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The SAndersville herald,
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AN EMPTY NEST.
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J find an nld deserted nest.
ltnlf-hktdcn in the undcrl ru-n:
A withered leaf, in phantom j t,
lias nestle,) in it like a thrush
With weary, palpitating bieast.
1 mnse ns one in sn<l surprise
Who seeks his ehll'.noods homo onee
And finds'It In a Strange dispa,se
Of vaeant room -nd naked floor,
With sudden tern drops In e,s eyes.
An empty nest' It used to hear
A happy burden, v.hnt the Proem <
Of summer i ked it, erst a pair
Of merry tattlers told the trees
"What tronsu-us tin y tiad hidden there.
But Fan, v, hitting through the gleams
Of youth'* sunshiny atmosphere,
lias fallen In the past, and seems,
I,Ike this I oar leaflet nestled here,—
A phantom guest of empty dreams.
—.lames WhWeomt, ltlley, in *1 he Home
Megnilae
HER
ELECTRIC FLAT-IRON
By GRACE E. CODY,
“Rather an expensive plaything, eh?
"What would il do to tile eleeti'le light
lull, for instance?" Klddleton asked,
doubtfully.
"Plaything! Expensive!” Mrs, Rid-
dletoti echoed. “With Intelligent use
if will Bave its price in laundry hills in
three weeks. And fb« expense bf using
it is a mere trifle—horrething like two
cents an hour.’’
“1 suppose that's what the ad says?”
‘‘It’s what Mrs. Tilton says. She lias
n little padded board Hint site can
tiike anywhere, and after dinner she |
and Mr. Tilton sit down In the library, j
and while he reads tier the news, she j
irons the handkerchiefs and napkins !
for a family of seven, smiling to tier- I
self all the time to think what' fun it I
is. .lust Imagine smiling 1 over your |
ironing instead of trembling before the
washerwoman’s frown! And think of
its saving its price in three weeks.”
"M-m!” Klddleton remarked, still
tentatively. "It would be an unhandy
thing to leave round with tlie current
on, wouldn’t it?”
"Jack! You're as had ns the man
1hat demonstrated. He actually
thought it necessary to remind me that
if I set the iron down and left It at- |
tached with the current on, it wasn’t
going to get ice-cold very fast.” Mrs.
Riddleton’s smile Implied that tills
caution might be necessary for some
women. “It's no foolish craze with me.
Jack. I’ve looked into it carefully, and
I’m convinced that I can make It save
its price in three weeks. That's why
I bought it.”
“Oh, you’ve bought it? I thought
you were asking my advice.”
“No, it’s to be delivered today. And,
Jack dear, could you just as well as
not let me have I he money this morn
ing?"
In this manner the flat-iron came
into the family, and it so happened
■that on the evening after its arrival
Rlddleton walked in with the an
nouncement that lie had been ordered
out on a business trip to California,
adding that he should require his wife
as a minor officer, to report for duty
in the expedition.
A few days of hurry and excitement
followed, but at hist, the night before
they were to start, Mrs. Rlddleton laid
her lieud on the pillow with a sigh of
relief.
‘Everything's done, Jack,” she mur
mured, contentedly, "and what a bless
ing that electric flat-iron has been,
■with all the dressmaker’s pressing and
all the extra ironing[ L declare, 1
don't see how I could have got ready
without it.”
As she finished this rhapsody she no
ticed with annoyance that her husband
was peacefully slumbering. A min
ute later she rejoiced that lie was. A
smell of scorching cloth had come to
her nostrils, and like a flash her sus
picions had pounced on the electric
iron. Slipping into a dressing-gown,
she went swiftly down to the door of
the sewing room, from which a thick
smoke was issuing. Not a sound es
caped her lips as she groped for the
key, turned off the current from the
flat-iron and clicked on the light.
There was the hot iron on the floor.
It had burned its way straight through
the ironing-board, and was beginning
to descend toward the basement in the
same method, when Mrs. Rlddleton cut
short its downward career by tumbling
it on to a convenient register, before
she dropped, panting, into a chair.
