The Bear and the Monkey.
A bear, wim whom a Piedmontese
J'dried company earn their bread.
Essayed on half his legs to please
The public, where his master led.
With looks that boldly claimed applause.
He asked the ape. “Sir. what think
you?”
The ape was skilled in dancing laws,
And answered, "It will never do.”
-You judge the matter wrong. my
friend.”
Bruin rejoined: “You are not civil!
Were these legs given for you to mend
The ease and grace with which they
swivel ?”
It chanced a p!g was standing by;
“Bravo? astonishing? encore!”
Exclaimed the critic oi the sty:
“Such dancing we shall see no more!”
I*oor Bruin, when he heard the sentence,
B*gan an inward calculation;
Then, with a face that spoke repent
ance,
Expressed aloud his meditation;
“When the sly monkey railed me dunce.
I entertained seme slight misgiving:
But Pig. thy praise has proved at once
That dancing will not earn a living."
I.et every candidate for fame
Rely upon this wholesome rule:
Your work is bad. if wise tnen blame:
But worse, if lauded by a fool.
—Thomas De Yrlarte.
The Baby Turtle.
Turtles, you know, lay their eggs
in the sand and let the sun hatch them
out. They do not lay them all in one
place, probably because they think it
safe to scatter them. Then, even
though one be stolen or broken, the
others may escape. The mother tur
tle covers them all carefully up. one
after another, with a thin sprinkling
of sand, and then apparently never
gives them another thought, consid
ering her maternal duty done. Cer
tain it is that she has never been dis
covered going near these egg babies
again, and when they hatch at last the
tiny, soft-backed creatures at once be
gin crawling aroud in search of flies
and other food as independently as if
there were no such thing as a mother
in the world. A little girl who found
one of these odd, oblong eggs on a
sandy river bank in Louisiana took it
home and put it in a teacup on the
iabie for safekeeping. A few hours
later a slight noise was noticed in
that direction, and on looking in the
enp she found a baby turtle, “full
fledged,” but tiny, scrambling about
among the bits of its broken eggshell
cradle.
Can You Do This?
Do you remember the story of how
“Betsy” Ross folded a piece of paper
and with one clip of the shears ccm- j
vinced the committee from the conti
nental congress that a star should be
five-pointed instead of six-pointed?
There are two methods of arriving at
the same result as did “Betsy,” as
the accompanying illustrations ex
' plain.
One Millienaire.
“He’s a millionaire, that boy is.”
The boy I was walking with looked
across the way at the lad of whom
my words were spoken. There was
certainly nothing about the latter to
suggest his wealth.
“You don't say so! It can’t really
be so. he looks almost shabby.”
“No matter for that, I live in the
same block, and I know. But I did
not say that was worth a million of
money.”
“Oh!”
The boy who was listening looked
rather disappointed. Still, he was
anxious to know what the other one
might have, anyhow, so he asked,
“V.'hat, then?”
“He is what is called a ‘millionaire
of cheerfulness.’ He is merry and
bright the whole day long, not alone
when all is sweetness and light, but
when it isn’t. He has such pluck and
spirit, and such unfailing good na
dir* that he must have a million to
draw upon, though he pays no taxes
upon his capital. You never see him
scowling or hear him whining. So
he scatters his fortune ail about and
is a blessing to the neighborhood. I
wish there were more millionaires of
cheerfulness. There might be, if
everybody gathered up all the sun
shine to be had and gave it out as
royally as Rob, who goes whistling
yonder.”
Then I went on, leaving Dick to
wonder whether he were as rich as
Rob, and if not, why not.
A Bee’s Eye.
Did you ever look at a bee’s eye
through a very strong magnifying
glass.
It is' made up of lots of little eyes
massed together. And yet the eye as
a whole is so small that it seems !n
credible that it has these thousands
of little parts, each one complete in
itself! This sort of eye is very use
ful, for as the little eyes face in every
direction the bee can see above and
pelow and behind as well as in front
and sideways as people do.—Detroit
Kree Press.
Tree That Commits Murder.
The Cupey is one of the most curi
ng trees in the West Indian islands.
