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CHAPTER IT.
THllK next day after his little ad
8 venture the hounds did not
a meet. The mare came back In
i the morning, with a polite mes
sage of thanks, but no note, and Lord
I'aladore sent his groom to inquire for
the Injured horse, which was still at
the farm. For an hour or two he tried
to persuade himself that It was his
duty to ride over to Sherburton and In
quire for the lady as well, but his own
bashfulness and the rellection that she
bad sustained no injury restrained
him. Usually he was glad of a non
hunting day to get through some work,
but this morning he did not get on.
The blue books palled, and when he
tried some writing instead he found
himself, having some little gift that
way. making sketches on his blotting
pad of a young lady jumping oxtrava
cant fences on a remarkably free going
horse. This also failed the young lady
was not pretty enough. Later In the
day he took his gun and shot round an
outlying co crt or two; but. though his
spaniels worked well and found him
plenty of birds, he did little execution
among them. Yesterday's quick gallop
had in some way unsettled his nerves.
It was a curious coincidence that his
father that evening after dinner, the
family having dined alone, should have
tackled him on the subject which was
now nearest his heart namely, his son's
marriage.
Now. generally this was a subject
upon which Lord Paladore had little to
say. It was- not so much that the idea
of marriage was distasteful to him (hV
recognized the abstract obligation, but
not the urgency of Its concrete fulfill
ment) as that as yet he had seen no one
who sufficiently attracted him or who
seemed to possess all the excellencies
requisite to such promotion. This even
ing, however, for some undefined rea
son, the topic of marriage was less irk
some to him than it sometimes war.
He suffered his father to urge upon him
the attractions of a certain Lady Sarah
without demur, but it was not of Lady
Sarah that he thought as he stretched
bis legs to the cheerful glow of the
jreat gleaming fireplace and sipped his
rlaret. His fancy strayed from her la
iavshin's cold style of beauty and aus
terely correct manners to a more pi
quante personality, whose presence he
considered might add warmth and col
or to the great chill house in which he
lived with his elderly parents. His fa
ther, entirely unconscious of this defec
tion, meandered on about Lady Sarah
lo his heart's content. She was not, by
the way. at all the sort of woman who
would have attracted himself in his
own youth, but he imagined she was
md chuckled over her charms with in
finite zest.
Tho fair ntratif;or wns out the next
flay and on most hunting days after
that. Her nerve was unshaken by her
fall, and she went brilliantly whenever
the hounds gave her the chance. Her
youth, her good looks and her splendid
horses excited much simulation as to
He h-til ut with the ynuwj Uuly alone
her identity. Some thought she was an
Austrian princess (one had hunted a
few se.-ixMis before from the same hotel,
which may have given color to the sur
mise, but there were no signs of for
eign extraction in her appearance, nor
had she any attendance suited to such
rank. She was chaperoned at the Dig
by Grand by an elderly lady whom she
called aunt and was attended in the
field by a neat but unliveried groom.
Others aillrmed that she was a Mrs.
Compton, a fine horsewoman well known
in the shires: others, again, that she
wns a famous skirt dancer from a Lon
don theater.
The season was an open one and
proved one of the best the hunt had
ever enjoyed. Excellent runs were ob
tained, lit all of which the fair un
known performed in such a way as
dulightcd the Crack more Yale. Besides
being splendidly mounted, though gen
erally on young horses, the girl seemed
to have a natural aptitude for crossing
a country. She rapidly became a great
favorite with the men, and even the
ladies, who are accustomed to look
askance at a pretty intruder whom no
body knows, were forced to confess
that her conduct and form were Irre
proachable. The elder habitues of the
hunt, men of weight in the saddle and
count v. jostled each other In their ea
gerness to greet her at the covert side
r.r i .men a irate for her when such
..rvi-. was required, while, as for the
Voung men, they rode as jealously as
could be, not for the honor of giving
h,.r loiid. a form of politeness sue ojs
dnined. but to keep her In sight when
the hounds were running and if possi-
Mo in iret ii word with her at a cnecu
some nf the wealthier bought horses of
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purchases. Young Lord Wrockwardine
gave two hundred and fifty for an Irish
four-year-old, with which he subse
quently won the Point-to-point Ri-d-coat
nice, while General Strcnsham
parted with nearly as much for n mag
nificent weight carrier, which he de
clared to be the finest mover he had
ever ridden In his life. Where she got
such horses was n marvel to every one.
for the sales did not seem to diminish
or impair her stud. Within a few days
she would have others as good as she
had sold.
