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f- -i. f. E A S E S O Bv ELVIRA FLOYD FROEMCKE ®HE Babcocks were fortunate young pebple and their good luck was more tjhan partially in vested in Nancy. Nancy was of the grenadier type severe, capable and thorough. She had' been "managin' lielp" for the ten months of their mar ried existence cooking, washing, iron ing and dictating, till they became more like her children and the day she proposed to "larn Mis' Babccck housekeepin'" was a day deferred. One sad morning Mrs. Babcack paused as she opened the kitchen pan try door, fJr there, like a ghost of the departed, hung Nancy's "chore duds," 1. e., faded cotton skirt and sack, checked sunbonnet and huge prunella .gaiters. "Mercy!" exclaimed she, "I feel as if Nancy's eyes were on me. 1 wish she were here. I'd hug her." "What's that?" called Joe. "If you feel like hugging anybody, come here and hug me. for I must be off." Mollie sniffed. "Poor Nancy, I hope she can come back to-day. Oh, Joe! Easter three days off, Nancy sick, the choir coming here for Easter supper, and a wife who knows nothing but singing and loving! Poor Joe!" Joe did not answer, but his kisse3 ^proved his content, and Mollie, flushed •and smiling, was convinced. A boy stopped Joe at the gate. "I'd like to see Mis' 'Babcock," he said., Joe indicated Mollie. "That ^hain't never Aunt Nancy's inarm," he gasped then "Be -j[e?"fto Mollie and added: "Wa'al, I swan," before lie delivered the mournful news of Aunt Nancy's "swol' jaw and shet «yes" that would keep her in bed for a week. "Oh-h!" said Mollie, and "Oh-h-h!" mocked Joe. "What shall we do?" laught Mollie. "Do everything we proposed and a little more, to show how clever we are," answered Joe. "Yes, but Alice Morris will pity, you for having married me." "Will she? Then think how you would have pitied me had I married her," and, singing a rollicking little song, he ran down the path, like the liappy fellow he was. At choir practice that night they re tiearsed the Easter anthem, "There fore, Let Us Keep the Feast." The .music was new and delightful. So pranos and tenors led, Alice Morris •coming in with her deep contralto at the words "with malice and un'chari tableness." "Alice sings her solo as if she un derstood malice perfectly," whispered one of the chorus. Mollie heard the ungracious remark and resolved to be -very gentle with Alice and her friend, If possible. She spoke pleasantly and walked feome beside lier. She told her she had «HE PROPOSED TQ "LARN MIS' BAB COCK HOUiEKEEPIN' "—A DAY DEFERRED. iheard she cooked as well as she sang. Would she give her a recipe for rusk Alice was pleasant in turn, and re peated the desired ingredients,- Mollie stopping at a lamp post to jot down the items. "Half a yeast cake?" asked Mollie. "Yes, and a bit more, if you woqld Unsure theif lightness: "O, thank you," said Mollie, as they parted. "I ''would' like them to be good It would please deaf joe. "Little fool,".sneered Alice to her self, "she'll make a mess of it Much 1 care about pleasing .dear Joe! Saturday afternoon tjhe little Jyellow -house turistled with cleanliness, "i Snowy curtains were looped from shining win dows. Eveiry room was spotless, ajid a tired little woman was watching for Jo$r*«tad hoping %hfer: hadn't forgotten anyUxing.: She stroked an aggressive flute in the curtain frill, and, hurrying to the kitchenr restirred the contents •of a bowl, saying: "Maybe I'd ^better put fn tlfe other half yeast cake then rwill. wouldn't it be these *were lighter than' AJic#^ rusk.:, Hdw proud- Jog wo||d be," and she popped in the: extra-^e&st, heat the^roU-are mixture vigorously, and slid the^bow Dut of sight in the ice box When Joe Babcock reached. h6me, j, /boy beside, him was .trundling a wheels *g. MoVUp^d* PHl^^P.arm ajjpjit her,. •kipped op the path into ihesittinas. IWmfUice A \rJh -•, rr i- 'room, where they unpacked his shop ping. "You dear," she cried, as the treas ures were unrolled that proclaimed Joe's.catering ability "I never should have remembered half these things, yet I should have missed them di rectly we were at table! But didn't you bring me anything?" "O, 3res. I met Dr. and Mrs. Grey at the station, and they are expecting us for dinner to-morrow, sure.'L "Is that all? That was for you, too," pouted Mollie. "AH! Ail! Well, I think it pretty nice, Mrs. Babcock! No dinner to cook, and a jolly good one to eat! What do you women expect?" Easter morning dawned clear, and Mollie wakened in a joyous mood. She, sprang out of bed, and, singing a scale or two, rejoiced. "O, leave off, can't you?" mumbled Joe, longing for one more snooze and remembering the rusk, secretly rising for the Easter feast, she "left off." Suddenly Joe's .drowsiness fled. He remembered that Nancy was away, THERE. WITH HER HEAD ON THE TABLE, WAS MOLLIE. and, dressing swiftly, he hastened downstairs. No breakfast odors greet ed him, find the house was very quiet. The kitchen fire blazed, but no kettle was tfveri It There wUh hefhead on the table was Mollie, sobbing as if her heart would break, and from the re frigerator rolled and effervesced rusk dough, that like a frothy sea surged over the kitchen noor. What under the canopy," began Joe, and then he laughed. Oh, oh, how he laughed! Mollie tried to look haughty, but broke down and sobbed out her story on Joe's shoulder. 