OYSTERSSelecte ALMA" \*r. 'H*1" To Be Called For tomer who, after a parting look in the mirror, walked out. "He wasn't as particular as some," said the hatter. "Most generally they're anxious to know that we won't mix lip the hat with somebody else's. It's a funny thing about ^hat. I'm thinking of calling this store the hat exchange." "Why?" "Because that's about what it is. Once in a hundred years a man will come in and buy a hat and take the old one away in a paper bag. Occasionally we have a customer who'll wear his old one and cany the new one in his hand. Now and then some one is billing to paj the 10 cents extra for delivery outside of the downtown district. But most men leave the old hat and say they'll call for it. Well, they don't, call just the same. No, sir, not on your life they don't." "Why don't they1? *1 BELIEVE I'LL JUST PUT WEAR IT." What the Market Affords ^Thursday Evening BELIEVE I'll just put it on and wear it," said the customer, when he had adjusted the new hat to his satisfaction "I'll leave the old one here and call for it as I go home I don't Avant to be bothered with it now.'' "Ye s, sir," said the hatter. "I'll make yon out a cheek for it That's good for thirty days. Any time you want it just bring the check along and we won't have to keep you waiting at all while we hunt it up." He handed a slip of pasteboard to the cus- That wasn't a bad hat that man left. Don't you think he'll call for it?" "Are you anything of a sport?" asked the hatter. "If you are, I'll bet you 5 to 1 in anything you like that he won't. You'ie light it's not. a bad hat. But he's been sort of sick of it for a month or two, most likely. He wanted a differ ent shape and something that looked fresh and he has got it. I don't say he doesn't intend to call for it some time, but he won't just the same. He '11 wait until he gets kind of tried of the one he just bought and then it will be too late. He won't be very sorry, ei thei. Look here." The hatter opened a door showing a small room shelved to the ceiling with old hats stacked as thickly as the shelves would hold. "There. Not one of those is thirty days in storage. They all belong to men who said they would call and get them, but there won't be a dozen claimed. I don't know why they don't tell me to thiow 'em away, but I suppose they hate to be wasteful Peihaps they have a sneaking idea that they really do want to get rid of 'em, but the checks soit of soothe then consciences." Just then another customer walked to the wrapping coun ter -with the cleik who had waited upon him "I'm going down the street a little way and I'll call and get it as I come back,'' he said to the clerk. "Better take a check, sir," said the cleik. "It's good for thiity days "The hatter winked at the man he had been enlightening. "If you told them that the old hats could't be kept over twenty-four houis, don't you think that perhaps they'd call for them then?" "Perhaps," replied the hatter, "but then -we don't care. iWe find a way to get rid of them." And here he winked at the customer again.Chicago News. IT ON AND 50 cents a quait New York counts, 70 cents Blu Points in the shell, 25 cents a dozen opened, 40 cents. Blue fish, 20 cents a pound. Fresh mackeiel, 50 cents apiece. Lake Superioi white fish, 15 cents a pound. Pike, I2V2 cents a pound. Lemons, 40 to 50 cents a dozen. Cucumbers, 5 to 8 cents. Potatoes, 38 cents a bushel. Paisley, 5 cents a bunch. Oysters did not wait for the 1st of September, but came in this morning to be ready for tomorrow, and they are un usually fine for this season of the year. There is so much more variety in the fish market on Fri day than on any other day the week that a majority of housewives plan to serve fish then, no matter what their re- ligion. Tomonow there will be a splendid variety of both fresh and salt-water fish. An effectual way of pi eventing fish from tainting the refrigerator "while it is waiti ng to be cooked is to wrap it closely in a cloth wrung out of cold .water. To cook the fresh mackerel wash, split and dry it and rub it with flour. Melt over a brisk fire a piece of butter the size of an egg in an iron pan When the hutter is slightly brown put in the mackerel, the flesh side down, and let it cook until brown then turn on the other side and cook slowly for fif teen minutes. