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BEATRICE FRANCIS
Elizabeth Butler is not only one
of the most beautiful girls in
Great Britain but in the matter of an
cestors she can make pretty nearly any
boast she likes and back it up -with the
records in Burkes peerage Lady Beat
rice is just passing out of her teens
She was born on March 2G 1S7 Her
father is Marquis of Ormonde Earl of
Ormonde and Ossory and Viscount
Thurles of Thurles in the County Tip
perary Her mother was Lady Eliza
beth Harriet Grovesnor eldest daugh
ter of the Duke of Westminster The
house of Butler of Ormonde is one of
the noblest in Ireland and the oldest in
Irish history The Butlers and Ger
aldines rivals in power and equals in
LADY BEATEIOE BUTLER
renown have been at the head of the
fine nobility of Iceland ever since the
Anglo Norman invasion The first of
the family to arrive on Irish soil and
set up a castle was old Theobald Fitz
Walter in the reign of Henry II He
was chief butler of Ireland whence the
surname His father was Hervey Wal
ter who married in 1156 That seems
to have been the foundation of the
house and the descent has been pretty
clear since then Little Lady Beatrice
may therefore be truly said to be the
daughter of a hundred earls but she is
one that may be admired She has a
Bcsults of Open Air Life
Women will have to organize a new
crusade against wrinkles and the leath
erlike growing old sort of look of the
skin if they persist in following up all
the open air pursuits which belong to
mans kingdom Fresh air in all kinds
of weather may be conducive to health
but it is very trying to -delicate skins
Women who row and ride bicycles
should substitute oatmeal or boiled
bread and milk for soap The dry skin
is especially sensitive to the effects of
sun and air and needs all the precau
tions it is possible to find to keep it
smooth and white Potatoes boiled in
milk are said to be very effective in
whitening and softening the skin and
almond meal should be on every toilet
table
Get Their Shoes Blackened
The spectacle of a woman availing
herself rf the services of a bootblack on
the streets has become so common as to
attract no more attention than that of a
woman reading a daily newspaper in
a street car or L train says the Chi
cago Chronicle Itwas not so lgng -ago
that a woman with a newspaper was
considered to be doing something very
mannish and she was stared at in
consequence Women have dared to
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WOMEN HAVE BECOME PATBONS
brave public inspection by sitting in the
chair of the street corner bootblack and
reading a paper while the industrious
bootblack gives them a patent leather
or a russet polish Women require
the cleaning of their shoes as often and
with as much reason as men do theirs
and the ladles bootblacking parlors
that have been opened in the shopping
districts have proved decided successes
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It is nest to impossible to polish a rus
set shoe unless the foot is in it as the
friction of the cloths must be violent
It was because of this that the young
women mustered up courage to put
their dainty feet upon the box
The Demands of Society
Society demands that you should
look well Not that you should be a
beauty but that you should on oc
casion put on your best bib and tucker
and help up the picture that all in all
constitutes society You speak of the
social world as selfish so it is for it
demands from all its votaries absolute
unselfishness You must learn to have
no ill feeling toward anybody If a
chatterbox tells you that Madame I
Malice has made you tlie subject of heri
ridicule you must make yourself smile
go forward and meet Madame Malice
with a pleasant word a courteous bow
and you must entirely forget that she
has ever said anything but that which
was pleasant Society ceases to be
good when malicious sayings are
nized Ruth Ashmore in Ladies
Home Journal
Mrs Bryan an Expert Swimmer
Mrs William Jennings Bryan wife
of the Democratic presidential candi
date is up to date in many ways For
one thing she is a firm believer in the
wheel although as yet she is not an ex
pert rider Being comparatively a
novice she has not yet reached the
stage of wearing a short skirt but free
ly acknowledges the advantages of such
a garment to the fast riding bicyclienne
She is also a splendid swimmer and
rather prides herself on her natatorial
ability She is also proud of her mem
bership in the Sorosis of Lincoln Neb
It does not belong to the federation nf
clubs but is in the Nebraska State Fed
eration The Lincoln Sorosis has a
membership of twenty five to which
number it is strictly limited Three or
four names are always on the waiting
list No one is admitted who has not
some claim to membership through in
terest in current events or some special
excellence in other directions Mrs
Bryan lays no great stress on her ad
mission to the bar She regards is as
an ordinary matter in view of the large
number of women now practicing law
There is no dress reform in her creed
only an idea that sensible attention to
the first laws of -health should be con
sidered also that dress should be dis
tinctly feminine not extravagant but
