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20 lours mi Every one* interested !n the bF=*<? ta e of matrimony —end we ah are present 3j\ prospectively or reminiscently—must have read with keen satisfaction o! the recent decision of a Kentucky judge in a divorce case. A gentleman, of that state. It -seems, sued for divorce from his wife on the grounds that she was en habitual and incurable drunkard, but the judge re fused to grant th* decree, arguing that the husband had only been a widower four months when he married the defendant, and that “such precipitancy .n marriage impiled a want of ordinary care in r.iak.ng a s- iu t .cn of a w ifo.” To every thoughtful person, says I>or otc.y Dix in the N< w Orleans P cayune, it will seem that a second Dauitl has- ome to Judgment, and that he has ttt his linger on one of the corroding rankers oi life. It .? not unfaithfulness, nor drr k. nor cruelty, nor chubs, nor any of the usually i domestic unhappiness. It is simply anl eolcty the want cf “ord nary care in mak ing a sele ?i -n” cf a husband or wife. Wo men marry on the grab bag system of taking the firs: ih.r.g they get their hands on. and m* n—having criminated the theory that marriage is a lottery—act uj>on the principal that it is all luck, and there is no use in using any judgment in picking out a wife. Any one who ever takes the trou ble to observe anybody eis. ‘a court-nip can but have this impress'd upon them. There is u lack of common sense abou: it. a kind of halucinativn, a persistent substitution of fancy for fact, and a m* n* r f obtuseness ami blmdness and detet min a lion >o rush on their fate : .at is a forcible and sorrow - ful illustration of how lightly people de cide the most important question of life. One of the wonders of the world, that no amount of repetition ever makes one whit less remarkable, is th* fact that people give le.-s real thougnt to marry ing than they do to any other binding trade. If John Brown, for instance, is thinking of making a limited liability part nership for five years with Tom Smith, to carry on the grocery business, he make* an exhaustive investigation into Smith s character and habits. He Jinds out if he it> honest, if he is extravagant, and U liable to swamp the firm by reckless and senseless expenditures, and whether he s industrious and capable, and will do his part towards making the venture a suc cess. With Sally Smith, with whom he is going to sign'a life contract, and of whom he cannot rkl himself in five years, or live and twenty years, without scan dal and disgrace, no matter how unhappy he is, he takes no such precaution. She may have the temper of a termigant, sh* may be idle and lazy and shiftless and extravagant, but he does not even take the trouble to inquire into the matter at all. He marries her, and it turns out badly he shoulders the blame off on Prov- j Jdence if he is pious, and lays it on gen eral bad luck if he isn't, and it positively never occurs to him to attribute it to his own lack of taking the “proper ordinary ! care in selecting a wife,’’ as the Kentucky j judge puts it. Judging by the standard? of common j tense and reasonable prudence that oit tain in everyday life, we should say that j a man was crazy If, when he wanted a horse to pull a heavy cotton float, he went into the market and bought a thoroughbred race horse. We should say he was Imbecile if, being poor, he took all of his money and invested it in a piece of costly bric-a-brac that would lx? j out of place in his dingy three-story back i room. We think him silly who pins a ' fine diamond in a faded and shabby shirt front. Yet that is just as much reason j fs the average man show- in picking out a wife. He takes something that pleases I his eye, and never stops to consider ! whether she is going to suit him in any other way or net. The poor man falls in . love with the petted daughter of fashion, 1 end marries her if she is willing, and : then he feels himself cruelly ill-used be- ! cause she doesn’t know a thing on earth j •bout economy or work, and pines for the i luxuries to which she has b-en accus- 1 torn* 1 all h r life. “It is this kind of thing.” h* fries, “that makes marriage a i faTiure.” My dear sir, not at all. She know? now all she ever did. It war. sim- j ply your lack o' the ordinary proper care In making a suitable selection. There were plenty, scores and scores of -ndustrious, capable eirS. any one of whom would h made the helpmeet you needed, but yo-j passed them all—a regular kitchen r r’* id of sc-oitlals—to pick the ore rose that flaunted on the garden wall, and now that you have got her ✓on h ive i o right to w hine and cry because she ssn’t a tah.'age. If a man Is going to do as simn’e a thing l y a l*ok. h*- gives soffit serious though/ o tryh.e to flrd th* o' 1t • r.iture in which he D most Interested. If his taste is cultivated hi passea by with a shudder the sen. Uk>n *1 story. with Its ch* ap an 1 flashy sentiment and blaiant vulgarity. He knows there wouldn’t le a single page in the whole volume tint wouldn’t offend hi huso ptlbi ities If he has a romantic nature, full of the deeps of sentiment