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N I 5 tsy i With the Long Bow '"Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as It files." ^bet-Humorist and Farmer Swap Jobs for One Day, Ned Brown Writing "the Stuff" and Doc Bixby Palling the Cow and Cultivating the Corn. ED BKOWN, who runs a farm somewhere out side of Lincoln, Neb., and Dr. Bixby, editor of the Daily Drift column in the Lincoln Jour nal, swapped work for one day, Brown writing Doc's funny column and Doc editing the farm and curry combing the cows. The farmer turned out a pretty I poor column of paragraphs ending with a pretty good poem, just as Doc does. The poem ran thus: I never tried my hand at writing verse, But J'm pretty sure I can't do worse At work for Bix than Bix at work for me, For there in the cornfield he'll be all at sea. For Bixby doesn't know the cornfield's needs He'll sure plow up the corn and leave the weed*. I fear he'll do the growing crop much harm, For as you know, one must have brains to farm. This "Drift," however, is an easy trick You first relate how lately you've been sick, Give all the symptoms and the prescribed diet, And counsel every reader sure to try it. Then, since for you no topic has a terror, Tou poke poor fun at forms of "mortal error"} Whenethamostwritten Teacher was giving her little object lesson on the clock. "Now, children, can you tell me wherein I am like the clock?" (Eager waving of hands.) "Well Henry?" "Because you've got hands." "Yes, that's right." "And a face." "Yes. And wherein am I different from the dock?" "The clock runs down." The humor oS this was so subtle that it was not appreciated in the place of its inspiration, but teacher had to tell it later., where it was much enjoyed. A Chicago paper devotes three-fourths of a column on its front page to an interview with Miss Giulia Morosini, daughter of a millionaire New York banker, who explains in some detail how she manages to keep her dress account below $100,000 a year. It takes stern self denial to do it, but Giulia does it. We keep our pantaloon account down to about $12.75 a year, but we don't brag about it in the society columns. Do you ever grit your teeth and hold on tight While doing so it may be well to remember in case the teeth pull out or push in that Philadelphia has the largest plant for the manufacture of teeth in the known world. If you do not raise your own bites, the chances are that they are Philadelphia-made. The nature of the tooth composition, which resem bles plaster of paris, is a factory secret. When the composition is in the mold it is placed in an oven to be hardened. From the oven it travels- to another operator who trims off the rough edges and shapes it into the finished tooth. Then it goes to the fur nace to receive the final baking at a tremendous heat. After that the girls get in their fine work polish ing and finishing and examining for defects. Some It wise chinaiscrackerto jar I i high egg beater cannot overbalance and fall '"out, if left in the bowl and its shape ti keeps the cream from spattering. Cherry toast is a good breakfast dish. jftPit the cherries and place on buttered tOast, sprinkle lightjy with powdered sugar and bake.s Servebvereasily cold.made Variou icing can -with confectioner's sugar. Mash a jfl banana and mix to a paste with con fectioner's sugar. Mash strawberries and stir into confectioner's sugar. Make a paste of cocoa or chocolate, Scream and confectioner's sugar. Mix confectioner's sugar with evaporated cream to make a plain white icing. The housewife has many uses for Hr* pickled nasturtium seed. After the flower has dried from the nasturtium jplant, lay the seed in salt and water for two days then dram and lay in fresh, cold water. Dram and pack in ^jars. Bring vinegar to the boiling point 1 and season it with mace and pepper corns and a little white sugar. Fill jars to overflowing and seal. I is out sent in then you Devis a prepost'rouanbreakfast menu And if of lacking copy you have fears, Tou grab the paste pot and the well-worn shears And clip a stickful (say, this is ease) From Russell, Gillilan or Otus Reese 4- Beef *bout the beet trust, holler 'bout the pric*) The local shylocks put upon their ice. And so is ended all your daily tasks As fat a take as any man should ask. All of which we consider pretty good farming, ths the editor of the paper claims it "sweat" the potato digger considerably to do it. Meantime "Doc" had hied out to the farm. In the morning his manly form was pried out of bed with difficulty by the hired man at 4:30 and the cheerful music of the milk of a dozen cows as it hit the bot tom of the tin pail was heard for an hour or two. Then eame breakfast. Here the editor was at home. From 7 to 11:30 came the great joy of cultivating a few million acres of corn extending far over the hori zon. From 11:30 to 1, the poet rested up