Vildiin for Girl. One of the greatest mistake a girl can make la to argue with herself that certain suitor li domestic by nature and will make a good and attentive husband because he prefers lounging about In the drawing room of her fa ther's house and paying her pretty compliments to taking her out to thea ters and concerts. This is the mark of the stay-at-home lover and the never-at-home husband. But for the mistaken notion that he Is a born "fireside companion," few girls would put up with such a suitor. Nothing so pleases an engaged girl as to be escorted here and there by her flance. She Is in love, and Is proud of him.. She has acquired a valuable bit of property and wants to exhibit It. She likes to Imagine all the other girls mildly envious when they see her out in public places with this big, handsome fellow, like wax In her hands. She knows that this Is the most tri umphant period of a girl's life and what is triunipir without an audience? The fact about the stay-at-home fiance Is that he Is lazy. He loves his ease. After marriage, If he finds his club more comfortable than his home, this Is the sort of man who will gravi tate back to his club life after the honeymoon. At present he cannot bear to be out of sight of the girl whose love he has gained. After his day's work Is over, and the Inner man has been fed and comfort ed, perchance he sallies forth to her home, but by no means to suggest even a walk. No. Being there, there he stays; and the drawing room contain ing the family piano having perforce to be given up to the engaged couple, many are the uncomplimentary re marks passed by future brothers and sisters-in-law, many the more or less good-natured Jeers hurled at his sweetlienrt's head afterward. Hearst's American. Chic Two-Piece Bait. Here Is a very chic two-piece suit for a miss of light green and gray plaid gingham trimmed with bands of stitch ed white linen. Both the gingham and linen should be shrunken before mak ing up. Men at Women's Work. One of the most Interesting features of census records of the number of persons above ten years of age occu pied In gainful pursuits is the revela tion of the number of men -who are doing work that properly Is within woman's province. For instance, It Is the natural and Inalloanble right of the woman to tench Kchool. So, too, nurs ing ought to be peculiarly the task of women, yet there are 12,201 male nurses. It Is indisputable that women of more or less tender age ought to monopolize stenography and typewrit ing. Yet there are men bold enough to Intrude upon 23,553 positions of the first kind and 2,753 of the second. Moreover, such Is the fancy or the fate of some males that 1,718 of them are milliners, 2,110 are dressmakers and 4,837 are seamstresses. Te FornUh a Olrl'e Room. I furnished my daughter's room very prettily at small cost 1 had an Irou bed, two old elm Irs ond on old table. I bought twenty yards of India linen at 3V4 cents a yard. For the two windows I made single window cur tains with deep rutlles. This required seven yards. I also made a cover for tho bed, with a six-inch rutlle oil around, using ten yards. With the remaining three yards I draped tho table, flnrt making a foundation cover of Uve-ceut lining, which may be ob tained in any color. I used blue.- I purchased a square mirror for $1. This was not large, but good. I pro cured a box three feet long, eighteen inches high and eighteen luchea wide for ten cents. This I covered wtth three yards of denu, which xt fifteen cents a yard, making a very nice shirtwaist box and window sent. I lined this box with a five-cent lining. I bought two and one-half yards of chlnti delft'blue predominating and made cushions for the chairs, which I bad had euauieled white at a cost of fifty cents. I fastened two Iron brackets to the wall, and placed a board twelve Inches wide on these, making a nice bookshelf. The floor of the room I covered with a delft-blue d?nim, which cost fifteen cents a yard. The walls I decorated with prints, halftones, and two watercolor pictures. The mirror was suspended from a book Immediately above the table, making a dressing table. Woman's Home Com panion. Nothing- Poetic About Mar. Some men are never poetic; others lose their poetic sense with the en croachment of years. At least that Is the opinion of a matron now past mid dle life. "The only trouble with a man is that he loses the poetic side of his nature as the years roll by," the re marked. "Now, only yesterday my husband took on the far-away look. I must confess It recalled the delightful days when he put all bis talents Into tell ing me bow charming I was and how all his life was wrapped up In me, saying It as constantly and with as many enchanting variations as even a woman could desire. "For a long time I watched him In silence. Then, at least, unable longer to bear the silence, I softly asked: 'What are you thinking about, dear?' 