Tb« seeds are borne ou Ike wings of
the wind, and deposited on the
branches of other trees, when they i
burst into roots, which are dropped j
towards the ground all around the j
"nurse” tree. In time these roots j
reach the ground and strike into the
soil. From this moment the roots
grow stronger and stronger, until
Cupey Tree.
they resemble a lot of rope ladders
thrown over the tree. Next, the para
site sends down a great cord, which
twines round the trunk of the sup
porting tree, at first as though in lov
ing embrace, but it grows tighter and
tighter, eventually strangling its
benefactor out of existence. T^e
“nurse" tree, thus killed, rots to ue
cay. and from the immense fibrous
roots of the destroyer now springs a
great trunk, which rises high into the
air. The cord-like roots rise often
to fifty or sixty feet in height.—Pear
son's Weekly.
Conundrums.
When may a chair be said to dis
like you? When it cannot bear you.
What never asks questions, but re
quires frequent answers? A door
beli.
How would securely hitching a
horse affect his speed? It would
make him fast.
What is that which is full of holes,
but yet holds? A sponge.
What small animal is turned into a
large one ny taking away part of its
name? A fox.
The Sparrow Hawk.
The sparrow hawk family lives both
in North and South America, but it is
subdivided in five sub-families or spe
cies. It preys upon mice and snakes,
and also on small birds. It will perch
for hours on some tall tree, perfectly
motionless, waiting for prey. It al
ways builds its nest in a hollow tree,
and its five or seven dark, cream-col
ored eggs are nearly round. It is a
very useful bird, because it rids farm
ers of grasshoppers and other small
insects that are harmful to trees and
crops.
Game of Turtle.
Here’s a game for boys and girls
who have good, strong muscles. It is
called ‘•Turtle."
Any cumber may play, and no one
player is “It," for all are “It" togeth
er. The game begins by each choos
ing the kind of turtle he intends to
be. One perhaps is a land tortoise,
another a snapper, another a mud
turtle, and so on. Then they all sit i
in a row resting their chins on their
knees, and each holding his left ankle
with his right hand, and his right an
kle with his left band. This is a
very difficult position to keep. At a
given signal the turtles start for a
goal a short distance away.
It is the object of the game for the
turtles to waddle to the goal and
oack to the starting point without re
moving their hands from their feet.
Many let go before the proper mo
ment, the others shout “dead turtle,”
and keep on, leaving their unfortu
nate companion in the background.
The rules of the game demand that he
wait there until the first successful
racer reaches him on his way back,
and touches him with his elbow, by
which he is supposed to instill new
life into the poor dead turtle. The
latter immediately starts out again,
and finishes in the best style he can.
As there are always several dead tur
tles, he is never lonely in his efTort
to succeed. The winner is. of course,
' the one who returns to the starting
place first.
Hidden Telegrams.
In this game you are to imagine
you have a distant friend with whom
you have an understanding about an
expected message. It might be that
there are two or three contestants
for a certain prize of honor. The
name of one might be Jenkins, that of
another Harrison, and that of the
third Sheldon. Suppose Jenkins is
the successful contestant, and that
you wish to telegraph to your friend
simply the name of Jenkins. How
ever. you wish to conceal the message
as much as possible, so that the un
derstanding is that the first letters of
the words you telegraph will spell the
name.
With this explanation each player
sets to work to write a clever sen
tence in which the- first letters will
spell Jenkins. The various players
may get sentences Kke these:
Judge Engle-s never knew I noticed
Sally.
Julia's elbow next knocked Irish
Norah silly.
Jack expects no kiss in Nova Sco
tia.
Jam eating nearly killed Ikey Na
than Saturday.
It is impossible that there will be
any two alike, and the game is to :
see who can write the cleverest.
The telegrams are read aloud, and
the players vote to see whose is best. (
Flowering ice Cream.
Line a clean flowerpot having a two
and one-half inch diameter at top
with paraffine paper, fill with ice I
cream and sprinkle with grated vanil ,
la chocolate to represent earth. Wash ;
well the stems of a few daisies and
insert them in the center of the
cream. Lay one or two daisies in the
saucer.
Great Men's Advice to Boys.
