I N the shade ef the southern palms, 1
Ne-.v Year's day!
Our big nation Is widespread
enough to afford any sort of a
New Year'.-: day climate one desires, if
one can afford tiie price of going to the
climate. Three zones offer their re
spective attraction-'. In Florida iny
lady sits by th<- ; eu In her white dress
at Palm idea. h. Si. Augustine or any of
a dozen resorts that may he mentioned,
both on t tie Atlantic and the gulf,
coasts. When .the northern part of this j
land Is hound in Ice ban.' with lr-
nty lady in Florida bathes in the surf,
goes driving wrap'ess bareheaded
or sits in a shaded ver. n . and reads'
novels with the soft a r blowing across!
her face. It nukes u.- envious to think I
of n r. u; .. ho .11 our heavy gar- j
metis and behind 'nrin doors and
weather stripped windows.
Never mine' Tin < New Year's!
time. ]>t . r. all that liiere 1 a
strong probtibilily timt every deep >!e- j
sure of a human soul will be gratified, i
The desire has only to be held to til!
It becomes an Intention. Our time, too,
wib come to spend New Years day in
Florida or other tropical region. If we
U ill it to be sc.
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threatens the sinners who do not come
up and "get through." as the strange
phrase for conversion is among the
southern blacks. In the midst of sing
ing. groaning, praying, shrieking and
swaying back and forth in rhythmic
motion the negro congregations bring
■in the n^w year, never failing to take
up a collection. Then, content, they
return to their homes and go on next
day just as before. There is always a
i the year, the day when he drinks the
: most, makes the most noise and plays
I the wildest pranks of his life.
In the South American republics the
' New Year's celebration begins at dawn
of Dec. 31. Every old Spanish-Ameri-
i can town has an assortment of
j churches several hundred years old;
! every one of these old time edifices has
a bell, usually cracked, and at dawn, I
. Dec. 31. the bells, cracked and un-
of it Is only comparable to that achiev- ■
ed by the North American on the
Fourth of July. Every South Ameri
can buys a lottery ticket on New-
Year's day for luck, sometimes a dozen
tickets. On the street corners every
passerby Is besieged to take a chance.
Mr. William Thorp mentions that once
when he spent New Year's day in Cara
cas he saw an Indian boy selling lot
tery tickets to the president of Vene- I
tion of the city and the adjoining rural t
region gathered in the public square or!
plaza in the evening- of Dec. 31. Presi
dent Castro’s own band, a magni'' ent
one, began playing in the plaza early
in the evening and kept it up till dawn
Jan. 1. The populace kept watch night
in royal, roistering fashion. Ladles of ,
high degree, their lovely heads draped
only with the Spanish lace mantilla,
came in their carriages to witness the i
forth the stroke of midnight, Jan. 1.;
all the cracked little bells keeping up
with it. Then suddenly change! From '
his hip pocket every Spanish American
man on that plaza drew a gun of some
kind and shot -the new year in. "The
troops at the barracks and the jails
and the forts fired off every cannon
they had—even the antiquated ord- ;
nance that dated back to the days of
Bolivar. And instantly after that
One of the most beautiful
Florida j; the neighborhood
Worth, which the photograph
pictures for us. The walk under the
palms along th- edge of the lake is
shown
In the old p^uth New Year's day was
celebrated with calling and the brew
ing raid drinking of that famous and
delicious sout h-i n beverage, eggnog.
It. hits been : aid that none horn and
bred north of Mason and Dixon's lino
ever can mak r eggnog just right.
The .--ontheni negroes have the high
est old New Year':-' time of ill. They
celebrate a full week, from Christmas
val of
tg the j
New
ept the I
•pen Christ
Year's t
hOUSc Si
pssarv t
the rest gave th" season ovr to eat
ing, drinking, visiting and jollity. In
the slave quarter.-. ..It. ;!:ig "hoc dov. n.:'
and mirth were the order ill night Ions.