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and squeeze over it the juice of a lemon. Even the lemons have advanced in piiee5 cents since yesterdaywe must use them with fish, either in sauce or as a garnish. Boiled potatoes dressed with melted butter and chopped parsley and sliced cucumbers with a French dressing of olive oil, vinegar, pepper and salt, aie the usual accom paniments for the fish. To many people the crisp, raw cucumber, appetizing as it is, proves very ^indigestible. Let these unfortunates try theirs cooked. Cooked cucumbers may be served hot, with a cream sauce, or cold as a salad. Rather ripe vegetables should be selected, and they should be stewed very slowly. Finely Bhredcfed. chili peppers added to the sauce improve its ap pearance and take away from the slight insipidity of the cooked cucumber without destroying its natural flavor. When the cucumber is to be served as a salad, cut it lengthwise in stead of across, as one does the raw cucumber. THE CAT'S TOILET. Pp was under the dining table wrth the cat. What are you doing, Alma?" the mother asked. 'I'm pickin' him's teef." DO ANY OP YOU ENVY HIM? He doesn't have to bother about looking up a flat or moving. Kid Days By R. B. PisJey. I guess you know my sister. Well, last Sunday her 'n her beau Was in the sittin' room, and so I erawled up carefully on the floor, 'N peeked around the kitchen door, 'N while I's watchin' them he kissed her I Gee! I yelled right out, 'N sis she says: "You little lout! Ma, can't he just keep still?" 'N ma she couldn't help but smile, Je s' like she knowed it all the while, But she says: "Do be quiet, Will." Nen I knowed I ljatta do it, 'Cause when they's any foolin' to it She always calls me Willie But I jes stayed right in my place, 'N the way her beau looked in the face I guess he'd like to knock me silly. Nen sis she says to run away 'N git my ball 'n things 'n play, 'Nen she ast ma, 'n ma says yes, She thot it prob 'ly would be best. But gee, they needn't bin so smart 'N scolded me just 'cause my cart W as in the way Jes when her fellow went to go. 'N I guess sis wouldn 't like her beau If she knowed the things I heard him say 1 The Journal9s Daily Fashions No. 2789-A Party Frock for Miss Dainty IT ribbon, what little maiden would not be belle of the ball in such a frock? This dress may be made high or low neck and with or without the bertha. Four yards of 36-inch material are required for developing this pattern in the medium size. Girls' Dress 2789 is in 5 sizes, from 4 to 12 years. This pattern may be obtained, postpaid, in any of the above sizes, by sending 10 cents and the size, name and address to the Fashion Department of The Minneapolis Journal. What Women Want to Know OILY HAIR.Will you please tell me a good remedy for very oily hair?Kate. Use this lotion once a week, rubbing it carefully into the scalp: Bicarbonate of soda, one-fourth of an ounce borax, one-fourth of an ounce: cologne water, two ounces rectified spirits, one ounce tincture of cochineal, one-hall ounce distilled water, sixteen ounces. TO REMOVE CEMENT.What will remove cement that has been spread on the tiles of a piazza by a careless wormian?An Old Subscriber. I fear nothing will remove the cement unless you can have it chiseled off. Cement is supposed to be indestructible and for that reason is used so generally. QUESTIONS FOR TOMORROW. A BIBLICAL. ARGUMENT To decide an argument, will you please answer the following questions: How many Marys are mentioned in the New Testament? W as Mary Magdalene the same as Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus? Was she identical with the woman wno had the alabaster box of ointment and poured it on the feet of Christ ?Argument. DILL PICKLES.Will you please give a receipt for making dill pickles that will keep over winter? I can make them, but they will not keep.Mrs. J. E.JKT. THE MmNBABcfLISTrOXJKNAL. I IN 1"required WH A is not sufficient that mother should have a, pretty gown for so cial occasions, but the little miss, who follows in her footsteps, must have one too. I must be dainty, chic and be coming and quite in harmony with her age. Simplicity in design and materials are the essentials, and the ac companying cut wiM find many admirers for these very qualities. Made of white wash chiffon or India silk, with a dainty cream or white lace edging the bertha, and charmingly accented by a broad sash of