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After the heat of midsummer na
ture offers special inducements to the
athletic girl, and for such we offer the
above suggestions in dress. The first
gown is of brown and white check
with buff revers, and black velvet col
lar, and is crowned with a hat of
manilla turned up with black, and
trimmed with black, and the coat has
pipings of buff and buttons cf gold,
and beneath it should be worn any
sort of simple shirt, either of lawn, of
tucked white crepe de chine, or of
Shantung. The great essential to the
success of this costume is its absolute
simplicity. But, by the way, the very
simple shirt is not having things all
its own way, tor few are guiltless of
the center double frill. This frill is
shown decorating with great success
the other dress illustrated. The waist
coat. is of patterned cretonne, the coat
and skirt of purple cloth, and the hat
is also of purple, with a waving plume
which extends its influence from front
to lack. A smart little costume this
altogether, with lines of fanciful braid
decorating the skirt and coat, and
putting in their appearance again on
the cuffs.
IRL.S find it an |
easy task to look |
nice in the sum- I
mer time. The
. simplest white
dress made of
cambric, with a
tucked skirt and
a bloused bcdice,
will bear, if the
waist be trim and
the belt neatly
adjusted, under
the influence of a
good hat and a
colored chiffon
scarf round the
shoulders, an as
pect not un
worthy of a cos
tume from one of the best artists.
Yet again I quote from a personal
encounter, and tell of a dress of white
linen with the skirt trimmed with
three broad crossway bands, the bod
ice cut with very large armholes over
an under-bodice of tucked lawn, and
round the shoulders a loosely hanging
scarf of light Wedgwood blue, and on
the head a Tuscan hat, lined with
black, the front one mass of roses
shading from red to pink, and round
the neck a string of pale pink coral
beads.
I like colored beads with muslin or
linen frocks; and, talking of linen
frocks, I am reminded of several other
cheap effects. Green and white striped
cambric made in the very simplest of
styles, with a shirt-bodice, long
sleeves, and a turned-down white lin
en collar tied with a little green bow,
belted at the waist with a green pat
ent leather band, and crowned with
a green straw hat trimmed merely
with a huge green glace bow.
The latest news of hatpins I have
received relates of closely-jeweled
knobs of monster size, while the pear
shaped tortoiseshell pins are still pop
ular, plain and engraved with gold.
Feathers are growing wilder and
wilder, and their prices higher and
higher. Had I to invest large sums
in this direction I would advise the
ostrich as being the safest bird. The
plumes of the ostrich are perennially
in fashion, and a really good ostrich
feather will in time play many parts;
and, by the way, I continue to admire
those ostrich feathers which are ar
ranged to fall in fountain fashion,
while I persist in my dislike of the
skeleton kind which seems but to be
endeavoring to emulate the ostrich
feather after a good shower of rain,
and to lack the least hankering after
the beautiful.
The elbow-length sleeve is undoubt
edly booked to go, and the new
sleeves will come to the hands if not
to the knuckles. But whether the
short sleeve will go is another matter.
The creators of fashions have enacted
many decrees that have been wilfully
disobeyed. One of them was the death
Charming Linen Bolero Skirt.
of the short skirt; another the disap
pearance of the shirtwaist, or blouse,
as it was more euphoniously named,
and a third was the atr.empt to intro
duce crinoline or hoops. All of these,
and many other enactments, were null
and void.
In these days women show more
sense than in the past in the matter
of gowning, and a sensible and at the
same time comfortable fashion is
quite sure of a following at all times
by the masses of women, including
many of the modish world. These
fashions need not always be becoming
to insure their life.
NO MAIL FOR HIM.
And the Kangaroo Departed, While
Passengers Wondered.
“Yes,” answered the driver as his
leader swept round the turn into a
lightly timbered stretch of level road
in the Australian “bush,” “you may
not beiieve it, but those kangaroos are
as clever as people.” Then in .re
sponse to the inquiry of a passenger
he proceeded to tell why.
