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f CHAMPION WOMAN ANGLER. T P any proof were needed that nialn stretujtii in a secondary cousiuera tloD with tlio practiced angler It could be found In a recent experience of Mm. J. N. Patterson, of Philadelphia, who with tier husband is pusslug the winter In Florida. Mrs Patterson la an enthusiastic angler, and Is able to show unexpected endurance consider- 1ng her petite figure. One day last week tier husband made what was for lilin nuuexpe t dlygood atcli better than anything Mrs. Patterson bad as yet been able to do. Of course, be bantered hla better half freely on her supposed lack of ability with her rod mid line, Housed by his teasing, Mrs. Patterson rose early the next morning, called her boatman aud rowed out on the Caloosa- hatclile Klvor. where tarpons are said to abound. The uiornlug was pleasant, and there was every Indication that the tarpons were hungry. In a very short time one wan hooked, and then began an exciting struggle. The tar pon Is a very timid lish of the herring kind, and his timidity, coupled with his Mltd. PATTKI1SON S WO.VDKHrTI. CATCH. great size, and strength, makes hiiu a desirable prey to the angler. After Mrs. Patterson had hooked her fish it took twenty minutes of hard lighting to tire him out. Then he was hauled up ulongside aud gaffed by an enor mous hook fastened to n pole. This Im plement was handled by the boatman, Mrs. Patterson relaxing the feminine character of the proceedings far enough to permit of his humble assistance. The fish weighed 107 pounds aud was 6 feet 8 Indies In length. Not .coil tent with this prize and de termined to forever stop her husband's good-huiuural bm' ' lie had made, .Mrs. Patterson baited her hook again. An hour passed before she got a second bite, but It was a whop per. The monster made heroic efforts " to break away, but there .was a now woman on the other end of the line nnd all his Htnurgltyw.'re unavailing. Hhe Jet the un b'"I and roll aud plunge uri 'd'lw as It would, the line was al ways stretched out to the proper degree of tautness. It took sixteen minutes to Mil this Hsli, which was exactly six feet Jong and weighed ll'o pounds. Mrs. Patterson was back in the hotel in time to catch Iter husband and other guests at breakfast. A.i may be sup posed she did not fall to compare her champion catch with that regarding which be bad boasted so much. llesl- , dents of the neighborhood declare that Mrs. Patterson's basket was the big gest ever landed by a woman. Proper Pnttitlon for Wultern. The objectionable method of encir cling a young woman's waist while In the act of waltzing has been subjected to adverse criticism. The mode which now prevails Is graceful, modest, aud entirely consistent with propriety. To acquire the proper position the gentle man's left hand should be placed Just below the shoulder of the lady. Tho body should Incline slightly, and he should relax a little iu order that ar tistic grace may be observed. He holds ills partner's baud Iu his right, while Ills protlclency as a dancer and his good taste tell best how to dispose of Uie clasped hands. Good China Cement. A cement for mcudiug broken glass or china Is made by dissolving half an ounce of gum arable in a wiueglassful of boiling water aud adding enough plaster of Paris to make a thick paste, Apply It with a brush to the edges of the broken parts. Hold the pieces care fully together until the cement has har dened sufficiently for them to adhere. If the article to be mended Is broken in several pieces, do not attempt to ce ment a second piece before the first has thoroughly burdened. Advice from Hetty Green. A New York reporter a day or two ago Interviewed Miss Hetty Green, "the richest woman In America," re garding the best way to Invest small Bums of money. Mrs. Green said: "I would advise any woman with $500 at her command to Invest It in real estate. She should buy the real estate at auction on occasions when circum stances have forced the sale. If abe will watcb for such an opportunity It will surely come, and she will find that she can buy a parcel of land at one third its appraised value. I regard real estate Investment as the safest means of Investing Idle money. It doea not always bring a steady luterest, but It Is lesa likely to depreciate in value than atocka, which are always somewhat Uncertain. A woman svltb tact and ability will be on the alert to leuru of a mortgage about to be foreclosed. In such cases she