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Etymologically, the infare describes —' itself—it is the going in of a bride to her new family. Some folks wondered a little that William did not choose to have his upon his own place. Hadn't he a house fully furnished, even to spoons and such matters, to say nothing of half a dozen likely negroes? But most agreed that he had done just \ right. It would have hurt his- Aunt Martha's feelings if she had not been I allowed to give the feast of welcome to her new niece. Most infares came off by daylight, and then they were big and tumultu ous dinners to, a yardful of folk, who ate in relays. But because the bride lived twenty miles off, this one came off at night. Therefore, Mrs. Lewis * was. doubly anxious to have it out ' match the glories of the wedding. There Were Lashins of Good Things to Eat and Drink She did not go to the wedding, but C aptain Lewis did, starting home sone time after midnight, and getting there to a late breakfast. Thus he was able to tell his wife, in a blundering mas culine way, about the bride's dress and her dowry—above all, about the supper table. There had been no big crowd, f, he said, only folk within five miles had been invited. Lashins to eat and drink, though; and if the old man had been gruff enough, he was doing a good part by Billy and Susanna. The girl would not come riding behind Billy on a pillion, as many brides did. She had her own horse and saddle, and a likely negro girl, who would also come along, mounted on the brood mare that was another part the dowry. Airs. Lewis was glad to hear all this. j There was, however, a certain emulous I triumph behind the gladness. Not for I naught had she been fixing for a week, " aided and abetted by the three best cake-bakers in the neighborhood. _ .Moreover, Miss Maria Partillo, who rwas a genius with the scissors, had Jspent a whole day cutting paper lace Jand leaves and flowers to trim the supper table. The flowers were cut from foolscap, with a few precious ones from a sheet of red paper which Miss Maria had been treasuring ust just such a time. She had *" insisted upon lending all her glass and pewter and silver, not to name plates and dishes. Mrs. Lewis could never have brought herself to ask that —the l'artillo things were so fine —although she had not the least scruple against laying other neighbors under tribute. Indeed, lending and borrowing for such occasions were so much matters of course that almost anybody who had been left out would have felt it a pointed slight. It Took Three Days Just to Get Ready for the Infare So, for three days back, black men and women had been walking up to the Lewis house with baskets care fully balanced upon their heads. In hide the baskets all manner of ware i was snugly packed. Nearly every one had also from two to four tall brass candlesticks, rubbed until they shone ; like gold. All the pewter had been likewise - newly rubbed, although its owners knew that Mrs. Lewis would have it rubbed again just before it went on the table. They did not blame her—it tarnished so quickly; besides, rushes were plenty in the Lewis spring branch, and nobody could use them so as to get quite such a shine on pewter as Aunt Ailsa, the Lewis cook. It was reassuring to remember all that, and still more so to have three neighboring housewives ride in, each bringing along her cook or housemaid, while still Captain Lewis was at table. But the best of all came later, in the shape of Miss Maria Partillo herself, who drove up in her gig as early as _ twelve o'clock, with her maid, black Betty, at her elbow. More than that, she fetched along a wonderful cake of her own baking, iced in lattice work, and with a deep icing fringe all round. "It's the bridegroom's," she said, nodding her head and taking off her best cap as she spoke. "I don't care if they had a bride's cake or not at the - wedding; Billy shall have this; and I baked a ring and a darning needle and a thimble and a silver picayune in it, to be cut for. Susanna? -If Susanna don't like it, she ain't half good enough for Billy." / They Cooked Everything Outdoors for the Weather Was Hot Because the weather was so hot, ! most of the meat was cooked outdoors at a fire built very far down the yard. The barbecue pit was still farther off, down at the spring, in fact. :; There were seven carcasses —three lambs, two shoats, and a couple of kids, all split, - and laid upon clean sticks over glow ing hardwood coals. Barbecuing be ■ gan at daylight, so that the meat, carer ! fully basted, highly seasoned, ;■ brown and savory, was ready for the trench ers by sundown. However, it had to wait a bit. Supper was not served un til eight o'clock. ■ •• \[ ':■:, _ Such a supper! Sancho . Panza should have eaten of it. Besides the '!i barbecue, there were a couple of. hams, A boiled the day before and t baked in f pepper, sugar and cider; half a dozen fine turkeys, roasted to a turn; a suck ' ing pig, roasted and stuffed;;-; and chickens fried and smothered in quan r tity To go with all these, there were • trayfuls of hot biscuit, of hotter corn 1 bread - and ■ lirrVit ■ bread .generously (Copyright, 1904, by E. S. McClure.) The Supper Would Have Made Sancho's Mouth Water sliced. Pickles, too, in variety; also fresh sliced cucumbers, mixed liberally with onions. Tomatoes had not yet won their way, for most folk said: "Things hogs wouldn't eat couldn't well be fit for humans." But none of all these appeared on the table proper. It was set in Z shape, and filled all the big, square dining-room. Meats and relishes were on a separate table on the back piazza, just outside the dining-room door. Half a dozen men carved there, heap ing the plates that as many women passed in a steady