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AUout H. hiij*.
Beans are divided into two classes,
pole or running and dwarf. These
arc again divided into war, green pod
ded, white and English. The first
two are eaten pods and all. The wax
beans are considered the richest but
are not as har ly as the green-podded.
Hoi Stall*. ,
Every barn should have one or more
box stalls In it for the accommodation
of sick animals and cows that are
about to caive. large enough so that
the animal could turn round, and those
working ahvot it would have room
enough, and n should be on the sun
ny side of the building and well venti
lated.
Tli ( ttbltuKe Worm.
The cabbage worm is hatched from
an egg laid by the white butterfly.*
Numerous remedies have been pro
posed, but the best method is to de
stroy as many of the butterflies as
possible. Hot water, saltpetre, black
pepper. et< , have not given satisfac
tory results The kerosene emulsion
will prevent attack, but it leaves an
S/dor on the cabbage. For a small
patch insect powder is excellent, but
It must be used frequently. Paris
greau is used, but consumers object,
fearing its poisonous effects, though
it is claimed as a safe remedy.
I*ropor F(mml for I<t*yin|? Hen*.
Laying benH require food rich in the
elements which compose the albumen
or white of the egg. The carbonaceous
material is plentifully supplied when
they are given corn and wheat, but
meat. mWk, iin seed meal, brun. finely
et/t clover, gluten meal and bone meal
should also be given by way of va
riety Those foods need not be al
lowed every lay, but may be fed as re
quired. or about three times a week.
The ground commercial meat should
be given if fresh meat is not obtaina
ble!. Cow peas may be grown as a
special food for poultry, as they can
not lie excelled when used for laying
lions and growing chicks.
fotiiiuerini: (lie Onion Mciiul.
In some .sections the onion maggot
is the greatest nuisance. These are
hatchod from ftc 3 eggs deposited by a
tty in the leaf just below the surface
of the ground. This trouble is more
apt. to appear in old beds, yet not al
ways. for I hive had crops greatly in
jured by the maggot on ground but
two years from the sod. on which on
ions were never before grown. Thick
planting is to a degree a wise precau
tion. tint as tne fly passes from onion
to onion, depositing her eggs. tle bed
will presen' but a patchwork of a crop
at the beat.
Many rent dies are prescribed, but
most of them are practically worth
less on largo areas, as they Involve
the outlay of too much time and mon
ey. Ttfe two that 1 have most faith in,
founded on rhe experience of myself
nd neighbors, is to run over the bed
with a roller immediately after plant
tag This compacts the earth so that
the fly cannot so readily deposit her
ftggs below the surface. The other
remedy is to lot Hie piece with smal l ,
movable coops, which confine the hens
but permit the young chicks to ram
ble; theije will soon learn to lie on the
watch for the fly Sometimes a slight
change of location will give ground
free from the maggot. The coming
and golug of the maggot is well illus
trate! in my own experience. The
laud which i am now cultivating to
onioua is free from the maggot, though
years ago it was so infested 1 was
fairly banished from it. 1 sometimes
meet the id-* that the pest is carried
ir the seed. This is untrue, because
impossible, as all entomologists will
agree.— J. J H. Gregory, in New Eng
land Homestead.
When j%ul How lo Prune.
All person* familiar with birches
sud maples know that if any limbs
sre taken from them in the late win
ter or spring time, the stubs will bleed
freely for a number of weeks; and if
such limbs ire large ones, they sel
dom heal over before decay has com
menced in them.
Apple and pear trees will bleed more
or less when pruned at the same sea
sous of the year; and for that reason
no pruning, when targe limbs are to
be taken oft. should be done at that
time of the year When pruning is
done during ihe midsummer months,
the stubs commence to heal over quite
coon, and they can be painted within
a few days after pruning, if the weath
er is warm and dry. which cannot be
done, aud have the paint hold, if the
pruning is done before the bleeding
has ceased to Row. During the sum
mer months the .*ap is thickening for
the making of new wood and is largely
near the bark and not in the older
wood of the trees. Trees that are
pruned in the spring are from one to
two years longer iii healing than if
pruned in summer, and that fact is of
great importance when the life and
health of the trees are taken into con
sideration.
