MAN'S PREROGATIVE An Argument, Going to Prove That All Good Sportsmen Are Not Masculine. ... By VINGIE E. ROE. fPnnvrleht.l They always say that women are bardest upon their own sex, that we never forgive, and that Jealousy knows no Justice; and sometimes I think they' are right. We are dreadfully mall and mean where another woman U concerned. "How many women of those we know would be able to shake hands with the woman who had worsted them in the love of a man, and say, 'Go ahead; may the best woman win?" " Mrs. Haletgh reached for another wafer, and leaned back In her chair, challenging the small ring of feminine (aces on Mrs. Bobby Pclham's veranda. There were drawn sun-blinds and tall plants, restful In the summer heat, luxurious rockers, dainty frills and frou-frous, a white little table with tinkling glasses, and seven refined and more or less pretty women. - The small gathering bore the' one distinction that all seven were as oear dependable friends as the exigen cies of an Insignificant and isolated army station would permit. There were other women In the sta tion, to be sure, but somehow these even had drawn together by that law of standard and requirement which binds the nature above a certain line. "Do you know of one?" Mis. Halcigh went on. "Would I? Would any of as?" There was an appreciative silence, while slim Angers toyed with glass and spoon, and meditative eyes were bunt on slippered too and rug. Then frank miles broke out here and there. "No," said Mrs. Carston frankly; "I don't know of one." "Nor I," confessed pretty little Mrs. Oaylord. "Do we know of one woman who, ven knowing of a rival who had lost to her, could ever think of that rival without bitterness? It is the Ingrained nature of woman to be narrow where the love of a man Is concerned, Just as It Is the nature of the male moose to challenge another on sight in the mat ing season. Mrs. Payne, what do you think?" All eyes turned to the newest addi tion to the circle a tall, slim beauty from some fur South, as attested by the dusk of cheek and hair and glori ous dark eyes Nan Payne, the known friend of long standing of Mrs. Hobby Pelham. Only within the lust month had Cap tain Payne been transferred to the post of which Colonel Hobby was the Idol, and tho two women had Impressed the populace with the quiet Joy of their reunion. It was a friendship that car Tied film of mystery, so quiet was it, o sure, so manlike In Its seeming depth. As she raised her face they saw, with dismay, that the soft southern yes were full of tears. "No, ladles," said Nan Payne, "I rflon't believe that way." She looked at Mrs. Hobby. "Tell them what we know, dear." he said. Mrs. Dobby Pelham was as decidedly of the North as her friend breathed of Dixie a golden blonde, with the glow ing Illy and rose of the German blood, and a very tender little mouth. Now she looked at Nan Payne's dim yes and put down her glass. "No; neither Nan nor I can sanction 'that view of women being absolute .ly true, for we know of a case which 1vea It the lie." There waa a soft rustle of settling throughout the veranda, for the sud den small wave of emotion over the outhron's speaking face had spelled a romance and what woman doe not love a romance? "When I was eighteen," said Mrs. Hobby, "my parents, who lived In Pennsylvania, decided that the rigor of to winters was responsible for my tenderness and swift growth upward without corresponding weight, and that they could kill two birds with one tone by sending me, since I had reached the boarding-school age, to some seminary In the South. "1 accordingly was parked off, with many tears and uxtracted promises of weekly letters, to that dear old mother ly refuge of girlhood, Kldd Key, the North Texas Female cuJIego. I remem ber dIHlnctly my first weeks of lonell-' ness, and then the glorious South crept Into me with Its Insidious wine, and 1 forgot my woes. "And It was then that I first came to know the two young women with whom this little tale has to do. One waa a girl abort my own age, a stu dent at tht seminary, a somewhat shy and shrlnkli g young person who had, most palpably, never been out of the shelter of her own home before. "She, too, was homesick those first weeks, and often sat of evenings those soft southern evenings, with the prairie wind blowing free across the level miles on the rim of the fountain, and dipped her fingers In the water. She was homesick very homesick. Ana men, auer wuiie, u passed. nd there came a hop or two, and she got acquainted with the other girls, and also some of the other girls' broth ers. And altogether I think this girl got to be quite contented. "It was after one of the big festivi ties of the mid term that she met the Wan. tt was spelled with a capital to tier I happened to know ber well by this time, and was deep in her confi dence, though