It was a greater marvel that no one
could discover her name. Inquiries on
the part of some of the more curious
elicited that the only name known at
the hotel was that of the aunt, Mrs.
tticketts. Everything was booked In
her name, and that of the young lady
had not transpired. Lord Paladore was
the first to discover It. Hiding one day
beside a member of the hunt, who had
lately returned from abroad, he said.
"I suppose you don't by chauce happen
to know Uie name of the lady on the
gray?"
"The lady on the gray? Yes, to be
sure I do," his friend answered, fixing
his glass to his eye and staring through
it at a girl on a gray cob who was
within his view, though Invisible to
the master on the lower ground. "She
is a Miss Hervey. the parson's daugh
ter at Enmore, but staying with her
aunt at Sherburton. Not a bad looking
filly, is she?"
"Not by any means," the master as
sented dryly, his thoughts of course
occupied with the fair unknown, who
that day was riding an iron gray four-year-old,
and a line fourteen stone
hunter It was too.
But Just then there was a view
halloo and no time for further chat.
Lord Paladore crammed down his cap.
took his mare by the head and gallop
ed off to the halloo. He had made out
who she was. and that was something.
Week by week, as the season ad
vanced. Lord Paladore became more
and more enamored, and the more he
s:iw of her the more worthy of his ad
miration did the object of it appear to
be. On the strength of the service
he h;.d rendered on their first ac
quaintance he was admitted to a great
er degree of intimacy than was accord
ed to any one else. He found frequent
opportunities for a few minutes' con
versation during the chase. Twice or
thrice he rode home with her and even
got as far as to call upon her at the
hotel. On this occasion he was not
presented to the aunt, but had tea with
the young lady alone. She was charm
ing as a hostess, fashionably yet quiet
ly dressed in the perfection of style,
and looked even prettier, Lord Pala
dore thought, If that were possible.
than she I?;1 In tL'C li!!J!UM 1 lfr
Moreover, she talked to him, not mere
ly of hunting, but upon such subjects
as were consonant with the more intel
lectual side of his character, thereby
making greater progress in his regard
than she could possibly have achieved
in the role of pretty horse breaker.
Lord I'aladore. as has been said, ab
horred a woman who wns horsy and
nothing else, but for one who could
take an intelligent interest in the ap
proaching political crisis, discourse on
current literature and even knew some
thing of his favorite subject of politi
cal economy (she seemed to have John
Stuart Mill at her fingers' ends), and
yet ride to hounds as she did. nothing
seemed too good. She was somewhat
tinged with Radicalism, it was true,
whereas his lordship wns an advanced
Conservative. Hut, then, how delight
ful to reason with her and gently guide
her into the better political way! She
had a way, too, of deferring to his lar
ger experience and clearer insight
which was very charming.
A month or two elapsed, however,
before the matter came to a climax.
Ah long as Lord Paladore could see her
whom he must regard as his bride
elect twice or thrice a week, exchange
a few words and watch her graceful
form where it showed to perfection, on
the back of a good horse, he was con
tent, particularly when toward the end
of the season, matters being taken
more easily and hard riding circum
scribed by reason of the springing
seeds, there was more opportunity for
such philandering. But w lien the young
lady began to talk of going homo he
felt he could not pnrt from her without
some understanding, the more so that
he was quite aware he was not her
only admirer. Several of the young
men in long skirted coats and compli
cated neckcloths, one especially of an
extremely eligible character, had been
far more demonstrative in their atten
tions than he, and as of course she
could not be expected to attribute any
thing serious to the casual courtesies
of so great n personage as the noble
master It was obvious that If the noble
master meant business it was neces
sary that he should declare himself.
