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A Choir Boy Tunic
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lVehlon Is ever rmrtlal to eerlcwIaMle
cliln hov1. tli mediaeval stole, tha religfiuse cape, ttia bishop alaeva and tha doaens
of other style featurea borrowed from ecclesiastic orders, and now her U tha choir
boy's little- surplice reproduced in lace and added to mlladl'a coatuma as a theater
and restaurant frock garniture.
In Parts this choir boy tunic Is called a "chemise," and the little garment, whloh al
ways fits loosely and falls between hip and knees, has certainly a youthful charm
Brdghtside and His
BT UAFATBTTE3 PARKS,
"I wonder who ao many young men In
New York carry walking sticks?" begins
Brlghtalda,. as aa.pient Bon sinks Into the
easy ohair, raady for tha daUy verbal
shower bath,
"Crippled in tha cocosnut," tersely re
tort Son. feeling for a matoh to start tha
torch burning.
' "When I was a boy." saya Father reml
nlscently, "nobody avar thought of .carry
ing a caua unless ha waa lama."
"Tba chap that hobblas d6wn to work on
a cans Is lame, all right," says fon. cheer
fully," "but It's up In tha beam, whara every
bone has got a crack in It. How I do love
those lads who stroll Into the office swing
ing Ivory-headed walking sticks. They
always remind me of a pair of twins."
"Why should oue youth and a cane sug
gest twins?" queries poor. Innocent papa.
"Because the heads of both are solid
ivory," answers Son.
"It doesn't look very business like to
me," complains Father.
"I'd rather have my hired men come
down to toll carrying fishing rode," sug
gests Son. "They'd look then as if they
were en their way and knew where they
were gln, which I can't say for the cune
carrytng klddos."
"I should think a stick would be a good
deal of a nulsmnoe," further objects Father.
, "Not half so much as the bright eyed
boy that swlntss It." remarks Son. "lit
takes up half Die sidewalk when he strolls
along Hroadway fr far some of the
skirts won't see how pretty he looks.
There's a big bum h of chaos In this town
who think all they have to do to make a
hit with the dumes I to flh a $1.1 cane."
"I full to ' low that would Impre-x a
srmttble girl." is Father's belief.
"Every little bit of toggery has a mean
ing of its own," hums sioii. "With some
of the sweet young thinks the cane bluff
goes. -That's -why a lot of sU-bucks-a-week
bos save up their dlmia until they
can buy a cane and make a flash. Then
they take the girl out walking, but they
never spend a cent."
"Surely young men get over that form
of foolishness before verv long." Father
honee. .
hopes
"It's one of the tuot deadly habits
known to man." declares Son. "Victims
seldom recover snd few reform. There Is
no cure for It."
"It looks rather silly for a loan to come
down to his of.lt e in the iuo:ulng leaning
on a walking i-tick." olsere Father.
"All tuckered out before be starts to
walk." sulini!-. Sou. "If I were the bote
snd one of my slaves came iu with a cane
I'd ring up an ambulame and aond him
borne. I d also trll him when he got rested
enough to hobble down to work without a
erutch he could come back on the Job. If
he didn't think that could ever htnpen. he
?ould begin looking for a kind hearted boas,
willing to-Mipply his help with ea.y chairs
and foot rests "
Tbougalie ouUi mi ut lUiuk a eae
fffectn. For exa-mpl. w have the Capu
Boy
"TiriMl Youths Who
Carry Canes," Their
Ijntext Tabloid Bketch.
CX AVO 0N6 JW16 NOTHING .
gives them an air of Importance," Father
says by way of excuse.
"My Idea of a two spot," explain Eon,
"Is a cane walking down the street with a
chap dressed up in oue of those fussy lids
and a wallpaper pattern vest. That's one
of the times when your little Willie has
to untie his goat or make loud cries for
help.
"Women have absurd fashions, but noth
ing to my mind that equals tha cane," is
Father's opinion.
"Hook up a skirt leading one of those
chew-chew dogs on a pink ribbon and a
guy twirling a bone headed cane," aserts
Hon, "and you've got my idea of one and
one make nothing.
