, and the American rules of evidenco are pnt in force throughout the islands. An Ifftit to Explain. A gentleman who had engaged an Intelligent French maid was at work in his library at one end of his house, when it struck him, from certain sounds, that something must be wronj In. the drawing room, at the other end of the house. So he rang his bell, and the maid came. "What are those cries that I seem to hear in the direction ol the drawing room, Marie?" he asked. "I do not precisely know, monsieur," she answered. "At one time I 3ink it is madarae who sing, and at anozzei time I am sure it is ze *;at and ze do| who fight, monsieur!" Sheets, blankets, pillows and cover lets or counterpanes were frequent sub jects of bequests in the middle ages. THE LIVINC VISION OF THE GARDENS. And have you left me like a dream that fading Leaves .sweet, uncertain memories behind? And are the dusk wings of the Twilight shading Your sad, sweet eye9—your lips with klsse9 kind? Oh, then, to Twilight be mv soul's upbraiding, Since 'ueath her wings no rosy rest I find; ADJ O the Night, whose darkness bans and bars Ail save the answerless and icy stursi But now you stood with dewy, lifted lashes Aud saw the soul in Love's ungarded eyes; But now, tumultuous us a torrent dashes, I saw the red blood to the dimples rise! For Thought was Love, and as the lightning flashes And ift-illumes the darkness of the skies. So Hashed Love's thought—beyond the heart's control- Fair face to face, and unveiled soul to soul. To-night the light from your dear windows streaming Makes all the gardens beautiful; to-night Soft eyes with love beneath your glance are beaming And lips are fain to kiss your baud so white. But who without, in darkness there, is dreaming— Cast like a lost soul from the Gates of Light? The red thorns know him, for their spears are presfc Over the wild heart In his wounded breast. The red thorns know him—brow and breast enthralling. And yet the rose-leaves all their anger veil. Is not your heart with quickened beat recalling The crimson legend of the Nightingale? Forsong tells how, when Twilight shades were falling, It hymned Love's tender oft-repeated tale, Where bloomed one wild and wondrous rose apart, Singing while sank the thorn-spears in its heartl Fair grace to you, O lady, of the lashes That vainly veil the utterance of your eye 9! The thorn lives reddening o'er the rose's ashes, Aud song is sweeter when 'tis set to 9lgh9. The bright light hither from your window flashes: Mute is the music aud the laughter dies. Life Is not all In laughter and in light, Fcr weariness mu9t weep and wish Goodnight. And so, goodnlghtl Yours are these gardens gleaming Beneath the mystery of sun and dew. Sweet bo your dreams! But in my lonely dreaming Comes ever only the dear thought of you! Soon will the sunlight o'er the gray walls streaming The promise of the rosy morn renew, When I shall see your face—no morn so bright! I drift to dreams of you. Goodnight! Goodnight! | THE END OF THE STORY, j BV JULIA] TRUITT BISHOP. •i- ,r, i . „ YF, R Y few min utes, during the Hrf had peeped out fief £SS I of the window Hi '<w3 to Bee if he were com ' n S- Twenty times she had trailed her beau • tiful robe up and down the room, and had looked at her reflectioiNu the tall mirror, tiTrning her pretty head aud posing with a childish delight. "Think of it, Kitty! Think of it!" she had cried to the white cat, watch ing her with lazy surprise from the rug. "He has been away two years! dear old, honest, stupid, loving Bob! -—and I was so poor when he went away—so wretchedly poor and hard working in that awful school. Why, he always saw me in shirt waists and skirts, Kitten! I never had a whole dress—never! And now look at this! —and my beautiful, beautiful home— and money enough to make any num ber of people happy. I was almost sorry that he had grown rich, Kitty- Cat, but what does it matter? He liked me when I was poor—and that is the test, after all. How glad he'll be—how very glad " And thought of it had set her mus ing, so that she did not even hear the bell when he rang, did not know that he was coming uutil he was standing at the door, big aud strong and suu burned, and holding out both hands, She flow to him then, forgetting the pretty home aud the dress and all the rest of it. There was such a flame iu her cheeks, snub a shining delight iu her eygs that he might have beeu par doned if he had kissed her. Her face was uplifted—there was a tremulous smile ou her lips. He might so easily have kissed her, for old times' sake if for nothing else, and because they had been companions and chums in pov erty and misfortune. But he did not. He held her away from hira by both bands, instead, and looked over her with astonished scrutiny. "Jupiter, Nell!