THE BABY'S BEAD.
Xam only n bit of amber
That dazzles the baby's eyes;
Hut tho light in my Innermost chamber
In tho light of the prlstluo skies.
For ages ago nnd ages,
ttlieii. far lu the upper nlr,
V&fX llrs. like olJ archlmagea.
Shed Imkmho everyw hern.
And. nil In the wide gray wrather,
Which wrapped tho wholo round world,
'Solemnly waved together
Aa the. thick warm vapors curled,
Zn tho sunshine's Middeu bursting
t oozed Irom tt topmost bow,
And I drank that splendor thirsting
TheYo Is no such sunshine, now I
And tho wings that camo round mo flashlng
Kono llko thorn nro fluttering here
X caught la my heavy plashing
And nealcd iu my shining sphere.
Oh, llfo that was wild and glorious
UTion tho elements wrought for man,
Jed waved over flro victorious .
Shaped tho earth to her ane! '
"Then tho tides. In tho great world chart
Hose. In their mighty turn,
Soiled over tho fir tree's ranges
And Uiu pluino of, tho giant fern
And ages had passed nnd ages.
When tho winds scooped tho deep sea floor,
And tho seas lu their storm blown rages
Tossed ino to light onco mora i
&n now, half a Jest It may be.
Half a charm, you hang In your mirth
Honug tho throat of tho new bora baby,
Tho oldest thing on earth I
, Harriet Prcscott Spofford In St. Nicholas.
Hereditary Taints.
8no result of tho labors of physiolo
gists has been tho clearing of tho mental
vision, and tho gradual comprehension
of the great, pcrvasivo and potential fact
of "heredity. "Tho Bins of tho fathers
whall bo visited upon tho children," said
Moses moro than 8,000 years ugo. Probn
Mytfiu comprehended in butu very small
SHeasuio the significance of his own
utterance. Not only do parents transmit
t children their mental peculiarities,
'their moral tendencies, tho features of
stLofacc, tho stoop of tho shoulders and
ke-trie'k of tho gait, but they pass on to
Tfckcm their blood, their brain, their
gbjids, their very soul and life. Wo do
Kit mean to say tliat heredity is a tyrant
ffrwii which thero is no escape, and that
as is tho parent in constitution and con
duct, so also must bo tho children to tho
remotest generation.
If that wero ono of tho discoveries of
physiology, small thanks would bo duo
fctho scionco from overburdened man.
But it is not so. Tho parent himself, as
Es well known, can modify and make
wrso or hotter both his constitution and
Lis character. Similarly, tho child's
constitution and character may bo
changed, until, by tho operation of tho
law of heredity itself, a not very rcmoto
descendant may bo tho antipodes of his
early progenitors. Tho discovery of an
existing inherited taint of disease or of
-vice in a child is not a causo for regret,
but for thankfulness. The disease taint
'itoelf is, of course, to bo deplored, and
& is the inherited vice; but its early dis
overy i. to be hailed with gratitudo as
painting out lines of physical and moral
treatment which may lead to tho prac
ticed enfeeblcmont of tho taint or even
t its eradication.' London Hospital.
Her PntHor's Poor Cigars.
' A well known congressman, who loves
a cigar, good or bad, had a box in his
library which was bad, and his daughter
quietly threw them away. That oven-."Sag-
a distinguished jiulgo called, and tho
3f. C. during tho evening asked him to
smoke, and weut for his cigars. They
wcxo gone, of course, audthojudgomudo
jjood tho loss by getti;ig n couplo out of
Jais own pocket, and tho two friends set
tled down for u smoke. Iu tho midst of
it tho daughter camo in.
"Whowl" shosaid, supposing her father
Saul laid iu a now stock. "Wliewl"
"What is it?" asked tho M. 0.
"Smoking thoso cabbago leaves again
aro you? Thoy'ro awful, papa; simpij
awful."
By that timo tho judgo began to wonder
-what ho was getting, tho M. C. went into
4k laughing lit nnd tho girl concluded sho
hud made a mistake and flow. Later tho
M. C. explained to tho judge, and all was
orgi veil. Washington Critic.
Tlio Popo it Oieut Chen Player.
Tho popo has a weakness for chess.