(.Copyright, mo. by the N. Y. Herald Co )
Reflectlas.
1 Why They're "Missed."
Old maids in divers places
I've met, and ttioucn I've found
ome have thin, faded faces,
v lit le some have lat and round.
Through every changing season
1 in sure I must iimiai
Tlirre'a but one siiikIc reason
"lit still these maids arc "missed.
it lve me greatest pleasure
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To tell you why ahem!
'Tie some one missed a treasure
in every one of them!
II Chang of Attitude.
Out on the marsh the hunter gay
Now lies lout lus blind.
And waits until his feathered prey
Come winging down the. wind.
I say he lies about his blind
To shoot (he southbound duck.
But when lie leaves the marsh behind
Ha lie about hla luck!
1 1 1-The Other Way About.
Some folk would choose the law thought
oesi
For all of us, nor worry
About the choice of all the reet;
But there would be a flurry
If Himt reformer, stem and true,
Should cherUh as lus m:setloa
A merry little movement to
Frulnbit prolubillou.
OUaaae New,
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'1 lie I'mtr of a t.reat Uor.
Tet: Kehemiali. "I am domx a kie
ork. .o l!Ht I cannot cutne down.'" The
auth.ir of llirse wuids is one of the great
stat?MniPii of history, a nation builder.
Independent nf the fact thHt Neliemlah li
a Hlble character, the historian has glv-ii
him a place among the great molders of
human proKrees. Our text gives us a
feature of his greatness. When his enemies
planned bin downfall, he wast saved by
the poner of iiH great work, lie had a
comml-slnii so Important tiiat following
that kept ill m on 'the heights of security,
away from the temptations and dangers
i wf life.
Head his story as we have It In H'-s
book oT the lllblc; as fascinating as a
modern lay romance, truely historical and
basod on the theory tliat man receives his
work from his Creator.
We might make a sermon fiom a study
of hi character as revealed In this chapter.
First, he was a man of prayer. He ho
llered that he was working In harmonv
with the will ..r God. "The great t move
ment of the world are based on the be
lief that there Is a heart and mind In the
universe that knows and cares, and when
we know and obey the divine will sn
things are possible. This gives us the
basis for tha second point. He was cour
ageous; he belongs to that class of whom
Kipling sings, who worship "The God of
the Vnafrald." And. third, he was prac
tical; ho dreamy sentlnieniallHt. He used
mind and hand. He believed he could see
and hear God, and think His thoughts with
the natural faculties which God bad
created for his use. Tbls made him a man
of action, confident . that God expected
something of him, confident In ills abllltv
to meet the expectation. These were the
foundation stones In the euocena of this
life. We have characters to build; like the
prophets, we also have a city to build.
Kvery cltlxen must feel his share of the
responsibility. But let ns centralize our
thoughts.
An oft overlooked commandment from
God's word reads, "8lx days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work." I know no
logic by which we could argue the proper
observance of the seventh day or the
first day to be more a religious duty
than the right use of the six days. Car
lyle declared, "The latest gospel U, know
thy work and do It." He found a perenlal
nobleness, even aacrednea In It. "Blessed
la hp who has found his work, let him ask
no other blessadness. He has a work, a
life purpose. He has found It and will fol
low it. How, as a free flowing channel,
dug and torn by noble force through the
our mud swamp of one's existence, like
n ever deepening river, there It runa and
flows, draining off the sour, festering
water gradually from the root of the re
motest grass blade, making. Instead of
pestelential swamp, a green, fruitful
meadow with Tts clear flowing stream.
Labor Is life. 'AH work of man Is as the
swimmers; as waste ocean tbreatena to
devour him. If he face It not bravely,
It will keep its word. By Incessant, wise
defiance of It, lusty rebuke and buffet of
It, behold how It ' loyally supports hi in.
bears him as lis conqueror along." Mo
much for Carlj le's thought. But do we not
find the ' same truth both lived and ex
pressed in the life of the Man of UalllleeT
"I must work the works of Hint who sent
me while It Is day, for the night cometh."
