About Htile untl Hearty at One Hundred. In a brown silk dress, made for her fcalf a century ago, Miss Mnhala Terry, & true daughter of the Revolution, callers on her 100 th birth day at her home In Simsbury, Conn. In the afternoon she posed before cameras for friends. Miss Terry was born in the house where she lives. With the exception of being deaf nnd lame, the centenarian retains her faculties well. Cotton vs. Tttflfotn. Despite the fact tlmt very many of tbe foulard frocks come supplied witli white cambric slip skirts, tbe woman who can afford it prefers white taffeta. In tbe matter of laundry bills alone the extra cost of the taffeta may be saved, since taffeta sheds soil that sim ply sinks right into the loosely woven cottons. Its erispness, too, and its ability to hold its own in damp wind that lenve cotlon skirts limp, is another feature; is, indeed, an item in its favor. Of course, with some dresses an exqui site thing is slieerst white and quanti ties of daintiest lace is to be preferred, but never, mind you, on the score of cheapness. Tlio "OM Lady." The "gas lady" is the newest femin ine invader of the industrial world. She is sent out by a gas company which desires to "boom" the use of gas for cooking purposes. Some women are afraid to touch a gas stove. Some do not understand bow to manage it, and fall to get tbe best results out of it. With some, on the other hand, it is just a plain, ordinary ignorance of bow to cook. The "gas lady" has a headful of nice, simple recipes. She explains all the wrinkles of the range; shows how to regulate the heat, how to manage the oven, how to turn all the different dampers and screws, and all the time she is giving little cooking lessons as she goes nlong. The "gas lady" finds plenty of "human interest" as she makes her way through the tenement bouses, all the way from the woman who resents all Inquiry Into her cook ing arrangements nnd shuts the door in the "gas lady's" face, to the de spondent little bride, who tearfully ad mits that she can't make "the old thing cook a hit," and welcomes the visitor as a guest from heaven.—New York Tribune. Saahes Worn With Gownfl. "* A new Idea In sashes Is a. corsage bow to match. This artistic design is quite a change from the bow with two long ends that formerly did duty as a sash. The foundation is white moire antique, and the roses and ends which decorate It are of liberty satin taffeta. To further aid the floral effect artificial daisies are added. These are made up In all colors. With the rosette in place of the rose any favored flower may take the daisy's place. The corsage bow Is of soft liberty satin taffeta matching the decorations of the sash. Its chief beauty lies In the artistic way In which it Is made up. These two ribbon creations would re deem an otherwise plain gown nnd add much to one already beautiful. They are a boon to the home dress maker, who lacks both time and skill to make them herself. The girl grad uate does not consider her costume complete without them, and, In fact, this season they figure on almost nil gowns of the lighter weight materials. A prettier fancy has not obtained in many years.—New York Journal. Woman's Position in Germany. In Germany the economic, intollect ual, and, in a certain degree, also the [ legal condition of woman is lately hc ginning to take shape in accordance with the principles of the women's movement. The pressure of facts Is gradually convincing the public mind that tbe traditional ideal German woman, so ardently defended, is undergoing a slow process of transformation. Wil lingly or unwillingly It Is admitted that economic and social conditions force a continually increasing number of Ger man women to earn their own living. The hope of turning the wheel of his tory backward Is more and more disap pearing, and while narrow-mindedness ridicules as preposterous the efforts of well-to-do classes of women, nnd their purely ideal motives, even in tenacious ly conservative circles, It Is recognized that women in their battle for exist ence can no longer be denied their only weapon—a thorough, universal and pro l fessloual education. * There is also an Increasing willing ness to open to women professions hitherto closed to them by lnw or cus tom. The overcrowded state of the tra ditional professions for women clearly demands this. Nevertheless, this wil lingness relates only to those employ ments which are considered a priori, suitable to so-called woman's "sphere." Therefore, all professions which give their holder a position of any social power remain for the present and will remain in the immediate future the carefully guarded prerogative of men. All positions with an official Govern ment salary attached, administration, the police department, etc., are by cus tom reserved for men, nor can women be lawyers, clergymen or teachers In I universities, and the opposition to the I demand for equal training for boys \ and girls has its strongest root In the dread that, after attaining nn equal standard In