ft OR. A NEW FEMININE CALLING. The calling of veterinary surgeons Is not one lu which women have here tofore evinced any special disposition to shine, but one member of the fair 6ex is preparing herself for gradua tion from a veterinary college and ex pects to receive her diploma in the spring. The aspirant for honors in this particular licld is Mrs. Mlgnonne Nicholson, now a resident of Chicago, but whose childhood days were spent in n Long Island town. Cats and dogs are her special pets and while in accordance with the requirements of \ the veterinary institution she is ob liged to learn how to doctor horses she proposes to give her attention after graduation to her special favor l ltes and has already proved successful " In her treatment of dogs. A PARISIAN PETTICOAT. Very seldom will we be wrong if we set down a lavender and blue combina tion as a product of Paris. Even if it doesn't come from there, you may rest assured it has been copied from one that did. The charming thing in ques tion is of lavender taffeta. There's a deep Van Dyked flounce, which is elaborately tucked. Roth at the top and at the bottom of this flounce there's a three-inch band of filet np plin.ue in an ecru tint, and from under this very open lace shows the blue taffeta. It Is of a lovely shade, bright yet soft, not quite as strong as tur quoise, but with more character than baby blue. Such a petticoat would be lovely with a dress in the opalescent V lints, or even with one In which these exquisite tones served In as garniture. The colors of the opal, by the way, are first choice for evening. THE WELL-DRESSED WOMAN. The smart tfirl is showing a decided preference for gray this winter—steel gray, not the perishable silver shade. Her covert-cloth coat, with its strapped or slot seams, is no longer In tan; It Is now made up in steel-gray. Gray squirrel is the fur of the moment, and squirrel fur and orange velvet is the smartest of combinations. The one-color Idea is another fad of the smart girl. Whatever color she selects for her very own, she is careful to see that a suggestion of it is visible In every costume she wears. If gray Is the color she chooses, she will not only have her calling-costume of gray, her raln-eont gray, her furs aud velvet Jfeeket the same shade, but she will be particular to have even her dress ac cessories in gray, too. For the smnrt girl who affects gray there Is a new style of umbrella. It Is made of dark gray silk, with a border of a lighter shade of gray. The handle Is gun-metal, and in place of the usual tassel there is a small gun-metal trin ket suspended by a short chain passing through the hole in the handle. This, too, is gun-metal. It looks like an oval-shaped case, and when opened It may contain cither a bit of a mirror, a coin-purse or a powder-box.—Woman's Home Companion. MARRIED WOMEN'S NAMES. In several of the smaller towns In Wisconsin, where a strong organized movement lias been made to get the names of women on the registry lists, consternation lias been caused by the /discovery t lint a married woman is not illegally registered if the Christian name by which she Is designated on the lists Is that of her husband. Thus, "Mrs. John Smith," whoso "given" name is "Mary," cannot vote unless she Is registered as "Mary," or, if she does vote, it must bo by the troublesome process of "swearing in." Socially, a married woman always goes by her husband's full name, prefixed by "Mrs." until he dies, unless the pair are severed by a divorce. Legally, however, it is only his surname which becomes hers by marriage, and her Christian name continues to be an es sential part of her formal designation, supplemented, if she chooses, by her patronymic. If she is a public cliar acter—n writer, a speaker, a physician —she is generally known by the name which she bore previous to lier mar riage, with her husband's surname ap pended. Thus Ella Wheeler became . Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Thus Elizabeth A Cady became Elizabeth Cndy Stanton. The whole nation knew the great woman suffragist by that name, but comparatively few people knew her by the name of Mrs. Henry Brewster Stanton, though Henry Brewster Stan ton, her husband, was In his day a well-known man.