And before be left that night we back to the tire, bis hands In bls pock
w-lth learning to care for what in Kn-[
TRUMPET CALL«.
drank very solemnly to the rout of Mrs. ets, for perhaps another ten seconds.
gland Is called "tbe scullery’*—learning '
If T might choose my simple lot
«• Hepworth-Smitb aud the complete suc He faced round suddenly aud stared
to clean the sink, to shiue the pots and k1a'i Hora Boaada ■ Waralas Note
Far from town and quite forgot.
to tlM Uaro4«om«d.
cess of the Knight Gassy.
iuto the fire. Then he Jerked his hands
pans,
to scour the knives, even to polish
All In a sheltered nook and warm
•
»»••••
out
of
bls
pockets.
He
walked
to
the
shoes.
From
this
humble
start
practice
HEY who walk
TEACHES EVERY SCHOOLGIRL
“fla T would bare a violet farm.
"How long Is It since I saw you last?” window ttnd pulled the blind aside with
and theory go hand in hand. Suppose
with God cannot
TO BE A HOUSEWIFE.
questioned Gassy.
a huge noise. Outside it was raiuiug
the drainage pipe gets clogged up. Tbe
wander.
N'o daffodils should me entice,
"Just over a week.”
hard. The lamplight gleamed yellow
children not only will' be taught how to
Nor hyacinths with their breath of spice,
The best creed
The tulip with her painted hood
pools in the pavement.
"A week? It seems like a month.”
Is not a fence,
British Government Has Begun Build flush rhe pipe or even take the sink
For me should wither where she stood.
“Why,” I said, a little amazed,
“I.et's go for a walk,” said Cassy.
but a defense.
ing Additions tu Each Public* School apart, but what are the hygienic rea
“what's the new development?”
“It's grand."
sons that make It necessary. These rea
Tbe best way
fur
an
Extraordinary
Departure
in
Instead of sheep upon the award,
"I wrote,” said Gassy. He glared at
"Why, it's raining," I remonstrated
sons will be set down In notebooks, too,
to lift up the
Lp-tu-Date Educat ion.
The modest violet I should herd;
me. “Don't you hear me? 1 wrote---- ” feebly.
and soon after It will be tbe subject of
world is to lift
Instead of golden heads «-row,
"Yes,” I said. "And---- ”
"What's the matter with it?” be said,
a written examination, which might
up Christ.
Fbould see my violet harvest blow.
Loudon is not so slow. It made on also deal with the fascinating subject
“I wrote,” be repeated for the third staring hard through the window.
There it a
time. He leaned forward. He stared "You can’t possibly stop indoors- a the first Monday In July a departure of lamp cleaning or the care of garbage.
great differenc»
Under an arch of wild, wild cloud.
at me as if to read a riddle. Then he night like this.”
that may astonish the school boards In
A part of every one of the present
Below an opal mountain bowed,
between a schol
That night he nearly dragged me off most American cities, and If the exper “centers” is fltted up as an ordinary
Al) in a humid world and cool,
receded Into the chair again, disgusted
ar and a thinker.
.With winds and waters beautiful.
with life. A long pause. "I’ve had no my legs. So that evidently Gassy's iment turns out as expected, the Lon workingman’s dwelling. In the room
Tbe man who is never weary in well
answer,” he finished rather theatrically. fairy tale bad ended in the old approved don schoolgirl will become collectively Just above there may tie devices most doing does nothing well.
iWhat airs across my farm should fare!
the best trained housewife in the world. elaborate and costly for cookery and
“My dear fellow,” I said, “do you fashion.—Penny Pictorial Magaziue.
Tbe empty barrel soon falls to pieces.
'Tie sweet where pinks and roses are,
think the lady had her mind ready
The best assurance of the importance other household work, but in this de
But pink< and roses hide the faco
Dreams of bigness are not visions of
made up for you? I suppose—am 1 WOULD NOT BUILD A CHURCH of this movement Is that the British partment there is nothing but the or
-Before a violet-peopled place.
Government is the "mover”—the slug dinary utensils that would be found in greatness.
right?—it was not a letter to be an
A» a Consequence He Was Compelled t< gish, unenthusiastic old Government the poorest family's kitchen. The girl
A giant sin may fire through a very
swered offhand?”
bio shortest day of all the year
Slop the Couutry.
