Home Quarrels.
The home should' never be the scene
of a quarrel. A man cannot afford to
quarrel with his wife; It. Is undignified.
A woman cannot afford to quarrel with
lier husband ; It Is unladylike. Parents
cannot afford to quarrel in the presence
of their children; It gives them wrong
views of life, and weakens their respect
for home. Every quarrel leaves an ug
ly scar, no matter how well it may be
patched up. Small differences must oc
cur la every household, but they can
liardly be called quarrels. To quarrel
with the person who stands nearest
nd dearest to you Is to put a strain on
love that In the long run snaps it
There Is no sadder sight than to see
two people who have grown so used to
bickering that they do It almost me
'chanieally. When a man and woman
make up their minds to tread life's
path together they should make up
tbelr minds to make It as sunny a path
as possible, and to avoid all the stum
bling blocks to happiness that they pos
sibly can. Marriage is the best thing
In the world, but It cannot be Improved
by quarrels. A quarrel brings out the
ugliest, meanest side of a person's na
ture, and surely no one can find virtue
tu anything that does that
Embroidered and'v lace-trimmed .lin
gerie blouses will be worn, but It Is no
longer necessary to have always the
most expensive sort of waist. .. For the
morning, for Instance, with a 'plain
skirt, a decidedly, severe model waist
lifts Just recently come Into vogue. This
ummer, for tennis and golf, when it Is
played, the regulation tailor-made bod
Ice will be smart once more, for the
stiff cuffs arid collar on waists of rath
cr heavy material are so Infinitely
more sensible than the blouses that
,have been fashionable during the last
few seasons, that Its return to favor
was Inevitable.
The bottom of a silk Bklrt will be
improved by Interlining the hem with
flannel rather than lining. .Crinoline
should never be used, as it would cut
through too quickly. Heavier skirts
that are to be finished with many rows
of stitching should have flannel basted
on the wrong side, as deep as the stitch
ing will be, then skirt and Interlining
nre stitched In rows, having an easy
tension on the machine; the hem Is
then turned up and lightly hemmed
down, or If very heavy, sew a bias
ntrip of lining to the raw edge of the
hem and sew the other edge of the
lining down to the skirt.
f Wisdom's Wine Whispers.
Women abuse men merely to appear
original and Independent
. A man Is at his best when he has a
purpose In being agreeable.
Men dearly love to be referred to as
an authority on odd questions.
The man most austere In business Is
rusually most genial In private life.
A man talks about dress as though
he felt ashamed of the conversation.
Meu want to be regarded as capable
Mf pointing out the errors of others.
i Few women have the capacity for
tarrying dates and events In the mind.
Women like to talk of the days when
they had beaux galore reven If they
never had them.
Every woman wants the world to
give to her the consideration she thinks
belongs to her sex.
When a woman reaches a command
ing position she regards marrhige as
the next best thing.
Bedroom Drapery.
For country house bedrooms that are
furnished In colonial style no fabric
approaches more closely the old-time
dimity, of which our foremothers made
their bedspreads, than the fleece-lined
or other heavy striped or barred piques
found on the modern counter. These
materials are used by decorators who
are given carte blanche In carrying out
their schemes for bedspreads, bureau
and stand covers, etc. The edges of
All the pieces are scalloped and button-holed
or are finished with, a nar
row white cotton fringe.
'Bondi" (or Matrimony.
How manners and customs change In
a generation I In talking with Con-
gressman Green the other day, he re
tailed the fact that his mother aud
father were married In Massachusetts
and his father was required to give a
bond of f 125 before the ceremony could
be performed. If tuts requirement
were enforced at the present time, and
every young man who desired to enter
the blessed state of matrimony had
to prove that he was possessed of $125
spare cash. It Is to be feared that
many of our young people would have
little left to purchase a housekeeping
equipment, says the National Maga
zlna In those old days, they regard
ed marriage as something more than a
pastime, and entered upon It as a real
and serious responsibility.
There Is much variety In the shape
and style of coats for spring.
Madeira work, which Is much like
the broderie anglalse of last summer,
Is coming m on the newwalsts.
For school wear serviceable brown
or blue linens trimmed with stitching
and a Mack or red tie are very smart
Tight-fitting coats, buttoned simply
down the front some rather long, oth
ers short, will be worn with severe tai
lored costumes. '
For best frocks for the little girls a
fine white material daintily trimmed
with good embroidery of valenclennes
lace Is the very prettiest of all.
