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GROTESQUESAREDID fiuairtt Gargoyles Wftrcti *Aciorn Notre Dame at Paris. "Decoratwe Forms of Architecture Are Older Than These Spouts jecting From Gutter of A -Building. Paris —Few decorative form? in •architecture are more ancient than the grotesques .known as gargoyles. The word means the throat or gul let. and so was applied to the spent projecting from the gutter of a build ing. or .connected with it .by an open ing. tor carrying water clear from the wall. They were made cf consider able length so as to throw the water well into 'he middle ot the streets of the old town, which were usually paved with stone, with a depression fx; the center so that the water was carried away from the surface. These water spouts were sometimes plain, with •&.© .attempt to combine the ornamental with the useful; but in the Middle Ages there was an especial ttp.de toward the grotesque in art and in architectural embellishment, r.artc-ulariy from the thirteenth .to lh< sixteenth centuries, .and this found frequent expression in tf veioping the gargfiee into fanciful or grotesque images. Commonly these represented the anterior parte of the entire figures of men or animals, the water usually issuing from the open mouth. While used in ail styles of architec ture. the gargoyles was peculiarly de veloped in the Gothic. Ail conceivable forms have been used —not only the hufnan and the animal, but The angelic and the devilish as well. Nowhere, it would seem, has the artistic faculty run more mad riot. Among the more arjcient of these forms are those found in the temples of Edfu and Denderah. in Egypt. A Devil of Notre Dame. Cvr> rs. made of painted terracotta and of marble, were prominent in the decoration of classic and etruscan temples. Many interesting ones are to be found cn some of the older cathedrals of England, and in various places in Europe, hut the most famous of all are those of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris. While these may be -seen from below, and doubtless have been thus glimpsed by thousands of hurrying tourists, it is only by ascend ing to the roof that one may come to anything approaching a familiar ac quaintance with these stone monsters, whose very ugliness constitutes their claim to beauty. And it may be noted in passing that this closer view of the gargoyles is not the only thing to be gained by this journey to the roof. It is rather difficult, in all a climb of S6B steps, but from no spot in Paris, unless i from the Tower St. Jacques, does one get n finer or more extended view of the city and the course of the Seine, with its numerous bridges. LIGHTS CALL NEW YORK COPS Electric Bells Are Supplanted by Green Flashes as Signal for Officers. New York. —Police Commissioner Waldo s new system of police signals was tried out in the old Tenderloin. : The green lights at the tops of the new poles responded to the buttons pressed by the desk lieutenant in the j West Thirtieth street station, blinked their four seconds, went cut and then blinked again, just as they are sup posed to do. The police signal boxes have been put up on iron poles and the poles have been surmounted with green i bulbs. Whenever the desk lieutenant \ wants to find a policeman he presses j the button which communicates with the district where the policeman ought ; to be. The green light flashes until : someone gets to a signal box and calls the station. The lights take the | place of the bells now in general use. | 111. —— . . I. ■ ■ I ■ I II I PERIL IN EARLY SMOKING Boys Who Use Tobacco Pay for It When They Reach the Age of Forty or Fifty. —l_ j Vienna. —At the Ipstigatioin of the Austrian Society of School Hygienb, Prof. Frank Hoehwart, the scientist, | has conducted a series of investiga- j lions of cases of nervous diseases among smokers. He has arrived at the conclusion that juvenile smoking in volves the gravest perils of future health. The professor found the most serious cases of nicotine poisoning al most invariably were those in which the sufferers began smoking when very young. The symptoms of such poisoning never appear in youth, but usually take years to develop. They become 1 apparent in most instances be:wesn the ages of forty and fifty. i IN THE 'BIG DUTCH CANALS More Barges and Boats at Rotterdam Than' Elsewhere —Woman Always In Evidence. London—l think one may see barges and canal boats in greater variety at Rotterdam than anywhere else. One curious thing to be no ticed as they lie at rest in the canals is the absence of men. A woman is always there; her husband only rare fy. The only visible captain is the fussy, shrewish little dog which, sus picious of the whole world, patrols the ; boat from stem to stern and warns you that it is against the law even Along the Canal. to look at his property. I bite is not equal to his bark. Every barge