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coISllis;-' S 6AZI H SEMI-WEEKLY, ywiow . Jniy. 17. irjWfMMttM 4K COBT AlililS, BENTON OOUNTT, OREGON, TTJESDAX, FEBRTJABY 2, 1904. VOL. IV. NO. 41. j$X ' Br THE AVTHOR Or K "Anne judge, spinster," "little mate eirby." ere. etc. jJ i (CHAPTER IV. (Continued.) He was looking at the leaden clouds which were deepening overhead, when Sarah Eastbell stole to his side and twitched his arm. "You need not trouble yourself to think of anything for me," she said, ungracious ly; "you wouldn't have done so, I dare say; but it's as well to tell you I don't want any help from you; and as for leav ing her before she dies well, I'd rather die myself, much!" she added, with a sudden passion exhibiting itself. "You are attached to her?" said Ren ben Culwick, quickly. "She's the only friend I ever had," was the girl's answer, as she relapsed into her old moodiness of manner. "Will you tell me one thing before I go?" he said; "come now, Sarah East bell second-cousin Sarah in whom I am interested." Reuben Culwick spoke with tendernes; he possessed a won drously sympathetic voice, and the girl looked at him till the sullen expression of her face softened and then died away. " 'Second-cousin Sarah!' " she quoted, and a faint smile flickered round her mouth for an instant. "Well, go on." "You will answer straightforwardly." "You will not go back and tell her, and make her miserable, then?" she said, as though by way of compromise. "I will not." "Go on, then, second-cousin Reuben," she added, half-scornfully. half-lightly. "You are the girl who helped me with my trunk last night? And you thought that I had come to tell your grandmother about it?" "Yes." "Why were you so anxious to earn money, and in so strange a fashion? Was it for yourself?" "No." "To make good something that Tom had taken from his grandmother?" said Reuben. "Ah! you know then," cried Sarah Eastbell, wrenching herself from her second-cousin's clutch and running with great swiftness into the house, the door of which she closed with a noise that shook the place and startled Mrs. East bell from dreamland. Her quick dark eyes detected the corner of a bank note peeping from the pillow on which Mrs. Eastbell's head was resting. "Why, this is the luck you and, I have been talking about so long!" "I didn't want his money," muttered the old woman; "I'm not so poor but what I pay my way. He's a very silly fellow he always was." "Indeed!" "He never could keep money he was always doing something or other that was foolish. How much is it, Sally?" "It is a five-pound note." "Put it in the teapot, girl," said the old woman; "it will come in handy pres ently. I can have a comfortable funeral now." Sally Eastbell made a clattering noise with the lid of an old china teapot, which, with its spout off, formed the central or nament of a high mantelpiece, but she did not deposit the note therein. That was not a safe receptacle of money Tom knew that! CHAPTER V. Reuben Culwick occupied the first floor of Hope Lodge, and the gentleman who rented Hope Lodge and to whom Reuben paid the modest sum of three shillings and sixpence weekly, had not hidden his light under a bushel, and had extinguish ed Reuben's claim to locality by exten sive advertising over his house front. The name of "Jennings," in large white white capitals on a crimson ground, was the sky lu.e of the edifice, and another board, with a "Jennings" of somewhat more moderate proportions, hnd been fastened between the windows of the first and second iloors. while "Jennings, Tyro techuic Artist," in blue and yellow, by way of variety of coloring, was inscribed over a dingy shop front. On the door also had boon painted "Jennings. Fire work Maker to the Court." and over the door was, a plaster cont-of-nrms. si.nili oant of the royal patronage which the family legend asserted had been once vouchsafed to an extinct Jennings who had been blown to atoms one Guy Fawkes season. Mr. Jennings was always waiting' for November, although he drove a little busi ness in colored tires for minor theaters at all times of the year. On the night of Reuben Culwick's return to London, he was standing at his door, after his gen eral rule. But on that particular even ing he was not waiting for November so intently as for his lodger, Reuben Cul wick, who had said that he should be back that evening. Suddenly John Jen nings was joined in his watch by a wom an as thin as he was, and as pale. She put her hands suddenly", and possibly heavily, on his