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To overcome this nuis ance and to prevent the rug slip ping out of position after being once \,\“\\ % ) 1. \A // adjusceu, 4 Massachusetts ian has devised the holder shown here. It is made of strong spring wire, the upper portion being curved to fit over the rug. In connection with the four lower corners—which, on account of the tension of the spring wire, are inclined to come togeth er—are prongs which force them selves into the rug. The holder is stronger and more effectual than holding the carpet with one hand and beating with the other. The opera tor has ample opportunity to stand at a distance from the rug and swing the beater with as great force as de sired.—Washington Star. Aluminum Paper. The manufactory of paper coated with aluminum as a substitute for tinfoil has begun to assume indus trial importance. Within a year the Wickel process has been successfully applied in France to the metalizing with aluminum of paper of all thick nesses, from that of cigarette paper up to that of the sheets from which postal cards are made. Aluminum paper has the advantage over tinfoil in that it contains no lead. It is suitable for enveloping all kinds of confectionery, for making paper boxes, and even for wall hangings. When used as wallpaper it possesses the admirable quality of being clean able with a wet cloth or sponge.— Youth’s Companion. GERMAN EMPEROR’S DAUGHTER. o Gl N w BB i '("-l"‘ E‘\‘\ ‘ - A '\l}27;; W 5 7 " R :,wg-:aa':::‘:':’;:a,,t;az'-.fl..qr it R- N e x&......:;,--,,-‘.‘..v, oL T e YT et % \az&%;-lggxfizafi=a'\:{:,‘,',’,';_;r_‘.«'».a-;z",‘v BAsAT P e 559 N o \' ,‘&:‘:\‘.,;x\ eo A vt_:_:_';vt'«.'::2’-.'.‘:‘»._’_;.--;_l=.==-‘v_v:;‘-.‘~,-.._:._; IR ;.;w»_l;}.‘,. 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Foley is totally deaf, an affliction which ordinarily would be supposed to make telegraphy an utter impossibility to him, but since he be came deaf eight years ago, FFoley hag developed what may be called a sixth sense and by touch and sight he can detect the finest movement of the instrument and correctly interpret them. His nervous system is a part and parcel of telegraphy and by means of the sense of touch in his finger tips he takes messages trans niitted from the ends of the conti nent. He can read a message by watching the sounder. With his left forefinger placed lightly on the sounder, he can by his wonderful sense cf touch take a message as ac curately as any man in the office.— Kennebec Journal. A Potato That Took Shape From a Bedspring. B e 2 Y e e N ¢ ‘ e EOORETRR 3 . 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All reforms pass through threq stages: [First, people cry, “It's ridic. ulous;” next they say, "It is contrary to religion;” and finally, “Oh, is that what you mean? Why, I believed in that all the time.”-—Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland. (¥ LABOR THE MIGRATIONS (7 . From the American Review of Reviews. “The modern migrations of peo pies surpass, in intensity and extent, the great popular migrations of olden times. They tear whole generatiohs out of their native soil, ard trans plant whole nations in foreign torri tory; they annihilate here the cultu ral characteristics of a people, and there they eause new nations and cul tures to spring forth.” In these words Herr Ellenbogen, one of the Austrian delegates to the recent In ternational Socialist congress at Stuttzart, concluded an eloquent ad dress before that gathering. 1 If any one should regayd this as an exaggeration, his attention may be called to the following facts, set forth ‘ in a strong article by Friedrich Nau-‘ mann, in Suddeutsche Monatshefte: I'or centuries the negroes have‘ been transported to America, and have there become an element of the population which gave rise to the North American Civil War, and the incorporation of which into the American national body has, by no means, even yet, been accomplished. Frem America, and also to a certain extent directly from Africa, the ne gro is distributed, in individuals, all over the great ports and cities of im portance, especially those in warmer climes. From China and Japan flows a stream of labor toward all tropical and sub-tropical colonies, unless these put up the law as a bar against it, as Australia has done. The ad vent of the Chinese and Japanese have already, in the TFar West of North America, become a vital aques tion to the European elements of the population, and they are also becom ing more and more numerous in the Eastern cities of the