has its name. What the popular style was seven years ago, when I was here last, I cannot re- j member; but today it is “Wilhehawna. English suburban villas have not a j greater variety of fantastic names j than the canaKcraft of Holland: nor, j with all our monopoly of the word * “home.” does the English suburban i villa suggest more compact cozinesp than .one catches gleams of through their cabin windows or down their companions. Spring cleaning goes on here, as in the Dutch houses, all the year round. ! and the domiciliary part of the vessels is spotless. Ea ery bulwark has a washing tray that can be fixed or de tached in a moment. “It’s a fine day, let us kill something,” says the Eng lishman: “Here’s an odd moment, let | us wash something," says the Dutch j vrouw. In some of the Rotterdam canals | the barges are so packed that they i lie touching each other, with their ; burgees flying ail in the same direc- ! tion. as the vanes of St. Sepulchre’s i r t r m Hclburn cannot do. How they ever . get disentangled again and proceed I on their free way to their distant homes is a mystery. But in the shin- i ping.Avcrid incredible things can hap- ; pen at night. | HULL OF THE TUDOR WARSHIP j Timbers Found in Thames Supposedly Those of the Great Harry, Launched in 1514. ! London. —What is believed to be the hull of the Great Harry, a famous Tu dor warship launched in the year 1514 ; has been discovered at Woolwich. In | excavations on the south bank of the • Thames for new electrical works, i workmen came on the timbers of an | ancient ship at a depth of some forty \ feet. The hull of the vessel was im bedded in the soil. The greater part cf it was removed and subsequently sold by the borough council. News of this reached Seymour Lu cas, R. A,, Avho went immediately to Woolwich and inspected the timbers, lie is convinced of the identity of the remains with the Great Harry. He said: "Everything points to it being the old ship. The timbers are in excellent ; preservation, but there is no vestige j of superstructure. It is on record that I the Great Harry was burned to the dock built at Woolwich in 1521. Some thing in the nature of a landslide oc curred and the ship tvas sunk in dock No effort was made to refloat her.- "There will be no difficulty about re constructing the hull. I feel it should be acquired for the nation and kept, say. at GreenAvich, at the Royal Naval hospital. There is nothing of this date extant in ail the world.” The bulk of the timbers is in barges at Woolwich. It is understood that it has been acquired by a firm of antiqua ries. GAME NOT WORTH THE CANDLE ! * - - Amount of Radium at Bottom of Sea Too Little tp Send Divers After. • Minneapolis l Minn. —There may be millions of tons of radium at the bot tom of the sea. as Prof. Harry Jones of Johns Hopkins university is report ed to have said, but radium is in such minute quantities in the sea and land that it is not available for human use, declares Prof. A. J. Kovarick of the physics department of the University of Minnesota. “From a ton of pitchblende may be obtained l-300th of an ounce oi ra dium, or an amount as large as a small pea, and pitchblende contains 1,000,000,000 times as much radium as sea water. To attempt to extract ra dium from sea water would be fool ish. Professor Kovarick said radium could be used to cure cancer, as re cently announced, but only where the disease is not deep seated. “Radium will cure some diseases of the skin,” he said, “but cancers are usually sc far beneath the surface, and spread in so many directions, that the physician cannot follow them with the rays of radium.” Women Smoke Cigarettes. Denver. Colo.. Jan. 26.—Patrons of a fashionable hotel tea room Avere startled to see Mrs. H. McAuiey of Chicago and her sister, Avho is a leader in Denver’s publicly •incite cigarettes THIS WOMAN WAS UNCEBOVERNOR OF OREGON She was governor of Oregon. In v - ■ organization there is a “Madam Presi “l" ' dent.” “Madam Chairman” or oth- Ver similar title to sipnif> that one C *m °f the opposite aex is holding an W* office once held sacred to mascu . mim V* But “Madam Gov - ' matt ernor” strikes the " ijt'S’- i e3r ft ß the Iconoclastic sign!