education women's profane hands might be stretched out even to ward those employments. The first breach, however, has been made. Since a year and a half ago, women may take the State examina tions in medicine and p armacy at Ger man universities. The long-projected appointment of women as assistant factory Inspectors In Prussia, Baden, Wurtcmburg, Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony and some of the Thurlnglan States, as well as their appointment as poor-law guardians and guardians of orphans in many German cities, may count as a first step to future official employments. The appointment of women as subal tern officials and clerics in the post, tel egraph, railway and other State offices has gone on less slowly, yet the ad vance of women In these positions is not In every respect satisfactory, as being in the first place due to the infe rior wages of women's labor. The number of women teachers appointed in public schools and girls' secondary schools Is increasing, but the manage ment, as well as the teaching in the upper classes, are still chiefly in the hands of male teachers. Through the new institution for the training and ex amination of head mistresses the re moval of this unnatural state of affairs has begun.—Women's Journal. ft|Pgfr WONEN AND JF Lady Warwick has a peacock which is said to be 100 years old. M. Pnquki, Parisian dressmaker, de clares that Americans make the fash lops. Queen Wilhelmina leads a quiet and uneventful life. She does not care for ceremony. Miss Etta H. Maddox has been ad mitted to the bar in Baltimore, being the first woman in Maryland to prac tice law. Vassilissa Ivanovna, an old peasant woman, now living at St. Petersburg, is 117 years old. She was a married woman when Napoleon Invaded Rus sia. Mrs. Annie Alexander Hector, the novelist, who wrote over the nom de plume of "Mrs. Alexander," has died suddenly in London, aged seventy seven years. Miss Jane E. Clark, a young woman of Newark, N. J„ has been appointed woman principal of Tuskegce Insti tute, Alabama, and will assume her duties as such in the autumn. Clara Barton, head of the Red Cross Society, has been invited by President Diaz of Mexico, to come to the City of Mexico and there organize a branch of the society for the Republic. A memorial window in memory of Mrs. Georgiana M. Sizer has been pre sented to a Brooklyn Baptist Church by Chinamen, for her beneficial work among the members of their race. The recent German Congress of In ternal Medicine had two women as members, for the first time. The Chairman of the section of surgery at the recent Russian Medical "Pirogoff" Congress was a woman, Dr. A. G. Archnngelskaia. The champion girl baseball thrower of Elmira College is Miss Bertha Bur gett, who has established a record for college girl athletics. She has aceoui-. plished the feat of throwing a baseball llil feet, and she declares that she will not be satisfied until she has raised the figures to 200 feet. The wife and daughter of Captain Mlllburn, of the steamer Heathdene, undertook successfully the duties of navigation while the captain and offi cers were fighting the lire which had broken out on board during the steam er's last voyage from New York to Sydney. Miss Mlllburn did the steer ing and her mother acted as lookout. A little watch of gun metal Is set In the centre of u bracelet of like mate rial. The omnipresent ping-pong racquet appears on veils in various shadss of brown. Handsome nnd expensive are the sashes and ties of real lace to be worn with thin gowns. The peculiarity of a new wrist bag is a silver bracelet which slips over the hand, the bag hanging from it by two silver chains. A pretty thing in a belt buckle is made of two disks, each a little larger than a quarter, with a fleur de lys In purple enamel. A broad black satin belt, studded with rhinestones, has a buckle and back slide in elaborate scroll design closely set in rhlnestonc3. White silk stockings with open work stripes running half way up the leg are embroidered between the stripes with small bow knots of light blue. Hats of pique or dotted muslin for little girls have big tarn crowns tied about with liberty silk ribbon in some delicate tint and forming a large bow in front. To wear with light colored gowns are pale gray nnd white shoes finished with bows of ribbon or fancy buckles of gun metal; silver or steel or jeweled buckles are occasionally seen. Corset bags of silk or muslin are long and narrow, edged at the top with lace nnd drawn up with ribbon. Very elab orate ones are of white silk or satin painted with sprays of delicate flowers. The bewitching black picture hat is of a wide, flat shape, all fashioned of tucked tulle, with a bordering of satiny straw to follow the upward sweep of the wide brim at the left side, where it curves high above the two grace fully curling feathers which droop low down over the hair from a handsome Jet ornament, whose duplicate fastens some long looped ends of velvet ribbon at the back. AFFAIRS The " Pen." A