—Milwaukee Wiscon sin. THE AMERICAN GIRL. What makes the American girl a most attractive being is her self-confi dence, amiability and good temper. Now, I am not a flatterer, and I must say that pretty women are as much In the minority in the United States as In any other country, writes Vis count de Santo Thyrso in the Smart J Set. Beauty, like gold, is scarce every where. You can find more gold in Cali fornia than In Europe; but even in California you certainly find more dross than gold. So It is with women. In some places, or in some countries, the number of pretty women is greater than in others, and in this branch of naturnl production the United States Is not behind-hand. This, however, is only a foreigner's view of the subject. To tell the truth, I have never met an American girl of twenty who did not consider herself fascinating; this is self-confidence; and for a woman to believe she Is beautiful is half-way to real beauty. In the first place, a plain woman, who is aware of her plain ness, is unhappy. Man is a selfish ani mal, and despite what novels say about sad women and the power of tears, unhappiness is as repellent to a healthy mind, as disease to a healthy body. Then, the conscious plain woman gives up every thought of pleasing, and therefore she does noth ing to make herself attractive. She does not dress in a becoming way, Bhe does not smile, she does not try to be attractive. She becomes sour or dull, or both. niNTS FOR BUSY WOMEN. The longer a woman persists in ig noring the necessity of walking, stand ing and breathing correctly, the less able she will be to withstand the strain of her dally work and to correct the faults In her figure which as time goes on become more and more difficult to eradicate. As a matter of fact, every woman who goes to business dally can get enough exercise out of the energy she expends in the course of the day's duties to fight off that tired feeling and make her healthy and physically perfect. She should have her sleeves made so that she can turn or lift her arms high above her head with ease. She must avoid the slump of the shoulders which gives the beholder the Impres sion that she is actually leaning upon her corsets. The shoulders must not he bunched up to the ears, or drawn back. Just let them remain relaxed In a perfectly natural and easy posi tion. She must avoid that injurious habit of ebnehing the thumb in the palm of the hand. Another bad habit is that of rolling and twisting cither a glove or a handkerchief round and round, as though trying to twist it in half. Such practices as these stop the cir culation of the blood through muscle* that are of great value. When going up or down stairs turn the toes out instead of in. Never for get to sit upright, and when standing keep the spine straight. Always breathe through the nose and hold up the chest. When sitting down relax as much as possible, without slumping or letting the head droop forward. There we have a few simple little things which will not interfere with your dally duties in the least. They are all excellent exercises for busy women. They will teach you to forget all about fatigue.—New York Ameri can. Miss Helen Gould employs a mnn named Tutt to act as her bodyguard and to keep camera fiends at a dis tance. Miss M. E. Braddon, the writer, has a triple fall—for books, old china and dogs. These three hobbies take up all her leisure time. Miss F. E. Buttolph, who is making a collection of menu cards for the New York Public Library, has already gath ered together 10,250. Miss Mary Andrews, of Hamilton, Ohio, has been installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Kan sas City. She Is the only woman preacher in Missouri. There are only half a dozen English women in Marrakush, Morocco, and they are obliged to wear the garb of native women to avoid being Insulted by the fanatic Mohammedans. There are now in the United Stales forty-five feminine locomotive engi neers and firemen and seven female conductors. Add to these thirty-one brakemen—or, to be correct, brake women—ten baggage women. About five years ago a Maine woman, taking a consumptive husband to the mountains of Arizona, was shown an old abandoned claim by her Indian servant. She took it, with great diffi culty secured SSOO to work it, and before the year was out sold it fox $50,000 and a life interest. The scarab Is a popular design for rings, scarf pins and sleeve buttons. Buckles this year are larger, hand somer and more elaborate than ever. Green walrus and gray ooze calf ore two of the most fashionable leathers for belts. • Drapery net for mourning millinery resembles point d'esprit sprinkled with tiny dull jet beads. The moonstone is in evidence as the setting for some of the newest sleeve links and fancy buttons. Tabs and tails are the correct adorn ment for fur muffs this year, stuffed heads having been discarded by Dame Fashion. Square eyelet holes are an Innovation on some of the now leather belts to match a square harness buckle and square tongue. The grape ornamentation has caught the fancy of the hosiery manufacturer, and white silk stockings show a design of fruit and foliage over the instep. Leather belts are cut so as to con form perfectly to the slight dip in front so much used now to give the becoming and fashionable long-waist effect. The newest gold-topped viniagrette with Jeweled centre is distinguished from its predecessor by the shape, which is square. Instead of tlie familiar round form. .