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only upset Pet Marjorie and spoil Miss
Leslie’s pleasure bv anxiety for you.”
In fact, some twenty minutes later,
when we came up with the other two, i
Quasimodo and Vindex were quietly
walking side by side, rubbing noses, and
doubtless discussing the quantity of
oats and quality of hay as earnestly
as their riders were arguing the often
mooted question ns to whether Omar
Khayyam were Omar Khayyam, or if
Omar Khayyam were not Omar Khay¬
yam, then who Omar Khayyam could be.
No further prank:; on the part of the
quadrupeds marred our long and delight¬
ful ride, until, ns wc were returning,
some one proposed that we should take
tho hurdle four abreast. This was most
successfully accomplished, and after
jumping wo halted under the bridge just
below to let Marion Dovereux dismount
and take a stone out of his horse’s foot.
He was bending down, thus engaged,
when Walter cried out, “Take care, Miss
Effingham!” _ rr in a second, lxffore
Lesli;' could gather up her reins or use
her whip, Quasimodo calmly lay down on
his left side, thereby allowing Les time to
twist herself from under lief ore he rolled
over and over in tho wettest place he
could find, smashing the saddle to bits,
and covering himself with mud from
head to foot.
Stately Les was a spectacle as she
rose from her undignified roll. Her
shining yellow hair was plastered with
black mud; hat, habit and boots wore one
muss of sticky wet clay, but her good
humor was unruffled, and she joined
heartily in the shouts of laughter which
greeted her as she rose.
Needless to say, Walter and Marion
l>oth sprang at onco to her assistance, but
lx'yond wringing out her hair and wiping
oiT the worst of the soft mud, little could
be dodo, Such incidents as this never
troubled Leslie; but when the saddle was
found to bo a hopeless wreck, the ques¬
tion was how to get home. Leslie re¬
fused point blank to go up the foot path ;
and get 0:1 an Eighth avenue car, saying !
•lie would walk to the entrance of the
park, ami let l lie groom ride on and lead
Quasimodo back to his stable. Marion
Devoroux at once proposed to put Leslie
on Vindex (she could rido quite well side¬
ways on a man’s saddle) and walk by
her.
To my surprise Leslie did not reject
this plan, nor when Walter suggested
that he and I should ride forward and
send a carriage and wraps to meet her
at the gate did Leslie raise any objec¬
tion.
As it turned out, that carriage must
have waited a long time. Perhaps Les¬
lie and Marion took tho “long jxith” that
our Autocrat tells of—the path that it
takes a lifetime to follow to the end. I
Certain it i ■ that hours passed before |
Leslie reached home, and it M as not long !
before the columns of The Gotham Chit I
Chat published as a social happening the |
engagement of Bliss Leslie Effingham to
Mr. Marion Dovereux.
When, where and how Walter and I j
arrived at a life understanding must ever |
remain between ourselves. Suffice it to
say that this conclusion was not reached
until Walter had acknowledged that the
asking me to exercise Pet Marjorie was
a mere device; that ever since class day
ho had wished to meet mo again, and
that ho had only deferred speaking so
long from the fear of losing the happi¬ j
ness of seeing me every day.
Leslie's ring was a sapphire set in a
gold four leaved clover, and mine a soli¬
taire set in the same way. We had a
double wedding, which many still re¬
member, calk'd but by those in (lie secret it was
always “The qnatrefod wedding.”
—Allspice in Harper's Bazar.
I can think much better when there tf
no ceiling over my heed.—Dr. Wm. A.
The jessamine has succeeded tht
orange flower at weddings, according ta
a l aris iu wspRjvr.
Demons of tlie Wood.
From the Tyrol, from Switzerland,
from Germany or from Brittany, come
well ascertained accounts of the popular
belief in certain wild spirits of the wood,
who are painted in aM the most frightful
shapes tlie imagination can suggest, and
are characterized by their delight in every
possible form of malevolence. They kid¬
nap and devour children, bewitch the
cattle and lead men to lose their w ay in
the forest. They can assume any size,
from the diminutive to the most gigantic;
nor is any form of bird or lieast an im¬
possible personation of them. TheSkong
man, the forest spirit of Sweden, is like
a man, but tall as the highest tree; he
decoys men into the wood, and when
they have hopelessly lost their way, and
begin to weep for fear, leaves them
with mocking laughter. The conception
is well nigh identical with that found
among the natives of the forests of Bra
zil, showing with what uniformity sirni
lar conditions produce similar effects
upon the human mind. But tlie Russian
spirits Ljesch (from a Polish word for
wood) are even more significant; for not
only are the usual diabolical attributaries
assigned to them, shell as the leading of
men astray or the sending to them of
sickness, blit also the conventional dia
bolical features. Their bodies are after
tho human pattern, but they have the
ears and horns of goats, their feet are
cloven and their fingers end in claws,
The Russian wood spirit is, in fact, the
devil of mediaeval imagination and noth
ing else, a fact which strongly supports
the inference that it is from the wood
and from the wing rustling over the tree
tops that the idea of the supernatural
agency of devils first took possession of
the imagination of mankind.
