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6 . J« I'-J CHAPERON PET DOGS NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN DISCOVERED BY SOCIETY Some cf Them Earn as Much as $75 a Month Taking the Precious Canines of Wea'Th" Women Out for an Air ing in the Parks. New York has discovered a new oc cupation for women which, if not dig nified, is at least remunerative. And it Is not onerous. Chaperoning pet dogs explains perhaps as succinctly as any thing the nature of this new occupa tion. The vogm of toy terriers has created a demand for capable women who will tuke those liny pets, beloved of my 1.-aly and despised by my lord, for their doily airing. Social engagements of ten prevent New York society women from bestowing on their pets the at tention they drserve. and New York dog doctors have declared that it is nol enough that Fido drive out in state \vjth n:y lady He must exercise his diminutive legs in good, stiff pedes trian jaunt.?. A Precious Trust. So, having found a nurse for her baby, the Xow York society woman Is now lookinz for a chaperon for her dog. The woman who is entrusted with the responsible position must be both capable and trustworthy. She must not stand and talk with the park policeman while her little charge pokes his nose under carriage wheels or ex amines automobiles in doggish curi osity. The dog she chaperons repre sents a lergre amount of money and this, combined with the affection his lQjstrpss lavishes upon him, makes him a very precious trust indeed. The dog chsp^ror must consider both herself and her charge seriously. A number of women in New York City have worked up a nice business in this particular line. They have a num ber of clients amongst whom their time i 3 divided, each one paying a good round sum to the woman who takes lido for his exercise and restores him to his mistress safe and sound. One woman who is er.gaged in this profes sion declares she makes $75 a month BiiT.ply by superintending the daily outing of six pets of wealthy New York women. SOCIAL. Mrs. W. P. Jewett, of Holly avenue, gave a luncheon yesterday in honor of Mrs. Charles Fairbanks, of Indianapo lis, president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Jewett was formerly vice president general for Minnesota, and has been prominent in D. A. R. work for a num ber of years. The guests included the following: Mrs. Franklin Rising, of Winona, re gent for Minnesota; Mrs. D. A. Mon fort, former regent for Minnesi^a; Mrs. D. S. B. Johnston, regent of Na than Hale chapter; Mrs. E. R. San ford, regent of St. Paul chapter; Miss Beaumont, regent of Distaff chapter; Mrs. James Beals and Mrs. Forbes. The decorations were very appropri ate, being carried out entirely in red, "White and blue. A bouquet of red salvia formed the centerpiece for the table and Bride roses tied with blue ribbons were the favors. Later in the afternoon Mrs. W. M. Liggett, with whom Mrs. Fairbanks has been stopping during her stay in St. Paul, gave an informal -reception for her and Daughters in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mrs. Liggett was as sisted in receiving by Mrs. H. B. W. Schuette. Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Wilkes, of the Aberdeen, will give a dinner Fri day at the Minnesota club for Mrs. Pierre Wibaux, of Paris. • • • Mrs. James McClure, of Dayton ave nue, will give a reception this after noon at her home. The hours are from I until 6 o'clock. Mrs. William Constans and Miss Constans will give a tea this afternoon to introduce Miss Elsie Conßtans, at their home on Summit avenue. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Drake, of 610 Temperance street, the marriage of their daughter, Ida May, to Herman Behling. of Water town, Wis., and their thirty-ninth wedding anniversary were celebrated last week. Miss Drake was gowned in a hand some costume of pineapple batiste, made over white silk. The maid of honor, Miss Pamely Drake, wore a pink silk frock, and Miss Atilda Hol den and Miss Rilla Nixon, of Minne apolis, bridesmaids, wore dainty pink frocks. W. Wallace Drake was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Behling have gone East and will be at home after Nov. 16 at 104 York street CLUBS AND CHARITIES. The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Luke's Parish held a sewing meeting yester day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Timothy Foley, on Summit avenue. The society is preparing for a Christmas Bale of fancy articles. Mrs. Denis Murphy, of Fairmount avenue, will en tertain the clube next Monday. The