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TO MAKE A MAN LOVE YOU.
The Rev. H. n. Hawks, the most pop
ular writer and preacher In the Church
of England, author of "Music and
Morals," has now written a highly In
terestlng and very useful book called
"Ideals for Girls," In which he tells
them how they can best make them
selves loved by man.
TO TUB MUSICAL, GIRL.
You have a llrst, second or third class
musical faculty. The cultivation of sec
ond and third class faculties Is the hope
of the musical world.
In these days, when there are thou
sand" of nice girls who are lost In the
crow of our surplus female population
hardly "getting a chance" anything
which makes a girl stand out and shine,
as It were, ngalnst a background, any
thing distinctive which draws atten
tion to her Individuality, gives her a
distinct Boelal advantage. This Is the
explanation of all dress peculiarity, the
wearing of bright colors, flowers, Jew
els the passion for the stage the rage
for a vocation skill in horsemanship
or shooting or palmistry, or anything,
in short, which makes a girl agreeably
or UBefully or even oddly exceptional,
and picks her out of the crowd; and the
easiest way to acompllsh this is, un
doubtedly, to stand up and sing, or,
better, still, play the violin.
Better? I had better have said worse.
The violin mania hus reached propor
tions which call for a protest. I have
always said a beautiful woman, with
musical sensibility, playing a beauti
ful violin as some women can play It,
Is one of the most beautiful things In
the world. But you, my dear Constance,
will never play the violin. You only
began It at fifteen (that Is too old), and
then not because you had a good arm
or a suitable hand, or were particularly
musical, but because you had a pretty
face and nice flossy-silky yellow hair.
That Is of no use for playing. Why
Immolate the violin to your hair? It
makes a musician wild to hear you;
he even trets to hate your hair.
The enforced attention a violin girl
or a singing girl receives conceals from
her that she Is a nuisance. She creates
attention that Is enough yea, verily,
and often too much.
But Ethel, unlike Constance, Is not
only pretty, but a musical sensitive
music shakes and thrills her nervous
system as the wind smites upon an
Aeolian harp. She feelB spiritual analo
gies in sound, and thinks she can utter
only through sound. She dreams In
spheres unknown to those who have
not within them tho secret of sound,
which is so close akin to soul vibra
tions. No doubt, Emily, you have attained
a degree of excellence which Is seldom
found In this country. Your snare Is
the "Sturm und Drang" school, Don't
be the slave to technique It Is ruining
music. It Is easier to be a fast than
a feeling player. The great masters,
like Liszt, Thalberg, Rubinstein,
excelled in expression as well as In
peace, but their followers imitate too
frequently what, In fact, they are alone
capable of copying the technique
forgetting that technique is nothing but
a means to an end.
Study the "Songs Without Words,"
and the Mendelssohn concertos, now too
seldom heard; but above all, seek to
play In concerted music, string quintet,
and quartet, and with the orchestra
whenever you can.
No virtually, my dear Emily, should
make you too grand to be kind and
good-natured.
TO THE TIDY GIRL
The grease spot on your bonnet rib
bon has been there for a week, two
buttons are oft your gloves, and one
Is off your left boot, there Is a tear Just
above the fringe of your skirt, and as
to the lining of your dress Jenny. .
women's eyes are quick, but men's eyes
are critical. To many a man little
danger-signals like a grease spot, or
(dare I say) a smile disclosing two side
teeth not quite clean, or an unstitched
glove, or a hook without an eye, or an
eye without a hook my dear, the re
sults are positively fatal; for men are
not all fools even when they are In
love, and they know that a sloven be
fore marriage Is a sloven after mar
riage. ONE ENGAGED GIRL.
Oh, that conservatory, that easy
chair, the Intoxicating scent of those
heavy big lilies, and those fairy lights!
Could you not notice anything wild
about his eyes? Oh, yes! you thought
It was love. No, It was want of sleep
and and wine but not want of wine,
the results of too much; but he only
smoke of cigarettes, "all men do," you
said. That was nothing; he taught
you how to smoke one It wasn't half
bad. So, Jessie, as he was not a bit
shy, and seemed very determined
poor little fluttering bird you lay very
still and very close to his let us say
waistcoat, and listened to the honeyed
words; and when you held your breath,
and It came the proposal you cried,
and laughed, and said, "Oh, Captain
Checkham!" "Say Jack!" he whispered;
and his hot breath was close to your
cheek and made your head swim, and
you said, "Tack," and your fate was
culled.
TO THE BIKING GIRL.
What are becoming and unbecoming
pursuits, and the reasons why?
Lawn tennis?
Why, excellent. It has everything to
recommend It graceful exercise, skill,
charming attitudes, curves of beauty,
and (a pleasing and by no means a sup
erfluous consideration) the employment
and enjoyment of both sexes.