It is in no way inconsistent with this
theory that besides devils of the forest
there are those of the air or the water,
The conception is one which would have
met with no barrier to the extension of
its dominions, and the devil of the tree or
forest would from the first be closely
associated with, if at all distinguished
from, the spirit that moved in the trees
and was powerful enough to overturn
them. Iir this way the wild spirits of the
woods would pass insensibly into those
spirits of the air which our ancestors
identified with the Wild Huntsman, and
which English peasants still often hear
when they listen to the passage of tlie
Seven Whistlers.—Gentleman’s Blaga
zine.
Squint Eyes Are Going.
“It may seem a singular statement to
make,” said an optician, “but it is truo
that there is no need of anybody suffering
from strabismus, that in, being squint
eyed. And it is also a fact that squint
eyed people are comparatively rare nowa
days, as compared with the time when I
was a boy. You can go a score of blocks
now without meeting one, whereas I re
member that I could not go a street dis
tance to school M’ithout encountering
half a dozen crooked eved children. The
reason is that people have come to tlie
conclusion that it can lie cured, and they
take the steps to be cured.
“Is there not some danger of losing
their eyesight in the operation?”
“\erv littie; not over one chance in a
hundred in the hands of a proper oper
•
“But aro not the charges for such op¬
erations very high?” asked the reporter.
“At the Polyclinic ami some other in¬
stitutions, those who are M’ithout means
aro treated for nothing, and even outside
of the institutions a great deal more of
gratuitous work is done than oculists get
credit for.”—New York Sun.
lVheio Dakota Stanch.
Dakota among the state's ami terri¬
tories stands sixth in the number of
bushels of wheat produced. Only eleven
states raise more oats, sixteen have more
schools, fourteen more newspapers and
but twelve have more miles of railroad.—
New York Commercial Advertiser.’
HOW NORMAN BREAD IS MADE.
Bread, Cheese and Cider Essentials of
French Peasant Hospitality.
One summer’s day we stopped to call
at the stone farm house of Monsieur
Duval. Ernestine, (he eldest daughter,
was housekeeper in her dead mother’s
place, and she it was who brought out the
amber colored cider, the goat’s cheese and
the heavy, hard country bread. It is an
essential of French peasant hospitality to
offer these things to visitors.
The loaf she took from the shelf was
one of a half dozen others leaning against
j the black wall. These loaves resembled
cart wheels, and had been baked in six
quart milk pans. Ernestine cut the loaf
with a small saw made for the purpose,
Nothing less than such a saw or a pirate’s
cutlass could sever that homely, but
wholesome pain rassis. baked
j These loaves, wo knew, were
only once a month. Bread day in a Nor
man peasant family is like washing day
on an American farm, in the respect that
it comes at regular periods. We judged
that bread clay in tiiis cottage was ap
proaching from the fact that only six
loaves remained of the original thirty, or
thereabouts.
After our little lunch, Ernestine took
us through the orchard to a picturesque
stone building, wliero the bread M*as
made. This building had once been part
of an ancient abbey, and amid its ivy
covered ruins we could still trace fine
sculpture and bits of armorial designs,
but inside there M'as no trace of art or
architecture. It was really a Norman
lien house. We saw several pairs of sabots
or wooden shoes hanging from the wall
and looking as if they had been white
washed.
In one corner of the place was a large
apace inclosed with boards. This was
empty, but, like the sabots, it suggested
whitewash or mortar making,
Ernestine told us that this was the
family dough trough. Here, once a
month, came..her Rit her Rising. and the hir'd
man £o “setT I Ip- yeast Flour
and water were staron together with the
huge wooden spades like snow shovels,
which hung with the sabots upon the
wall. When tho mass, thoroughly beat
en together, had risen and assumed a
dark leathery consistency, then came the
tug of war. The two men put the sa
hots on outside their ordinary shoes,
jumped in upon the dough and com
inenccl the kneading. The u T ay they
did it was to jump and prance and nour¬
ish like opera dancers; to stamp and
kick like horses, to exercise themselves
till the perspiration streamed off them
and they had no strength left!
