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FIVE SIMPLE GOWNS.
Enemf.
"It Is not the work that tire# you at
»11; it Is the way you do it,” said a
wise counselor to a discouraged and
broken-down school teacher.
The word ills the case of many a
woman who is not a school teacher
The fanner's wife who does the whole
week’s work in her Imagination after
she goes to bed Sunday night; the
iMxikkeepcr who In her dreams adds
columns of figures to bring out an ob
stinate balance; the school girl who
grows hot ami cold in anticipation of
nn examination; the dressmaker who
never forgets Iter apprehension lest her
customer shall not be pleased—all
these and a score of other kinds of
women m ed to learn I lu» lesson of the
value of the mind at ease.
A conscientions, worrying wife of a
Maine farmer hurried to the hen bouse
one icy duy with a pan of food. She
sli iped and fell and a broken hip
stopped the quick foots ep and dulled
the keen vision for "things which must
be done.” For three months the pa
tient lay iu lied, alone many hours of
ea'-U day, thinking over her life aud
habits and responsibilities—her sue-
< ■esses ami her failure. When she
•■ould hobble to a wheeled chair, she
was a different creature from the an x-
ions, nervous woman who had becn
forced to submit to Imprisonment
A persjiective of the months
years of life, a new conviction that
j»eace of mind Is more important than
pies and cakes, a sense of proportion
which included herself and the claims
of her own nature as well as the appe
tite« of her hungry family and the
profits of the farm, had revealed them
selves to her In the long days of en
forced inactivity.
"My broken hip saved my life and
” the grateful
my soul, too,
tec I 1 guess,
"’
woman used to s 'v. witli the smile of
one wiio had found that the worst ene-
my of good work Is worry.—Youth's
< 'ompanlon.
Modern Meditation.
Idle not; for Idleness is the mother
• W a 11 si ns.
Neither dawdle nor dilly-dally; for
the dawdler groweth weiiry and accom-
Irtisheth naught.
Delay not, uor postpone; for more
crimes are due to postponement than
to deliberate Intention.
Hesitate not an hour in perform
ing thy tasks; for the only way to get
a thing done Is to do It now’.
Glow’er not, nor grouch; for It Is a
fearful crime to make other people un-
linppy. •
Never Indulge thyself in despair; for
there is no surer way to miss all the
good things that are coming to you.
Neither Indulge In vain retrospec
tion; for. what is done Is done forever,
and the only wise thing is to forget it.
Blame not thyself nor nny other per-
• son too much; for there are laws
stronger than any of us that govern the
universe.
Make hope and Industry thy lpibits;
for by these two practices shall a man
reach the highest place—even content
ment.
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standing figure
The little
Is made of bright red doth, trimmed
with black braid and sirups of the
cloth, finished with gilt buttons. It is
• nt with a very full flare In the skirt.
The dress Is navy blue cashmere, trim
med with parallel crimson silk folds,
with stitches t>etwcen them done In
blue saddler's silk.
The guimpe Is
white chailie, trimmed with navy blue
soutache.
The Girl iu Gold.
Value of < o-Uper*(loa.
able when the child Is grown up.
growth of scanty elebrows can, how-
ever, bo encouraged by brushing light-
ly witli a soft brush, and this also
tends to make them arched, but on no
account should they be clipped to In
sure their thickness. Clipping the eye-
lashes to promote their growth is also
a practice that should be abolished, as
if the child should move while they are
being cllpi>ed it may result In injury to
the eyesight.
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The Greek coiffure is much In evi-
deuce with opera costumes.
Fancy color effects In shoes for day
wear are gaining in popularity,
Banana brown and cinnamon form a
favored combination of coloring iu
many costumes.
Some of the winter muffs are made
of tippet pieces, laid on flatly and hang
ing like a flap.
Patent leather shoes nre being worn
this season, decorated witli little folded
bows of leather.
A trig little red English morocco bag
Is fitted with folding opera glasses,
powder puff, and mirror.
An applied cloak tuck, three Inches
wide, furnishes a tunic effect ou many
of the long-cloth skirts.
For handsome gowns matrons
wearing black or dark, rich colored
silks, brocaded in velvet.
Lovely are the evening bags of white
Irish crochet, lined with white silk aud
mounted in gold frames!
A new fad Is the evening cloak of
the same color, of the gown, esiiecially
to wear at little theater and restaurant
functions.