Now how should a tree be pruned?
Should the stubs be left long or short,
oj with as little wood as the circum
stances will permit. Any person who
has taken much notice of how others
have pruned, an well as his own work,
has noticed that the longer the stubs
are left the longer they are in healing
over.' aud in many cases they never
heal over, but dry up or decay, which
In many is the beginning of the
decay and death of the tree.
One other error in pruning is often
made in not sawing the limbs off as
nearly as possible perpendicular with
the body of the trees or the larger
limbs from which they are taken. By
taking off the limbs perpendicular
rather than horizontal, more or less,
the lower parts of the stub or wound
will heal over nearly or quite as soon
as the upper part—Jonah H. Pries, In
The Country Gentleman.
Ifio<*u 1 ft l ln |g the Roil.
That an animal may be inoculated
with disease or with ‘omc remedy for
disease, is well known, but the sci
ence of agriculture has so far ad
vanced as to aid In inoculating the
soil. This subject has been previous
ly treated, but experiments are being
made every year, and they add much
information for farmers who are inter
ested in soil inoculation. In Farmers’
Bulletin No. 124 the I'nited States ag
ricultural department gives the re
ports of results in this direction. Ni
trogen is the most expensive fertiliz
er, yet it is the most abundant, form
ing four-fifths of the atmosphere,
thougli only under rare conditions is
free nitrogen available for plant
growth. It has long been known, how
ever, that leguminous plants, such as
clover, alfalfa and cow peas, are rich
in nitrogen, and increase the nitrogen
contents of the soils upon which they
are grown. They have the power to
appropriate the free nitrogen of the
air, but only when small nodules are
found on their roots. It is now be
lieved that these bacteria draw their
nitrogen from the air and convert it
into forms which can be utilized by
the plants on which the nodules grow.
Whenever one or more of the legumin
ous crops are grown it should be the
duty of the grower to carefully exam
ine the roots of some of the plants for
these nodules. If they are not found
then the plants will not make any ac
tual gain in nitrogen, but when a crop
like clover has been grown at inter
vals for a number of years it is proba
ble that the soil contains the proper
bacteria for forming the nodules, but
the bacteria growing upon the roots
of clover may not grow upon the roots
of another genus, such as the cow pea
or vetch. Every genus has its own
characteristic bacteria. When the no- '
dules are not formed on the roots of [
the plants it is possible to produce j
them by inoculating the soil by pro- j
curing soil from a field which has pro
duced a crop of the same kind which
had the nodules on the roots.
The soil may be inoculated when the
seed of the crop is sown, or at some
time during its growth. In Kansas j
inoculated soil was obtained from a
soy bean field in Massachusetts, and
by scattering it over the Kansas land
plants with tubercles were grown, pro
ducing an increased field and a higher
percentage of nitrogen. Several meth
ods of inoculating were tried. Tho
seeds were thoroughly wetted in a
bag suspended in wnter into which
some of the Massachusetts soil had
been stirred. Again, the dry soil was
broadcasted over some plots, and in
other cases was drilled in with the
seed. Thp best results were obtained
by drilling in the inoculated earth. To
secure plenty of the inoculated soil
the following is the method: In a row
500 feet long incorporate 100 pounds of
inoculated soil at the time of sowing
the seed. After harvesting the crop
take up the soil in the row to the depth
of four or five inches and spread it
on. boards in the shade to dry. When
dry It may be stored away for use in
sacks. When planting a field to sow
beans or cow peas apply the inoculat
ed soil, with the seed by means of a
fertilizer attachment to a grain drill,
or broadcast for clover, but do not
overlook the fact, ns stated, that inoc
ulated soil for sov beans will not an
swer for cow peas. Each kind of le
gume has its own special bacteria.
