TIIE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
June IS. IfW. '
Raffles Story Gift of Emperor
Insolently through till rlmlepn e)r-Rlass';
We uukU to have consoled each other, but
we never exchanged a syllabi". The cap
tain had ft murderous scar arroos one of
111 cheeks, a present from neidelborg, and
I used to think how he must long to have
Itafflr-a there to serve the same. It was not
a though Von Neumann never hnd his In
nings. Itaffles let him go In several times
a day for the malicious pleasure of howl
lnf him out as lie was "Retting set;" those
were his words when I taxed him disln
genuusly with obnoxious conduct toward
Oerman on a German boat.
"You'll make yourself disliked on board."
"By Von Heamann merely."
"But Is that wise when he' the man
we' ve got to diddle?"
"The wisest thing I ever did. To have
chummed1 up with him 'would have been
fatal the common dodge."
I was Consoled, encouraged, almost con
tent. I had feared Raffles was neglecting
things, and 1 told him so in a burst. Here
we were near Gibraltar, and not a word
since the Solent. He shook his head with
a, smile.
5'1'lenty of time. Bunny, plenty of time.
We can do nothing before we get to Genoa,
and that. 'won't be till Sunday night.
The voyage la still young, and so are we;
let's 1 make tile most of things while we
can."
t was after dinner, on the promenade
deck, and as Raffles spoke he glanced
sharply fore and aft, leaving me neat mo
ment with a step full of purpose, I re
tired to the smoking room, to smoke and
read in a eornep and- to watch Von Heu
mann, who very soon came to drink beer
and to sulk In another.
few travelers, tempt the Red sea at mid
summer, 'the Uhlan was very empty In
deed. She had, however, but a limited sup
ply of cabins on the promenade deck, and
there was Just that excuse for my sharing
Raffles room. I could have had one to my
self downstairs, but I must be up above.
Raffles had Insisted that I should Insist on
the point. Bo we were together, I think,
without suspicion, though also without any
object, that 1 could sea.
On the Sunday afternoon I waa asleep
In my berth, the lower one, when the cur
tains were shaken off by Raffles, who was
In his shirt sleeves on the settee.
"Achilles sulking In his bunk!"
' "What else Is there to do?" I asked him,
as I stretched and yawned. I noted, how
ever, the good humor of his tone and did
my best to catch It.
.'I Jiavs found something else. Bunny."
"I dare say! '
."You misunderstand me. The whipper
snapper's making his century this after
noon. I've had other fish to fry."
I swung my legs over the side of my
berth and sat forward, as he was sitting,
all attention. The inner door, a grating,
was shut and bolted and curtained like the
open porthole.
"We shall be at Genoa before sunset,"
continued Raffles. "It's the place where the
deed's got to be done."
"So you still mean to do It!"
"Did I ever say I didn't?"
"You have said so little cither way."
"Advisedly so, my dear Bunny: why spoil
a pleasure trip by talking unnecessary
shop? But now the time has come. It
must be done at Genoa or not at all."
"On land?"
i "No, on board, tomorrow night. Tonight
would do, but tomorrow Is better In case of
mishap. If we were forced to use violence
we could get away by the earliest train and
nothing be known till the ship was sailing
and Von Humann found dead or drugged"
I exclaimed.
course not." assented Raffles, "or
fhere would be no need for us to bolt: but
U we ahould bave to bolt, Tuesday morning
s our time, when this ship has got to sail
yhatever happens. But I don't anticipate
any violence. Violence Is a confession of
terrible incompetence. In all these years
how many blows have you known me to
strike? Not one, I believe; but I have been
quite ready to kill my man every time If
the worst came to the worst."
M asked him how he proposed to enter
Von Heumann's stateroom unobserved, and
even through the curtained gloom of ours
his face lighted up.
'"Climb into my bunk, ' Bunny, and you
hall see."
I did so, but could see nothing. Raffles
reached across me and tapped the ventila
tor, a sort of trap 'door In the wall above
his bed, some eighteen Inches long and half
that height. It opened outward Into the
ventilating shaft.
"That," said he, "Is our door to fortune.
Open It If you like, you won't see much,
because It doesn't open far; but loosening
a couple of screws will set that all right.
