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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. ODOOGOOOOOGOOCCOGCOOGOGOCg |“WOMAN.’’| o © ■ Bt Sura Moore. O o o O3OOOOOOOOGOGOOOOOOOCOOOCC 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 maBB rfoß.Lp 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. 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