"Now, there’s Maloney,” he contin
ued, “who owns the section on the
other side of the creek. He trained
one of them to meet the coach each
week and get the letters for him.
“The kangaroo's pouch comes in
real handy, ye see,” he added, with
the humor that belongs to the stage
driver the world over.
Presently, as often happens on a
quiet country road, a fine kangaroo,
disturbed' by the approach of bis ma
jesty's royal mail, came into view,
as he raised himself from the grass
whare he had been feeding and looked
toward the coach with an Innocent,
iaq firing air.
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The driver glanced at him and
shook his head.
“Nothing for you to-day, old man!"
he called genially.
The kangaroo, as if that was all he
had been waiting for, hopped quifckly
out of view among,the trees to the
amazement of the box seat travelers
and the intense enjoyment of the
other occupants of the coach.—Cas
sell’s Magazine.
The Simulated Poet.
The most idiotic specimen of male
humanity who ever trod the face of
th's globe, by allowing his hair to
grew two or three Inches beyond the
recognized standard, would imme
diately convince numberless women
that he possessed a poetic soul.—
London Gentlewoman.
Perpetual Pencil Point.
There’s a new kind of lead pencil
In the shops. It never glows shorter,
doesn’t have to be sharpened or
peeled. The idea is to push the lead
up into a perpetual point by means of
a little Bpring in the side of the wood
en pencil.
FROM ONE FORMULA
SIX TASTY AND ATTRACTIVE
DISHES MAY BE MADE.
Ingredients Required Are 8imple and
Always on Hand—Dutch Rolls a
Welcome Addition to
Any Menu.
I have found, after a great many ex
periments, that no less than six tasty,
attractive and extremely economical
dishes ihay be made from this one
simple but reliable formula, properly
carried out, writes “A. M. B.” in the
Delineator. The ingredients required
are: One quart of sifted flour, five
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a
cupful of butter, one small teaspoonful
of sugar, half a small teaspoonful of
salt and sufficient milk to make the
dough of a soft consistency.
My method of mixing is to sift the
baking powder with the flour. I then
add the butter, which must previously
have been cut into small pieces, and
follow with the sugar and salt. I mix
all these ingredients together thor
oughly with the hands, rubbing the
butter well into the flour, after which
I add the milk. I then mix as lightly
and handle as little as possible.
With this dough as a foundation
it will be easy to prepare any one
of the following dishes:
1. Tea Biscuits.—Place the dough
on the mixing-board and flatten it with
the hand until it is po more than an
inch in thickness, but do not use the
rolling pin upon it. Cut the biscuits
with a tumbler, cup or biscuit cutter,
and bake in a buttered tin, in a mod
erate oven for about half an hour.
2. Dutch Rolls.—Roll the dough out
until it is about half an inch thick;
then dot it with small bits of butter,
about half an inch apart. Sprinkle
generously with sugar, and roll as if
making a roly-poly: then cut in slices,
each about an inch thick, and bake
in a well-buttered pan in a hot oven
for about an hour.
3. Raisin Loaf.—Make he mixture
as directed, but add half a pound of
raisins before adding the milk; then
bake in a bread tin, in a slow ove^ for
three-quarters of an hour.
4. Shortcake.—Mix as directed;
then bake in a round tin for half an
hour. Split the cakes and butter them
while hct; afterwards place a layer
of fresh fruit or preserves between
them and serve with sifted sugar and
whipped cream.
5. Roly-Poly Pudding.—Mix as di
rected; roll the dough until It is
about half an inch thick; then cover
it with fresh fruit and roll it up.
Place it in a granite dish or earthen
bowl and steam for half an hour, if
preferred, the dough may be covered
with jam or jelly, and, after being roll
ed up tightly, baked, a process that
will take about three-quarters of an
hour.