Ho Is a very lino player, nnd in tho
. amateur ranks is hitiil to Imvo fow
superiors in tho knowledgo of gambits
and openings. Thero is ono priest in
Homo who has tho especial honor of
Jieing tho pope's adversary over tho
beard. This priest Father Giolla has
played chess with Leo Pecci for thirty
two years past. When Cardinal Pecci
waa raised to tho papal throne, Father
3iella, who was then in Florence, got an
invitation to proceed to Komo and take
p his quarters in tho Vatican. Oiolla is
kot temiK'red, and has been known to
look very black indeed at tho vicar of
-Christ ucross his chess board. Tho popo
takca Glella's temper good naturedly,
and often improves tho occasion by a
littlo homily on tho virtues of resigna
tion and meekness. London Court
Journal.
The Host lire Ilcslster.
Investigations of ilro ruins show that
.parous terra colta bricks and blocks best
resist ilro, water and frost; next to these
in tho. order of flro resisting qualities bo
dng tho various concretes, or como of
litem, ami burned clay work. In tlx
best building work now dono tho iron
part is incased in porous terra cotta, tils
or brick work iu roof, floor and tilo con
btruction; tho hollow tiles are faced with
vitreous tilo, slate, or any good weather
proof coating, or with a singlo thickness
of brick. Incased in flro proof materials,
dron and steel framework is claimed to
jgivo Uio best results. Chicago Tribune.
Ills Heart Wm Uiteulnc.
Ono night when ono of Mrs. Hodgson
'Burnett's sons was about flvo years old,
&& fell asleep in his mother's anus.
tWIien sho put him into his bed sho kiss
(eiiJiim again and nguin and called him
pt names. II o was bo sleepy that ho
xuld not kiss her in return, but he mur
aural drowsily, as if to comfort her for
mo saetulnj; Indifference: "Mamma my
heart is llatenlngto-yoa," Tu
1"
tUwn Maker,
THE NEWLY WED.
A Pullman Porter Trlln llmv He Spots
Tlirin -KvIN n( tho lllrn llnblt.
It is a Pullman jwrter. who is talking
to tin attentive scribe.
Hardly a wt-k goes by," says tho
porter, that I don't we a bridal couplo
just starting out on their honeymoon.
I don't exactly know how lean tell them,
but they are us plainly marked to my
eyes as if they had the words 'brido' and
'groom' stamped in big letters on their
foreheads. Thero is something about
them that gives the whole situation
away; 'a kind of a cling-right-next-to-mo-darling
air. Of course. I have made a
mistake now and then, but it is very sel
dom 1 do. and I've often found out, after
changing my mind two or threo times,
that I was right after all. though certain
appearances were against it. We gen
erally have a test which never fails, and
when a doubtful party comes along wo
spring it on them, just to oo sure, you
know.
"What's tho test? Well. I'll tell you.
Not many weeks ago a couplo got into
my car and sat down very quietly m
their arm chairs as if they had been used
to it all their lives. These didn't seem to
have tho bride and grooin airabout them
at all, and from external appearances
they might Imvo been brother and 6istcr
or married for years, but still there
was a something there that mado mo
suspicious, so when 1 saw them together
I went to the news company's boy and 1
says: 'Bill, hero's a doubtful party; get
out tho sample copies.'
"So Hill got his tests and started
through tho car. ilo handed books to
everybody, and when he camo to the sus
pected party he look out of iis pile two
little books, unci said, so nearly every
body could hear him: 'Very useful liooks.
sir; hints on housekeeping and hints to
newly married people. Only 25 cents.
"That did it. The girl got as red as a
roso and the man blushed and said a
weak sort of 'K-n-n-no.' Then they
looked at each other and sort of snick
ered, and I caught him full in tiie eyes
nnd smiled n sweet smile, giving him a
respectful wink at tho samo timo. It
was all settled in n minute, and thero
was no doubt about it. Well, ho took it
very good naturedly, and asked mo after
ward how in the world ho had given
himself away ho couldn't imagine. 1
believe wo could always toll, and talked
so nicely he gave mo a dollar when 1 got
through with him.
"Thero are plenty of other giveaways
by which I can spotu brideandn groom,
and they are safe generally as tho test.
