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COULD STAND PLAYFUL DOG Young Man Considerably Relieved When He Learned the Animal Was Not in Earnest. "Have you seen papa's new dog. Carlo?” she asked as they sat In the parlor. "Yes,” he replied, uneasily. ”1 have had the pleasure of meeting the deg.” “Isn't he splendid? He is so af fectionate." "I noticed he was very demonstra tive,” returned he, as he moved un easily in his chair. "He is very playful, too. I never saw a more playful animal in all my life." "I am so glad to hear you say that.” "Why?" “Because I was a little afraid that when he bit that piece out of me the other evening he was in earnest. But If he was only in play, of course, it's all right. I can take fun as well as anybody.” GOT LEFT IN THE RUSH. - ___ Ml "I “Ruth is engaged to be married the coming winter." “The mischief she is! I intended to propose to that girl myself when 1 got time." Shopping Instinct. A rural postmaster tells this story of one of the patrons of his office, a boy of thrifty, not to say penurious, stock. When the lad comes into the postoffice he will thrust his wizened face up close to the window and. in his slow, yankee drawl, inquire most earnestly: "Hev ye got any postal cards?" ' Yes,’' the postmaster replies. "Haow much be they t-day?" "A cent apiece.” Then the boy, screwing up his eyes In the intensity of his thought over the question he has to decide, always stops for a while to weigh the con sequences. Finally, he will reply sol emnly : "Wal, I'll take one.'—Youth's Com panion. FREE BOX OF BISCUITS. Every reader of this paper can se cure absolutely free a box of assorted biscuits by simply cutting out the cou pon from their ad appearing in an other part of this paper and mailing it to Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., Omaha, Xeb. The firm is thoroughly reliable. Take advantage of this liberal offer and write them today. • ' '" — His Childish Wish, Here is an excerpt from Paul West's “Just Boy" letters, which read like a clipping from the "Little Johnny" pa pers by Ambrose Bierce in the early volumes of the Argonaut: "I ast my father why ministers move so much and he said he guessed they was forced to on account of thare sons. I w-isht my father was a minister."— San Francisco Argonaut. Neat Differentiation. Senator Lodge, at a dinner 1n the Back Bay district of Boston indicated very neatly the difference between a statesman and a politician. "A statesman." he said, “thinks of the next generation; a politician of the next election.” She Knows. “You never thank a man for giving you a seat in a street car.” "Not any more.” replied Miss Cayenne. “I used to until 1 noticed that almost invaria bly he v.as going to get out at the next corner anyhow.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to lake as candy, regulate aud invigorate stomach, liveraml bowels. Do not gripe. Adv. It keeps wives as busy providing for the inner man as it does husbands providing things for the outer woman. Sirs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Cluldrei teething, soften; the gums, reduces Inflamma tion. ai lays pain.cures wind colic.25c a bot tie.M«, It's easy for a man to resist tempta tion—if he has something better in sight. Be thriftv on little things like bluing. Don’t accept water for bluing. Ask for Bed Cross • Bail Blue, tbe extra good value blue. Adv. A girl may toss her hand even if she can't throw a stone. “Isn’t It funny” the difference it makes in your general health and happiness when the Stomach is right, Liver active and Bow els regular? If you have any trouble with these organs Hostefter’s Stomach Bitters will overcome it quickly. Try a bottle today. It is for Sour Stomach, Heart burn, Indigestion, Cos tiveness, Colds, Grippe, Malaria, Fever and Ague. . When She Came Business Picked Up and He Decided She Should Remain. BY MILDRED CAROLINE GOOD RICH. "Business Is bad. very bad,” raid , John Moore to a passing townsman, and struck a still more dejected alti tude in the doorway of his little store. He posed there, staring gloomily out i into the fast darkening street, think I ing how very bad was business, in deed, and wondering why he had ever | brought his little stock of dry goods, I clothing, boots and shoes and notions i to Riverton. "I would go to a real live, wide awake town," he ruminated, "and here | 1 am—trade dull, stock dead, and 1 : don't seem t.o make many friends. I Heigh ho! I suppose being a crusty i old bachelor keeps away the ladies' i trade. As to others, maybe I'm too i slow and old-fashioned. Guess I'll | close up. Hello!" Starting to pull up the awfiing, the storekeeper's foot touched a moving human object crouched back in the hallway side entrance to the build ing. "Here, wake up”’ called out John. I with a frown. ,7\Viiat you doing there, anyway?” "I'm not asleep" responded the faint, quavering voice; "and I'm here because I’m too sick and weak to go any further.” The speaker got to his feet with a : painful effort. As he came more fully into view John regarded him closely. "Oh, I see,” he said, rather distaste fully; "you are the man who was here a month ago, and got in trouble with a riotous crowd down at the tavern.” "That was me.” assented the tramp, for such he seemed. "I was arrested. I hoped it was forgotten, for I came back here this morning to find work. “Whs»» Do You Want?” I found out that people do remember. No one would employ me. Heartsick i and footsore, I crept in here to rest— | maybe to die. I don’t know, for I feel | pretty bad," and the poor fellow's eyes ! filled with tears. “What do you want?" inquired John, a trifle harshly; "money. 