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ur ail tilings regarding titmself he
was singularly reticent. I do not think
he had any confidants or Intimates,
even among his own countrymen, whom
I believed to be German. But one day
he quite accidentally admitted he was
a Swiss. As a youthful admirer of the
race I was delighted and told him so,
with the enthusiastic addition that I
could not quite understand his inde
pendence, with his devoted adherence
to another's cause, lie smiled sadly
and astonished me by saying that he
had not heard from Switzerland since
he left, six years ago. He did not want
to hear anything, lie even avoided his
countrymen lest he should. I was con
founded. "But." 1 said, "surely you have a
longing to return to your country. All
Swiss have. You will go back some day
just to breathe the air of your native
mountains."
"I shall go back some days." said
Ruetll, "after I have made mooch,
mooch money, but not for dot air."
"What for. then?"
"For revenge to get cfen."
Surprised and for a moment dismay
ed, as I was. I could not help laughing.
Ruetll and revenge! Impossible! And.
to make it more absurd, he was still
smoking gently and regarding me with
soft, complacent eyes. So unchanged
were his face and manner that he might
have told me he was going back to be
married.
"You do not oonderstand." he said
forgivingly. "Some days I shall dell
to you it. It is a story. You shall make
It yourselluf for dose babers dot you
write. It Is not pretty berhaps. ain't
It? But It Is droo. And der emit is not
yet."
Only that Ruetll never Joked, except
In a iondeirous fashion with many in
volved sentences. I should have thought
he was taking a good humored rise out
of me. But it was not funny. I am
afraid I dismissed it from my mind an
a revelation of something weak and
puerile, quite inconsistent with his
practical common sense and strong slm
pllclty. and wished he had not alluded
to It. I never asked him to tell me the
story. It was a year later, and only
when he had Invited me to come to t lie
opening of a new hotel erected by him
at a mountain spa of great resort, that
he himself alluded to It.
The hotel was a wonderful affair
even for those days, and Ruetll's out
lay of capital convinced me that by
this time he must have made the
"mooch money" he coveted. Something
of this was in my mind when we sat
by the window of his handsomely fur
nished private otliee overlooking the
pines of a California canyon. I asked
him If thu scenery was like Switzer
land. ' "Acb. no!" he replied. "But I vlll
puild a hotel shoost like dls dare."
"Is that part of your revenger 1
asked, with a laugh.
"All. so a ban."
I felt relieved. A revenge so prac
tical did not seem very malicious or
Idiotic. After a pause he puffed con
templatively at his pipe atod then said.
"I dell you somedings of dot story
now."
He began. I should like to tell it In
his own particular English, mixed with
American slang, but it would not con
vey the simplicity of the narrator. He
was the son of a large family that kid
lived for centuries in one of the highest
villages in the Bernese Oberlaud. He
attained his size and strength early,
but had a singular distaste for the
rough regular work on the farm, al
though he was a great climber and
mountaineer. He had. an insatiable
love and curious knowlpdge of plants
and tiowers and knew the haunts of
edelweiss. Alpine rose and blue gen
tian and had brought home rare and
unknown blossoms from under he icy
lips of glaciers. But. ns he did this
when his time was supposed to be oc
cupied in looking after the cows In the
higher pastures and making cheeses,
there was trouble In that hardworking,
practical family. A giant with the
tastes and disposition of a schoolgirl
was an anomaly in a Swiss village.
Unfortunately again, he was not studi
ous. His record in the village school
had lKen on a par with his manual
work, and the family had not even the
consolation of believing that they were
fostering a genius.
In a community where practical In
dustry was the highest virtue it was
not strange perhaps that he was called
lazy and shiftless. No one knew the
long climbs and tireless vigils he had
undergone In remote solitudes In quest
of his favorites, or. knowing, forgave
him for it. Abstemious, frugal ami
patient as he was. even the crusts of
his fathers table were given him
grudgingly. He often went hungry
rather than ask the bread he had fail
ed to earn. How his great frame was
nurtured in those days he never knew.
Perhaps the giaut mountains recog
nized some kin iR him and fed and
strengthened him after their own fash
ion. Even his gentleness was con
founded with cowardice. "Dot vos de
hardiest." he said simply. "It is not
goot to be opligit to half crush your
brudder ven he vould make a laugh
of you to your sweetheart." The end
came sooner than he expected and, odd
ly enough, through this sweetheart.
