THE BrntME PENAI/rr.
She —“What do you think of his execution?"
He —“I’m In favor of It.”—From Punch.
Device For Teaching Fractions.
School teachers aßsert that they
experience little difficulty In teaching
small children numbers up to 100, as
parents generally impart this knowl
edge of figures to the child before it
goes to school. Their most trouble-
Divides Into Fractions.
some task is to instill fractions into
the youthful mind. In the illustra
tion a device for facilitating the
teaching of fractions lrf shown. It
consists of a sphere divided into
halves, and the halves again divided
into a number of segments. The
sphere Is supported on wires on a
frame, the Individual section being
prevented from rotating, but can,
nevertheless, be moved and separated
from each other. The sphere can be
quickly divided into halves, quarters
and eighths,'•■and the pupil given a
practical demonstration of what
seems to him an intricate problem.—
Washington Star.
Author of the Uncle Remus Stories.
Joel Chandler Harris, teller of the
famous Uncle Remus stories, is
known almost everywhere. He lives
at Atlanta, Ga., and is now fifty-eight
years of age. Mr. Harris always
■wears his hat when he is at work, and
he declares that he cannot engage
?irofltably in any form of literary
abor without the familiar head cov
ering.
May Soon Wear Paper Trousers.
Sufficient attention has been di
rected toward the warmth generated
in the body by paper vests to demon
strate the fact that there Is reason
for serious consideration of paper
garment manufacture. There have
been for some time past vests made
of paper, also cuffs, collars, shirt bo
soms, etc., but it has remained for
a firm in Saxony to spin narrow strips
of paper and cotton into finished fab
rics of common use. Paper and cot
ton and paper and wool are so com
JKURSERY OP THE NEW HEIR TO THE THRONE OP SPAIN, THE
YOUNG PRINCE OP THE ASTURIAS.
—Le Monde llluatra
bined that serviceable outing suits.
Jackets, skirts and many other ar
ticles of dress are now ‘being pro
duced. The new textile. If so it may
be called, is cream colored, and may
be washed without injuring the
surface, and is marketed for a
ridiculously small price. Sufficient
xylolin, as it is ‘called, to produce a
complete plain suit costs but two
or three dollars. Doubtless a means
will soon be found by which the
finer fabrics may be reproduced
through the use of paper, to which
end numerous inventors are now at
work. —Kansas City Journal.
Where “Robinson Crusoe" Was
Written.
Referring to our article on “Rob
inson Crusoe’s Island” in the October
number, it is interesting to learn that
the house In which Defoe penned his
immortal classic is still standing,
near Mitcham, in Surrey. Our illus
tration depicts the back of Defoe’s
residence, and the second window
from the ground at left of photograph
still lights the room In which youth’s
favorite romance was born.—From
“The Captain.”
Keep It to Yourself.
You have trouble, your feelings
are injured, your home is not pleas
ant, your friends do not treat you
fairly, and things in general mova
unpleasantly. Well, what of it?
Keep it to yourself. A smouldering
fire can be found and extinguished,
but when coals are scattered, yot
2an’t pick them up. Bury your sor
row. The place for sad and disgust
ing things is under the ground. A
cut finger is not benefited by pulling
off the plaster and exposing it to
somebody’s eye. Charity covereth a
multitude of sins. Things thus
covered are cured without a scar;
but, once published and carried to
meddling friends, there is no end
to the trouble they may cause. Keep
it to yourself. Troubles are tran
sient; and, when a sorrow is healed
and passed, what a comfort it is to
say: “No one ever knew it till it was
over.”
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The Cubans are fighting for the apple,
but Uncle Sam will get it.
—Cartoon from Wahre Jacob (Stutt
gart).
A Rap at Science.
By James Bryce, British. Ambassador.
#p you to join with me in considering the value and helpfui
<£LV V n ess to the individual man cf scientific studies, and of literary
*B>| I studies, respectively, not for success in any occupation or pro-
SsJLm* fession nor for any other gainful purpose, but for what may be
called the enjoyment of life after university education has
ended . ..
All education has two sides. It is meant to Impart the
knowledge the skill, the habits of diligence and concentration, which are
Tipprtefi to insure practical success. It is also meant to form the character,
to implant taste to cultivate the imagination and the emotions, to prepare
iTmZ to eX those delights which belong to hours of loisure a,id o the
inner life which goes on, or ought to go on, all the time within his
hear Bvery one of ns ought to have a second or inner liife over and above that
life which he leads among others for the purpose of h:s avocation, be it to
serve his country or his neighbor. He ought to have some pursuit 01 taste
" which he on can y t urn from his daily routine Whatever the taste or pursu,
may be, whether of a higher or commoner type, it is good for -Mm, but,
course, the more wholesome and elevating the taste or pursu t is, so much th
practical lessons I would deduce are that the ardor with which the
studv of the physical sciences is now pursued for practical P“[‘P* e s ?°
make us forget that education has to do a great deal more Lhan turn out a
man to succeed in business. ... . io n .
