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CHAPTER XIH. CORTOTUKD.
t aKi, bu, Bam joan umm to jumsoii,
Mter his Informant ' Dad departed.
K6i . a ... ...
"That's how the wind blow, does it!
(Well, It remalni for ma to find out who
profits by North's death, and who by
the failure.. ' Certainly It Is neither
(Marion Stackhouse or Stella North."
The detective was not aware of Paul
North's little transaction In life lusor
tance, and It Is not probable that -it
would bare made much difference in
its opinion if he had' been,
i But John Lamm's attention was now
taken by the arriral of his assistant' In
company with a keen-eyed woman
about flye-and-thlrty, modestly dressed.
. "Ah, Miss Dallison! Good morning,"
aid the detective, cordially. "Are you
engaged to day?".
"Some U lnga on hand," she said, In
fc brisk, Witness-like way, "but if it's
Important "
1 Lamm Vaved his hand toward the
Boor of his inner office, and the lady
preceded -him into the small retiring
rcom which the detective preserved for
tils most important conferences.
"And now, BUI." said Lamm, turning
to his assistant, and speaking in a
low tone, "I want you to go to Swamp
Bcott. You know where the North
.Villa is. Tou will easily find it without
any obtrusive inquiries, you under
stand. At tai upper right-hand corner,
at the part of the house away from the
Water, is a square tower with gneon
blinds. If ft small white handkerchief
Is pieced over the sill, go to tBe serv
ants' door and deliver an express pack-'
age to' Mollle White. Take that re
ceipt along with you and have her
sign for It. She will leave what she
has for me in the book. See? If there
Is no signal by four o'clock, you may
come back."
When Detective Lamm had dis
patched his assistant, he locked the
door and saluted his female caller over
again. ,
, "Allow me to pay my respects to the
only female detective in America who
Is worth her bread and butter," he said.
How are you?" -.
"Is it because I'm so good or the rest
are so poor, Mr. Lamm?" she returned.
'Or because there isn't much money
: cheap? Or what?"
"No, Miss Dallison, I don't want you
. to work cheap," replied Lamm, becom
ing serious and drawing up a chair
near to her. "If you can do what I
want I shall willingly let you put your
prn price on it."
j "Well, what is it?" .
"I can't say yet Just what It will be
I hare taken the. liberty to make an
appointment at your house with
party unknown at seven this evening.
If the party puts in an appearance, you
will have the simple task of finding
out all he or she knows, while pre
tending to give him or her some in
formation which you do not possess,'
"Really," said Miss Dallison, sar
castically, "it Is very simple indeed."
"Unfortunately," twtid Lamm, "there
Is no other way that I can see to get
the Information necessary. I will teli
you how the case stands." And pro
ducing the copy of the Globe, the de
tective proceeded to explain his plans,
"You see," he said, in conclusion, "I
merely desire to have you personate
tho writer of the letter I wrote this
morning, and to draw out as much as
possible apput the purpose of publish
ing that advertisement from the person
Who turns up in answer to my note.
There are two things I, wish to And
cut the first Is, who Inserted the 'ad.,1
and tho second is, what is wanted of
Marie Molssot And, incidentally, if
I can find out who this Marie Molssot
s, why so much the better."
Miss Dallison' was exceedingly du
bious about the result, but as she was
willing to try, after arranging the mat
ter more in detail, Lamm made an ap
pointment at her house - for seven
o'clock, and bade her "good morning."
. "Good heavens!" muttered Lamm to
tumseir, wnen ne was alone, "this is
the first time I ever was employed in
a case where I was obliged to go to
such trouble to find out a few facts
hlch the man who employed me
could give me in five minutes, if he
only would. Is it because he doean't
care to, or because he doesn't dare to?
I'll find out, or my name isn't Lamm.
I always like to know what sort of a
nan I'm working for. It's convenient
sometimes."
