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FOE WOMEN AND HOME
1TBM8 OF INTEREST FOB MAIDS
G-«, AND MATRONS
4FMaeh Model of White Crap* Gown
...... Bull Bine Pastel Cloth—Every Woman
Wants a Pretty Home Care of the
Ktm—Washing the Face.
I Cannot Binr the Old Song*!]
(Old Favorite Series.)
cannot sing the old songs
I sung long years ago,
POP heart and voice would fall me,
And foolish tears would flow
For bygone hours come o'er my heart
With each familiar strain,
cannot sing the old songs,
Or dream those dreams again. :i
I cannot sing the old ?ongs,
Their charm Is sad and deep j®j»
"Their melodies would waken
Old sorrows from their sleep
-And though all unforgotten still,
Ana sadly sweet ther be,
I cannot sing the old songs.
They are too dear to me. ..
1 cannot* sing the old uonsa,
Por visions come again,
Of golden dreams departed,
..r... And years of weary pain
Perhaps when earthly fetters shalli''
Have set my spirit free,
My voice may know the old songs,
Por all eternity.
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"night. So many times the best rooms
in our homes are treated as If they
.were, too good for everyday life. And
their chill and discomfort when expe
vTienced by an unexpected guest make
Tier dream of "cellar damp and creep
ing things." Let life in the home be
free and easy and yet orderly. But do
not despair if the sticks of wood piled
s-for use in the parlor fireplace are not
.perfectly straight and just the right
length. And' do not feel it a duty to
brush the carpet each time a neighbor
calls to see you, else you will become
-ttfe victim to a dust pan and brush.
Care of. the Eye!.'
One of the simplest and bc^t reme
flies for j[ ifl&fflfl^ation or strain is to
*H»t&er£He ey*Sh' iVwarm water!
the adult population of this country
.would be benefited by the use of glass
es, at least during their working hours.
•y They tire quickly, the headaches, the
'indigestive apparatus is completely up
set, there is pain in the back and a
general feeling of dizziness and nausea,
and the true cause'is never suspected.
iThe patient is bilious or nervous has
,V indigestion or liver complaint. The
evil Id attributed to everything but the
proper cause. Pit the person to good
glasses and the difficulty vanishes al
most as if by magic.
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®Tory Woman Wants a Pretty Home.
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xables her to turn and twist the things
"that are old into decorations that are
new and lovely In effect. She can se
harmonious colors when she buys
^inexpensive furnishings, and so tone
jx- the aspect of her home that rest and
i-Incase may-welcome every new visitor
ehe may become so essential to the
... happiness of each child in the home
that its first Inquiry when returning
from play or from school will be, "Is
mother home?" She may live her
young years over again with the loving
childhood about her, if she will share
•^he Joys and sorrows of her boys and
..glrls. To every woman a home is es
..«',4»entlal, whether it may be her own or
somebody else's: But wherever she
lives It is right that she should bring
,the heart into her life. Love begets
love, and wherever It Is present the
.4qys of daily life counterbalance the
illls. How to make a home? Why,
'let the two who build it be of one
mind—that it is to be the happiest spot
-In the whole earth. Inclu4e in your
desire not only the purpose to make
yourselves happy, but to brighten the
lives of everybody else. And be sure
&to keep your windows open to the sun-
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j|||iitlier good remedy Is a solution of salt
•^|||&nd'" water made by putting a teaspoon
l^ful of fine table'salt into a half itfnt
•of water. Let it boil and when col
strain It, removing any particles
sediment. Putting this on the out
.. side of the lids is simply a waste of
3 time. The eye should be opened, the
-f|||?id3 drawn back and the inflamed por
«^tion touched with a camel's hair brush
dipped in tlje salt water. Outside ap
-.plications do not reach the seat of the
•.ejsarilmeiit. A teaspoonful of boracic acid
^felSn. balf a pint of water prepared In the
f^Bame way is excellent,. If there are
^p^ranulations and very serious iofiam
j^mation, boil. a teaspoonful of alum in
pint of water until it is dissolved,
then strain or filter as described, and
V, j®pply with a camel's hair brush sev
i- ^ral times a day. This is one of the
most-efficacious of remedies. The care
!'P' the eyes is perhaps one of the most
imperfectly understood of any of our
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dally duties. More ills arise from
.».• rthelr misuse than the public generally
-appreciate. Epilepsy is a frequent re
sult of eye strain and a careful and iri
..j telligent observation will convince
most people that more headaches come
„from abuse of. the eyes than from any
Nother
cause. Probably one-sixth of
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'.Washing the Faee.