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very pretty little sister Constance
Mary who is just 1G
as becoming as possible and suitable
to the occasion She wears evening
dress when the event requires it but
not decollete gowns Evidently super
stition doesnt count with her for on the
finger with the gold wedding band slip
wears a large opal
Useless
The folly of excessive accumulation
in the way of ornaments
and the thousand and one trifles scat
tered through the modern home is
never more forcibly impressed than
when packing away household goods
and gods previous to the summer ex
odus Each article has some associa
tion that renders it in a degree precious
and yet half of them disfigure rather
than adorn the apartment to which
they belong How much wiser is the
mistress of the Japanese home who
while keeping it exquisitely neat never
cumbers and litters it with cheap or
excessive ornamentation She under
stands the rest to eye and brain in
frequent change of surroundings To
day she hangs up a piece of rare em
broidery and in front of it places a lit
tle table with some one choice vase
holding a few carefully arranged
flower sprays Across the corner a
screen with richly painted or embroid
ered panels is set and everywhere the
eye looks upon some object worthy of
study and admiration and so few are
they as to admit of genuine enjoyment
and appreciation After a few weeks
a complete change is made one set of
art treasures removed and another put
in their place By this method a suc
cession of charming interiors are se
cured far more educating and refining
in influence than the crowded tables
cabinets and mantels found in th
American drawing room
Announcing the Babys Birth
111 sending announcement cards or a
babys birth the babys name is printed
in full on a small card which is inclosed
with the parents card If desired it
may be attached to the larger card by
a bow of very narrow white satin rib
bon or silver cord The date of birth
is added but not the weight of the
baby lior any other particulars of any
sort whatever Ladies Home Journal
A man -reels drowsy after a hearty
dinner because a large part of the
blood in the system goes to the stomach
to aidriri digestion and leaves the braia
poorly supplied
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER
Quaint Sayings and Cute Doings of the
lattle Folks Everywhere Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tle Ones to Bead
Pussy Willow
The brook is brimmed with melted snow
The maple sap is running
And on the highest elm a crow
His big black wings is sunning
A close green bud the May flower lies
Upon its mossy pillow
And sweet and low the South Wind
blows
And through the brown fields calling
goes
Come Pussy Pussy Willow
Within your close brown wrapper stir
Come out and show your silver fur
Come Pussy Pussy Willow
Soon red will hud the maple trees
I The bluebirds will be singing
nd yello Wi lassels in the breeze
Be from the poplars swinging
And rosy will the May flower lie
Upon its mossy pillow
But you must come the first of all
Come Pussy Pussy Willow
A fairy gift to children dear
The downy firstling of the year
Come Pussy Pussy Willow
Pun for His Doer
One day Bobby was eating grapes
and after some boy fashion swallow
ing skins seeds and all
Dont do that Bobby cried his
mother hastily You might get ap
pendicitus
She told the little boy something of
the danger of swallowing seeds and
showed him how to separate the seeds
from the pulp so as to eat only the
best part The lesson made a deep im
pression on Bobby A few days later
he sat in the garden watching his lit
tle dog eating his dinner Presidently
Fldo began on a small bone taking it
into his mouth with great appearance
of delight Bobby jumped up in a
great fright and pulled the bone away
Fido stop stop he exclaimed
Ooll get pendicitis
Ten baby owls roosting on a line
One let go and then there were nine
Nine baby owls swinging on a gate
Ope fell off and then there were eight
Eight baby owls a good time havin
One burst his little self and then there
were seven
Seven baby owls all in amix
One got out of it and then there were six
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One didnt come up and then there were
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door
One got mad and then there were four
Four baby owls up in a tree
Bang went a big gun and then there
were three
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Three baby owls a winkin at you
One winked too hard atid then there were
two
Two baby owls starting for a run
One got left behind and -then there was
one
One baby owl crooning all alone
An old hawk gobbled him up and then
there was none-
Burns Love for His Wife
Burns has been hotly assailed
writes Arthur Warren in presenting
The Other Side of Robert Burns in
the Ladies Home Journal because of
his alleged indifference to his wife
Jean Armour but the fact is he was
ardently fond of her Jean was true to
him and his true affection never
really turned from her Jean worship
ped him literally worshiped him And
when we study her devoted life we
must agree that there must have been
much that was admirable in the char
acter of a man who was adored bj so
true a woman Burns Diograpnera
have paid too scanty attention to all