A youthful and ingenious autograph
collector of New York wrote last yeai
to all the great men he could think of
saying he was a boy of 15 and asking
how he might best win success in life, j
All the great men did not answer him.
but a dozen did, and among this dozen
was the late Sir Henry Stanley.
Stanley wrote:
“Whatever work you undertake to
do. put your will and heart into it,
and try to excel others in it. If you
make this as a law to yourself yeur
employer becomes your friend, you be
come esteemed by all and according to j
your excellence fortune will endow j
you.”
Rider Haggard wrote:
“Be honest of heart as well as in j
outward seeming. Never take ad van
tage by the doing of a mean or an un
kind thing and read the parable of the
talents once a week.”
Briton Riviere, the noted painter
wrote:
“There is no success so valuable as
the failure which leads to greater ef
| fort. There is no failure so complete
J as the success which paralyzes ear
nest work.”—New York Telegram.
Five-Minute Peanut Candy.
Shell the peanuts and chop them
fine. Measure them in a cup, anc
take the same quantity of granulated
sugar as you have peanuts. Put it
a pan on the fire and shake until the
sugar is dissolved, then put in the
peanuts and pour into buttered tins
You will find that this is delicious
candy and is so easily made.
I cannot do great things. I can do
small things in a great way.—James
Freeman Clarke.
PIANO MADE WITH PINS.
Have you ever thought that you
would like to have a piano all your
own? Well, you can make one. but
it will be a pin piano. Get a piece of
soft wood, pine is best, nine or ten
inches long, and half an inch thick. !
It may be of any width over two
inches.
Now get a lot of ordinary pins of
different lengths, if possible. Draw
a line down the center of the piece
of wood from one end to the other
and drive the pins in the wood along
this line, being careful to have them
about a quarter of an inch apart.
Drive some of the smaller pins deep
into the wood, but drive the larger
ones only deep enough to have them
fixed firmly in place, having all at
board, and you will find that each one
will give out a different note; that is,
if you have been careful to have them
all of different heights above the
board. It is a very simple matter to
pick out a tune by touching in order
the pins which form the notes of the
tune, and as you grow used to the
notes the pins give when touched,
you may easily learn to play a num
ber of tunes.
After this you can make another
and better pin piano which will al
most play itself. First drive a pin
into the board to represent the second
note. If that note be higher than the
first, drive the pin deeper into the
board until, when you touch it, it
gives out exactly the right sound. If
the second note of the tune be lower
I
The Pin Piano,
different heights. When you have
finished the pins will look like those
in the picture, stuck in the board in a
haphazard manner, some of them
standing a long way out of the board
and some buried almost to their
heads.
Now your pin piano is complete
and ready to be played on. Take a
large, strong pin and with it pick one
of the pin* in the board. It will
give out a musical note. Draw your
pick-pin ald*g the whole row in the
than the first note, do not drive the
pin into the board as deeply as the
first pin, for the longer the pitt *bove
the board, the lower the note U will
give.
Go all through the tune lu this
way, driving a pin just deep enough
to reproduce each successive noto of
the tune. When you have finished,
all you have to do is to draw your
pick along the row and your pin
piano will reel off the tune to tho
very last note, or the last pin.
t
By Earl M. Pratt. Oak Park, Illinois.
wwimmwm
Does the devil enjoy seeing us
make mistakes? Systematic fore
thought is an enemy of mistakes.
Amos R. Wells tells the following in
the Young People's Weekly:
There was sold not long ago in New
York city what is probably the most
expensive land ever sold anywhere:
certainly the most expensive ever sold
in New York.
It was a tiny strip of land, and, in
its widest part, it measured only
seven-eighths of an inch. It was forty
feet long. It contained, in all. only
seventeen and a half square inches.
It couldn’t be seen on the map except
with a microscope.
Yet it was undoubtedly there. It
ay alongside an expensive plot of
ground that was to be used for a
Iwelling. By some error in calcula
tion it had not been included in the
purchase, and it had to be bought.
“Why must it be bought?" you ask.
“No one could do anything with so
small a piece of land."
