Beneath Gray Skies
By LILIAN IiAl'FKHTY.
Beneath gray skies the chill world Bleeps,
My heart with brooding heaven weeps
While lengthened night to rooming creeps
Beneath gray skies.
But when I made lifers Journey through
A dawn tinged world of gold and dew,
I still plucked rosemary and rue!
So now when gray morn follows night,
Within my heart I kindle night.
And turn to find my world is bright
Beneath gray skies.
Attractive Styles from Paris
KepuMislitMl ly Stni;il Arrausroinrnt with llnrpor's Haznr
Little Mary's Essays-Dachelors
By DOIIOTHV DI.X.
i ladles n hn are looking for a nice hus
! band.
Also
Bachelors are men who haven't got any
wives and troubles, and everybody lines
them for It, although they speak to them
nice and polite.
When a man Is a bachelor ho wears
fins " clothes, and
h . looks pray and
cheerful when ha
walks on the street,
and he holds his
shoulder up, and
has a proud air.
Also he has a auto
mobile. But when a
man Is married, he
quits brushing his
coat, and he. bns
a fringe on hm
trousers, and he
walks hump-shouldered.
Also he has
a baby carriage
which he pushes
when he takes a
stroll on Sunday.
Married ladles do
not liko bachelors.
heard my mother say so. She says they j
are mean, hateful, selfish old things to
spend all of their money on themselves,
and en fine clears, when they might be
r
t
1 know, because I I
bachelors that have got lots of
money and chronic complaints is dearly
loved by their nieces and nephews, who
i k nit r." ktles for them, and write them
nice, long letters. Oli, how fond we should
! be of our good kind bachelor uncles, who
have got bad livers, and lots of dough:
I Pachelora have many curious peculiar!
jtles. They mostly live In clubs, and arc
i very particular about what thsy have to
l cat, and they always get sick when any
jbody who lives In the suburbs asks them
: out to spend the week end. My father
says a old bachelor keeps a gouty foot on
i tap, just like a lady dos nervous prostra
jtlon. Bachelors generally have bald heads and
look as If they were cut sfter the pattern
of a hay window, and you would not think
that they could run fast, but they are
jsomo sprinters, for if they had not ben
'able to outrun the ladies they would have
! been caught and married,
j Bachelors are also very timid animals,
land they are so afraid of women, espe
cially of mothers with dsughters, that
I they take to their heels when they soo
one coming.'
My papa was reading In the paper that
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W mm 1
I they are going to put a tax on bachelors.
and my mama said, why were they going
to do It, and my papa said they were go
ing to do it because It was the principle of
Davlmr a wife 1,111. . -.n . f i lnl" goernmeni to tax luxuries.
spending their monev usefully in buving Bachelors have ro wives Hnd children,
her real Imported hats. 1,1,1 iU,Ly hav more ',ot,r relatlnns than
innyoony rise, and everybody feels free to
Married men do not like bachelors
either. I asked my father why this was,
lank a bachelor to plve them money? and
(If they don't they all hope somo woman
u-tti .-l-i. i,n..enie . i. ...
a man that is smarter than he Is." ,. '. , . , , . ' , , ,
I rlin eh pf RflvftnlnvM nf hfn et.h M
But ladles like bachelors when they are .'bachelor breach of nromis. suit. h(eh
jthey hae frequent and bad.
. Dacneior is snout the most intelligent
going to give a dinner party, because they I
ran invite a bachelor without having to
ask hla wife, and that is nice, for my
mother says, goodness knows what
makes all the nice men marry frumps
!ools.
Bachelors are also very popular with
animal there Is, but nobody loves him.
When I get grown up I hope I will be
able to catch a bachelor with lots of
money. I im going to take up the athletic
course when I go to Vassar, .
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Why America Should Now
Lead in Beauty Culture
and Fathiont Part 6
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How Thermometers Were Invented j
By EDGAR LVCIKX LARK IN.
Question "According tQ. Charles' and
Boyle's law In chemistry of gaaes, refer
ence is made to temperature as being
absolute. Then. If such Is the fact, why
should eminent scientific minds as passed
by Baiunl, Fahrenheit and centigrade
scales, vary and not use the so-called
absolute." George K. Carroll, Pullman
Shops, rtichmond, Cal.
Answer Baumi should be written
Resume, but ho did not make a ther
mometer: his wjrk was that of devising
tho hydroniter. When the physicists.
