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t Taniiarv i t1ii annrnvH rrmntli frr rempm., . irrinjr.. thfi minnlv nf household linens, and : r v o - rrv . -j, wrv wntnari i naturnllv Vprv !nrrtre-r1 in ; fcriowing the -correct manner of affixing her ; family initial. The alphabet given is the most popular siyie ior laoiecioms, napKins, toweis, 'pillow cases, lingerie, etc., and will be of espe cial help to anyone initialing Vset linens" for spring weddings. 'To transfer letters onto the article on which one wishes to embroider them, place a piece of carbon paper, glazed surface down, so that it is next to the article, pin firm ly into position, th.en place the design on top of the carbon and trace along the outer edge of the letters. MANHOOD IN EVERY MAN WOMAN PLAYWRIGHT WHO IS ATTRACTING ATTENTION IN EUROPE BY HER GENIUS J . .;... ,-u' .-. y-. -::...' I concoaled .satisfaction when the wife goes off, leaving- her free to work out her" own life. In spite of her Ignor ance and vulgarity one cannot help feeling sure that aha will make lilm and hi child far happier than the ele gant wife. - Zapolska does not stop at working In dressmakers' shops. In a play called us; jnani juam - ana wan tea to jay treaa on the mlaerlea of fallen women. She happened to be living In Warsaw at the time and, dressing aa the poor eat of unfortunates, walked the atreeta for aeveral nights, listening to the con versation of those aha wished to por tray and talking with, the men who poke to her. . , "I learned more of the aad and sor did aide of human nature in those few - terrible nights than ver before," aha concluded, after giving; aa account of her experiences. Her last play, which la a sequel to one of her most successful plays, "Mrs. pulska's Morality," is called "Mrs. Dul ska Before the Court." Mrs. Dulaka Is a hypocritical woman who lets her best flat to one Matilda Btrumpf, a per son of bad conduct and reputation be cause she offers mora rent and then tells all her other tenants that the newcomer is a most resectable person living; on her private fortune. The vari ous ways In which Matilda's real char acter comer out would take too long to relate. A strong; scene in the play Is when Mrs. Daisies has sent her porter . to ask the lady not to beat her old servant The porter's surprise and that of Mrs. Dulaka, wha is listening be hind the door, is great when Matilda rudely answers that she shall treat her servant as she pleases, because he hap- fiens to be her father. The neighbors earn this and many other details, which raln Mra. Dulska to such an ex tent that she repents of her avarice . and glvea Matilda notice to quit. Then follows reproaches and Insults. Mrs. Dulaka summons her for libel and loses her case for want of witnesses. All the incidents and characters are described with tne lire and humor that characterise Zapolaka's work. Borne critics declare that she Is not at her best in "Mrs. Dulaka Before the Court" because there is a tendency to make all that represents respectability and solidity reprehensible and give the tri umph to Matilda Strumpf and tha class sha represents. NEVER EXPECT GRATITUDE G tlon. By Max Nordau. RATITUDE on tha part of the masses of nations or of tha hu man heart Jlm not to be found and cannot ba found, because It has no anthropological founds- Tha man of arenius. whose mental la bor it Is that keeps tha species alive, who accomplishes in himself the whole progress of the species and who repre sents tha beginning of all new devel opment on the part of humanity, has to dispense with all thanks. Ha must find his sole reward In this fact, that in thinking, doing- and creat ing he lives up to his higher qualities and brings his originality within bis consciousness to tha accompaniment of powerful feelings of pleasure. Any other satisfaction than that of the most intensive sensation posslbla of his own ego exists no mora for the most sublime man of genius than for tha lowest form of Ufa that swims in a nutritive fluid. v The man of genius frequently flatters himself with tha conception of Immor tality. He is wrong. Immortality which Klopstocfc calls "a fine thought is something less than a fine thought; It Is a sort of dissolving view of tha phantasy, a shadow of one's own indi viduality projected Into tha future similar to that which a tree casts far over tha level ground when the sun is low down on the horlson. At the moment that tha tree falls Its shadow also disappears. . . ' The conception of tha perpetuation