and i -ion. he would never dream of sclc-cting a < ook book with which to while away the long hours of n tedious journey. If h is inters* ly practical he doesn’t choose a volume of poetry that al ways seems to him si?l,v and hysterical. Yet we are daily treated to the ectade of men picking out a wife with less regard to congeniality of aentiment ami taste and opinions than if she was a hook tha*. they could toss aside when she begun to bore them. Gracious heavens, look about you! Don’t you se< stately scholars married to stupid little woman, whose narrowness and pittineaa of vision mutt be continual Irri tation; don’t you t-ee men whose groit hearts cry out for love and comprehend n, married to women whose shallow naure contents iv. : * if iu the ordinary rounds of domestic dudes, and cannot even under stand any deeper need of the soul? Don’t we see common-place men married to wo men who are Ilk*' flnely-iuned instruments, capable of producing the most exqusite rru iody. yet who become, in bungling and ignorant hands, only retirees or terrible di i-ord? It Is all such a lot of terrible blundering, of the wrong |*eopl< getting hold of the wrong book*. If only the man who liked yellow-back novels hid gotten “Ibd Mike, the Terror of the Plains.** if the practical man had gotten the patent office reports, and tin* poet nad found the Omar Khayam in the great heap of Look; on the stall, what a pleasant and profitable journey everyone might bavt : and lead of yawning In ta< h oth er’s face the whole way through. In reality in all the wide world there i nothing else so pitiful as the lack of congeniality—of really having anything in common*—that we see between so many married i>eop.e. They live their days out side by side, ami yet they ja re farther apart than if oceans and continents rolkd between. One in nante and interest, they have no more understanding or apprecia tion of what is best and highest in each other than if they were creatures from different spheres, speaking different tongues. There are doors in each soul thui leads to rooms to which the other ii' vcr finds the key. All that is best and t-weet in life—the comprehension that has no need of words, the subtle sympathy tha. <1 vines the unspoken thought that trembles on the Up, the glory and the ep.endor of that love* that makes two real ly one* m heart—they miss. For missing that there is uo compensation. One may : have glory, and honor, an ) r.eh*- but the j heart that ha, m -s*hl [* r> t comprehen ! fk>r, goes a hungry beggar to tne grave. Thai to mar.v miss it is to be set down i not to the fant.stie cruelty cf fate, but to stupidity and to the man’s lack of or dinary care en,l prudence in seeking what he wants, and hts willingness to put up | with a substitute. Asa matter of fact, most rc.-n go court ng like they go shop ping. Thfj may go Into th-* store *l— termiued on buying a sky-blue necktie, but anybody with the slightest powers of | persuasion car. seil them a pair of patent I leather snoes instead of it. Of the re stless folly of those who get married on short engagements nothing need be sal!. Heaven knows those who, m homely pnrase. "keep company” for a long time have little enough chance to get really acquainted. The girl sees the man only in his company clothes ar.d corn pant' manners. She I? primped and crimp ed. and really too sweet and ethereal for this world. She is sore that life will be nothing but a bed of roses with a man so frantically anxious for her. to do as she piea-es. and he thinks he will have no trouble on earth in bending such a pliant little creature, who agrees with h.m in everything, to his will. Under this courtship veneer in both cases is the real woman and the real man. with ail of the natural and acquired and inherited tern per, traditions and prejudices that it nev er seems to o cur to any on*- to investi gate before marriage, while there is sti.l time to flee from the wrath to come. In all good truth a whole lifetime is inadequate for a thorough study of any one woman’s peculiarities. and young men contemplating rushing into matrimony, on the strength of a thirty-day promissory note, would do well to re l! the Ken tucky judge's dictum that a four months' acquaintance with a woman shows a pre cipitancy ar.d want of ordinary and prop er care in making a selection of a wife that Is liable to P ad to trouble. A great many temedies are continually suggested for the amelioration of domes tic life, but it seems to me that we stand more tn need of gumption than grace in dealing with it. The man who uses as much judgment, discretion and common sense in pu king out a wife as he would iu dealing with any other important af fair seldom has reason to regret his choice. • Love’s Way— ! Why do I love you, sweetheart mine? In sooth, I cannot say. Love came to me so stealthily I never saw his way. His gentle footsteps scarcely pressed i The pathway to my heart; I only saw- him standing there, And knew hir’d ne'er.depart. How* can I tell what brought him when I know not how lie earn-? 