“Indeed, you are wrong. An evil
minded man could do much mischief
with it. That seventeen and a half
square inches, you must remember,
reaches up into the air as high as the
sky. He could raise on it an iron plate
that would cut off air and light and
view from the forty feet on both sides
of it. and utterly ruin the finest
houses that might be built there.
Just such abominable things have been
done. So the land had to be bought.
Fifty dollars was the price decided
upon as fair, and it was promptly paid.
That was at the rate of $2.86 a square
inch. At this rate the average city
lot, 25x100 feet, would cost the tre
mendous sum of $1,029,600. Rather
costly dirt.
Two years ago a little, triangular bit
of lard was sold in New York for $200,
which was at the rate of $500 a square
foot, of $3.47 a square inch. This, how
ever, was not really as expensive land
as the piece I have been describing,
because it was larger—a man could
stand upon it—and it was in a busi
ness section, and so was actually more
1 valuable.
My purpose in relating these real
estate transactions is to warn who
i ever may be reading this against leav
ing any strip of territory in the city
of his soul to be occupied by the Evil
One.
‘•This fault is so very slight. This
sin is such a little one. It really is
microscopic, it isn't worth bothering
about.”
Listen!
There isn’t in all New York city a
j business man half as shrewd as your
| adversary, the devil. Let sin have
any territory in the city of your soul,
\ though it be a strip less than an inch
wide, and he will build on it a struc
ture that will shut out your pure air
| and your cheery sunshine and your
| view of heaven.
Buy him out! Buy him out!
It may take all you can raise of
i resolution and strength and courage
j and persistence. But remember, you
can draw on the bank of heaven.
There are endless resources up above,
j At any rate—a million for a square
inch, if necessary—buy him out! You
must own all the land in the city of
your soul.
One Dose Was Enough
■ ■■■■—■ I ■■■!
“Boozy" Flinders, as the neighbors I
called him. was an idle, dissolute fel- !
low. with a wife a great deal too j
good for him. She bore with patience
his shortcomings, found excuses for
him. and took in washing to help him
earn the living. But one day Boozy
came home more intoxicated than
usual. He threw himself upon the
bed without stopping to take off his
shoes, and went to sleep.
Then Mrs. Flinders’ patience gave
way, and she resol veil to administer
suitable punishment. She procured
at once a large gunnysack. ripped it
open, spread it on the bed by the
side of her husband, rolled him over
coon it. and sewed him up in it with
.ftod strong twine, leaving only his
head free.
Six or eight hours later, when she
thought he had had enough sleep for
her purpose, she rolled him over on
his face, and with a stout, serviceable
rawhide, borrowed during the inter
val. she began operations.
“Wh-what's all this?" demanded
Boozy, rousing himself and beginning
jo squirm.
His wife was too busy to answer
him. Whack! whack! fell the raw
hide, wielded by an arm which had i
been developed at the washboard, j
and was nerved now by a righteous |
indignation. 1
Whack! whack! whack!
For the first few moments Boozy
roared in anger and tried desperately
to free himself, but it was of no use.
The tough gunnysaek held him se
curely. And still the blows fell.
Whack! whack! whack! whack!
whack!
From blustering he went to plead
ing.
"O. for pity's sake, Marthv,” he
begged, squirming and wriggling, “let
up! Are you trying to kill me?"
"No! (Whack> I’m reforming you!
(Whack!) You lazy. drunken
(whack!) vagabond. I'm giving you
(whack!) what you’ve been needing
(whack!) for a long time!” Whack!
"O. good gracious, Marthv! Ouch!
Don't I'll quit drinkin'! I’ll go to
work! Ouch! Don’t, Marthv!”
"If I'll stop now and let you out of
that sack, will you promise to turn
over a new leaf and be somebody
after this?” demanded the wife.
"1 will,” he promised, thoroughly
sober now. "So help me."
She ripped the gunnysaek open
again and let him out. and to her sur
prise perhaps as much as to that of
the neighbors, Boozy kept his prom
ise Mrs. Flinders never had occa
sion to administer another dose of
her medicine.—Youth’s Companion.
The Hand of Death
p
Softly she slept in the night—her new
born babe at her breast.
With a tiny dimpling hand to the yield
ing bosom pressed—
As I rose from her side to go—though
sore was mv heart to stay—
To the ease of the laboring ewes that
else would have died ere day.