of one's name, the effort to secure to one self fame after death, issues from the same sources from which the supersti tion of the continuance of an individ ual's existence after death has also sprung. It is Just another case of resistance on the part of the living individual to the cessation of his consciousness, one form of the impotent struggle against the universal law of f lnlteness of an In dividual phenomenon, a proof of tha Incapacity of the thinking ego, which recognises its own existence, to con ceive of Itself as not thinking and not existing. Tha man who creates great things and has furthered the Interests of his nation or of the human race in general, can surely at all events reckon upon this weakest and cheapest manifestation of gratitude, which consists in tha per petuation of bis memory. Vain wish and vain effort! Tha memory of the human race is reluc tant to keep up the name or tha image of individual persons, or prolong any feeble reflection of their Individual ex istence even in their recollection be yond the natural limits of human life. How long do even tha most famous of names endure? As things are, man kind lias not preserved any of the age of 10,000 years, and what are 10,000 years in iha life of mankind, not to mention the Ufa of our planet or of tha solar sygtemT It Is only when living persons derive soma material advantage by not al lowing the recollection of definite Indi viduals to vanish that tha masses pre serve a distinct remembrance of them. So It is with respect to the founders of religions, or tha anoestors of ruling families, for in these cases priests and monarch have an Interest in artifi cially restraining tha masses from obeying their deep rooted and in tha end irresistible Instincts of ungrateful forgetfulness. But where no such in terests hold sway mankind makes -haste to forget the dead, even though they should have been Its greatest benefactors. The Maidens Prayer. Most children are good listeners as well as good observers, and, mora than that, they are quick to use the knowl edge acquired through keenness In these directions. A case in point is that of little Janet, who had evidently apent part of her day in the kitchen and had overheard remarks made by tha cook. Like all good girls, little Janet said her prayers regularly just before being tucked in for the night. On this par ticular night she said: "Good bless me, bless father and mother and everybody, make me a good girl, keep ma pure pure as Loyal bak ing powder. Amen' '"In the wreck of noble lives Something Immortal still survives." Longfellow. "I hold It truth with him who sings To one true harp of silver tones, That men may rise on stepping stones Of tselr dead selves to higher things." ; : Tennyson. By John A. Jayna. ITS an easy thing to believe that in those who have fallen from high estate there is a possibility of refor mation. It's an easy thing to be lieve that in those who have been well born, yet have made a shipwreck af hope, that they may find themselves and soma back to their higher privil eges. . But what about the man who has been lowly born? The man who has never known the impact of a higher, a better life! The man whose father and mother ware criminals of basest In stinct and act! Tha man whose entire life from childhood up to manhood has never known anything save that the hand of society was against him, and that his band was against society! Tha man who Is twentieth century Cain, bearing tha mark of evil and wrong, not alone in his forehead, but through his entire body! The man cursed with low instincts! "The low-browed, stunt ed, haggard man!" "Tha girl whose 'fingers, wan and thin, push feebly from her shame and sin." What about these, the outcasts of so ciety T Not those who hang into the fringe of respeotabillty. Not those who have the remembrance of a ones proud ancestry coursing in their veins. But the lowest of the low, lower even than tha "submerged tenth." What about themT Is there in them tha possibility of manhood? - Can they "rise on step ping stones of their dead selves - to higher .things?" . ' According to one's viewpoint will the must tha answer -be given? There ara thosa who tell you' tha--It's an absolute impossibility for such peo ple to rise, that on their level they must live, or sink continually toward the "nadir," toward that which is even lower and more bestial than themselves. A careful study of the lives of those who make this assertion, however, re veals the fact that these have