^HOUSEHOLD OIL MARKS ON WALL-PAPER. Oil marks on wall-paper may be re moved by applying a paste made of pipeclay and cold water. Leave It on all night and brush it off ill the morn ing. A second application may pos sibly be necessary. A NOVEL SCREEN. One of the very novel fire screens is in Spanish leather. There's an odd wood standard, and from this extend arms jointed like those of a snake. So when the screen is not needed these arms, from which the much-engraved leather hangs, are simply folded around tho centre standard. TO DISTINGUISH LINEN. If you are buying handkerchiefs you may make sure of their being linen or not by a very simple process. Moisten the tip of one of your fingers, and then press it on tho handkerchief. If it wets through at once the fabric Is linen, but if it is cotton several sec onds will elapse before the threads are saturated.—American Queen. CLEANS ENAMELLED BATHS. Enamelled baths are the trial of the housewife, who does not understand how they should be made to retain their pristine freshness. Vigorous scrubbing of them is not desirable, but a simple way of cleaning them is this: First wipe out the tub with a dry cloth, then thoroughly rub it with a cloth dipped In salt and turpentine, than which nothing is better for re moving stains. After the tub has been gently scoured in this manner rinse with clear, warm water, dry with a fresli cloth, and the tub will look like uew. HINTS FOB MONDAY. Do not let your irons get red hot; they will never again retain the heat. Make your Iron holder of asbestos cloth. Table salt In the starch will help In the Ironing. Lard rubbed on the clothes before they are washed will remove stains. Rub tho irons with a cloth soaked In kerosene to prevent scorching. Fre quent rubbing on sandpaper will keep Irons from sticking. Soapy water mixed with starch will give a glossy surface. Three ounces of borax and two pounds of sliced white bar soap, dis solved in two quarts of hot water, will make a splendid lather for washing clothes. RECIPES, Clam Fritters—Drain twenty-fivd clams from the liquor, pour cold water over and drain; chop them fine, scald clam juice, remove scum when cold; add flour enough to make a pancake batter and add clams; beat In two level teaspoonfuls of baking powder; drop by spoonfuls into hot, deep fat. Corn Muffins—Two cups corn meal, one teaspoonful salt, two tablespoon fuls sugar, two and one-quarter cups boiling wnter, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one big teaspoonful butter, two eggs, one-third cup of milk. Heat the mixing bowl, mix boiling water and meal; add butter, sugar, salt and eggs beaten separately; bake one-half hour. Chopped Meat Steak—Chop one and one-half pounds of round steak; add to it one teaspoon of onion juice and a little pepper; form into a steak about one inch thick; place on the greased broiler and broil for five minutes over a clear fire; lift to hot platter, sprinkle with salt and pepper, spread over a little butter and cover with sweet pep per saute. Ilermitfl—Cream one cup of butter and one and one-half cups of sugar well together; then add one cup ot raisins seeded and chopped, two ounces of citron chopped fine; three eggs well beaten. Add one tablespoonl'ul each of ground cloves, allsplco and cinna mon and flour sufficient to roll out. Roll a little thicker than vanilla wa fers. Cut in rounds and bake in s moderate oven. Egg Cutlets—Boil eggs twenty min utes; when cold remove the shell; cut in two lengthwise; have one table spoon of butter melted on a hot plate; add to it a little salt and pepper, one egg beaten with one tablespoon of wa ter on another plate and some fine crumbs on still another; dip the egg halves first in the melted butter, then in egg, then in crumbs and fry in deep fat; serve with curry sauce. Tomato and Rice Soup—Put the con tents of one can of tomatoes in an agate pan ever tho fire; add to It one pint of hot wnter; one tablespoonfui of salt, one tablespoon of sugar, three cloves, pepper corns and one-third cup of well washed rice; cook one slice of onion in a little hot butter for five minutes, being careful not to let it brown; add it to tho tomato and rice; when the rice is tender rub all through a strainer; add more seasoning ff needed. Cauliflower with Cheese—Trim off the outer leaves and soak head down ward in salted water one hour; put iu a saucepan head up; cover with boiling water salted and boil slowly until ten der; drain; break off the branches and put In layers on a baking dish, sprink ling with salt, pepper and grated cheese; pour over all one pint of white sauce; cover with a thick layer of but tered bread crumbs and place in a hot oven until browned; serve as a course with saltine wafers. One hundred volumes a day is the in crease In the British Museum. Electricity is now used as an anaes thetic. A French surgeon has