Transmutation.
Bee. dear. I burn upon this April hill
The letters I have treasurer for eo long.
The day runs over with the bluebirds'
song:
The buoyant wind blows delicately chill.
Twisting the clean, bright flames that
have their will
On our hearts' record, whirling for a
breath
Qray wraiths of paper whereupon In
death
Waver the words that shake my spirit
still
Tereln I prove me worthy of your trust.
Leaving our letters not to mold and
dust,
Nor. after me, ravished of alien eyes;
hit changing them through Are and the
spring's
Swift alchemy Into fair, growing things.
Bo have the heart's frustrations made
me wise.
—Elizabeth Whiting In April Century.
in Plain Terms.
'The Ignorance of many persons
touching the ‘good old Anglo-Saxon'
speech we hear so much of In the mag
sslnes and newspapers,” says a mem
ber of the faculty of Princeton, "Is
most amusing at times. A member of
the bar In Philadelphia, a man more
remarkable for the vigor of his ad
dresses to Juries than for his learn
ing, was not long ago commenting on
the proceedings of the other party to
a suit under trial.
“ I do not know what gloss,' said he.
*my learned friend may put upon this
ratter, but I will not mince my words.
denounce this thing In plain, down
right Anglo-Saxbn English as a ne
farious and preposterous transaction of
the most unprecedented kind.'"
Garfield Tea cannot but commend itself
to those desiring a laxative at once sim
ple, pure, mild, potent and health-giving.
It is made of Herbs. All drug stores.
In Arid Georgia.
"Case of apoplexy; a bad stroke."
"What brought it on?"
"Man asked him If whisky was good
to rub a hoss with.”
Limitations of the Teachers’ Profession
Prom the April Scribner: We are
so unsocial and stilted that It would
seem we lived In mortal fear of Inspec
tion at close range. We are too prud
ish to be truly human, too lacking In
the sense of humor to extract enjoy
ment out of the follies of life, and so
prim aa to find ourselves overwhelmed |
and paralyzed by a sense of the Im
propriety of everything that falls out
side our straight laced course. We are
too dogmatic to be agreeable compan
ions: too didactic, too Instructive, too
prone to Impart Information to stand
on a give and take looting with our
friends; we prefer to give. We are too
sensitive to accept philosophically our
share of the world's rebuffs; too meek
to be self respecting; too subservient to
superiors ‘to possess Independence of
character. We are too bookish and un
practical to bear our proper part In
turning the wheels of social progress;
so out of harmony generally with the
Instincts and needs of society that for
the most part It washes past us, leav
ing us stranded high and dry like fos
sils on the deserted shoreline of an
ancient sea. As far as taking an ac
tive part In the doings of society is
concerned we meet the late Professor
Wilbur Jackman's characterization of
the modern college student—we are "as
Innocuous as a flock of sheep on a sun
ny hillside In April."
Again, our professor fosters a devo
tion to methods and petty devices. It
has lately reached such a point that
every slightly different way of doing
& thing Is labelled with a name of Its
own. Our pedagogical books and ar
ticles literally swarm with these
methodological ghosts, until It Is a
discerning Intelligence Indeed that can
distinguish the real entitles from the 1
non-entltles; the shadow from the
substance.
Another hot spring was recently add
ed to the 19 which Carlsbad had for
years enjoyed. Workmen who were
engaged in clearing out the channels
of the "Muhlbrunn” suddenly broke
Into a new spring of hot mineral wa
tei 22 feet below the surface of the
Cround. The water gushed up and.
overflowing the promenade, ran Into
the river Tepl. The appearance of the
new spring was not altogether wel
come to the citizens, because they fear
that Its flow may diminish that of the
Sprudel fountain, which Is Carlsbad’s
most valuable asset as a health resort.
LOST $300
Baying Medicine When Right Food
W«i Needed.
Money spent for “tonics” and “bra
<wcs" to relieve lndlgestlou, while tga
|x»or old stomach is loaded with pustry
and pork, is worse than losing a poeket
Vook containing the money.
