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A MOTHER'S ‘LOVE.
When a boy is far away from home,
m hat pleases him the most?
Why. it*s when letter comes to him
From mother thro’ the post!
Ko matter if the silver hairs
Appear noon his head.
He’s still his mother’s boy as when
His hair was carrot rest!
Tho thirty years have left their markj
And seared his careworn face.
In mother’s eyes he’s yet a lad
Without time's telltale trace!
Her letter thus begins. ‘'Dear boy;”
It sets his heart athrill
To think that mother knows him as
A little shaver still!
A mother's love is as a charm
The sesame of youth!
One feels that ace lias nauqht to do
With love or life or truth.
Whene’er he pets a letter from
His mother far away.
Who sees naught but the-guileless child,
Behind the man grown pray.
—Boston Journal.
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LC 7Y MAN should ovehis equal
■■ /\ always.” said Dent Len-
AA ox. "Oli, I don't know!”
4"'*' disputed Will Burgess.
“Sometimes he falls in love with his
inferior.’’
“Not really.” declared Dent.
"Yes, . really. A shallow brained,
heartless woman who is handsome
and sparkling, frequently wins the
admiration of an intelligent, good
man.”
"Admiration, yes,” admitted Dent.
“That sort of woman might win ad
miration, hut love, never. A good
man's heart will turn instinctively to
the right woman.”
“Maybg you will have a chance to
prove that. You are supposed to he
intelligent, Dent, and some day you
will be a man.”
"Some sweet day.” laughed the col
legian of twenty. “And when I meet
the divinity who is to shape my
course, Willie, you shall know her.”
Five years later, as Will Burgess sat
fn his office, + oying with a note which
he had just received from his friend,
that conversation on the college cam
pus drifted hack to him.
“Be ready at six,” the note read. “I'm
coming round for you. We’re to dine
with a friend of mine, and you will
meet Miss Wynne whom I spoke of the
other evening. Y’ou will bp sure to
like her, Will. She is above all others
of her sex adorable.”
"Dear old Dent!' said Will, with a
smile. “Still sticks to his notion of
feminine perfection.”
That evening, as he sat looking
across the table at Clarice v’ynnc. his
thoughts echoed his friend’s words:
“She is adorable.” Indeed, slip looked
eo. She was exquisitely dressed in
some soft pink stuff which set off her
rich complexion to advantage, and her
dark eyes shone lustrously as she
talked.
She was a good talker, and she had
a charming manner of listening that
drew one on, heedless of everything
hut the interest in her face. As Dent
Lenox watched the color come and
go on lier soft cheek, and the smile
play around the sensitive mouth, he
thought he had never beheld a picture
so entrancing. Me had not talked
with her long ere he were telling her
liis trials, his hopes, and his ambi
tions.
Fie was a rising young artist, with
his soul in his work. The few pic
tures which he had offered for sale
found purchasers. He was working
now at what lie termed liis master
piece, through which he hoped to make
his name. He had told this to no one,
not even Will, but lie told it now to
Clarice Wynne—why, he could not
have said. But he met with a ready
sympathy of voice and eye which com-
Pl etely won his heart.
“Miss Wynne is charming.” lie com
mented enthusiastically, as he and
Will walked home together. “I have
never met any one like her.”
Will smiled and held out his hand.
“Success, old boy!” lie said. “It is
easy so read between tlie lines.”
"Oh, yes!” agreed Dent, frankly.
“But that is a long way off. Miss
Wynne is wealthy, while I ”
“Will be,” supplemented Will.
“Possibly,” said Dent, as his mind
reverted to the “masterpiece.”
“Sure!” said Will, conclusively. He
had perfect faith in his friend's abili
ty, and not without cause.
Ae the days swept by the master
piece grew under Dent's loving fingers.
Next to his sweetheart he loved liis
art. Sweetheart? Yes, she was that
now.
She was very dear to him. He had
told her so and she had lister 'gj. So
he spent his evenings with her,*, $' his
days over liis picture.
