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GAZETTE. SEMI-WEEKLY. ZESSr!lJ?Sm. jCcnsolifiatfii Feb., 1899. COEVA1X.IS, BENTON CQUKTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1903. YOLi. IV. NO. 14. 11. km I lltltl lUltttttll CHAPTER XIV. After a tea days' visit to Mrs. Clayton, "Winifred was summoned home. "I would gladly let you remain longer," wrote Lady Grace, "but you remember, my dear, that our original plan was to leave for London on the 28th, and Sir Clavton never likes his plans interfered with.'' On the 25th of April Winifred return ed to Endon Vale, very sorry to leavs her friend, but with almost a sense of relief at being freed from the obnoxious society of Mr. Clayton. Everyone wel comed her with open arms; the house had not seemed the same without her it lack ed the sunshine, as the old French lady said. On the day appointed Sir Clayton and Laqj Grace Farquhar-aad Miss Eyre arrived at Eaton Square and were duly announced in the fashionable chronicles. A new life suddenly opened on the girl who had spent all her young years in such quiet, not to say motonony. She found it very pleasant, although not al together what it had been in her dreams two years before. Her debut was to take place at the house of Miss Douglas, Lord Harold Erskine's aunt, a lady occupying a very decided position in the fashionable world, and the entree to whose entertainments was very generally desired.' Lady Grace was anxious that her protege should look her best. When Winifred appeared, dressed, on the night of the ball. Lady Grace had bo reason to regret having allowed her to exercise her own taste. Her dress was of a marvelous whiteness and softness, almost like snow clouds, and here and there over it were the softest white feath ers, that might have been flakes of fallen 6now. Very late in the evening Mr. Hastings appeared. As he entered the ballroom he caught sight of Winifred talking in a Very animated manner to Lord Harold in an interval of waltziug. He stood and watched her intently; until to-night he had never thought her beautiful. He had loved her for her grace, for her pride, for her innocence; but as she looked and smiled now, he felt she had a greater claim to general admiration than he had ever dreamed of. , J-'And jshe ... mighty havLbeeaujmy:Wife - now," he thought. "How I should have loved her how proud I should have been , of her! I wonder if she really cares for '. that fellow Erskine?" At this moment a voice said close to his ear, as though the speaker had di vined his thoughts: . "Will it be a match, do you think?" He turned with an angry start, and met the mocking gaze of Flora Cham pion. " "You mean Gray and Miss Went worth? I think it very probable," Mr. Hastings answered, curtly. ' - ' "Oh, no, that is beyond a doubt- I ' meant Lord Harold Erskine and and his partner," "I cannot form the slightest surmise. Your cousin" and he spoke the word, pointedly "your cousin is very beautiful, and may even do better." "Perhaps be chosen by the descendant of all the Hastings?" she asked, with a scornful laugh. "Your penetration seems unusually at -fault to-night. Miss Champion," he re turned, coldly; "but pardon me, the dance ,is over. I am going to seek a partner for the next; your card is full, I see:" and he moved oft before Flora had time to intimate her willingness to exchange his name on her program with that of a less eligible aspirant. She bit her lip angrily as she saw him cross straight over to, where her cousin stood, and bend to- speak with her. She could not but remark the tender deference of his bear ing toward the country girl whom she de spised, and whom she well remembered ignoring to him as only a former's daugh ter. She turned to the quiet, middle-aged man on whose arm she leaned, and began to talk to him with some of her old brightness and vivacity. He listened with admiring attention, tout had very little to say in reply. Flora felt inex pressibly bored. "This man is a dolt!" she said to her self, angrily; "the idea even of all his money scarcely reconciles me to the hor rible tedium of spending so -much time in his company." Mr. Maxwell was an excessively tin interesting, rich bachelor of two-and-f orty. He gave one an impression of weakness and . yielding that made it a matter of surprise he had been allowed to remain so long in the unblessed estate of bachelorhood. He had met 1 Flora Champion several times and had admired her..