'I was wondering,' . he answered, 'If I shouldn't be quite safe In leaving off my winter underwear?' Now, wasn't that poetic. Yet that same iconoclastic man Is brave enough to complain at times that I have chang ed." Exchange. When Words of Wisdom Tell. "Mother, dear," said a frank young woman to her parent, who had just been giving her a lecture, "if you would only stop when you have scored your point and said what I feel Is a truth, you would make somuch more Impression, but you always go on and on, and say so much that It puts us both out of temper, and you lose all the advantage you have gained." Moral teachers alwH.vs make a mis take when they do not stop at tho right moment. Many a truth would be carried home to a culprit and do good work If it were not diluted with dis cursiveness to such an extent that Its effect becomes obliterated. But the fact Is that the generality of people talk too much about everything, them selves,' their affairs and their neigh bors. Talking never does any good, and It Is apt to do a great deal of harm. New York Tribune. Health and Beauty Hlnta. Don't tip the shoulders from side to side -when walking. It is an exceed ingly ungraceful habit Don't bend forward when talking, but hold the body erect, with the chest well arched and the hips thrown back. Don't bend over double when ascend ing a flight of stairs. Give the lungs full play, for you need plenty of breath. Never fall to consult an oculist If you find that your eyesight Is growing dim, or hesitate to wear glasses If you need them. Never fall to wash the eyes every night before retiring, so as to remove any dust that may have gathered In the lids during the day. Don't wear shoes run down at the heels and don't wear high-heeded and narrow-toed shoes. They are the in veterate enemies of grace. Don't let tartar accumulate on the teeth, for It brings a whole train of evils In Its wake. Have It removed by a dentist at least twice a year. Don't use a tooth powder which con tains gritty, acid or irritating sub stances, as the first two act Injuriously on the teeth aud the last on the gums. Don't use one side of the mouth only when eating, for then the teeth have not all the same amount of exercise, aud decay sets In more rapidly on one side than the other. Don't fall to remember this rule that in walking you should carry your self so that a plumb line, dropped from your nose, would fall just an Inch In front of your great toe. Do not allow an lufant to turn round that It may enjoy the fun of being giddy. Not only headache but fits, stupidity and even madness may be brought about by such practices. The yellow complexion, which Is the surest symptom of chronic bullous ness, will disappear, as will the cause Itself, If the victim, while bathing In the sea, swallows plenty of sea water. When trying on new shoes do so at the latter part of the day. The feet are then at their maximum size. Sum mer footgear should be fully roomy, for the heat Is apt to make the feet swell and tight Bhoes ore the cause of much suffering. To keep the hair In curl use a liquid mode as follows: Take two ounces of borax, one drachm of gum arable and a quart of hot (not boiling) water. Stir this together till tho borax and gum are dissolved and then add three tablespoonfuls of strong spirits of camphor.- Bottle and use for dampen ing the hair before curling It. When you feel fagged try the harm less stimulant of hot milk. Heat the atllk tit! a skin begins to wrinkle on the top of it and then drink it in sips. You will find It wonderfully refresh ing when you are feeling "fagged out," mid It will do you more good than the best beef tea, for hot milk. Is both nourishing and stimulating, whereas beef tea Is only the Utter. The Land of Ooahen. In the land of Goshen, lying between the Nile and the Red Sea, and famous In Biblical history as the region to which the Israelites were assigned by Pharaoh, the Egyptian government, Is now engaged In reclaiming an im mense area which haa long suffered from lack of sufficient moisture, and which was, It was supposed, rendered utterly worthless by a canal, dug by the engineers constructing the Suez Canal for the purpose of supplying fresh water for the large force of workmen. The canal was not careful ly constructed, and the seepage was of unusual proportions. .Reaching the alkaline deposits which underlie the entire area, the water brought them to the surface In such quantities as to make the soil absolutely worthless, says the Ilomcmaker. The government Is now constructing two canals at different altitudes. One will supply fresh water for irrigation, and the other will carry away the al kali drawn off the drains, which will be placed about four feet below the surface and 150 feet apart. During the first year It will be necessary to keep the surface saturated, and no crop can be grown but Immense quan tities of alkali will be washed out and Into the Red Sea. The second year a forage crop can be raised, and after that the usual crops of Egypt corn, wheat and cotton can be grown In great abundance. In the course of this work the sur- veyers discvovered the well preserved remains of an Irrigation canal, con structed by one of the Pharaohs, a description of which is given by Her odotus. The officers in charge are now working on the problem of restoring portions of the original aqueduct for the present use. The Sword of the Spirit. A youth In New Hampshire, the son of a Methodist minister, left his. fath er's house and went td live with an uncle. He forgot the God of his fath er and lived a