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*C:„ ieb THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA, MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, P«Mtaar. —West Virginia has no debt and a sur plus of $1,000,000. •-Nebraska's corn crop this year is es timated to be worth $3t,500,000. —The uiiues of Bavaria (coal and met als* yielded only $2,700,000 in 1807. —Ninety thousand men in the British army have gexnl conduct badges. —In Japan coins arc generally of iron and in Siarn they are chiefly of porcelain. —Sir T. J. Liptou's attempt to capture the America's cup will cost him nearly £00,000. —In 1SSG the exnense to Prussia for each child in school was $0 in 1890 it was nearly $5*. —Coal is dearer in South Africa than in any other part of the world. It is cheapest in China. —Some 7.000,000 tons of coal are an nually used in the United Kingdom in the manufacture of gas, —The unusually warm fall weather started a second growth of all kinds of berries iu Michigan. —Vienna policemen are required to un derstand telegraphy and to be able to swim and row a boat. —Mexico continues to furnish the Cnited States with more than half of its supply of mahogany. -The largest organ in the world is in I he cathedral of Seville. Spain. It has tifty-three iii'es and 110 stops. —More cases of suicide, in proportion to |o lulation. are reported in Russia than in any other European country. —The most wonderful vegetable in the world is the truffle: it has neither roots, stem. leaves, flowers nor seeds. —An ordinary passenger car on a steam luilroad costs from $4000 to $5000 and weighs DS.OUO IHAIIHIS. or 10 tons. —A telephone company iu the interior "f Pennsylvania paid 1 cent recently as the revenue tax oil its business for one inon Mr. A curious butterfly exists iu India. The male has the left wing yellow and the right one red the female has these colors reversed. —A traveler in Porto Uieo says that a cigar equal to the present average America ii 10-center can be purchased Mien- for 'J cents. —The old custom of watchmen calling the hour at night is still .retained in two localities of Loudon, namely, New Inn and Ely Place. —The largest gold coin iu existence is worth about $315. It is the ingot or loot'" uf Annaiu and its value is written tm the coin with Indian ink. —A phonograph is being made for use at the Paris exhibition of 1900 which is expected to bc of sufficient dimensions be heard by 10,000 people. —Sand registered the hours during the Middle ages. For this purpose black mar ine dust, boiled nine times in wine, was a favorite recipe with learned monks. —-Piston's system of guarding against poisoning by illuminating gas escaping from defective gas fixtures has received the approval of the American Health as (iatioi —'The Twenty-first Lancers, whose -harue was the feature of the battle of omdurinan. are to Ik presented with a Itl shield liv the nation on their return to England. A subterranean city exists in Galicia, Austrian Poland, which contains a popu lation of over 1000 men. women and ehil dri'ii. many of whom have never seen the light of tlay. —In the advertising columns of a Ger n.an paper of recent date apoears the announcement that "a medical student wishes to exchange a well-preserved skel tou for a bieycle." —Artificial flowers were unknown to the ancient civilized nations of Europe. They are first mentioned in Italy in the Four teenth century, but in China they were known at an earlier date. —The Bulgarians have erected 300 monuments iu commemoration of events iu the Itusso-Turkish war, and are now sending to the Czar an album containing illustrations of all of tbam. —Many acres «f canary seed are annu ally grown in Kent, many persons there beiiig solely canary-seed farmers. The straw of the canary-seed plant is highly valued as fodder for horses. —The Bulgarians have erected 300 mon uments in commemoration of events in the Itusso-Turkish war. and are now sending ^to the Czar an album containing ii lust ratio us of all of them. —One cigar manufacturer in Detroit who employs girls has estimated a saving in cigar consumption by employes of $20,- MH) in ten years, on the basis that male workers use three cigars daily. —The crown prince of Siam, who can write fluently iu three European lan guages, is a boy author of some note. lie has written several stories for children's magazines published in English. It would be difficult to imagine mure xtraordinary digestive owe-rs than those of the hyena. One of these beasts lias been known to swallow six large bones whole without crushing them. —An Edinburgh professor has made the calculation that if men were really as lag as they sometimes feel there would be room in EHnburgii for only one professor, three lawyers, two doctors and a reporter. —The electric line lietween Sioux Falls and East Sioux Falls, S. D., has been torn u.i by the Eastern owners. The line paid dividends at one time, but during the last two years it has done no busi ness. —In Abyssinia it is the law that the murderer be turned oved to the relatives of the dead person, they, if they please, to i.ut him to death in the same mani.er 'n which the murdered person was re moved. —Despite the fact that hundreds of per s.nis have killed themselves because they have been ruined by the Vienna municipal lottery, the Viennese continue to regard the institution with favor. It keeps down the taxes. —For rebuilding Spurgeon's Tabernacle insurante_eompanies have paid £22,000. Also £4"70 has been subscribed, while the pastor's birthday gifts, to be devoted to the various Tabernacle institutions, ex cied £700. ---Members of the Mexican lioard of health have just imported from Europe an X-ray apparatus. It is to be used for ins »ecting cans of preserved meats and fruits, "to determine if they are fit for consumption." —Chinese brides, when putting on their bridal garments on the eventful evening, .-•and in round, shallow baskets during their lengthy toilets. This is supposed to insure tnem placid and well-rounded lives iu (heir new homes. —.Joachim Munit's remains, which have been resting since 1815 in the castle church of Pizzo Di Calabria, where he was shot, are to be transferred to Naples and buried in the Church of Santa Maria among the former Bourbon kings. Vaiixhall bridge iu London is disap pearing after an existence of a little over ighty years. The contractors have beeu engaged upon it now for several weeks. It is expected that the Whole structure will have vanished in about nine months. —When the prime minister of the Chi nese Emperor has a grudge against one of (he nobles lie advises his royal master to pay him a prolonged visit. This visit gin rally means min, for the Emperor navels with a retinue of 10,000 persons. —Pio Xono bequeathed to the church no.iHjo.iKH) francs in gold. Leo XIII. has almost doubled that sum, which is deposited among various European bank.-*. The Holy See has uo debts, those which existed having been all paid by the present Pope. —It is said that until recently in Lew.es cemetery all the graves have been dug by a woman named Mrs. Steel. She is now 00 years old. and being unable to do such heavy work any longer she is em ployed in filling up the graves and iti car ing fer the mounds. —When a lead pencil is used in manu script or addresses, and it is best to set the writing so it will not rub, try holding the writing over the spout of a boiling teakettle for a few moments then let it become- thoroughly dry before allowing if to be touched. —The Tuskegee institute of Alabama b.i: just received its first student—a fine luokiug and promising young colored man —from Porto Rico. Other students from Cuba aud Porto Rico will enter Tuskegee as .soon as the government quarantine regulations will permit. —The old steamer Prof, Morse, which -insisted the Great Eastern to lay the first cable across the Atlantic, is lying at the Bolton Iron works, Sao Francisco and 4ssd 4&&&£&a .