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Fitzgerald Lender.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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About three hundred Westera cities
have the curfew ordinance.
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England is dependent for seventy
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pep cent, of her food anuraw mate-iai <
upon foreign lands.
The French are wratby at Russia
for not sending back the gutis and
flags abandoned on the retreat of
Napoleon in 1812. I ranee has re-
turned to Russia her trophies of tho
Crimea.
In the last four years statistics
show that the consumption of spirits
has been cut down* more than one-third
and of wine nearly one-half. This
decrease is credited by the Atlanta
Constitution to the spirit of economy
induced by the hard times.
Some years ago Stanley calculated
the consumption of ivory at 750,000
pounds a year in Europe, 130,000 in
India, and 75,000 pounds in the United
States; that is, 1,000,000 pounds in a
♦ear; but the average consumption of
ivory from 1889 to 1893 was 1,500,000
pounds, of which America took 200,-
000 .
Florida probably has a hundred or
more survivors of the Seminole wars,
for > whom Congress has provided a
yearly pension of $96 since 1892, and
the money is appropriated. Few sur¬
vivors, however, can prove their cases i
for want of master rolls. The State i
Legislature .,1, refuses to appropriate
$1700 to get . copies . from , the w War -r. De-
'partment. |
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An objection was made in the British
House of Commons the other day to
the grant of a right of way to a new
railroad, on the ground that “the pro-
posed railway, if constructed along the
lino mentioned in the bill, would
seriously injure the scenery of the
valley of the Earn and the lake along
which it is to pass; and by the
persuasive support thereof by James
Bryce (the historian), the House was
lica t» bin t. .w
appropriate committee.
’ Among the countries of the European
continent, illiteracy is most prevalent
in the Slavic States of Russia, Servia
and Roumania, the Latin races in
Italy, Spain and Belgium being also
very backward in education, while in
the purely Teutonic States the per¬
centage of illiterates ismerely nominal.
In Switzerland it is 2.5 per cent., in
the whole of German empire only one
per cent., and in Sweden, Denmark,
Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg there
is practically no one who cannot read
and write.
In view of the anticipated exhaus¬
tion of the quarries of lithographic
stone at Soleuhofen, Bavaria, the use
of aluminum as a substitute in en-
graving has been suggested, and the
German journal Neueste Erfindungen
und Erfahrungen enumerates the
qualities that may render that metal
suitable for the purpose. The Na-
tional Druggist, of St, Louis, points
litho- -
out, however, that there are
graphic , . quarries . in . m Tennessee which , . ,
can furnish immense quantities of
stone fully equal, for all the purposes
of engraving, to the very best Solen-
hofen.
When the charter for Greater New
York goes into effect the salaries of
three of her municipal officers will be
greater than is paid to any other pub¬
lic servant, with the exception of the
President of the United States. The
Mayor will receive $15,000 per an¬
num, which is $5000 more than Gov¬
ernor Black gets. Even the Comp¬
troller will be paid $10,000, which is
as much as is paid a United States
Supreme Judge, $2000 in excess of
the salary of a cabinet officer, and
$1500 greater thanTGeneral Nelson A
Bli'.es of the United States Army is
allowed. The Corporation Counsel’s
salary will also be $15,000.
J. Y. Blori, the Vice-President of
the Noippon Bailway Company, of
Japan, now in this country, says:
“Our roads are narrow gauge, and are
operated in the European style, but
we are open to receive improvements,
and I have no doubt will gain valua¬
ble pointers on the present journey.
Japan has 3000 miles of railway in
operation, and the country is quite
prosperous at the present time. We
are building war vessels as fast as our
finances will allow, but Japan is a
Bmall country and cannot hope to keep
pace with such countries as the United
States. China and Russia are com-
priing vigorously for our trade, and
we must keep wide awake if we con¬
tinue in the advancement which has
been made within the last few years.”
TURNINC AND CRINDINC.
W« have our littlo falllngs-out and nrgu- “And thorn’s very few so stupid that they
monts and such, really couldn’t earn
And then we make It up again; they don’t Themselves an honest living, it they’d just
amount to much. agree to turn.
But on ono subject, anyhow, wo’re all of tho By all means try for grinding, but own it if
same mind; you llnd
Wo all of us don't want to turn, and all do That you can do the turning, but ain't
want to grind. smart enough to grind.”
t’vo heard about kind— a grindstone of a labor- When think father things talks, ho says It. He likes to
saving out.
It only takes one person to turn It and to X see him smiling, sometimes, at the things
grind. he thinks about.
