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