-. , "He is rich," she said to herself; "he is as weak as water, and he is greedy ' three admirable qualities for a husband whom you do not want to care about! "" Why should I not marry; him?" I Meanwhile Mr. Hastings has crossed over to where Winifred was standing, engaged in laughing conversation with Lord Harold, a bright smite on her lips and apparently very happy. She did not see Errol until he came up to her.and then she stopped in a sentence and chang ed color. She felt a quick thrill of pleas ure when she saw his handsome face bent on her with genuine admiration. Some sudden thought of forgetting her pride and yielding to her love came surg ing into her brain; and than her second, new, unnatural self rebelled, and she greeted him with a cold, indifferent smile. "You will dance with me. Winifred?" he whispered, as Lord Harold turned to speak to someone behind him. "I am engaged for every dance, thank you." "May I coma - and call in Eaton Square?" ,. "I dare say Lady Grace will be pleas ed to see you." "But you?" "It is my duty to be pleased to see any mnd all of Lady FaTquhar's guests." "You are not natural, Miss Eyre -you till t UUI .4441 NLY A FARMER'S DAUGHTER. By MRS. FORRESTER. as a tfc A J J- 1 TTTtt TTTTTTT1 are strangely altered from the generous, large-hearted, trae Winifred I knew two years ago." 'Ts it well for ignorant country girls to be trustful?" she asked, with a quick scorn. "If they are generous, do they always meet with like generosity from those whose minds are more enlarged, or -should be, from their birth and sta tion?" "Is your enmity to be lifelong, then?" "No doubt it will wear out in time, as every other feeling does," was the quick response. As Mr. Hastings walked away, he ask ed himself how it was possible that a man whose inherent fault was intense pride could voluntarily expose himself to the slights and indifference of a young girl. - " "I wonder how it is that I still care for her? She seems to have lost all that made me love her when I first knew her. What a fool I am! I will not think any more of her !" And he left the room and the house, and went off to an entertainment where a considerably greater degree of freedom reigned than at the mansion of stately Miss Douglas, and where he was sure of an enthusiastic welcome. With the charming inconsistency t the sex, Winifred was terribly chagrined on discovering that he was really gone. "He" is disgusted with me he will not bear my unworthy treatment of him long er," she thought, bitterly. 'I love him with ail my heart, and I have lost him!" CHAPTER XV. The weeks rolled on and the London season was at its height. Drawing rooms, concerts, balls, operas, fetes champetres, flower shows and garden parties went on as usual to make up the sum of the gay world's pleasures and disappointments. Mrs. Clayton one of many, perhaps had been leading a life of fitful, feverish hap piness for the last month. She did not dare to think a pause of retrospection would either stud her headlong down the precipice that, was pawning at her feet or make her fly froiii it. altogether. And yet she was so unparJonably weak that she hesitated and could not bring herself to break' off all intercourse with Col. d'Aeuilar. : -.- 4 .As it "to araWthS tast" plank' Valety' away from his wife, Mr. Clayton treated her daily worse. He left letters in her way that could not fail to mortify her. If they went out together he made a point of' keeping her waiting. He never open ed his lips to speak to her unless he was positively obliged, and then his , words were Bneers and taunts. He paid other women the most extravagant compli ments and attention-. In short, but for Col. d'Aguilar's presence and sympathy. Fee's life would have 'been unendurable. They met constantly. One of the'entertainmeats that was in- ! tended to rank among the first of the season, was a garden party given by the Honorable Mrs. ivian Lynedon at her beautiful villa on the banks of the river. Xo expense was to be spared ; amuse- S inent of every imaginable kind was to be provided; and the whole was to end in a ! display of such costly fireworks as were rarely seen, and a dance. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton were invited. At the last mo ment he declined to go, and his wife went without him. He did not attempt to pre vent her. Col. d'Aguilar was to be there; "I will not spoil the sport," he said to himself, with a smile that would have be come Mephistopheles. All her friends were there, all but one. at least, and at first it was with a. sense of relief that she missed him. But hour after hour wore on. and there was no sign of Col. d'Aguilar. First she felt restiess. then a little impatient, then angry, and then she could have cried for the bitter ness of the disappointment. It was four days since she had seen him, and then he told her distinctly that he intended to be there. , - T . Fee s:ft down wearily on the edge of one of the seats. Suddenly she heard a voice pronounce her name, and a quick thrill of pleasure went to her-heart. He had come at last! She forgot "her anger, her impatience, and the weary" hours she had spent waiting for him, and looked up with a glad smile. "At last!" she said. "I had given you up long ago. I am so tired of all this," she added, in a whisper; "let us walk a little."- And then she ' perceived that he was slightly lame. "Then it is true, what some one told me, that you have sprained your ankle?" she uttered hastily. "That kept you away and it hurts you to walk." x "Not at all," he answered; "it is noth ing. That did not keep me away." "What, then?" Fee asked, quickly. Col. d'Aguilar was silent. s , "What kept you away?" she repeated. "I do not think I can tell you, Mrs. Clayton." "Do tell me," she whispered, pressing his arm ever so slightly. "I tried very hard to make a sacrifice," he answered slowly, "and I failed." "What sacrifice." "The sacrifice of my heart's desire to your peace." Fee trembled and was silent. "See!" she said, "the fireworks are be ginning," and at that moment a blaze of light shot forth into the skies and seemed to illumine the whole garden and river. There was a rustic garden bench standing in a niche of arbutus and laurel. "Let us sit down," Mrs. Clayton said. "I know your foot pains you." "I was so disappointed when you did not come," Fee said presently.- "I had just made up my mind to send for the carriage and go home. I came alone, you know."..; ' '"'"' .''' .';.'"' "Alone? I thought Mr. Clayton was to be here?" ' "He would not come. I think he would do anything rather than spend an hour in my company," she added bitterly. I can not go on living like this," she-broke out presently. "My life is a torment to me. You told me once I should bo miserable if I married him are you glad your words have come true?" "Mrs. Clayton, what do you take me for?" he cried, moved to passion. "I glad glad that you, whom I love with heart, soul and strength, are tied to a brute who makes your life a pandemo nium upon earth glad that you are part ed hopelessly from me, and that I cannot lawfully stir a finger to help you when I am ready to lay down my life for you". "Forgive me!" Fee said, quickly; "I did not mean it. I feel so bitter so mad sometimes I scarcely know what I say." "Mrs. Clayton," he answered hoarsely, "you must not say these things to me. My blood is on fire at your wrongs and your misery. ""You forget how badly, how hopelessly I love you!"'. . "I weighed your love in the balance with Mr. Clayton's money once," she said slowly, "and my choice has broken my heart. I am twenty. I have no hope in the world," and an agonized sigh broke from her. "I know that after to-night I dare not see you any more. If I had been good or wise enough to remember my duty, and keep from speaking of my mis ery to you, we might have gone on meet ing as we have done. To-night we shall part forever." - . . "Do not say that, Mrs. Clayton. How can I leave you to that man's brutality?" "How can you protect me from it?" she asked sadly. He rose to his feet suddenly and stood before her as pale as death. "Will you never - be convinced," he said, passionately, "that my love for you is beyond self-seeking, beyond doubt? If- you will it so, I will never seek you again after to-night." "I think I am not well to-night I am over-tired," she said, recovering herself; if yeu will have my carnage sent for, I will go home." He went at once and did not return to her until it was ready; then he gave her his arm and led her away without an other word. She never looked at him as he put her into her carriage, and wish ed her a grave good-night; but when the door was closed, and they had passed through the gates, she threw herself back in a corner and sobbed such tears as she had never "wept from the hour she was born Until now. There were lights in the dining room when she returned, and she would have entered it, but the foot man stood in the way with a frightened face. ; "Not in there, if you please, ma'am; master dined at home, and has a party of gentlemen.' At that moment there was a clinking of glasses, and a . sound of laughter, in