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Caprice in Trimming.
These ho are always, on the look
cut for new trimmings should learn, to
cake -cretes-" To make a crete take
a frill of silk and scallop both edges.
Now shirr it a little war from the edge,
nntil tie frill is moderately full, and
set it upon the skirt.
This- wiji make the edges stand cut
like narrow ruffles, each side of a full
puff.
And there are different ways of mak
ing cretes. They take silk and cut it
is strips and double it. Both edges
are now pinked or frilled, frayed, or
scalloped The frill is now shirred
over a. narrow cording and the cord
is pulled until the mil is just full
enough. It is sewed on the skirt or
the waist ups:de down, so that the
edges will stand out in the smartest
imazinaDie fashion.
Light Blue Silk Waist.
3ous of pale blue louisine. the
freer and back forming a plastron
ornamented with
f2?oting. The col
lar and narrow
fhemistte are of
gu:pure. bordered
.xitha shaped band
ct s-Ik and a plait
ing of mousseline
de soie or lace.
h.ch is wider
around the neck,
forming a sort of
co.Iar. A knot of
ve.vet ornaments
the froEr
The s:ev:ves are plaited at the top
aEd again on the outside at the bot
tom, where they are finished with
faring fagoted cutis and plaiungs of
mousseline de soie or lace.
The girdle of the silk is ornamented
in front with knots of velvet.
W3tsrf2l! for St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg is looking for a
waterfall, and has been so looking
for more than twenty years. Its object
is to find a fall capable of furnishing
iutficient poer to supply St. Peters
burg with electricity. Hitherto the
moet suitable for this purpose appear
ed to be a cataract m Finland, which
it uas proposed to utilize for the
workinz of an electric railway. Fur
ther researches, however, have result
td in the discovery of the Kirimemi
waterfall on the river Voksen, forty
s.x miles from 5l Petersburg, with
energy equivalent to 25 000 hcrse
power. This waterfall is forty-five
tniles closer to the Russian metropo
lis than mat m r inland, and is offered
tor sale at a considerably less price.
XTniess the difiiculties of conveying
the current prove insuperable the
Kirimenii waterfall will be purchased.
Whitish-Green Cniffcn.
A harming dress for a girl who is
t- &- i -e tjve -vuh cne of next weeks
v'ev'i an'es is o pale wh:tish-t?ren
i-mtfot: its ptaiTed start trimmed at
TT m w th two noops cf waved und
kn ttt-ti gr-en ribbon Its bloused
fcod! t- his a lace bertha and is dalnti
.v ga-r.-htd with r.Lon &r.ot. lhere
is u tin- cem.sett u: -Ltt nuipure.
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Evc-y saucepan hat has been vised
and .s nr.-sr.ed w;th should be tilled
with cold water and put on the stove
to boil out.
Ebonize old or unpainted furniture.
especially chairs or library tables, by
rubbing in a mixture of lamp-black
and turpentine.
To clean nickel scour with pulver
ized borax, use hot water and very
little soap. Rinse in hot water and
rub dry with clean cloth.
To cut fresh bread easily and neat
ly heat the blade of the breadknife by
laying flrst one side and then the
other across the hot range.
Always buy an extra yard of stair
carpeang. folding it under at each end
so the carpet can be moved to equal
ize the wear over the edze of the
steps.
- Buttermilk is excellent for cleaning
sponges. Steep the sponge in milk
for some hours, then squeeze it out
and wash ft in cold water. Lemon
juice is also good.
Fancy SHrt Waist.
Blouse of 'scht ieizht wool shirred
a ong the shoulders
ani made with i
tox plaits, the lat- ,
-r trimmed with
s :ache and mo- !
r :? of passemen- f
The full sleeves
have deep cuffs
trimmed with the
soutache and mo
tor's and nnished
with lace and
wrist mines,
af lace.
The stand mg collar is
For Travel cr Driv'ng.
In describins coats the Seld is so
wide that it is not possible to cover i
the whole ground. One style seems
to be almost indispensable, and that .
is a lotg. fur-lined tweed or cloth t
coat. selS a coat is a wrap par ex
cellence for driving, motoring or rail- i
way traveL The mode has no rival
so far as comfortable knock-about and
comprehensive wear is concerned. One '
example of a coat of this description
is made of light gray tweed, and is
tmed throughout with squirrel lock,
oandsomely adorned exteriorly with
a huge roll collar and revers of gray
Persian Iamb.
The Season's Furs.
Numerous faddish furs have been in
ixoduced this season, and are enjoying
their meed of favor 'ihe skin cf the
haby calf is one of these. It is in
faxiabrv rigidly tailored into flat muffs
nL small scarfs, to be worn with uie
trim walking suits. Sometimes one j
tees smart little "babbling coats of
vetta. often trimmed with leather.
And again one sees this reversed, and
the coat of the leather with. trimmLzgs
at the yetta.