There are also artificial cultures bot
tled for use. known as “nltragin." but
which are too costly to use. except as
a “starter,” from which a certain
amount of seal can be inoculated. Any
farmer who will procure a two bushel
bag of soil from a field upon which
clover, cow peas, soy beans, vetch or
any other legume has been grown, pro
vided the roots of such plants contain
nodules, may inoculate his own soil
for such crops.
Experiments with hairy vetch,
grown on a soil for the first time, one
lot of seed was dipped into a water
solution of earth from an old garden
spot upon which vetch had been grown
and for comparison another plot w'as
sown without treatment. The Inocu
lated plants had large clusters of tu
percules on the roots and produced 2540
pounds of cured hay per acre. The
uninoculated plants had no tubercules
and produced only 232 pounds of hay.
In a crop of crimson clover inoculated
seed produced an average of 4057
pounds, while the uninoculated seed
produced only 761 pounds per acre.
These results were at the Alabama sta
tion. the commercial bottled “nitra
gin" being used. The gaiu in nitrogeu
is large, that from the inoculated
crimson clover being about 148 pounds
while the nitrogen from the uninocu
lated .plot was less than five pounds.
The inoculated hairy vetch gave over
105 pounds of nitrogen and the unin
oculated only seven pounds. At the
Mississippi station the yield >f hairy
vetch was increased over 64 percent by
scattering inoculated soil in the drills.
The nodules will, no doubt, in time, de
velop without inoculation, but the.
work is slow, hence it is better to
noculate the soil. It will probably
)e found not necessary to inoculate
oils that are capable of producing
Vrge crops of the legumes, as no doubt
he nodules will be found on the roots
i such cases, but for poor soils that
re deficient in nitrogen, and upon
which the leguminous plants do not
thrive, the soil should be inoculated.
Superstitious persons say that a
■wart cut off .by tying a silk thread
round it and drawing the ends tightly
will never return.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSYILLE, GA.
I^^&iiidreii’s 5
Dream*.
1 dream the very nicest things!
I dream my tricycle has wings;
1 dream my doll can laugh and talk,
1 dream m.v woolly lamb can walk.
I Tow do the dreams get in my head
As I lie quiet in m.v bed?
Ito 1 just think while I'm asleep,
Or does a little fairy creep,
.So soft and still, up to my ear
And whisper dreams for me to hear?
—Little Folks.
Ire Contain* Heat.
A certain teacher told his class in
physics one day that there is no such
thing as cold, that being merely a
relative term, implying a deficiency of
heat. Even ice, he said, has heat in
it.
This staggered the boys somewhat,
and one of them asked the teacher
how it might be demonstrated. So
the teacher directed him to get two
small pieces of ice and go out into the
school yard and rub them together
briskly. The temperature outside was
several degrees below the freezing
point, and the boy was sent into the
yard to make the experiment more
convincing.
He returned after a little while, and
reported that the rubbing of the pieces
together had melted them both.
“That,” said the teacher, “Is exact
ly what I expected, for the friction
produced by the rubbing woke the
heat in the ice, and of course it
melted."
A I.ernion for the Prince.
One of the many stories told in Ger
many about the crown prince’s child
hood has almost become a household
word with his future subjects, so fre
quently has it been told in nurseries.
Nothing afforded the young prince
when a child of six or seven greater
pleasure than to watch the sentries
salute as he passed in or out of the
castle at Potsdam, and the old sol
diers were kept at it from night till
morning. This delight was equaled
only by his aversion to water, and the
poor woman who was charged with
his toilet averred that he lay awake
nights devising a means to escape the
cold morning bath. One day the child
rushed in upon the emperor and em
press as they sat at breakfast with a
fierce complaint against the sentry
who neglected to salute him as usual
that morning. The emperor drew his
son close to him. examined him curi
ously and then replied: “I don't won
der, my son. the poor sentry did not
recognize the crown prince in this
dirty-faced little boy, so I cannot have
him reprimanded.” This was the last
time the prince ever refused to have
his face washed.
How a Klind Historian Wrote.
