r Cleopatra's Asp In Bottom. Cleopatra's asp is "out" in buttons. There is a small round button of dull dead silver, a writhing heap o£ ser pents and in the centre a round blue turquoise. When in Misfortune. "Deliver me from my friends!" ex claimed a reduced gentlewoman who had gone into trade. "I can reconcile uiy enemies," she continued, "even win golden opinions from strangers, but ui.v friends bid fair to ruin me." It is sad, but true, that friends are generally the worst props that a fash ionable woman can loan on in misfor tune. They mean well, but they crlti- cise sharply, and one would have to be an angel to please them. If they order a gown from a friend who has taken up dressmaking, they first announce that, they feel obliged to give the com mission. and then they cavil over the work, the cut, the finish, the style. This seems hardly fair. If an order to help out a friend is given in kindness the same kindness should prevent criti cism which might injure. "I haven't a single thing I like this season," wailed a really kind-hearted woman. "So innny of my friends have gone into business that I have had to buy my season's outfit from them—n walking dress from one, a dinner gown from another, a hat from a third and so on." This was said at a luncheon, and her audience was amused, but her friends would probably have preferred it if she had been less kind about her , orders and more circumspect with her 4 tongue.—New York Tribune. Woman Bank Cashier Tired. Mrs. Sarah P. Dick, assistant cash ier of the First National Bank of Huntington, Intl., for more than thirty years, will, in a few days, retire from Uiat institution, says the Indianapolis News. She retires on account of ill health and a desire to take care of her aged father. The hank has been reor ganized, and flattering terms were of fered Mrs. Dick to remain, but she thought she had served her time aud was anxious to quit. Mrs. Dick is one of the only two women cashiers of National banks in 'America, and lias established a repu tation in banking circles as an expert. The First National Bank of Hunting ton was organized many years ago. It not only had the only woman cash- J <"\ but it was the only bank in the Country that had women directors. In 1800 Mrs. Anna A. Daily succeeded to her husband's interests in the bank, and in 1871 she was elected a director. The Controller of the Currency object ed to her appointment, but it was shown that she could legally act. ami after some delay she was accepted. In 1873 the widow of Samuel H. Purvi nitee was elected n. director, and in 1881 Mrs. Ann IV Slack, at the death •of her husband, succeeded him as stockholder and director, and in 18S3 Mrs. Fredericks Drover was elected a ■director. For twenty years the major ity of the Board of Directors of the bank were women. In January, 1871, Miss Sarah F. Mc- Crow, daughter of the President of the bank, was appointed assistant cashier. She became Mrs. Sarah F. Dick in 187$, aud three years later was ap pointed cashier of the bank, a position < lio held until she resigned of her own trcord. Her career as a business woman at tracted attention all over the United States. She has been a salaried officer for thirty-one years und holds the rec ord for the greatest number of trans actions in one day—6o7 in 360 minutes of "open hours," or one in each thirty live seconds. Training of Women Workor§. There is a distinctly large idea rep resented in the foundation of u certain new educational institution in Itos ton. That Attic town and the acad emic groves by which it is surrounded already overflow with schools. Har vard aud Wellesley are in its suburbs, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, n great technical college, leads a workaday life on the edge of a section inhabited by its leisured <-lasses. This last-named school has ' llways admitted women to all its ■M lasses on exactly the same terms as \ men; yet women avail themselves to but u very limited extent of the op portunity. There are seldom in the very large classes of the Institute of Technology, comprising hundreds of men, more than three or four womeu candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science. Though women have now entered the arts and crafts in competition with men, and arc to he found in almost every employment, they nre still in the struggle as women. They have been able to maintain a certain proper sep arateness in tlielr industrial situation in spite of the fact that the exigen cies of their life compel tliein to mingle with men. They recognize the fact that they nre not on the same foot- lug witli men in the trades, and doubt \ less they do not wish to he. In tHeir education they evidently wish to main tain a similar independent position. After a sudden plunge, as It were, into coeducation, women themselves arc now bringing about a reaction toward separate education. It is of interest, therefore, that under on endowment provided by the will of John Simmons, of Boston, who died thirty years ago, a women's industrial college lias been opened in that city under the very shadow of the co-educa