Sfou work a trondlo with your foot, thesame When he comes in how from the plow-fleld, he
ns mother sews, , don’t toll you ho aches, .
Ami a fellow don’t mind turning when he’s Hetellsyou birds, something beasts, queer snakes. he’s sten, of
grinding, I suppose. or or
But ours is not that kind of one; it ain't that It’s only in the winters we have time to go
wo’re asleep, and el- to school,
But money’s scarce and hard to get, But we dig at it, I tell you, and I hope I’m
bow-grease is cheap dozen elbows that not a fool,
Where there’s a half a And the thing wo talk .the most about, tho
are half tho time in sight, thing we hope to do,
though mother puts on patches, I roekon, In a race that’s free to every one, is what
every night. I’m coming to.
"Boys,’ father said, tho other day, “ono We’ll keep our eyes wide open; if we’re
thing you’ve got to learn, only (it to turn,
We can’t all do,the grinding, for somebody We’ll that's look the for the we’ll best way learn. there is, and
must turn. one
Of course I’d like you all to be as smart as But think how mother and father’d feel, if
folks are made, that will be, I’m That they should single one day they find had
But it isn’t very likely you enough every to grind! son was smart
. afraid! Vandegrift, Youth’s
—Margaret in Compnuion.
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In Love and War.
tly
HEN Charles was
mm that thirty he he had decided gone
to school long
enough. His
father had arrived
at that conclusion
I yPI; years before, but
the son’s indomit¬
able determina¬
tion to conquer at
least the rudi-
meats of his profession before he
^onld enter upon active practice made
him deaf to all paternal entreaties to
return home until one morning be
waked up to find that his thick bronze
beard had. developed several actually
gray threads.
Consequently, one fine spring morn-
“S fj l
llomestead; a mo dest, little gilt sign
bearing the simple words, “Dr. Charles
Dayton.” first He
He didn’t “take” at wore
short coats in direct opposition to all
former ideas of the professional man’s
and he didn’t seem to remem-
ber anybody whom he had known in
his youth.
graver things during his absence than
remembering who was the sister to his
Sunday-school teacher and who mar-
Ged the youngest of the Barker girls.,
But after a year or so of doubt they
began to. understand him, especially
when his superior skill had saved the
darling of nearly every household in
town when the scarlet fever threatened
to fill the tiny graveyard on the edge
of the hill.
Dr. Charles, as they learned to call
him, had an additional trait in his
favor; he knew how to neglect each and
every woman in Blissfield with equal
severity. Not that women enjoy develop being
neglected, but they always a
sort of respect for a man who doesn’t
stoop to them, providing he is consis¬
tent in his frigidity lo all the women
in the place.
At the end of five years two things
had taken place in Blissfield. Dr.
Charles w-as the idol of the town, and
young Tom, the baby of the Dayton
family, was going to celebrate reach-
iu g his majority by taking unto himself
a wife.
It was an awful mistake, thought the
Tyi 10 ] e household when the downy-
cheeked Tom stood up in blushing
bravado on his return from his junior
year at college, and persisted in his
statement that he was never going to
sc ij 00 i aga i n . For that fall lie was to
become the husband of the dearest Hi¬
tie girl in all the world.
But reason settled upon them, and
the only stipulation was that a little
maiden should come for a visit to the
family of her future husband some
time that summer.
One morning late in July Bliss Day-
ton and her younger brother set out
for the East, and returned a week lat¬
er with the tiny lady, who was in a
pretty state of nervousness at the
strangeness of the situation.
Dr. Charles was out in the country
at the bedside of a patient, and wbeu,
after midnight, he stumbled in, drip¬
ping, splashed with mud after his long
ride in the storm and sick at heart (his
patient had died in spite of his efforts),
he had forgotten all about the expect¬
ed visitor till he caught sight of a lit¬
tle sailor hat and a pair of crumpled
gloves on the table in the hall.
It seemed so very odd to find any¬
thing so young, so daintily feminine
in this staid old house that ho stood
long in the dimly-lighted the hall, absent¬
ly smoothing out tiny gloves,
pressing each finger in place and not¬
ing with an indulgent smile that a
button was missing from the left wrist.
Dr. Charles slept badly that night
and awoke with the sun in spite of the
late hours of the night before. Some
way the first thing to come into his
mind as he opened his eyes was the
rumpled, tiny, buttonless glove in the
hall below, and the more he tried to
throw off the memory the closer it
clung to him.