careless life. One Sab bath morning he took his gun and started out to a neighboring mountain to spend the day In pleasure and sport On his way he met a Christian, woman going to church, who looses? on film with feelings of pity and tender com passltfa. But trt did Hot rebuke him In her own words, well knowing that one word from the Bible Is worth a hundred words of man. She' recited Id his hearing the warning of the wise man: "Rejoice, O young man, In thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk In the ways of thine heart and In the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee Into judgment." With this she went on her way. The young man also went his way, but not to shoot or to find pleasure. That word took hold upon his heart He went out to the mountain and spent the day In prayerful reflection. The words of Solomon kept ringing In his ears, "God will bring thee Into judg ment." He left off sinning and gave bis heart to God. Reaaone for Betas Holy. A man who has been redeemed by the blood of the Son of God should be pure. He who Is an heir of life should be holy.. He who Is attended by celes tial beings, and who Is soon he knows not how soon to be translated Into heaven, should be holy. Are angels my attendants? Then I should walk worthy of my companionship. Am I so soon to go and dwell with angels? Then I should be pure. Are these feet so soon to tread the courts of heaven? Is this tongue soon to unite with heav enly beings in praising God? Are these eyes of mine so soon to look on the throne of eternal glory; and on the ascended Redeemer? Then these feet, and eyes, and lips, should be pure and holy, and I should be dead to the world, and live for heaven. Albert Barnes. Bread and Water. Jesus Is not a phenomenon, he Is bread; Christ Is not a curiosity, he Is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ; if we know not Christ we are not living, our movement Is a mechanical flutter, our pulse Is but the stirring of an animal life. It Is In this way, then, that Jesus Christ Is to be preaefced. It is even so I would ever preach him. I would call him the water of life; I would speak of him as the true bread sent down from heaven; I would tell men that It is Impossible to live without him; I would say, with heightening passion, with glowing and Ineffable love, that he only, even the JPLl0G3 holy Christ of God, can satisfy the hunger and the thirst of the soul of man. Dr. Joseph Parker. A Bleaaad Bacret. It Is a blessed secret; this of living by the day. Any one can carry his burden, however heavy, Oil nightfall. Any one can do his work, however bard, for one day. Any one can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, and pure ly, till the sun goes down. And this la all that life ever really means to us Just one little day. Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's temp tations, and do not weaken and dis tract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand If you saw them. God gives nights to shut down the curtain of darkness on our little days. We can not see beyond. Short horizons make life easier, and give us one of the bless 3d secrets of brave, true, holy living. Christian Work. . Glory of the Commonplace. Life with moat of us is a simple, lowly, hidden thing, doing the same things over and over again, meeting the same people, living in the same house, and going the same round of want and work. This Is what Christ! did for thirty years. His life was made up of commonplace employ ments, enjoyments, trials, self-dendals; but In It all he was doing the Father's work and the Father's will. ' Thirty years doing little things three years doing great things! Let us find that the loftiest service of God can be done In the lowliest conditions. Let us look well to the plain and homely duties; they may turn out to be the appointed tasks of God. The Homeland of the Bible. How to da God'a Will. A teacher was explaining to her class words concerning God's angels, "Ministers of a-ls who do his pleasure," and asked, "How do the angels carry out God's will?" Many answers followed. One said, "They do It directly." Another, "They do it with all their hearts." A third, "They do It well." And after a pause a quiet little girl added, "They do It without asking any questions." Watch for tae Good. Watch for the good in others, and re joice when you have found It There are faults so glaring It Is impossible to overlook them, but loving eyes see them with regret If you find that the discovery of another's weak points gives' you the least satisfaction, you may be sure something Is radically wrong with yourself. Look for that which is kind and true and good, and rejoice over Its discovery as If you had found a treasure. What We Can Do. . Our lives are songs; God writes , the words, And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure. We must write the music, whatever the soag, Whatever Its rhyme or metre; And if it Is sad, we can -make It glad; Or if sweet, wa can make it sweeter. Matthew Arnold. THE TOWN OF SPECTACLE& The Cnrions Manner la Which an African Settlement Waa Named. John Molr built a commodious resi dence a number of years ago on the outskirts of Blantyre, In the 8 a Highlands' south of Lake Nyasea. He 