"Gottlieb." she had said to him one
day. "the Knglish fremde who stayed
here hwt night met me when I was
carrying some of those beautiful tiow
ers you gave me. He asked me where
they were to be found, and I told him
only you knew. He wants to see you.
Go to him. It may be luck to you."
Uuetll went. The stranger, an Kng
lish Alpine climber of scientific tastes,
talked with him for an hour. At the
end of that time, to everybody's as
tonishment, he engaged this hopeless
Idler as his personal guide for three
months at the sum of 5 francs a day!
It was inconceivable. It was unheard
of. The "Knglander" was as mad as
Gottlieb, whose Intellect had always
been under suspicion. The schoolmas
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ter pursed up his lips. The pastor
shook his head. No good could come
of It. The family looked upon it as
another freak of Gottlieb's, but there
was one big mouth less to feed and
more room in. the kitchen, and they
let him go. They parted from him as
ungraciously as they had endured his
presence.
Then followed two months of sun
shine in Huetll's life, association with
his beloved plants and the Intelligent
sympathy and direction of a cultivated
inun. Kven In altitudes so dangerous
that they had to take other and more
experienced guides Uuetll was always
at his master's side. That savant's col
lection of Alpine tlora excelled all pre
vious ones. Ho talked freely with
Ruetll of further work In the future
and relaxed his Knglish reserve so far
ns to con tide to him that the outcome
of their collection and observation
might be a book. He gave a flower a
Latin name in which even the Ignorant
and delighted Ruetll could distinguish
some likeness to his own. But the book
was never compiled. In one of their
later and more difficult ascents they
nnd their two additional guides wen
overtaken by a sudden storm. Swept
from their feet down an icebound slojye.
Ruetll alone of the roped together par
ty kept a foothold on the treacherous
Incline. Here this young Titan, with
bleeding lingers clinched In a rock
cleft, sustained the struggles and held
up the lives of his companions by that
precious thread for more than .in hour.
Perhaps he might have saved them, but
In their desperate efforts to regain their
footing the rope slipped upon a Jagged
edge of outcrop and parted as If cut by
a knife. The two guides passed with
out an outcry Into obscurity and death
Ituetli. with a last despairing exertion,
dragged to his own level his uncen
scions master, crippled by a broken
leg.
Your true hero is apt to tell his tale
simply. Ruetll did not dwell upon
these details, nor need I. Left alone
upon a treacherous Ice slope in be
numbing cold, with a helpless man.
eight hours afterward he staggered,
half blind. Incoherent and Inarticulate,
hit a. shelter hut with the dead ImxIv
of his master In his stiffened arm.
The shelter keepers tiirii--! their atteu
tion to Ruetli, who needed it most.
Blind and delirious, with scarce a
chance for life, he was sent the next
day to the hospital, where he lay for
three mouths helpless. Imbecile and un
known. The dead body of th- Knglish
man was Identified and sent home. The
bodies of die guides wen- recovered b
their friends, but no one knew Might
Ruetli. even his name. While the even
was still fresh In the minds of rhw
who saw him enter the hut with
boJy of his master a paragraph ap
peared in a Berne journal recording the
heroism of this nameless man. but If
could not be corroborated or explained
by the demented hero and was present
ly forgotten. Six mouths from the day
l.e hail left his home he was discharged
cured. He had not a krcu$cr in his
pocket. He had never drawn his wages
from his employer, lie had preferred
to have them in a lump sum that he
illicit astonish his family on his re
turn. His eyes were still weak, his
memory feeble. Only his great phys
ical strength remained through his long
illness. A few sympathizing travelers
f::rnished him with means to reach his
native Ullage, many miles away. He
found his family had heard of the loss
of the Knglishnian and the guides and
had believed he was one of them. Al
ready he was forgotten.
"Yen yon vos once peliefed to be
dot." said Kuetli after a philosophic
pause and puff, "it vos not goot to ou
deeeif heoplcs. You oopsets somedings
soonidimes always. Her hole dot you
hef made in de grount, among your
frients and your family vos covered up
alretty. You are looeky if you vlll not
tint some vellers shtanding upon it.
My frent. ven you vos dink det, slitay
ilet. be det. and you vi 11 Iif happy."