The shaft, as you may see. Is more or less
bottomless; you pass under It whenever you
to sleep with a bolted door, which he of
course would leave unbolted, and spoke of
other ways of laying a false scent while
lifting the cabin. Not that Raffles antici
pated a tiresome search. The pearl would
be about Von Heumann's person; In fact.
Raffles knew exactly where and in what
be kept 1L Naturally I asked how he could
have come by such knowledge, and his
answer led up to a momentary unpleasant
ness. "It's a very old story, Bunny. I really
forget in what book It comes; I'm only sure
of the Testament. But Samson was the
unlucky hero and one Delilah the heroine"
And he looked so knowing that I could
not be in a moment's doubt as to his mean
ing. "So the fair Australian baa been playing
Delilah?" said L
"In a vary harmless, innocent sort of
way."
"She got his mission out of him?"
"Yes, I've forced him to score all the
points ha could, and that was his great
stroke, as I hoped It would be. He has
even shown Amy the pearl."
"Amy, ehl and she promptly told you?"
"Nothing of the kind. What makes you
think so? I had the greatest trouble In
getting it out of her."
His tone should have been a sufficient
warning to me. I had not the tact to take
It as such. At last I knew the meaning of
his furious flirtation, and stood wagging
my head and shaking my. finger, blinded to
his frown by my own enlightenment.
"Wily worm!" said I. "Now I see
through it all; how dense I've been!"
"Sure you're not still?"
"No; now I understand what has beaten
me all the week. I simply couldn't fathom
what you saw In that little girl I never
dreamt It was part of the game."
"So you think It was that and nothing
more?".
"You deep old dog of course I do!"
"You didn't know she was the daughter
of a wealthy squatter 7"
"There are wealthy women by the dozen
who would marry you tomorrow."
"It doesn't occur to you that I might like
to draw stumps, start clean and live happy
ever after In the bush?"
"With that voice? It certulnly does
not."
"Bunny!" he cried, so fiercely that I
braced myself for a blow.
But no more followed.
"Do you think you would live happily?"
1 made bold to ask him.
"God knows!" he answered. And with
that he left me to marvel at his look and
tone and more than ever at the insu Hi
de ntly existing cause.
III.
Of all the mere feats of cracksmanBhlp
which I have seen Raffles perform, at once
the most delicate and most difficult was
that which he accomplished between 1 and
2 o'clock on the Tuesday morning aboard
the North German steamer Uhlan lying at
anchor in Genoa harbor.
Not a hitch occurred. Everything had
been foreseen; everything happened as I had
been assured everything must. Nobody was
about below, only the ship's boys on deck
and nobody on the bridge. It was twenty
five minutes past 1 when Raffles, without a
stitch of clothing on his body, but with a
glass phial, corked with cotton wool, be
tween his teeth, and a tiny screwdriver be
hind his ear, squirmed feet first through
the ventilator over his berth; and It was
nineteen minutes to 2 when he returned,
head first, with the phial still between his
teeth and the cotton wool rammed home to
still the rattling of that which lay like a
great gray bean within. He had taken the
screws out and put them In ag.iln; he bad
unfastened von Heumann's ventilator and
had left It fast as ho hud found It fast as
he Instantly proceeded to make his own.
As for Von Heumann. It had been enough
to place the drenched wad first on his mus
tache and then to hold It between his
gaping lips; thereafter the Intruder had
climbed both ways across his shins without
eliciting a groan.