When he reached the lower hall he
found himself again by the little table
with the little hat and gloves, and he
put out his hand with a touch almost
caressing. Just as his fingers met the
pretty feminine trifles he heard a fresh
young voice just behind him saying:
“I’ll take these, if they are in your
way. I forgot them last night. ”
Dr. Charles wheeled about guiltily.
There, on the lower sten. was a voomr
girl, looking straight at him from the
most baby-like blue eyes ever lighting
the face of woman.
Dr. Charles, later on, in analyzing
his feelings, realized that he had ex¬
perienced three distinct sensations at-
the first sight of her.
First, that of the critic, in which he
was amazed to see here in the actual
flesh the girl whom he had always be¬
fore thought existed only in senti-
rueutal novels.
Secondly, as the physician, who
frowned at the extreme slightness of
the figure, the frail wrist, the tiny
neck.
And lastly, as the man, who wanted
to take her close in his arms, to kiss
her, to love her and to call her his
own.
“I really must beg you to forgive
me, but a young lady is so rare a
pleasure in this house that I was over¬
whelmed at my good fortune.”
Finally, gathering himself together,
he walked over to her, and, taking one
of her hands in each of his, he said,
gravely;
“•You are to be my sister, I suppose.
I am brother Charles.”
Eloise was herself again and smiled
charmingly as she said:
“I knew you immediately. I’ve
known you for a long time, I think,
for Tom talks of you all the time.”
She was most delightful, Dr. Charles
confessed, but some way it rankled
that she should accept him so much as
a matter of course. He would have
preferred her to look upon him more
as a man to be studied rather than a
problem already solved.
What a fool he had been to call her
his little sister. He didn’t want to
think of her as a sister; he didn’t want
her ever again to speak to Tom in that
familiar way, as though everything
was settled.
Then he deliberately drew her close
to him and kissed her fairly on her
smooth, white forehead. She strug¬
gled away with a little cry, while her
face grew deadly pale. Then she said,
with a nervous, hurt little laugh which
sounded pitifully like a sob:
“Of course, since you are Tern’s
brother.”
When he came down to breakfast he
found the family at the table, but Tom
rose with a strange new pride to pre¬
sent his lady love to his fine big
brother. Then the physician said, in
a grave, calm tone: “I met Eloise in
the hail this morning. I kissed her.”
If consternation had been in her
midst before, it now rose to a terrible
pitch. Tom’s fingers clutched the
edge of the table, and he drew his
breath sharply, when little Eloise, with
that tact which heaven sometimes
sends women in tlieir times of peril,
answered:
“Yes, and he called me his little
sister. He isn’t much used to kissing
a girl, though, I know, for he did it so
queerly, and—he kissed me on the
forehead, Tom, while you always
choose my lips. ”
It was an awfully bold thing to do,
but then it is the lightning flash which
clears the sky. The lover wavered,
tried to speak once or twice, and
finally ended by bending over and
saluting the little girl squarely on the
lips.
“There, sweetheart, we’ll show him
how it is done.” And the amazed Bliss
Elizabeth ejaculated, “Mercy me!”
so loudly that the whole party went
off into a nervous but steadyiug laugh.
Dr. Charles took up his medicine
case and hurried down the street the
instant that the .meal was over. He
stayed away for three days and nights,
but when Sunday came he appeared
among them as usual, apparently as
grave, as; preoccupied as before the
tiny Eloise came to Blissfield.
He did not accompany them to
church, but as he watched her by Tom’s
side, dainty in the snowy muslin
gowns she wore so much, he turned
away with a mighty purpose in his
eyes. From that instant it was fated
that Eloise should be the wife of the
man who didn’t know how to kiss her,
instead of the gay-hearted boy whose
privilege it now was to claim her as
his own.
One morning, when Eloise had been
laughing with the family on the shaded
lawn, a telegram was brought her an¬
nouncing the sudden death of her
father, and so Elizabeth and Tom
started suddenly away from Blissfield
with their terror-stricken little charge.
Tom decided to return to college,
but he stoutly refused to go back to
his former school, which was near
Eloise’s Lome, but chose instead a
seat of learning farther east.
Finally ono February morning there
arrived a short, unhappy note, in
which poor Eloise begged to come to is
visit the Dayton family. “Mamma
at sister’s, whose baby has the scarlet
fever, so they won’t let me stay with
them, and it is so lonesome here in
this big house with no one but the
servants. Besides I want to talk to
you about Mr. Thomas Dayton.”