"But your sweetheart ':" 1 said eager
ly. A slight gleam of satire stole Into
Ruetli's light yes. "My sweetheart ven
I vos dinks det is der miller engaged
do hromply. It Is mooch better dan tc
a man dot vos boor and pliut and
grazy. So! Veil, der next day 1 pld?
dem gooipy. and from der door I say:
I am det now, but ven 1 next coom
pack ullfe I shall dls Ullage puy der
hints, der houses, all togeddcrs. And
den for yousellufs look oudt!' "
"Then that's your revenge? That is
what you really intend to do?" I said
half laughing, yet with a vague, un
easy recollection of his illness and en
feebled mind.
"Yes. Look h-re. I show you some
dings." He opened a drawer of his
desk and took out what appeared to be
some diagrams, plans and a small
water colored map. like a surveyors
tracing. "Look." he said. laying his
linger on the latter: "dot is a map f:mi
my tillage. I hef myselluf made it out
from my memory. Dot." pointing to u
blank space. "Is der mountain side high
up so far. It Is no goot until I vill a
tunnel make or He grade lefel. Dcre
vos mine fader's house; dcre vos der
church, der schoolhouse; dot vos de
burgomaster's house," he went on.
pointing to tho respective plats in this
odd curving parallelogram of the moun
tain shelf. "So vos the tillage when I
leave him on the liftht of March, eight
een hoondrcd and feefty. Now you
shall see him shoost as I vill make him
ven 1 go back." He took up another
plan, beautifully drawn and colored
anil evidently clone by a professional
hand. It was a practical yet almost
fairylike transformation of the same
sjM)t. The narrow mountain shelf was
widened by excavation, and a ImiuIc
vard stretched on either side. A great
hotel, not unlike the one In which we
sat, stood In an open terrace, with gar
dens and fountains the site of hi"
father's house. Blocks of pretty dwell
ings, shops and cafes filled the Inter
mediate space. I laid down the paper.
"How long have you had this idea?"
"Kfer since I left dere. fifteen years
ngo."
"But your father and mother may be
dead by this time?"
"So! But dere vill be odders. And J
der blaco It vill remain."
"But all tills will cost a fortune, and
you are not sure"
"I know shoost vot it vill gost. to a
cend."
"And you think you can afford to
carry out your idea?"
"I vlll affort it. Ven you shall make
some moneys and go to Europe you
Khali see. I rill nlite you dere llrst.
Now coom and look der house, around."
I did not make "some moneys." but
1 did go to Kurope. Three years after
this last interview with Ruetll I was
coining from Interlaken to Berne by
rail. I had not heard from him. and I
had forgot ten the name of his village,
but as I looked up from the paper 1
was reading I suddenly recognized him
In the farther end of the same com
partment 1 occupied. Ills recognition
of me was evidently as sudden and
unexpected to himself. After our first
hand grasp and greeting I said: .
"And how about our new village?"
"Dere Is no tillage."
"What? Have you given up the
idea?"
"Yes. There Is no Ullage, olt or
new."
"I don't understand."
"Dot in a mip tnnii jij .il!u;c."
lb- looked at me a moment. "Ton
have lift heard?"
"No."
He gently picked up a little local
guidebook tliat lay in my lap and,
turning its leaves, pointed to a page
and tvid as follows:
"." M. beyond the train passes a curve
R., when, a :ine slew of the lake may
be seen. A little to the R. rises the
teep slope of the , the scene of a
terrible disaster. At ' o'clock on March
". 1ni. the little village of , lying
i;idv.-iy of the slope, with its popula
i of :."0 souls, was completely de
ed by a landslide from the top of
mountain. So sudd.-n was the ca
.istrophe. that not a single escape is
recorded. A large portion of the moun
tain crest, as will be observed when it
is seen in profile, descended to the val
ley, burying the unfortunate village to
u depth variously estimated at from
l.iKnj to 1.MJ0 feet. The geological
causes which produced this extraor
dinary displacement have been fully
discussed, bur the greater evidence
points tt) the theory of subterranean
glaciers, o M. beyond the train
crosses the R. briHge."
I laid down the guide in breathless
astonishment.
"And you never heard of this in ail
these y ars?"
"Nefer. 1 asked no questions. I read
no pooks. I have no ledders from
home."
"And yet you" 1 stopped. 1 could
not call him a fool. Neither could I. in
the face of his perfect composure and
undisturbed eyes, exhibit a concern
greater than his own. An uneasy rec
ollection of what he confessed had
been lib mental condition immediately
after his accident came over me. Had
he been the victim of a strange halluci
nation regarding his house and family
all these years? Were these dreams of
revenge, this fancy of creating a new
village, mii ly an outcome of -ome shock
arising out of the disaster itself, which
lie had lung since forgotten?