And here wns the prize this rearl as
large as a filbert with a pale pink tinge
like a lady's fingernail this spoil of a fili
bustering age this gift from a European
emperor to a South sea chief. We gloated
over It when all was smig. We toasted it
in whisky and soda water laid In over night
in view of the great moment. But the mo
ment was greater, more triumphant than
our most sanguine dreams. All we had now
to do was to secrete the gem (which Raffles
hod prized from Its setting, replacing the
latter), so that we could stand the strictest
search and yet take it ashore with us at
Naples; and this Raffles was doing when I
turned In. I myself would have landed In
continently that night at Genoa and bolted
with the spoil; he would not hear of it, for
a dozen good reasons which will be obvi
ous. On the whole I do not think that anything
was discovered or suspected before we
weighed anchor, but I cannot be sure. It
Is difficult to believe that a man could be
chloroformed In his sleep and feel no tell
tale effects, sniff no suspicious odor In the
morning. Nevertheless Von Heumann re
appeared as though nothing had happened
to him, his German cap over his eyes and
his mustaches brushing the peak. And by
10 o'clock we were quit of Genoa; the last
lean, blue-chinned official had left our
decks; the last fruit seller had been beaten
off with bucketsful of water and left curs
ing us from his boat; the last passenger
had come aboard at the last moment a
fussy graybeard who kept the big ship
waiting while he haggled with his boatman
over half a lira. But at length we were off,
the tug was shed, the lighthouse pnssed and
Raffles and I leaned together over the rail
watching our shadows on the pale green,
liquid, veined marble that again washed
the vessel's side.
Von Heumann was having his innings
once morej it was part of the design that
he should remain in all day and so postpone
the Inevitable hour, and, though the lady
looked bored and was forever glancing In
our direction, he seemed only too willing
to avail himself of his opportunities. Hut
Raffles was moody and ill at ease. He had
not the air of a successful man. I could
but opine that the Impending parting at
Naples sat heavily on his spirit.
He would neither talk to mo nor would
he let me go.
"Stop where you are. Bunny. I've things
to tell you. Can you swim 7"
"A bit."
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Grand Clearing Sale of
MORE VALUE-LESS MONEY
We take inventory July ist, and before doing so we are going
to dose out every odd room size rug in our store, which also n
dudes ail our rugs made up from remnants of carpet and borders
of this season's patterns which are dropped from the manufacturers
list for the fall, and we will name some startling reduction In prices
lrnOC'llo r11 rSPC $17.50 for $13. 75 We are olos-
Brussels rugs ina out tW(mty.fl rw
9x12, which we have never offered before at less than $17.50. We will place these on
sale while they last at $13.75.
rVl 1 tfin VpI VPt Rll 0 f0f $l7,75""We havfi about 20 Wilton velvet Rugs, 9x12 in eize that
Vf llbVJll ' PiVQt liUbJ were never lees than $25. These we will place on sale to close at $17.75
Royal Wilton Rugs'0'"750
u O 28 patterns
of the very best Lowell, Hartford, Selkirk, "Wilton Hugs, in
the 9x12 size. Some of the finest designs 'of this season's
manufacture will he placed on sale this week only, at, $27.50
Sea ruj display In our east window.
JJQP Cllt 111 PflCGS ese Prcea Bhulcl move these rugs with a rush. It has always been our
O aim first, last and all the time to save you a goodly sum of money whenever
you make a purchase from us, and in this instance we hit the mark in the center on that score.
Qm TTl'iVl O TJllfYC We have a nice stock of
amyrna nugs Srayrna Kugs in room
sizes that we are making a large reduction in price. We
herewith quote prices on various sizes:
$22.50 good quality wool Smyrna, 9x12, sale price, $15.00
$22.50 fins quality Smyrna Rugs, 70x10-0, sale price, $14.50
$40.01) extra fine Smyrna Rug. 9x12, to close. $30.00
Wilton Velvet Rugs-
price
t Rug 8-3x10, regular
-4.(m; sale price
I Kugs 8-3xlO-5, regular price
122.50; sale price
1 Rug- 8-3xU-B, regular price
$24.(JO; sali price
1 Rur 8-3x11-4. regular price
$L6.no; sale price
1 Hug 8-3x12-11. regular price
$?ti.00; sale price
2 Kugs 8-3x12, regular price
price
sale price.
