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A CHINESE RESTAURANT.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A HUNGRY
AND INQUISITIVE REPORTER.
No Oriental Luxarlra In fjglit A My-t-riu
Compound Itrouglit to tho Tuble.
Two Mlcm of "l'e-ilck-re-uut-l." A
1'ot of Dvlli-lou Tcu.
In MuUx-rry street, near Canal, amid tho
noi:.o, liiistlo aiul confusion of the busy mer
chants of tho "IJend," then; in a quiet and un
pretentious dining room. It is prenidod over
at nil hours of the day nnl night ly Wall
King Foo, ami tho busins is Kaid to to a
thriving one. I'icrtures of tuilles, pigH,
hlmrUs ami several kinds of hobgoblins are
piisttd on tho windows nnil their virtues, as
articles of diet, nro set forth in choice spider
K(Tat-!ics iijxiii piN-csof brown paper. Tho
iiHjst attractive sign, however, reads us fol
lows: "A good diner 8 cents."
This was Ktiflii-icnt to lure a rcjrter into
the place- recently. Tin to wero none of the
Oriental luxuries in night. On tho walls wero
a few pictures of flowers, highly -olored, and
a certificate that Air. Foo, or some of his
friends, had ut tended a Sunday school. The
tables wero of pint and partially covered by
a rugged material that looked like a cross be
tween a dishcloth and a mop. Mr. Foo was
engaged in leveling the solo of his shfo with
a hatchet when tlio reporter entered, and,
after glancing up quickly, went on with his
work. The rejioiler dropiod carelessly uoii
n Ktool arul waited. How long the wait would
have lasted will never lie known. There was
a sudden interruption. A pungent odor stole
iu from tho back yard, where something was
being cooled. It was too jowcrful for any
Host? save a highly cultivated one. Tho re
Jiorter tried to keep it back, but out it came
a double barreled sneczo that het every
thing to jingling.
It struck ilr. Foo amidship. The hnt"het
fell on his f'-.ot and the shoo dropped into
something which looked li!;o a keg of mo
lasses. There was 1Imh in his eye and there
might have Im-cii a tragedy, had not tho
innocent cause of all the commotion put on
n hungry look and touched his sunken abdo
men with his linger.
THE BEST IX TIIH HOUSE.
Mr. Foo smiled so tlint no ono could toll
whether hy was weeping, wailing or gnashi:ig
his teeth as he mi id:
"Wing Foo ah alio go to kiting soo bah."
"All right, Mr. Foo. I'll forgivo you. Now
just set up the lest in the-house, up to tho
eight cent limit, and all will bo well."
Mr. Foo jumied away with the air of a
man who did not understand a word that had
tveii spoken. He kept out of sight for twenty
minutes and then appeared with a largo bowl
of something steaming hot, which he set on
the table and then took a seat close by. lie
iK-gau to whistle a peculiar eall and the yel
lowish soup moved restlessly in the lxwl. A
spoon camo with the stu'F. It required somo
courage to take a mouthful, and it would
take a team of horses and a derrick to get ono
up to tho rack for a second trial. A mixture
of lard, mustard, salt and bilge water may
tempt a lagging apictite, but it is just a lit
tle surprising to the stomach of a man not
thoroughly used to the customs of the Flow
cry Kingdom. Mr. Fx took the mysterious
conqiouiid away and camo back in a little
while with a Large platter and a couple of
small dishes. There were two slices of somo
brown material on the platter. Mr. Foo ad
mitted that it was "pe-siek-re-aut-i." There
is no doubt that it was tho genuine goods. It
tasted so. One of the slicc3 was filled with
email fish bones, and tho other was a dainty
morsel which might have been taken, with a
littlo imagination, to bo a bit of fried mum
my. There were also somo beans, cabbago
and rice. Mr. Foo evidently runs his placo
on tho touch not and taste not plan. Well
it keeps ono from leing poisoned. A nibblo
here and there demonstrated that an ash can
would le a safe place for Mr. Foo's "layout."