If the money only Is lost It's bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating. It Is hard to make the
Money back.
A Mich, young lady lost money on
drugs but Is thaukful she found a way
to get back her health by proper food.
She writes:
“I had been a victim of nervous dys
pepsia for six years and spout three
hundred dollars for treatment in the at
tempt to get well. None of It did me
any good.
“Finally I tried Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, if It
cost a dollar a package, 1 would not
lie without It. My trouble bad been
<nu8ed by eating rlcb food sucb as
pastry nnd pork.
“Tbe most wonderful thing that ever
happened to me, I am sure, was the
chnnge in my condition utter l begun
to eat Grape-Nuts. I began to raprove
at once and tbe first week gained four
IKMinds.
“I feel that I cannot express myself
In terms that are worthy of tbe benefit
Grape-Nuts has brought to me. aud you
are perfectly fre“ to publish tbis letter
If It will send some poor sufferer relief,
such as has come to me."
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek. Mich. Head, “The Hoad to
WelivIHe," In pUgs. “There's u Hea
sou.”
I
j __THE_—
Story of Francis Cludde
A Romance of Queen Mary's Reign.
BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN.
CHAPTER VII.
I am ‘old by people who have been
seasick that the sound of waves beat
ing against the hull comes In time to
be an Intolerable torment. But bad as
this may be It can be nothing In com
parison with the pains I suffered from
the same cause as I recovered my
senses. My brain seemed to be a cavern
into which each moment, with a rhyth
mical regularity which added the pangs
of anticipation to those of reality, the
sea rushed, booming and thundering,
Jarring every nerve and straining the
walls to bursting and making each mo
ment of consciousness a vivid agony.
And this lasted long—how long I can
not say. But It had subsided some
what when I first opened my eyes and
dully, not daring to move my head,
looked up.
I was lying on my back. About a
foot from my eyes were rough beams
of wood disclosed by a smoky yellow
light, which flickered on the knotholes
and rude joists. The light swayed to
and fro regularly, and this adding to
my pain I closed my eyes with a moan.
Then some one came to me, and I heard
voices which sounded a long way off
and promptly fell again Into a deep
sleep, troubled still, but less painfully,
by the same rhythmical shocks, the
same dull crashlngs In my brain.
When I awoke again, I had sense to
know what caused this and where I
was—in a berth on board ship. The
noise which had so troubled me was
the waves beating against her forelock.
The beams so close to my face formed
the deck; the smoky light came from
the ship's lantern swinging on a hook.
I tried to turn. Some one came again,
and with gentle hands arranged my pil
low and presently began to feed me
with a spoon. When I had swallowed
a few mouthfuls, I gained strength to
turn.
Who was til’s feeding me? The light
was at her back and dazzled me. For
a short while 1 took her for Petronllla.
my thoughts going back at one bound
to Coton and skipping nil that hap
pened since I left home. But as I
grew stronger I grew clearer, and re
calling bit by bit tvhat had happened In
the boat I recognized Mistress Anne. I
tried to murmur thanks, but she laid
a cool finger on my lips and shook
her head, smiling on me. ‘‘You must
not talk,” she murmured. "You are
getting well. Now go to sleep again."
I shut my eyes at once as a child
might. Another Interval of unconscious
ness, painless this time, followed, and
again I awoke, I was lying on my side
now, and without moving could see the
whole of the tiny cabin. The lantern
still hung and smoked. But the light
was steady now, and I heard no splash
ing without nor the dull groaning and
creaking of the timbers within. There
reigned a quiet which seemed bliss to
me, and I lay wrapped in It, my
thoughts growing clearer and clearer
each moment.
On a sea chest at the farther end of
the cabin were sitting two people en
gaged In talk. The one, a woman. 1
recognized Immediately. The gray eyes
full of command, the handsome fea
tures, the reddish brown hair and grac
ious figure left me in no doubt, even
for a moment, that I looked on Mistress
Bertram. The sharer of her seat was
a tall thin man, with a thoughtful face
and dreamy, rather melancholy eyes.
