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Little. Mories ar.
Incidents that Will
Interest and Enter
tain Young Readers
Little Pad and the Bumblebee.
A round little lnd stuck bis nose one day
In a hollyhock big and red
That leaned o'er the walk in inviting
way
Just over his curly brown head.
He stood on his toes and poked in his
nose
To take o fits sweets a good smell.
But quickly he stopped and on the walk
dropped
With a lusty and agonized yell.
Torth from the flower a big bumblebee
Came booming and buzzing like mad,
Resentful and angry mostly plainly was
he
At Pud Boy, the round little lad.
To have a fat boy poke In and annoy
A bee at a feast, I suppose,
Arouses his ire, and so, all afire.
He stings the fat boy on the nose.
.And little Pud Boy, when bis hurt was
well
And gone was the terrible pain.
Remembered, and into a flower's cell
His nose never ventured again;
In fear he would flee at th sight of a bee
As fast as be could from the spot;
And then he would say in very wise way:
" 'At bug's little foots is too hot!"
Brooklyn Eagle..
lng forms In which paper may be cut
and folded Is shown in the accompany
ing article from the Scientific Ameri
can. If a flat strip of paper be taken, and
Its ends pasted together to form a ring
and It be then cut along Its center line,
two similar but entirely separate rings
will be formed, unconnected In any
way. If. however, the paper be twisted
as Illustrated In the uppermost view,
and Its ends be pasted together to form
a ring with a single twist In It, this
ring, when cut along Its center line,
will form two rings, one looped wfthln
Boyi Are Greet Apple Eater.
What would the boy of to-day do
without apples? Wherever you see a
lot of apples there are sure to be boys
around ready to devour them, and no
boy considers life worth living unless
his pockets are bulging full of the fruit.
The fruit-eating proclivities of the
:boy has little reference to the state of
'.his appetite. Whether he be full of
meat or empty of meat he wants the
.apple Just the same. Before meal or
after meal It never cames amiss. The
farm boy munches apples all day long,
He has nests of them In the hay mow,
mellowing, to which be makes ' fre
quent visits. Sometimes old Brlndle,
having access through the open doors,
smells them out and makes short work
of them. " 1 "
The genuine apple eater, comforts
himself with an apple in their season
as others with a pipe or cigar. When
be has nothing else to do or Is bored
he eats an apple, sometimes several of
them. When he takes a walk he arms
Irftnself with apples. His traveling bag
Is full of apples. He offers an apple to
bis companion and takes one himself.
They are his chief solace when on the
:road. He tosses the core from the car
window and from the top of the stage
coach. He would In time make the land
-one vast orchard. ..He. dispenses with
a knife. He prefers his teeth shall have
the first taste. Then he knows the best
flavor Is Immediately beneath the skin,
.and that In a pared apple this Is lost.
If you will stew It by all means leave
the skin on. It Improves the color and
vastly heightens the flavor of the dish.
The apple Is a masculine fruit, hence
women are poor apple eaters. It belongs
to the open air and requires an open-
air taste and relish.
New Wrinkles In Paper.
The great variety of articles, from
car-wheels to candle-shades now menu
factured out of paper, has suggested
the name "Paper Age" for the present
time. One of the amusing and Interest
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A RISING TEMPERATURE BRINGS
OUT LIGHT COLOR&
White Street Riga Not Much Been
Now, but Will Be Plentiful Eaouith
Bjr-and-By Tailor Oowna Not Eo
Much Trim mad.
SEPARATE AND LOOPED BINDS.
Binte for Homemakera.
"In my one-servant establishment,"
says a housekeeper, "I have discover
ed by experimenting that the weekly
wash Is lessened by the use of a Dare
table at breakfast and luncheon".
Square linen plate dollies ars at each
cover, two larger ones, also square, lie
diamond-wise through the center of
the table. Between their points Is a
smaller round or square dolly upon
which stands the centerpiece of ferns
or other growing plants. I buy the
hem-stitched dollies for both the plates
and centerpieces, as they are much
?osler laundered than 'the fringed
ones, keeping, however, one set of the
latter, which are prettier, for use If a
friend spends the' night or drops in to
luncheon. In this way one tablecloth
lasts about five days, which allows
only three In two weeks to be laun
dered. The small doilies are more easi
ly laundered than, a tablecloth, and
more satisfactorily turned out at the
hands of the Inexperienced laundress.