And speaking of His task. He said, "And
bow am I straightened till It be accom
pllsbed." And the gladdest, most tri
umphant note in all the message of Jesus
Is In that declaration to His Father at the
close of his earthly ministry, "I glorified
Thee on the earth, having accomplished
the work which Thou hast given me to
do." Jesus knew sorrow as we are in
capable of knowing it, yet He lived the
gladdest, freest life the world has ever
witnessed. And here Is the story of . the
Master' success and Hla Joy In It; the ac
complishment of a God-given commission.
It was the gladness that every one should
feel In the completion of any worthy
work.
Just as an artist might rejoice ' over his
finished canvass, after years of struggle
to express his conception of truth and
beauty, knowing that he had given to
men something that weuia make life
sweeter and stronger. Or, as the inventor
might triumph in the mechanism which
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month Congregational Church, Omaha.
would lift heavy burdens from the shoul
ders of his fellows; or the business man
In the establishment of that which would
meet some need of society; or the farmer,
glad In the soil which he hed claimed
from Its barreness. knowing that because
of his toil he had made a contribution to
the comfort and progress of the race.
What Is worth while? What Is life's
mennlng? Vhst Is success? Just this.
the conscious acceptance of our work,
day by day as a God-given task. Henrik
Isben puts It in a verse:
'Man's work is what he's fashioned for,
and paradise for him lies there."
A pju-t of every man's divine birthright
Is to feel that his dally toil fits Into the
program of his Creator. No man has a
right to employ another In a task which
he may not perform In such a spirit as to
realize the dignity and glory of labor. This
leads to some conclusions:
First All must work. The life which
knows no honest toil, misses life's meaning.
The one who has never bent himself to a
task until the muscles have ached and
the brain reeled, knows not the highest
glory of life. The preacher who looks Into
the faces of men and women In the pews
who have toiled harder than he, has no
business In the pulpit. There Is no place
in this world for the speculator whose
wit or luck enable hlni to live from other's
loll; no place for the, rich man's son who
would live Idly on what othera have ac
cumulated; no place' for the poor man's
son who Bays, the world owes me a living
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Dyspeptic Philosophy.
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If a man never made a bet he would
nsver know how poor his Judgment Is.
Geess are proverbially llly. They don't
know enough to come In out of the rain.
The pen is only mightier than the sword
when it has the Ink to help it cut. .
At any rate It Is better to be a kicker
than a klckee.
, Memory is the quality that enable a
man to forget Judiciously.
It doesn't pay to cry over spilled milk,
nor to grieve more than a dollar' worth
over a loat dollar.
If a good plan to get out of the way
of the man who 1 riding his hobby.
Many a girl thinks she ha a broken
heart when alt she needs 1 a liver pill.
The effort of some people trying to make
both end meet resemble a dog chasing his'
tail.
We all live to be thankful for some of
(he failure of our youth.
Just because a man doesn't act like a
game cock . doesn't prove that he Is
chicken hearted. v
iroins, to Kit it without toil.
Honest toll is the ladder let down from
heaven up which man mac climb from his
. wettkness and Incompleteness; to attain to
I the linstte of his Creator. It was fclven as
' nuin's clilcfest blessing.
Second The redeeming power and bless
ing of work comes only to those who have
a tsek worth while, something that ought
to be done. Hts work must add to the
higher happiness of men. be some contribu
tion to the world's real wealth, or It is a
curse. Ttin man of wealth who surrounds
himself with servants to do service which
he should perform himself Is debauching
their lives. The footman, dressed in the
livery of his master to make vulgar dis
play of wealth Iims a degrading occupation,
not a dignity-giving task. The man with
a shovel, cleaning the street Is a king be
side him. The maid In the kitchen, guard
ing the sanitation of the houBhold, Is a
queen compnred with the society woman
whose ambition is to gain a position in
the Inner circle of exclusive aoclety. The
society woman works, hard enough. She
often drives her husband to dishonest prac
tices or to a stress of endeavor which
shortens his life to secure an Income to
satisfy her cheap ambition. She often
comes to nervous collapse In the fllir.y
chnse after her desire. But after reaching
her goal, having created envy and Jealousy
In the lives of her competitors, can you
Imagine her withy Jaded mind and body
thanking tiod for her success?