'See here," said Joe, kissing her and putting her out of the kitchen. "You run upstairs, Mrs. Babcock, 'and get to rights. When your eyes look like my Mollie's eyes, open, a box that lies on the bed, and see if that boa's the right shade. Tut!" as Mollie sobbed again, "mind! You're not to corns down till I call."' He closed the doot and began to whistle. Gee!"-said he, "what a mess! That old cat (meaning Miss Morris) has given Mollie the wrong recipe. I bet I could make rusk enough for 20 peo ple out of what's left. It's lucky 1 was brought up on a farm." When Mrs. Babcock smelled coffee she forgot her instructions and made straight for the kitchen. To her sur prise Nancy was at work', faded calico, prunella boots and all. Why, Nancy," said she, "I am glad you're 'NnwqjTfcie blessed!" shouted Jot from -the depths of her plaid sunbon net, and Mollie's fun began for in Nancy's "duds," and imitating her stride and grab of things,, he did pre sent a droll figure, and Mollie laughed until they were both merry and bright as Easter day. There! That's O. K., little wom an/' said Joe, standing off and vlew in* the table and indeed it was. All their prettiest chins^ glass and silver decoratsfrthe .satfa-IJkecloth. The dishes were laden with, salads* meats prerfhrea, cakes and dainties *anc£ like a floral weave, were hyacinths amd lilies. "Listen, Mollie! By and by I'll slip off, light the. fire and put over the kettle. When I come back, you va moose and finish up." Mollie nodded, smiling delightedly.. The members of Trinity choir Were coming. Mollie and Joe met the happy ten at the door and made them wel come. All were meriy and full of the day's events. Mollie kept talking and avoided personalities she dreaded be ing questioned about rusk. In due time Joe disappeared—unmissed—-for some one was playing "Die Traumerei." He was gone so long that Mollie trem bled 'but when he returned, flushed arid happy, Mollfe slipped off like a vision. a The kettle's music greeted her, the kitchen, was neat. and a: scent olt fak ing filled t^e, siir i^ollie won^efed at it, but was "too busy t6 investigate!: When tbejr assembled.all lomplt mented them on ihe beauty arid abun dance^! t&e tttble. 1: :^Y^s,t:. cned Joe, ecstatically, "Mrs Babcock to a notable 'housekeeper! MoIiie," %erwerit^ ^o,ravdiding hit wife's rebuking glance, "Why, Mollie, ^i-are Xfa^tjiagtbe rttsjc.": #fstc«jped to a sidtf^fefe, and, lift ingrt^orplates Tfeapfea^irfgti^with gold P1^ them with the ... *barro^ filled with parcels Mollie ratt'H^ -The bJ«B«ijK. _^as^a, rsaVing grace iejr Cfom the,,"old 1 id uricharlbiblMuMLN leaven /S *a? i»i mm xm ysaote kttih* OEaster ^olielttcs Pretty Things, Easily Made, That Will Interest the Little Folks 'HE little Americans like Easter for the novelties the season brings them. The stores are filled with them, and many others are made by the ingenious boys and girls themselves. Here are a few that may be made at home with nothing more expensive than the always abundant egg. One that is sure to plfease is a tor pedo boat that floats. It is made by blowing out the contents of the egg by making a pinhole at each end, and then blowing steadily at one end. Make a hole in the middle of the side of an egg and pour in melted sealing wax and lead. Paint a row of portholes around the egg and glue on a bow and a stern cut from a cigar box or a shingle. The smokestack is made of black eajrdboard, and the rail ing, of wooden toothpicks glued in a circle of cardboard which slips over the smokestack and Is kept in place with a touch of glue. The American flag flies! from a toothpick. If a needle is put into the bow the boat can be drawn through the water by a mag net. A.. A more peaceable toy is the duck. Weight the sheft afid paint it to repre sent a duck. Cut head and tail of pasteboard, and after gluing firmly to the shell paint In colors. For the little girls' dollhouse an eggshell cradle can be made. If the maker is skillful it can be cut in one piece from the e£g. Pasteboard: rock ers are glued on arid tbe cradle can be, fitted -with tiny mattress, pillow and spread. A penny doll, chid in its nighty, should repose beneath the cov ers. •. When Easter Comes., "Tfre festival of Easter is tov be cele brated on the Sunday, following the first full moon, after the beginning jf spring." therefore, if the moon becomes full upon the day on whioh spring be gins, fhe .Sunday after ,the next full moon is, of course, indicated by the