9x13, regular
sale price
9x12, regular price OO
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1 Kug
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1 Rug 9xl3-fi, regular price
latum; sale price
1 KU(f 9x11, regular price
$30.00; sale price
1 Kug 30-tixl2, regular price
$'0.00; sale price
1 Rug 10-fixll-S, regular price
$30.00: sale urlce
2 Ruga 10-0x12, regular price o5
$32.00; sale price
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1 Rug 10-6x11, regular price o K fifl
$32.&o; sale price io uv
1 Rug 10-6x12, regular price OA OA
$34.00; sale price -50 vu
1 Rug 10-6x11, regular price OA KO
$33.00; sale price u"
1 Rug 10-6x11-4, regular price Qrt K
$34.00; sale price -u oyJ
1 Rug 10-fixll-S, regular price 07 flft
$32.00; sale price ' uu
2 Hugs 10-6x12, regular price 07 ((
$.'15.00; sale price ' uu
1 Rug 10-6x12-4, regular price 07 on
$35.00; sale price vu
1 Rug 10-6x12-4, regular price OQ (Ci
$36.00; sale price w"
1 Rug 10-6x12-4, regular price QQ DO
$35.00; sale price V uu
Axmlnster Rugs
1 Rug 8-8x10-8, regular price 1 0 nn
$23.00; sale price 10 uu
1 Rug 8-3x10-9, regular price 1 Q Ort
$23.00; sale price. 10 vv
1 Rug 8-3x10-4, regular price 1 0 Of)
$20.00; sale price ld vu
1 Rug 8-3x11, regular price Of) 00
$27.00; sale price yJ vyJ
1 Rug 8-3x12, regular price OQ QQ
$28.00, sale price
1 Rug 8-3x9-9, regular price t) OO
$38.10, sale price io uw
1 Rug 10-6x11-6, regular price flK QQ
$45.00; sale prloe 00 vw
Brussels Rugs
1 Rug 8-3x12, regular price -i a OA
$19.00; sale price A VJ
1 Rug 8-3x9, regular price 1 7 00
$22.00; sale price vv
1 Rug 8-3x10-6. regular price 1 K An
$23.00; sale price l" vw
2 Rugs 9x10-6, regular price 1 7 OO
$15.00; sale price x '
1 Rug 9x12, regular price 1 0 OO
$16.00; sale price x vu
1 Rug 9x12, regular price f 00
$22.50; sale price AO w
Rug 9x10-6, regular price 00 fin
$28.00; sale price
Rug 9x12, regular price 00 fin
$28.00; sale price
Rug 9x13, regular price no a
$30.00; sale price w
Rug 9-4x12. regular price 1 0 (n
$26.00; sale price 1 J uw
Rugs 10-6x12, regular price ofl OO
$26.60; sale price....; u w
Rug 10-6x12, regular price 00 OO
$29.50; sale price " VKJ
Rug 10-6x11, regular price oo nn
$30.00; sale price - u
Rugs 10-6x12, regular price o 9 OO
$10.00; sale price io uu
Rug 10-6x11-9, regular price 07 KO
$30.00; sale price & ou
Rug 10-6x13-6, regular price qo OO
$38.60, sale price OKJ uu
Rug 10-6x12, regular price g2 5Q
Rug 10-6x14, regular price An OO
150.00; sale price u VKJ
Timely Gossip for and About the Women Folks
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The Commencement Goni,
ASS ACH L'SETTS promises to rival
Australia as the originator of
economic reforms. The Bay state
tWJ monwealth In that It Is experl-
- with other than political reforms.
The latest reform to spring from the state
Is reform In the cost of graduating gowns.
Along- about last March the board of
trustees of the Maiden High ' School for
Girls boldly suggested that graduating
gowns be limited to a cost of $3.50 which
meant simply that all graduates wear a
regulation gown of white muslin and the
square-cornered school cap. The Maiden
School board finally compromised on a $10
limit for gowns. The reform in commence
ment gowns Maiden may fairly claim to
have launched, and there are indications
that the , graduating gown crusade will
spread to other centers.
The New York Tribune has made the
Maiden example of setting a moderate cost
limit to the graduating drexses the occa
sion for Interviewing a number of prin
cipals of graduating girl's schools In the
borough of Manhattan. The teachers In
terviewed were almost a unit in agreeing
that graduation display Is out of harmony
with the true significance of the graduat
ing event.
But nearly all recognised that
gd to your bath, and the top is a skylight there were difficulties In the way of fixing
tlooat and Is constantly on the alert to de
tect the slight bulge which reveals its
presence.