The ntgro, like the jungle animal of
his hot ancestral land, likes to sleep all
day and run all night.
Among southern negroes reliclotisly
Inclined watch night, meeting; are al
ways held on New Year’s eve. The old
year is sped nut and the new year wel
comed In with fervid revival services
that in their intensity sometimes slop
not short of the weird and terrifying.
With all the horrors of the old fash
ioned sheol the colored
v'/aLK XU MIDWIiTTE3L, LAi£E WOjELTH, i'LOiliDA.
Year's day to call on Oom Paul and
shake his not small hand and drink
some of his celebrated black coffee,
said to be the absolutely most villain
ous in the world In the Peer towns
since the English occupations New-
Year's is observe! m :ch the same as
in England and America, but the
strange, serious minded "back veldt"
Boer still keej s a New Year's day even
more strange and serious than him
self. He lives perhaps seventy miles
away from the nearest town. Several
days before New Year's he and his
family harness up their heavy bullock
carts and trek to the tc-vvn. They
camp out in the public square. To the
Boer the New.Year's observance is first
of all religious. He goes to ti e town m
partake of the "nachtmaal," or Lord's
supper. This he doe.-- In common with
other "back veldt" Roars who have
come in from all directions for a like
purpose. After the religious services
are concluded the Boer and his mates
indulge in a shooting mati h. and thal
is their nearest approach to anything
like festivity on New Year's day. Tc
them it is the day the early Christian
fathers tried to make it in Europe, a
day of worship and fasting and prayer.
The only relaxation to its stern seri
ousness is the shooting match, in which
the Boer soul delights. To him human
existence is as ornamentless as his own
mind.
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As to white people resident In th«
hottest tropics, the Ineffable indolenct
that pervades ail life there is apt tc
strike in on them and prevent them
from exploiting any New Year's
schemes that require hustling. Thcj
have tiffin, then siesta, then a drive in
the cool of the afternoon. They gel
mostly too lazy even to make New
Year’s resolutions.
CHARLOTTE VAN BECK.
J
suggestion of ancient African rites and
chants in a negro revival meeting.
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Unique among nations Is the New
Year's celebration of South American
countries. A person not of the Latin
races roulc! «•■: celebrate so demon
stratively as F South American does
when he iiiuug urates his new year,
revivalist j With him.it is the greatest day of all
[cracked, all go off together, jingle Jany)
J gle. jir.gie jnngic. In a Spanish-Ameri-
: can capital troops will be astir and
; marching, and public buildings will be
decorated at early mom with flags and
flowers.
Woe to the late sleeper on such a
morning! At New Year's celebrations
it is the vogue in South America to ex
plode firecrackers and bombs, making
I a din that for the pandemoniacal fury
zuela and his cabinet ministers and do
ing a brisk business at it too Oh that
day officers will part witfiTheir swords
for a song: lh<e poor man will take the
money which is to buy, his breakfast
in order to purchase a lottery ticket.
Fierce as a tiger's lust for blood is the
gambling instinct in the Spanish
American.
On the occasion of Mr. Thorp's New
Year's in Caracas the whole popuia-
[ scene. In their Paris gowns they danc-
: ed in the plaza side by side with the
j Indian girls in their straw hats and
•! rough garments. The president of the
‘ republic himself mingled with the
! crowd and danced with the pretty girls
: in the public square during that glad,
; mad celebration.
j Everything went on with punctilious
Spanish propriety in the dance till.sud-
I denly the heavy cathedral boil pealed
everybody in the plaza turned around
and embraced and kissed his or her
next neighbor, whoever that happened
to be. old or young, black, white or
copper colored.
And that is a typical New Year's
fiesta in a South American city.
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In the Boer republic of the old time
it was the custom for citizens on New
WOMEN ASTRONOMERS.
