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He -mpioys an American detective and plans ! heat the vendetta at their own same. For tiie purpose of eeurinij the safety f the women Haines arrange to have J-ady Cliartris Ichm- a j-ehid-d villa at Xkj to uhich tlie patty is to W taken in a acht. Siispicson is created that Manr.a is in league with the orsicans. - man, lielieved to be. CorieKi" Uatiella, is jeen passing tlie hoti and Marina is thought to have given him :i sign. Ma nna refuses to explain to ftarii which fact adds to his latent suspicions. Karnes plans for the safety of the patty are learned hv the Conicans. Tlie eairi.ige carrying their party to the local lauding i. followed by tun inn One of the horseman is supposed to ! rregiu. They try to murder the Aiuetkau. CHAPTER IV. Continued. Their carriage soon stops near tlie two small bays upon which are situ ated the bathhouses. Al a little land ing place Barnes can just discern in Hie mist of the water, which adds to The gloom of the evening, a boat with two seamen. To be certain, he hails and is an swered by Emory's, voice. "It's all right." he hi.spers to the .Indies and springs out of the carriage. Tliu next moment Ktnory has run up fiom the landing and is standing be side him. Emory whispers suspicious Jy to Barnes: "You get the ladies into the boat quick. I told my men not to come near you unless there was dan ger. 1 hear their steps coming down. I'll see what they want." Rarnes and Edwin carefully escort their charges through the gloom down the little .steps that lead to the boat. Their hand .satchels being placed beside them, a carriage robe is carefully tucked by J lames about Miss Anstruther. Performing a like j-ervice for his wife, Edwin seizes the tiller, seats ihiuifclf at the stern and remarks com Jurtably: "Xow all's shipshape! As oun as your sleuth is on board we'll pull out to the yacht." Then he asks ne of the two oarsmen: "Have you The Seagull's bearings?" "Aye, aye, sir. She is lying off about i quarter of a mile nigh due .outh of iieie. "All right," says Edwin, examining a. pocket compass he produces. "She might hare been difficult to And in the darkness without her hearings. She's ct light up, of course?" , "A mast head nnc!ior-glim, sir," te plies the man. Suddenly Edwin whispets to Uaraes: "Ye"o boaiders!" and springing up. -M-izes a boathook and pushes the cut ler av.ay frc:-i the dock. "Pull qtiick, iny men!" he commands, for the voice of the American detective lings out in the night air: "Look out for jour- s.elvesl" and they hear the patter of l'cet In the darkness tunning down the walk mingled with a couple of foreign oath1?. Xext there is a splash in the water and ltarnes says, coollx : "Hold up for a minute, Edwin," and calls: "Is that you, Emory?" "Yes, thank God!" answers the de tective, who is swimming after them. "Very well, if anjbody jumps over after you, I think I can catch him even in the darkness." The American's jiistol is in his hand. Twenty seconds after they drag the shipping sleuth into the cutter. "You have nothing to wait for now,"' ays Emory, spitting out some salt water. "Get me to the yacht where 1 can find dry clothes of some kind." At this, Edwin orders the men to saw way, which the Scotch sailors do Ailh alacrity. "lly the blessing of God. yoa all had a mighty narrow escape." remarks Emory, his voice quivering. "Though how the deuce the men who are after potting you took the places of the ones I hired to guard you, is more than I in tell. When 1 heard the approach ing fcteps. I reckoned there must be lunger. 1 went straight to 'em and by -;ms, they jumped me. Half a second ;ind I was a dead man." "At my cry of tetror." continues Emory, "the dagger that was right er my breast was stayed, and one jf them snarls: 'Diavolo. this isn't 1 he accursed murderer, Barnes of Xew Yotk.' Then they whispered some words to me that I don't care about repeating before the ladies and one of them held the lenife over me and the other sneaked down towards you. but was too late. You had already got the uitls into the boat. I reckon. He -anic back. They cursed me and let me go. But when they saw I was scooting down the wharf, they started after me, so I jumped into the water :ind made the boat. They are cursing themselves now, I guess, for letting me get away to warn you." "Well, theyll hardly dare to follow is on board the yacht." smiles Barnes, for Edwin has hailed: "Sagull, ahoy I" to some vessel looming up in the fog. "Aye, aye." comes the reply, and a moment later the naval officer has laid the boat alongside of the yacht, from which a side ladder has been put over. "This is Andrew Graham, the mate." says Eaory, as an alert young Scotch man assists the ladies to the deck. "Yon want to get into dry clothes." remarks Burton. '"We'll discuss this .affair a little further after we have had dinner, which 1 imagine is pre pared." Five minutes later. Emory having gone forward and procured a change of togs from the mate, they all sit down in the little cabin, which is bril- Jiantly lighted and Us table beautifully vtGwtM American! A Sequel k MKNE5 X WipnTCSX UCED MA&SCO. AT.)