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NEw NEWS & OF YESTERDAY 4YE. e ~Ftr.ea.t./* President's Tribute to Wife' General Arthur Felt Little Satisfac tion in Occupying the White House Because His Loved Helpmate was Gone. When Chester A. Arthur became president of the United States his first official residence was in the Washington house of Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. This was due to the fact that the White House had to undergo a long period of renova tion following President Garfield's re moval thence to the seashore, and it was not until late in the autumn of 1881 that General Arthur was able to take up his residence in the nation's home for its presidents. In the mean time he was provided with a suitable roof through the thoughtfulness and hospitality of Senator Jones. "I know that it was with no feeling of pride or exultation that Chester A. Arthur finally entered the White House as president," said General Howard Carroll, a former member of congress from New York City and for years one of General Arthur's inti mate personal and political friends. "He was bowed down with regret over the Garfield tragedy, for one thing; and then. notwithstanding his politi cal activity, he was a lonely man. His little daughter was away at school, his son was at college, and his wife had been dead several-years when he was elected vice president. "General Arthur and his wife had been much attached to each other; their domestic relations were ideal. M rs. Arthur was a beautiful woman of many accomplishments, and she and her husband had many tastes in com mon. Both were fond of music; Mrs. Arthur had a very charming and high ly cultivated voice, which, had she chosen a professional career for her self., probably would have brought her considerable fame. And both were very fond of literature. Although the public did not know it, President Ar thur was of scholarly attainments. He was a constant reader of the classics, he spoke German very well, and he read that language with facility. "One morning about a week hfter the tIreeid4nt had moved into the White House I had occasion to call there. As I was compelled to leave for New York on amnid-forenoon train, I timed my call so as to reach the White House just after the president had finished breakfast. But when I asked for him his valet, Powell, told me that the president was dressing. I therefore sent word that I would wait until he could receive me, but in a few moments I was asked to go to the president's dressing room. _nd Word Revealed Conkling Will Senator's Niece Remembered He Lik ed "Rome" and the Combination of Letters Was Found to Open Safe Where Testament Lay. Roscoe Conkling, for 14 years years United States senator from New York, and during that period one on the leaders in the national councils of the Republican party, died as the result of esposure in the great New York blizzard of 1888. Since the estate left by the former senator had a value of several hun dred thousand dollars, it became ne cessary for the immediate members of his family to seach as soon as prac ticable after his death for a will. It was naturally presumed that Mr. Conkling had left a will; he was a man of most methbdical habits, and he surely knew that his estate was of considerable value. Yet, search where they would, the family were unable to locate any sign of a docu ment making testamentary disposi tion of the estate. "At last," said the late CoL Freder ick A. Conkling, the senator's broth er, who also was a very brilliant man and for many years a lawyer of con siderable note in New York state, "some one of the family happened to remember that we had not yet looked into a small steel cheat, or box, which had belonged to Roscoe. This box had a combInation lock which bore the letters of the alphabet instead of i,umbers, and through the proper con Junction of some of those letters the box would open. Yet nowhere were we able to find a record of the com bination . "It was deemed expedient to break the lock, or tamper in any way with the box itself, so the only thing to do war to attempt to work out the com Mother's Serious Mistake Loses the Confidence of Her Children by Ridiculing Their Ambitions. The mater was talking to my aunt the other day. I happened to over hear what thye were saying - 1 couldn't help it. The mater was com plaining because Clifford and I don't tell her things. don't confide in her what we're doing and what we're go ing to do and what we want to do. It's quite true. We don't! But I don't think It's our fault. I believe it is due to another of the mater's mistakes. When we were kids, of course, we had all sorts of mighty ideas. Clifford meant to be president of the United States. And I intended to carve out a career with my sword and be a major general at least. The sort of rot, you know, that you do talk when you're a silly little thing! Well. the mater used to laugh at us. I