Banking the peats on the hearth. I
reached from the rafter-hook
The lanthorn and kindled the dame, and,
taking my plaid and crook.
I lifted the latch, and turned once more
to see If she slept:
And looked oti the slumber of peace:
then into the night I stepped—
Into the swirling dark of the driving,
blinding sleet.
And a world that seemed to sway and
slip from under my feet.
As if rocked by the wind that swept the
roaring, starless night.
Yet fumed in a fury vain at my lan
thorn’s shielded light.
Clean-drenched in the first wild gust. 1
battled across the garth.
And passed through the clashing gate—
the light of the glowing hearth
And the peace of love in my breast the
craven voices to quell—
As 1 set mv teeth to the wind and turn
ed to the open fell.
Mv
Over the tussocks of bent 1 strove till I
reached the fold,
brow like ice. and my hands so
numbed that they scarce could hold
staff or loosen the pen; but 1 beard
a lamb s weak cries
the gleam of my lanthorn lit the
night of its new-born eyes.
My
As
Sorely l labored, and watched each
young lamb struggle for breath.
Fighting till dawn for my flock with the
ancient shepherd—Death:
And glad was my heart when at last
the stackyard again I crossed.
And thought of the strife well o'er with
never a yeanling lost.
But ere I came to the door of my home,
drawing wearily nigh.
1 heard with a boding heart a feeble,
querulous cry,
I.Ike a motherless yeanling's bleat: and
I stood in the dawn's gray light.
Afraid of I knew not what, sore spent
with the toil of the night.
Then, setting a quaking hand to the
latch. I opened the door;
And. shaking the cold from my heart, I
stumbled across the floor
Unto the bed where she lay, calm-bos
omed. In dreamless rest:
And the wailing baby clutched in vein
at the lifeless breast.
I looked on the cold, white face:* t! »n
sank with a cry by the bed.
And thought how the hand of De th
had stricken my whole joy dead -
My flock, my world and my heart—w th
my love, at a single blow:
And I cried: “I, too. will die!” and it
seemed that life ebbed low.
And that Death drew very near, when I
felt the touch on my cheek
Of a little warm hand outthrust, and I
heard that wailing weak.
And, knowing that not for me yet was
rest from love and strife.
1 caught the babe to my breast and
looked in the eyes of life.
— Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in Dondon
Spectator.
Big Returns from Dime.
“You often hear of men running up
a small sum of money into a good
big bank roll, but I did something
once in Omaha that, so far as I know,
beats all records when the amount
originally invested is consideied,
said E. W. Gaylord of New Orleans.
“I was waiting in Omaha for a re
mittance from my firm, and, having
no coin about me, was feeling in that
lonesome state that the money less
man alone can appreciate. To kill
time I walked into a gambling house,
having not the remotest idea of doing
aught save watching the players. As I
stood in the vicinity of the roulette
wheel I mechanically thrust my hand
into a pocket of my vest and extracted
a lone dime that I did not know was
on my person. I actually felt ashamed
to put it on anything, but something
whispered it might win. and. sure
enough, when the wheel stopped my
coin had won. Again I won; and
again until that ten-cent piece had
brought me in $9.
“This is pretty good interest. I
thought, and cashed in. taking my $9
and moving over to the stud poker
game, and investing it in chips. My
- * * • * ** * % t
it tv % « U « i
| luck followed me here, likewise,
| and I ran up my stake to $85 in less
| than thirty minutes. Considering what
a big return this was, I began to feel
a chilly sensation at my pedal extreme
ties, and as it was near the dinner
hour, I made this an excuse for quit
ting.
"After dining, the desire „to press
my luck was too great to be resisted,
and being near a hundred strong, I
went back to the sporting establish
ment and took my seat at a draw
i poker game where the buyout was $50.
table stakes. It’s no use to weary
you with the details of my play, but
from the very jump the fortune that
had been with me earlier in the day
stuck. I held the most marvelous
series of hot hands ever known,
straights, flushes and fulls without
end and several sets of fours, and
on nearly all of them got good plays.