this There is no use in apologizing for
the detects of Bobbies life- but thpre is
such a thing as insisting too heavily
upon them Too much has
been inade in the thousand stories pt
Burns- life of the Highland Mary epi
sode and too little of what he really
felt for Jean Armour and of Jeans in
tense loyalty to him and devoted care
of him The real facts about Highland
Mary will never be known They com
prise the one episode of Burns life
which is veiled in mystery But one
can study the poets life closely enough
to see that the persecution which in
the early days -Seemed to hopelessly
separate him from love drove him to
Highland Mary for solace and that
Marys sudden death idealized that
Highland lassie in his memory There
was not much more to it and Jean
never troubled herself about it There
has been a sad waste of popular sym
pathy over Highland Mary It is to
loyal Jean our thoughts should turn
Burns love for her and for his children
was very great That is a pleasing
ture of him handed down by one who
aw him sitting in the summer evening
at his door with his little daughter ia
his arms dangling her and singing to
her and trying to elicit her mental fac
ulties The little girl died in the au
tumn of 1795 when her fathers health
was failing
COLOR LINE IN SOUTH AFRICA
It Is as Strongly Drawn There as in
Any Part of America
It rarely if ever happens that a na
tive whatever his rank is received on
any social occasion inside a white
house indsod he woud seldom be per
mitted except as a domestic servant
to enter a private house at all When
Khama the famous chief of the Ba
Mangwato a Christian and a man of
admittedly high character who has
ruled his people with singular wisdom
and ability was in England last au
tumn and was there entertained at
lunch by the Duke of Westminster and
other persons of social eminence the
news excited general annoyance and
disgust among the whites in South
Africa A story was told me of a gar
den party given by the wife of a lead
ing white ecclesiastic the appearance
at which of a native clergyman led
many of the white guests to withdraw
in dudgeon
Once when I was a guest at a mia
sion station in Basutoland I was ask
ed by my host whether I had any ob
jection to his bringing in to the family
meal the native pastor who had been
preaching to the native congregation
When I expressed some surprise that
he should think it necessary to ask
he explained that race feeling was so
strong among the colonists that it would
have been deemed improper and in
deed insulting to make a white guest
sit down at the same table with a black
man unless special permission had first
been given Thus one may say thai
there is no social intercourse whatever
between the races their relations are
purely those of business Now and
then the black man gets ahead of the
white but the latters pride of race re
mains r was told of a Trhitf who con
descended to be hired to work by a
Kafir but stipulated that the Kafir
should address him as Boss
Of intermarriage there is of course
no question It is not forbidden by
law in the two British colonies as it is
in most if not all of the Southern
States of America but it is excessively
rare nor does it appear that there are
now other irregular unions outside
marriage as there constantly were in
the old days while slavery existed In
this respect the case of South Africa
remarkably resembles that of the
Southern States where also there Is
now very little mixture of blood though
there was a great deal fifty years ago
Probably in both cases it is better
that the races should not mingle their
blood for the white race would be
likely to lose more than the black race
would gain Century
Lost Sword Returned
Reno Post No 6 G A R was vis
ited by the National Staff Association
the other night in Armory Hall at East
Greenwich Conn The regular meet
ing was held with closed doors after
which an open meeting was held with
a collation for guests Speeches were
called for by Post Commander Samuel
F Crompeon and Dr C O Ballou re
sponded for the visitors to the post
The final address was delivered by
Junior Yice Commander S W K Al
len Mr Allen touched upon the sub
ject of war relics One had come into
his hands a sword whose scabbard
showed hard knocks It was recently
forwarded to the commander by a relic
collector of Washington D C It was
picked up on the field of Bull Run and
when the rust was removed from the
blade the name of Lieutenant Stephen
P Arnold Second Regiment Rhode
Island Infantry was found inscribed
Colonel Arnold was present but knew
nothing of the recovery of his long lost
sword until it was laid in his hands by
the speaker
Torments Elephants to Death
There exists a small reptile of which
elephants have a very peculiar dread
and against which neither their sagac
ity nor prowess can defend them This
diminutive creature gets into the trunk
of the elephant and pursues its course
until it finally fixes in its head and by
keeping Mm in constant agony at
length torments the stupendous animal
to death
He Got It
Dick Tou know that feller workin
in shaft 17 who was always kickin for
a raise
Mick Yes
Dick Well he kicked over a can of
dynamite to day and got it
A man pursues bad luck of tener than
bad luck pursues a man
THE BATTLE MELDS
