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It is but natural that our thoughts, turn to tho changing cnlondar thlB month; and that, as tho old hospital tloa slip Into tho past, wo open our doors to tho wclcomo which tho Now Year bids us glvo to our friends. A Boll Supper Is a pretty fnticy to glvo while the Now Year's bolls are ringing, and whllo It may partake of tho naturo of a High Tea and there fore havo tho abandon and charm of that old-time simple dignified feast, ,U may also bo touched with novolty which makos any ontertalnment a sue coss. Dollghtful llttlo Invitations may go forth on small boll-shaped cards, bear ing tho dnto, which mny bo any con venient day during the early part of January. Thoso may bear little calen dars if wished with nn invitation writ ton abovo tho small calendar pad, or they may simply have the bidding in quaint fanciful lettering with a New Years sentiment or motto of good cheer also expressed thereon. When tho guests have nil assembled a pretty innovation would bo to havo 1 a Jester enter tho room with tho tra ditional Court Jester costume and cap and bells. Ho can begin tho enter tainment by narrating some amusing Btories, and when ho has started tho tall rolling ho can mil upon each per son present to toll some Joko or amusing talo- a bell ringing at tho end of every two minutes, when the narrator must instnntly ceaso, causing tho fun to wax fast and furious if tho "point" of tho Joko is to be reached In tho time allowance. As one person ceases another Is called upon to be gin Immediately, and so on. Tho chiming of bolls calls tho merry group to sipper, and any suitable menu may bo served, but If it can savor of olden days so much tho better. If wished tho holly wreaths from tho Chrlstmas tido still grace tho rooms, and whllo they need not furnish tho whole adornment, they can bo supplemented with decorations which will arcord with their bright, cheery presence. If n large number of guests are asked It Is convenient and also pretty to seat them at small tables, and for twenty persons an effective way of placing thom would bo at four tables set with Ave covers each. JOGOooGonaceococQQaoaoc' A NEW YEAR'S PETITION, S By Hervey Newton. The path, Lord, Is untried: Its far-off sky line fades Into the dim horjzon; unknown are the shoals and rocks; the hand on the helm Is weak, the heart betimes faint, and the skill Im-' perfect; hold then, Lord, not only the helm but the mariner, as the solitary life-boat, freighted by Thyself for eternal Issues, In the darkness of the night pushes its keel across the rim of the New Year; that tho weak will may be steadied and energized by Thine Own, the arm nerved by the Infinite, the heart quieted close up against the heart of the Christ, every 6ense sharpened by the Heaven ly companionship, and the ear made quick to catch tho cry of other mariners In distress, and the hand prompt and strong to the rescue; if sudden tempest lash the sea and mountain bil lows sweep down to engulf my bark, may there be that abso lute understanding between Thee and me, that my eye with Its silent appeal, shall on the Instant catch Thine, and the ea as quickly hush Into a great calm; may all the year find me In the attitude toward Thee of a faith that waits not on critic Ism or philosophic statement, but overleaps all, to appropriate as Its very own all Thou hast Bald and all Thou hast revealed of Thyself; may I see the un rolling year In Thy perspective, and each day as the onward movement of Thy larger plan; and so each night-fall find the little boat closer to the storm less calm of the Glory Shore. a essoin; aoacooocosJ He had escaped at Christmas, And felt happier than a sinner; But llttlo did his turkshlp know He was kept for n Now Yeaj'o dinner! IliMMftnAHH j The Deceived Turk. BHib tO0KM0100OI-0'KtOfrOOt-0 "SUB-MISTLETOE." S Tho dawn of day will usher In A glad Now Year's beginning, g Tho day when all ono's friends and kin $ Forswear their dreadful sin ning. Mabello and I compare our vowa (Her pot sins all are missing) Though overhead aro mystic boughs, Alas, sho swears oft kissing! Her lover, I, Just and sigh, Perplexed with doubt and sorrow SJ "Resolves don't talto effect," I p cry, g "Until 'tho First, to-morrow. S. I fain would tako my lawful g prlzo, ' 6 A kiss for ovory berry" g Swift as an arrow, off sho flies 4- Alert and ever wary. 2 6 Then, with demuro nnd blush- Ing faco Where lovo and mirth aro 9 blended, Q Sho hies her to another place g Where mistletoe's suspended, And underneath tho fateful 2 hough 6 So daring sho tarries, 5 Then murmurs, "It's much hot- ter now, P. This has so many berries!" p Edyth F. Kelley. g u0CC00C0-K000C4 U 3E 30EI0E 3E u n mtm mats n k " u n IL, be tn arte g :J 3QEXO! New