? set with crystal and china, even some fresh flowers adorning It. "You've done everything mighty nice, Emorj" says Barnes, genially, to the detective, "and I hope your wet ting hasn't destroyed j'our appetite." "Xot a bite," answers the American representative of Pinkerston". "Why doesn't Edwin come down?" whispers Marina, nervously. "Oh. he's skipper now," replies Bur ton. "He's making all shipshape with Mr. Graham and getting under way.? After giving the mate his directions as to the course and bidding him keep a good lookout for steamers coming up from Naples. Nice and other ports to the eastward, flSdwin joins the party at table. Lieut. Anstruther, after a glance at his bride, remarks: "Xow, with a deck under my feet, I feel shipshape and ready for either pirates or land sharks," and devotes himself with a sailor appetite to his meal. Delicfte little confections and ices as well as some magnificent fruit are put upon the table afterwards by the steward, whose fiery red hair and decided Scotch twang indicate he comes from the north of the Tay. "Altogether." Enid contentedly re marks, "it is about as good a dinner as one could get at the best restaurant in Paris." A few minutes later the gentlemen go on deck to smoke their cigars. Edwin takes his stand beside his Scotch mate, saying: "We'll take it watch and watch, Graham, until the morning," and sends the young fellow below to turn in. The two ladies are busily making their arrangements in the cabin. The "There's One Man on This Boat schooner has a main salon. w:uch is used as a diniug-room. and two little quarter staterooms, one of which is assigned to Edwin and his bride, the other to Miss Anstruther. Under these circumstances, the de tective and Barnes have a chance for private conversation. They stroll amidships and seat themselves beside one of the boats. "How shall I put you on shore?" says names. "Well, in an hour more we'll be off ltandol; I reckon, and if you'll tell Ed win to drop in to the shore a little, you can put me off in one of the boats." "All right," replies Curton. and speaking to Anstruther, the yacht's course is changed. "When you are ashore, you'll get the railway, I suppose, to Marseilles. Pay my hotel bill at the Grand there and remember to meet mc at Nice at the time appointed." Here the detective dismays his American employer; he drawls slow ly: "Y-e-s. but I'd like to give up this matter!" "Give up this matter?" "Yes. When that Corsican bad his knife over my heart he said' a few words of warning, telling me to look out how I got into a blood feud; that this matter was to the death, and if I wanted to live I had better leave it alone." "You're frightened of the man?" asks Karnes. "Xo. not exactly frightened, but mighty cautious of him." replies the Yankee, "for a fellow who can fix it so that my two French sleuths were thrown off the track and he and his pal, took their very places and rode behind your carriage unsuspected an"d only by God's mercy were prevented from jumping you and doing you' up as you placed the ladies in the boat, is t man whnso limine matn him miohi.. 1 " . jfo oc"c jjjjj K vT6 "i dangerons.: "Xot dangerous enough to cause you to desert these ladies in their extrexn- I I fo t '&Py v ill i li II 9 Ml It . . lwfism VCi 1 1:1 J! II if 'ilsfiiiV wll J XilritAX ity. Tou, an American 4 hare -feces told you have a very good :mnre." "Yes, but this kind of an'assassinat ing In the gloom biz is mighty ticklish however. I'll go you again," returns the detective, after a few more whiffs of his cigar. "Ill rislc it once more for the sake of the ladies. With such a crafty devil agin you, what you want to do is to suspect everybody," contin ued the detective. "You see yon can not be sure where such a snaky fellow will strike you. If it hadn't been for me fortunately walking up that path wondering why my men came down to you, they would have been upon you while, you were putting the ladies in your boat, and would have had some of you sure. I know you can shoot quick and straight, but knives at close .quarters are better than' revolvers, especially in the darkness. Tou can bless God for having .saved you to night. Suspect everyone!" "Suspect everyone!" Barnes mutters to himself and turns his eyes about upon the deck as he speaks. "Oh, they're all safe here those bra' Scotch sailor laddies. .You saw the mate, he is Scotch also and can be trusted. If you'll put me on shore. 