which a shrill peal of a woman's voice was distinctly audible. ' Mrs. Clayton stood for a moment as if turned to stone; then she went upstairs without a word. It was evident, she had not been expected home so early. She was too stupefied to think. It seem ed as if some heavy blow had fallen on her. and she scarcely realized it or knew What t "waHermindWaS exhiusted, and she slept heavily. The next day when she rode in the park, as usual, every one said: ' - - - "How terribly ill Mrs. Clayton looks! She should not go out so much, or sh will be dead before the end of the sea son." -- "Dear Fee." said Winifred, riding up, "what ails you you look worn out?" "I think yesterday- was too much for me,". Mrs. Clayton answered. "Stop my horse, ' Winifred!" and Mrs. Clayton seemed for a moment to reel in her sad dle. Winifred caught the bridle, and stopped her own horse. "Oh, Lord Harold!" she cried suddenly to the gentleman who rode beside her, "go to the other side of Fee. and hold her up: she is fainting." ''-.. la a moment he had his arm round her, and had lifted her into the saddle, from which she had partly slipped. Mrs. Clay ton recovered herself almost immediately. "Thank you," she said, with. a ghastly attempt at a smile: "a sudden giddiaess. Take me home Winifred, will you?" - : "Yes, darling.". Mrs.. Clayton remained the whole day on the sofa, scarcely speaking. Winifred would not leave her for a moment. She bathed her forehead, and watched and soothed her when she turned on her sido and moaned. " "It is my 'head, my head." she mur mured now and again. ,"1 think I am go ing mad." And hen Winifred thought it time to send for a physician. "It is a nepvous attack," he said, when he had seen her: "the brain seems to have been overexcited. In a day or' two Mrs. Clayton will beqnite herself again." . (To be continued.) A DISAPPEARING STREAM. The Dry Fork of Ashley Creek, la North we "tern Utah. Some curious revelations ' are being made by the United states geological survey. A recent report from C. T. Prall, one of the hydrographers of the survey, has reported the existence of a - stream whose water, in the summer season, entirely vanishes midway in its course. The river is known as the Dry Fork, a small stream in northwestern Utah, tributary to Ashley creek. About four teen miles from its source in the Uinta mountains this stream reaches a large basin or sink whose walls are from 75 to 100 feet high, except on the up stream side. The pool is apparently bot tomless, and the water in jkt revolves with a slow, circular motion, caused either by the incoming waters or by suction from below, or both. The only visible outlet to this pool is a narrow rock channel, from which a little water flows, but Is soon lost to sight a few hundred yards below. A measurement of the main stream just above the pool showed - a" volume of 96 cubic feet of water passing each second, but this en tire flow disappears in the basin, and the stream bed for miles below is per fectly dry- About seven miles - below this interesting pool were found several springs, one of. them in a large hole twenty-five feet in diameter and twenty feet deep, which' at times are empty and again filled with water.. It is thought that the water which disap pears in the upper pool flows under ground deep below in the gravels which form the bed of the stream, and in times : of rainfall heavier than" usual appears again , in part in the large springs below. Atlanta Constitution, DESCRIBED BY PEN AND CAMERA BOOK THAT TELLS OF THE WASHINGTON Not a Lot of Dry Rot Rubbish and Figures That Repel But an Attractive Story About This Land We Love Written by a Railroad Man Who Gave His Work Originality and Strong Narrative Interest, With Illustrations That Catch the Eye and Help to Impress the Truth, "Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Their Resources," this year issued jointly by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and the Southern Pacific Company (lined in Oregon) is just oft the press. The book was compiled by Rinaldo M. Hall, li is the best work on immigration ever issued in the interest of the Pacific-' Northwest, and clearly demonstrates that those railroad compan ies are doing good work in helping to build up the three Northwest era gems in the union of states. It contains 88 pages, 27 of which are fine half-tone pictures. Every industry in the Pacific North west is given attention and the story of each industry is so told that it is convincing. The first chapter is devoted to "The Pacific Northwest" In general, the opening paragraph following: ; ' Land of Promise and Opportunity. "Every year is a memorable one in the Pacific Northwest Oregon, Wash ington and Idaho. .