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fight or tea steamers are entering
the port of New York every week.
Bringing hundreds of Americans
home to their native land.
Among these passengers are al
ways a few American heiresses, trav
eling with their parents or profession
nlly chaperoned. Of late years it has
become quite an industry for widows
who have been left with less of the
world's goods than they were accus
tomed to enjoy during the days of
the "dear departed," to take parties
of young women to the Mediterrane
an, and especially on the Egyptian
' tours. Such parties are to be met in
all parts of Europe. This subject was
brought to mind very forcibly by a
conversation with an amiable young
widow, encountered at an evening re
ception during the past week, writes
'Julius Chambers, in the Brooklyn
Eagle.
"The general impression doubtless
is that a young woman who has come
into a fortune, or is sure to do so,
leads a life of joy and contentment,"
said my companion. "Her troubles
are somewhat less than the annoy
ances to which a rich young girl who
has not attained her majority is sub
jected. In the latter case, passion af
fected by her suitors is less ardent;
but the thought always uppermost in
the minds of her men friends is to
keep in the ring' until the girl's stat
us is fixed.
A True Autobiography.
. "Beginning with her boarding school
days, after she has cut loose from the
apron strings of a governess, she is
popularly supposed to have the favor
ite seat at table; to have lessons made
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easy for her; always to be taken to
drive; to be advised with regarding
matters of entertainment; to receive
weighty Christmas boxes; to be for
given for infraction of the rules, how
ever flagrant; to enjoy many privi
leges not accorded to the daughters
of less wealthy patrons of the school;
to have her dresses from Paris; to
spend her vacations In Europe and to
play the 'Princess Bountiful' at all
times. Most men blunder about the
lives of young heiresses; but old
maids like Marie Corelli are even
more absurd In their characteriza
tions of the young person of large In
herited wealth."
"Men writers are generally nearer
right you think, than woman?" I
asked, in surprise.
"Yes. they theorize less than wri
ters of my sex," was the reply. "I
should Judge that as a rule, they se
lect some living model and observe
her carefully for months before they
'begin to write; but women generally
think they understand their own
kind and 'sail right in.' I hope you'll
pardon that bit of slang,' but it exact
ly hits oft the thought in my mind.
If they were to have the experiences
themselves, or to take, a case "
"Exactly the idea." I hastened to
suggest "Let us take your own case."
The "Awakening" of an Heii
"Exactly; nothing could be better,"
said my instructress. "My father died
when I was 14, and I was sent to a
.convent where I remained in almost
total seclusion for four years. Of
courser I knew my father had been a
very wealthy man; I realized that
the family lived in luxury; but 1 1
RECORD OF INVALID HEROES.
Men ef Intellect Who Rose Superior t
Physical Ills.
A record of the magnificent courage
of the world's invalid heroes Is Sophia
P. Shaler's newly published book.
"The Masters of Fate." One of these
heroes was Green, the English his
torian, who could sign himself. "Faith
fully (feebly, weakly, dizzily, mopily.
faintly, dreamily, dully), J. R. Green."
Another was Robert Louis Stevenson,
who wrote: "I am about knocked out
ef time now; a miserable, snuffling,
shivering, fever-stricken, nightmare
ridden, knee-tottering, hoast-hoast-hoatrtig
shadow and remains of a
dm." "But" continues Stevenson.
the medicine bottles on my chimney
aad the blood on my handkerchief are
accidents. They do not color my view
at Ufa." It was an octogenarian United
mtes senator who, when asked-for
rales for longevity, replied: "Acquire
a chronic ailment in youth, aad nurse
yaaraelf throughout life aad work."
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hadn't bees aroused to the fact that
the moment I mad my appearance in
society the chase would begin and
rd be ran to earth like any other fox.
la fact, not until the advent of what
is called 'society Journalism' did I
begin to give myself airs. My picture
was published at least twice before I
had my 'awakening!' Then I fancied
myself a 'person of quality.'
The Money Hunt.