One of her hands rested on his knee,
and her lips as she talked were close
to his ear. A little aside, sitting on
the lowest step of the ladder which
led to the deck, her head leaning
against the timbers and a cloak about
her, was mistress Anne.
I tried to speak and after more than
one effort found my voice. "Where am
I?" I whispered. My head ached sadly,
and I fancied, though I was too languid
to raise my hand to it. that it was
bundaged. My mind was so far clear
that I remembered Master Clarence
and his pursuit and the fight In the
bouts and knew that we ought to be
on our way to prison. Who. then was
the mild, comely gentleman whose
length of limb made the cabin seem
smaller than it wn«’> ..
ly . Yet who else?
per, but faint as my voice was they
all heard me and looked up. "Anne!"
the elder lady cried sharply, seeming
by her tone to direct the other to at
tend to me. Yet was she herself the
first to rise and come and lay her hand
on my brow. “Ah, the fever is gone!”
she said, speaktug apparently to the
gentleman who kept his seat. "His
head is quite cool. He will do well now.
I am sure. Do you know me?" she
continued, leaning over me.
I looked up into her eyes and read
only kindness. "Yes," I muttered. But
the effort of looking was so painful that
I dosed my eyes again, with a sigh.
Nevertheless my memory of the events
which had gone before my Illness grew
clearer, and I fumbled feebly for some
thing which should have been at my
side, "Where is—where Is my sword?”
I made shift to whisper.
She laughed. "Show It to him Anne,"
she said. "What a never die it is'
There, master knight errant we did
not forget to bring it off the Held you
see. ’
"But how,” I murmured, "how did
you escape?" I saw that there was no
question of a prison. Her laugh was
gay. her voice full of content.
I T!lat J?.a *onK story," she answered
I Jr.1?; A5e you weli enough to hear
it? You think you are? Then take
some of this first. Y’ou remember that
knave Philip striking you on the head
l with an oar as you got up? No? Well
| It was a cowardly stroke, but it stood
him in little stead, for we had drifted
in the excitement of the race, under the
stern of the ship which you remembei
seeing a little before. There were
English seamen on her, and when they
I saw- three men in the act of boarding
two defenseless women they stepped it
and threatened to send Clarence anti
his crew' to the bottom unless they
steered ofT.”
i "Ha!” I murmured, “dood!"
"And so we escaped. I prayed th<
captain to take us on board his ship
the Framllngham. and he did so. More
putting Into Leigh on his way to th(
Nore. ho took off my husband. Then
he stands, nnd when you are better hi
shall tfeank you."
"Nay, he will thank you now,” sail
the tall man, rising and stepping ti
my berth with his head bent. He coult
not stand upright, so low was the deck
"But for you.” he continued, his earn
estness showing in his voice and eye
—the latter were almost tender for :
map's—“my wife would be now lyini
in prison her life in jeopardy and he
property as good as gone. She has tol
me how bravely you rescued her fror
that cur in Cheapside, and hew you
presence of mind battled the wate
ut the riverside. It is well, youn
gentleman. It is very well. Bu
ihese things call for other return
than words. When It lies 1
her power, my wife will make them. .
not today, tomorrow, and if not tomor
row the day after."
I was very weak, and his words
brought the tears to my eyes. "She
has saved my life already,” I murmured.
"You foolish boy!" she t ried, smiling
down on me, her hand on her husband's
shoulder. "You got your head broken
in my defense. It was a great thing,
was It not, that I did not leave you to
die in the boat? There, make haste
and get well. You have talked enough
now. Go to sleep, or we shall have the
fever bark again.”
"One thing first," I pleaded. "Tell
me whither we are go.ng.”