woman who planned her own house and built it in accordance with her plans had a small bay window room reserved for a "den." The hard wood floor was covered with a dark blue Japanese rug, and the walls were papered In dark blue, with a Japanese design in gold running over it. The room was furnished in the simplest manner with a couch covered with a Japanese cover and piled witli gayly colored Japanese pillows. It also con tained a small desk with writing ap pointments. The walls were lined with bookcases, whose shelves were filled with works of fiction. The bay windows were shaded by awnings, making the room delightfully cool. It was intended primarily for rest and recreation, and there the tired house wife would find relaxation for mind and body after the harder work of the flay was over. Every afternoon direct ly after dinner she spent an hour there resting on the lounge and enjoying a chapter from Thackeray or Dickens. There are many housewives of the old school who would consider such a rest In the early afternoon an unpardonable waste of time, but It is time gained rather than lost. An hour so spent! rests one mentally as well as physic ally.—New York Tribune. Clcnnlnc: Silver l-late. A simple method of cleaning silver plate is the old fashioned one where rouge powder Is used. First he care ful that the silver Is perfectly clean. It should be washed thoroughly In hot soap suds to remove all trace of grease. Dry It and rul) carefully with a paste of whiting and water. This will re move all tarnish spots. After the paste has dried and been rubbed off rub the silver with the rouge powder wet to a paste with a little warm water. In a few minutes, or as soon as it is dry, polish the silver vigorously with a tlean chamois. It will not he necessary to polish silver in this way oftener than once a month, provided the silver is kept clean with hot soap and water, thoroughly rinsed and wiped dry each time it is used. If the use of patent silver soaps and polishing fluids is once begun it must be continued, and these patent processes, which generally con tain some acid, ultimately dull the polish of the silver. Do not use any brush to clean silver, except a plate brush, purchased of a silversmith. It Is not stiff enough to scratch the metal and will thoroughly clean out the in terstices of any chased or graven work. —New York Tribune. Adjusting Glass Globs,. In fitting on gloves it is a common error to screw them on to the gas fix tures as tightly as possible. Tills is a grave error, for if the globe has not roo mto expand it will surely break when the gas Is lighted and the glass becomes hot. Many mysterious break ages are due to too tight screws. Scrssn Th,t will Not Scratch. Rubber tips are used on the latest screens to prevent their scratching the highly-polished floors in vogue now. T Southern Tea Cakes—Separate six eggs and beat the yolks very light. Add these, to three cups of sugar and one cup of butter creamed together. Sift together three pints of flour (sifted be fore measuring), a tcaspoonful of mixed spices and half a teaspoonful of soda or teaspoonful of baking pow der. Add to tile other ingredients with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Do not roll out the dough, but break off pieces about the size of a large hickory nut, lay some distance apart in biscuit pans, and bake in mod erately hot oven until a delicate brown around the edges. ltlce Souffle With Pineapple—Wash a cupful of rice in several waters; put It into two quarts of boiling water; boil rapidly half an hour, then drain; put one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour in a small pan; when melted add half a cupful of milk; cook until a smooth paste; stir the rice Into this with four table spooiifuls of sugar; beat the white of three eggs to a stilt froth; drop the •yolk of one egg into the souffle; mix and stir lu carefully the whites of the eggs; turn, the mixture into greased cups; stand them In a pan of hot water and cook in a quick oven fifteen min utes; while'hot turn out of the cups; arrange them on a platter or put each jne lu a saucer; garnished with sugared pineapple and serve at onoj. Compote of Cherries—A compote of cherries that is pretty to look at, if carefully made, will make an attrac tive dessert. Cut the stems short from one pound of nice, ripe pie cherries. Put them in a saucepan with a half cup of sugar, and juice of one lemon. Shake and cook slowly for about two minutes. Lift the cherries with a per forated skimmer, arrange them in a pyramid in a glass dish. Cover one teaspoonful of gelatine with two table spoonsful of water, add this to the syrup in the saucepan, and strain it into a dinner plate. There should be just enough to cover the bottom nicely. When ready to serve, dip the plate in warm water for an instant, and turn the sheet of gelatine over the cherries. The effect is very good, if the gelatine is not broken. A FISHERMAN'S LUNCH. Bow the True Angler Broils Trout Fo* His Noonday Meal. In the deep shade of the