"What happened when yon finally
came home from school?" I asked.
"My dear mother had already de
cided that I should go abroad, and the
glamor of the ocean voyage attracted,
fascinated me. We sailed on one of
the French boats, and before we had
passed the Narrows I had exchanged
greetings with two of my men
friends, 'unexpectedly called to Eu
rope on business.' I was surprised
to find these men aboard; but mam
ma wasn't. She looked at me archly
and proudly, as she whispered:
" 'My dear, the chase has begun!
Treat them all alike.'
"I didn't understand the. meaning
of the words then, but I did before 48
hours had passed. I wasn't really
seasick, but I had the pallor, the
headache and all the premonitory
symptoms. These two men danced
attendance upon me every minute of
the days and evenings. One would
have imagined them licensed physi
cians. The man who really bustled
about and brought me lemons and
brandy and ginger ale didn't impress
me nearly as much as the other chap,
who sat stolidly In front of me gazing
into my face in honest sympathy.
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When the weather moderated, and I
went to the dining saloon for the first
time, one of the men had a seat along
side me and the other was next to
mother. By this time the men had
ceased to disguise their hatred of
each other. So it continued all the
way across. Mother knew the young
men and expressed no preference.
The night we sighted the Scilly
Islands, oh! Land's' End. a new com
plication appeared in the form of a
French nobleman, who had been. in
troduced by the captain .of the ship
early in the voyage, but who had
waited, apparently, until the Ameri
can lovers quarreled.
Couldn't Lose Them.
"When we took the train at Havre,
the two New Yorkers and 'the' French
man ensconced themselves -in- our
compartment During that four hours
trip I expected to s see murder done.
Only the presence of mother and' me
prevented the more aggressive 'of the
Americans from throttling Frenchy.
When we reached St Lazarre station,
mamma sentner maid "to order a 'cab
for the Hotel Continental The octroi
didn't detain us, and, as we drove off,
mamma repeated her direction to the
driver so that our friends could hear
it Before we reached the boulevard,
however, she' stopped the cab and
changed the order to' the Hotel Hol
land, a aeat little place in the Rue de
la Paix. We congratulated ourselves
upon our stratagem, but the baron's
card came' up that same evening, as
we were dressing for dinner. -Hardly
had mother sent her regrets down
stairs before a box of flowers arrived
from one of my American suitors and
never entirely well, he performed a
prodigious amount of intellectual
work, and lived to be fit years of age.
"He obtained such control over his
discomfiture." writes- Mrs. Bhaler;
"that whea suffering from a pain In
his head he could concentrate his
mind so nerfectlv en a rhnima snbtect
that the pain was treated as If it did
not exist By sheer force of will
he would overcome sleeplessness
caused by rheumatic attacks..- "That
these," he says, "were not Imaginary
pains was proved by the glowing red
ness which was seen the next morning
on the toes of my left foot'
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That pitiful account which Johnson!
gives of Pope's condition rests upon
the authority of -an eld servant ef
Lord Oxford's, who knew him after
middle age, "He was then so weak
as to stand la perpetual need of at
tendance; he was extremely- sensitive
to cold, so that he wore a kW of fur
doublet under a shirt of coarse, warm
linen, with fine sleeves. When he
arose; he was iavested ia bedices made
oc son: canvas, seicr acarcetv able to
hold himself erect tin they were laced,
a
tickets for a box at the opera
from the other. The lowers
to me, but the opera box
erectly aeat to my mothea
seat
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A Duel in the Tyrol.
"The baron followed as across En
rope to Venice. He no longer forced
his presence upon me, hat made him
self felt by sending lowers. We gave
up Borne, hurried to St Morits, la the
Engadine; bat the first time mamma
and I walked in the Thler Garten we
met the French baron. la desperation
I telegraphed to Paris .to the quieter
of my two admirers aad he came to
St Morits within 24 hours! Mother
never 'knew I had done this; bat the
baron had begun to show his true
character. He started a scandal about
me; and the New Yorker, who was
early to hear It gave the frog-eater a
terrible thrashing. When the baron
sent a second to my friend, the New
Yorker threw him out of the cafe in
which he was sitting. Then he had
two duels' on his hands Instead of one.