“That thoughtless Bridget! She
might have burned us out of house
and home!” she gasped. ”i shall give
her one piece of my mind before I start
away. But it’s no faint of the iron it
self,” she concluded, - loyally, as she
iiWent softly about, opening windows,
and congratulating herself that neither
Jack nor the Are department had had
an iron in this lire. "It's just stupid
ity, nothing else. 1 shall tell Bridget
plainly, tomorrow morning, that I'm
nervous as a witch about leaving little
Jack in care of such a heedless person,
,twhilfc I’m gone. But there’s no need
of mentioning it before Jack.”
The California trip was a radiant
success, and the Riddle-tons reached
home on a Saturday night, tired but
happy. The next morning, with ener
gy born of his outing, Rlddleton sug
gested going to church, and although
: their trunk was still unpacked, and
Mrs. Riddleton’s best finery far from
fresh, it was against her principles to
refuse.
One thing, however, positively would
not do, the blackened finger tips of her
white gloves, so before- she began to
dress, she hurriedly washed them and
hung them in the sunshine. Alas, it
was not California sunshine! She
gave them until the last minute, and
still they had not dried. Then sudden
ly she remembered the blessed flat-iron
and hastily connecting it there in her
i a mm
wa»«imt'r<1*y J inwiniwii ><oc-
roOhl, she locked the door to make
sure of privacy in her Sabbath-break
ing, and kneeling on the rug, with fold
ed towels for a pad, she ironed those
igloves dry in thirty seconds. That
done, she flew to open the door, where
little Jack was clamoring to get in,
kissed him good-by in a rush, and
joined her husband below stairs, se
renely immaculate.
Not until the middle of the service,
when her wandering glance dropped
complacently for an instant on her
own neatly gloved hands, did the aw
ful thought of that flat-iron come hack
to her.
••Jack! Jack!” she whispered. “Tito
flat-iron! It's on the floor in my room
with tiic current on. What shall we
do?”
“We’ll sit still,” was the maddening
response. "I's all over by now if
anything happened. We’ll preserve ap
pearances.'
Half an hour later—it seemed an
eternity—Mrs. Rlddleton dashed into
her home.
“Jackie, you’re safe!” she cried,
catching hint in her arms.
"Sere, an’ he’s the one that found
jer flat-iron," said Bridget, vainly
living to conceal a huge satisfaction.
“Ho went in yer room to hunt for some
more of that candied fruit youse
brought home, an’ there—”
”0 Jackie, bless your dreadful sweet
tooth, for once!” Mrs. Rlddleton broke
in, unable under the circumstances to
endure details front Bridget but men
tally resolving to make the girl a
handsome present.
"Two towels gone, a hole through the
rug, and a burned spot on the floor,"
Rlddleton reported from the bedroom
door, •
‘My beautiful Bokhara!” his wife
gasped. Then catching the elation on
Bridget’s face, she added with sud
den hauteur, "Bridget, 1 think your
meat is burning. Go and see.
"Jack,” she continued, breathing
more freely ns Bridget disappeared,
’’It's dreadful, 1 know, but really, you
know '(was no fnult In the electric iron
Itself.”
"True, my dear, very true,” said Rid-
dleton, heartily. “Of course we could
not expect a flatiron to have brains and
turn off that current.”
After that lie wondered why It should
take him an hour and n half to com
fort bis wife when lie had only agreed
with her politely.—Youth’s Companion
THINKS WE LIVE TOO HIGH.
Boston Woman Says Luxury is the
Evil of the Age.
It Is wages versus large ideas, and
not tlie increased cost of provisions
that makes the average housaholder
find it difficult to make both ends meet
today, Mrs. Ellen H. Richards of Bos
ton said in a lecture upon the “Cost
of Living and How to Control It,” nt
the Teachers College. She told of a
man whose wife learned to talk about
his salary Instead of h'.s wages. “When
we had wages,” lie said, "there was
no difficulty In living within them, but
with a salat y we spent everything.”