Eradelphian club will meet this afternoon at the home of Mrs. George A. Doran, on Prescott street. Mrs. Charles Shanley, of the Colon nade, entertained the Social Sixteen club yesterday afternoon at euchre. Favors were won by Mrs. William Doran, Mrs. Daniel Hickey and Mrs. Lewis Shepley. The hostess was as- Bisted by Miss May Wheeler. Mrs Neil Silke, of Pleasant avenue, will entertain the club at its next meeting. The Young Men's Club of the First Baptist Church gave the first of a win ter series of entertainments last even lng in the parlors of the church. Mayflower Camp No. 2565, Royal Neighbors, gave a dancing party lasl night for members of the lodge at Odd Fellows' hall. Those In charges were Mesdames Bamford, Fick, Carbon Doorley and Burnham. The annual rally social of tke Cen tral Park M. E. Sunday school will be held this evening in the parlors of the church. The evening's entertainment will consist largely of a programme. A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever. ||R. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL '"CREAK, OR MAGIOALBEAUTIFIER. Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckle*, Moth Patches. Bash and Skin diseases, and every blemish on beauty and ■ ■■•■w' defies detection. It ha« stood £' ° £&*r\lhs. l he test of 84r»ars. ai<d Is so rt M? MzT^^ir harmless we taste it to be sure t£l& f»IS?C-!» /^l^? cePtnoooun'ter »fis Wf *$ S» WCSV felt or similar Bali Iff «Jj S^s arno- ?r- *•• A ■ 9?*. «■ gff Jtvr 88yr««*ldtoalady 3*i "*f •w*/ - j§| of the hautton (a E5 >* T^. Jri patient) i "A*you B3 x^* * 'I / !»'l!ei will nsa Kg -^ <£ ■ vS» V them, I recommend AM en yJfiS V^Oourand'i Cream' >»j2fc^-**^»«''£Er/T • \ m tho least harm ft*jSv^g£yy) V"1 of *» the skin /y^V»'?aJ>xi r JPropwaUons.".-. For I - /^-V^r il^^J*»!« by*!', druggists I. ' / | 5% \ ■ '■* .". it d <ancy-eoods \S *\jf*N s . - ~ <lealw« In the v. S^ VS3O. T,HOr*XKß»ftraa>'f.«7 Canadt *:il Kuropo. of children's games and refreshments. Mrs. Benjamin Longley, Mrs. J. C. Larkin, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. F. E. Luley had charge of the programe. The Home Missionary Society of the House of Hope Church will hold a meeting this afternoon in the parlors of the Church. The Ladies' Aid Society of the People's Church will hold a silver tea this afternoon at the home of Mrs. John A. Swehson, on Sumit avenue. Mrs. M. O. Dodge, of Holly avenue, SUIT OF BROWN VELOUR. . - . ■ - , t > - -'V '"'' ■'■■*■'■"■ (a S^rOßStife^^feJsi^^MPiffiSßßE ''■'>- - ' "''"2 •;■■'■• '■•' ■"" ■" ■:■.■..■ ■..:.■. . . ■ .■ ■ ■ .■. . . ■ I*" •' - •*' •" '•* ' •*"•*'' •*' •*": ••" "^ ■*' •'' f-'.-V■■. :>::-:'.;'^:' -.: :v^ ':'■•>' ''■:'';'.- Stunning walking costume of brown velour, figured with white. The bands of cords and rings are of brown and white silk. The front is trimmed with bands of white silk, richly embroidered in Persian colorings. The skirt is cut with wide foot flare. The blouse waist has a double, close-fitting, basque. will entertain the members of the Lin coln club this afternoon at euchre. Mrs. J. J. Roper, of the Portland, en tertained the members of the Dayton's Bluff History class yesterday after noon. PERSONAL. Mr. E. McGlaughlin, of Milwaukee, who was a guest of Mrs. Y. N. Savard during the past week, has returned to her home. Miss Mac Savard, of 585 Mississippi street, will leave for Florida Oct. 28 to spend the winter. Miss Margaret Middleton, of New York, who was the guest of Miss Brink, of Bates avenue, last week, has return ed to her home. Mrs. Webb, of Nelson avenue, who has been spending some time in Omaha, will return home this week. Mrs. O. M. Fullington, of Prospect terrace, will leave this week to spend the winter in California. Miss Viva McMillan has gone to Du luth for a short visit! Mr. and Mrs. George Langford, New Jersey, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Augustine, of Grand avenue. Miss Celia Schuab, of Thirteenth street, has gone to Chicago for a brief stay. Mrs. Bruce Kremer, of Butte, Mont., is spending a month with Mrs. Mur ray, of Holly avenue. Mrs. Kremer will visit Louisville and New York before returning to Butte. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramsey, of Lake Charles, La., are visiting friends and relatives in St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bramhall, of Iglehart street, will leave soon to spend the winter traveling throughout California, the South and East. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, of New York, who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rollins, of Marshall avenue, have returned to their home.. Former St. Paul Girl Weds. The announcement of the marriage of Miss Helen Graves Boyce and Mr. Glenn Van Doran MacMillan, which took place last Wednesday in Cedar Rapids. lowa, will interest a number of St. Paul people, for Miss Boyce for merly lived in this city and has a large number of friends here. Mrs. D. F. Vail, of Dayton avenue, an aunt of the bride, went down for the ceremony, which was performed in the Grace Episcopal church, of Cedar Rapids. The bride wa? attended by Miss Irene Newman, Miss Leah Buchanan and Miss Clura Taylor as bridesmaids. Miss Viva .MacMillan was maid of honor. The best man was Ernest Gates and the ushers were Ralph Ellis and Charles Knox. Rev. Dr. Thomas Gr^cn. rector of Grace church, per formed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. MacMillan will reside in Cedar Rapids. Men's Club Will Entertain. A musicale and social hop under the auspices of the Men's Club of St. Pe ter's Church will be given Thursday evening at S o'clock in Bowlby hall. The programme is as follows: Wood- men quartette, selected; piano solo, "Wedding 3j;iy," Grieg, Miss Mazie Willard; song, "Plains of Peace," Bar nnrd, Miss Pearl Emerson; quartette s-elected; piano solo, "Grand Polka de Concert," I-.arllett, Miss May Wright; song, sWecteo, Mr. Howard Young violin solo. "Ninth Concerto," D. Be* THE St. PAUL GLOBE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2l t 1902. niot, Miss .Carrie Aiton and Miss May Wright, accompanist; . Quartette, se lected. • '.; - ". ; -I ; WOMEN'S FADS AND FANCIES. Co-eds of the University of Chicago are busy Just now competing for the prize offered for the best "musical yell." The discordant shouts of the rooters at the football game have roused the members of the Woman's union to ac tion, and on Nov. 1 ?10 will be awarded for the best idea. Mme. Loubet, wife of the French president, believes in co-education. Re cently at a society of French mothers she brought down upon her head severe criticism in advocating American meth ods in training girls. With Filipino women it is the custom to starch everything white, and a nurse who has recently returned from Manila describes the first sheets laun dered for the hosnital as "fearful and wonderful." The French have many pretty con- PICTURE PUZZLE. - * A■■ '.. -""."""" -■- ■■ >r-—^«f" -. '-2 ■ **->**^^^——— —: ■ = -——— •■ •■ •"■" ' ■-' Do you see the two Arctic explorers? Solution for Sunday's puzzle: The general is on' extreme right under horse's mane, his aide-de-camp on left of officer on horseback. ceits in handkerchiefs, and a clubwom an has received a aainty gift in this line from a friend just returned from Paris. The box contains seven deli catel" tinted, hemstitched handker chiefs of the finest linen lawn —a dif ferent color for every day in the week. In the corners the names of the days, in French, are beautifully embroidered. :— We guarantee our French Dye Clean ind on ladies' garments. City Dye House, 420 Wabasha. ♦ Something In It. . : "Maria," asked the husband and father, "how did you cure Bertha of. her infatua tion for young Kadger?" >\. -:'~. Jii:-:i . "By suggestion," replied the '. wife and mother. :•.-". ,: ;. ... / . _ "Suggestion?" . ' : .. .•>:••." "Yes; I suggested that she look him up in Bradstreet's."— : Tribune. ;:. I QRABIT I BILL BOARD INDECENCY f- 5 WHITE I RJBBbNERS PROTEST AGAINST THE DISPLAY ■ ■ - ■'*■■> "-■*■£■' * *'*.* X 'f*\'- ■:~--<rv: •"■'>*; > ■ >'-•"■• ■-'-.■ **'-,v >'■ Fourth Day's Session of the National W. C. T. U. Convention Begins With Service for Friends Who Have Died During the Year. PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 20.—A serv ice in memory of members and friends who have died during the year was a touching feature of the fourth day's session of the National W. C. T. U. convention. Reports of superintendent also were presented. During the forenoon ten-minute re ports were made by seven superin tendents. Mrs. Emile D. Martin, of New York, reported for the depart ment of literature and art. Mrs. Martin said there was no more hopeful sign on the horizon of the or ganization than that they have gained the influence of public sentiment. The press reflects public sentiment, and during the past year the journals of the country have given larger space to purity and temperance. Mrs. Martin asks for the adoption of a resolution passed by the New York county W. C. T. U., as follows: "Resolved, That the innocence of youth, the purity of middle age and the sanctity of old age are alike shock ed and degraded by illustrations of