There are some misguided persons
fewho object to washing the face often,
especially with soap, thinking this is
Man injury to the complexion. Those,
however, who have made a specialty
of. skin diseases, will say that no part
of the body needs soap* so much that
the face being constantly exposed to
dust, collects so mucli that it is not
enough to wash It In clear water. They
agree that If soap makes the face shiny
as so many claim, It only shows that It
Is the more needed, and that the work
of drying after the bath has not been
properly, performed. The face, how
ever, should not be wet 'Immediately
before or after going out. Its most
thorough ablutions should be perform
ed at night before going to bed, and
the fallowing method should be ob
served In the process: Fill a basin
with soft, warm water, lather a me
dium sised sponge with'good soap, and
•iinuh carefully. Then take ffesh wa
ter without soap, and wash again with
tie hands, and rub thoroughly with a
Turkish or crash towel until the face
is dry and tingling. This will do much
towards improving .and preserving the
complexion.
The Bed Lnxnrions.
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prominent are the beds In hand
Mime ilMping-rooms nowadays-that it
Is no wonder their clothing show* all
the ut and lavish beauty and lac* ~of
a ttthfoaable woman's wearing *p-
DULUBLUE PASTEL CLOTH
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With vest, stock and Insertion of luriel
lace over cream white satin. These in
sertions are bordered by narrow blue
satin stitched bands, matching the
to of he is in
shallow pleats. The shaped belt (an
absolute necessity today) is very deep
ly curved in front, so as to be fully
two Inches deeper than at the back.
parel. Sheets of especial fineness are
made with broad bands of drawn work
running about the four sides and linen
lace whipped on the edges. The costly
California blankets are sent to a needle
woman before they are ready for use
*to~have^tSSf?^edge5*^!^ijj''' SgaJJ
and buttonhole stitch with silk and
a monogram worked in the corners.
Duvetscovered with china silk show a
fluff of valencieilnes frills and pinked
flounces about their edges, and flhe
huge sham pillows used by day are up
holstered exactly to accord with the
duvet. Added to this luxuriousness
there are beds with big sachet pillows
that lie all day between the sheets and
when taken out at night surround the
sleeper with a sleep inviting fragrance
of violets or rose leaves.
Fnnoh Model of lVUIte Crepe Gown*
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The overskirt, which is scalloped and
finished with lace on the edge, opens
over a flounce of insertion and bands
of the crepe'stitched. Light blue vel
vet ribbon runs through the bodice
and'tles in front.
Correct Attire for the Bridegroom.
The bridegroom at a morning wed
ding wears a frock coat, white duck
or pique waistcoat, trousers of dark,
striped cloth, patent leather shoes,
gloves pnd silk, "Ascot" tie—white or
pearl gray—and boutonniere of garde
nias or other small white flowers. At
an evening wedding he wears dress
clothes, unless the bride Is In traveling
costume, when he would wear a morn
ing coat, a colored tie, and no gloves.—
February Ladies' Home Journal....
S.:- An Emergency Box*£
Every mother should have a box,
kept In a safe and easily accessible
place, containing some of the things'
likely to be needed in common emer
gencies, such as pieces of soft old
linen and cotton, rolls of bandage from
half an inch to an inch and a half
wide (these may be. made from a worn
linen sheet), Adhesive plaster for cuts,
a wide mouthed bottle filled with bi
carbonate of sodi—common baking
soda—for burns, a bottle of witch hazel
for braises, a roll of absorbent cotton
for use in covering .the chest when
there is a cold there, pieces of flannef
to wrap around rheumatic'Joints, and
last, but not least, a hot water bag.