“Offhand,” said Cassy with great
that really takes a long time to adopt students Invent a mythical family, even small loop-hole.
Hhould fude without a violet’s cheer,
‘'Twenty-five years ago,” said a min new ideas and learn new tricks, but specifying the ages of its various mem
'Invisible sweetness hid within
scorn. "A week. One—two—three—five
The only safe way to climb life’s lad
lug uiau, "1 was in a Colorado town
And folded up iu swathes of green.
—six—seven days.”
when once it gets them learned will go bers; then, having decided that tlie i der is to keep looking up.
and
one
day
a
sheep
herder
came
iL
"Sometimes letters go wrong in the
on forever conscientiously doing them family cannot afford a dinner to cost
New truths will always break ths
with a report of a gold find aud colled without missing a detail of the most over, say. a shilling, they draw up sev
Though white and purple babes be born
post," 1 said.
bottles that held old thoughts.
ed
eleveu
of
us
to
go
with
him
to
it
tu
When Daffodil his Itsming horn
eral bills of fare within that modest
It was only a straw, but Cassy Jump
Intricate plan, until It is called off.
O’er quiet hills and vales shall sound
Recreation Is of tbe Creator, but th»
organize It iuto a district and stake oft
It was comparatively a long time ago limit. Then they take baskets on their devil turns it into desecration.
ed at It. 1 said (it was the only thing
And stir the sleepers underground;
our claims. We got through with it too
that somebody high up in British edu arms and visit grocers and butcher».
which occurred to me, aud it was not
late iu the day to start home again, so
There Is no tree more fruitful than
good):
,What country bliss can equal mine.
we
camped
iu
our
blankets.
We
were
the cross planted In the heart.
“Write again.”
With violets for my flock and kine.
stretched around the tire when some
Locality is not so potent as love la
With violets for my c»rn and store?
He replied:
one proposed that we devote the time
.Wbat could a mortal wish for more?
making a health-giving climate.
"Yes, I suppose so,” Indifferently.
before going to sleep to telling who we
•
•*«••«
In the measure In which you say “Y
were and what brought us to that re
'Under a mountain pansy-dark,
am
not my own,” all things become
"I
wrote
again,
”
said
Cassy,
desolate
'Loved of the eagle aud the lark.
mote country. Scarcely a man iu the
yours.
and mournful. "It's just the same. No party was known by his name. 'Judge
And set too low for fear or harm,
answer.”
If everything was done to the glory of
*Tls I would have a violet farm.
and ’Doc' and 'Parson' and 'Shorty' and
■—Spectator.
This time I could say nothing.
God there would be a good deal leas
'Cockeye' aud such characteristic sobri
‘‘I’ve had enough of this,” said Cassy quets designing each of us. Most ot
done and a good deal more accom
with emphasis. "I'm going to see a the men were simply floaters and drift
plished.
steamship Johnny 1 know. Big pot in ers, and they were there because It
There are some Christians who may
a shipping office somewhere. There happened so and there was a chancvto
be pinched everywhere but in the pock
must be lots of places where a follow get rich quick and easy. When it came
et without feeling pain.
can go and enjoy himself a bit; and— to ‘Shorty’s’ turn to respond lie star
A man's profession is like a founda
why don't you say something?” he ask tled us by the story of a tragedy in
tion; it is not a bouse, but it gives you
ed fiercely.
which lie nad killed two men iu Ver
a good Idea of what it will be.
T was plain that thought lay very
“I’ll wait Just a little longer,” said mont and escaped because the sym
Theological changes do not affect di
heavy upon the Impreaslouable Cassy, later. “And If---- Then I'll
vine truth any more than traveler'»
Gassy. He lounged in the long chair take a ticket for the Gold Coast, or pathy of the community was with him,
books affect the shape of the earth.
which was bis by undent right. His Tlmbuctoo. One of those places where although not sufficiently so to permit
eyes hail dreauis in them; he nursed Ills It’s not over-healthy unless you’re used him to remain at home. The wild West
If you depend on the price paid for
was Ills best opening and lit1 bad come
right leg affectionately in the way 1 to It.”
your redemption you must not forget
there to end his days In whatever way
knew so well. And presently:
•
••••••
that the purchase makes you God’s pos
he might. The story cast a gloom over
"I’m a nice sort of a fool, taking
session.