the female figure, unclothed, upon bill boards and la other public places; we will use every proper means by striv ing to awaken public sentiment, by ap peals to city or state authorities and by legal means,, if need be, to have this menace; to public morals and stumbling block to clean manhood and womanhood This resolution to be submitted to all the woman's clubs and societies, asking their ap proval and indorsement of the same, and invitingr their co-operation in the Mrs. Martin also urged the adoption of Miss Helen Miller Gould's resolu tion, "to regiilafce the midway dance at the St. Louis world's fair," which, she said, has been adopted by the women managers, as fojlows: "That it is 4 the earnest desire of the National Woman's Christian Temper ance Union -J.hat : there be no indecent dances or improper exhibits in the midway during ihe World's fair at St. Louis, and that the Exposition com pany be urged to use the utmost care in awarding concessions for the shows, in order that there be no objectiona ble features." She said: "We take courage in the fact that the comptroller of the treas ury has decided that the appropriation of $5,000,000 for the exposition would be withheld unless the contract to close the gates to visitors on Sunday during the whole duration of the #a4r is executed." There have been 250,000 pages of lit erature printed and distributed free of cost during the year. Mrs. Mary F. Lovell, of Pennsylva nia, for the department of mercy, said: "A department that makes its chief aim to systematically implant the hu mane idea in the mind of the human race deserves success. "California has enacted a, state law during: the year requiring humane ed ucation in the public schools. In Col orado the same has been done, and credit is frankly given to the W. C. T. U. "Nebraska adopted at its last state convention resolutions to be present ed to its incoming legislature, protest ing against trap-shooting and de nouncing it as brutal and demoraliz ing." Mrs. Margaret D. Ellis, o£ New Jer sey, for the department of legislation, reviewed the work of U*S year. The following resolution was passed: "Whereas, Almost all crime contains the element oiLeruelty; and, "Whereas, The systematic teaching of the law of kindness to every living creature has proved to be a sure pre ventive of crime;, therefore, "Resolved, That we recognize the fundamental need of such teaching and earnestly recommend it to all edu cators." Helpful Hints for Housewives. Although "The American Colored Waiter" ie Intended as a handbook for hotel waiters, there are many dia grams, hints for serving and recipes for making which the average woman who oversees the affairs of her house hold will find useful. Waiting on table is an art—-ja hamble, domestic art per haps, but one lhat ads to the comfort of the plainest meal when rightly per formed, and may spoil a princely din ner when bungled. John B. Goins, the author of ( this little manual, has com-, pressed much, valuable information between his modest covers. Mr. Goins gives the following suggestions for the service of fish: With raw oysters serve horseradish, sliced lemon, tabasco sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, catsup and crackers. With oyster stew serve pickles, cold slaw, bread, butter, catsup, salt and pepper. With steamed clams serve drawn butter, salt and pepper. With steamed oysters serve drawn butter, crackers, lemon, salt and pep per. With scallops serve bread, butter, pickles, salt and pepper. With broiled live lobster serve drawn butter, English mustard and Worcestershire sauce. Boiled lobster same as broiled live lobster. The author seems to entertain pro- nouneed Ideas regarding the culinary tastes of "English or French persons." Of the making of tea for "English or Jrench persons" he says: "It must be made very strong." Mustard also re ceives a special direction when intend ed for the tongue of "English or French persons." Claret, according to Mr. Goins, should be served at 60 de grees; sauterne at 50; sherry at from 45 to 50 (and from decanter); cham pagne at from 33 to 35 degrees; bot tled beer, 40 degrees; apollinaris, 45 degrees. For French dressing for one person Mr. Goina gives the following recipe: One-half teaspoonful salt, one-quar ter teaspoonful black pepper and two tablespoonfuls olive oil. Mix until salt and pepper are incorporated. Add three tablespoonfuls vinegar. Serve. Industrial Home in Mexico. A Florence Crittenden industrial school and a day nursery have lately b3en established in Mexico under the personal patronage of Mme. Diaz, the