And football? Detestable for girls.
And biking?
That depends. Nothing can be more
grotesque than to see girls ape the
grasshopper Btyle of the highroad
"scortcher." The knlckerbocker Pari
sian male style of dress has been so
debased by caricatures In more than
doubtful taste and suggestive compro
mises, that I never wish to meet any
knlckerbocker girl in whom I am In
terested on a bike. Floppy and volum
inous or carelessly worn skirts are also
objectionable; but a tight-fitting bodice
and short, spare, tailor-made skirt, an
upright but easy gait, a graceful seat,
and a good knee and ankle action, not
too high, and you have at once a com
bination of ease, celerity and charm,
which no male bicyclists can rival or
approach. On the other hand, Clarlsse,
the manners of ladles on the road are
apt to become horsey and brusque.
What do I think of the rubbish talked
about girls Injuring themselves by rid
ing bikes?
Why, I mean the unwholesome bik
ing all comes from this chronic mania,
hleh, I confess, seems to me to have
seized upon you, Clarlsse the passion
for aping and even outbidding men. Is
it not enough for women to bike? Why
must they bike like men, or as much as
men? Any man may do on a bike
with impunity what a woman can't
or ought not' to do. A man can often
overtlre himself without serious harm,
not bo always with a woman. A man
can "scorch uphill." and half the wo
men who injure themselves with bik
ing do so frequently from trying to
Bcorch uphill the strain of the up
hill action Is disastrous to the woman;
but the man goes up before her, she Is
not going to be outdone, and up she
goes after him, concealing her agonies
or exhaustion, and the damage Is done.
I daresay, my dear Clarlsse, you
would not care for me to give you my
opinion about golf, fishing, riding, bow-and-arrow
shooting far preferable and
more graceful for lad'es, by the way
than rifle practice; but let me urge
upon you, my dear young lady, not to
coarsen yourself by aping the men, and
thinking that you score points by un
sexlng klndB of sport, manly buttons,
coats, boots, shirts, hata and above all,
manly language.
Men laugh with this sort of ,-;lrls, and
at them but they don't marry them,
unless they are bullied or forced Into
It.
The brn-tado of n cigar In the bllllard
room only lowers you In the eyes of
those who Induce you to smoke It; and
the free use of knickerbockers, rifles,
cricket balls, and manly coats do tho
same.
TO THE AFFECTIONATE GIRL.
That vague dreaminess, that ardent
Imagination, that warm but shyly af
fectionate temperament which gives
you away when you least know it, and
reveals secrets which you would most
wish to keep; the tell-tale color that
comes and goes beyond your control,
the quick scorn or melting tenderness,
the little broken sentence that slips out
and half reveals and half conceals your
meaning, and the sensitive expressions
which flit across your face like tho
shine and shadow upon upland hills,
and make It a very tell-tale dial of the
soul that lcaus ond flutters beneath
this and a great deal more, Eleanor,
bears witness to character gifts and
psychological peculiarities which are
the sources of your power, but which
are now like diffused steam wasted In
mere vapor.
Ah, Eleanor, If you only knew It, what
lovely conquests what happy, aye,
blessed conquests you could go
through the world making, by placing
that rare, sensitive, Intuitive nature
of yours at tho disposal of others, In
stead of allowing It to dissipate In
vague and perhaps not very whole
some day dreams.
Yours, too, Is a presence whom the
sick would learn to bless. You have,
perhaps, never discovered what Guin
evere found out so late too late In her
wild and tragic life 'the gentle power
of ministration" In you. You are not
partial to sick rooms or to suffering
probably not. Well, you will get to love
them when you feel by the smile on the
pale face as you enter, the grateful
tear when you depart, that the sound
of your feet Is as the soft tread of an
angel o nthe threshold of the allllcted,
and the touch of your cool, magnetic
hand like the balsam of God upon the
feverish brow.
THEY NEVER CROW OLD.
(From Freedom.)
There are enoromous quantltes of liv
ing beings swarming in the wnters
about us, whose bodies do not die any
more than our souls do. Human bodies
die, of course, and return to the dust
whence they sprang. But away down
In the animal scale we And a host of
minute and lowly organized beings
which never grow old. They never die
except by accident. Some of them have
lived since the beginning of the world,
and If they have plenty of food and are
left alone by larger and stronger or
ganisms which usually prey upon them
they will live until the end of the
world.
All living bodies are composed of a
highly complex chemical compound
called protoplasm. This protoplasm ex
ists In form, more or less, of tiny spher
ules, which, according to their arrange
ment and function, make up the var
ious tissues muscle, nrve, skin, con
nective, bone and cartilage. These lit
tle spherules are called cells and may
be considered as the unltB of which a
living body Is composed. Now, when
a body Is composed of more than one
cell It is said to be multi-cellular. Such
are the anISials which are familiar to
us. But there Is a great group of anl-
mnls which are no more than single
cells or unicellular animals and which
are so small that It requires a micro
scope to see them. These are the an'.
mals which scientists say are Immortal.