tree the baskets are laid, and now a fire is started nearby, one of Van Dyke's lit tle "friendship fires," which shall also cook a few trout. "(Jet two flat stones. Friend—and they'll be hard to find in this boulder country, but they are sometimes worn quite flat—while I gather some sufficient wood." Into the fire the stones go, and the wood is heaped about them. Soon the intense glow of live wood embers indicates that the time has come. The trout, a sliver of bacon in each, are placed on one stone, first well dusted of its ashes, and the other stone is laid upon them. Now the hot embers are raked about and over the stones, anil the lunch Is spread on the big rock near the spring. O, ye epicures, who think nothing good unless served by a Delmonico or a Sherry, go ye into the mountains, fol low a brook for half a day, get wet and tired and hungry, sit down by an ice cold spring, and eat brook trout cooked on the spot, and delicious bread and butter liberally spread with clover honey. Not till then have ye dined.— From "Trout and Philosophy on a Vermont Stream," in Outing. WISE WORDS. Better a red face tliau a black heart. —Portuguese proverb. Who serves the public serves a fickle master. —Dutch proverb. One must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.—French proverb. Never advise a man to go fo the wars or to marry.—Spanish proverb. Good management is better than good income.—Portuguese proverb. Happiness is a roadside flower, blooming on the highway of useful ness.—Buskin. Give to the wor.d the best you have, and the best will come back to you. -M. S. Bridge. The great thing which counts in this world Is not talent, but faithfulness. —George ilacdonaid. A man's forgiving faculty Is in pro portion to the greatness of his soul. Little men cannot pardon.—Dryden. They who eat cherries with the great are likely to have the stones and stems flung in their face.—German proverb. Every day I see more how necessary It Is to be consistent, uncompromising and gentle; for often, perhaps, when a word would not be borne, an act of for bearance or self-denial might be re membered in a cooler moment.—A. Hare. Soldier* Ordered to Danre. How the pleasant eccentricities of one generation, says the Pall Mall Ga zette, will persist in breaking out in another, defying time and ridicule and the change of manners: i: was the playful way of Frederick the Great when he came across a buxom wench to marry her forthwith to the tallest of his grenadiers, and it stands to the credit of his intuition that these mar riages rarely proved failures. Now, either in emulation of his great prede cessors or because he cannot help it, the Kaiser has just had a similar at tack of gallantry—gallantry, mark you, on a truly imperial scale. He was vis iting Crefeld lately, that busy town of silks and velvets on the lower Khine, and learned from the pretty girl in habitants that all they wanted in the world was a handful of lieutenants to dance with them. Hey, presto! the au tocratic mandate has gone forth that Crefeld is to have its garrison In the shape of a crack hussar regiment; and the Burgomaster is busy preparing it accommodations. That regiment is lucky if it is not christened in future Frauenliusaren, or, worst of all, the Tanzwehr. Scent of the Itnttlor. When the rattlesnake is excited and angry you can smell him a quarter of a mile. He perspires freely in a ner vous tit, and the odor of his cutaneous secretion tills the air. Curious emo tions are produced by odors reminis cent of certain events in one's life. Each of us has experienced them Per sons afflicted witli rheumatism and gout often suffer the most extraordi nary night sweats, and for weeks af terward their garments retain an odor peculiar to the individual sleeping in them. The most careful laundering fails to remove it. It must gradually fade away This leads me to believe that the odor of the human skin is like unto musk, the power of which to im part odor is such that polished steel will become fragrant of it if the metal be shut in a box where there is musk, contact not being necessary New York Press. A New Fire Escape. A German invention in lire apparatus has recently been tried with success. It consists of a telescopic ladder, capa ble of being extended to a length of eighty-live feet, and worked by means of compressed air. The ladder is at tached to a heavy truck carrying an air tank. The ladder can be directed at a particular window, or other place in a burning building that it is desir able to reach. A fireman lashed to the end of the ladder is shot up with it, and rescued persons need not clamber down, as the ladder can be quickly lowered with them ou it. —Tit-Bits Saline Gulf ami Fishing. The water along the entire Gulf coast is much saltier than usual, anil, as a consequence, salt water flsh, which could formerly only be caught by sail ing or rowing out some distance, are now fouud immediately off the shore, lu other words, fishing is better as to the variety, size and quantity of the fish.