ANNETTE AND FERDINAND.
A long time ago. In a doll house,
here lived a little lady doll, whose
lame was Annette. She had brown
lair, which she wore high upon her
lead, with a band of blue ribbon
iround it, and there were three curia
it the back. She also wore blue ear
rings, which were in style In those
lays. The house she lived in was
lour stories high, and the little girl
to whom it belonged had to stand on
l stool to reach the top story. On
the ground floor was the kitchen, the
room above was the dining room,
ibove that was the sitting room, and
the top room was the sleeping room.
This was in the days before the
modern doll house was invented, and
while it was well furnished for those
days they did not have electric lights,
or stairB, for it was made from a
Jrawer that was very long and wide,
it stood on an end, and had shelves
fitted in It for floors.
Now Annette's little mother decided
that it was not well for Annette to live
alone, and one morning she went to a
store and bought the manliest doll
alio could And, and brought It home,
and although the doll's hair was light
and parted in the middle, the little
girl's aunt, who was an artist, painted
It black, and added the moBt wonder
ful mustache, so that the storekeeper
himself would never have recognized
the light-haired doll he sold to the
little girl.
Ferdinand, for that was the name
they gave him, was provided with a
black dress suit and a dressing gown
and then be was Introduced to An-
nette, who blushed and shook her
curls, and tried to appear very indif
ferent. But her heart beat very fast,
and it was a case of love at first sight
with both of them.
The next day they were married
Annette wore a white tarlatan dress,
with tiny white flowers in her hair,
which held her long veil in place. She
carried a bouquet of white flowers
The bridegroom looked very sedate in
his new suit, although he must have
been nervous, for he dropped the ring,
which was a band of gold paper, and
had to be assisted in putting it upon
his bride's finger. But at last they
were married and went to ride In the
park on their honeymoon trip. An
nette wore a blue velvet turban and a
blue cloth drees, and Ferdinand's coat
was fastened together and covered his
white vest.
I am sorry to say that he did not
wear a hat, for there was not one to
be found that looked at all manly. All
went well with them for a while.
Ferdinand built the fire In the morn
ing, and did not find fault with An
nette's cooking, although sometimes
the fried eggs looked very much like
white buttons and the bacon like
brown papor and the coffee was very
watery.
But one morning Ferdinand did not
get up to build the fire, and Annette
said that she would not build It if
she stayed in bed all day. When An
nette's mother came she found both of
them in bod. She took Ferdinand
firmly by the shoulder, and placed him
iu the kltcheu and soon a fire was
built and the breakfast ready. But
tho little mother decided that Dinah,
the servant doll must be had at once,
for Ferdinand declared the coffee was
water and the biscuits like wooden
button molds.
The next morning Ferdinand and
Annette did not get up until the ris
ing bell rang. Ferdinand sat at the
table, reading bis paper, when Au-
nette appeared. She wore a blue silk
wrapper, fastened at the neck and
waist with blue bows, and from the
waist down could be seen the ruffles
of a lace petticoat.
"You are looking very charming, my
dear," said Ferdinand, and Annette
smiled very Bweetly. Dinah came in
with two little plates, and on each waB
half a grape, on a very small leaf.
Then she served a most wonderful
omelet which looked very much like
a daisy.
"Dat am a daisy omelet, Mas' For'-
nan," she said, "an' It sure am good."
The biscuits looked very much like
those Annette had served, but Ferdl
nnnd did not find fault, and everything
went smoothly for a while.
Then one night Annette sat up all
night and waited for Fordinand, and
lie did not come home, and in the
morning when Annette's mother same
she found her sitting in her chair,
looking very sad.
"Why, where 18 Ferdinand?" she
asked, and then she rau to a corner in
the room that Annette sould not see,
from her home, and there eat poor
Ferdinand, looking as Bad as Annette.
The little girl had taken him to hi
business office in the morning and for
gotten all about him. She quickly re
stored him to Annette, who forgave
him, as a good and loving wife should,
when be explained to her that busl
ncss was so rushing they had to work
all night And as there were no tele
phones in those days, Bhe accepted his
excuse. So you see all little girls
Bhould be careful to attend to their
dolls, because they might break up
a happy family by neglecting them.
The Chinese pupil reciting Ms les
son turns his back on the tutor.
SCORED HEAVILY ON PRINCE
Beau BrummeM's Remark Left Hlrr,
Master of Situation, but Victory
Was a Costly One.