remember quite distinet.y once I Ad soaau&thing about what I would do there we conversed about the business that had called me to the White House "While the talk was going on I noted the appropriate manner in which the president's private apart ment had been fitted up. and after the business in hand was out of the way I commented on the furnishings and decorations, venturing to say that, now that he was at last in the White House, he must have some sense of pride in the fact that he was presi dent of the United States; that he must have some concrete idea of what it all meant to be the head of so great a country. "For a moment General Arthur did not answer me. Then, slowly, he turned and stood looking at a por trait which hung upon the wall. It was a splendid likeness of Mrs. Ar thur, and it was the one domestic adornment of his New York house which he had Insisted on bringing to Washington with him. and hanging where. In his private moments, he could easily look at it. "For several minutes he gazed lov An Unsolved Political Enigma Only One Man Now Living Can Tell Name of Republican Who Persuad ed President Garfield to Make Judge Robertson Collector. There is probably only one man now living who is able to give au thoritatively the name of the Repub lican who persuaded President Gar field, in March, 1881. to nominate Judge William H. Robertson collector of the port of New York-a nomina tion that brought about the dramatic joint resignation of Roscoe Conkling and Thomas C. Platt from the United States senate, and, in the opinion of many, the defeat of James G. Blaine as the Republican presidential nomi nee in 1884. The one man is J. Stan ley Brown, who was private secretary to President Garfield, and who mar ried the president's only daughter. Mr. Brown, however, swill never tell, unless posthumously. He regards him self as under obligations to reveal none of the secret history of the Gar field administratiop. I have bedn asked many times who it was that recommended to Garfield the appointment of Judge Robertson. and could only say that in Washing ton. at the time the appointment was made. no one was found, excepting Mr. Brown., who could answer the question. Yet, it is probable that the bination. If I remember correctly, we first tried the combination of letters that spell the word 'Grant.' Roscoe, you know, was a great Grant admirer, and we felt he might have taken that name as his combination. But we were wrong. "Then word after word .we tried. Roscoe was one, Conkling was an other, Utica, where the senator lived, was a third. All the family names were called into use one after an other. Still no encouragement-abso lutely none-and we were about ready to make up our mfnds to break the lock, after all, when one of the ladies present offered a sugestion. "'Uncle.' she said, 'was very fond of the word Rome. Don't all of you remember how he used to roll it out with great delight in that deep, rich voice of his? I have heard him may ;t thus many and many a time'-and she gave a fair imitation of the way Roscoe used to pronounce, the word. 'And.' she went on, 'I have heard Uncle say, oh, so many times, that he thought in the word Reme was to be found the finest combination of vow els and consonants in any word in the English language. I am sure he took the word Rome that he was so fond of for the combination. Try it, please.' "At once we adopted the suggestion. As the letter 'r' was found there came a faint click from the lock. Care fully, we turned to .o' and another click resulted. An appeal to 'm' pro duced a like re~mt, and when finally the last letter of the word that Roscoe had delighted in saying was indicated, behold! the lock yielded, the little steel box opened .and lying along with in it was the will we had been search ing for so long." (Cupy right, 1910. by E. J. Edwardls All lKights Reserved.) when I was a general, and she said: "What a ridiculous child you are! You'll never make a solgier'" And she told the pater about it, and he laughed, too. You don't Wnow how that upset me. I know that I Was a silly little child and that I was talking awful rot, but I don't think they need have ridiculed me like that. Anyway after a little bit, both Clifford and I couldn't help feeling that it wasn't good enough. We left off saying any thing to the mater or the pater about what we wanted to be. Then we be gan to keep our own counsel about what we were actually doing. And now we've got into a regular habit of minding our own business and only telling the mater things that are really necessary. I know it hurts I er. but I can't help it now. And don't you think it's not altogether my ilult? Sell your eggs for cash. and pay cash for what you buy. I)ickerrpg lI bad, every way rou can- Az K. ingly, longingly, at the picture. Then he turned to me: "'Howard.' he said, slowly, simply and yet impressively. 