His attentions, limited as they were,
could hardly escape the notice of the
field, and the youth of eligible charac
ter previously alluded to was heard to
Inquire after the facility for rellection
afforded by a blank day, during which
the master had appeared more inter
ested in Miss Harvey's conversation
than in the prospects of sport. If his
comrades thought that Paladore was,
to use his elegant phrase, "on the
Job." Diverse opinions were express
ed, some thinking It looked like it
others surmising that he was hardly
the sort of Johnny for that kind of
tiling, but that If lie should happen to
be so it would behoove any other John
ny who might also be "on the job" to
cut In at. once and look sharp about It.
since it was not probable that any girl
who had the chance would neglect to
haul In a catch like Lord Paladore
Thus admonished, the Johnny In (pies
tion did cut in without loss of time
and was as promptly rejected, having
failed probably in some subject of the
sonior Cambridge, perhaps in Profess
or Fawcett's "Manual of Political
Lord Paladore was somewhat more
successful. He made his offer as they
rode toward Sherburton along a grassy
lane in the dusk of a spring evening.
It was an idyllic scene for such an
episode In the life of a master of
hounds the wide pastures bathed in
dew stretching out before them to
where the Minster tower rose dark
against the daffodil sky; they the sole
figures in the landscape; the only
sounds the bleating of lambs and
Jocund whistling of blackbirds in
copse and hedgerow. Their horses,
subdued by a fair day's hunting, paced
quietly side by side, affording every
facility for the settlement of the mo
mentous question between the riders.
Lord Paladore. having made up his
mind, was no diffident wooer. lie went
straight to the punt and expected an
equally definite and direct answer.
'Ibis, to his surprise, he failed to ob
tain. The huiy was conscious of the
greatness of the honor conferred upon
her, admitted that she preferred him
to any one she had ever met, with
many pretty things of the same kind,
but a plain yes or no she could not be
Induced to say. lie must see her fa
ther and renew his offer after the in
terview, if it pleased him so to do.
And this was all he could get from
iter. They rode together so far as the
entrance to the town, where tluiy part
ed with a warm clasp of the lialid. As
he turned his horse's head she said:
"If you decide to go on with tills, my
lord, you will want my father's ad
dress. If you have a pencil I will write
it down."
"There Is no need," he replied. "I
know it."
It was too dusky for him to remark
the look of surprise which swept
across her face at this very common
place rejoinder; otherwise lie would
have been more puzzled than he al
ready was. It was getting late, and he
had several miles to ride home, so he
put his horse into a sharp trot and
pondered things as he went. They were
certainly a little dubious. She evident
ly liked, possibly loved. Why, then,
this reluctance to accept him? Of
course he wns prepared to ask her
hand in the orthodox manner. But
wliv should she have looked so grave
about It. so suddenly unlike herself?
Where could there be any difficulty on
her side? What parent would be likely
to throw obstacles in the way of a
daughter's marriage with one so fa
vored by fortune as himself? It wns, ho
imagined, somewhat old fashioned for
a girl to insist upon the parent's con
sent being actually obtained before
giving her own. Still, no doubt it wns
quite proper. If a little prudish. And
why should he resent such nicety In
one from whom he would expect all
sorts of niceness, both present and to
come? He reasoned thus with himself
all the way home. Nevertheless when
he dismounted at his father's door he
still felt a little chill of disappointment
in place of the glow of satisfaction
which would have been more congenial
to the situation.
With the next morning's light things
resumed once more the roseate hue
most agreeable to happy lovers. Lord
Paladore was not too anxious to be
styled a happy lover, but his spirits
rose considerably when after breakfast
his T cart came round and he started
for the seventeen mile drive to Enmore
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was resolved to learn his fate at once,
and, It being a nonhunting day, he was
able to set out on his mission with a
clear conscience. It was a bright
spring day. and the rapid drive behind
his pair of well bred horses exhilarated
him at least for the first part of tho
Journey. The latter half of it was by
cross country lanes, hilly and in such
an abominable state of repair that
Lord Paladore's mind was diverted
from dreams of love to the composition
of a trenchant letter impeaching tho
district council and Its road surveyor
for the next Issue of the local chroni
cle. Enmore when reached proved to be
a straggling village situated fh a miry
bottom between two low ranges of
hills a depressing place to dwell In, It
appeared to Lord I'aladore, and a
wretched hunting country, with Its
small lnclosures. mostly plow, and
great unjumpable fences. No wonder
his ladylove, with her fondness for
the sport, preferred the aunt at Sher
burton and the green pastures of the
Crackmore Yale. The parsonage was
discovered without dilllculty, a faded,
forlorn looking place, the woodwork
rotten and mildewed, the stone green
with slime and damp. Lord I'aladore
had time for rellection as he waited at
the blistered front door and wrestled
with the broken bell pull. He could not
understand matters at all. How, if her
people lived in such a placo as this,
which he would have considered Ineli
gible as a site for his kennel, was she
able to afford such horses and such
dresses? Perhaps the aunt, perhaps a
little fortune of her own, but in the
latter case it would not be like so nice
a girl to leave her parents In such a
hole as this while she enjoyed herself
In comfortable quarters elsewhere.