^Vaferil '^SyHel. -&s»fcl&«L s4 a will probably be broken up. She was purchased iu New Orleans tor $18,000 to run to the Klondike. —John 1*. Elliott, the last survivor of the original members of the Athenaeum club, died recently at the. age of 94 years. The club was founded in 1884. He had held Queen Victoria iu his arms, when she was a -baby, and walked across the Thames when it was froxen over in 1814. —Two years ago the Khalifa's influence stretched in an unbroken line from Sar ras, above the second cataract, to Bedden in Eejuatoria, 1100 miles from north to south, and from Guru to Matemuch, 8(H) miles from west to east. Now it would be difficult to say exactly where it extends. --The largest library in the world is that of Paris, It contains upward of 2, 000,000 printed books and 160,000 manu scripts. The British Museum contains about 1,500,000 volumes and the Imperial library at St. Petersburg about the same number. These are the largest libraries in the world. —A patent has been recently issued in Germany for a reflector by which a piano i» illuminated from within by a combina tion of a lamp and a mirror iu such a way that the music is easily read by the player. The light from the lamp is re fleeted by the mirror on the music aud the keyboard. —The latest reports concerning the Anglican church iu Hawaii, which may be transferred to the American Episco pal church, show that there are in the islands seveu clergymen, seven churches aud a membership of 1500, of whom fif teen are Hawaiians. There are 30,000 Cougregationalists and 26,000 Roman Catholies in the islands. —The list of persons who have killed themselves because they have been ruined by the Vienna municipal lottery is a iong one. The other day a woman who had spent all her money in buying tickets, and had never won a prize, hanged herself. Nevertheless, the citizens of Vienna look with favor on the lottery, as it keeps down taxes. —The German Emperor takes for his breakfast a small white loaf, the top of which is covered over with salt, and which accorelingly goes by the name of salt bun. After this he consumes a small special kiiul of bun, known as a "lucea eye." then some sandwiches, for which another kind of bread is required, baked until the outside is tiuite black. —It has been less than two years since the law making life imprisonment instead of eieath the penalty for murder in Colo rado went into effect, and yet agitation has already begun looking to a revival of the eieath penalty. It is asserted by those who wish a re-establishment of the gallows that the life imprisonment law has resulted in an epidemic of crime. —Massachusetts has a remarkably trust ful board of cattle commissioners. It re ceived such a small appropriation this year that it hael to abauelon the principal part of its work in April, suspended its cleri cal help and serveel without compensation yet it has continued to serve the state at its own expense, hoping that the next Legislature will reimburse the members for their outlay. —People often ask how many books are in the British museum, but nobody seems to know. In fact, there are so many that it is impossible to count them. Some years ago it was estimated by meas urement that there were 2,000,000 books there. Since that estimate was made the number has consieierably increased, so that at the present time the total is prob ably nearer 3,000,000. —The mustache first became common in the British army at the beginning of the present century. The Hussars adopt ed it. and not long afterward the Lancers. It was not until the beginning of the Russian war that the infantry adopted the miistaehe. Whiskers disappeared after 1S70. and at present the mustache has come under the Queen's regulations for all branches of the service. —The New York Times points out that while Indian names usually make admira ble designations for the mountains and rivers of this country, the appellation be stowed upon the newly-discovered moun tain in Alaska that towers higher than Mount St. Elias is not euphonious. "Bullsbao." says the Times, "is not a good name. No peak, however tall, could wear it and look dignifieel." —Tug boats are the draught horses of the sea. New York harbor has 400 of them, and the average run is about $30 a day. This makes a elaily average of £12, 000, or $72,000 a week, or $3,744,000 a year, which gives an idea of the amount of shipping that is handled there annually. As many as 300 ships have enteral the harbor in a day. The price of a tug ranges between $5000 and $12,000. —A perilous feat was performed by a Cossack in a menagerie at Moscow. He was directed to clean the cages of some of the tame animals and sponge the brutes. By mistake he entered the cage of a savage tiger with a bucket of water and coolly oroeeeeleel to wash the animal. The tiger liked the noveel sensation ami quietly submitted, delightedly turning every part of its body to the Cossack. —Boston is preparing to celebrate the twenty-sixth anniversary of the big fire of November 9, 1872, iu which $80,000, 000 worth of property was destroyed. If things were managed on the Boston plan in Philadelphia it would be in order about this time to hold a great carnival of re joicing over the 150th anniversary of the fever olague of 1793, in which nearly 5K)0 persons loi*t their lives out of a- pop ulation of 45,000. —It will interest all readers of Dumas to know that the island of Monte Cristo, in the Mediterranean, is uninhabited and covered with woods that teem with many sorts of game. For a time an Italian noble had a shooting box in it, but he sel dom visited it. and now the Prince of Na ples has leased it for a hunting ground and for a house in the wild and solitary surroundings that his Montenegrin wife craves. —According to statistical returns the suicide rates per annum a million of population have risen during the past thirty years from 67 to SO in England and 40 to 54 in Scotland. It is asserted, however, that the tendency to conceal the occurrence of death by suicide has dimin ished since insanity has become more with ly recognized as a disease: and this levels to the belief that suicides on the whole are not increasing. —The latest Englishman to write a book on this country objects to what he calls American hotel customs. He dis like's to be asked by "a raw, bony, freckled damsel" if he would have his eggs "straight up or turned elown." It pained him also to be supolied with a knife of silver-plated iron that wouldn't cut, and to have more than a dozen small dishes dumped before him in which "the doses are infinitely small." —Switzerland has a business-like com pulsory education law. If a child ebes not attend school on a particular elay th? l-arent gets a notice from the public au thority that he is fineel so many francs: the second day the fine is increased, and by the third day the amount becomes a serious one. In case of sickness the pupil is excused, but if there be any suspicion of shamming a doctor is sent. If the suspicion is found to be well founded, the parent is required to pay the cost of the doctor's visit. —Not long ago a Frenchman died aud a clause iu his will set forth his desire to be conveyed to his last resting place in nutor car arranged a.-' a hearse-. Near Marseilles there haa just taken place a christening of a new order. The chris tening party consisted of nine persons, and they were conveyed to church by a motor brake. A French paper thinks it will be a eource of satisfaction to the •inrents of the e-hild—it was a boy—to say that he began very early to patronize the new Ice motion, which io described as "le *port a la mode." —There lias been no religious census in France since 1872. All religions are equal before the law, and the Roman Catholics, Protestants and Hebrews have allowances from the public treasury in proportion to their numbers, as follows: Roman Catholics, 41,126,923 francs Protestants, 1,495.100 francs Hebrews, 206,530 francs. According to the latest census of Russia, the religious division 'n 1892 was as follows: Orthodox Greek Catholics, 73,000,000 United Church and Armenians. 55,000 Roman Catholics, 8, 300.000 Protestants. 2,950,000 He brews. 3.000,000 Mohammedans, 2,(500, 000: Pagans, 20.000. —A peculiar state of affairs exists in the Indian territory. Re-ports from the Kio wa and Comanche reservations, of which William Walker is agent, are that many of the Indians are elying of disease caused by being stopped from eating mescal beans. For some years the Indians sur reptitiously have been eating these beans and the agent was never able to learn how (hey managed to get drunk. 11 seems that the bean, v.hicli was smuggled to these Indians from Mcxico, had the effect of in toxicating them. It also prevented con sumption, as thedical experts who 'have jnst returned from there bringing this story testify. As soon as the Indians are stopped from eating the beans they take sick and die ^5.