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I will take back the life T knew,
The old life that T knew of yore,
And seek beyond the sky-line "blue
The old romance, the wonder-shore.
1 have forgotten it too long.
The evemn]g darkens; down the street
The puny pale-faced peoples throng
The reeking squares with foolish feet.
In the deep skies of mine own land
The quenchless moons of magic rise;
Em‘})earled.t_he fairy turrets stand,
Whose vision lured my boyish eyes.
Their cressets flare across the night
That lowers upon the foreign main;
But all the halls shall burst in light
When I, their lord, come home again,
I will go back to yesterday;
The old adventure is the best;
And down the unforgotten way
Ride on the still unfinished quest.
By druid wood and haunted mere,
On goblin moor and mountainside
Sparkling like stars go crest and spear,
In chiming mail the warriors ride.
Above the roads like flame and flower
The knightly pennons flutter free;
And in some glant-guarded tower
A prisoned princess waits for me,
The daylight dies in tog and rain,
The grimy streets dissolve in gray;
Ah, how the city throbs with pain!
How far it is to vesterday!
—J¥rank Lillie Pollock.
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Miss Lovejoy had been at her
brother’s house but little more than
a week, yet already she had to con
fess to a vague feeling of disappoint
ment,
She had not seen her brother and
his wife for more than seven years,
during all of which she had longed
for them with the homesick intensity
of the exile. The anticipation of this
homecoming had cheered her through
wany a dreary term of teaching; yet
now that reality had taken the place
of anticipation, she found something
lacking.
The old home was still the same,
and her brother and his wife were as
kind as ever; but during this time of
separation their only child had grown
from childhood almost to woman
hood, and with the growth had come
a change in father and mother which
made poor Aunt Ruth feel like an
alien and a stranger.
The merry, open-hearted brother
had become quiet and care-worn.
The bright, pretty, cultivated sister
in-law, as dear to Ruth as if united
to her by ties of blood instead of mar
riage, had faded-into an almost shab
bily-dressed drudge whose only pur
pose in life seemed to be to keep
Hazel’s bed of roses free from thorns.
Both had been as glad as possible
to see their self-reliant, independent
Western sister; but it seemed to Ruth
as if their principal interest was in
noting the effect upon her of Hazel's
grace and Hazel’'s beauty and Hazsi's
eccomplishmentss That had besn
the constant theme of &sawmersation
when Mz, Lovejoy was not too precs
cupied to talk at all er his wife kad
an infrequent moment of leisuze.
Now Aunt Ruth was quite ready
to admit that the grace and beauty
and accomplishments were there, but
the greater grace of helpfulness and
filial gratitude seemed to her both
lacking and unlooked for. Nor was
the girl wholly or even principally to
blame. No return had ever been de
manded of her for all that had been
given, and the idea of giving unasked
was yet unborn.
Ruth’s own few gentle attempts at
remonstrance had been met with such
an air of mild surprise, such earnest
disclaimers on the part of the par
ents, that she had seen the futility of
words and resolved to say no more.
She did not wish to be regarded as
meddlesome and disagreeable. |
Just now she was feeling particu
larly out of sympathy with the con
ditions. As she went steadily on with
the dishes she was washing, she could
hear her niece chatting in animated
fashion with a caller in the parlor.
She knew that it was Mr. Bennett,
the young man who had called in
the afternoon to see if Hazel would
sing at a parlor concert to be given at
the Young Men’'s Christian Associa
tion rooms the next week.
Mrs. Lovejoy had answered the bell
and informed him that Hazel was
out; but Hazel herself, when she
came home from her drive with a girl
friend, had spoken of meeting him,
and told as a great joke about his
remark that ‘“he would call again in
the evening, as the servant had as
sured him she would be in then.”
“If the child had only seen what
it meant!” sighed Aunt Ruth to her
self,
But even Hazel's mother had
laughed ihe matter off, although
rather consciously and with a flush;
and when Hazel had smiled and said:
‘““Never mind, mamma dear. When
I get to be a prima donna you shall
have all the servants you want,” the
smile and the foolish promise had
salved the wound effectually.