tional Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. Its purpose is to train women in the arts and crafts, and to train them by themselves. Simmons College has been opened witli 125 fall students. It is perhaps a forerunner of other in stitutions, which shall recognize thq need of women to earn their bread, aud to earn it with the help of a train ing not only of the constructive facul ties, but of the intellect in a more ab stract sense, while at the same time they guard her from too harsh a clash with the struggling mnseuliue world. —New York Mail and Express. Five hundred ana two patents have been taken out by women in Germany since 1877.' Miss Kate Livingstone, of Finnish, Isle of Mull, a cousin of the famous explorer. Dr. Livingstone, has just completed her 107tli year. Miss Helen Gould is now an honor ary member of the fire department of Tarrytown and of ltoxbury. While Miss Gould is not liable to active fire duty, she is a full-fledged fireman, and is eligible to a seat in any State con vention of firemen. There are more than 500 women's clubs in Pittsburg and its vicinity, most of which have interested them selves in establishing and maintaining, , with little help from the directors of , public education, an excellent system of summer schools and playgrounds, i Mrs. Gertrude B. Williams, of Nor walk, Ohio, is the great-great-grand daughter of a soldier of the French and Indian war of 1763, a great-grand daughter of a soldier of the Revolution ary war, a granddaughter of a soldier I of the War of 1812, daughter and wife of soldiers of the Civil War, and , mother of two soldiers of the late , Spauish-Americau War. A college girl, who has a record as sm athlete is Miss Helen Downers, of Elmira College, who won first place in six of the field day events recently. ■ She has been elected President of the • Elmira College Athletic Association. Miss Downes believes that an atli -1 letic training is essentially a good , tliiug for college women, and says she , has been greatly benefited in health by it. 1 A young womnn who has made a 1 name for herself by illustrating insect 1 life lias recently taken up the painting ' of fish. She studies the color and form 1 of her models most conscientiously. 1 The color changes so greatly in fisli; ; for instance, some tints being totally ' different when the finny substance is in repost or in motion, in the aquarium ■ or iu running water, that the studies must be made very quickly, m ro w ear Pressed velvets arc very modish. Peasant embroideries are replacing the Persian. Pique for the winter shirt waist is fleece-lined. Velvet ribbons as well as chenille intermingle effectively with ribbon. 1 Sash and belt pins are fashlonatde, and come hi almost every conceivable design. Among the new aud stylish outdoor bodices the Slberlau blouse is most effective. Sunburst plentlngs arc always pret tiest for skirls, and these nre set al- I most scant this season. Jeweled bands of velvet iu Russian effect are a smart finish on elaborate ' imported evening dresses. The blouse jackets so popular give ample scope for the display of many i ornate and handsome buckles. ' Butterflies of black lace are nn odd 1 and new garniture muck used 11s ap -1 pllques 011 white evening gowns. Little turn-down collars of fur finish [ most of the coats tligt have any collar . extending above the base of the neck. Hoses as well as grapes go to make ! up the pretty design that embellishes • one beautiful dress of crepe de clilne. Soft cloches or bodies of beaver are • used iu creating very stylish hats, as 1 they can be bent Into any shape dc : sired. Serpentine pleats are stitched into 1 the uppers of new sleeves and left | loose at tile elbow to form forearm 1 fullness. Dainty lingerie dresses are now made in black over a pale shade, as well as in the more familiar white aud the delicate colors. Tlie vogue of the bertha has brought the old-fashioned round, low neck into favor again 11s the popular shape for 1 the neck of a low-cut gown. Lace collars coming well over the shoulders arc favorite embellishments for fancy bodices, obtaining their touch of newness from strapped designs of , elotb or velvet. Watch the Corners. VPhen you wake up in the morning of a chill and cheerless day And feel inclined to grumble, pout or frown, Just glance into your mirror and you will quickly see. It's just because the corners of your mouth turn down. Then take this simple rime. Remember it in time, It's always dreary weather in countryside or town, When you wake and find the corners of your mouth turned down. If you wake up in the morning full of bright and happy thoughts, And begin to count the blessings in your cup, Then glance into your mirror and you will ouickly see, It's all because the corners of your mouth turn up. Then take this simple rime, Remember it in time, There's joy a-plenty in this world to fill life's cup, If you'll keep the corners of your mouth turned up. —Youth's Companion. A Robinson Crusoe Wheelbarrow. The sailor who made this wheel harrow was east on an island where he knew lie would have to wait tor some time before a ship was likely to