6. Pie Crust.—This mixture will
j also make a good, plain pie crust, and
] is especially good when used in mak
| ing meat pies.
(Copyright. 1907, The Delineator, New
York.)
Oriental Trinkets.
Everything oriental is fashionable
this season, from the material to the
buttons and buckles. Old Chinese
character buckles are seen on the
newest belts and red and yellow Chi
nese chameleons set in jade are ex
tremely smart, according to a writer
in Dress. Many of the newest rajah
suits are ornamented with Japanese
coral buttons set in rims of dull gold,
or large silver gilt buttons with the
Chinese dragon. Even with the Marie
Antoinette fichus are worn pins of
scarabeaus wings in oriental designs
set with amethyst, coral, or turquoise
To Clean Furniture.
Go over the furniture with a cloth
dipped in parafin oil and allow it to
stand for an hour, which will loosen
the dirt. Next wash the furniture
with a suds made of pure soap and
rain water. Rub very dry with a soft
cloth and polish with a piece of white
flannel dipped in turpentine. This
will not injure a piano, but restores
the brilliant polish. Furniture gets
dull because it’s dirty and needs to be
cleaned with soap and water.
Favor of the Linen Suit.
A style of garment which has
sprung into popularity during the past
two or three seasons has been the
linen toilette. This summer more of
these gowns are to' be seen In the
fashionable resorts than in any season
during recent years, and the stores
are now making a strong drive on
their stocks of linen suits, which con
sumers appear to be willing to take
in preference to any other offerings.
Cheese Pudding.
Lay three thin slices of buttered
bread buttered side down in a pud
ding pan, sprinkle one-fourth of a
pound of cheese between the slices.
Mix three eggs with one pint of milk
and pour it over the broad, adding
salt and paprika to taste. Soak for
an hour, then set in a pan of hot wa
ter and bake in a moderate oven.
Raspberry Whip.
Beat the white of one egg with one
cupful of pulverized sugar and one
and one-half cupfuls of mashed rasp
berries together 30 minutes. Pile in
the center of a chop plate or platter
and pour around a custard. Serve
vrith macaroons.
New Piping.
The increasing demands for piping
has made the progressive dressmaker
seek for some more perfect and easy
method of making her dress trim
mings. The shops are now showing
bias-seamed tapes made of good qual
ity and in every shade.
Ruffled Net Curtain.
To do up ruffled net curtains,
stretch out on a sheet after starching.
Pin just to the ruffles and leave until
dry. Take up and iron only on the
ruffleB, dampening as you go along.
This will leave the curtain perfectly
straight
Telegraph Clothes Line.
An ordinary telegraph wire makes
a better line to hang clothes on than
the nsual rope line, aa it does not
break, sag or rot It is wiped off
easily and made clean.
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At the National Capital r
Gossip of People and Events
Gathered in Washington
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FORESTRY BUREAU RULES
OVER MILLIONS OF ACRES
"pass®
government ,
G0AIIN6 LAND&
APPLY to
Uncle Sam
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WASHINGTON.—The Forestry Bu
reau, which now administers
more acres of land than any other
institution in the world and is the
landlord branch of the Federal Gov
ernment, has just compiled its report
covering statistics of grazing on the
public lands of the great West. The
figures will give some idea of the scale
on which Uncle Sam has gone into the
land business, and are very comfort
ing because of their very size, for if
the existing policy is unmolested the
vast areas of forest and mountain now
embraced in reserves will for all time
be administered in the interest of the
entire people.
There are now more than 156.000,
000 acres of land in the national for
ests. Grazing Is permitted, hut under
strict regulations, made in order that
the' grass may not be destroyed by
overfeeding. This, by the way, is
what has caused most of the friction
in the West. Owners of flocks and
herds In that section of the country
for years have been accustomed to
grazing without restrictions of any
kind. Many of them in time cante to
look upon the public domain as their
very own, in an important sense, and
they were quick to resent any effort
on the part of the government to con
serve either forest or grazing land.