—New OrlWus Times-Democrat. "Sotir" Grass In r.uwns. Whenever "sour" grass is seen in lawns it is a sure indication that the land requires lime, which neutralizes the acidity of the soil. An applicatiou of lime in the fall will sometimes make a very decided change in the grass the following spring. All the clovers are benefited by lime, and lime also gives good results on Kentucky blue grass, which Is one of the best varieties for lawns. An Enemy to Squash Vines. The old familiar squash bug is rap- Idly gaining ground over various sec tions in the destruction of squash and allied plants. It is a difficult insect to combat, owing to its feeding habits, and it sucks its food from the tissues of the vines. A plant can be protected by covering the hill with netting and burying the edges of the cloth about the hill. In some cases truckers plant many more seeds than are necessary, the extra plants being used as a bait for the Insects, where they can be caught and destfoyed. Clean culture and good fertile soil are good to keep the plants growing vigorously to resist the attacks of these pests. They can be destroyed by hand picking. If pieces of board or other material are laid near the vines, the insects will collect at night under them, when they can be caught and easily destroyed the following morning. During the egg laying season the vines should be care fully searched for clusters of eggs and destroyed. The young insects also have a tendency to congregate on in dividual plants and they can be col lected by hand.—American Agricultur ist. Plant. Which Walk. Not a few plants are possessed of the actual power of migration, not merely by their seeds becoming scattered, hut by an actual geographical movement from year to year. The common pur ple orchid, for instance, forms a new bulb each year, and each year the new shoot appears nearly an inch from the spot occupied by last year's stem. Tulips planted in the shade will often find their way to a sunny spot. There Is a North American fern which sends out a long, gracefully-arching frond, which, under the burden of its weight of buds and leaves, bends to the earth, and the tip takes root, and a new plant soon bursts out at this spot. This pe culiarity has gained Tor the fern the popular names of "Walking Leaf and "Jumping Fern." Several grasses and sedges develop creeping stems of great length, which give rise to new plants iv yt&r THE SEA SEDGE. at every point, or at intervals. The familiar quitch, twitch, or couch, is of this character; but the most striking examples are to be found in maram grass and sea sedge that occur ou sand dunes by the sea. These plants of the seashore make ropes of their enor mous creeping root-stocks wherewith the sands are tied together, and many banks that would otherwise wash away with the first high tide are held intact. Pir.cli Raspberry Tips Spariigly. The pineliing back of growing rasp berry canes in order to force the growth of lateral wood is frequently practiced by berry growers, but was thought to be an unwise proceeding. Two sets of experiments were, there fore, tried with blackcaps and red va rieties, with the following results; In the pruned row the stumps were more numerous than in the unpruned, and whore both tips and laterals had been pinched, more still. There were fewer berries, or rather a lighter yield, in the pruned than in the unpruned rows. This might have been expected be cause the larger the number of canes the poorer the fruit, as a rule. The smallest yield was from plants trimm:d in both laterals and stems. The reason for this increased number of stumps or canes Is that the rasp berry produces Its new growth from the bases of the old, or two-year-old stems. In this way the new canes re semble the laterals produced higher up on the stem, the difference being that they may not and normally do not appear the season the cane fruits, but push into growth the spring following. For these reasons, therefore, pinching Induces the increased development of those buds at the bases of the stems, which wait only favorable conditions to develop. From these trials the conclusion was drawn that great care must be exer cised to remove as little as possible of the lips by summer pinching and to depend mainly upon the thinning of the stems after the leaves have fallen, or at least late enough to insure the non-development of the basal buds. How many stems to leave each plant will depend upon the soil, the variety and its behavior in the neighborhood. —M. G. Koine, in New England Homo, stead. f'reafc Colorado. Besides harvesting peas with a mow ing machine and raising asparagus in beds of 100 acres, Colorado now boasts a currant patch of eighty acres, 'the largest in the world. There are 135,000 plants in all.