I am ashamed to say it but we slip
ped off at night and left my friend In
the lurch. He fought the baron and
got a wound In an arm. The second
had a bad reputation as a card sharp;
so he was ineligible to a meeting.
"We hurried home to New York;
went to Los Angeles, where the baron
soon made his appearance. Thence
we traveled to Florida, always sha
dowed by this man. He had shaken
oft his two competitors.' Finally, la
sheer desperation, mamma aad I de
cided that I should marry the New
Yorker who had sat' on deck and
watched me with his big blue eyes.
The event was neatly brought about
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by mamma her excuse for sending
after the man being gratitude for his
'noble conduct In defending me from
the Frenchman. We were married at
St Thomas that spring."
His Last Play.
"Is that the end of the baron?" I
asked, regretfully.
"No, indeed; the night before the
wedding the door bell rang. I hap
pened to be In the parlor alone. Be
fore I realized what was occurring, a
man pushed past the butler at the
door and entered the apartment He
was the baron! In burning lan
guage, he avowed his devotion aad
said he'd kill himself right there, if I
didn't abandon my promise to marry
the American.. The butler slipped out
and brought a policeman. Just , as
the baron had thrown himself upon
his knees and seized my hand a big
blue-eyed officer entered and took
Frenchy by an ear. I gave the 'cop
per a large bill to lose bis prisoner
before he got to the station house.
"Next day I was married and we
sailed abroad. Ah! that was ten
years ago and the good fellow to
whom I gave myself has gone to a
better world."
"And the baron?'
"Is alive and back in the United
States for a winter campaign. He is
in Chicago at present I see .by the
papers. Any kind of an heiress will
suit him and I hope he will catch on
of the large-footed kind before ha
hears that I am a widow."
A man must either come ap to a
woman's ideal, or her ideal cornea
down to him. . . .
coat One side of his body was con
tracted; his legs were so slender that
he enlarged their bulk with two pairs
of stockings."
Great soldiers, have borne tflfftions
they could neither overcome nor
avoid. "8ome of the world's foremost
commanders Julius Caesar, Napo
leon, the duke of ' Wellington and
Archduke Charles of Austria appear
to have been epileptics: At the battle
of Wagram the archduke. H ia said,
had a seizure which lasted abet aa
hour; it was thea that Napoleon
gained the ascendancy. At the criti
cal moment. the fate of two Brant
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tics. Cambyses, the conqueror of
Egypt; Alfred the Great, aad two of
the greatest poets of Europe Taaso
and Byron were subjects of tale ess
ease, as was also the prophet, Ms
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A kkk at the cow to a kick at the
milk pail
Chopped sweet apples with grain ra
tion oa top makes an Ideal feed for the
cow.
The hog pasture should have a com
fortable shed In which the animals
may take refuge from storms.
It Is said that small and young ban
tams are sometimes sold finder the
name of squabs.
The fussy, fighting hen has no
rightful place in the successful poul
tryman's flock. Get rid of her.
Full feed for the cow ail the time
or she will lose you money. It Is
easier to drop in the milk yield than
it is to recover the shortage.
Once It was the nubbins of corn and
potatoes that farmers planted, now it
Is the finest of potatoes and the
choicest of corn.
The Illinois experiment station has
just issued bulletin No. 109 on "Loca
tion, Construction and Operation of
Hog Houses." If you are interested,
write for a copy.
Give the poultry house plenty of
light The window should have a
south exposure if possible, In order
that the sunshine may get in and
warm things up a bit for the bens on
the cold days.
Hogs In Cerro Gordo county, Ia are
afflicted with a strange malady resem
bling choleraln symptoms. Hogs
grow poor, lose appetite, die In tor
ture. No remedy has yet been found
to be effective, and some farmers have
lost 100 head.