'you say it is a great thing to be president and oc cupy the White House. But I have felt every moment that I have been here, as I have looked upon the por trait of my wife, how much meaning there is in the poem of Heine's you know so well. Ah,. "What for me is all the blooming If I bloom myself alone." he repeated, in German, looking ten derly at the portrait ,' Mrs. Arthur, while a tone of infinite tenderness came into his voice. Then, a moment later, he added: "'Howard, that is the way I feel and have felt ever since I entered the White House. And that is the way I will feel until I depart from it.'" tCopyrighLt 1310, by E. J. Edwards. All Rights Reserved.) Pcssibly a Good Bargain. "In some parts of Africa," dilated the returned explorer, "one can buy a wife for half a pint of common glass beads." "Well," replied the fussy old bach elor, "no doubt a good wife is worth that much."-Lippincott'a. late John H. Starin, who was in con- t gress with Garfield and was a close friend of the latter, knew; and I base this statement on a conversation I had with Mr. Starin several years after Garfield's death. "Mr. Starin," I said, "did you ever know that it was suggested to Presi dent Garfield, after the resignations of Senators Conkling and Platt and the confirmation by the senate of' Judge Robertson as collector of the port of New York, that an ideal way out of the difficulty would have been the ap pointment of you as the collector of the port of New York and the nomina tion of Judge Robertson as United States district attorney?" "No, I never heard that," Mr. Starin replied. "Garfield and I were always warm personal friends. My seat, when I was in congress, was next to him. When I found that General Grant could not be nominated for president in 1880, I was very much pleased when General Garfield was. But I never heard that anybody had said to him what you now repeat to me." "Well," I replied, "President ear field was told that if he had appointed you collector of the port the entire factional trouble between the Stal warts and the Half-breeds would have ended, and when he heard this he was silent for a moment and then replied: I never thought of Starin; I wish I had.' " "That was an extraordinary, I be lieve unequaled, irony of fate," said Mr. Starin. "See all the l-onsequences it has led to. For one thing, it un doubtedly paved the way for the elec tion of Grover Cleveland as president "I have sometimes heard it said that General Garfield was persuaded by Blaine to nominate Judge Robert son for collector. Blaine, I know, felt very grateful to Robertson, because Robertson, through his leadership of the bolt in the New York delegation at the convention of 1880, prevented the nomination of Grant "But if Blaine did urge that nomina tion it was a fatal mistake for him to make. You may remember that, al though there were several incidents which caused Blaine to lose the elec toral vote of the state of New York in 1884, yet the chief cause of his defeat was the knifing of him by the friends of Senator Conkling in the Utica (New York) district. "These friends were firmly persuad ed that it was Blaine who induced Garfield to nominate Robertson for collector of the port. They bided their time, and when Blaine became the Re. publican candidate for president, they determined to show their resentment at the polls. Had Blaine received the normal Republican vote in Oneida county, New York, he would have ob tained the electoral vote of New York state. Therefore, in the nomination of Judge Robertson for collector of the port lay the real cause for the de feat of Blaine for president in 1884 and I happen to know that Judge Rob ert.on was ambitious solely to be ap pointed United States district attor ney, an office without much political power." And J. Stanley Brown is the only Sliving, man who knows whether or not it be true that Blame persuaded Gar field to nominate Judge Robertson tr collector of the port of New York. (Copyright, 1910 by E. J. Edwards AD Rights Reserved.) Russia's Sherlock Holmes. The nearest approach to Sherlock Holmes that Russia ever had, M. Ra chkozski. a former head of the secret police in Russia and agent of the Rus slan police in Paris, had died sudden ly in the government of Vitebsk. He % as a rohsummate detective. and at one time held all the threads of Rus sian and intat.:,tioaal anarchism in his hands. Under his regime the serv ices of the famous spy Azeff were. acquired. He, too, obtained the serv l'es of Father Gapon, whose murder was brought about by Azeff, who feared in Gapon a dangerous rival. M Rachkovski narrowly escaped the same fate as Gapon. t No Food for Babes. The tough customer was struggling r with a tough steak in a tough restau I rant. "Say, you!" he finally roared at a a waiter. "I alin't used to eatin' rhlanoc eros hide-fetch me something a lit ? tie more nourisahln' In a hurry." "Aw. fade away, little one!" said Sthe pagit-walter, witheringly; "what · dOd yu an this joint is-a diet kitchen 