hardly touched tha edge of the question at Is sue. They have seen the problem from afar. They have applied the teats and the rules of the books. Thev have never given the personal touch. They may have given their money. They may have established homes and ref .nges. But themselves they have not given In sacrificial service. Turn from these to those who long have considered tha problem. To those who have lived among the poorest, the most degraded and the outcasts. Those who have given themselves. Talk with Maude Balllngton Booth, with Dr. Harris Cooley, relative to these unfor tunates of life. Ask Miss Booth rela tive to her "boys" who have come from worse than African or South American barbarism and slavery, if sha has found possibilities of men rising from lowest strata into honorable po sitions of society. Talk to Dr. Barnado relative to his 60,000 waifs of London. Get him to telt you what he thinks of the- problem. Sit down In friendly eon vernation with Dr. Cooley of Cleve land. Hear his recitation of the uplift that has come to many through tha wise and prudent extension of tha help ing nana. The fact of the matter is this: When we ara willing to spend ourselves in service of the unfortunates of life, we shall find that In these unfortunates there ara latent possibilities and pow ers that amasa and astound us, even as a miner In the mountains Is as tounded at the discovery of pockets of gold in undreamed-of and unaought-for places. Sometimes we talk of the scions of wealth intrenching themselves In tha seclusion of their own private grounds. The isolation of poverty and. crime equally affords seclusion for thosa who seek it. If you would discover that the rich have a heart, you must search them out. In like manner. If you would know the possibilities In tha low and the lowest, you must search them out. Kid glove methods will not do. Clothing and provisions handed in a basket by a coachman or a mere mes senger will not do. Tracts and re ligious literature distributed at your behest by a religious worker will not do. One must give himself if he would find the manhood resident in the life of every man. And when he does give himself, ir respective of his religious bent or the ological tendency, ho finds that men everywhere have : prompting toward tha noble and tha true. When a man fives himself to his weaker brother, ha stronger, while paradoxical as It may seem, the strength-in the strong brother is made more strong by tha weakness of the weak, and both ara .benefited and batter qualified to serve and to help. . ,. ..rU-,. . - .i , t i I, l j : I What She Wu Thfnklns; )f; From JudsaT The young poet had Just finished what he considered to be a work of real in spiration, and, rising from his table, he hastened upstairs to where his llttla wife, a bride of six weeks, was sitting darning his socks. "Listen, sweetheart," ba whispered. "I have Just written this." And he began to read. He put his whole soul into the reading. His ges tures were graceful: his intonation per fect The whole spirit of his beautiful poem breathed forth as he threaded nlM WAV from tha bio-I n t I n o. in th. .nil of his theme and when he had finished, he looked at her, awaiting her verdict. For a time she was silent. "Well, dear heart," he said, "tell ma what you are thinking." "I was wondering, dearest" "Whatr "Whether the butcher was not awful ly late with that Uyer," she replied. Chicago Tongue. From the Chicago News. Harker "Great linguist, isn't he?" t Barker "You bet! He can talk In baae ball, college and auto." MONUMENTS TO HUMBLE HEROES IN LONDON'S UNIQUE MEMORIAL PARK .f if ; ' By Kajetan Dunbar. aj WARSAW. Dec 4. Although her I A, name Is unknown In the ,11 United States, Gabrlelle Za- " ' polsk, "tha Polish Pinero." is just now attracting wide attention in Russia, Austria and Ger many because of her ability as a play wright She has the happy faculty of drawing with unerring pen the char acters one is constantly meeting in the streets one's friends and neigh bors and chance acquaintances and al most all the characters that people her many plays ara familiar to us in real life. This remarkable woman Is 45, has dark hair and eyea and a short nose, the nostrils of which are too wide for comeliness; a somewhat tired face and a alight figure. In her playa she lays bare the weakness and the strength of human nature with wonderful truth and detail. All her t's are crossed and all her I'm dotted. She married young and was divorced In a short time. After that