111 be at that villa at Nice ready to tell you everything when you make it. Don't 3'ou think the lady I mean An struther's wife could stand a voyage to England through the Bay of, Bis cay?" The detective's voice shows how anxious he is that his suggestion lie taken. "As a physician,. I .don'Mhink sneJ could," remarks Barnes. "You see her neurotic state has been added to by the attack upon us at the landing. It is not her fears, for herself,' but her fears for her husband." v , They are now interrupted by Edwin. "The lights over there are those of Bandol. We're in ten fathoms of wa ter. I don't want to venture" in any further at night." Then the voice of the young English officer rings out. or dering the cutter to be lowered and manned. "I go witli you as far as the shore." says Barnes. "Xo, you stay with the ladies," whis pers Emor'. "That's what you want to look after. You're the point of dan ger now. I'll only suffer if I get too nigh to you." A's the Pinkerton man goes over the side, he whispers to Barnes: "Suspect everybody even I Must Keep My Eye Upon." your own emotions and doings, and especially those of the women with that crafty cuss who had his dagger so cursed near my heart, working on them." "Could yon recognize the man?" asks Burton eacerlv. "Hardly, but in the struggle my hand caught his face, and I felt a scar over his left eye." "Great Scott!" ejaculates the Amer ican. He is now certain it is Corre gio Cipriano Danella who is bent upon revenge for the blood of his dead brother. As the Yankee detective is rowed away, Barnes paces the deck. The night is very fine, though ex tremely dark, and they being near the land, somewhat misty. The yacht's lights, however, burn brightly and a careful lookout is kept Barnes, thinks he has little fear from the sea while the vessel is in command of Edwin Anstruther. Still the detective's last warning. "Suspect everybody!" lingers in his mind. Some remarks from the ladies in the cabin indicate that they are not coming on deck this evening. (TO .BE CONTINUED.) India's Sacred Trees. There are many sacred trees of India, which enter largely into the re- I ligious life of the Hindoos. "Chief ! among these is the sami tree and the trembling peapuL Nearly all the higher hills and rocks in the. plains are crowned each by a temple, shrine or sacred tree. The peepul is known as the king of trees.. It is the most holy, and the three great spirits of the Hindoos dwell therein. The wor ship of the tree is the worship of the triad Brahma, Siva and Vishnu. Al most everv Indian villam has its n. .. - . ... - LP"1 iree W1UI a to PJauorm or al tar around it The devout remnv their shoes before it and make obei sance before proceeding on their way. The Dark Skinned Woman s (Achievements 3y Marion E. Stoddon ' " Woman's Share in Early Art Even the Primitive Woman Had Certain "Rights" Brilliant Dark Haired Heroines of the Past Women Aid in Founding a Re ligion Some Interesting Facts About What Has Been Accom plished by the Sisters of the Pale Faced Races The Important Part they Played in Early Civilization. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowie.) (Marian E. Stockton, widow of the late popular story writer. Frank R. Stockton, was closely associated with the work of her gifted husband. Any reader of the "Rudder Grange" stories, for example, will realize that she was a valuable aa- I sistant to him. She was joint author with ntm in writing "The Home," one of his earlier books, lira. Stockton is a membr of a prominent South Carolina family.) So much has been written about women of the fair-skinned .races, of their part in the making of the his tory of the world, of what they have done and ought not to have done, of what they are doing and ought not to do and to what they should do, that it may be of interest to catch here and there in this world's history what their dark-skinned sisters have done in bringing about the conditions of the life we are now living and the so cial, religious and. geographical dis tinctions which prevail at present. It is not my intention in this article to exploit the famous dark-skinned women of recorded history we will glance at them in their proper places. They were types, it is true, but they could not have been and have acted their great parts had not the wom en whom they represented been endowed, in some measure, with their gifts. Such women do not spring full- fledged from a sordid environment. But they were exceptional and individual In their careers; and, after all, it is from the ordinary women of a race or nation that progress comes. The portraits the ethnologists give us of the primitive woman are not captivating, but the poets represent her as being almost divine, floating in ethereal beauty fresh from the hand of her Creator. Whether the scientist has arrived at the truth through long and laborious stages of investigation, or whether the poet has divined the truth through inspiration. I do not pretend to decide. But they are both agreed upon one thing that her com plexion was of a "sun-kissed" hue ac cording to the latter and of a "dark pigment." according to the other. From the Investigations of scle'e and the reports of explorers, and from other sources 'we have a good deal of information, if not in relation to this very primitive woman to her not dis tant descendants in a state of sav agery. And even in the very lowest of these primeval races we find that women played an important part. They were slaves, it is true, because they knew nothing better. If They had had the least glimmering sense of woman's rights they were quite capable of asserting themselves even at that period of time. And