To protect the table I have cut from
sheets of asbestos, pieces round, square
or oblong, as the case may be, to fit
under the various dollies. A little rub
bine of the table with a flannel cloth
twice a week keeps It In perfect con
dltiou, and, the arrangement Is much
liked by the household. A nouseaeep
lng friend has made herself for the
Bame use two or three sets of blue
denim plate mats and centerpieces,
the other as shown In the third and
fourth views.
Perplexing as this may seem at first
glance, the explanation Is quite simple.
We may consider the upper edge of Tne plate mats are round and are fln
the paper strip as one ring, and the.ished with a white buttonholing. The
lower edge as the other. Now follow
ing the edges of the twist as shown
In the second view, It Is evident thut
one edge has been twisted completely
around the other edge; or, In other
words, one edge or ring has been passed
through the other ring, which wheu
cut apart forip two lnterlopped rings.
In contrast to these offenders, there
It the less aggressive type who la her
self the leader of a little knot of fol
lowers who are not so accomplished.
or so happily situated not so popular
and leas authoritative than herself. In
all. these cases one finds that the leader
speedily degenerates Into a prig or a
tyrant, and the followers, from being
devotees, become, by normal stages,
critics, malcontents, secret rebels, and.
eventually, defiant enemies. In the
early stage of the formation of one of
these social coteries, the followers sit
around an Idol, and giggle or stare
during her encounters wtth any person
not of that curious circle, A wise moth
er would check the beginnings of this
practice, ' which ' can be seen even at
little children's parties, where nurses.
governesses and fond elders apparently
combine to distort the sweetness and
the lnnooense of their young charges
Into mincing pretentiousness. John
Oliver Hobbes, In Success.
centerpiece Is a large enough diamond
to cover the whole center, and is simi
larly buttonholed around the edge. For
the glass water pitcher a round lac
quer tray which Just holds It Is used.
Margaret Hamilton Welch In Harper's
Bazar.
Immediate Reanlte.
One day my little brother insisted on
staying out in the rain. On being asked
why he did not come In he said:
"I have to get watered so I'll grow."
Next day he said: "Yesterday I was
only up to my nose and I've grown to
the top of my head In the night, be
cause I stayed out In the rain." -
Aa He Waa Called.
Our neighbor, little Arthur, aged.
three, was a notorious little runaway.
On being asked his name, he always
Insisted that It was Baby. "But," said
I one day, "what does mamma call
you?"
He replied with great earnestness,
"Arfur tumhere!"
Failed to Take the Hint.
One evening my aunt had company.
and when her little boy's bedtime came
she said:
"Well, good-night, sweetheart."
The child looked at her a moment and
then answered:
"Why,-mamma, are you going to bed
already?"
A Popnlona Line.
Teacher In History, to Harry, who
was not paying attention:
"How was the 'Mason and Dixon' line
settled?"
Harry, sleepily: "Very thickly set
tled."
FINANCIAL CONCERNS ARE GROWING IN
NUMBERS AND AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.
SOME recently published statistics attest the surprising growth of na'
tlonal banks and savings banks In the United States. In 1864 there
were fewer than 000 national banking associations and their aggre
gate capital was considerably less than $100,000,000. At the end of
1865 the aggregate resources of the national banks, which then numbered
1,513. amounted to less than $1,360,000,000.
Now let us look at the returns made to the Comptroller of the Currency
on Oct. 1, 1902. At that date the national banks numbered 4,601 ; their total
-capital Btock was over $714,000,000 and their aggregate circulation $380,
OUU.uOO. , Their aggregate resources amounted to $6,114,000,000. The face
value of United States bonds now held by national banks Is about $457,
000,000 and the individual deposits exceed $3,200,000,000. The amount of
money paid into the federal treasury since 1863 by the national banks as
taxes on circulation, capital, deposits, surplus, etc., reaches $170,000,000. We
;add that the number of shareholders In the national banks Is 830,124, to
which total the New England States and Middle States, Including under
the last-named term New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land and the District of Columbia, contributed more than 226,000 individuals.