"People spend more money th in they
used to,” said Mrs. Richards, “and one
reason Is that we have more useful
things, like the bathroom, and it is
well to be sanitary. They say the cost,
of living within the past thirty years
lias -increased 40 or 50 percent, but I
contend that it is not so. It is our
idea of living that has Increased.
“There has been a great change in
what we women think we need, in the
ing well when they had three gowns,
Our giundmothers—women of comfort
able means—felt that they were do
ing well when they htr three gowns,
and a little further back the men might
have one elaborate suit of clothes,
but they did not think it was necessary
to have one for the morning, one for
the afternoon and one for the evening.
"If you devide your income so that
food will cost one-fourth, rent another,
and operating expenses one-fourth
more there will be left one-fourth for
the ’region of choice.’ There is noth
ing that makes one feel so poverty
stricken as not to be able to do some
thing that we really wish. With mon
ey for the region of choice, we get
what we most wish—it may tie books,
travel, or even handsome gowns—but.
something that we really desiie. If
a family lives up to its entire Income
there is nothing to draw upon in case
of need, though I class physicians,
medicines, dentists and travel for
ehalth as ines that we have to pay for
neglect of nature’s laws.
"The average family having an in
come of $2000 or $3000, unless there is
an arrangement to save something for
the future or something very much
wanted, spends it all. The woman’p
largest expenses a:e usually sundries.
Men have temptations to spend, but not
as the women do, with the market, the
bargain counter, and the house for
which to provide, though most houses
have three times too much in them.
Women are not always wise spenders.”
—New York Times.
Awakening Canada.
“Methinks I see in my mind a noble
and puissant nation, rousing herself
like a strong man from sleep, and
shaking her invincible locks.”
Today the young men of Canada
see visions where the old men dream
ed dreams. Five years ago a far
sighted farmer from Alberta journey
ed to Ottawa, to interest the Domin
ion Government in the sending of Ca
nadian wheal to Japan. “Wheat for
Japan! was the pettisli response
from ih<> seats of the mighty. “Why
in the world can’t they grow their
own wheat?” Here was a brain of
the same vintage as that of the board
ing-house keeper who could not see
tlie sense of killing his fat pig and
getting another when that pig ate all
the table scraps he had.—Agnes Deans
| Cameron, in the Atlantic.
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Wage-Earners’ League Organlxed.
A Wage Earners* Democratic
League of the statq of Georgia has
been organized in Savannah, beginning
its life by passing resolutions assailing
the administration of Governor Uoke
Smith and endorsing the candidacy for
governor of Hon. Joe Brown. It con
sists of Savannah workingmen.
* * *
A County Line Election.
The approaching county line election
, I* creating no little stir in Banks and
Jackson counties. Maysville being lo
cated in both of these counties, there
is a movement on foot to place the
city altogether in one of the two. The
taxable wealth of' the place is about
equally divided between them, and both
sides are pulling for their respective
counties. The election will take place
in May.
* * •
Receivers’ Certificates Authorized.
Judge Newman of the United States
district court at Atlanta has granted
nn order authorizing A. B. Andrews, re
ceiver of the Tallulah Falls railroad,
to Issue receivers’ certificates to the
amount of $100,000, to be used In pay
ment of obligations of flint road. The
certificates nre to be Issued in denomi
nations of $25, $50, $100, $500, and $1,-
000, and ate to be used in liquidating
obligations of the Tallulah Falls road.
Six per cent interest and semi-annual
payments thereof are stipulated in the
order of the court.
* * *
Methodist Educational Convention.
Preparations are being hinde for the
third educational convention of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
which is to be held in Atlanta May 19-
21 next. Between 800 and 1,000 dele
gates nre expected and the meeting will
be national in importance.