To these she may add. If ahe .likes,
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The soft white felt hat has two shades
of blue satin folded about the crown
caught at one side by a strass (rhine
stone) buckle. The chatelaine bag,
w-hich used to be hung from the belt,
is now carried on the wrist, a fashion
which only the grace of the owner
can make charming. In this case
Is a gold link chain with gold fringe.
to do so, such remedies as the state
of her children's health makes it likely
they may require at a moment's notice
—to wit, her favorite croup mixture,
toothache tinctures, camphorated oil
for the wee bairn who gets "husky" at
td^eS" &U tjli.1 keep
her medicines In a locked box inside
the other and give one key to a trusted
maid, keeping the other herself and
being sure not to mislay it at the very
time it is wanted.
Snnlight and Health. ..
Many persons appear to labor under
the delusion that it is necessary to
avoid sunlight for fear of spoiling the
complexion, when, as a matter of fact,
the sun's jays are necessary to give
it the delicate tinting of beauty and
health. Air is necessary to the first
inspiration and the last expiration of
our lives, but the purity and activity
of the atmosphere depends up6n the
warming rays of the sun, While our
bodies require light for their healthy
stimulus. It is well known that without
solar heat there can be no proper vege
table growth, and it is equally neces
saiy for the beauty and perfection of
animal development. It behooves us,
therefore, to see that our homes are
open to the sun's rays and are made
as bright and cheerful as possible, and
they ought to freely admit the sun
light. It Is well known that diseases
which have baffled the skill of physi
cians have been known to yield when
the patients were removed from dark
rooms to light and cheerful apart
ments. Light is especially necessary
for the healthy growth of children. ,.
Eleven "Ounces of Prevention." 'L
Never lean with the back upon any
thing that is cold. Never begin a
journey until the breakfast has been
eaten. Never take warm drinks and
then immediately go out in the cold.
Keep the back, especially between the
shoulder, blades, well covered also,
the chest well protected. In sleeping
in a cold room, establish the habit of
breathing through the nose, and never
with the mouth open. Never go to
bed with cold or damp feet. Never
omit regular bathing, for unless the
skin is inactive condition, the cold
will close the pores and favor conges
tion or other diseases. After exercise
of any kind never ride in an open, car
riage or near the window of a train for
a moment it is dangerous to health
and even life. When hoarse, speak
as little as possible until the hoarse
ness is recovered from, else the voice
may be permanently lost or difficulties
of the throat be produced. Merely
warm the back by the. fire, and never
continue keeping the back exposed to
heat after it has become comfortably
warm. To do otherwise Is debilita
ting. When going frojp a warm at
mosphere into a cooler one, keep the
mouth closed so that the air may be
warmed by itg passage through the
nose ere it reaches the lungs. Never
stand still in cold weather, especially
after having taken a slight degree of
exercise, and always avoid standing on
ice or snow, or where the person is ex*
posed to a cold wind.
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So He Wn Yitwd.
'It's too bad,^ said the consoling
friend. "I thought you were right la
line of promotion."
"No," mournfully replied the
who haQ fyst his Job. "1 was right
In the firing line."—Chicago 3£Ujm*
IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.
A Vrcak of Natnro—Lake on Mountain
Top A Whale's Maternal Love
Turned Blnck in Halt an Hour A
Cave as a Place of Worship.
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Mollle Darling,
01d Favorite Series.)
Won't, you tell me, Mollle, darling,
That you love none else but me?
Por I love you, Mollle, darling, ..
You are all the world to me.
Oh! tell me darling that you love me,
Put your little hand in mine.
Take my heart, sweet Mollle, darling,
Say that you will give me thine.
Mollle, fairest, sweetest, dearest,
Look up, darling, tell me this— '-i
Do you love me, Mollle, darling?
Let your answer be a kiss.
Stars are smiling, MoUte, darling.
Thro' the mystic veil of night
They seem laughing, Mollle, darling.
While fair Luna hides her light
Oh! no one listens but the flowers.
While they hang their head3 in shame!
They are modest, Mollie, darling
When they hear me call your name.