Ono day a couple camo in thu car
which, by the way was jam full and
tho moment they entered it was plain as
day that tliey were newly wedded. 1
passed by them once or twice, and then
went in my closet and got tho dust pan
and brush. 1 walked right up to where
the brido was sitting nnd dusted up u
panful of rico that lay on tho floor
around her in a complete circle. Well,
if the people in that car didn't laugh, I'm
unothcr.
"Tho custom of throwing rico after a
bridal eouploalways makes it unpleasant
for thu party, as lots of rico is almost
sure to stick to their clothes, hats and in
their hair. About tho funniest rico
thing I ever saw was that which hap
pened in my car just two or three weeks
ago. A couple camo in, nnd tho test re
vealed to me that they wero brido and
groom. They didn't seem to tako kindly
to it, however, and wo couldnlt get any
satisfaction out of them at all. By and
by tho man 6aid to his wifo: "Seems to
mo this umbrella is not rolled up very
nico."
"Then ho carefully unrolled it, and,
bezingl out camo threo or four pockot
fuls of rico all over tho seats and floor.
Their friends had rolled up a lot insido
thu folds of tho umbrella, and, next to
tho young man I heard tell about who,
when ho went to sign his namo in a
hotel register, dropped a lot of rico 'on
tho book when he took off his hat, it was
tho uiost binding thing 1 over know."
Philadelphia Record.
Correct Pi'omitirlutlon.
I heard tho other day that a prominent
clergyman recently lost a call to a lead
ing church because when preaching a
sermon na a candidate ho pronounced a
single word incorrectly. "Oh, doctor,
that was n lovely sermon you preached
this morning," said a lady recently to
her pastor in a largo New Ungland town,
"Jpit if you will pardon mo for men
tioning it, its eflect was very much im
paired by n little slip iu pronunciation;
you placed the accent on tho second syl
lable of tho word 'obligatory' instead of
on the flrst," Tho lady in question was
one of thoso daugerously intelligent
women to bo found every where in Now
England, and was a member of a' ladies'
orthoepy society winch inudo life a bur
den to ovcrybody in the town. Know
ing this, tho clergyman tried to keep up
with all tho recondite pronunciations iu
voguo, but onco in a while ho made a
slp, as iu the above instance, and at
onco heard from some of tho good ladies.
Corroct pronunciation is of course desir
able, but it is a littlo absurd fb make a
fetich of it. Now York Tribune,
Kilt Iuqulsltlvo.
Thero was dust on his back nnd grimo
of two weeks' btaudlng behind his ears,
and as ho siootl on a corner, yesterday,
ho was heard to remark that ho was
from Lansing.
"What is tho faro from Lansing to
Dotrolt'r" queried a dudish looking by
stander, looking waggishly uu uu ac
quaintance. "I dunuo," was tho reply.
"Don't know!" echoed his questioner,
Incredulously.
"Youug man," returned tho tramp,
Impressively, "when 1 want to go too
place by rail I get quietly on tho train,
and wheu it gets thero I step oil again,
without askiug any blooming fool ques
tions." Detroit Freo Press.
Method lu Uls Bllvnce.
"Bolton told mo ho had borrowed eomo
money from you. 1 was surprised, bo
causo I nover heard you eay anything
about it."
'No; I etiU bono to tjet It back."
PHOTOGRAPHED L BITS.
DISMEMBERED PHOTOGRAPHY HAS
BECOME QUITE A CRAZE.
Pretty IluiuK Ni'cUn, Shoulder. Elbows
nnd I'eet Copied for IVIpikU A Detroit
Artlt Talks of tho Pud Proud of Ills
Wife' Pretty Poot.
"She is a. crank on dismembered pho
tography, and has herself taken in
pieces," one lady remarked to another.
"Taken in pieces?"
"Yes, her hands, her arms of course
they are nice and plump and her feet,
too. Why, she has even had tho back of
her neck taken!"
All this, the speaker said, was-dono "in
theeast." But wealso have our "cranks"
and our "dismembered photography" in
the west.
"Yes," said a Woodward avenuo artist,
"wo havo for some time taken hands or
feet, nnd even backs of necks, right here
in this gallery. It is a fad. popular with
symmetrically shaped ladies. It pays us
well and wo have no fault to And."
Some negatives of dismembered photo
graphs wero brought out.
NBAKL.Y ALWAYS SATISFIED.