^-5-^, a The Old Man'* Dream*. Oh, tor one hour of youthful Joy Give me back my twentieth spring! I'd rather laugh, a Urigbt-halreu boy. Thau reign, a graybearel king! Oft with the wrluklesd spoils of age! Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wlsdom-wrltteu page Aud dash Its trophies down! One moment let my Ufeblood stream From boyhood's toutft of flame! Give me one giddy, reellug dream Of life all love and fame. My listening augel heard the prayer, And, calmly smiling, said, "If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped. "But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay, While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wlshed-for day Ah. truest soul of womankind. Without thee, what were life? One bliss I cannot leave behind I'll take—my—precious—wife! The angel took a sapphire pen And wrote In rainbow dew, "The man would be a boy again, And be a husband, too!" "And Is there nothing yet unsaid Before the change appears? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years!" Why, yes for memory would recall My fond paternal joys I could not bear to leave them all I'll take my—girls—aud—boys! The silent augel dropped his pen— "Why, this will never do You e-annot be a boy agaiu And be a father, too!" Ami so I laughed—my laughter woke The household with Its noise— And wrote my dream, when moruing broke, To please the gray-haired boys. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. How a Business Women Ought to Dress. What a business woman should wear is a question of deep interest to the many women who are now supporting them selves. Before it was universally the custom for women to take care of them selvesi, it was not necessary to think so much about what they snouiu or should not wear when they went to work but every thinking woman now realizes that it. is a matter of great importange to her how she shall dress, even more than when she did not have to work, says Annie T. Ashmore iu Harper's Bazar. To begin with, a woman who goes to business every day soon finds that it is necessary for her to have her gowns well made, for, as a rule, the wear upon them is much harder than anything she has ever before known. A gown that has to be worn every day, rain or shine, becomes shabby very quickly if it is not well made and if it is not kept in good order all the time. Money apparently saved in buying cheap things, is in reality thrown away, for nothing that is cheap and' poor will last. Separate waists have been a boon, in deed, to business women. In winter, the silk shirt waist in summer, the waists of wash material have helped a number of women to look neat and trim who oth erwise could never have attained to it but, on the other hand, there are a great many women who cannot wear shirt waists, and who are obliged to have a neat, trim, well-fitting- lining, or if they have a lining made of silk or percaline made just like a waist, boned and with out a wrinkle, they will then be able to wear the unlined, unboned ready-made shirt waists, providing the waists are of a goed shape. The first costume a business woman ought to buy is her street gown, and she will find it much the best plan to have it black or a very dark blue. Too heavy cloth is not a good purchase the light weight of storm serge is the best thing, anel it should be made up on silk. There are a good many ready-made suits to be found lined throughout with silk, which will not cost over $20 or $25 but it is not worth while to buy them, unless they can be bought to fit. Very rarely can they be altered to fit satisfactorily. When a ready-made suit cannot be bought, the only thing to be done is to have one made by some tailor who thor oughly understands the figure. There are a great many tailors who will make gowns between seasons for $10 or $20 less than the regular price. These gowns will be all as well finished and as well cut as when they cost the full price in the very height of the season and, if care is taken of them, will last two years at least —not two seasons, be it understood, but two years. Such a gown as this will ^ost $40 or $50 to start with but if made by some responsible tailor, and of well-sponged material, such as responsible tailors have, will do duty summer and winter without losing color or shriuking. A well-fitted skirt and a well-cut coat, maele on the simplest lines, will stay in fashion a sur prising length of time. It is only the fancy styles that change often, and tailor suits have an acknowledged fashion of their own, which does not change every spring and fall. Great attention should be paid to the lining of the suit. It is not a good plan to put anything but a black lining to the skirt, as when that wears out it can easily be renewed, whereas if a colored .ining is used, it is almost impossible to match the silk when it needs rene vating. The coat, on the contrary, may have the fancy lining, if so desired, and, of course, will look smarter if it does. With this sort of gown, the business woman will ft*?l and look well dressed, if she keeps herself provided with sep arate waists enough. Two silk ones in winter are sufficient, if they are well made while, in summer, half a dozen made of wash silk or wash "materials will also do, and these will often last from one season te another. It is really what to wear out of busi ness hours than in business hours that needs most to be considered. There is a great sense of social obligation among women. Many people who have lived a life of ease and prosperity for manv years are suddenly forced to support themselves, and are most anxious not to in any way lose the look of refinement which they have always possessed, and they are more anxious than ever about the right sort of clothes to wear. Again, black is the best thing to choose, and a black silk will be found the best of friends. It should be made with a .hand some skirt, and two waists—one for the ater aud reception wear, and the other for evening wear. The trimming on the waists can be varied as the fashion changes, but the waists themselves will last for years and years, if a good quality of silk or satin is chosen. This style of gown should, however, never be bought ready made. It is better to have it made than to pay a large price in the shop for it. When there is money enough, a hand some cloth suit should be bought—not a business suit, be it understood, but one that is suitable for church wear, aud made on a more elaborate style. It heed not be made by a very good tailor, but must be plain enough to wear downtown if need be, and yet possible to wear, up town, by having additional revers, or a fancy vest piece, or something of that sort, which may be added. It will.be found that such a suit is absolutely nec essary. In summer an India silk must be bought if possible. If a taffeta is bought it will not require silk lining if an India silk, it will so this must be remembered iu choosing the silk. The one thing above all desirable for a business woman to buy is a smart tea gown or matinee that she can put on in the evening when she comes home tired, It is a great mistake ever to wear the street dress in the house, and if a street gown is taken off as soon as one comes in, and is well brushed and hung out in the air for a time, it will last twice as long. Then .the tea gown or matinee shoulel be donned. This gown may be made from some old evening gown by the aiel of a clever seamstress by the day. Of course there are very few days when a business woman can be at home to oversee this but there are a great many women who will come in and fit the dress in the fevening and then finish it at home. A tea fjown does not need to be so .well fitted it is rather in the trimming and general effect that it should be all right. Careleaa 8pe cb. The habit—for it is often nothing tnore —of deteriorating speech is so common that it would be well for all of us to stop and think about it, says Harper's Bazar. This sort of thing is so often heard: "I don't think she is so very pretty as people say,' "I don't think he (or ple she) fe 8o very ctever"~or ecououicel, or pwmwi. Gossip for the Ladies *fl*ysw a heard, we do think her pretty aud, again, if not very clever, surely interesting, arid all the others in like measure. It is more* ly a habit with many people, not skin deep, but just the cruel ana unfortunate habit of depreciating speech. A woman with a sharp tongue, but with the ten derest of hearts, the most generous of natures, but with a keenly-critical mind and a rare iutuition as to character, was