United States. In the gold and diamond fields of South Africa they have a Chinese question, and London and Hamburg have already quite a number of Chi nese among thelr seafaring people. “Our (German) coal industry mag nates and agricultural landowners of prominence are contemplating wheth er they should import Chinese.” From Southern and Western Rus sia, from Poland, Galicia and Rou mania, great hosts emigrate, either to America or to Germany and Eng land. ‘“‘Our baronial estates are al ready unable to get along without these migratory laborers, and in the German mining regions there have arisen colonies with foreign popula tion.” < Italy sends to Germany and Aus tria numerous masons, diggers and foundry workers. “Just think of the Lothringian iron industry.” . In all large German cities colonies of Ital ians are found. At the same time, the Italian populates Northern Africa and South America, and he is gener ously represented in North America. The Irish leave their home country, and become Americans in large num bers. The same applies, in a certain degree, to the Scotch and Norwegians, The Germans have contributed largely to the colonization of North America, but have also, in earlier times, sent considerable numbers of laborers to France. “Nowadays the great emigration has ceased and hag been replaced by immigration, but German stragglersare yet to be found in every country.” Through all these migrations the racial character of entire nations is changed. This fact is most apparent in the United Siates of North Amer ica. There the English-German race, together with a certain French ele ment in formerly French territory, forms the core of the population, Language and customs are English- American. But with every year the foreign element increases and ex pands the more, as the number of children of English stock is decreas ing, while the immigrants of other races, in most instances, come abund antly endowed with prolific propen sities. Americun writers have, and not without reason, pointed to the transformation process which the Ro man Empire, and particulariy the city of Rome, underwent in the first cen turies after the birth of Christ, when all old Roman institutions, while yet remaining as such, were filled with non-Romans, until a time arrived when the empire was governed by 11- lyrians, Spaniards and Africans, and was no longer a Roman empire. Among the other theories as to the causes ol the downfall of the Roman Empire, the contention that the bar barians destroyed Rome through their influx and settlement is certain ly, in a meagure, justifiable, and may serve as a warning to us moderns. The historical warning cannot, however, continues Dy, Naumann, help us out of the present situation in the United States. What will free America, which has founded its pres ent culture on migration only, do in this case? Should she, and could she, close herself up against immi gration? Execlrsion measures have been tried aga’ ast the Slavie, as well as against thg Eastern Asiatic, immi gration. Can a tnodern State close its doors? Can it withdraw labor from its agriculture and industries becausa this labor iz of foreizn orizin? . Or should it not have such a strong faith in the power of assimilation that it does not questicn its own ability to amalgamate all strange clements into a future unity? With Germans, says this writer, further, the immigration question has not yet become as urgent as it is in North America, but among all no tions we rank next after'the Ameri cans in regard to immigration inter ests and immigration troubles. Our Polish question is only a part thereof, although the one which has ‘been most frequiently dealt with, and which has excited the keenest inter est. As far as one may rely on the rather uncertain sta¥istics on the use of the mother tongue, it appears that fully nine-tenths of the population in the German Empire is German. The non-German inhabitants, however, trace their origin, to a great extent, from German national territory (Poles, Danes, Alsatians, Mazures, Wends, Lithuanians). The number of immigrants, in the proper sense of the word, is, then, not overwhelm ingly great, yet it cannot be denied that the RhenishsWestphalian indus trial district, Berlin, Upper Silesia, and partly also Saxony have already a pretty mixed population, and that all the great landed estates east of the Elbe are dependent on foreigners. Thus the question presents itself also to us,'whether we should let matters take their own course and shape themselves as they may. The Prus sian