Borne of the new coats are provided with
an inside pocket, "Just like a man's," and
large enough to hold a pocketbook. This
Is particularly convenient. A glove will
often serve the purpose of a pocket, to tiold
a bill or a coin. If It does not happen to be
occupied already by a handkerchief. The
fact that women are quite commonly driven
to carry their handkerchiefs In their gloves
affords the best possible Illustration of the
extremities to which they are driven by
the paucity of pockets.
Another method of hiding paper money
not Infrequently adopted by women is to
put It Into a hat with a hatpin stuck
through it. The corsage, of course. Is one
of the most ancient of receptacles for
ready cash, as well as for other feminine
treasures, and many women carry money,
as well as small articles of jewelry, in a
little chamois skin bag hung around the
neck by a ribbon and tucked Into the
bosom. Sometimes the little bag is divided
Into stalls for the reception of different
articles. But your really dainty woman
prefer to make the bag af linen, which Is
decorated with embroidery, and which can
be washed.
The devices which women adop. for hld-
on'thfi bridge. That's why this thing has
to be done while we're at Genoa, because
they keep no watch on the bridge In port.
The venfflator "opposite ours Is Von Neu
mann's. . H again will only mean a couple
of screws, and there's a beam to stand on
while you work."'
"But "It anybody should look up from be
low T"
"It's eatfemely unlikely that anybody will
be astir . below o unlikely . that we can
afford to chance It. No, I can't have you
there to make sure. The great point Is that
$10 limit or any other definite cost stand- tn m0ney and valuables when they take a
ara to the graduating outfit. One practical
minded woman teacher remarked that such
very different effects might be produced
with $10. "If the mother had the time and
skill she might, by buying the material at
a wholesale house, where lace and mull are
cheap, and doing the work herself, evolve
an expensive looking creation out of that
sum; If she had to depend upon a ready
made shop, the result would be otherwise."
Another school principal frankly con
ceded that It sometlaies happens that the
bath are sometimes cnrlous. A favorite
method is to put rings and ready cash Into
the toe of one of the slippers. Thus placed
the precious things are perfectly safe while
she Is engaged In her ablutions, and It is
altogether impossible for her to forget them
when she comes to resume her garments,
suppose I am going to give that up? Not
unless I can marry the head of the firm."
Said another of the bustling and hustling
type, who was asked the same question.
"Because I have never seen a man yet who
would give me $80 a month with no ques
tions." "The only man who has proposed to me
within the last year is our bookkeeper,"
said a girl with attractive dimples and
good teeth. 'Do you know anything about
bookkeepersT Well, they are the same
thing to the stenographers that curates are
to the society girl. There Is always one
who Is ready to propose to every good look
ing typewriter girl who comes Into the
office. Once I would have thought that the
$26 a week which he gets waa a munificent
salary, and he Is a nice fellow, too; but he's
not for me."
The money question is not the only one
upon which the stenographer now sees
light. It is to be wondered if the averago
employer takes Into account as te should
the recording possibilities of the stiff young
person whose only Interest outside of her
shorthand notes seems to be In the black
bows upon her hair and the papers which
she wears around her wrists. Said a man
who is in charge of a stenographer agency
the other day:
"The girl who sits up there is the un
eirlng register of every move, tone, Inflec
tion and expression of her employer, and
who shall say of how many of his thoughts.
She is not idly curious. It Is all done me
chanically, and her habit of being alert to
everything which takes place is partly the
result of her ear, trained to catch every
sound which bears upon her work. When
After all, however, the classical feminine'
t-mo ,1, iiJ nui lu UUfo. uiuuuuijt uui evcu
method of hiding money Is in the stocking.
It Is an exceptionally safe way of conceal
ing the cash, no pickpocket belrm likely to
get at It under such circumstances, and Its
his wife.
"She Is not usually good at expressing
herself, but when she says she Is a good
Judge of men she Is right. She may never
neither of u. should be seen from the time g.r, who ha. done honrVk and who f TT, 1"' tJ'Z STLTZ
we turn In; A couple' of ship's boys do sen
try-go on, these decks, and they shall be
our witnesses; by Jove, It'll be the biggest
mystery that ver ws made!"