produced during operations complete insensibil ity by means of liigli frequency alter nating electric currents. A writer evidently versed in the prac tical manufacture of mantles contrib utes to a contemporary the information that the chemicals in 1000 mantles cost $17.50; the fabric prepared. sl3; the shaping, sl4; coating, $3.75; boxing, labeling and packing, $3.75; profit, and selling expenses, $0; total, SOO. Or the manufacturer cannot sell a reliable mantle for less than six cents apiece. Medical men say that books and paper money carry the microbes of dis ease, and yet the employes of public libraries, who handle hundreds of books daily, and bank officials, who handle thousands of notes, do not "catch" tho diseases. The reason is that library people do not wet their lingers with their lips to turn over the leaves of books, and bank officials do not wet their fingers in the same way to count money. A series of experiments has been made by Sehaible to determine the ef fect of diminished air pressure on the growth and germination of plants. The apparatus used is fully described and illustrated and details of numerous ex periments are given. The results ar rived at were thnt, as compared with, similar plants grown under normal barometric pressure, those under tho diminished pressure—in most cases about one-quarter atmospheric pres sure was employed—(l) grow moro rap idly; (2) germinate more slowly; and (3) excrete drops of water from their leaf sui'face. The formation in the gold fields of South Africa is peculiar. The gold is in reefs. According to the Mining and Scientific Press, these reel's are massive and made up of coarse granite con glomerate and sandstone, with here and there large or small cement seams. The gold is not in the quartz or sand stone, but In tho cement. The streaks which carry the gold are from six inches to sixty feet in width, and al most invariably widen with depth. When the outoroppqig is first discov ered it looks like a vertical vein, but soon flattens out on depth. The mining there is more like coal than gold min ing anywhere else. Shafts are nearly all sixteen by eight or sixteen by six. The city of Bombay, India, is to be equipped with an extensive system of electric traction and lighting, while another scheme for operating a stretch J of road is to be carried out. Water is to generate the necessary power for both projects. For these purposes two huge water-power plants are to lie con structed. The machinery for supply ing the electricity to work the railroad is to be Installed on t lie Doodh Sagar Biver, about 300 miles north of Bom bay, at a waterfall which is about 2500 feet In height. It is anticipated licit with the projected machinery for this installatidn 50,000 horse power will lie generated—available throughout the year—sufficient to operate some sixty miles of track. The power for lighting and working the street railroads of Bombay is to be transmitted from Neral, about forty miles distant from the city. Scientific Lnrli. The botanical papers report that De Vrles, the great Dutch experimental evolutionist, has by long continued se lection produced a variety of clover which has normally four leaves. Thus It is that science contributes something daily to the increase of human happi ness and good fortune. llow many hours we have spent on our hands and knees searching for the lucky leaf. Even yet some of us always walk across n clover patch with downcast eyes and are arrested with unconscious cerebration at any indication of quad ruplicate foliation. Now we can buy our own luck at the greenhouse, provid ed, of course, we are lucky enough to have the money. The disparity of for tune, an evil already so threatening to our social and political life, will lie Increased by this new discovery. The rifch man can buy his four-leaved clov ers, even His five-leaved and six-leaved clovers, and roll in them, while the poor mnn will still have to hunt long on the lawn for even a little luck, and then he is likely to be told to keep off the grass.. Ills only hope will be for the new variety to escape from culti vation and grow like the Russian thistle by the sidewalk. But by that time the millionaire will doubtless have eight-leaved clovers in his conserva tory.—The Independent. Soma Definitions. The Abilene Heflector gives the fol lowing as some of the answers received at n recent school examination in Junc tion City: "Deflut the word fathom and form a sentence witli it." "A fathom has six feet; a fly is a fathom." "Define species." "Species is a kind; n boy must be species to his mother." "Define odorless." "Odorless is with out a scent; a man who is odorless cannot ride in a car."