and did valiant service at dinner. From 1 to 6 Doc ran a sulky rake and gathered up the horses' breakfast food for next winter. At 6 p.m. the editor-poet shone mightily at the supper table. After that he tried to read the weekly paper but was so blame tired that he fell asleep on the sofy in his stocking feet and slept so vociferously that the fire shovel was jaTred from its place In the chimney corner and fell with a clatter. The next day the two parties got together and decided to stick to their own games, as their wives advised in the first place. r' What the Market Affords whipt thse crea,msointha The French use watercress as an anti dote to nicotine, heavy smokers some times partaking freely of it to avoid the consequences of excess in tobacco. Babbits inoculated with nicotine and suffering in consequence with tetanus have been restored, to health by the injection of watercress juice and a minute quantity of caffeine. Dried mushrooms are not expensive, 8 re easily procured and give a delicious -"flavor to soup, gravies and meat sauces. Don't use more than three or four small pieces, or the flavor will be too strong. Soak them for at least an hour "in cold water before using. They are especially good in tomato soup or sauce. This salad, going by the name to mato cups, is delicious: Scoop out the center of some carefully peeled toma toes. Place them on lettuce leaves and fill them with slices of stuffed olives mixed with mayonnaise. An Italian restaurant has a stock sauce which is used to flavor its thick soups, spaghetti, rice, etc., and which is go delicious a concoction that any housewife should be glad of this op portunity to add the recipe for its formulas. T" reparation to her collection of cooking To prepare this sauce, take an onion, a stick of celery, and a car ret, and, after you have cut them into small pieces, fry them in brown butter andmsalt, ande BISHOP juice and pulp of one tomato. Place this mixture a saucepan and let it cook for a quarter of an hour, adding every few minutes a little stock to keep it moist. When passed thru a sieve and left to cool, this mixture makes an ideal basas for experiments inH season ing- ~f i $ just before ithe from th frying pan adremoving a few small pieces of already cooked ham and yeaL a few sliced mushrooms, and the FROM ELIZABETH LEE $ -4 A Fifteen-Year-Old -Girl. Dear Miss Lee: I am a young girl 15 years old, five feet seven inches tall, 29 bust measure, waist measure 22. I have auburn hair, dark blue eyes, fair complexion, rather on the olive, with very little color and an oval face. Would you please tell me my colors, length of my skirts and how to arrange my hair! I am going to get a new sum mer coat which I can wear on all oc casions. What color would you sug gest and how shall I have it made^"It must not be expensive. I thank you for any advice you can give "me and hope I have not asked too many ques tions. Consueia H. Minneapolis. ATe you quite sure your complexion is of an olive tinge? Persons with au burn hair usually have quite dazzling white skins. In regard to colors, you must shun all shades of both red and pink, and successful colors are dull black, milk white, pale green, very pale lemon. Alice, cadet and navy blues, mauve, purple, dark brown, pale gray and dark green* As you are so tall you may wear your skirts to your shoe tops. Dress your hair as low as possible, parting it, nu less your forehead is quite low then arrange in pompadour fashion, braid ing and looping it in. the back and tying with a very broad ribbon, giving as girlish an effect as possible. As to the material for a coat, one of the large broken checks or plaids in greys, varied with pale .green, would Beem to be desirable if warmth as well as pro tection will be required of it. If only the latter, then white linen will an swer. Have it made three-quarter length in box effect finished with a Tuxedo collar and cuffs in green broad cloth, the sleeves coat-shaped and the closing slightly double-breasted. Elizabeth Lee. The number of marriages registered in Ireland in 1904 was 22,961. The ex cess of births over deaths was 24,298, but this was more than offset by the immigration of 36,902 persons. A Suggestion for the Umpire. of the girls, skilled in the work, sit all day long crit ically examining the cards of shining teeth and dis carding those that are imperfect or in need of further touching up. Millions of teeth that repose so peacefully every night in tumblers onthe washstand have gone thru this process and yielded their revenue to the tooth trust if there is one. This is where the baby scores over the wisest of us. He has sense enough to put in a crop of bites and grow his own teeth. They may not be so indestructible as store teeth, but they fit better. A. J. R. THE BOON OF HALF HOLIDAYS. WARREN, of Denver, was praising in Phil adelphia the Saturday half holiday. Suddenly he laughed. I remember," he said, "one very hot day in New York, visiting the offices of a friend of mine, a whole sale coffee merchant. I was weak and listless with the heat. Everyone on the street was pale and drooping and dispirited. People felt generally that, instead of trying to work, they should be taking a nap in the draught of an electric fan. "But in my friend's office all was bustle, hustle, and enthusiasm. On fire with zeal, the clerks ran hither and yon, or bent over great ledgers with the absorption a young lady gives to a good novel. I clapped my friend on the shoulder. 