William Hlckling Prescott, the great
historian, who wrote “Ferdinand and
Isabella,” “Conquest of Mexico” and
“Conquest of Peru,” labored under
great disadvantages, for he was al
most blind. He disliked the work of
dictating his matter to an amanuensis
who could write his pages for him,
and se he used a contrivance that
enabled him to write his own books
with some degree of skill. He pos
sessed a writing box, the top being
made as a frame, in which were set
horizontally brass wires something
like those seen in an abacus or count
ing machine. Under these wires be
placed a sheet of white paper, under
that a sheet of carbon paper over a
sheet on which the writing was to ap
pear. Mr. Prescott used instead of a
pen a stylus, which left no mark upon
the upper paper. By means of the
brass wires he was enabled to keep
the lines nearly regular. The “copy”
appeared on the white paper under
the carbon paper. Mr. Prescott wrote
nearly all of those famous books of
his by this means. It was long be
fore the typewriter had been invented,
and all matter had first to be written
by hand.
Baby’* Present.
Stitch, stitch, stitch; oh. how busy
they were! Fred, Kitty, Jem, Nance
and Baby.
The room was tilled with the noise
of Fred’s fret saw, as he busily
worked away, while Jem kept asking
nurse for “more paint water, please.”
‘‘We shall have to be quick,” said
Kitty, presently, “for mother’s birth
day is only the day after tomorrow.”
‘’Oh, dear, said Nance, ‘ and I have
two more seams to sew.”
Suddenly Baby jumped up from the
hearth rug where she had been sit
ting.
"Me work; me make a pesent for
mumma.” she cried. ‘‘Kitty, listen;
can’t me do some-pin?”
‘‘You’re too little, Baby; you must
give mother a big kiss. You must
wait to work until you are big, like
us,” answered Kitty.
“Me wants to: me’ll make ”
Baby paused and looked around the
room, while Kitty picked up another
ball of wool. ’
‘ Well, go and think about it,” she
suggested, feeling sure that Baby
would soon forget.
As the little girl toddled back to
the rug mother’s step was out
side. and the way those presents flew
out of sight was simply wonderful.
Of course mother pretended not to
know anything, but, perhaps she was
not very much surprised to hear, on
the important morning, the sounds of
whispering and laughing outside her
door.
Soon all was quiet again; she opened
the door and saw quite a pile of queer
shaped parcels.
Then the children sprang out of
their hiding places.
"Oh! do begin to open them, moth
er, quick!” cried Nance, dancing
arounu iu her little white nightgown.
"But you must not run about like
j this in the cold,” said mother; "get
into my bed;” and how they laughed
as she chased them in!
"That's from me!” cried Fred, as
mother unpacked a pretty craved
bracket.
"And I made the cuffs, mother; do
you like them?” said Kitty.
“They are very nice, dear,” an
swered mother, "and 1 am sure Nance
worked this pretty nightdress case;
and I think I know who did this, too.”
Jem laughed as she picked up his
picture.
But before she had time to thank
them the door opened, and who would
trot in but Baby!
She carried a big basket covered
with feathers and garden flowers.
"Here’s my present, mumma,” she
cried. “It’s a bonnet for you to wear
when you go to church!”
Mother said afterward that she did
not know when she had laughed so
much, while Baby sat on the pillow
crowing with delight.—Cas3ell’s Little
Folks.
I>atl, an Army Mule,
Dad is an army mule. There are
men in the Ninth who would rather
be detailed for the dynamite gun than
to risk a “bout” with Dad, but Sergt.
O’Hara swears by the big animal.
In the bleak garrison w'here Com
pany E is stationed, the weather clerk
is generous, and snow storm follows
snow storm in an endless succession.
One stormy afternoon, Sergt. O'Hara
was ordered to go a short dis
tance into the country to purchase
some hay. The horses being else
where, the sergeant saddled Dad aud
sallied out in the storm, forewarned
by the usual driver to "git him back
before feed time or there’ll he no fun
in the gait you’ll travel.”