As the young people talked and
laughed together in the parlor, Ruth
could hear Hazel’'s mother moving
softly about upstairs, putting to
rights in her prompt, methodical
way the things which Hazel had left
scattered about when she made her
toilet and hurried down to meet her
caller,
Then by and by a door opened, and
suddenly there was the sound of a
fall and a suppressed cry of pain;
and Miss Lovejoy, rushing out, found
her sister-in-law lying near the foot
of the back stairs, white to the lips
and with her patient face drawn in
agony. s
“I've fallen, Ruth, and I'm afraid
'm badly hurt, I think my ankle
is broken.”
Ruth looked, and saw the poor foot
hanging limp and twisted in its well
worn slipper. 5 »
“It is broken, Helen,” she said. “I
will call Hazel, and send her for the
doctor at once.”
But even in her extremity Mrs.
Lovejoy stretched out a detaining
hand.
‘‘Please, Ruth, don't frighten her,”
she said. *“Couldn’t you go your
self? Tl'll stay quietly here till you
come back.”
“My dear, I think Hazel will want
to go, and, anyway, I'm sure it is best
to tell her.”
Then, as Ruth started toward the
parlor-door, something which she al
ways says was an inspiration flashed
into her mind. The boldness of it
terrified her for a moment and made
her pause, but only for a moment.
Then, with a calm face but a little
sick feeling at her heart, she walked
through the hall and into the parlor,
She paused only long enough to bow
to the caller, and then said, quietly:
“Hazel, our poor sérvant has fallen
on the stairs and hurt herself badly.
Can you go for the doctor?”
For just a second after she had
uttered the terrible words, Ruth felt
airaid of the issue. If Hazel should
fail—if the canker of thoughtlessness
had eaten too deep—she knew that
she should never forgive either her
self or her niece.
But the girl, as the meaning of her
aunt’s words made itself plain to her,
rose to her feet, and over her face, to
the very roots of her hair, poured a
flood of crimson which quickly gave
place to a deadly pallor.
“It is my mother,” she said, with
a dignity which no one had ever no
ticed in her before, ‘“Le me go at
once.”
Then she turned to her visitor,
wholly indifferent as to the .impres
sion she might make, anxious only to
atone for her previous cowardice.
“I know you will excuse me, Mr.
Bennett,” she said. “It is my mother
who has fallen. My aunt is punish
ing me very justly for not having told
you, as I should, that the lady who
opened the door for you this after
noon was not our servant, but my
mother. We have no servant.”
People had often said that Mr. Ben
nett was fastidious. He may have
been, but he was also a gentleman.
The scorn which Hazel’s confession
could hardly help arousing had no
chance to show itself in his face.
Pity for the girl’s embarrassment and
suffering, and admiration for her
final courage and loyalty and frank
ness, blotted out every other feeling.
“It was my mistake, Miss Love
joy,” he said, gravely, “and I am
afraid an unpardonable one. I am
more sorry than I can tell you.”
Then, before any one could object,
he had seized his hat and started for
the doctor.” .
He found him and brought him
back, and remained to help him lift
and move the sufferer; and by and
by, when there was no excuse for
staying longer, he said to Hazel’s
aunt, with an almost boyish difidence
and hesitancy:
“Miss Lovejoy, pleagse do net thizk
me presuming, But my father and
mother are both away, end our ser
vants bass simost nothing to do.
Will you not et me seud sp= of them
to help you—a woman who has been
with us a great many years? She
would be most willing to come, and
I'm sure you would find her of as
sistance.”
‘With all her independence, Aunt
Ruth was almost tempted to accept
‘the offer, but it was Hazel who de
cided the matter.
‘ “It is very kind of you, Mr. Ben
'nett,” she said, “and please don’t
think us, unappreciative; but just
now, at any rate, we shall get on very
well. I have a vacation now, and I
can give all my time to my mother
and the house. I want to do it. She
has waited on me all my life.”
She was equally determined when
her father came home and somewhat
excitedly urged the necessity both of
a nurse and a kitchen girl. She con
vinced him-—although he knew it
only too well before—that they could
not afford it, and she had her way.
Like all young piigrims, Hazel
found the road long and sometimes
rough, and she traveled it often with
aching feet. But she never turned
back, and ir the long days which fol
lowed, filled as they were from early
morn till late at night with petty
household duties, she learned as she
conrid never have learned in any other
way the cost of that mother-love
which had so long and jealously shel.
‘tered her.—Youth’s Companion,
For Spanks,
“What sort of a _girl did he
marry?"”’
““The most forehanded girl you
ever heard of!”