—Kansas City Journal. lfere' a Turnip. Indiana, not to be outdone by tli" tales from Kansas, has come forward with a big vegetable story. A farmer came into Friendswood the other day bringing with him a turnip which was thirty Inches in circumference and weighed twelve pounds. This, it is as serted, will make Indiana as notable In the vegetable kingdom as the Stale Is hi the literary world.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Poverty Is Neither a Crime Nor a Credit By Ina Brevoort Roberts. BOVE all else, poverty is interesting. There is a certain same ; a 0 ness about wealth, but poverty is never twice alike. One day j H ___ n you go without butter, the next you have butter on your bread )\ "MP J but 110 sugar in your tea, or maybe you have the sugar and no II jftyL 3 tea to put it In. :|) & " "ss? jj Poverty has its drawbacks. The poor man hasn't as much time li A a as tlje f' o ' l 0110 ' n which to make love to his neighbor's wife, nor do the married couples among the poor find it easy to secure leisure in which to learn that their tempers are incompatible. It may occur to them sometimes that the domestic machinery doesn't run as smoothly as it might, but tliey are too busy to take it to pieces to see where the trouble lies, so they just pour on a little of the oil of forbearance and let it go at that; consequently their lives are apt to lack the eclat furnished by divorce. The rich, on the other hand, have plenty of time to "watch the wheels go round," and the minute there's anything wrong with the mechanism of their domestic happiness tliey straightway set to work to get at the why and the wherefore. But, as everyone who has experimented with clocks knows, it is easier to take a machine apart than it is to get it together again. After all is said, it remains that povery is neither a crime nor a credit, neither a curse nor an unmitigated blessing, while wealth, on the other hand, Is monotonous but convenient, and enervating but pleasant.—Brandur Mag azine. JZ? jZ? Us Men Who Make America By the Rev. Dr. J. F. Carson. SHERE is a notion, perhaps nowhere formulated into definite statement, but everywhere pervading the thought of the day, that the strength and permanency of national life can be built on the basis of material forces. But if the history of nations proves anything it proves that the strength and per manency and solidarity of the State do not lie in such forces. Alliances with material forces have always and everywhere been covenants with death. Not in physical resources, net in martial prowess, not in diplomatic shrewdness lies the strength of the Nation, but in the character of its people. Wo want in America to-day men who are free from self-interest in their thought and plan for the Nation. As the complexity of our life grows the opportunities for manipulating affairs for personal Interests multiply. When our personal interests become intertwined with our political relations, we carry a warped mind into the discussion of public affairs and into the discharge of civil duty; we are apt to conclude that the measures which conduce to our own personal Interests are the best measures, and so we favor that party and that policy which will be most likely to bring about the result which we de sire. We must get back to the spirit of the fathers and put political duty before personal interest. Materialism grips the Nntion. The people have no vision, and where there Is no vision the people perish. These are the men whom America needs; dreamers, poets, seers who will bring into life n saving vision. Our poets are not listened to because their song is too much like the common shout. It has about it a metallic ring. Our prose writers are doing little more than painting for us a portrait of our common life. This is not enough. We want a vision. We do not want in poem or in novel, in opera or in drama, simply a graphic representation of life as it is. We wont an unveiling of life as it might be. Only thus can our life be saved from the mean and the material. The men who give us these visions are as rivers of water in dry places, springs break forth wherever they go and the air becomes fresh. These are the men who make America, the men who cause the life of the whole people to throb with heaven-filled impulses and heaven-inspired movements. Value of university raining By Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. fESSKsntaan HAVE listened with interest to able business men when tiiey ra argued and testified that a university training made men filter /T-Jj to succeci t lll their practical struggles. lam far from denying lf's M Pn® it. No doubt such a training gives to men a larger mastery of the laws of nature under which they must wprk, a wider ',3*f m outlook over the world of science and of fact. If I could give Jj to every student a scientific point of view, if education could " H lilll i|ill make men realize that you cannot produce something out of nothing and make them promptly detect the pretense of doing so with which at present