Pony skin, is also developed irti
Umg aad loose auto coats, and for very
coldest weather rather shapeless af-
- lairs in bear are appearing.
" Moleskin is- losing ground this win-
tier. The furriers discourse its use
of the Tery pcu aaouxt ox
is its fMilflaj Ther
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claim the prices they can obtain for
I mole garments do not cover the great
i labor of sewing these tiny skins. Then,
j too, the mole, like cue broadtail, is a
j very thin skin and easily torn, and
i garments of it are far from service
able.
Dress Wrinkle.
i The newest wrinkle in dress is the
-j sleeveless jacket. It would be a bo-
i lero if it were of a little different
shape. It is made exactly like a little
tight fitting coat, except that it has
- no sleeves. Its material is something
pretty, usually a brocaded silk, and it
is abundantly trimmed, making a zar-
. ment of a great deal of elegance
From the bolero to the sleeveless
jacket is. indeed, only a step. The bo-
, lero in all its forms is well known.
I And the sleeveless jacket will soon
be. It opens up such a fine possibility
for pretty- vogues that modistes are
rushing into it headlong and are
spending a great deal of money upon
it. It has taken the fashionable world
quite by storm.
The skirt to wear with such a coat
as this must match the waist and thus
a very handsome costume is made, a
dressy thing for any occasion.
In Light Taffeta.
Blouse of light gray-blue taffeta
plaited at the rop, where it is trim
med with embroid
ered squares bor
dered with bias
bands of taffeta
fastened with fan
cy buttons. The
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tyM'-Sey is trimmed in the
yoke, or guimpe, is
of guipure.
The sleeves are
plaited at the top
and again below to form two puffs.
and are finished with cuffs trimmed
with embroidered squares, bands and
buttons. The wrist mines are of lace
or guipure.
Furbelows Going Cut.
According to the best modistes there
is bound to be a speedy reaction
against the superfluity of shirring,
mains, piping and the like, against
me yards or trimmings, the various
materials introduced into one gown,
the absurd amount of material re
quired for any dress. The revival of
the 1S60 modes has outrun its model
and those much befurbelowed ladies
would doubtless gasp with astonish
ment at the exaggerated replicas of
their much-adorned fashions.
For short box coats as well as for
th1 Ionser cloth models, the coat
sleeve is constantly used, the method
of cutting bemsr practically cniform
m all instances. Etons differ some
what in havmsr leg o" mutton sleeves
with much fullness at the top which
is supported further by pads inserted,
a method which broadens the shoul
ders considerably. Most of f'ne Eton
coats are closed in front and slightly
pointed.
A new modI stole is shown in the
form of a shoulder cape in the back,
withont a point cr dip. but with a
good straight acrcss line. It has the
required, hizb. fiat, vertical line in
front, is somewhat broader than last
season, and is full length, with heavy
tails lor trimming.
Ribbcns in Millinery.
Ribbons are conspicuous in the new
winter millinery Some of the rib
bons are shirred or plaited. Huge ro
settes made from short bits of ribbon,
with Van Dycked points in several
harmonizing or contracting shades,
are used in these rosettes. Double
rosettes that is. two with a sort of
sheaf effect between also appear in
ribbons.
A New Dessert.
What a boon to the housekeeper a
new dessert is! Here is one which I
am sure you have not tried, end once
tried you are sure to have it again.
It is called chocolate pears and is
made by paring four pears, cut in
fours, and saute in butter until
browned. Arrange in serving-dish.
pour over the following sauce and
chill thoroughly. Cook two ounces of
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HANDSOME TOILETS IN BROWN.
The first is of brown cloth trimmed
with bands and motifs of brown
crushed velvet or plush, and with
braid. This trimming encircles the
skirt and forms the yoke of the
blouse, which fastens a little on cne
side with geld buttons. The turnover
collar is of the cloth embroidered in
green and brown, and the standing
collar is of white cloth or silk, also
"zsbroidered in green and brown.
Thi basque is attached under the veT
vet girdle, the latter fastened in front
with, a gold buckle. The leg-o;.matton
sleeves are trimmed at the bottom
to correspond with the rest cf the
Sow- The other cm is of t-Q
J sweet chocolate, one teaspoon sugar.
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I Uiltf ttiitA 4Afc. ..f i aaa
f double boiler five minutes, then add a
1 teaspoon arrowroot, mixed with at
quarter cup of cream and a pinch, of
' salt, cook ten minutes, Melt one
aaui,.
i a half tablespoonfuls of better, add t
j four tablespoons powdered sugar and .
j cook stirring constantly until well i
caramelized. Add to first mixture. ;
add half a teaspoon vanilla, and strain i
over pears. Montreal Herald.
Nothing brightens up a dark suit so
elrgantly as a white hat and a little
ermine cravat.