take him off. So in the meantime he had to provide himself with food and shelter. This was not difficult, for the wreck of his little vessel was close by on the beach. But carrying the material out of it and well to the lieneh, where It would be safe from tides and storms entailed much labor, so he set to work to make n wheel barrow. He took a flour barrel and n soap box that had washed ashore, and, with hammer and nails from the wreck, lio soon llnlslied a per fectly practical wheelbarrow. This Is the way to do what he did: Take the two heads out of a barrel. Do It cnrcfully, so that the wood shall not be split. Now lay these two heads on top of each other, in such a man ner that the cracks in the upper one will be at,right angles to the cracks In the lower one. The idea, of course, 1b that the grain of the wood shall be balanced so that whatever way the strain may come the wheel will not spilt under it. Having placed the two heads care fully together so that they are ex actly true, nail them to each other with short nails, driving some in one side and some In the other. In figure 5 the dotted lines show how the head that is underneath should lie in relation to the top one. After the two parts have been firmly nailed together so that they will not yield, take a. plane and carefully smooth off the edges of the wheel that has been thus made, so that It will be perfectly round. Be careful to plane only a very little at one time. A good way to make sure that the wheel is true Is to draw a circle of just the size of the wheel. You can make It with a piece or a string and a nail for a compass. Then you can lay the wheel on the drnwiug from time to time to compare it until it is perfect. Now, get two pieces of wood about four inches wide, three - quarters of au Inch thick and four feet long aud shape the ends into neat, comfort able handles, as shown in C lu figure 1. To the square end of each handle (at K, in figure 2) nail a wedge-shaped block. This block should be made of a piece of wood about four inches square on the sides. One edge should be pointed, Just like the wedge. The other end of it should be about three quarters of an Inch thick. Nail this to the square end of each handle, as shown in 11, figure 2. Now, when you have thus finished both handles, you will be ready to make tlie axle and the wheel blocks. The axle. K, is merely a piece of broomstick six Inches long. The wheel blocks are Intended to give tbe wliecl a steady support so that it will not wobble on the axle. They are made of a piece of wood about half an Inch thick and six inches square, and arc nailed firmly to the wedge, as shown in figure 3. Now bore holes through the handles, wedges and wheel blocks to admit the axle. Then bore holes through the wheel, but be careful to make this hole a little smaller than the others for the object is to have the wheel grip the axle so firmly that instead of the wheel revolving on the axle, the axle will do the turning In tbe handle. After the wheel lias been properly adjusted, the handles will be in Just the position that they are to main tain In the completed wheelbarrow. All they need are braces to keep them rigid. These braces are shown in I> and E, ligure 2 It is better to screw these to the handles. Xajls are too likely to work loose .sifter a while. After this has been done, all that re mains to complete the frame is to attach the legs F and G in ligure 2. These must Vie strengthened with the frame F. as otherwise they would spread apart when the wheelbarrow is loaded. You are ready now to make the body of the wheelbarrow. This is a much more simple matter than the rest of the work, for you need only to knock the top and end out of ail ordinary soapbox. Set this on top of the frame as shown in A, figure 1. Screw or nail it on firmly.—San Francisco Chronicle. The Butterfly Experiment. Get a bottle with a wide opening and close It with a cork in which a glass funnel is inserted. Close all crevices with shellac. Fill the bottle half way with water, in which you drop the two powders belonging to a seidlitz pow der. The carbonic nehl gas generated tries to escape through the funnel. But by placing two or three small halls made of a cork in the funnel the gas can escape only n little at a time, as one or the other of the little balls will keep the opening of the funnel closed .until the pressure of the gas becomes strong enough to force the ball up. In such away a part of the gas escapes, the pressure is relieved, and another ball closes up the funnel opening. This will keep on until all the gas is ex hausted. This experiment can be made more effective by painting the balls in dif ferent colors. Or you can make but terfly wings of tissue paper, which you enn color and fasten to the balls, as shown in the illustration.—New York Tribune. A Tee-Totuin, The tee totum is one of the numerous toys that may be formed of cardboard. A hexagon is to be constructed within the smaller of two concentric circles, aud pencil lines are to be drawn from each point of the figure to the next point but one. cutting through both TEE-TOTUM DIAGItAM. circles; the points of intersection in tlie outer circles are then to be joined by straight lines. Our diagram exhib its the complete figure, with the tri angular pieces that are left for gluipg. The lower side of the tee totum is to lie formed of a separate hexagon of cardboard; the spindle may lie made of wood or ivory.