1b agent of the African Lakes Com pany, which has a number of steam ers on Lake Nyassa and has proved that It Is possible to build up a pros perous business in Inner Africa with out selling spirits or firearms to the natives. The company buys Ivory and other native commodities and gives in exchange nothing but cloth, wire and other things which add to the com fort of the natives and do them no harm. , 1 Mr. Molr wears spectacles, and the natives call him Mandala, which means glass. When he erected his house they also applied the name Man dala to the bulldrag. Then Mr. Molr developed a settle ment around his private property, all devoted to the Interests of the com pany he represents. There are store houses for Ivory and other things bought from the tribes. Trade goods as they arrive from Europe are also stored here till they are sent up the lake. The place has become a very thriving settlement with several hun dred population. It did not lack a name for a single day, because the natives at once named It when the first storehouse was erected. They simply made the name Mandala embrace also the town; and now on all good maps we see a little dot and the word Mandala stand ing for the most thriving and Import ant suburb of Blantyre. The fame of Mandala is known to all who are in terested In Africa's progress, and the name it bears was given It simply be cause the founder of the town wears spectacles. New York Sun. Hla Opinion. Mrs. Peckem I wonder If a man ever does get too old to marry? Peckem Of course not Age doesn't always bring wisdom. "Notice," says a woman, "that when people don't like a man's hat, he buys another. No one likes my hat; does that give me the privilege of charging another to my husband!" lMHIHIIIUHWiWW Thistledown. When the nights are long and the dust is deep. The shepherd's at the door; BHlo, the little white woolly sheep That he drives on before! Never a sound does the shepherd make; His flock is as still as he; Under the boughs their road tker take, iuol i utiu may ue. - And one may catch on a shriveling brier, And one droD down nt th Anr And some may lag, and some- may tire, Bui ioe rest go on before. The wind is that shepherd so still and , sweet And his sheep are the thistledown; All August long, by alley and street, He drives them through tho tnwn St. Nicholas. Modern Mother Gooee Verses. I Sometime) wuVi I W fly.' Said littW tommy With:, tlffh JusT "TWink. how biff To h'm- oh! AAy. WsoM. tek Tht . liffie -piece of pi'. Stated Preciaely. Litjie Charlie went with his uncle to see the seal and the sea Hon. The seal was on free exhibition, but to see the sea lion you had to pay the large sum of 25 cents, or in Western parlance, "two bits." When Charlie returned, his older sis ter1 said to him: "Well, Charlie, what was the difference between the seal and the sea lien?" "Two bits," promptly replied Charlie. Little Jim. Marjorle and Frances were hurrying to get to the lane before little Jim caught up with them; his legs were much shorter than theirs, and he was quite a distance behind. "If we get past the turn of the road, we're all right" said Marjorle. "Jim's three years younger than I am, and he's the most awful tagger you ever saw. He might just as well go to school by the road. I've got a secret to tell you when we're 'way In the middle of the lane, Frances, where nobody can hear. It's about a party I'm going to have next week." ''0 goody!" said Frances, looking over her shoulder. They gassed the turn of the toad and ran Into the grassy lane that led to school by a roundabout way. There was no sign of little Jim behind them. Somehow Marjorle did not feel quite happy, after all, when they were in the lane. Frances grew Impatient for the secret "Hurry up and tell pie!" she whis pered, although there was nobody to hear her. ., , "Oh, 'tlsn't much," said Marjorle. "It's only that mother's going to make a puzzle cake with different things in It I don't suppose Jim could fall off the bridge, do you? It's sort of jog gly, you know, and he's so little and fat;." "I suppose he could fall off," said Frances, "but O Marjorle, look at that great big, dreadful darning-needle on that bush ahead of us! You go on that side, If you aren't afraid." "Ow! I am afraid!" cried Marjorle, with a little shriek. "And there are two of them! And if we go back now we'll be late for school!" "Marjorle!" -called a little, breathless voice, and there was a sudden rttph of short, fat legs that brought Jim close to them. "What's the matter?" "See those two horrid darning nee dles!" cr'ed the two girls together. "Why I'll scare them off," said little Jim. Vhen he picked a long spray of goldenrod, and marched ahead of Frances and his sister. Two vigorous waves of the golden rod, and a buzzing sound and the darning-needles were gone. "I think I'd better walk ahead of you the rest of the way," said Jim. Then he marched on, holding the spray of goldenrod just as a drum-major hoMs his baton, twirling It in the air, and sometimes turning around to face the two little girls, and walking back ward. Marjorle and Frances marched "be hind, and neither of them told him once that he'd better be careful, not even when he backed Into a blackber ry bush. "How did you know