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! stole has a dainty rose of a camellia I
j fastened at the left side. '
I A trimming fancy much seen is the
( use of silver-edged straps and buttons
of kid or leather.
One of the new lace blouses has '
perfectly close plain sleeves after the
fashion of ages azo. I
There are hats so big that they sheer a texture as any to be had in
are ridiculous and others so absurdly London, aye, or even Paris. Again. I
Lttle as to be ludicrous". laughed as I looked abroad. For as
Silk and fur are happily combined j far as eye could see from the emi
in zowns of the new soft silk, made nence we were upon, I looked upon
ornate with fur bands. ,
So light and pretty are the mara
bout hats one wonders that any worn
an should choose heaw fur creations
Shct Silks Are Coming in.
i Shot silks are coming in, and art
! Med just now on Louis XVI dinnei
i frocss for the underskirt and cuffr
; and revers, the rest being brocade. Oi
course all the hats are tricorne ir
some form or another, and on th '
whole are pretty and generally be-t
coming. One form of trimming is tc
lay a feather across the crown, from
brim to brim, and add one very Ions '
one. wmch trails down on the batk
or the hair and in some cases sweeps
' half way around the neck.
Continental Hats.
The continental hat has mote vogue
. than ever and appears wih various
' modincarions. Some of the smartesi
models have the under side of the
rn'.linz brim covered smoothly with
black velvet.
I The upper side of the brim and the
crown are on beaver in white or some
pastel shade, and clusters of velvet
roses or th rather absurd gold oi
silver srapes are tucked inro the ,
bnm's indentations.
Pr-tty Theater Waist,
Blouse of light ecru crepe de chine
or peau de cysne, forming a sort o!
boleroi gathered
at the bottom to
form a little mQe.
which is headed
by a puffed band
of the material,
through which
golden brown vel
vet ribbon is run
the latter knotted
in front.
The bolero Is also
i gathered at the top
! where it is trim-
I med with puffed bands of the
j material and bands of lace insertion,
ihe pu'ed bands orcer the fronts
formins scrolls over the blouse, which
is of ecru lace, as "s also the yoke.
The sleeves are mace and trimmed to I
correspond. j
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Paprika Snitzel.
Cut two pounds cf thick veal steak
into small pieces, roll in seasoned I
Sour, fry brown in salt pork fat. Re
move the meat from the pan. add two
tablespoonfuls of flour to the remain- j
ing fat. brown lightly, and pour in
gradually the strained liquor from a
pint can of tomatoes. Add a slice '
of onion and carrot, three bay leaves
and a bit of mace, then return the
meat to the sauce, cover closely and
simmer three-quarters of an hour.
Whea done, remove the meat, add a
little more salt if necessary to the
i sauce, a large pinch of paprika and
i strain on the platter. (The pork fa:
helps to season itj
panne. ThesMrt is shirred at the top. ,
except in front, where it forms two
box plaits. It is finished at the bot-
torn with two flounces, set oneon the ,
other, and headed by little frills of
brown taffeta or satin. The draped
fronts of the bodice cross and are bor
dered with bias bands of the panne
ornamented with embroidered buttons.
The yoke is of cream lace and the
shoulder collar is of cream lace and
brown silk lace. The puffed sleeves
are shirred along the outside and or
namented at the top with little frills
of silk or satin. They are finished at
the elbows with frills of chis and
lcc The folded girdle Is of the
psaae.
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Mistress Rosemary Allyn
By MILLICENT E. MASS
Copjriit, 1804. by
CHAPTER II. Continued.
I walked down the path. I had bat
gone a short distance when I heard
5. shrill voice call:
"Wait a little, the lady bids you
wait."
It was the old dame. I waited un-
. i tit sne hobbled near, thinking tne
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uauijci ii4u aeui. a. iut3dt:. i a .
mistaken. It was more jollity the
lady wished.
"Take your fish, my Lord of the
World," the nurse mumbled from be
tween loose teeth, as she held out the
basket of trout I had left on the
grass. "Ill answer for it that yell ,
get ne'er bite nor sup to-day but these ,
same, my Lord my Lord Fishmong- j
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Then she cacchinated, echoed in the
woods by a fresh young voice. Milady
was enjoying herself immensely.
Such had been my meeting with
Mistress Rosemary Allyn.
I lauzhed now as I recalled it. Mis- .
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irtss n.ueiuiii .-uijii muusai. liie a
boor, and because I dressed as the
villagers, that I needs must be one
of them. 'Sdeath! she might have
ccn mfh faalf ! ara Vo cVi nf
"'-" " ' " --'-' "" "-" ""u I
been so engrossed in her own little '
tempest, that my kerseymere was of
the finest, and my linen being from '
tne nanc 100m to .Nance was or as
my own land.
CHAPTER III.
A Pair of Blue Eyes.
We reached a point where two
roads met. I took the lower one, tell
ing Gil that I should be home anon.