1 only knew, ar.d bowed before The magic of his name. So many are more beautiful? Ah, well, perchance Tls true; So many are much better, dear? Sweet, no one else is "you.” —Haliimore American. The various devices adopted lo serve as a substitute for liquid perfume has nev* r been entirely satisfactory when It comes to the necessity of Imparling an enduring scent to a gown. The little sliver hearts, perforated and containing the solid pellets of perfume, were rather ornamental than useful, even when there were no substi tutes for them They are still in use and dropped into tlie deepest recesses of the cot sage, exude a faint and not very en during perfume. Most of the I'aris dtess makers put into convenient places in a gown the small bags of sachet lewder of the scent a fretted by the wearer. Nearly every woman, who makes an effort to keep up with thes* novelties in daintiness, has her set of little sachet bags to fit worn in the corsage, even If she does no; have them sewed iu every dress. As the sterner sex, says the. New Tork Tribune, is fond of remarking, women have many curious Inconsistencies. Never theless it must be admitted that the im peachment is not without foundation. Taae for instance the matter of “tipping.” The most philanthropic and generous of wo men even, almost invariably give motn little tips, and if it is possible to avoid it, never give any. At a woman’s luncheon counter recently, one of the few exceptions to the rule left a coin on the counter after having paid her score. “You have forgotten this,” said the waitress, pushing it over to her. “Oh, that ts my 10 per cent, tip.” return ed the other laughingly, but without tak ing it. The attendant picked It up. set nte 1 doubtful what to do with it, and finally walked over and dropped it into the firm's cashbox. | “Evidently lips are not common here,” soliloquized the donor, as she watched the proceeding. I forgot it was a women's counter!” ”1 have never considered the matter of tips," remarked a fashionable woman re cently. "I always noticed my husband gave something to the waiter when he dined at a restaurant, hut I never inquired wltat it was, ai.J it has so happened I have never gone alone to surh places. Not long ago. however, when I hml a luncheon on, my cook fell ill, and rather than p si roite the parly 1 transferred by entertain ment to the Waldorf. It was quite an elaltorate luncheon, and we had four walt l ter*, and when l left 1 gave them a quar i ter apiece, which 1 considered tn adequate i lip, but I saw at once by their faces tha I had committed an error according to their code. "What should I have given?” I asked my husband afterward. “ 'Why, a dollar at least, for such a luncheon as that,' he answered.” Speaking of Americans In London re minds me that yesterday a well-known Chicago woman came to me un<l said that she cons.dered liondon shopkeepers are a very unpleasant and uncivil race, of hu man beings. I expostulated with her on this wholesale condemnation and ankeu her grounds for making such a remark. Site told me that she had gone into a smart Regent street shop in search of a certain style of cloak which she desired to take home with her. She had her ntind fixed upon one variety, and was deter mined to get that or nothing. Tire shop women were most anx.ous to serve lief, and brought out as many as Ilf teen or sixteen varieties of garments for her in. speetion. None of them, however, quite suited her, and finally, after some con sideration, she said that she would leave the matter open for a few days, in order to make up hi r mind about the purchase. Tin young woman who had been serving her. on hearing this, tossed her head in a disdainful way and remarked: “Of j . our * , that is always the way with Aim j leans. They come in here, take up our time, linger our goods, and then walk oft, aft. r giving us a great deal of irouble, without having spent u shilling in the shop." The American woman was very Indignant, and said site had never been accustomed to being treated so Imperti nently, and left the establishment in high dudgeon. Then she came to me and asked my opinion upon the matter. I could but toll ihe truth, says the writer of a !,ondon letter In the Chicago Tim- s' He raid, and acknowledge Americans ha 1 earned for themselves this reputation In London. When they arrive ar the flna t>otni of decision they spend lavishly mil well, but up IO that psychological moment they are apt to linger most provoking y on the very outside edge of indecision, tsho > people in London, and. indeed, throughout England, are proverbially polite and atten tive. Hut also they are but hitman. An experience of my own is an illustration or the matter under consideration. Hirly this season n sufficiently wealthy Am ri tati woman came to me and said she wish ed to purchase oome pretty and moderately THE MORNING NEWS: SEN DAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1890. bySfunpHs and light ds*essings of CUTICURA, purest of emollient skin cures. This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and dandruff, soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimulates the hair follicles, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp when ail else fails. 