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES
The Bine ad the Gray Be view Incidents
of the lAte War and In a Graphic and
Interesting Manner Tell of Camp March
and Battle Thrilllnc Incidents
Matches in War Times
The late war caused the Southern
people to realize the utter helpless
ness of a purely agricultural commu
nity when thrown upon its own re
sources and cut off from communica
tion with the outside world
As the months rolled on it became
more difficult for the inhabitants of
the Confederacy to supply themselves
with many of the necessaries and con
veniences of every day life Matches
for instance were used by millions of
people but it was impossible to run
them through the blockade in sufficient
quantities It soon became evident
that they must be manufactured at
home but -how was it to be done The
machinery was lacking and also the
materials
James McPherson a public spirited
book seller in Atlanta was one of the
first to attempt to solve the problem
At considerable expense he succeeded
In getting some machinery phosphor
us and sulphur through the blockade
and in a short time his match factory
was in operation
The factory was situated a few miles
from the city and the matches were
stored in McPhersons book store and
sold there by wholesale and retail
They were made of poplar and sold in
square blocks the factory not being
provided with a machine that would
separate the matches
Inexperienced workmen found it a
hard matter to turn out matches that
would light At first about the only
way to make them available was to
bring them in contact with the dying
embers in a fireplace but this was
inconvenient and efforts were made
to improve their quality Finally the
composition was changed and the
matches blazed up at the lightest
touch
It was not necessary to strike them
They were self acting and unexpected
ly broke out at odd hours Qf the day
and night The clerks in the book store
had double work in those exciting
days When they were selling books
they had to watch the big boxes con
taining the matches and roll them out
into the street the moment they began
to smoke Once in the street the boxes
would be emptied and the contents left
until they were reduced to ashes
There was not much profit in an ar
ticle containing the elements of self
destruction and a night watchman had
to be employed to remain in the store
and drag out the boxes as soon as they
showed indications of spontaneous
combustion But the factory was an
Atlanta enterprise and the people were
proud of it At least it was a begin
ning It was a sign of promise and
showed that in spite of the blockade
there were enterprising men in the
South who had the pluck and energy
to risk their fortunes and go to work
to build up the industries of the coun
try
It was not long before the discovery
was made that the composition used
for the matches was a first class rat
poison Here was a new source of rev
enue for the manufacturer The stuff
was put up in little tin boxes and ad
vertised as a rat exterminator If Mc
Pherson could not boast of the superior
quality of his matches he could at
least feel proud of his rat poison The
compound sold rapidly for the sup
plies of grain stored in the city by the
Confederates caused the place to swarm
with fierce rodents of the largest size
But there was one difficulty in the
way and an unfortunate incident soon
destroyed the popularity of the poison
and there was a sudden falling off in
the demand for it At that time there
was a hat store nearly opposite the
book store Holbrook the owner had
no end of trouble with rats and one
day in his wrath he determined to
make a clean sweep of them Pur
chasing several boxes of the extermin
ator he laid some big slices of stale
bread on his counter and covered them
with the poison He spread the mix
ture on the bread with a case knife
and rubbed it in vigorously
The merchant was a fine looking
man with a big blonde beard reach
ing nearly to his waist Just as he
was giving about a quarter of a pound
of the stuff one of his most energetic
rubs on a hard slice of bread it sud
denly blazed up like gunpowder The
flames set fire to Holbrooks handsome
whiskers and when his clerks had
thrown a bucket of water over him
the astonished and frightened hatter
would hardly have been recognized by
his best friend Seizing the half con
sumed piece of bread he rushed across
the street to the book store
Wheres McPherson the singed
and blackened visitor shouted
Out at the factory Teplied a clerk
What is the matter Mr Holbrook
Matter enough yelled the v other
See what this infernal rat poison has
done It has almost killed me ruined
my whiskers and it came near burn
ing down my store Tell McPherson
that I want to see him right away
I would rather fight a million rats than
fool with this blasted old poison
And the angry man darted back to
his store without giving any further
details of his misadventure A visit
to his barber however made him more
presentable and he was soon in a bet
ter humor
Ill be dashed If I know what to
do said McPherson We must have
rat poison you know and matches
People should be more carefuL If
j they will stand around and have plen
1 ty of water handy when they use my
1 goods they will get along all right