One of the most striking gowns »ecu
at a recent wedding was of bottle green
satin trimmed witli green lace and yel
low panne.
A ••hie departure in theater waists Is
the separate waist in chiffon, generally
black, and worn over a pale colored or
white foundation.
When the Frenchwoman wants her
de<x>llete gown for restaurant or thea
ter wear she adds a transparent
guinqie of white tulle and a tiny era
vat of fur.
The return of the tight skirt Is per-
haps the harbinger of tight sleeves and
waists that have been banished so long,
to say nothing of the waistline and Its
natural position.
The new sleeve, called the "step lad
der.” is an outgrowth of the kimono
sleeve, and consist» of a succession of
deep folds, one over the other, narrow
ing in as they reach below the elbow.
One of the colors which the girl in
her first ssason 1ms taken up more en
thusiastically than any other this year
la yellow. Buttercup, daffodil, old gold
ami the soft tones of crocus yellow are
all Included In her colony card, and
these, when softened with veilings of
cream ninon or lace, are taking the
MarrU-rl Women »• Breadwinner».
place even of the all-white gown when
Twenty-seven thousand women in
the Inijiort ceremony of the debut it«*elf
New York support their husbands, ac
Is over.
cording to Mrs. Frederick Nathan, a
Akunl the E»rhr«>w».
lender In the movement for women's
Many children poaaeHR leautlful suffrage in New York, Mrs. Nathan
head» of hair, which Is often allowed doe# not either approve or disapprove
to hang loosely over their faces, with of a woman making a living for her
out being confined In any way. This spoutfr, but makes her statement ns
may certainly show the hair off to the one of fact. Women who support their
l>eat advantage, but quite hide# the luMbands, she says, are not in nny one
bfist points of the chlltfs face and often elwu buf »r# fcund In all classes, fro^
is the cause of scanty eyebrow#—a dis that of ttt# toman who scrub# floors to
figurement which wi* be more iwOce- that of ffi# 1WBi»n «bo marries a title.
Sir Horace Plunkett, member of the
British house of parliament, who has
betwj In this country receutly, suld in
an address to agricultural students
that there was "not a single county,
not a parish, in Ireland where the
farmers are. not completely revolution
izing the entire business of farming by
Introducing co-operative methods.” And
it might be added that there is scarce
ly a farming district in the United
States where more benefits canont be
realized by a closer co-operation of the
farmers. The farmers are understand
ing each other better each year and
are coming closer together In all mat
ters which pertain to their mutual in
terests, but there are still greater possi
bilities ahead. Describing the 900 co
operative organizations of peasants in
Ireland which be was instrumental in
establishing for the purpose of compe
tition with commercial industries, forc
ing out middlemen, compelling rail
roads to provide better facilities,, and
dictating more favorable legislation to
parliament, done: "The.first thing was
to Introduce a system of agricultural
education which extended Into every
branch of the industry, teaching the
farmer, for Instance, to purchase every
thing he requires, implements and ma
chinery, of the very best quality. They
combined to consign in bulk and dis
tribute their goods In the market. They
combined to raise working capital for
their operations. They combined to
own breeding animals. They did Just
what you are doing here, brought sci
ence Into farming by getting it into the
schools. They had the same system of
Instruction and experimentation •up-
plied by your government.”
Hint a woman can be a wage earner
and at the same time care for her home
is possible, Mrs. Nathan says, and
there are many cases In which it is
eminently satisfactory to have a man
and his wife both wage earners. Mrs.
Nathan gives the following two as the
New Variety of Tobacco.
principal reasons why married women
A new variety of tobacco, valuable
are wage earners: "Men waste so
much money in smoking, gambling and for cigar wrapping, was first raised In
drinking that they have none left for Connecticut from seed brought from
Florida and which
family expenses. Many women have
originally came
minds superior to their husbands and
from Sumatra. Af
can earn more. In that case it Is the
ter very careful and
woman's plain duty—and should lie her
satisfactory
test#
pleasure—to earn whatever her talents
results have proved
will bring.”
beyond a doubt the
Ilnshnnd Breaker.
value of this vari
The Ing’nuity of the modern woman
ety
for growing
has discovered a new method of earn
commercially,
to
ing a competence.
gether with the fact
She breaks husbands.
that the seed comes
There hnve b»-en women who mails
true to type year
Tin PLANT.
their living at breaking horses, but not after year when saved under bog. The
until very lately did some emancipated name Uncle Sam Sumatra was given
feminine genius go in for husband to this variety. It Is a cigar wrapper
breaking.
j variety of tobacco and adapted for
Ingenious woman!
growing under shade in the cigar wrap
For n moderate fee she is prepared per producing regions.
