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I N the child story hooks of people
who are now grown was the de
scription of a fairy Ice palace
built centuries ago for a great em
press of Russia. By day its crystal
walls glittered like one huge, dazzling,
scintillating diamond In the rays of the
■un, which were reflected from the ice
in myriads of rainbow colored shafts.
At night the palace was Illuminated
with a thousand lamps, making the
scene if po: stifle even more splendid
than in daytime. Water colored green,
red and yellow wa^> frozen into various
decorative shapes to adorn and give
brilliancy to the structure.
The empress' h-e palace was consid
ered so wonderful il: .• it was thought
worthy of a record u, history, and that
Is how wo come to know about it. A
famous English poet was inspired by
its novelty and beauty to write sonic
versos about it, and these, too, have
been handed down to our utilitarian
generation.
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In the line of winter diversions the
erection of that ice palace was the
greatest thing which over happened—
In those cays. Who could predict then,
however, that In the centuries to come
plain North Americans, Canadians and
Yankees would not only equal the Rus
sian Ice enterprise, but go It at least
ten better—that, too. without half try
ing? Within the past twenty years ice
palaces have been Iguilt in Quebec, in
Montreal, in St. Paul, at Niagara and
on Saranac lake, beside which the Rus
sian affair was a mere tallow dip light
ed shanty. Our ice palaces are Illumi
nated by electricity, and those who
make merry within their walls are
whirled thither In sumptuous automo
biles. Next thing we'll be sailing to an
evening’s entertainment In the ice pal
ace in an airship, each of us in his or
her own private conveyance.
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Of recent years the numerous wealthy
winter campers in the Adlrondacks oc
casionally hold an ice carnival there.
They say it is more fun In the Adiron-
dacks In winter than In summer—after
you get used to it. The chief festivities
take place at Saranac lake, the popular
wlifter resort. There gather annually
hundreds of hunters from all over the
country. Hundreds of hapless mortals.
disease
have fastened on them, go to Saranac
i lake for the winter to find if haply 20
j to 10 below zero may not freeze the
poison germs cut of them. At Saranac
I dwell many of the guide.', and these
! swell the population. Besides all these.
■ hundreds more stay in Saranac ail win-
' ter -hrough sheer enjoyment of th? cold
which makes the fur clad individual's
blood tingle In his veins, the cold which
brings s>igh riding, f hating 1 , toboggan
ing. skeeing, ice hockey and ice boat-
, ing—wedi. come to thin . there are more
| winter sports than summer ones,
i The Pontiac club has chatgz of winter
•gayci*-.-- at Saranac that •gain quite
| dwarf any ice shows if the old lime.
| Ther-. wasn't any sk.-.ing by r-»d and
j green incandescent Ugh at the Rus-
■ Man ice i alace rink. At Saranac the
| winter through there it, a l.irg • skating i
| rink kept ir. perfect order night and)
! day. An ice fort was a feature of one !
of the ice chows. It was bu,lt of huge |
j blocks of ice cut fr-un the lake and ce- .
! mented together with .- now. Gay ilags
I not only of the United States, but of all
not.one. waved from its glittering bat
tlements.
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j Ice hockey matches are always a fen- |
ture of the Adirondack winter colony's I
sports. At times u Canadian hockey
1 club’crosses the border and shows its!
' skill to players on this side. During!
i the season, too. there :: always a fancy J
! dress chating party on the rink. Same - i
1 times as many as :;00 skaters, dressed
j as knights, cowboys, Indians, puritan
| maidens, gypsies and ladies of the olden |
; time, make night merry over tne dark |
j lake with their songs, laughter and!
bright costumes.
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Tobogganing is a favorite winte.
sport in the Adlrondacks as elsowkc>-e 1
in America, but it has never reached j
such development here as in the En-
gadine in Switzerland. It is one of the 1
most fascinating of all winter sports,'
| but sometimes attended with a little
| danger. That makes it all the more at- |
j tractive however.
The colony of foreign residents, large- i
iy English, at St. Moritz, in the Enga- j
dine, have brought tobogganing to p- •
faction. John Addington 'Symonds, U;v j
English author, spent many winters
there, and his interest in the : rt
brought about its development. A spi - ,
rial toboggan track has been made. A !