With these reflections, Mr. Lamm be
took himself to other matters connect
ed With his puzzling and thus far un
satisfactory quest, for he really hadn't
cot far enough aUjng to be able to
form, a theory that positively seemed
reasonable to him. .- , '
ins assistant returned during 'the
aftetnoon. ''''";
"The white rag was out when' I got
there." ho .said, h "Flo I went to1 the
bouse at once and returned by the
next train.". '
Ho bauded Mr. Lamm a messsge
soalel In an envelope, which (relieved
cf Urn iiocullarltlns of Its orthography)
conl.v'nod Information as followu:
"f?tMo No-'h ". rim awn. Herbert
whs j'..o-t o'it In ii't-t n lt hi.' M.ks llrwwooci
l iil I ''a re op-n the dour. When Hhe saw
ti .! tlie rcom waa the- fainted tli-ad
, lira. Ctackh'iUse at-!dttl her. fclio
was awry fwle, fcut 414 ot ay ar.ythtn?.
Monett said aha hud 'detracted" look
about tha eyee but I couldn't one tier differ
ent than usual. Aa soon aa Mlaa Harwood
cme to, Ml Marlon (she has forbid any
t ua to call her Mrs ), tent Muflote to
Mr. Falrldne'a honse. Ha came over rljrht
war. They had a ion talk, which I did
not bear. Then Mr. Ketrldge took Aloflett
awajr with him to look for Stella. Sine
then Mlaa Marlon baa been In her room
walking; up and down. I don't believe aha
naa aai town onca. just keeps walking- all
tha time. Bbe roust bava walked tlx miles
Moffott eajg that Mr. Fetrldge aeat him to"
the polloa oDlva, but he didn't so himself.
Nobody knew when Mlaa Stella Went out.
una want up to bed very early, and wa
inouKin sne waa locked in her room to cry.
I hope this will be of service to find bar,
aa nobody could wish har any harm."
"P. 8. fibe la very different from bar sta
ler.
. An I mat woman Is a rough dia
mond," murmured Mr. Lamm, as he
conveyed the letter to his capacious
pocketbook. "A professional couldn'
have done much better I"
"But in the nam of wonders," his
thought continued, "what does It all
mean? If it had been Marlon I might
nave, understood It but this 17-year-
oia oaDyi There is some salient fea
ture la this case that I haven't yet
come across. Now, what is it? Where
shall I look for the missing link?"
Profoundly abstracted and reserved
John Lamm continued to be through
out the remainder of the day. All the
way to the house on Shawmut avenue,
whither he betook himself rather in ad
vance of the appointed time, he was
not in a condition to recognize ac
quaintances or know of what sort the
weather was. His mind was wholly
absorbed with the knotty problem that
the North case now presented. The
latest development, in it had aroused
a new train of suspicions.
Once inside the modest rooms of the
woman detective, however, Lamm
threw off the burden of speculation and
devoted all his energies toils lmme
dlate purpose. The windows of Miss
Dalllson's front chamber (her suite
was on the second floor) overlooked
the corner to which Lamm's letter of
the morning was designed to lure the
author of the mysterious want "ad
The detective reasoned that if the ad
Tertlser was as importunate as he ap
peared to be, he would surely call for
answers before night, and unless there
was some more tangible reply from an
other quarter, the decoy was sure to
bring him. And he was quite right.
Miss Dallison was already arrayed in
the bonnet with the red cherries, and
stood at his side looking with him be
' DON'T YOU DARE, 8IR," SHE CRIED,
STANDING WITH HER BACK
AGAINST THE DOOR.
twecn the half-idosed blinds toward
the opposite corner when the clocks
struck seven.
"Thornton Stackhouse, as I live!
exclaimed Lamm a moment later, "and
prompt to the minute! There is your
man." he said, quickly, pointing him
out, "Bring him here. I will be in
the next room as arranged. If he asks
you any questions, wait a bit before
answering. If the feather sways twice,
it means say 'yes;' if once, it means
'no.' If not at all, you are left to your
own discretion. You generally will
be."
John Lamm referred to a large pea
cock's feather ornamentally arranged
over a bookcase. He had connected It
with the adjoining room 'by a bit ot
silk thread.