—but you have eome out!" he cried. "If I had met you auj where else I wouldn't have known you—on my word, I wouldn't—espe cially in that dress. I never saw yon wear anything like that," he added, apologetically. "Well, of course not!" she replied, gaily, giving him a seat near the fire, and bringing her own chair opposite. "Fancy an underteacher at Madame Tully's wearing crepe de ohino! But, oh, isn't pretty, Bob? Isn't every thing pretty. Aud weren't you glad?" '• "Wasn't I!" cried the man, cor dially. "It was just like a story, yon know. Do you remember how we used to pretend you and I were living b story, and that everything that hap pened was part of it?" A brighter color had flamed np into the girl's face. Bob paused a little while to admire it, and to recall slowly that in the old school-teaching days Bhe had been a little pule. "When it turned around that I had to go out to the mines, you know," he went on, genially, "we talked it over—do yon remember that night? and then after a while we laughed be cause we were only in a story, and the story was bound to come out right, and no matter how bad things looked I was dead sure to come back in a year or two with loads of money." "Just as you have," murmured the i girl. She had turned her chair around a little, and was looking at the fire. "Weren't we foolish youngsters?" he asked, with houest amusement. "I suppose we had to have a lot of fun to keep us from losing heart with all that confounded poverty and hard times. Bat it was yon that got it up —you musn't forget that. I'd never have thought of it myself." "To pass away the time," said the girl, softly, with the firelight making a flickering gleam in her eyes. "Oh, of course!" he responded, heartily. "The only part of it that I originated was that I was to come back rich, and after that you wouldn't have to teach, or to have any more hard times—and—all that,you know." Her hands were in her lap, and she did not stir; but insensibly her fin gers tightened over one another, to keep from trembling. He did not see it. He was looking ather with amused reminiscenoe in his eyes. "X don't know when I'd ever thought of our story before," he went on, "until your letter came, six months ago, telling about your Uncle Waldemar's death, and how the home and the fortune and everything had gone to you. It all flashed over me then, and I said to myself, 'That's part of the story!' Say, Nell, you and I are contributing a pretty in teresting little serial to the world, don't you think?" With a wrench she brought herself to raise her eyes from the fire and look at him steadily. If there was a film of moisture over tyem he did not notice it. "We have both had groat good for tune, Bob," she said. "We never dreamed of anything quite so grand as this, even in our story. Think of me with servants and a chaperone—no one ever doubted that I could take care of myself as long as I was poor, but now it is quite different. And a home— think of mo with any kind of a home! I had lived in rented houses all my life, and very poor ones at that. And here I am, my own mistress " "And that reminds me—you haven't heard the best of my fortune yet," cried the man, growing more radiant as he came to the pieoe of news that would please her best. Ho was feel ing for something in his breast pocket, and he drew it forth presently—a pho tograph of a girl, with a petted, baby ish face and a pert upward tilt of the chin. "There she is," ho said, smiling and reddening with pride and pleasure be neath the tan. "Her father is presi dent of the company, and she and her mother have been out here most of the fall on n visit to him." She held the photograph with a steady hand and gazed at it for a long time —so long that he grew tired of waiting and went on with hie jubilant explanation. "She doesn't like living at the mines," he said, "so 1 have sold out my interests there. They are all com ing on in a week or two, and we are to be married next month. You are to be first bridesmaid, Nell—l have told her all about you. You'll never be lieve that at first she was inclined to be jealous!" "Poor, silly little girl!" said Nell, laughing softly at the idea. "Yes—that's what I told her. If she could only know you, I said, sho'd never have another feeling of that sort. But at any rate, she's over it cow. lam going to try to get a home somewhere near this, where you can be with her most of the time—unless you'll come and live with us, Nell, which would be the most delightful thing in the world. She's such a child, you know, and she must have 1 company most of the time " She stirred at last, slowly and pain . fully, and laid the photograph down ; on the table. The flame had died i down in the grate, and its glow had : suddenly slipped from her face. ' "You were so kind to think of it, i Bob," she said, with a smile on her • pallid lips, "you know that would be ; lovely. I couldn't have dreamed of anything better myself. But—didn't ' I tell you? I am going away next week—to-morrow—and will not be i here when she comes. Give her my I best love, won't you? and tell her that 1 I know she'll be happy with the best > fellow in the world." "Going away!" oried Bob, in dis may. "Why, Noll! And leave your i now home?