should negotiate with the owner of the properly and give him enough to clear his debt, thus saving him the costs of a sale, Many a woman has profited by an opportunity of this kind. Of course. If a woman has J.IOO cash and wishes to speculate she may branch out more broadly and take greater risks, with the prospect of greater returns, Itut she should bear In mind that real estate Is the collateral to be preferred to all others." The Conservative Woman, Writing of "The Conservative Wom an." In the Ladles' Home Journal, Iiulli Ashmore, considering her "ns a companion,", pays her this pretty trib ute: "She Is the woman who with her husband and her sons Is the Iiest, com panion. She surrounds herself, uncon sciously, with a spiritual atmosphere that Is n rest to the weary, especially to the weary man. She Is not a bigot. She Is In sympathy with whatever work the man may be doing; In many ways she may help him with It, but when he has thrown oh the trammels of labor bo finds In her all the sweet ness, all the rest and all the happiness that can be given by a woman who sets her life so that It Is 'like perfect music unto perfect words.' " Kcts the Style for Dig Huts. It has ciniie. It Is In the concrete. and It Is making Itself felt. It may lead to revolution and bloodshed; It may till many asylums for the hopelessly mud, nnd may Increase the mortality from suicide, but It Is here and It will stay. Consuclo Vnnderbllt, who Is the Duch ess of Marlborough, devised It, and It Is named and hailed the "Marlborough Hat." Consuclo has revived the Eliza bethan ruff, but her hat Is her piece de resistance. It Is making a sensation abroad, and is a success because It Is essentially one of the queer tilings the scurrying years at the century's end are Hinging oil'. The thing Itself has a broad brim anil a round top. It may be trimmed to suit any woman whose genius Is diverted from usefulness In the direction of millinery. Hut this Marlborough hat Is of petunia velvet, which covers the crown aud brim iu soft, uneven folds. At the left are grouped three stately black feathers, and three shorter ones fall negligently toward the front and repose on the brim.' At the back is another cluster of three that nestle close to the hair. A giant chrysanthemum of the velvet Is tucked on the brim on a bandeau. The Duchess has money enough to have all the hats her heart craves for and her heart craves for very many, and she has them. Sometimes she likes velvet and sometimes felt, but the shape re mains constant. She'll have no dalli ance with the shape. It's got to be Marlborough or nothing. ! Unique Novelty for the Nursery. An excellent Invention for the use of mothers and nurses has beeu brought out In London Iu the shape of a bath with a hammock hung In It, on which the baby can comfortably rest while It la being washed. It Is renlly a capital invention, as the child can lie at its ease while It Is being washed, while for timid children who object to being put Into water It will prove Invaluable, as tho hammock will allow them to be thoroughly sponged without being Im mersed. Put In Underskirts with I.oce Insertion The new underskirt has many charms nnd the pretty silk creation decked with lace is a costly article, but never theless a triumph of art. Silk under skirts are advancing In favor, and from the plain silk to the richest satin with luce insertions find ready demand. Silk skirts for spring will supplant the heavy, stiff, and weighty moreens re cently revived. To Clean Old Coin. Old coins may be cleaned by making a hot solution of soda or potash, dip ping the coins in this, then for a mo ment in nitrio acid, followed by a thor ough rinsing in clear water rnnning from a tap. Potassium cyanide is excel lent for cleaning silver coins, bnt it should be plainly labeled and kept away from children, as it is strong poison. Advice, Writer Can you tell me where I can go to suffer excrotiating agony for a brief season? I m writing a torture chapter in my novel and want to get it as near to nature as I can. Critic Um um er oh, yes, I know just the place. Come up to my house this evening. The young lady next door is going to have an amateur musicale. Detroit Free Presa. A REAL NEW WOMAN. Rh I From Knelanil, Wears llloomara unci Will Nut (live Them L'p. Miss Dorothy Cliestio, tlio English actress recently arrived iu this country, has ultogotlier discarded skirts for daily wear. .Much ustnuishmout has been created in New York during tho last fortnight