It made it easy to understand why a young
Chinaman wears wrinkles and appears lika
an old man while yet in lus toons.
A SMALL, POT OF TEA.
Mr. Foo removed tho dishes. Ho wanted to
bring some more of tho menu, but tho re
porter indicated that he would prefer a drink
of some kind. After a long delay Mr. Foo
appeared with a tray bearing a small jKt of
tea and a cup that resembled a toy. The tea
was a revelation. It was aromatic and tho
flavor delicious and if there had not been a
small family of Croton bugs found in the tea
pot, after tho tea had been swallowed, it
would have been thoroughly enjoyable. This
ended tho dinner.
"Well, Mr. Foo, how much do I owe you?"
the reporter asked, simply as a matter of
form.
The remark brought back Mr. Foo's cheer
fulness, and ho came, near uncovering his
spine with longitudinal extension of his smile.
Ho showed for the first time that his English
had not been entirely ueglected. After a few
mark j v.-kh a brush, through the wreath of
isniiies came the words soft and low:
"Sista-m'ne-a cen-
"Sixty-nine cents! Go to, Mr. Foo. You are
crazy! Why your sign out there says that
you give a good dinner for eight cents. What
do j'ou mean by this extortion;"'
"Ah! Excus-a-me. Eight cen for poor China
man. Melican man richec, no eatee like
Chinaman. Ho eateo blenty soup, beef and
good tings. Muchce eatee, muchee iay. Belly
good. Sixty-nin-a cen cheapee. Chinaman
loseo money all time. Belly poor."
The bill was paid, and the visitor came
away with tho experience and conviction that
Mr. Foo hail mistaken his calling. He ought
to double up with Hungry Joo and do tho
"hand shaking" act. ew ork Tribune.
A Cure for "Wakefulness.
Many a middle aged man who is in the
habit of going to bed after eating a hearty
meal is puzzled when he finds himself waking
up in the small hours of tho morning, day
after day, and unablo to get to sleep again.
TT knows that this wakefulness is unnatural.
but it never occurs to him that it is due to
his stomach. It took mo several years, dur
ing which I lost months of sleep, to find this
out, but now I know it. It tne victim or infirm-?
: i whom I have described will rise from
his bed when he wakes and drink a pint of
water he will go to sleep again lmmeuiaieiy,
and will not wako again until his ordinary
hour. Maj. E. . t oster in uioDe-ocmocrai.
Apotheoals of Paper.
We knew it would come. The announce
men? has been made that a paper coffin has
been invented and put upon the market. A
man may .now build his houso of paper, eat
his dinner from paper plates, wipe his face
with a paper handkerchief, bay his wife a
paper piano and go to his grave in a paper
coffin. Tho coffin may bo paid for with a
Dioce of paper and the death published on
another piece. There are few things more
useful than paper. Philadelphia Record.
ft, CmnL-nl Ilrrrinc Monooolv.
The island of Grand Manan is the home of
cut and dried monopoly that would be hard
to match. Grand Manan puts up annually
more tnan l,'AW,wu ooxes ot muukcu uerruig,
and controls tho marsec
Boston is the paradise of newspaper
LOUISIANA SALT MINES.
A llelt of Kuliferou DcjMmlt Pure I lock
Suit Pepper Field.
Ono of the visitors to tho mines explained
to Mr. Ely that there was a ldt of salifcrou
deposit in Iouisfcuut extending from Bossier
and Hicnville parishes, above Rod river, to
tho Gulf. Tim largest of these dejxwits ap-
jears to lx the jeds of ancient exhausted
lakes. Halt springs wero known to exist on
I'etito A use island from tho earliest date, but
tho works wero abandoned until the bhx-kado
during tho war raised tho pricxs of salt so
hifji in the southern stat-s that Major Avery
rcojiencd them for the uso of tho Confeder
acy. It was at this time that ho camo unex
jicctedly uin tho enormous stratum of pure
'k salt , which underlies tho soil. Elko tho
island of Ormuz, iu tho Persian gulf, I'etito
A nso is apparently only a huge rock of salt.