By 5 o’clock the storm increased so
that it was impossible to see any dis
tance; and when tattoo was sounded,
and still no Dad to be seen, a council
was held, and it was decided that a
rescue party must go out before the
intense cold of night should benumb
the rider. It was unanimously agreed
that Dad must have thrown the ser
geant. But if so, where was Dad?
And feed time long past!
In a very short time the detail was
ready. They floundered down the
road, seeing and hearing nothing but
the sheets of fine snow and the shriek
of the wind. Past the little burial
ground of the post, thence across the
iron bridge out upon the flats be
yond.
They called, and listened, and
plunged on again, waving their lan
terns and shouting at every step.
Just at the bend of the road they
heard a faint and joyous “Hee-aw!”
The weary men took heart, and shout
ing wmrds of cheer, as they breasted
the big drifts, they saw the army
mule. He was standing faithful guard
over the prostrate and unconscious
form of Sergeant O’Hara. Energetic
measures soon revived the half-frozen
man, so that he could sit upon the sad
dle once more, and the next day the
entire company had talked over his
story in amazement.
While coming down a steep hill,
the mule had slipped and floundered,
so that the sergeant dismounted,
thinking to walk the rest of the way.
So they struggled on together, in the
increasing cold and storm. Finally,
becoming numb and weak, he had
sunk down in the road, being careful
to free the bridle that Dad’s arrival
at the post might be the signal for
his rescue.
After that, he was dimly conscious
of a warm nose being brushed over
his face, and then of being lifted bod
ily and carried a few feet. After a
period of unconsciousness, he knew
he was being dragged steadily along
by his clothes. It seemed miles to
his disordered brain before he felt
that he had been laid in a more shel
tered spot, and he sank peacefully to
sleep.
The men were Inclined to discredit
his story as a dream of his wandering
mind, but when a corporal and four
men brought in Sergeant O’Hara’s
whip, which they had found buried in
the snow nearly half a mile from the
place of his rescue, and just w'here
the sergeant insisted that he fell,
there was no more laughing at the
mention of old Dad’s name, and no
one jeered at the “Hoodoo” of the
corral whep he brought out the dump
cart for his usual round, with a bunch
of blue ribbon under each flapping
ear.—Our Animal Friends.
The King’* Finger-Cowl.
When a member of the royal family
comes to dinner it is a point of eti
quette, as all our readers know, to
provide none but the illustrious guest
with a finger bowl at. the end of the
banquet. The other diners must get
on somehow without that convenience.
The reason is a curious one. In early
Georgian days one never knew who
was loyal; every other man might be
a Jacobite in his secret heart. Now, it
was a piece of Jacobite ritual, when
ever the toast of “The King” was
drunk, secretly to pass the goblet over
any water that happened to be by the
drinker. This was supposed to con
vert the toast into that of “The King
over the water.” the exiled Stuart at
Rome or St. Germaine. On this becom
ing known the court insisted that there
should be no water within reach of
any guest, and the prohibition still
holds. —London Daily News.
A Hack and Some Stranger*.
The only thing that happened in
town today was the passage of a hack
up Commercial street with some
strangers in it.—Atchison Globe.
pisemfflTi
A Stumilns Pracl.
Avery stunning parasol is made of
turquoise blue taffeta made to imitate
the effect of the turquoise matrix,
while the handle of ivory is decorated
with turquoise.
Starry Pique.
A little star is woven into the sur
face of the dark navy blue piques. A
white star studs the surface of such
a pique, and a self-colored pique has
the star outlined with a corded edge.
For a child the white star is piefer
able. For girls and women the col
ored star is a good choice. The new
line of piques brought forward for
1901 shows double fold piques, instead
of the old single width. Double
width materials cut to advantage, as
every good needle-woman knows.
Seven Enterprising Women,
The woman with the hoe is with
us. At Roslyn, L. 1., Mrs. I. P. Taber-
Willets is conducting one of the mod
el dairy farms of this country. Mrs.
Virginia C. Meredith of Cambridge,
Ind., was recentily selected for the ex
periment of maintaining an agricul
tural school for girls, on similar lines
to the agricultural colleges for boys.