directions of the council ^s Easter day. Apd ,if. the moon 7becomes mm, trait wwlwrd.jseittv fcu, jain0 fherobm nofes Ibe ilwiwi af tiiw ^iwtpmr sojhiup fader's faster fall** rioa cj vmmae %di axtft cwr. hf^dib if tomaneuJ -Jtti two hit ^tl lire mi exmlBiiply full on a Sunday'," the next guriday, sim ilarly must bt Easter d^y., Jfv, «, Caster Customs: of iftattj) Santos Quaint Practices Found Wherever the Day Is Observed A«NY quaint and curious cus toms are in vogue at the Eas ter season in many lands. Many c£ these customs date back to centuries ago, and the legends of their origination are almost obscured in an tiquity. Such, for example, is the practice of "lifting" from which our present nursery game of "making a chair" by two children clasping hands for a third to sit upon was derived. This was an old Easter custom in which two persons lifted a third three times. 4» If anyone refused to be lifted, he or she must pay a slight forfeit, forfeits being applied to buy refreshments after the village games. A kindred custom was that which prevailed in the Yorkshire villages, of taking the buckles from each other's shoes and demanding a forfeit for their return, the earnings being applied to the same end as those obtained in the lifting. Iri Hungary, when Easter Sunday 'comes everything is gladness. Wreaths of green leaves are hung in the Windows, and the young girls of the towns and villages, all dressed in white, walk in a procession to the church, carrying branches of the bud ding spring leaves. It is a very pretty sight. After the young girls the older people walk in procession. The cler gy, in their robes, and acolytes, car rying a large gilded cross, walk at the head of the procession to the church. There the people lay offerings of money at the feet of the holy image. Easter Monday is the favorite wed ding day among the Hungarians, as it is thought that marriages made on that day are surev to be fortunate, so the priests are kept very busy. The custom called "watering" on Easter Monday is extremely odd, and people, who have traveled and studied much say that it is not to be found in any other country save Hungary, 'me men take Water iri bottles and pitchers and throw it over the girls they meet in the street, whohi they know, or call at their houses and throw It on the person who opens the door, if it is a woman The funny part is that the more drenched the vic tims are the bettcoUhey like it, as they, think it brings ^em good fortune lor the year. Everybody u&d~to» db^this, but now the fashionable yourig men take spraying bottles of perfume. On Tuesday the yourig women retaliate, arid the meri, often find theiriselves drenched, most unexpectedly, froiri a wiridow or door of as they pass a drinking place in the street. xety Instilled by nursery lore and ancient is the belief of Germkn chil dren titot on Easter eve a snow-white fc\are visits every household where the the little folks have been "good, obe dient, trrithfu! and kirid to each oth er" since the previous Easter.- Timid after the nature of its kind, it Waits until,everybody is asleep arid then soft-fpoted it -brings arid secretes. in odd out-of-the-way places any num ber of" lovely, wonderful colored egg3, that the childrieri niiy find a4fd enjoy on Easter mornirig. Manyr familiar pictures of scenes in the Tyrol are the representation of the Easter" custom. Tiie mSn go about iri their picturesque cost^iries, theif broad' briirimed hats 'trlmmed witli fresii. flowers, and sing the Easter hymns to the accompaniment of thelr-guitars* The people come out to the .doora of their houses and Join in the chor^sesi and' tr6at .the singersiwith hospitality, giving them eggb and wine*. All day they pontihauc "t£elfc:: ceremony, and when' tho nlgllt' cotties ^n children accoriipon/ them, beaflng lighted torches. In ancient dayr It ^as a ^practice among the preachers to' .introduce facetious stories into' their sermons: on faster, to set the example of the dis persing of the gloom of. the Lentei^ SMSOBU' J?, Ss a* SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM And a True Story of How the Vegetable Compound Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73" Caused it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores. This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was bom in Lynn, Mass. ,•February 9th, 1819^ com ing .from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as a woman of an alert and investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa thetic qjiture. In 1843 she married Isaac Pinkham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three soris and a daughter. In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, nature's own remedies— calling in a physician ocrty in specially urgent cases. By tradition and ex perience many of them gained a won derful knowledge of the curative prop erties of the various roots and herbs. Mrs. Pinkham