wife tit President Diaz. The organiza tion of both of these is a direct result of the work of Mrs. Kate Waller Bar rett, general superintendent .of the National Florence Crittenden mission, who has just returned from a three months' visit to that country. The especial object of Mrs. Barrett's trip was to study the conditions surround ing the women of that country. The secluded life, the lack of industrial training or wider education, render Ihe earning of a livelihood by a wom an in that country peculiarly difficult. General interest on the subject, how ever, was aroused and a public ad dress wa;3 requested by the commis sioner of education, Senor Sierra. This was attended by a large and repre sentative audience, including govern m3nt officials and members of foreign legations. FOOTBALL ENTHUSIAST SINGS OF THE FINE ART Peaceful Ethics or Game That Supersedes Pink Teas. Bring forth the merry megaphone And beat the big- bass drum; The air is full of fine ozone— The football days have come! To drink of fame each stout knight goes Or taste Defeat's grim dregs- Each with a pad upon his nose And wadding in his legs. The battle's tocsin soon will sound; The joy will be begun And scattered limbs upon the ground Will tell of glory won. When heads of waving football hair Deep In the earth will drive— Oh. let the joy bells peal for fair— The football days arrive! Your adversary's chest to kick, To kiss him with your feet— To butt him, goat-wise, till he's sick- All this is very sweet. To twist his spine amid the jam— His neck to break and t»end— To soak him in his diaphragm Is rapture without end. To see his manly gore run red Is pleasure none should miss; To see him laid out almost dead Is very nearly bliss. To batter flat his shielded snout, To see his throax riven— To tear him wholly inside out— Why, that is almost heaven. So let the kindly combat rage, Incessant, grim, and sore. While Beauty's smiles the hurts assuage, And soft hands mop the gore. Each armored gladiator grim, Stout-framed and muecle-knit, Must rip his foeman limb from limb If so the fates permit. And as the gentle twilight dies. The Coach may make his round. And gather up loose limbs and eyes That lie upon the ground. So let the college war cry ring Exuberant and clear, And joy bells sing like everything— The football days are here! —Chicago Inter Ocean. Satisfactory. "How do you find the beefsteak?" asked the landlady of the new boarder. "It is the most satisfactory steak I have tackled for many moons," replied the party addressed. "I am delighted to hear you say so," said the landlady, with a full-grown smile. "Most of the boarders complain of its toughness." "That is what I like about it," replied the new boarder. "I'm the Iron-jawed man at the dime museum, you know, and it keeps me in first-class condition by furnishing just the exercise I re quire."—Chicago News. He Bought "Pants." Ex-President Gates, of Amherst college, was a man with three salient character istics—belief in compulsory worship as a means of grace, nicety of language, and a fondness for bargain hunting that was al most feminine. As illustrative of the latter it is told that on a certain occa sion Mr. Gates bought for $3 a pair of trousers that had been marked at $6 and had them charged. The first of the month a bill came in: "To one pr. pants, $3." Mr. Gates crossed off the "pants" and substituted "trousers," then remailed the Jhe (jlohe's Patty Short Jfory Jhe Check. They had been talking of the ease with which criminals often escape identification, even while the newspa pers are filled with photographs and descriptions of them. Col. Hutchin son, who never fails to tell one "on himself," shook his head and said: "Well, I don't know, I'd hesitate a long time before accusing a stranger on the strength of descriptions or pho tographs. I remember an experience I had when I was a young man—yes, a good while ago—that pretty nearly convinced me that there are such things as 'living images.' I went over to the bank to malfc the daily deposit, and it happened that just In front of me in the line was a very handsome, aristocratic looking young lady. When she presented the check—the receiv ing teller was also the paying teller — the young man behind the grating tokl her that she'd have to be iden tified. She explained that she was a stranger in town; on her way to Cin cinnati. I think she said that the check wad her father's, and that she could prove It because she had more of them. Thy teller, however, was obdurate, although she got out about six or seven similar checks, and looked terribly injured when he said no. "She was such a dainty, pretty spir ited creature that I couldn't help watching her. She went to the presi dent and to the cashier, and made an earnest, and 1 I guess perfectly sin cere attempt to convince them that she was all right, but they both po litely refused to cash her check unless she could supply identification, or get some one known to the bank to in dorse it for her. When I was going out she was staning in the vestibule, a picture of female loveliness in dis tress. I paw the little tear at the end of her delightful nose, and I determin ed to accost her. 