Mrs. Paton Fleming, a native of Dun-
dee, Sco^and, who has just been elect - 1
ed a member of the Royal Astronomical
society, is not the only woman who bus :
succeeded In comprehending the trans
cendental mysteries of the heavens— ‘
perhaps the most abstract and abstract
of the sciences. Miss Henrietta Leavill
discovered twenty-five new variable
stars some years ago. Lady Huggins,
diligently helps her husband, Sir Wil
liam Huggins, in his astronomical db-
servations. In their house in Soutl:
London they possess a very finely
equipped observatory, which contains
the enormous telescope presented bj
the Royal society to Sir William ir
recognition of the work accomplished
by Lady Huggins and himself in astre
physics. ;
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Kate Clyde on New
Gifts and Leftovers f
New Year’s eld and New Year's new, ( paste in the least.
It's New Year's again for me and you. , wear it.
U NLIKE the verso, my senti- , Take that for consolation.
■BBi
ment does not limp!
How it does thaw ns out—
this time worn holiday! The
holiday season has made the meanest
of us blossom into generosity, the most
exclusive become sociable, the most
self centered think a little of others.
We all get foolish this time of year.
I know grown people without chick or
child' who have filled each other's
stockings and have had their tiny
Christmas tree.
Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed bought a
Teddy bear for the two-months-old
Boreamed herself almost into fits.
really, good paste is not to be scorned.
You know the- latest rage in diamond
p-.ndants? Three stones of finest, wa
ter strung one below
All the duchesses J Then this season there are the most) What a goos^'a woman makes of
bewitching trays and boxes made of , herself when she runs after a man! I:
tapestry for toilet tables. Sometimes ! can't utter this trite remark too often, j
glass covered but. really, one sees evidences of it day!
by day.
And.
fits
and she screamed herself almost
at the sight.
Spinster procured a piece of |
rgreen for the parrot's cage.
old bachelor around the corner
tied a piece of holly ribbon on his bull
pul>'a collar, and a fragment remains
even now.
So much for the influence of the sea
son.
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•In some respects this has been a great |
Yuletlde. Never have the presents been j
more attractive than this year. And ]
now you are making a final tour of j
the shops in search of New Year’s j
gifts. There are plenty left.
In the first place, look at the trinkets |
that go to complete the toilet. There
are gorgeous buckles for neck and .
waist, the former to bs threaded'
through inch wide black velvet. Dog j
collars of semiprecious stones are with- !
in the reach of all. and pendants—oh. I
me; oh. my! Let me speak a word i
about pendants.
Since the fad for matching one's hats
to one's rendants. or vice versa, they
have created a veritable furore. With
a pink hat you wear a rose tourmaline
pendant, with a green one a creation
of Jade and old silver, with a blue a
turquoise matrix, with a purple creatioc
a hear: of amethyst, while black is re
lieved by pink coral, and yellow has its
complement in topaz. And. pray, do
not think these precious ornaments are
all real. Oh, dear, no! It was only
after I had known Its owner a month
fat she confided to me that her $200
tourmaline pendant was paste, worth
$20. You never would have dreamed
HI
But since I went about quite a bit
last winter in London I don't mind
MME. SYLVINO QURGEL DO AMARAL
Portuguese women of the tipper class are noted for their beauty and grace
fulness. Mine, do Amaral, wife of the secretary of the Brazilian embassy at
the national capital, is a lovely Portuguese and one of the best dressed women
in Washington. She speaks several languages, is a charming hostess and a
most fascinating woman.
tiny chain and worn suspended from
trie collar top. Well, of course, in the ;
original they cost small fortunes.
Y’ou ought to see the clever Imita
tions. though. Made of the finest ma- I
tertals these pendants cost $30, and 11
defy any one to detect the difference. :
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There are also watches studded with
small diamonds which cost $45. only ;
the diamonds are paste, but set In that
close effect that you never, never, never !
would dream it. . j
most fantastically and cost all kinds
of prices from the real antiques to the
very clever modern imitations.
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I know of otre girl who does nothing
but_ ring a man up on the phone, and
then she wonders he is not anxious to
call. Why does he have to be when
she practicality calls on him' ail the
time.
