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wou the heart of the girl 1 loved. It
was essential that 1 should explain tny
conduct toward her. I told her my
secret.
She loved me all the more, from pity,
that I suffered from another's fault.
Sin* reminded me that each successive
decade would carry tue and mine fur
liter from tin* original transgression
and that my successors would fi*el it
i less than tiloso of uiy own genent-
| tion. I’ersuadcd by this view, I asked
; her to marry Lie. I continued to live
Hypothetical Questions.
"What will your mother say to you ' for n time under my nssutned name.
' but when I joined the tide of entlgrn-
when you get home?" said one toy.
"She’ll start in by asking me some l tion settling westward 1 resumed nty
hypothetical questions,” answered pre | own.
cocious Willie.
Tliis is nty secret, in the Revolution
ary war an officer of great merit nnd
“What are they?”
"Questions that she thinks she prominence on the patriot side turned
knows the answers to before she starts ! traitor, attempted to deliver to the
'British nn important strategic position
to talk.!’ Washington Star.
nnd fled t<> the enemy. Living In Eng
land. where he ' was d>-pls«>d. he
Archness.
Mt father, one
Sally Gay What a cunning little fel brought up a family
low Mr CaHi|>ers lai I tolly .Swift— of his descendants, shrinking from the
«’¿inning? Why he’s dreadfully bow stain, went where lie wottM be un
He mq#t .liaye* Iteen an espe-
legged Sally Gay—Yes. but that give« known
him sn< h an- qrch look, you know.— ’ '« tally sensUiXp man 'nisi 1 • «hjubtloss
have Inherited bls disposât I1*».
Truth.
ons tones lie addressed the doctor:
"I-ah have come to—ah-ask you
ah—what wlint is—ah—the doosid
mattaw with me—ah!”
“I find your heart is affected,” said
the physii Ian gravely.
“Oh—nh- anything else—ah?”
“Ycs: your lungs nre affected too.”
"Any thing ah else-ah?”
"Yes; your nuinners are also affect-
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-.lie sites of
In towns and s(unll cities the most
Sy GEORGE A. PARKER.
Glover and Burbni. in
northern
itiqiortAnt park matter is acquisition of
part of Vermont wen- mostly swamp [Copjrujht. Iju9, l . Amer: an Pre»» Asso land.
l’ark development may couie
ciation, j •
MISS MAY MORRIS.-
laud. A mill was lo»a:<-il by a brook
later,
ill
nearly all places land values
From an old mauuscript:
which was fed from one of the large
Daughter of William Morri» to Lecture
increase
rapidly,
and it is necessary
1
was
born
and
reared
on
the
coast
ponds three or four miles from what
on Art Subject».
is now the village of Glover. These of Norway, Until 1 was twenty years to apply all available funds to the pur
Among ihe interesting ix»ople Who mountain pond.-, or lakes, two or three old 1 littd never been in a town, aud chase of land. Even if a town has
w'll lecture in this country in the fall miles square, are high up in the Green then only in a small village. My as but a stretch of wild land for a few
is Miss .May Morris. Miss Morris Is mountains and are among the most sociates were untutored people, aud I years it Is vastly to be desired over
received but the elements of educa an Improved "public square" or small
the daughter of the poet and artist attractive spots in New England.
On June ti, 1810, three men went tion Nevertheless they seemed to look i area covered with closely clipped
William Morris. She is a keen student
of historic design and embroidery, and up the brook to see if a little more upon me tis su|x*rior to themselves. lawns. One hundred dollars per acre
Whether that was because 1 tore the will plant all the fundamentals to
a practical craftswoman. She learned water could be let down to the mill.
They removed some earth, when sud marks of having been born of superior make in the future tlie very best of
in the old way—namely, by working
denly the quicksands gave way. and stock or that my name wus English I parks. The only proper methods are.
from the very beginning in her father's they saw that the whole lake was lia did not know My father died when I first, get all the land you can; second,
workshop, supplementing tins invalu ble to be upon them
was ten years old, and 1 remembered use the next available funds in secur
able training by a few years of study
Frantically they questioned. “Who him as always with a sad look on his ing a plan from some couqx*tent land
face, which was reflected in my moth scape designer; third, plant out the
in the art schools and museum at will save the miller and his wife?"