These disturbing meditations were
at length interrupted by a small and
untidy servant girl, who did not know
if her master was In, but would go
and see, which she did, while Lord
Paladore waited In the passage with
much Impatience, but Incrensed mis
givings. Presently the vicar came to
him in a dingy drawing room. He was
a depressed, colorless man of rather
more than middle age, a gentleman no
doubt, j'et one who through continu
ous ill usage on the part of the world
had evidently lost touch with many of
those things in it which go to sustain
that character. He opened his dull
eyes In dazed surprise when Lord
Paladore explained the nature of his
(TO UK COXTINUKD.)
The Other "Wny.
I understand you to say that
'Did
Skadchase was suffering from heart
trouble brought about by financial em
barrassment?" "No. 1 said he wns suffering from
financial embarrassment brought about
bv heart trouble. The heiress lie was
engaged to has jilted him."
Kcccntrlc.
Burgess Oh, yes; Charley is all
rlirht: a little eccentric, though. I've
noticed several times when he has bor
rowed a lead pencil, instead of putting
it into his nocket. as any one else
would do, he hands It back to the own
or. Boston Transcript
DRY BONES VALLEYS
PLACES WHERE DEAD BODIES ARE
PRESERVED BY THE CLIMATE.
In Chile, For Inniance, the Air la So
Dry That It In Alnaont Iinpomiible
For un L'nburled Hotly lo Decom
pose In the Ordinary Manner.
Among the most curious things In
tills queer old world perhaps the weird
est is the "valley of dry bones" which
continually crops up In various parts
of both hemispheres.
In Chile, for instance, the air is so
dry that It is almost Impossible for a
body to decompose In the ordinary
way: Here and there in the mountains
or on the plains one may discover a
body that has been clay for several
years, but has no more returned to
dust than to life.
There Is literally a "valley of dry
bones" not far from Valparaiso where
a battle was fought during the Balma
ceda troubles. Here may be seen today
bodies of men nnd horses scattered
among the rocks that are like nothing
so much as Egyptian mummies, shriv
eled by the fierce sun and embalmed
by the natural dry atmosphere.
This Is not. strictly speaking, "a val
ley of dry bones," but that there is a
real one In Ceylon no one who has vis
ited that Island can doubt for a mo
ment. It Is a peculiar fact and one
which is borne out by the testimony of
the English planters in Ceylon that
when an elephant feels its last hour
approaching It will If permitted to do
so escape into the Jungle to die. Once
the sick elephant gets away it is never
seen again. Where they go to Is the
problem.
It is absolutely certain that they
must go somewhere, and therefore as
they vanish o mysteriously in the
hour of death one cannot but give
credence to the tale which Is often
brought down from the hills by the
Tnmlls nnd Cingalese.
According to these people, there Is a
'valley of dry bones" near Talawakele,
which Is about twenty-five miles soutli
of Kandy. the old capital of the Is
land. This valley, to be correct. Is
said to be a vast underground tunnel,
with numerous but dllllcult to find en
trances nnd exits. Such places are
common In Ceylon, but the particular
cave where the elephants go to die has
never been discovered, though numer
ous expeditions have sought for It.
In view of the fact that the ele
phants do disappear when they nre
about to die It seems probable that
some such place does exist on the Is
land, for it Is certain that the great
unwieldy beasts do not swim across
the gulf of Mannar. The person who
finds this elephant sepulcher will prob
ably reap n fortune in ivory.