"I’m done,” said Cassy. “I was com the assemblage, so to speak, which was
things all arouud,” be burst out of a ing through Stafford road the othet*
CHARGED THE BOARDER EXTRA
lightened
somewhat
by
the
spokesman
sudden. And he sat upright and looked afternoon, and I met Mrs. Ilepworth-
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT’S NEW COOKERY Sl’lIOffJX
calling on the 'Parson.*
as though he Imd tlirowu a challenge to 8m 1th. I Inquired after Miss Hep
Hut the Landlady Found She Had
“
‘
Well,
Parson,
’
he
said,
‘
what
Overreached Herself,
me and to the world.
worth-Smlth, also Mr. Hepworth- brought you out here?'
cational circles said: “Well, now we’ve bargaining for tbe provisions they need
“You shouldn't say tlmt,” said I. Smlth. She thanked mo. She said that
They
were
seated together In a car
arranged
that
every
child
shall
be
with
a
prudence
aud
economy
that
“ 'You’ve called me right,’ laughed
"Helf-depreciatlou la the worst thing Mr. Hepworth-Smlth was in very good
obliged to go to school. If the girls would have delighted even Poor Rich of an Incoming suburban train the
that
member,
‘
for
I
was
a
parson.
1
possible in these conceited days.”
health, but that Miss Hepworth-Smlth had a place iu a small town in Penn bad been at home, their mothers would ard. Once home again with their sup other morning, so uear to The Saunter-
“I didn't come here to listen to your was rather unwell. She said:
sylvania, a wife aud five children and have taught them to cook; now they plies. they proceed to cook them, and er that he could not avoid hearing
tinpot epigrams,” said Gussy, fiercely.
“ ‘The doctors have advised me to $400 a year, with mighty dern few do won't learn unless we teach them, and not only plan to make every scrap go as every word of their conversation. The
I was not offended I Itatter myself take Grace abroad somewhere.’
nation parties. I struggled along the 1 think we'd better be about It.” And far as possible, but to use up anything fat woman got on the train two st»
that I have come to know Gussy a lit
"I blurted out, 'Where?’ like a fool. very best I could, trying to be a Chri- so, in every odd corner that the Loudon that may have been left over on the tlons ahead of the thin woman.
tle.
"Well, how do. you do?" the latter
I felt her look across at me (you know tian under the circumstances and will School Board could discover, a school day before. The stove has already been
"Very well, ttieu. Who is she?” I what I mean), and she said:
began, effusively, as soon as she had
kitchen was opened and the girls were polished and the tire laid.
ing
to
lessen
my
chances
to
enter
the
asked him.
" ’Oh, we haven't qul'e decided that kingdom of heaven by 25 per cent, for taught there. After a while, somebody
Some of the girls stay to dinner, eat dropped into tlie seat alongside of the
('assy’s lips moved, and I caught the yet, Mr. Gassy.’
else, also much esteemed as an educa the things, clear away and wash up. former. "Why, how do you do? So
a
25
per
cent,
increase
of
pay,
when
the
Word before he spoke It aloud. “Grace,”
tor, remarked that laundry work was The menu is hardly ever the same two glad to see you. Didn't kuow I started
"I don’t know what else I said, but I
he said slowly. "It’s a line mime for a know that as I said good-by to her 1 end came by my refusing to build a almost as Important as cookery and days running, for the girls are equal to take boarders since I saw you last,
church.
’
girl, Isn't It?” The last assertively; the hesitated for a minute. I must have
“The Idea of a preacher in that fix that It ought to be taught, too, and either to a banquet or a meal of gruel. did you?”
challenge was iu his tone again.
looked rather silly. She guessed what building a church seemed to be so fun straightway a whole series of little They learn which foods are the most
The fat woman admitted her ignor
"It certainly wouldn't be much of a was In my mind.
laundries was opened and equipped.
nourishing aud give them tbe prefer ance on that subject.
ny
that
everybody
laughed,
aud
‘
How
name for a boy,” I suggested.
• 'Grace is quite too ill to see anyone, was that. Parson?’ came from half a
"Well, 1 have,” continued the thin
Sometimes tlie kitchen and laundry ence.