“In a few hours we shall be at Dort
In Holland," she answered. “But be
content. YVe will take ture of you and
send you back If you wlU, or you shall
| still come with us. as you please. Be
content. Go to sleep now and get
| strong. Presently perhaps we shall
have need of your help again."
j They went and sat down then on
their former seat anjl talked in whis
pers, while Mistress Anne shook up my
pillows and laid a fresh, cool bandage,
on my head. I was too weak to speak
my gratitflde, but I tried to look it, and
so fell asleep again, her hand in mine,
and the wondrous smile of those lus
trous eyes the last impression of which
: I was conscious.
A long, dreamless sleep followed.
YY'hen I awoke once more, the light still
hung steady, but the peacefulness of
night was gone. We lay in the midst
of turmoil. The scampering of feet
over the deck above me, the creaking
of the .windlass, the bumping and clat
tering of barrels hoisted in or hoisted
out, the harsh sound of voices raised in
a foreign tongue and in queer keys,
sufficed as I grew wide awake to tell
me we were in port.
But the cabin was empty, and I lay
for some time gazing at its dreary in
terior and wondering what was to be
come of me. Presently an uneasy fear
crept into my mind. What if my com
panions had deserted me? Alone, 111
and penniless in a foreign land, what
should I do? This fear in my sick
state was so terrible that I struggled
to get up, and with reeling brain and
nervous hands did get out of my berth.
But, this feat accomplished, I found
that I could not stand. Everything
swam before my eyes. 1 could not take
a single step, but remained, clinging
helplessly to the edge of my berth, de
spair at my heart. I tried to call out,
but my voice rose little above a whis
per, and the banging and shrieking, the
babel without, went on endlessly. Oh,
it was cruel, cruel! They had left me!
I think my senses were leaving me,
too, when I felt an arm about my waist
and found Mistress Anne by my side
guiding me to the chest. I sat down
on it, the certainty of my helplessness
and the sudden relief of her presence
bringing the tears to my eyes. She
fanned me and gave me some restora
tive, chiding me the while for getting
out of my birth.
"I thought that you had gone and
left me," I muttered. I was as weak as
a child.
She said cheerily: "Did you leave us
when ue were in trouble? Of course
you did not. There, take some more of
this. After all, it is well you are up,
for in a short time we must move you
to the other boat.”
' The other boat?”
"Yes, we are at Dort, you know. And
we are goirg by the YVaal. a branch of
the Rhine, to Arnheim. But the boat is
here, close to this one, and with help ]
think you will be able to walk to it."
“I am sure f shall if you will give
me you arm,” 1 answered gratefully.
"But you will not think again," she
replied, "that we have deserted you?"
"No." I said. "I will trust you al
ways."
I wondered why a shadow crosesd her
face at that. But I had no time to do
more than wonder, for Master Bertram,
ooming down, brought our sitting to an
end. She bustled about to wrap me up,
and somehow, partly walking, partly
carried, I was got on deck. There I sat
down on a bale to recover myself and
felt at once much the better for the
fresh, keen air, the clear sky and
wintry sunshine which welcomed me
to a foreign land.
On thff voenal
stretched a wide expanse of turbid
water, five or six times as wide as the
Thames at London, and foam tied e l
here and there by the Up running tide.
1 On the other side was a wide and spa
1 clous quay, paved neatly With round
! stones and piled here and there with
j merchandise, but possessing, by virtue
; ot the lines of leafless elms which bor
I tiered it. a quaint air of rusticity in
the midst of bustle. The sober bearing
: of the sturdy landsmen, going quietly ,
j about their business, accorded well with
i the substantial comfort of the rows of
! tall, steep roofed houses 1 saw beyond
the quay and seemed only made more
homely by the occasional swagger and
uncouth cry of some half barbarous
teaman, wandering aimlessly about.
Above the town rose the heavy square
lower of a church, a notable landmark
where all around, land and water, lay
so low, where the horizon seemed so
far and the sky so wide and breezy.