Year's Eve and the Jour de l'An are tho great days in Paris. Pres ents, les otrennes, aro exchanged on that day, of course. On tho first of January, all tho young men call on their friends, bringing each family a sac, or box, of delicious marrons glaces. Many persons do not call until tho last minute, and one day a poor young man came rushing fn, and said: "What on earth shall I do? I've Just discovered that I have two hundred calls to pay!" So ho called for an au tomobile, and, with his cards ready, sped from one part of tho city to an other, leaving them with every sec ond concierge. On this day the qpuclergos also ex pect a present. The less one says about these potentates the better, for one feels as some one said of Riche lieu: "These people do too -much good to be spoken badly of, and too much evil to bo spoken well of." Suffice It to Bay that, if their pres ents are not up to the mark, they will bo disagreeable for tho whole of the coming year. They will tell people you aro out when you are In, and that you can receive them when you are tired. They will keep your letters for days, and annoy in the thousand and one wnys they know about. So New Year's Day Is no light matter. Butchers, bakers, and grocers come with their piesents, too. The baker sends you a nice cako, and wishes you a "Happy New Year." Instinctive ly you put your hand Itf your pocket as you wish him the same. The groc er gives you nn extrn orange, and the milkman offers you an apple, all with the best greetings. Loug before New Year's the letter carrier guts his dues. Sometimes ho calls more than a month ahead. He brings the eternal "Calendrier des Postes et Telegraphes" with the days of the week and the month, and the corresponding saints. Perhaps a wom an on a bicycle Is pictured on it, as are also the rates of postage. The postman Is an Important person. He delights in bringing you registered letters because then he knows ho will get a "tip" even If you are hard up and have Just received the picture of your second aunt Instead of the ex pected check. The stores In Paris have a mania for advertising useful presents. Can anything be nioro horrid? Presents Bliould bo things ono would not get under ordinary circumstances. Isn't it wretched to receive a pair of rub bers or an everyday umbrella on such occasions? But ono French mother found something still more useful for her llttlo boy. It was a big bottle of cod liver oil. For every spoonful ho took sho gave him two sous to put in his bank. At tho end of Uie year, when tho bottlo was empty sho broke the bank, and, with the money, bought him a new bottlo of cod liver oil. And that was the only gift he received from ono year to another. C. D. Q., in tho New York Evening Post. For tho New Year. For strength wo ask For tho ten thousand times repeated task, Tho endless smallnesses of every day; No, not to lay My llfo down In tho cause I cherish most, That wore too easy, but, 'whate'er It cost, To fall po more In gentleness toward tho ungentle, nor In lovo toward tho unlovely, and to glvo Each day I live, To every hour with outstretched hand Its meed Of not-to-bo regrotted thought or dead. Ethlewyn Wothernld, Blame Your Thyroid Gand if You are Too Fat or Too Thin Arc you too fnt or too thin? If you arc cither you need no longer bo discouraged. Science has nt last dis cvercd n cure for this condition. Mi lady need no longer 'fret when it is tho fashion to bo thin and sho is en tirely too plump for fashion's re quirements. Neither need sho fret if fashion demands n plump figure. Dr. Herbert M. Rich, children's physician nt Harper hospital, told the Wnyne County Medical society in a .recent session at Detroit how this wrtB done and showed that mnny of fash ion's fair devotees wore having it done. Dr. C. P. McCord, of tho Parke. Davis Co., told of experiments that company was making toward perfecting this work, and other physicians present told of the women who depended on thom to become and remain, litorally, molds of fashion. Use Sheep's Glands. It is done through tho throid, or the pituritnrian gland, different pa tients requiring sometimes the use of tho thyroid, sometimes the use of the pitultarin. Those glnnds control not only heighth, but thickness and cir cumference. If anything goes wrong with them dwarfs or giants, living skeletons or superlatively fat people may develope. But these glands can bo regulated, stimulated or stared, almost at will, by the use of the cor responding glands of sheep. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Hot water has more medical virtues than many believe or know. Because it is so easily procured, thousands think it valueless. The uses of hot water, however are many. For example, there is nothing that so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism as hot water when applied promptly and thoroughly. Headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of the neck. A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water, and quickly wrung out and applied over the pain ful part in toothache or neuralgia will generallly afford prompt relief. A strip of flannel or napkin folded lengthways and dipped in hot water and wrung out and then applied' around the neck of a child that has I the croup will sometimes bring relief in ten minutes. Hot water taken freely half an hour before bedtime is helpful in the case of constipation, while it has a most soth ing effect upon the stomach and bow els. A goblet of hot water taken just after rising, before breakfast, has cur ed thousands of indigestion, and no simple remedy is more widely rec ommended by physicians to dyspeptics. Very Jiot water will stop dangerous bleeding. False Economy There is a marked tendency among women to believe they are exercising proper economy by getting along with poor or without proper tools with which to do their work. The sooner a woman learns that makeshifts which only wear out her strength are not economies, the better for her and her family. Many house wives worry on from year to year with sadly inefficient house-keeping tools, and reduce themselves to mere wrecks after a few years. Their fam ilies gain nothing by it, but lose much. Labor-saving appliances are cheap in the end, and a woman should insist upon -having them, so that she may preserve her temper and health for her family's sake as well as her own. The farmer's wife who did a large family ironing for years with two irons is not a model of economy, but a simpleton. It is pitiful, almost heartbreaking, to think of such a waste of time and strength on the part of a human being. Some women will spend a whole day at the washtub in stead of buying a wringer that would save their wrists and backs, and be less injurious to the clothes than hand wringing. After all, a woman is not a drudge, and no housewife whoso kitchen is properly supplied with good tools will find the housework beyond her strength. On tho contrary, it be comes a pleasure, and the properly constituted woman will take a keen pride in keeping her homo, and par ticularly her kitchen, in spick nnd span order. Beginners in housekeeping should remember to begin well. If they begin with makeshifts, they will probably continue with them to the bitter end! Household utensils were never so cheap and really efficient as now, nnd with care will last nearly a lifetime, so there enn bo noexcuso for muddling along with clumsy or poor tools. A good workman, however poor, will have good tools. He stints himself in someway to buy them; and so, too would women if they took a proper prldo in their calling. "It is tho same stuff tho anti-fat people use," explained Dr. Rich, "but to get results without danger each case must bo watched and treated individually.' To tako stock doses of the stuff is very likely to brine about a serious illness. "But it is a fact that many women of fashion are using this means of becoming fat or thin ns the mode re quires. When carefully administered the use brings about no ill effects. It has not yet reached the point where it can be locnlizcd; where certain portions of tho anatomy can be made fat or thin without affecting tho rest. That is done by massage or other methods. Experiments Help Children "Tho primary purpose of the ex periments with the height and weight controlling glands was to help infants who are stunted. Rickets causes dwarfery very often, but if the pit uitary gland is treated and fed or cor rected before actual dwarfery sets in the child may be made normal. Rick ets is caused by illnourishment. I have classified different varieties of dwarfery into those that can be help ed and those that cannot." Dr. Rich showed pictures of the varieties of dwarfery and showed one girl of 12 years whose weight had been increased six pounds in 9 months by treatment, of the glands. Laughter as a Tonic. The act of laughing developes a large number of muscles, including those of the face, neck, chest and ab domen. But much more than this laughter accomplishes. It has a high ly beneficial influence on the heart and lungs. In what may be called a "fit" of laughter the lungs may be almost completely emptied of their contained air. Fresh air is then drawn in to the full extent of their capacity, in flating those little air cells which con tained previously only stagnant air or bacilli for in the shallow breathing that we ordinarily practice, compar atively large tracts of air cells are but little used. While this process is going on the general circulation is