There Is no such thing as humble toll
or mental service In the world of necessity
and truth. The one who dees a task worth
while finds In that something of the mean
ing of his mankind, it links his life with
that of his Creator; and.
Third It should be every man's privilege
to realize that he Is called of God to do
Just the thing which he Is doing. If you
can not believe 'hat, you should change
your occupation. We hear such about the
'call of the ministry." Man should as
eveiently listen for the call of the shop,
or the farm; the office or profession. To
do something worth while which you are
fitted to do, that is the highest Joy of life.
Men should be ho sure that his daily task
Is pleasing to God that like our great Mas.
ter, In the evening glow of life, he can lift
his glad thanksgiving for the task and L
for strength to accomplish It.
And there Is a glory in being commis
sioned. Our task may be seemingly hum
ble, but if it contributes In any way to the
world's health or happiness, or knowledge.
It is God given. It matters not how ob
scure tha corner In which It Is performed.
We are shaping a stone to fit Into God's
perfect temple of a redemmed humanity.
In the obscure- places which most of us
occupy, It may be hard to see Just how our
little accomplishment may be used. It is
like the task of the workman on a great
temple. The master builder give him a
little piece of blue print and tella him to
make an excavation according to direction
at a certain place. To another Is given
the work of erecting a piece of rough
masonary. Then cannot see how their crude
labor is to fit into the finished temple,
but thty-have faith In the master builder
and perform the task allotted. And after
a year or ten years of toll they view the
completed structure and know that the
graceful spires, the strength and symmetry
of the massive building was made pos
sible by the faithful performance of their
humble task. It I our privilege to work
as partner with God and fellow men.
We may strive to satisfy selfish ambi
tlon. We may erect our Individual, straw
thatched huts of pride, or pleasure or sel
fish ambition, but as soon as our feeble
hands cease to support them, they crum
ble about us and life looses all meaning In
the ruin. But if life becomes a part of the
plan of the infinite, our every effort be
comes a contribution to the wealth which
shall endure through eternity. If, a we
go" through life, we can give a word of
kindness to one in sorrow, a ray of hope
to the hopeless, a -glad moment to a child,
relieve the material need of some lowly
one, drive back the wrong which would
rob some life of its purity, point the way
home, to some lost one, then we realize
life's meaning and thank God for life,
even with Its hardships and limitations.
From every temptation, every fret and
worry and fear of life there la a refuge;
the doing of honest work, the performance
of a God-given task.
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Tlier Is nothing more remarkable In I firm or Individual appears upon the trmle
the business life of America than the w on- I horlxcn of the country. I Urn and Brail -deiful
expansion of the directory-making I street immediately address some business
trade during the past two decades. When! man or firm In that community and maVe
the census made Its Investigation Into the I definite Inquiries s to the financial status
printing business a few years ago, it fouml f (1( n,w oomer. This Information ;s
that one of the largest features of the j published in the next issue of the bl
Job printing offices was the printing of
directories. In New York, Chicago and
1'hiladelphla alone there were l.OeUsH cop
ies of the city directories Issued. Their
aKK'-egate weight was more than l.'Vfl tons,
and it required 4i.000.000 Impressions to
print them. If this entire Job had been
turned off by a single cylinder press It
would have required 10.00U Impressions
a day for fourteen year.
The directory publishers of the I'nlted
States have banded themselves together
In an organization known a the lMrectory
Publishers' Association of America, which
assiKilatlon Is now In session In Louisville,
Ky. Th-3 purpose of this association is to
protect its members from competition and
the public from the Imposition of bogus
directory canvassers and dishonest direc
tory makers. It has a standing offer of
tmi for the arrest and conviction of any
Imposter In connection wltK the directory
trade. Nearly 1,0:0 American cities and
towns have complete directories. In some
of these the piinting of an annual directory 1
is not profitable, but the directory pub- j
Ushers have an eye to the future, and are
ready to preempt any field whloh looks
promising. It has been the experience of
the publishers that the first man has an
advantage over any competitor, and that
it seldom is profitable to Issue a second
directory of a given city.