Dr. Joe! Daves, presiding elder of the
Atlanta district of the North Georgia
conference, is now arranging the local
end of the convention. The sessions
of the convention will be held in the
auditorium of the First Methodist
church an Peachtree street.
* * *
Plans for Georgia Buildings.
A Washington dispatch says: The su
pervising architect of the treasury lias
sent a representative of his office to
Augusta to report on the needs of the
public biiilding there.
Representative Hardwick has intro
duced a bill appropriating $300,000 for
a new building there, or the enlarge
ment of the present one.
The plans for the public building at
Dalton have been completed nnd the
contract for Its erection will be award
ed in about two weeks.
The plans for the Marietta building
will he completed in ttvo weeks.
* * *
Fair Agreement Sanctioned.
At a meeting of the directors of
the Atlanta Fair association, held a
few days ago, the agreement made by
the committee from this association
with the Farmers’ Union for the fair
to be held in Atlanta this fall under
the auspices of the Farmers’ Union was
sanctioned.
The data set for the fair this fall
is October 8 to 24.
This was the only matter taken up
by the directors, but the unanimous
sentiment was that this fair would be
the greatest success of the long series
of these yearly affairs.
A premium list will be decided upon
on April 20, when the directors of the
Atlanta Fair association will confer
with the eleven superintendents for the
fair selected by the Farmers’ Union.
At this time a draft of a premium
list will be submitted to the superin
tendents and President C. S. Barrett
of the national union and State Pres
ident R. F. Duckworth are expected to
he present.
General Manager Frank Weldon Is
now at work on this draft of the pre
mium list and will have it ready in time
for the meeting. As soon as it is com
pleted and approved it will he given to
the printer with rush Instructions.
* * *
Georgia Sunday School Association.
Mr. George Halns of Augusta, pres
ident of the Georgia Sunday school as
sociation, in a neatly-prepared folder,
announces the thirty-fourth annual
convention of the organization to be
held at Athens April 22 to 24.
President Hains issues a special and
cordial invitation to overy Sunday
school in Georgia to attend to this
“annual feast of good things.”
The formal program has not yet
been made up, hut there are a num
ber of important announcements.
The Sunday schools in all parts of
the state are naming their delegates
to the convention.
“The Sunday school is doing a great
work in Georgia,” said President Ilains,
“but there is much yet to be done, and
there is no work that should appeal
more forcibly to the good people of the
state. There are nearly 300,000 chil
dren who are not in the Sunday schools
—very, very many of whom have no
Sunday school available for their at
tendance. The state Sunday school as
sociation is not only seeking the co-op
eration and organization of existing
schools in the state, but is undertaking
tlte missionary work of planting schools
in those sections where none exist.”
♦ * *
Militia to Pay More Rent.
Hereafter each company or troop or
battery of artillery will he allowed $15
per month for armory rent from the
state military fund Instead of $12.50 as
heretofore. An allowance of $60 a year
is made for brigade headquarters.
The rental allowance to regimental
headquarters has been Increased from
$100 to $150 per annum, and unassign-
ed battalions are allowed $75, an In
crease of $25.
The general order Issued by Adju
tant General Scott also announces the
reorganization of the coast artillery, the
principal feature of which is the addi
tion of a chaplain with the rank of cap
tain.
WOMAN KILLS BURGLAR.
Mrs. Jones Saved Life of Father In
Desperate Struggle With Negro,
Used Pistol Effectively.
Mrs, Ed .Tones, a prominent woman
of Montgomery, Ala., shot nnd killed
a negro burglar at her home in that
city at 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
At the time the shot was fired the
burglar was engaged in a hand-to-hand
struggle with her aged father, Barney
Rhody, nnd was attempting to pull him
out through a window, where a negro
confederate stood to aid the burglar.
The Inmates of the house were arous
ed by a noise jusff. under Mr. Rhody’s
window. Mrs. Jones went into her
father's room to Investigate nnd in so
doing aroused her father, who was still
nsleep. Upon awakening Mr. Rhody
threw open the window and was seized
by the burglar and a desperate struggle
then ensued. Miss Maud Rhody, a
younger sister of Mrs. Jones, rushed
Into the room, armed with an iron rod,
which she wielded with telling effect
upon the head of the negro, who never
for an instant, however, relaxed his
hold upon Mr. Rhody.