Obviously the national banks ars organized and supported by the rela
tively rich. Turning to the savings banks, which are Intended for the rela
tively poor, we observe that the aggregate deposit fa these institutions In
creased In the five years preceding Oct 1. 1902, from $1,940,000,000 to $2,
640,000,000. In the same period the number of depositors rose from 5,200,000
to 6,400,000. This Is an astonishing exhibit when we consider that In many
States the savings of the poor are Invested in the stock of building asso
ciations. It should also be noted that the federal government, through the
money orders Issued by its postal department In 1902, did a banking business
-of upward of $313,550,000. Harper s Weekly.
. "Him Breltmann" and Bret Hart.
The late Charles K. Leland. In his
chatty and Interesting memoirs, tells
is that all the principal "Hans Brelt
mann" poems, except the "Barty" and
"Breitniann as a Politician," were
merely written to fill up letters to a
friend, and that he kept no copies of
them; in fact, utterly forgot them.
By his friend they were published In
a sporting paper. "The public," he
says, "found them out long before I
lid and it is not often that It gets
ahead of a poet In appreciation of his
own work." Bret Harte appears to
have gone through the same experience,
for Leland relates that one evening
after dinner, at the house of Mr.
Truebner, when "Bret Harte was ask
ed to repeat the 'Heathen Chinee,' he
could not do so, as he had never learn
d It, which la not smb. an unusual
thing by the way, as many suppose."
ine confusion Into which many other
wise well-Informed persons fell with
regard to the personality of these two
writers was often very ridiculous, for
Instance, "an elderly gentleman went
rushing about asking to see or be in
troduced to Hans Bretmann, whose
works he declared he knew by heart."
London Chronicle.
Slighted Opportunities.
"Some folks," said Meandering Mike,
"hasn't any ambition at all."
"What's de trouble?" inquired Plod
ding Pete.
"A lot o dese New York detectives
has been walkln' into millionaire'
houses to see whether dey could be
burglarized. An after seeln' how easy
It Is dey're goin' to go right along be-
in' detectives." Washington Star.
Bridal wreaths of orange blossoms
were first used by the Arabs. As the
orange bears fruit and flower at the
same time it is considered to be an
emblem of prosperity.
A Roumanian girl on seeing the new
moon invokes her thus: "New queen!
In health thou hast found me, In
health leave me.. Thou hast found me
unwed, leave me with a handsome
husband."
In Toledo the Board Of Aldermen
has made a rule that henceforward
women shall be debarred from 'em
ployment as clerks or stenographers In
the service of the city. The places are
wanted for voters.
The first needle used In England was
made In Queen Mary's reign by a ne
gro, who unfortunately died before Im
parting the secret to any one. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth the art of
needleuiaking was rediscovered by a
German, who imparted it to an En
Housewives in.' Florida scrub their
floors with oranges. In almost every
towu In the orange-growing district
women may be seen using oranges for
scouring. The fruit la cut in half and
the exposed pulp Is rubbed on the floor.
The acid of the orange cleanses thor
oughly and after tho application the
boards will be as white as the most
particular critics could desire.
To One Woman.
You say that you are but a woman you
W bo are bo very wonderful to me.
You tell me there is little you can do.
- Little, indeed, that all the world can
- aee
There are not battles on the open plain
That you can fight as I, a man, can
. fight;
But who shall say your life is lived in
vain,
, If all my darkened days you have kept
light?
Oh, little woman-heart, be glad, be glad
That you are what God made you!
Well I know
How you have nerved me when the day
waB sad,
And made me better yea, and kept
me so!
Be very glad that you In your white
place,
Your little home, with folded hands
can be
A silent influence to whose source I trace
The little good there ever was in me.
To bo a woman! Is there any more
That you have need to be from day to
day?
How wonderful to have your heart, your
store
Of purity nnd goodness and to say
"One that I love is nobler since 1 came;
One that loves me is better for my
sake."
A woman! Oh, there Is no greater name
That ever on the mortal tongue shall
wake!
Windsor Magazine.
Tha Healthful Turkteh Bath.
Turkish baths are out of the reach
of poor people., . who, perhaps, need
them more than their richer neighbors.