The greatest dandy and fop of mod
ern times was George Brummell,
known as Beau Brummell. He lived
a life delicate and leisured, and since
he was poor his living depended upon
the favor of the court. The court
at that time was represented in the
set where the beau's influence was
felt by the prince of Wales, who was.
if truth must be told, not a slender
man. It happened that the prince
and the beau quarreled.
To be a dandy is not generally con
sidered the first mark of being a
brave man, but Beau Brummell gave
instant proof that he was not only a
great dandy but a great man as well.
The details of the story are somewhat
vague, but the main facts are certain.
Brummell knew that his quarrel with
the prince would mean an end of his
prestige, but he refused to yield, and
on the day following the quarrel went
walking with a friend, said to have
been Sheridan.
The news of the rupture between
the prince and the dictator of fashions
had spread, and there were not a
few who gathered in the hopes of a
passage at arms between them.
It happened that Sheridan and
Brummell met the prince and his
party. With princely ostentation the
royal personage called Sheridan aside
and spoke to him, pointedly ignoring
Brummell, who stood by. Brummell
did not flinch In the crisis, he was
the only person who seemed to be In
different. Then Sheridan returned.
With a gesture of indifference Brum
mell lifted his glasses to his eyes
and, Indicating with a slight wave of
his hand the person to whom he re
ferred, he asked In a clear but lan
guid voice the famous question:
"Sherry, who's your fat friend?"
Brummell spent the greater part
of the remainder of his life in Calais,
an outcast, a broken man. But with
the memory of his great rebuke, it
can hardly be said that in the crisis
he was found wanting.
Came Handy In His Line.
"There is nothing like sleep," re
marked a chance acquaintance to the
newspaper man as he sized up the
belated sleepers In a New York sub
way car in the wee hours of the morn
ing. ."All my life I have done what
ever has been in my power to help the
cause of sleep In the human race.
Whenever I have heard that a doctor
Is counseling his patients to sleep
longer, I have made a point of writing
him a letter of congratulation. And 1
do not mind saying that I myself have
done a bit to persuade people that
Bleep IB the greatest blessing to man
kind." "The perfect sleeper," ob
served the newspaper man, "is he who
by rigid and constant practice has
brought his power of sleep to such a
stage that he does not awake even
when a dynamite bomb is set off in his
room." The chance acquaintance
leaned back in in his seat with rapt
expression, as if contemplating a beau
tiful viBion. "And what makes you
take such an interest in the slumbers
of the human race?" was asked. "I
am a burglar," he replied. "But Just
because one of my fellow men did not
reach the Btage of somnolent perfec
tion I had to abandon my trade for
some years.
Important Russian Industry.
The production of wood pitch and
tar Is a highly Important Industry of
the timber districts of Russia. A
large quantity of such substances is
not only used for home consumption
In Russia, but Is also exported to for
eign markets. England alone takes
over 100,000 barrols yearly of Russian
pitch and tar. In normal times pitch
is exported chiefly to England from
Archangel, where it is one of the prin
cipal articles of trade, while turpen
tine has been shipped to Germany
from the Baltic ports and overland.
In recent years in western Russia, es
pecially near the Vistula river, large
quantities of pitch and turpentine havo
been distilled from the stumps left
after the clearance of woods, this hav
ing boen in great demand In Germany
on account of Its good quality and low
price. Up to the present time the op
erating methods employed in this In
dustry have been, for the most part,
of a primitive character, and carried
on in small establishments, whore the
owner is at the same time workman
and salesman.
Girls Will Marry Crippled Soldiers.
A letter In the London Dally Mail
conveys the Information that hun
dreds of English girls have expressed
their willingness to marry crlpplod
British soldiers and to care for them
as their contribution to their country's
cause. The offers came as the result
of a published suggestion that plucky
girls might be of service so, and all
that stands in the way of the success
of this wholesale matchmaking is that
no degree of pluck and patriotism
seems sufficient to overcome maidenly
shyness. The girls have agreed to
marry, but they cannot walk up to the
first one-legged soldier they see and
tell him so. Meetings are to be ar
ranged by certain women of the Loiv
don West end, where these self-sacri
ficing girls will be Introduced to the
lifelong burdens they have agreed to
take as husbands.
Of Course Not.
"That doctor claims to have dlscov
ered an entirely now disease."
"1 hope he won't publish the symp
toms of it."
"Why not?"
"People cannot have it if they do
not know the symptoms, can thoy?"
Bronze Lions on
In Washington
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This is one of the four bronze lions on the Grant Memorial being
erected In Washington that are said to be copies of those on the Nelson
monument In Trafalgar square, London. Each of the lions is couchant
upon a flag that Is supposed to be the Stars and Stripes. The design has
caused much comment and some objection has been made to its adoption.