Seeing her father was about to be
overcome and dragged through the win
dow, Mrs. Jones pointed her pistol at
the negro's head nnd pulled the trig
ger, but to her dismay the rusty re
volver only snapped.
Coolly readjusting her aim the de-
termined woman again pulled the trig
ger and, when there wns no explosion
from the weapon, she prayed in despair,
but tried it a third time. With the
fourth pull of the trigger there was ft
resounding discharge of the revolver
that drowned the crack of blows which
rained an the negro’s head from the
Iron rod which was still being wielded
by the younger sister. The negro fell
back into the yard with a bullet in his
brain and died soon after.
PRICE OF FLEECY STAPLE
Fully Discussed at Special Conference
of State Presidents of Farmers’
Union in Little Rock.
The conference of state presidents of
the Farmers’ Union, which opened in
Little Rock Thursday, closed Friday
evening. The principal feature of the
Bession was the discussion of the price
of cotton and If the union should con
tinue to hold the staple until it touched
15 cents per pound, the minimum fig
ure fixed by the last national conven
tion, which was held in Little Rock
last summer. It was predicted by the
presidents attending this conference
that a reactionary wave v/ill set in and
that the market price will soar again by
or before the first of June. In order to
meet the situation plans are being per
fected to assist in holding all cotton
from the market for at least 60 or 90
days. The cotton now stored and any
cotton that may have reached the stage
known in the union as “distressed,”
•that is, cotton where the owner real
ly needs to sell in order to meet pres
en emergencies, will be held by ar
rangements now being planned. The
conference adopted other resolutions
expressing gratification at the tenden
cy towards the establishment and
maintenance of cotton grading schools,
declaring these institutions to be in-
valable to the proper carrying out of
the plans of scientific cotton planting.
The legislatures will be asked to make
appropriations for the establishment
and maintenance of such schools.
HEFLIN SUED BY NEGRO.
Lundy Wants $20,000 Damages from
Alabama Congressman.
Louis Lumly, the negro who was shot
by Representative Heflin of Alabama,
on the night of March 27, following an
altercation on a Pennsylvania avenue
street car, lias filed suit at Washington
against the congressman for $20,000
personal damages.
Lundy alleges that the representative
kicked him, slapped him in the face and
with great force knocked him off the
car, shot him, inflicting a wound above
the left ear, and that he sustained
bruises on the body and limbs. Lundy
is represented by four negro lawyers.
Left Fortune to Bible 8oclety.
Miss Emma Kasey, the last surviv
ing member of a widely known Ken
tucky family, died ia Louisville Tues
day. She left an estate of $100,000
to the American Bible Society.
An Ancient Custom.
The right of the ladles to propose
during leap year and to claim a hus
band or a silk gown forfeit is tradi
tionally ascribed to St. Bridget.—Ar-
gonant.
The Height of Queens.
Nearly all the sovereigns of Europe
are shorter than their consorts. Our
own king, for example, is not quite so
tall as Queen Alexandra, ‘he kaiser Is
decidedly shorter than the German
empress, Queen Amelia of Portugal
was n little taller than the late Don
Carlos, the King of Spain Is quite half
a head shorter than Queen Victoria
Eugenie, the czar appears quite small
beside the czarina, and so also does the
King of Italy, who scarcely reaches to
the shoulder of his beautiful queen.
The King of No: way and the Prince of
Montenegro are the only two rulers
who are very much taller than their
wives.—London Women.
Eat Plenty.