I shall never forget an Incident that
occurred in the mountains of New
Hampshire. There were ten girls there
and no man ;fif you have ever sum
mered In New Hampshire you will be
able to appreciate this! The girls
were plainly bored. Can you blame
t!.em? Nine of them spent their time
yawning, the'tenth, rather a tomboy,
consoled herself by speeding over the
country on her bicycle c-r by wearing
a short corduroy skirt ar.d going oa! in
a muddy* beat fishing. The others
rather resented her ’ independant at
titude. and the fact. I think, that she
did not embroider.
Suddenly, one day. the news
around that a real young man
coming. Oh, rapture* Ar.d he was a
Harvard mar. to boot.. Nine maidens
primped and
sizzled
tbei
hair: nine mai
dens appeared
had
her. Not
The supper
bell rang (it
was an old fash-
id hotel), and
Pound her fterceig dig- they filed in.
ging more augleicorms. Regretfully
washing the
clay from her ten fingers, the fisher-
woman brushed her corduroy skirt and.
with a sigh, stamped into the rather
stuffy dining room—as she was!
The young man looked up from his
contemplation of the nine conscious
maidens and surveyed the tenth, the j
only person in the room who was not!
dressed up.
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door. Tho young man soon followed i
her^
Ke found her fiercely- digging more
angleworms in the gathering dusk. I
forgot to say she had dropped her cap
in her haste, and this formed his ex
cuse.
They do those thing quickly in the
summer time..
The other maidens waited In the
twilight until the dew wilted their mus
lins.
Before the end of the summer the
Harvard man and the tomboy were
engaged.
He often said it was because she
was different from the others that first
night.
So much for indifference, accidental
And, dear me, while we are on the
subject, never shall I forget a rebuke
administered to myself, and the smart
of it lingers yet. It was at the unex
perienced age of sixteen, when my hair
was still in pigtails, and when I wanted
anything 1 reached right out for it. (I!
can say nothing stronger to show how',
crude I was!)
It was a small summer hotel. There j
was a MOTHER there with two sons
(the large type will show you what
kind of a mother she was). She did
not want her darling boys to be cap
tured.
I wanted one of them to flirt with.
I remember I corralled him in a corner
of the piazza in my artless, straight
forward way. and he seemed not to be
suffering too much. But mother came
and rescued him—-carried him off bodily
is the word.
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Later in the day the old lady sat em
broidering on the piazza. On the lawn
a kitten scam
pered and eluded
my grasp. In the
shadow of a tree
my mother sat
reading.
Finally I made
a straight dash &%%££&
at the flirta- rifiSKiva*
tious cat; it [
shied and dow:. ; '
I came on my jj-V'
hands and kr
in a rose bed.
Then spoke up ,, . ,,
knees Ri.
bed.
railed him in
the piazza.
sound from my
sense of humor.)
straight into the
it that boy the whole
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Then take the embroidered robes!
What prettier present can one give to
one s mother or sister? There are the i
dearest things (I grow ’'mushy'’ over
them!) in gray pink or pale blue j
batiste. Some of them have the waists |
all tucked and basted together too. I
Really, the array of good things is;
positively bewildering.
She wore a russet brown cap, gaiters
and the brown corduroy skirt. Her
curly brown hair was rather tumbled.
There was—yes, there was—an unmis
takable streak of dust on her brown
left cheek.
The nine wise virgins snickered. The
tenth, victim of their silence, flushed a
rosy red and slipped into her seat next
to her mother The whole meal she sat
tn humiliated silence. Then after sup
per she promptly bolted by the side
AND SUPERSTITION,
many superstitions con-
precious stones, which are
considered by credulous rersons to
actual attributes of various gems. It*
is believed, for Instance, that a young
metbyst has an
and flightiness.
a sapphire, she
the most insidiouH
If she wears
she has a charm against rheu
matism and kindred dismses and a
prompter, to vivacity am-, fascination
of manner. Failing the i-uby, the car
buncle and the garnet will exert a
similar influence. In the turquoise Ilia
j wearer has a talisman *or self pos
session. The pretty blue gem will en-
; able her to think clearly and keep her
) presence of mind in the most trying
j circumstances. Emeralds are valued
as a spur to ambition and promote th«
j spirit of leadership.