In the second place students must remember that, m tne study of lan
guages and history, they must beware cif giving exclusive attention to t..e
technical philological work and purely critical inquiries. . ,
Nowhere in the world does there seem to be so laige a F™?"' 11 '" .J 1 ™
pie who receives a university education as here in America. Ihe effects
this will doubtless be felt in the next generation. „ , ,
Het us hope that these effects will be felt not only in the complete equip
ment of your citizens for public life, and in their warmer zeal Ifor civil prog
ress, but also in a true perception of the essential elemsnts of iappliiess a
larger capacity for enjoying those simple pleasures which the cultivation Oi
taste and the imagination opens to us all.
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Finding the Ideal Woman.
By Nixola Greeley Smith.
man writes me that after traveling all over the world,
Aseeiing many women in Europe and America he encountered his
ideal the other day on a Hudson River train. As fellow travelers
tl>y entered into casual conversation, but the young woman
ISBSSB? quitted the car without leaving any clue by which he could trace
her identity. Hence all is gloom in his bereft heart and he
wants me to tell him what to do about it.
It is possible, of course, that this extremely sentimental young man is right
in thinking that he found his unknown goddess on a Hudson River tram, but,
if so, it is almost certain that he will meet her again. Fate is the greatest
match-maker of them all. And though the idea frequent in the minds of vei >
young persons that it was settled at time's beginning that Thomas Jones of
Nyack, should meet and marry Mary Smith, of Kalamazoo, is not borne out
bv logic or common sense, still circumstances are very apt to favor tne eii
counter of John and Mary if they are in any way suited to each other. If
the young man who has lost the ideal he met on the tram never finds
again, he will be justified in concluding that Fate knows better what Is goou
for him than he knows himself. Love born of such momentary vision is cer
tainly an illusion. And if its latest victim will atop to reflect th at the woman
he is still dreaming of has not thought of him since, or else lias talked_ol in in
to the husband or fiance she probably possesses merely to rouse his jealous} ,
he will find his ardor rapidly cooling. An ideal is neither found nor lost i
a minute. Men fall in love gradually, and out of love by measurable degrees.
Ijove at first sight lasts only, as in the case I am writing of, when a sec
ond sight is not vouchsafed. It is astonishing that the young man m Question
has lived so long and been about so much without having had so “ e P rc '
experience of the momentary madness for a tair unknown. . .A 6
need only remember the old formula that work cures all misplaced affection.
W lt A S nmhs n ideat'woman, a woman’s ideal man is part of himseiror herself
The beloved person passively wears the halo with which her itmw .a
tion has crowned it. So long as we have an ideal of any kind Fate sure t i
send some one willing to wear it. And if the same one appears for a moment
and then disappears iwe are safe in assuming that the light wea . *
is Stall to come. —New York Evening World.
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A Place Where
Things Are Different
By Robert Shackleton.
FOUND that in everything Guernsey is the place that is different.
$L| ▼ are 0 f age at twenty; the weekly half-holiday is on Thur#-
I day; the gallon is five per cent, smaller than the English; to
reduce English pounds of weight to Guernsey pounds one must,
multiply by twenty-nine and divide by thirty-two; and one is
given thirteen Guernsey pennies for every English shilling.
is it tax-paying day or quarter day? Behold a long line of
islanders with wagons, and other islanders with paniers, for great part of
rents and taxes are payable in wheat and corn, in butter and eggs and chick
ens and eels; and contracts calling for chickens are likely iO spec.fy the mini
mUm Does S l h man Sto sell or devise his real estate? He is not a free agent.
The eldest son has the right indefeasible to the house and to part of tne land,
and the other children have the right to the remainder. If there are no chil
dren and the man makes a deed of sale, it must he piiD.icly announced and
anv one of kin as near as the seventh degree may stop the transaction and
purchase the land himself. One easily understands why land remains in the
same families for generations.
A man dies, leaving personal property. It is divided into as many shares,
nlns one as there are children; the eldest son selects two shares and the
other children choose one each in order of age—the original division, to insure
fairness haring been made by the youngest, who, penorce, takes the share
that is finally left.— Harper’s Magazine.
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A Mother’s Love,
Byjames Haiti Fricswell.
HHE heart of a child opens to a mother’s lave as a fiower opens
to the sun. The mind of a child is as wax in her touches, and
she can mould it how she chooses. She may demand higher
, N . education for women; but she must please to remember that
education and capacity are not one and the same thing; never
tlieless, she herself has the moulding of the future world. \V hat
1 we men do against the women—we who are hound down *-o cu:
desks tied to the miserable metiers of teaching, writing, painting, tailoring,
fetching, carrying, butchering, speculating, cheating, trading, chaffering, cheap
ening and money making—what can we do against a woman who has a
child’s heart in her hand, and the long days of infancy and childhood (and days
are so long then, and so short now to teach her children in! Our first prayer?
are taught us by' our mother’s lips; by her our first impulses are given us; lo!
her *ive us an impulse to honor women, to love her and to do justice to her
and "ho shall uproot it? It is in the most important years of our liven thal
woman's influence is most prevalent and most ifeit.