took a^reat interest in the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over disease^ She maintained that just as nature so bountifully provides in the harvest fields and orchards vegetable foods of all kinds so, if we but take the pains to find therii, iii the roots and herbs of the field therfe are remedies ex pressly designed to cure the various Ills and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effective medi cines for her own family and friends. Chief of these was a rare combina tion of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for-the cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu liar to the female sex, and Lydia E. Pink ham's friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them. All this so far was done, freely, with out money and without price, as a labor of love. But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were too mueh for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered, most from fearful depression, so when the Centen nial year dawned it found their prop erty swept away. Home Other source of fncomehad to. be found. At this point J^ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known to the world.: 'v The three sons and the daughter, with their mother, combined forces to 2,WILL regulate tbe Boinria. iHwyYuKftln %41 restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for the women of the whole world. The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of bogles. Then came the .question, of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They-hired a job printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medi cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons iri Boston, New York, and Brooklyn. The wonderful curative properties of the medicine were^1 to a great extent,. self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the de mand gradually increased. In 1877, by combined efforts the fam ily had saved enough money to com mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured, until to day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege table Compound have become house hold words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annu ally in its manufacture. (Lydia v, NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER swaniL.tiMiittE. aunLrag. %i«m Musi Bur" Fac-Similo Signature CAPSICUM TH* SCIENTIFIC.AMD MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT A QUICK, SURE. SAF6 AI«P ALV/AYS READY "CURE FOR PAIN DOMT WATT TILL. thb PAIN COMES—KEEP A TUBE ttANPV IT NOT BUSIER* THE MOST DELICATE^SKIN IT IS AliD 1NDSPENSABLB FOR CHILDREN VASELINE CAMPHOR ICE SUPERIOR i6 ANYTHING-IN USE FOR CJiAPPED HANDS AND. LIPS AND- TO,ALLAY ALL IRRITATION OF* THB SKIN. A SOVEREIGN REMEDY FOR SUN-BURN VASELINE KEEPS THE ,SKIN IN SOFT AND HEALTHY CONDITION \rA AND PRESERVES THE COMPLEXION. £ACH OF 'THESE BE OBTAINED FROM DRUGCISTS AND DEALERS, OR? WILL SEND BY MAIL ON' RECEIPT' OF 15 CENTS IN MONEY OR STAMPS. EXOTFTINQ CAMPHOR ICE. FOR WHICH SEND TEN CENTS CHBEBKOUGH MFG. CO, I? State Street NEW YORK these UtSle Pills* Tfiej ifliso reUeve&IBk txess froxn.Sjsiep8la. la (UgcflUmnl&dToQHeutif Settog. Appfe&tea* edy for Dizziness Naoses, Dnmsl&ees. Bad lfesto in tbe Heath, Coated 1taga*,ft&ala1fee&dA, TOBPID WJOL REFUSE SUBSTITUTES, 48-page boofctKn, 7 E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself. During her long and eventful expe rience she was ever methodical in her work and she \vas always catteful'to pre serve arecord of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice— and there were thousands—received careful study, and the details, includ ing symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since^ are available to sick women the world over, and represent a vast collabora tion of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any. library in the world. With Lydia E. Pinkham worked her daughter-in-law, the present Mrs. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won -knowledge, and tor yeafs she assisted her in her vast correspondence.. To her hands naturally fell the direction of the. work when its origina tor passed away. For nearly twenty five years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the first Lydia B. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the«present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took it up. With women assistants, some as capable as herself, the present Mrs. Pinkham continuesthisgreatwork,and probably from the office of no other person\have so many women been ad vised how to regain health. Sick wo men, this advice is "Yours for. -M- Health" freely given if you only write to ask for jt. Such is the histaiy of Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound made from simple roots and herbs the one great medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears. 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