wlieuevor sho has appearod in the shopping district in hur kniekcr bocler costumes, and in the elevated and cable cars sin has been the center of attraction. Miss Cliestio said, when interviewed by a ircss representative: "I have been a 'new woman' on the stage for two years, and Jiave derived so much com' fort, so much greater freedom of limb from my bloomers that I would give up my Indfcm clubs, or my boxing gloves, or even my wheel, rather than have to confine myself m skirts once more. Pleaso say that I dislike notoriety, and that in Loudon, where I have for some timo worn this dress, bloomers are not an. uncommon sight on the street. I seem to bo tbo pioneer here, but this is a caso where, if the world and I lire to think alike, the world will have to come to mo. " New York Letter. An Amor lean Girl's Success, Some years ago, when Camilla Urso was in the flush of lier professional career, a, little girl, after liearing lier play, thought, "One woman has mas tered the violin, why not another?" This girl was Maud Powell, an Ameri can artist wlio.se nnmois famous in both hemispheres. Twice a week, while not yet iu lier teens, she traveled alone 40 miles to Chicago and luck to take her lessons, and at 111 had made such prog ress that her parents decided to send lier abroad for a year of study. hen slie appeared for examination before the staid professors in the conservatory at Leipsic, bcr talent was so pronounced thut all took an unwonted interest in her. When . the year was over, Miss Powell decided to go to Paris for one year more of study. Ladies' Home Jonrmil. In the Lawyer! Oflloe. ' ' I couf ess I was startled, " said a man from auother city. "I wanted to ask n little legal udviue, and I stepped into the first law office I came to in a build ing I had been told was full of good lawyers. A nlPDsai' j .4--wearing n" shirt waist, was writing at a desk.' I was about to ask if her employer was in, when sho rose, bowed gravely, put on lier coat, and then said, with professional seriousness, 'Do yon wish to consult mo?' I was so rattled I stam mered out something about having made a mistake and backed out of the room. Yot my own sister has just taken au A. M., too," he added pensively. Boston Transcript. re of Magnesia. A cake of magnesia is a good friend to the economical woman in these days of nnuiy light frocks. Rub the soiled spots on both sides of the goods when the dress or waistcoat is takeu off, aud after uii-uig hang away with the mag nesia stui tiiere. wnen the dress is wanted again, dust tho magnesia off lightly, and it will be found to have carried uwaypart of the soil aud to hide the rest. A light dress may thus be kept immaculate in appearance several days after it would otherwise have to go to the cleaner. An Encouragement, The fact, officially announced, that Queen Victoria has given her consent to the hill pussed by the parliament of South Australia, eufranchisiug tho women of that country upon equal terms with men, and that it has thns become a law, will encourage the friends of woman's enfranchisement in our own and other countries to perse vere in their efforts to secure for all, irrespective of sex, equality before the law. Philanthropist. A High Distinction. Mrs. Austa Deusniore Sturdevant, formerly of Meadville, Pa., later of New ' York city, received honorable mention for her picture in the Paris "saloh" for this year, a high distinc tion winch few foreiguors receive. In the last GO years 47 such mentions have been given to Americans, eight of which were to women. Mrs. Sturdevant began the study of painting at the age of 84, wiieu ber girls were old enough to go to BcnooL Woman and Medicine. The Woman's Medical Journal con tains illustrated biographical sketches of leading women of tlie medical profes sion. Those included are Dr. Mario Zukrzewska of Boston, oue of the earli est graduates. Dr. Eliza Burnsido of Philadelphia, another pioneer, and Dr. Mary Spink of Indianapolis are of the younger women of the rrofessioa This first attempt to make history of the women in medicine will be of cieat value. Woman's Position. vi oman lias long nod the right ta pay a penalty for lier own misdeeds. She ia not represented ly men on those occa sions. A woman srauding in dock before a jury and a judge is an individual to answer for individual misconduct. Men have no desire to represent her then. Lady Somerset. I CAN TALK FOJl MILES WONDERS OF THE LONQ-DIS - TANCE TELEPHONE. By (lie V e of Prof. Hell's