Mrs. Mary Gould Woodcock of Ripley,
Me., is raising trotting horses. In
Missouri. Miss Minnie Kulick runs a
large poultry farm. Miss Nellie
Hawks is doing the same kind of work
at Friend, Neb. From a wheat farm
of 640 acres in Lucca, N. D., Miss
Mary R. Vance derives an annual
profit of 50 percent. The Duke farm
near Summerville, N. J., now being
laid out in parks and fishing lakes,
and on which 350 men are employed,
is managed by Miss Maggie Smith.
Deportment In tlie Siek Room.
The duties of the trained nurse, no
matter how nearly to perfection she
has reached in her calling, arc light
when compared to the service of the
loving person who is nearest to the
sick one, who must stand ready al
ways to upbear and bring back the
self to its old place. Love and rea
son must work in perfect harmony in
the awful struggle to conquer the
forces that threaten to capture the
citadel of life. But love should not
Le allowed to gain the mastery over
reason, for if love rules alone, the nat
ural anxiety of the watcher is bound
to be expressed, aud this will not be
without its evil effect on the condition
of the sick one. At all times must
the person on guard to fight off the
advances of death be in absolute con
trol of herself or himself. She must
not yield to the fear that may be ly
ing heavily upon her heart—at any
rate, not before the one she watches.
To conceal the anxiety natural to the
situation is not easy; it requires much
strength of purpose and at times the
exercise of all the skill and tact the
watcher may possess.—Mary R. Bald
win, in the Woman’s Home Com
panion.
Simple Gown* for Girl*.
Mercerized cotton makes charming
frocks for young girls, and the materi
al looks like a fine and improved sat
een. Such cotton stuffs are quite in
expensive, and come in all fashionable
shades. Then, too, a foulard silk gown
is a good investment for a young girl.
Of course the design with which it is
patterned should be appropriately
youthful and dainty. Many of last
year’s foulards are now sold at lower
cost than the weaves this year, and
often they will be found charming
and dainty for the gown of the grow
ing girl. The red frocks —the plain
red and red and white —are especially
fashionable just now for young girls,
and can be found in almost all the ma
terials that are in vogue this • year.
These frocks should be in all
red; if possible, but if not, relieved
with white. Black should not be put
on such gowns, but should be left for
the trimming of the gowns of older
women. In these days when there is
no particular difference in the materi
als worn by young and old, there must
needs be come difference in the trim
ming, otherwise the effect of youth is
lost entirely, and the gown has the ap
pearance of being done over.
Trimmings of pleated chiffon,
gowns of chiffon, and also net gowns,
are in favor, made up with less elab
oration than is shown in the gowns cf
older women. Accordion-pleated
skirts, when they are becoming, are
pleasing for slender figures, but they
must be carefully made and well
draped over the hips, and the tucked
skirts or the pleated skirts with the
pleats cut down underneath or sitched
through are, as a rule, more becoming
than the accordion-pleated ones.—Har
per’s Bazaar.
Jewel* on the Forehead.
News comes from Paris to the effect
that the fervoniere is undoubtedly
coming back to favor. Forty years
ago no one would have needed to be
told what a fervoniere was, and many
of the ornaments are in the posesssion
of women lucky enough to have inher
ited jewels.
The old-fashioned fervoniere was a
forehead jewel, usually a large uncut
gem set in heavy gold work. It was
worn in the centre of the forehead
attached to a gold fillet, or more often,
a band of black velvet which passed
around the head.
The ornament was marvellously be
coming to a certain classical type of
face, but lamentably disfiguring to
the ordinary woman The Empress
Josephine was particularly fo nd
the fervoniere. which became her °i
though her face was far from classic
me uncovered foreheads of recent
seasons opened the way for a
of this old fashion, and the jewellel
stars and crescents which were worn
low against the forehead with
Parted fringe of hair hinted at he
fervoniere; but now a number of P a
nsian beauties have taken up the old
mode in earnest and have appeared
with splendid jewels gleaming U po n
their white foreheads just above tbei*
brow.