1 suppose, to | buy liquor." The tramp reached into his pocket, ■ drewr out a folded paper and opened \ it so that his challenger could see j what it was. "A temperance pledge, eh?" re marked John, almost contemptuously. "And your name is Lemuel Price?" "Yes. sir. Pm through with all that. I fve been through with it for over a week. I’ve done it because I'd got low ^ enough to beg hard earned wages from ray motherless daughter. "If stopping short is going to kill I Tie, all right—at least I'll die sober." The man was shivering as he spoke. There was a feverish flush to his wan face. He looked hungry. John Moore believed his story. "See here," he said; "if it's a bed and something to eat, come with me." When John had closed the store he led his pensioner to the neat suite of rooms he occupied behind the store. Tt seemed to brighten up the place to have company, even poor but grateful company, as Price was. It was as a new man that the latter ! entered on the next day. John had : fed him on nutritious soup aud gruels, he had given him a comfortable bed. j Out of his stock he selected a neat, unsalable suit of clothes, and the ex ! tramp went out on the street, clean shaven and encouraged, to again look i for work. “If you don't make it," said John, I ‘come back, and i'll give you board ! and lodging for helping around the store until you get something better to do.” Price reported that afternoon. He nad found a chance to work as a teamster, he said, but, he added, he had decided first to submit a propo sition to the storekeeper. “All right, what is it?" asked John in his usual crisp, businesslike way. “Well,” replied Price, “I don't want you to be offended, but I’ve been try ing to study out why you don't do more business than you do. You have got the stock. Other stores are just rushing. Saturday's, especially, the trade Is big. You haven’t got your share.” “I have realized that for some time,” said John, bitterly. “Now, I've been thinking up mat ters for your good, because you have been so kind to me." continued Price, humbly but sincerely. "I amounted to something once. Had a business, and I but for drink would have succeeded. ; If you will let me do a little advertis ing for you. I'll guarantee results.” Slow-going John Moore was dubi ous, but finally he agreed to try the experiment The nepct day Price cleaned up the show windows. The next he repainted the front of the store In attractive colors. After that he brought a big brass bell and se cured It on a standard over the store doorway with a chain running to the Inside of the store Early Friday morning a sign ap peared above the bell reading: “Every twentieth purchase free—announced by this bell.” Just at noon the bell rang. The ex cited customer, a farmer, was in formed that his purchase would be handed to him free of charge. As he left the store John came rushing back to Price. "Say,” he exclaimed, “you'll ruin me! Why, that was a twelve-dollar overcoat! ” "Never mind." replied P: ic° confi dently. "The average will come out right." This proved to be true. Curious people came in, making only small purchases. The news got around tow n. The crowd kept up till midnight. Tired out, but elated. John reckoned up the gains of the day. Counting in the presents given, he was over fifty dollars to the good. The next week Price had a new scheme, the distribution of a free pa per cap to children, advertising the store. The rush kept up. “Mr. Moore,” said Price one eve ning, “the night business is better than the day. That is because you don't get the trade of the ladies. I’ve a new suggestion to make. You need a woman behind that dry goods coun ter. l,et me send for my daughter, Martha. We can use the two empty rooms upstairs, and you needn't pay either of us a cent of salary unless we earn it.” So this came about. The result was magical. Martha Price, bright, mod est, obliging, brought in the female customers in groups. The pleased old bachelor began to humanize himself with pleasant words instead of frowns. Fortune smiled upon him. In turn he smiled upon Martha. “It's no use denying it. Price," he said to her father one day, “you two have managed to transform a crusty, self-opinionated, behind-the-time, crus ty old bachelor Into a real human be ing. As to you. I’m proud of you.” "Some good in the world after all, am I?" responded Price. “I'm so glad, and Martha is happy as the day is long." John Moore did some deep thinking the rest of that day. In the early eve ning, when Price was eating his sup per, he went oter to the counter where his daughter stood. ‘‘Martha,'’ h6 said. "I'm going to tell you something that I never told any other woman. Having had no experi ence. I must be rather plain and blunt.” ‘Yes?” murmured Martha. Her color heightened. “I love you. and 1 want you to be my wife. Of course, a crusty old bachelor—” “Don't call my father's best friend hard names,” interrupted Martha sweetly. "I am only a poor girl, but if true love and devotion will satisfy you—” Then it was his turn to interrupt— with a kiss. (Copyright. 