When I grew older I asked her trees provided for in the plan and then
8|x*ucer Chamberlain, the fleetest ot er's
Kensington. As William Morris had
no other pupil working in this way. foot, ran ns fast as possible through I why my father and she had always ap- the shrubs. Let all lawns and small
She could not bring her- I plants be unknown until the public
the tangle of thick woods to give warn j peared sad
her knowledge of tils method is unique
i
self
to
tell
tne
the reason. and 1 re- can well afford them.
ing
while
tlie
other
men
escaped
to
For many years until his death Miss
i maineil in ignorance.
Trees and shrubs will pive them
Morris had charge of the designing higher ground. He found the miller
When 1 was twenty my mother died, shade and shelter for recreation and
and most of tlie work in the embroid away and the miller's wife grinding at
ery department at Morris & Co.’s. the mill. She became helpless with j and 1 resolved to leave the desolate picnic grounds. A place to rest in
place where I had been born and seek comfort, away from the glaring arti
Some of her most important pieces horror: but. breathless as her rescuer
a more active field. Before going I ficialities of city life, is, after all. the
were designed for America, notably a was from his flight, lie succeeded in
made inquiries of a nelghlior concern chief end to lx* desired. To have this
pair of silk curtains called the "Fruit dragging and carrying her up tlie hill
ing my parents' sojourn in those parts ft is not necessary to build statues, or
Garden.” During the past few years out of reach of the rushing water.
The miller's horse was drowned and and was told that they had come there namental fountains, bright colored
Miss Morris has produced considerable
all of his hard earned property swept several years before my birth and had flower beds or any of the artificial fea
jewelry. She has followed the for
for a time lived as gentle folk, but sub tures of the ordinary city park. All
away In a twinkling.
tunes of the Arts and Crafts society
The water rushed along, carrying sequently they dwelt as did their these can lie seen in city gardens, and
from its foundation by her father and
everything before it. digging out ra neighbors. My father had from his none should be seen in public parks
his friends until tin* present day and
vines. filling up hollows and making a coming appeared to have a cloud on except they are leaders in this class of
is deeply interested in the movement,
new surface to the land generally, his mind. My mother had told me tie- work. A “touch of nature" should be
which has developed so remarkably in
some of it reaching Lake Memphrema- fore her death that a sum of money the Key to all park planning and plant
England of late years. She lias given
gog. more than n dozed miles away. had been put in a bank for me at the ing.
lectures on design and embroidery at
Il brought down so much sand that it nearest town, nnd going there. I
the Birmingham Municipal School of
filled tin* swamps and made them fit claimed it and took passage for Eng-
BEAUTIFYING OF TOWNS.
Art. at Manchester, at the Society of
land.
for habitation.
Arts in London and other centers.
On
my
arrival
in
London
1
went
The site of the lake is now called
Necessity of Insuring Future Growth
While here she will lecture on "Me
Going into
Runaway pond or Dry pond and the about looking for work
Along Moro Symmetrical Line,.
dieval Embroidery," "Pageantry and road leading to it Runaway road. The tin* office of a merchant for the pur
The “city beautiful” is receiving at-
tlie Masque." “Historic Costumes” ground which was once the bed of pose. he asked me yiy name. When I
and "Design In Dress.”
the lake is spongy and shakes when told hint he looked, U[> nt me in sur tention in a number of American mil
nicipalities. In the large majority of
i walked upon
Hay is grown there, but prise.
them little lieetl has been given to
"Where were you born?" he asked.
The Simpler Life.
lias to be cut by hand and carried off
1 told him all 1 knew about myself. beautilicatioL*. While there are many
One hears so much talk about the on pitchforks, ns a horse would sink
He regarded me with compassion and beautiful towns anti cities in tne
nto the soggy mass. —Boston Globe.
extravagance and luxury indulg<*d in
gave me employment.
United States, this is-tlue mostly to
by ihe people of this country that it is
At intervals when introduced to a
natural location and individual effort
decidedly refreshing once in awhile to
TIDES OF PUGET SOUND
person I was regarded with a certain
and not to any systematic scheme of
find something that points in the op
interest or curiosity—I could not tell
improvement,
l’ark
commissioners
The Swift and Turbulent Waters of which.
posite direction.