Silkier and more attractive than
ever are the new cottons, though "cot
ton" Is no longer evidence of their
cheapness, for these will make very
dressy gowns.
Unl itie will be the woman arrayed
In the latest Importation In English
suitings, which Is a huge check, three
Inches square, alternating white with
some pale color like lavender or brown.
Children's frocks are made of the
prettiest stripes and plaids imaginable,
linens In rainbow-striped coloring and
the most brilliantly tinted small plaids
being used, with white embroidery
trimmings. , .
References to Age. '
It has come to be a piece of rude
ness to question one on age ; it Is tact
ful to Ignore the delicate subject alto
gether, and accept what Is offered by
word of mouth or appearance. Women
as well as men are as old as they look
and seem these days, these days, and
If we can manage to dress In a fash
Ion that has' no hint of age about It,
we can pass muster among the keenest-
eyed.
The Stoat and Slender.
Nothing Is prettier and more becom
ing to a fair, slight woman, with a pret
ty complexion than white; but white
gowns must be carefully avoided by her
sister of too ample charms. Black Is
the color for the stout woman, especlal-
DAINTY BOLEROS
ly If she be of the black-eyed and blaek-
halred type. A black gown win inane
her look slighter than anything else,
while pale blue, Jtght gray and nearly
every shade of red will make her, "too,
too solid flesh" most undesirnDiy seu
assertlve. A subdued shade of blue, he
liotrope and olive green, with biacK,
may all be advantageously worn by me
stout woman. , ' ' - ' .
More Woe for Mam.
An excited man writing In London
Truth, announces with an exclamation
point that "it appears that the halo-like
arrangement which 'decorates the wom
en of the time la formed by wrapping
the hair around a frame! How much
more of their general appearance is cre
ated by frame contrivances?" he asks.
The editor tries to reassure him by
saying that while man is necessarily
Iguorant of the secrets of the modern
woman's surface composition, this cir
cumstance need not throw him into a
panic. Since beauty Is but skin deep it
may be hinted that It really makes lit
tle difference whether that little be of
wire, wool, buckram or "rats." ,
Too Particular.
The overparticular housekeepers
should not be too severe In keeping
the house In order. Let . It be kept
clean and orderly, so that no one will came oacn to your place here."
suffer discomfort for lack of these Stephen Phelps read and reread this
things; but it has been observed that ! paragraph In his college chum's latest
"a home Is not rightly governed and letter. There had been many such let
quite falls In its true mission when ' ters from his friends and his family
conducted in a spirit of combat even during the four years he had spent In
against dirt. Cleanliness does not stand Georgia, and of late they had become
next to godliness when gained at a
constant expense of nerves and tem
per, at the cost of every other com
fort" Keeping: Dresses Fresh.
One of the' nicest ways of keeping
dresses especially evening ones fresh
is to sew throughout the lining tiny
perfumed silk sachets. Any odd bit of
silk does for this purpose. Make the sa
chet about one Inch square. Put In a
layer of soft white wadding. Into which
has been sprinkled some sachet pow
der. Sew up and tack firmly to vari
ous places In skirt and bodice. This
gives the delicate elusive fragrance to
your frock which Is rather hard to' at
tain when liquid perfume is used. It
also has additional benefit of keeping
away destructive moths when the gar
ment Is laid aside for a time.
Green Silk with Black Velvet.
' Have u Pattern Il-K.
The woman' who is furnishing a
sewing-room will find the pattern hag
a necessary article. A simple but com
modious one Is made of a square yard
of green denim, on which are two rows
of pockets of the same material and
deep enough to conceal the patterns
AND BERTHAS.
entirely. All edges and the tops of
pockets are bound with red tape and
brass rings are stitched on at the cor
ners by which to hang it on the door
or wall. Each pocket has the name
of Its contents worked on It In red
embraidery cotton aprons, underwear,
coats or shirtwaists. '
New Kind of Work for Women.
Some genius has constructed a ma
chine that It is said will do away with
the stenographer and the office boy.
This machine Is partly a phonograph,
through which the man talks, and his
message Is then automatically written
out by a typewriter attachment 'Well,
there Is the consolation that It will take
women to make the parts of this ma
chine, and possibly the work will be
more congenial than the stenographic
work.
Woman Kills Wild Beasts.