1" THE BRIDE'S KITCHENS MOST IMPORTANT ROOM IN THE NEW HOME. To the Bride Whose Income Is Lim- b ited the Furnishing of Kitchen o and Pantry Seems Serious Task-Some Tips. a S The girl who has felt entirely at h home in her mother's kitchen, where she has learned to cook, will have a sensation of strangeness or of new ness in her own kitchen. It is one thing to make cake, candy. jellies. custards and creams in a place with n which one has been acquainted through years of childhood and girl- iI hood--when another housewife has purchased the necessary qoensils and b planned all the conveniences-and quite another thing to stand in an a empty kitchen which must be furnish- a ed by one's self., and for which one b must "think out" all the requisites. To ti the bride whose income is large the task of furnishing the kitchen and the s kitchen pantry is one that requires s much thought. To the bride whose h income is limited it seems a serious b task, and one upon which she should f not "enter unadvisedly or lightly" J Poor little woman! In her new life f and new hom- there are many times 6 in which these words of the mar- r riage service come back to her with a s force that is almost terrifying. Before buying anything for the kitchen decide on the furniture to be put In this important room-the most important, by the way. In the new home. If your purse will allow, cover the floor with a good quality of lino leum. If linoleum is quite beyond your means, have your floor painted a light yellow. For the sake of the paint, and still more for the sake of your feet, have several squares of car pet or rugs laid on the floor. One of these must be in front of the table at which you stand to do your mixing, another in front of the sink. Standing on a hard floor is very tiring to the feet and back. You must, of course, have a deal table in your kitchen, with a drawer that is wide enough and deep enough to bold kitchen spoons, forks and knives. Have by it a strong wooden chair, into whichyou will drop, I hope, when beating eggs, mixing cake. etc. Use this often and you will save your strength. A good rule laid down by a wise physician 7vas, "Do no work standing that you can perform as well sitting." If more women followed this rate we would hear less of backaches and surgical operations. Short muslin curtains may hang across the lower half of your kitchen windows. Have them so plain that they can be washed often without trouble. It is well to have strips of wood, supplaed with screwhooks, above sink and table. On the one over the sink hang mops, dishpans, cloths and towels; on the books above the table go mixing spoons of various sizes. strainers, etc. Have no more than two dishtowels on the sinkhooks, in case thehy are needed for immediate use. On a rack placed elsewhere in the kitchen must be enough dishtowels to keep one always supplied with the clean article. Have the kitchen crockery of plain white stoneware that can be easily re placed. Or, if you prefer decorated china, choose a simple blue-and-white pattern. As to the cooking utensils, avoid elaborate articles or so-called labor savers until you are sure that they are what they purport to be. Some of them are so complicated that they add to instead of lessening your work. Get, at first, the bare necessities, such as a kettle, roastln-; pan, broiler, double boiler, frying pan, strainer and mixing bowl (your experkence will tell you what the actual necessities are), and, as you can do so. add to your stock until you have a well-furnished kitchen. To have the proper utensils, and to understand thoroughly the use of each. is the secret of good cooking. Potted Cheese. Three pounds well flavored heese., three-quarters of a cupful of butter, soft enough to mnix: three-quarters of a cupftil of vinegar, three-quarters of a tablespoonful cold water: two and one-half teaspoonfuls salt, speck of canyenne pepper. Put cheese through meat grinder, using thie finest cutter. Add vintegar, butter, miustard, salt and -cayenine ppper. Mix a.d rub the whole together until smooth. Taste earefutlly and season more highly if necessary. Pack in small ja n". rour one tenaspoonfull ot b'ra ly over top of each jar to prevent spoiling. Cover tightly and keep in a cool place. Scrambled Oysters. One quart o.ster.. ,th- pint milk, one tablestoonful )i1,t!ter, andl flour I sIufficient to thicken lik, cream; put the milk Into a splder and hoe;at to boil ling; when about to bolt, add the oy t sters; as soon as they are boiling add the thic:erning, with sa t. white pep )per and a tablespoonful of sugar and a teaspoonfull of tomato saitc,;( do not j let the oyst, re boil long. remove from the fire and stir in the butter; toast some crackers, place them on a warm p!atte r, molisten them m wIth a little warm milk or wat-r, place on each k half cracker a large slPoonful of oy sters and pour the cream over and Saround them. Renovating Carpets. P They mu't