Inclination and desire to again see
Mistress Rosemary Allyn pulled my
horse's bridle reins in the direction
of Castle DrouL
Castle Drout wa
the only dwelling
ceived a thrust
near Long Kaur. It was much nearer
than our huts (these lav at the sal
vage of vast woods if one could
have bridged the steep and ragged
ravine which separated tne two cas
tles. As it was, the road led one
some miles in and out of tortuous
lands.
I rarne near the castle. It loomed
cjjti an(i quaint as a deserted house.
j zot 0 my horse and Iert him to
2raze. I sat down on a bowlder not
ianv yards from its postern gate. I
supposed I was hidden from the eyes
0f us inhabitants, yet from my place
.,...o,m .ifiiH ua if nprrhanpe anv
ul iAL4At .iAAv. -iv- - -
one either emerged or went m
through the narrow portals of the
gate. I had not been there many
minutes siting with my chin resting
upon my hands, when a voice said:
"What need to watch the cage when
the bird has flown away?"
It was the wierdest place; people
came upon one without a sound.
I started and my race flushed.
Quickly I assumed an indifferent air.
for one does not care to wear one's
heart upon one"s sleeve for daws to
' peck at. and certainly this was a daw
a most pert one that stood beside
me. It was a red-haired maid with
bold black eyes, which peered saucily
I into mine who had spoken. She was
! capped, aproned, and had all the other
accessories that go to ma.-ce up the
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maidt" I asked.
"As if the gentleman did not know?"
i she said.
I "I know that you're a ceucedly
1 pretty one," I afirmed, and I kissed
her cheek.
"Oh, lud!" she cried, with a mock
, show of indignation. "What would
Mistress Rosemary say?"
1 To that terse question I had no an-
swer.
"I levy where I may," I said instead.
, Then. "My good maid, tell me where
I Mistress Rosemary Allyn has gone
' if gone she has?"
"Where would a fine lady go?" she
said.
"You have a glib tongue, my girl,"
I put in sharply.
"I serve a glib mistress," she re
torted as sharply with a courtesy.
"I have a message for her.
I sus-J
gested.
"Let me be the messenger,
glie
said, "since I follow her tomorrow." j
"No," I returned. "I prefer to give '
it into her own hands."
"Well. London," at last she admit-
ted. with a shrug of her pretty shoal-.
ders. At which a lace scarf knotted j
about them became unloosed. "London
of course London the home of hand-
some women and zallant men. Lon
don should suit you. sir, and you suit '
London down to the ground." she
added with a toss of her head, and I
' quick change of expression as though f
J to apply a compliment. j
"Whereabouts in London?" I per-1
sistently asked-
.5ek shan fiad, she brlef.
lv answer(i.
- ..K r snould wi3Q to see ma,
j T her a gIance m&mt
to be most taking, "where shall I find
her?"
"Seek her, too, and ye shall find."
she said smiling audaciously. "But
would yoa not like to see the bird's
cage I mean the Castle"
I acquiesced and followed her for
very idleness I think, throngk-the por
tals into the boose. We passed auny
rooms of old and quaint furnishings.
We came to the end .of a long hall in
a wing separated fross the rest.
She threw" opea a'deor in a stys
'eriooa. sly naaastYtsasVsafd is
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raised voice while her eyes were de-
murely dropped:
"The mistress's."
The room was daintiness itself in
its extreme femininity, albeit the bed
was disarranged as if milady had but
just arisen. Lace fine as cobwebs
was valanced about bed and dressing
tahle-
The table was bare of any
toilet articles, save a box or two, but
many silken bows stuck here and
there filled up the barreness, and gave
a touch of beauty to the whole. A
large roomy chair of blue and white
damask, an immense divan uphol
stered in the same material, with a
few spindle legged chairs was about
! all the room contained.
; Such daintiness, such femininity
I moved me like new made wine. 1
grew hot for shamefacedness at my
self an intruder going there. I
I turned away, but not before I had
' caught sight of a pale blue satin slip
I per hiding under a frail chair. To
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was to desire to desire was to
obtain. But bow? All sorts of ludi-
crous ideas flashed upon me as a
means of becoming the cwner of that
1 crumpled slipper. The maid most
acute observer divined my thoughts
ere I had time to say a word.
"Pretty, is it not?" she laughed.
"Pretty, indeed." I admitted, ad
miring her cunning.
"What will ye pay for it?" she
asked.
"What you will." I replied, delight
ed at being able to gain possession so
easily.
"A sovereign, please, sir." she said.
I put my hand into my pocket and
drew out the gold piece. I passed it
into her greedy palms fat pink
palms. Evidently Mistress Rosemary
Allyn did not work her maid to the
spoiling of her hands.
I picked up the slipper, and before
put it away balanced r lightly upon
the tips of my fingers, while I yet
stayed to banter the pretty maid, even
tn pinch her saucy cheeks.
in the shculder.