Celsius, Inventor of the centrigradc scale,
and Fahrenheit, that of the scale now
bearing hta name, and Reaumur, of his
scale, lived, none knew of the enormous
variation possible in temperature.
Fahrenheit, born 166, died 1T3, put
mercury Into a glass tube having a bulb.
This he placed In a bowl of powdered
Ice, and when the column of mercury
stopped going down, he scratched a mark
on the glaaa and called that aero.
But later he put salt, and still later sal
ammoniac. Into powdered ice; when lo,
the mercury at once started downward.
' When It came to rest he made another
swatch. Then he put the bulb Into steam
rising from boiling water and the mer
cury went up rapidly. When It stopped
he made a mark at that point.
Next he made 10 equal divisions be
tween his zero mark and the mark at the
boiling point. Then he made thirty-two
of the same kind of divisions below the
xero mark. He thought he had reached
the limit of cold.
Then came physicists and liquified car
bonic . acid gas; then they loweied this
temperature and reached the solid state.
Then experiments were niade In labora
tories everywhere; and this carbonic
Sage
Gray
Tea Turns
Hair Dark
It's Grandmother's recipe to bring
color, lustre and thickness to hair
when faded, streaked or gray.
That . bfautiful, even, shade of dark
glossy hair can only be had by brewing
a mixture of age Tea and Sulphur.
Tour hair is your charm. H makes or
mars the face. When It fades, turns
gray, streaked and looks dry, wispy and
craggy, just an application or two of
Saga and Sulphur enhances Its appear
ance" a hundredfold.
Don't bother to prepare the tonic; you
ran get from any drug store a 5dcent
Bottle of "Wyeth's Bage sad Sulphur
Compound," ready to use. This can al
ways be depended upon to bring back
the natural color, thickness snd luster
of your hair and remove dandruff, stop
scalp Itching and falling hair.
Everybody uses "Wyeih's' Hage and
Sulphur because It darkens so naturally
and evenly that nobody ran tell It has
been applied. You simply dampen a
sponge or sou brurh with it and draw
this through the hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the gray
hair has disappeared, and after another
application it becomes beautifully dark
and appears glossy, lustrous sod abundantAdvertisement.
oxide gas was used as a means of secur
ing lower cold. Startling results were
soon obtained. Marsh gas was made
liquid, then solid: then nitrogen, later
oxygon, and soon the world was aston
ished to hear of liquid air and then solid
air.
Hut greater ronquesta of nature fol
lowed. Solid hydrogen, and, to cap the
cllmnx. solid helium, only a few degrees
above that most wonderful point, abso
lute zero.
'.t this experiment be msde: Take gas
at the centigrade zero, that Is, the cold
of ice. Measure its exact volume, say
one cubic. Inch or one cubic foot, or liter.
Heat it to a temperature of 271 degrees
and Its volume will be doubled. Then
for one degree of rise of temperature the
volume Increased one two-hundred seventy-third.
Rut cool the gas down to 273 degrees
below sero; then a most astonishing re
sult will follow; the gas must be without
volume, or absolutely solid; that is, no
atom can move. But no volume would be
annihilation of the gas; but man cannot
annihilate even one atom of any kind of
matter.
Then the gas must finally reach a
state where It Is absolutely solid. But
none now can predict whether man will
ever be able to bridge th few degrees
between the arpalltng death-dealing cold
of solid helium and the absolute sero.
This gap Is the one most mysterious
problem and fascination now confronting
man. What. Indeed, will be the state of
matter when no motion of atoms can
occur between its rigid mass?
Alcohol, all, any gaseous or fluid sub
stance known, when subjected to the
cold of solid helium freezes to a solid
stste. When absolute sero la reached, if
ever, by science, all matter known may ,
present to us entirely new properties. j
Una has been discovered; a pure silver j
wire if Immersed In liquid he'sim loses
all resistance to a flow of electricity
through Its molecules. Think of this. It
may be that in an infinitely cold uni
verse, electricity can go anywhere with
out our present troublesome resistance
of all known conductors. Plenty of room
here for soaring Imagination.
In the centigrade scale the tube has 104
divisions in between freexlng and boiling
water, while in Iteaumur's thermometer
there are eighty divisions.
These three scales have caused endless
an t uaeleaa computation In the past. How
much better it would be to discard all of
them and use absolute only. Then the
temperature of Ice would read 273 degrees
We are norustomed -to havig oolor -ilay-the
leading role in evening gowns, bat this year it has
usurped the title rolo in btreet coKttimvs an well.