When the earth had whirled around
through space for ages and ages as an
Immense molten ball of lire and had
then cooled for ages, so that Anally a
crust was formed all over It. Just then
was the time, our scientists say, that
certain chemical element carbon, hy
drogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and
phosphorus were so wonderfully com
bined as to make living matter or pro
toplasm. It Is not necessary to suppose that
much protoplasm was made then.
Enough to cover the tiniest pin point
would be sufllclent to have evolved
every animal and plant which has ever
lived. From this first bit of proto
plasm, after millions of years, have
come all that variety of land and sea
life which we know at the present day.
It 1b hard to realize that the elephant
and whale began In this diminutive
way, but there Is little doubt now that
they did.
But how could the speck of proto
plasm perform such miracles? At first
It was wholly unspeclallzed It had no
organs at all. It got ltB food merely
by absorption from the water In which
It lived. Later a little body appeared
In the center of It a sort of "kernal"
which Is called the nucleus. This
nucleus Is for some unknown reason
an essential part of the cell, for no
cell can live without It. At this Btage.
then, the primitive organism looked like
the first figure in the column. This Is
a figure of a microscopic animal, which
can be found In almost any body of
fresh water, and Is the most primitive
organism known. It moves about very
slowly, not by real feet, but by Im
provising feet now In one part of its
body, now In another, out of the flnger
llke processes. Into such a "false foot"
It draws Its whole body; and then the
foot becomes the body. Thus It con
tinues, putting out new feet and draw
ing Us body Into them. One can hardly
imagine a lazier way of walking.
WThen we see how this prlmitve organ
propagates its kind we at once recog
nize why It is that it is called im
mortal. It propagates by simply divid
ing Itself Into two. It almost literally
cuts Itself In half. And by that process
arise two new Individuals. These new
Individuals each divide, giving rise to
four. Each of these four divides again,
making the total eight, and so on.
They multiply so fast that before many
days there are millions upon millions of
them, and In a month the progeny of
one lndlldual, if allowed to go un
checked, would weigh as much as the
lun.
Now when the parent divides to form
two daughters, as they are called, there
Is no death. Nothing Is destroyed but
the Individuality of the parent. Here
the mother literally lives In her chil
dren. The same Identical protoplasm
which constructed the mother goes on
Increasing and dividing, so that when
it has produced a million or ten million
new organisms In every one of these
there is a portion of the original ani
malcule which first began to divide.
Roentgen rays have been found to
act on vegetation like very weak light
In experiments by Slgnor G. Tolemel.
SCIENTIFIC JOTTINQS.
A bar of lend cooled to about 800
decrees below zero, according to an
experiment of M. I'letet, gives out when
struck a pure musical tone.
A bar of soft metal Is used on Dres
den electric lines Insteud of tho trolley
wheel, and Is claimed to wear the wlro
less and to bo more convenient.
Corks are being made for medicine
bottles which will drop the liquid In
stead of pouring It, nn air Inlet pas
ngu and liquid outlet passage being
cut In opposite sides of the cork with
a bulb over the air Inlet to control the
air inside the bottle.
Typewriters are being manufactured
which will write on books, this ma
chine being mounted on n frame with
an open space In tho center, through
which the type levers are driven down
on the page by the keys on the top
of the machine.
Tumblers resembling In shape and di
mensions those employed today have
been found In great numbers In Pom
pell. They were made of gold, silver,
glass, marble, agate and of precious
stones.
A writer on the eight says that wear
ing veils permanently weakens many
naturnlly good eyes on account of the
endeavors of the eye to adjust itself
to the ceaseless vibrations of that too
common article of dress.
At the pure food congress, held In
Washington recently, It was Btated that
one child In six dies from Impure milk,
nnd that more persons die of typhoid
fever from drinking Impure water than
from alcoholic stimulants.
The destruction of forests not only
lessens the amount of water In a sec
tion of country, but also permits of
the Increase of Insects, due to the fact
that as the forests disappear the con
ditions favorable to bird life go with
them.
It Is stated that the grave of Themlst
ocles has been discovered by a Greek
archaeologist on Cape Kiakari. Its au
thenticity Is, however!! open to doubt,
although the site fits In with the de
scriptions given by Plutarch and Dlo
dorus Slculus.
Dr. Rumbold, sr., says that the func
tions of the middle ear muscles are to
select and amplify such noises na the
listener desires to hear distinctly; mak
ing It appear that the ears have mus-
cles of accommodation quite analogous)
to those of the eye.