1913. by W. G. Chapman.) On Style. Idiosyncrasies of character tell even more than variety of subjects in their influence on style. No two persons are cast in the same mould. Clearly, therefore, the dress which is very be coming to one writer or speaker may I be very unbecoming to another. Yet. I to the end of time, in defiance of this truism, packs of imitators dog the steps of genius, as the courtiers of Alexander copied the conqueror's wry neck, or the courtiers of George IV. Jiis bulging cravats, or as the under carter apes the slouch and shamble of the wagoner. This peculiar style in which Carlyle clothed his oracular utterances suited him and them, the jerkiness and joltiness of his sen tences startling the world into atten tion. and the difficulty of unwrapping the mummy from the cerecloths ne cessitating the effort of Will, without which the thought cannot be grasped. In fact, the style of Carlyle is part of the man and of hia temperament But it was good adv:ce of the dying critic to his friend, "Avoid Carlylese.' And what is true of Carlyle and his copyists is true widely. Can any great writer be named who has not had a herd of servile imitators at liis heels? Is not the old saying doubly, trebly true in this application, "The best, If corrupted, becomes the worst?”—I. Gregory Smith, in the Ox ford and Cambridge Review. Kissing Was the Style Then. Kissing is almost a lost art in Eng land. Its universal prevalence in the seventeenth century was the wonder of the foreigner. Nicolaus de Beth len, who visited this country in 1663, relates that "mv brother and I be haved very rudely on one occasion, i being unaware that it was customary in that country to kiss the corner of the mouth of women, instead of shak ing hands as we do in Hungary. We were invited to dine at the house of a man of high rank, and found his wife and three daughters (none of them married! ready to receive us. We kissed the girls, but not the married women, and thereby greatly ofTended the latter. Duval apologized for our blunder, and told us when saluting w'e must always kiss the senior women first and leave the girls to the last.” The Marching Song. No one knows the inspiration of a i tramping song better than the soldier, ! and most regiments have their favo rite airs, which they love to yell when on march. The men of the Manches ter regiment have a fine reputation i for singing on the march, and two of their favorite songs are “KiHaloe” and "Brian Boru.” both of which give j opportunity for some hearty shouts I at intervals. Similarly the Yorkshires when route marching, enliven the way I with "Dan Tucker.” a sonfc in which I the words are of no account and the | tune a series of diabolical yells.— London Chronicle. Too Much of a Lisxury. A friend of ours tells us that he went to consult a doctor last week. “I have some queer pains," said oui friend. "I see," said the doctor, looking wise. “Do you feel a sharp pain low down oq your right side?” “Doc,” answered our friend. “I only get $12 a week. Don’t go lookin' for any symptoms of appendicitis.” The case was immediately diagnosed as indigestion. i / Hat of Unique Design That Is Featured at Palm Beach f Photo. by Underwood & Underwood. N. T.) Small Worth form made of material that is both damp and water proof. The garniture consists cf wi de ribbon and aigrettes. SOMETHING NEW IN CUSHIONS , - Well Not to Pile Them Up in Too Much Profusion, but Some Are Indispensable. The fad for having divans piled up j With cushions of promiscuous hues is ■ fortunately out of vogue, but an occa sional cushion in the more formal drawing room, when it is really beau tiful and artistic, is still a possession to be prized and is indeed a tiling of beauty, and makes a most acceptable gift. Such a cushion, instead of being conspicuous and startling, should rath er tone in with the general color schema of the room, and none are more splendid than those made from harmonious pieces of tapestry which can now be gotten in such exquisite colors and designs. To buy them made up ready for use. is rather an impossibility for those of moderate means, but they are within the reach of almost every woman who is handy with her needle, and possesses the necessary patience. Odd ends of tapestry, or small remnants can be picked up very cheaply, and to make their beauty more pronounced as though the tapestry is woven by j hand, outline the flowers or conven tional designs or the pattern of which it is composed with a tarnished boul : lion braid in gold, which is round j rather than flat, and couch this on j with gold thread. To make the pillow the new oblong shape, add a strip of velvet to each end of the tapestry, and this velvet should match or tone In with the pre dominating shade in the tapestry. Where the velvet and tapestry meet j may be finished with tarnished gold j lace, and the same sort of a cord in j gold is used around the cushion when ! it is complete. The back of the cush- I ion is made of the plain velvet. “BRYDA” Dainty Lunch Blouse in a Combina tion of Ivory and Yellow Chiffon and Lace Slip; Fine Lace Collar. New Fashion. A charming fashion recently revived : at the Paris opera consists in pinning a couple of flowers upon the bodice of the simply draped gowns in white or black charmeuse. Rut these floral trimmings do not adapt themselves to the magnificent models in embroi dered velvets, brocaded satins and gauzes recently launched upon the stage, nor do they figure on beaded creations. In the latter case the veiled effects in spangled tulle and lace, the draperies and the linings of damask and charmeuse give the required