But this friction is rapidly disappear
ing, as the western people see that
without such conservation the range
and forest in time will he destroyed.
A glance at the regulations govern
ing grazing on the government forests
will give the reader a very good idea
of the government forest policy and
tiow it is being administered. Stock
men who desire to make use of the
range apply for permits stating the
kind of stock they have, the quantity
tf it and the location of the range they
want. The forest officers then proceed
o make allotments, apportioning the
available pasture among the appli
cants on as equitable a basis as prac
ticable.
Sometimes stockmen who live near
forests or have stock near them allow
that sto\k to drift across lines. If this
is done carelessly or wilfully it is cor>
sldered trespass and the offender is
subject to a fine and may also be sued
for damages. The number of tres
pass cases last year was 183, of which
163 were settled out of court. The
sum collected for these trespasses ag
gregated $5,576. These trespass cases
have been another source of friction
between the government and the
grazers. It is difficult for the west
to realize that, the country now being
thickly populated, it is no longer pos
sible to maintain the old time free
range without destroying that range.
The entire system of permits.and fees
is for the purpose of enabling the
government to know that the range
within the reserves is not being over
fed.
NEWSPAPERS FAST EATING
UP OUR SPRUCE FORESTS
THE rapidity with which the news
paper is eating up the American
spruce forests has caused some alarm
among officials of the government,
who have betVi looking into the thing.
The conversion of spruce timber into
paper is going on at the rate of 1,765,
000 feet for every working day in the
year. And most of this timber is cut
in the United States, although a few
wood pulp logs are imported from
Canada.
During 1905 the newspaper demand
alone consumed 900,000 tons of manu
factured white paper. This was one
third of the output of all the paper
mills in the country. To make it re
quired an army of 15.000 men, who
drew $9,000,000 in wages. The mills
used raw material amounting to 1,300,
000 cords, representing the cut of
about 100,000 acres.
The present tariff on lumber causes
this enormous dra'.n to fall almost en
tirely upon the forests of the United
States. It has been suggested that
it would be a wise political and eco
nomic move to remove this lumber
duty, and let the paper mills begin to
eat into the almost limitless forests of
Canada.
Incidentally the price of paper
would drop some, and the paper trust
would not have quite the monopoly on
affairs which it has to-day.
Increased size of newspapers and
magazines is laid by government ex
perts to the introduction of the’ type
setting machine. In 1890 newspapers
and periodicals averaged 5.7 pages
each, on a basis of weight, and in
1900 6.6 pages; 1905 they came to 8.5
pages. '
During the 25 years from 1880 to
1905 the number of newspapers and
periodicals of all classes in the United
States practically doubled. During
that time 10,000 publications were
added. During the last decade the
number of morning newspapers In
creased 7.1 per cent, while the num
ber of evening newspapers increased
11.3 per cent.
During the tost 30 years the evening
newspapers have increased more rap
idly than morning newspapers. A
hundred years ago there were 359
newspapers in the United States, hav
ing an aggregate circulation of 22,
321,700 copies per annum.
GOVERNMENT TO SUPPRESS
TRAFFIC IN GIRL SLAVES
A SYSTEMATIC effort is to be
made by the bureau of immigra
tion to put an end to what is popularly
known as "the white slave traffic,”
which, it is asserted, has been con
ducted, especially in cities on the
Atlafttic seaboard, for a long time.
On recommendation of Robert
Watchom, immigration commissioner
at Ellis Island, New York, Miss Helen
M. Bull's has been appointed an im
migration inspector for the particular
purpose of developing information re
garding this traffic. Miss Bullis re
sently has been connected with the
Travelers' Aid Society, and . has done
much work along philanthropic and
sociological lines.