—Philadelphia Record. • VALUABLE POSTACE STAMPS. Hawaiian Specimen Bring* 9700 at A no tion in Philadelphia. | Seven hundred dollars was paid for a I tiny piece of paper. The transaction ] took place in Lippincott's auction I rooms at 14 South Seventh street. The | little slip was rather crudely engraved. ! Two words, "Hawaiian Postage," were ' printed at the top, and two other < words, namely, "Two Cents," were j printed at the bottom. Around a large, bold figure 5, which is stamped in the centre of the paper, there is a rough ! scroll design. For this and nothing j more—excepting the fact that the lit ! tie piece of parchment is sole survivor ' of the first Hawaiian postal issue—an j unknown man was willing to pay 700 I good American dollars. For another [ and still smaller bit of paper, one with out any scroll at that, some one was ready to pay sl3l. It is a stamp which has survived a great many years and belonged to the series of early Phila delphia carrier stamps, issued in IS4O and 1850. The letters "U. S. P. O." are printed at the top of the document. Then comes the single word "Paid," and under this the denomination, "1 cent." When it came to buying a real pretty stamp, one with the picture of a bird —the American eagle—nicely engraved on it, the numerous bidders who had gathered in the auction room held their linnds on their pocketbooks and re fused to separate themselves from more than SIOO. This was a stamp is sued years ago by Frazer & Co. It was good for two cents when turned into the city dispatch post. Scores of other stamps, representing issues which are not so rare as the above, were sold for prices ranging from $lO to sloo. Philadelphia North American. Queer Insurance Iligka. Insurance in England is carried to greater lengths than it is in this coun try. One company will insure against anything—against twins, for instance, or against loss of voice in a singer. A certain English physician desired to smoke opium for a term of months in order to study the effects of the drug, but he was afraid that he might contract the opium habit. The com pany insured him against that accident and he began his research, fortified with the knowledge that if he should become an opium smoker there would be paid to his estate £BOOO. On account of the uncertain English weather open air sports and games fre quently cannot be carried out on the dates set. When they must be post poned there is u considerable financial loss that for a good percentage is in sured against. Calve, Eaiucs, the De Keszkes and Sanderson always carry insurance on their voices when they are in England, and there is not a wealthy London householder who is not well insured against burglary. If a man or a woman wishes to wear some jewel of great value companies will assume tile risk of Its loss or purloining. They carry constantly policies on the lives of animals—elephants, hyenas, giraffes, lions, tigers—and when Peter, a $2500 crang outaug, was shipped to Jacob Hope, of this city, he had an insurance of S3OOO on its life.—Philadelphia Rec ord. Anon'. Leather Breeches. Many correspondents, writes a con tributor, have had their say on the subject of "the centenary of trousers," but I have not observed that any one has said a word about an article of at tire which was so widely displaced by the new fashion—particularly in the rural districts. 1 refer to leather breeches. They were not allowed to pass away without the mead of one melodious tear. In districts remote from the centres of traffic they died hard. It used to be said that they were last seen in actual wear in Amer sham, Bucks, n curiously out-of-the way old country town, and I believe this was so. I remember once asking an old laboring mau, who was engaged In clipping hedges in thut part, wheth er he had ever worn them. The an swer was: "Did I ever wear leather breeches? Why, on Sundays I never wore anything else when I were a young chap." "And how did you find them?" I inquired. "Ekally warm in winter and cool in summer," was the reply; "but they hud one drarbaek. If you happened to get 'em soaking wet you had to sleep in 'em for a week." "Why so?" I asked. "Lor' bless you," was the answer, "if you hadn't, you'd never have been able to get into 'em again." Evidently there was something to be said for the new fashion.—London News. Mere Opinion. The greatness that is thrust upon people is likely to have a string tied to it. Some people say a man can succeed i:i this world without making money, but they seldom try it themselves. The pitcher that goes often to the wpll is likely to be broken, especially if the hired girl carries it. After a fool has had a certain amount of luck, people begin to respect him for his wisdom.—Chicago Record-Her aid. Where Vegetation Flourished. In Cuba cabbages frequently weigh as much as twenty pounds. AH vege tables do well. Radishes may be eaten from fourteen to eighteen days after sowing, lettuce in five weeks after sow ing, while corn produces three crops per year. Sweet potatoes are per petual. The natives dig up the tubers, cut them off and plant the old vines, which produce a new crop in three months. All sorts of fruit, horticul tural and greenhouse plants and bulbous stocks are also grown.
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