ornamentation to these beau tiful toilets. Waist for a Velvet Suit. Another blouse designed to wear with a brown velvet skirt has in the front and back bib-like pieces of the velvet, which also forms the epau lettes. The body of the waist is of a soft, subdued blue chiffon, tucked in clusters. The front piece of the vel vet is cut low' to display a yoke em broidered in shades of browns and blues, and the inevitable touch of fur is given by bands of skunk, which mark the shoulder lines and finish the tucked chiffon sleeves, which barely reach over the elbow. Fashionable Poise. It is curious how the dress of to day reflects the fashionable poise of the moment. The fashionable poise for the feminine figure is that which used to be called the Roman bend_ we have had it before, though it was long since discarded for the Grecian bend, which was the antithesis of the first. For the_ Roman bend we have the oblique line of trimming in the skirts, and the opening in front over the foot, corresponding with the drag ging downward at the back of the draperies. BUT ONE SCENT PERMITTEE Fastidious Woman Knows Better Thar. to Overdo This Essential of the Toilet Table. There is a value in perfumes as a safeguard against contagion, but most women of refinement never overdo this use, but confine it to a delicate fragrance that never offends, as do gross common scents. The dainty woman selects a special perfume and uses this only in all her toilet articles, and it is a fad to select the fragrance of some flower that corresponds with the favorite color. She also has her satchets, perfume, toilet water, pow der and soap to correspond. If any change is made it includes everything on the dressing table, for good taste decrees that only one fa vored scent is permissible for each in dividual. While a little really fine essence is delightful, a thimbleful of coarse alcoholic mixtures is disgust ing to any sensitive nostril. Satchets of all sorts are very much used, from large padded linings for shelf, drawer or wardrobe, to smaller and more per sonal satchets that are tucked into the bodice or hidden in the leaf of the satin corsage flower so generally worn. HATS CATCH POPULAR FANCY The "Drake” and the "Queen Eliza beth” Have Won Much Favor Here and in England. The woman who admires the pic turesque in hats will admire the "Drake" and Queen Elizabeth hats. The former, with fiat, full tam-o' shanter crown, plumes sweeping io the shoulder, is a predominant note in winter millinery. Velvet quills to match the crown and brim edged with narrow feather fringe are also a pop ular form of trimming. Corbeau blue and Vandyke brown are favored col ors for the "Drake" hat. The unlucky aigrette, despite the ef forts to make it unfashionable, is en joying no respite. Prices have soar ed to a fabulous figure, and it is used to trim many of the smartest "Drake" models. The Queen Elizabeth hat has the sides of the brim curving upward. An exquisite example of this variety was of chestnut-brown velvet, with a white plume sweeping over the side. This was caught with a jeweled ornament. Pegtop Coat. One of the most graceful forms tak en by the fur coat of the moment Is that in which the garment is made seven or eight inches too long. The extra length is then caught up in a series of festoons down each side seam. This is distinctly due to the pannier idea. It has the advantage of not making the figure too much like the fashionable pegtop. A typical coat of the moment in tax less ermine has a Watteau pleat of the fur at the back held down in pleats between the shoulders. The fullness 'is again caught in at the level of the knees by a broad band of lace fringed with ermine tails, which draws the Watteau pleat out to its fullest and holds it tightly in to the figure. Waist Pattern Help. A waist pattern should be fitted right side out—as it is to be worn. Almost everyone has some variation in the two sides of the figure. One shoulder will be a trifle higher than the other and the hip on the opposite side a trifle lower than its mate, re sulting in a slightly longer waisted underarm seam on that side than on the other. Now, if yoy fit the waist wrong side out, wlien you have stitched the seams and put it on right side out the fitting will be exactly reversed. The high shoulder will bp in the side of the waist that was fitted to the low shoulder. Evening Shoes. Among the accessories of dress on which time and money are being lav ishly expended this winter are eve ning shoes and buckles. For the for mer beautiful and costly brocades and damasks are employed and in colors to match the gowns, white and gold being much favored. Jeweled buck les of great price as well as those of paste are utilized for their adornment mounted on a semi-circle of plaited or plain satin, but two loops of black vel vet ribbon are seen coming from the latter beneath the buckle. Satin flow ers supply a touch of color. Taupe Trying Color to Many Women. Taupe, or mole color, literally translated, being much in vogue causes’ many women whom it does not suit to commit the error of adopt ing it. It is a trying shade to those who do not possess considerable color. Worldly—and True. Apropos of Miss Lois Campbell's "billion-dollar debut’’ in St. Louis, Claude H. Wet more, the author, said: "The marvelous growth and prosper ity of our city is a phenomenon that holds the eye of all America. 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