"So you have made up your mind to
I come with us." said Master Bertram,
i returning to my side. He had left me
to make some arrangements. "You
j understand that If you would prefer to
| go home 1 can secure your tendance
i here by good, kindly people and provide
i for your passage back when you feel
; strong enough to cross. You under
! stand that? And that the choice is en
i tirely your own? So which will you
| do?"
| I changed color and felt I did. I
1 shrunk, as being well and strong I '
i should not have shrunk, from losing
! sight of those three faces which I hail
| known for so short a time, yet which
| alone stood between myself and loneli
J r.ess. "I would rather come with you,”
I stammered. "But I shall be a great
! burden to you now, I fear.”
"It is not that,” he replied, with
; hearty assurance in his voice. “A
week's rest and quiet will restore you to
I strength, and then the burden will be
I on the other shoulder. It is for your
, 1 own sake 1 give you the choice, because
, our future is for the time uncertain.
. Very uncertain," he repeated, his brow
clouding over, "and to become our com
1 panion may expose you to fresh dan
i gers. We are refugees from Eng
I land. That you probably guess. Our
plan was to go to France, where are
- many of our friends, and where we
i could live safely until better times. You
i know how that plan was frustrated.
[ Here the Spaniards are masters—
r 1 Prince Philip's people—and if we are
1 I recognized we shall be arrested and
t | sent back to England. Still my wife
r and I must make the best of it. The
t | hue and cry will not follow us for some
j ! days, and there is still a degree of
t 1 independence in the cities of Holland
s which may, since 1 have friends here,
a protect us for a time. Now you know
f . something of our position, my friend.
You can make your choice with your
eyes open. Either way we shall not
forget you."
“I will go on with you. If you please,"
I answered at once. "I, too, cannot
go home." And as 1 said this Mistress
Bertram also came up, and I took her
hand in mine—which looked, by the
way, so strangely thin I scarcely rec
ognized it—and kissed it. "I will come
with you, madam, if you will let me,”
I said.
“Good!" she replied, her eyes spark
ling. "I said you would. I do not mind
telling you now that I am glad of it.
And if ever we return to England, as
God grant we may. and soon, you shall
not regret your decision. Shall he,
Richard?”
"If you say he shall not, my dear,"
he responded, smiling at her enthus
iasm, “I think I may answer for It he
will not."
I was struck then, as I had been
before, by a certain air of deference
which the husband assumed toward the
wife. It did not surprise me, for her
bearing and manner, as well as such of
her actions as I had seen, stamped
her as singularly self reliant and in
dependent for a woman, and to these
qualities, as much as to the rather
dreamy character of the husband, I
was content to set down the peculi
arity. I should add that a rare and
pretty tenderness constantly displayed
on her part toward him robbed it of
any semblance of unseemliness.
They saw that the exertion of talk
ing exhausted me, and so, with an
encouraging nod, left me to myself. A
few minutes later a couple of English
sailors belonging to the Framllngham
came up and with gentle strength
transported me, under Mistress Anne’s
directions, to a queer looking wide
beamed boat which lay almost along
side. She was more like a huge Thames
barge than anything else, for she drew
little water, but had a great expanse
of sail when all was set. There was
a large deckhouse, gay with paint and
as clean as it could be, and in a com
partment at one end of this, which
seemed to be assigned to our party,
I was soon comfortably settled.
Exhausted as I was by the excite
ment of sitting up and being moved.
I knew little of what passed about me
for the next two days and remember
less. I slept and ate and sometimes
awoke to wonder where I was. But
the meals and the vague attempts at
thought made scarcely more Impression
on my mind than the sleep. Yet all
the while I was gaining strength rapid
ly, my youth and health standing me
In good stead. The wound In my head,
which had caused great loss of blood,
healed all one way, as we say In
Warwickshire, and about noon on the
second day after leavfng Dort I was
well enough to reach the deck unas
sisted and sit In the sunshine on a pile
of rugs which Mistress Anne, my con
stant nurse, had laid for me in a cor
ner sheltered from the wind.