'Madam,' I began, is thero anything I can do for you?' She brightened up at once, and re •lated what had happened in the bank, most of which I knew already. She CASTOR IA :f.C For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Slj? S£fj+-#? Signature of C4vZ&)£ +<A&&i&l Miss Agnes Miller, of Chicago, speaks to young women about dangers of the Menstrual Period — how to avoid pain and suffering and remove the cause by using Lydia E* Pinkham's Vegetable Compound* "To Young Women:— l suffered for six years with dysmenor rhea (painful periods), so much so that I dreaded every month, as I knew it meant three or four days of intense pain. The doctor Said this was due to an inflamed condition of the uterine appendages caused by repeated and neglected colds. ; "If young girls only realized how dangerous it is to take cold at this critical time, much suffering would be spared them. Thank God for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, that was the only medicine which helped me any. Within three weeks aftei I started to take it, I noticed a marked improvement in my general health, and at the time of my next monthly period the pain had diminished consider ably. I kept up the treatment, and was cured a month later. lam like another person since. I am in perfect health, my eyes are brighter, I have added 12 pounds to my weight, my color is good, and I feel light and happy."—Miss Agnes Miller, 25 Potomac Aye., Chicago, 111. The monthly sickness reflects the condition of a woman's health. Anything unusual at that time should have prompt and proper attention. Fifty thousand letters from women prove that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound regulates men struation and makes those periods painless. BEAD WHAT MISS LINDBECK SAYS: " isaTHHL "Dear Mrs. Ptnkham:— Lydia E. Pink (mmmSttfoL ham's Vegetable Compound has greatly bene j^^^m^^^^ fitted, me. I will tell you how I suffered. My &llalijgPgilllllsgL» trouble.was painful menstruation. I felt as each. WlSi^ month went by that I was getting worse. I had lUf ■*•—*. «Si severe bearing-down pains in my back and abdo \*f f^£ IIP? men. <a ' hST "A friend advised me to try Mrs. Finkham** V** r& medicine. I did so and am now free. from r)\ « fii^r^ J%L pain during my J" ,•" —Jessie 0. Lindb: :, lajp^^^l^ 1201 Gth treet > ■ ]U- r\ free advice TO women. i/Wli ill \ /!/? ( \ Remember, every -woman is ■ cordially f Jib Mill W?l i ' * invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if there (K\\iln\lull\l>h I is anything about her symptoms she does Jy >l I/if 111 vUO not understand. Mrs. Pinkham's ' address is Lynn, Mass., her-advice is free and cheerfully given to every ail ing woman who asks for it. Her advice has restored to health more than one hundred thousand women. Why don't you try It, my sick sisters :- ;'' ti*EAflA FORFEIT 1* w« cannot forthwith proJnea the original letteri and «lgn*ttir«fbi -knllllll aboYO tostiinonlaU, which will proTS their absolute (tenuinenogn. vUU Lydia E. Pinkiiam Medicine Co., Lynn. Km. bill. The first of the next month another bill came in; "To one pr. pants, $3." This time the bill was returned, as be fore, but with the following legend: "Dear Mr. Thompson; I am always careful about the language I use, and I like other people to be the same." The first of the thud month Mr. Gates received a bill: "To one pr. pants, $3." This time he went In person to visit was making a little trip and, for safe ty sake, was carrying about a hundred dollars in checks of $10 each, made payable to herself, and signed by her father, who vas, she said, a respect able merchant of Adrian, Mich. She was unaccustomed to travel, and sup posed that a check would be just as easy to cash in Chicago as at home. I almost smiled at the ingenuous sim plicity of this explanation, and readily consented to indorse one of the checks. My own wife is so utterly mystified at what she calls the red tape of busi ness matters that I quickly appre ciated