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The young woman who waited upon us found her customers rather diffi cile, but as I whispered to her that they were likely to prove more than ordinarily remunerative customers, she gladly took a special amount of trouble on their behalf. After about three-quarters of an hour sitent in exhaustive communication and minute examination, to my horror, the American ladies decide*! that they had seen nothing that they cured about purchasing, and swept om of the shop, leaving a counter simply piled with articles of clothing that had been drags;*d out for ibeir benefit, gnarled over by two exhausted .otking shopgirls, who were simply too limp and mentally and morally weakened to advance a word of exp. slulatlon or entreaty. Surely tills was anything but fair, and it is not the only instance o: a case of the kind that hat; come under my own immediate notice. American- undoubted.'y expect when they come to Lcn on to secure everything at much cheaper rates than they do in Amer ica. If tin y pay *lO for a petl coat in Chi cago or New York, they exiset to be aide to get it In 1-ondon for $5, and so on. To come over ht re under such a delusion, however, is a supreme misiakc. Certain things undoubtedly are io bo bought more cheaply here than cn your side of die wa ter. ltut as a rule theie Is r.al y very Ut ile difference b. tween :he pri es in Chi cago and New York an.l In London. You can find cheap drti smakeis here, but they usually are very had. The good gown builders clinrgi very fair prices for all t hat they supply you wit in Certainly they ale cheaper than they ate In I’aris. Rut liondon is not a place where you can live for ' next to nothing.” It costs quite as much, and pcihaps more, lo “see life' here than It and .s With you. 1 spoke of (he prices a few minutes ago that dressmakers charge tor gowns. The system, I think, over here, is slightly different to that in fore, with you. The woman who goes to a fairly g'tod dn-ssmaker, lor instance, In London, never buys her own mtt rial-* and trimmings for a gown, and ihen takes It to the modiste to tie made up. Un the contrary, the dressmaker is r, sponsible lor al; the trimmings, materials, linings and ixiris and ends. You go there at.d s I, t your sniff, and say you want a dress made after such and such a style, with such aud such material-*. The dressmaker then says she can accomplish this irs It for you at such u sum, that sum Including making, stuff and all the odds and ends and inct dtntals that go toward the completion of a toil* i. It la only as a favor Ihut a ready smart dressmaker will consent to make up a customer's own materials, and 10 to 1 agnm-d ilie result being all that one coul! wish for. ''Bee:'' excitedly whispered a little boy to his mother in church, pouting to a fat spider of targe proportions that va lets- urely climbing the guipure bodice of n woman sitting in the pew in front of the. HI parent, says the New York Tribune, gazed with fascinated repulsion at the huge insect and tried to think how in such a case the golden rule shou'd be inter preted, while her small son watched Its progress with ecstacy. [ "It's going to crawl on her neck," he whispered wltn joy, hoping devoutly that | tha woman would shriek. But suddenly i the creature changed Its course and be -1 came entangled in some lace near the shoulder, whereupon the boy’s mother hesitate no longer. "Catch hold of It in the lace. Johnny,” she said, softly, to the little hoy. "while ; 1 tell the woman." The latter f.-.t herself suddenly clutched on one side by an un seen hand, while on the other. In a soft whisper in her ear. she heard the follow ing words: "Don't be frightened; it is only a spider in your lace.” A spider! A wild beast would be less alarming. The woman started to her feet and uttered a muffied exclamation of fright and relief as a ball about the size of a penny fell to the door, uncurled rapully a quantity o? long legs and scuttled off under the next pew. The occupant, attracted by the dis turbance, had seen the fall of the spider and knew it was in dan gerous proximity to her. Rut there was no Miss Muffot in that pew. It was a saint, with the spirit of a martyr, who, al though she, too, felt a feminine horror of a spider, did not allow the Imminent dan ger to inn Hot wjth her devotions. Catch ing her skirts with one hand, she wound them tightly around her. and, holding her hymn book in iho other, she stepped, to the great delight of the small boy, upon a hassock, whereon, without giving a glance to see If the enemy stormed the citadel, she sung with fervor. "I never In my life enjoyed church so much!” declared the email boy upon his return home. The Prayer of Life— Li ad me, (> Hod, In life’s brave early day. While skies are clear and ail the world is gay. ■So many hurtful blooms my vision greet! So many paths diverge to lure ray feet Ear from Thy peaceful, sinless road astray. And when the morning can no longer stay, And songs ate mute, and noontide's fer vent ray Upon Iho w. ary track must fiercely beat, Lend me, O God! Nor leave me when the eventide shall lay Upon life's happy fields its vapors