stream to the mas culine part of the crowd. It was too hot for coffee, everybody agreed, sb tumblers and pewter pots were filled with cider, mead, buttermilk, or home made cherry wine. But for a while nobody was very keen to eat, their eyes were so taken up with the splen dors before them. Miss Maria had excelled herself in more than the paper cutting. But her bridegroom's cake in the middle of the Z's upper limb did not put out of court the loaf Mrs. Lewis had meant should be in the middle of the table. It was very big and very white, and sat high—if the truth must be spoken, upon an inverted yellow bowl, with a wreath of box-vine around it and a smother of pine tips below. Lighted Candles Burned in Rings Everywhere There was a ring of lighted candles about each of the cakes, and outside the candles a ring of snowballs. Snowballs were made of pound cake batter, baked in coffee cuffs, and iced after turning out. Nobody thought of eating one, then and there.. It was well understood that they were to be devoured later by the stay-at-home folk, to whom it was imperative to send bundles of wedding and infare cake. v Refraining was no hardship; neither here nor in the case of the cob-houses. All up and down there were plates of sliced cake piled high, other plates overflowing with thimble-cakes, and still others with most satisfying gin ger-cake. Thimble-cakes might be de voured by handfuls. They were cut out actually with thimbles from sweet dough rolled very thin, and baked crisp. The cob-houses had a pound cake foundation, but the cake was cut after baking into*square, long pieces, iced all over, dried, and piled up a foot high. Green sprigs and paper flowers filled in the tops of the cob-houses. This table boasted six—two on either side, of the end cakes, and two others flanking the syllabub bowl in the middle It was a big glass bowl, the, pride of the Partillo house, and certainly looked fine, overflowing with creamy bubbles, flecked here and there with crimson jelly. A row of tumblers for serving the syllabub sat about the bowl, and Miss Maria her self stood ready to ladle it out, flour ishing her big silver ladle that had come over-sea with the first Partillo. But she was hardly so proud of the ladle as- of the chandeliers, which helped in the lighting. They were of her own contrivance —crossed wooden arms mounted upon stout wooden SUNDAY MOKNING, MARCH, 6 1904. A Maze of Beautifully Cut Paper Flowers standards, with bits of tin bent around inside the auger-hole sockets in the arm-ends. Hopelessly unfestive-look ing at first, but things of beauty when she had done with them. First, she wrapped the arms and standards with strips of white paper, beautifully fringed and curled; then she set paper roses to droop singly from the tip of each cross-arm, and backed up the roses with clusters of pendant leaves. Each leaf was cut fearfully and won derfully, until, in a manner, it ap proached lace. The four chandeliers, set between the ring-lights, made the table nearly as bright as day. There was a big cut-out mat under neath the syllabub bowl, and others in the glass plates that held striped stick candy. Mrs. Lewis had tried hard to get oranges, but the season forbade. She had any quantity of ap ples, peaches and pears, but it would have been social heresy of the worst sort to put them upon her table. If, as some folk thought, she meant the table to overwhelm and confuse Su sanna —such a heap of iced cake and loaf sugar, so hard to come by—she was happily disappointed. Susanna ate heartily after her long ride, looked at everything with happy eyes, and praised without stint. She had brought two outfits in the carpet sack slung at the horn of her saddle — her white homespun wedding frock, as well as the green stuff petticoat and chintz short gown. After she saw the table she was glad that she had on the chintz—and gladder that she had had it to put on. And she did not in the least resent Miss Maria's cake or any of the splendors with which she was welcomed. But down at the bot tom of her heart she was mighty glad that the bundle of wedding cake her stepmother had insisted upon slipping into Billy's saddle-bags for Mrs. Lewis was, if anything, lighter, sweeter and richer than any set before her here — although she agreed* readily with Billy that nobody round about had ever had a finer infare. Why J. J. Hill Kept Dinner Waiting. James J. Hill gets his keenest recre ation on his annual salmon-catching trip. This usually he takes in his yacht to Alaska, or else he goes to the Ristigouche Club in Canada. He looks forward to this vacation with a schoolboy's delight. It usually lasts a month. At the Ristigouche one night a din ner was given at which Mr. Hill was to be the guest of honor. Naturally, it was regarded as courteous not to eat the dinner until he should arrive. When, however, the pangs of hunger reminded the diners that Mr. Hill was nearly two hours late, conventionality was thrown to the four winds and the table was sought just as the delin quent entered, holding high a salmon of thirty-eight pounds. He had been three hours in catching it. He was radiant, but, as he later observed with surprise, he had rarely encountered a madder looking lot of. people. Don't Be Too Observing. If a man observes carefully he will discover many reasons for doing one thing, and as many for doing some thing else. CONSUMPTION CURED. An old physician, retired from practice, had placed in his hands by au Kast India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for' the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh. Asthma, and all throat and Lung Affections; also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints. Having tested its wonderful curative powers in tbousandsof