Another strange place exists as a
real "valley of dry bones" in the is
land of Jamaica, West Indies. Of
course there is a legend attached to It,
but hero are the hard facts and an
actual description of the valley Itself.
It Is situated near the Cunncuna gap.
In the Maroon country, at the eastern
extremity of the Island. This region Is
clothed In primeval forest, and the fact
that rain falls on an average twelve
hours a day all the year round gives
the Jungle a luxuriant green vegeta-
tlonnoTT6"be found "elsewhere. But
this valley, though situated right In
the heart of the "wet country," Is bare
of leaf ami life.
The limestone rock is white and hot.
Giant trees that seem to have been
blighted suddenly stand up all gaunt,
white and dead. The valley Is sheltered
from the wind and the first force of the
rainstorms. As a consequence this
strange ravine Is silent, unmolested
and (piite dry.
The weird feature Is that, although
vegetation seems to have been dense
here In former years, nothing will
grow now. Nature has come to a com
plete standstill. During the hot season
the temperature of the valley Is almost
unbearable,, and It is visited by seismic
disturbances that cause the dead trees
and dry hot stones to rnttle like dry
bones; hence the name the valley has
acquired.
The legend of this "valley of dry
bones" can hardly be taken without a
pinch of salt, but let us be nothing if
not complete. Many years ago, says
the negro story teller, a woman lived
on a plantation in Cuba. She was no
torious for her cruelty to her slaves.
She used to throw cayenne pepper in
their eyes and afterward stick cactus
needles Into their bodies Just for sport.
One night the slaves revolted and
burned the plantation house to the
ground. The woman managed to es
cape In an open boat to Jamaica,
where she sought refuge from her ene
mies in the heart of the Jungle.
Here she developed a mania for col
lecting all sorts and conditions of cats.
When she had procured a multitude of
the feline tribe she nmuscd herself by
torturing them. The legend has It that
every night the demoniacal shrieks of
the woman nnd the cries of the cats
were to be heard even In the Maroon
villages. But one night a severe earth
quake came and swallowed up the
cats, their tormentor and her home.
New York Herald.
Forbidden Frnlt.
A request was once made to the au
thorities of one of the colleges at Cam
bridge that room might be found on
the spnclous lawns of their garden for
the lady students of GIrton college to
play lawn tennis. Guessing clearly
enough what would be the result of the
admission of these students of the fair
er sex among the undergraduates, the
master replied that It was ordered in
the stntutes of the college that the gar
dens must be devoted to the purposes
of floriculture nnd must not be used for
husbandry. Spnre Moments.
The Real Reanon.
"How did that prima donnn come to
lose her voice?"
"Well," answered the Impresario,
"some people say she sang too much,
but my personal opinion Is that she lost
it arguing about salary." Washington
Star.
Quick Diiipateh.
A bill was once stuck on the shop
window of a tradesman in the Fried
rlchstrasse, Berlin, setting forth that
"these premises are temporarily closed
owing to the marriage of the proprie
tor; to be reopened in twenty minutes."
FRENCH MIDDLE CLASSES.
They Are PumiinK Klch on a Thon
Mnml Dullam a Year.
"A French lady, widow of an officer,
once said to me," says the writer, "that
she always traveled first class because
she was rich, afterwa.rJr explaining
that her income was e.retly 200 a
year. But she was rich because most
likely she never spent more than 170,
and the explanation, I dare say, ap
plies to the medical men In the coun
try. They are rich, In all probability,
on three or four hundred a year rich
just because they make much more
than they spend. In order to compre
hend French life and character we
must bear one fact In mind. Appear
ance is not a fetich in France as in
England; outside show Is not sacrificed
to; Mrs. Grundy is no twentieth cen
tury Baal. On the other hand, good re
pute is sedulously nursed; personal dig
nity and family honor are hedged
round with respect.
"We must not take the so called real
istic novelist's standard to be the true
one. Frenchmen, I should say, as a
rule, spend a third less upon dress than
Englishmen. It does not follow that
the individual is held In slight esteem,
personality discounted. These provin
cial and country doctors do not out
wardly resemble their spick and span
English colleagues, nor do they affect
what Is called style In their equipage
in most cases the conveyance Is a bicy
cleand manner of living. How can
they upon an income derived from one
and eight penny fees? But many are
doubtless rich In the logical accepta
tion of the word that is, they live con
siderably below their Income and save
monev." Chambers' Journal.