shoulder, for Mr. Jen nings winced and doubled up under the pressure. "I wish you wouldn't. Lucy," Mr. Jen nings Baid, remonstratively. "Wish I would not what. John?" asked the newcomer on the scene. "Take a person off his guard like that, and scare him." ' "Have you grown a more nervous crea ture still, watching for what will never come again?" said the woman, with a strange asperity of tone. "What will never come again?" repeat ed her brother, in dismay. "Do you mean that Mr. Culwick will not come back, then? Bless my soul, how long have you been thinking of that?" said Mr. Jen nings; "you didn't 6ay so before you hadn't such a thought an hour ago. What makes you get so foolish an idea into your head now?" He laughed in an odd, hysterical fash ion, like a woman, as his greater interest took him out of his languid position and tset him upright, staring at his sister. "Well, I've been thinking it over -what he is, and what we are and I'm sure that he will be glad to be rid of us altogether. He has only stopped here cut of compliment all this while; but you can't see that so , well as I can," she added, fretfully. "I haven't tried to see it. I'll trust to Jteuben Culwick. He said that if he didn't write he would be back here on the second Tuesday in May, and back he'll come like clockwork; although, mind "Go on, John what am I to mind?" asked his sister, gravely, as he paused. -"Although, mind you," he continued, "his coming back don't mean exactly that good luck to him which stopping away would, and I wish him good luck always arfyhow. But then we should have heard from him; isn't he as truthful as you are?" "He may have missed a post," she an swered, evasively "have postponed tell ing us humble folk of the good fortune that has come to him. Good news will keep, you know." There was a long pause after this, broken at last by Mr. Jennings saying: "You don't want him back, then, Lucy?" "Not if he will be happier away." "Well, if he has gone, you've worried our best friend away, for you always would interfere, and preach to him " "He isn't our best friend." "Yes, I know what you're going to say," said her brother, feebly; "of course, but I'm not speaking of that. And Reu ben here he is! Hurrah!" And Mr. Jennings, forgetting his ap athy, ran down his front garden and went, bareheaded and in his shirt sleeves, at full speed down Hope street,' leaving his sister in charge of the premises. Reuben Culwick and John Jennings came into the parlor together a few minutes later, and the latter with a croak of triumph exclaimed: "There, Lucy who is right now?" as the former advanced to shake hands with her. Lucy looked up into the face of the big-chested, healthful man, and smiled faintly in response to the cheery ex pression which she saw there. "You have kept your word, then, Mr. Reuben," she "said, placing her hand in his; and a very cold hand, with not much life blood in it, it was that lay in his brown palms. "But you didn't think that I should," he cried. "No," was the fearless reply, as the thin lips closed together. "Now, what does she deserve, to face a man and a brother, and a first-floor lodger of long and honorable standing, with this odious greeting?" he said, turn ing to John Jennings. Reuben Culwick was in boisterous spir its, or he would have never committed the indiscretion of suddenly lifting np the prim Miss Jennings in his arms and kiss ing her. In all his life he had never kiss ed her before never dreamed of taking such a liberty with his landlord's sister but his high spirits carried him away, and he lifted Lncy Jennings as high as the ceiling before he kissed her lightly, and placed her, as he might have done a child, in her chair again, where she glared at him in amazement, with her eyes dis tended and her face not destitute of color now. "You have been drinking!" she gasp ed forth, indignantly, "or you would have never done that." "No, I haven't been drinking, Lucy," said Reuben, quietly; "but this is home, and I am glad to get back to it." "Ah! I dare say you are," she added, with irony. "Skeptical!" he cried; "John, what shall I do now?" "Kiss her again," said John. "No I will not have any more of that foolery," said Miss Jennings, with intense acerbity pervading her plain speaking. "I wouldn't if she objects," said John; "if she doesn't see the joke of it. I don't think anybody has ever kissed her except Tots. She's not used to that kind of thing she really isn't." Nothing seemed to distress or disturb the equanimity of Reuben Culwick. He was glad