- Nowhere in the entire world is there such a land of promise and opportunity. Prosperity, plenty, happiness and contentment are seen on every 1 hand tnroughout the great section, where millions of acres of government land are yet un taken .and where several acres of as good, Improved land can be bought for the price of one in Illinois, Wis consin, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and other states. It Is the mecca of the home seeker and investor, and so great has been the influx of new comers the past few years that the industrial condi tions have been completely changed and the outlook entirely revolution ized." " Plenty of Good Land for New Settlers. The second chapter is devoted to "Homes for Millions." In this the number of acres of government land untaken at the close of the fiscal year, June 30. 1902. are , given. Those un acquainted with the government land question In Oregon will be surprised to know that during the year there were more public lands, entered and disposed . of in Oregon than in any state west of the Rocky mountains. In spite of all this .there yet remained at the close of . the. ficcal year 31,872. 671 acres homes for millions, : to be had for the mere noJiing. the new set-, tiers havjng for f.eigfebtes- active and thrifty : people, who came . originally from those parts of the United States where systematic industry, on pro ductive lines, has long been establish ed and actively developed. The un taken. tracts lie In every part of the state and include lands of all kind.? and classes, adapted to all purposes. This chapter in the book will be of incalculable value to those who rej ceive inquiries concerning govern ment land and how to obtain it, as especial pains have been taken to point out to the inquirer how all these lands are secured. Children Hay Enjoy Best School Advantages. The third chapter Is devoted to Oregon. Washington and Idaho in gen eral. "School Advantages," is the fourth, and one of the new chapters in the book. , A long' felt want was supplied when . this chapter was in troduced in the publication, for if there is one thing that interests a newcomer above all others it is whether or not the chances for edu cating his children are good. In Ore gon the' state constitution makes gen erous provision for a complete educa tional system. . from the kindergar tens through the university, and those unacquainted with the educational re cord in Oregon will be surprised and interested to know that so . thorough has the school work been carried on in' the state that it is a statistical fact that Of sgon stands third from the .top in freedom from illiteracy, with a per centage of 99.58 of a possible 100, only being surpassed by Nebraska with . a ' percentage of 99.66, and Iowa, with, 99.63. Washington and Idaho also stand near the top. The citizens of these states, ac cording to the above, point with pride to these figures, and justly so. for no more fitting monument could stand. as evidence of the fact that the early pioneers' who came here first, and settled in the country , were pro gressive and energetic in building right foundations : for the continued intelligent growth and progress of the future great states. Not So Much Rain After All. , ; : Ore'gon's delightful climate is well Fortunes in .Needed Inventions. ; Have you an inventive mind? If so, you have a fortune in your head if you only knew how to get It out. Here's your chance. Here are thirteen things the world needs, for either one of which it will pay you a fortune: , A wall-papering machine. , ; , A quick-acting monkey-wrench. A rail joint without nuts and bolts. A scrubbing machine. . , A cuspidor that will not spill when upset. . A-4rolley that will not come off the wire. '. ' An oil can that will not explode. A quick fire-hose coupling without screw threads. Combination ironing-board and step- ladder. . ' . ' A music leaf turner. . A window lock and burglar alarm.' An envelope that cannot be opened without detection. -A Simple nut lock. Atlanta Journal. All some city people ' Inow la whether their part of town Is reached by a, green or yeUow car. Don't make the ' mistaSe of ca-llins every little pebble in your patl your Waterloo- . RESOURCES OF OREGON AND IDAHO told in the next chapter, . interesting tables for the months of June and July being given; also another table which shows that . the annual precip itation for Portland, Or., for the past 31 years was 38.52, while that of Bos ton was 41.28', New York 43.01, and other eastern cities surprisingly as high. 