Women seem to be eating less and
less, says a London physician, nnd this
applies not only to working girls, hut
to women of society. He bemoans the
milk and bun habit, as being one of
the worst evils in London, and at the
risk of shocking the highly proper tee
totaler suggests that a kind of “can
dy drink,” which appeals to women
with a sweet tooth, is about the worst
tiling that any one can swallow, for It
troubles (lie digestive organs, though
it steals no wits away. He also makes
the statement that it Is better to over
eat than undereat. Evidently the doc
tor has no regard for waist linos nnd
the edicts of fashion, which demand
that women keep thin figures.
Honeymoon in Arabia.
For seven days after the wedding
the Arab bride and bridegroom are
supposed not to leave their room. The
bride may see none of her own family
and only the women folk of her hus
band’s, who wait on her.
She remains in all her wedding fin
ery and paint, and does absolutely
nothing. The bridegroom generally
dtps out at night after three days and
sees a few friends privately, hut lie p r-
sistently hides from his wife’s family,
and should he by accident meet his
father-in-law before the seven days
are over he turns his back and draws
his burnous, or haik, over his face.
This is their view of a honeymoon,
nnd they grow as weary of it as any
European couple do of their enforced
continental tour.—From the Wide
World Magazine.
Women in Magazine Art.
After many years of public patience
magazine illustrators as a class tacitly
have acknowledged the necessity of
reading a story to draw good pictures
for it. Time was when the average
“artist” contented himself with a
glance at a few lines extracted from
the story which lie was expected to ex
press in an (lustration. He illustrated
that passage without u thought of the
context and with none too much re
gard for the passage itself. As a re
sult one would read, "She crossed the
room majestically and stood looking
down at him,” and In the picture
would see the heroine placidly regard
ing the hero from the recesses of an
easy chair. As for women being blonde
in the story and brunnette in the il
lustration, that was the rule rather
than the exception. The advent of
women Into the world of magazine
ilustration possibly has had something
to do with the reform. No woman ar
tist would draw a heroine with her
hat on when the text called for an op
era scarf. She would not have a
character sitting when he or she should
stand. Nor would she make the hero
ine look 35 years old in Chapter 1 and
18 in chapter II. Anyway, whether
the credit be due to womankind or
merely to progress in the general eon-
scientiousnss of illustrators, the result
is gratifying—New York Press.
Ethel is a "Horsey” Woman.
The coming debutante of the White
House is in every sense a true daugh
ter of her father, says the Delineator.
It is not often that the White House
has the good fortune to harbor two
charming debutantes of a single presi
dency. Alice Roosevelt is “wooed and
married and a’,” but here comes her
sister Ethel to make her first formal
bow next year. Ethel Roosevelt is ex
tremely popular with her friends of
her own age as well as with older peo
ple.
The former like her for her good
temper and high spirits, the latter,
for her womanly ways and her ex
treme devotion to her mother. Mrs.
Roosevelt and her daughter are thor
ough “chums.”
Of course she loves horses—her fa
ther’s daughter could not help it.
Theodore, at home from Harvard for
his vacation, remarked in a superior
manner after listening to a long ac
count of the virtues of Montauk, her
o^ n horse, "I hate a horsey woman
Ethel!” “Well,” retorted the girl un
abashed, "I’d rather be talking about
an almost human horse than abriut a
lot of college fellows!”
She Is an “all-around girl.” i n the
last year or two she has shot up amaz
ingly, and the shy, awkward little girl
Who WMt to the White House will
leave It A stately young wpmap with a
frpk jbarm of manner that is sure to
CArry her to brilliant social success.—
Bewails Scarcity of Talkers.
"Good talkers are scarce these d a y s »
said recently a matron in an address
to a woman's club. "I’m not holding
forth for the dante of Colonial times’
who could pass whole days la chitchat
and never make hetself or anybody
else the wiser. But I do draw a com
parison between the matron of today
and the sensible woman of a nota
tion or two ago who could interest ah
most any one without becoming slangy
011 one hand or pedantic on the other
Whether the woman of the sixiies and
seventies had nio:o or loss to think
about than her daughter of this age
I won’t undertake to say. Certainly
she talked better. True, she ,Udn’t
make platform speeches. Victoria
Woodhull nnd Tennle Clatin were re
garded as frenks when they began ad
dressing crowds, and such caring
thinkers as Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton often received
siant courtesy at the hands of the
very men who w’ont miles to listen
to them. But of good talkers in the
home circle and the sewing society
there was an abundance. I dare ray
it must have been because they bent
their minds 011 more serious subjects
than does the average woman of today.