I must leave you, Mollle, darling,
Tho' the parting gives me pain
When the stars shine, Mollle, darling,
I will meet you here again.
Oh! good night, Mollle, good-bye, loved
one,
Happy may you ever be.
When you're, dreaming, Mollle, darling.
Don't forget to dream of me.
v, ... —Anon.
A Freak of Natnr«.
Rendered insane by a fall which re
ulted in a fracture of the skull, Jacob
Tawsham, a recruit at the United
States army barracks at Columbus,
Ohio, has been restored to his natural
state of mind by an accident of a sim
ilar nature. The accident which re
sulted In his illness occurred while
Yawsham was en route from Louis
ville, Ky., to Columbus, Ohio. He fell
from the train, struck on his head and
was rendered unconscious. When he
came to it was found he was violently
insane. All hopes of curing him being
abandoned it was decided to confine
him permanently^in an insane hos
pital. Yawsham got the idea that he
was going to be confined somewhere
and tried to escape. In doing so he at
tempted to scale a rough blank wall
which surrounds the barracks hospital.
He was remarkably agile and well de
veloped and succeeded in climbing to a
height of about five feet, when he lost
his hold fell and again sustained an
Injury to the'brain. Another long ill
ness followed and from it he emerged
with all his faculties restored and
with nothing the matter with him
whatsoever. He does not even know
that he has passed through a period of
mental Illness, but thinks he has just
recovered from his first fall. The case
is one of the strangest in the history of
medicine and is attracting widespread
attention among physicians.
Turned Black in Half an Honr.
A white man of Kenosha, Wis.,
turned as black as the ace of spades
the other morning, and all in less than
half an hour. Prom the tips of his
toes to the top of his head Alexander
•WeT^jBneirts"""aa biatrfT aS~a"rliegfo anci
from no apparent cause. His fellow
workmen, frightened, ran away from
him, and he is now at home wonder
ing what he has done or what nature
means by changing him from white to
black. Wertenen is in the employ of
the Kenosha tannery. He was at work
as usual the other morning and was
feeling perfectly well. Soon he noticed
that the workmen were looking at him
queerly and then their astonishment
gave way to fear. He asked what was
the matter and was told that he was
turning black. The manager of the
tannery, E. C. Thiers, was called and
he Immediately told the man to go
home. By that time he was ink black
from bead to foot. Among those who
saw the man after he had turned black
and are willing to swear to the phe
nomenon are E. C. Thiers, manager of
the tannery William Schroeder, bank
ing clerk Griffin McCollin, a clerk in
the office Charles Beachel, another
employe, who Is superintendent of the
Methodist Sunday school here, and
James Westine, the foreman. All of
these say that the man turned black
and that he was white when he came
to work that morning. Wertenen has
been under the care of Dr. Pew for a
short time, suffering with a slight
stomach complaint. The doctor can
not account for the man's present con
dition. He is about 36 years of age
and unmarried.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
A Whale's Maternal Love.
The sperm-whale is not a fond
mother, and often deserts her offspring
at the appearance of danger. The
humpback, however, is both a devoted
and a courageous mother, and will
protect her young, regardless of her
own pain and danger. Mr. Bulleil, in
his "Cruise of the Cachalot," the nar
rative of a whaling voyage, describes
the killing of a cow humpback whose
mother-love was wonderful. The
Cachalot was cruising off Vavau, a
group of the Friendly Islands, and one
day*. Just before night, the spout of a
whale was seen, A careful bearing
was taken of the spot, and an hour be
fore daybreak the next morning the
boats were lowered and rowed to the
bay where the spout had been seen.
While the men were resting on their
oars the placid breathing of a whale
was heard, and the crews, straining
their eyes, saw a pale, shadowy mass
of the cliff, not a quarter of a mile
away. Dipping their oars carefully, so
that no sound might alarm the whale,
they approached near enough for the
harpooner of the head boat to dart
two harpoons into the huge body. The
whale took not the least notice of the
thrusts. The astonished whalers saw
a youngling closely nestling to her
plde. The small body, embraced by
the long, wlng-llke fin, was pressed to
the mother's massive breast Her
only thought, although she must have
suffered intense pain, was to protect
her baby, not more than fire days old.