gray— Clasp thin my hand In Thine more close and sweet Than’Thou hast ever held if; and, while fleet The night is'falling, down the unknown way Lend me, O God! —Henry J. riio.kmd. In Youth's Compan ion. The return of a titled American recently to her own country hos called some at tention to the subject of international marriages, in which It is a.most invariably Iho woman who brings oil the money, while the Impecunious husband presents only his title nnd a more or less dam aged reputation. It seems to require no more than a few years of residence on the continent to harden ar.y American girl to views on the subject of matrimony which she could Deter be persuaded to entertain at home. In th s country the marriage of a young girl solely for money is a question that Is discussed very deli cately. Marrying for money, says the New York Sun. is doubtless inmost ns common here as i< is in the other coun tr. s. but it is not a distinctly American habit. In Europe, where marriages are arranged wi.h greater prudence than they are the financial feature of every match are discussed frankly, and settled just as any other matter of busi ness would be. Here, the idea that she was being married for her money would be in.olerabie to any American girl. The bare suggestion of such an altitude on the part of the man she was about to marry wou.d put an end at the last moment to any agreement that might exist between them. That would be the state of mind of an American girl in her own country. Once she has be*a transplanted to Europe, however, a.l the view changes immediate ly. The negotiations preceding her mar riage to a foreigner would, in all proba bility. be concerned only with the finan cial phase of the matter. The relatives who concerned themseives in the affair, the fiance himself, the lawyers, and every body eise interested in the matter, would say and do nothing but what constantly reminded her that without her money she would never have gotten the husband who ts now nbout to consent to lake her. Every preliminary step in the wedding preparations rests on this financial basis. Yet the American girl is r.ot shocked by it. She quickly absorbs the foro.gn ideas of the subject. She is willing to be looked upon as the indispensable adjunct of some titled lover's life and realize at the same time that her dot is quite as indispensa ble as she is. The betrothed might take her dot without taking her. The reverse of this could never happen. Y'et the Amer ican marries cheerfully the titled foreign er, when a similar proposition from one of her own countrymen would be looked upon as an insult. One case recently show ed that this is so. An American woman of great wealth became engaged to an Italian Prince. Ev erybody said that this was a love match, even if millions were involved. Prepara tions for the wedding progressed favora bly up to a certain point. There they stopped suddenly. Tug and pull as the negotiators might, things would not ad vance. They stuck fast at the Prince’s inexorable demand for the full control of his wife's fortune. They discussed the question alone, with their relatives and with their lawyers. By the terms of her grandfather’s will, the great estate that had come down to her could noth be alien ated. Her executors in New Y’ork cabled their positive refusal to allow any ac tion by which the control of the estate would pass to her husband, for she had called in their assistance to help her sat isfy the Prince's demands for her whole fortune. The fiance became ill when it became certain that the crisis was not to be got over as she hoped it would. The Prince, who had never been angry, but always low-voiced, polite and considerate, said goodbye with sincere and well-chosen expressions of highly aristocratic regret. Then she grew worse, and the watching doctors never left her for weeks. The Prince retired to one of the residences of his sister, a Duchess and wealthy. The breach seemed permanent, but the loss of the millions was an awful blow. No body had supposed that the demand to hand them over entirely would be refus ed. It was late to make another effort to get them, but the reward was great. One day the Prince’s sister, the Duchess, came into Paris from her country house and called at the American home. Mad emoiselle was too ill to see anybody. Duchesses are not in the habit of being baffled by Americans, and she' repeated her demands to the mademoiselle. She became so persistent that the young wo man's aunt came into the drawing room to receive her. "It distresses our family," was the list of her conversation, "that this painful difference should have occurred. It dis tresses all of us. It may even make us ridiculous before the world. My brother will marry your niece without any pre nuptial contract. They will marry as peo ple do in your own country. My brother will usk no questions, but ihe two will go hand in hand to the altar." This was delivered in a cordial tone, hut without enthusiasm. It was an intimation that this noble family would consent to violate all Its traditions for the sake of these Americans who were of a kind that made the sacrifice immense. It was in reality a trap to get tne millions that seem ed to be lost. The oid woman was tend, r and affectionate. But she had shrewd comcmu sense. "We are as regretful as you o'er this sad affair. Mmc. la Duchesse," was her answer, "and my [mor niece is very ill. She is heartbroken. But lam afraid I do not understand the offer you bring from your brother. 