W A S H IN G T O N
G R O W IN G O LD «
Thr following beautiful poem by nn an*
£ now u writer is sent by S. 1*. A. o f Au
burn. X. V.. to i New York paper:
ftoftly, O aoftly. the yearn have swept by
the**.
Touching thee lightly with teodereat
can*.
Sorrow and death they have often brought
nigh the
Yet they have left the** but beauty to
w*ar.
4jrowing «»Id gracefully»
tiraeefully fair.
f a r from the storm* that ure lanhiug the
ocean.
Nearer each day to the pleasaut home
light;
Far from the waves that are big with
commotion,
Under full sail and the harbor in sight.
Growing old gracefully,
Cheerful and bright.
f*nst all the winds that were adverse and
chilling.
Past all the islands that lured thee to
rest.
I*nst all the currents that lured thee un
willing
/ar from any course to the land of the
blest.
« rowing old gracefully,
Peaceful and blest.
Never a feeling o f envy or sorrow
When the bright faces of children are
se**u;
Never a »ear from the young wouldst thou
borion —
Thou dost remember what lieth be*
tween;
tirowing old willingly,
'i liankfill, serene.
Rich m ex]x*i‘ieii(*e that angels m.ght
covet.
Kich in a faith that hath growu with
the years.
Rich in a love that grew from and above
it.
¿toothing thy sorrows and hushing thy
fea rs.
Growing old wealthily,
f>*ving and dear.
Hearts at tin* sound of thy coining are
lightened.
Rend* and willing ihy ha ml to relieve*
Bfany h face at thy kind word has bright
cm d.
-lt is ¿nore blessed to give than re
ceive.**
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Growing old happily,
t'easing to grieve.
Ryes that grow dim to earth and its glorv
Have a sweet reeon<|MMise youth eamiot
know;
Ears thin grow dill! to the world and its
atoiy.
liriiiK
the s4»ngs that from Paradise
flow
Growing old graciously,
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Purer than snow.
TWO BAGS AM)
__ A BLUNDER.
“ Ye*. *lr: No. ZH.75- Brown lint-box!
T h ere you nre. sir! 1 tfiluk you'll find
that all tigh t!"
Hani.Merry litnl gixxl ground* for lay
in g iinpliiiHli on the Hecond word in the
last sentence. a* Col. Sowcrby took the
hat-box from hi* Ini ml* with u *nrly
«ru n t mid waddled off down the plat
form .
Ham Imd made so muuy mistake* o f
late that III* mate* in the l.eft Lu g
gage office had dtlldied him "Blunder
ing Hum.”
H ow ever. Hum wu* o f a
hopeful <1 I k |> 0*11loll, and It would take
a very long run o f 111 lin k to *huke hi*
faith In the future.
H e Imd a wonderful way in getting
Into hot «a le r . lint a far more «u n d e r
fill one o f blundering out again.
“ You do « e l l to *|M‘iik caiitlonaly.
Ham." lem arked one o f Id* fellow -
elerk*. “ Are you sure you didn't give
the old buffer n niuuglc or a feather
bed f ’
“ iam ^li away, you fello w *," retorted
Ham -herfully. " I MiniII hluuder Into
a fortune one o f these day*."
“ O f course, you know," remarked an
other. “ there'* every exeuwe for Sam!
W hen a fellow '* head over ear* In love,
be cau't In- e.x|x*'tixl to*— ”
The *|*'ukcr suddenly dropped the
tmlijeet a* the purple face o f old Col.
Howerhy appeared at the window
“ Here, you!" lie roared Htninplng hi*
fool the itouty om-, a* luek would have
It—and glarlug at Id* nudlenee with a
liidlerous attempt at dignity. “ Where
I* the confounded Jncka** who dareil
to play till* trick on me? You, you
Idiot!” he continued. singling out the
unlucky Ham; “ what do yon mean by It.
■Ir? What I* you mime?"
"W hat I* the matter'.'" faltered Ham.
“ Isn’t that your property?"
“ My property. *ir!" roared the Indtg-
mint old warrior, diving 111* hand Into
the hmt-liox. and pmduelug therefrom a
w ig o f the moat tlery hue |*i**lhly the
l>ro|ierty o f a traveling comedian. “ My
priqx-rty. sir? In*** it look like It?"
And a* the Infuriated colonel removed
bl* hat to wl|ie hi* perspiring forehead.