accelerated, impure and fresh air hur ried in, and with the forcible ascent and descent of the diaphragm during inspiration and expiration, the liver and other abdominal organs undergo a kind of kneading not unlike that undergone during massage, which is of great benefit in rousing from that torpor to which they are liable. If "you can let yourself go," and laugh with a will, you can even bring al most all the principal muscles of the body into play. Remember, "a good laugh Is a good thing." HOME TRIED RECIPES Asparagus Soup Take the 'tops from half a hundred stalks of asparagus and soak them in water for some time. Then put them into three pints of nicely flavored stock, to which has been added a cup ful of new milk; and let boil for ten minutes. If necessary, color with a little spinach green. Time to make, one hour. Lyonnaisc Potatoes. Cut a quart of cold potatoes into dice a little over an inch square. Put a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan and when it is hot add a white onion minced fine. Cook until soft. Add the potatoes, tossing them with a fork in the frying pan until they are evenly colored a delicate brown, sprinkle a half teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper and a table spoonful of minced parsley over them and stir with a fork again. Serve at once with steak. Chocolate Pudding One-half cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 square melted chocolate mixed with egg, sug ar and butter; 1 cup flour, Vi teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon melted butter, cup milk, Vz teaspoon cream of tar tar. Stream 1 hour. Sauce Cream piece of butter size of an egg and 1 heaping cup of powd ered sugar, adding sugar slowly. One well beaten egg. Flavor with vanilla. Calf's Liver. ' Calf's liver can bo delicately prepar ed with cream gravy. Soak tho liver for half an hour, and then dry it thor oughly, cut in slices a third of an inch thick, and drop for a momeent in boil ing water. Then either strip off the skin or else cut it several times to keep tho slices from curling. Dry and drop tho slices into deep hot fnt and hrown. Then put in a saucepan with cream enough to cover, thicken with a little butter nnd flour rolled togeth er. Season well with salt and pepper and servo. Pcoplo may sympathize with a man who makes a fool of himself occasion al', but not with ono who insists on giving a continuous performance. jrir4iv.uuvn.PAniiaiiiy .MMf-.vT!t .,' unfw Many a oHuschoM Will Find Them So To have the pains nml nelioa of n Iintl hack removed to he en 1 1 rely frei from nniioylng, dangerous urinary dls orders, is enough to make iiii.vkhlnej sufferer gratful. The following ml 'Ice of 6ne who has suffered will prove comforting wouls to hundreds of readers. II. A. Stephens, Main St.. Mllfonl Mich., snys: "The first I noticed ol kidney trouble was when my baol, began to hurt. I suffered from lum bago and when I stooped I had palm neross tho small of my baek. M kidneys were out of order ami (hi secretions were irregular in passage Don it's Kidney Pills gave me rellel ami I don't hnve any signs of kldtu trouble or backache now." Price oOf. tit nil dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney reined v gei Dunn's Kidney Pills the same thin Mr. Stephens had. Foster-Mllliun Co., Props., Buffalo. N. Y. When fame does come to the aver age man It loosts on his tombstone. Love may be blind, but small bro thers see everything in sight. It Is twice as easy to fool yourself as it is to fool other people. A self-made man is often the only one satisfied with the Job. Ambition Is all right If a man has energy to back it up. It's a poor phonograph that. 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Tho device will tun out 11,000 uniform whito and black, photographic prints per hour. Tho In ventor chinis that actual photographs are of great value In advertising, but neretoforo havo boon too expensive. This plan would so reduce the cost as to make wider uso of photographs possible. DEVISES A COOLING MACHINE Works Automatically and Does Away With Ice. Two Dwight, 111., men aro lnventora of a machino for cooling or refriger ators without the uso of Ice. When once installed It is automatic in ac tion, needs no looking after and will freep tho Interior of tho ico box at the required coolness. Tho machine haa teen tested for a year and will now be manufactured for general use. When a man is satisfied with him self, ho Is apt to bo dissatisfied with others. Tho best way to get along with some people is to get along without them. The Lord freezes the water, but wo are expected to cut our own tro. TBflfcr.&WMft ii;i3.'v.we'Ysw'.c n lis .-ft( Avv"fcllunr . !- Stf Twarreys? 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