I had my back to the door. The
woman faced it. I read :n the steady
ing of her too heavily towed cupid's
'ips that some one stood in its en
trance. I turned, and saw a youth
beside whose beauty the bold dash of
the maid s faded as the lesser beauty
must always before the greater when
brought together. He looked not more
than sixteen. He was blue-eyed, raven
vigged, and as exquisitely appointed
as a court beauty. Venetian lace fell
over his jeweled fingers ribbons
knotted his low shoes. From his
wrist a pouncet ball dangled and
wafted all the odors of Arabia. He
was a dazzling sight to behold.
"Mistress Rosemary's brother I"
gasped the maid, and then she flopped
into the easy chair.
"To what. sir. am I indebted for the
j honor of seeing you in this poor
room?"
"The honor, sir. is mine," I replied,
striving to make time in which some
reasonable excuse should come to me
for my presence in his sister's room.
"But why, sir, why"" he asked
again.
No why," I answered bluntly. "Idle
curiosity, as yos. will.
"Curiosity:"' he echoed. "A wom
an's excuse. And what pray is that
doi:
in your pocket?
He touched with his sword, which
he had been playing with since his
advent o ". the heel of the
supper sticking rrom
drepped it.
"My property, bought
I answered jealously.
where I had
and paid for,"
"Bought from a thieving maid." he
said, while he glanced scornfully at
her, who with her handkerchief to
her face seemed doubled up with fears
and tears. "Since you value it so
highly, perhaps you'll not mind fight
ing for it?"
"You see that I am unarmed," I re
plied with a shrug.
"That can be soon remedied," he
said.
He stepped to the wall and took a
rapier from the rack, hanging there.
He held it out hilt to hilt with the
one that he had. measuring them.
"Ycu see they are alike." he said.
I bowed and accepted the sword
I could do no less.
"Surely not here?" I made one
more protest.
"On. lud." the maid cried.
"Silence, you have brought it upon
yourself," he said to her. To me with
a bow, "Tis as good a place as an
other." I intended to lesson him quickly
and have done with the business.
which conferred no honor upon me
Bacic and forth we sweDt. I would
not forget he was her brother!
I soon found that his slender wrists
were like steel, and that he was as
agile as a cat- I was warm parrying
his dexterous thrusts and scuzht an
opportunity to end the affair with as
little harm as I could: but fighting
gets into the blood when you have a
bright point before you. and we both
fought as though we loved it.
I had him against the wall he was
almost tired cut his hreath came in
gasps. I looked into his face with
a half langh before giving him the
pink which should stop proceedings.
God! be had eyes like his sister's,
and the same daintily curved lips. It
put me off my guard for the briefest
second, bat it was enough. Being a
youth of great quickness, he took ad
vantage -of my momentary aberration.
I received a thrsst in the shoulder.
He lowered his sword.
"First blood!" cried the staid aa-
'ritative.T. "It is enough."!
Honor was satisfied. The yornjs
spark was smiling slightly, but his
face was as white as the lace hand
kerchief he drew back and forth over
the gleaming length, of his rapier, red
dening it.
"As the gentleman has paid twice
for the shoe in both blood and money,
I think, sir, it belongs to him," said
the maid persuasively.
The youth shrugged his shoulders
while he muttered something about
its being an old thing, and conse
quently of no account a brother's
view.
"I am afraid, sir, that you are ore
seriously wounded than ycu think."
he said, as he pointed to the dark spot
gradually enlarging on my shirt.
"A scratch: no more," I hastily said.
"Let me bind it up," begged the
maid.
"I pray you accept of the maid's
services," said the youth; "you will
find her an adept at all such tasks."
He gave out a soft laugh.
"Castle Drout will yet be your un
doing, sir, I'm afraid, he then ob
served. Evidently the youth Lad heard of
the other scratch I had received from
the falcon. I replied rather roughly
as I reached for my coat and put It
on:
"It is nothing. I assure you. sir. I
bow before your superior handling of
the rapier and a pair or blue eyes
eyes wonderfully like "
"Like what, sir"" he snapped.
"Like like nothing in the world
but another pair of blue eyes." I re
plied. "I bid you gooa day. In Lon
don I may again be so fortunate as
to meet you."
(To be continued.)
MUSIC AS A THERAPEUTIC.
Mental and Physical Ills May Be Re
lieved by Its Aid.