to- get back, or he was one of the artfulest hypocrites in the County of Surrey. He understood these two better than they understood themselves, having taken the trouble to study and be inter ested in their eccentricities long before. "Well, yon have set up and kept a fire burning for a man who was not expect ed," said Reuben; "but you don't ask me how I have fared in the country, what adventures 1 have had, what work I have done, what luck I have encountered." "We shall be glad to hoar how you have got on in Worcester," she said, a womanly curiosity exhibiting itself; "we do not attempt to deny that we are in terested in you always interested in you poor as we are." "Yes, but don't begin about your pov erty again, please poverty may be a blessing in disguise for what you, and I, and John know to the contrary," said Reuben; "the poorest and most afflicted woman was the happiest mortal whom I met in Worcestershire, and the richest and most prosperous man I found as mis erable and mean as ever." "Are you speaking of your father now?" asked Miss Jennings, anxiously. "Yes the gentleman whom you talked me into visiting, prodigal son fashion but who didn't take me to his breast ahd weep over me, and order his fattest calf to be killed in my honor," cried Reuben, a little bitterly. "I was humble and con trite, but he was as hard as nails, and the whole experiment was a tremendous failure. Did I not say before I started that this would be the result?" "Yes." said John, "you certainly said that. f. am very sorry I am awfully sorry what a funny man he must be!" "Extremely funny," said Reuben Cul wick, dryly; "you would die of laughing at his humor." "Do you regret that you have offered to sink a bitter quarrel," inquired Lucy Jennings, "and to make peace?" "No." "You are glad that you have been to Worcester, are you not, despite this mis erable result?" "Yes." "Then the fault lies with him, as it did, before you went, with you. And, Mr. Reuben," she added, very earnestly, "yon have one sin the less, I think." "Amen to that." Lucy Jennings regarded him keenly, as if a suspicion that he was ridiculing her earnestness had suggested itself, but Reuben Culwick was grave enough. It was not always easy to guess when this strong, self-reliant man was in jest or earnest. "What, Tots! cried Reuben, suddenly, holding out bis arms, into which there ran, with pattering bare feet, a pretty flaxen-haired child of three years J- "Oh, me so glad you have come back, Reuben!" said the child, half laughing, to begin with, and then wholly crying as a wind-up. " ' "She'll catch her death of cold!" cried Mr Jennings. "Tots, how could yon come down like this? why ain't you asleep?" "You said you said," sobbed the child, "that he was coming home to-night." ; "Well, here I am, young one; don't cry about it," murmured the big man, as his arms folded the child to his breast, and his handsome brown beard hid her face from view, and tickled her terribly, "for she struggled into a sitting position away from it, and rubbed her face . and eyes energetically. "Elizabeth," said Lucy, severely, "this is very wrong. Didn't yon promise to go to sleep r - ; "I touldn't" answered Elizabeth. "Come with me " began her aunt again, when Tots let forth so tremen dous a yell that even Lucy, a woman not easily put down, succumbed at once. "Let her be," said Reuben Culwick gruffly; then there was a second pause, after which he whispered in the child's ear a few words that arrested her at tention, and Tots sat np again. "Where is it?" asked Tots. "In my portmanteau at the railway station coming home to-morrow, if Tots will go to bed now." "And as big as dat?" said Tots, open ing her arms to their fullest extent V "Bigger." ' - ' ' "Me go to bed," said Tots with alac rity "but," she added, " 'oo must carry me up tairs." "Of course I will. Good-night, Uncle Jennings; good-night, aunt we're off, both of us," cried Reuben Culwick, and he was out of the room and striding up stairs with the child before there was time for Tots to change her mind in any way. Brother and sister did not attempt to follow him; the brother sat and listened until the trampling feet in the room above announced that Reuben had deposited his charge in her crib, and retired to his own apartments; the thin woman with the worn face turned toward the fire, fast dying out, and passed a hand across her eyes, as if by stealth. "How fond he is of children!" said John Jennings; "I think big men always are, Lncy. There was Topping " "Don't bother me about