Dr. Charles’s heart leaped for joy.
This formal “Mr. Thomas Dayton”
spoke volumes.
And so the little girl came to Bliss-
field the second time, and reached the
Dayton home on another stormy night,
this time to be welcomed by the beard¬
ed doctor standing by the glowing fire
and holding out both his hands. Sim-
pie Elizabeth the next day told him all
Eloise’s confessions of Tom’s neglect,
and added:
“She puzzles me, Dr. Charles. She
doesn’t seem to be half so broken-
hearted as I expected. I really think
that her pride is hurt worse than her
affections. And I thought she loved
him so.”
The climax came ' when a whole week
passed , without ... a letter , ,. from f m m Tom, and ,
Eloise, setting her white lips and
blinking back her tears of mortifica-
his engagement The speed and eager-
ness with which he accepted almost
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, Ae°\‘S™ rv sara^as t _ • + i in
mg i a ew w ee vs ago.
As his eyes fell on Eloise, half
broken, halt radiant, there sprang into
them such a light as made her drop
her own. She realized that Elizabeth
>»;VS s^rs, a hi r"\ s? “SbS -T.
and yet, somehow, she never was so
happy before.
“You are free again, Eloise?”
He had taken the little left hand
and turned it till the firelight showed
the bare third finger. And poor
Eloise could only eay a little half-
sobbing "Yes.”
“Then,” said Dr. Charles, solemnly,
“I may ask you to give up that free¬
dom again and to teach me to kiss you
as Tom did.”—Chicago Tribune.
Peanut Oil.
The peanut is coming into greater
prominence every year, as a factor in
the world’s supply of things needful,
and there is hardly any limit to the
predictions of the uses to which it may
be put. At the same time, the terri-
tory in which it may be grown is
rapidly extending, and it is not too
mueh to hope that it soon may become
a really important crop in this country,
Peanut oil is now highly valued in
Europe, and peanut flour, said to be
extremely nutritious, is used exten-
sively in Europe, especially in hos-
pitals. An oil factory, with a capacity
sufficient to use five ..tons of peanuts
daily, has been established at Norfolk,
Va. In a prospectus issued by the
company it is calculated that the re-
ceipts from five tons of peanuts will
amount to 235 gallons of refined oil, at
one dollar per gallon; 175 gallons of
crude oil, at fifty cents; 3680 pounds
of flour and meal at two cents, and 33,00
pounds of stock feed sixty cents per
100 pounds, making the total gross re¬
ceipts $415.90 per day, which, it is es¬
timated, would give a yearly profit on
a five-ton factory of $10,725.
An Air Jam.
A curious state of things was ob¬
served in the tunnel of the under¬
ground railway of Budapest on account
of a lack of ventilation. For a stretch
of more than two miles there is only a
single ventilator, which is entirely
insufficient, and the trains running
through the tunnel compress the air
within like that in the gun barrel of a
Zalinski dynamite gun. It is stated
that on several occasions the cars were
raised bodily from the tracks by the
pressure of air and gas and thepassen-
gers were almost suffocated. Steps
have been taken t-o increase the Bum-
ber of air shafts, so that there will be
at least ten of these in each mile, and
very large exhaust fans will do away
with the danger of insufficient ventila-
tion, which now renders the employ-
ment at the same time of the two
cracks in the tunnel absolutely danger-
oils.—Science.
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Found Kkbs of tne Pearly Nautilus.
Dr. Willey, who over two years ago
left England for the south seas in
search of the eggs of the pearly nau¬
tilus, the only living representative of
the great group of extinct animals
know n as ammonites, has been reward¬
ed with success. He has ascertained
that these creatures are trapped in
baskets by the natives of some of the
Blelanesian Islands and used for -food.
Last summer Dr. Willey, in Lifu, one
of the Royalty Islands, captured the
nautilus in three fathoms of wafer and
constructed a large submarine cage in
which to keep the specimens, feeding
them dailv, and by December some of
tho nautili had spawned in the cage.
Each egg is as large as a grape. These
investigations have been carried out
by grants from the Government, dis¬
bursed according to the recommenda¬
tions of the Royal Society.
Russian Landed Estates.
Nowhere in. Europe are landed es¬
tates so vast as in Russia. Striking
evidence thereof is furnished by the
will of General Blaltzeff, of the Czar’s
army, who bequeaths to his heirs, in
addition to other property, no less
than twenty-nine mines, fifteen oi
which are of the first importance.