Prof. Hodge of Clark university' has
estimated the value of toads to the
farmer at $18 apiece because they de
stroy cut worms. There is a regular
market for toads in England, however,
at 25 cents apiece.
It costs the farmers'of the south 50
cents per bale of cotton for an aver
age haul of eight miles. With good
roads this cost could be reduced to 16
cents, which would mean a saving of
$340,000 on a yearly crop of 1,000,000
bales. Worth saving, don't you
think? North or south, good roads
pay. What are you doing to help get
them?
The market grade known as roast
ing pigs Is a class of pigs from three
to six weeks old and weighing from
15 to 30 pounds. They are aot gen
erally found quoted In market In such
small numbers and only during holi
day seasons. Pigs of this class usu
ally are of very uniform grade. They
are taken direct from their dams,
dressed with head and feet on, and
served like spring chickens or turkeys.
The price varies greatly, ranging all
the way from regular Uve hog. prices
to that paid for poultry.
A good hog house should be 20 feet
wide, six feet high at the eves for con
venience in cleaning, and as long as
the size of the herd requires. The
interior ararngement will be two rows
of pens, eight feet wide,' with a four
foot passage, between them. The floor
should be of cement with a half-inch
gutter just in front of the trough, and
draining toward the end of the house
farthest from the feed room. If dur
ability is sought after the side wails
and partitions may be of cement for
one to three feet up. If the exercise
yards are large and well-drained they
need not be cemented.
Rotation of crops as a principle of
successful farming Is recognized to
day by almost every farmer, but Just
the best method of rotation Is not al
ways clear. Different methods, of
course, are required for different soil
aad climatic conditions, but compari
son of the system followed by other
farmers is always suggestive aad help
ful Here is how aa Iowa farmer
manages on a farm of 160 acres: First
comes 40 acres In com. This 40 acres
of corn at 40 bushels per acre is 1.C00
bushels of com at 40 cents per bushel,
$640. Total cost of same, $20f, leav
ing $440 net proceeds of thin 40 acres.
Twenty acres in oats used as a nurse
crop for seeding clover and timothy
at 30' bushels per acre, 600 bushels at
25 cents per bushel $150; $75 cost at
seeding aad labor, $75 net Clover or
timothy meadow 20 acres, $12t; grass
seed, $60; lor hay, $180; $110 net
Meadow 20 acres at 1 1-2 tons per acre,
30 tons of hay at $5 per toe. $15; $30
expense, $120 net Twenty acres ia
pasture grass in-one plot 30 acres ia
another, which will keep 30 head of
stock at $7.50 per head for pasture
season, $225 net Tea acres contain
farm buildings, orchard, garden aad
hog pasture which win return at least
$5f net Total proceeds of this farm
for one year, $1,020. Thfa m aa aver
age Iowa farm of Ms aeetion. Usually
there are 40 acres pat ia com, using
a three-year-rotatioa by panting- three
crops of com, thea seed to clover aad
timothy. By so doing he has 24)
acres of new ground broken ap each
year, 2 acres to seed to clover aad
timothy, using oats aa a aurse crap.
Prof. L. H. Bailey says the educated
will go back to the farm if ha is
fitted to be a farmer.
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Ohio farmer writes that his experience
Is that it to no-worse on ground which
waa la melons the previous year. He
has tried soma of the rast-reatattag va
riety of cantaloupe this year, hat the
met has attacked them to some ex
teat after affecting a patch of melone
of another variety.
The Ohio experiment station pro
poses to make aa lavestigatioa of the
woodlota of the state to ascertain
whether they are njaintained at a prof
it or loss, aad which kinds of trees or
mixtures of trees are yielding the best
returns. The station has already found
that planted groves of catalpa and lo
cust may give returns exceeding $10
per acre annually.
Do you cook your hogs meals in the
winter time and serve them hot?