Ham wa* obliged to admit that It did
not look like It. No w ig In the world
would have stood against the aggress-
Ive bristle'* on the head o f the Anglo-
Indian.
In a few minute* Ham hml dlseoverod
the colonel's hat-box. and hauded It
o ver with an a|x>lugy.
“ Don't a|M>loglie to me. ■Ir.’” stormed
the colonel as he stumped aw ay. " I 'll
report jo lt, sir! By the Great Mogul,
I 'll report you !"
I.Ike a dutiful lover. Hutu mentioned
this little affair to his sweetheart In the
eveulug
Hally took a very gloomy
trlew o f the situation.
“ It's another blunder, o f course. Sal
ly ," ad'nit ted Ham: ‘‘but It’s useless
meeting trouble half w ay.“
“ A re you sure these mistakes are all
the result o f accldenta?” asked Sally.
“ Wouldn't It be poaslble fo r somebody
to change the checks on the article«
w ithout your knowledge?"
" o f .-ounce It would." responded Sam;
“ but I don’t belleTe there's a fellow In
the office would serve me such a trick.
No. Hally. I'm la for a run o f bad luck,
that's ail.”
“ T h e colonel Is sure to report you.
and whatever w ill you uo if you lose
your place?”
Sam was exceedingly thoughtful fo ra
minute.
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"W h y .'' he wiid nt length, “ there's
lots o f thlug* I'v e never tried yet. I
could turn milkman, messenger, porter,
private detective—by Jove; that's just
the thing! Listen to this:"
Takin g a copy o f an evening paper
from hi* jax-ket. Sam read aloud:
■•$500 Reward.—The al*>ve reward
w ill lie paid to any |ier*ou—not being
the actual th ief—givin g such Inform a
tion a* rliall lead to the recovery o f
Lady Manburgh’s Jewel*, stolen from
her rooms at the Mount H otel on the
niglit o f Friday last.—C hief Inspector
Takein. Police Station. Midhampton.
"T h ere you are.” went on Sam. "S im
ple enough l*n’t It? (¡1**1 pay. too!”
" I f you get it.” laughed Sally. "Y ou
would < ut a tine tigure as a detective.
Just fancy yourself with false whis
kers and a w ig !"
" I wish you wouldn't mention w ig*,“
said Sam grim ly; “ I'm lieglnuing to
hate the sight o f 'em. The colonel'* a f
fair was bad enough, but goodness
knows what the other w ill lie!”
"W h .lt? Another blunder?” gasped
Sally.
"Y e s ! Another one, anil a w ig in It.
too! I didn't mean troubling you aliout
It, but the murder's out now. There
was a suddeu rush o f business this a f
ternoon. and I happened to be the only
one at the window.
"E veryb od y appeared to be In a hur
ry. and to save time I pushed the
things, with the cheeks on top, to one
side till the rush was over, lu taking
in the last puekage I knocked over a
couple o f brown leather bag*, checks
as well, o f course.
“ Now those coufouuded bags are a*
much alike as tw o peas, and the ipies-
tion Is. Which Is which? The one was
handed in by a dapper little fe llo w —
gentleman, every inch o f him. I should
say; the other was a very suapiclous-
lookiug customer, who wore a straw-
colored wig.
" I wouldn't trust that fellow any fa r
ther thau 1 could throw' him. and. a*
likely as not. lie'll get hold o f the other
chap's bag, as there’s nothing for it hut
first come, first served. Now, what is
a fellow to do?"
Sallj' didn't know.
Ham w a* standing at tlm w indow o f
the L e ft Luggage Office on the follow
ing morning when a gentleman in a
light overcoat hurried past.
•'Hullo!” he muttered, "that's my dap
per little gent o f yesterday. HiM-su't
appear to lie coming for his hag. By
Jove! I'v e an idea, and I'll work it if
I get the sack. HI! M ister!"
The gentleman turned, and slowly
retraced hi* step*. Sam on the spur
of the moment, had decided on a desjier-
ate ex|*sllent. Seizing one o f
the
hiowu leather bag* ut hi* Hide, he hur
riedly whispered:
“ Quick, mister! Open It and satisfy
yourself."
The gentleman merely stared, and
made no effort to take thi* bag.
“ For goodness sake, don't hesitate,
sir,” Implored Sam. " I couldn't trust
the other fellow for the world. I f you
don't take just one peep, sir. you may
never have another chance. Lean over
the window so tliut nobody w ill see
you!"
