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THE BACHELOR’S LAMENT. "It is an Hl Wind That Blows Nobody Good-" Returning home at close of day. Who gently chides my long delay. And by my side delights to stay? Nobody! 's f Who sets for me the easy chair. Spreads out the papers with such care, Aud lays my slippers ready there? Nobody! to CHUM MY SISTERS. C—5 JIE attitude of a sister toward a *JF brother Is largely responsible for the brightness or the shadow of home life. A downright bon camara derie, or chuinmltwss, a confidential friendship, conduce t” a firmly founded union of affection and thought that Is a moral support to both of them, to say nothing of its delightful Influence ui»on the daily domestic family round. Most girls seem to regard their brothers as necessary evils. They do not think It worth their while to lie pleasant with them. Wheu with a brother they lay aside all their entertaining ways, their attractive maimer» and their pleasing graces, says the Chicago Chronicle. It is only because he meets some oth er boy’s sister tli;i4 lie does not arrive at the conclusion that the sex is selfish atvd altogether disagreeable. Ami It is no wonder that be affects the society of others of his kind, speaks slightingly of all girls, oftentimes gets into bad habits that lie would not think of If lie were made much of at home, and, In fact, acts and feels very different from the youth whose sister Is a real com fort and a good friend to him. Whet) this condition exists the two discover ! that being brother ami sister need not Interfere with their having u right Jolly time in each other’s’society. When no other escort Is available the brother acts as cavalier and Is us attentive a-s though he were “lx-auing” some other girl. The sister, on her side, makes herself equally agreeable, and they do not feel that an evening has lx-en wast ed because they had to spend it in each other’s company. When the time for sweethearts ar rives they become more than ever con fidants. knowing that no matter who comes Into their lives there Is one niche which can only be tilled by the brother or the sister, who will ever occupy a place which cannot Is1 second because it Is distinctly individual. The Pace th t Kit’s. The once lieautlful Josie Mansfield Is at the home of her sister In I’biladel- phla a dumb, helpless, semi-paralysed wreck. She is the woman for whom Edward S. Stokes shot down and murdered Jim Eisk, Jr., the then king of Wall street,Jan. 5, 1872, at the (!rand Cen tral Hotel. Stokes was sentenced to JOSTK lx? hanged, and finally on a new trial got oft’ with only four years In jail. Miss Mansfield was a noted character in those days. In 18111 she married Rolx-rt L. Iieade, a rich young man. He soon found out his mistake, but al though they separated he provided for her. The paralytic stroke was due, the doctors say, to mental worry. I’nmn that Are Mun time. What are half the handsomest homes In our cities? Museums! And without orderly museum arrangement! What becomes of comfort in rooms where even the cautious must pick their way, and the careless may come to grief? Woman Is infinitely selfish in express ing her whims In her home surround ings. Men hate rooms that are over full. and children are hampered and oppressed by what to them is a mean ingless aggregation of things that must lie avoided, not handled. This does not Imply that children should lx* allowed to handle all things In the home; far from it; but things not to la* handled should not preponderate In rooms where the family life Is lived.—Wom an’s Home Companion. widow, OOKI.E I. tub rlti t.AW.NV. ill,,,!,. |g made of a heavy twisted zepli.vr; ill • pompadour Is worn, also the Newport eoll. The latter Is wound In a loose circle pinned st the top and carefully bun lied in the net. Tile fluffy eh oct of the front Is the pompadour, very loosely puffed, and the net Is caught up and pinned with very »mill, thin, tortoiseshell hairpins. John II. Christie, who married Miss Mary E. I’reston in Westerly, it. I., the other day, had just concluded the serving of a sentence of four years In prison for highway robbery. The vlc- tlme of the crime was Miss Preston herself, mid she was the principal wit uess against Christie, testifying with more than willingness and pushing the case against him with energy. Then, when sentence had been passed, that emotion which Is akin to love stirred In th«' woman's breast. She wrote a sym pathetic letter to him, then visited him. kud the courtship and marriage fol lowed. That small ache or pain or -weakness 6 the "ill-wind” that directs your attention to the necessity of purifying your blood by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then your -whole body receives good, for the purified blood goes tingling to every organ. It is the remedy for all ages and both sexes. III w to Oil Fnr >itur~. A flannel cloth, with a very little lin seed oil, is good to rub furniture with; but the greatent care must be exer cised to prevent any oil being left on the wood to attract dust. It must be rubbed until you would not know, ex cept by the Improved appearance, that nny oil had been used. Of Interest to Women, The overskirt is here to stay. Dynamite Is used to weight silks. Jersey City lisa a woman sign-pain ter. Black lace Is used to trim new night robes. Dull finish silver is most popular for clasps. It Is not good form to wear skirts too tight. Fewer housowlvea "put up" preserves nowadays. Dancing will be less popular than | It Is first flirted opeu liefore your eyes, but you’ll soon get used to It. for It Is ever this winter. to Is* the thing this winter. The black More women keep records of house ' cat Is slnqvly painted on the fan. keeping exp uses than formerly. Reception gowns and walking dresses Btlng-nc Kln<l of Wit. It seems nt first blush ridiculous to will be made in delicate shades. The average wages of a domestic ser ■ay that <vne can lie too apt at repartee, but many mi over-smart reply has vnnt In London Is $1.88 a week. made an enemy for the person who A Brooklyn man says every woman ■bowed his peculiar wit In this fashion. says "It seems to me” at least six times Gay, good ua tn red badinage Is a de when she makes a speech. lightful thing, but It Is the retort Crusade« against slang have been be- ! courteous alone that Is used by the I gun by women In Sacramento, Cal.; woman of tact nisi refinement. Very I Fall River. Mass.; and Brooklyn. young girls- thorn* who have not yet A Philadelphia woman donned her attained the graces of womanhood, yet | husband's clothes and took out his who have outgrown the naive frank ness of childhood «emu especially gift I street car one day when he was too sick to work. ed with sharp tongues. At a recent gathering of women tn 8be may. at heart. lx* an extremely good-natured peraou; she tuny have In Providence nearly all admitted that numerable good qualities and be only they felt awkward when they asked suffering from extreme crudity, but she their husbands for money. makvs a dl»agn*enble Impression upon Henry Higgs. President of the Econ the older one« of tin* hearers by her Im omic Science Section of the British as- ! pertinence that It will take a goodly soclatlon, told an audience that hotme- time to efface. The thing better left keepfng was no better understood than | ■naald Is continually In evidence It was two centurl a ago perhaps even among some young women, who not so well. In the Interval, however, haren’t the faintest Idea that they the art had become enormously simpli could hurt any one's feelings by their fied. When plunged in deep and dire distress, When anxious cares my heart oppress, Who whispers hopes of happiness? Nobody! When sickness comes and sorrow twain, And grief distracts my fevered brain, Who sympathizes with my pain? Nobody! IMPROVED TOURIST SLEEPERS. Railroads Are Acceding to Demands of Middle Classes Wlio Want Better Sleeping-Car Service. But I’m resolved, so help me fate, To change at once my single state, At Hymen’s altar I will mate Somebody. —Thomasville Enterprise. THINK him the very embodl- II ment of chivalry and gallant- ry,” said Ethel Hunt, enthusi astically. She was a dark-cheeked, diamond eyed girl of 18, with braids of blue black hair coiled around the back of her small Greek-shaped head, and a color as rich and velvety as the side of a July peach. “Humph!” said Aunt Sara. “I've heard girls talk so before, and It gener ally ended in one thing.” “For shame, Aunt Sara!” cried Ethel, coloring up to her eyelashes. “I only mean, of course, that he is a very agree able companion.” Now, this Aunt Sara of our little Ethel was no spectacled spinster of an tncertaln age, nor portly, plllow- sbaped widow with the photograph of her dear, departed husband worn, locketshaped, upon her bosom—but a pretty young woman of four or five aud twenty, with bright blue eyes and hair all streaked with golden gleams, who was engaged in the congenial occupa tion of making up her wedding clothes. “An agreeable companion, of course,” said Aunt Sara. “Look, Ethel, do you think white Maltese lace or French blonde, with a heading of Roman pear's, would be prettiest for this berthe?” Aunt Sara knew when to drop a sub ject and when to hold on to It. But while Ethel was stitching the quilting g (J This beautiful sword, the gift of Congress to Admiral George Dewey, cost $3,000. With the exception of the steel blade and the body metal of the scab bard, the sword is made throughout of 22-carat gold. On the weapon is carved the name of the cruiser Olympia and the zodiacal sign for December, the month in which Dewey was born. Below is the coat of arms of Vermont, with the motto, “Freedom and Unity.” On the scabbard are