Government plays a double hand. It supports the ultra-agrarian policy, of which it knows that the effect will be a gradual Slavie influx, and at the same time it busies itself with mak ing restrictions as to residence against the migrating laborers. There is an absolute lack of system in dealing with the situation in hand. Just as there are, in a financial way, creditor States and debtor States, so there are, we are reminded by Dr. Naumann, in a migratory re spect, immigration States and emi gration States. As we Germans have earlier been an emigration State, and lately have become an immigration State, we can, in a measure, understand the inter €is connected with both phases. While an emigration State, we have complained of all restrictions placed against Cermans, ‘‘out of spite,” by any foreign couniry. We protested against the decision of the Municipal Council of Paris to employ only French street sweepers, as this action was prejudicial to the interesis of the German street sweepers of La Vil lette. This is only a sample of many. We have always considered it as some sori of right of man that Ger ‘mans should be permitted to put ithemselves in evidence everywhere. But we have not always found it quite ‘so easy to concede this same right of man to all those who have desired to gsettle down with us. This was most glaringly brought forth in the anti- Semitic representations against Jew ‘ish immigration, hut has also mani fested itself publicly on many other ~occasions, when it was stipulated, at ’the building of the magnificent ca ‘nals. that no foreigners should, if possible, he employed. Hardly any iclass of the population is altogether free from sentimental dislike of im migration whatsoever. It would seem highly desirable to permit the migration to continue as it may, but to limit the trade in men, To this end the following means are provided: t 1. Prohibition of the importation rc&',,contr.act‘ laborers. This is the brincipal thing, and would, if carried into actual practice, act almost as a heavy tariff. - 2. Raiging the standard of labor ‘protection for all classes of laborers, } even the lowest, to such a height that it would not pay to employ unskilled labor. This idea has been most thor oughly carried out in Australia, but appears there in connection with a prohibition of immigration. y 3. Concession of all political rights to immigrants. This is a rath er double-edged means. It promotes, on the one hand, the political and professional organizability of the im migrants, but gives them, .on the other hand, a controlling influcnce so much the sooner. Thus, concludes the German wri ter, we see that the leading idea is this: We should admit only such peo ple as we may expect to be able to raise to the level of our own cultural requirements. To this latter end the trades unions should direct their educational at tention. To this corresponds, on the other hand, that which is demanded of the emigration countries. HEspe cially is a close contrdl of the emi gration agencies required, and also stipulations in regard to minimum space on emigrant ship,:s. Freaks of Figures. Mr. John Udy Lezn, professor in the Detroit Business University, father of the comedian, Cecil Lean, and one of the best known school men in the Middle West, recently published a book containing a collec tion of curious arithmetical pheno mena entitled, “‘Freaks of Pigures.” The work was pgotten out more for entertainment than for scheol or countinghouse use and was go ad vertised, but the author was entirely unprepared for the impression the rather catchy title made in certain circles, as was revealed by a leiter which he received soon after its pub lication, The letter announced an ap preaching caranival and continued, A 8 a few freaks would draw a big crowd we sugzest that you send us a living skeleion, a fai lady and a real giant.,” It is necedless to fay that the professcr was both astone. ished and pained. - Twe Great Scientific Discoveries, The two greatest discoveries of the most fraitful century in the history of gcience are admitied to be anaeg thesia, and what may convenieztly ‘be called the Listerian doctrine, Both these discoverics have Dleen of in calculable benefit to mankind; vet both gecured acespiance only afier the flercest opposition on the part of the medica! profession,—Dritish Medical Journal, New York City rasceives thirtcen per cent. of the world’s total import ing trade. AT LRWTI RS G R B3oLeL T T . "oy ".._ i =2 ITy JHINGS, Ej-T g -~ fY‘ VIR 3 - -"}/ :'l '*é'\f.r-(. ™ Ll‘(\' i o g nA% W fl g:‘_“ N -~ SRS £ ; - b OEA By 0 > (it IVi OPon A 0 B By <D & ¥ ‘)f(' mR et A Uy, " s ! ey Ly F " 4.:2(_ 3N N > y / A v 3 : AN W ! ¥ o eYo < ’ ‘r\'. . 