The plants
to make n lengthened stay, and grad reach an average height of about eight
ually mold the newly-married husband feet at the time of maturity, and they
according to the pattern that his wife bear an average of about twenty-six
requires. Since Adam was driven from leaves before topping. The cured leaves
Paradise it is doubtful if man has ever will average about
felt the effects of the fail sb severely six teen
inches
in
as he does at tlds moment!
by
twenty
width
inches in length, al-
though the size varies
according to field and
cultural
conditions.
The yield of the crops
of this variety is high,
being as much as
THE I.F.AF.
1,600 pounds of cured
tobacco to the acre under favorable
conditions. The percentage of the best
grades of wrapi»er in these crops Is
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Is an correspondingly high.—Exchange.
enthusiastic gardener and her country
Value of Bert Smear Product».
home In Kent, England, is noted for It#
Some Idea of the magnitude of the
rose garden, when; in summer she dis’» beet sugar industry In the United
much of her brilliant writing.
States can be given by estimating the
Dr. Mary Merrit Crawford has been value of the beets sold by the growers
appointed house physician in the Will to the factories and of the refined
iamsburg hospital. Brooklyn, having sugar placed on the market by the fac
won in a competitive examination over tories last year.
thirty-four n»en. She is but 23 year#
If we assume that the averuge price
old.
paid for lieets in 190fl was $5 jter ton.
A widow living in the Brightlingsea the total value of the 4,236.112 tons of
almshoiisi's. England, recently celebrat beets harvested Is $21,180,560.’ If we
ed her ninetieth birthday by Inviting estimate the value of the sugar at 4V,
two old sweethearts to tea. One of cents per ;>ound, the 967,224,000 pound»
them was 90 and the other 93 year# of sugar manufactured were worth
of age.
$43,525,080. Probably the assumed
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lawrence, prices both for beeta and for sugar may
of Huekm^l Torknrd, Notts, claim to be a trifle below those actually receiv
I h > the oldest married couple In Eng ed, but these figure# are sufficiently
land. On May day they will have been accurate to indicate the magnitude of
married sevent.v-two years. Mr. I^w- the industry.
Hlpening Green Tomatoei.
rence is 92 and his wife 91.
An aged beggar woman; known
Often when frost come# there nrr
ntnong her neighbors ns “Old Mother many tomatoes on the vine# that are
Snuff." was lately found dead In her nearly full grown, but that have noi
bouse In Parts. The place was searched yet r I pencil enough to send to market.
and the search revealed $15,800 In bank I have pickl'd such tomatoes Rnd put
notes and $4.(100 in gold hidden in a I them In a cool, dark place to ripen
ma 11 rese.
'slowly nnd sent them to market when
Queen Victoria had twenty-one grand the supply had run low and price# run
daughters. and of this number only high, says a writer in New England
four remain single. They are Princess Homestead. But tor home use a bet
Victoria of England. Princess Beatrice ter way I# to pick the smaller one#
of Saxe-Coburg, Princess Pntrlcia of from the vine# and then hang up the
Connaught, and Prince## Victoria of branch In the cellar, darkening the
Schlesw ig Holstein.
window« and keeping the place cool.
They will ripen slowly, and one may
Teach Children Carr of Clothe*.
Indulge In ripe tomatoes tn January,
Teach children to fold their te«t» when those grown In a hothouse and
ribbons and put under weight on dress- • not a# large or any better flavor are
er every night The neater api>ei^an<* selling at 25 cens • pound or more.
pays for the effort.
i Try It
I
lhe world is still deceived with ornament
In law, what plea «o tainted and corrupt,
llut, being »easoned with a gracious vwuw,
Obsecures the show of evil? In raligioa,
M bat damned error, but »ouie so!>er brow
Will bless it, and approve it with a tew.
Hiding the grossnes» with fair ornament?
There ia no vice au simple, but assume»
Some mark of virtue ub to.» outw*d
parts.