the letters “G. D.,” and just below “U. S. N.,” while on the sword blade is the inscription, “The gift of the nation to Rear Admiral George Dewey, U. 8. N., in memory of the victory at Manila Bay, May 1, 181)8.” mansion. Instead of ringing formally Miss Martel] shrugged her shoulders at the front door. Miss Martell went and mentally thanked her lucky stars.] around to the back porch, a pretty little “I could have told you as much be-’ entrance, all shaded with honeysuckles fore,” said she. “These Adonises are and trumpet vines. like cheap calico—they will neither “I always go in here,” said she, non wash nor wear! Wait until Everard chalantly,* in reply to Ethel’s remon Grafton comes.” strating glance. “Sue Moraud and I are “And who is Everard Grafton?” just like sisters.” “The nicest young fellow In the world Sue Mora nd, a blooming girl of 18, —after my betrothed husband.” was in the kitchen making apple pies. Wheat Mr. Grafton came he so far “The pattern? Of course, you shall Justified Aunt Sara's encomiums that have It!” she cried. “Just wait a min Ethel really did like hint. And Aunt ute until I get it.” Sara was willing to leave the rest to “IT go with you,” said Sara. “Ethel, fate.—New York News. you'll not mind waiting for us here?” “Not in the least,” said Ethel. And The Only Thing Left. she sat down by the window, where A grandfather, well known in the ivies, trained in bottles of water, were British House of Commons, was chat creeping like green Jewels across the ting amicably with his little grand crystal panes of glass. daughter. who was snugly enoconced “Sue! Sue!” She started ns the voice on his knee. “What makes your hair of her preux chevalier of the evening so white, grandpa?” the little miss before came roaring down the back queried. “1 am very old. my dear; I was stairs. "Confound you all down there, in the ark,” replied Ills lordship, with wliy aren’t my Ivoots blacked? Sue! a painful disregard of the truth. “Oh, Mother! Nell! What’s ix-come of my are you Nj>ah?” "No.” "Are you Shem, breakfast? You must think a man has then?” “N d , 1 am not Shem.” “Are you nothing to do but to lie here and wait Ham?” "No.” “Then.” said the little all day for you lazy folks to stir one. who was fast nearing the limit of around!” There was no reply as he paused, ap her biblical knowledge, “yon must be “i say , vor,” nr. sxabi . kb out , “ why parently expecting one. “Mother” was Japhet.” A negative reply was given don ' t you ----- ” down in the garden under a big green to this query also, for the old gentle of French blonde on to the white silk sunbonnet, gathering scarlet-cheeked man inwardly wondered what the out dress her young aunt's mind was busy tomatoes for dinner. “Nell” was in the come would lx*. “But, grandpa, if you uiMtn the topic she had apparently i front yard picking red-veined autumn are not Noah, or Shem. or Ham, or leaves out of the gold and russet drifts , Japhet, you must be a beast.” abandoned. "The disagreeable fellow," thought that lay like treasures of precious Music Wards Off Fatigue. Aunt Sara. "He has somehow heard stones upon the grass. A Philadelphia contractor, who has Sue was shut up among the mysteries that Ethel has money, and he is deter mined to win it. If she could only see of “pattern«” Innumerable, with Miss recently returned from the Soudan, him in his true light; but I know what Sara Martell. Ethel Hunt sat coloring tolls of an Interesting fact connected a perverse thing a woman’s heart is. and half frightened, the sole auditress i with the building by the English of the new military railroad in that region. Just a« sure as I attempted to tell her of Mr. Morand’s objurgation«. “I know there’s some one down : With every gang of forty or fifty men what he really Is she'll make up her mind that he Is the finest and least ap there!” lie shouted. “I can hear you are assigned two harpers and a flute preciated personage on the face of the breathe and your dress rustle. Just player. Music is furnished almost con earth. And 1 do so want to keep het like your ugliness not to answer a fel tinuously. and so long as the musicians heart whole until Everard Grafter low! Do you hear? Sue! Black my play the workmen—nearly all negroes —do not sewn to feel the fatigue, ami conies to lx* Charles’ groomsman. Ever boots, quick. I’m waiting for them!” And "bang! bang” came the useful their movements are conformed as ard Grafton Is worthy of a princess!" And Miss Sara Martell sat and sewed articles of wear in question down the nearly as possible to the time of the away In absorbed silence, without winding stairway that led Into the music. As a general thing the players get tired before the workmen do. To a speaking a word for the unprecedented kitchen. Poor little Ethel! She half rose up, white man the melody produced by period of tlft<*en minutes. "They say