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o r i e s With li r 1.1 i 11 & j 1 .'GA (A C St Jl 1 Her Delicious Compliment I a 1 m 1 ' 1 many more things happen I won t trv get dinner I lu- oim barker an- ! nounced, herself !) thus, lief pretty (ace i . very dejected. It I was A o'clock on the day she was to en tertain the vestry men and their u-ivp lit 6 o'clock firmer, and from early jnorning she had met with nothing hut exasperating interruptions. Kir-st of all. Jack, or, to present him in mora degmfied form, the Rev. lohn Parker, of St Jode's, had been called to a neighborin parish on a vtiy im portant and tedious errand, just as he was starting out to attend to the mar keting for her, to that every hit of her time might be spent in a final struiciil suiig up before preparing the dinner that would he her first attempt at en tertaining since she had become his wile. frantically hc began operation in the parlor. But just as she was dusting the "prominent" things in the room, Mrs. Perkins "stepped in for a minute" on her way uptown, and Judith had to sit down and entertain her for an hour. She was on the verge of tears when her caller finally departed. Nor did her woes end there. The gate had barely closed behind Mrs. Perkins when Tilly Mason sent word (Judith was depend ing on Tilly to prepare vegetables, wait on table, and wash the dishes after that her mother had had "a spell" and she could not come. Judith sat down just where she stood and her wail went up: "If many more ihings happen 1 won't try to get din ner!" But a glance at the clock brought her to her feet and sent her flying kit ehrnward. She had just two hours in which to prepare a four-course dinner, set the table with some degree of elab orateness, dress, do the dear knows what not for Jack when he came in, and the Churchslones were sure to arrive at exactly J:4.s! Judjth groaned as she thought of the Churehstones. Mrs. Churehstone was the leading member of Jack's flock and Judith's most dreaded critic. Nothing she did pleased Mrs. Churehstone, who constantly held up as a model minister's wife Judith's predecessor, Mrs. Stand ish. And it was Mrs. Churchstone's thrust at Jack about the "many, many, many" times Mrs. Standish had enter tained the vestry that had brought forth the belated invitation to dinner. "We've got to have them, Judy," Jack had said firmly. "Oh, certainly!". Judith had returned. "I've been putting it off, Jack, until I was quite sure of my cooking" Sh had spoken gently enough, but her eyes had flashed at mention of Mrs. Stand ish. But she trieel to put all thought of Mrs. Standish' s triumphant regime out of her mind. She wanted to do her level best, and she did not believe unhappy thoughts would be of material assist ance. Very wisely she had decided to serve dishes with which she was fa miliar and proficient, and if everything hadn't gone so completely against her all day she felt sure, no matter what Mrs. Churehstone might think about it, that the dinner would have been one no housewife need be ashamed of. It was 5 o'clock before she found titnet to touch the dining table, and she had expected to put all of an hour on its set ting early in the afternoon. She wished wildly, as she made more thin one dash back to the kitchen at sound of some thing boiling over, that Jack would come to watch things, if only long enough to permit her to rush upstairs and don a presentable dress. Just then he came. After one look at his tired, irritated face she did not ask hitn to do anything. She left the half set table instead, followed him upstairs and got out his clean white shirt Then the turned to her own dressing, though a glance in th mirror at her crimson face made her feel more like sitting down and crying her eye out. But she slipped into a simple white dress brave ly, helped Jack find his cuff links, which had disappeared mysteriously, and with the earnest admonition to "hurry, for goodness sake," was making franticilly or the kitchen, when, horrors, the bell rang I Of course It was the Churehstone! ludith deserved a Carnegie, medal for he smile with which she welcomed them. And she maintained a perfectly splendid poise while Mrs. Churehstone divested herself of her wraps in the spare bedroom, though all the time she was in absolute agony to get back to the unfortunate dinner. By the time Jack joined them in the parlor, leaving her free, in her nervousness, she was positive she could smell every blessed thing burning. The next half hour was a breathless rush. When everything was finally ready three-quarters of an hour after the time, set she thought with a groan, thinking