1 thought that a woman's property on her marriage became her hus band's by* the laws of Franco. Surely' that would be no different from the question that has already caused us so much trouble." The Duchess rose from chair and looked at her contemptuously. "You Americans!" she oxc’nlmed, as if that ought to explain anything. "You know more about ihe laws of France than I do. and my granduncle was one of its Ifings.” She left the room then and the marriage proposition was never revived. To this day, tile distress that the American felt is dwelt on whenever her name is mentioned and the affair discussed. She did suffer dreadfully and it was her heart, not her | pride that was wounded. She was ill for a I long lime and barely recovered. The Prince has married and the woman is wealthy. His deserted American betrothed has told her fritnds that her romance was ended with that episode in her life. Her till-i] lover tried to get compete control of her fortune and refused to marry her unless she gave it to him. When he could not get it fairly, he iried to trick her into it. An American who had gone about marry ing her in this way would have IK-en on ob ject of loathing to her. Hut in a foreigner, that was different. It even seemed all right, lovabie, adorable. The Atchison Globe has the following comtiw nts on ihe fair s£x: Every engaged girl makes ihe mistake of imagining ihat she now has him 100 se cure to be sen nil off by her appearance in cur.'-pupers. If you have anything to do with a wo man. impose on her. or she will on you. Whenever ihe women sec anew widow coming down the sdeet they put on a look k Vigorous Shampoo once every week with Seven Sutherland Sisters’ J Bj Scalp Cleaner, when I m immediately followed ’ 9 with a thorough appli cation of the Hair Grower, will make the hair soft, silky and luxuriant. Unlovely hair means unhealthy hair. These preparations strengthen as well as cleanse and purify. They make and keep the hair beautiful. For men, women and children. Sold by all druggists. LIEBIG Company's Extract OF BEEF is indispensable in the culinsry department ol every household. of sweet sympatl j that also takes quick measurement of the length of her crape. The women alf envy a certain Atchison woman who has bluffed her husband into the belief that she has heart disease and is liable to drop dead if crossed in her wishes. When a girl has her picture taken wear ing a dress cut very low in front she com plicates matters by turnirg her eyes down ward. The complaint is made that an Atchison girl is so interested in being a Daughter of the King thal she forgets that she has an earthiy father. The average woman regards an apology as a good deaf like a sponge and believes that it will wipe out anything. A woman, says the New York Times, who says she has never from any unplea-- ant experience known what it was to have a stomach lives almost entirely on ba nanas. It is a taste inherited, she says, from her father, who spent many years in a banana country and learned there to like them and consider them a valuable article of food. Like his daughter, he never ex periences those troubles which are the un doing of so many Americans, and he also credits it to the bananas. The first crav ing of the daughter in the morning is for a banana, and when she rings the bell the maid knows what is wanted and takes a couple of bananas to her room. These she eats before she completes her toilet, and goes down to breakfast to find two more beside her plate. These, with possibly a cub of prepared coffee, complete her breakfast, and she thrives on the diet. She has a pretty, soft complexion and a com fortable plumpness. The only trouble is that away from home there is sometimes difficulty in obtaining bananas, and then she suffers. This inconvenience has made her think of breaking up the habit, but the diet is so simple and so satisfactory that it seems foolish to do so. Dates are also a staple article of food with her. But while this is well suited to her, it is not to other members of her family. While they are not so comfortably unconscious of that important organ, the stomach, they are more conscious than ever of it if they un dertake a banana diet. A doctor says that if bananas can be eaten, there is nothing which gives more nutriment, but all people cannot eat them without ill effects. KIPLING AS A BOY EDITOR. Schoolmate Describes the Famous l ulled Service College Chronicle. The recent sale in Ixmdon of n set of United Service College Chronicles—the paper which Rudyard Kipling edited as a boy—for the remarkable price of $5OO, is onother illustration of the extraordinary eminence to which the famous author has risen during a comparatively short period. The little paper in question, about 12 by 10 inches in size, was printed on four