Topping," said Lucy. "Ahem! no," he said, with his feeble little cough prefacing his remarks again; "not if you wish it, certainly. Still, it's odd." "What is odd?" "That Reuben's coming back should have put you out in this way." "I prayed he might never come again." "Why, we couldn't afford " "The man deserved better fortune than he can find here," she cried, "and so I didn't want him back. Besides, we don't agree." "I'm sorry Reuben has seen you in this tantrum, because I have often fancied that by and by you and he would get to like each other. He. is a man who wants something to love look at him and that child, for instance and you're iot a great deal too old, and he's not proud, and you're " "He stopped as Lucy Jennings swung herself round, a perfect virago in her last and worst attack of passion. He had never seen Lucy show off in this way be fore. "John, you're a fool," she screamed; "you are the worst of fools to think like that, to talk like it. I marry him! he think of me! I tell you I hate you for saying this to-night"' John Jennings gasped for breath. "My dear, I'm sorry if I have hurt vour feelings. If you don't mind, I'll go to bed." She did not answer, and John Jen nings, after passing his hand over his forehead in a bewildered manner, went to bed accordingly. When she was sure that he was gone, the woman sank of a heap on the shabby hearth-rug, and buried her face in her arms, which she leaned upon the chair. It was a bitter grief, -in which strange words escaped her. "Why has he come back? Why couldn't he stop away for good?" (To be continued.) A BALLOON FARM. A Unique Business Carried on in Western New York. There is at present a general interest in airships, for which the late experi ments of Santos Dumont are largely responsible, and in view of this many will read with more than ordinary in terest the clever description of the great balloon farm of Carl E. Myers, wTitten by Chauncey McGovern for Pearson's. "You would be inclined to think you "were dreaming," says Mr. McGovern, "were you to walk through the farm of Carl E. Myers, nine miles from the city of Utica, State of New York. Here can be seen, on constant view, in summer time, a large variety of aerial craft airships that actually fly, just as they do in the story books, doing strange things that you had sup posed could never happen in reailty. "Besides the array of new kinds of air craft, it is a fact little known that every American-made hydrogen balloon in use in the United States whether by the government or by private indi viduals is a product of this one farm. "Most striking among the things to be seen at the balloon farm is a flying machine that really flies, not merely a 'working model Of an airship that 'flies' a few feet along a track on the ground, but a fully completed flying machine that soars into the actual skies as high as any bird a machine that ascends, that turns and dives as readily as an eagle does. "Many other curious aerial Tessels have been turned out from the Myers balloon farm, and some greater won ders are in course of construction. It is not only his own inventions that Mr. Myers constructs on his balloon farm. He makes all sorts of aerial contriv ancesscientific kites, freak balloons, air vessels for other inventors. "The greatest number of the balloon farm products, however, are big hy drogen balloons." Flighty. "My husband's so erratic so nighty !" "Maybe his work has something to do with It What is his occupation?' "He's an aeronaut" ill llttHl MtWUHlll HiH 1 HIHHII Playing; Hand-Orsran. - Mamma had a letter one morning which made.lt necessary to go to town for an hoar or two. 'Til take care of Stanley, mamma," Elsie, said. Tm a big girl, you know. Why, I'm almost eight!" and Elsie drew herself up just as tall aa she could. 1 ' "I know, and I suppose you could go over to Mrs. Tower a if you were lone some, or Baby Stanley , was very fussy." 