- V f \ ' ficance of modern i”; times, and to i% -sm*\ hear it applied to • - ;>■ ;■. the chief execu \[ ; * to mark an entire march of progress. And the pioneer “Madam Governor" is Mrs. Carolyn B. Shelton of Union county. Oregon, who now applies the qualities which once served her in good stead as the governor of her na tive state to performing the duties of private secretary to Senator George E. Chamberlain. To en£er a man’s business world, untried and without any previous training, at an age -when a youth would not have yet reached his major ity, and to have accomplished all she has, would be an achievement of which any man of middle age might be proud. Mrs. Shelton began while yet a girl and has forged steadily ahead, until today, in her capacity of private secre tary to a United States senator, she also performs the duties of clerk to the senate committee on military af fairs, which committee is one of the COUNT TfSZA, HUNGARY’S FIGHTING PREMIER No premier in (he world's history has had such a ruthless opposition to face In parlia me at as Count ' ” ' “fighting premier” of Europe. He holds his job solely by his abil ity,to "fight”--not only to fight with all the political skill for a> hich the premier is famous, hut also with sword and pistol. The Emperor Fran cis Joseph of Austria, who is also king of Hungary, selected Count, Tisza for MRS. WOODROW WILSON’S PERSONAL SCRIBE Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, who is a first cousin of President Wilson as well as the per scnal secretary of about her imme f •' diately after she I her of the house f hold at the White f' ■ Jjjg House. “Many ot the 11 papers spoke of 111*.... my social esperi vw: enee," Miss Bones said laughingly. t “described me as \ - ,! having spent my T ;life extending and > ■&: /. .< 4S:S<SK ‘ receiving ‘genuine southern hospitality.’ The truth of the matter is I have been so busy earning my living ever since I left school that I’ve had no time to be en tertained. and neither the time nor the money to entertain others. “I was born and brought up at Rome, Ga. Besides being related to the president my family and Mrs. Wil son's family have been close friends since long before I was born. When I reache.i the boarding school age I was sen: to Princeton because my parents wished me to be near my WHAT JUSTICE LURTON HEARD ON THE CAR Justice Horace Burton of the United States supreme court recently learned that his opinions ; —-“"i ma y quoted by others than A, members of the .>•; bench and bar. ? Returning heme ..- In a • crowded : Wffes* street car after a ••; hard day’s work. * he observed an old and feeble lady en er and V look vainW around % ’ f° r a Itn mediately beside where she at last .I l ' anchored herself, t anti clun £ tottcr . j-U ing to one of the o v e j hanging straps, a ccuple Of lusty youths occupied comfortable seats. Tombstone in a Cage. Very unusual Is the story connected with an iron cage erected over the grave of an Indian officer w T ho was a keen big game hunter. He had the cage made so that by undoing the screws at the end it could easily-be taken to pieces, and be utilized it for two purposes. On bis tiger shooting expeditions he had it covered with green boughs, when it effectively con cealed him from his quarry, while at night it covered him while he slept. The bars, however, were not sufficient Tint SEA COAST ECHO, BAT ST. LOOTS, MISSISSIPPI most important adjuncts to that leg islative body. Three forces carried Mrs. Shelton through her career. Perhaps her natural ability had the most to do with it. Then. Senator Chamberlain realized that women were capable as office holders, long before equal suff rage was granted in his state, and made her part of Lis official family. Lastly, a part of her unusual career was caused by a peculiar law on the Oregon statutes. At the time Mrs. Shelton was acting governor the state the office of lieu tenant governor did not exist. The law read that in the event of the chief executive’s - death the secretary of m state should become governor, and it was the custom that in the absence of the governor his private secretary should become acting head of the state. Oregon, of course, had had other governors than George E. Cham berlain. And during the absence of these men private secretaries had oft en become the acting heads of the state. The whole thing, therefore, hinged upon the fact that never be fore had a governor had a woman as his private secretary. Consequently, several years before Oregon took its place among the equal suffrage states there had been a “Madam Governor" at its head. And once Mrs. Shelton, for a period of a week, was actually the governor, although she was still called “acting governor.” That w-as when Governor Chamberlain, elected to the senate, took the train lor Washington Febru ary 27, 1909, without having relin quished his office, to be sworn in as a senator the following March 4. In that interim there was no one above Mrs. Shelton and for those da„vs she Avas, in fact, governor of the state of Oregon. Hungarian premier because he could fight. No man not a fighter could long hold Tisza’s post. When all other measures of obstruction failed to cause his “fall” a fanatical follower of one of the opposition parties tried to shoot him in parliament as an enediy of the country. The would-be assassin’s bullet missed the premier, and Count Tisza did not even suspend the session because of the incident. That having failed, the premier Avas insulted and challenged to fight a duel. With heavy cavalry sabres the