brought up "all standing," as she ex pressed it, after she had beeu talking one day with a friend about several people, and before a young girl who was visiting the friend. In a suddeu lull in the talk the girl said, as. if by uncontrollable impulse: "Don't you like anybody V" "What do you mean?" "Please pardon* me, but it seemed so." Little more was said it was passed off and passed by, as in the polite world things that are unpleasant are passed over but into the neart of that woman th$ criticism sank deeply, and from that hour she watched and guarded her tongue. Now she does not depreciate in speech, and, if she cannot appreciate, is silent. It is well to remem ber the wise words of Emerson: "Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." What a changed and better world we should all live in if we only followed that advice. The Four Hundred. N°t Much has been heard of the fashion able "Four Hundred but the most sur prising statement of all is that made by three of the most prominent ladies who figure in it—Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. Herman Oel richs—that it is "dull." Reading in the daily and Sunday papers of the endless round of dinners and balls and luucheons and drives and the multitude of "func tions" of various sorts, one could not re flect upon this mad whirl of gayety and wonder how the society people stood it. But now we are told by those fashion- *1 .. able ladies—the very highest authorities— »n?fi'?i fu ?, that all these are "stupid events, cal« culated td bore people to death." The source of complaint seems to be thut the circle of the "Four Hundred" is too limited. The charm, as all along supposed, lay in the fact that our best society was so exclusive it was next to impossible for an outsider to get in. Brains did not matter much but you must have wealth and family, the wealth especially, and with them would go gen erally manners, the art of wearing good clothes, various small accomplishments, and, in some instances, an accent. The "Four Hundred" is the very cream of our social possessions, and many an en vious glance has been cast by the wealthy and ambitious who were not of that cir cle but who longed to be in it. There are rich women who would have given half their earthly possessions to be in the same set with Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. Fish aud Mrs. Oelrichs. And now we learn from those ladies themselves that the privilege is by no means so desirable as commonly supposed. The very ex clusiveness is the drawback. It is like the famous Beefsteak club to which Dr. .Johnson, Goldsmith aud a few other great men belonged it was pleasant, but as Beauclerk said, they had all traveled over one another's minds and were fa miliar with the opinions of one another on almost every subject. Each would te.l what the other would be likelv to think on any possible topic that might come up. Dr. Johnson resented the idea that so vast a mind as his coulel be trav eleel over but the criticism was an apt anel just one nevertheless. only is the circle of the "Four Hundred so circumscribed and uuinter ,l)uf there is the further report tnat naif the people within those charmed bounds are on bad terms with the other balf. There are deadly feuds, and with them go malice, slander aud sometimes open quarrel. The attraction is greatest from a distance. Soon Tire of a Pretty Face. A clever woman, provided she be not sarcastic and too fully alive to a sense of her own importance, is generally an at tractive one. Men may be charmed for a time by a pretty face, but they soon tire of mere prettiness. Nor does it fol low that all women of good sense and sharp intellect are necessarily plaiu. Bright thoughts enliven the most ordi nary face until the reflection of the mind shining out in all its radiance makes one forget that the features are not pure'Gre cian, and leads us to believe that such a woman is in reality a great beauty. The vivacious creature of varying moods and quaint fancies is the one to charm. A man forgets the type of beauty she may or may not possess, so interested does he become in the pleasing study of a mind that renders her face ever winning, irresistible aud pleasing, because like the surface of a lake, there comes a change with every varying motion. The attractive -woman should cultivate the mind, for a grace of soul and educa tion of spirit count far more than limpid eyes, a rosebud mouth and a dimpled chin. She should be ever teachable, for there is not one iota of lovablenesss in the man or woman who thinks he or she kuows it all.—Boston Herald. Avoid Idleness. It is only to be expected that a young girl has not—cannot have—much experi ence, if any, of the various little social duties that are required of and from a married woman, says the Philadelphia Times. She has perhaps been a member of a large family, and lias lived a quiet country life, with the simple round of in terests and amusements that constitute the society of so many country places. Naturally, therefore, she must feel SllSf iuciciuic, one uuisi ieei «w !ih,i 4i? People who are not in their exclusive set I M1 those children like caged canaries," said a woman speaking of the family of one of her.acquaintances. "They are beauti- ing .that there are larger possibilities has hardly spoken up to me today ^SWfP^fPJ® T^t -4»*v\ *r saying: "I am so glad to find out that my mother visits your mother, I always thought you seemed different from those Browns that you go with so much." 'VInw/toe ^speaking that way of dear Nelly and Tilly Brown, who are just as clever as they can be and so splendid. "I never hope to be even their equal," I stylish, or bright, or cheerful, or a thou- dream of being their superiors." sand other things. We do not stop Jo 'My mother never allows us to get iu think that while perhaps, as wo have to a street car or an omnibus,' said au othertame bird ling. 'We have never been told her, "and certainly could not ever In anything but a carriage in our lives.' Poor little creatures, cageil by custom and with wings clipped by prejudice, no wonder they lose the instinct of soaring aloft and are content behind their gilded wires.'—New York Tribune. Kducatiou for Average Women. What doe* the average woman need? In the first place, a thorough manual training. She needs to know how to cook a wholesome meal properly, to put it on the table appetizingly, and to do this with the minimum expenditure of energy. It is one of the most hopeful signs in ele mentary education that kitchen garden ing and household training are being in troduced into those schools which the children of the general population attend. The need of this practical domestic train ing for girls has probably been sufficient ly emphasized, but in the general read justment of occupations and duties going on between men and women it is more and more apparent that boys, as well as girls, need a certain amount of elementary domestic training. Housecleaning. Among the most essential things prepara tory to liousecleaning are: Storing the winter coal in the cellar, dusting and put ting away summer garments and cleaning rugs and carpets. Dust is the housekeepers' greatest ene my, and there is nothing that creates more of it throughout the house than putting in coal. It is well, therefore, to defer the fall cleaning until that has been done. Oetobef has been decided by housekeep ers to be the best time for housecieaning. When the rugs and carpets have been sent to the cleaners the first thing to do is to call the plumber in to look at the pipes. Many a housekeeper has deeply regretted not taking this precaution when a leak has occurred immediately after the house has been put in order. All other repairing should be attended to, with the exception of the painting, and that should not be ine until the coal is in the cellar. c?a- IS in ce^ar- After the coal has been stored and the summer garments carefully folded and laid away, without being starched or ironed, the general cleaning shoulel begin. One room is sufficient to upset at a time, anel if this is done systematically the family will not be made uncomfortable. A well-regulated household is a wom an's pride, and when it is clean and in or der she truly feels that she is "monarch of all she surveys." Begin a room in the morning, and have it completed before night, or so nearly so that its owner will not be troubled by the lack of the few last finishing touches. Ia this way the entire house can be renovat ed in less than two weeks. Plants for Window Boxes. The plants commonly. used for window boxes are geraniums, fuchsias, begonias and the foliage varieties. All these plants should be potted in October and put into good rich soil. The pots should be small, as it is better to crowd the roots a little than allow them too much space. Set the slips iu a shady place for about a week or ten days, when they will throw out new roots and can then be placed iu the full sunlight. After they have begun to show their strength they can be repotted or placed in boxes. It is not well to put too much soil about the roots of winter plants intended for blooming. Window boxes can be made of wood more fancy ones are of tile, set in a frame of wood and lined with zinc, the tile being only a veneering on the outer side of the wooden frame. An ideal window box comes in terra cotta.