—and just when I have ; come back, too!" "Selfish, isn't it?" she replied, , rising as he arose, and leaning one [ hand lightly on the mantel—hot for support surely? "But I was always selfish, Bob; and the passion for travel is on me. You can't expect me to re member friends when I have worlds of money and am my own mistress. I am off to California—Japan, perhaps —I haven't decided yet." "And I had been planning such a lovely continuation of our story," he said, dejectedly. "You might stay awhile for my sake, Nell. Away out there in the mines I have been think ing what jolly times we'd have to gether—with her—and how we'd laugh over old times—and over that story of ours " "Yes, they have been so amusing," she said lightly, yet with a thread of agony running through the note of gaiety. "I shall never think of them without laughing. You can always picture me wandering around the old world—always with my chaperone— and laughing to think of the old times. But the story is at an end, Bob." She shook hands with him, and he went away with a puzzled frown on his brows. She stood where he had left her, white faced, and yet with a smile on her lips. The cat came to her and rubbed against her delicate dress. She took the animal and pressed her cheek against its soft fur. I "The end of the story, Kitty," she said, desolately. "The end of the story." POPULAR SCIENCE. The brilliant sunsets due to the dust from the great volcauio explo sion at Krakotoa are still a vivid memory. Mr. Horace Darwin sug gests that dust from the Leonid met eors may have bsen a cause of reoent striking sunsets. The lung differs from all othei structures in having two separate cir culations, the nutritive, supplied by the left side of the heart through the bronchial arteries; and the functional, supplied by the right side of the heart through the pulmonary artery. This double circulation underlies all the phenomena of pneumonia, and musl be reoognized in any definition of the disease, as without it the disease it self cannot exist. Sir James Sawyer, M. D., writes in the Lancet that he has studied cancer for a third of a century, and has come to the conclusion that one of the pre disposing factors is the excessive con- : sumption of meat. He thinks "it is among the men of the masses in Eng land and Wales, that the progressive increase in cauoer in the period under consideration is mainly to be found. | Steam appears to have brought us cheap food, and cheap food has mul tiplied our cases of canoer by two." The twentieth century will have about 380 eclipses, according to Mr. B. F. Yannery, the solar being to the lunar in about the ratio of four to three. For the first time in any cal- I ondar year since 1823, the year 1935 will have seven eclipses, the largest possible number. The total solar j eclipses visible in the United States | will occur in 1918, 1923, 1925, 1915, | 1954, 1979, 1984 and 1994. Thore 1 will be twelve transits of Mercury, the first in 1907, but the more impor tant transit of Venus will not occur, its next date being June 8, 2004. The early history of appendicitis j cannot be traced, but Dr. George M. | Edehohle believes the first reference to it to have been in 1642. The first j recorded operation on the appendix was performed August 24th, 1883. The j first successful removal of the appen dix was carried out on May Bth, 1886, j and since that time the percentage ol successful operations has been slowly increasing. The obstructing bodies found include a great variety of arti cles, pins being very common. About four per cent, of all women are said to [ have appendicitis, the male victims boing fewer. What life in other worlds may be is ! an ever fascinating theme for specula tion. Two English biologists, Geof frey Martin and Dr. F. J. Allen, have been considering the matter, and agree in the conclusion that vital pro cesses depend on the existence of an element whose oompounds are in a condition of critical equilibrium at life temperatures. Mr. Martin, however, looks upon carbon as the fundamental life element, while Dr. Alleh finds nitrogen the essential substance. Mr. Martin thinks that in the high tem peratures of Jsome celestial bodies a series of complex and instable silicon compouuds may be formed and that in warmer worlds than ours silicon life may be possible. Possibly our silicon secreting diatoms and sponges are a link connecting us with a silicon fauna of a hotter age on earth. The Motto of the Successful. "Do it now," is the motto adopted by a more than usually successful mad of affairs, a man who. while he actu ally gives less time apparently to busi ness, public or personal affairs than many men I know, of a certainty does accomplish more in evhry way, "all owing to my doing a thing the very moment it is thoughtof, that is, if it is possible. If I should wait, a thou sand petty hindrances would arise, and so I take advautage of things as they come, whether it be to see a man on business, to look up an address, to write a check, or to order my spring suit. There is no time like the very moment at hand for keeping even with yourself. This is a bit of philosophy evolved from many years of the worka day, and my plan works like a charm in circumventing the rush of things." —Detroit Free Press. An Infallible Teat. Put up a sign, "Fresh Paint," any where, and nine out of every ten men that pass it will dab their fingers on it and act surprised to find out it is.