He tin red out anew at this, and I Mr. Gassy,' was her parting shot.”
were In the same building, but more
In the laundry confers the girls wash woman. "How do I like it? Well, it
dozen
questioners.
forced myself Into my old sympathetic
Cassy finished. There was a mourn
" ‘Oh,’ he replied, hesitatingly, ‘the often they were not; and they were clothe« and Iron them; their own, most has its draw-backs; lots of ’em.”
mood. And Gassy, growing calmer:
ful silence.
"Yes, I suppose it must have,” as
congregation
rnlsed $7,314.60 -to build hardly ever in a school building proper, ly, brought from home. The garments
"Did you ever read do you ever rend
“Well,” 1 said at last.
and so when it came time to switch the look white and neat, and there is a sented the fat woman. "Boarders who
a
church
and
1
skipped
out
with
it.'
children's fairy tales, where everything
“It's as plain as anything to me,”
girls off front the multiplication table graceful promise in the fact, for the grumble, boarders with big appetites
Is right, and tits so easily into Its place; said Cassy. “It's Just her kind way of Washington Star.
and verbs and ask them to consider the English washwoman of to-day Is the and all that sort of thlug.”
where the poor student comes always letting me know that it's no game. And
hasty pudding or the Ironing board, the Nemesis of your linen. Apparently
“My, talking of boarders with big
to the prim-ess, with arms held out to I wrote two letters—one after the oth FARM THAT FLOATS IN A RIVER. class had to put on Its hat and adjourn there Is nothing whatever in the way appetites,” rejoined the thin woman.
ward her and a smile on Ids face. Aail, er. What a supreme fool I must have Arsenal Istund, In the Mississippi, to the “center,” as the laundry-kitchen of household management that these "You ought to see the new boarder I
If there be any wicked people they go looked.”
Constantly t hanging Its Position.
places are called, perhaps blocks away. girls don't learn. The girls are taught got yesterday. A young fellow, and he
■ way. or die. or get out of the thing
Many of the islands in the Mississippi But in spite of these disadvantages nil home nursing, too. In a room one was seemed to have so much money I
"It's not so plain to me," I said.
somehow, so that they can work no
“I can't help it if you're so thick River are known to be constantly the little schools have prospered and found in bed and two behind were charged him $2 more a week than any
mischief. And everything ends Just as headed," retorted Cassy.
changing their positions, but the most are doing a remarkable work.
propping her up with an arrangement of my other boarders. But, say, he
the |Ms>r student (and the princess) de
In fact, with Increased Government composed of two chairs, while another can certainly eat. Had breakfast at
I was not in request as a comforter restless of them, and perhaps tlie most
sire, and they are happy ever after?”
that night. Everything was wrong. remarkable island iu the world, is Ar grants, more and more experienced girl changed the sheet». Another was the house this morning. What do you
"I do read them sometimes.”
Things would never be the same again. senal Island, now of Illinois, but some
think of sending out for chops three
"I sometimes think," he said, "that It
So the curtain of the last act but one times of Missouri. Besides its jour
times, hot cakes twice, and coffee, why,
is a great pity that we caunot live in comes down (with slow sympathy) on neys up and dowu the river, the island
he must have swallowed five cups at
that pleasant land of fairy tales. Wlieu the Hero Sad.
occasionally takes a yip across the
least. Then the potatoes he ate were
1 call now (lie was applylug bls
The hero in the long chair, sad and deep-water channel, consequently shift
enough for three ordinary men. I never
thought to Ids <>wu (Mtrticular trouble) depressed beyond words. And finally be ing from the Missouri to the Illinois
dreamed there could be so much food
1 am never able to see her. The old said:
shore.
put inside of such a small man. Of
man’s all right, rather a Jolly sort of
"I'm goin’ away. Next week, I think.