• • * • *
Fortunately the weather was mild
and warm, and the sunshine fell bright
ly on the wide river and the wider
plain of pasture which stretched away
on either side of the horizon, dotted
here and there only by a windmill, a
farmhouse, the steeple of a church, the
brown sails of a barge or at most
broken by a low dike or a line of sand
dunes. All was open, free; all was
largeness, space and distance. I gazed
astonished. The husband and wife, who
were pacing the deck forward, came
to me. He noticed the wondering looks
I cast round. “This is new to you?"
he said, smiling.
"Quite, quite new," I answered. “I
never ‘imagined anything so flat and
yet in its way so beautiful.”
"You do not know Lincolnshire?"
"No."
♦’Ah. that is my native county,” he
answered. "It is much like this. But
you ure better, and you can talk again.
Now. I and my wife have been dis
cussing, whether we shall tell you more
about ourselves. And. since there is no
time like the present, I may say that
we have decided to trust you.”
"All in all or not at all," Mistress
Bertram added brightly.
1 murmured my thanks.
“Then, first, to tell you who we
Rre. For myself, I am plain Richard
Bertie, of Lincolnshire, at your serv
ice. My wife is something more than
appears from this, or’’—with a smile—
“from her present not too graceful
dress. She Is”—
“Stop. Richard! This Is not suffic
iently formal,” my lady cried prettily.
"I have the honor to present to you,
young gentleman,” she went on, laugh
ing merrily and making a very grand
courtesy before me, “Katherine, duch
ess of Suffolk."
I made shift to get to my feet and
bowed respectfully, but she forced me
to sit down again. “Enough of that,”
she said lightly, “until we go back
to England. Here and for the future
we arc Master Bertram and his wife.
And this young lady, my distant kins
woman. Anne Brandon, must pass as
Mistress Anne. You wonder how we
came to be straying in the streets
alone and unattended when you found
u»?”
(Continued Next Week.)
r\ mm.
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin: “I call
it a sleep mill,” said the manufacturer,
as he led the way to his huge plant. He
opened a door into a long room where
two rows of girls were boxing instruments
like electric fans, the wings of the fans
being studded with small round mirrors.
“Many insomniacs,” he said, can sleep
at the window' of an express train. The
sight of the landscape rushing by them
invariably brings on a refreshing nap.
Well, this machine, with its whirl and
glitter of revolving mirrors, acts on the
eye and brain In the same soothing man
ner, and the Insomniac whom a train ride
helps is invariably helped by this.
“Here,” he said, entering a smaller
room,” we turn out slumber balls.”
A number of young men were rounding
and polishing balls of bright metal, and
he took one in his hand.
“Fixed high above the bed,” he said,
“so that it strains the eye to stare at It,
this ball frequently brings sleep to in
somniacs of a melancholic type.
“In this next room we make a smalt
machine for clamping the arteries lead
ing to the brain. It is easy to adjust,
and it very considerably diminishes the
flow of blood to the brain centers. To
certain nervous, feverish insomniacs—
authors, actors and so en—the clamp of
ten brings sleep in a few minutes.
“And here we make a very simple bat
tery that, while the patient lies in bed,
sends a mild current up and down his
spine. The battery treatment usually suc
ceeds best wdth female insomniacs.
“We employe,” he concluded, “500 hands
here. It Is a tribute, isn’t It, to the hectic
activity of our twentieth century civiliza
tion, a great mill like this, devoted to
t*he production of sleep for those who are
too tired and nerve worn to rest natural*
lyr __ _ __
Today and Tomorrow.
Give me thy tears,
- And they shall wash away
The scars and bitterness
Of yestervlay.
Give me the rose
That in thy bosom lay,
And it sh3ll be
Mine oriflamme today.
Give me thino eyes,
That I may look and see
Thy Inmost heart
In all its purity.
