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novation and will be appreciated as the
mercury ascends in the bulb
Newest Collars
The newest collars have a white
standard surmounted by an exceed
ingly full knife plaited frill which is
also box plaited as well of colored
organdies in the richest patterns and
most delicate shades of the popular i
colors heliotrope red green and blue
the hem of the ruffle being edged
with Valenciennes lace The cuffs are
trimmed in a similar style to match
These are worn with cloth suits and
can be laundered successfully taking
the place of the chiffon ruche of the
same general effect
A Beautiful Woman
Popular opinion and expert judgment
unite in pronouncing the Princess of
Naples the most beautiful of the many
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f fc handsome women who represented the
different courts of Europe at the
Queens jubilee
Women in Kentucky Politics
The fact that ten public school super
intendents in Kentucky are women
2and that there are forty women
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CODE FOR A WIFE
y ADY Burton has been
ing a codo of rules to
em a wife The husband
should find In his wife in her
opinion and she is a woman of ex
perience and observation a compan
ion friend confidante and so much of
everything pleasing that he will have
nothing to seek out of his home The
wife must be a careful nurse when he
is sick and at all times make the home
superlatively attractive to liim letting
him smoke everywhere and have at
home the society that suits him at all
times and the wife should study to
keep an fait as to his pursuits and be
prepa red to go with him at an hours
notice and rough it like a man The
wife moreover must let him see her
affection for him and never refuse him
anything he asks and withal keep up
the honeymoon romance and dress to
please his taste always The wife
should be always pushing his interests
wherever she is If the husband is
only interested in planting turnips the
wife must learn to plant turnips She
must never tell a female friend about
her domestic affairs and must shade
her husbands faults from everyone
She must never allow anyone to speak
disrespectfully of him before her and
never hurt his feelings even by a jest
She must never ask him not to visit
other women and she must trust him
and must not bother him with religious
talk but set him a good religious ex
ample The wife should however
try to say a little prayer with him
every night before going to sleep
Perhaps Lady Burton has lived upon
the precepts she has laid lown for oth
ers If she has her husband is a man
greatly to be despised for no man of
spirit no man capable of winning and
retaining the respect or love of a wom
an whose respect and love are worth
having would exact such tilings from
the woman he calls wife There is not
a suspicion of irony in Lady Burtons
words She will have little success in
converting American women to her
way of thinking anl all manly men
will rejoice in the fact
dates running for similar offices in that
State indicates that Kentucky women
have gained greater ground in politics
than in any other of the Southern
States and that as to progress and ad
vancement in that line they rank with
their most progressive sisters in the
North and West In Kentucky they
seem to aspire to the higher education
al offices and as ten school superin
tendents are already giving satisfac
tion in their offices and forty more as
piring it will not be long before a ques
tion may arise in the blue grass regions
as to whether men are really eligible
to the office of school superintendents
Gown for a Girl
The beauty and reform dress lectur
ers all claim that the highest point in
dressing will come when Ave discard the
scissors and use the material as dra
pery In a childs frock this is not yet
reached where beauty is wanted but
from a point of usefulness a very nice
little dress is made without cutting the
DKESS IX GSE PIECE
goods into more than one piece for the
gown and one for each of the sleeves
The body of this little dress is cut all in
one section a piece of gingham five
yards long will make it provided the
little maid is not taller than the width
of the goods Sew together so that you
have the opening in the back and
or the neck upon a broad band of cam
bric to match the principal color in the
gingham Garher again around the
waist The sleeves are straight pieces
of the goods shirred at the armhole and
again at the elbow
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A bathtub that serves the purpose of
amusing the baby as well as being a
necessary part of the outfit of a well
ordered home is made of rubber To
give it shape you blow it up with a hi--cycle
pump through a tiny valve It
stands on the floor and holds water
equal to the strongest wooden tub This
tub can stand upon its side or be fold
ed up Its great advantage is that
after baby has had its bath the water
can be emptied out the valve unscrew
ed and the air released from the pneu
matic interior The tube can then be
rolled or folded up and put upon the
shelf until next bathing time The rub
ber tub is considerably lighter than a
wooden one and can be taken away
for the summer when baby goes to the
country If need be it can be used for
a family foot tub in summer districts
where personal comforts are scarce A