Major Thomas II. Handbury. of the
course, It made me nervous all the time
chap altogether. But the mater hates This Isn't like the others. You think It corps of Vulted States engineers, be
he was eating. Why don't I tell hint
me like poison, 8he comes into the Is. I tell you—It isn't.”
lieves that Arsenal Island will eventu
he mustn't eat so much? Why. I don't
room all smiling, and says that Grace
But a week later the curtain rose ally become a part of Missouri terri
want to lose him. don't you under
Is out. or laid up with a slight attack of again.
tory, and says its constant movement
stand? I'm making money off of him,
whatever illness happens to be fashlou
"Oh, it was great,” said Cassy. "I Is easily explained. The dirt on Its
all right, but goodness knows be car
able nt the time. (I give her credit for went down to that shipping office I told upper end washes away under the force
ries off the prize for big eating. Come
being a clever woman; she varies the you about to get catalogues aud dates of the river current and accretious
out and see him some time. It's worth
complaint so neatly.) And then we talk and that sort of thing.” (Gassy was al form at the lower end.
your while, I'll guarantee you.”
about the weather .and the last novel. ways a little vague when he was ex
Arsenal Island has also been known
"She'll be too late, madam,” inter
■ ml so on. and w hen 1 go, ’So glad you cited.) “It was a funny kind of a show, as Quarantine Island. Both names in
posed a young fellow who, sitting one
called. Mr. Gassy,* and I get out onto a long counter around three sides and dicate the use to which it was put be
seat to the rear of the two women, had
the street. When I turn the corner 1 wire railing facing you everywhere. tween 1850 aud 1867, when a quaran
remained unnoticed by them. “1 don't
■ sk nil self why It la not fairyland, and Anil you cau’t guess there was a lady tine station and the United States ar
believe I’ll return to your house any
why 1 can't go back with my faithful there, with her back toward me, argu- senal were maintained there. But Ar
more. It doesn't exactly suit me, any
followers and carry her Iu triumph lug with a clerk. 1 hen rd her say some senal Island is the official name aud Is
way. The money I paid you in ad
thing about Madeira as 1 pushed the used In all land grants and deeds that
from the house.”
vance. Including the $2 overcharge,
•’Yet always,” I reminded him, "the door open, and 1 seemed to know the li%ve been made with reference to It.
will pay you well for the trouble and
The Island is the property of J. 8.
poor student bad many difficulties to voice. There was another lady with
expense I've put you to. Good morn
her. It was Mrs. Hepworth Smith and Pittsfield, of Illinois, but is leased by
conquer.”
ing; I get off here.”
LONDON SCHOOLGIRLS TN THE LAUNDRY CLASS
"He did not have a Mrs. Ilepwortb- Grace. 1 had a good mind to bolt when Joseph II. Jobin, who lives upon It.
It was fully five minutes after the
1 saw lier—naturally—but the swing His house is In the midst of a pretty
Smith to encounter,” said Gassy.
train pulled away from the station be
"But she may be won over in lime," door creaked, and Grace looked across grove of willows, elms, sycamores and teachers and general abiding enthusi sitting placidly in a chair while an im fore the woman spoke, and all she said
at me. And somehow (I don't know cottonwoods at the upper end of the asm. girls were coming out so skilled aginary wound In the hand, apparently was:
1 suggested.
“Not by me,” »aid Gassy. "I'm no how I did It) I whispered, 'You got my island. It Is a modest little one-story In cookery and laundry work that It of a most alarming and pa nful nature,
“Well, who’d a thought it?”—Phila
body. You don't know Grace, do you?” letter?’ and she said. 'Your letter? No.’ building will) five rooms, which are seemed a pity they didn’t understand was being put Into bandages by a little delphia Inquirer.
Her
mater
was
ragging
the
fellow
be
the
other
details
that
make
up
“
home
very cleau and comfortable. It Is sur
tot of some 11 or 12 years, and across
lie added suddenly.
hind the wire netting with her back to rounded by storage-house» and poultry management” as well. The School the room another serious case of an
Seedless Fruit.
*'lt la my misfortune,” I returned.
Apples, pears, grapes, and other
•’Well, of course, then, you don't un ward us still. And I don't know what yards. Stretching away from the grove Board asked for a grant for this pur Imaginary Injured head was being
derstand. You can't (loaalbly under else I said, or what she said, but It's are many acre» of fertile land, which Is pose. but the Government frowned. treated with great skill and unconcern. fruits produce Individuals at times that
all right, anyhow. Mrs. Hepworth- In an excellent state of cultivation. The Undaunted. the board arranged to
Boys are left entirely out of the are coreless or seedless. As a general
aland. She'»---- ”
"That'll do. I'll take Grace for grant Smlth turned round sullenly. Dick, her proprietor told a reporter of the Post- teacli "housewifery” anyway, and did. 1 School Board’s scheme. But at the Na rule in these cases the resultant fruit
ed. The |M»iut now Is Mrs. Hepworth- face was a study. ‘Now, who would Dispatch that his hope Is to convert They have made «ueh a success of it. tional Training School, where a good la smaller than in normal condition.