"But. my dear fello w ." ga*|>ed the
other, “ d o yo u know---- “
“ 1 know It’s not business." Interrupt
ed Ham: "but I ’ m desperate, and it's
the only way. Everything depends on
you.”
“ W ell." laughed the gentleman. " I'll
try. If yon w ill stand all risks---- ”
" I 'll stand hanging," said Ham fierce
ly, "only o | h > ii It."
Thus urged, the stranger produced a
bimcli o f keys; and at the third at
tempt the bag was opened. The result
was hardly what Sam had anticipated.
The gentleman stared into the open
bag as If lie could scarcely believe his
eyes.
I’licn lie closed it with the re
mark:
"Y o u ’ve done a gixxl day's work,
young iiian!"
And before Sain could get In a word,
man and bug bail vanished. Sain
skipped round the counter with the
agility o f a monkey, but the platform
w as deserted.
‘•(¡i**l gracious!* he gasped.
"T h e
fellow 's hooked It! It ain't his bag. I'll
!>ct my life. W hat on earth dhl I trust
him for? Hone a good day's work,
have I? 1 shall lie lucky If I don't do
six months for this Job."
For the next fe w minutes Sam, sit
ting In the L e ft Luggage Office, gave
him self to despair. A horrible certain
ty had suddenly dawned U|*m him.
The man who had carried off the l>ag
waa not the "dapper little gen t" o f the
day lx-fore!
“T h eir voice* ain't a bit alike." groan
ed the unlucky Ham. "and like a fool. I
never noticed it till too late. It strikes
me I'nt the biggest ass unburied.”
"W h at's the matter. Ham?" asked a
clerk who entered at that moment.
“ W hat's alw ays the matter?” de
manded Sant fiercely. "I'm in hot w a
ter again, that's a ll!"
"O h ! Then you 've heard?"
"H eard what?"
“ The station master wants to see you
In his office. He's got a v is ito r-F o l.
Howerhy. I expect! Ho|>e you'll come
through, all right!”
“ Don't care whether I do or not," re
marked Ham recklessly, as he turned
towards the station master's office.
"W h a t's the colonel’s affair now? A
mere fleablte compared to this!"
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T h e station master's visitor was not
Col. Howerby. a fte r all. T o the un
bounded astoulshment o f Ham Merry.
It was the mysterious stranger who
had walked off with the hag.
“T h is la the man," remarked that In-
tUvIdual as Ham entered the private
office o f his superior. " I f you don’t
mind. Mr —er— Merry. I want to ask
you a question or tw o .* *
C O U N T Y
Ham offered no objection; the cool im
pudence o f this liag-snatcher had takes
his breath away.
"B y some means or another." went
on the stranger, "you have discovered
who 1 am.”
Ham. o f course, had discovered noth
ing o f the kind. By a strange stroke of
luck, however, he did not feel called
upou to speak.
"N o w ,” weut on Sam's questioner,
“ when was this bag left in j'our
charge?”
•*Tlin‘e-fort.v-flve yesterday
a fter
noon."
“ Can you descrilie the man who left
itr
Ham hesitated. H e liad good reasons
to doubt bis ability to no so. Matters
w ere ge»tlng c o m p l i c a t e d , and for the
moment he hardly knew whether he
stood on his head or on his heels. F or
tunately, the station master came to his
rescue.
“ Don't Is* afraid. M erry," he said en
couragingly. "Y ou have full permis
sion to speak lu a case like this. De
tective I-enhaui will lietray no business
secrets.”
D etective Denham! Ham had heard
his name mentioned more than once In
connection with the Manburg Jewel
robbery. W here on earth was this
blunder going to end. he wondered.
"1 don't know' whether I can describe
the man exactly-.” Ham remarked at
length, "but 1 think I should know him
again if I saw him. He w a* a tall, thin
fellow , clean shaved, and wore a straw-
colored w ig !"
" A w ig !” ejaculated Detective Den-
ha m.
"T h a t's so,” replied Sam. “ though not
one in tw enty would have noticed It.”
Just as lie liiinded In his hag an old
farm er lurched heavily against him and
knocked his hut off. As lie stooped to
pick up his hat. 1 caught a glim pse of
the dark liulr under the edge o f his
w ig.”
“ Hum !” mused the detective. "Dark
hair—that's all right.