With an appliance called the myo
phone a French scientist has proved
that the nerves may live many hours
after the death of the body. The sec
ond In the Instrument shows that a
nerve may act on a muscle, In n stato
of electrical excitability, without pro
ducing more than simple molecular vi
bration. A unique forest of Immense palm-llko
stalagmites has been discovered by M.
Mnrtel In a natural pit In tho lime
stone of the Lozere, France. They are
ut the end of an Immense sloping
chnrm, reached by descending a per
pendicular shaft about 200 feet, and
many are very beautiful, while one Is
over ninety feet high, nearly touching
the vault of the cavern.
Tea Is often mixed with other leaves,
metallic substances such as Iron, man
ganese or sand to Increase their weight,
or "facing" coating the leaves with
Indigo or Prussian blue to make them
green. Soak the leaves In water nnd
unroll on a glass and examine with a
microscope. The construction of a tea
leaf Is so different from any other
leaf It may readily be distinguished.
Bruise some tea and cut up, then pass
a magnet over It. Particles of metal
will cling' to the magnet. If n teaspoon
ful of tea which Is colored Is thrown
In water which is warm particles of In
dltro. If It has been upu, will Blnk to
the bottom of the gloss.
Housekeepers will appreciate a new
bowl holder, which la formed of n
clamp to screw on the table, with
nn adjustable three-screw clamp to
grasp the top of the bowl nnd hold It
so that eggs can be beaten or dough
mixed without holding the receptacle
with one .hand.
Emll Kunz, a resident of Sacramento,
Cal., Is said to have Invented a three-
ounce electric storage battery. ThlR
battery, so the Inventor claims, will
operate as many as fifty lights for ten
hours. If this battery can accomplish
what Is claimed for it, which, Judging
from the present stnte of the art, would
seem unquestionable, the problem of
propelling homeless carriages la solved.
The Smlth&onlan Institution Is go.ng
to do a unique thing with the talking
machine. Its directors have engaged
representa'ves of the various Indian
tribes In this country to give conver
sations, In their own tongues, to phono
graph machines. They will then be
translated Into English, so that the
dialects of these dying races may be
accurately preserved for posterity. Per
haps the most remarkable use of these
machines Is by doctors and surgeons In
studying diseases by means of records.
Every malady of the throat, nose,
chest, lungs, heart, and even a patient's
cough, have been registered In this way.
The patient describes to the machine
the features of the case, nnd, by mak
ing records In different stages, the phy
sician ascertains the condition of the
patient. A remarkable library of rec
ords Is kept by Dr. J. Mount Bleyer
of New York. He has about 1,000 of
such records, each marked, dated and
described; and If a patient has a relapse
the doctor takes down the former cylin
ders and can at once recall the circum
stances of the case. An Improved ma
chine, called the mlcrophonogrnph. la
used by some of these doctors In study
ing the feeble sounds given out by the
organs of the body. By means of this
Invention many deaf persons are be
ing benefitted. Aural messages In the
form of screeching noise, caused by
cylinders with rough surface, Is applied
to their ears for two hours dally, and
this so stimulates the nerves as to pro
vide some substance for the paralyzed
organs.
Egypt continues to be the land of
wonderful discoveries. The news has
Just come that Mr. V. Loret, the suc
cessor of Mr. J. de Morgan, nnd the
son-in-law of our distinguished visitor,
Alexander Gullmant, the celebrated
French organist, has discovered near
Thebes, In upper Egypt, the tomb of
King Thothmes HI. of the eighteenth
dynasty. The paintings that decorate
this sepulcher are In a perfect state of
preservation. The sarcophagus, mad
of a stone unique In Its kind, Is nearly
Intact. In other rooms were found
other coffins, probably those of the wife
and daughter of Thothmes III, The
mummy, of course, was not met with;
u.s3n.in ! poJOAonuip asou.) ;o euo B ij
Boy at Delr-el-Bahri in July, 1881. while
Mr. Maspew was In Europe. The mum
my of Thothmes III., the great Egyp
tian conqueror, one of the curiosities
of the GIzeh museum, was found In the
se cret vault where the priests had hid
den It with many others In order to
proserve them from plunder. The
mummies of all those kings were car
ried away by the Theban priests who
had charge of them. In order to save
them from profanation. At the time
of the Syrian dynasty the priests had
to fly to Ethiopia, and not being able
to carry with them the sacred remains
of the Egypltans former rulers, gath
ered them In an out-of-reach place,
where they remained untouched until
ur days.
AN AUTHOR'S MAIL.
Few American writers have been
more bothered and amused and liar-
rowed nnd exasperated by an admiring
public than Mrs. Burton Harrison,
whoso stories have gone as far as a
magazine can travel, nnd brought her
Into close relations with people of every
grade, since they treat of the most ir
resistible combination on earth, a man
nnd a woman.