he Is perfectly Intolerable then sat down again, piteously unde these cheerers of tabor would not l>e at home." she said to herself. "Clara cided what to do; and even while she 1 Inspiring, for ft is peculiarly plaintive. Waters was there once and heard him hesitated, with color varying like the The Africans, however, find the music rating his sisters fearfully because the | red and white of the American flag In i a great lnslpratlon. and work wit) Ix’efsteak for his late breakfast was a a high wind, the door at the foot of the cheerfulness and dispatch. little overdone. If 1 could only manage stairs flew open and In stalked Julian Due to Politic». It that Ethel should see him In his true Morand. sallow and dishevelled, with trukempt hair and beard, fretfully light.” She sat and thought a while longer curved mouth, and a most unbecoming and suddenly the color bloomed in het costume of a soiled Turkish dressing cheek, the dimples Into her chin. She ' gown, faded pearl-colored nether gar ments. and stockinged feet thrust iuto started up. "Ethel." she said, “I’m sure you must red morocco slipper«. "I say you!" he suarled out; “why be tired of sitting over that everlasting stitching. I've got to go over to Susy don't you-----” Morand’s to borrow a pattern; It will ! Ami then, perceiving to whom he was actually addressing himself, he started lx* Just a pleasant walk for us.” "To Miss Morand’s?” Ethel was back, turning fiery red. vexed with herself, but she could not ! "Miss Hunt!” help the tell-tale blood that surged Into | And. with a downward glance at his her cheeks. "Isn’t It rather early? Only ( toilet, he fairly turned and fled, the skirts of his Turkish dressing gown V o'clock ?” "Early! Not a bit. Susy and I are floating like red and orange meteors, so Intimate we don’t mind curl papers ! and. terrified though six* was. Ethel and calico wrap;x*rs. Get your hat and 1 Hunt could not resist the temptation cotue along quick.” to break Into a peal of hearty laughter. Thia. then, was her ideal among men. But. In spite of her exhortations to ■peed. Sara Martell smiled to herself to her gallant cavalier, her “Sir Ijiunce- perceive that Ethel Hunt lingered loug lot” of fancied perfection, snarling at The Good Woman—If you are a foi enough in her own room to change her hia mother and sisters like an Ul-condl- elgn nobleman, why are you iu your black lace breast knot for a becoming tloned bear, flinging old boots down the present circumstances? little butterfly bow of rooe-colored rib- ■ stair« at them, tumbling out of bed at The Tourist—Whisht, mum! Politic«! bon. and to rearrange the dainty ten- I I) o’clock In the morning. while his Olm dthe mon tbot writ dtheBordarou-o drila of silky Nack hair that dropped mother split kindlings and picked toma i in dthe Dbryfus case. so earvaslugly (Tver tier low. broad fore toe« out In the vegetable garden! Like 1 In ■ Srw Role. some Chinese Idol, so fell Julian Mo- I head. Abe retah»— Look a’ yer. yo’ Mose “She thinks we shall see Julian Mo- rand off his high pedestal In the estlma- Jackson. De mule yo' sole me las’ rand.” she thought to herself. “Wed. tlon of Miss Ethel Hunt. Site told it aU to Sara Martell when night Is daid. perhaps we shafl. I am puttlug myself Moses—Daid! Lo’d. dat am peculiar. eutlrely Into the hands of luck and they were safe at home. ’ “Aunt Sara." she said, “1 au> thoi- , He Debet did dat befo'.—Ohio Stat* chance." Journal. But when they reached Ute Mora nd otighjy diaeuchantedr In response to the demand of the times the O. K. & N. and its connec tions are placing in operation a much better grade of tourist sleepers for 1 a- cific coast service than at any previous time. The largely increased traffic to this section of the country has de manded all the improvements of latter- day transportation, and in considera tion of tihs the railroads are establish ing a service which is excellent in every particular. Not only are ths wishes of the first-class passengers served, but those who are traveling tQ and from the East on second-class tick* ets are splendidly cared for. There art was a time when a tourist sleeper ap pealed to a limited number ôf peopl* who were traveling on the "cheap” or der, in every meanihg of the term^ Now, however, there has been a radical change- With Hie better tourist sleep ers in operation the class of passengers has been improved, and one may now travel upon them and enjoy all the privileges of a first-class sleeper at a greatly reduced rate. Daily, on the O. B. & N. Eastbound fast mail, is attached one of these latest improved tourist sleepers, a model of beauty and handsome appointments. The new cars*are almost an exact counterpart of the first-class sleepers. One noticeable feature of the new tourist cars is the absence of a smok ing apartment. 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