The calf sought to escape from the
enfolding fin, making all sorts' of puny
struggles, while the mother, although
the blood streamed from her wounds,:
hardly moved, from her position. Qnoe,
the deep thrust of a lance entered
her vltals, she raised Iter utaatlte
finkea high In the air
throe of agony she re:
IMrtli danger to her
la that
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the tremendous tall was laid as softly
upon the water as if it had been a
feather fan. But whalemen never per
mit sentiment to interfere with their
work. The crews saw the mother die,
holding the calf to her side then with
a single lance thrust they killed it.
They were intent on "ile," not on an
exhibition of maternal love.
Lake on Mountain Top.
Far down in Southwestern Arizona,
near Sonora, on the Mexican border,
there is a range of mountains which"
appear to have but one face of hard,
smooth granite. The top of this bunch
of mountains is in the form of a gigan
tic basin. Here the rainfall has been
gathering for ages, until quite an ex
tensive lake is the result. The over
throw tumbles into another basin be
low, and so on through a series of
nine, the last one being near the
ground and on the direct road from
Yuma to Sonora. The lower tanks
are easy of access and are often
drained by travelers and animals. The
great upper tank can only be ap
proached by circuitous and difficult
climbing. To a stranger standing be
low, the upper lake, of course, has no
existence. In that plain below are over
200 graves. Scores of human beings,
famishing for water, have expended
their last strength in reaching th^
spot, only to find the lower tanks dry
and, ignorant of the great upper lake,
where thousands of gallons were to be
had for a little climbing, have laid
down in despair to die. Later travel
ers passing have buried the unknown's
remains, and always marked the grave,
Mexican fashion, by a cross of stones.
There is In western Utah, sixty miles
from Ploche, a sort of lava formation
running through an ihimense canyon,
which shows plainly that some tre
mendous upheaval of nature once vis
ited the. country and probably de
stroyed everything it encountered for
miles round about. In the dryest part
of this most desolate spot a large
stream of water comes gushing out
of a high cliff, as if it came from the
gigantic nozzle of a great hose, and
falls a cataract into the abys3 below.
Before reaching the bottom, however,
the water is disseminated into fine
spray and spreads out like a huge fan,
the play and sport of the winds. It is
a strange and beautiful sight. Prob
ably in some period long past the bed
of a river was where the water
merges, but a volcanic upheaval has
changed the face of nature, sinkipg
the bed of the river many hundreds of
feet and leaving the water to pour
from its exalted perch into empty air.
Upside Down.
There Is a boy, an inmate of a Mas
sachusetts home for children, whose
eyesight has been twisted so that he
sees things upside down and wrong
end foremost. While writing he, with
out knowing it, reverses his letters so
that they appear upon his slate as or
dinary handwriting would be reflected
by a mirror. He commences to write a
sentence in the bottom right-hand cor
ner, and writes from right to left.
When first admitted to the training
school he was unable to write but,
when placed In the class and a copy
book set before him, he seemed to un
derstand exactly what was expected or
him, and began to work. The school
mistress was surprised when she saw
the letters he had formed on the paper
—they resembled nothing to her at
first. Time after time she tried to
teach him to begin at the top left-hand
side of the paper, but he always started
from the right. When the boy had
learned to fornl his letters properly
the situation dawned upon the amazed,
teacher. What she imagined was sim
ply awkwardness'and simpleminded
ness was really the result of the boy
seeing things upside down.
A Cave as a Place of Worship.
A natural cave in the cliffs of Le
daig, near Oban, in Argylshire, Scot
land, was fitted up as a place of wor
ship by the local poet and postmas
ter, Mr. John Campbell, who acted as
pastor for n^ny years, and was much
respected. He cleared out the cave
and had It furnished with trunks of
trees for the worshipers to sit on.
The table, which is also a reading
desk, is said to be the portion of a tree
on which King Robert the Bruce rest
ed. The Highland worshipers who as
sembled In this unique church never
numbered more than thirty, when it
was considered full, and sometimes
the number was but three or four.