4“3 O o /‘/ s n b 7o S%;@SR2 ¥RN I 3 T o D O i) ""lk' s;\. oo TR o, DN R D - L el Do wCA IR RAN ' Eg‘kfi%« e s New York City.—Suceh an attrac tive blouse walist as this one is sure to find its welcome from any normal minded girl, for pretty clothes are as essential to youthful happiness as is Wad e F Tty < / | :sj:;,;f AR ) S Ko se m‘\& o e G Wl a ' [(("' / | / \ : the sunshine. In this instance plaid taffeta is trimmed with velvet bands and combined with a chemigette of simple all-over lace, but the blouse can be utilized for a great many ma- P @%fi » | (e -~ Al g ~(B WAI »D'Q,\f‘ 3 A A\ /,/ /,’{Z? i L / my;// ‘ V/Z%% / I S e hes 7 / // | \// {H '. Vi / \ \%/// ;‘4’# m{\ / ; / / } 4gw 3 i 1 HTINON 1A / ///fif // A terials and in a number of ways. it is just as appropriate for the en tire dresses as it is for the separate waist and it can be made from almost any seasonable material. Crepe de Chine, louisine and taffeta are favors ite gilks for the separate blouse, but for entire dresses the plaid taffetas, veilings, cashmercs and light colored broadcloths all are being used, whilg the model is adapted to each and all. The tucks are arranged after a most becoming manner and the little chemisette always gives an air of cx quisite daintiness. It could be of lace, of tucked silk or of lingerie ma terial as liked. Again, the sleeves can he either long or in three-quar terr length so that the model seems to fulfill a great many requirements. The collar can he made with the new points back of the ears or straight as may be found more becoming. The blouse is made with the smoothly fitted lining and itself con wigts of front and backs, The chemi sette is faced onto the lining and its edges are concealed by the sghaped trimming band. The long sleeves are gathered into deep cuffs, the three-quarter ones into bands. The quantity of material required for the sixteen year gize is three and five-eighth yards twenty-one or twen ty-four, three yards twenty-sevem or one and three-quarter yards forty four inches wide with one-half yard of all-over lace and one-half yard of silk or velvet for the trimming. : Gray and Black Coat. The note of harmony Dbetween a gray skirt and black coat is struck in the gray ©braid trimmings of the coat. Fancy Collar, dabot and Bows, All sorts of pretty aad dainty necke wear is being worn just now and there is alwayas a demand for fresh designs. Here is an altogether at tractive stock and very gharming ja ‘bot and two bows, any or all of which can be utilized both for personal use and for gifts. In the illustration the jabot with bowismadeof filet net with trimming of Valenciennes lace while one separate bow is made of linen lawn daintily embroidered by hand and the other is made of sheer, fine French cotton lawn with trimming of lace insertion and medallions. The stock collar is cut after the newer style, which Is higher at the back than at the front, and as illustrated’ is made of the coarse mesh filet net overlaid with soutache in a simple design and with folds of blue silk at top and bottom. All the pretty trifles, however, can be varied almost indefinitely. For the jabot net, fine lawn, chiffon and all-over lace all are appropriate while the bows can be made of almost any pretty, dainty ‘material, and the stock allows ample opportunity for the exercise of in dividual taste and ingenuity. The middle portion could be made of a heavy applique or of embroidered bands of braid or of a dozen other things that would easily suggest themselves., The jabot consists of just one piece laid in pleats on indicated lines. ‘fhe bows are made in one piece each with little cross over portions and the stock consists of the foundation over * G oP 10 (0 A R ) L 2 i \’s L‘r, 4\l R " ’ v lp.‘. AN s R 1% ¢ i :, AR \/ l"g/ | ‘47,,,‘,’,;..,75.(,-(‘ -~ (T B AP AN G T ED Qo RS AV ) f i B which the net and the silk are arranged on indicated lines. i The quantity of material required for the jabot is one-half yard of ma~ terlal eighteen or twenty-one inches wide with one and five-eighth yards of ingertion and two and one-half vards of edging; for either bow one eighth yard eighteen or twenty-one inches wide with three-eighth yard of insertion and three-quarter yard of edging for the square bow; for the collar one-eighth yard any width with one-half yard of silk for the folds. There are vests that end at the waist line, and others above it,