The subject was a face, a beautiful,
sweet face with a sensitive mouth,
and wonderful loving eyes that looked
into one's soul. Gazing at that face,
one thought of mother and wife, and
the gentler, better feelings of the heart
seemed to leap forth in a question that
found answer in the tender eyes. Un
derneath was the one word, “Wom
an. '
When the picture was exhibited,
people surged round it, critics praised
it, and buyers were quick to send in
their bids. It was a success.
"I congratulate you. my dear fel
low,” said Will Burgess, as be leaned
over Dent's shoulder and found him
smilingly contemplating the result of
the .ale. "Not so much because of the
banknotes—there will be plenty now—
but because this proves that you have
talent which will stick.
“And best of all.” said Dent, softly,
“it removes the last obstacle between
me and happiness.” ,
“Yes,” said Will, comprehendingly.
Two months later. Will received a
wedding card with a note from Dent
enclosed, begging him to be bis best
man. He called on his friend imme
diately to accept the honor, and found
him in a transport of joy.
"I am tne happiest fellow in the
world!” he cried, wringing WiL's
hand. “She is an angel!”
“She is a woman,” answered Will,
with a smile, “and human. Don't for
get that, dear boy. and fly too high.”
"Y'ou were always a raven.” laughed
Dent, too happy to resent the warn
ing. I have no tears.”
The wedding was set for Wednes
day. On Monday morning, as Dent
was settling the bill for liis rooms,
preparatory to giving them up, the
hall boy brought him a note.
It was from Clarice, asking him to
see her immediately. He hurried to
her home, and found her in the parlor,
pale and nervous, talking to a young
man whom he had never .seen before.
Tlie stranger bowed and withdrew as
Dent entered. Clarice gave him lier
hand, but drew back as lie stooped to
j kiss her.
“No,” she said hurriedly, “don't, I
: have something to say to you. Please
| listen until I have finished, and if you
care for me—that is if you have cared
for me—try not to do so now.”
“Not care for you, Clarice? My lit
tle girl, what are you saying? You
know I love you
“No, no,” slip interrupted. “Y'ou
will not love me when you hear what
I have to say. I hope you will uot—
oli. I hope you will not!”
“Clarice, you arc ill,” exclaimed
Dent, now thoroughly alarmed, and
taking lier hands in liis own.
“No, not ill.” she said, drawing
back, and composing herself with an
efort. “I'll tell you all about it,” she
added, looking through her tears into
liis startled eyes. “You saw that gen
tleman?”
“Y’cs.”
“Well,” went on Clarice, in a choked
voice, “four years ago I was engaged
to him.”
“Engaged to him?” echoed Dent,
growing perceptibly paler. “Y'ou told
me I was your first ”
“Yes, yes. But listen. Wc had a
violent quarrel, and lie went away
vowing never so return. I put him
from my mind and resolved that I
would forget him. YVheu you came I
thought lie was a memory. He was to
me as one dead, and so I never told
you of him. 1 had not heard from him
for years. And you were so kind and
good that I believed I could love you
as a husband. I was sure I could
make you a good wife. But tills morn
ing he came back, and I find I love
him still. I cannot give him up now
that he is here. Dent, can’t you see?
I could iot be true to you. Knowing
he loved me, I should only make you
miserable. Bo kind to me—be kind to
yourself—and help mo.”
Dent had risen from ills chair and
stood looking at lier with a colorless
face.
“Help—help you?” lie stammered.
“Yes, Clarice, I will. What do you
want me to do?”
The hand that rested on tho chair
was clenched, and all the light had
faded from tho handsome eyes, but
bis voice was almost steady.
“Oh, I don't know!” she moaned.
“Say we have put the wedding off—
that you are called away on business
—something, anything! Oil, what will
people say?”
She was thinking of herself and
“people.” She gave no thought of
him.
He steadied himself forcibly and
when lie spoke liis voice was hard.