He was looking from the window.
"Coom," he said. "Vo are near der
blace. I vill show it to you." He rose
and passed out to the rear platform.
We weie in the rear car, anil a new
panorama of the lake and mountains
dashed upon us at every curve of the
line. I followed him. Presently he
pointed to what appeared to be a sheer
wall of rock and stunted vegetation,
towering 2.ihhj or ,'t.O00 feet above us.
which started out of a gorge we were
passing. "Dere it vos," he said. I saw the
vast stretch of rock face rising upward
and onward, but nothing else no de
bris, no ruins, not even a swelling or
rounding of the mountain think over
that awful tomb. Yet, stay! As we
dashed along the gorge and the face
of the mountain shifted, high up. the
sky line was slightly broken as if a few
Inches, a mere handful, of the crest was
crumbled away. And then-both gorge
and mountain vanished.
I was still embarrassed and uneasy
and knew not what to say to this man
at my side, whose hopes and ambition
had been as quickly overthrown ami
buried and whose life dream had as
quickly vanished. But he himself, tak
ing his pipe from his lips, broke the
silence.
"It vos a narrow esgabe!"
"What was?"
"Vy. dis dings. If I had stayed in my
fader's house I vould haf been dot for
goot anil perried too. Sometimes dose
dings cooms oudt apout right, don't
It?"
Her Awful III under.
Toss Oh. that's your new hat. eh?
Jess Yes. and such a bargain: only .
$18. What do you think? 1 dropped !
In to let Miss Crumley see It Just now. 1
and she pretended she wasn't interest- I
cd. Didn't even ask how much 1 paid j
for It. Toss No. dear, she didn't have ;
to. You've forgotten to take off that ;
tag marked $I.SIS. Philadelphia Press.
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STORY OF AN ESCAPE
AN INCIDENT OF THE CHICAGO IRO
QUOIS THEATER HORROR.
Tho "Way a "Woman and Her Two
Children "Were Saved From tlie
Hurricane of Flame and I-anic by
a Stranger Who Was Intoxicated.
All great conflagrations that are at
tended with loss of life have, as a rule,
their serio comic ns well as their tragic
Incidents. Many peculiar escapes have
been recorded, but tl following story
uf how one woman and her two chil
ilren were saved from death in the
awful horror of the Iroquois theater In
Chicago, where so many hundreds per
ished in the hurricane of flame and
panic, as told by Miss Elizabeth A.
Reed in the Chicago Record-Herald
shortly after the fearful tragedy, is
unique in many wnys:
Mrs. Henry Stirling, with her two
children, sat In the fateful Iroquois
theater on that dreadful afternoon.
Little Bob was next to the aisle, then
the mother, and Dorothy sat on the
other side. Beyond the six-year-old
girl there was a vacant seat, but little
heed was given to It ns the spectacular
drama went on nnd the wondering lit
tle folks looked open eyed upon the
scenes before them.
At last an uncertain step came down
the aisle and a well dressed man
lurched Into the vacant seat. The cur
tain was up. but he was an old theater
goer, and as the extravaganza was not
entirely new to him he turned to the
child. Her confiding blue eyes an
swered his appeal for friendship; there
was wonder In the expressive little
face, but no fear, even when he ven
tured to lay a caressing hand upon the
golden curls.
Mrs. Stirling shrank from his con
taminating touch upon Dorothy's head.
He saw or felt her loathing and said
brokenly. "Don't you be 'fraid ish all
right-all right-sweetish li'l girl ever
I shaw- sweetish li'l girl ever I shaf."
The gay drama went on, the crowd
cheered, the chUdren clapped their
hands, and their merry laughter min
gled with the applause, but the stran
ger still kept his bleared eyes upon the
lovely child. Every few minutes his
hand woi!d stray lovingly over the
sunny head and some expression of
endearment would fall from his uncer
tain lips. At last Mrs. Stirling called
the attention of an usher to the pro
longed annoyance, and a remonstrance
was made, but the answer came. "You
go way ish all right all right sweet
ish li'l girl ever I shaw sweetish li'l
girl ever I shaw."
