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For the Fair Bm ■* >^^U.~ .■'-."■■-■■ V^ .-^ II vW" U • ',-T^ A"' BOSTON MISER'S STORY *4E LIVED ON TWENTY-ONE CENTS A DAY «i_eft His Money to City for Charity Whan There Was No Charity in His l Soul —Value of Money Is in Pur chasing Power One sometimes wonders at the ■•Jnakeup of the human mind when ■ its pole desire is to make money to leave behind when it is blotted out. When a man has a family to provide for, es pecially many daughters, he naturally thinks of the future. But what of the childless widower? Or the man with a wife who is already •well provided for? Why cannot a man stop working when he has enough and try to get some enjoyment. out of life ■while he is still young enough to en ; joy? ■ yjii All these questions were suggested by the story of a Boston miser who re duced his living expenses to twenty one cents a day. He was never known to give a dollar in charity or to act in any way like a normal, rational being, but at his death it was found that he had left a large fortune to the city of Boston and its charitable institutions. Now, of course, no one can judge ac curately of another human being, but may be permitted to wonder about his mental processes and point of view. Some minds have never been able to grasp the joy there is in being praised after death. It is human and rational to want to do pleasant things while one is alive and see the comfort they bring to others. Money when properly regarded is essentially valuable only because of its purchasing power. In itself it is so much dross. But when bringing cheer to human beings and driving the wolf away from the door of those who suffer, it is doing a great ."work. The Boston miser can only be de tepised, and when one reads that he lived an unlovely life, without friends, helped no man and worshiped only money: then his will, instead of being beautiful becomes doubly absurd. Sometimes those who coldly refuse to give in charity while living are the very ones .who give all they have for charity at death. One has one's doubts whether this is real charity. There are indeed those who have no doubt about it, but are quite decided in their minds and affirm that post-mortem charity, following a life of miserliness, has no .value whatever. This Boston miser had nieces and nephews in plenty, but did not even speak to them. He owned a valuable building in Boston, and in order to save, was his own janitor, even scrub bing the windows himself to spare that expense. He spoke to no one, had no friends, because friends cost money. His will was a most remarkable docu ment. He specified what charities he •wished to endow, remembered his rel atives with, a few hundreds and the bulk of his estate went to various in stitutions. If any blessing follows the expenditure of this money, many will wonder. . The worship of money as money, and not for what it can do is. the most despicable trait which flesh is heir to.. When one thinks what this horrid old miser could have done with this money which he loved more than his Immortal soul, the kind of a mind he had becomes more of a mystery. If there can be any greater pleasure than using money to lighten burdens of .others, it has not been discovered. Why any man should be called upon to save and^skimp for the benefit of the city of Boston is not stated. Now some of his nieces and nephews may be obliged to seek aid from the very in stitutions which their uncle enriched.* After all, what a pitiful soul he was, and how fate has robbed him of the only thing he seemed to want, the ad miration of the world when he . was gone. In place of it there is only exe cration, and his relatives will probably ' contest this will. Let us hope they will ' succeed and spend it as lavishly as lie did the exact opposite. Some one may say: "It was his money; if ihe chose to save and leave it thus, he had a right to."' Yes; legally, he was with in his rights, but morally he was un speakable. J— HUZZ , a Mainly About People j i . —£ Mrs. Henry Reimers, of Cedar street, . will entertain the Evening Star Aid so ciety this afternoon. „ ; &U] Mrs. and Mrs. Ashton Yokem have returned to Minneapolis. Mrs. Milton Baldy, of Laurel avenue, left yesterday for her home in Spo kane. • Mrs. H. A. Stone, of Dayton avenue, gave a card party yesterday afternoon. The ladies of the Central Christian church will give an entertainment in £— - ■—^^—— ___' Nothing will § _^ please him g f&^\ better than a box it yflWjl (fr q H lU smoker, we •v"■:'.§§. Bcrafel have it. Perfect BBMHHSBI assortment Meerschaum Pipes From. . .s3.soup Meerschaum Cigar Holders. . .25cup Brier Root Pipes in Cases... 75c up Cigar Gases From ;........ 