mother who is watchful of babys com
fort makes the little ones bed at night
in its soft depths when visiting in re
gions where babys bed cannot be car
ried
Facts About SleSvcs
A sheath sleeve with one two and
three ruffles at the top is the best one
for wash gowns as they launder so
easily
The latest mousquetaire sleeve has
the heading or tuck at the back of the
arm or on top of it graduated begin
ning at a quarter of an inch at the
hand and ending two inches and a half
wide at the top
Sleeves with tucked uppers ai much
affected for fancy thin gowns and the
sleeves are considered handsomer when
the tucks are graduated These gradu
ated tucks have created a furore They
are used for everything
Wing drapery on sleeves is very much
in vogue The top is fulled and the
fullness is drawn tight and tacked
down across the middle then allowed
to stand out in a wide frill from the
back of the arm like a wing as its
name denotes
A swagger shape for the bottom of a
sleeve is to have it flare out in bell
shape and come well down over th
hand but this necessitates some stiff
interlining so that it will stand out It
is usually lined with silk or thv trim
ming material This style is especially
adapted to cloth gowns
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A TONGUE OF FLAME
Peace pcact smiled the rose in her
garden
And peace sang the bird on his tree
But a bale smoke shadowed the valleys
Where the rivers run to the sea
And the smell of battle was on the winds
Of the summer of Sixty three
In the lap of its mother mountain
Virginia City lay
And wet iu a rolling rain cloud
Of glimmering gold-and-gray
Behind the Sierras slowly sank
The sun of Liberty- Day
The mammoth flag on the summit
In the ti emulous rainbow -glow
fluttered far like a scarlet ribbon
To the eyes that watched below
But flashed in the sky of a nation
The glory of long ago
Then a frown on the cheek of the twilight
Where the smile of the west was warm
And climbing in dusky billows
Mount Davidsons awful form
A wonder of darkness swept the height
Like the rush of a silent storm
Thro the murk of the muffled city
With its mystery untold
While the people dizzily gazing
Stood dumb in the streets behold
In the blackening west oer the moun
tains crest
A twinkle of fiery gold
Every ey caught the heaven hung vision
Every heart felt its wizard spell
It flared like a spirit candle
It streamed like a star that fell
It waved command like a signal hand
It swung like a voiceless bell
Did they hear it White faces listened
Wild thoughts guessed its meaning di
vine
There is news of the war from the east
ward
The palm tree has bowed to the pine
And the Lord of Hosts is uplifting
His torch n the hills for a sign
fwss a dream but not all On the
shadow
The light that quivered and curled
Was the flag by patriot fingers
That birthday morning unfurled
And it blazed in the unseen sunset
Like a beam from another world
Alone in its daylight of glory
Above where the run
But the glad city read on the morrow
Its token of deeds that were done
And the steeples sang Vicksburg is
taken
And Gettysburgs field is won
Theron Brown in Youths Companion
MANS MISSION
It was generally acknowledged by
those who knew them that Jack New
lyn and his pretty wife had solved the
much discussed problem of how to be
happy though married True they had
only been united six months and per
haps it was a little premature to speak
definitely on the subject but to all ap
pearances it did not seem possible that
the sunshine of their lives could ever
be darkened by a cloud Their affec
tion for each other disgusted the cynic
al and delighted the romantic
It was as ardent and enduring now
as it had been the day they were made
man and wife and their intimate
friends were wont to declare that exist
ence for them was one long continual
honeymoon
Old philosophers however shook
their heads and sad it was not to be
expected that such a state of unalloy
ed bliss could continue forever and
these philosophers were right Oue
da j a hawk swooped down on the New
lyn dovecote and put an end to the bill
ing and cooing
It was in this way Tack Newlyn
who was a barrister of some repute
left his home in St Johns Wood one
fine morning leaving his little wife in
her usual state of happiness returning
a few minutes after 5 to find her al
most as solemn as the great judge in
whose presence he had been propound
ing the intricacies of an entangled will
suit all the afternoon
Anything wrong dearest he in
quired as they sat down to dinner
Mrs Newly n gave a start
O no she murmured only only
I have had a visit from Miss Blake this
afternoon
Whos Miss Blake the embryo
Q C asked carelessly
O you must have heard of her
Jack shes the President of the Mod
ern Womans Pioneer Rescue League
Mr Newlyn gasped
And and what did she want a sub
scription
X o Ill tell you I dont think I
ever mentioned it but before I met you
I was a Pioneer Now one of the
rules of the society orders that when a
member becomes engaged or married
she forfeits her place in fact she is
compelled to resign
Mr Newlyn muttered something
about a good job
Well it seems his wife went on
that quite a lot of the members have
left lately owing to this cause Theres
Lucy Johnson shes engaged to Mr
Stone and last week Kate Brown was
married and now there are several
more on the point of leaving
Quite an epidemic the barrister