After this process the dough was put
into tho pans, and then baked in the
huge oven at the rear of tlie abbatial
henhouse!—Cor. Epoch.
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w«ii Protected.
Jt Lt all too common to misunderstand
the truo nature of a medicine, as any one
must nursi remon tierin'* tho adw of
the who awoke her jmtient in order
to administer a sleeping potion.
When shower baths became an active
fashion, a certain physician one day met
a Kei"hbor. a:i-l inouired “Well, Jack
gon, how did your Mife manage her new
shower bath?”
“Oh, she had real good luck. Mrs.
Smith told her how she managed with
hern. She made an oiled silk hood, Mith
a big cape to it, that came down over her
shoulders. * «
“She was a fool for her pains,” said
thc doctor, impatiently. “That’s not the
wav.”
• * So my wife thought. • !
* % And your wife did nothing of the
kind, I hope.”
G Oh no, no. My M’ife she used an
umbrelly. % « —Youth’s Companion.
The eight pin factories in Nevr Eng
land produce 0.720.000.000 pins a year,
In England the veariv production of piuj
isaat at L 000,000.
Garments Made Waterproof. ■
For many years I have worn India
her waterproofs, but will have noS
for I have learned that good I
tweed can be made entirely I have# inmjJy
to rain; and moreover, folio!
how to make it so, anu the a
pound the recipe: of In a of bucket lead and of water half p|j aH
sugar a
of powdered alum; stir this at infel
another until it becomes bucket and clear, put pour the it gfl cjfl
therein, four hom*s and and let it then be hang there it for tMj wl
up
without wringing it. Two of
a lady and gentleman, have worn ■!
ments thus treated in the wildest
of wind and rain, without gettirM gl!
The rain hangs upon the cloth in
In gentleman short, they fortnight are really waterpro|B walkeBl
a ago vvinfp
miles in a storm of rain and
as you seldom see in the south, and {
he slipped off his overcoat his under
Paper. was as dry as when he put it on.—Ejj iV
In the Con so Basin.
Many of the Baluba are adopting)
dress of the whites and are fashion
their Luluaburg buildings Station. on the Dr. model Wolf of sajyjj th°||
possess qualities that render thenliS
pupils in learning the arts decide#* of cr/,f
It is these people who _ jfs
years ago that drunkenness wa^dl
and a disgrace, and who at once «*§!(
the most energetic prohibitory bibulouMgj measiu
Tlie stimulant used bv the
tribe bers of attacked the tribe the evil M’as palm its roots wineij fj
at
ting down all Baluba the palm trees today in thUfl reinl
try, and the .are
York able for Sun. their temperate habits.—1| 'TM
Using Money Sensibly. |
The great majority of inert J
nearly up to the full measure of fi
come that losses by reason of sicki
other causes put them on the dow^
track, which" once begun is so diffic
retrace. It is far easier M’lien mo
plenty to learn me! hods of i
new £
ture than to reverse the probe
art of using money sensibly is dii
Probably in the cases of the poorel
larger share of their scanty earning!
for what does them more harm*
good.—Boston Budget.
Always Carry Small Change.!
G Keep yourself well provided
sma ^ c .°hi. s * Every guide book
hshed gives this advice to tourists vfl
foreign ^ countries, words. in To substance it if is jPjj k
1G vei T many
the best hint one can get from a 2
book and worth heeding not only all
but are squandered at home. Abroad in tips and considerable in other j j
because travelers are ignorant of till
coppeis th^k in nine aie quite cases oat as m of cigiify ten two as*a orj
.
P^ 0 * Many persons continue awj to 4
money ,iwa* even after they
this neglecting to keep a sj
-
011 hamd. They med
necessity foi bestowing upon a servi
porter or a coachman a gratuity, ad
forced York Mail to pait and m Express. ith a silver piece^J Ij
■' V
Paper Glass Windows.
Although paper glass windows
seem to be a contradiction in terms
an exchange, they r.ro really an at
plishcd fact. A window pane fflLM df * i
of white paper, manufactured
ton or linen, and modified by
action. Afterward the paper is
m a preparation of camphor and
which makes it like parchment.
this point it can be molded, and -
remarkably tough el.eeAT entirely
parent, and it can be dyed with £
the whole of the aniline color:’, the
being a transparent sheet, showin
more vivid hues than the l>est gla*
hibits.—Boston Budget.