"To cut it short, when I left the
game in the small hours of the morn
ing I cashed in $2,750, and got the
money on the spot, the house man
remarking that if this was my usual
style he would like to engage me at
any salary I’d name to play for him."
' —Washington Post.
■■
Morning Jac.*.?;.
Never has the demand for tasteful
jackets been greater than at the pres
ent time. This one is eminently
graceful and attractive ac the same
time that it is most comfortable to
the wearer and lends fashion of wear
ing with a skirt to match. The model
is made of white batiste with collar
of inserted tucking and trimming of
lace frills; but all materif.s in use
for garments of the sort Are equally
appropriate, the thin wash silks, the
long list of lawns and batistes and,
for cooler days, the very attractive
and serviceable thin wools.
The jacket is made with fronts and
backs and is shaped by means of
shoulder and under arm seams. The
backs are cut off at the waist, giving
a bolero effect, but the fronts form
long points which can be allowed to
hang or be knotted at the waist as
preferred for garments of the sort and
the sleeves are loose and wide, cut
to form points at their lower edge.
Hja
The quantity of material required
j for the medium size fs Sty yards 21
inches wide. 3 yards 27 Uachek wide
; oi 3 yards 32 inches wide, with a*
yards of inserted tucking, 5 yards of
j insertion and 10 yards of lace to trim
• as illustrated.
_______
A Good Summir Drink.
An excellent summer drink which
is very popular in England, and might
be drunk to a larger extent in this
| country, is rhubarb wine.
For rhubarb wine it is necessary to
have ripe rhubarb. Into one gallon
of boiling water put eight pounds of
rhubarb, in thin slices; place in a
pan, and cover closely with a thick
, noth or blanket, and stir three times
a day for a week. Then strain
through a cloth, and add four pounds
ot lump sugar, the juice of two lem
ons and the rind of one.
To "fine” the wine, take one ounce
of isinglass and one pint of liquor and
dissolve at a slow heat. Add to the
rest of the liquor when quite cold
and cask it. Do not bung tbe cask
until the fermentation is over. The
quality of this wine improves very
I much with keeping.
—
Smart Colors Are the Vogue.
Last summer white reigned supreme
at the more fashionable resorts. This
; year the pendulum has swung in the
direction of the most violent colorings.
' The smartest reefer and loose coat ef
fects are reseda green. American
Beauty red. Yale blue, and strong
tones of lavender and purple. These
coats, heavily embroidered and braid
ed in cloth and silk, are to be worn
with white dresses and colors with
which they naturally tone.
This Will Tempt the Appetite.
A pretty and appetizing gift to any
one that is ill is a basket of orange
and lemon jelly in orange skins. Cut
the tops from several thin-skinned
oranges and through this opening re
move the pulp. Fill the skins with a
stiff orange or lemon jelly, and stand
them upright until the jelly is hard.
Then put on the covers and arrange
the oranges in a pretty basket.
Morning Bonnets for Wee Girls.
Quite the cutest bonnets shown for
wee girls this season are the regular
sunbonnet shapes in white pique or
duck, with face ruffles of colored
lawn or chambray. The ruffles are
in pink, blue, American beauty red
and pale green, to match linen frocks
of the same shades, and they are
made with plain hems or edged with [
narrow lace.
Time-Saving
A list of the contents of a closet
'acked up inside of the floor will save
viueh wearisome hqnt/-.\$ lor some par
ticular thing, especial',/ «\ien required
in a hurry. The same method can be j
applied to bureau drawers, as far as |
tabulating the contents goes. They
may be entered in a notebook for con
venient reference, each drawer being
designated by number.
The Floss Book.
A dainty gift for the girl who em
broiders is the "floss book.” a long,
narrow book, bound in small-figured
cretonne, and tied with bows of rib
bon. The pages are of stiff card
board, covered with plain linen, with
straps for holding skeins of silk, linen
or mercerized cotton floss.
Pretty Yachting Costume.