Prof. R. H. McDowell of the Nevada
experiment station says: "Some good
authorities say that it does not pay
to cook the feed, but a farmer can
readily decide this for himself, accord-,
ing to the feed to be used, value of
fuel whether a cooking plant is owned
and the amount of freezing weather.'
In a cold climate pigs will eat warm
feed clean from the trough, when a
portion of cold feed would be left to
freeze.
If hogs are Infested with lice Prof.
A. T. Peters declares that spraying
and dipping Is the only safe and ra
tional thing to do. "It aids the very,
best balanced ration that can be given
a hog," he says, "as it enables him to,
assimilate the food he consumes. It
is not absolutely necessary to procure
n dipping tank. I have known in-;
stances where our American farmer,
with a genius for making the most of
his surroundings, has soon improvised
a dipping tank at very little cost1
Every grower of hogs should dip his
hogs at least once a month if he
wishes to have the very best success.
The department of agriculture is
about to establish an official poultry
yard to determine the great question
as to whether mash should be fed to
fowls wet or dry; and also to find out
whether "hopper feeding," which, en
ables the fowls to eat whenever they
are hungry, "will "pay." The experi
ment.wlU be conducted with three
pens 'each, containing 25 white Ply
mouth Rock hens, and win be contin
ued until those in charge have reached
some kind of a conclusion. Similar
experiments have been made at the
Maine and Rhode Island stations, both
of which have made, a specialty of the
various hen questions but the depart
ment does' not seem to be satisfied, and
will deal with these subjects directly.
And we venture to predict that when
the department gets through the poul
try men will be no nearer an agree
ment than they now are. This Is not
to say that such official experiments
are not desirable, for they are, even if
the final conclusion is reached that it
makes no difference how mashes are'
fed, as win probably be the case.
Apropos of the big farms of the
northwest the Farmers' Voice, makes'
the Dakota farmer say, meditatively
to a circle of eastern agriculturists:
"Yes, sir; we do things on rather a
sizable scale. I've seen a man start
out in the spring and plow a furrow)
until fall Then he turned around and
harvested back. We have some big
farms up there, gentlemen. A friend
of mine owned one on which he had to
give a, mortgage, and the mortgage
was due on one end before they could
get it recorded on the other. You see,
it was laid off in counties." There was
a murmur of- astonishment, and the
Dakota man continued: "I got a letter
from a man who lives In my orchard
just before I left home, and It had
been three weeks getting to the dwelling-house,
although It had traveled
day and night" "Distances are pretty
wide "up there, ain't they?" inquired
one. "Reasonably, reasonably," re
plied the Dakota man. "And the
worst of it is, it breaks up famines so.
Two years ago I saw a whole family
prostrated with grief. Women yelling,
children howling, and dogs barking.
One of my men had his camp truck
packed on seven four-mule teams and
he was going around bidding every
body goodby." "Where was he go
ing?" asked a Gravesend man. "He
was going half-way across the farm to
feed the pigs," .replied the man from
Dakota. "And did he ever get back
to his family again?" "It Isn't time
for him yet replied the Dakota man.
Fertilize your wheat field. It wffl
pay. Tests by the Indiana experiment
station show that the crop Is benefited
by ail three of the essential fertilizing
elements, nitrogen, phosphoric add
aad potash. Of these three elements,
phosphoric acid is usually needed In
largest amount A fertilizer contain
ing about two per cent of nitrogen.
eight per cent of phosphoric acid and
two per cent of potash win produce
profitable results In most cases, aad la
very commonly employed If used In
additioa to a heavy crop of clover, the
percentage of nitrogen may be re
duced; bat If used on land that has
not been manured or clovered for sev
eral years, the percentage of nitrogen
can probably be increased somewhat
with profit Leguminous crops should,
however, be used to supply nitrogen
whenever possible, as they afford far
the cheapest source of this element
A good wheat fertilizer having the ni
trogen, phosphoric add and potash la
shout the same proportioa as In the
2 8 2 formula caa he made by mix
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gulpbat or muriate of potass. 41 to ft
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' The annuaTplowing match-was held
at Wheatland, m, with good results.