— New York Press. SUMMER NEEOLfc-WORK. The Way to Provide Vonr Autumn Ward robe l>urlng the Warm Mouths. The summer months are often as sociated with thoughts of relaxation— vacation times, not to say idling. As a matter of fact it is the time par excellence in which the woman of do mestic taste naturally turns to needle craft. This may take the form of fancy embroidery, the development of now ornamental stitohes, such as now figure so largely in the dress-making domain or the making-up of fancy underwear, the marking of table linen, etc. Every branch ha 3 its own quota of interest and devotees. Art embroidery, such as is to be seen upon th 3 handsome centre pieces and bed-linen of the present, includes a great deal of raised work, together with fancy open stitches, the making of which is one of the most fascinating employments for the needle-womau whose tastes run only to the decorative; but the varied trimming of gowns of the present season is of an equally high order of workmanship, and the clever needle woman during the summer may, if she will, provide her autumn ward robe with any number of beautiful accessories, such as handsome em broidered scarfs, ruffles, or yokes, which continue to be plentifully used. Where the needle-woik laid out for the summer is to consist of the dec oration of dresses, the intending worker should prepare herself by a little knowledge of the cutting and fitting of n garment she contemplates ornamenting. Nothing "takes" em oroidery with handsomer results than crepe de chine, yet scarcely any ma terial is more difficult to haudle. Generally speaking, the best effects can be secured by purchasing or em broidering separate figures and ap plying them to the crepe with regular applique stitch. Where this is done the garment may be made com plete before adjusting the trimming. Where the embroidery is to be done while the crepe is still in the piece this latter should be basted to a firm sheet of paper and the design em broidered through both crepe and paper. When the chosen garniture is complete the paper may be cut away and carefully picked out so as to leave no inartistic stiffness. Ribbon embroidery is reappearing on handsome gauze gowns. This is a style of decoration which may be accomplished very rapidly. It con sists in forming petals of gauze, thin taffeta, or unstiffened gros grain rib bon,and working centre pistils in seed stitches that secure the imitation petals in position, while leaving the outer edges comparatively loose. A handsome dinner gown of mousseline desoie, which is designed for elaborate summer functions, shows this style of embroidery in flue effect. Large prim roses of silk gauze form the figure of the motive, the petals boing slightly raised by means of an interlining of cotton. Elaborate trimmings of this kind, however, are worthy only of materials which make a great display. A simpler trimming and one that gives an "air" to simple silk waistsor skirts, consists ol lines of herring bone stitohes, from beneath which the material is cut away.—Harper's Hazar, Ah to Drapery* The threatened bonne femme skirt was bad enough, but now there seems to bo a movement towards crosswise fullness. Yes, one or two of the imported evening dresses show this very effect which we were wont to call draping. Now, draping sounds well, and in deed, it is very lovely and graceful, especially for curtains and canopies. But for our ownselves—well, if it's just the same to the designer, we'd rather not. It is man, dear man! who usually gives himself the trouble of thinking out these elaborate nuisances for poor, incapable femiuinity. And right here we'd like to know what he has against us. If he really thinks draped clothing so altogether admir able, why doesn't he put in a bit of his valuable time conjuring up puffed waistcoats, plaited coats and draped breetches with dust-catching rallies for his own sex? It really isn't fair to load upon us all the wondrous children of his gigantic brain. Really, we are not selfish; we'd delight to shara our loveliness with him! Especially the draped part of it. Drapery, you know, while possess ing a string of virtues, gsts even by also possessing even more vices. Out side of the faot that it's always be coming disarranged, there's the gentle little way it has of sagging down un til the fair wearer catches her foot in it. Being thrown 'down by graceful drapering is „jo more consoling than a loss of picturesquo tumble. If you break your nose, it's broken, and that's all.