rose-pink tafEeta ClK MARY,t TH Cute Sayings of Kids A READING LESSON. is a well-established fact that the average school-teacher experiences a great deal of difficulty when she attempts to enforce the clear pronunciation of the terminal "g" of each present participle. "Robert," said the teacher of one of the lower classes during the_progress of a reading exercise, "please read the first sentence." A diminutive lad arose to his feet, and amid a series of labored gasps breathed forth the following "See the horse runnin'." "Don't forget the 'g,' Robert," admonished the teacher. "Ge e! See the horse runnin'." AN UP-TO-DATE INFANT. certain parts of the west bluebirds are harbingers of spring, and a kindergarten teacher, noting their appear ance, decided to have a bird lesson and call the attention of the children to the arrival of their feathered friends. After a short talk on birds in general she said: "This morning as I was on my way to school I noticed something flying about in the sky that told me spring was coming. Can any of you little children guess what I saw?" "Ye s, um," piped a wee one whose home had recently been fumigated for measles, "it's germs." A CHILD'S CONCLUSION. LANCHE and Harry, aged 5 and 6 respectively, were very fond of maple sugar. Blanche, being of an inquisitive turn of mind, asked her mother how it was made. The mother explained how maple-trees were tapped and the sugar made from the sap. The explanation was not convincing to Blanche, however, and she asked her brother if he believed it. Harry, who never doubted anything his mother said, im mediately replied, "Why, of course you tap maple trees and get maple sugar, ju^t the same as you tap an oak tree and get tapioca." UNTHEIFT. a certain school an average of 75 per cent was for promotion from one grade to another. Eight year-old Rosalie was indolent and fond of play and fun, but yet wanted to pass from the second to the third grade with just as little study and work as possible. The end of the term came and the grade-card showed a per cent of 76. When displaying her card to her parents that night the child said, "Isn't it a shame that I studied hard enough to get one more than I needed?" A SLIGHT LEAVEN. E N Louise was a little girl her mother died, and for several years she and her father lived very quietly. But when Louise was 6 years old her father married again, He moved into a larger corps of servants, and and then wonderful changes began, house, bought horses, employed a again took up his social duties. One day Louise met a former-neighbor, the mother of one of her playmates. "Well, Louise, how are you getting along?" she was asked, "Oh, beautifully," replied Louise. "You must come over and see us. Everything's new but papal" -M il CELESTIAL POULTRY. n? WOnsmall boys on the way home from Sunday school were I 'dfecussing Jacob's dream, in which angels walked up and down the ladder let down from heaven. "The angels had wings, of course," said the first small boy, so I don't see why they didn 't fly.'' "Well," replied the second small boy after a moment's thought, "perhaps they were moulting PREFERS HOME. SMALL Philadelphia child had had read, to her the story of the Tower of Babel and the punishment of its pre- sumptuous builders. A few days later she went in town with her mother and saw the new Bellevue-Stratford hotel. "Mother," she exclai**.d, looking up at the top stories, I don't believe God likes that building." ALL THE MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. **Y\7HAT makes it fly so?" asked a little Boston maiden YY as her mother brushed her hair. "It is the electricity. Don't you know that there is elec-' tncity in your hair?" replied her mother. "Well, mamma, aren't we wonderfully made? Heie I am, with electricity in my hair and grandma has gas in her stomach!'' HIGH BRED. LYDE was a very wise child and had been told he was. One day he was leading a huge dog down the street when one of his playmates met him. I say, Clyde, what kind of a dog is that?" "He's a full-blooded dog," said Clyde proudly. "What do you mean by that?" said the other. I simply mean this," said Clyde} "he is just as full o* blood as he can be." CATCHINpursuedt 1 EARLY CHARITY. aged 4, didn't like breadcrusts. She would eat the sof part and leave the rest. Her mother insisted on her eating the crusts, telling