Commissioner Watchom says that
despite the scrutiny with which im
migrants are examined as to their
right to enter the United States many
women of non-English speaking races
are being imported for immoral pur
poses. The method by which this is
accomplished is so well devised that
the victims of the importers nearly
always avoid detection by reason of
the thorough coaching they receive
prior to their embarkation for this
country.
Mr. Watchom suggests that Miss
Bullis is in position to furnish the
department conclusive proof of the
existence of the traffic. This would
enable the immigration officials not
only to deport there who have been
brought unlawfully into the country,
but also to punish those who are re
sponsible for this sort of immigra
tion.
TRACTION AUTOS TO BE
USED IN WORK ON CANAL
TRACTION automobiles are the
latest thing for the Panama canal,
and their use, according to officials
of the canal in Washington, presages
the doom of the ancient and time
honored railroad velocipede, now used
by track walkers and employes in
charge of switch lights in sparsely
populated communities. It is not be
yond the realm of probability, in the
opinion of some of them, that the run
ning of automobiles on railroad tracks
will become a fad if the railroads will
stand for it.
The purchasing agent of the com
mission has advertised for two such
machines for use on the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama cap
able of carrying ten persons each and
able to make a speed of 40 miles an
hour on a level track with the engine
running at normal speed. The en
gine must be stout enough to climb
a grade of eight per cent., and to in
crease their speed to 25 per cent,
above normal, or, in other words, to
make 50 miles an hour. The car must
burn ordinary stove gasoline and have
a capacity to go 125 miles at full
speed and load. It is the purpose of
the commission to place these cars
in the inspection department for the
use of the chief engineer and his as
sistants, who now have to rely on
passing passenger, freight, dirt or
special trains in inspecting the work
along the canal.
Old Sweet Springs.
In the mountains of West Virginia
which are not as well known to the
country at large as they deserve to
be, are many lovely spots, that are
summer resorts as well as beautiful
resting places in spring and fall. Old
Sweet Springs is such a place. It is
far above the sea level, and there has
been a hotel there ever since 1792.
George and Martha Washington spent
the summer of 1797 there, and there
Jerome Bonaparte met Elizabeth Pat
terson. There, too, is still standing
the “Lewis cottage,” said to have been
the first house erected west of the
Alleghenies. There is a golf course
at Old Sweet Springs, which is said
to be very fine; anyway, there is a
mint patch by the brook. The springs
themselves are believed to cure nearly
everything, including dandruff! With
out vouching for this latter fact,
doubtless if you play golf every day
without a hat they will help.—Travel
Magazine.
Stiil Owed for Them.
A couple of men were chatting in a
club smoking room about a friend and
his m^tor. “He seems to be very well
satisfied with it,” remarked one.
“Oh, yes. Hasn't paid a copper in
repairs all the nine mhnths he’s had
it, he tells me.”
“H’m. I heard the same story from
the fellow who’s done all the repair.”
Above the Plane.
To be alarays seeking after the use
ful does not become free and exalted
souls.—Aristotle.
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7ZZ7&W HqS. cSCOUT CRWgR “cSAKfflf”
The spirit of rivalry between the ca
tions of the world in the expensive
game of battleship building has not al
together escaped the United Stales,
and while the great nations of Eu
rope, especially Great Britain, are
launching bigger and swifter and more
powerful ships than ever before, the
United States is not idle. She, too, is
looking with pride and confidence upon
the building of big battleships which
will in every way be the equal if not
the superior of the Dreadnought, the
new type of battleship in Ungland.
But in addition to the construction
of these immense fighting ships, the
navy is at work providing a new type
of fast cruiser which eclipses anything
now afloat in the world. The first of
these warships has just been
launched at Quincy, Mass., and chris
tened the Salem. These boats, be
cause of their speed, will serve as
scout ships. The estimated speed of
the Salem is 24 knots, which is greater
than that of any other cruiser of the
navy, and is exceeded only by that of
the torpedo boats and destroyers: and
while it is a knot less than that of
the English scouts now building, the
difference in speed is more than com
pensated for by the ability to main
tain the high speed in all conditions
of weather, by a coal capacity more
than double that of the English scouts,
and consequently a greatly increased
radius of action.