Mrs. Carl E. Ackerly, wife of the
member of the Field Columbian Mu
seum, went with her husband to the
wilds of British East Africa, from
which they have Just returned. Some
of the finest specimens of native ani
mals which they brought home were
killed by Mrs. Ackerly, who Is an ex
pert in the use of the rifle.
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Hls Life Work.
"Do leave those Georgia 'crackers,
my boy, and come home. Tour sisters
need you, and It's high time you left
the starved life you're leading and
re rrequent ana insistent
His thoughts went back to the time
when he had arrived there, Just out of
college, to recuperate from a nervous
strain, and Incidentally to look after
his father's business interests. It had
Indeed seemed a lonely, "starved" sort
of existence that he was entering upon.
He remembered vividly his first im
pression when he found himself sur
rounded by suspicion and hatred be
cause of his Northern connections, in
the midst of Ignorance and lawless
ness, In what was known as the dark
est corner of Georgia.
The situation held something of a
challenge for a nature like Stephen
Phelps, and his first determination
was to show his fearless disregard of
threats by going unarmed and unat
tended among the people. His bearing
awakened interest at once, and com
manded a sort of qualified respect. As
he learned more of their barren, un
taught, uncared for lives, he came to
understand why these folk were suspi
cious and Ignorant, why life was held
cheap and law despised.
Here, too, was a challenge for Ste
phen Phelps. It seemed that his was
not the only starved life, and he deter
mined to win these people to a better
sort of living. . ,
He asked their advice, and took It;
h discussed his plans with them, and
little by little his honest friendliness
won their confidence. In spite of deep
prejudice, they entered Into his plans
for industrial work, for Improved hous
ing, and even trusted to his .newly es
tablished "Yankee" school their un
taught children.
With more and more enthusiasm he
threw himself into the work he had
undertaken ; he made new plans, be
worked early and late.
Of course there were for him occa
sional visits to the Northern . home,
when he gave himself up to the pleas
ures and activities of his old "set" for
a time, and listened to fine business
offers and to many pleadings for a per
manent stay. But each time that he
returned to Georgia the new look of
hope aud life In the faces of "his
people" warmed his heart and seermed
worth many a gay dinner and theater
party.
"Come down and see for yourself
why I am needed here," Phelps replied
to his friend Makepeace; "then you'll
understand' my decision to remain."
Then he planned to do still better for
his peopled He moved his own piano
Into a large hall over one of the new
storehouses, and gave an Invitation to
a Sunday afternoon service. The music
attracted many ; the man more. People
came by the hundred to listen to this
young man of splendid optimism and
unselfish life, who talked to them sim
ply and earnestly of the love of God
and the brotherhood of man. Life had
a new meaning for them all a mean
ing and a fulness which was not lost
even when Stephen Phelps laid down
his work.
"He's a great loss," said a friend to
Makepeace, as they walked up the ave
nue. "Splendid fellow 1 Too bad to
have thrown himself away and lost
these five years in that forsaken
place."
"Have you ever been down there?"
asked Makepeace, rather shortly.
"No."
"Well, I have; and I'd be obliged If
you wouldn't repeat that remark. I
used to think that way myself, but
when I d seen the work he accom
plished and the change he'd brought
about through all that region, and the
love and devotion of those people to
him, It made his life seem about as
full and worth while as some of ours."
"Why, of course," apologized his
friend. "You see, I didn't understand."
"Oh, that's all right," said Make
peace; and then he added, diffidently,
"it says something somewhere, you
know, about 'he that loseth his life
shall find It,' and somehow It seems to
me Phelps found his." Youth's Com
panion. Looking; Beyond.
Whatever be your condition or call
ing in life, keep In view the whole of
your existence. Act not for the little
span of time allotted you In this world,
but act for eternity. Look beyond the
narrow limits of earth, to the scenes of
that eternal world to which you are
going, and ever aim to do what will
promote your best Interests, ten thou
sand ages hence, when all the riches
and honors of earth shall have vanish
ed away. Then shall you rise superior
to every false, unworthy principle of
action, and attain the true dignity and
happiness of Intelligent beings. Then
shall you be safe amid all temptations,
and happy amid all trials. Rev. R. S.
Johnson.
A Text that Vindicates Itself.
Here is a text which can be proved
or disproved & text that need not re
main among the uncertainties. With
my whole heart I believe It I hart
never known it to fall I have acted
upon It when the answer has gone ab
solutely against my inclinations; when
the way seemed clear In other direc
tions and when I have had to give up
the most tempting prospects. ' Yet the
text has vindicated itself. My loss has
been my gain. If we do not test the
text In this spirit wo cannot test It
at all. The text Is everything or it is
nothing. It is not to be trifled with,
taken up and laid down, ' admired as
poetry and neglected as discipline. "Ye
cannot serve God and mammon."