—Philadelphia Record. Health Prr, Then Talent. "What is a year of study or the loss of standing in the class compared to sound health?" asks a physician writ ing in the Woman's Home Companion of "The Handicap of 111 Health," and | further declares that "during the l period of the ohild's growth the par ent's authority should be suprome, and the child's health should out weigh all other matters. When the child begins its studies a new factor lis introduced into its little life. Na - turo takes on an additional burden. The mind is awakenod, and tlie nerves begin an activity that must bo kept within certain well-defined limits. Let the child show the first serious symptoms of nervous disorder or over study, and tho duty of the parent sud denly overtops that of the instructor. There is only one safe course to pur sue. The child should be taken from the school until the physical balanoa has been recovered. It is better to let him grow up without a systematic education than to continue in hid sickly coarse acquiring all the ac cumulated wisdom of the ages. Let the ohild reach maturity without a break-down and with but few days of aickness scored against him, and he will attack tho problem of life with a zest and earnestness that will half win the battle. Rear him in sickness and indifferent health and he will stand fearfully handicapped in the race." Picture Coiffures Are Coming. An artistic coiffeur says that the hair will be worn in a low coil at the back of the head this summer, if only to give the crown of the head n rest. The front tresses are to be worn in a pretty way that is novel and very be coming to many faces. It is a mode seen in paintings of fair dames in the days of powder, and from one of the picture galleries the idea has probably been borrowed. It is very much the fashion to make picture gowns "after" Romney and Sir Joshua, David and other court painters, and it is only natural that the wonderful puffs and ourls and ringlets that these gentle men loved to depict should be revived by the ambitious modern hairdresser. In this-new coiffure there is, just in the centre of the forehead or a little to the left side, a big, loosely built curl, rising erect from the brow, and the hair at the side is puffed up very softly and fluffily to meet it, all the becoming qualities of the pompadour being thus preserved without the sameness and stiffness of the mode to which wo have become so wearily accustomed. With so much height no high ornaments are needed, and a clump of flowers will take th place of upstanding sprays. In Paris, how ever, a very thick bunch of aigrette plumes is the correot and favorite ornament. Gauzy Trimmings For Llrap Hats. Gauzy flowers and gauzy ribbons and gauzy rosettes or pompons are the natural trimming for one of the new hats of limp horsehair, "yedda" braid or soft silky straw. These have no appreciable weight and are a relief in hot weather, which makes a heavy hat a species of torture. Double-faced satin ribbon, bows and fans of velvet, jetted wings and crowns, to say noth ing of birds plumages, make a hat or bonnet iuoredibly heavy to press upon the brow on a warm day. The Fashionable Figure. The reign of the woman who is at all stout is entirely past. Just now, to be really correct, we must be very straight and thin and tall. Indeed, oar bodices are beiug sent home to us so incased in whalebone that it feels like getting chain armor to put on a new frock. But, as we have to be straight and slim to be correct, we have, of oourse, to take steps to be come so at whatever cost of personal discomfort. Talenciennes lace will be very pop ular for trimming the thin summer gowns. Fine designs in Cluny lace appear on new summer toilets, waists and linen lawn and oambric lingerie. Silk-warp gypsy cloth and silk-warp eolienne are new and fashionable dress fabrics that appear in all the beautiful pastel colorings of tho sea son. The very high choker is no longer deemed elegant. Collars of nil kinds are lower. Iu fact, many of the latest afternoon toilets are cut out in the neok. Among the most stylish parasols for the beginning of the season will be those of Btitin trimmed with velvet polka dots. The handles are of natural wood and are very short and thick. The new embroidered batiste is a charming material for summer gowns, as it comes in a variety of pretty tints, embroidered both in white and colors, and in white.embroidered with different colors. Taffeta and crepe de chines are trimmed with cloth applied iu stitched bands. They give weight to the skirt, which is desirable, and when they are used it is unuecessary to weight the skirt with lead. The length of the stitchings on killed or side-plaited skirts varies from a few inches below the hips to within a quarter of a yard of the bot tom of the skirt; and on some of the imported cloth costumes the kilts or side-plaits, reaching the entire length of the skirt, are stitched from belt to hem. The great diversity in the ways and means of manipulating laoe, insertion, edgings and appliques is certainly an expressive tribute to the versatile and artistic dress designers this season. Everything which lias ever been used for thia purpose seems to have been revived and added to the novelties for the summer season, which are already being shown. Among