here it may he well to correct a misapprehension. Men did not make slaves and beasts of burden of their women merely be cause the man was wicked or lazy, or ooin tney had affection (of a sort) for their wives. But they realized with great force that man was a su perior being, the lord of the earth and all it contained, including woman, and that she was an 'afterthought of the gods created for his benefit, and therefore made of very inferior ma terial. Consequently it was consid ered as degrading in a man to do wom an's work as it is now for him o wear petticoats. If it chanced that it came into a man's mind to relieve his weary wile or some part of the load she was carrying on her back, he would reject the thought instantly, not so much be cause he did not want the burden, as because by so doing he would mak himself the laughing stock of the tribe. ' And what did these mighty lords of creation do upward the improvement of the world they claimed? Absolutely nothing! Fishing, hunting, trapping, fighting, the necessities of the pres ent; the implements to accomplish these purposes, and there the record ends. Meantime, as the years went on and generation succeeded genera tion, the women were using their brains and improving social life with all sorts of inventions to assist them in their manifold labors and to add new comforts to a rude existence. Sewing. Consider how patient they must have worked to get a thread from a rawhide and the cleverness of evolving a needle from a bone. Tan- 1 ning and dressing leather. To turn a dirty, hairy, tough skin into a clean and soft material suitable for clothing. t Fashioning with deft fin gers this' cloth'ing to their special needs. Agriculture of the simplest sort, but mostly the experiments of women: Spinning. The records of the human race go not back to a time when tbesplndte was-unknown, worked out from a woman's brain which grasped .the Idea -that the long fibers of the flax she was cultivating ought In some way to be made more adapta ble for thread than the unwieldy skin with its slow and painful process. Hence,, the stick twirled in the fingers. Weaving. Not a long journey to the loom after arriving at the spindle and cloth, r so much easier than skins' to : wnrV intn 1nthit,p Ttpaidoa tha Mmh. bark basket weaving had been done long before with the fingers and it was only necessary to steady the threads on wooden rollers. And this brought about woman's share in early art So many plants yielded beautiful-colored juices; hence the dyeing, arid later, the painting of cloth and skins. Some of these savage adornings may be seen at the present day with colors 'still vivid and. with attractive designs. And so I might go on through all the industries that 'have come, down to us all suggested by dark-skinned women. It has never been decided by the I learned whether fire -as a direct rev-' f ' ' "- elation from God, or whether man dis covered it accidentally. In the ab sence of any authentic "Information on lhVsnbJectrtentUreUie opinion it was discovered by a dark-skinned woman. As1 shewas tneqa9who bid the most use for fire it is .reason to suppose that she it was 2? chanced (in a fit Of temper, perhaps) to rub two of her stone' knives together with great violence and velocity and was surprised with the divine spark. However this may be, it was woman who immediately availed herself ' of this all-important discovery, and being tired of meat and fish dried in the sun. conceived the brilliant idea of laying It on the hot coals. And thus she started in a long career down the ages the roasts and ragouts and chow ders and fricandeaus that have given pleasure and dyspepsia to millions of her descendants of all colors. There is literally no end to this branch of the subject, but I have said enough to convince any rational mor tal that a creature capable of all this could not, have been held in utter con tempt by contemporary man. In ferior she was considered, as a matter of course, and she was. to a great ex tent, a commodity to be bought and sold; but. running through all the savagery, there is found a strong thread of respect for women. Even in the lowest tripes they had some rights which they were not at all back ward in enforcing; and among the more advanced peoples they had many well-defined rights which no man could in any case take from them. The men privately sought their advice to take the council and exploit it as their own wisdom; they were admit ted to some of the solemn feasts; and. sometimes, they armed themselves and went to the battlefield. This, however. seems rarely to have occured in tho very early ages. Such was the dark-skinned primitive woman and such were her achieve ments. Drifting down the long stream of time, we suddenly come upon the bril liant vision of the queen of Sheba. Ont of the darkness of the dark con tinent she emerges, robed in splendor, invested with power, endowed with wit and fancy, moved by an intelli gent curiosity a woman capable of appreciating not only the glory of Sol omon but his wisdom also.