the talk of every day is filled, 1 should think it had more than paid for Itself. Still more should I think so if it could send men into the world with a good rudimentary knowledge of the laws of their en vironment. But, besides prosperity there is to be considered happiness, which is not A ho same thing. The chance of a university to enlarge men's power of happi ness is at least not less than its chance to enlarge their capacity for gain. I iwn that with regard to this, as with regard to every other aspiration of man, the most important question seems to me to lie what are his in-born qualities? Mr. Ituskin's first rule for learning to draw, you will remember, was, bo born with genius. It is the first rule for everything else. If a man is adequate In native force, ho will probably be happy in the deepest sense, whatever his fate. But we must not undervalue effort, even if it is the lesser half. And the opinion which a university is sure to offer to all the idealizing tendencies— which, I am not afraid to say, it ought to offer to the romantic side of life makes it above all other Institutions the conservator of tile vestal lire. But, gentlemen, there is one department of your institution to which I must be permitted specially to refer—the department to which I am nearest by profession, and to which I owe the honor of being here. I mean, of course, the Department of Law. It was affirmed, I believe, by the late Chief Justice Cooley, that the law was and ought to be commonplace. No doubt the remark has much truth. It is better that the law should bo commonplace than that It should be eccentric. It seems to me that for men as they are the law may keep its everydny character, and yet be an object of understanding, wonder, and a field for the lightning of genius. jZ? jZ? JZ? Clmgkg to the Old Farm. By E. L. Vincent. SKNOW a man now in his eighty-fourth year, gnd his wife, somewhat past seventy-five, who are carrying on a farm of a hundred and forty odd acres of land. They keep three or four cows, and not far from twenty-five sheep. The milk from the cows they make up at home, setting the milk in tho old fashioned pans and churning with an old fashioned dash churn. Tho present season the old man has gathered nearly 300 bushels of apples from his orchard, and sold something like half of them in a city ten miles away, taking a few bushels at a time and.peddling them out to private customers. This old man is not compelled to follow this strenuous life, being in comfortable circum stances, but he prefers to keep up the habits of life which have brought him so much of happiness and success. Ho lias raised a large family of children, all of whom are now settled on farms of their own, so that he has no one to help him save as he hires now and then a day's work with the plow or in baying. "I have been told a great many times that I ought to stop work now and settle down in town or somewhere else where I would be able to take life easy the rest of my time; but I tell them that I am going to carry on my business as long as I have any. I am now my own boss. Why should I glvo up and let all I have done go to the dogs? The farm is my own. I hewed it out of the woods witli my own hands. All I have got I have earned by the little. If I should give up the farm what would I do? Nothing? Then I would soon be through with this world. I am happier here running my own farm than I would be anywhere else. I eat well and sleep well; folks call me young for my age and are surprised when I tell them that I am past eighty four. I can hire done what I can't do myself, and nobody can dictate to mo how I shall do it." There was fire In the old man's eye as he said this that told of a vigor and strength of character far from ordinary. And no one who knows tho annoy ance of renting a farm to the ordinary tenant and the constnnt deterioration of property after one once turns his back upon it himself will for a moment argue with Idm on the point that he is happier than he would be In any other way. In these days when so many farmers are laying down the implements of their whole life's work and going away to end their days speedily in tho city, tho simple story of this old man who clings to Ills farm with such pathetic tenacity is commended. It may bo said that not every man possesses tho strength to do as he has done. That may be true, for he undoubtedly started out with a reserve of physical power somewhat beyond the average; but moro than one mnn has shortened ills days by giving up the farm and settling down to the unnatural life of the town or city when lie might linve lived many years longer by staying on the farm with its everyday exercise and fresh air and sunshine. So I think our friend and his gatl wife are after aU quite sensible. Do not ?ciDhJ&sw. York Tribune.
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