'Jack,' said I, 'it must be pleasant and profit able to have an office corps so full of energy and en thusiasm as this.' 'Well,' said Jack, awkwardly, 'it's not that, exactly. Today,yyou are getting iead to gsee, home.' THEY is a half holiday, and they HE'D HAVE DRUNK IT FIRST. ILARY K. ADAIR, the noted Missouri detective, was in St. Louis ferreting out a crime. A reporter brought to Mr. Adair a piece of evi dence, saying at the end of his story: "That is pretty conclusive, isn't it?" "It's excellent," Mr. Adair declared. "It's posi tive and convincing. It is as irrefutable as the testi mony I once heard from a Scot. "This Scot was a witness in a drowning case. A man named Mcintosh had been drowned, and the Scot claimed that the death was accidental. 'But you were not present at the time,' said the coroner. 'How'do you know, then, that poor Mc intosh didn't commit suicide?' 'Losh, yer honor,' said the Scot, 'wasna this Saunders Mcintosh a brither Scot, and dinna the corp ha'e a wee bottle o' whiskey on't wi' na'er a nip ta'en. oot?' BRIDGE WHIST INJURIOUS Because it is injurious to the figure, bridge whist is falling into disfavor. Its hours with the fashionable set are numbered, and society soon will be pinihg for some other gambling game. All this proves that a woman's vanity is still greater than her craze for games of chance. The sudden revolt against bridge whist came when a phy sician announced that the constant bending over a table tended to destroy the graceful lines of the waist. The shoulders, it was pointed out, would be come stooped eventually, the chest de pressed, and the grace of a commanding carriage would be gone, unless the devotees of bridge whist sat up straight in their chairs when playing the game. But what woman intent on her oppon ent's play could sit upright and think both of her figure and her 'cards at the .same time? Either the cards or the /figure must remain uppermost in the mind. Society women decided that they preferred to give up whist rather than look old and bent. JAPANESE DISHES Tomato Bice a la Nagasaki.Place six ounces of rice in a saucepan with a pint of juice strained from a can of tomatoes and a cup of broth or hot water. Season with half a teaspoonful of salt and three saltspoonfuls of pep per. Mix well and boil thirty-five min utes, stirring once in a while. Add two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, with half a tablespoonful of butter. Mix well and then drop the tomato and rice into a baking dish. Sprinkle a few bread crumbs over, the top, arrange a few bits of butter on top and set in the oven to bake for twelve minutes. Muehitori (Oriental Vegetables). Peel' one small round eggplant, one onion and two fresh red tomatoes. Trim and thoroughly wash twelve fresh ok ras. Cut. the eggplant, tomatoes and okras in half-inch pieces and place them in a bowl. Finely chop the onion and brown it with a teaspoonful of butter in a frying pan for five minutes. Then add the other vegetables, season with a teaspoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful of curry and three saltspoonfuls of pep per. Thoroughly mix and place in a lightly buttered baking dish. Sprinkle two tablespoonfuls of fresh bread crumbs over them, place an ounce of butter in little bits on the top and set had quarreledand parted, owing to meet no more. She had packed up her trunk and her dog and all the bric-a-brac and the sofa, pillows and gone, not home to mother, but back to her girl hood boarding house. He had put on his hat and hur ried out to meet the boys, he ^fla| |ooked as tho a whirlwind had struck it, r '4. As she rose wearily the next morning after a sleep less night, she eame gradually to the full realization that she was a grass wiodw. Ah, that was a relief! No more quarrels, no more Weary nights of waiting for him to come home from the club. No moreoh, well, she guessed she could earn her own spending money. She was freefree to do as she pleased. With that thought she started to dress. She pulled on her stockings and shoes, A glance at the latter con vinced her that she had been neglecting herself. The toes were almost gray for want of polish. She pulled things out of her valise and the top of her trunk in a rapid search for shoe polish, when it suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't a drop of it. She never had any in fact. She always used Tom's. Then she took out a nice clean shirtwaist and a smart stiff collar. She had struggled into the shirt waist and buttoned it down the front, when she dis covered to her great dismay that she hadn'searcheda thing as a collar button. She-,searched but when you've been in the habit of depending on a man for collar buttons for two years, you get out of the habit of carrying them around with you. Impa tiently she jerked the stiff shirtwaist off and looked for something else. She thought for a moment that she would put on her Peter Pan suit, but with a Peter Pan you have to wear a smart four-in-hand tie, and she had always used Tom's four-in-hands. Oh, very well! She pulled out a dainty muslin waist with an attached collar and slipped her arms into it. Alas! it buttoned up the back. She strug gled until she had fastened the two top buttons and then twisted round till her muscles ached to hitch the lower buttons. When she had worked herself into a dripping perspiration and nearly sprained her right wrist, there still remained two unfastened buttons at the acute angle of her back. They were the two Tom had always buttoned. She finished dressing with a horrible consciousness of her openwork back and won dered what time it was. Alas! she had forgotten to take the family clock. Oh, if Tom were only there with his watch. "She'd write to Tom and ask him to send the clock. After fifteen minutes' search she found the stub of a pencil somewhere at the bottom of her ribbon box. The pencil had no point. Vaguely she looked about. She knew there was something she wanted. It was Tom's razorto sharpen that pencil. MEANTIME. He turned over in bed the morning after the flight of his wife- with a feeling of relief. No more nag ging, no more questions when he stayed out late. Gee! He was going to have the time of his life. He started to pull on his boots, but his feet were warm and the backs of the Oxford ties stuck to his heels. He got up to look for a shoe horn, but he could not find one. Then it suddenly occurred to him that his wife had taken her silver shoe horn with her. He got into the shoes as best he could and began to shave. When he finished he reached mechanically down into a side drawer for the talcum powder and the powder puff. They were gone! He went out into the kitchen and cut a piece of bread ready for toasting. The knife slipped and shaved a bit of flesh from his finger. When he had stopped the bleeding he went back into the dressing room to look for some courtplaster. Alas! that too had gone with the powder puff and the shoe horn and the wife. He hunted high and low for some cold cream and a cotton rag with which to tie up his wounds, but she had taken the cold cream with her and he didn't know where she kept the rags. When he had finished a cold and lonely breakfast, he put on his coat and took,- his hat, prepared, to start for town. Just then he noticed that a bftrtn by one thread to his coat. Aftr he had looked the house over from garret to cellar for a needle and a piece of thread, he- decided thpt he would rather cut the button off. This was a good idea, but it took him five minutes more to discover that his wife's scissors were lost to him forever, and to find his jack knife and amputate the button.* Just as he was start ing out of the house, a boy handed him a special de livery letter. It was written with an evidently point lesa pencil, and he had some difficulty in making out its scribbled words. They were: "Dear Tom: I'm sorry to trouble yon, buf please send me the clock and your razor and the shoe polish and a collar buttonand I'm sorry I said all those hateful things." He wondered why his heaTt seemed to grow sud denly so much lighter, but he went inside and wrote this answer as quickly as he" could: "Dear Girl: Come back hpme and bring your pow der puff and the scissors and the needles and the thread and the shoe horn, and you can have anything you want." in a moderate oven for one hour. Re move and send to the table in the same dish. such an was hanging TsukemonoCucumber Pickles.Peel four fresh, ripe, medium-sized cu cumbers. Cut in four length wise strips, remove all spongy parts and wipe them nicely. Heat one and a half tablespoonfuls of melted butter, add a finely sliced onion and a seeded green pepper. Fry for ten minutes, occasionally stirring mean while, and lay the cucumbers over. Season with a light teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of curry powder. Pour in four tablespoonfuls of cider vinegar and one tablespoonful of sugar. Boil for five minutes, then set in oven for thirty-five minutes, being careful to baste the cucumbers once in a while. Bemove, place on a hot dish, pour en tire contents of pan over it, sprinkle with a little chopped parsley