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Socialism Would
Exile Ability
By Henry Clews, Banker and Financial
Writer.
of socialism in the United States would tend to drive nil
Tour men of superior ability, skill and power out of tho country.
The strong would quickly seek other fields where the qualities
I^^ which they possess would have a free chance and an open field.
They would promptly desert a country that offered nothing better
than a dismal, doad level, with no means of achievement in
sight, and the nation would quickly fall into a state of K-’ferable
inertia of decay. Our forefathers came to this country to establish religious
freedom; they next fought for political freedom; afterward they saeriticed a
million lives for race freedom, and new we, their successors, with such glor-'
ious traditions behind us, must stand for industrial and social freedom For,
in the final analysis, socialism can stop at nothing short cf industrial slavery
end political bondage. Great achievements would he impossible under it.
New York City.—Bordered mate
rials are so beautiful just now and so
varied that every design which can
be utilized for them is doubly wel
come. Illustrated is a very novel and
attractive over waist that in this in
stance is made of bordered marquis
ette and worn over a lingerie guimpe.
It is made very simple,'and both the
inner edges and the edges of the
sleeves are straight, so that it suits
the bordered stuffs peculiarly well.
Trimming, however, always can be
substituted for the borders and the
blouse is by no means to be limited
in its usefulness. Such light weight
wools as marquisette and voile, such
pretty silks as pongee, crepe de chine,
messaline and all others of light
weight and also a whole host of sum
mer fabrics that are in demand for
immediate" wear would be appro
; priate, the trimming being applique
banding, embroidery or braiding as
liked. The guimpe is trimmed on in
dicated lines to give a distinctly novel
as well as attractive effect, and with
propriety can be made from lawn, ba
tiste, embroidered muslin, chiffon or
almost any other material of equally
light weight.
The guimpe is made simply with
front and back portions and with
sleeves that are shirred to form dou
ble puffs or frills. The over blouse is
made in two portions with big sleeves
in mandarin style. Each straight
portion is tucked over the shoulders
and is gathered at the waist line, so
giving soft and becoming folds. Both
guimpe and over blouse are closed
invisibly at the back.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is two and one
halt yards either twenty-one or twen
ty-seven or one and one-quarter yards
' forty-four inches wide for the over
blouse with live and three-quarter
yards of banding, two yards thirty
six inches wide with jevep yards of
insertion for the guimpe.
Lace Veils to Fancy.
One would indeed be hard to please
j who could not find a lace veil to her
I fancy.
The Popular Z.
When asked the origin of this pop
ular Z style a French dressmaker
speedily explained. “It is lucky,”
said she. “And it is likewise simple
and beautiful. We advise the Zin all
cases possible simply because it is
both quiet and elegant.” The Z, it
may be explained, decorates many of
the handsomest of imported gowns;
it is seen in lace designs; it is carried
out in many trimming schemes and
it if one of the most popular of the
season’s fads. I
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Chiffons and Mousselines in Paris.
In Paris chiffons and mousseline3
are used more than any other fabrics
for evening gowns.
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Juniper With Guimpe. _
Young girls find the over waists or
jumpers peculiarly well suited to
their needs and consequently have
hailed them with enthusiastic wel
come. Here is one that is just charm
ing as it is simple, and which can be
utilized for everything seasonable.
As illustrated the overblouse is made
of pale blue messaline with trimming
of cream lace edged with pale blue
velvet, while it is worn over a guimpe
of fine white muslin with yoke of em
broidery. There are, however, not
alone a great many thin silks this sea
son, and charming light weight wools
which make attractive waists of the
sort for young girls, but also a great
many cotton and silk and cotton as
well as linen materials w'hich can be
utilized in a similar way. For exam
ple, if the waist were made of brown
linen with skirt to match and the
trimming were of white with a scal
loped edge, there could be evolved a
most satisfactory and smart yet sim
ple costume while made as it Is from
silk, with lace it is an exceedingly
dressy creation.
The blouse is made with front and
backs. It is tucked at its upper edge
and the trimming band is arranged
over it, serving as a stay. The arm
holes are large and open In conform
ity with present styles, and straight
bands of trimming are used as \
finish. The coat is a simple one, mads
with front and backs that are faced
to form the yoke and with elbow
sleeves.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size—sixteen years—
is two and one-half yards twenty-one,
one and three-eighth yards thirty
two or forty-four with three yards of
lace and six yards of velvet ribbon,
one and one-half yards thirty-six
inches wide with three-eighth yard
of all-over embroidery for the
guimpe.
Black Velvet Streamers.
Longstreamersof broad black velvet
ribbon form the ends, or, as an alter
native, stoles of black tulle reaching
almost to the knees, are drawn to a
point and finished with immense tas
sels of jet and black beads.
White Utility Waist.
Unless for strict utility and a mat
ter of necessary economy .he useful
and comfortable white t rt waist i 3
no longer worn with tne black skirt
1 without a coat.