of punctual Mrs. Churehstone she wa almost at the breaking point. As she started .for the parlor to invite her guests to the ditiing room she had to pause for just one small moment. Oh, she was so tired and nervous and frightened 1 She knew things weren't right! She had never entertained all alone in all her life -there had always been mother. Suddenly she seemed to stand right there close to her, "Judy," whispered the dear voice, silent for more than a year, "don't you know that you've done your level best and that when one does that one needn't be afraid ?" Judith's eyes brightened and she en tered the parlor without appearing un duly flustered. At dinner she was a bright and rharming hostess, though she very quickly . discovered that she had forgotten to put many necessary things on the table. She tried to laugh off ev ery unexpected "hitch," but out in the kitchen her fingers .convulsively pressed lips that trembled. All the while she felt that Mrs. Churehstone was making a silent, scathing comparison between those famous "many, many, many" din ners and the one before her. Wlurti they finally left the table a rap turous glow surged through her. It was over, thank goodness! There was only an hour or so before her in the parlor, then she could relax. It wouldn't have been so bad in there if Jack hadn't wanted to show pictures and books that she hadn't had time to dust. She sur reptitiously rubbed some of them on her skirt before he got hold of them, but, of course, Mrs. Churehstone saw her, and, of course, Mrs. Churehstone would express proper horror afterward. Mrs. Churehstone, Judith thought, wasn't enjoying herself a bit, because just as the clock struck she rose to leave. Naturally, every one followed her lead, and in a few moments Judith was alone, Mrs. Churehstone having in vited Jack to walk home with them. Tears were beginning to- come when she heard Jack returning. Then he hadn't really gone, after all ? She made no move to rise, he was so tired. Jack crossed the room swiftly raised her head and then It wasn t Jack at all; it was Mrs. Cliurclisliinel Tudlth tried to rise, hut J"-a pushed back gently, while Mrs. Oturclt stone exclaimed, a tremble in her voice. "Stay right where you are and rest, for the dear only knows you must need it You see, I know, because I know r about the dreadful Interruptions vi bad today. All about old Mrs. Court Mrs. Perkins, Tilly Mason's mother, and Mercy, how did vou manage to do anvthin'g at nil? I've sent your hus band home with mine so I could tell you what a brick I think you are and help you with all those dishes. Why, Mrs Parker, you're the pluckiest, finest minister's wife 1 ever met in my life!" ludith looked her disbelief. "But, Mrs. Standish, vou know," 'he begun. "Mrs. Standi? Poof!" ludith was really beginning to enjoy herself. "Hut her 'many, mam-, many.' wonderful dinners, Mrs. Church stone !" "lle-r dinners! Her conVs vntt mean. Why, I don't know that Mrs. Standish can even boil potatoes proper ly. Hut your dinner tonight! Mrs. Parker, I never ate more detiriouly cooked things in my life!" Judith thought she never had had a more delicious compliment in her life, and said so. A Little Decision Is Made z llxlJ HERE was silence in the room. Mrs. Gol den crocheted with little jerks of the needle. Her lips pressed tightly to gether, and there was too much color on her soft faded cheeks. Her hus band, in the big leather chair beside the library table, held his newspaper with a hand that trembled. His glasses were on crooked and one foot moved nervously in the air. Somewhere in the house the telephpne bell rang, and there were soft steps and a voice attending it Then the door opened and a girl appeared. She was tall, slim and pretty. Her great, dark, still eves moved in a slow stare from her father to her mother and back again. When she had taken strict account toentUy of the little scene she spoke. "Ralph Curtis wants us to go for a little spin in hjs car," she remarked carelessly. Her father flung down his paper with a slap. Her mother crocheted fast er. "I shall not go," she said, crisply. "Too bad," said Marjory. "Nice ride, free !" "Free!" cried Mrs. Golden. "When he expects to sell us a car. It's just one of his agent schemes. 