- This kind possesses the advantage of being porous, clean, lasting and condu cive to healthy plants. Care is necessary in handling these boxes, as terra cotta is somewhat brittle. Pictures in the Hall. It is becoming more and more common to lino the staircase well with pictures. On consideration, the idea is a good one from other points of view than the artis tic. The climb, particularly of a long un broken staircase, is to many persons an affair of minutes, and it is not at all un pleasant to be cheereel its length by some attractive pictures. In some houses there are series of photographs along the stair, those of celebrities being more often se lected than the pictures of the friends of the family. Wilhelmina's Favorite Flower. The young Queen of Holland is very enthusiastic about horticulture. Her fa vorite flower is, not unnaturally, the tu lip. The royal gardeners make super human efforts to keep these flowers in bloom all the year round, in view of the peculiar favoritism which their mistress lias for them. There is one special vari ety called "Queen Wilhelmina," of which she is particularly fond. It is brilliant orange, with flame-colored stripes. BABIES WITH BLEACHED HAIR. Physical and Moral Detriment Done to New York Tots. Bleached blondes of 5 years and up are becoming common in New York—so com mon, in fact, that medical men have be gun to talk about the matter and inveigh against the abominable practice. One of these physicians is quoted as follows: "If I were going to inaugurate a reform iu this city I should begin with certain swell matrons who are instilling into their children the germs of physical and moral ailments. I refer to these mothers who are bleaching the hair of little children, hardly more than infants in arms. Wher ever one may turn in New York the dis agreeable contemplation of artificially-col ored hair on the heads of innocent tots is forced on him, and the increase of the 18 somewhat at a loss what exactly to do bleaching is really alarming, for it is noth when called upon, without any special training or experience, to not only order a household, but to receive guests, return visits, and act the part of hostess to peo ple who are probably one and all absolute strangers to her. For in most cases the young wife not only leaves the old home, but even its neighborhood, and begins her new life among neighbors of whose very names she has hitherto been ignorant, but with whom, of course, she hopes and wishes to live oh friendly terms. Often too this verv dealt-* HWn „,,fi honesty is not sufficiently strong in a be ftked has thp efferi- of nfn thi«J S iuiccu un iniii, ana tne increase or tne iuS les.s than the harbinger of bodily and a +a riAf nt.ltf mnrnl infirmltioa moral infirmities. "In the^first place, the bleaching of chil dren's hair is almost certain to result in diseases of various sorts. In the second place, it is meant as a deception which, sanctioned by maternal authority, the only law of right or wrong known to the child, must convince the tot that it is right to deceive, and so prepares the way for a long list of moral offenses which spring from duplicity. If the sense of right aud honesty is not sufficiently strong in a wom.aP to a not show herself off to the best advan tage, for to do this a person must be at ease, and be sure of herself and of what is the right thing to do and say, a confi dence which a few people have by nature, but which comes to most of us only with time and experience. When the husband, as is generally the case, has business or work that occupies him during the day, the young wife will naturally at first find it a little bit dull and lonesome to be left all day to her own company aud devices but it never does to let this feeling grow upon one, or to let it become a grievance and source of trouble. It is what most young wives have to meet at the beginning of their new life, and for their own sakes must overcome. The only way in which she can do this is to find '{npatently waiting for ejur or make an occupation for herself. Avoid ir„thVnp idleness, is the best advice that can be given to or taken by a young wife, for 'vhich the drink so prized in the roiintr^ work is the only real talisman against Pr™t her inculcating such ,girl pernicious principles in the heart of her i,nt fh,61!!^S fl»Wren then there should be some legis lative enactment to protect them. "In an hour's walk in Broaelwav you will pass at least half a dozen little people who are jnst in the wane of babyhood and whose naturally black or brown hair has been bleached to a sickly, dirty, lifeless yellow. So far from contributing to the physical beauty of the child, it is a ex traction aud must provoke the protests aud opprobrium of all right-thinkiuk per sous.—New York Press. Making "Pulque" in Mexico. In "Eleven Months in Mexico and Cen tral America" in the International, the au thor, Lambert de Sainte-Croix ele*scribes the process of pulque making or gathering in Mexico. He says: As we were impatently waiting for our is madei and which boredom, ennui aud hysteria. .WiCU *VU,J credible ease, bringing in rich profits both to the landowner and to the railway com panies. When the plant is ripe, they cut into the cabbage-like center, aud insert in the opening au empty gourd, from which the workman sucks the air through a tube. The liquid then rises into the ves sel aud the harvest is made. The juice is taken to the hacienda, where it is allowed Society's "Caged Canaries." It is a pity for young persons to be brought up as so mauy are in what termed good society, without any horizon, to view life through a keyhole, anel as a natural sequence to believe that what .... they see constitutes everything that is de- taken to the hacienda, where it is allowed sirable in the way of social intercourse. ^e.rmeI 'or.a are not worth the knowing, an egotism !f^,i,«2U?in ,,^X1q0'»^ generally that is nitiful when* one consiflpvs pv. rcflclics the city obout 3 cIock in tlic tremely limited extent of these self-satis- "pedal ^ars^carre^t" to retail1'and^ whole1 fied young people's knowledge and oppor- Sdealers ^doclf i?n the mornfug thp nen8nfpUtn\vhmn8tl^vltnno^rehUltnrf there is nothing'left of the immense quan the people to whom they tancy themselves tity of liquid, everyone supplying himself *v i/iiug uy e°w, as if it were milk, which it Slightly resem "I think it is too foolish to bnug up b!es in color." 4-ttAfla nil UlfA nnrtnd nn If fully educated, and what are called ad- apemea to :-S"s^"'^ct: w.ith rc glon ?s cultivatedN58h in- v?ry short time it is then reserT01.ls ,1U 5l)eci- ca??' an^ in„ft A Magnificent Tomb. The most magnificent tomb in the world deemed to be the palace Temple of TO mirably brought up, but they are bound Karhak, occupying an area of nine acres, to be narrow to the end of their days, 2K tyice ,that tne pamce xempie ot of,St living their contracted lives in their small The. temple space is a jwjet's dream of gi world with perfect content, never realiz' 18 ave 0 within their reach. My little daughter An Enormous Negresti came home latelyJfrom a class which she a colored woman who actually tipped attends with the Tiptop girls quite in dis- the scales at 475 pounds was the center SQft. of attraction at Camden Station a few •"Only fancy, mamma, what imperti* days ago nence!' she exclaimed. 'Olarft TiptOp, ?e!,er! at Rome, sphinxes. ,"~ sclaimed. 