It Is impossible for the directory pub
lisher to secure a copyright which will
protect him from the Issuance of a rival
directory, so long as he publishes only the
names of the Inhabitants and their ad
dresses. It would bo Impossible for any
court to tell whether the rival directory
had secured its names from the original
directory or from other sources. In this
way the rival publisher could simply wall
until the other directory waa out, copy It
and sell his book at a much lower figure.
In order to protect himself against such
ompetltlon, the directory maker lncorpor-
tes a number of bogus names. Any eom-
petltor who has merely copied his work
will have no means of knowing which
ere bogus names and which were real
ones. The presence of these bogus names
in the rival directory has been taken by
the court as sufficient proof that the
copyright law has been violated.
There are many thousand telephone
directories In the United States, and the
aggregate number of copies Issued la
larger than that of all other kinds of
directories together. It Is estimated that
It requires more than 150,000.000 twenty
four by thirty-elght-lnch sheets to print
the telephone directories annually dis
tributed in this country, and that more
than 300 freight cars would be required to
transport them. While advertising never
ha been as much resorted to In telephone
directories as in city directories, there are
thousands of advertisers who realize the
advantage of staying close to the tele
phone. In many cases the telephone direc
tories are not primed by the telephone
companies, but by Individuals, who sell
them at a price sufficient to cover the cost
of their production. The profit Is made in
the advertising space sold.
Although the telephone directory Is
printed In larger number than the city
directory, the latter la, of course, always
the larger volume. An average has been
made of the size of the directories Issued
In. the 11 cities of 25.000 population and
upward, and It has been found that ihe
average directory contains l,06t pages.
There are 791 city and town directories
now published, to say nothing of the many
state and county directories and
gazetteer. The principal publisher of
these book keep a full list of all printed
directories in the United States. These
are accessible to the general public for
consultation, and are extensively used by
those who have ' need of large lists of
name. In many of the principal libraries
of the country hundreds of directories are
found and many firms maintain a large
force for copying name from them.
Praotically every business, trade and pro
fession In the United States has Us own
directory. The most Important of all these
are the big financial ones of the two great
commercial agencies of the country Dun
and Bradstreet. These directories contain
list of all American business men con
cerning whom the commercial world may
wish to know something. Whenever a new
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BT BOBBIE! BABBLE.
In Paris ah' a mldlnette,
In New York she's a shopgirl, yet
Bo modish la her tailor gown
You might euppose she motored down
From Btockbridg. or Tuxedo Park,
Newport, or some such place but hark!
Her speech betray her humbler rank,
'Golls, my floor walker i a crank!"
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"I woiked until I nearly dropped,
When 'round my counter quick he popped,
And see me, 'Mis Chatty, you
May gossip when you're work Is through'.'
Ain't that the limit? I see, 'sir.
This goll Is too I'm coachtn' her!'
He ses It gimme such a shock
'Just coach her after ( o'clock!'
"Have you seen Ooltl Mutphy'a beauT
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d. rectory.
There are also directories of the manu
facturers of the country. If a man wishes
to know what firms manufacture any ar
ticle, from a steel pen to a railway loco
motive, he need only consult one of thee
big volume. They list artlcloa by the tens
of thousands, and show that there are
many thousand manufacturers in the United
States.
There are directories of the lawyers of
the counti ) . of the college pt ofessors, of
doctors, of teachers directories ef every
body. In addition to the ordinary business
dliectory there are muny social directories,
familiarly known a- "blue books." These
are prepared uiili a great deal of rare iiml
the lists are made from those receiving In
vitations to certain sisiiil functions durhjg
the preceding year. Many an ambitious
society woman studies her blue book more
carefully that her Bible.
Another phase of the directory business
that has develoiM-d by leaps and hounds in
recent years is the making of "Who's
Who's." The first Who's Who on record
was an Kngllsh publication brought out In
ISM. The American one Is modeled alter
this. The Idea of the Who's Who has been
applied to many localities, many trades
and many professions. Sometimes thef-e
publications do really tell who Is who. At
other times Who's Who Is the fellow having
enough dollais to pay for the notice that
makes him such.