Again the big hand touched the gold
en hair, and this time It strayed down
ward and took the little hand in lov
ing clasp. The child looked fearlessly
into his face and smiled.
The mother grew more and more
nervous. Again an usher was called
and a complaint made. The slender
young man looked at the big fellow
and concluded that prudence was the
"better part of valor." so he went to
consult with another about effective
methods of getting the intruder out of
the house.
The stranger looked at the stage
again; this time he saw a tiny flame
rapidly spreading to the scenery. Ris
ing instantly, he took little Dorothy in
his arms. Stepping beyond the mother
and unheeding her frightened remon
strance, he swung the child upon one
shoulder and with the other hand
caught up little Bob; then with both
of them pressed closely in his strong
arms he walked out of the house. The
doubly frightened mother Involunta
rily followed him.
This precious Instant was the mo
ment of salvation. Another minute
another half minute and It would
have been too late. They had nearly
reached the entrance when a cry of
horror rang through the house, follow
ed by screams of terror nnd shrieks of
pain.
Without further volition of their
own they were swept Into the street.
Wholly dazed by the awful shock Mrs.
Stirling pleaded. "Put them down put
them down now!"
"No. thash all right. Where do you
want to go?"
"Right up this way to the Ashland
block," she answered. Then the
strange party pushed on through the
crowd which was already rushing
with helping hands to the scene of the
disaster.
Lurching from one side of the walk
to the other and apparently In con
stant danger of falling, he still carried
his precious irden safely. Once
within the protecting doors of the
great Ashland block the elevator car
ried them to one of the higher floors,
where Mrs. Stirling rushed into her
husband's otliee cryng, "Oh, Henry,
the theater is burning, and this man
has brought the children out!"
Although not half comprehending
the horror, the father put his hand In
his pocket and drew out a twenty dol
lar bill, which lio offered with profuse
thanks. But he and his money were
alike Ignored. With a majestic sweep
of the hand the drunken hero answer
ed, "Go way I don't want your mon
eygo way thash all right thash the
sweetish li'l girl ever I shaw sweetish
li'l girl ever I shaw." and then he stag
gered out of the office.
Correct Addre.
"Isn't Columbus dead, pop?"
"Why, certainly he's dead, years and
years and years ago. What put such
a question Into your head, my son?"
"Why, the little boy what sits next
to me in school said his father address
ed a letter to Columbus yesterday."
"Where did he send It, son?"
"To Ohio." Yonkers Statesman.
Fail and the parrot will say I told
you so. Win nnd the parrot will say
he deserves credit. We are. uncon
sciously, most of us, parrots. School
master. Poker.
Germans claim that poker Is an old
German game which for more than
00 years has been played and Is still
being played in some districts of West
phalia. Emigrants took it to the Unit
ed States, where its name of schar
wenzel was changed Into poker.
In the Same Spirit.
Larry I sent Maude a garter snake
In alcohol for a Joke, narry What
did she do? Larry Oh, she returned
it in the same spirit In which it -was
sent.- Princeton Tiger.
A JAPANESE BABY.
ItM Place In Strapped to the Back of
an Older Bahy.
The babies of all except the richest
Japanese are carried about on the back
of an elder sister or brother from the
time they are a few months old. The
poorer the parents the sooner the baby
Is fastened on to the back of some
elder member of the family, and It is
not uncommon In the poorer quarters
of n Japanese city to see a group of
children six or eight years old playing
In the streets, each of whom bears a
tiny baby sister or brother fastened
with a few straps to its back.
These straps are Just sulllcient to
prevent the baby from falling to the
ground: leaving the comfort of Its pos
ture entirely to Its own exertions. As
a result the Japanese baby early gains
a surprising control of Its muscles, and
It is almost impossible to drop even a
tiny child from your arms, so firmly
does It cling on with both arms nnd
legs.
The dressing of a Japanese baby is
a simple matter. It wears nothing but
miniature kimonos, the number vary
ing with the condition of the weather.
These garments are lit ted one inside
the other before they are put on. Then
they are laid down on the floor, and
baby Is laid Into them. They are long
enough to cover the baby's feet, and
the sleeves are also long enough to
cover the hands. Practically there Is
only one garment, and the process of
dressing a Japanese baby takes but
two or three minutes of Its mother's
time.- Chicago Tribune.
AN INTERRUPTED SERMON.
I'reaehiiiK Under niillcnltle In nn
EiiKllNh Church.
In "A Trencher's Story of his Work."