They afford employment to more than
60,0*00 workmen. The properties only person in
Russia whose mining exceed
those of the Maltzeff estate is Elim
Demidoff.
It is officially declared that the bu¬
bonic plague exists in Jeddah. Arabia.
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Where Women are Muzzled.
Muzzles are used on refractory wo-
men in the penitentiary at Cologne,
Germany. Last year a muzzled girl
was found dead m lier cell. It was
alleged that death was due to authority suffoea-
Gon, and the persons in
were charged with manslaughter, but
afterwards acquitted,
Dresden Gowns.
It is almqst obligatory this year that
? our glove3 match J™* P™*? 1 “ ad
the fl flowers on your hat, and if they
flowers on your dress, ’
^ t 7° u wl11 be 80 mucl1 the better
^ ‘S./whiWstriped’ /scattered sfikfTitb
roae8 in Dresden effe( over
it. Now fancy this dress trimmed
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all colors, ’. with taffetas to match; and
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Married in Her Bicycle Clothes.
While Justice Hart, of Cleveland,
Ohio, was sitting in his office late
Tuesday afternoon, he was aroused
from his meditation by a ripple of
laughter at'his office door. A company
of three young ladies and an elderly
gentleman entered. The girls each
wore a neat bicycle suit, with short
skirts and a cap. One of the merry
wheel-women announced that she de-
sired to be launched on the sea of
matrimony, and to have her name
0 h ange d f rom Bliss Martha Elber to
yt rs Charles T. Wilkes. The justice
looked out of the door for the would-
] )u groom, but the voting lady pointed
to the elderly gentleman. The bicy-
c ; e bride was about seventeen years
0 ] dj w bile the groom appeared to be
thirty years her senior. The bicycle
bridesmaids giggled, the bicycle bride
blushed and the old gentleman looked
serious, while the justice performed
the ceremony.—Chicago Tribune,
Her Fine Jump.
Six feet and one inch is a fine record
for a running high jump, and for a
woman it is extraordinary.
It has been made by a seventeen-
year-old Brooklyn school girl. The
world’s amateur record is at present
held by M. F. Sweeney, with 6 feet
5j inches, Ten years ago the best
man conld not beat the jump of 6 feet
1 inch, made by Bliss Louise Brooks.
In 1887 the record for the United
States was held by E. W. Johnson,
ivitti only 5 feet 11 inches.
Bliss Brooks is the daughter of
George W. Brooks, and is the cham¬
pion feminine athlete of Adelphia
Academy. For eight- years she has
been a pupil in that school, and an
enthusiast in athletics and gymnastics.
She easily carries off the palm as the
best all-around athlete in a large class
of girl gymnasts, and her powers and
endurance, her grace and agility, are
simply marvelous,
Bliss Brooks comes of a family of
athletes. She is the only daughter
among six children. Her five brothers
are all athletes and her eldest brother
was a champion of Amherst during Bliss his
college life. From a tiny girl
Louise loved outdoor sports better
thau the pastimes usually sought by
little maids. Tops, marbles and ball
were her toys instead of dolls and
miniature dishes and housekeeping
utensils. She learned to throw a ball
like a bey—a clean, straight throw—
instead of in the curiously lame fashion
which most girls adopt. She grew
a sturdy, straight-limbed maiden
well-developed muscles. When she
went to the Academy she took to the
gymnasium as a duck takes to water.—
New Orleans Picayune,
Slie Has a Flourishing Business.
The question, “What shall Ido to
earn a living?” asked so often by lvomen,
was answered the other day by two
young women in New York, very much
to their own satisfaction, and profit.
The senior member of the firm (who
was a belle and social leader in her
native State two years ago) went to
New- York and cast around for some-
thing whereby she might earn her own
bread. A friend of hers, another capn-
Me girl, remarked that the ladies of
New York looked much better on the
streets than in their evening gowns.
“They look fairly well so long as they
stick to silks, or satins, or heavy mate¬
rials, but when it comes to muslins and
laces they don’t seem to know how to
have them made. It is a perfect shame
the way they waste their beautiful
material s. A h, if w e only had their beau¬
tiful goods, couldn’t we make lovely
gowns of them!” The other girl began
to think, atid iti a few days proposed
to her friend to form a partnership as
designers of evening and summer
gowns. Together they made several
rough colored sketches of muslin gowns,
which they took to some of their more
fashionable acquaintances to see what
they thought of them. In almost every
instance they received orders for one
or more gowns. When these orders
increased sufficiently to makp the ven¬
ture safe, they began work in earnest.