“People need not say anything at
present,” he said. “I will go away to
morrow. Our engagement can be
broken afterward.”
That evening Will Burgess stepped
into liis friend's room and found him
standing before liis masterpiece,
which had been sent back to be prop
erly framed.
“Hello!” called Will. “Got the won
derful woman back again?”
Dent turned with a start. His sac-e
was white and drawn.
“Yes,” lie said, with a harsh laugh,
“but she has changed lier name.”
Will's startled eyes traveled from
his friend's changed face to the title
of the picture. It. was “Artifice.” —
Waverley Magazine.
He (io* the* JiiiMiurps.
“There are tricks even in our trade,”
said tlie old life-insurance man. “About
ten years ago a couple of respectable
rdd parties, man and wife, came tc
town with SIOO,OOO or so that they
wanted to put into an annuity. They
had neither chick nor child, kith nor
kin, and they wanted to finish their
lives in as much ease and comfort as
could be bought. So they made the
rounds of the life-insurance compan
ies, getting their annuity figures and
had all the actuaries in town making
calculations in the case.
“The head mathematician of the
Blank Dash Company was a little bet
ter than a mere figurer. He happened
to hear what town the old parties came
from, and he suddenly remembered
that he had an old friend, a doctor,
who lived there, whom he hadn't seen
for years. He invited the medicine man
down at once, took him out arid gave
him a really good decent time. Then
he edged around to the annuity limit
ers, and lo! and behold tlie doctor was
their family physician. Without ap
pearing to pump him. the actuary
learned enough about the old couple
to enable him to make a most glitter
ing inducement to the pair, and they
bought their annuity of his concern.
They were both dead Inside of two
years. I forgot just how rnijch the
company netted. I think it had paid
out about one-tenth of what tiie old
folks had paid in. The company was a
gainer, and there were no losers ex
cept the other companies as a result of
the actuary’s shrewd move.” —New
Y’ork Sun.
Chicago U Willin’.
Chicago does not ask charity, but she
is willing to co-operate with Mr. Car
negie.—Chicago Evening Post.
AH’s
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THE ESSENTIALS OF BEAUTY.
Some Tiling* In Which Hi. American
Ctrl Mnkci* u Mit-takf.
There is a distinctive something—a
manner or dressing or a correct car
riage—that makes the American gilds
head the list by their natural right of
precedence, writes Amelia Bingham,
in the Chicago Times-Herald. They
have their faults, to be sure, but such
fault* as are easy to correct. Loud
voices are the commonest lapses into
the unbeautiful and simple. I never
realized this so much as I did on my
last voyage from the other side of tho
Atlantic. On shipboard there was a
crowd of gilds who had been finishing
their educations abroad. They sat on
deck unil chattered like magpies, their
voices rising shrill and high and grat
ing fearfully on the nerves of any lis
tener blessed with line sensibilities.
They were pretty girls, charming, styl
ish, in splendid health, robust and ath
letic. But tlicir voices were something
fearful to listen to. A low, sweet
voice, carefully modulated, always be
speaks the lady. A voice that is rasp
ing, quick of action, high strung, ner
vously pitched, will undo the beauty
ambitions of many years.
The matter of eating forms a largo
part of one's beauty rules and regula
tions. To my way of thinking we
Americans eat too much and do not
eat often enough. We wait for our din
ners at night until we are ravenously
hungry, and we overload tlie stomach.
The result, is a florid, unbeautiful com
plexion. dull eyes, languid movements
and Avits that, if not. exactly wool
gathering. are certainly not as bright
ns they should lie. In tln* old country
meals arc lighter. In the morning it
is toast and tea and a bit of fruit, later
a little chop, again a cup of tea with
bread and butter—always just enough
to satisfy tlie stomach, not enough to
cause it to overwork and to bring on
dyspepsia, that surest complexion
wrecker of all. The time between
meals is too long with us. We are so
] hungry that, we are sure to overeat,
I anil overeating is deadly. There is no
mistake about it.