'Olar» Tiptop, and gladly Token to me lay to the /*,* Fritx and His Puzzle. Fritz Is a beautiful brown-eyed boy, Uunniug over with fun aud j°y Now and then his iuegtlonn bother His beautiful, youthful, brown-eyed mother. "I wish," she said, one elay last week, "Dear Fritz, I wish you would let uie speak." But Fritz had a number of things to say, Aud he pratteld and rattled aud llxpeel away. Till she said, "My boy. If It's not unkind, Do try for a while your own business to wind." The brown eyes fell with a puzzled droop. The small mouth puckered Itself iu a loop. "I fluk," said Fritz, In a tone resigned— "I flnk I have no busiuess to iniudl" Queen Count* the Wash. The youug Queen has—necessarily more than other children—always hael a good many lessons to learn, a geod many tasks to perform, a goed mauy duties to go through, says A. C. Kniper in telling the readers of St. Nicholas about the youthful ruler of Holland. But she has had her holidays as well as other chil dren, and certainly enjoyed them quite as much. She, of course, particularly liked the Christmas holidays, and the pleasant surprises they brought with them, and one of her special pleasures was to pre pare a Christmas tree for au elelerly court lady, of whom she was very fond. The winter of 1895 made no exception to the rule. Queen Wilhelmina's old friend was, under some pretext or other, induced to go out. Her retreating foot steps were eagerly listened for then the girl Queen of 15 years gave strict orders that no one—no one—should interrupt her or enter the room while she was busy with the tree. The lackeys bowed low, anel promised obedience the tree and the decorations and the presents were e*arried into the old lady's room then the Quee»n, left alone, began to work. She had been busy for some time', now and then standing on tiptoe to fasten a bright bit of orange ribbon on a higher branch of the tree, when there was a knock at the eloor. With indignant eyes the Queen looked up, or rather looked down, from the tree to the door. Who was it that dared trouble her, contrary to her most positive commands? She knit ted her brows, and went on with her work, feigning not to have heard the knock. Surely they would not dare to re peat it? Hark! there it was again. It was too bad! She quickly walked up to the door, opened it a very little bit, and asked impatiently, "Why did you knock? Who is it?" The answer was given without the least hesitation. "It is me, the washer woman." The washerwoman! Queen Wilhelmina was perplexed. She did not wish any one to see the tree, and could not send for the court lady, or any of her attendants. So opening the door, she said kindly: "Well, come in aud put down the bas ket. but don't look arouud." The woman did as she was told. She had never seen the Queen of Holland, and she felt perfectly at ease iu the pres ence of this young girl, almost a child, who was very simply dressed in some dark woolen winter material. "Good afternoon, missy." she said. "Where shall I put the things?" "Put them? Has the basket to be un packed "Why, of course it has, missy. That is always done." "Oh, indeed! Then put the things some where, and make a little haste, please." The woman nodded aud obeye-d. When the basket was empty, she handed the Queen a bit of paper, and said: "You will see that the things on this list are all there, won't you, missy?" "Missy" began to enjoy the joke. She consulted the list, anel counted the things to see that all was correct. Then she said kindly: "It is all right. You e*aii go now." But the washerwoman was not satis fied. "Go?" she repeated indignantly. "No, indeed, I shan't go. I'll be paid first. The lady always pays me directly." "Does she, really?" asked the Queen. "Indeed she does. You can ask her. if yon like." The Queen saw that she would have to act her part of "missy" to the end. She found the situation amusing, and casting down hejr laughing eye»s, she took out hei purse, and counted the money into the laundress' band. "That's all right, and thank you kind ly," the woman said, taking up her bas ket. and going to the door. Then, with a glance at the half-decorateel Christmas tree, she added good-naturedly: "Anel 1 wish you much pleasure. Gooel-by, mis sy." A gay. musical laugh rang through tin room when "missy" was alone again Her majesty, the Queen of Holhind. was. indeed, not accustomed te be aeidressed by that unpretending titie\ How her sym pathetic mother must have smiled witl pleasure when the tree was ready, am" the Queen of 15 years ran away to tell her what had happened! Giving a Nut Social. Winter approaches, and evening enter tainments indoors are iu order. A nut so cial is a novel thing, aud it can be made amusiug, mysterious, or instructive as you wish, with genuine nuts and metaphori cal nuts—geographical, historical, literary or social. Issue your invitations in a form to stimulate curiosity. You might put "Nut cracking," "Nut Social" or "Mixed Nuts" as a title on the outside, with a big iuter rogation mark filling the center, and the words "Contributions requested" below, with elate and place of entertainment in the lower lefthand corner. Or better still, perhaps, paint a large nut, or a group of small ones, with nut-crackers and picks, if you choose, in the upper lefthand cor ner, and the words "To crack" iu the center, followed by place and date as be fore. Your invitations may simply ask the pleasure of Miss Bessie M.'s or Miss Flo ra T.'s company. Engage several of your bright young friends to give a little eie seription of some nut, impersonating it as far as possible, telling where found, its habits, uiannar of growth, uses, and other interesting facts regarding it. concealing its name, and weaving as much mystery about it as possible. Have these descrip tions only two or three miuutes long, but as bright, catchy and witty as may be. Then, after each nut is described, give a chance for quizzes and guesses regarding it. Intersperse the chat with an ocea sonal strain of familiar musie, which, in accordance with the nut-cracking scheme, may be identified anel the comjposer guesseel. Brought in at unexpected inter vals, it will require quick wits to name them readily. To give variety to the entertainment, noted personages, books, characters in fic tion, or works of art may be represented by the different guests, or an art gallery may be improviseel by the hostess. The greater the variety of puzzling things, the greater will be the interest anel the more enjoyable the entertainment. Ev erything, as far as posisble, must be in the nature of a nut—to be cracked. The refreshments should be of nuts, or something having nuts as an ingredient, as nut-cakes, nut-candies, etc. Have a nut salad if you like—a dish of nuts dec orated with autumn leaves, intermingled with slips of paper containing conun drums, enigmas, puzzliug questions, etc., to be guessed by the recipients or you may have nut bonbons of the same kind. Or, after carefully cracking English wal nuts, substitute for the meats your paper nuts, unite the two half shells with a drop or two of mucilage, and serve with each plate of refreshments. Provide every guest with paper and pencil to record his guesses as he makes them, and give a prize for the greatest number of corrcct answers, and a booby prize feir the least. A silver nut-cracker or a set of nut-picks would be appropriate for the former, auel a hammer for the latter. Try it, aud you will like it. The Troub'e with a Tutor. "Dou you go to school, Willie queried the visitor. "No," said Willie, who has a tutor. "School comers to me. I wish it elidn't, too. Some days are too wet for me to fo and wou" She seemed to enjoy attracting itlon, and gladly consented passfenger for .mericatt^ ,,, out, but there ain't any too wet for Ir. Diggins." The Soldier and the Mirrors. He was a soldier, and from his appear ance It was quite evident that he had seen service in the fever-stricken camps of the South, where pay days were far between and food scarce and none the best. He. with several other* of the wearers of the blue, were viewing the curtosltiea in the prf9P( §it? Column museum at Ninth and Arch when their attention was attracted at the sight of a large mirror of the distorting kind over in the corner. "Come on, fellows," he shout ed, "let's see what we look like." Going over to the mirror, he gave it a turn. The effect was ludicrous. He beheld himself as narrow as a beanpole and with a face ds long as a bucket and as sharp as an axe. "Hully gee, fellows!" he ejaculated, in alarm, "look at Tampa." Then be gave the glass a twist the other way. A smile of satisfaction flitted over his face as he saw himself