hase bteen well beates and freed from dust birt. Then put a gallon of water into a saucepan Swith a half pound of good soap. shred ded. and boil. \When the scap is dis solved pour the whole into a clean pail and stir in a quarter pound of the tartar. Wash a small portion of the Scarpet with this solution and immedi ately after with warm. c)ean water, e and rub dry with a clean cloth. Re peat this until the whole surface of the carpet is cleaned. Danish Pudding. Put half a cupful of tapioca Into a a saucepan with three cupfuls of wa Ster, c'ok until transparent. Then add t hal a cupful of sug-r, one cupful of currant jelly a quarter teaspoonful of d salt and one tablespoonful of lemon t Juice. Pour into a wet mold and chill. it Turn out and serve with wbiped ageam SERVING HAM FOR LUNCHEON Directions for Preparing Some Simple but Delicious and Tasty Dishes. For luncheon, grind the ends of a boiled ham and mix it with a button onion that has been chopped fine and a little minced parsley. Put the mix ture into a pan with a little butter and mo;sten with hot water or cream. Simmer four or five minutes and then heap on slices of toast. For curly bacon, cut it very thin 0 and halt cook it in boiling water. Then curl it, fasten it in shape with a a toothpick and broil it over the fire. A little grated American cheese mixed with the min.ced ham used in a sandwich is delicious if the sandwich Is fried brown and served very hot. Sliced ham is more tender if it is h baked than if fried. Cut a slice three- g quarters of an inch thick, put it into E a small agate pan, turn three-quarters of a cupful of milk over it, cover and 0 bake for an hour and a quarter, bast ing every 15 minutes with the milk. Cold cooked ham is tasty if it is h shredded and cooked in currant jelly h sauce. Put a cupful of the shredded c ham into a saucepan with a level ta- ' blespoonful of butter and half a cup ful of currant jelly. As soon as the ' jelly and butter 'begin to bubble add it four tablespoonfuls of sherry and a i] seasoning of paprika. Simmer the mixture about five or six minutes and a serve with toast. a BOON TO WINDOW WASHERS Can Go About Work Without Fear of a Sudden Death on Pavement Below. Much of the risk in the calling of window cleaning has been eliminated by the invention of a New York man. This invention is a safety appliance which enables a window washer to go about his or her work without fear of meeting a sudden and horrible death on the pavement, 18 or 20 stories be low. First there is a belt, with rings 1 around it. Then there is a cable of two strands which join in e loop to a Hook Holds Worker Fast which a hook is attached. The cable fastens to the belt by the rings. The washer straps the belt around his waist and takes his position on the window sill. The cable, as shown in the illustration, hangs inside and the hook can be anchored to some heavy piece of furniture or to another hook in the floor or surbase near the win dow. While this devree was designed t primarily for professional window cleaners, it will be found useful in I private houses, especially where the servants are timid. Some Uses for Salt. Japanese and plain straw matting should be washed with salt and water and rubbed dry. This keeps it soft and prevents the matting becoming i brittle and cracking. Brooms soaked I n hot salt watter wear better and will not break off short. Bedroom floors may be kept cool I and fresh if wiped with a cloth wrung out of strong salt water. Black spots on dishes and discolor ations on teacups may be removed by rubbing with damp salt. Salt thrown on any burning substance will stop Sboth smoke and blaze. SMince Meat. f Two bowls of finely chopped meat, I foulr bowls of apples, two bowls of f taisiun;. one bowl of currants, one bowl of slgar and one-half bowl of suet, one-third pound of citron, one 3 half cup of New Orleans molasses, a t-wo tasnoons of mace and two of Ftround cinnamon, one teaspoon of f cloves, two nutmogs, salt. Mix all to r gether, add tider, and cook thorough Sly. This recipe has been used by r rany good cooks and has been found to hr an excellent one. The "'howl" referred to holds one and one-half ilnts, r Cafe Nolr. It Put three t;tbleslpoons of finely 1- ground coffee in the top of a French r- coffee pot Pour over half pint boil d Ing water. Do not allow the coffee to - boil. After it has run through into d the space below pour off and run It through the top a second time. This n should be done four or five times. it Always be sure to have a cover for a the spout. The coffee pot should be e carefully scalded before it is used and h be kept bright and free from grounds . This amount is sufficient for a small d family, as it is served in tiny cups. Putterrrilk Rizecuits. Take one quart measure and fill a with flolur. Mak- a little dent In top, it put In one heaping teaspoon of cream a of tartar. rone not quite so heaping of I- saleratus, add salt