5 So with many Injunctions to be care ful,' and not go out of the yard unless they went straight across the street to Mrs. Tower's, Trmmmq took the car for the city,- "'' v - At first two-year-old Stanley was very happy and easily amused, but after a while nothing pleased him, and he kept calling ' for mamma. Elsie tried every play she knew, but nothing satisfied the little fellow, and he was beginning to cry in good earnest when Elsie remembered that Stanley dearly loved a hand organ.; "Lefs play hand-organ man!" Elsie exclaimed. - . ' Stanley stopped crying to listen to the new suggestion, and as Elsie told him her plan he was very soon his own smiling self again. Elsie hunted round the house, and finally found an old pasteboard box that mamma had brought a hat home in a long time ago. She fastened a string to each end and hung It over her shoulder. Then she tied a string to kitty's collar. "Tabby'U be the monkey, you know, Stanley,'! she said. Stanley clapped his; hands gleefully, and then the children 'marched up and down the walk, singing at the top of their voices, while Elsie led patient old Tabby with one hand and made believe grind the organ with the other. When mamma got j off the car at home and saw the little' procession going round the yard she went into the house and found her camera and took their picture, and Elsie has one on the mantel in her room. Youth's Companion. ' Japanese Strength. - The Japanese, although men of very small 'Stature, are anlong the strong est in the world. Any boy of 14 or 15 who will faithfully practice their sys tem of producing strength, will find himself, at the end of a few months, able to cope In feats of power with the average man of 25; and all this without the dangerous practice of lift ing very heavy weights. It should al ways be remembered that rest must be taken after each exercise. While resting try deep breathing. Stand erect, though not in a strained position, and at each breath draw the abdomen in and throw the chest out. As the breath is exhaled,- let the chest fall inward again and the abdomen outward. From twenty minutes to half an hour is a CITY CROWDING. It la an Important Factor In the Present Growth of Crime. The modern crowding of the popula tion into cities is a factor of the first importance. Enthusiasts extravagant ly praise the virtues of country popu lations, and as extravagantly dispar age the moral conditions of cities.. This excites contradiction, and in the con. troversy the fact is overlooked that the profound changes, some beneficial and others pernicious, have been and are being silently wrought by the aggre gation into cities of so large a part of the population. We are entering upon the third generation of hotbed city life. The offspring of those whose occupa tions are sedentary, who use stimu lants, lead irregular and excited lives, must with few exceptions, suffer from inherited irritability of the nervous system. An abnormal strength and ec centricity of Impulse must be the re sult and this is fostered by city life. A lamentable change has passed over the country with regard to the learning of trades. Most temperaments require manual labor in the earlier years of active life, and much exercise at all periods. Labor unions deter mine the number of apprentices which may be taken, and this number is so small that it is Impossible for the large majority of growing boys to secure either the knowledge of trades or the physical and mental benefits of steady mployment Counting rooms and shops are crowded with applicants for every vacant place, while thousands are left to roam the streets, having neither trade, profession nor knowledge of business. The struggle for success in society, finance, politics, literature, applied science and art grows more fierce as the cities grow larger; the prosperous have often "paid too dear for the whistle;" those who fail are, according to temperament despondent or desper ate, and the consequence is a 6teady procession to the sanatarlum or the prison. And the number of neurotic, romantic, pampered youth of both sexes is incomputable. If the country often underestimates, the city often overestimates, and the prematurely blase youth is in an abnormal con dition which feeds upon Itself. Under such circumstances the very qualities which made a good - man may make his son a curse to the community.- Century Magazine.' , - "When asked for relief, don't register a kick, Little Stories and t Incidents that Will Interest and Enter- tain Young Readers Z long enough time to devote to Jlujltsu, and this includes the time spent in breathing during rests for deep, cor rect breathing is in itself one of the best exercises possible. In inhaling draw the breath through either the nostrils or the mouth, as preferred; In exhaling always let the breath escape through the mouth. St Nicholas. - Sayinsrs of the Children. -. "What distinguished foreigner aided the 'Americans in the Revolution?" asked the teacher of the Juvenile class. "God," prompted answered a small pu pil who had been to Sunday school. Teacher Johnny, what would you do if another boy called you a story teller? Johnny (aged 