The church was uncertain, but the
members of it were frequently called
the Campbellites, after the name of
their leader.
Nature's Drains.
A careful survey of the underground
watercourses in the carboniferous
limestone district of Yorkshire, Eng
land, has revealed the fact that there
exists in that county an extensive sys
tem of subterranean streams, many of
which issue- miles away from the
points called "sinks," where the water
drained from the surface enters the
rocks. Similar phenomena in other
parts, of the world, not yet so care
fully investigated, occur on a much
larger scale, and recent studies of the
ocean bottom near the border of con
tinents have shown that rivers of con
siderable size sometimes enter the sea
beneath the surface.
A Submerged Forest.
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There Is a submerged forest on the
Columbia river between the Dalles and
the Cascade mountains. According to
Mr. G. K. Gilbert, the submergence
took place 350 years ago, and since
then the roots have been under water,
while the upper, parts of the trunks
have been bared yearly at low water.
The bark is gone, and the wood part
ly wasted away, but some of it is firm
and looks fresh. This fact seems ow
ing to the durable quality of the wood
of that species—namely, the Pseudot
suga Douglassll.
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A Wonderful Flaoe of Worship.
The tabernacle at Salt Lake City, the
capital of Utah, is, in respect to Its
acoustic properties, the most remark*
able place of worship in the world. It
Is constructed .to hold 25,000 people, yet
It, la possible for a person standing at
one end to distinctly hear the sound of
a pin dropped Into a hat at the other,
a test ot its curious power to convey
sonnd which Is offered to every straa
ger who is shown orer the building.
FOB BOYS AND GEBLS
SOME GOOD STORIES POR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
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Labrador Bear Story—Arab Legend
of the Good Deed That Caused the
Thorn to Blossom An ISgg-Eating
fnake—The Compass Flant.
Let Cs Gather Dp the Sunbeams.
(Old Favorite Series.)
Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chaff .,
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day,
With a patient hand removing
All the briars from the way.
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Strange, we never prize the musio
Till the sweet-voiced bird has flown!
Strange, that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone!
Strange, that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one half so fair S
As when winter's snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air.
It wo knew the baby fingers
Press'd against the window pane,
Would be cold and stiff to-morrow.
Never trouble us again
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow?
Would the print of rosy fingers
Vex us then as they do now?
Ah! those little Ice cold fingers.
How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strewn along our backward track!
How those little hands remind us.
As in snowy grace they lie.
Not to scatter thorns—but roses—
For our reaping by-and-bye!
A Labrador Bear Story.
A writer on Labrador, in an article
in an American paper, tells the follow
ing bear story: A couple of winters
ago a young lad left the mission house
of Nain armed with only a small knife
and an old-fashioned muzzle-loader.
He encountered no game till several
miles from the mission, and his
firBt
quarry was a thin, hungry-looking
grizzly. Either from nervousness or
overanxiety to secure the bear, the
boy fired carelessly, only inflicting a
flesh wound, which infuriated the crea
ture. Before the young hunter could
reload the bear turned and came dash
ing upon his assailant. The proverbial
tree, which boy hunters climb in story
books, was lacking, and the hero fled
most unheroically, with the certain
knowledge that certain death was only
a few yards behind, if he did not put
speed into his heels. The ill-luck of
his first maladroit aim was repeated in
a clumsy fall over bowlders, during
which Bruin made such time the boy
could gauge how much his pursuer
gained on him by the nearer sound of
something hulking over the rocks
closer and closer at every leap. The
trail was rough and uneven, but th^t
was a greater disadvantage to the boy
than to the bear. With that versatile
presence of mind bred by daily dan
gers, the lad tore off one mit and flung
that behind. There was a momentary
halt on the part of the grizzly and the
hunter made speed, but the way was
long, and his strength was giving out.