1 saw through him the other night when we were out with him. His one idea was to demon strate that car so your father would fall in love with it " , "Well, I did." Mr. Golden stood up and plunged his hands in his pockets. "Now, look here. Lib. There's no rea son why we don't have a car. I've got the brains to run it" "Elihu, if you're going all over that ground again I shall leave the room. I've had just about all the discussion I can stand for one day. My head is be ginning to ache now." Mrs. Golden put her hand tenderly to her forehead. Mr. Golden groaned. That headache of his wife had tied his tongue for 5 years. It was her one weapon, and she used it skillfully. Marjory leaned against the door cas ing. She had shifted her large stare to the window. She appeared to wait calmly and impartially. "I shall not go," said Mrs. Golden, with emphasis "I'm sorry I went the other night But I did it because I did not think at first that Ralph had any designs on us. But I soon saw what lie was up to. I have no fourteen hundred dollars to put in a car. And you have no time to take from your business to yun it Elihu. That's settled. And I tell you here and now you're not going out in that car today without me. I can't trust you." "That's a prefry way for a woman to talk to her husband," began Mr. Golden. Mrs. Golden's forehead took on an expression of intense pain. She rose and laid aside her crochet work. "Abuse me if you like, Elihu," she said. "I've begun by being firm and I shall stay firm." She moved toward the door. t In the street outside sounded the whir of wheels and a piercingly sweet siren. "Mamma!" said Marjory, suddenly. Mrs. Golden stopped. "You don't mind niy going foV a little while with Ralph, do you? I'm not supposed to be a prospective customer. It seems a pity for him to come way up here for nothing. I can tell him just how things are," she added, thoughtful ly. "You don't want a car, so there's no need of his keeping at dad all the time to buy one." , "I'll attend to that part myself, miss," said the father, sharply. Marjory tnrned her beautiful eyes up on him calmly. "May J mamma?" slit pleaded. "Why, I see no objection to your go ing, Marjory- Ralph's a nice boy, but too keen a salesman, that's all. You may tell him, and save me, that so far as I am concerned a car is out of the question." Mrs. Golden emphastied the personal pronoun, and glanced meaningly at her husband. Then she went on upstairs to her room. Mr. Golden stood beside the table his hand resting heavily upon it, studying the pattern of the rug. He looked mis erable. "Dad!" whispered Marjory She put her young, strong arm round his wilted shoulders. "Dad, if ever I marry a poor man I'll never let him feel the way you do this minute. Married folks should he partners, no matter which has the money. I know you want a car " He kissed lier. The siren tooted again. And Marjory fled. When au hour and a half later, the girl returned, she found her mother get ting supper. Mrs. Golden always did this on Saturday afternoons, which was the maid's time out. She looked cheer ful and composed and very neat in her embroidered white apron. "Hello, mamma!" said Marjory. "How do you feel?" "Quite all right, dear. Har a nice ride?" "Beautiful. And I told Ralph1 decid edly that we shouldn't want a car be cause you said so." "I say so," replied Mrs. Golden "I never saw your father so possessed over any foolishness, Marjory. Fourteen hundred dollars is a lot of money. I suppose he might feel different if it was his money. But I know that my father worked hard for what he left me and I don't propose to see it fooled away on what is unnecessary. A car would only give your father an excuse for neglect ing the business, and the business would suffer. And I have your future to think about my dear." "Never mind my future," Marjory said. "My future will take care of itself. Maybe I'll marry a man who can sup port me without aid." "I should be sorry for you if you couldn't," said Mrs. Golden. "I always thought I might better have waited " Marjory interrupted her. "Where's dad?" "In the garden, weeding." "Good exercise," commented Marjory. "The best. So I tell him," said Mrs. Golden. Marjory ran out Into the backyard. Her father was squatting heside the onion bed, husy at work. For an in stant the gill's eyes dimmed. The crouching figure looked so tired, so pa thetic, so humble. Her mother kept a maid, but her father was expected to do all the outdoor work on he place and run the store besides. Her young heart lelt the unfairness, of it all. "Dad !" she said softly - He rose, blushing all the aoj lroni his thin hands. "Back, dear?" "Just hark, flad " Marjory put lur arm through his and leaned close, "Dad, I've something wonderful to tell you. I'm going to tell you first, be cause you're first with me and always have been. I don't think mother will care, but I want you to be pleased. Dad" she looked up at the blue sky, then into his eves "I'm going to mar ry Ralph." Her father gave a little start "Are you?" he said only. "Yes, I am. I told him and he's a very understanding person. Moreover," she smiled, "he says be loves me. And. dad" "Yes, darling." "He says he's going to teadi yon to run a car and you can take one when ever you wish. It's all in the famirv now, you see, Nalph says that what's his is mine, and, of course, what is mine is yours. Now I am going to tell mam ma." "Aren't you afraid?" asked ber fa ther. She flashed a backward look at him. "Not now I" she said laughing. 