"You have no Idea what a constant
drain there Is on a writer's sympa
thies," she says. "No one can help be-
Ing moved by the pitiful letters ol
ure that come In nil tho time. These
struggle and disappointment and fall-
ure that come In nil the time. These
writers want everything advice, crlt-
lclnm, Influence, money, social position,
advertlslngnnd nn author Is supposed
to have all these up her sleeve for
their especial benefit. BecaUBe she has
solved the dllllculties of her heroine,
she Is expected to play oracle to the
public at la,rge and bring them all out
happy ever after. It's u dllllcult thing
for a busy New York woman to guide
an ardent young soul In Kansas. Yet
when the npepal comes In good faith,
1 can't ignore it.
"Of course, n large part of the letters
I get are not In good faith they are
written simply to show off. First come
the usual cheap phrasi's about 'your
delightful books,' nnd then tho wrltet
proceeds to make an lmi'-"slon. to
cut a literary dash for your benefit,
to prove that she Is a kindred soul and
understands you perfectly all under
a thin pretext of asking your opinion
on some trumped up point. !
"Then there arc the autogtuph lot-
ters. Once In a while I do answer onoi
of them, when It comes from a pathe-
tic old maid, or a llttlo boy with hip
disease oh, the little boy with hip dls-
ease always gets one! I can't resist
him. I even add u sentiment to his.
But the average autogrnph fiend, with
sound limbs, and people to love him,
and no earthly claim to pity, I have This fact Is not a wild statement born
no scruples about him. . of the Imagination, hut a demonstrated
"I have had numberless experiences fact of physical science. A fact so
with young writers, some irritating, mighty and far-reaching In Its Import
some really gratifying. I remember that I verily believe If the first dls
once a girl sent me an Illustrated poem, coverers of It had dreamed of the con
begging for my opinion of It, and hop- elusions to which It might lead they
Ing I could place It for her. Mann- would have been nfrald to make the
script pushrlng Is utterly ugulnst my assertions concerning It which they
principles, but there was a certain have made. Namely, that the brain
promise In this work, and I goaded my- cells arc exhausted and weakened, do
Belf Into doing something about It. So pleted or vacuated by the generation of
1 took It to three of the most promt thought until they become flabby nnd
nent critics I knew nnd got their frank weak, and must stop their work until
opinions on It opinions that would be food nnd sleep have rested them so
worth dollars nnd dollnrs to any young that they can go on generating more
struggler. Then I wrote out my opinion thought.
In detail, praising nnd criticising spe- Mnu himself Is the laboratory of this
clflcally, and sent the whole back, with force which moves the world today,
the poem. I Tho bread he ate for diner yesterday
"I had given nn unusual amout of has become In passing through his of
fline and attention to the thing, nnd gaulsm a factor of Irrestlble Intelll
felt very complacent. But the fervent gence whoso building power no man
little note of grntltude and appreciation
which I expected never came. There
was a long silence, then 1 received a
most hurt, angry, offended letter. She.
had sent me a poem to place In n maga-
zlne, nnd I had not only returned It,
but had said unpleasant tilings about'
It. She couldn't understand such con- a more rarlfled, and I may add more
duct. Of course It wns funny, but I powerful form than the brain, even aa
could not help wishing that the effort steam Is more powerful than water,
had been spent on somebody who would I am absorbed In my writing nnd un
appreclate It. I der the full sway of my own thought
"I never received a letter from an a person enters my room whom I
unknown that pleased me more than neither see nor hear; presently my own
one that came to my publishers from thought flags; I feel an Interruption; an
a big prison, Inclosing a small sum of Impediment; I turn nnd see the visitor
money and asking for a certain one of whose presence I had recognized by
my books. The prison copy of it had feeling IiIb thought. Could I feel his
been read to pieces, and the poor fel- i thought If it were an Intangible noth
low wanted a whole one. Another thing ing? Any thinker will know that this
that gratified me Immensely wns hear- ' is Impossible. His brain mingled with
Ing that one of my stories, battered my own thoughts and deflected them
and torn, formed the main body of from the track they had been pursuing,
the library on a far western cattle His thought had changed the vibration
ranch. 'We lend it to the boys, but of my current of thought nnd compelled
you bet they bring It back,' said the my eyes to follow In thfc wako my
owner. 'They know they'll get Bhot If thoughts had taken until they rested
they don't.' There's nothing so grntl- on him.
fylng as to feel that you have come No man can observe his own nc
close to the people of an utterly dlf-1 Hve thoughts without perceiving the
ferent realm, for It means that you have Incessant vitality of UiIb fine, Bubtle,
put a touch of real life Into your work. brain-generated, body-generuted fluid.