remarked irreverently
So his wife continued with a
slight frown Miss Blake fears that
soon she will be the only one who has
remained true to the ship
Why doesnt she get spliced Jack
asked and then the ship avouUI sink
She has no desire to get spliced as
you call it She is a woman of firm
principles and she has devoted her life
to doing good But to return to what I
was saying As the society had suffer
ed such losses she has decided to strike
out the rule which declares engaged
girls and married women ineligible
and she is now going round to all the
old members asking them to rejoin
The young husbands face bore a
Aook of the liveliest consternation
And his wife resumed J have
iVnttwniseci to do so
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ed to direst dismay
But but what does she want you
to do he asked And what arc the
Pioneers
They are a little band of women
who are engaged in the noble work of
rescuing their unhappy fellow-creatures
from sin and wickedness
But what are they required to do
Not not to dive into filthy dens in the
East End visiting housebreakers
N o not exactly that We hold
meetings for cabdrivers sandwich
men and matchboys Social evenings
they are with light refreshment such
as coffee and buns
Mr Newlyn
murmured blankly
Yes and a little music and we take
them aside and talk seriously to them
and try to bring them to a better frame
of mind It is a noble work Jack
Miss Blake says it is wicked for us to
lead a life of luxury and ease when
there are thousands going to perdition
She sa3rs it is womans mission to re
form man
Quite so he young barrister re
sponded readily and you are fulfilling
that mission admirably
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Yes you are reforming me
O 3tou dont need reforming dear
And cabdrivers and sandwichmen
do
Yes indeed
But my dear evening is the only
time that I have 3 011 to ni3self
I know and she sighed It is
awkward but quite unavoidable
And I am to mope at home by my
self while 3 0U are talking serious to
cabmen and matchboys
Now darling you mustnt bo self
ish
Selfish
Yes 3011 must learn to give up
something for your unfortunate fellow
men
Well what with subscribing to or
phanages and homes for destitute chil
dren I give up close on a hundred a
3ear as it is
Yes but that is no proper sacrifice
his little wife said quickly You are
rich and a hundred pounds doesnt
mean any real giving up on jour part
You dont deprive yourself of any
pleasure 3011 know Mr Newlyn
knitted his brow His wifes logic was
unanswerable
And if 3ou spared me for three or
four evenings a week you would be
doing so and 3011 would know that
your dear little wife was perhaps per
suading some poor sinner to lead a bet
ter life
And what am I to do with myself
while you are persuading
Well 3011 can read and smoke or go
and see your old bachelor friends occa
sionally
And so those delightful evenings
when 3ou used to play and sing to me
are at an end
Im afraid so They were selfish
evenings I see it now We thought of
no ones happiness but our own Hence
forth Jack dear we live for others
Now I must go and dress Miss Blake
calls for me at 8 There is a meeting
of sandwichmen at half past
It was half past 10 when Mrs New
1311 came home She found her husband
sitting over his cigar aud a novel
Well how did the meeting go off
he asked
Splendidly splendidly his wife ex
claimed her charming face aglow with
enthusiasm 0 Jack when I see
what a great deal of noble work I can
accomplish I am filled with J03 Miss
Blake says I shall be of immense use
But tell me what have 3011 been doing
with yourself while I have been away
I O I dropped in on Barnes one of
my old cronies 3ou know and very
thankful I am I did so
Very thankful Why
Because curiously enough I found
him deep in a scheme of rescue work
of a most novel and original kind and
he invited me to join the movement
and I have done so Our lives now Eth
el shall be devoted to this work
0 Jack I am so glad You will be
able to do such a lot of good
Well I hope so I hope so
Now tell me all about it dear I am
most anxious to learn in what way Mr
Barnes scheme differs from ours What
class of people are 3011 goiug to reform
the scavengers the dockers
O no those we leave to 3011 ladies
Barnes says that the influence of wom
an upon man applies to this sort of
work just as it does in other wajs and
that the influence of man upon woman
is the same
Mrs Newl3n looked slightly puzzled
The influence of man upon
woman she repeated
Just so
But I dont understand
Why its this way Our work will be
among women Barmaids
Barmaids And her face turned
pale
Ballet girls and nurses We shall
hold meetings social meetings with
light refreshment such as coffee and
buns and we shall take them aside and
talk seriously to them
Mrs Newlyn gave a gasp
Barnes says it is mans mission
Mans mission O how dare 3011
talk to me of such a thing
Eh what
Dont say a word not a word Do
yi want to insult me 0 I wonder
how you cau come to me with such an
infamous proposal You must be mad
to think I should ever consent to it
But I consented to you
That is very different
I fail to see it You are taking cab
men aside and talking seriously to
them I am taking ballet girls
You shant I wont stand it O
do you want to break my heart
Now darling you mustnt be selfish
You must learn to give up something
We must live for others