The: blending of subtle colorirttTS in this reception
costume would delight the eye of on urtUt. The
radium velvet is in a mysterotis green tone and
the quaint little collarette, for all the world like a
coachman's cape, is of tinted mink. Tne girdle of
suede matches in tone the fur and In the clasp are
the various tints of antique gold. Against the fur
collarette rests a smaller collar of chiffon in a
lighter tint of brown.
T4ie-princese is with us again, but built along
new lines. - InsTead of outlln'ng every curve of
the figure, It gives a broad, thick-set appearance
to" tife "wearer, eliminating tho waistline. The
offect Is clearly shown in this reception costume
of tete de negro radium velvet trimmed with
sable. The fullneHH, now so desired in tHe skirt,
is achieved by two deep flounces of the velvet.
There 1h an old world air to the lingerie gulmpe
and quaint nleeve finished with a frill and ur
mounted by a satin cuff edged with the sable.
ny WILLIAM K. KIRK.
"1 was away up in the Bronx YeMrr
dnv," ssld the Manicure ljidy. "Home
folks up there was burning rubbish In
their back yards, and the smell took me
back to my childhood days, when we J
used to do our spring cleaning back
home. There was an old overshoe burn- j
Ing some hoi e in one of tho piles, and 1
remembered how there was always a
old overshoe or a old rubber that smelt
above the burning straw and paper and
brush In our back yard Oh. them happy
days of childhood, which have went away
forever and which were so much hap
pier than the days I have saw since."
' I neer got no f in out of binning
up rubbish In the spring." said the Head
Barber, "t was the only boy at home,
and all that fussing around and cleaning
up the yard was up to me. 1 wasn't
keen for It, either. 1 got so I hated the
sight of a rnke and a wheelbarrow."
"But the yard always looked so milch
nicer after aril," said the Manicure
ldy. "There was a thought came to me
yesterday when 1 saw them people clean
ing up their yards that In the spring
every one of us should clean out our
minds, and think a lot of pure, fresh
thought". I told Wilfred about It. be
cause I thought maybe he could make a
poem out of it. but bo said that there
wasn't nothing poetical about burning tin
rubbish, so I didn't say no more. My
brother don't think any thoughts is Is
brilliant unless he has them himself."
"It wouldn't hurt any of us to clesn
out the back yards of our minds. If our
minds Is big enough to have n back
yard." said tho Head Barber, "but the
trouble with people here In tho city Is
that their minds get cramped and nar
row like the flats they live In. Then
they begin to think that their minds
don't need no cleaning out. and there
they stay."
"I didn't know that you had ever gave
that subject much thought. George," said
the Manicure lJtdy; "but you express my
own Ideas so forcible that I think our
minds Is a good deal alike, except that
I nln't booh enough to gamble. Oee, I
wish 1 could write even as good as my
brut her. 1 could make a poem out of
that what you Just said.
"And, speaking about burning an old
overshoe, It was funny how that amell
brought back my girl days. Ain't It
funny that when you smell some flower
or some strange perfume it brings you
back to days that have long went? T
wonder why that Is. When I smelt that
burning overshoe my memory went back
ten years to the days when I was only
a little schoolgirl. I can see my dear
old father now, throwing rubbish on that
fire In that back yard. He wasn't so
fat then as he Is now, but I can see
him."
"Did you say you waa a little school
girl ten years ago?" asked the Head
Barber.
"Thst is what I said." replied the Man!
cure I-ady, "and that Is what I mean.
What are you grinning about, OeorgeT
Thst don't set good on your msp. that
silly grin. I suppose you are trying to
mnke out that I am getting old, and the
first thing I know you will be Imitating
that I am a spinster. Ion't do it, Oeorgo,
If you want to stay good friends with me.
The first age limit talk I hear out of
you will be my cue to exit off the stsgo
and nut of this layout. You are listening
to the gypsy's warning. Mister Barber.
Let that soak in."
The Longing for Love
By BEATRICK FAIRFAX.
The universal longing for love Is re
sponsible for more misfit matrimonial
mates than anything else In this love-lit
old world.
A man loves love. A woman is the
embodiment of that sentiment lo him,
and, loving love and wanting it, he thinks
he loves the first woman who attracts
him.
A woman knows that when love comes
to her some man will bring the message,
and she mistakes every advance courier
on the road for her prince, often, in the
exuberance of her longing and the natural
exaggeration of youth, giving thut lung
ing for love to two men at once.