For the warm days of the summer
yachting season the fancy linens are
in high vogue among the fair yachts
women. In one gown the double effect
of coat and blo jse Is cleverly attained
in the cut of th» fronts. Coming well
below the curve of the hips, the little
blouse waistcoat is inserted in the
loose fronts, fastening invisibly under
the strap at the left side. A belt of
white suede encircles the waist, pass
ing beneath the front straps and giv
•*
ing *. loose effect to the coat. Th*
sleeve is plain, with a dark blue linen
cuff inlaid with the white suede, and
the white suede further appears a:- a
piping to the straps which decorat
the full thirteen-gore skirt. The littl—
round sailor hat is likewise in whit •
suede and simply trimmed with a
broad band of black velvet tied in a
flat, square bow at the side.
Risotta.
Put a heaping tablespoonful of but
ter into a saucepan with a tin
minced onion, and stir over the fire
until the butter begins to color. P.
into this a scant cupful of raw r
and stir off and on for fifteen n
utes. Should the rice get too dry a i
a very little hot water. At the er. '
the fifteen minutes pour into t‘
saucepan a scant quart of boil;;..:
water and cook fast for another flf
teen minutes. Finally, drain off ar. !
put in rather more than half a cupful
of strained tomato juice seasoned
with pepper, salt, a pinch of mace and
a large pinch of lemon peel, grated
Simmer for ten minutes mere and
serve. The rice will remain whol*.
but be soft and most savory.
This is a popular Italian dish and
very good.
Wide Collars and Other Fvilis.
A summer feature is the wide col
lar. It is made of various materials,
one of the prettiest being of white
taffeta. It has black polka dots a;;
plied. These dots are of black silk
upon the background of white silk
Around the edge there is a piping of
black silk, and underlying the collar
there ara points of salmon pink tar
feta. Each point is trimmed with
a lace medallion. Such a collar
dresses up any evening blouse won
derfully. Worn over black or wh:v
it really makes the whole dress, for
it gives the note which was lacking
Good Way to Serve Orange Jelly.
Care and a little time are needed
to serve orange jelly in the follow ng
way: Select even-sized oranges and
cut them in halves. Carefully remove
the pulp, leaving the compartmonu
unbroken. Fill every other space with
a thin orange jelly, poured in with a
spoon, and put the shells on ice unu
the jelly is firm. Then fill the empt>
compartments with stiff whipped
cream and serve.
Gay Striped Ribbons.
Color is plentifully used in the tie*
and stocks of the year, the idea being
that a plain gown is thus easily bright
ened and smartened. Striped ribbon
such as green and gold, old rose anj
black, red and green, blue and biscuit
and so forth, is employed. It is no ex
aggeration to say that there are turn
dreds of different designs in neckw. a:
on view at present.
To Keep the Hair in Curl.
Put a teaspoonful of borax and a
piece of castile soap into a jar. an i
pour over them half a pint of boil
ing water. Stir until they are i:
solved. Put the mixture into a
tie and cork it up tightly. Dam^_ >
hair thoroughly with this mixture be
fore curling it.
Old Lace in Vogue.
If there is in the house a bit of un
used old lace search for it and fetch •
out. Never has there been such a
demand for laces of all kinds. Th
old lace that has been tucked awa;
for years tan now be used to mak •
the daintiest of hats.
Hats for Children.
Children’s pique hats are now maij
with high poke crowns. Both crown
and brim are of the pique, and from
the latter depend full lingerie ruffles.
Bust Confiner and Reducer.
Every woman of generous propor
tions knows the difficulty of wearing
the fashionable thin blouse and its
necessary full corset cover with sa
isfactlon. This very excellent gar
ment is designed to meet just that
need and will be found absolutely
practical. It extends down well over
the top of the corset, so supporting
the bust and confines not it alone, but
also the flesh under the arms, which
so often is annoying in conjunction
with the thin waists, and is worn be
neath the dainty cover of lawn or
batiste. The model is made of heavy
strong white linen, the casings at th
back being of webbing, or belting
which gives additional strength bur
English drill and coutil are eqtia. y
mvA
appropriate and satisfactory. The
straps over the shoulders are elastic,
so allowing perfect freedom at the
same time that the object of the
conflner Is attained.
The garment Is made with fronts,
side portions, backs and upper front
portions which are joined one to the
other, and is closed with buttons and
buttonholes at the front aad adjusted
with lacings at the back.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is ^ yard u
inches wide