1 J When Deane Understood All I ELL, Ini going to kiss you good-by," announced Deane. as he trudged beside me the day before he moved. "Well, you're not" I replied somewhat hotly; for Deane's freckled face looked determined. "You'll see," he said, grabbing me around the neck very much as if I were pillow, and we were indulging in a surreptitious fight in mother s guest chamber. "Leave me alone!" I yelled, striking out wildly. The next tiling I knew, we were sit- tmz in the middle of the dusly road. . "I did," said Deane. "You didn't you hateful thing," I shrieked. Then I jumped up, gave him a slap in the face and ran down the street. For years after that I did not hear a word from Deane. I flitted through school and ended with a course in do mestic science at Simmons College. The last was to please Dad who said that he wanted roe to be able to treat Monty as well as mother treated bim in the rooking line. Ju-t as if I'd marry that fop! Dad wouldn't let me either. He say she won't have a son-in-law for whom he will have to furnish the feath er pillow to propose on. Then mother decided that I must be introduced to so ciety, even it she was afraid that I never should be dignified enough to suit her. Thus my life went on until this summer when mother and I came here for what she calls "a rest." ' ' When I arrived, I heard the girls talk ing about the wealthy Dr. Thorndyke who, in their opinion, was .about as nearly perfect as a man could be. Now I did not connect this paragon of virtue writh Deane until I saw his blue eyes and sandy hair on the Dr. Thorndyke whom one of the men introduced at a dance. I could tell at once that Deane knew- me, so before he could speak, I blurted out: "Oh ! Dr. Thorndyke and I are old friends." At this the men jollied him a little about asking for an introduction. So I tried to help him out by saying, "Per, haps he thought I had forgotten, but I haven't; for tha last time we met, we knocked each other down." Poor Deane grew red and muttered that it was "some time ago." Everybody laughed and encircled us, demanding to lie told the offence. Feeling as if I were a child again, I threw my head back saying, "fie wanted to kiss me." "Did he?" shouted the men. Before I could answer, Deane assum ed control of the situation by saying, as hi turned away, "No, I had not that pleasure." After that it seemed as if Deane went everywhere I did. He belonged to the same golf club, and won the tourna ment Then Monty's mother frequent ly invited bim to go motoring. I sup pose she wanted him for Dorothy, just as she hoped Montgomery would marry me. Matters went on this way all sum mer. Deane was distantly polite, just as if he had not "made up" after a quar rel. I tried to be as frigid as possible; but J did want to talk over old times. You may be sure, however, that I wouldn't give in first. Besides I did feel pretty cheap about that "break" at the dance. Today Mrs. Sylvester asked us to go riding. When we were nearly back at the hotel, we rounded a curve and went plump against a little boy. The chauf feur did not even turn his head. Nor did Monty move. I saw Deane's mouth grow stern as he waited for someone to stop the machine. Suddenly he jump ed up, grabbed the driver's arm saying, "Stop this car !" Goodness! It was no wonder that tone had some effect Deane jumped out leaving the rest of us to go on to the hotel. Monte's mother's only refer ence to the affair was, "I'll have John .send a check tomorrow." At the hotel I rushed to find mother As luck would have it, she was out Left to make my own decision. I stopped a minute, irresolutely. Then I ran to Deane's room, where I snatched up his medicine bag, and hurried for our runabout which soon took me back to that berry patch. There stretched out under a big pine, lay the little red-haired boy, wiih his patched blue shirt open at the throat. Just as I had laid his head on my lap, Deane came up with his cap full of wa ter, fie must have beep very glad tn see that medicine .chest; for his eves liwhted up strangely. "Uetty," he said, "you're all right Now do you think you can help?" Although his calling