Tho mines have now liecn in oiM-rction
about twenty yeai-s. The salt is excavat-d in
large masses by blasting with dynamite. It
is t-.o pure that it is propaml for tho market,
not by melt ing jurl r lining, as in tho Eng
lish mines, but simply by grinding into the
requisite grades of fineness. The native crys
tals detached by blasting are as clear and
translucent as glass. Mr. Ely went down into
the mini", and wandered through its far re
treating corridors, wh-4o pillars and lofty
arches shone with a s.oft silvery radiance.
When tho lights of the torches struck into the
darkness overhead, the domes flashed back
such splendors of color that it seemed to
Mr. Ely as if he had entered ono of the caves
underground where tho Trolls have stored
all the jewels of tho world.
"This is all a surprise tome, said ono of
the visitors a stout professor from somo col
lege iti Indiana as ho stepiied from tho ele
vator into tho upper air. "I actually did not
know there was a mine of salt in tho United
States."
"And yet," said their guide, quickly, "yon
have no doubt used our salt on your table for
years. We ship it to every largo town in tho
:orth and west."
This littlo island of I'etito Anso furnishes
pepj-er as well as salt to our tables. Tobasco,
or the distilled cayenne, dear to the hearts of
gourmands and chefs, is manufactured hero
out of u wild opjHT peculiar to Louisiana.
Two or three fields produce enough of the
cultivated pods to send their essence to all
parts of this country and to Europe. It u
ono of tho numberless minor industries which
have sprung into lifo throughout tho south
since th war, and which hiut at tho strength
and vitality of that long sterile soil. Re
becca Harding Duvij in Harper's Magazine.
A Mass of A mbcrfjris.
Tho fact that a schooner, which had ar
rived at Gloucester, had picked up oif Cape
Sable a mass of ambergris, weighing 1"J5
pounds, has started inquiry as to the nature
and market value of the substance. Its uso
in Europe and the United Sjates is entirely
conineil to jierfuinery, although it formerly
occupied no inconsiderable placo in medicine.
In the east it is used in pharmacy and as a
flavoring material in cookery. Its value is
from 1S to i'Si per ounce, according to
quality. It is a solid, fatty, inflammable
sul .-stance, of dull gray or blackish color, the
shades being variegated like marble, and
pos.-vsymg a ieculiar sweet, earthy odor.
This substance is formed in the intestines
of tho .spermaceti whale, being morbidly se
creted, and floats on the water. Vessels pick
it up in tho Atlantic ocean, on the coasts of
Brazil and Madagascar, on tho coast of
Africa, East Indies, China, Japan, the Ba
hama Islands and sometimes on tho North
American coast. The largest lump ever
heretofore found weighed IS- ounds. The
whales in which it has been discovered were
either dead or much waited, and evidently in
a sickly condition. But it is believed that
ambergris, from the position in which it ex
ist", and its chemical constitution, is a biliary
concretion analagous to what is found in
other mammals. Boston Transcript.
Superstition on tho Stage.
"There is as much superstition among ac
tors as there is among sailors," remarked a
member of the profession to a reporter.
"They are forever on the lookout for signs.
and these aro construed into all kinds of
meanings. Tho placing of a chair on the
stage in a peculiar position will bo taken to
mean something in connection with their suc
ces.5, while tho action of a single individual in
tho audience will havo a decided effect upon
their f uture course.
"It is while rehearsing a new play that tho
greatest amount of superstition is indulged
in with actors and managers.
"Ono of the most noticeable is tho effect of
tho lines upon the memlers of the company.
If a laugh or even a smile is provoked by the
witticism of tho author it is regarded as a
bad omen for the success of tho piece. If a
pathetic passage causes a remark regarding
its leauty, the conclusion is at once reached
that tho play will not bo a 'go,' and when the
effect is in the opposite direction their spirits
rise and tho belief is entertained that all will
bo well with tho play. There are probably
100 other signs upon which actors hang tho
fate of themselves or tho play to bo pro
duced." Philadelphia Bulletin.