6) To my face? Teacher Yes. Johnny About how big a boy? Tommy You know that great big piece of cake in the pantry, mamma? Mamma Yes, dear; what about it? Tommy Didn't you say It would make me sick if I ate It? Mamma Yes. Tommy Well, it didn't Little Bessie's nurse bad taught her to say her prayers In German. Short ly after she was spending the night with her small cousin, Elsie, and when it was time to retire Bessie said her prayer first Elsie listened In aston ishment for a minute, then exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, Bessie thinks God-is a Dutchman I" Essay on Habit. An English schoolmaster offered a prize to the boy who could write the best composition in five minutes on "How to Overcome Habit" This is what was written by the 9-year-old boy who won the prize: "Well, sir, habit Is hard to overcome. If you take off . the first letter, it does not change 'abit' If you take off another, you still have a 'bit left If you take off still another, the whole of If remains. If you take off another, it is not wholly used up; all of which goes to show that if you want to get rid of a habit you must throw It off alto gether." Xtondon 8choolboy. In an essay on the pet subject of temperance a London board schoolboy discoursed on the unpleasantness of not being able properly to direct one's limbs. His orthography, unfortunate ly, was less orthodox than his senti ment "For these reasons," he wound up, "it must be very auquard to be a drunkhard." Jingle. A little man's gift was a stiff brush and comb And he'd have been highly delighted, no doubt But he hadn't a hair on the top of his head; Now, what was good Santa Clans thinking about? St Nicholas. DOES NOT INDICATE LAZINESS. Many Men of Great Mentality Have Been Fat Men.' "Fat Is not an indication of lazi ness," said William Bailey, of the Gov ernment Printing Office, who is one of the fattest and squarest men in the employ of Uncle Sam. "I am not put ting myself In the list or 'peart' and 'brainy' fat men, but if one will take the trouble to look about him he will find a good many heavyweights who are not poky and slow, and who are fully up to the average mentally. Some of the greatest men the world ever knew were plump, even to obesity, and Napoleon was one of these. All these fellows with the withered and parchment look do not possess all the brain by any manner of means, but it is said that the men of letters in an cient times looked this way because they were poorly paid and consequent ly lived on slim rations. I notice there are a number of very heavyweight lit erary men of the present day, and I am not disposed to say that this Is simply because they are better paid and fare more sumptuously every day. There are a few of the llteratti who, like Sandery, flavor their crust with a thin slice of bacon taken from a mouse trap. ..Dr. Johnson was fleshy, even to clumsiness, and so was his biograph ical shadow, Boswell. Balzac, the great French novelist was so stout that it was a good day's exercise to walk around him; and he was encir cled with bandages, as though he was a hogshead. Rossini, the musical com poser, was a regular Jumbo, as big as "Big Winnie," and for seven years he never saw his knee. La blanche was charged three fares when he traveled, and Jules Janin, the prince of critics, had. chin and cheeks which protruded beyond his whiskers. And so a whole list could be given. Lord Byron and Eugene Sue, the author of "The Wan dering Jew," so dreaded becoming fat that they took lemon and vinegar to prevent it' and many fat people of the present day are taking something o the kind to prevent too much flesh. When Daniel Lambert died, in 1800, he weighed 737 pounds, and it re quired 112 feet of plank to make a cof fin for him. It took twenty men three hours to get this monster man into his grave." Washington Post His Principle. "This is my birthday," she said, "guess how .old I am." - "Excuse me,", he replied, "I never deliberately make an enemy. Reasonable Harriase, It Is the habit to say that In its ! love-making, the world wags on un changed, in spite of all the talk about the' sexes eyeing each the other with increasing deliberateness and discrim ination. But is this true? Is it not on the contrary, an established fact that those Americans who have been subjected to the enlightening influ ! ences of American civilization long ! enough to be Influenced, are, as a mass, less eager to rush into matri ; mony, and more restless once they are tied? Whether this be well or ill is aside from the