me "Betty," for the first time since our quarrel, gave me a queer little thrill. I did the best I could. I tried not to squirm, and looked away as much as possible, so I really did not deserve to have Deane say: "Now, little nurse, we'll take him home." Wasn't it strange that during the 15 minute drive I couldn't think of a single thing to say. Deane was not very talk ative, either. Unce I caught his eye, but he looked so strangely that I turned away quickly. There was great excitement when tlie mother saw- her boy, but Diane had a way of taking charge of affairs that soon calmed her weeping. Before I realized it, he had Tim in bed, had given the little girl a ereert hack "for mother when I'm gone' and was leading me to the machine. Then we started back qver the n.Tr row country road. It came to roe sud denly that I was alone with Deane for the first time that summer. My awk wardness at the dance and Dane's aloofness, all flitted through my mind. Then I seemed to hear his deep voice as he quieted the boy's mother. I felt an aching sensation in my throat. I looked directly ahead. I cemldrr say a word. Deane must have under stood what was in my mind; for I felt him look at me onc e or twice. Then he drew me to him, saying: "Little girl, I'm going to kiss you now." ' Q hYvenfre Is NMt, The grand association nf Inkers wits obnerved to be around with clubs. "What's going on?" afked qulsitivo Bt ranger. "Oil. nothing much." responded th president. "We are Juat waiting for Teddy rtoosevolt to Bend In tna ttxtn.ji about big game In Africa." Datum larking the m- I f A Bit of Popular Science f Wartime Plants. NE of the projects outlined by the com mute on botany of the National Re search Council is the search lor w ild plants which may be used as wartime substitutes for the more costly crop plants. During the C'iil War, Dr. John Porcher, a South erner, published a book giving a list of wild plants of the South which could he (substituted for much netded food and drug plants. The American liotanist Join t, 111, proposes, with the aid of its leaders, to compile a similar list. In lorniation is sought as to any plants not ordinarily cultivated which have edible fruit. seeds, roots, etc It is sugie-.t-td that aiuable knowledge on this sub ject nielli be obtained from hunters, trappers, woodsmen, farmers, Indiana and the foreigners who pick up consid erable food from the countryside. Sim ilar information is desired concerning pUnis tliat can be u-ed in medicine. D ArUlielal Leather. A ireent American patent covei- the making of artificial ieather by applying to a fabric base a coating containing ni trated cotton and a vegetable oil and a super-imposed baked coating of a leather-japanning composition ot the ves;el which brings it to us, or in the heated ripening rooms which are maintained in the various pr-rts where the fruit is received. A Western ba nana handler ha- devised a new method of ripening bananas in water. The bunched fruit is hung from an overhead hok by the stem and as the fruit ripens it takes up a quantity of water, which i- re-ponsible for a change in the fruit which make- t'titm much superior to tho-e ripened simply in the heat D Itnuds and Bridges, 'asli exfeiiditures on the rural roads and bridges in the l.'nited States in 1911 amuuntid to 5.272.6.34.424, according to figures ju-t published by the division of economies, United Slates Office of Pub lic Koads and Rural Engineering. To this should be added the value of the statute and crjnvict labor, which prob ably ainuiinted to Si 5,lX).0fi. thus mak ing tin ,2 rami total expenditure lor the year JJoe.WXi.'W. time. The commission, he -aid, was pie pared to take proceeding.- to cNnrot.ri ate power from the Canadian iagara Power Company and the Electric De velopment 1,'ompany, developing power at the fall;, of which 140,000 horsepower is now- exported to the American side which should be conserved for use in Canada. The commi-ion has been grant ed the power to expropriate the elec tricity generated by these companies by an order in council recently passed by the pnlario government. t'vm mutator Saws. v To obtain commutator saws, the Washington Watr Power Company, Spokane. Wash., buys soft sleel wash ers about one inch in diameter. A hun dred of these at a time are placed on a spindle and milled with cutting teeth. They are then case hardened. The ccst of the little saws complete is about a half-cent apiece, and very good service is obtained from them. shape and vulcanizing. This method, employed in a Rhode Island factory, is said to be the only one that makes the loom and the calender parts of a con