German Writers
of Note Appear
Two at a Time
"It is a striking coincidence that the
most significant figures in the history
of German literature have appeared
upon the scene two by two. As far
back as the ninth century," Dr. Otto
Heller says in his "Studies in Modern
German Literature," "we find side by
side as its greatest poetic monuments
two religious epopees of almost equal
importance, the Heliland and the
'Evangelienbuch'i among the popular
epics of the .Hohenstaufen times the
German Iliad, the 'Nlbelungenlied,' is
matched off by the 'Lay of Kundrun' as
by a German Odyssey; and among the
chivalric poems of the same period the
pre-eminent works of Wolfram von Es
chenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg
lend expression to diametrically oppo
site views of life.
"After the literary life had Iain in
catalepsy for many generations it was
reawakened in the eighteenth century
through apparently antipodal forces
which may perhaps he most fitly
brought to mind by the mention of
Klopstock and Lessing. Then the
dazzling flood of light, which, at the
close of that century, suffused the cul
ture of Germany, was shed from the
twin luminaries, Goethe and Schiller.
"Although In the ensuing century
the catalogue of the poetae Germanlae
grew to an unexampled magnitude, its
best-known names at successive
periods stood in contrasted couples:
Kleist and Korner, Uhland and Hauff,
Heine and Lenau, Gelbel and Freill-
grath, Grillparzer and Hebbel, Router
and Scheffel, Freytag and Keller,
Heyse and Spielhagen, Wllbrandt and
Wildenbruch, Marlltt and Werner, and,
if the truth must be confessed, Hack-
lander and Gorstackcr.
'To the great mass of the people
the literature of the post-Bismarckian
era seems epitomized In two names
Gerhart Hauptmann and Hermann
Sudormann, for undeniably these two
have exercised the greatest formative
influence on contemporaneous German
letters."
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The World Over.
The law In Switzerland protecting
rare plants is so strict that to be found
In possession of specimens illegitimate
ly collected is a penal offense.
In Turkey It Is unlawful to seize
a man's residence for debt, and suffi
cient land to support him is also ex
empt from seizure.
The ten countries with the largest
population are, In the order named,
China, India, Russia, the United States,
Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom,
France, Italy and Austria.
The largest volcano crater In the
world is in Asosan, In southern Japan.
It measures 14 miles across one way
and more than ten miles the other. '
A flash of lightning lights up the
ground for one-millionth of a second,
yet it seems to us to last ever bo much
longer. What happens is that the Im
pression remains in the retina of the
eye for about one-eighth of a Becond,
or 124,000 times longer than the flash
lasts.
I PALE EYEBROWS
Tale eyebrows and lashes
make a face expressionless.
Thoy can be coaxed into a bet
ter growth by rubbing the cye
orows nightly with vaseline and '
applying to tho roots of bath
the eyebrows ar,d eyelashes a
tonic made by mixing live
grains of sulph-.tte of quinine,
with one ounca of sweet almond
oil. Apply this with a line sable
brush, which comes for the purpose
Grant Memorial
Arouse Criticism
Poultry Hints
The person who is "dead earnest" in
his poultry work, who never shirks
duty, who never omits the details, who
never becomes discouraged, is the one
who as a rule succeeds. That Is the
secret of successful poultry women.
When buying any kind of chick feed
always be sure that it is free from
mold or mustlness, for otherwise it
will cause digestive troubles followed
by severe losses in most cases.
If you do not have dry mash before
your hens at all times, try keeping
bran before them. Let them eat all
they want of it In connection with
other foods. It is rich in protein of
the vegetable kind and will give good
results.
A kerosene solution put in a con
tainer where the hens will have to
stop In It, will prevent scaly leg, or
will help to cure it if your chickens
are already afflicted.
Never set eggs laid by specimens
which are not strong and healthy, or
from pens headed by unhealthy males.
The- profit all comes from the stock
which is strong and vigorous, and
strong chicks do not come from weak
parents.
Fix nests in out-of-the-way places
for the turkey hens and they will fre
quently lay in them, where the eggs
can be taken care of, instead of steal
ing their nests In places difficult to
find.
Don't allow your chicks to sleep on
the floor, below the roosts. Teach
them to make use of the roosts. Crowd
ing in the corners on the floor may
start colds and other troubles, while
layers that sleep this way very soon
become anti-layers.