- She daz zles us for a brief moment and then disappears into the darkness whence she came and leaves no trace. But it requires no imagination simply common sense to follow her into that mysterious land and find a nation of women, not spj exceptionally endowed, perhaps, as this great queen, but wom en of strongcCharacter. and vigorous intellect, capable of dealing with the problems of their time. Otherwise there could have been no queen of vSheba. In the twilight of history we note the appearance of a remarkable As syrian queen or, more plausibly, several successive queens, who were new types in that olden world. They were not only successful warriors, but they were engineers, mathematicians and archi tects. They turned the courses of rivers, spanned them with bridges and confined their waters within bounds; they raised great monu ments and built temples and public edifices. The name Semiramis is synonymous with every kind c great ness. Coming down to the Christian era. we find one of the most interesting studies of womankind of any color or any age in the Arabians. Those dark skinned women, with no possible way of cultivating intellect, the women of a brutal race of men. in a degrading environment, fenced in with customs hostile to them, changed the face of the habitable globe and founded a great religion! Mohammed himself declared, persistently and often, that he would never have been able to achieve success but for his wife Cad ijah. This plain, faithful, sensible woman never faltered in the darkest hour, encouraging in weakness and restraining in excess. And when the creed he taught was accepted by the Arabs all the women threw themselves into it with such energy that nothing could stand before them. They even organized companies of women soldiers and, leading them into battle, fought with a savage cru elty that might have been expected, but also with a heroism mo3t surpris ing. And all through the Mohamme dan conquest women are prominent; sometimes like unto the judicious Can ijab; sometimes like the beautiful and wicked Ayesha. who came near dlvld Ing the armies into hostile campy: sometimes like tho savage Henda drinking the blood of the enatntMi ni the faith. It Is all wonderful. And, as the Christian woman reads the rec ord, sbe marvels how it was possible that so much good and evil purpose, so much that is noble and heroic, could nave been expended with such energy on a religion that does not tend in any way to exalt womanhood. I have not space to tell of the Chinese woman whose story, we glean from legends and glimpses into the histories of their dynasties, while she herself looks at us out of the past with an impressive silence. Nor to dwell upon the East Indian woman, who, with her seductive charm and romantic, poetical nature, conquered great conquerors and ruled through them. We pass down the centuries and en ter, at last into our own land to be immediately confronted by a-, dark skinned maiden whose name and his tory are familiar to every school child. Was there in all this newly discover ed country but one Pocahontas? She happened to be the one who fell in love with a white man. and, thus, moved to save from destruction the little white colony, has become immortalized. Whether or not this is to be regarded as a meritorious act on the pait of this Indian maiden depends upon the point of view, whether that point be In dian or English. But there is no doubt that she was intelligent and at tractive and of a sweet nature a very loveable creature. If you find a well molded and decorated vase standing in the midst of crude ugly pottery of a past age, you may be reasonably cer tain that a further diligent search will reveal similar vases. And so. while Pocahontas may have been 'somewhat more highly gifted than the other young women of her tribe, she was of ' their kith and kia and not a solitary figure.. There has arisen mo Cooper for the Indian woman. It is probable that ihe Indian tribes In the east with which, the early set tlers were familiar wore leas1 cultured than those found on the Pacific coast at a later date. Among these their womensubject and inferior, of coarse were of much importance. They had so improved the comforts of existence by quite a range'of culinary prepara tions, clothes and blankets for warmth and various devices for increasing; the happiness of their lords, that they had won a position of some dignity and exercised; a large and .beneficent influ ence, not asserted and 'probably not publicly acknowledged, but far-reaching in its effects in civilizing thai race. COMPLAINT' 13 NOT. NEW. Other Ages Have Said "There Is No Time for Leisure." "Leisure." a woman declared the other day. "is neither a fact nor a pos sibility it is scarcely even an ideal. It is a word that in the dictionary should be marked obsolete." Whether or not the majority of peo ple would agree with her in consider ing leisure no longer an ideal, it can not be denied that leisure is a rare possession in the first decade of the twentieth century. The common the ory seems to be that we have bartered it for telephones and automobiles, for