The velvet band and fillet have not
appeared, the modern fervoniere be
ing, as nearly as possible, devoid of
visible setting and held in its place
by the finest thread of gold or a string
of small pearls. The fashion is, 0 f
course, extreme, but it has appealed
to the Parisians' love of novelty and
the French jewelers have innumer
aoie orders for the new ornament,
while old fervon?eieß are being taken
from jewel cases and reset according
to the modern taste. —New York Sun.
Outdoor Sport*.
Games ought to be a part of every
girl’s every-day life, and parents anil
educators have only in the last few
years sanctioned it. It is only of late
that women have been heard of in con
nection with outdoor sports, though
there have probably always been girls
who were good at games and who had
played them. In golf this is particu
larly noticeable. There are no doubt
numbers of girls playing quietly on
country links who have played for
years and would without doubt gain
many public honors if they competed
for them.
In close touch with golf scientific
croquet may be classed. Scientific cro
quet requires the utmost nicety of
strength and aim and the utmost judg
ment in making plans for victory and
in foreseeing those of the opponent.
To be a good player you must not only
be able to get through very narrow
hoops which do little more than allow
the balls to pass under and through, but
you must be able to maneuver the
balls so that you may be able to make
many hops in succession. Good play
ers after long practice can go the en
tire round at one play. For delicate
girls croquet is an ideal game, as it
keeps them out of doors and does not
call for any appreciable amount of
physical strength as do almost all the
other outdoor games.
Archery is aftother pastime which is
coming to the fore. It has always
been able to command the enthusiasm
of its own world even when outsiders
thought it a bygone amusement, an!
many archery clubs are now being
formed. It is an exercise which does
more to make its devotee beautiful
than almost any other. It makes th<
figure straight and supple and the eye
and nerve steady, and since it is al
ways practised in the open air it gives
to lovers of the sport who otherwise
lead sedentary lives the opportunity tc
breathe out of doors —something that
no other sport will tempt them to en
joy.
Tennis, as a violent exercise, holds a
fond place in the hearts of the admir
ers of this sport, and it is certainly an
interesting game to the players. It is
scarcely necessary to remark how great
a hold hockey has obtained in the af
fection of girls in the last few years;
as a school game it is unrivaled,
though it is played little outside, for
good hocney grounds are no easy mat
ter to find.
Cricket, basket-ball. bicycling,
swimming, and in winter toboganning
and fancy skating about exhaust the
pastimes to which girls are allowed to
enter. Cricket and basket-ball are
played at a great many of the girls’
schools and colleges and by a few pri
vate clubs, while the other sports are
indulged in whenever and wherever
opportunity presents itself. —American
Queen.
Flowers carefully wired are made
into bow effects for the side and back
of hats.
Nun’s veilings with shiny colored
silk borders are among the new mate
rials.
Muslin well covered with velvet flow
ers is predicted as one of the favorite
dress materials.
Tulle which Is patterned in the form
of fish scales over a shimmering foun
dation of gold tissue is one of the mil
linery novelties.
Black, white and blue make one of
the most fashionable combinations.
Thus, white muslins spotted with black
are trimmed with blue embroidery.
Avery stunning parasol is made of
turquoise blue taffeta made to imitate
the effect of the turquoise matrix,
while the handle is ivory decorated
with turquoise.
The latest evening coiffure shows a
sort of puff around the face, broken
by a few little curls at one side and
loose knots arranged low at the nape
of the neck. One large rose is worn
at one side of the front.
One must be blessed with a fine dis
crimination in these (lays in order to
choose the latest and most fashionable
tint of white, which is called cham
pagne, or wine white, as you prefer,
and is especially attractive because o
its warm tinge.
Enamelled flower hatpins have come
in for a fresh share of attention now
that flowers dominate the millinery de
partment. and then there are the in
sect pins, with jewelled beetles. an
spiders attached to a spring, waka
gives them a very realistic appear
ance.