When the confusion Is confined to one
object, tragedy threatens, but when a
man or woman "loves" two at the uaine
time, It Is cupld's comedy. No one can
marry two persons at once, but one may
marry one. and find out too lute that
love for love and love for Individual are
as far apart as the east and west coasts
of the sea.
If one were to tell the writer of the
following letter that i-lie is playing the
stsr part in cupid's comedy, she would
grow indignant. Hhc has given tMat
which she mistakes for love to two men
at once. Those who have known this
divine passion knows that she doesn't
know what love means.
Iove Is never divisible.
Rose writes: "I am a young girl of IT
and deeply In love with two young men.
One Is a sailor, and the other lives In
Brooklyn. I think a great deal of the
Brooklyn man, tut I love the sailor, too.
Both of them care for me. What shall
I do?"
Mac, a grown man, and who uhould
have learned better, is in the same predi
cament. "I am In love with two girls." he
writes, "and they love me dearly. They
do not know each other, and 1 don't
No other Is soff 111 the rythm;
I'nless you an feel, when left by one.
That all men Hse go with him;
Unless you can know, when upraised by
his breath,
That your beauty Itself wants proving;
Unless you can swear, "For life, for
death."
Oh, fear to, call It loving.
That Is loving a love for the Indi
vidual that will survive sorrow, and suf
fering, and penury, and abuse, and indif
ference, and pain, and even time. It la
not a love for love, a sentiment that is
satisfied with every new object upon
which it can fasten. It Is not a feeling
that knows a moment's hesitation or
doubt.
One never loves two. It Is too engross
ing, too painful, too Joyous, too all-satisfying
and too complete, to love more
than one. There never was, there never
Is, there never will be a love for two.
I asked him. Io you not think, with me,
that I could lie perfectly happy a hla
wife? II F. T.
Pon't risk mnrrylng a man until bis re
form la assured not promised. Seventeen
years Is a fnlrly big distance to bridge.
but If the. mun Is one you can respect and
admire the nctunl years between you
would not be a menace to your happl
ness.
3
Providing Rnterf alnraeat.
"Say, friend," exclaimed the man who
had come suddenly out of the bushes,
"I've had all kinds o' trouble to get any
fish to stay In this part o' the stream."
"Then I suppose you object to my fish
ing?" said the stranger.
"How long have you been here?"
"About two hours."
"fetch anything?"
"No."
"Well. I guess there ain't no objection
to your gettln' out on a rock an' threshln'
around awhile longer. Maybe it'll help
to amuse the fish." Washington Star.
If America becomes the fashion pro
ducing country of the world, what effect
will Hint have on the standard styles'.
Will the w ild. fev ci lh eesrch after a
novelty that hss
c ll a racterlsed
I European fash
Ions continue,
or will the
modes become
more conven-
)f ' M fiji tlonal and prac-
; - i.! ,U-''
I As this opens
V' ' t up pure specu
lation ll is pn -lisps
useless to
go very far Into
the subject.
Fashions when
set by a queen or court favorite were de
signed to cover up some pe'rsonal pecu
liarity or enhance some beauty. When
democracy began and all women de
manded a nhsre In the modes, some other
In vntlve was necessary. This has often
been found In somo new departure In
rt. In the drama, music or even politics.
The Japanese-ltusslan war made Japan
ese effects the vogue, and some years
later, when the St. Petersburg Opera
company made such a success In Paris,
Russian Ideas In dreaa crept into the
raris attolievs.
Before I left Paris In September many
of the leading couturiers had reopened
their shops, shut at the first horror f
war. snd were making an attempt to flit
their American orders, nut they all quite
agreed that there would be no Incentive
to furnish new Ideas for their own Paris
clientage.
From now on there will be few French
women wearing anything but Mark
mourning clothes. French family life la
so closely interwoven and the 'ramifica
tions so formally regarded, that at any
time the wearing of complimentary or
sympathetic mourning la quite common.
Already the loss of life has been ao great
that there Is hardly a family that has
not some personal loss to mourn as wtl
as the national bereavement.
This will be little felt In this more for.
tunnta country, but the fact that so great
a tragedy is going on In the world will
undoubtedly have a quieting, sobering ef
fect everywhere. I feel that we are not
going to sen any continuation of the bl-
arre and sensational fashions that hare
been so conspicuous.
The American dressmakers and de
signers have now a chance to show what
they can do. unhampered by any dicta
tion from across the sea. Good luck to
them.
Do You Know That
Lightning does most damage In level
opon country.