Dr. Rainsford tells of some strange In
terruptions he encountered while
preaching one of his earliest sermons
In the English cathedral town of Nor
wich. Dr. Rainsford was in the middle of
his sermon when he chanced to look
down from the high pulpit to where
the memler.s of the choir were seated
in a large boxlike pew, screened from
the congregation by a curtain. Much
to the preacher's surprise, one of the
men In the choir put his arm around a
girl, drew her head down on his shoul
der and then looked up at Dr. Rains
ford and winked.
The preacher stopped his sermon,
walked down out of the pulpit and
told tho rector the members of the
choir were acting outrageously. The
rector walked up to the pew. drew
down the curtain with a jerk and ex
posed the spooning couple to the view
of the congregation.
Then Dr. Rainsford resumed his ser
mon. A minute later he chanced to
look down tin- main aisle, and there,
walking in solemn procession, were a
hen and a dozen chicks. To crown It
all. when the sexton tried to drive
them out he was so drunk he fell right
on top of the hen. And then from his
place the old rector cried out:
"Let her alone. John; she Is doing no
harm !"
Ilule For Itrcathluir.
If one's health is impaired or if h
wants to preserve it and increase his
power to resist disease he must first
of all givey attention to his breathing.
Even food and drink are second in im
portance tc this, for one can live for
days without nutrition save the air
breathed, but If deprived of that, even
for a few minutes, life ceases. Here
are some of the tirst rules for acquiring
a correct method of breathing as giveu
by a specialist who has made an ex
haustive study of the subject: First,
after retiring at night release body
and mind from all tension and take full
and regular Inhalations through your
nostrils; hold the breath about one sec
ond; take all the time you can to ex
hale It; keep this up until you aw
wenry or fall asleep. Second, when
you wake In the morning repeat tin?
exercise at least for five minutes; lon
ger If time permits. Third, during
the day take as many full respirations
as possible, exercising care with the
exhalations. While taking these ex
ercises one should bear in mind the
thought that he Is Inhaling new Ufa
and power. Success.
A fiirlmu Ferry.
Captain Hainbro, while traveling
among the Kazaks of Turkestan, dis
covered a curious way of taking a
heavily laden boat across a broad riv
er. The method consisted in piling up
the boat as full as It would hold with
out sinking of all the persons and all
their baggag that It was desired to
take across. Then the boat was
launched, 'flu-re were no oars and no
sails. The motive power was supplied
by the horses, the cattle, the sheep and
the goats of the nomadic and pastoral
people swimming in front and along
side and so by degrees that were far
more slow than they were sure towing
the boat to the other side. In one In
stance which Captain Hambro men
tions the river that a party crossed in
this manner was 1200 yards wide.
EnlnrKinfc the Client.
Any one can increase the size of his
chest two or three Inches In as many
months without the use of any appa
ratus or mechanical contrivance what
ever. When he rises lu the morning
let him go out Into the purest air he
can find, raise his arms to the height
of shoulders, the palms downward,
then, while Inhaling a deep breath,
gradually extend them upward until
the backs of the hands touch above his
head. Do this a dozen times every
morning, and the result will be a chest
development that will surprise any one
who has not made the experiment.
A niMhop'n MunliiHr.
It Is what a man might have been
which jars on what he Is. When a
man has once stood on the mount of
vision, when he has once heard the
call of God to his soul ami made an
swer, "Here am I," he can never go
back to dwell in the valley of common
place. The miasma there, to which
ordinary men have become Immune.
Is deadly to him. From Maud Wilder
Goodwin's "Four Roads to Paradise"
In Century.
A Matter of riuKinefin.
Pigment I saw you at the art exhi
bition last evening. I suppose you are
very fond of paintings? Gamboge
Oh, dear, uo; I hate them. I'm nn art
critic, you know. Boston Transcript.
WOMAN AD FASHION
Lady Cnrron Introduced It.
It was L'tdy Cur. on who Introduced
the hat I. ..mc. She will wear it nt
Newport this summer. This beautiful
hat Is in the magpie colors, black and
white. The top Is dimmed with little
white flower-;, ami there are loops of
lace on the middle of the crown.