sha began to write. "I never write about people I do not know and never draw a scene that la not, except for the dramatic element brought out by the plot, quite common place, nam saia in teinng me of her methods. "I always choose a common place, every day subject from middle or lower middle class life, and strive w m imaguiBuuii vuuBervieni to reason, for it is In our ordinary life that real tragedy and comedy. are to be found." Her men are neither the peerless heroes of some - women's creation, nor the unmitigated scoundrels of others. Nor does she spare her own sex. Her women exhibit vanity, hypocrisy and a hundred petty actions with sometime a really noble character, full of the spirit or sell-sacrifice and womanli ness. And she can draw many kinds of men and women with unfailing skill tha bourgeois, the maid-of-all-work, tha washerwoman and the fine i(tr; tha actor, the clerk, the housa jiorter and the young man of pleasure. In order to get to the soul of a poor rami tress she went to a provincial tow n and worked as a "hand". In a dress inking cxlabllKhment for a few cents iiay. She fell In with, their ways and aoce.nt aud soon got to the heart ft their lives, their temptations, am? bitlons snd point of view. In her lasr T ;v. cl!.-d "The Four of them: . iisj-trtv of Stupid People." we have in i, iutle 1rt-Mnaker uch a Jlfe lika 1 nrs.-w-r that It iwemi i though the k u J.tist'.i had set down all the cou- ' ' 1 GABRIELLE ZAPOLSKA. tents of her soul, who longa above all, that she might become "a lady" and an honest woman. Nobody has a name in the playbill. The characters who give the piece its title are described as "husband." "wife," "chlld,5 "wife's lover." The dressmaker who wa learn ia called "Wladka" from the dialogue la the best drawn person in the piece. She works by the day in the professor's house. He attracts her by his gentle seriousness. She sees he Is miserable because his wife quarrels with his family an neglects her household. The wife also carries on a flirtation with a man several years younger than herself who. as a student betrayed and deserted Wladka. . Her husband discovers his wife's In trigue and the latter ' dares not return home that night The little dressmaker comes next morning to work, finds the professor has not been to bed all night, the 12-year-old child cold, starved and in tears and the whole house as comfortless as a domestic catastrophe could make It 8he makea breakfast, has the rooms warmed and forces the professor and child to take some food. Then the wife comes in and the girl Is driven from the house on to return to it as soon as the wife goes away with her lover, as the profeaaor re fuses to take her back. Of course, Wladka does all she can to make things comfortable for the professor, who. too bowed down with grief to notice it at first, gradually gets used to the well being and peace that now reign in his household. One Is given to understand, at the end of the play that tha pro fessor, having divorced his wife, finds the dressmaker indispensable to his child and his home and marries her. The other characters are all good the silly wife. tha vain, idle boy. the aerious professor, and the child, made miserable by her mother's frivolities and the father's reproaches. But the dress maker Is a masterpiece. Her contempt for the young man who led her astray and deserted her when she was left unprotected and penniless whilst little mora than a child; her scornful wonder that the wife , should betray such a husband for something so worthless; her own longing for some quiet, re apectaole corner where she will be able to develop her better self; her vulgarity, her good humor and her good heart would appeal to any audience. A few words, dropped in a moment of tempta tion, and calculated to arouse the hus band's suspicions, ar followed by quick remorse and her silence till fate has taken the guilty secret from her hands are as human as her Sympathy Jn the professor's sufferings nd her scares LONDON. Dec. 1. Next to the gen eral postofflce In London is one of tha most remarkable llttla recreation grounds In tha me tropolis. It Is called the "Post, men's park." ' In. the center of the en closure is a low roofed shed, or shelter containing a number of memorial tab lets which were put up by the famous artist the lata G. F. Watta It Is safs to say that there Is no collection of similar tablets anywhere in tha world. They perpetuate deeds of heroism ddhe, so to speak, by the "man in the street." The