Out of 2.G00 barlstera In the Paris law
courts 2,000 have been mobilised.
No fewer than SOO.ooo.ono ounce of silver
have been secured In Ontario since the
cobalt depoalts were discovered In 1918.
In the metropolitan and country schools
of New South Wales last year the former
enrolled 7,120 new pupils and the latter
7.651.
Western Australia's total population U)
less than S.O.000, but at the and of May
this year there were over 100.000 accounts
open In the savlnga banks of that state.
There are In Great Britain 11,000 small
holders, and In addition 1,400 holdings ara
held under asaoclatlons. On June IS 19S,
000 acres of land had been or were about
to bo acquired.
Photography haa discovered the depth
to which the sun's rays penetrate water.
Five hundred and thirty feet below thai
surface darkness was much the same aa
that on the earth on a clear but moon
less night.
degrees
The absolute heat Is unknown, for all
substsnres known to chemists turn to
gas at less than 7,000 degrees absolute;
In modern electric furnaces or craters of
electric arc arbons.
How hot the giant suns, Arcturus,
Vega. Slrius. Csnopus. Rlgel, Altalr,
Alpha Centauri, and our own modest sun
may now be or become, is at present un
known. Kor st absolute heat, all matter In
existence would beyond doubt be reeolved
back to primordial electrons, since noth
ing exists but electrons. But in thus be
coming conserved Into work, the heat
wjuld vanish and absolute cold assume
dominion and power.
centigrade and that of boiling water JTJ t know what to ao i can t kee,, lt up any
longor. I love both, and It will be as
hard to part from one as from the other.
What am I to do? They love rue so
wildly lt would hurt them for me to
leave them."
And that is the unfortunate feature.
Wherever there Is a Bcse or a Ma- "lov
ing" two at onoe there is some one giv
ing a whole hesrt and receiving a half
heart in exchange. It la the suxgcstlon
of tragedy necessary to make the com
edy. There is one test w hen one is not sure
of one's own heart. K.Jizabcth Barrett
Browning gives it to all uncertain lovers:
Unless you can think, when the song is
one,
Advice to Lovelorn
By BKaTBICB TAXUTAX.
At a Daare.
Iear M!s Fairfax: Will you please tell
me the proper thing to say when a gentle
man thanks you for a dance, and ulao If
it la proper to go out for ref rcHlimcnlM
with olio fellow when you have come to
a ilance with mint her? I'KIU'l.hiX Kl).
Say. "Thank you, I enjoyed it, too," or
uny gracious,- friendly words that occur
to you. It Is very discourteous to go out
for i ef reshments with any but your es.
cort.
Don't 'Hi I n U of Disloyalty. '
Pear Miss Kalrfax: My sister Is en
gaged to I married to u certain young
man. Sometimes, when be goes out motor-cycling
with other young couples he
taken me with bun. If my sister must
work on the appointed day. He does this
becaus,, all the otliera of the parly hae
their setheart.i. My sister does not In
tbn lea-t mind this, but I am very anx
ious to know if it looks very unlrust v ur
thy on bis part? ANXlOl'S IioKOTHY.
Men sre often purer-minded than girls..
Tins seems to be sucti a case. Your sis
ter's fiance probably takes you on his
motor-cyile with a simple feeling that
you are his little sinter to-he. Go along,
since your sister has no objections, and
don't look for trouble and Insults where
nun aie meant
Walt I uHl He He forms.
Dear Miss Kairf.ix I am a girl of IS
and de ply In love with it mun of Until
recently, when he fcave me two beaut ilul
pictures ready for framing. I had no idea
that lie reciprocated my affections. Mr
young lady friends disapprove of him
very much because of certain had habits
hlch 1 feel sure he would discontinue If
Hill
Do You Know ,
the Delights in a Cup of
Old Golden Coffee?
The fragrance, fullness of flavor
and aroma, give a satisfaction to every
one who drinks it. ' All this goodness
is the result of over forty years of
painstaking effort by Tone Bros, to
give to the lovers of good coffee a
cup that pleases.
Experts select the best of the green
coffee berries from the worlds crop.
Careful attention is given to the
aging under proper conditions and
preciseness in blending and roasting.
Put up in one-pound packages and sealed as
a protection from air and moisture. The grocer
sells it ground, steel cut, or in the whole bean
for those who prefer to grind it themselves.
TONE BROS., Des Moine.
(Erfakbaea 1S73)
Miller f Aa Fmmoua 7en Br, Spict
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