1 noticed that such persons
have done much for the appearance of
the Narrows.
were a I wiiy s of superior education,
A striking illustration of the fact
The waters of the narrows are No illiterate person even manifested I many cities, but they cannot do every -
that In some respects Americans are
thing that is desirable.
treacherous
It Is a place of terrible any especial interest in tne. Some
learning something about the simpler
in New York and Chicago there are
tides.
Viewed from the precipitous times these people who did would turn
life, if not the simple life, may be had
shores, the surging waters are mag away from uie with apparent disgust, well defined movements with a view
from a comparison of the dinners serv
to relieving future congestion of popu
nificent. 'i he scene has Iteen compared while others regarded mt* compassion
ed at the White House now and in
with tlie Hudson above New York Htely. < tne day I asked my employer lation and making additions to ihe
past generations. And in making this
city
The waters of that part of for an explanation of the mystery that cities more attractive and harmonious.
comparison it must lie borne in mind
I’uget sound which extends to Olym hung over me. After thinking some It costs a large amount of money to
thut just as the customs of the royal
pia. Mud bay. Shelton and Henderson time la* told me that it would lx* bet- make a "city beautiful," as in the cases
households in England and European
bay. a vast inland sea. within itself, ter for me not to know it. He advised of Paris ami Berlin anti Washington.
countries set the fashions for those
In all these cities unioltl millions have
all flow in and out of the narrows.
me to change my name.
countries so. to a certain extent at
been
expended
tor beautification.
In the upper reaches of the sound
1
tried
to
be
contented
to
remain
in
least, do the usages of the White
some twenty five or thirty miles from ignorance, but the secret weighed upon While it is not. [Kissible for many nm-
House influence the customs of this
nicipalities to s|*end such enormous
the narrows the tides attain a height me, and 1 longed, yet dreaded, to know
country.
of more than twenty feet. When the it. Finally 1 decided to try another amounts, all towns can and should do
A writer who compares the presl- tides begin to fall all the accumulated
something to insure future growth
dent's dinners of the present day with water rushes out through the narrows country, thinking that whatever it was along more symmetrical lines.—Louis
hung over me would uot be known
those of former times points out the
ville Courier-Journal.
like a great river at flood. In like
fact that, while the dinners nowadays manner when the tide sets in the di tliere. America seemed the most in
viting
ground,
and
I
went
to
New
are more frequent, they are less e’ab- rection of Olympia the narrows be
USING A VACANT LOT.
orate, Tliev are over In one hour and come a swift and turbulent stream York, reaching tliere shortly before the
a half at the latest, and the courses Frightful whirlpools are numerous. breaking out of the second war with
an
are fewer and more simple. Formerly Streams running powerfully in con England. Registering at a hotel, the Good Example Set by a Church In
Ohio City.
clerk
looked
up
from
nty
name
to
me
no dinner was thought coninie il faut trary directions strike and the water
in astonishment.
The Second church ot Springfield. O..
unless the luble groaned with supplies. bolls.
“Well,” 1 exclaimed, irritated, "what has a vacant lot in the central part of
The courses were freighted with rich
Large steamboats struck by the con-
the city which it is reserving to build
dishes, and the liquors were abundant. trnry currents groan and creak and is it?"
"What is it? Why, nothing, Will on a little taler. Itvi tlie trustees de
The dinners lasted till midnight. It sway under the strain This being so.
you go to your room, sir?"
wus no small labor to sit them it is no wontier Hint small craft often
termined taut it was not right to let
1 found in America that more people tlie lot lie until it could lx* used ior
through. Nowadays before going home overturn in the narrows. A whirlpool
the ladies have time to chat In the has Iteen known to seize a rowboat and showed that dreaded interest in my buiiding, and so they provided that it
name than in England, and a different
parlor after the dinner and the gen
twist it round and round until the interest. On being introduced to me should be tilted up as a playground tot
children ot the neighborhood through
tiemen to have a good smoke in the rowers ahnost despaired of coming out
most persons showed a repulsion, the present t-inniiier Flower btsls were
library of the president The change it live. It is a marvelously beautiful
though many strove to conceal it. 1
laid out and some lawn sown, but the
is surely one to be looked upon witli water with all its terrors, and linn-
burned with a desire to know wbat it most of the lot was given up to
favor and is not without its parallel dreds .•Hid thousands will continue to
all meant; but. remembering the advice swings, slides ami other suitable temp
in tin* private homes of tin* country. find pleasure there, notwithstanding
of my London employer, I refrained
Ten or fifteen years ago a smart din
its occasional tragedies, The rumble trout asking, and no one offered to en tations to childish play.