Presently he could hear the thud, thud
of the bear again in pursuit. Off
came the other mit, with the expected
result of another stop behind him, re
newed pursuit, and n-petition of the
strategy uil cap, coat shot-p^^h. shirt.
and boots had been thrown ^P^ana
giving the fagged runner«r chance to
traverse the long distance to the mis
sion house. "He copfe run, run, run,
run, panting to the door," said the
Moravian minister's wife, shy and
modest as a nun, from long isolation in
the north, "mit-mit-mit—how you call
it in English?—midout clos'es."
"Naked?" asked the astonished lis
tener. "Naked all-but his gun," an
swered the missionary's wife.
An Arab Legend*
Once upon a time, away out on the
desert, an Arab was traveling with a
caravan and a large amount of valua
ble silks and rich goods. He knew
that the portion of the desert through
which they were passing was frequent
ed by robbers, and he was anxious to
reach the end of his journey before
night.
The men and the camels were all
weary, for they had come a long way
across the dry country, but now they
were looking more cheerful, for they
would soon be at a place where they
could rest and not fear.
The chief was leading the caravan
and looked carefully In every direc
tion, so as not to be surprised by the
enemy. All at once he heard a cry ot
pain, and, peeping around, saw a boy
not far from the path. "Are you sick?"
asked the chief. "I have a thorn in
my foot," said the boy, "and I cannot
walk." Then the chief got down from
the back of the camel and went to the
boy and gently drew the thorn from
his foot. He even delayed to cleanse
the sore and rub some ointment on the
wound made by the thorn. He inquir
ed about how far the boy had to go
and if he had any money. Learning
that the boy had but little, he gave him
a piece of gold and then went on his
Journey. Many years after the chief
died and went to paradise. What was
his surprise to find himself at once In
the midst of the most beautiful roses.
"Why have I so many roses?" he asked
of an angel near him. "There are
many others who have done more good
who have not as many beautiful
roses." The angel smiled and answer
ed: "Years ago you drew a thorn from
the foot of a boy who was crying in
tne desert. That thorn has grown to
be a large rose tree, and the roses you
see around you are the blossoms from
that tree." One good deed done here
below is returned many fold in para
•Use.
An Egg-Eating Snake. ij
flow, how does it manage to
down its throat such a thing as
duck's egg, not only so much
than Itself, but also hard and perfect
ly smooth? We know that a
snake is aided in swallowing a
by Its hook-like teeth, which hold
prey while the upper and lower
glide over it alternately and thus
it backwards. Lizards, boas, the
terodon of Madagascar, etc., are
to place the egg—of a canary or
small bird, that is—against an
ularlty of the ground or within
of thejr own folds, which enables
to ram It into their mouths. In
ease of our "dasypeltls" and Its duck
egg. however, these explanations
not suffice, this genus being dpstl
qt tne teeth. We can,
get
a
larger
erfect-
common
toad
the
Jaws
push
He
said
other
irreg
one
them
the
's
do
suppose that a couple ot membranous
folds, which have been discovered, one
on each side of its mouth, lay hold of
the shell like cupping glasses, and
thus work It Into the throat But here
we meet with another difficulty. After
the egg has passed between the pro
digiously distended Jaws and upper
esophagus, it would seem as if Its bulk
and solidity, when lodged fn a compar
atively Inelastic part of the digestive
tube, whose Juices are unable to dis
solve the shell, must quickly prove fa
tal to the animal. A remarkable In
stance of natural adaptation is afford
ed by the manner in which the danger
is provided against. The anodon, as
already observed, has no true teeth.
So-called gular teeth, however, are
present, these being really the tips of
the long inferior spines of the first
eight or nine vertebrae, protruding
through the esophageal wall. When
the shell is broken by the gular teeth
it is ejected and the fluid passes Intq
the stomach.—Popular Science.