You can't buy $1 cockerels and in
prove your stock, as no breeder will
ship you quality at this price; but pay
$3, $5 or $10 for something good, and
you will be pleased with such pur
chases. The planet Venus !s so shrouded
with dense clouds that astronomers
are unable to study Its surface.
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SANDWICHES OF MANY KINDS
Some of Them In the Nature of De
parture From the Weil-Known
Fillings Generally Used.
Olive Sandwiches. Thin slices of
bread evenly buttered, cut hexagon
shape. Between each two slices place
a layer of neufchatel cheese mixed to
a paste with equal quantities of cream
and salad dressing and covered thickly
with chopped olives.
Fig Sandwiches. Thin slices of
bread cut in fancy shapes and but
tered, with fig filling between each
two. The fig filling should be prepared
follows: One-half pound finely
chopped figs, one-third cupful sugar,
one-half cupful of boiling water, add
two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Mix
these ingredients and cook in a double
boiler until thick enough to spread.
Chicken Salad Sandwiches. Be
tween two thin, oblong slices of bread,
buttered, place a layer of chicken sal
ad on a lettuce leaf. In making chick
en salad for sandwiches chop the
chicken and celery much finer than for
ordinary purposes.
Ham Sandwiches. Chop ham very
Sne and season with mustard, make
Into a paste with melted butter, spread
between two thin slices of bread, thin
ly buttered.
German Sandwiches. Mix equal
parts of cream cheese and chopped
walnut meats with French dressing.
Spread between thin slices of bread.
Russian Sandwiches. Stir grated
iheese into mayonnaise and spread be
tween thin crackers.
SOUR BEEF WITH DUMPLINGS
Recipe Which Will No Doubt Find
Favor With Anyone Who Is
Moved to Try It.
Put three to four pounds of beef
(the round is best) in a bowl and
pour over it sufficient vinegar to cover.
Set aside for 24 hours, turning and
basting frequently. Brown two large
onions, chopped fine, in two table
spoonfuls butter. Place meat in roast
ing pan, pour over it the brown onions
and the vinegar in which It was
soaked; add a few cloves, a blade of
mace and a bit of allspice. Bay leaves
and lemon peel may be added if de
sired. When browned and thoroughly
cooked the liquor should he strained
and thickened either with flour or
grated ginger snaps.
Potato Dumplings. Cream a
piece of butter the size of an egg, add
yolks of two eggs, half cupful stale
bread crumbs and a cupful of cold
boiled potatoes; put through the ricer;
season with salt and nutmeg, and, last
ly, add the beaten whites of the eggs.
Make into small dumplings and drop
into the boiling liquor in which meat
was cooked, and boll, closely covered,
for ten minutes.
Noodled Ham.
Make the noodles by beating one
egg with a saltspoon of Balftill very
light. Add as much flour as it will re
quire to make a stiff dough. Roll thin,
cut in narrow strips, shake them out,
then break or cut in pieces when dry,
Put two cupfuls of them in stewpan,
cover with boiling water and boil ten
minutes. Chop enough boiled ham to
make a large cupful. Butter an earth
en dish, drain noodles and alternate
layer of ham and noodles,' with ham
for the last layer; beat two eggs, add
one cupful of cream or rich milk and
pour over top. Cover with layer of
crumbs and dots of butter. Bake a
delicate brown and serve In dish In
which it was baked.
Apple and Honey Pudding.
Four cupfuls raw apple cut in small
pieces, two cupfuls bread crumbs, one
half cupful hot water, two teaspoonfuls
butter, two teaspoonfuls cinnamon and
one-half cupful honey. Put a layer of
the apple in a well-buttered pudding
dish; then a layer of crumbs. Mix the
honey and hot water. Pour part of this
over the crumbs, sprinkle with cinna
mon and dot with a few bits of butter.
Fill the dish with alternate layers ol
apples, crumbs, honey, etc., having a
layer of crumbs on top. Cover and
bake 45 minutes. Serve with cream.
Mother's Magazine.
Potato Caramel Cake.
Cream together two cupfuls granu
lated sugar, two-thirds cupful of butter
and yolks four eggs; add one cupful
hot mashed potato and one-half cupful
of milk, one teaspoonful each clove,
cinnamon and nutmeg, one cupful
grated chocolate, two teaspoonfuls
baking powder in two cupfuls flour,
and last stir in lightly the whites of
eggs and one cupful broken or chipped
English walnuts.
Hot Fricassee.
Cut into small pieces the remains
of a roast, either beef, lamb or veal,
put into a frying pan, dredge thickly
with flour. Season with salt and pep
per, cover with, cold water and cook
gently. Serve very hot with mashed
potatoes. At this time of the year
potatoes are much nicer mashed or
scalloped than boiled. They go
farther also.