late G. F. Watts conceived the idea some time before his death of rescuing from oblivion the obscured acts of self sacrifice of the humble. The place he selected for this work was in tha disused burial ground of "little old" St. Botolph's church, one of London's minor places of worship, whose an tiquity goes back hundreds of years. . The very neighborhood Is replete with historical asociatlons, for it was in this district Llttla Britain that the Smith field martyrs met their fate. Close by lived Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe," and Benjamin Franklin lived In the neighborhood when acting aa a "printer's devIL" The former cemetery of the church ha-long been turned into a recreation ground for weary postmen during their lunch hour. Here you will often find them having a quiet smoke, discussing departmental grievances or reading the tablets which Mr. Watts has placed In the shed in tha center of the PaThere are In all, 24 of these marble records, several of which have been erected since the great painter's death by his widow. Some of the atorlea cer tainly reveal wonderful acta of self sacrifice M!at few people Imagine ever manifest themselves in the daily walks of humble life. Tablet 3 tells tha tale of the brave stewardess of tha steam ship "Stella." It will ba remembered that this boat went on the Casquet rocks on March SO, 1899, during a dense fog off the coast ' of Jersey. Mrs. Rogers, the stewardeas, with tha great eat presence of mind, collected all the ladles from their cabins on one side of the ship and after placing life belts on as many aa were without them, assisted thara Into the small boata Turning around, she noticed a lady who was still without a belt, whereupon she Insisted upon placing herown belt on her and led her to tha already overcrowded life boat The sailors called out, "Jump in, Mrs. Rogers," butishe answered. "No, if I get In the boat will sink. : Goodbye, goodbye," sue called out aa tha boat shoved off. : Juat at that moment the "Stella" sank beneath her feet. Lifting her hands, Mrs. Rogers cried, -"Lord, have me." and sank Into the waves. Many heroic -acts of little children ara also commemorated. Tablet 23 nar rates the courageous fight against lire of Henry Brlstowe, aged 8, who died on January S, 1891, from injuries received a few days previously in rescuing his nine sisier, agea , irora Deing ourni to death. The little child had climbed on a chair to reach a small lamp over tha mantelpiece and la doing so, upset v. ' 'V 1 v I - ' ""-- ? .... ; ' f " ' ' ' ' 1 . , t ' Ml '''ZXr-''' "" ' :: i!l Q t ir ,... - t B. h- .V " J. ' S KA : 9 ' ' -- tin Z I 'W- " Hkfi - R v. ::.::: -. . ! " All i , M 991 - v...w,- ....vA.r.. ....v.'...... . , , - ... f -ffi.aii-iinilHH imOTflliii,rwwflrWitnuiiri-rr.--.w J Sit " , 1 : .- -T--rrn.xTO.Ti.r , . "Postmea'g Park," , Made Famous by the Late Great Artist, Q.'r. Watta. It Her clothes caught fire, snd her brother, with great presence of mind, tore them off and laid the child on tha bed, smothering the flames In the bed clothes. - When he had rescued his sis ter, however, he found his own clothing to be alight and he was so badly burned that a few days after, he died. Tha coroner praised tho little fellow as being "quite a hero." , - . Another very s remarkabla story of heroism concerned Walter Peart, engine Though both men were terribly scalded, driver, and Henry Dean, his fireman, their flrst thought was for their pas- who had charge of the express train sengers, and they managed to stop tha tKtP w.Indl'or t0 London on July 18. train. When Peart was being carried to 1898. The connecting rod on the great the hospital he asked, "Is my face cut ui.viiiK. wiibu iihu uL-vunia tuugcneu, ana. mucu r ne was;- iota iliac It -was. made to arouse national interest In tha perpetuation of these humble rocordsT but so far, the tablets have been laid for wholly by the Watts family. "BeforS Watts' death he caused a systematic it broke when the train wa. VoinV il "Never n,l Arf hi" i X . . ZZZZL Zll X . ""i "a was of ' great speed smashing a hole jn the fire the train." Both men died tha next day; were selected types though h foifnJ box and boiler, through which issued a. And go the wonderful record of tha ample material for a far more extendi torrent of scalding steam. Which was tablets runs on telling details of splen- record, which may yet be taken un 2 driven back by the wind into the cab. did deaths. Some attempt has been carried on by the T government T -f V A