The leading characteristics of the
“Salem,” as given by the Scientific
American, are a3 follows: Length
between perpendiculars, 420 feet;
length over all, 423 feet two inches;
breadth, molded, 46 feet eight inches;
draft, fully loaded, 19 feet 1V& inches;
depth amidship, molded, 36 feet 5 1-16
inches; displacement, fully loaded,
4,640 tons; displacement on trial,
3,750 tons; draft on trial, 16 feet 9^
inches: total coal capacity, 1,250
tens; coal on trial, 475 tons; maxi
nnun speed, average ol four hours
rim. 2-! knots; steaming radius at ten
knots per hour, about 6,250 knots;
steaming radius at full speed, about
1,875 knots; maximum brake horse
power, main turbine engines estimat
ed, 16,000: indicated horsepower, aux
iliaiies, 400.
The freeboard of the vessel is
greater than that of any other vessel
in the navy, being, at the normal draft,
19 feet 8% inches amidships, 34 feet
at the stem, and 21 feet six inches at
the stern. The high freeboard insures
good sea-going qualities, gives great
range of stability, and provides a safe
and dry vessel under all conditions of
weather. On account of the high free
board it has been possible to provide
commodious quarters for the officers
and crew, well above the waterline. A
forecastle has been provided above
the main deck, for about one-quarter
of the length, and deck houses have
been arranged abaft the forecastle.
Ample subdivision has been made to
insure the vessel keeping afloat with
no serious change of trim or loss of
stability if several of the compart
ments are pierced. In planning the
structural details the greatest care has
been exercised to provide a hull which
shall combine with lightness the
strength and stiffness necessary to
successfully withstand the severe
shocks which the vessel may be called
upon to undergo, and particular atten
tion has been paid to the longitudinal
strength of the vessel and tcf the
strength of the watertight bulkheads,
that they may be able to withstand
the pressure due to the flooding of any
compartment and thus avoid endanger
ing the vessel as a whole.
The hull is built of steel through
out; two longitudinal bulkheads are
worked continuously throughout the
engine and boiler spaces, one on each
side, extending from the bottom of
the vessel to the main deck, and in
clined slightly Inboard at the top. In
order to avoid any break In the contin
uity of the strength of the vessel, the
upper and lower strakes of these bulk
heads extend well beyond the limits
of the machinery spaces, forming
large brackets gradually tapered off.
Between these longitudinal bulkheads,
and extending throughout the boiler
and engine room, an inner bottom is
worked, so that the vessel Is well pro
tected from injury in case of ground
ing.
There are five decks, designed as
forecastle, main, berth, orlop, and plat
form, respectively, the main and berth
decks being continuous from stem to
stern. Nickel steel protection of 80
pounds per square foot is worked on
the shell plating for the length of the
machinery space including the dyna
mo room, extending from about three
feet four inches below the waterline to
about nine feet six inches above,
abreast the boiler rooms. At the for
ward end of the machinery space and
after the dynamo room, partial ath
wartship bulkheads of 40 pounds
nickel steel are fitted, of the same .
depth as the adjoining side protection. M
Nickel-steel protection is fitted in jjk
wake of the steering engine.
The battery consists of two five-inch jfl
and six 3-inch rapid-fire guns and two
21-inch submerged torpedo tubes.
Two submerged torpedo tubs of the
side-loading type with all necessary *
accessories, including air compressors
and accumulators, are installed in the
torpedo room forward, one on each
side. Four torpedoes will be carried
for each tube.
The magazines have been so arrang
ed that about half the total supply of
ammunition will be carried at each
end of the vessel, and four ammuni
tion hoists driven by constant sp*ed
motors will deliver ammunition to
the guns. Battle order and range indi
cators will be fitted in accordance
with the usual naval practice.