the embarrassed young wom an's position. "The payee on the check was "Miss Ada Topping,' and it was signed 'Theo. J. Topping," all plain enough. She was so evidently and sincerely grateful, and I was so impressed with the child like trustfulness of her demeanor that I took her ever to the railway depot, looked after hci luggage a bit and ad vised her to get New .York drafts or postoffice notes from her father be fore.she needed any more money. She was quite gay by this time and laugh ingly promised to do as I bid her. And so we parted. "Yes, I see you smile," continued the old gentleman, anticipating interrup tion. "You are right! About three or four days Uiter I got notice from the bank that 'Theo. J. Topping's check was no good and I went down and took It up.' I admitted to myself that I was a fool, but 1 must say that I would have risked my life upon the honesty and good charecter of that young woman. She was one of the most pol ished, best spoken and absolutely lady like women I ever conversed with, and so strikingly handsome, so well attired and so distinguished in appearance that I'd have sworn I would know her again anywhere, under any circum stances. "Well, about two years ago a young woman, plainly But neatly clad, came into my office to sell me a book. I could have fallen through a knothole with astonishment, for if It wasn't Miss Topping, It was her double. I thought I was very shrewd, for as 3oon as I saw that she didn't recognize me I bade her sit down, locked the door and pulled out that worthless check. 'Remember anything about this, Miss Topping?' I said, with pretty caustic sarcasm in my tones. She looked at me in bewildered surprise. I didn't understand at first, so I pointed to ths lead pencil not&tion on the back of the check ever my indorsement. "No such account at this bank," it said. But she seemed more at sea than ever. Mr. Thompson. He explained hia position, Thompson looked at him a moment, and then replied: "President Gates, I've been In the cloth ing business for twenty-five years. An' during them twenty-five years everything in my shop above $5 has been trousers and everything below $5 has been pants. It's pants you got and, egad, sir, it's panto you'll pay for."—New York Times. 'Aren't you Mis? Ada Topping, and didn't you get this check cashed on my Indorsement?" I growled. But she only smiled the innocent, disconcerted, mystified smile of absolute ignorance. " 'Some mistake, sir,' she said with a slight German accent that at once convinced me oi my mistake. 'I vish to zell dese took. Et is specially got ten up vor attorneys,' and so forth, and so forth. I let her take her own time, for I was visited with occasional sus picions that perhaps she might forget herself and re-eppear in the true char acter of Miss Adt. Topping. But when she stood up I was sure that my fair swindler had been much taller than this poor girl. I even became so in terested that I asked the simple mind ed book agent where she lived and whom she was supporting, and she an swered my questions with such frank and even confidential candor that I felt like a pickpocket to have sus pected her. Her black, woolen skirt was rusty and mended, but scrupu lously clean. She had ribbons in her hair that I knew my dainty 'Miss Top ping* would never have displayed, but fo far as face, head, hair and" eyes were concerned, she seemed the exact counterpart _of my fair confidence lady. "Well, I made the best amend I could under the circumstances. I bought one of her books and bowed her out of the office. Now what a hor rible thing it would have been if I had accused that girl, arrested her and brought disgrace upon her innocent character and upon her struggling family." "She'd have mulcted you for dam ages, colonel," suggested Capt. Hogan, the detective. "Misprison, slander— she could have soaked you all right. You might have known a smart crimi nal like your 'Miss Topping' would see your name or. the office door and keep away. She'd never have blundered righi into the lion's jaws, colonel." "That's your Judgment, Is It, cap?" asked Hutchinson. "Well, wait a min ute. When I got back into my office after that book agent was gone I nat urally L.'gan to look for that 'no good' check. I senrched everywhere, but I couldn't flnd it. Finally I abandoned the search, supposing that It had slip ped down into «.■ crack in my desk. "In about a week I got a memoran dum from my bsnk inclosing the same <?od-gasted check. Miss Topping had talc^n it down anC cashed it again!"—• John H. B alter ty, in the Chicago Rec ord Herald. !| QRABIT