You say you
would ku o«' the limit again o f you saw
him?”
“ Yes.”
“ Very w ell! W e ’ll take a cab to th*
police station. I f you find the fellow
there, all the better. Anyhow, you’re
entitled to the reward. The Jewels. In
all probability, would never have Iteen
discovered but for your clever, though
somewhat risky expedient.”
As one in a dream, Sam Merry heard
and accepted the hearty congratula
tions o f the detective and station mas
ter.
"H anged if I can understand it!" lie
muttered to himself on the way to the
police station. "Lu ck appears to lie
rolling on me Just ut present. I'v e done
something clever—that's certain: but
what. l«ow, when, where, and why, e v
erybody seems to know blit me. I'd
better say nothing."
At the |K>lice station Sam had no d if
ficulty in picking out Ills man from a
dozen others, to the delight o f Detect
ive Denham and the chagrin o f the
prisoner:
"D on't give way. Peters.” sniil the
detective to the prisoner. “ You II have
company as h <*> ii as your mate turns
up at the L e ft Luggage Office with the
check for that brown bag."
Little by little Ham came to realize
the clever tiling he had done.
At the office he « a s “ Blundering
Sam” uo longer. At one stroke he had
secured a small fortune—for the hun
dred pounds rew ard was duly pant over
— ami a much needed reputation for
smartness.
Only Sam and Sally, his wife, know
the true facts. Saturday Evening Post.
(¡« mm I L i a r s .
Tit.- men w ho utilize the corner
grocery for a club room lu tin evening
and on stormy days had Just lx>en dis
cussing a fox hunt, about which one
o f their number Imd read aloud, « lien
the conversathu naturally took a rem
iniscent turn.
“ Nothing cuter pr more cunning In
the world than a fox ” said (¡oggs. by
w ay o f introduction. " I remember one
night when I w as a bey that we heard
a great fuss among the dogs that w ere
chained up. It took ns about half an
hour to get dressed and armed to sally
forth fo r the purjHise o f investigating.
Not dlscox ering anything, w e loosened
tile dogs, and they darted off on a
trail, yelping as they went. W e didn’t
k u o «’ whetlier !t was man or varmint,
but r fte r i long run the dogs brought
up at the lieu .'louse and tried to tear
It down. W ell sir. an old fox had
dellb; Rite'.v showtsl himself to the
dogs, so as to excite them, made that
run while we w ere gettiug ready for
trouble atsl. clrellng round, was rols
bing the roost while the dogr were off
the premises.”
" I walked up one moonlight niglit,"
volunteered the man on the wood l*>x.
“ ami seen a fox tindi r an apple tree
where a fat pullet was roosting. I
knew the thief couldn’t climb so | just
stood at the window laughing. The
fox barked to w gke the chicken, and
then began circling around the tree,
slow at first, but g"ln g faster ami
faat-t. O f course the terrified pullet
follow ed hint with her eyes ami got
so dizzy that she fell out o f the tree."
"1 *<*' somethin’ like that once." said
the lank Individual on n paint keg.
"only that the chicken I was watehln-
wrung It* ow n neck, ’cause the fox
was golu' so dtirued fast."
Th-wi. by c o n anon consent, the crowd
took up the subject ot fluids — Detroit !
Free Press.
Th ree
A Sm all P ain tin g.
Perhaps the smallest piei-e o f palut
lug In the world la that executed by a
Flem »«h artist.
It la paJuted on the
smooth able o f a grain o f common
white corn, and pictures a mill and a
miller with a sack o f grain on hla back.
The miller la represented aa standing
on a t»*rraoe. ami nenr It la a home ami
egrt. while a group o f several peasant*
It shown kn the road near by.
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H A T C H E T .
TH E M A K IN G
T ra in in g
OF
A P LA Y E R .
a Lad fo r the H tage
H a ve o f Hhakapeare.
in t h e
John Bennett’s serial story, "Master
Skylark." ronniug in
Nicholas, has
nmnv p v t tires o f life ami scenes in
Him k-qx tine's time. The following ac
count o f the training ol the hero for the
stage l*y the niasterplayer is from the
June n limiter'
He had Nick learn no end o f stage
parts off by heart, with their cues and
•'business." entrance* and exits; ami
worked fully as hard a* his pupil, read
ing over every sentence t went y time*
until N e k had the accent perfectly.