You sha shant 1 live for barmaids
or ballet girls the horrid things Mrs
Newlyn sobbed from behind her hand-
pjerchief
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But you are living for sandwichmen
and matchbo3s
Mrs Newlyn bit her lip
Jack she murmured after a pause
My dear
Pro promise me yon wont
I cant I gave my word to Barnes
His wife twisted her lace fringed
handkerchief in desperation
I Ill give up the sandwichmen if
you will she murmured at length
And the matchboys and cabdrivers V
Ye es
Then on that condition
O 3ou dear fellow
And we shall go back to the old
life
Yes O yes
Thats right And he bent his head
and kissed her
Newlyn said his friend Barnes as
the sat at lunch the following day
youre a genius The idea was splen
did only Im afraid youve ruined my
character with your wife
O Ill make it all right the young
barrister rejoined Ill tell her 3ouve
given up the scheme And then they
looked at each other and laughed bois
terously as if at some hidden joke St
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SALADS AS A DAILY DIET
Most Wholesome Food and Should
Be Katen Every Day
The beauty and wholesomeness or
the salad should commend it to every
American housekeeper writes Mrs
S T Borer in her cooking lesson on
The Making of Salads in the La
dies Home Journal I do not refer to
those highly seasoned combinations of
hard boiled eggs and mustard but to
dainty dinner or luncheon salads made
with a dressing of olive oil a few drops
of lemon juice and a light seasoning of
salt garlic and pepper
The salts necessar for the well-being
of our blood are bountifully given
in these green vegetables then too it
is a pleasant of taking fatty food
All machinery must be well oiled to
prevent friction and the wonderf ul hu
man engine is not an exception to the
rule Look carefully to it that you take
sufficient fatty food
The Americans do not use enough
oil to keep them in perfect health
While butter is served in some families
three times a da and is better than
no fat its composition is rather against
it as compared to a sweet vegetable
oil Fats well digested are the salva
tion of consumptives or those suffering
from any form of tuberculosis For
these reasons a simple salad composed
of an green vegetable and a French
dressing should be seen on every well
regulated table 3G5 times a year Those
who live out of town can obtain from
the fields sorrel long docks dandelions
and lambs quarters for the cost of
picking Where desserts are not used
and I wish for healths sake they
might be abolished a salad with a bit
of cheese and bread or water or
cracker with a small cup of coffee
ma3 close the meal Where a dessert
is nsed the salad cheese and water
are served just before it to prick up
the appetite that it may enjoy more
fully the sweet At a large dinner the
salad is usually served with the game
course
Found Health and Wealth
As showing the possibilities of in
telligent farming in California the fol
lowing from the Santa Cruz Sentinel
is interesting The piece of ground
six acres is a little larger than two
San Francisco city blocks When E
N Stocking came to California he was
in search of health and a living but
discouragement stared him and his
family in the face To find employ
ment seemed impossible so he bought
on the Branciforte Creek six acres of
land He put the land out in vegeta
bles berries and tree fruit and a
chicken yard With the combination
of thrift industry and economy those
barren six acres of a few ears ago
now fairly bud blossom and ripen
Last year three hundred and sixty five
dollars were harvested from a patch of
strawberries of one quarter of an acre
and two rods Just think of it ye men
who let the pennies slip away and who
cry hard times In the winter he con
fines himself to raising chickens Ev
ery inch of ground is utilized and a
happ contented family is the re
suit
Fire Engine Signals
The exp crimen till use of signals by
the Berlin fire department for its ap
paratus while on the way to a fire has
been found to work so well that the
system has now been definitely accept
ed It consists in the use of an appara
tus looking much like a small sema
phore now in use on the railroads
The appliance is rigged up on the
drivers seat and is visible for quite a
distance When the vehicle is to go
Straight out the arm of the semaphore
is placed straight up it to go to the
r4ght or left into another street the
arm of the semaphore is inclined in
that direction As the signals are al
ways set for the next corner drivers
of other vehicles know at once what
they have to do in order to get out of
the road of the fire engine or other
apparatus Philadelphia Record
Meant What He Paid
I propose to wipe out the saloon
The determined manner of the speak
er showed him to be intensely in ear
nest and his listeners realized the full
import of his words when he savagely
reached for his pail and mop and start
ed into do it New York World
Amontr the Animals
I fear said the elephant that the
alligator is a little of a blackmailer
Really asked the giraffe
He only seems willing to keep his
mouth shut when theres something in
it Washington Star
Bluing Unnecessary
A French chemist has invented a blue
soap which renders unnecessary the
use of bluing in laundry work
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SIX MONTHS FOR AN ALIBI