A very few minutes thereafter Miss
Dallison and Thornton Stackhouse en
tered the front chamber. The man
took the seat offered to him, back to
the bookcase. If Miss Dallison had
been familiar with his personal ap
pearance, she could not have helped
observing that the lines of care In his
face had deepened heavily since the
day of his partner's death. He had the
sleepless, worn expression of an anx
ious watcher by the bedside of a se
rious illness; , .
"Well, well, woman," he said, ab
ruptly, In no very conciliatory tones,
"I trust after bringing me here you
don't disappoint me. - What do you
know of this Marie MoIssoU . Speak
quickly, for my engagements are press
ing." "Well, now, my dear sir," began Miss
Dallison, in a nervous, high-keyed
manner, very unlike her natural self.
"you'd- better understand me, to begin
ltn. I'm not going to betray, any con
fidences that I may have made with
any of them as I may be pardoned for
calling friends without I know the why
aud the wherefores of it."
"What do you mean?" asked Stack-
house, darkly. "Do you expect me to
tell you my business with her before 1
know anything about you? Yoo must
think me a fool. I offered a reward for
information, aud came here to got it;
not to give it." , . .
' "Very well, Indeed, elr, so you dtd,"
returned Miss Dallison, wjth a very
shrewd air of suspicion, "Bn you
have to sutiafy me that you don't menu
no hnrm to a body, for f'll not t-p'-alt a
vii tj UJura uuy friond r.f mlaa. Sj
tha-rs just what yon and I have gt
to settle before we gt sbead." -
"Well, in the first place," said Stack
house, changing his tactics, "suppose
w settle whether you 'have any In
formation about the person, that
want Describe the woman you refer
tor
"un, sin I'm no good that way,
She was about 27, dark, quite dark
well, medium height, I should say
and what I call reasonably good-look
ing."
"Ah! and what is she doing for a liv
ing?"
"Oh, there's where I can't answer,
yon see, until I find out why you want
to know."
Stackhouse made an Impatient ges
ture.
. "Has this woman you speak of been
in Boston lately?"
The feather swayed twice.
"I see no harm In saying 'yes' to that
sir. No barm. But more I won't say.
You see, sir, circumstances are pecul
iar. She confided me that clrcum
stances are peculiar.
"You mean to say, don't you, that
she was here for private purposes, and
that she wanted hef presence here kept
a secret?"
"I shouldn't wonder."
U"Have you known this woman long?"
rrk. m . ,
i uw learner swayed twice.
"A good many years, sir."
"And under that name all the time?1
"I decline to state what names she
has gone under," said the woman, with
considerable asperity. "You may be
one of them detective fellers. How do
I know? Coming up here to pump evi
dences out of a poor woman as has
herself to look after. I know fast
enough I know the woman you want
I knew it the minute I read that in the
paper. But I ain't going to be caught
in no trap, nor I ain't going to get into
no trouble. So there's how the land
lays, and you may as well know it first
as last"
Stackhouse seemed to be sitting on
pins and needles.
"Hang it!" he cried. "Don't be
fool! I have no wish to harm her.
nor you, either. I only wish to see
her; that's all to talk with her."
"Well?"
"Is she In Boston?"
"That I decline to say, sir."
"Ah!" said Stackhouse, coming to his
feet. "I see she is, or you wouldn't be
so cunning about it. Now, where is
she? In this house? Tell the truth.
Didn't she herself send you to answer
that advertisement? As a matter of
fact, isn't she listening to this very
conversation?
He made a sudden movement toward
the half -open door behind which Lamm
stood. But the woman waa quicker
than he was, and she Intercepted him,
"Don't you dare, sir!" she cried
Standing with her back against the
door. "She may be and she may tot
be; but if you attempt to go Into that
room, I'll scream for help."
"Ah!" said Stackhouse, significantly,
as I. thought. You are too smart,
woman. You have betrayed yourself.
"Well, then," said the woman, dog
gedly, "you can't see her; that's all."
Oh; that's what she told you to say,
is It?"
Never mind. You can't see her,
If you've got any message for her.
write it, and I'll see that she gets it,
and she will reply by mail. You can't
see her. You ought to be ashamed to
try to, arter treating her as you have."