F. S. Kennedy says that much as
sistance is m many instances tc be
derived from the intelligent use of
music either vocal or instrumental,
as a therapeutic adjunct. Melancholia,
insomnia, hysreria. family affliction,
business reverses, delirium, pain, fa
tigue, mental or physical, will all be
helped by the beneficial influence ol
music, rightly used. As a post-opera
tive measure it would have an un
doubted influence for good in taking
the patient's mind from his bodily dis
tress. So. aI?o. could "painless" dentistry
be relieved of some of its pain and
distress bv the quieting influence of
music, which would, as has been am
ply demonstrated, produce a pleas
snfr mental influence' during the ad
ministration cf nitrcus oxide or ether
anaesthetic. A German writer recent
ly stated (February. 1904 that in 3
number of test cases in which music
was provided durinr the administra
tion of the anaesthetic there was an
absence of distress and resistance on
the part of the patient; also an
absence or reduction of the post-operative
nausea under the same circum
stances. Tc be advantageous the nature of
the composition must be carefully se
lected with a view to the needs of the
individual case, and the execution
must he as nearly faultless as possi
ble. SHOWING HIM THE CITY.
Bostcn Ycung Man Proved Poor Guide
for Friend.
Edward Farmer of Boston sat in an
electric car the other day behind two
young men. One of the young men
was a Bostoman. and the other was a
visitor from the West. The former
was showing the city to the latter.
As the car glided past Copley
square, the Bostonian pointed out the
plain and massive building of the pub
lic library to his friend.
As most or the . world knows, the
people of Boston, when they built this
library out of the municipal funds, re
solved to make it the show plact- of
New England. They carried out thei:
resolution well, and the beautiful
costly building, with its excellent ar
chitecture and its decorations by Sar
gent. Puvis de Chavannes and Abbey
is studied and admired by visitors
from all parts of the globe. ;
"There." said the young Bostonian
"is the public library. I guess you've
often heard of that."
The other looked at the library and
nodded his head In approbation. - i
"Fine. " he said. "Did Carnegie give
it?" :
The Bostonian hesitated.
"I don't know." he said. "I'm not
quite sure whether Carnegie gave ii
or not. Come to think of it. though
I believe he did. Yes, he did. Car
nesie gave it."
Mr. Farmer smiled, but said nothing
SOPHS MADE A MISTAKE.
Interruption That Put Stop to Fun cf
Hazing Party.
J-sse Lynch Williams, who has writ
ten some delightful stones cf student
life at Frinceton and who has lived
there since his graduation from the
university, is a very youthful looking
man. with a frank, boyish face and
slender flgur3 that do not betray the
dignified paternity of thre fine boys.
Earlv in the autumn, just after college
had opened, he was crossing the cam
pus one morning when a party of
j sophomores suddenly surrounded him.
j ''Stop' " commanded one.
Mr. Williams stopped.
"Take off that hat! " said another.
The hat came off.
"What do you mean by wearing a
stiff hat here?" demanded another.
"Put it down."
The hat was laid aside.
"Now walk over to that tree and
stand there tin we tell you to "
But the hazing got no further, for
an older student came along just then
and recognized Mr. Williams.
"What the deuce do you fellows
mean?" he asked. "Don't you know
an old grad when you see one?" and
the wise sophs melted among the trees
in the heat of their woeful apologies.
New York Times.
Wanted Information.
The Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford told
the other day cf an opponent of ritual
Ism in the Episcopal cherch who tock
his little daughter to a "high" church
for the first time. The little girl had
been attending a very "low" church.
where a vested choir was a thing un
known, and when the troop of little
boys in Ionz white robes appeared at
the processional, the child could not
contain herselL
"Oh. papa." she shrieked. "look at
all these boys in nightgowns' Do they
sleep here all the time, and where is
the bath they are going, to?" New
York Times.
Ar Oriental Answer.
It wa3 In a Maine Sunday schooL
says Lippincott's Magazine, that a
teacher recently asked a Chinese pu
pil if he understood the meaning -cf
the words "an old cow."
"Been cow a loaf time," was the
ommot answer.
BALLAD OF BVBBLY CREEK
On the Old Chicago Rivr-A Memory of Boyhood,
in Halsted Street's Historic Ground "'
On the old Chicago river in those strenu
ous days of yore.
Sweeping like a tawcy tier past tit
gren and pbfcly shore.
And the jellow current fcasiins as is
erashtrd against tee pier
And tne tells of huge Chicago pealing
richly on the earl
Oh. those chfcsteg bt-lls that brought you
tender dreama of long ago
A3 you drifted with the current, soothec-
by soft rippling flow.
And a dreamy Ung-jor creeping nestled In
your throtbir.K brain.
Vnd the cold, delicious water lulled youi
heartache and your pain.
There we'd swim far up the river, buffet
ing the roaring tide.
As the current swept us down stream
chuckling as in haughty p-Je.
And th old stern wheeler "Natchez"
poked her nose around the tend.
Bis "Jim" Bludsoe aas her pilot, and a
staunch and stalwart friend.
Swimming up behlrd the tug boats, just
to catch the foaming spray.
Rising, tailing on the billows, and up
and down as porpoise play.
Tossed upon the crouching white caps.
tumblins on th white caps" crest
Floating with the rippling current, div
ing with keen savage zest.
And the raft of Buffalo barges drifted
down before our sight.