her, reproachfully, how many poor children would be glad to have them. Mary looked up archly and said, "That's what I'm saving them for, mamma!'' I SOARED THEM OFF. E shooting of one of Lord Lovat's gillies, whom they mistook for a poacher, by the Phipps brothers in the Scottish highlands, recalled to a Pittsburg man another poaching episode. A San Francisco millionaire," he said, "rented an es tate in Scotland, and the poachers harassed him unmer cifully. "He was too humane a person to employ man traps or guns. After a few weeks' persecution he resorted to trick ery to circumvent his poaching friends. "He sent to a London hospital for a couple of freshly amputated legs and three or four feet. These, as soon as they arrived, he nailed to big posts which he had caused to be set up in prominent places upon his estate, and under neath each ghastly relic he put a huge notice saying: 'The owner of the above may reclaim it by furnishing suitable identification at the head keeper's office.' ^Tor fear of man traps so deadly the poachers thereafter kept out." A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE. sigh of me in time, he darted across the way. But I him, purple with rage. I overtook him. I clapped him roughly on the sholder. -4jjQ#k. here," I said, "Do you skip across the street every time you see me so as to keep from paying that bill Oh, no,'' he answered. Not at all.'' "What for, then?" I demanded. "f-o keep from being asked to pay it," he replied. wjp"iw Hinajj^iri^irpi.jljiflji^i ippm August 31, iaos^qr^pj I was glad to get your letter telling that yon had taken up the task of getting good litera ture into the southern rural schools, and I as sure you my hearty sympathy. M. W. Howard, Ex Congressman, Alabama. INTERNATIONA SUNSHIN E SOCIETY MINNESOTA INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 06 Fifth avenue. OTer Alden. founder New York. Cynthia West md president general. MINNESOTA HEADQUARTERS. Room 94, Loan and Trust building, 818 Nicol let avnne, Minneapolis. Telephone. N. W. Main 1225 AJl Sunshine news for publication in the Sun shine department of The Minneapolis Journal should be addressed to Miss Era Blaachard. 139 East Fifteenth street. Sunshine Libraries. Sunshine is now supporting about 500 free librarieslibraries from which the books are taken and read until they fall to pieces The work has been largely carried on in the south and west, where there seems to be a greater need for libraries The following letters received at head quarters in New York are from the south and show in great measure the need and appreciation of the Sunshine libraries I note you hare induced the Sunshine society to Interest themselves in libraries tor the south. The ruial schools are greatly in need of libraries, and I trust good will result from your works along these lines Jas B. Frazier, Governor of Tennessee. The distribution of books for tlie couth's rural schools is a big question. The condition of some classes appals and scares one. The ques tion of education is the burning issue of the day. The race problem sinks into oblivion com pared to it Tony Williams. Press Agent Sunshine Society, KnoxUlle Sen tinel, Tenn I than* the Lord for raising up a southern girl to maEe known the wants of the south's rural schools. Oh, for the trump of an arch angel to arouse our friends to a knowledge of the true condition here It pains me to see so many of our people hungry and thirsty after a knowledge of the world's great masters and to think how powerless to help them I am May God bless TOO dear soul and ien you sue cess, and rest assured that in that better land there is a crown for those who are giving them selves to the service of their feuowmen C. Wright, Supt. of Public Instruction, Straw, N C. The Importance of the work you have inaugu rated can hardly be estimated Tjntil you brought it to my mind thru the Sunshine so clety I never fully realized just what It was ve needed Now, it is borne in upon me with tremendous force, that the lack of th knowl edge of literature is tn rock upon which we strand If only some great philanthropist could be brought to see how much more im portant this movement is than piling of millions in brick and mortar! Let us have literature Let every child have an opportunity to delve in literature from fairy tale to Shakspere When I think of the stupendous undertaking, I