speed and society and business. Fifty years ago. we say. or a hun dred, or a hundred and fifty, life was much simpler and less hurried. Yet, as-a matter of fact, a hundred years ago exactly the same complaint was made. It was in 1797 that the famous Mrs. Grant, of Laggan. wrote of that V- insatiable love of change that rest lessness, which is. I think, a great and growing evil of the aee." and com plained that the hours of her young friends .were so "engrossed and di vided" that there was no time for reading and conversation. Doubtless, could we but look back, we should find the same complaint made in the eighth century as in the eighteenth. So far from leisure being less pos sible now than in past years, the aver age woman, as a. recent economic writer has pointed out, never before had so good an opportunity to enjoy it Gas and electricity, ready-made clothing, prepared foods and number less household inventions have re duced her work to a fraction of that done by her grandmother. Instead of candle and soap-making, spinning and weaving, salting down the year's meats and making her husband's shirts by hand, she spends hours each week in shopping, amusements, study,' fancy work or society, according as inclina tion and opportunity dictate. Yet she Has no leisure. After all, is it not frequently because she does not desire leisure so much as she wishes for some other things? The "simple life" is an achievement, not a chance gift- and leisure, to quote another woman's definition, is "merely the art of having time." Youth's Com panion. Good Words for Gunner's Mate. "A few days ago," said a retired naval officer, "the navy .department specially commended for bravery Ed ward Whitehead, a gunner's mate. J Though his act of heroism happened to take place on land instead of at sea, the incidcut seems to remind anybody familiar with the 'duties of the men aboard a warship that the position of gunner's mate is one involving hard work antl slight chance of recognition. It is certainly not the pick of the jobs on a man-of-war. particularly during an engagement. Tlie gunner, above, on deck, can see how matters stand. He has the actual firing to interest him and the credit if he acquits himself well. But his mate is below, in the blackness of the hold, feeding the powder antl shot into the ammunition hoists. He sees nothing and hears lit tle of what is going on, but he knows that if the ship sinks or the magazine blows up his chances of reaching Davy Jones' locker are swifter and surer than those of his' comrades on deck. I am glad to see the useful and in conspicuous gunner's mate come in for praise." The Revolt of Betsy. Two-score years ago there lived in a Pennsylvania town an ill-mated cou ple, both as to size and compatibility. The wife was much the larger and stronger, and. in thte words of their narrator, "the husband, though a small man, was a nagger and a pesterer." He always provoked the quarrel, and when he went too far his irate spouse would revolt. She would retaliate with such splendid vigor that the husband would call in the neighbors as ar biters, and when they began to take evidence he would invariably thus ex plain matters: "I struck Betsy in al pleasantness and she got mad," or "I poured water down Betsy's back in all pleasantness and it made her mad." Curiosities in Divorce. Some curious facts appear from an international table of divorce statistics that has been published in Paris. From this it appears that the little cosmopoUs known as Switzerland Is pro rata most prolific in divorce, the numbers being 40 per thousand mar riages. France follows with 21. and Germany comes next with 17 per thousand. In France divorces have grown from 1.879 in 1S84 to 14.692 in 1904. It also appears that nearly twice as many women are divorced as men on the ground of misconduct, not that men are more virtuous but that they have more opportunities of conceal ment, and women are readier to for give. I Law Catches Druggists. Under a new law in Xew York state that went into effect on Sept 1, a drug gist i liable to a heavy punishment if he offers a customer one special article if he asks for another. When the patrons enters a drug store and asks, "Have you Brown's pills?" the druggist can either produce the article, declare that he does' not carry it, or offer to get it. But if he says, "No, we do .not keep Brown's, but we have Green's which are just as good." .he lays himself liable to jail or a fine. The grocer can still offer substitute goods, as can also other merchants, but the drug man is held to the strict letter, of I his customer's request LACE FOR WINDOW ONE OF THE MOtT EFFECTIVE OF DRAPERIES. Fllt Panels Are tthe Latsst, anal Are Very Popular Other Matsrials . Liked by Up-to-Oato House- coopers Nothing in household decoration has changed more dnriag the past few years than-window draperies. For simple rooms two hangings are enough --the long; thin curtains which banc from the top of the casing to the bot tom of the sash,, and the heavy cur tains which are hung over the thin 3ses and drop just below