And the shrill steam whistle- blowing.
vexed the drowsy ear of night.
And the fc shorn, hrarsely growling.
seemed to split the brooding air
And black smoke stacks of the freighter
loomed as ghastly as despair.
Then we heard the measured rolling of
the war-presaging dram.
Growling like a te-ty tyrant and throb
bing with a martial hum.
Found Where
K. V. Millard, who now resides in
Indianapolis, has been for several
years studying the archaeology of
Egypt. For the last year, until his
recent return to this country, he was
engaged In making excavations at
various places on the Nile, especially
at Gizeh. in the neighborhood of the
great Pyramid of Cheops.
"I have discovered during the last
three years," said Mr. Millard, "just
here Noah lived, where the ark was
built, and that Noah built the great
Pyramid of Khufu, known as the Pyr
amid of Gizeh.
"Noah was the greatest king this
world has ever seen. He was the
greatest of the Egyptian Pharaohs,
not excepting Rameses the Great.
"Noah was a millionaire. The Bi
blical account of the flood gives no
clew as to where he lived or where
his ship carpenters were at work fcr
Crow Lived
George McCarren, a farmer living
near this city, has just received a
much prized little aluminum plate
marked as follows: "Return to
George McCarren. Orrville. Ohio."
with which an interesting story is con
nected. George McCarran. Sr.. father of the
man who received the little billet of
aluminum, was an eccentric natural
ist, and spent much time in the study
of birds and insects. During McCnr
ren's youth, about twenty years ago,
he says he remembers being told by
his father, the elder McCarren, cf a
dispute the latter had had with a fel
low naturalist cf Akron. Ohio, as to
the age to be attained by a common
crow, and Anally to settle the matter
McCarren attached an aluminum tag
to a crow captured in the fields and
sent the bird forth with the plate se
curely fastened to its neck by wires.
The legend on the plate requested the
Power of
"It's only lately that I've had any
faith, in dreams." says the young wife
of a middle aged newspaper man. "I
used to scoff at them, but now well.
I had a warning in a dream, a genuine
warning, and it did me good. My hus
band doesn't believe in women racing
and chasing over the country alone,
and when he went out to St. Louis on
a business trip last month he made
me promise by the ashes of my ances
tors that I wouldn't stir out of Wash
ington till he came back. He hadn't
been gone a week before my next
door neighbor began to coax me to go
to Atlantic City with her. She said I
needed a change, and that for my hus
band's sake I ought to take it. She
said we'd have a splendid time and
That we'd get home before George
:ane back, so that he need never
know a thing about it. One way and
She Cooed
On Thanksgiving morning a pretty
vounz woman in a squirrel coat and
a big veil sat in an electric runabout
that was standing in front of a house
on West Fortieth street, opposite
Bryant park. On the seat beside her
was a little white iroodle. Down the
street came two young chaps who
were celebrating the day by strolling
around town in the time-honored at
tire of ragamurfins. One was dressed
to represent a fat negress, and his
make-up and dialect were good enough
for the vaudeville stage. The other
wore a Happy Hocligan costume that
was irresistibly funny. Just as they
came up to the girl in the automobile
she ccoed to the poodle and asked:
"Are you cold, sweetheart?"
The sidewalk comedians stopped,
smiled at the girl with the most lan
guishing air they could assume, and
then bowed to her, crying:
Too Much
A young teacher of physical culture
in a fashionable Connecticut boarding
school has introduced the wearing of
light, easy clothing among the ycung
ladies under her charge, even discard
ing the wearing of hats in midwinter,
persisting m the theory that the fair
sex would live longer by having their
bodies unhampered by heavy clothing.
As a result, the young ladies who
follow her instruction have cast aside
their millinery and wear a loose sweat
er and a walking skirt. They accept
her belief that "bundling up" is re
sponsible for more colds than any
thing, else. Hence the town of Green
wich. Conn., where this fashionable
school of Rosemary hall is situated,
presents a sort of fairyland. The
young women go about ths streets
without hats and with light garments.
No Such Luck.
Jones Do you think they ever dope
the horses to win?
Hardnp Doa't know. They dom't
seem to dose th oaes I bet oa.
And we saw gaunt cannon frowning, la
the tarracks on rfc shore.. -.
".Vnd the sunset gun, would thunder that
"the summer day was o'er. .
And we saw bright sabres glisten 'neatJ..
tig mellow harvest -mooo.
As we- heard the stalwart soldiers piping
up a. reusing tune.
And the haughty horses hpofbatar clat
tering upon the ay.
And th neighing tad the prancing of "the
chestnut and the bay.
And big raw Vecralties" drilling with -an
awkward, ctimsy grace.
And the spruce and brisk young captain
with the bronzed, poetic fac.
And the Jingling of the harness as the
cavalry swept by. . -
"Sammy Starsacstripes." the soldier. n,
the apple of our eye.
