u r J h w v if r - Iy sliced p p Dried Beef If Old Hickory Smoked jj ji Highest Quality W 11 Finest Flavor ft jlV In sealed gloxa jart at your grocers 4wS BITCUTC Fortunes are mads in patents Pro- tn I w tectyourideas Our C4 page bookfres Xltzcerald Co Box S Washington D C SURELY DESERVES A MEDAL Record Act of Bravery That Is Set to Credit of Intrepid New York Man The bravest man in New York made his appearance in a Broadway store last week He carried an enor mous bandbox which contained an enormous hat in which the man want ed what he considered an enormous amount of money refunded The man was pretty mild and while looking for some one who had the authority to negotiate the transaction he talked loud enough for everybody to hear My wife bought this hat he said She doesnt need it She has already bought three hats this spring She paid 535 for this one She has never worn it It just came home last night I cant afford to throw all that money away and I want you to take the hat back She wouldnt bring it down so I undertook the job myself By the side of that man Napoleon was a cringing coward said the young woman who had made the sale Imagine his flouncing into a Parisian millinery shop with a hat that he didnt want Josephine to buy He couldnt have done it Very few men can Once in a long while some poor New Yorker with the courage of desperation in his heart returns mer chandise which he cannot afford to buy for his wife and his audacity up sets the whole store for a month New Fishing Industry Albicore fishing in Nova Scotian wa ters has become interesting but for financial reasons These fish frequent ly weigh over 500 pounds and are known as horse mackerel A number were shipped to Boston last season The average price there is three and one half cents per pound Formerly these fish were considered a nuisance to the fishermen Where They All Happen I heard of a remarkable adventure with a boa constrictor Where did it happen At a cafe table Riches Knicker Brown counts his wealth In seven figures Bocker Perpendicularly There is no fool like the peacemaker who Interferes between husband and wife MENTAL ACCURACY Greatly Improved by Leaving Off Coffee The manager of an extensive cream ery in Wis states that while a regu lar coffee drinker he found it Injuri ous to his health and a hindrance to the performance of his business du ties It Impaired my digestion gave me a distressing sense of fullness in the region of the stomach causing a most painful and disquieting palpitation of the heart and what is worse it mud dled my mental faculties so as to seri ously injure my business efficiency I finally concluded that something would have to be done I quit the use of coffee short off and began to drink Postum The cook didnt make it right at first She didnt boil it long enough and I did not find it palatable and quit using it and went back to cof fee and to the stomach trouble again Then my wife took the matter in hand and by following the directions on the box faithfully she had me drinking Postum for several days be for I knew it When I happened to remark that I was feeling much better than I had for a long time she told me that I had been drinking Postum and that accounted for it Now we haveno coffee on our table My digestion has been restored and with this improvement has come relief from the oppressive sense of fullness and palpitation of the heart hat used to bother me so I note such a gain in mental strength and acute ness that I can attend to my office work with ease and pleasure and with out making the mistakes that were so annoying to me while I was using coffee Postum Is the greatest table drink of the times In my humble estima tion Name given by Postum Co Battle Creek Mich Head the little book The Hoad to Wellrllle In pkgs Theres a reason EreEread the above IctterT A Belt one appears from time to time They are ecaalnc tree and falL of Itobuus Interest DPfOWSY GOD A SHREWD FOE Male Churchgoers Find It Hard to Resist His Power Though Women Seem Immune Why is It that men will go to sleep In church the Washington Post in quires What profound meanings lie at the bottom of this inclination to somnolence on the part of the brother dearly beloved when under the minis trations of the bishop of his soul No one ever heard of a woman sleep lug during a sermon She is as bright and as alert at the conclusion ef the sermon as she was when the text was read But man poor man he like the sluggard slumbers and sleeps pis record is bad from the beginning Acts XX contains the Inevorable rec ord of the first offender of one Eutychus who while Taul preached sank into sleep and fell from the third window Let a word be said in defense of the Order of Eutychus And in thus coming to their support there is no wish to cast reflection upon the wide awake and breezy sermonizer To begin with man is inferior to his mate in the highest sensibilities of the soul Calloused in his nature the assembled array of dresses and bon nets is wholly without appeal to his sordid instincts What does he know about the cut bias or the latest effect in ruchings Or whether the Jones girls have turned the black bomba zine they have worn for two seasons already Or how much Deacon put into the contribution box None of these inspirations comes to his relief Instead he begins with good