This sole real bit of information which
Miss Dallison possessed outside of the
patent facts of the advertisement de
livered at this opportune time, must
nave dissipated any doubts still lin
gering In Stackhouse's mind.
"Very well," he said, in an altered
tone, "I will write to her." He turned
toward the outer door, and Miss Dal-
Hon followed him. He had actually
opened the door to pass into the entry,
and she was quite off her guard, when,
with a quick spring, he leaped back
into the room, thrusting her aside, f.nd
before she could prevent him, had
flung wide open the door to, the ad
joining chamber.
But John Lamm was too old a bird
to be caught In any such trap. At the
first intimation of Stackhouse's sus
picion he had taken his departure.
The room was empty!
CHAPTER XIV.
MR.
LAMM COUGHS BEHIND HIS
HAND.
"Slipped through your fingers again,
didn't she?"
If the mocking face of Miss Dallison
could be depended upon, that business
like woman seemed to enjoy the dis
comfiture and anger of her victim very
keenly. She took up her hat, shook the
dust from the deceiving cherries
poised it a moment in her hand, and
then said:
"Well?"
Mr. Stackhouse acknowledged his de
feat with a very grim sort of smile.
"You're a clever pair, you two," he
said, shortly. "Where's paper and
ink? Have you got such things in this
pantomime-trap of a house?" looking
with a scowl around the room he had
found empty.
"Ah! I thought you'd turn sensible
after awhile," rejoined Miss Dallison,
briskly producing writing materials
from the caverns of what a casual vis
itor would have pronounced a ward
robe, but which was much more a
very arsenal of belongings, some cu
rious for their oddity, somo common
place enough, but all designed for in-
tant use, when wanted Toy this ex
tremely wide-awake woman.
Mr. Stackhonse did not find the flow
of ideas quite to his liking. He began
nd tore up two lottors, carefully be
stowing the fragments in bis watch
pocket Flnully be. seemed to find au
nsplrallou, end his pen went rapidly
over tho paper, while Miss Dallison
perused the pata of the 1 mornliiR's
Globe with every enpoaraneo of lively
interest
There!' the visitor sold M IvU.
;Ul
the letter. "Oiva ti. to Maria kola
sot, and mind you tell her before shi
opens It that she will do well to keen
It entirely to herself."
"The lady knows what she Is about,'1
was Miss Dallison s response.
"I hope she does," was Mr. Stack
house's rejoinder, as he took his hat,
and, without any ceremonious words ol
adieu, proceeded downtown.
Wherever he went, or whatever "sur
cease from care" he may bava sought
in any quarter, one thing la certain
he did not make Immediate claim upon
the attention of Detective Lamm.
But shortly after his departure, thai
busy gentleman bad the satisfaction ot
rejoining the triumphant Miss Dallison
and of reading tha following enig
matical epistle:
"Marie: Your part In the conspiracy ta
bring about my ruin, which was carried out
on the 17th of this present June, Is perfectly
well known to me. I make no foolish com
plaints. You have accomplished your re
venge. My name la clouded with sua
plclon. My hopea of fortune are destroyed.
Let ma bava fra'nk, fair treatment now,
such as a victor can well afford' to give a
vanquished man; and whatever I can aava
from the wreck of North & Btackhouss
shall ba yours. I have not Torgotten the
old days at Lake Fontchartraln. I am
aware that I am not entitled to aak for
mercy. But by tha same means that you
have done tha mischief you can undo It.
Will you not? The reward will be enough
to satisfy your conscience. I cannot speak
mora definitely upon paper. I must sea
you In person, and have a talk with you
about this. Even If you refuse meet ma
face to face. You do not know how much
I may aay to you, "T. a."
Detective Lamm was still puzzling
In a highly-excited frame of mind ovei
this letter, when Tuesdjr afternoon
came.
"I wish I bad Thomas here to talk
It over," was his uBspokcn thought ai
he gave his office chair a twirl. "When
is the man all this while?" he said
aloud.
Hardly were the words out of his
mouth when a well-known knock was
beard. Lamm's face brightened, and
brlghteaed still more when he admit
ted to fils little room of counsel a mo
ment later Mr. Kingman F. Thomas.