"If yh Heumann doesn't resist"
"Resist! .Re .won't get the chance. Ha
drinks- too much beer to sleep light, and
nothing Is so easy , as to chloroform a
heavy sfer per; you've even done 'it your
self on an .occasion or which It's perhaps
unfair to remind you. Von Heumann will
be.. past sensation almost as soon as I get
my hand through his ventilator. I shall
crawl in over his body, Bunny, my boy!"
"And IT"
. "You will hand me what I want and bold
the fort In case of accidents, and generally
deserves distinction Is made to look of com- cully tnal 18 "aDle 10 De w
paratlve small consequence by the iclrl who "1B T " -
makos the stunning stage display; but who "he want" t0 "' Mny. th.U"
perhaps, has only graduated by being given plaCe1 ha" a Provokln VAy ot orltlnK lt
th. benefit of mr. ,h.n L?. Y.? toward the foot, .0 that you will
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particular Instance, rocalled by one of the
teachers who was Interviewed, a girl who
had not made any special shine In her
classes took the graduation glories by the
magnificence of her apparel and by bow
ing acknowledgments to twenty-seven bou
quets which, one by one, were passed across
the footlights. In nearly all New York
schools now, however, the open presenta
tloa of bouquets la eliminated. The flow
ers are all stored In a back room, and the
young- lady who Is especially popular must
occasionally see a woman In a dry goods
shop go behind a counter and Indulge In
various mysterious writhes and wrlggllngs
in pursuit of the fugitive currency.
Hence the value of the garter with a
pocketbook attached-a novelty which ap
peal's to be coming into fashion. It la per
fectly safe, reasonably convenient, and In
no way an Interference with the esthetics
of the costume. A woman can get at such
a pocketbook with a. quickness, deftness
and modesty which might well astonish
lend roe the moral support you've made me get what satisfaction she can from taking clumy and Inexperienced man.
require. It's a luxury. Bunny, but I found
It devilish difficult to do without it after
you turned pit"
. He said that Von Heumann was certain
Facial Beauty
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If faos
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If skin
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her floral tributes home with her.
Inventive In Uldln Money,
"Women are mora secretive than men,"
says Prof. Otis T. Mason, curator of an
thropology In the National museum at
Washington. "Because they are weaker
than men they have a natural Impulse to
resort to strategeme, and that Is why they
adopt such queer expedients for hiding their
money on their persons."
Of course, the fashions of the day make
no provision for a pocket In a woman's
dress, and this fact alone Is etiough to
drive h,er to Invent Ingenious methods ot
concealing her cash. Her mother wit Is
taxed. In fact, to contrive hiding places
about her person suitable for the purposa.
Not a few women actually carry money In
their hair, tucked beneath the roll of the
pompadour, while others resort to the shoe
as a convenient and safe receptacle.
The ancient mode of carrying money In
the knotted corner of a handkerchief has
not wholly disappeared, while the pocket
less new fashions have driven many women
to the equally old expedient of providing a
pocket In the petticoat. It might be sup
posed that this was an exceptionally safe
plan, but the fact Is that It Is not so at all.
Inasmuch as the up-to-date pickpocket Is
well acquainted with the pocket In the pet-
Why Stenographers Are Old Maids.
Why Is It that the stenographer, thrown'
among all sorts and conditions ot men
every day of her life, has a larger percen
tage ot old maids scored against her class
than even the school teacher, who (so says
the stenographer) does nut see a man from
one weeks' end to another?
There Is but one answer to this question,
reports the Chicago Tribune, and that Is
that, although the stenography girl
cherishes In her secret heart the longing
for a home of her own, which shall take
her out of the business world, and, al
though she has a keen eye for the big
prises in the matrimonial market, Bhe 1
particularly hostile to the ordinary chances
that come In her way.
The universal and particular light which
the stenography girl has upon business life
versus matrimony is that which centers
about her money. The absolute preclous
neaa of her pay roll Is a thing which can
never be taken Into account by the sex to
whom Independent finances are as every
day brrath. A hint of the holiness with
which she regards her fifteen per 'is given
In the way she alludes to It as her $06 a
month or to her $S00 a year. t
"Why don't you get married T" was asked
of a girl who Is In receipt of $2$ weekly.