STARFISH AND OYSTERS.
SI Intake That Wan Made by a Planter
of the nivnlvcM.
"A few years ago." said a Long Is
land oyster planter last week, "one of
the planters here made a big mistake
that nearly cost him his whole year's
oyster crop.
"You know, I suppose, that the worst
enemy of the oysters Is the starfish.
We catch them with an instrument
called a tangle in great quantities and
pile them up ashore, where the sun
soon kills them. But that, as you may
Imagine, is not an operation calculated
to make the neighborhood of the place
very fragrant, for the star has a fear
ful odor after he dies.
"Now. tills planter of whom I am
speaking had a plan to avoid all this.
He told one of his men off with an ax,
and as fast as the boats brought in a
load of starfish the ax was plied, and
the pieces were then dumped over
board.
"He rubbed his hands over his good
idea, but he wasn't so pleased a month
or so afterward when the starfish be
gan to devour his oysters again, and
investigation with the dredge and tan
do showed that there were more of
them than ever on his beds.
"About this time an expert from the
fish commission came snooping around
for curiosities, nnd he heard, of course,
about the stars. He began to laugh.
" 'All that you succeeded in doing.'
said he to the oyster planter, 'when
vou chopped up the starfish was to in
crease them. Don't you know that
sTnTjdrcTrtf-lie cut Into as many as six
pieces and still not only survive, but
form a new starfish from almost every
piece?' "New York Press.
Getting n Good Start.
"Miss Sophie." beloved benefactress
of half the poor of New Orleans, sat at
her desk writing when an elderly wo
man who had made many previous de
mands upon her was ushered in.
"Oh, Miss Sophie." she said breath
lessly. "I want to borrow a dollar,
please, right away."
"What do you need the money for,
Ermagarde?"
"Well. now. you see, I'm going to get
married, and I need it for tho license."
"But If the man you are o marry
cannot pay for the license how is he
going to support you?"
"That's Just what I want to explain
to you. Miss Sophie. You see. tomorrow
is Thanksgiving, and we are coming to
your free dinner. Then you always
give us something to take home, nnd In
the evening the King's Daughters are
going to have a basket distribution,
and we shall each get one. That will
keep us a week easilj. and by that
time we'll be on our feet."
KiiKTlaiid'H OldcMt Rallirny Station.
The only railway station in England
that can boast of being really old is
that at Bourne, Lincolnshire, which is
an ancient Elizabethan mansion, for
merly in the possession of the Digby
family, some members of which were
Implicated In the gunpowder plot.
When the Great Northern nnd Mid
land railroads came through this dis
trict, a memorial was sent from the
Inhabitants of Bourne asking that in
stead of pulling the old landmark down
It might be converted into a railway
station, for which purpose It answers
admirably now. Part of the house Is
used as a residence by the station mas
ter. Lengthening Life.
The difference between rising every
morning at (5 and S in the course of
forty years amounts to 29,200 hours, or
3 years, 121 days and 1G hours, which
are equal to eight hours a day for ex
actly ten years. So that rising at ('
will be the same as if ten years of life
(a weighty consideration! were added,
wherein we may command eight hours
every day for the cultivation of our
minds and the dispatch of business.
When Cat "Were Scarce.
In n curious collection of ancient
Welsh laws, dated 0-13 A. D., appears
the following sentence, from which It
would appear that cats were rather
scarce at that time: "The worth of a
kitten until it shall open Its eyes is one
legal penny; from that time till It shall
kill mice, two legal pennies; after It
shall kill mice, four legal pence, and so
it shall always remain."
Annlojclea.
"I understand your friend Jenkins
has resigned that city clerkship he
held."
"Resigned? n'm!"
"Oh, wasn't it voluntary?"
"Well, It was just as voluntary as his
contributions to the campaign fund
were." Philadelphia Press.
WOMAN AND FASHION
WnlMt Fur Yonnjc Girl.
No style of waist suits girlish figures
more perfectly than this one, with Its
box plaited bolero at the front below
a deep yoke. The model is made of
porcelain blue messaline satin, the
voke being overlaid with motifs of
ace, and is trimmed with silk braid.