He wouid have him stamp, too. and
turn about, and gesture in accordance
with the sjieech, until the boy * anus
ached, going with him through the
motion* one by one. over ami oxer
again, unsatisfied, but patient to the
last, until Nick wondered. "Nick, my
lad." lie would often say. with a tired
but ietemtlned smile, "one little thiug
done wrong may sjxdl the finest play,
as one bad apple rots the barrelful.
W e'll have it nght. or not at all. If
it take* a month o' Sundays."
So often he kept Nick liefotv a
mirror for nn hour at a time, making
fact's while he spoke his line*, smiling,
frowning, oy grimacing, a* lx*st seemed
to tit tile pan. until the boy grew
fairly w eary o f his own looks. Then
sometimes, more often as the time
slipped by. F a re «' wouid clap his hands
with a boyish laugh, and have a pie
brought and a cup of Spanish cordial
for fie m bofli. declaring that he loved
the lad with all his heart, upou the
remnant o f Ills honor: from which
Nick knew that lie was coming on.
Cicely Carew's governess was a
Mist "ess Agnes Anstey. By bLrth she
had lieeii a Harcourt, of Ankerwyke.
and therefore she was everywhere es
teemed fit by birth and breeding to
teach the young mind when to bow
and when to liecktui. She came each
morning to the house, and C are«' paid
her double shillings to see to It that
Nick lea rued such little tricks o f cap
and cloak as a lady's page need have,
the carriage best fitted for his place,
and how to come into a room where
great folk* were. Moreover, how to
back out again, low in g, and not fall
over the stools—which wus no little art.
until Nick caught the knack o f issuing
slyly tie tween Ills legs when he bowed.
Ills hair. too. was allowed to grow
long, and «'a s comtied carefully every
day by the tiring-woman: ami s<*>n. as
it was naturally curly, it fell in rolling
waves about his neck.
On the heels o f the governess came
M'sien’ De Fleury, who. it was said,
had been dancing-master to Hatton, the
late Lord Chancellor of England, and
had taught him those tricks with Ilia
nimbi«' heels which had capensl him
Into the Queen's good graces, and so
got him the chancellorship. M'sleu’
spoke dreadful English, but danced
like the essence of agility, and taught
Isitli Nick and Cicely the latest Italian
cornnto, playing the tune upon his
queer little fiddle.
Cicely already danced like a pixie,
and laughed merrily at her comrade's
first awkward antics, until he flushed
with embarrassment. A t tlutt she in
stantly became grave, and.
when
M'sien’ had gone, came across the
room, and putting her ana aUiut Nick,
said ri‘|ieutantly. "don't thuu uilml me.
Nick. Father sait.li the French all laugh
too siHiu at nothing: and I have caught
it front my mother's blood. A boy Is
not good friends with his feet as a
girl Is; but thou wilt do beautifully. I
know: ami M ’sleu’ shall teach us tin»
gaillard together.”
Burial Places.
The ancients looked on Death as "tire
daughter o f Niglit. the sister ot Sleep
and the friend o f the unhappy." Tlielr
artists pictured flu* grim messenger
who knocks with equal foot ut the cots
o f tin* ;xx>r and the palaces o f the rich,
as a drowsy, isippy-cpowued youth, not
as a fleshlem monster, such as horri
fies us moderns. The Greeks called
their burying ground Cometriou. "the
aleeplng place,” from which come* our
word cemetery. The old Jews, who
had no horror o f the grave, called it
Bethalm. "the house o f the living."
The Germans, with poetical simplicity,
;-all the graveyard “ God’s Acre," or
"field.” T h e Arapahoe Indians call the
grave "T h e Spirit's birthplace.” In
Morocco they never say a man is dead,
but that “ his destiny has closed." ami
the grave is "w here he ponders.” The
burial grounds o f to-day are the most
I H*n tit if til parks near the cities o f civ
ilized lands, but there are those who
believe that burying must soon give
place to cremation; indeed, societies are
formed for that ptintoae. and we are
told that cinerary urns will take the
place o f tombstones.
But the fash
ions o f burial s«'eni to l*e as unclmnge*
able as death himself.
C ig a r e t t e s .
It Is not true that cigarettes are com
monly charged with opium ami other
Injurious drug*. But they are flavor
ed with essences o f various plants,
such ns vanilla, stramonium, coffee,
valerian, ami tea.