not so well or so deov as I was later and the dream of the great mystery began to dim her eyes. "She would wander for hours about the grounds, lost In the first mazes of that sweet dream-country, which every woman must enter for the first time, and I know that the whole world was bounded for her by thnt man's face. A handsome face It was dark and subtly sweet, a tender, winning face, with lips that seemed made only for love's whispers, and eyes that spoke only Its language. "At the last reception before the holidays he asked her the great ques tion, and the glory of it took the very light out of her eyes with Its ecstasy. She nearly swooned, so great was the Joy that mastered her. "Letters passed between them while she was home for the holidays, and whon she came back Bite entered upon her fairyland, Into which a woman may only enter once the Fairyland of the First. "For a month the girl lived hardly lived, I should say, for the days were Just a golden dream with hardly be ginning or end a long web of shim mering gold, down whose length she drifted, half asleep with the poppy of love's Intoxication. "Then came a day when she awoke to a sickening reality. The Man was. going away for several weeks. Ho was a traveling man, you see-a cot ton buyer, whom his firm sent on long trips at all seasons of the year over the sweet South country. There was an agonized farewell, enthralling kisses, tearless gasps on the part of the girl at this first parting from her fiance, warm embraces and tender words, and the Man was gone. "How many days was it three, five before It came the telegram? "There had been a great railroad wreck on a southern line figures had been drawn, crushed and brokea, from the debris. Among them was that of a man in whose garments had been found letters bearing her address. In the bevy of winged barbs of anguish that took flight from that gruesome pluce was the dispatch for her. , "The girl fainted Instantly. "When she came to, all that was to mako ber a woman In the years to come had pushed through her mad ness to the surface. "With quiet hands she prepared her self, and took the midnight train. "It was gray dawn of a winter's day when that ghastly journey brought her Into the fateful town somewhere within whose limits lay ber dead. "Gray-haired, pitying Indies of the White Ribbon had taken It upon them, selves to meet the hapless coiners, and she was taken into motherly arms and cried over when she got off the truln she was so very slim, and young and white." Again Mrs. Pobby paused. "It was a little Journey then, across the town in the dawn, up the stone steps of an Imposing building, down corridor, and at last Into a room where there lay an object, long and majestic, benenth a white cloth. "The room blurred before the girl's eyes, and the motherly woman held her up. "And then the end. "She was standing bealdo tho long slab, and some one had taken back the cloth, and she was looking down upon tho face of the Man in all Its sculptured beauty. No brand had burned, no beam had scarred It It was fine in its calm sweetness, the loving lips curved In their last smile. "Silently she looked long and si lently and presently a sound cut Into her consciousness a low, persistent sound, that came from the distance beyond the slub and she raised bet eyes with difficulty. "Ileyond the face of ber dead there knelt a woman another girl like her self one who wept, and neither looked up nor released the cold hand that sh held In both ber own; a regal dark head bowed Itself close to that white tempi on the slab, and all anguish moaned In ber sobs. "Can you so, ladles? One man and two women.. There bad been found two addresses; two girls had been tele graphed. Two who loved him bad come on the wings of grief. "And there bad been two engage ments; two wedding days bad been set; two were rivals in his affections two who stood above tholr dead." ' Mrs. Hobby was looking through the rubber plant far, far through. In the willow rocker Mrs. Carston was gripping her hands. I.lttlo Mrs. Gaylord caught het breath. "They raised their eyes, those twe girl who had become women in thai ono moment, and looked deep Intc each other's soul. Above the smlllni face on the slab they looked. "Then slowly the one on the (loot lifted her arms to the swaying whltt face of tho other, and In a moment they were locked In each other's arms weeping together. "Itlvals they lifted their eyes abovi the humiliation, each owning soruo ol the Man's love, they forgave. "I know, you see for I was thi girl from Kidd-Key, and this waa th hand that bold my beloved's." Mrs. Hobby reached and took thi cold fingers of Nan Payne. "Hoth our husbands know the Halt tragedy. It Is burled, but sometlmei wo foel Its pathos still. And I bellevi that, had he lived, each of we twt could have said to the wlnnor: 