You can please a small set with artl- , He must nlso see how little of It Is
flclal means, but nothing ie universal applied to any purpose whatever; It Is
excent truth,
"Those who write coldly Intellectual
and abstruse theses miss a great pleas.
ure, and that Is the warm bond of if it can be sent thousands of miles
human sympathy that grows up be- away charged t.lth messages that
tween the people and the writer who chunge the belief and condition of the
treats of human relntlons. I have railed person receiving them what other won
against the annoying and ludicrous as-I ,er8 may it not perform?
pects of this bond, but It has a very I i nHk this question simply to awaken
beautiful and satisfying side that has interest. It cannot be answered yet
meant i. crcnt deal lv my life. I place To me thought Itself as an Intelligent
grent value on the friendship thnt haB
come to me through wnat i nave writ
ten. To find again In the heart of a
friend something that has come from
one's own heart that 1b one of the
sweetest experiences of a writer's life."
Some eight or ten years ago there ap-
nanrorl In fin Austrlnn nnvnnntur fin
advertlsemnt with the heading: "Sure
Cure for Red Noses." The prescription
would be mailed to any address on the
receipt of ten florins. Johann Hans-
burger, a poor fellow afflicted In that
way, concluded to give the cure a
chance and mailed his ten florins.
Promptly the answer came and was
couched in these terms: "Your remit
tance has been duly received and cred
ited. We take great pleasure In for
warding the prescription, which Is very
Blmple. Keep right on drinking and
the nose will turn blue."
HE GOT HIS RECEIPT
An Irishman, having paid a fine In a
police court, stood waiting before the
Judge. The rest or tne story is best torn
by himself: " 'What are ye waltln' for?"
says hlB honor. 'For me receipt,' says
Ol. 'But we don't give receipts,' says
, '.n vo muBt nv m 'What tnr-v
says he. 'Well.Olil tell ye, yer honor.
When Ol die Ol expect to go to heaven,
an' whin Ol get to the golden gates
Saint Peter will say, "Have ye paid all
. ... .. . Att am
yer mils, aicaianus:- urn say, -ui
have," and thin he'll ask me for the re
calpls, an Ol'U take them out of me
pocket all done up In a nate little elas
tic "Hnvn vr nfilfl nil ver fnlnes?" hoil
say thin. "Ol have." "An" where are
the recalpts?" An' thin Olil have to go
huntln' all over h 1 to folnd yer honor.
Ol got me recalpt."
The chameleon is a little lizard, who
possesses the wonderful power of
changing his color to suit his own con-
enlence. Florida produces several spe-
cies or tnese itzarus in nuunuance. up
to the present day no one has under-
stood the process by which the llttlo
lizard effects his changes. Now It is
known.
Certain colors through the medium of
the optic nerve produce a contraction
or expansion of the pigment or color
cells. The result Is a protective tint or
one which resembles tl-at upon which
the animal i resting. The eye receives
the stlmulas or Impression, which passes
from the optic nerve to the sympathetic
nerve, so reaching the various series
of the lizard's little color cells under
the skin.
The pigment cells are distributed all
over the body with more or less regu
larity, and upon their contraction and
expansion depends the prevailing color
of the animal.
The scientist discovered this by blind
Holding a lUard, and found that when
It couldn't see the color of the sur
rounding fodage it ceased to change
Its own color.
POWER OF THOUGHT.
(Helen Wllmons In "Freedom.")
That a thought can be sent from one
brain to another brain thousands of
miles away and leave Its Impress In
tho most undeniable effects seems mar
velous. But who has measured tin power of
thought, or who has Investigated III
functions? With regard to thought
we ure as Ignorant as we were con
cerning electricity n hundred years ago.
Who then Imagined e'ther the powet
or function of this mighty fluid so fat
back as one century or even half of It?
And now Hee to what uses we have dl-
rected It.
Has the reader observed that In the
growth and progress of the race It con-
stnntly discovers forces each of which
Is finer, more subtle nnd more powerful
than nil those which preceded? Once It
was water; then It was steam; now It
Is electricity; In a short time It will be
thought. Thought Is not only the mont
potent force In the world, but It pos-
scsses something Hint no other force
docd; It possesses Intelligence,
The time Ih coming when thought,
charged with the Intelligent will, Ih
going to accomplish more nnd greater
things than all the other motor puw-
era ever applied to the uses of the race,
How Is It going to be done? I cannot
answer this question now any more
than my grandfather could have an-
swered the same question If nsked of
electricity Instead of thought; but the
first question Is answcicd now, and the
other one will be.
A faint conception of the amount of
thought which the brnln generates may
be gained by watching your own
thoughts as they flock from your brain
to become lost to you, nnd to waste your
bodily powers In tho losing.