A Disgusted Mountain Lion*
"People who Imagine that animals
haven't got human feelings don't kno-wj
them," said a Yellowstone Park guide,
"One day I was cutting a trail and laid
my coat on the end of a log. I was off
at some distance when I saw a big
mountain lion creeping along to spring
on the coat, which lay on the log in
such a way as to look like a man
stooping down. It deceived the lion,
which skulked along until within
twenty feet and then he made two big
jumps. As he flew he uttered a fright
ful screech, and if that coat had been
a man he wouldn't have had time to
wink. The lion lit down on it with
claws "and teeth, and in ten seconds It
was in rags. Then he realized the
cheat, and you never saw a human be
ing look more foolish. His tail went
down to the ground, the fire died out
of his eyes, and altogether he looked so
cheap that I laughed r'cv -ul. and
that seemed to break hi. 'leart. tlj
looked at me and whimj tike
puppy, and when I laugher! agam,
sneaked off like a dog caught killing
sheep. I believe I could iia^e pulled
his tail without exciting any spirit.
him just then."
"Bobs" Afraid of Cats.
Lord Roberts, commander of 200,000
British soldiers In South Africa, pos
sessor of the Victoria cross and all
sorts of medals, is about paralyzed
With fear at the sight of a cat. No
has been admitted to the Robertt
house for years, says the New York
Herald. During one of the actions out
side Cabul, .when bullets and gunshot
were freely falling around the general
and his staff, he was, as usual, coolly
indifferent, but all at once he was
seen to tremble and pale with fright.
The hero of a hundred fights pointed
helplessly over his shoulder to a neigh-.,
boring vagon, and the staff saw a
half-starved black cat perched on top
of it. His strange fear of the cat was
so great as to completely distract Gen.
Roberts' attention from the field of
battle, and it was not until a subaltern
drove t^fe-Tiimal away that the Eng
lish general was able to bring his
thoughy^aqkjo the conflict.
A Triclct Goat.
A crowd of children were playing on
a vacant lot in the suburbs some time
ago. Among the spectators was a large
white goat, that was looking on as
though he were watching his opportu
nity for getting some fun out of the
game himself. The children, who
were very much scattered at first,
finally came together in a very com
plete ring, the largest boy in the crowd
being closest to the goat. The goat
did not argue with himself long, but
smiling his peculiar smile, made a bee
line for the boy, and, striking with full
force, knocked him winding, thereby,
sending the other children tumbling in
every direction. "I don't .' believe,"!
said the man who told about it, "that
any animal but a goat would have
struck just at that time and in the
manner in which he did unless he had
been prompted by a sense of humor,
even if it were only a goat humor."
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A London Apprentice,
Richard Whittington, famed among
London apprentices, at the age of 39
was appointed lord mayor of, London.
Born in 1358 he was the youngest son
of Sir William Whittington of Punt
ley, in Gloucestershire. His father dy
ing, Richard set out for London when
aged 13, and apprenticed himself to
Sir John Fitz-Warren, a prosperous
mercer, whose daughter he afterward
married. He became a member of liia
Mercer's company in 1392, the year af
ter an alderman and sheriff. In 1397
he was appointed lord mayor, and on
two subsequent occasions, in 1406 and
1419, he was again appointed to the
same position. He was knighted by
Henry V., and died in 142-3.
•The Care of the Feet.
"There is no necessity whatever for
so much complaint of the feet If peo
ple could only be induced to wear the
proper kind of shoes," said a.
surgeon
who has made the foot the subject of
special study. The great mistake that
is made is in selecting shoes that are
too Bhort. No matter how loose they
are, the shortness Is the cause of the
trouble. Then ends of the bones are
crowded together, and with continual
grinding an irritation takes place and
an inflammation is set up that may re
main as long as life lasts. French wo
men are admitted as having the most
beautiful feet of any women in the
world, and the reason of this is that
they refuse to wear short shoes, but
select those that are long enough to
give the feet perfect freedom. Thp av
erage woman who "wears a number 3
D, would find her health, comfort and
appearance greatly improved by wear
ing a 4% C. The most important ot
all items in getting shoes, after the
proper length is secured, is to ~have
them fit snugly around the Instep. This
keeps the foot from driving forward
Into the Bhoe, as It would do were It
loose over the Instep, Large shoes al
low' the toes to press forward, and are
more Injurious than Bnug ones Indeed,:
it is easy to see how the feet working,
on. an Incline will crowd down upon
th« ''tptMi pntttog the delicate bone*,
oat ot place, and laying the traiS-foc
tad of misery." -. rf/
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