and serve. (Other Japanese recipes will be pub lished tomorrow.) FOR THE CHILDREN'S USB Children's rooms nowadays may be fitted with specially made toilet articles that are exact duplicates of those used by grown-ups, and yet are more con venient for the little folk to handle. Complete in every detail from the soap dish to the tooth mug, these toilet sets in glazed chinaware are made on sim ple lines, but are decidedly- attractive and immediately interest all youngsters because of the way thW are decorated. Some of them are particularly effective, as they illustrate fairy tales with which every child is familiar, such as "Old Mother Hubbard' in the Mother Goose rhymes, the tale of the goose and the golden egg, or "Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds,' etc., in blue, pink or red on a cream or white background. Oth ers are ornamented with fish in curious shapes, all bobbing in and out of a stream, or ehse they depict scenes show ing boys or girls about to plunge into a pool of water, or perhaps a nurse or mother attempting to wash the face of a small boy, who is resisting her at tempts at cleanliness. These sets, if crude, are exceedingly serviceable for small girls and boys and are in keep ing with the tiny bureaus, beds and other furniture. Comb and brush sets- and clothes brushes, whisks and manicure sets for a small' girl or boy's dressing table or at my time 01 life." BRIDGE TALKS Written for The Journal by Miss Bessie Allen of Milwaukee. No. 15Playing Dummy In a- Declared Trump Hand. When a trump is declared and you and dummy to gether hold seven or more trumps it is generally good play to lead trumps and exhaust the adversaries, espe cially when either you or the dummy hold a good suit to establish and bring in. The ideal hand in a no-trump consists of a suit which becomes established and the small cards made to take tricks. In a declared trump, other than a forced spade make, you and the dummy together prob ably have the majority of the trumps, and with almost any long suit that can be cleared, an immediate trump lead is imperative. First exhaust the adversaries' trumps and then the small cards of an established suit become good for tricks. When holding but seven trumps between dummy and yourself, four in one hand and three in the other, you must study the hand before leading the trumps. If you hold three commanding trumps and an estab lished suit you may lead the trumps, but if your long suit is not established ft is generally wiser to lead that and force the high cards from their hands before leading the trumps. When holding seven trumps di vided five in one hand and two in the other it is usually best to lead them, regardless of their value. If the adversaries have the high ones they must take the tricks and if they are divided you can at least prevent their making them separately. With five trumps in one hand, the only time you do not lead them is when you can let the weak trump hand trump in on a short suit try them to let the weak hand ruff before leading the trumps. Never force the strong trump hand to trump un less you can establish a cross ruff (you trumping one suit and dummy another). This makes your trumps separately and is almost a sure gain. Upon gaining the lead and wishing to lead trumps it may be that it would be preferable to have the lead come from the hand which is not in, and therefore you may have to lead a plain suit flTst in order to put that hand in, so that the trump lead may be made most advantageously. In leading trumps the same principle applies as in leading plain suitslead so that the weak hand shall be exhausted of its high cards first. And in finessing the same rules apply as in a no-trump hand. Holding a'tenace in one hand have the lead come from the other hand and finesse the lower card of the tenace or, having in the other hand the card next in sequence below the lower eard of the tenace, lead that and pass it. Have the weak and short hand lead up to the one which is long and strong, the shorter hand getting rid of its high cards first. Should the adversaries have but one remaining trump and that the command, it is usually foolish to lead for it, except in the one case where in either hand you have a long established "suit which you do not want interrupted when you begin to play it, because you have no other re-entry .with which to regain the lead and continue it. bureau are about half the size of those sold to grownups, and are particularly attractive in silver or porcelain, tho those in celluloid, either plain or orna mented with embossed pink roses or blue forget-me-nots, are decidedly pretty. LAUGHTER IS BBAUTIFYINa Cultivate happiness, smiles and laugh ter they keep you young. Take exercise in the open air daily air is all essential. Begin from your earliest day to sleep with your window open, and not only have a bath every day, but