the dainty things in th shops are offered Japanese striped silks, said to be easy to wash and dif ficult to crush; crepe de chine of me dium heavy quality and fine lustre, and double width etamine grenadines, all wool, -double width, in cream white, gray, tan, fawn, marine blue, and black, and a fresh importation of vigoreaux suitings in dove color, re seda, navy, leaf brown and antelope. Novel Fruit-Piece For tlie Table. Here is an idea that may appeal to an entertainer. It is an evident fact that the time-honored fruit-dish, with its assortment of fruit, no longer has any place on a modern table; each kind of frnit is put by itself on a separate silver dish artistically ar ranged. Any one who has a little taste can imitate the arrangement. Take four plates of equal size; put on them somo green leaves—bay-leaves, geraniums, or whatever one happens to have at hand—and arrange the fruits to suit the different kinds. Make a pyramid of bright red apples, with four apples for a base, three on top, and one on top of alt, with the leaves in between. Arrange oranges in the same way, but on the third plate lay bnnches of grapes carelessly on leaves, and on the fourth put ba nanas. Lol with the four plates at the lour corners your table is dressed at once. Nuts may be used instead of fruit on one plate, and figs and dates ou the other, but beware of the old-fashioned fruit basket or dish if you wish your table to be up to date. —Woman's Home Companion. When You limit Your Pictures. Ey haugiug pictures low you in crease the apparent height of the room. Colored pictures should not be hung in hallways or on staircases unless there is pleuty of light for them. In such places strong photographs, en gravings and drawings in black and white go bast. A picture should not be hung from ouo nail; tho diamond lines formed by the cord have a very discordant effeot. Two nails and two vertical cords, or, what is far more safe, pieces of wire cordage, should be used instead of the single cord. Picture cords should be as near the color of the wall upon which they are put as possible, so that they may be but little seen. When ODe picture is hung beneath another the bottom one should be hung from the one above, and not from the top; thus we avoid multiplying the cords, which is al ways objectionable. A good hue for walls where prints or photographs are to be hung is a rich yellow brown or a leather color. Luster to the black of the priut of the tone of the photograph is thus im parted. The wall paper should have no strongly defined pattern. The centre of the picture, as a rule, should not be much above the level of the eye. fglt RECiPEST^ Cream of Barley Soup (Mrs. Rorer] —Scald two tablespooufuls of barley, drain, cover with fresh water and boii three hours; strain. Put one pint ol veal or white stock with one pink ol milk to boil, add barley, a tablespoon, ful of salt, and one-fourth of a table spoonful of white pepper. Beat thf yolks of two eggs lightly, put them in the soup tureen, pour over the boiling soup and serve at once. Cream Rhubarb Pie—Requires one cup of milk, one cup of sugar, out tablespoon of flour and one cup ol rhubarb, cut in very thin slices, the yolks of two eggs. Make a custard of these ingredients, pour into a shell ol pie crust and bake.* Make a meringue of the whites of the eggs, cover the pie with this, and return to the oven until slightly browned. The slices ol rhubarb will be found floating on the top of the custard. Escalloped Meat—Butter a baking dish. Put in it alternate layers ol chopped meat, bread crumbs and sprinkle over each layer chopped pars ley, salt, pepper and a few drops ol onion juice. Pour over the top enough white sauce to moisten all. Melt s little butter. Add to it some bread crumbs. Mil them thoroughly in the butter and spread them over the meat. Bake in a quick oven and when brown remove. Any oold meat may be used. "Moonshines," "Nothings" or "Triflos"—To one egg beaten add a pinch of salt and stir in flour enough to make a stiff dough. Roll thin as paper, cut with good-sized cake cut ter and fry in boiling fat, as dough nuts. Mix sugar and spice and sift over them while hot. They will blis ter and assume various shapes in cook ing. If you drop them into the fat sidewise they will fold and curve. Then sift only sufcar over them and call them "fairy shells." *- Rice Croquettes—Plain, but nice and tender. For one cup of boiled rice use one teaspoonful butter, half an egg and no salt, if rico was well salted when boiled. Mix while warm and make into small balls, -vetting the hands slightly when necessary in cold water. Roll in beaten egg, then powdered bread crumbs, and fry in boiling fat, about three at ouce. When golden Irown skim out, lay on brown paper. Keep in warm plaoe till all are fried. Then serve in hot dish. An old engine driver, who has just retired from active service, has beei an engine driver since 1853, and ii the forty-six years has traveled nearh 2,000,000 miles on his engine.
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