a jolly little roiypoly of a man, almost as wide as high. "Ab! he shouted out, as he smacked bis lijfe at the thought of some long-forgotten feast, "pay day, pay day!" The effect of his re mark was not lost on the crowds—Phila delphia Inquirer. TAKING LIFE MASKS. It is a Very Tedious Operation, Es pecially for the Subject. One often observes when reading of the demise of a celebrity that a mask was taken by Mr. So-and-So, the celebrated sculptor, soon after his death, but really very few people know how this is carried out. They might have some idea that plaster of paris is put over the dead man's face, but there the idea ends. A mask from life is taken almost pre cisely in the same way as after death, save that much greater care has to be used, as the subject's life hangs on a very thin thread, or, to be more precise, two small quills. It requires a great deal of nerve and patience to uudergo, the sen sation being most disagreeable. When a mask from life is about to be secured, the subject reclines on a long table, and towels are placed around his neck and forehead to prevent the plaster going where not intended. The face is slightly greased, but not enough to fill the""t»ores of the skin. Care has to be especiallv taken with the eyelashes, as otherwise, in the subsequent operations, these are likely to be pulled off, which would not be exactly pleasant. A small quill is now inserted iu either nostril to allow the sub ject to breathe through, aud cotton wool lightly pressed around the base to keep the liquid plaster from intruding. A pair of scissors is always kept handy, so as to be able to cut off the tops of the qnills, should by any chance the plaster splash up and cover them. All being ready, a few cheering words are spoken to the un happy victim, and the plaster is mixed. This is carefully poured or sprinkled over the features. The plaster, through being mixed with warm water, quickly hardens, aud in the course of about five minutes the mould is strong enough to be taken off. It has to be carefully done, as the subject is generally-so very eager to get a mouthful of fresh air once again. A slight tap with the hands is given to the two side pieces, which relieves the joints made by the thread. The top or central piece is then lifted up and pulled slightly down ward, so as to withdraw the quills from the nose- as they come out with the mould. The sides are then taken off. Probably some of the hair may hold the mould, but with a little coaxing, or by the insertion of the scissors, it can soon be removed. Care must be used to get the ears, but without breaking either the subject or the mould. The ears are only taken on the front sides, cotton wool being placed at the back to prevent the plaster going around. When removed, the three pieces are put together and plaster placed on the exterior to hold anel strengthen them.— Strand Magazine. SOLD "LOHENGRIN" FOR $80. The Great Composer Got Small Remit neration for His Operas. "When—in the '50s—Wagtier's works began to spread through Germany, one town afte'r another put 'The I-'lying Dutchman.' 'Rienzi,' 'Taunhaeuse-r' and 'Lohengrin' on its theater's programme," writes Richard Wagner's bieigrapher in the Ladies' Home Journal. "At that epoch theaters in Ge-rinauy gave no per centage whatever. The only obligation the law imposed on them was to buy the score. The price of the score was fixe-el in each special case between the theater and the author, aud varieel ace-oruiug to the population of the town and the sue cess expected. Once the score was bought, the theater had no further obli gation toward the author. Wagner usual ly got from $40 to $80 for a score, and rarely $120. What Wagner got—once for all—for 'Rienzi,' 'The Flying Dutch man,' 'Tannhaeuser' anel 'Lohengrin' amounted, therefore, all told, to something like $50 to $100 from each theater which put these works on the stage. "Another source of income ought to have been the stile of the scores to the publishers, several of whom have made fortunes with them. But the fact that Wagner was always in want of money put him in a disadvantageous position. 'Tristan,' for example, was sold for $800, and 'Lohengrin' for $80." Carlyle Calls No Man Master. My new beok, I may tell you now, is to be something about that same Civil war in England which Baillie was in the midst of I think mainly or almost ex clusively about Oliver Cromwell, writes Thomas Carlyle in the Atlantic. I am struggling sore to get some hold of it. but the business will be dreadfully difficult, far worse than any French Revolution, if I am to do it right—and if I elo not e'o it right what is the use of doing it at all? For some time I tried actual writing tt it lately, but found it was too soon yet. I must wrestle aud tumble about with it. indeed at bottom I do not know yet whether ever I shall be able to make a book out of it! All that I can do is to try, till I ascertain either yes or no. For the rest I am grown teo old and cunning now to plunge right on and attempt conquer ing the thing by sheer force. I lie back, canny, canny, and whenever I find my sleep beginning to suffer, I lay down the tools for a while. By Heaven's gr-.\-it blessing I am not now urged on by direct need of money. We have arranged cur selves here in what to London people is an inconceivable state of thrift aud iu our small way are not now tormented with any fear of want whatever, for the pres ent. To myself my poverty is really quite a suitable, almost comfortable, ar rangement. I often think what should I do if I were wealthy! I am perhaps among the freest men in the British em pire at this moment. No king or pontiff has any power over me. gets any revenue from me, except what he may deserve at my hands. There is nothing but my Maker whom I call Master under this sky. What would I be at? Georsre Fox was hardly freer iu his suit of leather than I here—if to be sure not carrying it quite so far as the leather. Jane, too, is quite of my way of thinking in this re spect. Truly we have been mercifully .dealt with, and much that looked like evil has turned to be good. Vermont's Tribute to Dewey. The state of Vermont is considering the subject of providing a tribute to her dis tinguished citizen, Admiral Dewey. The Vermont Legislature, now in session, has the subject before it. A statue has been proposed, but a more practical method "of proceeding seems to be finding most fftvor. It is to provide a "Dewey hall," to be used for drilling purposes in the state's military institution, Norwich uni versity. This institution has long been famous as a military school and many of the most conspicuous officers of tin- Civil war were among its graduates. The Bos ton Herald says it is likely that the Leg islature will appropriate a sum toward the addition of this hall to the university, and it is proposeel also to raise money by popular subscription for the same pur pose. This will be open to contributions out of the state, as well as in ir. and those interested in honoring Admiral Dewey will find a fitting opportunity to do so by aiding in the projected work. A London Eel Market. Few Londoners know that an eel mar ket .of a quaint and interesting kind is held* every Sunday morning near the south side of Blackfriars bridge, barring, of course, the times when the slippery fishes are not obtainable. It is said to be nearly 300 years olel. The peculiari ty of the gathering is that here you buy Vls by the handful instead of by weight. Sixpeuce a fistful is the price, and al hoi'gh the fishes are generally small it is :nuch ehcaiier than purchasing by weight, Rosebery's Definition of Memory. Here is a ioli mot of Lord Rosebery's —would one* evfer expect mots from Lord Rosebery ?—told in our garden by a wom an who heard him say it at a diuner: Someone asked him what memory was. "Memory," said Lord Rosebery, "is the feeling that steals over ns tvhen we lis1 ten to our friends' original storieB,"-*Lon .don letter to Harper's Ba»ar.