and sift into the Srnre, Mix with buttermilk not very a stiff, turn onto flour board and knead e a littl- This makes them fine grain * ed. Butter a large cookie pan and I- put in your biscuits one-half inch r, thick and do not let one touch the 5 other in the pan. This recipe r-:,,s f 15 biscuits and a small loaf of b'read. Baker Apple Slump. Take a well buttered deep pudding a dish and slice Into it enough tart, a- juicy apples to fill. Season with cin Id nnmon and nutmeg. Sweeten plenti of fully, add a tab!Espoon of butter, cut of in little bits, and cover with a soft a biscuit dough, stirred to a consistency II. to pour, brt not roll. Bake in a hot m oven and serve with a hard sauce or toamy as preferred. Her Mother's Economy By CLARA INEZ DEACON Eunice always dreaded the coming a of spring because there was always y the distressing thought that just when all the living world was putting on a its bravest and best she must go forth a as usual wearing that old black leg- I horn hat. Eunice's mother cad bought the hat s which was the best of its kind to be o had because it was always her rule to a get the best or go without. In vain I' Eunice begged for cheaper things and t4 the privilege of having them changed occasionally. b Mrs. Lys was English and obdurate. ii As she had been dressed she dressed t! her own daughter. The leghorn hat t had been turned and twisted and 'I coaxed into some semblance to pre- b vailing modes until Eunlce was s ashamed to take it to Miss Adams. d who was too conscientious to spoil a it and thus make necessary the buy- h ing of new head-gear. g This season the styles were variea s and bewilderingly beautiful. Day after day Eunice lingered betore the n enticing plate glass windows of Miss Adams' millinery parlors whence long a ago the black leghorn had come to admire and yearn and choose with tl that sickening sense of futility which ti hurts to the very soul. She knew ex- tI .ctly the kind of hat she -..anted--r k white horsehair with a froth of wil sow plume about the crown. Miss d Adams had just such a bat and it was e marked $20. Eunlce had not seen thw r price, but Edith Benns had. In fact, r Edith had tried on the wonderful hat. "And, oh, it's the swellest thing, i really, Eunice!" Edith said. "And I r looked-well, of course, it's out of the question for me. My mother can't I afford $20 hats, but your mother can. 1 You ought to have it since you want I it so badly. And anyway it's time you had a new hat. You must be deathly I sick of that old leghorn." "I am," admitted Eunce, faintly, swallowing at a sob. "Well," said Edith conclusively, "all t I can say is, if you don't have one you Desperation Had Lent Her Skill. needn't expect Ward Royce to pay you much attention." Eunice knew that. Her throat ached so miserably that she could not an swer. "I saw him with Belle White yes terday," Edith went on with the frank cruelty of youth and personal inex perience. "She was dressed to kill everything new. You know that big black hat we both liked so much one of the first Miss Adams showed? Well, she had on that hat. And she looked stunning." Still Eunice did not answer. She went home helplessly unhappy to find her mother sitting in the cheerful company of an overflowing work basket. "I'm making over the sleeves of your shirtwaists, dear," she said. "I've found that Iy using a smaller pattern I can cut out all the worn places. The waists will wear for a good while yet. And I find," went on Mrs. Lys bright ly. as if she were imparting the most pleasing information, "that I can turn your plaid skirt. It isn't faded a par ticle on the under side. That comes of buying the best material. Always remember that, dear. The plaid skirt will do very nicely to wear with your shirtwaists all summer."' Eunice's lips quivered. Ward would never look at her again. Men thought so much of a girl's being well dreesed. "I suppose," she said, making des perately one last appeal, "that if I am to wear that old skirt and all those old waists, I can have a new hat to go with them, can't I, mother?" Mrs. Lys looked at her daughter in frank amazement. "Why, child!" she He Didn't Say "Gentlemen," he began as he stood on the post office steps, "you have all heard of Joseph Cannon, and it is needless to explain to you that be has been speaker of the house of rep resentatives for many years past." (Cheers and groans.) "He is called the tool of trusts by some and an angel by others." (Hurrah and hisses.) "Just which it may be is not for me to say. Like other men, he has his good and bad points. There is an insurrection against him." ("Put him out!") "It may prevail and it may not." ("Hurrah for Joe!") "At the coming session of congress he may be re-elected or he may not." ("No! No! Yes. Yes.") "Some folks think he will and some think he won't." ("No! Yes!") "ut as for me, gentlemen-as for me-" ("Let 'er go!") "As for me, I have on this table said. "Why. I expect