present purpose, which is to say, that a world where men and i women were deliberate about mar riage would be worth putting off death a while just to coo as a curiosity, If nothing more. For example, sup pose that the men were really critical j about the capacities of women as homemakers added that to their' al ready long list of expectations of the sex from which their wives are chos en. Or, suppose that the women tried calmly to picture what manner of be ! ings candidates for the responsible po ; sition of husband would be ten years : after marriage would be, physically, : mentally, materially. Suppose It ' should come to pass that man would lose his present advantage, whereun- der it is possible for practically any unmarried man to get married at any moment, if he is not particular as to the kind of woman. Suppose that It were as difficult for a man to find a wife as it is for a woman to find a , husband. What an all-around bracing up there would be in such a society? I How vanity would wither! How eagerness to please would thrive! Collier's Weekly. Miscellaneous. New kid gloves, if warmed before the fire, may be put on without diffi culty. ' To clean a sponge, rub half a fresh lemon thoroughly into It and rinse in several lukewarm waters. Gasoline put on stains on a white silk waist followed by as much lump magnesia as the gasoline will take up, well rubbed In, will generally remove the stains. Unslacked lime or plaster, of parts mixed with white of egg to the con sistency of cream, Is said to produce an excellent home-made cement for mending broken china. . . Flat irons should be washed every week and always kept in a clean, dry place. Few housekeepers use suffi cient wax in ironing. Do not allow your Irons to become red hot as they will never again retain the heat Brooms will last longer If they are dipped, before using, in hot soapsuds until thoroughly soaked. If dipped in hot soapy wash-water weekly, the splints will become tough, though flex ible. Put a screw-eye in the end of the handle, by which to suspend the broom from a long nail In a convenient place. To prevent new wooden bowls from cracking, pour hot lard Into'them from the frying kettle, then turn until ev ery part is coated. Pour out the lard, leave twenty-four hours, then wash in hot-soapy water; or submerge the bowl, covering every part in cold wa ter, bring water to boiling, and boil an hour; when water is cold, remove the bowl and dry slowly in a cold room. Paint the outside two or three coats. Noted American Beauty. Herewith is reproduced the latest portrait of the noted American beau ty, Miss Gladys Deacon, daughter of the late Edward Parker Deacon, who in 1892 shot and killed Edward Abeille at Cannes, France. Miss Dea con has lived abroad with her mother for many years. Last year she was reported engaged to the miss deacon. Duke, of Norfolk, earl marshal of England, but It devel oped that she had rejected him. Now, however, rumor is busy linking their names together again and more per sistently than on the former occasion. It will be remembered that Miss Dea con was also reported engaged last year to the crown prince of Germany. Care of House Plants. Colder weather means increased fire heat the latter also meaning an in creased aridity or dryness of the at mosphere. The latter condition will probably induce a visit from insect pests on house plants unless precau tions are taken to prevent their ap pearance. Green fly and red spider are most to be feared, especially the latter, as their appearance is not as easily detected as that of the aphis, or green fly. Copious sprinkling and syringing with cold water is the best preventive for the attacks of the so called red spider. Salvias, fuchsias, roses and carnations are first favorites with this little pest. When first at tacked the leaves of these plants pre sent a whitish, dusty looking appear ance, especially on the underside, and the leaves will soon commence drop ping. Tobacco water is the best rem edy for green fly, although tobacco leaf or stems or even a cigar thorough ly dried and rubbed into a fine powder and sprinkled on the plants Infested with green fly will generally rid the plant of them The latter application -is best made after the plants have been recently sprinkled ; or syringed, as the tobacco dust adheres better when the foliage of the plant is moist Cor; American Cultivator. Wives Wanted in the West. . A traveler In Arizona reports that the young men of the west are bach elors not from choice, but from neces sity. Of the dearth of women In that section, he says: : ; "Thousands of cattle are standing knee-deep in alfalfa, the land is rich, and the young men are thrifty and . prosperous. But they can't get wives. There are not women enough to go around. Arizona wants several car loads of women just as soon as she can get them." Census statistics support this view of the case, not only as to Arizona, but as to a number of other western States and Territories. Here are a -few significant figures showing, that not every Jack has his Jill: Male. Female. Arizona ....... .... 