To Be Continued.
MIXED HUSBANDRY.
Indications That in the Years to Come
It Will Be the Host
Profitable.
During the last half century the lit
of the farmer has been a constant
whirl of evolution. With all the new
comforts and conveniences have come
new cares, responsibilities and ex
penses. To meet this ever-increasing
weight of responsibility is the farmer's
constant effort
If ' the planter crops all available
lands with cotton in the most scIentiDf
manner, will the cotton market Justlf;
the procedure? If every acre in thf
corn belt is exploited solely in the
interests of this giant grass plant wtl
the demand for raw corn recompense
the owner or user of such lands at their
constantly increasing market value? It
grain selling is to continue the chlet
revenue of these lands, will not a sort
of trust specialism gradually swallow
up the small farmer, and will not the
corporation own and farm under one
management the 6.000-acre sweet
corn canning establishment? Will
not the breakfast food people grow their
own brand of oats, the cornmeal syndi
cate their favorite kind of white corn.
and so on through the list? Or will
the farms be reduced in average acre
age and real old-world mixed husbandry
take the place of the present disposition
toward loading me eggs all in one
basket? asks the Prairie Farmer.
Combined grain growing with cot
ton production or grain growing with
stock feeding, is after all but the
threshold over which we will finally
step some bright day In the future Into
our real inheritance when In every
mantei win ue round 1 our own Uome
brand of cured meats, dairy pfhluci
and preserved fruits the real mi!5 ar!
honey of the farm evidencing tbV
the tiller of the soil has abundant!.
provided for his own and has to spare.
"GENTLEMAN" AND "LADY."
Title Not Essential to the Man, But
Almost Invariably Indispen
sable to the Woman.
As to the eubtle question of "gen
tleman," "lady." "man" and "woman,"
there is a difference (writes a corre
spondent) between the sexes, says the
London Chronicle. A duke must al
ways be a man, unless he be, for the
purpose of conversation, a "gentle
man," with great emphasis of voice.
Without emphasis, every man of gen.
tleman's rank is a "man"'always and
in every social circumstance.
But with women it is entirely a mat
ter of the adjective. Without an ad
jective a woman is a "lady." Who
ever asked, on hearing that a friend
was to marry: "Who Is the woman?"
Nor do we say that we met a woman
at dinner who told us so and so. But
Introduce the adjective, and the "lady"
is at once a pretty woman, a well
dressed woman, a dull woman.
The' "man" and the "fientleman"
difficulty waa responsible recently for
an unintentional aspersion upon a
youthful . mala undergraduate friend
by a young la that is to say, a girl.
He was at the end ot his teens, not
quite arrived at man's estate. That
was what she Intended to convey to a
stranger who Lad heard his name
mentioned and Inquired as to his ap
proximate ago. But as she was a po
lite young girl, what sire said was:
O, he's not quite a gentleman."
Those Dear Girls. '
Adah Miss Uglymtigs says she
wants no man to call on her while
arttally under the Influence of liquor.
Kan I don t blamo. h':r. A man
only partially under the iuflucni'a of
quor would .hut d!y be likely to pro-
as to her. LouUvUU Cuui-.'vr-Jour-
THE UNITED FAMILY
AFFECTION SO DEEP AND TBUE
XT LASTS A LIFETIME.
I
Member of Clannish Families Al
ways Beady to Help One Another
Burdens Are Often Unjustly
Born by Unselfish Members
Daughters Make Nobis Ba orifices
That Are Unappreciated No
Bickering or Fault - Finding
Among Members of a United
Family Family Pride Keeps
k Many a Name Free from Stain.
BY MARGARET E. GANGSTER.