that hat to d you for two seasons yet. Eunice was silent. But that alght after she had gone to her room she sat a long time by the window, think. Ing and crying. "I won't," said Eunce to herself. softly, for her mother slept on the other side of the wall. "but before I sleep I'll have a session with that hat. I'll never again take it to Miss Adams' to have her city trimmer laugh at it." Eunice had never trimmed a hat In her life. She felt a fierce pleasure now in stripping the faded pink roses from the black leghorn. and she wheedled the limp brim to assume stability. Then she applied some ribbon and her best belt buckle after a manner which she had observed in Mise Adams' win dow. She was amazed at her own achievement. Desperation had lent her skill. She tried it on before the glass. It was not unbecoming. Then she crept into bed. She showed the hat to her mother next morning. "It looks well." was Mrs. Lys' only comment "I'm sure," Eunice said, speaking of that new re.olhution which had come to her with her success. "I could learn to trim hats for other people. I should like to know how to earn money." Mrs. Lys looked pained. "Why, my dear child, why should you wish to earn money?" she asked. "There is no need. You have enough of everything now " Eunice was disappointed. She knew how her mother felt, but if only her mother had known how she felt! That afternoon Edith Benns came running in. "Oh. Eunice, come with us!" she said. "We're going on the river--Hal and Kitty and I, and we want you. Do hurry. They're waiting' now, down on the bank." "Put on a hat, dear," said Mrs. Lyea Eunice put on the leghorn. After all she felt a shy pride in the fact that she had trimmed it herself. And she wanted to hear what Edith would say. What Edith said was character' Istic of her charmingly sarcastic self "If long association is endearing you must be awfully attached to that hat," she remarked. As for Hal Kinch. Edith's irrepre sible cousin, he had an appropriate conundrum: "What member of the vegetable kingdom does Eunice's hat resemble?" The answer, of course, was "The live-forever." He also warbled a song: "Shall good old leg horns be forgot- " to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. "Look, Eunice!" cried Kitty. "Look. Ede! There's Royce and Elmer Brest out there in that canoe." It was, indeed, Ward and Elmer. And when they saw the quartet lathe larker boat they shouted greeting aad paddled toward them. At that mc* ment Eunice thought-be was neve sure-that she felt something touch her hat as if a pin was being stlth Ily withdraw. But before she had time to lift her han4 to her head a smart little breese came rfuing over the water and whisked her hat from bet head. She gave a little cry as she saw it go, dipping and skimming a the current in the direction of the canoe. It was Ward Royce who sreauod that hat finally at the risk of a a" wetting. He handed it to Eunice Ql . ping, a hopelessly sodden thing. Hal was weeping elabozptely, with one eye on Eunice, whose faee was scarlet. She felt joy and shame an relief all at once. The hat was a wreck. Surely she cmld never wesr it again. Ward Royce detached Eunice' fr the others of the group and walk1 home with her that afternoon. He carried the hat and pieced out 1s' nice's explanation of the catastrlpha to her slightly surprised mother. "You couldn't have pinned it - curely," Mrs. Lys said. "Well. -es may go and get another hat. dear. You shall choose for yourself thiS time. You are quite old enough. Only get something handsome and we able and remember I do not wish a pay more than $15." Eunice bought .the wlite horsabai Shat with the frothy willow phlum SAnd then because It was such a a some bat that it put all Ennice's othe Sbelongings quite to shame Mrs Lys decided .that she must have a dl t lingerie frock to go with it. So it came about that Eunice o as charmingly clad that summe7 SEven she could wish to be. Aad t cause she looked so sweet and rr so sweet Ward Royce paid her t Skind of extravagant attention whAM a only ends In the one perfect w--. though he maintained with the ' o lute conviction of the man in love t~ he had learned to adore her notW the willow plume, but under thYe black leghorn be.fore me something that will ease case of jumping toothache In two tb utes or money refunded, and the F' Is only-" " But the two hundred had Idd away. Chbrublni's Advicf. A young ma with ao eztre$ powerful voice was to doubt W branch of musical art to adopt went to the composer CberaJbia ' advice. "Suppose you sing me s bars," said the master. The 1 fellow sang so load that the mtR fairly shook. "Now," said he, VIA do you think I am best fitted f .C "Aucttoneer." dryly msid Cberub1" Old Farmers' Almanac. 1$81 Honesty. No man is thoroughly he discovers that honesty is the b policy: that honesty is the best do trines for a selfish ma. AN belletes that honesty is a b rde. not honest-AtchisoS (15.)E ,.. 4