Fresh air is a beautifier that is not
appreciated by the average woman.
Good health is, of course, the first prin
ciple of all beauty ambitions. Without
it your foundation for everything
is gone. Fresh air enlivens the wits,
stirs up circulation, brings encourage
ment to the lungs anil instils one with
uew life.
As for bathing, one cannot have too
much of it. I sleep in tho morning ns
long as 1 can, and I ner'er miss a
plunge in cold water. The refreshing
exhilaration that, comes from tho cold
bath is worth more than tonics. It
sends the blood tingling through one’s
veins, and one feels that one is really
alive, not a sleepy-eyed woman with
no spirits and not much backbone.
The “New Woman” In Finland.
It is not usual to think of Finland
as a land of progressive ideas ami up
to-date women, yet it has liad since
1884 a society for the promotion of
woman's rights that compares favora
bly Avitli those in more noted commu
nities.
The Finnish Women’s Association
has its headquarters in Helsingfors,
the capital of Finland, and has twenty
branches in the country districts. These
associations start schools anil classes
for cooking, gardening, needlework,
elementary science anil other useful
and interesting branches for women.
There they discuss in formal anil in
formal fashion a variety of topics,
from household matters to advanced
| education in the public schools, and
! often have sufficient influence to have
! their views presented to the Diet by
their representatives.
The central association frequently
| sends to the country districts lecturers
on subjects of importance or interest.
! The lectures are attended generally by
as many men as women, and tlie men
often take an active part in the discus
sions that follow. The lecturer Is
obliged many times to travel miles on
; sledges, through deep snow, in snow
! storms and cold, or to bn rowed long
distances in little boats on stormy
Jakes, or to walk miles along dusty,
sunny roads on her way to lonely vil
lages. Her accommodations are usu
| ally of the most primitive character,
anil her audiences likewise, but her
welcome is sure to lie cordial, and peo
ple travel many weary miles to bear
her.—New York Tribune.
If You Would I’ofmeM Ilrnlth.
Keep yourself well and strong.
| Don't think about freckles or anything
else. There are worse tilings than
freckles, anyhow. May lie the freckles
like to be with you. Leave them to
themselves and go your own happy
way. Get out of doors every moment
that you can. Fill your lungs deep
anil full. Bun and romp and cram in
; to the recesses of your heart plenty
1 of high spirits and the joy of being
on earth. You may not realize it, but
in building up strength and in keep
! ing a good appetite you will be lay
ing tho foundation for a beautiful
womanhood. Learn ilie tremendous
! need of eating suitable food. Don’t
munch chocolates anil sweets between
meals. The sacrifice you will have to
make in abstaining from these dain
ties will lie good for the loveliness of
your character, ns well as a splendid
rest for your poor little stomach.
Pastries and rich nothings are dear
to the heart youthful, but it's a very
easy matter to centre your affections
on apples, oranges, grapes, figs and
other fruit, which are a thousand
times more wholesome anil which will
help dear your complexion and
; brighten your eye in a manner that
will astonish you.
Oh! these are facts undeniable, my
girls. You can t get away from them.
'Summer nrcmlm.
Ordinary shirt waists may ho diver
sified in many simple ways. A favor
ite fancy at present is to edge the cen
tre band with a full frilling an inch or
more wide, and finished with a narrow
hem or edging of lace. A sitntde shirt
waist design may be made elaborate
by the introduction of insertion and
tucks, set in straight, vertically or hor
izontally. Sleeves are not trimmed
except in the case of cuff-bands or
hem-stitched (laps at wrist.
