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"cir;.?ATis" defh::ed.
"Boston's Bovtnes Laid Out City's
' Streets Mora Wisely Then They Knew.
It may not be literally true that the
.' cow who are reputed to have laid out
' the streets In old Boston were excel
t lent civil engineers and experts In
i "city planning." but that they builded
.1 wiser than they knew is the opinion
, of W. C. Ewing, chairman of tfte
committee on city planning of the
r Boston Chamber of Commerce.
r' This is Mr. Swing's defense of the
bovine street-tayfhg-out. department
of early Bostoniust bwauij. there
are so many littl Iey. Mnd footpaths
T i ii.u hp anv nerson Wno is
t well acquainted with these devious
' ways to go from any point in , tne
: heart of the city to any other point
In almost a straight line. The streets
radiating from postoffice square would
,not be greatly improved upon if tne
, city were being designed anew. The
i same statement might be made of sev
eral other points where many streets
run in different directions, . like the
' spokes of a wheel as they leave the
fhub." ,i
Z The proviso that one must be wen
acquainted with these devious ways
In order to go from one point to an
other in almost a straight line is not
unreasonable. Those whose business
f takes them frequently through crook
?d streets will soon get acquainted.
. The convenience of others is not so
Important. According to the old say
lng, you can "go straight down the
crooked lane and all round the
square" if you know the way.
The chief objection to the business
Streets of Boston is in their narrow
ness, not in their crookedness, wider
; streets and wider sidewalks would be
ft welcome. Boston Globe.
so::,e fflT JULEP.
If jkfany Kinds, But None Equal to Those
Blended In Robertson County.
Harking back to mint Julep. I wish
my critic might have the .luck once to
see and smell and sip Juleps such as
Iwere served to us upon rising at the
fmost hospitable hospitable
Robertson county. Mint for them
grew in very rich soil, partly shaded:
.thus it sprang quickly, almost magi-
' cally, but was never coarse.'
It was cut at dawn in midsummer,
drenched with dew, snipped off at
three Inches or less, and set dew-
i gemmed around the goblet edges, half
sunk In sugared water and broken ice.
i Washing would have been profana
tion: it had grown too quickly to
have even a trace of dust. After it
was duly placed the whisky was
poured very gently, very steadily, un
til it stood level with the rim. Such
-whisky! Kobertson county's best!
Wilson Pitt was a favorite brand, so
was Silver Spring. Made from sound
flint corn, after the old honest fash
ion, aged In wood, colored very faint
ly by charred barrels, and kept at
.least four years, it was fit for the
gods. "Not a headache in a hogs
head of it" unless you overdrank.
The pity of it that prohibition has
conquered such an Eden! That, how
ever, is beside the mark.
Our Juleps came to us about sun
rise. A tinkle of ice and spoons out
side our doors was a mighty pleasant
reveille. . One maid- .fetched the tray
of Juleps. - Behind came another with
a bigger tray fulb of 1 dewy flowers,
roses, carnations, heliotrope, scented
and scarlet geraniums. It was the
law of the house that you came to
breakfast beautifully, with flowers in
your hair, at your throat, in your
belt; thus only were you in harmony
with a table heaped high with ' dew
wet blossoms all down its length. And
truly, I think broiled chicken, waf
fles and their congeners tasted better
for the pains we had taken to adorn
ourselves.
Here in New York town I have
made mint Julep but semi-occasional-
ly. This for cause, the difficulty of
getting in hand mint worth while.
Pots yield but scant and starveling
sprigs, and they harbor scale. As for
the common market variety that
butchers supply, I hate the sight of it.
But now and again, by the largesse
of country friends, I have been able
to -serve juleps. O. Henry drank one
of " them with marked and - manifest
approval. At the same time he told
me his way of julep, which was quite
unlike my own. It included, as near
ly as I remember, fruit,, cordials and
mixed liquor, whisky and brandy, or
whisky and a special rum. He was
eager to have my husband try it.
They planned such an occasion, but
fate interposed. Thus I lack a house
hold verdict upon julep With- frills on.
Being' no dogmatist. J am willing to
admit there may ,be' as many kinds
of julep as of religion, all the while
insisting stoutly that an : appreciable
moiety of the old south not merely
stood for but stood by my way.
Some one reading the book after,
buying it said to me: "Tour Julep is
like mine; a Kentucky man taught me
to make t." I have heard of, read
of, even tried, sundry and several va
riants of the old way, finding none an
improvement. This notwithstanding
all that was said by Marse Henry
Watterson and the late CoL Ochiltree
regarding Juleps. I am by really
good liquor somewhat like the bishop
who heard a florid graduate turn him
self loose on creation. Said the bish
op, shaking his head: "Mighty fine.
out ne can t beat Moses." Similarly.