"Why, I get over $1,000 a year. Do you
plover beyond taking dictation, but she
knows to a nicety what his domestic rela
tions are and what kind of care he is taking
of his family.
" 'I am glad I am not married to a man
like that,' she will say. 'He Is always
quarreling with his wife.' ,
" 'How do you know that he quarrels with
his wife?'
" 'Well, he comes down in the morning
like a thunder cloud. He throws things
here and he scowls at things there. About
11 o'clock his wife calls him up on the tele
phone and It doesn't take the whole of the
conversation even at one end to show what
has happened.'
"The result Is that she Is afraid ot matri
mony. Bhe sees her employer as he Is.
Again, the man who ahlulds the women of
his family from every breath that Is dis
agreeable Is perhaps anything but attrac
tive to the stenographer, who is the confi
dante ot all his business annoyances and
who sees the little trickeries that aid In
evitable In business life."
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Care ot Babies la Summer.
If a baby is kept In good health It will
not cry much even in the heat of sum
mer, says the Now York World. . This fact
Is universally known, and the next ques
tion Is how to keep him well and comfort
able. Looking at the matter from the position
of doctor, mother or nurse, there are three
fundamental principles which must be ob
served If the child Is to be kept well. The
first of these is the food. Mother's milk
Is conceded to be the bnst food obtainable
for the baby. No Improvement can be
maJo on It, nor can It be equaled by any
modification of milk from any other source.
A baby requires less heat-producing food
In the summer and hence less of the foods
containing sugar from which heat la de
rived. The matter of artificial feeding is
one for the physician to handle, as each
child requires different food. Condensed
milk is to be condemned as a regular diet
tor babies at any time, but especially In
summer, because of Its great heat-producing
power.
The next factor Is that the feet of the
child should be comfortable, especially as
poorly nourished children are liable to have
cold extremities. Last, but not least, the
baby should be "changed" frequently and
the wet clothing not allowed to stay on any
length of time, as it causes Irritation and
Inflammation of the skin. These funda
mental principles apply especially to hot
weather, because at this time the Infant
suffers most. It one of these Is neglected,
is it any wonder that the child becomes Ir
ritable and cries a great deal?
Other factors which cause children to be
cross are being too warmly clad, tight ab
dominal binders, lack of fresh air, cutting
teeth, prickly heat and hives. The baby's
underclothes should be made of light flan
nel during the first summer and these
should not hang from the hips by means
of waistbands, but should have shoulder
straps and be made In one piece. This
gives free movements to the body and less
constriction. Abdominal binders are not
necessary after the first few months, ex
cept tn extremely . delicate children, and
are very often harmful because th i mothers
Insist on putting them on too tight. Bind
ers are simply meant to act as a support,
and hence the name conveys an erroneous
idea.
Lack of fresh air Is often the result of
laziness or overwork of the mother. For
either of these reasons the child Is left un
attended In the house all day. At other
times the child Is taken out tn a baby car
riage, but the parasol Is kept so low that
no air is admitted underneath. As proof of
this the large Infant homes have done away
with the parasols. Cutting teeth Is un
avoidable, but the digestion should be care
fully watched. In this way, too, hives and
prickly heat can be avoided.
Babies who are dressed too warmly are
especially liable to have prickly heat. When
there Is much ot this affection on the body
a thin cotton, or, better still, linen shirt
should be worn next the skin, then the
band and gauze shirt. Frequent sponges In
tepid water, to which a little Vinegar Is
added, will allay the Itching. Bran baths
are also exoellent.
Small hammocks are very comfortable
for the little ones, as they admit a great
deal of air and thus lessen the heat. The
hammock should be hung out of doors It
possible. The baby should be bathed at
least once or twice a day tn hot weather
very young babies at a temperature of 89
Fahrenheit, and cooler for older babies. It
is most important to use a bath thermome
ter when bathing the baby In the tub.
Sometimes the child Is burned by placing
its hand on the rails of a tin tub filled
with too hot water, and again the water
Is too cold.