Causes of Premature Death.
Most of those who die letween 25 anil CO,
unless they dio by accident, die by somo in
discretion. It is tho over indulgence of appe
tite, or tho lieglect of food when needed, or
the overstrain of business, or exposure to
changes of temperature without correspond
ing change of clothing. Most people of
these ages are conscious of the error after it
has been made, or others aro conscious of it
for them. Without undue captiou?ness we
can note changed conditions, and adapt our
selves thereto. Multitudes die prematurely
by reason of an indiscretion which might
havo been easily avoided. It is intelligent
caution that saves sickness, and this caution
ought to be in possession and exercise beforo
midtlle life. It is so much easier to prevent
serious sickness than it is to secure recovery
from it. Ilenco it is that so many that are
deficient in vigor in early lifo outlive the
vigorous and tho careless. Necessity com
pels them to study their changing conditions
of health, and so teaches them the benefits of
adaptiveness to conditions and circumstances.
Independent.
Not a Good Memory.
For some reason, I don't know why, people
expect to hear sensational testimony when
ever I'm put on the stand in a political case.
But they don't hear it for a very good rea
son: I am so peculiarly constituted that in a
political campaign I never remember a trans
action in which I am concerned for twenty
four hours afterward. I never write letters,
I always burn those I roceive, and I don't
make notes in a memorandum book or diary.
"Politician" in Globe-Democrat.
Advice to a Son.
"My son," said a careful and observant
father, "live an honest lifo and you will pre
serve your self respect, though you may fail
to win the respect of others. But if in an
evil hour you should deviate from tho path
of rectitude, struggle to escape detection un
til you have Baited down enough money to
purchase justice. Don't make a mistake and
take too littlo; justice comes high." New
York Tribune.
WOMAN AND HOME.
A LADY CORRESPONDENT TELLS
HOW TO CARE FOR THE HAIR.
Rresa a liferent Ion A Well Sliapd
Wuiuan To Ilreak l"p Haby' Coltl.
Clove, Cornet and "Itcforin" Clothing.
Stray Hit of Information.
A woman whoso hair roochcri to her wuist,
thick as one's wrist when braided, norf-ds no
artificial ornaments to adorn her head, and
abundant hair needs less coro to arrange than
a scanty crop. All women can jiosschs such
hair if they give the proper caro. It is not
best to keep tho hair closely cut; after seven
years it need . not be touched by tho scissors
except to clip tho forked ends ouco every
month. Constant brushing is tho s.-cret of
luxuriant shining tresses, us it strengthens
tho hair and brings out its natural luster, and,
by brushing, tho ugliest red hair can bo
changed to a warm goldon tint. Uso a hard
brush; do not pass it lightlyovr the hair, but
with firm, steady strokes brush until tho
scalp glows, if just bclore retiring you
loosen your hair and brush it this way you
will find you can sleep much letter. Braid
it in two loose plaits, or, if very short, leave
it unliound, as tho hair should always bo well
aired and need not be bound unnecessarily.
Do not uso jomndes, dyes or preparations of
any kind, and aljovo all things don't wear
nightcaps; covering tho head with a cap is
almost on bad as putting a clothes pin on tho
noso at night to keep out tho cold. Many
ladies havo tho mistaken idea that the head
and face should Ia: closely covered when walk
ing even a short distance in the sunshine; go
ing often into the air and sunlight, except at
noon, benefits the complexion as well as tho
hair. Tow headed jx-opio should remember
that tho sun changes tho coior of their hair to
a moro agreeable shade.