Just as the steam l a part of the
wnter so thought Is a part of the brain;
is, and In passing olT from the brain
It, and In passing off from the brain
it uses the brain up, or exhausts It
and no race of men can measure.
Could thought exhaust the brain cells
If It were not a substantial entlty7
Could steam exhaust the water If It
were a mere nothing? As the steam
Ib the water In a finer, more subtle
form, so Is the thought the brain In
left to the unbridled range of free
vagabondage and has never been
thought under the direction of the will
(Mrs. Burton Marrlson, in the Puritan.)
greatest of all things that await In
vestigation at this time. W. H.
Grow and Llvo.
(C. C. Post, in Freedom.)
Life Is growth and growth Is life.
Where growth ceases decay begins.
When a tree ceases to grow, when In
springtime It falls to put forth new
leaves and to form buds that give
promise of becoming, first twigs and
then branches, when the tree fulls to
Clve evidence of an Intention to grow
more It has begun to die.
And the same with men.
Life finds expression only In change.
You say an egg is without life. You
break the shell, you devour ltB con
entB without thought of destroying life.
Why?
Because you can perceive no evidence
of growth or change taking place In
the egg.
One of my neighbors put 300 such
J lifeless thlngB In an Incubator a few
weeks ago and what resulted? At first
nothing resulted. The eggs lay where
they were placed, without change or
evmunce us. me, unu my neignuor
. turned them over by hand every day.
Then on the third day he noticed a
change in some of them and he said,
"there is life In these for a change
! within the shell Is taking place," und of
nlhaiHi tin udlH "rnara lu tnn stVifi ntra
."""-; " - v" , .., v....0..
lliciciuiv HW bVllli Ul 1IIC DUtll XLO &
hoped."
And those others he laid aside, but
these remained where they were In the
i Incubator. And there followed further
change and the hange continued show-
Ing forth life through growth until
there came a day when we all went to
see the miracle of life which change
had wrought.
Lo, a bouquet of over 250 animated
pansles; life active, beautiful, Intelli
gent life. Rather more beautiful than
active perhaps, and decidedly more ac-
iv ttmn intin.rnt l.nt iir in.iivMimi
ze , chickens life through growth;
nut. me man win cease to oe inaiviu
uallzed In any chicken that cease to
gain more life through change, by
growth.
If a chicken does not change by
growth he becomes a dead chicken; he
must obey the law of life by which
he came and continued to grow or he
cannot command the law of change and
live; the law of change commands him
nnd he dies, and through further change
his body will be transformed Into some
thing that will grow.
As with chickens so with men and
things.
If men refuse to enter into life by
the door of change called growth they
must enter through the door called
death, for it Is Impossible that change
cease to be continuous.
"Grow or die" Is the edict of the law,
written everywhere In nature, In obe
dience to which all forms of organiza
tion must bow.
RIP VAN WINKLE AT HOME.
(Ladles Home Journal.)
Perched on a high bluff and looking
down on the waters of Buttermilk Bay,
stands CrowH Nest, the beautiful sum
mer home of Joseph Jefferson, In which
he spends so many happy dayB.
It Is a beautiful home, nnd around
It, hero und there, nre a number ol
smaller cottages that seem to look up
to the big one as tiny fluffy chickens
that seek protection by coming ns neni
as possible to tho mother hen, Thli
comparison, made by a bright woman
Is a good one, when It Is known thai
In these cottages live tho sons and rela
tives of tho head of tho Jefferson fam.
iiy.
When Mr. Jefferson first made hit
home there It was suggested thnt th
name of the nearest station be changed
from Buzzard's Bay to Jcffersonvlllm
but with his characteristic modesty and
his appreciation of suitability Mr. Jof.
fcrson did not ngrec, ond so tho placi
has its quaint nnd country-like tltla
He who Is fortunate enough to b
asked to visit ut Crow'B Nest drlvci
through woods of sweet-smelling plnci
and cedars, between wonderful foliage,
and then arrives nt the back of tin
house, for the house Itself fronts on
the water. This home is n vnrv nun
one, having been built In 1S34 Thera
had been another home equally beauti
ful, and containing much that wns val.
uable In the way of paintings, ran
curios, bric-a-brac and all the family
sllver, but the fire-god envied "Rip Van
Inkle ' his possessions, and touched it
with his direful finger, so that soon
there was no home, and all the prized
belongings had gone. But Mr Jefferson,
with characteristic quickness, ordered
another villa very much like the old
one to be built, and one and all began
to collect more lovely things to make n
veritable house beautiful.