Wash skirts are most often finished
with several nifties or a deep flounce,
cut upon the straight and made very
full. Tito usual length for the single
deep flounce is twelve inches, and the
width allowed is front two to two anil
one-lialf times the width of the skirt
Bias ruffles are not used. Narrow ruf
fles are finished with (he merest edge
at the top, and the uppermost one of a
group only is provided with a small
heading. Deep flounces are usually
put on with concealed heading. The
same rules apply for putting any kind
of rufliings on skirts. They and the
surface over which they are to he
titted should be measured off in quar
ters. Kach quarter should then he
gathered and carefully fitted into each
quarter of the skirt. —Harper's Bazar.
J.nnrhoon* For Working Women.
The Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation, of Kansas City, Mo., lias
opened a luncheon room for working
women. The food is sold at exact cost,
and a dinner consisting of soup. fish,
roast meat nr.d potatoes, cabbage
salad, apple pic, coffee and cheese can
lie bought for twenty-one cents. Al
though intended for women, a number
of men have applied for luncheons, and
are admitted for the present. The room
lias just been opened, however, and is
not yet widely known, but when wom
en need till the accommodations the
men will he debarred from its privil
eges.
Dny down of drown Clotli.
A very attractive tiny gown Is of
brown cloth cut in polonaise fashion,
the underskirt showing appliqued
roses of velvet. Tin* polonaise folds
simply around the figure over a chemi
sette of coarse renaissance lace and is
caught at the side with it large chon
of brown chenille, forming a trimming
for the edge of the polantse. The te
nor slccvcsaroof the bishop shape, con
fined it', the wrist by a strap of brown
panne.
Royal Patron of Nfcillework.
Princess Christian has purchased
from Vienna for the benefit of the
Royal School of Art Needlework two
“needlework pictures” by Frau Man
kiewicz, who invented a method of
combining needlework with water col
or painting. Princess Christian is
deeply interested in the school, and
procured for It the honor of einbroid
ing the new throne in the House of
Dords for Queen Alexandra.
A Woman t»f Groat A
Miss Mary Stewart, of Argylslilre,
Scotland, 110 years old, and said to he
the oldest British subject, was brought
up to speak the ancient (laelic tongue,
and she has got along so far without
learning tiny oilier. Site lias never
married, and for more than eighty
years was consecutively employed In
domestic service in the vicinity of her
birthplace. She is still hale and hearty.
A Woman to Kxploro Africa.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the trav
eler, explorer and writer, has gone to
Morocco for two months of needed
rest. Her next expedition is to lie
through a little known and dangerous
portion of Africa.
Corded wash silks arc shown in dain
ty colorings suitable for shirt waists.
Kmbroidered Henrietta cloths conic
in all colors for waists and neglige
gowns.
White summer gowns heavily
trimmed with yellow guipure are the
extreme of fashion.
White slip linings are preferred to
colored. The requisite touch of color
is given at the waist and throat.
Dewdrops can now be bought by the
dozen and sprinkled over flowers or
gaufey gowns to suit the taste of tiie
wearer.
New Persian bands on mousseline
grounds are one of the newest and
smartest trimmings for tills summer's
gowns.
Panne cloth is the novelty of the
present. It Is very soft, arid pliable,
and the correct material for an ele
gant gown.
The great considerations of the lady
of fashion of the spring of 1901 is to
appear long of limb, long of waist and
long of neck.
Bags of brocade and satin in dark
or delicate colors, with long satin rib
bon loops to hang over the arrn, are
fashionable.
Bong Jeweled feathers, either black
or white, with a jeweled ornament,
where they fasten Into the hair, are
considered smart.
The spring boas are fluffier and long
er than ever. They are made of frilled
chiffon, fluted taffeta, mirror velvet
ribbon and panne ribbon, with lace
quillings, or chenille trimmings.
.Skirts to he correct should be very,
very close-fltting to the knees, hut
should flare tremendously at the hot
tom, where countless ruffles and
flounces give the desired frou-frou.
Gilt or metallic ornamentation on
neckwear having become too popular
to he desirably exclusive. Is soon to be
superseded by little bunches of colored
ribbons, pinks, forget-me-nots, buds,
etc.
Superiority,!
Is the distinctive characteristic of our
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