Combs aro not a necessity for longhair, ex
cept to comb out tangles; tho sharp teeth in
jure the scalp and produce dandruff. Wash
ing tho hair in cold sago tea promotes tho
growth and prevents falling out; burdock
root tea is also good. Washing tho hair with
soap l enders it coarse and brittle and splits
tho ends; instead of which take tho yelk of
an egg, beat slightly with the hand, adding a
few (very few) drops of water and rub well
into tho root.';. This cleans tho scalp and makes
tho hair soft and silky. Allow about two
minutes to get nearly dr3-, then rinse tho
head well in tepid water, into which pour a
few drops of ammonia (ammonia is tho most
healthful stimulus known for tho hair and
quickens its growth when nothing elso will
do so). After washing wqo ami rub the hair
dry with a towel; brush and part caref idly
with tho fingers ami dry in the sun, or, iu
winter, dry by tho fire. Never go into tho
open air until tho hair is thoroughly dry.
ShamiMXiing tho hair every morning in cold
water and then brushing until tho scalp
glows is good for tho hair when it is short
and will not grow. Crimping pins do not m
juro the hair, unless they are of metal an 1
tho hair is put up too tight on them. If tho
hair is unnaturally dry, a mixture of half an
ounco of carbonate of ammonia in a pint of
sweet oil makes tho lost hair invigorator.
Aim Biscuits in Detroit Freo Press.
Dress as a Kccroution.
If it wero not for clothes a great part of
tho world would have nothing to do anil
nothing to think about. Clothes are to some
what books and pictures and brie a brae,
music, poetry and conversation are to others.
They take tho place of metaphysics, astrono
my and psychological researcli. Possibly it
may require as much thought to plan a re
ception gown as to calculate an eclijise, espe
cially when tho purso is slender; to imagine
a new shape for a bonnet, a new draper', a
new trimming, as to invent a philosophical
solution of tho universe or to compose a sym
phony ; but the mind is more enlarged and
enriched by ono than the other. We do not
exactly want to live for clothes, to satisfy
our souls with such material things, although
many are apparently content to give all their
leisure and thoughts to them, and aro no
sooner off with the old clothes than they arcs
on with tho new. They alwayshave a dress
maker in tho houso and shopping on hand.
Their literature is fashion reports. They
havo no interests to speak of apart from tlda
frivolous pursuit, or none so great, so absorb
ing. Happiness for such people consists in a
wardrobe where no omission ean le detected.
But let it not bo supposed that this adora
tion of clothes is a peculiarly feminine trait,
although many believe so. Are not fop and
coxcomb both in the masculine gender, r.ud
is there any feminine synonym for them?
Of course it may be urged that men have
nobler occupations which consume their tim.',
that their minds are not so narrow as to bo
agitated by the shape of a collar, but this is
perhaps only an argument in favor of the
higher education of women. If their minds
wero as elegantly and suitably furnished an
thoso of their brothers, would they not have
something more interesting to devote them
selves to?
Dress is a kind of recreation, like poetry cr
music, not tho absorbing interest of a lif
iime, although one might suspect quite tho
reverse. Too profound attention to it is de
Kiitating to the mortal fiber; like some poi
ons, it has a cumulative effect ; one cannot
triflo with it or it asserts itself, and becomes
an intoxication in ono case, a fetich in an
other. It is always a pleasure to seo well
dressed people; a gown that fits badly, colors
ill assorted, tawdrincss, depress one like bad
drawing, like "sweet bells jangling out of
tune;" but these who put their soul into their
cothes, into tho hung of a skirt or the set of
u sleeve, have generally very little else to
recommend them, and one soon exhausts
their resources. "A sweet disorder in the
dress" may be advised for artistic effect ; it
relieves primness and gives a touch of
piquancy to a toilet; but tho disorder must
not lapse into a disease; ono is not more cer
tainly born with a geniu3 for music, for lit
erature or art, than another is bora with a
taste for dress, knows what to wear and how
to wear it. Harper's Bazar.
A Well Shaped Woman.