25c up Large, complete and new lino of Tcbacco Jars-? Lets of real .novelties In Pi;es. . F.WJuehelfsSpns; Bypogitt Court Houji. :: 34$ Wafcasha St. FASHIONS FROM VOGUE Prepared Specially for THE GLOBE . A remarkably pretty and picturesque dinner gown is shown by the accom panying illustration. It is made of light yellow brocade combined with Lierre lace over white taffeta. The foundation skirt is cut in five gores, and on this are mounted full ruffles of Lierre lace, the bottom two running all around the skirt and the others merely across the front. Over this hang the long skirts of the tight bod ice, made of the yellow brocade edged with yellow satin loops where the fronts are cut into scallops. The bod ice Is cut square at the neck, has a soft front of net, crossed with lace folds and finished at the top by a large yellow panne satin bow, and the neck and sides of the bodice are edged with narrow puffings to correspond to the skirt. The finishing and distinctive feature of the gown lies in the treat ment of the sleeves, which are made with broad, wide cuffs, trimmed with the satin puffing and with full lace ruffles below. This gown would seem the church, corner of Mcßoal and Leech streets, this afternoon from 2 until 5. Miss Hare, of Western avenue, has returned from school in Virginia for the holidays. Miss Hazel Thompson, of Summit avenue, has returned for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hatch, of Chica go, will spend the holidays in St. Paul. Mrs. F. L. Johnson, of Dayton ave nue, has gone to Florida for the winter. GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM Shetlands are the newest fancy in the way of equine pets, and Mrs. Reg inald C. Vanderbilt is responsible for the craze. She started it in the course of the Chicago horse show, when she offered unusual prices for tandem and parallel teams and promised a small fortune to a dealer who should pro cure for her a quartette vt perfectly matched ponies for a four-in-hand. The young matron is likely to aston ish the avenue when her husband re turns frcm exile, for she already has a four-and-aft pair of the funny little horses which she drives to a Kentucky breaking cart. Both are so black char coal would make a white mark on them, and each is such a morsel one wonders how they can draw even so ethereal a beauty as Mrs. Vanderbilt. Yet they prance along with a knee ac tion highly creditable in view of their ambling ancestry and with palpable consciousness of their position as the favorites of a millionaire's chatelaine. So wide is the demand for Shettands that a dealer on a large scale sells them by carloads fast as he can ship them. They are sold "sight unseen," usually being qffered for sale by mail and or dered by wire. Their cousins, the Iceland ponies, also are in demand, and another Van derbilt matron —Mrs. Willie X. —re- cently purchased four of this breed for her little girls. *ut, cross as the Shet land can be at times, he is more pa tient than Griselda when compared with the Iceland *dwarf. Millionaires therefore prefer the "shelties" for their children's use. It is an interesting example of the fickleness of fashion to recall that twenty-two years ago an attempt was made to popularize a particularly small breed of pony, sev eral specimens of which were between j thirty and thirty-six inches high, and j the rich would have none of it. The ! bare idea of requiring such diminutive (" steeds to draw even governess carts was regarded as equally absurd and cruel, although the breeder demon strated the ease with which a pair of the ponies could pull a*phaeton holding a heavy man. Now that same Joreed would be worth its weight in gold— and even the Vanderbilts and Goulds don't know where to find them. Disappointment is the doom of the many fashionables who looked forward to this month for the reopening of "Castle Romance," as society dubbed the beautiful home built by the widow of H. Walter Webb before her mar riage to young Ogden Codman. The newly wedded pair made arrangements for a December hqusewarming, but the death of the bridegroom's father, Og den Codman the elder, in his country home in Lincoln, Mass., the last week in October, killed that plan. Mr. and THE ST. PAUL GLOBE. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1904 at first sight a very' expensive model to copy, but in reality it couid be car ried out quite reasonably, particularly if one has a slightly soiled or unused evening gown, and almost every one has, to start with. Not a great deal of lace is required, for the upper ruf fles are very short and there is prac tically none used on the waist except as sleeve ruffles, but if lace is found to be too expensive, net or chiffon ruf fles might be substituted. The bodice, sleeves and long brocaded skirt should be carefully copied, but as only a few yards of material are needed some handsome piece of silk, satin or velvet could undoubtedly be found among the remnants at a good shop at a greatly reduced price. Another way in which this model could be used in an eco nomical way would be as an adjunct to an all-over lace ball gown. In this case the skirt would be entirely of lace and the brocaded skirt would be made as part of the bodice. This would give one two totally different gowns at a very small cost. Mrs. Codman were taking an automo bile trip from Paris to Vienna when the distinguished Bostonian died, amd it was impossible to get the news to them for two or three days. At *he re quest of the family they continued their wedding trip, and at last ac counts were touring Austria. They will do no entertaining on their return until the customary period of mourn ing is past. It is expected that at the end of that time the palace built with Walter Webb's money, the accumula tion of which cost his life, and con structed on plans supplied ante-nup tially by young Codman, whe is an architect of repute, will become fa mous for the size and brilliance of its house parties, to say nothing of more formal affairs. There is a genuine eagerness among the dowagers to entertain Tom Law son, of Boston, because, whatever may be thought of his methods in frenzied finance, he is regarded by every wom an who has met him as an undeniably handsome man, of charming address and wonderful