0 ahead; may the best on triumph. Eh, Nan, dear?" There was a wistful not In Mrs Hobby's voice, and Nan Payne' darl head nodded. "Ab-hl Forgive me!" breathed Mr Ualelgh softly. WHEN MAKING PASTRY SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED. Ingredients to Be Used 8hould Always Be Cold Shortening Must Not Be Cut Too 8mall Care of the Under Crust. """""' Making good pie is the test of good cooking; but a rich puff paste Is not at all necessary. A well made, flaky pie crust will, in fact, be much better for the family than the richer pastry, and with a little experience and more care even Mrs. Newlywed should be able to produce a specimen above reproach. Ingredients for pastry making should always be cold. A good recipe for family pie crust Is as follows: Three cuptuls of flour, one of shorten ing, and ice water to mix (aboui three fourths of a cupful). Butter and lard, chicken fat and lard or beet drip pings and lard in equal quantities make a good shortening. Always sift the flour and also chop the fat Into the flour. If flaky crust Is wanted the shortening muBt not be chopped too fine. Sprinkle the water In a little at a time and toss about with a fork to mix. Turn on a floured board, dust with flour and roll back and forth until the paste Is oblong, and fold over in three layers. Roll again and fold, when the paste is ready, though it will be improved by setting away In the Icebox for an hour. The reason why the Bhortenlng should not be cut too small Is that lit tle balls of It hardened by the ice wa ter mixed with the flour make the crust flaky after the folding and roll ing. Fat rubbed Into flour until it feels "mealy" makes a short piecrust Three rollings are as many a this paste will stand. To press too much breaks the balls of fat while they really should only be flattened. Otherwise the paste will not rise and puff up In the oven. Some people use a little baking powder in piecrust In that case less shortening is required. Never use a rich paste as an under crust, because It soaks up the contents of the pie. Always cut pastry with a very sharp knife. If It Is Jagged at all around the edges the pastry will not rise so well. Cuttings and trimmings should be used for ornamentation or smaller dishes. Putting several pieces together to form one large one 1 not a success, although It will answer, of course, for the home table. To give a glazed appearance to a pie, brush over with a beaten egg be fore putting Into the oven. Usually meat pies are glazed. Pastry will rise better if put Ice cold Into a hot oven. When the great eat heat Is at the bottom the pie will bake most successfully, because the paste will puff up from the beat be fore' the top has a chance to get too brown. In making pates roll out the past half an Inch thick. Cut two rounds the same size and take a small round from the center of one. Use the ring loft for laying on the other round. Brush with water to make It stick. The small round Is used for a cover after filling the plate. Popover. One cupful of flour, one-fourth tea spoonful salt, seven-eighths cupful milk, and one egg. Mix salt with sift ed flour, then gradually add the milk so the mixture does not become lumpy, then add the beaten egg and beat wltb a Dover egg beater until the mixture la full of bubbles. Pour Into hissing hot iron gem pans which have been well buttered and bake In a hot oven between thirty and thirty-five minutes. If the popovers become brown too soon,' cover them with a piece of heavy wrapping paper. Iron gem pan must be need In place of tin one, because the beat J more even. Hot Weather Table Napkins. Table napkins that can be washed out easily and are specially desirable In summer, can be had by using cot ton crepe. Two yards of white cotton crepe, costing about fifteen cent a yard, will make a dozen napkin. Cut these In squares, and fringe them. They make excellent napkins to use at the children' meal or for occasions where the very "best" In table linen Is not needed. Tomatots With Okra. Cut two dozen tender, young pod of okra Into rounds, cook them until ten der In two large tablespoon of butter, add one pint of (tewed tomatoes, one tablespoon of sugar, a dash of cayenn pepper and salt to taste. Cook gently for five minutes and serve on slice of toasted bread. Origins! Molasses Cooklt. One-half enpful sugar, two table spoonfuls of butter and lard, cream together with sugar, one-half cupful molasses, one-half cupful sweet milk, one-halt teaspoonful ginger, one tea spoonful soda tn flour; flour enough to roll; roll thin and bake In bot oven five minute. To Make Lmon Juloy, Before rolling or squeezing a lemon, beat tt In a pan of water. By doing so yon will obtain a double quantity of Juice. In Preserving Time. Boll the corks before bottling pickles, preserves, etc. While hot they can be pressed