The engines are Curtis marine tur
bines, 120 inches diameter, seven-stage
reversible, located in separate com
partments, of a combined brake horse
power of 16,000, arranged for ont
board turning propellers when going
ahead. The steam pressure at throttle
valve is 250 pounds, and maximum
revolutions at full power about 350
per minute. The necessary auxiliaries
and accessories will be provided in ac
cordance with the practice of the Bu
reau of Steam Engineering.
There are 12 watertube boilers of
the Fore River “Express" type, placed
in three watertight compartments,
with a total heating surface of 37,080
square feet. The working pressure is
275 pounds per square inch. The
steaming capacity will be such that all
the steam machinery can be run at
full power with an average air pres
sure in the flrerooms of five inches of
water. The “Salem” carries four
smokepipes, each 75 feet high above
the base.
The arrangement of the quarters
provides accommodation for a com
manding officer, 12 wardroom officers,
five warrant officers, and 340 men.
The quarters for the officers are locat
ed in the after portion of the vessel,
with the usual staterooms, messrooms,
etc., as custon\ary in the naval service.
The amidship and forward portions of
the vessel are given up to the crew,
with the usual lavatories, dispensary,
sick bay, etc. Quarters for the petty
officers are provided on the orlop deck
forward.
Moose Walks Down Busy Street.
The other morning a big moose vis
ited tbe town and after taking a few
observations he leisurely walked down
to the river right in the busiest part
of town and swam across while a
number of our citizens stood on the
bank and watched him, but the mon
arch of the forest, though not in any
hurry to leave, seemed to think his
place was in the woods so he finally
walked off. The animal appeared so
contented that not a soul in town ex
pressed any desire to harm him.—Big
Fork correspondence Duluth News
Tribune.
Use for Red Clover.
For clover brushes, which give
a pleasant odor to the closet, gather
the red clover with long stems, and
while still pliant tie the stems close ^
to the flowers with a cord. Plait the
stems and tie at the end with narrow
ribbon.
There are now 70,000 confessing
Christians in Japan, or about one in
600 of the population.
HOT WATER WAS WANTED.
It Took Commands in Three Lan
guages to Bring It.
While touring in Switzerland we de
cided to spend a month or more in the
Bernese Oberlands, in a little hostelry
out of the traveler’s* beaten path and
situated high on a ridge under the
shadow of the mighty “Jungfrau.’’ The
house was full of French and Ger
mans; few of our own countrymen
seemed to have discovered the loveli
ness of this retired place.
We awoke early on the morning
after our arrival, and although it was
late in summer the air was frosty and
the snow glistened on the mountain
sides. “Do you suppose,” I said, “we
can get hot water in this primitive
place?” My d|ster touched the old
fashioned bell button near the bed, and
after a few moments a maid knocked
at the door. She was a neat, stolid
looking individual, in a garb which
seemed a compromise between a na
tive Swiss costume acl the more mod
ern uniform of a hotel domestic. I
had no knowledge of the local Swiss j
patois, but my French, though limited
might serve.
“Votlez-vous—apportez-moi-de. I’eau
cham, s'll vous plait?”
My effort was thrown away. The
woman’s face lost not a jot of its
stolidity.
My sister • ventured the request in
uncertain German: "Bitte. wollen sit
mir—heise water bringen?”
The maid's face was a blank.
The open door made a draft with
the window. It was cold. I wantec
that hot water, and I lost my tempej
at her patient stupidity.
“Can’t you get us some hot writer?’
I almost shouted.
The first gleam of intelligence show
ed itself i nthe creature’s eye.
“Certainly, miss!” she said.—E>etroit
Free Press.
Reasons for Haste.
“Why do you telegraph your con
gratulations on their marriage? A
letter would do as well.”
“Oh, no. They may be divorced be
fore a letter can reach them.”—Cleve
land f-eader.