readiness in repartee. He has dark, soulful eyes and a com plexion which, while not exactly cop per color, is of that soft, dark hue which is noticeable in men whose hair is jet black and curly. He talks with I the same readiness that he writes, and knows just how to appeal to the sus ceptibilities of women who no longer are in the flower of youthful charms. On Jan. 17, in Trinity chapel, will take place the marriage of Miss Cathe rine Morgan Dix, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Morgan Dix, to William H. Wheelock. Mrs. Robert Hunter, the young mil lionaire philanthropist, believes It would be salutary for New York society girls to emulate their London cousins by taking a course as trained nurses to prepare them for the care of a household. She has money enough to hire every hospital staff in Manhattan in the event of illness in her own home, but she looks on it as a woman's duty to be able to supervise the work of those engaged to look after patients, and thinks that knowledge can be ac quired only by experience. Besides, the relief of human suffering is a task that must deepen any young woman's nature and teach her that life, even for the wealthiest, is not all champagne and chiffon. Hundreds of debutantes in the neighboring dominion hold nurses' certificates—indeed, many of New York's hospitals recruit their forces largely among Canadians. The Don't Cut Your friends becaus* their clothes are somewhat shabby. Advise them to go to the repair departmtnt of Bros. At the Sign of the Red Goose Telephone 30 London hospital staff includes among \\§ students or graduates Lady Maud Keith-Falconer; Admiral Sir John Dal rymple's daughter, Mrs. Howard Marsh; Miss Campbell, daughter of Sir John Campbell; »Lady Hermione Blackwood, one of the chief workers in the Queen Victoria Institute for Nurses, and scores of others whose names are pub lished in the peerage or baronetage and who popularly are supposed to devote their lives to unbroken frivolity. The society queen, by the way, is* in terested hugely in a little English girl, who, though only thirteen years old, has published poems that hold rare promise of excellent work in maturity. Violet Firth is the name of the for tunate lassie, and she is not in need of the rich woman's patronage, for her father, Mr. Arthur Firth, has a hand some home in Queen's Gate wardens, Kensington, and she is a pupil in one of the most expensive schools in Eng land, a seminary in Weston-super- Mare. But she has literary ambition of a high order, and doubtless is grateful for the interest expressed by Mrs. As tor in her early efforts. The leader of fashion says the child has a rare con ception of the purely pastoral in poe try. She quotes as an instance an ex cerpt from little Miss Firth's poem "The Cornfield," which runs: And now the moon rules all alone, , A silver queen on a silver throne, With her page, the evening star. Mrs. Astor admires another couplet from the same piece, reading: The evening star has sunk from sight, The owl is warden of the night. Shortly after perusing extracts from the schoolgirl's poems Mrs. Astor or dered several copies of the book from London. Violet heard of the compli ment and forwarded by the next steamship an author's copy with a graceful inscription in a girlish scrawl. It is all well enough to poke fun at the poets, but the habit, which cer tainly yields no proof of high intel lectuality, is dying out in the best cir cles. Mrs. John Jacob Astor is an ar dent reader not only of the classics, but of contemporaneous verse, and Mrs. Edwin Gould has one of the most com plete collections of American poetry in the United States. Of course, literary women like Mrs. Van Rensselaer Cru ger and Mrs. Clarence Mackay are in terested in everything that flows from a worthy pen, but dozens of their friends who have never attempted to ride Pegasus with a side saddle are as earnestly devoted to perusaT of really excellent verse as are the fashionable authors. Mrs. Burke Roche is an au thority on dialect poems and can re peat reams from the volumes of such men as James %"hitcomb Riley, Frank Stanton and Paul Dunbar. Perhaps the most ardent admirer of the Amer- j ican school is Mrs. Ogden Goelet —and she shares her sentiment with the Southern beauty, Mrs. J. W. Henning. Mrs. Ogden Mills has autographed books from all the living poets in America and England. When Women Vote When women vote, and grafts demise, Oh. speed the day!—shall signalize Their entrance into politics. Progressive man, mayhap, will fix For them an apropos surprise. The centers where men exercise The right of suffrage which they prize. With autumn gowns but ill will mix, When women vote. The staveman's grimy shop; likewise The dingy plumber's, small in size, Are not the ones nice judgment picks; As polling places, "Puck" predicts Department stores we'll utilize, When women vote. —Puck. The truaieej of THE STATE SAVINGS BANK, 4th and Minn., sts., have declared their 2Sth semi-annual interest div Mend for the period ending Dec. SI. 1904. The next interest period begins Jan. 1. 1905. Deposits made now draw 6 mos. interest July. 1. 