Into the bottles, and when cold they seal thorn tight). FOR RESULTS IN LAUNDRY Exercise of a Little Care Will Make All the Difference In the Fill' Ished Work. Green, yellow, lavenders or pink should not be blued. There Is special starch prepared to be used with black materials. Colored wash materials must be Ironed on the wrong aide if the color I to be retained; and the Iron must not be too bot Several wash dresses of different color should not be washed together, for If one garment should happen to run It might spoil the others. -When-laundering cretonnes or tick ings, and chintzes, use bran Instead of soap. Cook four cupfuls of bran In a gallon of water for 20 minutes, and use half of It in the wash water and half in the rinse water. Colored wash goods should not be soaked, nor should they be washed in very hot water, nor boiled. To use soap with colored materials, melt on cake in two quart of water, and us this Instead of rubbing soap on the good. When salt is used to set the color In wash materials. It should be used with clear, cold water, and not with the soap, as Is sometime done. Salt 1 best to set the color In pinks, browns and blacks only, using a cup ful to a gallon of water. Vinegar 1 beBt for setting the color In shades of blue, using half a cupful to a gallon of water. ICE CREAM IN FANCY SHAPES Molding Make Delicacy More Appe tizing and Pleasing to the Little Folk. ; After becoming expert at making Ice cream, the housewife naturally longs to try her band at serving It in fancy molds. It is well to begin on the common brick or cylinder, and then experiment on fancy shapes. The triqk lies In very quick, tight packing of the molds and the deft skillful turning out of the shape at serving time. Freeze the cream firm and solid, have a rather shallow tub over which you can bend easily, cover the bottom to the depth of about four Inchea with cracked ice and rock aalt Chill the molds, pack them quickly with the frozen cream and cover the seams between mold and lid wltb strips 'of cotton cloth dipped In melted paraffin. This prevent the entrance of salty water Into the molds. As fast as a mold I filled, pack It Into the Ice and cover them all wltb cracked Ice, three parts, and coarse salt one part When serving, hold the mold under running cold water, wipe It off carefully, remove the paraffin paper, open the mold quickly with a cloth dipped In hot water. 8almon Croquette. Wltb a silver fork flake the eon tents of a can of salmon, or two pounds of fresh salmon, Into bits re moving all pieces of skin and bone and season to taste with salt and pepper and a few drops of lemon Juice. Cook together a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, and when they bubble pour upon them a cup of milk. Stir to a smooth, white sauce, add (lowly a raw egg, then turn In the salmon mixed wltb two table spoonfuls of fine crumbs. When the salmon is heated remove from the Are and let aside to cool. When cold form Into croquette, roll these In the Ice box for an hour before frying in deep boiling fat which bas been heated gradually. Smothered Rabbit Soak one pair of cleaned rabbit In salt water for two or three hours. Wipe carefully with a dry cloth and rub all over with a little oil. Season well with salt and pepper and sprinkle with flour. Put them in a pan that bas been well greased with oil or drip pings (oil I preferable, a It add Savor to the rabbit). Put Into a moderate oven, and when they com mence to brown add a lltle boiling water. BssU frequently and serve on a large platter. Pea Cake. I will send you my original recipe for pea cakes. I mashed and sifted the pea and potatoes left from dinner (about a cupful of peas and four medi um potatoes), while warm, seasoned with salt and pepper, floured my hands and made Into cakes like fishcake, and set away to cook. In the morning I fried two slice of bacon then browned the pea cake In the fat, and we thought they made a tasty break fastBoston Globe. Carrot and Pes. Wash and scrape the carrot, cut them Into dice, boll In salted water un til tender and drain. Drain a can of pea, put them In a saucepan wltb on tablospoon of butter, three tablespoons Df thick cream and pepper and salt to taste, lot stand until thoroughly heat d, add the carrots and serve. Fig Compote. Wash on pound figs, cover with on pint cold water. Soak over night In the morning add two bay leave and 300k on bait hour. Strain gently. Boll ilrup down to on cup and pour over flgs. Chill, serve with sweetened whipped cream. Smooth Mush. To avoid having lumps In mush first wet the cornmeal with cold water and itlr until a smooth baiter Is made and add slowly to bulling water, salt to lut. SIMPLEST OF ALL FAITHS Religion of Islam Make Minimum Demand on Tntellect and Nature of Man. It was afternoon In a small oasts Tillage of the Zlzans. I was seated