These matches have proved a stimu
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Tie average hen fa the United
States lays 69 eggs a year. TheCana
dlau;hen L The hen that faOs to
coma up to the lower average la cer
tainly unprofitable, aad aot worth
keeping. f.The Canadian average lst
area too tow for the enterprising poat
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LONDON THE CINDERELLA
' Of THE CITIES
Story of the Hall for the County Council awd the
New Embankment.
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For 18- years the greatest the
heaRhiest aad the wealthiest dty ia
the world has been without a civic
habitation worthy of Its aadeat set
tlemeat aad hoabred name. The sine
of London, its power, utility and dig
nity, have not yet secured adequate,
expression In embodied brick, chiseled
stone, or fashioned arouse.
London has been too loag the Cin
derella of the dties la the matter of
municipal recognition. Like poor Cin
derella, her couaty couadl had to
work and Uve ia the basement dwell
ings of Spring Gardens. Her sisters,
the borough councils and "the dty cor
poration, feast or junket In the Guild
hall aad Mansion house, or disport
themselves In the numerous town
balls and other buildings that have
been granted to them by the grace of
parliament or the cheerful consent of
their constituent ratepayers. The
metropolitan asylums board aad
Thames conservancy without comment
have installed themselves In riparian
palaces, so that with greater ease they
can do lesser work. Only the council
Is without a home and exist In lodg
ings. The bold policy of banks, insurance
offices and large commercial houses
having prominent sites, adequate
space, handsome exteriors and inter
nal attractiveness, stimulates n joy
of work in staff, an order In business,
and n supreme command of organiza
tion impossible in low, mean and
disorderly habitations, which but for
high ideals of public duty would drag
down the average pubUc man charged
by popular vote with a city's govern
ment This has been recognized aad prac-
View of New County Council
tlced by private enterprise, and every
where but in London municipal admin
istration has built a suitable habita
tion, and in so doing founded a public
spirited name
But now London, through its county
council is to have a dvic building, a
munidpal home, an administrative of
fice in which to strenuously carry on
the multiplex duties that are intrust
ed to it for the good government of
mighty London.
For over ten years the council
pressed Its claim; for all that period
the health, time, and fruitful energy
of Its councilors and staff were
"cribbed, cabined, confined;" and to
some extent Its work has suffered by
the lack of centralized, spacious and
well-equipped offices.
Patient submissive, tolerant to an
intolerable degree, the council prac
tically unanimously, irrespective of
party, dedded a year ago, for the
good government of London, to se
cure n new "home away from the old
site, which has been neither suitable,
sufficient nor available, for its ever
Increasing work and its multiplying
responsibilities.
And, as the councU was being evict
ed from Spring Gardens, parliament
would not have it at the Adelphi site,
and the timid refused to have it In
Parliament street where better 'could
it be placed than on the spacious plot
of ground occupied by dingy wharf,
none too pleasant factory.
The river on the north, a pubUc
terrace Intervening between n fine
embankment and the county hall
This structure" is a solid, massive,
dignified, useful building bounded on
the south by Belvedere road, im
proved as a relief approach to Water
loo station from Westminster bridge
for the western traffic that 'now ob
structs the southeast comer of
Bridge. Oa the west St Thomas' hos
pital opposite to the bouse of parlia
ment, enhancing the beauty and view
of that great pile.
Ia keeping with the abbey, New
WAYS OF FRENCH HUSBANDS.
Punctilieue In Small Courtesies That
Please Women.
The French husband has a faculty
that amounts almost to a genius for
bestowing the dettcate attentions
which cost Uttle except the exercise
of a modicum of tact and thoughtfal
ness, bat which carry joy to every
true woman's heart He not only
thinks to take home to her often (la
the absence of the means to make a
larger, offering) a ten-cent bunch of
violets, pinks or roses from the flower
market or the itinerant flower ven
der's barrow on his route, but he
presents them gallantly with the com
pliment and the caress the occasion
calls for; aad this makes them confer
a pleasure out of ail proportioa to
their Intrinsic worth.