rub and stimulate the skin from the head to the heel. Never neglect to go thru some exer cises which will keep the muscles in order, the head erect, the shoulders well thrown back carriage stands you in good stead, even in old age. Believe that people like you and ad mire you it is more than half the bat tle, and takes you more than half on the road that leads to universal admira tion. Never let yourself go. Bich or poor, you can always do the best for yourself and be most careful of your diet. Study what suits your digestion do not eat too much meat or drink too much tea indulge in good draughts of pure water at least twice a day, hot or cold, as suits you best. OPPOSED TO COURTS Talking about courts, Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of the secretary of the navy, has been receiving the confidences of an old colored woman who is part of her house hold in Washington. This old woman once worked for Mrs. Roosevelt, and she takes great interest in "the doings of Miss Alice." She is not entirely pleased with the'reports that reach her. She told Mrs. Bonaparte the other day she thought it was scandalous, all this talk* about taking Miss Alice to co 't, and she didn't know what Mr. Long worth was dreaming of. I tell you, Missis, I dont' want nothing to do with co'ts," said she. A lady she asked me to go and live with a friend of hers, a fine lady, with a general for a hus band, and she said she lived in Stone leigh co't. When I hear that I thank her kindly and say that I might be pore and in need of a place, but all my life I'd lived with fust-class people, and I wasn't goin' to live in no kind of co't The man who says uncomplimentary 1 things uTthe newspapers about women never affects a woman much. She reflects amiably that that's prob ably the only sort of woman he knows. He is really to be pitied because of his limited acquaintance. But when he makes sweeping state ments like the following, she feels called upon to rise up and gently re monstrate, in behalf of the slandered woman commuter: "As a commuter the woman traveler shows to poorest advantage. She is more likely to miss a tram than is a man." I want to know! If you had been riding on a commu ter's ticket for three or four years, and had been missing your train on an average of once in two years, that statement would ruffle you slightly, wouldn't it? Particularly if you knew a man who missed his on an average of once a week during the summers out of townI And more especially if you generally arrived at the station in time to read the first page of your newspaper, and then witnessed the male population of the suburbs dashing up highways and byways at the last minute, and scram bling red-faced and breathless aboard the last platform of the last car. But the man writer has more to say: "She carries more parcels than a man ,and she loses four times as many of them in transit." Good gracious! Will anybody who wants to know the truth of that please step into a big city station toward evening, and observe the commuters' processionboth sexesfile thru the gates? Who is that stout, perspiring person lugging home a basketful of groceries? Don't tak* it for a woman, please. It's a manthe man who can get things "so much better and cheaper in town, you know." Who is that creature busily gouging people in the eyes with a bundle of rosebush shoots? That, also, is a man. Who is this, surging wildly along beneath a mammoth roll of poultry yard wire? This is the man who is going to raise chickens as a little sub urban pastime. Who is this with two shoeboxes under one arm, an umbrella at a villainous angle under the other, and a potted palm clasped fon&ly to his bosom? The truth cannot be disguised. This also is a man. Many, many more of him, all griev 4 ously laden, trudge thru, the In a declared trump, the general rule is to lead trumps at once unless you haVe fewer than the ad**~ versaries with no very high ones, or when you ea4v let the hand that is weak in trumps trump in, on a_v short suit. Cavendish has said: "The streets of London are crowded with people, poor because they would not lead trumps when they had five." In playing against a declared trump, if the dealer does not lead and exhaust the trumps you must be most watchful. He is probably trying to let his weak hand trump in on some short suit and you may have to leadHrumps to prevent thia- Hand 14. DXALEft. tfA.K.Q.10. 10.9. 5. OA.J.6.4. A. 7. 