A newspaper man suggested that It
would bS a good idea to store a lot
of the matches In some place where
they would be captured by the Feder
als
They might blaze up some nightj
and destroy their supplies he said
or they might be shipped to some of
the Northern cities
No replied a Confederate officer
with a sly glance at the bystander
that would be barbarous We must
all bear our crosses and we must put
up with our home made matches and
rat poison until we can do better
Then everybody laughed and the
clerks proceeded to drag into the streer
a large box from which a white smoke
was just beginning to issue
Shermans cavalry destroyed the fac
tory just before the siege of Atlanta
and thus perished a great Confederate
industry Wallace Putnam Reed in
Chicago Times Herald
Iiived on Crackers and Water
The first conspicuous victim of the
civil war Colonel Ellsworth of the
New York Fire Zouaves was killed atJ
Alexandria May 24 18G1 Having- oc
cupied the town without resistance
and seeing a Confederate flag floating
from the summit of the Marshall
House he ran into the hotel went up
stairs to the roof and tore down the
flag On his way down he was met by
the hotel keeper and shot dead His
assassin perished at the same moment
killed with a bayonet thrust by Frank
E Brownell Ellsworths friend John
Hay gives in McClures Magazine such
personal reminiscences of the young
hero he was but twenty four as may
show his simple kindly heart and the
struggles he went through to gain a le
gal education
Poverty drove the boy early out
into the world to make a living He
drifted to Chicago where he entered
a law office and lived on a pittance
earned by copying papers His food
and drink for mouths were dry biscuits
and water his bed was the hard floor
of the office He would not accept
even an apple from any one because
he could not return the courtesy
Going on an errand into an eating
house he met a friend and several
companions who insisted on his hav
ing an oyster stew He refused his
friend pressed the waiter brought on
the oysters for the party and Ells
worth sat down The stew was the
first morsel of food he had tasted for
three days and three nights Subse
quently ho had money he went to his
friend and told him that he Ells
worth owed him half a dollar The
man said no but Ellsworth insisted
that his memory was better than his
friends and made him take the money1
the price of the oysters
In a diary which Ellsworth kept for
a little while are such entries as these
Have written four hours this even
ing two pounds of crackers sleep on
office floor to night Read one hun
dred and fifty pages of Blackstone V
slept on floor I have contracted a
cold by sleeping on the floor Then
there is the gnawing sensation which
prevents my long continued applica
tion I spent my last ten cents for1
crackers to day Nothing whatever
to eat I am very tired and hungry
to night Onward
At the first gun that fired on Sum
terEllsworth raised with incredible
celerity the New York Zouaves a regi
ment eleven hundred strong and
brought it to Washington His friends
knowing his military talents thought
that his first battle would make him
a brigadier general and that the sec
ond would give him a division Presi
dent Lincoln thought so highly of him
that he called him to Washington to
place him in charge of a bureau of mi
litia But Man proposes God dis
poses
Grants Gratitnde
General Grants kindness of heart
and deep sense of obligation are seen
in a pleasing light in a story told by
the St Louis Republic While the
General was President he visited St
Louis and Mr Garrison President of a
railroad took him out for a drive On
the way they met a shabby old man
in his shirt sleeves
Grant recognized the man and stop
ped the buggy He got out extended
his hand and said
Hello Uncle Ben How are you and
your wife getting along
The old man greeted the President
and said that they were getting along
very well they were happy if they 4
had enough to eat and if he could
get a little tobacco for his pipe
Uncle Ben wouldnt you like to be
postmaster of Meramec township
asked the President
Uncle Ben said he would not object
and Grant shook him by the hand and
said God bless you and your wife
Uncle Ben I think of you often
When Grant got back in the buggy
he was much moved and said to Mr
Garrison Poor old Uncle Ben He
has a big heart I remember when 1
and my wife living in that house over
tljere did not have any more to eat
than we needed and Uncle Ben would
come around to the Bouse at night and
leave a basket of provisions on the
doorstep He was afraid to come and
give them to us thinking that he might
possibly hurt our feelings God bless
his memory
The President did not forget his
promise Uncle Ben was soqn made
postmaster The payment of personal
debts by means of public office IsVnot
to be defended but the public con
science was not then aroused as- It is
now
Cold Harbor
Senator Reagan of Texas who was
present at the battle of Cold Harbor
says that if Grant had succeeded in
breaking Lees lines the Confederate
commander had not a regiment of rfrr
serves to put into the fight Grant in-
curred heavy losses at Cold Harbor bub
it seems that he tried to end the war
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