we'd come by the lane?" asked Marjorle, just before they reached the end where It ran out Into the read. "We didn't see you when we turned In." "Why, you dropped this little piece of paper out of your book," said Jim, drawing a slip from his pocket "1 s'posed you did it on purpose." His brown eyes looked straight up into her blue ones, and Marjorle "V1aMn.1.r when ' its unbound It quite Touchet m ground j Little Stories and X Incidents that Will Interest and Enter- J tain Young Readers j ! I vr I stooped and straightened his collar very gently. "I will next time, Jim." she said. "That's all right" said little Jim. " 'cause yo.u might need me to look after you and Frances. Mother says that's what boys are for, and then not to tell. Course I sha'n't tell anybody 'bout those darning-needles; you knew that, didn't yon?" Youth's Compan ion. . Replenishing; the Stock. One morning my brother, who was then about 3 years old, was swinging on the gate, when a neighbor came by. She said to him: "Good morning, Albert Got a kiss for me this morning?" "No, papa, hasn't kissed me vet but If you'll wait a minute I'll run In and get one." Poattlone Re-reread. Little Ruth lived In a town where a , new electric railroad waa being built She was warned that If she touched the live rail It would kill her. She replied: "I will walk right across the cross ing, and If I see anything that looks like a live rail, I'll step on its head and kill It" A Sectarian Language, Helen, a little daughter of Presby terian parents, became very much an noyed one evening at the niald-of-all-work for conversing with her friends In the Norwegian tongue, and ex claimed, "Why don't you talk the way we do? We don't talk Norwegian, we talk Presbyterian!" THE EARLY MORNING AIR. Origin of Its Peculiarly Attractive and KefreahiaK Quality. Chemists have long ago told us not only what Is the exact composition of the air, but also that this composition is practically constant whether the air be that near the mountain top or the sea, or from the country or of the town. So far, then, chemistry would not appear to offer aay explanation of the benefit gained from "a change of air." Similarly, everyone knows the sweetness and freshness of the early morning air, attractive properties which disappear as the day advances; but so far as analysis goes the com position of the early morning air is not different from that of air at any other time. It is well to remember, however, that during the passing of night to day and of day to night several physical changes take place. There Is a fall in temperature at sunset and a rise at dawn, and consequently moisture is alternately being thrown out and taken up again, and It Is well known that change of state Is accompanied by electrical phenomena and certain chemical manifestations also. The for mation of dew has probably, therefore, far more of dew effects than merely the moistening of objects with water. Dew Is vitalizing, not entirely because1 it is water, but because It possesses an Invigorating action, due partly, at ay rate, to the fact that it Is saturated with oxygen, and it has been stated that during Its formation peroxide of hydrogen and some ozone are devel oped. It is not improbable that the pecul iarly attractive and refreshing quality which marks the early morning air has Its origin la this way. Certain It Is that the bracing property of the early morning air wears off as the day ad vances, and It Is easy to conceive that this loss of freshness is due to the oxygen, ozone or peroxide of hydrogen (whichever it may be) being used up. The difficulty of inducing grass to flourish under a tree in full leaf Is well known, and Is generally explained by saying that the tree absorbs the nourishing constituents of the soil or that It keeps the sunlight away from the grass and protects it from the rain. It is doubtful whether any of these explanations are true, the real reason most probably being that the vitalizing dew cannot ferm upon the grass under a tree, whereas, as a rule, both rain and light can reach It. Dew Is probably essential to the-well-keln'g of both plant and animal to a greater extent than Is known and the beautiful expression in the Prayer Book, "Pour upon them the continual dew of Thy Blessing," may be remembered In this connection. Lancet. - , Our Food Resources. A special bulletin has been Issued by the Department of Agriculture on the relations of population and food pro ducts In the United States, exclusive of Alaska and the insular possessions. The food resources per capita In the census year of 1900 follow : Wheat 8.6(1 bushels; oats, 12.40 bushels; Indian corn, 84.04 bushels; barley, 1.57 bush els; buckwheat, 0.15 bushels; rye, 0.34 bushel; rice, 3.29 pounds; potatoes, 3.60 bushels; sweet potatoes, 0.56 bushel; sugar, 6.54 pounds; sirup and molasses, 0.58 gallon; pulse, 0.19 Bushel; cattle, 0.69 head; swine, 0.83 head; sheep, 0.52 head; orchard products, 2.79 bushels; onions, 0.15 bushel; market gardening, Including small rruits, $1.30; semi-tropical fruits, 11 cents; poultry, 3.29 head; eggs, 17 dozen; honey, 0.80 pound; fishery products, 16.35 pounds. - A woman who gushes over a man when he Is tired and hungry la due for a term In a' padded celt