Symonds silver cup is annually com- !
peted for by men toboggan racers. I
There is also an annual ladies’ co ,:• t,
and the women have attained a -kill
little short of that exhibited by the bast :
men. A speed of forty to fifty mil r, t
hour is frequently reache 1 in these p r-
ilous downhill slides. An American who
tried skidding down the almost per; --u-
dicular ice track at St. Moritz says he
never was so scared in his life he '
was the first time he did the feat, but
he was eager to try it again ;;!! the'
same. Rob sledding by crews of men j
and women together is a favorite I
amusement at St. Moritz, just as it is !
among American boys and girls. There
are frequent bobsled races in the En
dine Alps.
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It is well worth while spending a win-
‘HGOP-LA: CLEAR THE TRACK! - ’—the toboggan girl.
men have to do is to cut a hole through , been disliked for the same cause. Mod-
the ice perhaps a foot square. In the ' ern fashion gtvos a very wide choice
wooden floor of the shanty a hole has \ regarding color, but we all love to see
been cut of the same size, and the i a young and pretty bride clad in soft
shanty is moved so that the hole in its! white raiment, do we not?
floor is directly over the hole in the ice. j Regarding jewels, n-.any brides re-
A little sheet iron stive is always one fuse to wear anything bur the engage-
ot the furnishments of the ice fisher’s ment ring, a decision which is to be
shanty, so that he has just to make a commended. Opals are said to bring
fire in his stove, let his lines down bad luck, and French brides never
through the double hole in the floor and wear pearls, as they consider them to
the ice and wait for a bite, “warm as i
toast.” See?
Little trenches the length of the
shanty sled runners are d ig in the ice, j
the runners are put into these and wa- !
ter is poured on them, so they freeze
fast. Otherwise the wind might blow j
be the emblem of tears.
In Scotland New Year’s eve is a fa
vorite wedding day among the country
folk, and Irish Molly choose Shrove
Tuesday for that happiest of days.
English brides are warned that "to
marry between the sickle and the
j the whole irap away, fishermen, shanty ] scythe will never thrive." and the
I and all. The house is additionally sup- j month of May and during Lent and
| ported by being tied to upright sticks ! advent are unpopular seasons,
also frozen fast in the ice. Often holes ■ A bride naturally wishes for a bright,
are cut in the ice outside of the shanty sunshiny wedding day—“Happy is the
j and lines put down through them, so | bride that the sun shines on." There-
i that one fisherman my attend to a ; fore, we are told that in older to gain
j dozen lines. Spearing fish through the \ her wish she must be watchful never
ice Indian fashion is also common on
our northern lakes.
Iceboat sailing is one of the most ex
citing of all winter divert ions and one
requiring nerve and skill, it is becom
ing every winter more popular on the
northern lakes and rivers. The upper
I Hudson i'd its larger tributaries have
a nunieroiis contingent of ice yachts
men. The sport itself is really much
like skating silting down. The largest
! iceboat fleet in this country is probably
j that at Oshkosh. Wis.. and the scene of
| its exploitation is Winnebago lake, thir- [ 1’uckets may omit iliis precaution and
ty miles Ion?: and fourteen wide. An must face tlio oomso-nionces.
iceboat * in a strong wind sometimes' Years ago it \va> considered the pro
to ill use cats, for if she does so she
will not only have a wet and stormy
wedding day. but ill fortune and sick
ness will follow.
Sunday is a favorite day for rural
weddings in England, and the after
noon. of that day is not a time of rest
for the pastor of a village church, es
pecially during the summer.
In Wales it is said to b«' an evil omen
if the bride stumbles going into church,
and to insure good ha k ever after the
bridegroom is advised to carry to
church a horseshoe in his pocket. The
fashionable man who dislikes bulging
travels at a speed that takes away the
breath. An eighty mile an hour rate •
has been reached. “But a sixty mile an j
hour jog is fast enough for me,” says j
an iceboat sailor. !
ing for the bride to cry. This
arcely b^ understood, if she is
g the “only man in the world for
per
can
wed
nor.”
In some ou f of the way districts tho
people say that the best time for a
wedding is when the moon is young,
If wo should have the fortune to he f an( ^ ’ n many parts a marriage which
able to visit Yellowstone park in win- ’ t fl kes place with a waning moon is re-
ter we would find the soldier guards P^rded with sorrow,
there making their rounds upon
order to witness the scenes there in the
frozen season.