Joseph Parker.
My Refuge, My Defense,
God is my refuge, my defense,
My Shepherd and my King,
My strength, my strong Deliverer,
Of whom I love to sing.
And God Is my Salvation, too,
My Fortress strong and tried,
Beneath the shadow of His wing .
In perfect peace. I hide.
God Is my Rock forever sure;
Here may I always rest
Beneath this shade in love secure,
No barm can me molest
God Is the glory of my days,
And of His grace I'll sing,
Who gave for me His only Son,
My Prophet, Priest and King.
-Alice N. Kendall.
Only Believe.
Be not downcast If difficulties sur
round you In your heavenly life. They
may be purposely placed there by God
to train and discipline you for higher
developments of faith. If he calls you
to "toiling In rowing," It may be to
make you the better seaman, and to
lead you to a holler trust In Him who
has the vessel and Its destinies In hand,
and who, amid gathering clouds and
darkened horizon, and crested billows,
ever murmurs the mild rebuke to our
misgivings: "Said I not unto thee,
that If thou wouldst believe, thou
shouldst see the glory of God?" Rev.
John R. Macduff.
Christ the Friend.
The devout heart yearns after a per
sonal God. Its Instinctive desire Is for
a Father and a Friend a loving ear
Into which Its sorrows may be poured,
a loving heart on which Its weariness
may rest This deep-felt want of our
natures Is most fully met In the per
son of Jesus Christ For here Is One
whom, while we reverence and adore
as God, we ca nthlnk of as clearly and
love as simply, trustingly, tenderly, as
the best known and loved of our earth-1
ly friends. Rev. R. S. Medley.
LESSON IN POSTAL WAYS.
Superiority of Foreign Service
to
That in America la Asserted.
In Now York It takes two hours to
send a special delivery letter from Har
lem to Twenty-third street In Berlin,
through the rohrpost, a letter can be
sent a similar distance In two minutes.
It would be advantageous to all peo
ple If the statesmen of the world, fore-'
going for a season their provincial '
boastlne. would convene in Interna
tional session and exchange Ideas re-
gardlng tne worm s progress. I was
Impressed with this fact when I had
occasion in Budapest to send a regis
tered letter. Instead of having to wait
for a clerk to copy the superscription
and hand me a receipt I had simply
to show the letter properly stamped
and then drop It in a mechanical con
trivance which Immediately Issued a
receipt card automatically dated and
numbered.
It makes the system of registering
a letter In Hungary as simple as drop
ping a piece of mall In a leter box is
In America. I desired to test this in
novation and so I mailed a letter in
Budapest addressed to myself In a
hotel In Munich. Two hours later I
took the train to the Bavarian capital,
and the day after I arrived In the
hotel I received word that there was
a registered letter for me at the post-
office.
The German system of postal money
order is far superior, It seems to me,
to the American. You hand the money
Into a German postofflce, give the ad
dress of the person to whom It Is to
be sent and walk away with the re
ceipt That ends your responsibility.
The government carries the money to
the house and even to the room of the
addressee. Hardee Rolce in Apple
ton's. Helping; an Invalid.
A trained nurse mentions as among
the little things that help make an in
valid feel comfortable and rested the
frequent brushing of the hair and bath
ing of the hands and face. "I don't
know what It is, whether these actions
Just divert the Invalid's mind or really
do effect some physical change for the
better, but they certainly help the sick
one to get through the day. Eau de
cologne and the various toilet waters
are very refreshing when added to the
water or used Independently. I once
heard a man say that If he couldn't
both wash his hands and face and
comb his hair In the morning when he
got up he would choose to comb his
hair. It would wake him up better.
He felt something of the same sense
of physical comfort as the average
convalescent or Invalid."
He Knew.
Professor Mr. X, is there anything
in your experience which qualifies you
to speak so confidently on the subject
of sweatshop labor?
Mr. X Well, I spent" four hours In
a Turkish bath once. Cornell Widow.
As a man gets older, he has more
"hard days" to report when be gets
borne at nteht
GOOD
i; Short
lories
i
A Berkeley bookseller, anxious to fill
an order for a liberal patron, wired to
Chicago for a copy of "Seekers After
God," by Canon Farrar, and to his sur
prise and dismay received this reply:
"No seekers after God In Chicago or
New York. Try Philadelphia."