sheets of medium weight, generally white, but something of a pale yellow tint, and was issued three times a year, at the end of each school term. Headed by the co.lege arms—a Bible and crown between crossed swords, surrounded with the motto, “Fear God, Honour the King.” the front page was devoted to edi torial matter, the rest of the paper beina made up of the accounts of cricket and football matches, school notices and the poetic effusions of those very ftw who as pired to that goal of fame. Rudyard Kipling was colled to the edi torship about the year 1870, and occupied that position until he left the college, the first number under his charge being mark ed by an almost pathetic appeal for con tributions, which were to receive his, the editor's, careful attention—the boys, for some unknown reason, having previously seldom offered matter for publication in the college paper. Overruling the boy editor, there was, of course, the censorship of the headmaster; and on many an occasion Kipling was heard to anathematise “Bates" for his un sparing, though doubtless judicious, u e of the biue pencil over the former's edi torial work; Kipling, however, gaining his revenge in the memorabie pen duel in the columns of the Brideford Gasettf— files of which paper, of that period, should also be valuable in the eyes of the literary curio collector. While previous to Kipling’s editorsh p the college paper was regarded with .it tle interest by the boys, being mainly composed by the masters, subsequently it was eagerly looked for, “gigs," clever tr.ots and verses being duly appreciated. The issue at no time having exceeded SCO or 400, each boy being only entitled to one copy, some numbers must be exceed ingly rare, those of from 1878 to 18S2 being mainly in which Kipling’s contributions are likely to be found. As the majority of Kipling's school-fel lows eventually found their way to foreign lands—to India, where the lives of many, in his own words, have become the “seed of empire; to the British colonies, and the the Far West of America, some of these now valuable little papers may be discov ered in most unexpected places, there be ing probably not a few lurking on the Pa cific coast, a number of Kipling's former companions having settled there as ranch crs - Mlchal'. Gifford White. A MOST (T IMOt S It MI.WAV. It Runs on the North Sen, mid Is Pulled or Pushed by Horses. The most curious railway in the world is undoubtedly that one at the bathing re sort, Juisl, on the North sea. The land here Is of so strange a formation, extend ing FO far out into the sea and making it impossible for boats to land here, that a peculiar device has been adopted for the landing of passengers from ships. First they must get into sailboats, which come as far as the end of the railroad track, and then the passengers get into thp cars and are pulled to dry land by Hie hor-ei that wade between the tracks as they pu l the ours up on dry land. The horses aie sometimes up to their necks in water at high tide, but they press brave.y forward, and at last find firmer foothold as they get hearer to land. For years tins method ha-- been used. thougn every ivlnitr the storm t tear up some of the track of this tvaur railway. We wonder why they use horse•( and don't string a trolley wire overhead to pud the ears up, and perhaps th y will do so, but it would be a pity to abolish this unique horse car. where the horse has al most to swim to do his work, —Being Careful.—" Leonidas!” excla med Mr. Meekton's wife, on his return from 1 journey, "I am at a loss to understand your conduct when we storted. 1 said good-bye to you." "Yes, Henrietta." "Why didn’t you say good-aye in re sponse?" "I was just about to do so. Hen rietta. but I Chetk.d myself. I was afral 1 you would accuse me of trying to have the last word again."—Nashvil.e Star. THE AUTOMOBILE INN. IT WILL BE KEPT LIKE AN OLD. FASHIONED •COUNTRY' HOSTELRY. A Woman Who Expects <* Open a Model Horseless Carriage Inn Next Summer Explains What She Be lieves Is Needed—Jn.t ll<>, T She Blaus to Meet the Demand—A New nnd Bromlslug; Employment f ur Houftekeepern. York, Sept. 13.—" The automobile has opened anew field for women who have their own livings to earn," observ J a woman the other day who proposes to i . come the proprietor and manager of a i. .v old-fashioned country inn. “People a just beginning to appreciate the many ~d-vantages vantages of this novel means of travel* she observed, "and by next season I !*. lieve it will not only have taken th.