Tho background in all cases was of
dark plush, laid in heavy lustrous folds.
Against this rich curtain a handsomo
hand, plump, slender, nnd with delicate
n?iils. is really an object of admiration.
No jewels nro worn, as this detracts from
tho beauty of the inemlwr in itself. Somo
hands aro laid carelessly against tho
plush, some show study in tho seem
ingly idle way in which they aro held
up. A cute row of dimples add beauty
to a few of the photographs. Ono or
two belligerent ladies have had their
lists taken, "to show how formidable
they would be on tho defensive racket.
I suppose," said thu potographer.
Thero were photos of hands, fists, feet,
arms, shoulders and tho backs of necks
with bewitching little curls. Somo amus
ing stories are told by the photographers
in connection with dismembered pho
tographs. "A lady will como in and want a pho
tograph of this sort. Sho has money,
but not many classic lines that would
bear reproducing by themselves. 'Will
I havo my hand and arm, or only the
hand taken?' she asks. Well, wo must
manage to find out what sho thinks of
tho member as a whole, and advi.so her
accordingly. Sho is nearly always satis
fled with the photo, and somo of them
nro freaks of naftire, 1 tell you; but 'So
and So lias one, and so must I,' is thu
principle on which society moves."
"What do ladies do with such pic
tures?" was asked,
"Well, now, when a young lady be
comes engaged the first thing sho does, if
sho has a good hand, is to givo a photo
graph of it to her fiance. Then wrists
or shoulders are taken for tho oddity of
tho all"air. Some coquettish misses
sometimes not over young ones, cither
will havo tho I aeks of their necks taken
to give to an admirer Indies have their
own and their children's feet taken as
souvenirs for their husbands. Somo of
them aro plump and handsome.
DKTUOIT'S "KATISHAS."
"Thoy make a pretty picture, too.
when resting on a pluvh cushion. A lady
from an interior town hud a very pretty
foot. She was in the city on a shopping
tour, and was impressed with tho dis
membered photograph idea. Sho had
ono taken for her husband, who had
often complimented her ou tho beauty
of her feet She sent it homo, with strict
orders to gaze on it as often as ho was
inclined, hut to show it to uo ono else.
"A day or two after wo received a note
ordering a dozen of tho photos. Tho
order was filled, and when tho lady got
homo and went visiting sho was invited
by her friends to inspect tho family al
bums, in each of which that awful hus
band had inserted a photo of his wifo's
foot. Sho will havo no moro pictures
taken for exclusive contemplation here
after. "Somo ladies como in with another
person whose hand or arm is taken and
sent to tho distant friends of tho sup
nosed owner. This is often tho caso with
tadies who expect to inherit property
from relatives they aro never likely to
meet, nnd whom i they wish to impress
with their good points."
Katisha had a left elbow that pcoplo
"had como miles to seo." Thero nro evi
dently Katishas in Detroit who havo
elbows worthy of admiration. A fow
photos of elbows dimpled and pink
tinted havo lioon taken in this city. It
cannot bo said that an elbow has any
particular beauty when transferred to a
photograph, but "everything goes" as
long as tho "fad" lasts.
A lady artist in tho Whitney block has
a "run" on plump hands nud dainty feet.
Sho trausfers them to canvas, and very
lifelike they look, with somo rich 6hndo
of plush for a background. It is said
that this artist has an ubundancoof work
of this character from tho best families
of tho city. These paintings uro not in
tended for tho parlor, moro's tho pity,
but ornament milady's boudoir. Dis
membered photographs cost tho f'.Jl
price, S3 to $5 per dozen. Minucttes at
1.S0 and $1.25 mako a convenient sizo
for carrying one's hand or foot in one's
pocket. Detroit Freo Press.
ItuttW'MiuIio nil Coir.
Uorscs and cattle, it is frequently said,
rarely, if over, sutler death from tho bite
of n "rattlesnake. But it hunter In tho
Potomao valley camo upon tho evidences
of u double tragedy which goes to dis
prove this opinion.
Whilo hunting tho othor day I found
tho dead body of a cow, Sho had not
been long dead. I was speculating as to
tho causo of her death when I noticed a
iargo rattlesnake dangliug from ono of
her orumplod horns.