cases,and desiringto relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who wish it, this recipe, in German, French or Eng lish, with full directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, nam ing this paper. W. A. Noyes, &47 JMwert Block, Mocheiter, 2V. Y> ANGRY CITIZEN AND SASSY AUTOMOBILE Once there was a Sassy Automobile that Lived in a Nice Place. Having eaten too Much Gasolene One Sun day it Achieved a Sordid Pain ia Its Interior and Refused to Work. Thereupon its Master, perceiving its Disability, thought to Remedy It with an Air Pump. "What are you Doing?" exclaimed the Sassy Automobile. "I am trying to Relieve your Dis ability,*' said the Citizen kindly. "Go away!" shrieked the Sassy Au tomobile, pettishly. "You make me Tired." The citizen thereupon became Ang ry, and throwing the Air Pump in the Corner of the Nice Place, he said: "I wish I cor.ld make you so Tired that they wouldn't Bust all the time!" Then the Citizen went out and slammed the Door. "It is very sad," thought the Sassy Automobile, "to see a Person get so Upset. Nothing was the Matter with my Tires. He was trying to Fix the wrong Place." Moral: The Art of Medicine has not yet reached the Plane of the Exact Sciences. New Fancies in Jewelry. Some of the new beads are Japanese, and are shown in long, beautiful strings of amber, set at intervals with a bead of green jade alternated with a red bead. They are fastened at the back with a little twisted ornament of cord. A new bracelet is of dark silver, broad, and in a sort of filigree work, which has a line of green stones ruiv ning through the center. Pretty rings are shown with the stones set all around between two narrow bands of gold with spaces be tween to show the flesh Deneath. This is an odd fancy, which shows off prec ious stones to perfection. Signet hatpins as well as rings are popular, and they are made round or oval, but le?s heavy than the rings as a rule. Wild Animals Cost Fortunes. "Few people realize," said a man who deals extensively in wild ani mals, "how much it costs to stock a modern zoo. For rare animals, such as the giraffe and the Crawshay zebra, almost any price can be obtained; and even the commoner animals, which every zoo has, are very expensive. "It cost $13,500 to stock the Lion House at the Bronx Zoo, and the new Antelope House at the same institu tion, which is soon to be opened, will absorb over $15,000 merely for the initial series of animals. Another zoo paid over $20,000 in one year for mon keys and antelopes, and the lions^ at the London Zoo cost over $30,000." Sore Throat! To prove the wonderful curative powers of Hydrozone to all afflicted with Sore Throat I will send One Trial Bottle Free to anyone sending me 10 cents to pay postage. Hydrozone is a harmless germicide, which will cure you. Booklet on treatment of diseases sent free on request. Sold by all druggists. Dept. P-59 Prince St., New York Two New Stories of John Stetson "That reminds me," said a well known actor. "Your story of the manager who, when he was advised to book 'The Corsican Brothers' as a strong attraction, asked 'What kind of a turn can they do?' recalls to my mind an incident in the career of John Stet son, the famous Boston manager. John had not had the advantages of a col lege course, but no one got the better of him in a business deal. "John had a fellow named Webster, who used to paint a little scenery and do odd jobs about the theatre. One day a dispute arose between the stage director and one of the actors as to the pronunciation of a word which oc curred in the play. "Stetson entered while they were ar guing, and asked what the matter was. " 'Why,' said the stage director, turning over the pages of the diction ary, 'I contend that this word is pro nounced thus, and my contention is backed by Webster.' '"Oh, pronounce the word as you please;.and you, Webster,' said Stet son, looking up into the flies, where Every Home in Which There is a Piano Should possess a set of the "World's Best Music," found in a few seconds. If you were to buy the music it contains, one piece at a time, it would cost yon over $200.00. Through our Musical Library Club—for a limited time—the entire set will Wit you one tenth of that amount, and you can pay in little payments of $1.00 a month. This Bookcase FREE It you order at once. ''*.. - __, ' *«• .r\ ± *■ • • ..-~.>.. s j' .• ■■•■■■ —~,—.; ■•-," The World C Best Music. 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"A couple of days after this, Stetson came along and paused in front of the sign. He seemed to grow more ex cited with each moment that he viewed it. Finally, he entered the business office in a great rage, and said to Sharp: "'I want that sign changed to: "Curtain goes up at 8.15 Stetson," and don't forget that I'm manager of this house.'" Animals That Lay Eggs There are two animals in Australia that lay eggs after the manner of birds and reptiles. They are those quaint creatures, the Ornithorhyn chus (or Duck-Billed Platypus) and the Echidna (or Porcupine Ant-Eater). The former Jays its eggs in burrows, which it scratches out on the banks of rivers; the latter carries them, un til hatched, in a pouch somewhat like the kangaroo's. In many respects, these animals have an anatomical affinity to reptiles, but their mouths are toothless and beak-like, resembling those of birds, while the feet of the Platypus are webbed. The Platypus is a semi-aquatic ani mal, and the Porcupine Ant-Eater is much like the ground hog in appear ance. Jap Soldiers and Their Maps. Just as a manual of arms is part of an American soldier's equipment, a map of Japan is a requirement of the Japanese soldier's outft. On a foreign campaign this would be replaced by a map of the country invaded. 5