1 PONK. *K,Q, 7.6 4,8.2. K.8. TRICKS LT 15 0 1 a........ 4......... i. t.. 10 3 O 4 6 5 tf 6 9 7 9 North and South score eight tricks. Comment. Trick 1Pone knows his partner has either ace or queen of diamonds. The rule is not to trump partner's lead of king, but Pone figures if his partner holds the queen and the dealer the ace, it will be better to trump this trick and exhaust dummy of his re-entry in clubs before his spade suit is established. Notice, if Pone passes this trick North and South make a little slam. Dealer is certain Pone will lead a club, taking out Dummy's only re-entry. The only possible way to make another re-entry in Dummy's hand is for the dealer to keep both his small diamonds so as to be able to lead twice thru the queen on his left. Trick 3Dealer first exhausts the trumps, them tries to establish Dummy's spades. Trick 5Dummy must keep his two diamonds ai a re-entry for his spades. Trick 6Dealer leads the ace of spades first to unblock. Trick 7Dummy overplays East so as to continue the spade suit if East is holding up the king. Trick 8Dummy must keep his two diamonds. Trick 11Dealer leads low diamond thru East's queen if East plays the queen, Dummy's ten becomes good for the next trick and he can then make his queen of spades. East must win this trick if he passes it, dealer will discard his losing diamond on Dummy's spade. (All Bights Reserved.) _ +.4 YAWNIT MASSAGES YOUR THROAT. 4VAWNING is beneficial," said a throat specialist, I "and in certain troublessore throat, buzzing in the ears, and so onI recommend artificial yawning. This is more helpful in some cases than the best gargle. "You see, during the a$t of yawning theTe is a considerable strengthening and exercising of the muscles of the pharynx and soft palate. On these muscles the yawn acts, in fact, as a massage. "Furthermore, yawning contracts the throat tubes and drives into the pharynx any waste matter that, accumulating there, may have impeded the breathing. Nothing dears the throat like a good yawn." TWINS BORN EN" DIFFERENT YEARS. t4T HAVE often been present at the birth of twins," 1 said an old nurse. "Only once was I present, tho, when the twins were'born in different years." "Twins born in different years? You are crazy,** said the young bride. "Not a bit of it," said the old nurse. "The thing happened in Pittsburg in '99.^ The first twin was born at half past eleven on the night of Dec. 31, 1899, and the second was born at 1 o'clock in the morning of Jan. 1, 1900. "There are, ma'am, a number of other cases recorded of twins born in different years." In Defence of the Woman Commuter a gates. 3*5r LftiDBR. 9 J. 9. K.Q.8.7.U. 19.6. 8.4. A. O10.9.B. Q. J. 9. 6.4.3,1. DUMMY., North, the dealer, declares hearts. Altho then as*) three aces in the hand it is a better heart make thai no trump on account of the honors. Wst PML South [)anunjr. LmAn. Wortfc. 1 DMIW 4 0 4 0 O A 8 2 tf 8 tf 2 3 5 8 IO 2 0 3 O QO 8 O |70 A 7 4 8 9 4 9 410 7 2 IOP 4 0 6 0 IAO 9 0 too 4 3 4 v" When they all get aboard there is ft regular fireworks of parcels shot up into the package racks above the seats. Now observe the woman commuter, as she jauntily swings her little wrist bag in one hand and her evening paper in the other. If she has done any shop ping in her noon hour she has either had it sent home or has tucked it in that miraculous handbag. Not being the head of a family, she is not ,expected to bring the children's shoes, or a new horse blanket, or a collection of garden ing tools. Of course it's lovely of a man to turn himself into a domestic dromedary. But the point is, and there's no deny ing it, it's the man commuter who car ries the most parcels. But the aforementioned man writer has another grievance: "She loses pocketbooks," he says, "in the proportion of five to one lost by a man, and when she has lost a purse with her money and ticket in it, seeing all hope of getting home again cut off, her actions are best described as going up in the air." ~r Dear me! that is interesting. What, anyway, does "going up in the air'* mean? Somebody with a less limited slang vocabulary may solve that. The thing that concerns the commuter is that five to one ratio. I never lost but one pocketbook ia my life, and then it was because I had given my bag to a stupid man to carry. No frrther argument is necessary. The fourth and final complaint of this fault-finding male person is that women commuters are always the last, persons out of the trains." Yes, so they are. And I don't see how it's to be helped unless they taks to dropping out of the windows. Any body who has seen a morning train from the suburb steam into the sta tion, with men hanging from the steps and from the railing like a swarm of bees,men crowding into the aisles and walking all over each other in their anxiety to get out before the train stopswill understand why the woman commuter is always the last to alight. Do let her have that little privilege, On the whole, it does seem as if that poor fellow who feels spiteful toward woman commuters had mistaken ths whole thing. PoUy Peak Z%J& ^t* M. Deletrain of Geneva, has com bined certain materials, put together in the form of a small solid cone, which, when dissolved in petrol of benzine, de stroy the odors of burnt gases, ant leave an agreeable perfume behind,