Tho indications were that tho cow had
seen tho tmako colled mid in tho act of
uprlughig upon her, and had accordingly ,
booked thu reptile, tho horn penetrating
tho suuku'd body so thut tho rattler was
unablo to freo himself. Tho cow's born '
bad pierced uud killed tho rattler, but
tho suake'a fangs and killed tho cow, I
Youth's Companion.
Let Dorrn a Notch.
The street car wit is named legion. Ilo
delights to stand on the platform and
mako remarks which he believes aro
funny. Tho other day one of them stood
among the smokers on tho front end of
an Indiana avenue ear and waited for an
opportunity to bo comical. It soon pre
sented itself At tho corner of Twenty
second street stood an old organ grinder
who was grinding away on Ids aged In
strument, Tho funny man saw him and
his face lighted up. Ilo was about to be
.funny "Is it not wonderful." ho said,
"how that old man there can play thoso
tunes wholly by ear and without the uso
of notes? He must bo a trained mu
sician." And then ho looked around at
I) is fellow passengers for thu expected
laugh. No one even smiled, and tho
driver looked around at him as if won
dering whether or not he was clothed in
his right mind.
This awful silence pained the street
car Touchstone, and the iron was ground
deeper into his soul by a young man who
stood next to him and who turned and
said: "Yon are mistaken, sir. about that
musical Instrument. It is a mechanical
dovice, nnd one who is not a musician
can play it." Then ho went on to give
the funny man a description of the hand
organ, and wound up by saying: "Your
mistake is perhaps natural, but when
you have lived here in the city longer
you will learn all about theso things."
The funny man alighted at tho next
corner, and the smokers till shook hands
with the young fellow who had picked
him up so ueatly. Chicago Uerald.
Wi'ilillng Pres.
Said a well known clergyman tho
other day: "I think tho clergy havo too
much to say about tho smallness of some
of their wedding fees Thero is no
earthly reason, in tho flrst place, why a
clergyman should receive any fee for his
services on such an occasion. If fees
aro to bo given at all, they would be
much more appropriate when a clergy
man is asked to officiate at a funeral,
which in some cases may consumo sev
eral hours of his time. But, granting
that a wedding fee is allowablo, my ex
perience is that such fees are as a rulo
too largo rather than too small. 1 havo
olliciated at tho weddings of a great
many mechanics nnd workingmen, and
and in a large majority of instances tho
grooms havo given mo $10. Somo of
them have given 15 and even $20.
Now. the lowest of these sums Is out
of all proportion to the average income
of a mechanic. It is much more than
thoy can nfTord for a service which a
Christian minister should bo glad to ren
der for nothing. And in my own prac
tico I havo always returned tho feo in
such ciises, unless the groom was so fool
ishly proud as to refuse it. But in doing
so I admit that I am running counter to
tho almost universal custom of tho
clergy. My own personal opinion is that
in an ago liko this, when tho world is so
ready to find fault witli tho clergy, it
would be wise to abolish wedding fees
entirely. At the same time I do not as
sume to decide tho matter for any ono
but myself." New York Tribune,
Umi Sotli Ilumls.
Recently, from my close attention in
many years' capacity at tho circuit court,
I havo been suffering from partial or in
cipient paralysis of the right hand, or
what is otherwise known us pen paraly
sis, tho resiilt, of course, of constant
writing with that hand. With so little
uso of that member. I am beginning to
mako my left hand very useful, and 1
And it is n much more important feature
than we usually imagine. 1 think tho
habit of cultivating the sorvico of tho
left hand should bo more general and
taught from early childhood; in that
way tho flexibility would bo established
and the right hand saved from tho great
strain upon it. It is not at all necessary
to bo what is termed "left handed" to bo
enabled to use that hand. I know ono
young lady artist who Is not at all so,
yet who can use the left hand as well ns
tho right perfectly by cultivation. Sho
can draw with tho left hand as easily as
sho can with tho right ono, turned to
ward tho right. My caso should bo a
warning to writers especially, not to
leave all strain to ono hand, but to cul
tivate tho service of tho other, or at least
its assistance. I now havo to do much
of my writing with my left, and accom
plish it quite as well as with tho right,
and I am by no means "left handed."
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
GliiiUtoiin'H Predictions.