Chill Salad.
Half a green sweet pepper shred
ded, one whole tomato skinned and
cut in thin slices, half a large cucum
ber peeled and sliced, French dressing
with a drop or two of onion Juice.
Arrange on a lettuce leaf and serve.
Spaghetti Salad.
Take spaghetti, boH in salted water
until tender, then drain after running
throagh cold water, and some chopped
celery and pimento. Make a dressing,
one t&blespoonful lemon Juice to three
of oil with a little salt.
HELPS THE HOUSEWIFE
"SCRUBBING CHARIOT" A DEVICB
WORTH COPYING.
Not Only Saves a Great Many Step
but the Work Can Be Done With
Much More Ease and Comfort
How to Make It.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
One of the many labor-saving de
vices made and demonstrated by th(
farm women under the direction of the
woman agents of the department oi
agriculture in the South, with the co
operation of the state agricultural col
leges, is the "scrubbing chariot." Thie
consists of a comfortable padded
frame on rollers which enables the
housewife, in wiping the floor, to do the
scrubbing with more ease and com'
fort and save a great many steps. It
may be built at a very small cost, the
material needed consisting of a -inch
plank, 20 by 10 Inches, 2-inch strips
for the sides, which should be 8ft
Inches long by 4 inches wide, and a
front piece of the same material 20
inches long and 4 inches wide. An
ordinary soap box can be used for this
by cutting down the size to about 6
Inches high and knocking out one side,
The padding for the bottom of the
chariot may be made of burlap. Tack
this around the inside of the chariot
and place the whole thing on four roll
ers. Place a soap dish on one side
and a little rack for the scrubbing
brush on the opposite side. This con
trivance, it is estimated, costs about
47 cents.
Linoleum Out of Carpet.
Clean the carpet thoroughly, then
turn it worn side down and tack. It
will be better to tack it right on the
kitchen floor if you could get along
without the kitchen for a few days,
Otherwise, tack on some floor that
will not have to be used every day.
Then put on a coat of any good floor
paint, let dry thoroughly, finish with
a coat of good linoleum varnish. This
will give you a floor covering that will
be very easy on your feet, and im
pervious to water so long as the paint
lasts. And the worn spots can be re
painted as needed. This will, oi
course, give a paint color. After the
paint and varnish have thoroughly
dried the carpet can be rolled very
carefully and loosely to move it to the
kitchen, but the best way is to paint
it right in the kitchen so that it will
not have to be moved, for the rolling
is liable to crack the paint and bo
make it less impervious to water.
Ohio Farmer.
Cornmeal Mush.
Four cupfuls of cornmeal, one table
spoonful salt, four quarts water. Put
the top of double boiler on with the
four quarts of boiling water; add corn
meal, slowly stirring all the time. Add
salt, and when thick boil two hours
in double boiler (this is prepared!
while getting dinner the night be
fore). Use what you need for break
fast. Then add one cupful of grated
strong American cheese; beat until
well mixed, pour into greased pan and
set aside for luncheon. Then cut in
half-inch slices and brown on hot
griddle.
Dainty Eggs and Bacon.
Butter a baking dish or platter, or
Individual ramekin dishes. Break each
egg into a cup and drop into baking
dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper,
bake in a moderate oven for five min
utes for soft-eooked, and ten minutes
for hard cooked.
Lay thin slices of bacon on a hiss
ing hot frying pan. When transpar
ent, turn. When dry and crisp, drain
and dry on brown paper. If you have
the time place thin slices on broiler
and cook over dripping pan in hot
oven. Dallas News.
Chocolate Caks.
One cupful sugar, one-halt cupful
butter creamed, add one egg unbeat
en, one cupful milk with teaspoonful
soda dissolved in it, one teaspoonful
vanilla. Put one-half cake chocolate,
one-half cupful milk, one half cup
ful of sugar on fire to melt. When
cool add to rest and two cupfuls
bread flour. Beat well and bake in
sheet tin. Frost with frosting made
with confectioner's sugar and hot wa
ter thick enough to spread.
Southern Sugar Sweets.
Peel sweet potatoes and slice in
three-quarter inch slices enough to fill
a medium-sized baking dish. Just cov
er with cold water. Pepper and salt
the top and sprinkle about one-quarter
cupful of sugar over the whole and
Just a dash ot nutmeg. Melt a good
teaspoonful of bacon fat, or two tea
spoonfuls ot butter, and pour over the
whole. Bake till soft and browned on
the top.