Superfluous flesh can be kept down by
a weekly Turkish bath and many af
flictions like rheumatism and neural
gia will sometimes disappear In Its
warmth and moisture. For women
'with weak circulation there is noth-
New York correspondence:
FEW warm days
have shown that
women actually
have bought and
had made up into
street rigs the ex
tremely light col
ored fabrics with
which the counters
have becu covered
for months. True,
not so much white
is seen as yet, but
there is some of it,
and so much of the
very light shades
of gray that it is
easy to believe
that the white will
be worn plentifully
In a few weeks. The all white gowns
at present are seen more often in car
riages than on those walking, but dress
makers declare that before long such
dresses will need to be made In very
striking fashion to attract more than a
passing glance. Besides the very light
Bhades of gray, tan and dove shades
J!
Is dark. Either gray sr whit Is
almoat exclusively, else, - as on tailor
said, it would make the suit too heavy.
It is hard to see Just why a light weight
of black silk will make the jacket any
heavier than the same weight of light
silk, but the tailor knows, trust him.
The lessening of trimmings in tailor
gowns Is due to a desire to mark more
plainly the difference between street
gowns and the mure dressy attire that
may serve for calling. While the on
has become less ornate, the other attain
ed an even greater degree of delicacy
than marked It lart winter. Its sugges
tion of perishability, which in some cases
is very strong, may lie In its color or tex
ture, sometimes In both. Rarely fine
dressmaking Is going into these get-up.
Three of them are put here by the artist,
two of them In the first large picture.
The left hand one was light tan voile,
with tan antique lace sleeve puffs and
brown silk ornaments. Its companion in
the picture waa white lace net trimmed
with medaltlons of embroidered white :
linen. It hardly need be pointed that the
material here gave ample suggention of
delicacy. The third example is at the'
right in the concluding picture, and was
white crepe de chine made over white
and trimmed with black chantilly. De
spite the dressiness of this grade of at
tire, there's a considerable range in the
degrees of its complexity. Thus the first
of these three, but for its glorious sleeves,
might count as a tailor suit, while the
other two are amply fine for most wom
en's best dress-ups.
Shirt waist suits are such a tempts
tion to shoppers that it's hard to stop
once a woman haa begun ordering. To
begin with, there are so many different
DRESSY OUTDOOR GET-UPS.
To Enlighten Chinees Girl. 1
To Miss Martha Bernlnger, of Cata
wlssa, Pa., has fallen the honor of be
ing appointed the first secretary to
China by the Young
Women's Christian
Association. Her
work will be prin
cipally among the
20,000 girls employ
ed In the silk and
'ii cotion miiis or
Yl Shanghai. These
'ml girls receive 10 to
WfdmSSr' 15 cents a day for
their work. In one
village alone there
are 7,000 of these
girl mill workers.
miss berninoer. It Is planned to es
tablish an association house there and
conduct nignt schools on the same
plan as that which haa proved so suc
cessful In this country. Miss Bernla-
ger will leave for China at once.
Little Faults in Social Life.
A fault In the young Is to form some
feverish admiration for one or two par
ticular friends, often of a so-called
superior social standing. These are
referred to constantly; they are held
up as patterns, oracles and patrons.
In private circles and public places
their names are loudly mentioned In
the hope of and desire of impressing
bystanders. At bazars, In the lobbies
of theaters, at railway stations, In rail
way carriages, and, Indeed, wherever
the company may be described as
mixed, this distressing form of what
la known as brag Is very much In evi
dence. The shouting of nicknames
and Christian names at moments when.
In ordinary Intercourse, one would not
be addressing anybody, Is also done
In order to advertise some small de
gree of Intimacy wtth the well known,
abound. These, too, are very light, so
thut they are hardly more lasting than
the whites, but they are very pretty. The
newer gowns In cloth do not show quite
as many colors in their trimmings and
in It nnrt tho fppllnff of llirht- cordmgs. Self-strapping is a stynsn uu
k....,. ,, ia ish. and as good a way to finish a tailor
L , Lty . . ir own as cau be designed, because there
never duplicated until after the next flrmneM t0 BUoUBtrimming and the
Datn. cmu-n nn h mndn to fit linelr. Mixed
The skin is capable of a high polish guitings in novelty goods where gray aud
and the boast of our English sisters Is white are combined ore in favor and are
the beauty of their skin. To secure it
they discarded . sponges and soft
clothes, and substituted cocoanut fiber
and rough towels,
Even the flesh brush was brought
Into use, or rough mittens, which
forced the blood to the skin surface.