Art should always be based on nature, and
no art is true which does not take nature f or
its model. A perfect, symmetrical, healthy
woman of five feet ten inches in height must
comply with the following standard: She
should be 138 pounds at the least, and could
stand up to ten pounds more without injury
to health or artistic perfection. The distance
S between tho tijs of her two middle fingers,
I when the arms are extended, should be cx
; actly the same as the height, or ten times the
! length of her hand, or seven and a half times
tho length of her foot, or five times tho
diameter of her chest from one armpit to the
other. The distance from the junction of
tho thighs to the ground should be the samo
us from tho former point to the top of the
head. The knee should bo exactly midway
from tho junction of the thighs to the botriom
of the heeL
The distance from the elbow to the tip of
the middle finger should be tho same as fi-ora
tho elbow to the middle lino of the chest.
From the top of the head to tho chin, with
the head posed naturally, should xs the saire
as from the level of the chin to the armpits,
1 or from the heel to the tip of the large toe.
Tho bust of a woman of tho height nnmed
should bo foiiy-thruo inches men aireijicnt
over tho arms, and tho wuist twenty-four.
Tho upjK-r part of the arm should ho from
thirteen und a half to fourteen inc hes, and
the wrist six inches. Tho ankle should bo six
inches, the calf of tho leg fourteen und the
thigh twenty-five. Any woman of the l.viglit
mentioned who has these measurements can
congratulate hers -If on having as perfect a
form us tho Creator ever made. Of ruuro
the proportions vury with tho height. Now
York Mercury.
Girl tn tho KStclien.
"People make such a fus.-) alxut p,ir!s not
going into service that I've kept n list of rea
sons against it; reasons that tho girls gave
without really knowing that they were giv
ing tin 'in, and it's a pretty dreadful list, too.
But there! It's ltli sides, and I'd like a
training school for lnth and a different way
of looking at things all round. There
won't he much change till there is."
This remark was rcjeatcd to a woman of
high social jnisitioii, whoso interest in the
problem was intense, and who liad made a
genuine homo for tho servants in her own
house.
"Tho thing that strikes mo most seriously
is," she said, "that tho girl's opportunity for
a really good marriage ceases the moment she
enters a kitchen. Hay what you w ill, that i i
the natural destiny of womun, und my girls
aro nice girls, who ought to havo a fair
chanco to find the right mate. Two of t hern
aro well educated. They could marry a
young professional man or merchant and not
disgrace him, but such men would never
dream of looking at them. Tho ordinary
mechanic comes to see them; a kind of inuii
far In-low them in every way. I don't know
what todo ubout it, but it seems to me tha.
if for any reason they had to leave mc I
would not udviso them to continue iu domes
tic service. Am I right or wrong i"
From other mistresses who had thought
seriously and inqiorsonally of tho girl's sid
of tho question has come much tho samo testi
mony. Helen Campbell.
How to Iti'-al I'p Haliy's Cold.
When I find baby has taken cold, not so
feverish and sick as to require packing,
which one dread.J to do brcau:.o of tho in
crease! danger result ing from any exposure
afterward, but a smart cold iu its first stages,
with red eyes ami running noso and s i uil'ed
head, I take th;j little one in my lap several
times through the day, ami again at bed
time, and, p-moving b'xjts and stocking,
rub the little feet Holes and tops and ankles
with sweet oil or gooso oil, and then heal
them long and well beforo an open tiro till
the skin will absorb no more oil.
Then I bathe and rub the littlo bared back
from neck to hips, especially along tho spine,
with oil also; shielding bnby's back from
cold drafts, and letting the warm rays of tiro
light and heat it just right, chafing and
thoroughly heating till skin will absorb no
more oil.
Wrapped in flannel and tucked away ir.
her warm nest for tho night, baby often
wakes in tho morning with but littlo traco of
h r cold.
If there is hoarseness with other symptoms
of an oncoming cold, for a simple remedy I
like to give baby boiled molasses with a bii,
of butter or sweet oil or hen's oil in it, or a
few teaspoonfuls of onion syrup made of
sliced onions and brovn sugar, which hel
soothe tho throat and clear the bowels, carrj
ing away, icrhaps, tho aggravating sou
of tho cold. Clarissa Potter iu Ifood
Housekeeping.