Smith. and the utter indlffereuce of the have thought of seeing you here. Mr. the place Into a stock ranch. Since he too, that the Government relented a j many of the teachers of housewifery The value of these abnormal forms de
once klud gods. You can't see her; you Gassy?* *1 should like my letter now. landed there in 1893 he says that more w hile ago and made a new grant, as re 1 are educated. there was a class of ur- pends on the uses to which they may
want to- to let her know something?” mother.’ said Grace, *lf you please.' than fifty acres have l>een washed from quested.
I chins from the East End all busy with be put. No special value has resulted
The board knew exactly what it pots and pans in the hope of becoming from the seedless apples or pears. In
"Ye»,” said Gassy with deliberation. Then we went outside, and left her Its upper end and fully as many acres
mater to fight It out with the poor chap have been added to its lower end.
wanted to do with this grant. It laid , chefs when they graduate.
the grnpes the seedless raisins and cur
"I think 1 do.”
behind the wire.
"Why don't you write, then?"
81nce 1853 Arsenal Island has moved plans at once to build an addition to
rants fill a useful place in culinary art.
.. — ■
——— ■— -
“He looked a bit surprised, too. And southward 8,000 feet. St. I aju I s Post- every public school in Ixiudou. wherein
—Meehan's Monthly.
Gassy was aghast at my brilliant
Old st of Veqetali es.
all of tla* pupils w ho were lucky enough
thought. He uncurled Ills knee aud afterward we all went home to Mr. Dispatch.
Onions and cucumbers are two of the
Great Zoological Gardena
to be girls should be taught every very oldest known vegetables. Like
threw hltuself back In the chair as a Hepworth Smith, but he was all right
A
Feminine
Trait.
New York's zoological gardens will
branch of housekeeping tinder one roof. I peas the Egyptians grew them at least
man who has cast a burden from his ' at the finish."
Mrs. Hoon—“They say that Mrs. wi|>ing out altogether the old system
be tbe largest in the world, comprising
Cassy wound up breathlessly. I con
shoulder». lie said: "It's great. 1
I thirty centuries ago. Indeed, to the
Swiftsmith
is
greatly
troubled
with
in
of "centers."
never thought about that for a min gratulated lilui.
I onion belongs probably the honor of within its boundaries no less than 261
The tirat outward and visible sign of being the first vegetable primeval man acres. The next largest Is at Wash
"And I've got to thank you." said somnia.”
ute.”
Mr. Hoon—"Yes; I understand that the »'heme a» perfected is a small stone
ington. which has 168 acres. The Ber
"I’m awfully sorry, coming round and Gassy. "for listening to me and letting
»he discovered the fact a week or so building up in New Kent road, which ■ ever made trial of. Onions are not lin garden has 60. tbe Paris garden 5u,
me
tell
you
things,
and
all
that
----
”
worrying you like this. But---- ”
I found growing wild anywhere, but a
1 »aid I was not aware that I had ago that her husband talks In bls sleep, was formally opened by I .adv Lomion- kind of leek 1« not uncommon in and tbe London garden 31 acres.
"I'm always glad to be of service,” I
and
»he
hasn't
slept
a
wink
since
for
derry. aud began business on July 1.
responded feebly, marveling at niy dona anything, which In truth I had
Worrying.
fear of missing something.”—Harper's The course covers half a day every Southern Siberia, which is very like
masterstroke of cleverueaa.
"But not
’he Welsh national emblem.
“What are you worrying about now?"
Baaar.
week
for
three
years.
Ila flung himself In the long chair.
wbat?”
“1 belong to tbe Don't Worry Club
Most of the girls will begin at 11
Rome people are chronic liars, but tbe
Some people have a way of doing ■nd can't pay my due»."—New York
*'Oh. nothing Only, If you knew her Ha remained there for perhaps ten
year* of age, and begin at the twV'>u> sot hi qu that makes you mad.
—I'm sure you would understand.”
J ■acouda. Ha got up; he stood with his dumb matt always keep» tela word.
IrutK
VOCATION.
H
LONDON NOT SO SLOW.