Occasionally
a
few t**a leaves are mixed with the to-
1x1000. These flavors are matters of
fancy, and women particularly select
their cigarettes with reference to them.
Scarcely a plant that w ill yield nn
agree*ble flavoring escapes employ
ment by the manufacturers o f tobac
co. Am ong those m «*t used are the
lemon, the orange, geraultiyu. sasaa
fra*, thyme, anise, mint, and cinna
mon. Honey and maple-augar are util
ize«! fo r sweetening. A decoction o f
hay I* sometimes applied to smoking
tobacco.
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W in d o w P o lis h in g P a s te .
Caatile soap, tw o ounce«;
boiling
water, three ounce«.
Dtaanlve and
add the follow in g in line powder: Pre
cipitated chalk, four ounces; French
chalk, three ounces: tripoll, tw o ounce«.
Mix sud reduce with water to tbs
conalatency desired.
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W H A T A W O M A N C A N DO.
I maneuvering. T h e dnughter
quite competent to look out for
self, the mother Is more disiate__
and frequently weeps real tears it I
daughter's marriage, even though|
the best match o f the season.
ut* B U R D E T T E , who was once
upon a time noted as a humor
ist. has taken to saying and
«•ritiug good common sense. " A wom
an cannot sharpen a pencil, lie says,
"and outside o f commercial circles she
cannot tie a package to make it look
like anything save a crooked cross sec
tion o f chaos: but. land of miracles;
see what she can do with a pin!
I be
lieve there are some women who can
pin a glas> knob to a door She cannot
walk so many miles around a billiard
table witti nothing to eat and nothing
• to apeak oft to drink, but she can walk
the floor ail night with a fretfu l baby
without going sound asleep the tirst
half hour.
"She can ride .'*«» miles without go
ing into the smoking car to rest tauil
get away from the children). Hlie can
go to town and do a wearisome day's
shopping and have a good time with
three or four friends without drinking
a keg o f beer. She can enjoy an even
ing visit without smoking a half dozen
cigars. She can endure the torturing
distraction o f a houseful o f children
all day. * lie her husband cuffs them
all ho « lin g to lied before he has been
home an hour.
"E very (lay she endures a dress that
would make an athlete swoon. She
w ill not. and possibly cannot, walk 500
miles around a tanbark track In six
days for $5,000, but she can walk Zto
miles in ten hours up and down the
crowded aisles o f a dry goods store
« lien there is a reduction sale on. She ,
is afraid o f a mouse and runs front a
cow, but a book agent can’t scare her.
She is the salt o f the church, the pep- j
per o f the choir, and the life o f the sew- :
ing society, and aliout all there is of a j
young ladies' school or a nunnery.”
B
Ito *«* l ' » w t h o r » o
I.u ltim o ,
Nat haul a H aw thorne left three (
dren. Una. Jullap and Korn*,
who married George Parson« Uth„
recently surprised all her friends I
devoting herself to victims of is«
t long.
pl«ms.
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HOSE I I A W T H O R X K
I. AT IIROP .
, better
y with ■
Sience in
fere or tw
in the New York slums, lu tills'
Iff. provl
o f mercy, which she t<x>k up to
dose of
relief from the loss o f an only c
ider sheltt
she has shown tile courage and singl
minded fidelity to
her convict
which one would expect from a da |A ipm.viii
■aper that
ter o f Hawthorne.
lfollows: ’
S i g h t l e s s XV o m a n Fa rm er.
[ht potmih
There lives in Oak Hill, Ten». I dc , the tots
blind girl who lias from a few acres4 t Mug
C h i c a 'r o W o m a n L a w v e r .
land, cultivated by herself, dean rel as a
Miss Cora B. Hertzel is a member of about SOW each season for acv«
mtioned t
the Chicago Corporation Counsel’s reg years by the grow ing and sale of vq
raying in
ularly appointed staff of assistants. | tallies. Hlie began with no capital i
tic by boil
Sin* is the only «o m a n who has seettr- 1 an unfenced piece o f uncultivated I
l 1'"' gnllot
ed such recognition front a city. She ; There is now a neat fence altotu I
nodal, w
has her office in the city hall, hns her domain, a well and a pump iu theca
nys read
legal ditties to attend to, eonsttlts with i ter. and she has. in addition to pimb
pot for
Counsel Thornton and. wlmt is more
lug these, paid fo r a piano and a I
irsenlc l
to take her vegetables to the marl
use sink
which is twenty miles from fieri
forty gi
Every evening during the dry
ira pint o
she waters a certain number of |
irntlon
until she has gone over the cart ints. It im
piece, when she Ix-gins and goes otrj rich can oj
It again iu the same way. Insect I
Is not i
she detects from her acute seme { ■n. hut t
1
heating, and grass and weeds an i
fully as
il.v distinguished from plants by
sensitive lingers o f tin* blind g,inlets
For Ch
chicken
R ic h R io t o t Re-1.