Fishing through the ice is both a
sport and a business upon our inland
For the rich man it is sport: for
“wooden wings of Norway.*’ otherwise
skees. A skee is a piec e of polished ash
wood strapped to the foot. The regu
lation length for army men is ten feet
eight inches. Skees are something liko
long, thin sled runners strapped one to
each foot. The skeer carries a balanc
ing pole, and in addition the Yellow
stone army skeer carries fastened upon
his hack a pack of some forty pounds
weight while making his rounds. And
the falls they have and the fun they
have, those soldier boys who come as
green hands and essay skeeing! But
the eternal boy in them grows as fond
of the sport as if the man were yet a
boy in years and stature. For skeeing
down a mountain side Is the most
thrilling winter sport of all!
JESSIE M’BURNIE.
PUNISH AND PARDON.
East night my little son was sent
Uukiss'od to hod with angry eyes
And lips that pouted willful wise;
This was his mother’s punishment.
A gentler woman docs not live,
But yet she tarried to forgive.
i Tho childish fault, the passionate deed
They must he cheeked. : o in the gloom
I I fo stumbled to his little room:
j He was too proud to weep or plead.
I saw Ins mother's eyes grow dim
In tender yearning following him.
i But in the silence when he slept
; I’ndried the tears lay on his cheek,
> The little face seemed very meek,
j How piteously perchance he wept
Before he took to Slumberland
The grief he could not understand!
laborers’ wages may be obtained by t planned for tlio ice fishermen they are
the winter fisherman, for" (ho fish al-i not at all uncomfortable,
ways seem to bite when locked in under An ice shanty is simply a large wood-
the ice. Women as well as men enjoy en box mounted upon runners to be
ice fishing, and some of them become hauled over the ice. Arrived at the
ter alone the edge of our great lakes in the poor, business. Much more than expert. In one of the shanties specially. fishing place, tfce first thing the sports-
BRIDAL LORE.
Here are a few old superstitions and
traditions interesting to prospective
brides. Every girl is familiar with the
old couplet:
Something old and something new.
Something borrowed and something blue.
Green has always been considered an
unlucky color, and so also has black
Then tenderly his mot hr
The fair tossed hair ba»
And kissed the lips so
But woke him not since i
And there besid
She knelt and pray
smoothed
; from his brovr
issive row,
soothed,
little
1 awhile instead.
Ah. so. dear God. when :it the last
We lie with closed and tear stained eyes
And lips too dumb for prayers or sighs.
Sorry and punished for tlio past.
Surely thou wilt forgive and bless,
Being pitiful for our distress!
$ $ $ Cbc Self Hsserttve Girl and Some Others
I T'S a great mistake to try to euro ■
a girl of seif assurance. I
It may be a trifle unpleasant at
tlm.s to feel that one’s daughter
knows It all. It may be also delightful
to see her “come a cropper” because
the went on ahead without the advice
of her elders, but most of us forget on.
thing—
We have learned mighty little from
advice and a precious lot from experi
ence.
Advlce7 Bah! We all of us ask It,
but how many of us follow it? And
can’t we remember that at least two
out of the three times we followed it
we were sorry afterward?
At least if you lose from following
out your own ideas you learn some
thing, and often if you win from follow
ing other people's instructions you are]
'no wiser than you were before and
Wouldn't be able to do the same stunt
over again to save your soul.
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Then there Is another point worth
considering—for one woman who has
the ability to decide for herself in this
world there are fifty others who can't
make a move without consulting their
uncles and their cousins and their
aunts. So you can sec for yourself that i
golf assurance is a valuable asset and!
not one to be nipped lightly in the bin'. |
1 could give you a dozen Instances i
offhand where women have lost most
valuable opportunities through inabili
ty to decide quickly through lack of
a.lf assurance, of confidence in them-
aelves.
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It .earns to me if I had a daughter
tho first thing I would teach her would
bo to think for herself, to reason out
ATHLETIC MRS. JAMES R. GARFIELD,
Ltomed fUe mrl of setting stones.
! A bright, merry, most attractive face has Mrs. James Rudolph Garfield
1 whose husband is now secretary of the interior. She is an example to Ameri
can mothers in her love of active outdoor life and sports. A ten mile walk is
said to be nothing to her. No wonder she has an animated, winsome face. It
has the sparkle that results from good health and good muscular trim. Mrs.