MISS BLOUSE WAIST.
but there are a host of materials that
might be suggested. The pointed yoke,
together with the sleeve caps, gives the
broad line of the season, while the bo
lero, with its soft folds, provides just
the fullness required for slender, un
formed figures. The sleeves are full
and ample, with cuffs that form deep
pointed extensions over the puffs. To
make the waist for a girl of fourteen
years cf age will be required 44 yards
of material 21, yards 27 or 2 ynrds
44 Inches wide.
Xcw Style In CorxetN.
A new corset lias a twelve incli clasp,
with tho material extending below It
for several inches. Over the hips the
depth from the waist line to the lower
edge is sixteen inches. This section of
the corset is honed with fine single
whalebones. From the waist up the
corset is formed of four horizontal
shaped bands, ranging from one Inch
nnd three-quarters to three Inches wide,
the upper band being finished at the
top by platted net lace. This is espe
cially adapted to long waisted, full
figures. Many, nnd in fact most, of
the new corset models show the higher
bust line, but not over an inch higher,
with the dip as deep as ever below the
waist line.
Summer Millinery.
The new turbans are decidedly smart
with the tailored or street gown, the
color of which they should match
There are straw braids in striking col
or combinations and two toned effects
that lend themselves to this style.
They require very little trimming, a
breast, quill or straw buttons being
sufficient
Some of the season's smartest mod
els are the broad brimmed fiat hats
The brims are soft and easily made to
conform to Individual becomingness.
Folds of tulle, shirred chiffon, silk or
lace form the brim facing of nearly al
the new models
Ribhonx Popnlnr For TrlmmiiiKM.
Ribbon trimmings become more and
more popular. The flowered gauze
trimmings set with fagot stitching are
a most charming addition to a summer
gown, while the Louis or Pompadour
bows are to be seen on almost every
thing. For tho adornment of the full
dress toilet nothing is more charming
than the gold and silver gauze ribbons,
on which are embroidered designs in
delicate faded tones.
For Summer "Wenr.
Tliis chic little girl's frock is of white
linen, with the skirt composed of three
flounces of hand embroidery. Two ruf-
GIUIj'S WHITE FIIOCK.
Acs of the embroidery are effectively
arranged below the small tucked vest
of Insertion. A broad sash of soft
satin ribbon is worn with this.
The Xev Rnin Cont.
The latest in rain coats Is the pure
white one. It Is made of a spotless
sntln surfaced water proofed fabric
that is very handsome In itself. If It
Is one of the very new ones, It is loose
and buttons all the way to the feet,
with large pearl buttons.
Jnimncitc God.
It is said that there are no fewer
than 8,000.000 gods worshiped by
the Japanese. Praying Is made very
easy. In the streets nre tall posts.
with prayers printed on them and with
n small wheel attached. Any one pass
ing by can give the wheel a turn, nnd
that counts as a prayer. The people
in the second largest of the 3.S"0 is
lands of which the empire is couponed
worship the bear and reverence the
sun, moon, fire, wind and water.
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MADNESS OF THE DESERT.
ISflect of thr Monotony of Sllcace
Upon ilt:inan ileinffn.
"The silence of the desert has a mad
dening effect upon the human brain,"
said a traveler whose experiences are
not often paralleled. "Monotony Is
more severe than anything else deriv
ing Its entire pain from mental effect.
The monotony of silence is worse than
any other kind.
"Take a mnn away from the hum of
the work of men and send him out on
the alkali deserts, and the deep silence
becomes awful and Is sometimes un
bearable. All at once, without any
previous symptom, some member at
the party may stop suddenly, with a
dazed look on his face and n wild ex
pression in his eye. He is dangerous.
His reason is torn In wild confusion.
Anything or anybody familiar infuri
ates li I in.
"lie must be disarmed and bound at
once or lie will deal death to the whole
party. He is possessed of 'desert mad
ness.' brought on by the monotony of
silence. He suffers excruciating men
tal anguish. He needs to be relieved,
by being brought back to his n'ecus-
tomed surroundings.
"On this account men used to the
desert refuse to go out with those with
whom they nre well acquainted. The
mad man s not HUoty to attack a
stranger. If there Is no friend in tbo
party his madness Is likely to assert
tsclf in running rather than in flgbt-
ng. It is a fearful disease not yet un
derstood." Birmingham News.