premier and his former friend, Mar quis Pallavinci, fought it out. To his skill he owes the fact that he is still alive to be premier. Hungary is the home of the duel. Count Tisza, the “fighting premier,” is Hungary’s champion duellist. He has fought more duels than any one man in the country, perhaps in Eur ope. He has never once been seri ously wounded.' No one has kept tab cn the number of duels he has fought since he entered the turbulent politi cal arena. Even the premier himself says they haA-e been so numerous that he has not attempted to keep track of them. cousin and his family. Most of my holidays were spent with them, and 1 w’as back and forth at my cousin’s Princeton home to such an extent that I felt almost if not quite a member of the household. “After finishing school I took a po* sition on a magazine in Chicago. When that magazine went out of ex istence I got another office position. This I held until after my cousin’s election to the presidency. Then Mrs. Wilson jnv’ited me to come and li\’e with them at' the White House and act as her personal secretary. “Of course you know I am not her official private secretary. That very important position is filled by Miss Hagner, who. as everybody in the country knows, acted in the same ca pacity for Mrs. Roosevelt. Though Miss Hasner’s time is fully occupied there are a great many letters AA'hich Mrs. Wilson turns OAer t:o me. These letters are of a more personal na ture, most of them from Mrs. Wilson’s personal friends. Many are from rela tives, for you know b> -h the presi dent and Mrs. Wilson fc-tve a rather large family connectior. “Though Mrs. Wilson would much prefer to attend to sue/; letters her self, answer every one of them with her own hand, the demands on her time make it physically impossible. Because of this she turns them over to me as her personal secretary.” Leaning over, the judge quietly call ed their attention to tbf old lady’s un happy situation. An ill-bred sneer, such as only an ill-bred city youth may achieve, was the only answer. Judge Lurton’s chivalric indignation was aroused. Beckoning the conduc tor he called his attention to the aged Avoman swaying unsteadily in the aisle and demanded that he compel one of the youths to give her his seat. “Can’t do it, sir,” replied the con ductor. "I’d like to, but it’s against the law and if I’d rout out one o’ these young brutes he’d sue the company, and the verdict would be another fel low’d get my job. One of the judges o’ the supreme court decided that question, and” But Judge Lurton had returned to his afternoon paper. He remembered what judge it was! The man who can write verse is not always a versatile fellow. ly close to make him quite secure, and one night he was so badly mauled by a tiger that he died of blood pois oning.—London Strax|d. Bad Haiit. “Has your husband amy bad habits?" said the inquiring relative. “Yes,” replied Mrs. Torkins. “Cards for instance.” t “Does he play poke*” “No. That’s the worst of his bad habits. He thinks he playt poker and doesn’t-” TIME TO EXERCISE CAITIOfI Strenuous Exertion of Any f id is Not for Those Who Have Rec, aed * Middle Age. The danping craze has brou ,ht tip once more the question of exercise for mlddie-aged people, and both sides hare been taken with fervor. A pro fessional strong man is quoted as say ing that golf is too severe for men who come to it late, and recommend ing a week-end of complete rest rath er than exercise for people of years who feel ran down. Perhaps that is the safer side to take if one must generalize, but generalizations upon such a question are very difficult. Age is not properly to be measured in years, but in the actual condition of the individual; so great are the ef fects of heredity, habits, environment, etc., that a man of sixty aqd one of forty may be contemporaries. But cer tainly after middle life is reached It is the part of prudence to make sure that there are no weak spots before going in for a more active life. There is something in the saying a man is as young as he feels, but one is apt at times to feel younger than he is, and in ope of these paroxysms of youthfulness, such as the contagion of the tango may bring on, he can eas ily by indiscretion do himself an in i jury. No doubt those who stand most in need of caution are those who in youth have been notecT for strength, agility and skill, and who have long led a sedentary life. They are apt to be impulsive and energetic: they have a pride in physical accomplishment and a high standard: what seems to them a mere romp may be really a severe tax upon vital organs long ac customed to inactivity.