How many cowards. wbu«e hearts ar»
One of the simplest way» of keeping
cabbage is to store in an orchard or
some sheltered place, often alongside
a fence which has been made tight by
a liberal use of straw. The cabbage»
•II as falss
are stored with their stems on and are
A*
stairs
of aaud, wear yet apss Hsr
placed head down and us dose together
chin#
a» jmsslble. Two or three tier» are
Th» beards of Hercule» sad fr»w»mg
often made, the beads of the second
Mars;
tier being placed between stem# of the Who, inward searched, have Uv»rs wk«»»
lower, and so on, the pile# being made
as milk !
of any width and length desired, The And these assume but valor’» ttrmwit,
whole Is covered with leaves, salt grass '■1 *> render them redoubted.
lAok •»
beauty.
hay or straw and a little- »oil. rails.
brush nr litter. Small unsalable heads And you »hall *r* ’tis psrchassd by *•
weight.
when stored In this way in November
Which
therein work» a miracle in satare.
will continue to develop during winter
Making them lightest that wear moot *f
and frequently sell us well a# any tn <
it.
February. Small quantities may be So are those crisped, snaky, golden l»<4t».
stored by plowing out two or three fur Which make such wanton gambols wi»b
rows ten or twelve inches deep on a
the wind
well drained site and placing thfc head» Upon supposed fairness, often know»
with their stesns up as close together To be the dowry of a second bead.
a» possible. Some prefer to lay them The skull that bred them in the sepnldier.
but one or two thick, while other# will Thus ornament is but the gulled shore
pile them up two to two and a half Tp a most dangerous sea ; th» l>eaute«ua
scarf
feet high, bringing them to a pdint. Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word.
The pile Is then covered with straw, The seeming truth which cunning tialra
»alt grass hay or a thin layer of straw |
put on
”
and tlien several inches of soil. ” They
to antrap the wisest.
Therefore, Hi»«
are stored before freezing, and when |
gaudy gold.
the soil covering them is frozen it may Hartl food for Midas, I will sons »f thee
be covered with strawy manure or any —William Shakspeare.
other litter to keep the soil frozen un Of Old Sat Freed**» •• th* Height*
til the cabbage# are needed for sale.
Of old sat Freedom on the heights.
The thunder» breaking at her feat;
Above her »hook the starry light»:
Electricity has been applied to Incu
She beard the torrent» meet.
An Eleetrl* Incohntar.
bation by Otto Schultz, an electrician
of Strassburg, and is the result of three There in her , place
„ . »he
_
did rejoice.
years of experimentation. The appara : Self-gathered in her prophet-mind.
tus is made for 50, 100 or 200 eggs, and , **ut fragment# of her mighty voice
Came rollinc on (he wind.
Is designed to obviate the difficulties
connected with the ordinary form of
stept »he down thro’ town and Seld
incubator. The manipulation of the ap Then
To mingle with the human race,
paratus is very simple, and Its mainte And part by part to men reveal'd
nance depends only upon an uninter
The fullness of her face—
rupted supply of electricity.
An automatic attachment keeps the Grave mother of majestic works.
From her isle-altar gating down.
temperature within one-tenth of a de
gree of the normal temperature of in Who, God-like, grasps the triple forks,
And, King like, wear» the crown.
cubation. The degree of saturation of
the air is kept in the same manner.
Under
ordinary conditions, ninety Iler open eye» desire the truth.
I The wisdom of a thousand year»
chickens can be counted on out of 100 (a in them. May perpetual youth
eggs Incubated. The quantity of elec-
Keep dry their light from tear»;
tielty required is very small, for an In
cubator holding fifty eggs, ten to twen That her fair form may stand and shine
ty watts being sufficient, depending
Make bright our days and light eur
upon the temperature of the outer air.
dreams.
For raising the chickens after they Turning to scorn, with lip» divine.
The falsehood of extreme»!
are hatched, an electric “mother” has
been devised. The upper part Is de —Alfred Ixird Tennyson.
voted to the freshly hatched chickens,
while the lower part is arranged so MOTHERS SHOULD BE PAST M.
that the chicks can run around on the
ground and at the same time find heat At Least That I* th* Coaelaai**» •<
I)r. Bela Hevea».
and protection when they desire. The
After an exhaustive «lamination of
electric incubator has already proven
the causes that determine the size »nd
very successful.
weight of newly born children. Dr.