I say. nobody can beat the flavors, the
savors nature cunningly packs in her
mint, in her spirit, her sugar. The
utmost possible is so to conjoin them
that each may help the other without
losing Individual charm. Martha Mc
Culloch Williams, in New York Sun.
"FESTIVAL OF REASON."
French Celebration at Once Silliest
and Most Sublime in History.
Her First Proposal - - - - - By Nell Brinldey
Copyright IWt. International News Service.
The "Festival of Reason," celebrated
in Paris 120 years ago, November 10,
1793, was at one and the same time the
silliest and the subllmest, spectacle that
had up to that time ever been wit
nessed on earth.
Poor old France! ' What horrors she
had passed through, having been ex
ploited, insulted and degraded for cen
turies by the titled scoundrels of
church and state. With the single ex
ception of Israel, no people ever had
such experience as that which came to
the French under the three Capets.
But the people went through it and
lived to turn the tables on their op
pressors in grand style and then they
felt that they were entitled to cele
brate. It was the funniest celebration that
ever took place. Demoiselle Candeille,
the bookseller's wife, the opera singer
selected, it appears, for her perfec
tion of form and face rather than for
any other qualifications in sky blue
robe, the red liberty cap on her head,
and in her hand the pike with which
the people had fought their way to
freedom, was taken, in mighty proces
sion, to Notre Dame, where, as the
"Goddess of Reason," she was given
the unstinted adoration of the thou
sands pressed about her throne.'
All over France the ceremony was re
peated in most hearty fashion.
Yes, It was very foolish. The opera
singer was the poorest sort' of an apol
ogy for a "goddess," and the Reason of
which she was the apostheosis was but
a delusion and a snare when it-eame to
settling the great. transcendental-1 mat
ters that can never be settled; and yet
the bookseller's pretty - wife- answered
for a rallying point.
Yes, It was very silly and sorrowful,
and at the same time very sublime and
hopeful. Rev. T. B. Gregory, In thj
New York American.
Edwards "So you think your next-door
neighbor is mean? Matcneu -ui course,
I think he is mean. Wouldn't you think
him mean if he killed his rooster which
had wakened you and kept you awake
every inuriiing lur iwo yenrB iub vory i
night before you wanted to catca a 2:10 a. I
m. train?" Judge.
Her first it is, too. So you see,' with that, it is
entitled to come in the list of "terrible minutes!"
It might be that it will be their last, but when
Youth is this young; " two ' round-cheeked things
with fraternity pins on their chests, his hair with
the convict cut, hers clinched at the nape of the
neck with a black velvet bow that butterflies out
above her brows and rippling still down her back
when Youth is this young it likely should be
called the "first," for there will come others after.
Babette is the prettiest girl in school, and she
wears her hair in puffs over her ears and her an
kes are slim little affairs sheathed in silk stock
ings. Billy is a blonde chap with his vests cut ex
tremely high, and his collars deeply pointed, and
his coat pinched in the smartest way across the
shoulders, and he wears his pipe-like trousers turn
ed up short so short that it gives him the look of
a young heron gone a-wading.
Well, it's a terrible minute There's a miser
able silence, and even her bird and her dog square
themselves around and looking him steadfastly in
the eye seem to wonder when he will begin. And
he wonders if she has any notion of the thing
that's on his mind. If she has, she manages her
face pretty well. "But girls are deep," ruminates
Billiam. "You never can tell what's in their
heads!"
Three Very Pretty Embroidery Designs for State Journal Readers
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CUT WORK SQUARE. r ' ' . . ,V-
The oval figures should be solidly worked with the dots as eyelets and
the stems in the outline stitch. The figures that form the border are but
tonholed, closely around .the edge with the purling brought to the inside..
The cross bars-are formed by strands of the cotton, stretched from side to
side and buttonholed across without catching through the material which
is cut away underneath. Use mercerized cotton No. 20.
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. MOTIF FOR YOKE. ' : - .
In the yoke the flowers and leaves are solidly worked. The dots are
done as eyelets and the stems in the outline stitch. Mercerized cotton No.
25 should be used.- . .
SPRAT FOR SCARF END.
. This pansy spray makes a pretty decoration for the end of a scarf. The
flowers and leaves are outlined in the long and short stitch. ' The figures
in the centers of the flowers are solidly worked and the straight lines and
stems are done in the outline stitch. Mercerized cotton No. 20 - should be'
used. . i i
DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSFERRING ' ' '
Lay a piece of impression paper. face down, upon the material. ' Place
the newspaper pattern in position over this, and with a hard, sharp pencil,
firmly trace each line. If the material Is sheer, this may be laid over the
-pattern, and the design drawn direct on the goods, as it win show through.
When handled in . this way, impression paper, of course, will not to re-
quired.
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