Bunches of white flowers are set un
derneath the brim. The feature of this
THE NEW HAT l'LOUNCIl.
hat Is the lace flounce, which Is sewed
around the back part of the hat. This
flounce, which Is Just deep enough to
cover the neck. Is lightly worked In
spots with white silk. The wny to
slilrr such a flounce Is to gather It upon
a shirr string. The whole Is then fas
tened to the back of the hat in such a
manner as to form a veil around Its
three sides. The technical name Is the
hat flounce. This snme Idea is carried
out in white lace upon a white hat.
And It Is seen in tan lace upon n hat
of burned straw. All the different dyed
laces are used upon hats of the same
color. New York Commercial Adver
tiser. Lingerie lint.
The fashionable maid will have one
or two of those fascinating lingerie
hats In her summer trousseau, and the
batiste, mull, tine swiss embroideries
and Valenciennes lace creations are
lovelier than ever this season, as in
numerable changes are rung upon com
binations of luce and flowers. Nets,
plain or dotted, with large chenille
wafers, are shirred and plaited Into
airy rimmed shapes and trimmed with
flowers and soft silken scarfs. Quaint
effects are ol&ilned by using embroid
ered nnd painted moussellne overbroad
trimmed, low crowned shapes covered
with plain taffeta. One model In palest
lilac taffeta has Its brim lined with
tiny frills of Valenciennes. The out
side of the hat is entirely covered In
white mousseline over broad trimmed,
low crowned shapes covered with plain
tuffeta. One model In palest lilac taf
feta has its brim lined with tiny frills
of Valenciennes. The outside of the
hat Is entirely covered lu white mous
seline, painted in floral designs and in
set with lace, and a broad scarf of
lilac taffeta folds round the crown and
falls In loops and ends under the brim
at the back.
Skirts of the Seaaon.
The European modistes tell us that
there is no shadow of doubt about the
advent of full skirts for the coming
season. There may be vnrlatlous in
detail, In trimming. In length, but the
summer skirt will be full, and the
sheer materials, the soft supple sum
mer silks and wools, will lend them
selves charmingly to the mode. For
the walking skirt and the skirt which,
for want of a better term, one must
call dressy the summer laws are ap
proximately fixed. The morning street
costumes will not break Into billowing
olds, but will keep a tailored severity
nnd, whether plaited or plain, will fit
snugly nround the hips and ripple dis
creetly at the ankles.
A J(ew "Yoke.
Tucked blouse of cloth or silk with
plnln yoke of new shape bordered with
bands of embroidery. Bands of em-
MAKES A NEAT BLOUSE.
broidery trim the blouse nnd cross on
the deep tucked cuffs. The full sleeves
are plaited nt the top. The collar Is of
guipure or embroidery.
Combination of Purple.
Royal purple Is one of the most ap
propriate shades for combined day and
evening wear. It is not n color that
' can be worn by nil, but with those who
can wear It It Is worthy of considera
tion. A glorious mixture is composed
' of purple nnd n peculiar shade of
bright pink. Strange ns It may sound,
' this Is really a becoming combination
vrhen softened by lace and can be worn
by many who cannot wear purple
alone. . .
IIoHpitality.
I pray you. O excellent wife, cumber
,..iir..if mill me to get n curiously
1 rich dinner for the man nnd woman
who have just alighted at our gate!
These things, if they are desirous
of them, they can get for n few shil
lings at any village Inn. But rather
let that stranger see, if he will, In
your looks, accents and behavior, your
heart and earnestness, your thought
and will, that which he cannot buy nt
any price in any city nnd which he
may travel miles and dine sparely and
sleep hardly to behold. Emerson.
V. l-.AT MICROBES ARE.
lion 'jrhey .Multiply and How .atare
l'.-epM Them Within Bounds. .
Since Pasteur demonstrated the fact
that many human diseases are due to
minute living things which grow and
multiply in our bodies there has been
a tendency to call all microscopic or
ganisms, whether harmful or not,
"germs" or "microbes" or "bacteria"
lndlscrlmlnntelj. This confusion inny
be cleared by the statement that pro
tozoa are the lowest known forms of
animals and that bacteria are the low
est known forms of plants, while
"germs" and "microbes" may apply to
the disease causing forms in either
group.