Invention J'orty United Million of I'eoplo In th Motes Are Kow Within frpcuklnic Distance of liacU Other. Linked ly u Copper Wire. Iiy the use of the lotig-dlslauco tele phone iO,M)0,tX)0 people are within speaking distance of each other within the I'lilfed States. Science has nothing mure remarkable to .oiler than Mil achievement. When Alexander Ufa hum Hull vat down at the Instrument In New. York and Installed the service bi tween that city and Chicago he had linked the people together In a bond closer than anything else could bav done. There Is satisfaction Iu wrliin to the distant friend. There Is comfort In reading the letters that friend writes, There Is a better pleasure In the mes sage some mutual acquaintance brln us from that loved one far away, There is a resourcu iu the telegraph When the stroke of trouble or the rush of business makes communication Im peratlve. But there Is nothing like the sound of a human voice In friendship, nor tho personal spoken assurance of a business correspondent. In 18i(J Professor Bell exhibited to th public at the centennial exposition Iu Philadelphia his patented telephone in Btrument. It was the beginning of a new era. That the human voice could be projected to a distance seemed one of the marvels of the age. And it was, But that modest beginning held small promise of the astonlshlr-g results that have followed. Yet the beginning was a foreshadowing of a greater occasion; for If voices could bo heard half a mile, why not ten miles? Aud If so far, why not for a hundred? It Is likely there was a limit even In speculation. But thut limit has constantly grown until to-day there Is a direct telephone com munlcatlon between both places nnd Pulaski, Tenu., which Is far down toward the Alabama bor der. And within this triangle, betweeu what Is for the pres ent the limits of the service, there are means of Intercommuiiicatiou, In every city nuu almost every town. And as the greater portion of the' population of the coifutry lies east of the ltocky Mountains. It Is no exaggeration to say that two-thirds of all the people In the country are within easy speaklug dis tance of each other. In Chicago alone there are 4.000 long distance telephones, for every telephone connected with the "central" may be switched at once on the long-distance wire, and a man may sit In. his offlce i OrKKI.NO TI1K. NEW VORK-CUICAOO LINK. and speak as to a man across the room with a man in New York, or in a New England town, or in the suunler cities of the South. Iu a great many business houses there are what are ktiown as long-distance booths. They are simply little rooms that have been especially constructed for the exclusion of sound. And there the business man who does not care to have even his own employes hear him may retire and hold the most con fidential conversation with the most distant correspondent. He may be as sured not only that no one In his offlce, but that no one along the line will hear him. There are but two persons In the world to whom the substance of that talk Is known, aud they are the two who were intended to know It There are a good many towns out of Chicago where the old style of wire Is still In use, and these are, for all prac tical purposes, deprived of the use of the long-distance service. It is impos sible to get good results with any but the double metallic wire, which is used by the long-distance people. But, as the old-fasniouea "grounded wires" are fast passing out of use all over the country and as the copper wire Is b g substituted in their place, the time is not far distant when the long-distance service will be coextensive with the dis- tribution of the telephone from ocean to ocean. Many stories are told of the strange uses or tne long-uistance leiepnone. The day the line was opened to Mer rill, Wis., a Chicago man. hunting in the Northern woods, came Into town and learned of the Innovation. lie went Into one of the "sound-proof boothsand had himself put into communication with bis family. As they bad a telephone in the house, the task was a small one. He chatted with his wife, told her a fish story at which she might smile without embarrassing him, since he could not see the sign of Incredulity; talked with bis boy and girl, and then called for "Gyp." Gyp" was a setter, a great family petwblch had been left behind because of an accident which rendered it lame. Gj-p" was called to the telephone, and he stood on a chair, bis fore feet on the back, and his mistress held the trans mitter to hi ear. Hello, GypP called the master from Merrill. And the flog In Chicago prick ed up his cars and whined. The muster whistled cheerily, and tho setter burk ed directly Into the receiver, lie kuew bis muster's voice, and the whistle a well; and the master cheered him by ready laughter at the prompt aud cuger reply. It was worth the S'.4o It cost. In a business way the benefit :s plain. A patron may be iiKsured be Is getting the person fur whom he calls; to that u contract made over tiso wire vlll be ax binding as If made nearer at baud. ' In iiiecbnnlcnl operation there Is Ut ile new to tell. 