The largest book ever made Is a directory.
It contains C.OuO pages of SfixKMnrh paper
and weighs tfb pounds. It requires nine
pieces of No. trunk-boards for the rover
an.1 five feet of Hussla leather for the
Joints. It Is the directory made for regis
tering the visitors at tho Alaska-Yukon
exposition and had space for 132.000 names.
The first directory of which we have
record was published in London in IiTT.
under the title "A Collection of tho Numes
of Merchants." The first American direc
tory was published In New York In KM!,
and contained l.OoO name. The earliest
work to bear the name was printed In Uon.
don In 1T3Z. It is said that the largest col
lection of directories in the world is to be
found In the British museum. Not only
does this collection comprise the publica
tions of this nature for all English cities,
but also for all the cities and towns of
Great Britain's numerous colonies.
The publication of a city directory is a
distinct business and is done by com
paratively few firms. The heaviest ex
pense Is In the canvass required in listing
the names. The principal profit Ilea in the
advertising space sold. There Is no spot
from cover to cover sacred from the de
mands of the advertiser. In some cases
the advertiser who succeed In proclaiming
his wares on the front cover has to pay
thousands of dollars for the privilege. 8ome
of the best solicitors in the advertising
business are found in the employ of the
half dozen or more firms who engage
solely In the compilation and printing of
directories. A Chicago publisher has made
a new departure which will undoubtedly
be popular. Instead of making a book
small dimensions with many pages, ho has
enlarged the book and put more nanus
to the page. In this way he has overcome
unwieldy volumes that one finds In such
cities as New York, Chicago and Boston.
The Postofflce department In Washing
ton has printed a directory which supplies
aMong-felt want. It Is a directory of tin
streets in all the cities and towns of the
country. There were so many Instances
where letters were addressed to streets In
cities that had no street of such name,
that it became necesarry to have Informa
tion concerning streets of the country.
When the department had succeeded In
getting tills information Into proper shape,
It decided to publish it for use of the gen
eral public. It Is a good sized volume and
may be consulted at all important libraries,
or purchased from the superintendents of
document.
The government blue book, as the offi
cial register of the United States Is known, .
is one of the most representative dlreo- '
torles published in the world. In It is
found the name of every postmaster, let
ter carrier, star route contractor, United
States marshal, and everybody else on thu
government salary roll.
T VBESBKIO J. XilXIX,
Tomorrow The Theatrical Beaaoa.
T The American
Say golls. I think she's awful slow.
Her bolthday came last week, and he
Gev her two books yest, honest. Gee!
'Emerson' Essays,' bound In blue;
He'd aata what she wanted, too.
There' cothln' In that head of hen
If he'da est me, I'da said 'furs!'
"Where are you tatin?' Oh, that place!
Their waiter' got a cheeky face,
I won't go there no more. On dsy
He had the Impudence te say
'Where are you llvln' now?" What nolve!
I eyed him then I sos, Dbsolve
A little more decorum yes,
The Plaza, air. Is my addre.-i'';
Just then the boss himself came by,
And that fresh waiter took a fly!
"Besides, I'm dletln'. They say
You're healthier on two meals a uay,
And then the style are so severe.
Unless you're thin, you look so quer.
Here' Jo, the vender. Hullo Jol
Those grapes o' your are selllu' slow.
Don't act as If you owned the utili
se quick! I want a nickel' woith!'
tCopyrlght. I10, by the N. Y. Herald Co.)
f
Daily Health Hint
J
Keep ua exercising la the doctrine
preached by Dr. Wood Hutchinson In the
"Heal Danger of Athletics," emphasizing
very strongly the danger of "letting go."
He says:
"One of. the secret of the wonderful
vigor and vitality of the Kngllsh nation
Is their attitude toward sports and games
In the open air, not merely In childhood
and In .youth, but threugh all ages, down
to the very end of life."
A ( Order.
Maud Tom bad tne talk Into a phono
graph so he can hear my voice while I'm
lawaj;.
I it 1 I a . a.
twiar dvw iuvviji Mud nm can miop lh
maobin!-Puok.