on a straw mat In a little garden space Just outside the cafe, and dreamily regarding the Intense blue sky through the vine leave trelllsed overhead, which flecked me with their shadows. An old Arab was praying Just In front Two groups, one on each side of me, were placidly seated on clean yellow mats young men, whose dark, sad faces, thin-featured and large-eyed, contrasted with their white robes. They were smoking klf a tranalucence of gold In their clear bronze skin, a languor of light In their Immobile gaze, content. The garden made off before me, topped with palmy distance; the silent street to one side was out of sight, as if It were not It waa a place of peace. I had finished my coffee and dates. I filled my brier-wood.. The May heat was great, Intense; and I set tled myself to a long smoke, and fell Into revery and recollection. How simple It all was! That pray ing Arab what an Immediacy with Oodt What a nonchalance In the dreamy pleasures of those delicate featured youths! What a disburden ment wa here! I had only to lift my Index finger to heaven dying, to be one of the faithful; and the fact wa symbolic, exemplary, of the sim plicity of Islam. It make the min imum demand on the Intellect, on the whole nature of man. I had but lately placed the faith In It true perspective, historically. Moham medanism, the Ishmael of religions, was the elder brother of Protestant Ism, notwithstanding profound dif ferences of racial temperament be tween them. The occidental mind Is absorbent conservative, antiseptic. It I not content, like the Moham medan, to let things He where they fall, disintegrate, crumble and sink Into oblivion. Western education fills the mind with the tangle-foot of the past Catholicism was of this racial strain. It had a genius for absorption. It was the melting-pot of the religious past, and what re sulted after centuries wa an amal gam, rich In dogma, ritual and In stitution, full of inheritance, Balti more American. Good Argument Leaders in the new thought femin ist, equal suffrage and similar move ments are pointing with pride to a wo man of Hutchinson, Colo., as proof positive that a woman can work at anything a man can. This woman Is running a 160-acre farm near Hutchin son, raising chickens, looking out for a herd of cows, and doing about ev erything that a regular farmer does. Some of ber experiences, while rath er ungentle, show that she has plenty of nerve. On one occasion a cow which had fed on frozen potatoes managed to lodge some of them In ber windpipe, and started to choke to death. The woman farmer rolled up her sleeve, reached down Into that cow and brought up the potato. On another occasion two pigs got loose and led the woman on a cross country bike. She not only recovered them, but she whaled the II fo out of them after she got them back and brought a fear luto their heart that prevented them from wandering again. Philadelphia Ledger. Transplanting Hair to Eyelids. Transplanting balr to the eyelids In order to replace lost lashes 1 per formed successfully In Germany by Dr. Fran i F. Kruslus, who describes hi method In the Deutche Medl tlnlsche Wochenscbrift He clip the hair on whatever spot be may select to a length of a little more than an Inch, sterilizes the region wltb ben zine, and removes single balr wltb a ultable trephine, taking the skin and balr gland together In a piece of tu sue about one and a half millimetres In diameter. Then by a specially de signed Instrument each balr 1 sepa rately Inserted Into the tissue of the eyelid so that it bas la completely Imbedded and it free end project In the normal manner. Doctor Kruslu say that not more than 20 balr should be transplanted at one sitting. He add that these transplanted balr tend to grow and have to be kept trimmed to the do sired length. Working Out 8ound Magle, M. Dosne has Invented a method for recording radio-telegrams. He first substitutes for the telephone receiver of wireless telegraphy a sound am plifier, and then connect thi with the "receiver" of a Poulsen telo graphone. In thi manner the mi crophonic current, serving to convey the reinforced sound, arrives, with all It variation, to a bobbin of line wire In the ccutor of which la a pen of oft Iron In contact with a rotating plat or traveling band of steel The variation tn the magnetiza tion of the soft Iron leave a sert of magnetlo writing on the steel plate, which ha the property, when It Is afterward passed under the Iron pen which wrot It of provoking a repe tition of the original signals In the connecting telephone. 