the window sin. For bedrooms, sash curtains are sometimes necessary, and these are fastened tightly against the window from the middle to the bottom. Drap eries that reach to the floor soon soil ind gather much dast Just at present there is nothing prettier than filet lace panels for the windows In the front of the house. It is also seen In some of the expensive hotels. There is a delicacy about this Italian lace that appeals to one at first sight In decorating a window one must bear in mind that it is seen from the street as well as from the room. There are several ways of using this curtain. It may be stretched upon a separate frame and set in the window sash directly against Ihe glass, or it may be attached to a small brass rod fastened to the top of the window and allowed to bang in straight lines just' below the window sill. In a house whose windows are properly decorat ed, the curtains of each' floor should have a resemblance. Real lace can be Used on the lower floor, and imitation on the others. If. however, panels are used on the parlor floor, they should a,so at. tnp ther front windows. Curtains need renewing offeher than wall papers and much thought is need ed in buying wisely. If sash curtains last two or three years, they have done good service. Buy material that will blunder well and that is firmly woven, as it will not shrink as much as flimsy fabrics. 8crim is still popu lar, and among other white material are dimity, dotted swiss. net, madras, and various other weaves. Among the nets colonial antl fish are attrac tive. For heavy and simple curtains figured materials may be had in cre tonnes, chintzes, linen, taffetas, Java prints and Japanese cottons, making a varied stock to choose from. For a blue and white room Japanese cottons are durable. India and Java prints also hold their color. Figured cre tonnes and chintzes are attractive, with plain or striped paper, but where the walls are covered with figured pa per, plain denims, or linen taffetas are best China and raw silk also make pretty curtains, especially yellow. There are many valuable uses for soda. Dampen soda and apply it to a bite or .iting of an insect Flowers will keep fresh longer if a pinch of soda is put in the water. A weak so lution ot soda will revive the color in a dusty carpet. A large teaspoonful of sal-soda will bleach a kettleful of white clothes. Sal-soda is also good for the sink if dissolved in boiling water. When using old glass fruit jars wash they with soda water and rinse well in order to sweeten them. A teaspoonful of soda added to the water in which silver is washed will help to b.-ighten it. Chopped pecan nuts, aimonds and pine nuts may be sprinkled over let tuce for a dinner salad. Lemon Drops. These :.re made of granulated sug ar, finest quality. Put three and one half ounces sugar and a teaspoonful water in a small saucepan, add one half teaspoonful acetic acid and stand over the fire. When the mixture be gins to melt stir two or three minutes with a wooden paddle, then take from the fire. Have ready oiled paper, take the saucepan In the left hand and pour i the candy out in drops about the size of large peas on to the paper. When the drops are firm and cold moisten a paste brush in warm water and brush the tinder side of the paiier. This loosens tho drops so that they can be removed with a limber knife. When quite dry put into glass bottles to keep them from attracting moist ure. Pear Conserve. One-fourth peck green pears, two large oranges, three lemons, four pounds sugar, two ounces green ginger root, one-fourth cup water. Peel, quarter, and core one-fourth peck hard -green pears, dropping same in cold-water as prepared in order to prevent turning color. Drain and put through food chopper. Cook till ten der in one-fourth cup water the grated rind (the yellow only) of three lemons. Scrape the gray coating from two ounces green ginger root and cut up the root in food chopper. Combine all with four pounds granulated sugar, the juice of two oranges and three lemons, and cook for two and one-half hours. This quantity will fill 12 jelly glasses. Cream Cheese Combinations, other favorite combinations with cream cheese are caraway, minced olives, chives and pepper, or cream cheese mixed with cream, molded in small cups turned on a lettuce leaf with a spoonful of Bar-Ie-duc or goose berry jam. laid, in a depression at the top. Another nutritious and tasty salad is made from two cupfuls col lage cheese mixed with two dozen chopped stuffed olives and moistened with enough boiled dressing to permit of its being molded. Make lato balls with butter paddles and serve on let tuce leaves. Hose Supporters. Cut off the legs of stockings that the feet are past doing anything with, measure stockings you are wearing from waist down to top of stocking. Split cutoff leg down, sew it firmly to top of stocking, by machine is best, then fasten about the waist with safe ty pins back and front They are comfortable and no coming down or getting out of order. Cocoa Pies. 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