57,027 37,120 Kansas ....... 593,965 532,063 Washington ... ....248,282 ,160,155 On the other hand, look at the re verse of the picture In certain States of the effete east: Male. Female. Maryland .... .... 455,285 563,13 Massachusetts 1,097,581 1,169,467 New Hampshire ... 168,493 169,410 New Jersey ....... 739,224 741,274 New York ........2,877,822 2,923,860 South Carolina .... 465,022 477,380 Virginia ..... .... 679,440 685,061 Albany Argus. : Athletics Harm College Girls. Women will never compete with men's colleges In athletics. I see ab solutely no possibility of that ever tak ing place. The women do not seek competition, and it would be of no , benefit to them. Women were not originally intended for such violent evercise as man, and some of the things that they go Into must strain them. For women to put the shot is preposterous. . There may be women living who are made In sucTi a strange and unnatural way that it is not Injurious for them to put the shotbut for the majority of women it would" be enough to ITurt them for life. Boating, also, is bad for women. Women's' colleges do not have crews to any great extent but the women who do go intoxft,wUlnpt last long In their athletic life: Wom en's athletics are a good thing in mod eration, but for them to try to do all that their brothers do is a mistake. They can never attain to what the men are doing and will only hurt , themselves in the attempt President Eliot of Harvard. One Way to be Attractive.. The housekeeper has many things on her mind, but she should not neg lect giving at least ten minutes oTit of every twenty-four hours to her .own personal attractiveness. Every boy and girl thinks "mamma". Is beautiful, and why should she not be universally admired, even though not beautiful by nature, if her appearance shows she has taken care of her complexion? Evr cry night just before you retiret try washing your face with good soap, rinsing and drying well, then rubbing with a solution made of two parts of rosewater, one part of glycerine and the juice of two lemons. Have enough altogether to make one pint. Put just enough on to make the face moist, and rub until the skin is rosy red. If there are any wrinkles around your eyes or mouth, be careful that you do not rub parallel K with them, but straight through, crossing them. The effect will surprise you. The freckles, tan : and wrinkles will gradually grow dim, leaving a soft pink-white, smooth skin. Woman's Home Companion. ' A New Little Fashion in Neckwear. ' In collars, stocks arid fancy neck wear, in general, it is truly the little new touch that tells. It is oftentimes merely the way a ribbon is tied at the neck that gives a smart style to a woman's dress. A new little fashion which is already a success is the stock which has its ribbon-ends tied in a combination four- in-hand knot and a bow. It is original and ever so pretty. The ribbon must be a . long one about two yards are necessary. It is brought around the neck and tied in front in a four-in-hand knot Then the two ends below the knot are- tied in a graceful bow with quite long loops. If the-ribbon is plain, the ends may be trimmed a trifle. They may be sprinkled with French knots, or scattered with tiny gold buttons, or hand-embroidered in some pretty little flower or some odd design; but the new est ribbons are so lovely in themselves this year that they require no trim ming to add to their beauty . Woman's Home Companion. Korean Women. The canons of society in Corea re quire a respectable woman to stay at home. Should circumstances compel her to go out, as is often the case, with women of the lower class, she must ' be closely veiled. Women of the high-, er classes never go out except in . a covered sedan chair, and that general ly at night. Less than thirty years -ago a curfew bell was rung at 8 o'clock -in each city, at which hour the men. were compelled to go home and leave the streets free for those .women who were obliged to go out J