1906. Let I nIS Be An ORIGINAL Christmas The choosing of the little gift troubles everybody. The more you think and study, the more puzzling it becomes. How weary you grow of the same old shop suggestions year after year —a handkerchief —a necktie — candy —some useless trifle. But here is a new idea: give your friends, instead of the conventional gift, holiday pack* ages of Nabisco Sugar Wafers —the most delightfully original little gift ever conceived. These exquisite confections, in their, g|ori* ous coverings of white and red and gold, are, for Christmas giving, further adorned with dainty holly ribbons, under which are beauti* fully illuminated cards to convey your comply ments and good wishes. Nothing quite so pleasing as Nabisco for the little Christmas gift has ever before been seen. Why not surprise your friends with this new expression o^ warmth and cheer —this charmingly original thought for Christmas ? NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY TROLLEY HONEYMOONS Advent of Electric Cars-Increases Mar- riages in Towns Near Chicago Near-Chicago towns have broken all records in the matter of marriages during this much of the year 1904. Iff Rockford during the ten months up to Nov. 1 there had been 631 mar riages. In the same period in 1903 there Were 564, and in 1902 490. The electric railways are in a meas ure responsible for the increase of thla class of business. There are now three interurban lines centering in the town. They bring in hundreds of couples from other towns and from across the state line in Wisconsin. The same increase is noticeable in other electric railway centers. Aurora, although it is not a county seat, gets a great deal of business of this class. The town is now connected with Chi cago, Joliet and all of the Fox river towns, the third rail system grid-iron ing the most prosperous section of the near-Chicago territory. The court officers are performing most of the out of town marriages. Now and then a minister is hunted up and the ceremony said in the parson age. A Rockford minister relates that recently a Wisconsin young man gave up his last dime to be married in his parlor. He had saved to carry himself and bride back home on the trolley line. But 10 cents of his store of cash remained. He apologized to the minister for his not being able to offer more, and when the parson found that he was giving up his last cent he refused to accept it, telling the blush ing groom that he was quite welcome to his services and insisting that he keep his money. But the young Badg- STEWART EDWARD WHITE'S 3(ew 'Book of Travel and cddventure THE MOUNTAINS c^c?^ ' *" :• .■'._, .*• "Such" a vigorous, true, wholesome book is the next best thing to Tflfll out-of-doors itself." The Bookman. jE&i "His words paint pictures, tremendous, luminous. They inter ■"QfcPPjj pret the call of the mountain heights, they bring something of the Great W«nl&l8> Spirit of the wilderness down to those who cannot climb for themselves jJPiI ißsHi ____ f• • one of the great books' of the year.-'* San Francisco Bulletin. ',/^f^ff^^^^m^^^^ ■'- 2d Printing. Ciuth, large 12m0., Illustrated. 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Gradually the agent led up to the crucial interrogatory, and at last said: "Aunty, do you remember George Wash ington?" "Does I remember George Washington? W'y laws-a-massy, mistah, I reckon I does. I orter, ortent I? Fer I done nussed him. We played together ev'y day when he was a MT chile" "Well, do you remember anything about the Revolutionary war?" "Ci'way chile! Yes, Indeed, I does, honey. I stood dar lots er times, an' seen de bullets flyin* aroun' thicker'n rain drops." "Yes—well, how about the fall of the Roman empire? Do you remember any thing about that?" The old woman took a good, long breath. In fact, it amounted to a sigh. She reflected for a few moments, and said: "De fact is, honey, I was purty young den, an' I doesn't have a very extinct recommembrance 'bout dat; but I does 'member, now dat you speaks of hit, dat I did" heah de white folks tell about hear in' some'pn drap."—Philadelphia Ledger. WOMEN WHO DROP IN Social Nuisance That Apartment Hotels Are Fortified Against One nuisance that modern customs have done away with and that promises to become extinct in cities is the per son, man or woman, who makes a habit of dropping in to call on a friend or an acquaintance at all sorts of hours, without regard for the engagements or duties of the one visitfd. In villages and in towns, where life is not so rilled up with the duties im posed on persons socially active in New York, it is perhaps possible that persons may welcome the occasional dropper in, but in this city it argues a fine and well developed selfishness in the woman who, because she may have an hojir or two to kill, at once argues that some nearby acquaintance must necessarily welcome a visit from her. v People who dwell in houses are, of course, protected by their servants from these unexpected visits. Flat dwellers are the principal victims of the bore who assumes that she must be wel come at whatever hour she may happen to have the leisure to present herself. So pronounced has this form of friendly intrusion become that in most of the well managed apartment house* visitors are' not permitted to ascend the elevators unless their names are first sent up. A receiving day indicated on a ca/d means that on that day the presence of friends is expected and provided for, but the indiscriminate caller, who takes chances of disturbing a dinner party, or perhaps a family quarrel, presumes on friendship. Such people are often heard lament ing the inhospitality of cities, but the fact is they mark themselves at once as undesirable acquaintances when they choose their hours for visiting with reference only to their own conven ience and pleasure. 7