Garfield is bringing up her children to be athletic too. she was Miss Helen
Newell of Chicago. Her father was a railroad president.
• she was
;ah!o ys-
grew older and that meanwh
acquiring one of the rn •: t v.
sots a woman can y.r. : - >ess. one which
would stand her in good stead in many
a pinch. * *
h*r own plan of action and to depend
on herself. Then if she became a trirte
•'cocky*' and self assertive because of
thia at times I would try to stand it,
knowing that it would wear off as she
the year, arid women have been most
successful in designing artistic pend
ants. chains and rings.
For instance, j have seen pendants of
seroiprrcions stones f r $30 and $40
which were really beautiful. >'n° of
Well, to change the subject, one of , gi\ cnish stone similar to .iade was set
the newest ways in which women are in old silver. It had one cetvral stone
making a living consists in the silver- , and three others, rear shape 1. lumping
smith’s art. frem it. Th^n there are wonderfully
Originality in jewelry is the cry of carved bits of coral and tourmalines
POINTS CONCERNING WOMEN AND THEIR INTERESTS. tmn into a deor> saucer, bury the nose
in the bat* 1 and inn. ]r. p,r.-t througn
Mrs. D. O. Eland d echned to prose- j hatbox and every other sort of true’: one n---M ’ md :t-cn through. ' a• other,
cute her husband for theft of $101. | of box that you inay^need. all of which The third Ft n r woman to h called
•'But," said site, handing him a $10 bill, ; can be unlocked with one key. to the her : Mmo. Renezech. whose
"take this, and if ever you darken my! In Mexico a newspaper or a sheet of husband is !.-.» > i ivy Hr two
do&r with your hulking bulk 1 will have ! paper fixed on a window or b Fenny of : r.-de- • >• in the pr .fession are Mile,
you sent to jail.” i a dwelling house is an anniun.-'ni.cnt Clixrv.ir, .Vine. P-: i. the f u-mer a
Now comes a London trunk dealer that there are room? to let in ti • house, sister and the latter the wife of a bar- ;
who for ingenuity and true business] Fxoel'r-nt wash fer the nos* 1 : To a rister
Instim t puts all his Yankee brethren J tumhieifu! of lukewarm watet add a The Fcv. Daniel Steel, ohr. g t 0
to tho b! ash He has imenied a series I qua; ter r f a latlespoonful of .-alt. and th' -t • • . •. ;■• - ‘ i v-
pf trunks, skirt trunk, bodice trunk,'when it baa dissolved pour the solu-, an Alumni Regard shawms the gain!
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and peridots set in most eccentric de-1 She never throws away a picture |
signs. ; frame no matter how old or battered i
One woman I have in mind devotes it is.
her entire time to designing curious Narrow frames of dark wood she en- •
shapes and forms in necklaces, nr i .is atnels white, and she replaces the old
(society women desire quaint things fashioned picture with some good print
I above everything else she makes quite in dainty pastel tones harmonizing-with I
a profit. Site bus reprodvet several tho room in which the picture is to be i
historical bits of Jewelry seen in Euro- , hung. '
pean museums with great success,
ery summer when, she goe= to Eui
she comes 'home with enough
sketches to more than make up her
penses. She halearned the art of sot
ting stones thoroughly and does all the
work with her own -hands, thus insur
ing its fidelity and incidentally not di
minishing her profits.
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It seems to me as I observe my own
[sex that a great many women commit j
the enormous 'mistake of spendin; all ;
they get upon their hacks. Now. clothes •
count for a I
Armed with a small brush and some
good quality gold paint I have seen
her revolutionize the appearance of a
lot of dingy old frames and then put
them in the drawing room.
When she wanted an artistic effect
on the green wall facing the front door
thing
1 krrotutioiiue flic appear
i a.u-e of old frames.
| happiness—no, I will .-ay o
i for she isn't happy. .She.wants to see
more of life, net realizing . a it is her ;
own fault that she dor not have the ,
opportunity.
Now, how much better for her it i
would be if she only -*nt half her!
money on clothes and devoted the rt st 1
travel, amusement and m< king-'
Some "■omen are like that, don't you
know? Th“y arc shy on car fare and !
never have enough chr.nee to treat you
to an ice cream soda, but they -'an
spend $40 for a fancy waist without
even winking.