—Washington Star. I.untl For Apple Tree*. Sometimes when the laud is very rich young apple and pear trees make very rapid growth, and produce more wood than should be tlie case, while larger trees than have grown much wood will not bear fruit proportionately. Iu such cases a grass crop in tlie orchard will do no harm, especially to tlie young trees, but tlie sod should lie turned un der tlie second year. If tlie season is dry 1 lie grass may secure tlie greater share of moisture; licuee when tlie or chard Is iu grass ami a drought ap pears the grass should be plowed un der at once. £?/>e Funny w fide of Life, A Home Hero. When he is with the crowd of men That hangs around the store all day lie listens quietly, but seems To never nave a word to say. But when he gets back home alone With that poor foolish wife, it's these Sweet hours that his tongue is loosed And he becomes a Socrates. —lndianapolis Sun. At It. "We haven't heard much lately from the ravagers of our forests." "No. They are saying nothing, but sawing wood."—New York Herald. Taste. "He is a great lover of our modern scenery, Isn't he?" "Oh, yes. He always picks out the most attractive advertisements."—New York Herald. Not Niggardly. "You asked her father for her hand?" "Yes." "And he refused you?" "No, he didn't. He said I could have both of 'em."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. New Utility Man. "I wonder why Bnncker has so many rides in automobiles owned by his acquaintances." "Oh, lie owns property and Is useful in signing bail bonds when arrests are made for fast riding."—Brooklyn Life. After the Quarrel. He (to himself)—" There! All on ac count of my beastly temper, I suppose I've gone and said too much." She (to herself)—"Oh, dear! If I hadn't lost my temper, I might have said ever so much more."—Brooklyn Life. Disenchantment. "How did you enjoy your visit to the Bermudas, Uncle Jed?" "I was a good deal disappointed. The onions didn't come up to my ex pectations. Why, I've eat better Ber muda onions right here."—Chicago Tri. bune. Art Term Illustrated. "A drawing from the antique."— Scraps. How He Felt About it. "I wish I could give up work and take a long rest?" "You'd do It if you could, would you?" "Well, I'm not sure I'd do It if I could. It's one of those things you'd like to do when you can't."—Brooklyn Life. Her lliagnosls. Mamma—"You must be awfully care ful, darling. The doctor says your system Is all upset." Little Dot—"Yes, I guess it is, mam ma, 'cause my foot's asleep, and people must be terribly upset when they go to sleep at the wrong end."—Phila delphia Inquirer. Won a Name For Herself. "How did you eoine to select Olive as a name for your baby?" "Well, you see, my wife's father ob jected to our marriage, and when the little one came he forgave us. So we thought it was no more than right to let her have proper credit."—Chicago Record-Herald. Tabooed the Union. "I—l have come," he began, address ing her father, "to—to suggest to you that a union of our families would " "I'm not in favor of unions," the testy old Captain of Industry inter rupted, "and 1 will not submit the matter to arbitration. Good morning." —Chicago Record-Herald. llrown's Sympathy. Jones—"Charley fell from a street ear last night." Brown—"Oh. I'm awfully sorry." Jones—"But he wasn't hurt at all." Brown—"l wasn't thinking about Charley. I was thiukiug about the sufferings of those who would be told about that fall for mouths to come."— Boston Transcript. Home DlHcoinfortfl. '•No," grumbled the husband in a spasm of confidence, to a friend, "I have no place at all I'or my books. The storage room is kept exclusively for my wife." "And what does she do with it?" "Oh, she puts away those things that are a trifle too good to be destroyed, yet scarcely good enough to he of use." —Brooklyn Life." Not nt Iloiue. "Ah, old fellow," said one gentleman to another ou the street, "so you are married at last. Allow me to congra tulate you, for I hear you have au ex cellent and accomplished wife." "I have. Indeed," was the reply; "she Is accomplished. Why, sir, she is per fectly at home in literature; at home in music: at home in art; at home in science—in short, at home everywhere, except—" "Except where?" "Except at home.". OUR NOSES. The Roseate Hue and Infantile Snub- Proper Xoso For Muuklnd. The molding influences which render the patrician nose to some extent a product ot culture seems mainly trace able to a close association which exists between certain muscles attached to the more flexible parts of the nose and those la the immediate neighborhood. Nowhere is the lasting mark of domin ant mental habits more plainly seen than in the muscles about the mouth. They are continually in action, when we exercise the will—either in self control or In attempts to control other