'Soil" and "Grain Growing' are each given separate chapters, tht following paragraph from the chapter on "Grain Growing' being of espec ial Interest: Cost of Wheat Production. "The cost of wheat production in the Inland Empire is relatively so much jess and the yield so far ahead of many much advertising and boast ed sections of the United States, that actual Teturns from harvest fields are often discredited by those who have not visited the region. Under date of -November 8, 1902, Mr. John Car penter, of Forest River. N. D., writes that the yield Jn the Red River Val ley for the year 1902 was from 5 to 35 bushels per" acre; that the cost of raising a 35-bushel bumper crop was $7.50 per acre,and that wheat at that day was worth 60 cents per bushel, which means that the net profit from an acre of wheat land in the Red Riv er Valley that yielded 35 bushels in 1902 was $13.50. In the - great Inland Empire The cost of raising an acre of wheat ready for market is between $5 and $7. Assuming that it Is $7.50 per acir:-whichceoECiBg tUEUcbara.Mc. Gahey, of Walla Walla, authority on the subject, never exceeds that amount, in the case of Samuel Drumheller.whe, in 1902, from the uplands of Eastern Washington, raised 10,560 bushels from 160 acres, an average of 66 bush els per acre, at the market price, 65 cents per bushel, means a net profit of $5664, or $35.40 per acre, nearly three times, the profit of that from an acre in the . Red River Valley. To Bruce Ferrell, in the same county, ;who threshed 23,250 bushels from 420 acres, an average of 56 bushels per acre, - it means a net profit of $11, 962.50. or $28.25 per acre." Chapter on Irrigation. There is an interesting chapter or "Grasses and Forage Plants," "Dairy ing," "Stockraising," "Fruit Culture, "Vegetable Products," "Hopraising, "Lumber Industry," "Mining," "Fish and Fishing," and "Irrigation." This chapter on irrigation will be of - es pecial interest to the people of East ern Oregon. The figures in this chap ter bring out some surprising facts. One chapter is devoted to Portland, and as is the custom of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, this city is given special prominence. Spokane is also given a special chap ter in above. Another new chapter is that on "Markets." the wonderful de mand and Oriental field being pointed Cut. Citapter 21 is demoted to "Rail roads." In the back of the book, un der "Condensed Information, a short paragraph is devoted to each town along the Oregon Railroad & Naviga tion Company, and the Southern Pa cific linos in Oregon. A splendid map of Oregon, Washington and Idaho is also in the back of the book. Copie3 of this splendid publication can be secured by sending four cents in stamps to A. L. Craig, General Pas senger Agent, Oregon Railroad & Nav igation Company, or W. E. Coman, G. F. & P. A., Southern Pacific, Port land. Oregon. Get the book and read it. - Send it to some Eastern or South ern friend. , Then do so again and again, in the cases of other Eastern and Southern friends. A Man of Business. The angry father kicks the young man from the front steps. "Sir," says the young man, picking himself up, "I would like to call your attention to the goods handled by my house. ; We make the best line of soft rubber soles and heels that you can find anywhere." ' " Father goes back into the house, rub bing his chin and wondering whether bing his chin and wondering whether, after all, -he has not made a mistake in refusing to welcome so great a" busi ness genius into his family.- Judge, v Wisdom in Crimson Gnlch. ; "Do you think it polite," said the fool ish stranger jn Crimson Gulch, "for. a man to sit in his shirt sleeves and play cards all day?" . "Yes, sir," answered Three Finger Sam; "and maybe It will be for your ojwn good to remind you that the fewer sleeves a man has on when he plays cards around here the less liable be is to fail ; under suspicion." In thepe days of paternal indulgence of children, girls are as self-willed in their choice of a. man as they were' in picking out a doll their parents couldn't afford. irws-sawn ,t iw - ir rw ,J , ' V in IDQINGSOrWi Mother Wisdom. Perhaps a bit of personal experience may be interesting to some one. I am one of the many busy mothers and housekeepers whose work is ' never, done, and