In our laboratories, under suitable
conditions of food and warmth, n ba
cillus splits in half an hour Into two
parts, each of which splits again In
half an hour, nnd so on, nnd It has
been estimated that n single bacillus,
if given similar conditions In nature,
would within n week give rise to pro
geny numerousenough to fill the At
lantic ocean. Such overbalancing is
largely prevented by the protozoa,
which feed upon the bacteria. Increas
ing as they increase and decreasing ns
this food supply gives out. The pro
tozoa in turn are eaten by animals like
the worms and shellfish, these by oth
ers, and so on. the balance of nature
being so delicate that no form Increases
disproportionately for any length of
time, although, like the locust plague
or the California fruit tree scale or
the gypsy moth, some forms may oc
casionally predominate. Gary N. Cal
kins in Century.
RIGHT FOOTED PERSONS.
A Shoe Dealer Say They Are In the
Vaxt Majority.
"Did you ever notice that people are
right footed?" asked the proprietor of
n shoe store. "Watch my clerks, and
you will see that Invariably customers
will put out their right foot when go
ing to be fitted. Now watch that cor
pulent woman going to sit down over
there."
The woman with great weight of
body took a seat, lifted her curtain o
black veiling, nnd, ns the clerk ap
proached her, she poked her right foot
from beneath an expanse of skirt.
"It's always the case, and I don't be
lieve I ever knew it to fall. The shoe
manufacturers evidently are wise to
this fact, as in the cartons the right
shoe is always packed on top. Once I
had a lot of shoes come to me with the
left shoe on op, nnd It caused me such
annoyance that I wrote to the manu
facturer, calling his attention to the
matter so that it wouldn't happen
again. The majority of people are
right handed, yet a left handed person
has the right foot habit. The right
hand is larger than the left, as it is
used more and consequently develops
the muscles to a greater extent. On
the other hand, the left foot Is larger
than the right in most persons. The
difference is so slight that we seldom
have trouble in fitting shoes, however.
It is the left shoe that wears out be
fore the right, and probably for this
reason." Shoe Retailer.
THEY DIDN'T PART.
How Two nrother Settled a Matter
of Matrimony.
An English book of reminiscences
tells of two squires named Leaman of
Ivy bridge "two thin, delicate looking
old men, twin brothers, 8eventy-two
years old, with white hair, very gentle
and courteous in manner, red cutaway
coats, white cords, black boots, caps
and gloves." When past sixty j-ears
of age one night after hunting one of
them said to the other: "I have been
thinking neither of us can have much
longer to live In this world and it will
be a terrible thing for the survivor to
have to remain here alone. Don't jou
think one of us ought to marry?"
"l'es," was the reply. "I have thought
so for a long time." "Well, do you
know of any lady?" "Yes; I do. Is
there any one you fancy?" On com
paring notes it appeared they had both
selected the same woman, the manager
of a hotel at Okchampton. "Well."
said one, "we have lived together all
these years without a wry word, and
It's n pity we should fall out at our
time of life." So they tossed up who
should marry her. The winner rode
down to Ckehampton next morning
and was accepted. All three lived to
gether and the wife nursed both broth
ers In their last illness nnd vns left
their money.
WRITERS' CRAMP.
It In a Sort of l'nrnlynln of Either
the MuMvlen or Xcrveii.
Writers' cramp, which Is more paraly
sis than cramp, Is caused by excessive
writing, especially when In a weak or
depressed condition. It is still n mat
ter of doubt whether this embarrass
ing defect Is due to a failure of the
central nervous system or whether it
arises In the muscles involved.
Duchenne, one of the highest author
ities on nerve diseases, holds that It is
an affection of the great nerve centers,
for local treatment of the hand does
no good, and cramp rapldlj- appears In
the left hand If the sufferer transfers
the work to It. It Is probably caused
by the complete exhaustion of some
portion of the brain which presides
over the movements of the group of
muscles Involved.
Rest Is the chief, if not the only,
cure, though the substitution of a
keyboard typewriter In the early stage
Is often of no avail. A dial machine,
which must be grasped with finger and
thumb. Is not so successful. Pianists,
violinists, telegraph clerks, tailors and
mnny others suffer from a similar
cramp.
The Korean.
The people of Korea are neither Jap
anese nor Chinese. They are Mon
golians and have n polysyllabic lan
guage, with a phonetic alphabet. They
have a recorded history of disputed
nuthenticity which claims for them
a continuous existence ns a Korean
people of nbout 5.000 years, the earlier
part of which of course Is shrouded In
mists of traditions nnd fable.
The Barirain Lady.
Clerk What kind of a traveling bag
can I show you, moih-m?
Mrs. Runabout Well. I want to get
n real leather $15 bag for about $1.09
or something like that Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.