Perhaps this could not be done all
at once, because feminine bodies had
been pampered and the skin was tender.
But the polishing process, which was
begun with a soft towel, did the work
of toughening it, and then rough treat
ment was all the kind that was en-
Joyed.
serviceable stuffs. Then numerous black
and white shepherd checks are seen, both
in cloth and silk. There are very strik
ing when piped with black. Trimming
on tailor suits is not so profuse, though
the suits are far from severe. See to
day's initial for on illustration of the
stylish amount of garniture. Light gray
silk and wool aeollenne was trimmed
with black braid for this suit.
Jackets for the street show so much
diversity in cut that a woman may be
excused for being greatly puzzled over
making a selection. They vary from the
tight-fitting strapped hour-glass model,
to the loose tort resembling a man's sack
coat Some suits of the shepherd's checks
are made severely plain with three-quarters
length coat. These have a horsy,
An UntMy Petticoat.
For a petticoat that has frayed
around the bottom, cut off an Inch all
round, bind with velvet binding to
match, and Just above put a couple of
rows of narrow ribbon velvet of the
same color, and It will look as good as
new. When making a petticoat, it Is a
good plan to get an extra piece that can
be used for a new frill to put around
the bottom when the petticoat Is half
worn.
Health and lleanty.
A dally bath Is a great protection
from Infectious disease.
Hartshorn will relieve irritation or
pain caused by the stings of Insects.
The Immediate application of cold
over the site of a blow will lessen or
prevent discoloration. Raw meat, as
steak, will have a similar effect
In case of cuts wash the part, draw
the edges together and cover with ad
hesive plaster. In the case of a finger,
toe or other part easily so treated, en
circle It with the plaster. Then band
age and keep the dressing on for some
days.
Keep in your kitcnen or in some
other handy place a bottle of liniment
for use In case of burns or scalds made
of equal parts of linseed oil and lime
water, shaken together. It should be
applied Immediately the accident oc
curs. Saturate a piece of lint or soft
linen In the liniment, lay It smoothly
on the Injured part and cover well
with cotton wool to exclude the air,
This treatment will soon cause the
pain to cease and If the dressing be
undisturbed healing will Boon result
In case of severe burns or scalds al
ways send at once for a doctor, but
you will do welel to use this remedy
while awaiting his coming.
weights of materials, that really one al
most could live in shirt waist suits all
summer. White ones are to be very
stylish, and if a woman's allowance for
the laundress Is unlimited, it is feasible
to do, as one young woman declared she
should this summer, and wear nothing
but white throughout the reason. But
the amount of the weekly washing will
be startling If that course is followed. In
the whites there are thick, thin and al
most transparent materials to choose
from. Piques ond linens will make ser
viceable suits; so will madrases and
cheviots, i For extremely thin ones, the
finest of handkerchief linens are beauti
ful. These white gowns have one de
ckled advantage over colored ones In
that they can be boiled and made to look
os good as new each time they are wash
ed. Some of the delicate colors that are
pretty when freshly made will not stand
hard washing. There is so much danger
of fading out that half the time they
come back from the laundress looking
rather grimy, so are not as serviceable
In the long run as Is white.
White with a little black in It either
as dots, lines or figures is admirable, and
black and white always looks cool and
fresh in summer. A dainty suit of black'
CONTRASTED SUITS OF BLACK AND WHITE.
sporty look. On the other band, not a
few stylish gray suits are so light as to
luck character, and that Is a thing to
guard against. Sleeves of summer suit
Jackets are very large and loose at the
wrists, thus suggesting coolness. Linings
for these garments are of light shades
of silk, even where the outer material
and white linen lawn appears at the left
in to-day's concluding picture. Some
suits that come all ready to be made up
are of white, with a number of ruffles
round the bottom of the skirts, each ruffls
edged with a fancy embroidery of color.
Old papers for sale at this office, .