"Rip Van Winkle" was more fortun
atu than most people, for though o
house had been burned there was still
another house way down In the South
land nn old-fnnhloned homestead In
New Iberia, Louisiana, from which was
brought quaint old bits such ns can
only be found south of Macun and Dlx
oh'b line. j
In July, lSlk "Rip Van Winkle" and
"all his fnnflly" went Into the new
homo, which Is perfectly appointed,
beautifully furnished, nnd, If nnythlng,
dnlnter than the old one. The housa
Is essentlnlly comfortable looking. Tha
lower pnrt of It Is built of stone that
waB quarried near by, and the uppei
portion Is all dark red, unburncd brick,
while the gable roof In of coppor. Fol
lowing tho fashion the chimneys nr
tiled and are surrounded by curloui
fluted copings, which Invariably excite
the curiosity of whoever may be In
specting tho place. In reality, they ara
common brown Seltzer bottles. In fact,
It was nn original Idea which placed
them there,
The most remarkable quality In Jo-
soph Jeffcrson'B character Is his won
derful energy. No time In his life la
wasted. While acting is of the greatesl
Interest to him, still he Is a fine pnlntcr.
He understands art In Its many
branches nnd throws his whole soul Into
whatever he may bo doing. His paint
ings, mostly lundscapea, are many In
number and can with truth be pro
nounced good. When good-by Is sold
to the home, and Mr. Jefferson becomes
the rollicking "Rip" or boisterous
"Bob" the easel, the canvases and all
the painting outfit are taken, for thers
will be times in between when tha
painter will rise superior to the actor.
The actor claims that while painting
he Is rested, for then he forgets tha
excitement and worry of his profession
ns he depicts his Ideas of the beautiful.
Next to painting he loves best to flsh,
nnd Sir Iznak Walton himself would,
Indeed, have found a most congenial
companion ih him, as, dressdd in his
corduroy Ashing clothes, he goes oft
In his little yacht on a long happy day
of the engrossing sport.
A happier family of a more congen.
lal colony could not be Imagined than
that at Buzzard's Bay. All are Inter
ested In everything that Is artistic and
beautiful, Many of them paint; all
are good readers, can talk well, and
every ono loves, In a reverential way,
the head of the household. He Is con
sulted about everything. All confidence
Is given him, nnd "what father ap
proves of," or "what father thinks"
decides any vexed question.
The home life Is the Ideal one of
Joseph Jefferson. It Is full of whole
some happiness, and It keeps every one
in it growing younger Instead of older
each year. By-the-by, on Mr. Chariea
Jefferson's grounds there Is a wonder
ful bnathouse, wonderful in so much
that It can be turned, at a moment's
notice, Into a comfortable little theater
or a pretty ballroom, and when "ie
evenings are cool Just for themselves
and their friends, the family do a llttlo
bit of acting. Mr. Jefferson Is first of
all hospitable, and to have his friends
around him make part of his household,
means happiness to him. Can you paint
the picture? Use the brush of Imagina
tion on the canvas of your thought.
Then you see Joseph Jefferson, the
great artist, the dignified mnn, the lov
ing husband and father, the good friend
and pleasant acquaintance seated on
the veranda of his home, surrounded
by all those he loves who bear or have
borne his name, the friends who are
nearest to his heart, fondling tha
youngest member of the Jefferson fam
ily, his one great-grandchild, now leas
than a year old. Can you help admir
ing that picture? Is it not good for
such a man to have lived? All tho
world Is better for It, and truly we can
say for him, as he said so many thou
sand times for us, "May you live long
and prosper."
On a plantation, the property of a
wealthy Charlestonlan, dwelt a queer
character, Pompey by nnme. When
ever Pompey was 111, which occurred
with alarming frequency, he was wont
to Inaugurate a limited revival meeting
on his own behalf, the burden of which
was: "Oh, may de good Lawd God Al
mighty take poor Pompey home!"
This became so monotonous, and the
lamentations so vociferous that a band
of neighbors determined to test Pom
pey, and Incidentally effect a cure. Ac
cordingly, one evening, when his plain
tive lament had been more clamorous
than usual, they stealthily repaired to
Pompey's habitation, where he was ac
customed to lock hltTjself In. Suddenly
a low rat-a-tat-tat was heard upon tho
cabin door. "Who's dah?" came from
within. Receiving no response, Pom
pey was about to resume operations,
when another knock was heard, "Who's
dah?" called Pompey In a thoroughly
frightened quaver. "De good Lawd
God Almighty, come to take Pompey
home!" "No slch name heah, sah," ho
cried excitedly; "Pompey done gone an
moved tree week ago, sah, shuah!" .
Ex-Secretary William M. Evarts was
for a long time the most skilled pf
all public men In polite and pointed
repartee. At a reception in Washing
ton he was drawn itno a discussion
between two ladles.
"Mr. Evarts," said one, "do you not
think I am right in saying that a wo
man Is always the best Judge of another
woman's character?"
"Madam," replied Mr. Evarts, "ah
is not only the best Judge, but the best
executioner."
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