inten tions lining out the text and setting himself resolutely to unimpeachable behavior But to no avail The soft swish of the skirt of the late arrival the hynotic spell of the music the murmur of repeated responses the chanting intonations the rising and falling inflections of the speaker are too much The imp of insomnia flees the eyelids fall and close the drowsy god usurps the throne of his righteous purpose and he is disgraced again as the audible snore resounds against the chancel and reverberates from the ceiling He awakes with a start and tries to look solemn and duly im pressed but it is too late The Infinite The soul is infinite and it cannot rest until it rests in the infinite But lust and hunger are not infinite and neither are the titillations of pleasure and praise And the agency or hope of unescapable death of involuntary dying these one can measure But there Is something in death and the master of death that you cannot meas ure There is no infinity in just dy ing but to see a man that is willing to die for love that goes to meet death in the way and with perfect sweetness and sanity celebrates defeat that is to be Infinite It is like an arrow passing swiftly up into the air and not return ing like the still energy of plants or the resistless growing of grass or like the haunting thrilling murmur of re membered music that faded down the avenue as the soldiers went to war You are left endlessly expectant you cannot come to an end but must fol low that which is beyond and still be yond Charles Ferguson Hubbys Happy Hunting He sat down with a bounce rose with a bound Yow yow he shouted rWhere ever did you find it He Im stabbed Good gracious Cyril what a noise you do make exclaimed his wife Whats the matter Matter yelled Cyril in anguish Im in pain in agony Send for the doctor Mabel I can feel the blood runing down my leg Now keep calm Cyril he went on capering madly around the room Keep calm my Iboy On the banks of Allan Water Mabel dont stand there staring Do something She did She made a sudden dart forward wheeled him round with a little squawk- of joy and extracted a 1nrrr Tmfrifn TivTri life Qnotnmv Heroic Prescription Ruth Mason of Holyrood road jujt cast five is not only an attendant up on Sunday school but a Bible reader Also she loves to play doctor At tired in her fathers coat and topper a pair of glasses on her nose and a imake belleve cigar in her mouth she pretended to make a professional call jon her mother who Is indisposed for the moment After feeling her moth ers pulse looking at her tongue and considering for a minute she gave her orders A white pill every hour a brown pill every other hour But- doctor her mother complain ed Ive a severe pain in my eye Pluck it out prescribed Dr Ruth and cast it from thee Cleveland leader Its Kind Dont you think it was mean for the druggist to put the perfume I or dered in such a little bottle Yes twas a vial proceeding A Taste Missionary And do you know noth ing whatever of religion Cannibal Well we got a taste of It when the last missionary was here Coming Nw my dear what Is the next thing in housekeeping on the carpet you on your knees dearest taking it up - dLh J t X USING RIBBON ENDS DAINTY TRIMMING MAY EASILY BE DONE AT HOME Really No Task at All to Turn Out Most Effective Ornamentation for All Kinds of Pretty Bou doir Baskets Dainty in color and workmanship are the little baskets that depend on their trimming of ribbon flowers for the delicate effects for which you must pay a pretty price if you cannot make them But you can So buy- your ribbon In pale pink old rose moss green and the soft yellows Purchase little baskets of fire reed or sweet grass and then follow directions For the preliminary step in rose making take a piece of narrow ribbon and fold It in the center as you need it Over your finger roll the end and sew at the lower edge Keep up this rolling process until the flower Ib the size that you wish When making leaves gather the ribbon at one end so that the pointed effect can be easily obtained The narrow green ribbon twisted forms an effective stem After making a number of roses of different sizes and a supply of leaves apply them by strong thread to the basket to be decorated The little French basket shows a line of rose buds around the base and a cluster of flowers and leaves at one side The high handle is wrapped with green ribbon tied in a bow at -the side On a little sewing basket with the silk top roses are used in another way CUT OF THE NEW CLOTHES n one plece wlthtne Why Cyril its my hatpin she cuttnf shoulder longer reigns cried delightfully Oh I am glad Really Few Fundamental Changes Will Be Noted in Styles for the Coming Season Beyond the all important advent of the trouser skirt no fundamental changes and few even of a second ary order have been made in styles Skirts are no wider and some of the modes are narrower than ever Pos sibilities however are held out of their being rendered less inconvenient and dangerous by a plait or two hid den beneath an overlapping breadth and other similar devices Coats are almost invariably short but they con tinue to set close to the hips while not made to tighten in at the waist Empire styles of waist prevail the skirts coming up high and both tumes and dresses always belted in about the natural