Tho most reiuarkablo man of our timo
is tho lion. W. Ef Gladstone great in
statesmanship, great iu ilnanco (ho won
his spurs of political knighthood ns
chancellor of exchequer), great iu ora
tory, greatest of all iu literature, flow
this octogenarian finds timo to do so
much, and to do everything so well, is a
mystery.
Uo has recently published an nrticlo
on "Tho Future of the English Speaking
Races." It reads liko a chapter ui tho
"Arabian Nights." .
Ono hundred years ago tho English
speaking peoples of tho world numbered
15,000.000. These wero distributed thus;
In Great Britain, 12.000.000; iu American
and other foreign lauds, il.000,000. Today
tho number has multiplied soven fold
nndBtandsat I0.i.000.000. Mr. Gladstone
quotes tho eminent statistician, Barham
Zincko, as authority for tho statement
that a century hence the English speakers
of the globo will number 1,000,000,000,
distributed as follows, viz.: In tho Brit
ish Islands, 70.000.000; in Canada, 140,
000,000; in tho United States, 800,000,
000. St, Louis Republic.
Juuiif Oiitngu.
Japaneso orangw aro different from
our ideal of uu unuigo as thoy can well
be, beparating from tho peel almost ua
easily as a grapo, dividing Into sections
at tho slighu-nt pull, each suction llko a
teparato fruit, dihnolviug its piece iuto
your mouth with flavor of cherries,
leaving no pulp behind. Very good, ex
cellently good, tiwy are, Thoy, tho
latest of her fruits, mid tho crowu of ex
cellency to the already overflowing cor
nucopia of this Beautiful Land of tho
Suuruo." True ting.
UUSBAiYDS, STAND UP!
AMBER THINKS IT IS TIME SOME
ONE TOOK YOU IN HAND.
Two Way of Acting When Ton Come
Homo Tiling You Should Uo anil Ttioe
Yon Should Not Do Of Courvo Thlt Don't
Mruti You, but It Pit Your Neighbor.
There is so much excellentadvico given
to wives, suppose, for a change, we turn
around and read the husbands a nice
little manual of correct behavior. It is
high time some one took them in hand;
but, although I have had my eye upon
them for a good while, I have been both
ered to find a ripe ojKrtunity.
In the first place, to plunge right into
the nfidst of things without further wait
ing, how do you go homo to your wifent
night? Chapters have been written as to
how she ought to receive you; now let
me say a word about the other sido of
the question When you find a tired
little woman who has been so hard at
work all day with live babies and an in
contpetentgirl, cullers. and miscellaneous
jobs of mending, pastry making and
pickling, that she has fuuid uo time to
curl her hair and put on her best gown
to meet you, what do you do?
WHICH IS YOL'It WAY?
Do you, like a dear old sympathizing
fellow, take her worn face into a warm
embrace and whisper in her ear: "Never
mind, dearie; 1 have got homo, and we'll
share the cares for the rest of the day.
You go and rest yourself whilo I put
Johnnie and Trot and baby to bed?" Do
you see that she sits in the easiest chair
whilo you skip around and minister to
her wants? Do you keep silent while sho
reads tho evening paper (to herself), and
aro you mindful of draughts and slam
ming doors while she takes her ease in
slippered content? Do the stars dance
the Newport, and docs tho moon sing
psalm tunes? Just about as much as you
do all this. You expect the hushed home,
and the siesta with the paper, and tho
slippers for yourself, to be sure, and if
you don't get them you think you're ter
ribly abused, and ten to one flounce off
to tho club to escape the noise and con
fusion, but you never take it into your
head to consider that the day has been
just as long, and just as busy, and a
thousand limes moro full of petty cares
for her as for you.
You bolt into the house, and the first
thing you say is: "Why isn't supper
ready? I'm as hungry as a hound!"
'Great Scott! Can't you keep that child
quiet?" or, "What's the use of burning
so much coal? Turn off the damper!
You are enough to ruin a Vanderbiltl"
That's the keynote of the song you sing,
and yet you think it is dreadful if 6ho
ever makes a remark harsher than the
bleat of a lamb. Suppose you had been
a hansom cub driver, a board of trado
man. cook in a restaurant, cash boy for
a dry goods house, a kindergarten teacher
and a hospitaT nurse all combined for tho
whole day long, wouldn't you bo moro
tired, and wouldn't there be moro excuse
for your irritability than when you have
simply attended to a single systematized
branch of business.