8hrwd Citizenship. "What' th wrangle about In Plunk vlller "Some of the community want to maintain mudholes and swell their pri vate fortune by hauling automobile out Other want to Improve the highway, pinch 'em for speeding and apply the proceed to publlo work of ail kinds." IN DISASTER AT SEA TRAVELER TELLS OF ACTIONS OF FELLOW PASSENGERS, ' Little Excitement Although All Knew th Ship Wa Injured, and Later i Deep Thankfulness for Preser , vatlon From Death. I have often wondered bow peopl would act, bow I myself would feeLi In the event of a disaster at sea, I had the opportunity of finding Out, the other night, when In the darkest hour Just before dawn, In a dense fog, the ship on which I bad sailed from South ampton, the New York, was rammed by the Pretoria, 400 miles from New York. I was awakened by the stopping of our engines and the violent churning of the screw as the ship backed wa ter. Then, out of the Impenetrable larkness was heard the hoarse shriek Df another foghorn than our own, which, at intervals of a minute, bad been bellowing for hours. I knew that mother vessel was approaching, and tvery minute drawing nearer. Then came a shock, sharp though not very violent, and I knew we bad been ' struck. Sailors and steward rushed past to take up their station at the boats, and two or three minute later the huge bulk of the Pretoria, lowering above our craft, glided by so near that I could touch ber with my band, while she tore away part of our bulwarks In passing. Then the passengers began to pour ip from the cabins in scanty attire, many with life preservers buckled on. There were no hysterics, and surpris ingly little evident excitement but all quietly awaited the end which we thought was near, until In a few min utes the odlcers reported that the hole In our side wa above the water line, (t was big enough, however, to admit two or three trolley cars abreast, and a huge anchor of the Pretoria, weigh ing Ave tons, was found imbedded In our bow, while the iron plutes of our hip were twisted up like shavings. For nearly twenty-four hours more the fog continued with brief Intermis sion, and this evidently got on the nerves of the passengers even more than the shock of the first moment of the collision. Some tried to throw off their nervousness by singing rag time tunes, others by playing cards, nd not a few, I am glad to cay, by looking to a higher power, and remem bering that the father In heaven ruled the waves. It wa a time when many hearts were tender, and any appeal to their gratitude and reverence went home. Sunday morning, the next day after the accident. Just before reaching port I asked permission of the purser to hold a thanksgiving service, which was readily granted. I never knew an audience to bo more reaponalve. There were few dry eyes In the crowded music room as we voiced our gratltudo in song and prayer and brief words of thanksgiving. Tears streamed down the faces of many strong men, and tho Impressive service will never be for gotten by any who attended. Chris tian Herald. New Theory About Gravity. In an extremely interesting paper on gravity Professor McLaren considers the universe a possessing four di mensions, and also retains the no tion of time. The universe so consid ered 1 regarded as changeless, but not timeless, and differs in this re spect from Minkowski's four dimen sional universe. Professor McLaren consider that throughout the universe there is but one ultimate substance. This sub stance bas, however, two forms, "mat ter" and "ether," which are exclusive one of the other. Matter Is a region where the fluid grow or decay. This theory strong ly resembles that proposed long ago by Bernard Rlemann. Professor McLaren plead for an unprejudiced examination of these views, revolutionary as they are, In view of the widespread feeling that there I something amis with the classical mechanical theories of mat ter. Religious Motive. "A missionary' flrBt duty Is to learn to "think black,' " said Bishop Maphtalt Luccock In a uilsslonary Sunday ad dress In Helena. "Until he learns to think black learns to think, that Is. as his dusky converts do be will ac complish Utile, for he won't under stand his flock. "He won't understand, for example, a man like All. All, a fat, lazy rascal, was converted from the Mohammedan fnlth to Christianity. A Mohammedan, you know, can drink no alcohollo bev erages. "Well, Mr. Goodes, All' missionary, came on the new convert one evening in the murkot place, drunk. "'Why, All!' be said, reproachfully. 'Why, All, what religion have you Just professed?1 " 'Bame religion as manna's,' All an swered. Tlcnty rum drink,"' Scores Modern Mother. Dr. Gilbert Fltzpatrick of Chicago, president of the Obstetrical Society of the American Institute of Homeopa thy, said recently at a convention that th modern mother I a poor mother and the direct cause of th high rat of mortality. Those women, he said, or defective and muscular degener ate. Tbey are poor mother, weak ling, mentally, morally, physically, nd even socially, when the country' welfare end wi betterment are banging In the balance.