tinuous process. The succesive steps of the operation are described in Popular Mechanics Magazine. The time required for the whole process is about .10 minutes. Japan's hullting Industr. The knitted c-od- industry of Japan has jumped with rapid strides, so that there are now 1,300 of these establish ments in the country, whereas only a few years ago there were none. Kajianan Kipeafld by MatT. Those who have had the opportunity c.f indulging in bananas which have been licked ripe tell us that we who have only known those ripened in captivity do (imt know what is w frat. The fruit wbirh designed for shipment abroad is all tucked in an advanced condition of jrieeimess, and the ripening process Vjkes place af lei w ard m the warm hold (anaillan Toner. It i; quite lik- ly that the electric pow er now being delivered in this country frcm the. power plants on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls will be with drawn in order tliat the industries on tiic Canadian sidi- mav be supplied. Not long ago Sir Adam B-ck, chairmanof the Provincial Hydro-F.lectrir Commis sion, staled at a convention of the Union ot t'auadian Mmiiripahtits that the de mand le.r hvdro-elertnr power was in creasing so rapidly in the Niagara rone llut uioie than HS.'ff) additional horse puver would be required in a very short Soap Merry Tree. 1 he jaboncello, or soap lierty tree, grows in the humid parts of western Ecuador. It attains a height of about 50 feet and has wide-spreading branches and imen--e quantities of fruit of the size and shape of cherries. The nearly transparent yellowish skin and pulp sur rounding the round black seeds are so saponaeous as to be used instead of soap by many people of Ecuador, being equivalent to more than 50 times their weight of tliat material. Tires Made .tew Way. Automobile casings arc made in one continuous mechanical process by a method of reeent invention, which in cludes the weaving of the fabric that forms the base of the tire, impregnating it with rubber in a ptrial trirtion calender, furiiiiny it to the required Largest Flower, The largest flower in the world grows op the island of Mindanao. Its hab itation is far up the Parag Mountain, 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. The natives give it the name of Bolo. Its full-blown blossom is considerably over three feet in diameter and weighs 22 jiounds. The flower was first found in Sumatra, and was called Rafflesia Scha denburgia, in honor of its discoverer. Rare Animals. The president of the American Mu seum of Natural History of New Y'ork, Dr. Henry K. Osborn, is expecting to make valuable additiems to the collection of specimens of gorlas, scrows and samburn. He has received word from Roy C. Andrews, in charge of the mu seum's expedition of Yunnan, China, that he has succeeded in getting some splendid specimens on the frontier of Thibet and. Hurma. These animals, which are of the stag tribe, are exceed ingly rare. . o . Substitutes for Fodder. In the search for substitutes for live stock food a German scientist made analytical tests of materials suggested lor the purpose. He found dried rhu barb leavVs better than hay as a fodder for hogs ; kelp may be fed to cattle and pigs, but it has little nutritive value; ground straw, which is selling at from Zi to 50 marks the quintal, is not "good for any animals, nor are ground pea nods. He advises against cornstalks and cabs. The seeds of beets are nutritive, those of parsley too exciting; those of raisins, if ground before the oil is ex tracted, are as good as hay. Oil cakes made from beech or other nuts are ex cellent for cattle. a Drilled Twenty Months. A diamond drill hole in Sussex coun ty. New Jfrsei', 4920 feet deep, lias re cently been completed by the contract drilling forces of the Sullivan Machin ery Company. A two-inch diameter core was removed to a depth of 1,600 feet, beyond which tools removing a one and three-eighths inch core were used to the completeion of the hole. When the depth of 1,900 feet was reached, the long line of rods required for drilling weighed 13 tons, and it took eight hours, steady work for hoisting them out, re placing them and resuming drilling. It is said that the hole showed no devia tion from the perpendicular. It required 20 months to complete the hole, which is 1,700 feet deeper than, the deepest previous hole of which there is any rec ord in North America. Only thrxe or four diamond drill holes have been put down in this cotiutrv, it is said, exceed ing 3,000 feet in depth. O Canada Horsefs, Sixty thousand horses have been pui -chased in Canada by the allied govern ments since the