Bela Revesz comes to the conclusion
Test Seed* at Home.
The Department of Agriculture in that heredity has nothing to do with
order to aid farmers to determine for It, says the New York Sun. The #lze
themselves without much trouble the of the child depends entirely on the age
germination value of seeds has Issued of the mother, he thinks, and the older
a short bulletin on the subject. A very she Is the bigger and stronger the child
simple apparatus for sprouting seeds is likely to be, regardless of the sta
Is described. It consists of a shallow ture and strength either of the parent»
basis In which is placed a small flat of •»r grandparents.
porous clay. The seeds, after having ! Speaking generally, he finds that the
been soaked, nre laid between two children of very young mothers are
sheets of moist blotting paper or flan likely to be small and 111 nurtured,
nel. A pane of glass covers tlie dish, while those born to women more than
which should Is- kept in a temperature 25 nre npt to be large and robust. He
of about 70 degrees. Atmosphere of considers the reason very simple, the
an ordinary living room is suitable If woman of 25 being fully matured, so
the apparatus is left near a stove nt that no nourishment is expendi-d »pen
night. Several kinds of seeds may be her development.
tested at ouce at a trifling cost, The I From this position the doctor at-
bulletin cautions the farmer against tempts to explain the racial character-
, istics of various peopics. Thu# the
extremes of heat or moisture.
j Scandinavians, who make late ruar
jrlages, hnve maintained high stature
Frrtlllcr Tenet* with Corn.
Fertilizer tests with corn In Virginia and robust physique.
On the other hand In the south *f
show clearly that plowing under green
leguminous crops is a highly beneficial France and In southern Italy very
practice and that where this is fol young girls are given In marriage, »nd
lowed only moderate amounts of fertil In consequence the race has dwindled
ity will tx> necessary to give Increased In height nnd frame and even In en
yields. When vegetable matter is lack ergy and Initiative. Hebrews In Po
ing, however, heavy-applications of fer land are a conspicuous example of the
tilizer seem advisable.—Andrew al. evil of early motherhood.
The doctor thinks that the same
Soule.
principle may account for the anian-
Errm (>lrnnlnK$.
ness of the Jnpanese, and he Is sure
There is no standard for Judging tile It does for the degeneracy of the IHn-
guinea fowl. They should, however, be class. wherein girls marry young, as
of uniform shai>e, groat nctlvity and build of city people to be Inferior to
reasonably good producer# of eggs. that of peasants, and It tends to cause
Their entire egg crop Is produced in physical retrogression In the leisure
class, wwherein girls marry young, as
summer.
Bitter cream comes from keeping compared with the class of workers. In
cream too long from cows that have which the young women have to take
been milked since early last spring. It up trades or domestic service for sev
Is best to chum every few days, even eral years before they can marry.
thouhg there 1» only a small churning
Good Roma Other Time.
on hand.
"Just a» Jack was abont to klsn me
In setting out the new fruit tree# be fast night father walked into the
sure and leave plenty of space between room.”
them. Yon must make allowance for
"What did you do?”
the growth of the years. Crowded trees
"I gave Jack a rain check.”—Milwau
Interfere with one another and have kee Sentinel.
their fruit lienrfng possibilities checked
A# Fconoml.t.
The j»otato storeroom most be dark,
"Yes,
”
boasted
an overdressed Indi
cool, well ventilated and dry. There
should lie a double floor beneath where vidual, “I make my clothe» last. Thl*
large quantities are piled together. hat Is an example of my thrift. Bought
There should also be opportunities for I It three years ago* had It blocked twle#
ventlation at the walls, and at Inter and exchanged It once for a new one at
• cafe!”
vals through the pile.
A good condition powder, to be fed I*
A Poor Wrapper,
limited quantities to the brood •>*, 1#
"Ye»; poor Mrs. Elderly Is all
composed of a teasi>oonful each of cojr Wrapped up In that «on of hers.”
peras, sulphur and a half cupful of oil
"And be iMi't much of a wrapper,
meal. Give once each day fcjr each #ow •hl*
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weighing 250 pounds. It in n#edlegg to
say that all tonics should b# flvsn onlj , I«*».« Mi< therefore It can’t #e*
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Mien th» animal !• out of ••Alias