He remembers her birthday or fete
day with a potted plaat a bit of game,
a box of bonbons, n cake from the
pastrycook's or a bottle of good wine.
He Is marvekmsly fertile ia expedi
ents for making the time pass quickly
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Scotland Yard,
new structural
amenities
great riverside
yet omameataL
ly, yet modestly, with Green wicthee
nltnL Lambeth palaee, the hiaiis ef
parUameat
hospital
that survive to aa aa worthy
moaumeatal reminders ef the
when the River '
aa It was, and aa It
widest, cleanest, prettiest,
thoroughfare la this great
Ha,
Looked at from the point of view ef
a great aad beautiful riverside Im
provement the embankment of the
south side of the River Thames offer
ed opportunity for n fine and bold
treatment of this present ssnaUd
spot The best embankment ia the
world runs from Blackfriars to West
minster bridge and the houses of par
liament This noble roadway has re
ceived a handsome lengthening of Its
Victoria Tower gardens, fronting aa
far as a new Lambeth bridge by a
new embankment wall and a riverside
promenade backed with fine offices
overlooking a garden that win occupy
the land where the old houses sad
wharves now stand facing Lambeth
palace on the north side. From this
garden there wiU be, when the county
baU is finished, n finer view of houses
of parliament Hospital' Lambeth pal
ace and council offices than that
which feasted the eye of Canaletto
when he painted the Stangate shore
in the years that are gone; n better
view, even, than that which caught
the artistic eye of Sir Thomas More.
Hall from Westminster Bridge, .y
as he drifted with his daughter. Mar
garet Roper, past the parliament he
adorned, down to the ebb tide to his
death, through Traitor's Gate to the
block at the tower.
Certainly the view from Westmin
ster bridge is now and will be still
finer than when Wordsworth's liner
were written, when the coundl's work
between Vauxhall bridge and Charing
Cross is completed, and the projected
county hail on the south side between
Westminster and Charing Cross rail
way bridge leads to the southern em
bankment This great improvement
which is slowly revealing Itself, from
the end of Abingdon street to the
Tate gallery, has cost over a million
of money.
And now the public, council
architect have all cooDerated in
ing the Ark of the Civitas of a free
community fair to look upon and as
worthy a repository of the munidpal
archives, the center of dvic activities,
as continental cities boast and, in
erecting a fitting workshop for Lon
don's devoted aediles. will give space
and encouragement to those municipal
governors who have made London in
18 years of their administration the
municipal Mecca to which all dvic
pilgrims turn for instruction, example,
and ideals in modern city government
JOHN BURNS. M. P.
Remarkable.
A celebrated actress, fresh and
youthful looking, was In the habit of
invariably taking. 18 years from her
age. She was called once In a law
case and gave the usual response. Her
son was called immediately after and
on being asked bis age, he replied,
promptly: "Six months older than
my mother." n Riso.
Hopeless Case.
Eva I heard Reggy telling that tall
blonde that we are here to-day and
gone to-morrow.
Katharine Poor Reggy is 'gone' al
ready. Chicago Daily News.
and agreeably for her. He has a
thousand amusing aad successful de
vices for helping her to renew her
youth. He projects unique and joy
ous Sunday and holiday excursions.
He Improvises dainty Uttle banquets.
He is a past master especially ia the
art of conjuring up amiable mysteries
and preparing charming Uttle sur
prises. Aad la air these trivial eater-
prises he vindicates the old French
theory that true courtesy consists la
taking a certain amount of pains to
so order our words and our manners
that others "be content with aa aad
with themselves."
The American husband Is particu
larly soHdtoas to do the proper thing;
tne Frenca nusband to do the
able thing. Independent
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Made lighter by
sua ef to-morrow.
Forgetting the sorrow
A song to the heart
will go high to the
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