A Sample of Justice as It Was Once
Administered in the West
Dont question anything you hear
about the administration of justice JH
the early days of the West advised
the man who had dug and prospected
over a large part of it in search of a
fortune Ive seen men out there act
ing as magistrates that could neither
read write nor talk with an approach
to correctness in any language
I recall one instance up near the
head of Bitter creek While a miner
was down at the saloon one night en
joying himself after the manner of
such men some one stole into his tent
and dug up the bags of dust he had
buried there Upon discovery of the
theft there was a great hue and cry
raised a sheriffs posse was called in
and a young fellow from the East lit
tle better than a tenderfoot was ar
rested for the crime He didnt look
guilty or act guilty and there was a
good deal of sympathy for him among
the boys Otherwise the regular for
mula of justice might not have been
observed
When the trial came on the young
man had a lawyer that he had sent for
and who made it interesting for the
prosecution who relied largely upon
lung power and sledge hammer blows
Inside of two hours it was proved by
evidence that could not be questioned
that the accused had spent the entire
night with a friend at his shanty three
miles from the camp Outside of what
the friend swore to a number had seen
the prisoner going out in the evenjtfg
and returning in the morning Evan
the prosecution Avas gracious enough to
admit at last that a perfect alibi had
been proved
Thars no mistake about it roared
the court in order to emphasize his in
dignation it has been proved that thi3
sneakin slick tongued hypercrit has
committed a aleibi I sentence him
to six months hard labor
And it took half a day to get tho
sentence annulled
Had No Use for Anthracite
Edmund Carey of Benton is in this
city this week attending court He
was one of the early residents of
Wilkesbarre and was born Aug 12
1S22 on a farm at the lower end of
town now known as Carey avenue
which has been named after the fam
ily His father George Carey was
one of the settlers who had the hand
ling of the first anthracite coal in Wy
oming valley He helped open a strip
ping in Pittston township now known
as Plains township in 1815 and in the
spring of that year loaded a raft with
several others and took it down the
Susquehanna to Harrisburg where
they sold the raftload of forty tons of
anthracite for 10 They were discour
aged at such remuneration and left
the transportation of coal dormant un
til 1820 when they took another raft
load down and failed to find a buyer
They were so discouraged that they
dumped their load of black diamonds
into the Susquehanna at Harrisburg
and as far as these early pioneer ship- 1
pers were concerned the opening npoJv
a coal market was ended Wilkesbarre
Record
Sound Blindness
We have all heard often enough of
color blindness Many people although
they possess perfect eyesight for read
ing or seeing long distances yet cant
for the life of them distinguish green
and red and many other pairs of colors
Lately it has been found that some suf
fer from an exactly similar affection of
the hearing powers that is an inabil
v
ity to distinguish particular shades of x
sound arising from some obscure af
fection of the ear yet quite distinct
from deafness One boy in doing dic
tation always spelt -very voght
He could not distinguish at all between
the sounds of very perry and
polly and yet he could hear at aa
great a distance as anybody Anotbez
youngster would spell different drif
ent He said that was how it sound
ed And several others ran the lettera
r n and 1 together in a hopeless
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The Extent of His Superstition
To a little extent I am superstitious
says a Virginian I moved into a new
house a couple of years ago and some
how things seemed to grow worse con
stantly First it was one thing and
then it was another I mentioned the
matter to an old colored auntie who
did our laundry work and she told me
it was because there was no toad frog
in the cellar She said it was good luck
for a new house to have a toad in the
cellar and that many builders always
left a frog in the cellar when they fin
ished a house As it was such a sim
ple matter to set things right I caught
a toad and put it in the cellar and
strangely enough things began run
ning all right immediately Since then
my cellar has never been without a
toad frog and to that extent I am su
perstitious
The Tiger Snake
There is no known antidote for tha
bite of the tiger snake of Australia
Persons bitten die almost instantly and
the Government nas a standing offer of
1000 for any one who will discover 3
remedy Some few years ago a man
actually discovered an efficacious anti
dote To prove its value he allowed
himself to be bitten repeatedly by
snakes in full possession of the power
to kill One day he gave an exhibition
before some Government officials but
being much under the influence of
liquor he did not recollect what be had
done with his antidote and he died
shortly after the snake bite his secreJ
perishing with him
His Idea
Isnt the Emperor of Germany the
grandson of the Emperor William tha
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Yes but he thinks he is the grea
grandson Puck
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