Moreover, observing that there was
ner served to a company of guests of the tides when running nt full is
lighten me. To occupy my mind I no public drinking place in the neigh
might liave consisted of twelve or like tin* distant rumble of the ocean.
went to a library to rend. Tliere I borhood. the trustees provided a < oil
fourteen courses. Today a dinner of The terrors of the sea are an element
stumbled on the secret.
of water pipe running through a box
that length wo.ild be considered to be of its charm, and so it is with the ter
The wisdom of the advice given me to lx* tilled with ice and thus improvis
tn poor taste, ihe modern hostess con rors of the narrows.—Tacoma Ledge^
b.v my former employer was now ap ed a public ice water fountain. The
tenting herself with seven or eight
parent.
Under an assumed name I
public has shown great apprechition
courses at most and In many cases
Two Apologies For a Hat.
enlisted in tin* American army to tight
with five or six perfectly served
A Kansas City man who had lost against England. I knew now that, of both provisions on the part oi tin*
courses.
his hat nt a public function in that though 1 had Ix-en born abroad, Amer trustees. The example may certainly
If the woman of today could also metropolis caused the following unique ica was my native land. 1 burned to I be commended to o'tlier churches wiiieii
copy the practice of the first lady of advertisement to be published in the do some important work for her. to I are holding vacant property.
the land in making her entertainments local puiiers:
die for Iter on the Held of battle.
Railroad Gardening.
more frequent and less elaborate an
The undersigned will deem It a great
There were no important engagements
favor
If
the
gentleman
who
inadvertently
Nearly all of the big eastern rail
other victory would be gained for the
took tlie undersigned's new silk hat on except that at New Orleans, which was
right sort of hospitality.
the occasion of the reception of the Lo fought after peace was declared.
As roads have abandoned the gaudy bill
meaningless and unsatisfying carpel
tos club, leaving an Inferior headpiece In I bad entered the army, a private, I
stead. wilt have the goodness to return
bedding so common in the past and are
Girl You'd Hate to Trust.
came
out
a
private.
Under
my
as
«aid silk hat. N'ot only will the gentle
She who is sugary sweet until She man receive the undersigned's warmest sumed name I went into business and substituting hardy shrubs for pernia
nent effect and in some cases are ex
thinks she is alone. Far better be like thanks for his kindness, but the apologies prospered.
tending this work beyond the station
the undersigned—the ai*ology for the
an alligator pear with the roughness of
Tllen
1
fel!
in
love.
1
had
vowed
trouble the undersigned may have caused
on tlie outside than resemble the him and “the apology for a hat" which he I that I would never bring a child into ground along the rigtit of way. Such
tempting wild plum with bitterness has conferred upon the undersigned.
the world to suffer the blight under changes arc very gratifying to al! who
within.
w hich 1 suffered, and 1 strove to crush make a study of ami take an interest
— St. Louis’Republic.
the natural longing that had taken pos in the embellishment of onr steel high I
The girl who is careless to return
session of me.
My sufferings were ways, for it is a move in the right
small loans. This habit may spring
All Affected.
own-
from heedlessness, but it bears watch-
Sprlgg wont to a noted physician to tenfold what they had been before. direction and better for all, both
lug.
ask advice as to his health. In pomp Meanwhile it was evident that 1 had ers and travelers.
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has a good word for any one else.
The girl who o|x*nly boasts of the
uiarriixl men who are in love with her.
The girl who gushes over her love
for her parents while she lets her over
worked mother meud and launder for
her and spends more than her father
can afford
She who dresses lavishly on n small
income. Then* is a distinction between
looking well on little and cutting a
splurge on nothing a year.
Tlie girl who says she “dotes on
children." but whose small brothers
and sisters shun her.
She who Is prinked ont for show
views - and a sight when caught un
awares. The man who contemplates
matrimony should make it n point to I
see his Angelina off guard.
The girl who Is horrified nt calling a
spade by Its "right name." but whose
taste in literature Is lurid.
She who has great tales of her prow
ess as a worker, but who never sees
auy work to lx* done. The real work
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they do and Sever seed jogs for Its du-*
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