'A telephone Is n tele phone. A telephone exchange Is as much a place of buslnoHS n is a store. ,V patron wnlks Into the telephone com pany's olllce In Chicago, and usks to he put In connection with a certain man In Unrrishnrg, Pn. lie takes a dent, and the telephone operator at the desk calls up the operators la the ad joining room and tells them to get the llairlsburg man. They call llarriaburg lis quickly as they could call the Jlarl jou street station. The telephone op- WIIKUK "rHXTIUI," SPENDS IIKIt TI.MH.' erntors there find the number of tbo man In their directories, If there be an Instrument In his place of business, or send for him If he be not a patron. As soon na he is ready to take his place at the wire the attendant In Chicago Indicates a certain booth to which the patron tuny retire, and us he closes the door and lakes the transmitter he hears the voice of his friend. Between Chicago aud New York the line. Is 0")0 miles long. The poles are of cedar and chestnut, thirty-live feet in length, and average forty-five to the mile. The use of cables Is avoided ns much ns possible, us the wrapping diminishes the effectiveness of the serv ice. Leave the hard-drawn copper wire absolutely free anil It will bring together the most distant poluts. This rule has to find some exceptions In cities, nnd one of the common sights Is the drawing of cables through con duits by a number of men working n windless above one of the openings In the street. Yet once nwny from the imiuniuin of tlie town the line is enr- ried high and free, unprotected from weather and unshielded from attack. Even the chance of accident is not great enough to warrant Inclosing the line. There seems renlly to be no limit in point of distance, as there was none for the telegraph. Whether In time a telephone cable may be laid under tbo ocean, that princes abroad may court Ich American heiresses without tho annoyance of a trip to the "States," Is a question which only time may solve. But It seems tlie heavier part of the problem Is a thing of present demon stration. There Is no doubt wires will be stretched all over the country, aud that the Atlantic and the Pacific may soou be nearer neighbors than they have beeu In the past. There are spec uhitive possibilities without limit. When the "long-distance" shall have penetrated the wilds of Africa, then Bishop Taylor, of that diocese, may sit In his home nt Xyaek, X. Y., and preach to the kings of the Jungle. Missionaries Ml! feel called upou to speak to the bs in Asia Minor uiny fill all the requirements of their call aud run small risk of a Mussulman uprluing, One is permitted to fancy a congrega tion of Armenians Hstenlug. with re ceivers pressed to their ears while fer vid proselyters address them from the comfort and security of n study in Chicago. Our ambassadors may listen to the directions of the President of the United States or the Secretary of State, and our Consuls may receive without a niomeut's delay the com plaint or American merctiants for a failure to bolster up business enter prises. The Marquis of Salisbury may -"?'4'Wi'' 1 4' LO0 DISTANCE TELlTPHOXE LINKS. speak in direct conversation with our authorities a Unit affairs in Venezu&a, aud tlie Monroe doctrine may be quar reled out without the intervention of antiquated postofflce methods. The long-distnnc telephone is bound to be come a big thing. "Yes. I kissed her when she wasn't expecting anything of the kind." "Lein me see; a young man, a young woman, and nobody about: nnd the young wom an not expecting to be kissed. H'm. na! Pooh.- Indianapolis JournaL . , 'fcRrX , mm Mf FOR LITTLE FOLKS. 1 THE LILY OF THE VALLEY. A Neat and Inenl"u Wny of Imitating ThU Di-lleille Fliiwer. Hold a lighted wax orspermacoti can dle ovor u glass of water and let half a dozen drops of wiix full into the water. Each drop will bo transformed as soon as it touches tho water into a little floating white cup. Theso little cups havo exactly the tlinpo of tho bell flowers of the lily of tho valley, and they may bo made large or small according td tho distance from ' KVA..