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Before I close I want to tell you" of
the pet economy of a friend.
she took amold black frame, painted it
forest green and put into it an art print
in colors showing an orchard in the
springtime. Total cost, 75 cents.
It’s a good idea. Try it yourself.
hjitZ.
New York.
CARE OF CHILDREN’S HAIR.
At bedtime a little girl’s hair should
be loosened and shaken out—in order
that the air may pass through it—and
afterward be carefully combed and
brushed. If the hair is worn plaited
during the day it should be simply tied
together during the sleeping hours, but
if the locks have hung loose all day il
is good for them to be loosely braided
at night.
Each child should possess a brush
and comb of its own. which must be
kept scrupulously clean and washed
frequently in warm water to which a
little ammonia or a lump of washing
soda has been added.
Some children catch cold very easily
after having their hair washed. In or
der to dry it quickly and prevent this
use for the final rinsing quite hot watei
to which a few drops of alcohol hav*
been added. Then rub the hair wel,
with alcohol and wring It out as dry
as possible.
Next take two or three towels, divid*
the hair and wipe each strand separate*
ly. Let tne child sit In a warm room,
or. if possible, in the sun, fan the hair
for a few minutes and it will soon be
perfectly dry.
Th“ wife of the present secretary of commerce and labor is the first Jewish
woman to i,e a member of the cabinet social circle. Phe is well fitted to do the!
honors of her new position. She has traveled extensively. While her husband ;
was minister to Turkey she was with him at Constantinople. Mrs. Straus i
lrot.,- y.- iirgcr than her husband. She has two daughters married. At home
in Nov. York city she is active in philanthropic work. She is president of the;
Clariua Home Kor Working Girls. 1
CURE FOR 8CANDAL.
It is told of Hannah More that she
had a good way of managing talebear
ers. It is said that whenever she was
told anything derogatory to another
her invariable reply was, “Come, we
will go and ask if this be true.” The
effect was sometimes ludicrously pain
ful. The talebearer was taken back,
stammered out a qualification or else
begged that no notice might be taken
of the statement. But the good lady
was inexorable. Off she took the scan
dalmonger to the scandalized to make
inquiry and compare accounts. It is not
likely that anybody ever a second time
ventured to repeat a gossipy story to
Hannah More. One would think her
method for treatment would be a sura
cure for scandal.
in the membership of all professions,
! excepting the ministers, proposes that
tho Methodist denomination shall have
a ministry recruited by ordained wo-
; men.
Mrs. Cyrus Adams of Tilnkhanno-.k.
i Pa., noted huntress, lias this season!
bagged 55 rabbits. 117 squirrels', 10
| pheasants and mis- c-lianeous gam".
Queen Victoria of Fpsin is the gra
cious mistress of a number of most
L-'autiful h'Ties 'id r Faces. 17-
royal palace at Madrid la by ccomsu -
cjio of the most handsome and ' are made to a large extent out of doors, I
the lartest i-\v.il domiciles inland Miss Corelli has a rustic seat in a
It tva: built by Philip V. j sunny corner of the pine woods, which
sad ora Ceoghr-gan is the third i she regards as her out of door “sanc-
iu ho District of Columbia to turn.”
lannncj- certificate. Fhe hopes Mrs. Ella Thurlo of Marion. O., ap-
-i drug store. pointed receiver, is now running the
,vdia Kirby, superintendent of! Holcomb flour mill with good result,
ti Philadelphia public schools, I Miss Jeanne Gordon has been ap-
in making boys expert with | pointed by Mayor Behrman of New i
;< lOrl'ans factory inspector on behalf of!
Fur - i] per v -'rk in th" women and children,
between 10 ana -. Bencii notes i “Will you take this man?” askad the !
pastor of Fannie Crawford of Terre
Haute, Ind. “No.” she replied, and
there was no wedding.
Countesg di Brazza, a beautiful Ital
ian woman, came to America recently
to establish a bureau for distributing
through the south and west the vast,
throng of Italian immigrant laborers
who land at New York.
We. may hope, if not expect, that for
a few years at least, rich American
girls will be a little shy of marrying
foreign fortune hunters with titles.
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