waist often right under the bust Many of the smart dresses have trains but such an addi tion is not considered obligatory by any means and dresses without them are reckoned quite as smart Trains are always narrow a large percent age do not exceed in importance a prolonged panel Slight modifications have been made in sleeves The no supreme Half long and three quarter long sleeves are cut Blightly wider and all sorts very straight Boleros have have been revived but as part of the costume or dress bodice not as sepa rate garments Wide collars are retain ed but revers enjoy less favor and are either omitted or rudimentary Unf rayed Scallops Some housekeepers object to the buttonholed scallop on embroidery be cause it frays in washing This can be overcome in several ways The sur est Id to buttonhole a second time over the purled edge when the scallop has been worked and cut out Another method is to run the out line of the scallop with machine stitch ing before buttonholing or in cut ting leave a narrow margin and turn ack under the scallop and hem to the material If these are too much trouble at least wash the linen before cutting out The material shrinks and is much less likely to fray Where the entire piece is not washed the em broidered edge can be dipped in luke warm water for a few minutes then iron dry and later cut out close to the purled edge Straw Flowers Flowers of colored straw are popu lar as trimming Blacle and red flow ers have yellow centers and there are various striking color combinations They represent y edelweiss dahlias roses and popples in natural tints and shapes tsU j TB A serpentine line of tiny ribbon ends made of baby ribbon decorates the straw case A straight line of flowers twines over the strap handle Green silk is used for the shirred top al though any serviceable figured silk will be just as attractive The fittings of this basket are in pink the same shade as the flowers on the outside Roses are used on the cover of an oblong shape They also appear in groups of three at each side Dark green ribbon is strung through the straw and decorates the handle A rose with green leaves is attached to the top of the handle This shape is always procurable and can be changed completely in effect by the addition of ribbon flowers A rose in a circle of leaves is used on a round flat basket Small buds of ribbon are attached to green stems and hang from the handle The bas ket Is lined with green silk stitched in pink or yellow to repeat the color oi the flowers On another little suggestion there la a Vandyke effect of ribbon Both up per and lower rims are wound with ribbon Large roses are surrounded by ribbon leaves They are placed at the lower ribbon points on the basket Perhaps the exquisite wofk of the empire days in France is convincing proof of the charm of ribbon trimmed baskets and bags They are beautiful examples of handiwork and in the re turn of this style of decoration all women can rejoice for it can be done at home DRESSY LITTLE WAIST This dressy waist is of white silk voile trimmed with narrow bands of embroidery and a wide band of black velvet forming a corslet Over all are wide bretelles of em broidered linen with applique rosettes of Irish lace The guimpe and under sleeves are of fine white lace Stylish Chains Long chains of ornate style are high In favor with the spring tailor made Nearly all the smart models have a breast pocket into which to tuck the end of the chain and to it may be attached the watch change purse or small vanity case of the sort that only lately reached this side of the water After all it matters little whether or not anything Is attached to the end of the decorative lorgnette chain as its apparent purpose Is hid den in the pocket There Is no end to different varieties expressed In the combinations of these little affairs Many have several different semi precious stones mounted in odd shapes while others are more conservative in pearl decoration Two Season Frock Fine serge may be used for the un derskirt of a foulard to make a very serviceable dress For Instance a black foulard with a floral design of red is hung over an underskirt of red stitched black serge the girdle and tunic hem being black satin and the yoke tucked red chiffon v This Is a frock that could be worn equally well early in the spring and In the 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always only other people can see the feathers on my hats Judge Laundry work at home would ha much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used In order to get the desired stiffness it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness which not only destroys the appearance but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch as it can be applied much more thinly tiecause of its great er strength than other makes He Knew Backer You got trimmed bad I thought you said you were confident of the result Pugilist I was I knew Id get licked Puck Mrs WlnslowB Soothing Syrnp for Children teething softens the rums reduces inflamma tion allays pain cures -wind colic 25c a bottle The biggest work in the world is be ing done in the little red schoolhouse Garfield Tea overcomes constipation The way of the transgressor is hard but smooth Cleanses the System 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