men or things—and every time they come Into play they give a chastening tug at our noses. Finally, it may be said that for the maintenance of a pa trician nose nt its best a well balanced mind is almost as necessary as careful ness In outward behavior. Its chastity of tint and outline is endangered, not only by high living and low thinking, but also by the habitual and unre strained indulgence of emotions gener ally deemed innocent, and even lauda ble. These, through their strange sec ondary influence upon the nerves which regulate the circulation and nu trition of the skin and face, are quite capable of inducing a certain coarse ness of expression, curiously akin to that Induced by indulgence in vicious pleasures. Herein, perhaps, may be found some sort of crude aud general recipe for an aristocratic nose, which Is offered In all good faith—but with no absolute warranty—to every one with good powers of mental assimilation. There can be no doubt that the ordi nary plcbian nose, with its somewhat low bridge, concave profile aud wide nostrils, is, above all others, the nose which Is proper to mankind. All ptker types are developed from it. Even now the whole human species, of what ever race, possesses It in early infancy. —Blackwood's Magazine. The Geography of Dishonesty; Is dishonesty a mntter of geographi cal location? And are its boundaries so well defined thnt one may pass from virtue to vice by the simple ex pedient of crossing the street? A certain well-known "quick-lunch" proprietor conducts two establishments, both sit uated on the same street, although on different blocks. But in the matter of administration they are as far apart as the poles. At the upper place confi dence in the patrons of the establish ment is apparently unlimited. The loaves and fishes are in plain view and within easy reach of the hand. Everybody helps himself, and even the formality of a lunch check is omitted. You merely step to the cashier's desk and lay down a coin whose denomina tion is the exact measure of your appe tite and incidentally yonr conscience. No questions asked. At the establish ment of the same name and only a block away the atmosphere is decid edly different—almost chilling, indeed. Here a servitor at the door compels you to accept a numbered check be fore you are allowed to pass the por tals. All the viands are out of reach, and with each separate article that you receive your indebtedness is unalter ably recorded upon your slip of paste board. And no one goes out unless he delivers up his passport and other wise makes good. In such wise are the sheep separated from the goats, and yet but a single street divides tliem. Strange as it may seem, one place is always jammed to the doors, while nt the other seats may be had in plenty. Assimilating; Foreigners. And yet it is not difficult to grow fa miliar with the salient East London types. The city is really cosmopolitan In character, for all the principal coun tries of Europe have long been contrib uting to its population in a stream of immigration, which adds quite 10, OOP to its numbers every year. This to an American is scarcely an impressive number, as applying to immigration, hut the fact is, nevertheless, notable when we consider a yenrly assimila tion of 10,000 foreigners by a growing city of nearly 2,000,000, aud the com plete success of the assimilation except as affecting the incoming Jews. Sir Walter Bcsaut declares that the pow er of England to absorb an alien popu lation is even greater than that of the United States, by which, of course, ho means proportionately greater. He is certainly mistaken, I think, but he in dicates, with much point, the fact that for all the inflow of foreigners, con tinued now througli many years, there are, apart from the Jewish quarter, practically no foreign settlements in East London. And, furthermore, the children of tho aliens are soon, as he insists, English through and through.— Scribner's. * World's Geoarsphy Class. It is not to be denied thnt this expan sion of our knowledge of the world is a sequence of our victories in the Span ish war. Whether trade follows the flag, certainly knowledge does. What the geography is doing for the school boy, the newspapers and magazines are doing for tlio ndult. "Nature will he reported," says Emerson, and cer tainly never was this so true as to-day, A hundred ngencies mainly com merce, invention, travel, benevolence and disaster—are conspiring to bring in touch all the nations of tho world aud to demand the fullest knowledge of all by each. There are those who think that this absorbing interest in the actualities of material events is being cultivated nt tho expense of great creative art. But an epoch of large wealth has been usually the pre cursor of a period of great art. When this period comes, perhaps the result will be all the more signilieant and val uable that the people of the earth will have reached a sympathetic under standing through the widest knowl edge.—The Century. The things that make life worth liv ing are the things that we don't pos sess.
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