PAULINE MORTON, DAUGHTER OF HON. PAUL MORTON.
When her father was secretary of the navy two years ago Miss Pauline
Morton, his second daughter, was introduced first to Washington society. :
There she met J. Hopkins Smith. Jr. An engagement followed, which is :
shortly to end in the marriage of the attractive young pair. Both Miss Paul- !
Ine’s father and grandfather were members of presidential cabinets. Her
grandfather. J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, was President Cleveland's secre- I
tary of agriculture. I
DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.
“Weil. I’ve pulled old Jcnes through.
And a critical case it was. let me tell
you." said a doctor who had married s
widow. 'Yes. dear," the ady remark
ed. “but then you are such a clevei
man! And. if I had only known you
four years earlier! I am certain that
my poor dear John wou'-d have .been
saved!”
CONCERNING MATTERS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
k
Mrs. Russell Sage says she intends ,
to give away the bulk of the $so,000,- :
000 fortune left to her, but makes it
plain that not a dollar of it will go to
endow churches. In her opinion, the
tact that churches are endowed puts
them beyond the necessity for work,
thus making them indifferent and neg
ligent-
In some bedding belonging to an old
woman who died In a British work-1
house the purchaser found a bag con
taining jewelry and a note for SI.500
deposited in a Liverpool bank thirty-
five years ago. The honest finder in
formed the woman’s relatives in Cardiff
of the discovery.
In New Zealand when age, sickness
or accident has deprived a person cf
the ability to earn a living the gov
ernment comes to the rescue. Those
who hate reached sixty-five years
without having a certain income or cer
tain amount of property are pensioned
—men and women alike.
Naples is responsible for the manu
facture of the major portion of the
world's supply of tortoise shell.
To husbands and wives: Respect
each other's privacy in the matter of
letters. Be interested, but don't be
S „ i -y women in Rotten Row, the
1'ashi-cable riding place in Hydr park,
London, have adopted tne custom of
riding horseback astride, and It is as
serted this manner of riding soon will
bs the rule Instead of the exception in
England. Among the prominent wo
men who ride in this fashion are Vis
countess Castlereagh. the Duchess of
Westminster and the young daughter
of the Duchess of Sutherland.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster. President Roose
velt's commissioner to investigate la
bor conditions among women and chil
dren throughout the country, says
Massachusetts leads all the other
states In laws for the- protection of
women and children in factories. This
is owing in large measure to the work
of ?.Iassachusetts clubwomen.
In the estimation of the British
schoolteachers, who were in America
under the guidance of Alfred Mosely.
the educationa! expert, the women
schoolteachers of the United States are
underpaid.
Gclia Zv.'iilinger. a r.ire and—pretty
eirl a: Oak! ind. Cal., has been ped
aling tinware and acting as usher in
a theater to get money to pay her way i
In the University of California, where \
she is a freshman. j
Father (to married son)—You are |
living very nicely, I see. but are you !
saving any money? Son (in a whis- ]
per)—Yes. but don't tell my wife!
There are 22.460 more females than !
males in Cornwall. England.
Mrs. E!«:o Clews Par; 'ns who wrote i
the book called "The Family.” which '
has aroused so much discussion, is a :
daughter of the distinguished banker, j
Henry Clews. Mrs. Parsons' husbani
Herbert Parsons, is a member of cor
gress from New York city
A woman in Seville Spain, dresse
as a man and served on the police fore
there thirty years. An accidental
which her leg was broken caused he
discovery finally.
To husbands: Don't give your wii
the humiliation of asking vou for ever
penny she nr-els. and don't export n
the patienre an-d forbearance to be o
her side.