A piece of flannel should be used for the
first part of the bath, along with a good,
pure soap. Even the beat soap must be
used neither too frequently nor too pro
fusely, and must be washed off thoroughly
lest It lead to Irritation of the sktu or
ecxema. The best time to give the bath
la in the morning between the two feedings,
at about 10 o'clock, and tn the evening be
fore giving the child the last bottle and
putting him to bed. A child should never
be bathed when It la overheated or too cold.
The drying process after the bath should
consist of numerous pats with a soft towel
rather than rubbing.
The use of too much powder sprinkled to
absorb moisture on babies' skin after the
bath is hardly to be recommended unless
there Is some skin disorder which warrants
Its use. Even then it Is healthier and
cleaner to use cold cream or oxide of sine
ointment. In summing up the subject, If we
put ourselves In the baty's place and con
sider the discomforts as our own, we will
not have so much trouble In remedying
them.
Leaves from Fashion's Notebook.
The outdoor girl who wear low tan
Shoes with wide projecting soles has three
trim little leather buckles to fasten them
In place of buttons or ribbons.
Long chains of gold have big lapis lazuli
balls as large as small walnuts set Into
them.
One of the most realistic of the many
four-leaf clover brooches has each of the
petals formed of a single piece of chryo
phrase. The center Is a large diamond,
and the stem is formed ot smaller dia
monds. Bracelets to slip over the hand are of
solid gold or ot delicate filigree work, and
set with Jewels. There are sapphires,
emeralds, und many have baroque pearls,
not the prettiest of the lot, setting out
prominently from the gold.
For traveling suits of whatever mate
rials, patent leather hats In . good shade
of gray are offered. The shapes are modi
fications of the sailor, and the hats are
swathed In long gray veils.
Skirts grow wider and wider. Even the
moderate ones are now at least five yards
around the hem, while eight are not too
many to be considered for skirts of thin
material. Materials have to be cut into
many gores to make this great width pos
sible. A pale blje parasol has the lower part
of each panel cut up tn a high arch, and
this filled in with pale blue chiffon. The
upper part of the arches are finished with
a design of bow knots, which are charm
ing, or ribbons, and the edge of the para
sol has a ribbon finish.
The semi-tailored gewn is the latest out
growth. The skirts of these gowns are as
correct tn the line and finish as the tailor's
art can make them, while the Jackets or
coats are exquisitely made, and are more
or less elaborate. Worn over dainty lin
gerie or silk blouses, they are becoming
and appropriate for almost any occasion
short of the dressiest.
Chat About Womemn.
When Mrs. Ooddard of Colorado Springs,
Colo., was appointed deputy sherlit, she
took the office becauso it would assist her
In her work for the prevention of cruelty
to animals. Mrs. Uoddard Is a grand
daughter of General Lewis Cass and a mil
lionaire in her own right.
The highest honors in the senior class at
Cornell nave been awarued to Miss Jesslo
R. Fausot, a colored woman, and the only
woman student of her race in tne coliegu
of arts. In her course she has had to com
pete with something like 100 white stu
dents. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Wheaton, affectionately
styled the "mother of Wheaton Female
seminary," has Just died at Norton, Mass.,
at the age of Dti. Nearly all of tier large
estate will become the property of mo
seminary. It la said to be valued at sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
Miss Ainiee Tourgee, only child of the
late Judge Albion VV. Tourgee, resembles
her father in poetic temperament and love
of the artiBllc. It is expected that she will
follow in his literary footsteps. She is an
enthusiastic horsewoman, and is known for
miles around the Tourgee home in May
vllle, N. Y.
Mis. Harry Wallersteln of New York re
ceived bar lawyer's degree five years ago,
and was graduated with honors at the New
York medical college and hospital for
women the first of this month. Her med
ical studies were undertaken in order that
she might be fitted to maintain a free
clinic fur poor women and children. Mrs.
Wallersteln devotes all her time to churll
able work.
Queen Christina of Spain, who inherited
an immense private fortune from her uncle,
the late Archduke Albert of Austria, has
for a number ot years held some $3.ooo.ouo
worth of United States bunds and retained
possession thereof even throughout Iho war
of Spain with this country. They are de-
foslted, with the remainder of her hold
ngs of one kind or another, in the Hank
of England.
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