—Springfield Republican. LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP SURE That Meeting of Affinities is Inev itable Is Opinion Advanced by This Novelist. There are people in life one never more than just brushes by; from whom one gains nothing; to whom one gives nothing. People who, though they may be the pivot of another’s life —and that’s always very difficult to realize and remember —are no more to you than a faintly penciled draw ing. You may be introduced to them again and again, know all their rela tions, their personal history, admire and approve. But that is all. It is no use arranging meetings; striving to know’ each other better: you’ll nev er get any nearer. Love and friendship are as inev itable as all else in this inevitable world. You may first meet at the an tipodes and each go opposite ways— perhaps without even speaking. But if you are native to each other you will meet again and again. People lose half their energy in contriving and planning. They arc like men who w’ould try to hurry on an express train by getting out and pushing: or —to use a very homely simile —like cer tain impatient persons, who. instead of waiting for a bus, imagine they save time by walking on so that it may overtake them. —Prom “Simp son,” by Elinor Mordaunt. The Higher Life. A big Chicago concern has solved ' the problem which confronts many I large business houses of providing a ! recreation spot for their employes, by ; utilizing the roof of its new building. In one section of the space the men I and boys play indoor baseball behind strong wire netting. A continuation of this space, roofed ever and fur nished with plenty of comfortable ; chairs and settees and made attract ive with flower stands and palms, is a lounging room and smoker; and this opens into the dining-room. Rooms for the use of women em ployes, a library and a rest room and an emergency hospital are on the other side of the building, and open ing from this section is a roof garden exclusively for women’s use. Wind ing walks are bordered with flowers and palms, and in them the w r omen and girls may saunter during their •recreation hour, gaze far out over the city and lake, and forget the “nerves” sharpened by the daily grind. Heart of New York. I So much is heard of the heartless ! ness of New York business men that I it is refreshing to hear another side of I the story. A young woman had been - employed by a large wholesale house i for three months. It was her first ! position. She became ill, and, believ ing that conditions surrounding her work were unsuitable to her, resigned. The firm then sent a check for two weeks’ salary and wrote that when she recovered if they could help her i in any way, either financially or to se- | cure another position, she was to call upon them. Fortunately she didn’t have to, and now no one dares to tell her that New York is cruel and heart less to the struggling new-comer. Pennies -Worth Much. The familiar old English saying, “Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves,” proves its w’orth whenever a big coin collection is sold. In London a few days ago a penny coined in the reign of Ethelred brought SSOO (£100) by auc tion. One which was minted when Al fred was king was sold for S2OO. These were coins dug out of “finds,” either the secret stores of the thrifty of one thousand years ago or the ruins of some ancient disbursing office. There is a great deal of hidden treasure in the earth, and if Ethelred pennies are to be found in veins it would pay Eng lish capitalists to start mining opera tions. The amateur political orator had rambled along for about 40 minutes and the crowd in the hall had grown uneasy. The orator stopped and turned to the chairman of the meet ing. “Mr. Chairman,*' protested the ora tor, “there is so much noise in here that I can’t hear a word I’m saying.” “Cheer up! * yelled a voice in the rear of the hall. “You ain’t missing much.” After Trials. “So she has taken another husband.” “Not as she considers it. The atbeoj vert cml; samples, "—^Tudge. LONDON FULL OF BEGGARS Mendicants and Cadgers Appear In the Great Metropolis in All Sorts of Disguises. There are many professional beg gars in London, who have their own copyright methods of extracting coin from a sympathetic and credulone pub lic. You may perhaps have come across the distressed governess, out of a situation, who asks you in Oxford street the way to walk to Turnham Green, and is so staggered at the dis tance that you ask her to accept the bus fare, v Then there is the transatlantic journalist stranded in the metropolis. He is too proud to seek aid from some of his millionaire friends at the Cecil, but if you could? —and perhaps you do. Most artistic of all mendicants is the old lady of grandmotherly appear ance dressed in black silk. She iup in London for the day, and someone has robbed her of her purse. She has called on her solicitor, but unfortu nately he was out. What shall she do? You give her the train fare and she promises to send the money on to you if you will give her your address. But if you are wise you decline, and thus escape