They employed compete-it French
dressmakers and fitters, and opened
parlors, where their designs and sam¬
ple gowns are shown. Their custom¬
ers select their designs and materials
from samples shown by the firm, and
they guarantee a perfect fit and finish.
As they make only one gown after a
design, tlieir patrons are certain that
no one else will have a garment just
like tlieir own. Besides building up a
very flourishing business in New York
and the vicinity, they have been offered
good salaries by several of the large
houses which make a specialty c! stylish,
ready-made gowns and waists as de¬
signers.—Argonaut.
Literary Blondes.
Among the women prominent in the
literary world to-day, it is interesting
to note that many of them are of the
delicate blonde type. Marie Corelli,
whose books sell enormously, and
are translated into nearly a dozen lan¬
guages, including Arabic and Hindu-
stanee, is distinctly petite, with a
fragile figure and a mass of curling,
reddish gold liair, under which large,
dark blue eyes look questioningly.
She was born in Italy, but was adopt¬
ed in early childhood by a London,
physician, the father of Eric Mackay,
the poet who, like Byron, ‘ ‘awoke and
found himself famous” on the publica¬
tion of his volume of sonnets—“The
Love Letter of a Violinist”—which
gives him high rank among the young¬
er Victorian poets. Corelli lavishes
unbounded admiration upon his work,
and frequently quotes his poems in
her novels. In the “Romance of Two
Worlds” she’has made copious extracts,
with warmest laudatory comments,
from the “Love Letters.” “The Ro¬
mance of Two Worlds,” by the way,
has the distinction of causing her
most gracious majesty, Queen Victoria,
to forego part of a night’s repose, for
her royal highness refused to go to
bed until the last chapter was finished
at 2 o’clock in the morning. One of
Marie Corelli’s eccentricities is a dis-
like of being photographed, and an-
other is a determination not to marry
—a decision which a good many men
have vainly sought to change. She
has made a fortune by her writings,
so can afford to be independent.
Frances Hodgson Burnett is also a
blonde. In one family of her friends
she is called by the caressing pet name
of “Fluffy.” She is delicate in color¬
ing and has a mobile face, rather seri¬
ous in repose, but lighting up into
charming kitmorousness of expression
when among intimate friends.
Mary E. Wilkins is another blonde,
small in stature and with a face
earnestness recalls her own “ Ne\v, ■
land Chandler Nun.” Moulton’s—one One day at Miss of liaH L^H
mous Fridays—in a group whic^ffP
eluded several noted people, among,
them Miss Wilkins, Julia Marlowe conversatiod ancU
Oscar Fay Adams, the
drifted into reminiscence, and, wit'"*
good deal of laughter, confess!
were made of childish sins. A
Wilkins related her one falsehood
a smile, it is true, but in a way H
clearly showed the sensitive consB
ness of her nature. Once, wheiB
small, she strayed into the diningH tl
before dinner, and climbing up
table abstracted a few grapes. ■
mother, coming in soon after, noB
a slight disarrangement, and aske®
child if she had taken any grol
Hastily the little one answered, “'n™
mamma,” and the matter droppeM
All the afternoon, however, the falser
hood sat heavily on the child’s con¬
science, until in the twilight she
threw her curly golden head upon keg
mother’s lap and soboed her confess
sion. .J
Novelties Dry Goods Counters. *
on ,
Chiffon veils for travelers.
Polka-dotted foulards again.
Plaid silk string and stock ties.
Fancy piece-silk and ribbon belts.
Lace insertion of the entre-deux or-
Polka dotted cotton waists of brigh
red.
Thick floral wreaths for midsummerj
hats.
Panama sailors of every possiblJ
shade. 1
Shirt waists in the familiar polka*
dot patterns.
Toques of flexible straw for middla|
aged women. *
Narrow embroidered turnover lawn
and batiste collars.
Large collars of lace and embroidery
for children’s wear.
Full vest fronts of white mousseliue,
pearl embroidered.
Small-figured taffeta frocks for girls
of five to ten years.
Brilliant red pique figured in white
for dresses, vests, etc.
Guimpes of tucking alone or tucks
and lace for small girls.
Cerise chiffon for accordion-plaited
gowns, waists and hats.
Velveteen suits for small boys’ act¬
ing as pages at weddings.
Tulle wedding veils edged with
point or Valenciennes lace.
White cloth jackets embroidered in
gold braid for seaside wear.
Large hats having a straw crown and
brim of chiffon frills for children.