i most exn
At a recent wedding, hangings of r
such wi
gauze, veiling mirrors, anil at
and windows, draped over ma
is ml. in fact, w herever opixirtunlty I
seined, were accessories that were i
a* theatrical as it sound* to tcH
them. The flowers were splendid l
tulip* and magnificent Jack roses.
as the drawing-rooms and hiilfiftol
MISS CORA B. U E R T Z K L .
gin with were done in pale empire(
draw* a mans salary. Other women
or*, this riot o f red really gave aid
have spent time talking about the ad
|IUXD FOB
rich and imposing effect.
vancement o f the sex—Miss Hertzel
"m an oh
studied law and worked for it. She
B o le r o a n d Cane,
W was th«
was admitted to the bar In Wisconsin
This elegant combination of
i forwart
and Illinois and practiced independent and ea|xi is tlie invention of
J were ft
ly ,n Chicago, conducting many cases modistes to have the tiling gatfi'
and preparing numerous legal docu and Ix'riitHcd sleeves o f the sea* f pinchers r
• the snmiti
ments for other lawyers. H er recent 1 he Ixdero is confined at the w
This b
appointment was secured because she this model by a wide-draped
from se
was capable o f tilling the position, ac
I01 it does |
cording to Counsel Thornton, and not
unless t
because o f a "political pull."
f"*. aud th
T h e M a tch m a k in g M am m a.
P chances :
Judging by modern fiction, the moth
1 tiolent ot
er, as such, does not exist in English
pme t other t
society, say Mttnsey’s Magazine. The
»ns and I
female parent is not extinct, but her
Uter parti a
attitude to her daughter seems to I*»
■other spec
that o f business manager or advance
1 thief, m
agent rather than guardian angel The
t leaders
ambition which in the American moth-
1 docile as
er might lie labeled "M y daughter's
I be.—C
happiness," become*, in the practical
code o f the British matron. “ My datigli.
ters establishment.” One seldom picks
tip a novel o f English society that one
does not meet the scheming, lynx-eyed
flotfi
mamma, working diligently ' at
the
matrimonial grab-bag with one hand
while with the other she push«** fo r
ward her gentle little ladylike daugh
Dll,
ter. who Is aome day to lx* metamor
phosed Into n British mamma herself
She shoo* off the dotrlmental and gath
er* in the heir with unnlxished frank
----,,ul
, ;IU
^ be cut s short
h * *ri h and
b « left
band, hut
can
r
x
.
...
ness, asking Intentions aud bustling I M
preferred. The material is - sati »1
around very morh like a steam tug , t moire
o w , also the exquisite
■ "wire M
oeiow,
exqtns»«. t
a launching. And when a parti «iflta
Pa rant canvas goods showing
ble In the matter o f land* „m l familv •'right silk lining. The sleeves srr
v
has finally lx*en secured, she heave* a '■'I frill* over a plain silk fou~
•,lath*
sigh of relief awl prepare* to do fier
duty by th«' next
1 o K eep the v k lrt l » e « »
L*t Is by (
The wheel women find It nee***1
This picture Is not merely the carte
tha
resort
i,.
various
device*
to
beep
]
attira of a few cynicnl novelists. Near
• deeid
y all Action that deals with « w i « i |lfe *k i t down in froiM. Four dress '
-• wc.1 ncroas the hem In front !»l
In kiiitlan«! ¿how* th* MnM> flKUPf> T
sure, all the worldly and ambition, a strap on either side with s
bole to button to the top buttost
w a ra T t f ! T
' h" ' »W - o ' the
water. M e have plenty o f our own leggin I* another way. ami
other, when high boots sre wor*>
but «sxfiet, g ive, t h e « only .
have a loop o f narrow rubber f"
SL
7 * nl! ,h* M ,loni" dread of
tbs ridiculous keep, them fr o * ope0 principle o f a garter fastened «
side and slip it under each ks*$
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