finding awhile ago that the monotony of my life was causing me po grow morbid, I tried to think of some way in which I could vary my work, and thus get the change which was so evidently needed. Before the children came I had taken great enjoyment in music and English literature, but both had been sadly neg lected of recent years, owing to other demands upon my, time and strength. I therefore decided that every morn ing after the chambers were put air ing, the dishes washed, and the chil dren started for .achoofc I would sit down at the piano and practice for fifteen minutes on some of the pieces which I had played years before, as new pieces would be discouraging. Then, after dinner, I cleared the ta ble, and before attacking the army of dishes which always awaits the house keeper's unwilling hands at that hour, I lay down on the couch, and instead of reading the daily paper, whose rec ords of murders, suicides and defalca tions Is so depressing, I selected one of the poets whose works had given me much pleasure in my school days, and spent half an hour in his society. The result after a few days was noticeable. While at work on the dishes before mentioned, strains of music from the practice of the morning, or a thought from the poem read at noon, would float through my mind, affecting me so pleasantly that I have decided to con tinue the custom indefinitely. If we wish to . train our children aright, .we must have beautiful thoughts, but as the springs in the mountains would fail to supply the brooks were it not, for the rains, so our springs of thought will become, ex hausted unless they are occasionally replenished. 7 Bible reading with the children for five minutes, .every morning . smooths things for the day wonderfully, and they grow so accustomed to it as to ask for it themselves if it should by chance be forgotten. Better by far omit some of the end less dusting and putting to rights than to starve our minds by neglecting to use some of the beautiful things God has given us to nourish them. All may not care for poetry and music, but' we all can appreciate a half -hour's rest, and most of us like reading of some kind. A complete change of thoughts is what is necessary if we are to rest. I hope some tired mother will try the plan mentioned, and reap the benefit which will surely come from it if she ts persistent. Mrs. Marian L. Ward In Home Science Magazine. Heauwork Good Exerciae. There are plenty of women who scorn housework but are devoted to gymnasiums. Now the best of all round. Indoor exercise is to be found in the manifold duties of housekeep-v ing. Bedmaklng, sweeping, dusting, even cooking, bring more than one set of muscles into play, and none of them is more destructive to the beauty of the hands than gymnasium work and outdoor games. We are not advocat ing the performing of all the home du ties, without assistance of any kind, but of parts of them. Of course if you have a liking for the work, and the strength, do it all if you want to, but this is not advisable unless lack of money is the inducement. There are so many ways in which time can be profitably spent. ; . Woman Get Gjod Appointment. The United States War Department has announced that Miss Floy Gil more has been appointed Assistant Attorney- General for the gov ernment in the Phil ippine Islands. Miss Gilmore is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A: M. Gilmore of Elwood, Ind., and is 24 years of age. She was graduated from the law school of the University of wV Michigan and ad- ( v mitted to the bar f ago. She went to miss gilmobe. the Philippines as stenographer, and by good work has won a distinction never before attained by a woman. For Those Tiresome Momenta. While you are arranging the parlor Just have a thought for the visitors who might sometimes wait to see you, and carefully refrain from . putting every object of interest beyond their reach. Of course, as a careful host ess, you never mean to keep callers waiting; but If -they come when the baby is on the eve of dropping to sleep or you are in the midst of plan ning dinner with the cook, you must delay a little, while they are reduced to staring out of the window or to an involuntary effort to penetrate some magnificent household secret. vThe family photograph album is us ually regarded as a sufficient resource In . moments like these; but Is there not something akin to Indelicacy . in allowing strangers and ordinary ac- Warn . , quaintances to turn over the likenesse of our nearest and dearest perhaps