wonder if it can be accomplished in a genera tion Mrs S Droke, Teacher for twenty five years in mountains of the south Do send us some books We need even al manacs, for some people do not know what day of the month Sunday comes on Rev E Ayres, Circuit rider In mountains of Tennessee Looking Toward the Light. I asked the roses as they grew Richer and lovelier in their hue. What made their tints so rich and bright? They answered, "Looking toward the Light" The Outlook. Special Sale Boys' and Girls' SCHOOL UMBRELLAS 20, 22 and 24-inch Taffeta and Gloria Um brellas, with natural wood fancy I* A heads, pearl and horn stud other ^B fine handles, worth $1 and $L25 .www i tfWIflW-T-tt UMBRELLA HOSPITAL Your Mind Handicapped by poor eyesight, lacks the power of seeing rightly into details hence poor judgment. '"He best can work Who best can tee." Optician, 604 NICOLLET AVE., Near 6th St. S, Wake Up DON! 'IfALAKMfcD! and tear away ^from the old fashion Eyeglasses. rf5HUR-0N rf HtLDTlGHTlUT 'ilONT fit TIGHT Satisfaction or Money Back. Paul C. Hirschy OPTICIAN 31 Nicollet Stairs FAIR WEEK SPECIALS Don't wait until the last day. Call early and have your work finished. $15 00 platea $12 OO |l2.oo plates $10.00 S10 plates 66.00 Solid Gold Cap. (5.00 Fillings $1 and up. Dr. H. S. RAY, Dentist, Established 1880. 329 NICOLLET AVE., MINNEAPOLIS. it will bring help to you that you need if you just advertise your wants in The Journal STATE OFFICERS. President, Mrs Noble Darrow 816 Twenty-see. md arenne S, Minneapolis Telephone T. C. 1402. First Vice PresidentMrs Grace W TublM. Second Vice PresidentMrs, J. A Brant. Third Vice PresidentMrs. N. A. Sprong. Fourth Vice PresidentMrs. J. F. Wilson. Fifth Vice PresidentMrs. E W. Klngsley. Sixth Vice PresidentMrs Fleming. SecretaryMiss Corlnne De Laittre. TreasurerMiss Eva Blancbard Corresponding SecretaryMrs. Frederick O, Sammis. OrganizerMiss Lillian M. Ellis. Sunshine Thoughts. If "one touch of sorrow makes thn whole world kin," One beam of sunshine makes the whole world brighter. Sunshine is like loveit makes every thing shine with its own beauty Wilson. Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heartSmiles The bread of life is love, the salt of Ufa is worK, the sweetness of life poesy} the water of life faith.Smiles. Every day is to be lived a minute at a time We mix things sadly if, when we wake in the morning, we pick up all the puzzles and difficulties and duties fft one big lump and try to carry them all at the same time Invited Guests. A crowd of troubles passed him by, As he with courage waited He said, "Where do you troubles fly Hen you are thus belated 1 "We go" they said, "to those who roopey Who look on Life dejected, Who weakly say good bye to Hope We gowhere we re expected A Good Temper No feature in a woman's character is more valuable than sweetness of temper and disposition. Home can never be hap py without mutual concessions and a mutual disposition not to expect perfec tion A man retires to his home in the evening, wearied by the exertions or tha annoyances of trie day, and to him now soothing is a word dictated by a wish to make him siut out that world and for a while to forget it all' It falls on the heart like a ray of sunshine in an early spring Sweetness of temper has its in fluence, too o\er the children and do mestics peace and love invite the hus band, the father, to hasten to his quiet fireside, and his children watch his com ing. TalK Happiness. Talk happiness, the world is sad enough Without your v*oe, no path Is whilly rough* Look out for plates that are smooth and clear, And speak of them to rest the weary ear Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain Of mortal discontent end grief and pain. Talk faith, the world is better off without Tour uttered ignorance and morbid doubt If you have faith in God or man, or self, Say so, if not, push tack upon the shelf Of silence all your thoughts till faith shall come. No one \111 grieve because your dps are dumb. Tallc "health the treaty never-enOlng tale Of mortal maladies is vtorn and stale You cannot charm or Interest or please By harping on that minor chord, disease Say yon are well, or all is nell with vou And God shaU hear your words and make then* true. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. MINNESOTA MACARONI MINNESOTA MACARONI C.| I S77/AZ/Z,JVIJVJVS i