a shoal of begging let ters. For addresses of benevolent i persons have a market value among I the cadging fraternity. London j Chronicle. • j MAKES PRETTY EVEN MIXTURE ■ Problem Play' and Mental Arithmetic in About Equal Quantities Met With In Life. Life is an even mixture of problem i play and mental arithmetic. The other • fellow is a perplexing problem and ; sometimes a vexing one. It is asion ; ishing that he does no better. He does i nothing but make a mess of things Experience to you is never a predi gested breakfast food. It is a nut to crack, and only good mental digestion will get away with it after you get to the meat. Everything that happens to you is backed by a rule. Its start and finish are the inexorable logic of ap plied or misapplied principle. That is i where you do your figuring. Light ning calculators have been known to figure ahead. That is where the say ing of looking before leaping comes from. It is the spiritual parallel of intricate calculus. Some people never were good at figures. Life keeps sweet because there never was any body who did not like to try. Doll Collectors. A great many people collect dolls for their own pleasure, and at the mo ment the collection of china puppets is popular. A variety to add to the store are the newly introduced pantomime folk, charmingly rendered in the tra | ditional raiment of the old-world i Christmas trio. Columbine is the demurest little lady with a mid-Victorian charm; her sleek black hair is parted in the cen ter and she has on a white frock loop ed up with bunches or rosebuds and foliage. She is poised on tip-tqes and I looks, with her downcast eyes and folded hands, the picture of fascina tion and conquetry. Harlequin is just the harlequin of one’s dreams, slen der as a reed, inconsequent, all-con quering. His parti-colored and skin tight suit is a vivid contrast to poor eld pantaloon’s white and baggy cloth ing, and to that subservient and much injured ancient is given just the ex pression that provokes others to make him the butt of their foolish jokes. Trick of Ski Jumping. The art of ski-jumping is not so easy as it looks before trying, nor so hard to learn as it might appear after the first attempt. At the start, or takeoff, come down as though you were coasting on the ski, then at the moment of the take-off bend the body well forward from the hips and throw as much of the weight as possible into the knees. As you leave the edge of the jump straighten quickly at the hips and secure as much as possible the effect of jumping straight out into the air. While in the air hold the arras as still as possible in the position that best preserves the balance, keep the ski points slighWy down, as near as possible parallel with the slope of the hill. The body should be perpendicu lar to the slope and the skis kept well together. On landing, advance one ski a* far as possible without up setting, bending the knee of the leg that is advanced. Keep the skis to gether and parallel. The rest is prac tice —and more practice. —Outing. The Dancing Bushman. That wonderful Bushman who lived for several years at Kimberley and re sisted the temptation to learn a word of English, .Dutch or "any known South African language,” while con versing volubly in his own unknown tongue, is now back from Paris. Once more he has been put under the mi croscope, the horoscope and all the other instruments of the Cambridge Anthropological laboratory. Professor Duckworth assures us that this is not only a Bushman, but a “type of Bush man unrecognized hitherto.” We sus pect, howerer, that he will go down to history, or whatever may be his destiny, as the Little Legpuller. For our Bushman signalized his reception at Cambridge by giving "an exhibition of dancing to a large audience in the new' examination hall of the univer sity.” With the tango all the rage, why not establish a chair of dancing at Cambridge and Install this already distinguished South African? —South Africa. The Ruling Passion. “Great Scot, but this is a noisy town! Does the racket keep up this way all the time?” “I should say not. Today is an ex tra occasion.” “What’s all the hurrah about?” “The* Antinoise society has just put over another one of its pet ordinances and the special committees are cele brating the victory.” Natural Fireman “Is your husband one of these men who always want to run to a fire?” “Yes,” replied Mrs. . Gorntossel; “and then sit down In front of it and go to sleep.” i EVER give up, there ar* JL chances and changes A.ciping the hopeful, a hundred to onev And, throught the chaos, high wisdom ar ranges Ever success, if you’ll only hold on.” HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS, A large chicken is much more e<*> comical to buy than a small one, as the pro portion of meat to bone is i greater. After all the meat is re- I moved, the bits too small to serve on | the table may be used in a salad or |in a cream sauce on toast. Put the* bones and a stalk or two of tho ; coarser outside leaves of celery into a kettle with one onion and any v other I bits of vegetable which may be left over. Simmer gently in water to cover for several hours or in a fire-- less cooker. This stock may be served 1 with a tablespoonful of cooked rice in each bowl or with barley or sago. Boiled Chestnuts. —When one de sires a change of vegetables, try cook ing some of the large Italian chest | nuts. They are not expensive for oc ! casional use, and are very nutritious and appetising. Make a little crosa with a sharp knife on the flat side of each shell, cutting well into the nut. Place in the oven, and in a few min utes they will shell very easily. Boil in salted water until tender; mash with a fork, season as on© doea mashed potatoes, and serve hot. Or the nuts may be left whole and served in a rich cream sauce. Fig and Nut Pudding.—Take two cupfuls of boiling water, a half tea spoon of salt, one-half cupful of sugar and stir into this enough graham flour to make a thin mush. Cook a half hour, then add a half cup of chopped figs and a few Brazil nuts; serve with ; whipped cream. This Is a pudding i one may make in an emergency w hen j the unexpected guest arrives, j Candied Orange Peel.—Take the halves of oranges or grape fruit left j from the breakfast table, throw' them I in cold water and let stand until you have a sufficient quantity, then put ; them into boiling water and scald, ! pouring off the water, adding fresh wa j ter three times to remove the bitter taste. Then scrape out the white in ner pulp and put the yellow skins ! back into the water; add salt and cook, until tei jer; cut in thin strips and i boil in a heavy sirup until all the s | gar is absorbed. Lay on plates to dry. This confection may be used lor any number of dishes, as a garnish for a i dish of orange ice or ice cream it is especially nice, and may also add to j ihe appearance of the dish if nicely ar ranged. When a fellow knows his business, ho doesn't have to explain to people that ho dots. It isn't what a man knows hut what he thinks he knows that lie brags about. Big talk means little knowledge, —George Horace Lorlmer;- STUDY OF CHOCOLATE. The great excuse for lack of train i ing along the lines of household econ | omics in our country and village schools is of course untrained teach | ers and lack of equipment. The fi*st requisite will be an interested teach er. This training may come from: reading, if in no other way, and it ia indeed a poor school which has no fa cilities for boiling water. The ideal instruction nowadays is that which takes what the child knows and builds on and adds to that knowledge. Whac could be more interesting in connec tion with the geography lesson when studying the countries where the ca cao tre' grows, to enlarge on that knowledge, for the language lesson or for writing: then at the noon hour make a pot of cocoa, leach the girl.n as well as the boys haw to make it well? An ordinary box stove may bo the means of starting many a girl with the right teacher for an inspirer on the road to a broad knowledge of household economics. Our own country was the first to use this wonderful bean; in Mexico, years before we were discovered, the natives prepared it by mixing with the ripe, ground bean, spices and corn meal. This was before pure food laws were in force. The seeds were ground into rid* oily paste and pressed and dried l cakes. Chocolate Cup Custards. —Heat a, quart of milk, peat four eggs and add five tablespoonfuls of sugar; pour this scalded milk slowly over the eggs, beating all the time. Add five table spoonfuls of grated chocolate and pour the custard into cups set In water; steam on the top of the stove or bake in the oven, always remem bering to keep plenty of water around the cups. When the custard begins to set, remove the cups, set. them into cold water, which will drive the heat to the center. Her Opportunity. Maid —“I’ve come to give notice, ma’am.” Mistress —“Indeed?” Maid —- “And would you give me a good ref erence, ma’am? I’m going to Mrs. Jones, across the way.” Mistress—* “The best in the w’orld, Maggie. I hate that woman.” —New York Globe. Danger in “Scorching.” An eminent doctor says he has found a cyclist’s pulse to beat as high as 250 times a minute immediately after making a fast mile. This illus trates the danger of “scorching.” Think It Over, Our colleague at the adjacent desk has just cogitated this: If a man haa nothing, he must do something to have anything. But if a man has something, he needn’t do anything to have nothing in short time. —• Boston Transcript. How It Happened. Ethel —“Did you''know Josie had thrown Frank over?” Mabel—“ Goo dness, no! Why?” Ethel —“Oh, the wretch stopped calling and writing, and all that, 1 understand,’’*--Judge,