A woman is required to bo everything
from a reception committee to receive
calls in the parlor, to a nurse in tho nur
sery, and a chief executive in tho kitchen,
while a business man devotes himself to
a single trado or profession.
uon't di: apuaid op "spooning."
And next, how do you entertain your
wifo ovenings? If you were invited into
a neighbor's house to spend a couplo of
hours with his wife and daughter, how
would you entertain I hem, I wonder?
Why, you would put a posy in your but
tonhole, and slick up your hair, and blow
a little perfume out of the atomizer nil
over yourself, and throughout tho even
ing you would overflow with bright
anecdotes and be so racy and charming
that after you had gone away everybody
would say: "What a perfectly delightful
man Mr. Perkins is! What good com
pany I"
Now let us seo, sir, how you entertain
your wife. You stand in front of tho
lire and pick your teeth with a wooden
toothpick until she starts to put tho chil
dren to bed, and every now nnd then
you make a few cheerful remarks about
tho scarcity of money nnd tho general
cussedness of children who run through
shoes and clothes so fast. When tho
timo conies that all is still and every
thing nicely adapted for a chat or a game,
you draw out your miserable newspaper
and begin to read. And you read that
paper all to yourself, wort! for word, and
line for line, straight through from edi
torial to market report, us if it contained
tho secret of youth, wealth uud eternal
salvation! Iu .tho same way ono might
drink soda water by tho pailful, or con
sumo caramels by the ton!
Newspapers, read by husbands in selfish
soWtudo. aro uuswerablo for many wifely
heartaches. How many good stories and
racy anecdotes do you tell your wifo to
mako her laugh? How many roses do
you pin on your coat and how careful
aro you of your appearanco in tho long
eveniugs, when thero is nobody by but
her to bo captivated by your cliarmsand
bewildered by your manly beauty? Thero
is just exactly us much excuse for her
(and a littlo more, it may be,) if her dress
is Blatternly and her hair ujitii.y as there
is for you, and thero is precious littlo for
either of you.
You excuso your indifferenco and
neglect and tho withdrawal of fond
and foolish attentions, just as dear to
lior at forty us at twenty, with tho
thought: "O, well, she knows I lovo her;
what's tho uso of 'spooning' ut our age?"
By and by there will comoa time when you
bhall seo her lying In her coflin, lerhaps,
and you would sell your soul thut day to
bo able to shino away long years of cold
neglect with thu manifestation of tho
lovo that was nlwajs in your heart, cer
tainly, but carefully kept ou ico. Call it
"sixxmlng," if you like, or any other
name of contempt, but 1 tell you there
is nothing so tad in all life's history aa
tho vanished opportunity to manifest a
lovo for which some friend weut hungry
through 6low yearn of undemonstrative
uud stupid reserve Amber in Chicago
Tribune,
THE FIRST PARTING.
"Come. Eva. kiss mamma Rood nlcht. and ro with
tiurw to Ix-tl
What, twirsr for sham a moment since you
would Up Rood, votl nald.
You're nuite too big a n'rUu uow to sleep In baby
place. ,
Why noon you will bo tall enough to ro to school
with llmce;
go fciic-l iH-slde mo. darling, here, and say your
prayers, nnd I
Will King that llttla hvinn you lore, of guarding
angi'Li nigh;
And when tho birdhu wako you up. tell Mary you
may run
To have n romp In mamma's bed; Just think, what
lotH of fun1"
Tho mother In the morning came, in longing, am
Ions mood;
With throbbing hpsrt and dowy eyes bcsldo the
td xhe Klood.
Where Kva htlU slept, soundly, her arms p'mbraclng
llC.'lt
The gown her mother worn when she had ktsscd
her n't good night
Iw ribbon wild her bllent tears were stained and
limp and wet.
Around the white and dimpled neck an empty
hleeve was set.
Willie Mary slept the stole away, era dawn had Ut
the n!iy
That something of her Idol near her sinless breast
might lie:
Unheeded, save by Him who marks each grier en
dured utone,
Slni'soughl ami found her solace for the first that
she had known
-Philadelphia Times.