On the old Chicago river, tossing on. its
barren bed.
Flowing with a grisly shiver with io
cargo of the drad.
Twisting like a hungry scorpion as It rip- .
pies through the town
Choked with drowntl men and suicides .
plunging in oblivion's frown.
What's the use of always roaming like aa
eagle o'ic the sea. -
Questing like a swarthy gypsy o'er th.
green swaru trans an, tree.
Take me back to old Chicago.
mr
heart is sick for home.
I can't stand dark alien face- scowling
'cross the sundering foam.
Take me back to old Chicago, far across
the sundering sea.
Let me get in touch with Halsted Bubbly
Creek's the place for me.
Every man brags of his birthplace Chi
cago is the town for me.
Oh', you big. old clumsy city, sprawling
round the inland sea!
J.VMES EL KIXSELLA.
Registry Division Chicago Postotncs.
Noah Lived
120 years constructing the ark.
"Noah was six hundred years oW
when the flood came. It is evident
that he must have been a millionaire?
and a man of great authority. He
built the ark at his cwn expense.
Such a boat in those times would cost
more than half a million dollars. He
must have been irl a position to fore
vast multitudes to work for him, re
gardless of their interest in him or ia
his work, or of their own personal in
clinations. "Noah built the great pyramid dur
ing the earlier part of the fourth
Egyptian dynasty, and not more thaa
twelve hundred years after God had
expelled Adam and Eve from the Gar
den of Eden. If Noah's size and in
i tellectnal powers were proportioned
at his age to curs, then in brain and
! brawn and stature he. too. must have
1 been a siant." Washington Star.
Many Years
finder to return it to McCarren in case
anything should happen to the bird.
As McCarren. Jr . remembers, it, the
two men made a bet as to whether
the plate would be returned within
twenty years. If the crow were killed
or died they counted on the little bir
Iet being found and returned to the ad
dress on the plate. If tnis were not
returned they believed it would be
sufficient evidence that the bird would
be still alive. McCarren bet that the
plate would not be returned within
that time; hence he won the bet. The
cow was shot by a farmer boy named
Angers in Holmes county last week,
and the billet returned to the son of
the bettor, the elder McCarren having
died before he cculd realize the pro
ceeds and the satisfaction of winnintr
his wager. The little billet is highly
prized by the McCarrens as a memen
to of the father's eccentricity. Orr
ville Correspondence Toronto Globe.
the Camera
another she worked on my feelings so
that I consented to go. We were to
start Thursday morning. Wednesday
night I had my dream. I dreamed
that we went to Atlantic City and that
when George came home I didn't say
a word about it. It was a Sunday
mcraing when he came home, in my
dream, and I thought he went out and
bought a copy of a New York paper.
It had a half page picture of the Atlan
tic City boardwalk in iz. a reproduc
tion of a photograph, and there, in the
foreground. I was. wearinz a hat and
dress that Georze couldn't help recog
nizing. In my dream it quite broke
up my happy home, and when I awoke
I had lost all desire to zo to Atlantic
City. Not me. It isn't safe to try to
keep your comings and soinzs a secret
from anybody, with camera fiends run
ning around loose. ' Washington
Post.
to Poodle
"Not at ail. dearest '
Then suddenly they turned and
glared at each other. "She done saaid
dat ter me." cried the negress. with a
fine simulation of raze. "I beg your
pardon. I really beg your pardon. b-"
the lady addressed herself to me."
cried the Happy Hooligan with exag
gerated politeness.
The zirl sat in a state of abject con
sternation at the scene her words to
the poodle had evoked.
"Go 'way, man' Go "way'" broke ia
the imitation negress. with a sweep
of her hand. "Disher lady '
Eut the girl heard no more. She
pushed the lever and the runabout
rolled swiftly away from the ragamuf
fins. Then the sidewalk comedians
fell in each other'3 arms in a parox
ysm cf laughter at the evident discom
fiture of the poodle worshiper. New
York Presa.
Wrapping Up
in the sure conviction that they are on
j the right road to health. Their sys
( rem is known as the "no-hat-Iight-
clcthes-plan."
The air is so full of theories of
nealth that one hesitates to pass judg
ment on such a system. It has as yet
been tried only upon the hardier
maidens of the schcol. but they went
through the recent cold snap without
injury and with apparent beneSt.
But on zeneral principles it may be
s-itelv said that the habit of bundlinz
J up in tizht. heavy clothing in winter
is carried too far by mest people, and
it is doubtless rme that numy are con
stantly pestered with colds from this
very cause. Bundling up when it re
stricts the circulation is pernicious.
A part of the heat of the body in cold
weather should be supplied by bri3Sc
exercise and come from within.
WWWVWMMAAMAMMAMA
So He Cant Keep Foat,
"Does your husband take much la
tere in sports?"'
"No; he shaves hisuelf." Basel
State Journai-
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