F01 thought, you know may be n yard
ed ns an essential of good talking, and
the blind devotion to fads characteris
tic of the twelfth century cannot take
the place of good, hard thinking.-.
New York Press.
Pathetic Old Age.
The death of Mrs. Letlti.i Tyler
Semple ought to be a reminder of a
condition that may one day become
the eause of national discredit and
perhaps is one already. Mrs. Sem
ple was the niece of President Tyler.
She was mistress of the White House
when she was twenty-one years of age.
She died at the age of eighty-six. She
was totally blind, very lonely, and
lltifully poor. She was In an institu
tion that was not exactly a charity, al
though It Is maintained by an endow
ment fund. The Louise Home, where }
Mrs. Semple died, is for Southern wo- \
men of good birth and family who tan j
pay a modest price for the shelter af- j
forded them, and Mrs. Semple lived \
there for some few years, having pre- i
vlously conducted a school to: young
girls at Baltimore.
Mrs. Semple was a gracious and i
lovely mistress of the White House. \
She was married at nineteen, when Mr.
Semple was In the United States navy.
Upon the outbreak of the war. he re
signed at once and entered the Con
federate navy. When the war was
over lie found his health broken, his
money and property gone, and nothing
lujt trouble and distress ahead for ■
himself and his wife. Fortunately
they had 110 children, so Mrs. Semple ‘
went (o Baltimore, leaving lu*r hus
band in Virginia. He died some years
later and hits wife continued with her
school in Baltimore until she was no
longer able to attend to it. Then she
came to Washington and entered the
Louise Home, where she died.
Mrs. Semple was the only remaining
member of her immediate family, al
though she has many nieces and neph
ews living in the south and in Cali
fornia. The last visit she made to the
White House was during the adminis
tration of President Pierce, with
whom she was on terms of intimate
friendship. She has been invited to
the White House many times sime, hut
she has put the invitations all aside.
Memories were too bitter for that.
That u lady who was once, mistress of
the White House should be allowed to
die in poverty and in neglect seems
hardly consonant .with the eternal
fitness of things, and hardly in keep
ing with the national dignity.—Argo-
nant.
Fashion Notes.
Pockets appear In the newest knit
ted silk underwear.
Plenty of black silk jackets, trimmed
with braid ornaments and braid em
broideries, will be seen.
The embroidered vest and lace jabot
are a costly feature of the coats which
form a part of the Louis costumes as
worn In Paris.
Solid colors, changeable, stripes,
plaids and checks are all in favor, with
the plaids slightly in the lead because
of their novelty.
Scarfs of tulle or chiffon edged with
heavy fringe, tasels or beading whose
weights keeps them In place are very
Smart for ball or dlnnr frocks.
The gored skirt is certainly going to
be the favorite, but It will be arranged
In so many different ways that ones
gowns will have no suggestion of same
ness.
Oriental silks, or at least silks with
Oriental designs whose predominant
color Is the satne as the skirts with
which they are to be worn, are used
for new blouses.
Petticoats are mostly sheath-f)ttine-
This effect is produced either by a
shaped yoke at the waist or else by
darts. The tailored silk petticoats > fi
the first favorite.
The difficulties of tailoring UglH
weight goods have been so far over
come that now chiffon panamas, voiles,
the lightest gf worsteds ,taffetas am
tussahs are shown in tailored suits.
If a woman has pretty shoulders,
she will want one of the transparen
V-shaped yokes cut In one with on
collar which is such a, pretty fashion-
It should be fitted without a wrink t
and cut very high.
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