Ito Couldn't Kilt the Soup.
An elderly gentleman in a restaurant
having loen surved .with a plate of soup
he had ordered, said to tho waiter:
"Look here. I can't eat this soup."
"All right; I'll get you another plate."
On receiving the second plate tho guest
once more remarked:
"It's no uso. 1 can't eat this soup."
Then the waiter went to tho proprietor
and said.
"The old gentleman over there is com
pkuning nlwut tho soup, ilo says ho
can't eat it."
"You don't know how to wait on peo
ple. I'll attend to him."
The proprietor went to the kicking
guest and said, blandly:
"1 understand you say thero is some
thing the matter with the soup?"
"1 didn't say anything of tho kind."
"You said you couldn't oat it."
"Yes, I said 1 couldn't eat it."
"Will you tell mo why you can't eat
that soup?"
"Certainly. I haven't got any spoon."
Texas Siftings.
A Perfect Man.
Several years ago an artist of Dresden
persuaded a locksmith thero to givo up
his trade and become an artists' model.
It was a good thing for tho locksmith,
who is now the famous "muscle man of
Dresden, whose magnificently developed
body makes him probably the most re
nowned model in the world. In order
to preserve for future artists an exact
duplicate of his extraordinary figure,
the director of tho Royal Saxon Pwvuell
anfabrik at Meissen, recently invited
him there that a cast from life might bo
taken of the upper part of his body. It
is said that "his muscular development
is so complete and detailed that even the
least anil slightest cord of every muscle
stands forth prominently, and his whole
body looks as if it wero woven together,
or plaited like basket work. His muscles
havo such a hardness that they feel to
the touch as if they wero carved in
wood." Brooklyn liagle.
Silver Deuilhruil Ticket.
Probably the most unique railroad pass
issued this year is that of tho Silverton
Railroad company of Colorado. It is a
thin silver plate, about thu size and shape
of passes in general uso. On tho upper
left hand corner of the faco of tho plate
is a vignette showing a curve of the road
between Silverton and Ouray. Tho pass
to rolled from silver bars and stamped,
tho vignette and lettering, with tho ex
ception of the president's namo, being in
relief. Tho name, is intaglio, and is gild
ed, as are the vignette and scroll. Tho
number of the pass and tho namo of the
person to whom it is issued aro engraved
by hand. Brooklyn Eaglo.
I'loitting Hospitals.
A novel idea is the fitting up of a
steamer in Kngluud as a "sea going hos
pital." This is for the benefit of the
deep sea fishermen, who are subject to
sickness and accidents, and often havo
to endure great suffering before thoy can
bo taken ashore for treatment. Ono
6teamer has already been prepared and
dispatched on this mission and another
will bo sent out us toon as it can bo got
ready. San Kraueiseo Chronicle,
Tho Iron Crown.
The Iron crown of Iombardy consists
of a broad circle composed of six equal
plates of beaten gold, joined together by
close hinges of tho same metal. Within
is thu iron band which gives it a name.
It is about three-eighths of an inch broad
and a tenth of an inch thick, und is said
to havo been made out of thu nails used
at the Crucifixion, und given to Constan
tino by his mother, tho Empress Helena,
to protect him in battle. Now York Tel
egram, A Cliucher.
' A letter was dropped into the letter
box at tho Auburn postotlico recently,
bound for Boston, with tho stamp fast
ened on with a pin. It was pushed
through tho stamp near tho right side,
thence through the envelope and its con
tents to the back side, and back again to
tho frotit- It was stronger than tho com
mon lot of pins or it would' nover hare
stood tho pressure. Bostou nerald.
They Wero Littlo Girls.
Master Burrill was un old timo teacher
in tho town of Fairfield. A writer iu
Tho Somerset Reporter says that Ito used
to punish naughty whispering girls by
"bearding them" that is rubbing his
unshaven chin with a week's stubblo on
it down their pretty cheeks. It almost
took tho skin oh, Lowistou Journal.
Drayton Ives, the well known finan
cier and socioty man, is a bibliophile.
This may not seem to be an expensive
pursuit, but Mr. Ives manages to spend
a good deal of money upon It. Qnly
the other day ho Bpent some $1,200 upon
a raro copy of on early edition of the
noly Writ. i