A Lesson In Gloves.
By tho by, havo you seen thoso most cu -rious
gloves, uridervests and stockings thaf.
fill a window on Broadway? They call i'
"Primrose," but it is tho brightest, most
glaring, most assertive yellow I havo ever
seen in my life. Who in tho world would
have courage to clothe herself in this get up'
The gloves and stockings are rufficiently long,
with the assistance of tho silk shirt, to en
tirely cover tho body, and I am wondering
what ballet dencer will add to it all with
black sash and make herself a study in yel
low and black for tho front row.
"When will women learn that gloves intense
hi color simply make their hands look largo
and prominent? For, re;dl3", nithing that
attracts attention at once to the hands 011I3
increases their size. That is one reason why
white gloves have such an abominable effect.
Don't j'ou rcmemlier tho old fashioned photo
graphs where people had their hands ar
ranged in tho most conspicuous manner over
the backs of impossible chair; that is, im
possible out of a photograph gallery and
vhero the first thing you s.r.v.-, or rather tho
fin.t thing that struck you. vas tho dcadlv
wliiioucsj of the Lands and their iuunciuo
size? In those days of inartistic photograph
ing one might wear a five glove, but in the
picture it looked like nine. "Bab"' in New
York Star.
Let Vs Remember Home.
Let us make flannel shirts for the Hotten
tots, interest ourselves in mighty charities,
or become, in a word, models of public spirit.
But let us not quite forget our homes. In our
homes are lips that often and often will yearn
for cups of cold water, and sad, weary hearts
will gladden and grow fresh again when the
cup is given, unasked, by a thoughtful, lov
ing hand. The small offerings erst so little!
There is nothing in tho world that costo so
littlo and is yeo s::) prieckv.;. The fire burn
ing brightly upo:i the hearth, tho favorito
dish upon the table, the cold water to tho
humble laborer wh.cn eveni ug calk Lira home,
and tho baby lifted from the mother's tired
arms, a strong hand at tho heavy kettle, an
appreciative word f or the capital bread and
the nice tea Ibis is the cup, returned full
and overflowing, that Lulf l :.r;i; hes the cans
of tho day, and brings ixw light into loving
e;-es. Tho old fa-L:cncd soirg plaj-ed and
sung for the silver haired father, the ready
fingers that thread tho r.cetllo for grandma's
fading eyes, the word cf tci.l:r cheer for the
grieved child tlicse vVc such littlo cv.ps, and
yet they are so Llesised : St. Louis Magazine
Tho Actress and Ilcr Stays.
It is said that years ago ilrs. Scott P id
dons dressmaker advised her to leave ofT her .
corsets. "What, lose rr.e stage figure she
cried. ''Impossible:'' The dressmaker urged
that t;ho was losing her figure ar.yhov.-, and
that the only means of saving it wa.5 to take
radical measures at once. "Well, hero 0
mo stays," said tho actress, and tho milliner
proceeded to tit her a twenty-live inch waist.
At the end of the season she came back again.
"Hake mo a twenty-seven inch waist," she
demanded, but in the meantime her figura
below and above the waist had resumed their
normal proportions, her skin had grown t".vo
shades fairer and clearer, and fche looked
younger. Since then she haa never worn a.
stay, and she says that whereas before she
abandoned them it was all she could do to
draj; through ths last act, after sho had dis
pensed with them sho was so fresh and vigor
ous that she could havo done a sixth act and
not minded it, Bha still continues to wear
very gorgeous gowns. New York World.
"Reform t lol hing" for Ti'omen.
The movement in th direction ofTrhat is
called "reforin clcljcn for women is cer
tainly progrt-jr-ii. I Lad occasion to visit a
shop where women's wear is sold and was
i3
The Mil no quality of pn.tls 10 jrr cent, clienitcr tli:m any house webt of
the .Mi.-si.--iii. Will never be untlei-nthl. Call ami heconvinced.
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