to criticize them with the freedom of on familiarity or the indifference natural to a lack of personal appreciation? The late magazines, a book of good engravings, a household volume of poatry, photographs of foreign scenes, and a dozen other things are all good aids to the occupation of stray min utes. Moreover,' they often suggest to the visitor and the host topics of con versation more profitable and interest ing than the state of the weather or the history of the kitchen. Philadel phia Inquirer. The Snvinar Women. If we are to believe the old proverb which says that "saving's good earn ing," then the earning capacity of wo men always has been greater than that of men. ' ' On, the saving women of this world! The women who sit up late making over last season's clothes to save buy- ' Ing new ones; the women who stealth ily tiptoe across the floor to turn down the gas when papa dozes over his news paper; the women who darn huge holes in basketfuls of stockings; the women who have a cracked teapot or old pocket book into which they drop ' stray dimes and quarters, taking the accumulation to the savings bank with guilty secrecy; the women who wash out pieces of carpet to make them ap pear fresh and new, who turn the trimmings on their bats and clean their gloves with gasoline, and cut down the clothes of Willie, . aged 14, to fit Jimmie, aged 30. Bless them, every one! There is another sort of saying which might properly be termed hoarding. It consists in laying down rugs to prevent 1 the nap of the carpet from wearing, in putting paper covers on prettily bound books, in locking up the little girl's French doll. We read the other day . of a woman who made a plush cover for the rosewood piano, and a linen cover for the plush, and a newspaper mat for the lrnen;-'5' We hope' there are "not many' women like her. In this sort of saving there is often an admixture of folly. There is yet another kind. Saving car fare at the cost of an exhausted body, saving lunch money and "skimping" the table, just as if you could cheat nature without incurring retribution saving the price of eyeglasses at the cost of impaired or perhaps destroyed eyesight; saving money earned, by the severe overtsralning of mental and, physical powers. Woman is not al ways wise in her economies, we fear, but the verb "to save" is certainly feminine. Philadelphia Ledger. Must Mary a German. Mary Schmidt, of Peoria, 111., whose ; father left her a fortune on condition, that she marry a German, has already ' received a score of . offers from eligible young men of, the " Kais?r's domain, :. but she i has not made a choice. One. of her most ardent idm'rers is a young Frenchman, and it is "whispered that Mary may yet con- ; elude that wealth is not really neces sary to happiness ' after all. . MARY SCHMIDT. When to Accept. Discussing the all-important subject of proposals, the author of "How to Choose a Husband" remarks: ' "The ' first thing in choosing the husband is : to realize what sort of man you ought : not to choose. My advice to all girls is, first, to refuse at all hazards the man who proposes at a dance, because there is a glamour about a ballroom,' and men often say at a dance what ; : they wish unsaid the following morn-, ing. At picnics,' what with washing up, carrying baskets and opening bot ties, girls cannot only judge of a man's ' character,, but it will be quite safe to accept a proposal made at one, espe cially if it is made before luncheon." Kasiljr Done. V When an aggravating little hole sud- . 1 denly appears in an agate or porcelain-lined stew - pan, do not throw it away as past redemption. ' Take one of the round-headed paper fasteners, such as lawyers or teachers are in the habit of using to keep the sheets of a manuscript together, push the "two level flap-clips through the hole from the inside, bend back on the outside, then laying the basin on a hard sur- ' face, hammer the round head down flat -on the inside. It requires but a mo- . ment's work and your dish is as good a new." ' A Weddinjf Breakfast. A wedding repast served any time before. 1 o'clock would be called a wedding breakfast. The usual menu ' for a simple wedding breakfast is any. , cold sliced tawl, with creamed oysters ' or a salad on the same plate; a variety of thin sandwiches, and then Ices or " frozen pudding, with small cakes and ' ' coffee. -. No Chance to Talk. ' Mrs Gumms Does . your husband ever talk of his mother's cooking? Mrs. Gobang Not a word. His fath er died of dyspepsia. Brooklyn Life.