FEMININE LANGUAGE.
An EnKllh Critlcium of the Ue of
AVordM by Women.
You may talk to n woman for an hour
or more and understand every word
she says. .Meat, bread, money, motor
cars, drains, the ace of trumps there
is really no space at my disposal to
give a list of the words that are com
mon to both languages. In fact, most
of the solid, concrete things of life
may be left out of the question. It is
when we nass beyond the concrete that
the real misunderstanding arises. Take
a couple of very common words used
enuallv by both sexes. A man will say
that So-and-so is a "nice" girl. I should
know what he meant. A woman will
reply that the girl is pretty, agreeable
and all that sort of thing, but that she
is "not quite nice." The two are using
the same word to express different
ideas, and they will never agree as to
whether that girl is nice or otherwise
until they can talk the same language.
iVgaln In the feminine dictionary Uie
opposite of "nice" is "horrid." A man
will talk of a "nice scoundrel' and a
"horrid bore." and I can understand
him. But when a woman tells me that
a man Is wealthy and clever and good
looking "but I'm sure he's horrid"
she has dropped Into her foreign lan
guage. I can only be sure that she
does not mean what I mean when I
speak of a "horrid girl." London Out
look. The Xanie Tibet.
Many forms of the name Tibet sprang
from the Chinese T'ubar (fifth century)
through the variations of Tuebet To
boct, Thibet (11G5), Tebet (120S), to Tl-
been variously accounted for, but the
weight of historical evidence indicates
that the word is derived from Tubat, a
famous family name proper to several
ancient Tartar dynasties, extensively
used In the sense of "chief."
Hodgson asserts that before the ar
rival of Indian teachers the people had
no name for themselves or their land,
and. though the present name Is not, as
some say, unknown in the country It
self, the modern Tibetans call them
selves Bod-pa and their land Bod-ynl,
Bod being a Buddhist appellative sug
gested by the Sanskrit b'ot, or bat. so
working back to the Tartar name.
London Spectator.
Wood Palp Paper.
Despite all man's ingenuity he has
not yet been able to use wood pulp
newspapers over again. After the
daily is read and thrown aside it is use
less for the press again. Instead, the
junkman carries it off and disposes of
it in various ways. Waste paper, for
instance, is steamed, washed and press
ed into a sort of wood, which is used
for iloors. By the addition of a little
clay the surface can be made smooth
enough to resemble metal. Under
pressure paper is als turned into car
wheels, buckets, plates, penholders, pa
perweights and statuary. The street
fakir who wishes to sell you a Venus
de Milo. which he assures you that you
can drop and It "won't break any
more." holds In his hand the combined
product of a half dozen old newspapers.
New York Tribune.
Irih Nomenclature.
Irish names have often a knack of
being frankly pugnacious, so that even
a peaceful lord chief justice has had to
bear the inciting to murder sobriquet
of Killowen. But the mountains from
Lismore to Clogheen, known as the
Knockmealdown range, are capable of
an entirely pacific Interpretation, for
we commonly say we are knocked
down all in a heap by tills or that
which takes us by surprise, and these
mountains surprise all by their beauty.
There is no lovelier sight in Ireland,
nnd if an air of melancholy prevails it
is because the scene somehow sad
by excess of serenity." to use a phrase
of Henry James it would be difficult to
better. London Chronicle.
KnklmoM Appetite.
The Eskimos have enormous appe
tites. An arctic explorer relates that
he saw a boy eat ten pounds of solid
food nnd drink a gallon and a half of
liquid with much gusto. This same
explorer observed an adult eat ten
pounds of meat and two candles at a
meal. Sir P. Phillips tells how a lad
of seventeen years ate twenty-four
pounds of beef In twenty-four hours.
Explained.
"Here is another example of faulty
English." said the teacher of the class
in rhetoric. "In this essay you have
written 'her sight broke upon a land
scape of entrancing loveliness.' How
could nny one's sight 'break upon' a
landscape?"
"She might hare dropped her eyes,"
timidly ventured the young woman
who had written the essay. Chicago
Tribune
her and were well satisfied with their
Economv."