^||^.. T- 4 Bab Bright Babble (Copyright, 1888. by 1. A. Mallon.) Just now, when chrysanthemums are in their ragged but great glory, nobody dreams of patting them iu a jar or a glass or a fancy vase. Oh, dear, no! They must shine from a punchbowl. Their stems must be cut so that they "fit in a care-less, artistic way, for while the leaves are often taken from tbe flowers yet quite as often their foliage is framed all about them. The bowls most fa vored are those wonderful, deep, round ones of India ware—the qnaint Woe ones with the lovely ladies from Japan walk ing up ladders on their heads, or coming down in a sideways fashion—fine cut glass bowls, or, beat of all, great big silver punchbowls. These glitter, and seem to reflect almost like a mirror the white or yellow beauties that are tbe flowers of the .season. There is something dignified about chrysanthemums, not to wear but to put about a room or to use to decorate a table. They have an odtl way of stand ing up, as if they wished each visitor to realize that each one of them had a special dignity of her own, and she want ed you not only to realize it but to feast upon it. The chrysanthemum, to my way of thinking, is a hea 1thy-looking flower. Even when it is a bit droopy, it simply droops its petals, permitting them to blow away, though they never cnrl up or manage to get an unpleasant *r' ?ot they! They simply disappear ,nJ9 that famous innocuous desuetude, which is the one phrase that will carry one man down through posterity. A girl I know has just come back from Sweden, and as she is a victim of hay fever she. thinks of going to live there. The reason why? Because there '.lie doe tor never sends home a bill. But when .you are cured you write out what you think the bill ought to be and forward the ducats te him. If you have made a won derful hit in wheat, if you have been made viceroy of India, if the President of the United States has concluded that yon are the proper person to be embassador to England, if any good luck has coute to you, then _you write on a visiting card $lo00 or $5000. I cannot imagine higher than $10,000. But if you have had a hard time of it that year, if there have beeu a good mauy mouths to feed and they are tired of oatmeal, or if your old est boy is beginning to see the charm of a dress suit and white kid gloves when he visits the young woman who is making a fool of him, why, then, after a long ill ness you send a menlest card with your name written on it, and underneath it you put 50 ejents or 75 e?ents or whatever seems suited to you. not to the dortor's gennl reputation, not to thedoctor's ability, but perfectly adapted to that thin little pocket hook, which looks as if it had l»een to the circus and had been trod UJKIU in a moment of airy persiflage by the largest elephant. A thin pex-ketbook leads to desperation. If I wante*d to make a woman a saint, if I wanted her to care for the pxr, make the sick happy and well, give to those who are hungry, and make the little children all as happy as happy could be, I'd make that woman rich, and then I'd teach her how to spend her money. Do you ever think that the rich pe?ople are. after all, extremely kind? Ttie average wealthy girl gets hundreds of letters a day, most of them from frauds, and the one true re quest among them must be treated like the fakes, or else we will have au anarchistic government, which means lack of repose e-ntirely. WThen I say repose I mean it in a varia ble sense. Some people consider sleep repose, there are others who elrown them selves in a good book and consider that repose, while there are still others who trot arouud from here to there and really haven't the remotest idea of what repose is. Repose, as it used to be known, was dignity, and good dignity. There are only a few specimens of it to be found now. It is as rare as real old Sevres china aud requires the same amount of care. An eldirly laely—she speaks of herself as elderly, although she is 80 years old— e-omplains of the folly with whie*h the girls of today talk. "Why." she said, "when I was youug. it was e-onsidered vulgar to tic purse prouel. and the iieople who be longed to the real Knickerbocker circles. esiHcially those who were very we-althy, were taught as sewn as they could under stand anything that it was extremely vul gar to make any display nf their belong ings or to talk about their possessions. Then, too, the old 'noblesse oblige' were taught very early that because they were what they were they must be gracious, tender-hearted and loring to everyone they met, but toeiny the girls talk about the value of being rie-h. the advantage of hav ing rich friends, what can be got out of .Tack So-aud-Sei and how mue-h can be obtained from Mrs. Black Diamond. To me it is horrifying. I could not tell you just what I think it is. but the women who sell their immortal souls—iioor wretches—are not any worse than those who see life in its hard and mercenary way and make no effort to find anything that is sweet, desirable, gentle or kindly in their behavior or in their thoughts." "Wheme fault?" That was asked of a great man, and. with a surprised look at the question, he said. "The mother's, of e-ourse." And we who looked at him won dered that the mother who thought she was doing right found, with a toss of her pretty head, that it was too much trouble to think about. Generalizing, most things are too mue-h trouble to think about. The eyebrow pencil or the light blue pene-il to outline the delie-ate veins, the exact shade of rouge or just the clear, white iwwder that gives au ivory white look, all these are of importance, of great importaue-e. but the smallest of the ba bies—well, it is a darling. It sits in the carriage beside its mamma, weariug its white cloth coat trimmed with ermine and its great white bonnet rich with little ermine tails and the high white ribbon bows until mamma and the baby make a lovely picture. Ten years from that time, when the baby is 13. an awkward age and decidedly in the way, he dise-overs that he has a soul: he learns that there is such a thing as a heart, usually from the kind servants in the kite-hen. in which place he learns many other things that it is not so well for him to know. He hears divore-e spokeu of as if it were a jest, aud he is surprised, sine-e they squab ble so much, that his "eladdy" eloes not get a divorce from the "old lady." the beautiful names that he has learned at school from the other boys. Do you know, it seems to me that if there had been put into my care an im mortal soul I would love it. but I wemld care for it almost in fear, for I should remember that while in those command ments there is one which charges ns to honor the father and mother we shoulel also read it as demanding honor from the mother to the e-hild. Did yeiu ever think that you have taken a heavy respemsibility into your arms when you laugh and coo at the bundle of lace and mull, at the tiny face and funny little hands? Did you ever think that there is growing every elay not only an immortal soul for which you must an swer, but a heart to which you must teach the value of sweetuess and love? We laugh at this phrase, you and I. but yet. when the oldest boy regards you with ingratitude, when the daughter neg lects and makes iv jest of you and when the other little oues fiuel first amnsemeut and then sarcasm in your pleasures, don't you feel a pain just where your heart is? Or have yon so thoroughly hardened your heart that yon laugh and count,,the children as bothersome and to be out of the way? I can see before me a beautiful child 5 years old. Her mother was like a picture but, like most pictures, there was uo heart in it. Her father was a gentleman, anel, seeing his wife's faults, he managcel to cater to them without losing his own dig nity. His pride protected him. But one elay this baby of 5. looking like its beauti ful mother and with the quickness of wit that belonged to its father, when aske*i where she had been all day. said. "Oh, I have been showing myself with the devil, but I am glad now that- the gooel angel has come home!" That is the child of the century. Sometimes she conceals her feelings and lives a morbid life that makes her sarcastic when 12 years old and an unbeliever when she is 15. She is the girl who arranges her prayer books to match her gowns and thinks it bad form to go to a church with those who are not of blue blood. She is the grand-daughter of a lady, a lady who deprives herself of little luxuries that others might enjoy them, a lady who recognizes the value of caste, but who always has a kind word for those who serve her. One grows so .very weary of thp noiiveanx riches. Aim yet*they push themselves until they *tand upon the steps of the house counted as of great glory. But will they eveu be al lowed to open the gates of that Greater House where glory never ceases? .v- Bab. —Mrs. Sampson, wife .of the rear-ad miral, has rented a house at Vedalo, C«ba. 1 ~4