Give mo thy kiss,
And then our lives shall be
One for tomorrow
And eternity.
—Pali Mali Gazette.
I AN UNIQUE IDEA FOR
! ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY
Telegram From Dan Cupid Will
Make the Function Most
Exciting.
There are so many forms of an
nouncement parties that the girl who
wishes to announce an engagement
must do a lot of thinking before she
can think of any original plan for an
nouncing the engagement. An an
nouncement party which would differ
| from others might be arranged in this
fashion:
Cover the table first with pale lav
ender satin and then with cloth of thin
white, so that the lavender will show
through. In the center of the table
place a dish of damp sand and stick
white roses in the sand until it is com
pletely hidden from view. The roses
must look as though they had just
been thrown in a heap on the table,
and therefore must be placed carelessly
and not stiffly in the sand, which will
)ceep them fresh for hours.
In the center of the roses place a
small bisque Cupid, and place It so that
the arrow which he is shooting points
directly at the place where the girl
whose engagement is to be announced
will sit. The chandeliers should be
draped artistically with green smi
lax.
Use single candle holders of silver or
cut glass and dainty lavender candle
shades. Place a white rose tied with
a lavender ribbon at each cover. At
the end of the ribbon a tiny heart
pierced with an arrow should be hung.
As the coffee and nuts are served the
maid or one of the family may ring the
door bell and enter with a telegram
for the hostess. With a little clever
acting the event might be made ex
citing. The hostess must read the tel
egram, give a startled exclamation, and
half rise from her chair.
By this time the guests will be all
excitement and curiosity, and the host
ess may then read the telegram from
"Cupid," announcing that he has shot
two people and has bound their hearts
together. The hostess mentions the
name of her two guests of honor, or, if
It Is her own engagement which is to
be announced, the telegram may be ad
dressed to one of the guests who har
previously been let into the secret.
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Daisies are popular for the baby’s
millinery.
Flame and watermelon shades art
perhaps the most fashionable.
Dresses lie close about the feet, and
there is no stiffening in skirts.
Gray is one of the smartest shades
for spring and summer costumes.
Straw hats that look like miniature
sombreros make a jaunty headgear fo>
ft two-year-old boy.
The lingerie waist in 1,000 different
guises, each seemingly lovelier than the
last, has lost none of its popularity.
The elbow sleeves with tight un'
dersleeves which extend over the hands
are popular for afternoons.
The newest tulle bows are bewitch
ing things, with plaits not too firmly
restrained and designs of colored em
broidery scattered here and there.
One of the newest things about small
children's dresses is the introduction
of some colored stuff into the dainty
white materials.
For church weddings the gown al
ways has a train, generally about a
yard or more to tie on the floor. For
house weddings there Is no fixed rule,
and the bride may consult her own
preference as to length.
Dong sleeves are seen again in some
of the handsomest wedding gowns and
at a recent wedding not only the bride
but the bridernaids also wore long
sleeves.
Buckles of white and bluff enamel
are considered smart, and it is the
whim of the hour to use them on dark
colored dresses.
Severely close fitting princess jump
ers that button over a simple blouse
of lawn or batiste arc popular morn
ing dresses. For early spring these are
made in cloth, later in raw silks, taf
fetas and lines. _ _
Wild Geese.
Along the ocean’s shingly edge.
Athwart the turquoise sweep of sky.
The wild geese in a winged wedge
Go darkling by.
From far lagoons beplumed with palm.
By cove and cape, by bluff and bay,
Through depths of storm, through vasts
of calm.
They speed their way.
The pharo flashes on their flight;
They do not heed its beckoning beam:
The great North, stretching weird and
white.
Lures like a dream:
Lures, and they answer to the call:
Charms, and they yield them to the
spell.
Moved ever by a subtle thrall
Inscrutable.
Do you not feel It. comrade, too,
The Inescapable delight,
The mounting rapture, that bids you
Take vernal flight?
—Clinton Scollard in The Bohemian.
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