The German Emperor's little daugh
ter Is credited with this Incident She
was tired of all the old games, so said
to her playmates: "I know what we
will do. Let's play at being quite poor
people frightfully poor people who
have only one or two footmen!"
One more Instance of the power of
punctuation. Even a comma may play
the very mischief. Not many years
ago a distinguished graduate of Oxford
decided to enter the Nonconformist
ministry, and to wear no sacerdotal
garb. And he announced his intention
in a manifesto containing the words,
"I shall wear no clothes, to distinguish
me from my fellow-Christians." That
delightful comma made him the laugh-;
lng-stoek.of the university and the Joy
of the picture-shops, whose windows,
were flooded with Illustrations of the
Rev. X. Y. Z. distinguishing himself
from his fellow-Christians.
The great Von Moltke never wasted
words and despised anything that ap
proached garrulity In others., On one
occasion he was leaving Berlin on a
railway Journey. Just before the train,
pulled out of the station, a captain of
hussars entered the general's compart
ment and recognizing him, saluted
with "Guten Morgen, Excellenz t" Two
hours later the train slowed up at &
way station. - The captain rose, after
sitting In silence during the Journey,
saluted, and with another "Guten Mor
gen, Excel lenz!" left the train. Turn
ing' to one of his companions, Von
Moltke said, with an expression of dis
gust "Intolerable gasbag I" ;
Some time ago the Osage Indians !
were called into council. It was In the ('
Indian Territory and an election was
approaching at which the noble red i
aien would exercise that great privil
ege, the ballot The Democrats pre
pared a feast for them. They barbe
cued beef and fed the Indians welli
And the Indians were "for" the Dem
crats. Then the Republicans Invited
them to a barbecue, and they , were
"for" the Republicans. After it was
all over the Indians met One of them
addressed the meeting. "Democrat
good; feed Indian," he said. "Repub
lican good; feed Indian full." Then
he continued : "Both good ; Indian go
home." Then they went
One day the yardmaster asked an
earnest employe at the roundhouse If ,
he could run an engine. "Can 01 run ,'
an engine? If there's anything Ol'd
rather do all day long it's run an en
gine." "Suppose you run that engine
In the house." "Olil do it" bluffed Pat,
and climbed to the cab. He looked
around, spat on his bands, grabbed the ,
biggest lever and pulled It wide open.
Zip! she went Into the roundhouse.
Pat saw the bumpers ahead and, guess
ing what would happen, reversed the
lever clear back. Out she went la
again out again. Then the yardmas
ter yelled : "I thought you said you
could run an engine?" But Pat had
an answer ready: "01 had her in three
times. Why didn't you shut the door?"
Biggest House on Earth.
A gigantic globe tower, the biggest
building in the world, Is in course of
erection on Coney Island. It will be
700 feet high and 900 feet In circum
ference. It will have eleven floors and
500,000 square feet of floor space.
On these eleven floors there will be
all sorts of things to amuse Coney's
millions of summer visitors, but the
star feature of them all will be the
revolving restaurant and cafe, first of
the kind in the world.
If you are facing north when your
oysters are served you will be looking
west for the soup and south when the
roast arrives. By the time the coffee
and cigars come on you will be back
north again. In half an hour you will
have traveled 900 feet around a great
circle, or thirty feet a minute.
The ground floor will be an automo
bile garage. Just 150 feet above the
ground will be the pedestal roof gar
den, 900 feet In circumference. When
you get 250 feet in the air you will
come to the aerial hippodrome. Here
there will be a continuous four-ring -circus.
The main hall and revolving cafe will
be 300 feet above the ground, circling
around the great ball room. Another
fifty feet and you come to the palm gar
den In the air, a third restaurant stat
uary, fountains and cascades, a seenle
aerial railroad and all kinds of novel
ties. At 500 feet you come to the ob
servatory platform, fitted with tele
scopes. At 600 feet will be stationed
the United States weather bureau and
a wireless telegraph station.
Very Suspicions.
"The bookkeeper has been married
nearly six months now," said the Junior
partner. V
"Well?" replied the senior partner. .':
"Well, he hasn't asked for a raise
In salary." f "
"Heavens! We'll have to have bta
accounts examined." Philadelphia'
Press. .
No man loves a woman enough to
make him very grateful for the privi
lege of kissing her hand.