-'.S'JtJ tho water nt which yon hold the candle. Now take a piece of very thin wire, aud having warmed it, with it pierce the center of one of the little wax cups while it is still in the wutcr. Then pnsli the cup dowu to the end of the wire, which must bo curved, with a littlo hook at the end to bold tho cup. Repeat this until you have nine or ton of the cups wired, and then intertwine the wires, with the smaller cups above, and place tho whole in a vase furnished with pointed leaves made of green paper. , This will give you a stem of lily enps almost exactly like those of the natural flower, ' The Tee-he Girl, littlo maliluu, but really, on my know word, You would aoontir think this person was a tee-tio lard. For no mutter wlint you nay, If it h xiul or if it h piy, This silly muideii answers you with ' "Toe-he- 10." With a "Teo-lio, toe-he, toe-he-ha." She's qtiito a nrotty little K'rl. with bright nnd HiuiliiiK eye.-i. And in hoiiiu things 1 undnrstand that aha la very wlmi. but though she known hr lottura, Ho mutter wbut her bettors Or her ciders may remark to hur, thia little maiden, sho I sure to end hc-r answer with a "Toe-he-he, " With a "Tue-ho, toe-ho, toe-bu-he. " If you tell her that your puckot ia Just stuffed all full of toys, If you tell her you'vo a hoadacheand she must not rnako a noise. If you toll hur she's your pride, ' Or if you scold nnd chide. It renlly Is tho same to hur so far as I can see. For her answer Is a giggle with a "Tee-be-he, " A "Toe-bo, ti'u-ue, tee he he. " I huve hoard this littl, was very tiroti ; maiden suy that she I have board her ask for very much desired, lots of things she Dut to everything she uttered, Or muniblud forth or muttered, She tacked that Senseless giKglu that is quite dovold of glut. That foolish little habit of a "Too ue-he," A "Toe-he, toe-he, teo-he-hul" I sometimes feel qutto worried lout an elf of whom I've heard Bbould como along nnd chungo this girl into a tee-ho bird, When, in nil sorts of weathor. With each curl turned to a feather, She'd have to sit tho livelong day alone upon a tree, Just calling out to folks bolow her "Tee-he-ho!" Her "Tco-be, too-hu. tee-he-ho." Ella Wheeler Wilcox ill St. Nicholas. The Moon's Kace. Gerald sat on his mother's lap look ing out at the moon thut had just come from behind a bank of clouds. They were having a bedtime talk. , "There he is," said Gerald, ''sober us an owl " "Now he's laughing," said Gerald's mother. " Yes, and what a big mouth 1 Don't he look jolly?" cried Gerald. "Oh, mamma, mammal Seel Bo's loqking sober agaiu, and now he's fretting about something. Look I He's getting real cross and ugly, and his mouth is all twisted to oue side I What makes him do so?" "A tiny, tiny cloud, " replied mam ma. "See I It is just going away from his face." "He looked like a cross boy," said Gerald, when the moon's round face was clear again. "Yes," said mamma, "aud a cross boy's crossness is generally caused by a cloud, too, only the moon conldn't help the cloud s coming in front of his face, while the cross boy can. " "That's so," said Gerald, after a few moments. "I know, because I've had clouds myself." Annie Isabel Willia in Youth's Companion. Gravitation. One of our boys is somewhat ner- plexed over a question of gravitation. : Suppose, he says, that yon stand on an elevation, with a piece of lead weigh ing five pounds in one hand and a piece weighing half a pound in the other. If you drop the two pieces at the same in stant, which will reach the ground first? It might be thought that the heavy piece would, but, as a matter of fact, they would reach the ground at the same time. Make the experiment with a five pound piece of lead and a piece of cork, and the result will be the same they will reach the ground simultaneously. Indeed a feather would fall as quickly as the lead were it not for the air, which would resist the feather mow than it would resist the lead. Xo matter bow high we go above the earth this tendency of bodies to fall to ward it is the same. The tendency ia weakened by degrees as we ascend, but it exists, even in the remote deptha of space, for it is the great, mysterious, all pervading power of gravitation, through which and in which the universe exists. 1 IM V AST Philadelphia Times