"The Birches are such a united fam
Hyl They seem to have a good times
among themselves, and to depend very
little on tha outside world." The re
mark was descriptive of a family
which had so large a connection that
it might almost be called a clan. You
know bow it Is in some localities,
Many years ago the traditional three
brothers came sailing over the great
ocean, and established themselves on
Long Island or In Otsego county, or
drifted out in prairie schooners to the
west or encamped in the south
Hence, there Is in one place a great
settlement of Browns, In another of
Whites, in another of Grays. Up hill
and down in adjacent parishes the
couslnhood resides, and the outbranch
Ing of the family to remoter regions
starts from that point so that when
there are family rallylngs, old and
young, distant and near, converge to
the old ground and the old homestead,
The tie of blood is always strong, but
there are tribes of David and of
Jonathan, where the tribal Instinct Is
relatively more vigorous than in
tribes, let us say, of Benjamin and
of Theodore, who have the nomadic
drop more deeply coloring their lives.
vhen we come to a united house
hold, we mean by it one where aftec
tion Is deep and true, where it is a
joy to make concessions and sacrifices,
and where one stands steadfastly be
side the other through thick and thin,
There are such homes. In them broth
ers and sisters love ore another with
a devotion that lasts to the latest
hour of life. If one In the family
Is. weak or erring, the others close
around him like a wall nnd defend
him from adverse criticism, shield
mm if tuey can from the conse
quences of his misdemeanors, and
count no self-denial too great if they
can uplift him and help him over his
bard place.
It Is not unusual in a united fam
lly for the burden to press too heavily
on some one whose Ideal of the home
1b so lofty that he cannot bear to have
anyone belonging to it suffer a mo
ment's uneasiness. One brother per
haps forges ahead, gets on iu the
world and is what is called successful
He makes his mark. He becomes con
spicuous in finance, in politics, or in
some walk of life which he is fitted
for by reason of native talent or
strenuous endeavor. The rest of the
family lean on this one. The world
13 apt to be pretty evenly divided into
those who lift and those who lean.
The eminently successful member of
the family is expected to carry the
rest, and he often does It without a
single note of complaint.
In the "old days, before women were
so generally self-supporting, it was
not extraordinary to see a number of
brothers and sisters growing old to
gether, all unmarried, because no one
was willing - to diminish the family
income by withdrawing his share from
the common stock. Brothers do not so
often in these days remain single that
they may maintain spinster Bisters in
comfort, nor do the sisters wish it
They feel entirely able to take cara
of themselves, and it is decidedly
their preference to be independent.
There seemed no little selfishness in
the demand that man or woman should
live a solitary life, for the sake of
others, and yet there was in it often a
nobility greater than is illustrated in
the modern fashion of everyone for
himself. Many a daughter has put
aside her own hope of individual ease
and of happy marriage for the sake
of a mother whom she could not leave,
and with whom she would not burden
a husband. The mother has lived on
contentedly accepting a costly sacrifice
which she has undervalued because its
magnitude never entered into the
scope of her imagination.
In one of the most united families
within the circle of my acquaintance
there occurred something very like a
tragedy when a girl year after year
refused to marry her betrothed be
cause she would not desert her wid
owed mother and her younger sisters.
Ten years slipped away as swiftly and
silently as suowflakes that fall in the
Bight The lover waa patient, but
gradually the romance vanished and
he ceased to regard with worship a
being whom he saw very often in an
unbecoming print gown, with a
gingham apron, drudging, drudging,
growing faded and wan, with creases
upon the forehead, and puckers about
the eyes. By and by a pretty younger j
sister came borne from 6cbool in the
lissome grace and bewitching charm
of Sweet and Twenty; her eyes were
free from care, ber cheek had the
bloom of the peach, her hair was thick
and brown, she was what Bertha had
been ton years ago. John . promptly
forsook Bertha 'and furtively courted
r.lsie, and one rooming Elsie 6tepped
Into his- waiting buggy and the two
went away and were married, after
a-t engagement of a single day. Poor
Btfrtha. a martyr and a saint, gro-jr old
tvi aa.tilsf a:ij after awhile, when
rr rnctlu-r. was dead; took, -care of
.',.r-:.'s.'.il1dreu.
A united family may make such a
tragedy possible. Not because of tha
family union, but because human na
ture is mocb too ready to trample
down those of us who do not remem
ber that we owe a duty to ourselves aa
well as to our kindred.
a
So far as practicable every family
should stand for something in the
community.- A common aim is desir
able because, as the old fable tells us,
while you may easily break each sep
arate stick In a bundle, you cannot
easily break the bundle Itself.