* pi i of horses, but for short pleasure trips mugt rival the palace and observation cars. "Don't imagine I refer to our becomii ’ motormen as a profession. I mean ir.it automobiles will so Increase the travel over country roads that there is bound to bt 4 demand for well kept public houses. I: in after the manner of those famous in 1 0 days of the stage coach and which are occasionally run across in England to-d .y. It Is as keepers of these inns that women will find anew means of earning their liv ing and it is just such a position as will appeal to the old-fashioned, womanly wo man. The one wiio looks well alur r house, keeps a good table, attends to r chickens and her cows and maybe fatten* her own roasting pigs. The place I have taken is on a mountain road, a good day s run from L , and has quite a nice liulo farm attached. I am having the etui 9 place put in order and the house, which, though comparatively new, is old-fashion ed looking, remodeled after the type ot' the Blue Dragon, the Peacock and other fam ous hostelries where 1 have stopped in Great Britain. It is a large house and I tnost entirely overrun by Virginia cree-pe , and while the windows are both broad a i tall the sashes have those diamond lead t panes we ail admire. Then, too, there are several tall chimneys anij a number of pecks and gables to the roof, so you s ■■ I really had a good foundation to fcrg u wllh as far as appeuranees were concerned. “The interior I am having chang'd. ' n* walls and ceilings are all modeled on old. time methods and so is the furn.lui . . ha beds are h gh leasicred affairs with <1 tp valances of white dirnhy, and the 1". .• and chests of drawers til hive that cleanly delightful odor wh'ci on!/ a bunch of io:.- ntary and other such su- et -smelling neriii can give. “And by the way, perhaps I had best tell you now before 1 torget it. In the kitchen garden 1 have plant and a good sup ply of herbs for lust suet purpo.-es and I also secured several budiet of that oM fashloned sweet rase ir.im whien our grandmothers distilled their ros - wal- t j and used the petals to soatH r among their laces and lire linen. But tuv gardner n i * me they will not grow in lips olimute. Do you know anything about Hem’ H-re ihe future innkeep r looked nnxi .uslv at the writer and reoogmzmg a reply in mo negative heaved a sigh of regret and con tinued. “The public rooms will be even more 1.7.9 those of the English >nns than nv bed chambers—for 10 ted 'ho irulu, while fol lowing foreign models in appearance f have made those chamber* thorough)/ modern as far as ron.’tn.e i et arc ■ - 1.- cerned. The floors of 'he public rooms wi I be sanded and some of them at lea-l strewn with fresh rushes cry week "There will not be a yard of carpet in the house and the guests may have feather bods whenever they prefer them—the thi is downy kind that our grandparents con sidered so comfortable. The water works will only be in evidence in the bath room*, and these, though numerous, arc not o conspicuous as to g ve their surroundings an incongruous appearance. "Of course, I am to have open fire-places, big, old-fashioned ones, in every room 1.1 the house, and ill each of the wide halls. They will constitute one of the chi. r charms of the place and as wood is both plentiful and cheap you may be sure them will always be roaring fires of big .ogs when the weather demands it. "Ivly glass and china is plain, and wn. re I could not secure pewter I took heavy old-time plate engraved with the arms "f my inn; an inn always hqs arms, y 1 - know. The kitchen is both old and new. lit has ali modern conveniences ns *< ! j as a huge fire place, a roasting spit ai.J j a Dutch oven. "On the farm and in the gardens I Hi m I raise all the vegetables, melons and frur* I used at the inn. I take great pride In m* ! poultry and cows and assure you I have I spared neither trouble nor expense fitting ! up my fowl-houses and dairy. The la', cr ! I am sure will interest you. It is built of i rough stone and has a stream of wan r i running through it. Not well water 1 pumped up and sent through pipes, - j a clear mountain brook, over a pebb.y 1 bed that babbles as it flows and 1 trust will always keep my dairy maid in au amiable mood, as well as preserve tne butter and milk at a low temperature. "You ask why such inns have not beea thought of before. The people who travel in horreless carriages will belong jo 1 well-to-do class, both willing and able to pay for such comforts v/hen making trl - 9 ! through the country in their own m chines, for business or pleasure. 1' ' will he ahout the same class as th' l -* who, ill days gone by, Journeyed by stag* coach, while not the very wealthiest per haps they will be able to appreciate a. pav for the hospitalities of such counu. hostelries. H is anew field for women work* rs and I believe one they will s Jd " ly welcome. —Golden weddings are common crouch ill Kansas, but it is seldom that a im* n 19 found who can celetnaie the liflieih ‘ ,r * n r versary of his to his secun wife, as recently was Jane by B< * 1 • J Hughes, one of ihe earliest oil mens Atchison. In the pioneer days Hugh®**; president of the great Overland >- - Company of which Ben Holliday was oral manager. His only son, Andrew • • i Hughes, now general traffic manage' 1 ihe Denver and Bio Grande Ha h a . married to the sister of Mrs. John J sails. —A Topeka man promised his w n Ui- •' fuf.y lo name hi- new silver mine in *" ' Mexico after her. Next week she •ihe printed letter fiends of the new nil _ lor the first time, nnd instead of the pr ty name of Marie Louise she found called “The Holy Terror.*’ _ 0. Use the genuine MURRAY a LANIUrS | mum mm I “TheUniversalPerfume.” For the Handkerchief, W Toilet and Bath. Refuse all substitutes, fa