outbreak of the war. Probably another 2IJ.0O0 will be pur chased in the Dominion before the close of the year. used for adulteration. In Thea the shoehorn, but much more effectrv-e, Two guard cells of the stomala possess, on curved plates ot the typical shoehorn their inner surface, a very strongly ,hape overlay each other, bat an held marked layer ot cutin, whicli is pro longed into beak or hook, and which is distinct from the beak which closes the ostiole. Mr. Kehious finds these features, with minor variations, in all of numerous kinds of tea examined, and they appear even in the sepals of the tea plant. The only leal used for adul teration that bears inueh n semblanee to Thea sinensis is the hai of Camellia (also a species of Thea I, but a trans verse section of the latter shows that the hooks of the stomata are very slightly developed. , 0 Woman and Veil. When a woman is about to selet t a veil, it is natural that she should want to know how it will look when drupeil over her own face. Thi.-. is provided for in a recent invention, and it may be ac complished without nven taking the bother of removing them from the bolt. How this is done is as follows: A slide is inserted in a bolt of goods lightly apart by a loop of metal, which auows tne two parts to be pressed to gether when desired In adjusting a tiglit-litting alipprn hoe or overshoe, the new implement rs u-ed in the same manner ns the old shoehorn, but wilh the double gripping plates of the new one it is possible to net a film grasp in the counter of the shoe and pull it on over the heel, as it is not possible to do with the single plate. -r , Small rerrentage. It has been estimated that one in rvenr 2,4(1(1 ot the population in the United Slates is a deaf mute. This would in dicate that there are about 37,500 dcai mutes in the United Stales. 0 maimer that through an aperture it possible to view one's self in a mirror in front of which is the veiling. Helow this mirror the goods may he examined against a back ground, making the two effects available at one time. Unman f nndlcn, Tlie randies of the Komans wen mm pused of string surrounded either bv wax or pitrh. Splinters of wood, covered urh a with fat, were used by the English poor er classes in 1300. Ruts In Trenches. In combating the rat visitation in the French trenches, which had become a great nuisaniice, the greatest success has been obtained by means of an electrical device which shocks the animal to dra ill as it passes over a little trough, when the circuit is completed through the animal's body. O Tea Adulteration A new method of detecting the adul teration of tea was described in a re cent bulletin of the Botanical Society of Geneva by L. Rehfous. The new pro cess contemplates an examination of the stomata, which are quite different in Thea sinensis from those of the leaver Fuel friini I Vat. A company has bren formed uivXor way for making fuel from peat by the Rosendahl method. The raw material for the new industry will be ehiefiy peat from the extensive Norwegian moors, but any other material may be used which is sufficiently abundant in the neighborhood ot the factory, particu Training Cap for fiolf Plnjprn. There is a good ileal-more art in the slamming of a golf ball than most per sons have any idea of. The ball most be approached in just the correct man ner or it will not respond as the player desires, and as he strikes the little sphere there are a number of things which the player must do, and these ihings all constitute the difference le tween right and wrong A device has been perfected to teach the amateur player how to deliver the blow to the ball without departing from the apprnv larly wood waste. The product is said ed position. With it lie must hold his to greatly resemble English coal. ' head, and, indeed, his entire body, m Sell Their Hair. Many Italian peasant wonieu make a business of selling their hair. They get two crops a year, and the back hair is cut in such a way that its absence is not apparent being covered by the front hair. 'Tneewr-Ukn Slinehmn. The old-fashioned shoehorn threatens to lose its long-time popularity bv rea son of the introduction of a newiy pat- in thickness, and the blubber wtujn - - . - . . - . . u i as un-- juu pounus. jusi uic rivini aunuae necessary to suc cess in playing. -0 ' Walnut Slip. The ,i ci age-sized Alaska walrus is as big as an ox and often weighs more than a ton. A walrus was recentlv killed by some whalers near Point Barrow whose head weighed HO pounds, and skin, including flippers, 500 pound,. The animal had a girth of 14 feet, the skin was from hall an inch to three in, hr-