A family should stand together for
loyalty to whatever is best Loyalty
to virtue, to citizenship, to honor, to
the flag, should be Inculcated as a fam
ily trait la our history there ara
family names which shine from one
generation to another, with undimin
ished luster. The Quincys, the Adams,
the Hales, the Everetts, the Abbotts,
the Lees, the Grants, the Roosevelts,
carry on from one era to the next the
traditions of Integrity, of altruism and
of high ambition which have been
their distinguishing . characteristics
from the first Our president is versa
tile, straightforward, manly and pub
lic spirited, qualities which have de
scended to him from father and grand
father, and which, let us hope, will be
bequeathed to his children after him.
In the commonplace dally life of the
home the united family avoids bicker
ing, fault-finding, envy, jealousy and
tho malignant brood which follow in
their train. They do not talk about
one another to outsiders. There la s
quaint proverb to the effect that soiled '
linen Is best washed at home.
No family with the slightest claim
to decency airs its grievances before
the world, or goes about retailing tha
infirmities or the sins of those who
bear its name. If the family be large,
there is every reason to expect that
somebody in It may fall short of the
family standard. There is all the
more reason, this being the case, to
throw the mantle of charity over the
unfortunate and to keep silent about
what cannot be helped. Family pride
Is often carried to excess and it may
make us a laughing stock to out
neighbors, particularly if the family
honors are all in the past, and the
present does nothing to Justify it.
A certain family in the south lived
contentedly on the community accept
ing gifts of food and clothing which
were always delicately tendered, and
refusing to do a stroke of work, be
cause of Its blue blood. The blue
blood that turns people Into mendi
cants is a pitiably degenerate stream,
but family pride is a good thing
when it keeps stainless the family
name, when it maintains high ethical
standards, when In all its annals there
are chivalrous men and pure women
who make the world a better place by
their noble living.
(Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
A POSTAL-CARD STAND.
Made of Stiff Cardboard Covered with
Green Art Serge and Edged with
Green Cording.
This stand is constructed very much
on the same principle as a photograph
frame, but with this difference, that it
has a pocket in front that is capable
o holding post-cards. It should be In
size about VA Inches high by 6&
inches long, and consists of a piece of
stout .cardboard or thin wood covered
POSTjEJCAPiiQ
RECEPTACLE FOR TOST-CARDS.
with dark green art serge, and edged
with a cording, an extra piece of ma
terial in front forming the pocket end
this may be lined Inside with silk. The
words "post-cards" are worked In silk.
and two little flower designs fill tnfe
space in either side. It is supported
at the back in the same manner as aa
ordinary photograph frame with a
piece of stout cardboard (this for ap
pearance sake may be covered with,
colored paper) hinged on with a pleca
of ciota glued on to the back of tha
stand and the top of the support
To Remove Dandruff.
By carefully brushing out the tinzla
at night it will not harm the hair to
mat it In arranging it each day. If
the dandruff is not very plentiful it
may be removed by the following lo
tion: Vinegar of cantharides. one-hair
ounce; eau de cologne, one ounce:
rose water one ounce. Brush the hair
carefully and apply to the scaln. Hair
Tonic Tincture of cantharides, threa
ounces: olive oil. one-half ounce- nil
of rosemary, one-half ounce; bay rum,
six ounces.
For Falling Eyebrows.
Tincture of rosemary, five crams:
tincture of cantharides, one gram; alco
holate de Florovantl fa French tniir
water), 50 grama; spirits of camphor, 50
grams. Fine cologne water can be sub
stituted for the French. Apply with a
very fine brush, and be careful not to
eo bevond the line of the ivahmn
Anvthins anollcd to the brow-i must h
used delicately and in minute propor
tions, you ao not want to stimulate;
wide, heavy brows, but narrow, arched
lines.
A Bod Scarf.
A scarf of red was stunning wltb
the prettiest walking suit of moleskin
pray. Red wingi set off the graceful
little bat of moleskin gray, an.1 when
rcarf and coat anl bat weve eff that
t;ny bow of scarlet velvet n'.m'3j tCi
Uio throut.