“How’s that?”
“Why, when they started off in
their auto after the ceremony there
was the usual shower of rice and old
shoes, and a big broad-soled slipper
landed right in her lap, and what do
you suppose she did with it?”
“Give it up.”
‘““She bent over and put it in her
suit-case with the remark that it
might come in handy aiter awhile.”
—Houston Post, ;
Nothing.
“Nature plans well for mankind’s
needs.”
“I should say so! What could be
more convenient than ears to hook
spectacles over?” — Houston Chroni
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The Useful Sunfiower, |
Sunflower seeds are said to give an
extra fine flavor to eggs and are
much used by the French people for
that purpose. Remember this when
you plant your garden and drop in
some seeds around the edges and in
the odd corners. A few planted near
the sink drain will help to keep away
miasma and give you heads of seed
that will be mammoth in size.—
Weekly Witness. ;
Choice Farm Butter,
Use a barrel churn. The dasher
churn injures the grain of the butter.
Have clean milk and take every care
to secure cleanliness about the dairy
room. Keep the churn and separator
sweet. Cool the cream after separat
ing, set it away to ripen ,and stir
it each time fresh cream 'is added.
When ready to churn scald and
cool the churn and put in the cream
at about sixty degrees. Color it with
vegetable butter color and churn
steadily and not too fast. Do not
churn until it forms lumps, but stop
when the butter is in shot form.
Draw off the butter milk and pour on
enough cold water to cover the but
ter. Draw away the water and add
more, repeating until the water runs
clear. The butter should now be free
from milk and still on shot form,
Remove to the butterworker, add
salt, work it evenly into the butter,
using in most cases about one-half
ounce to the pound; but some use
more, from three-fourths to an
ounce to the pound. The more salt
the better keeping quality, but less
of the butter flavor.
In putting butter away for winter
use, I wet the jars with strong brine,
then pack the butter firmly, filling
nearly to the top, and covering with
a layer of salt.—Mrs. H. H. Cham
berlin, in the American Cultivator,
' Finishing Celery.
The most common method for
blanching celery on a small scale is
that of banking with soil, and it is
by this means that the finest flavor
can be obtained. Where the plants
are set in single rows the soil can
often be partially thrown up by
means of a plow, or, better, by a cel
ery hiller. There are several forms
of this implement, but they all work
on one principle, that of a dlafl?pfilr
set surface to throw up the soif,
Instead of tying each plant by
knotting around it a short piece of
string, fasten the end of the string
around the first plant in a row, then
pass to a second plant without cut
ting or breaking the string. While
the outside leaves of the second plant
are brought up together by the left
hand, carry the string once around
by allowing it to run between the
thumb and finger of the right hand,
and so on from plant to plant until
a whole row is held up without break
ing the string land by tying it at the
ends only. Another very good meth
od of holding up the celery while the
earth is placed around it is by tem
porarily setting up boards which are
removed as soon as the soil is in po
sition.
‘Where celery planted in solid beds
is banked with earth, the entire quan
tity of soil required must be thrown
up by hand. Under these conditions
banking with soil is not profitable ex
cept on a very limited scale. Owing to
the cost, blanching by banking with
earth is not to be recommended, ex
cept when the crop is to be stored
where grown for late fall marketing,
and even then it is better, especially
on muck or sandy soil, to treneh that
part of the erop which is to be held
for a short time.—W, R. Beattie, Bu
reau of Plant Industry, Washington,
D. C.
The Cow at Her Best,
It is frequently asked when the
cow is at her best. Of course that
must depend on feeding and manage
ment, A recent bulletin of the Wls-!
consin Station says that a cow, for
milk and butter, during her fifth and
sixth year, and that the length of
time the cow will maintain her maxi
mum products depends upon her con
stitution, strength and the care with
which she is fed and managed. A
good dairy cow should not show any
marked falling off until after ten
years of age, Excellent records
have been made by cows older than
this, The quality of the milk pro
duced by heifers is somewhat better
than that of older cows, for a de
crease has been noted of one-tenth
to two-tenths of one per cent. in the
average fat content for each year
until the cows have reached the full
age. This is caused by the increase
in the weight of the cows with ad
vancing age. At any rate, there
seems to be a parallelism between the
two sets of figures for the same cows.
Young animals use a portion of
their food for the formation of body
tissue, and it is to be expected, there
fore, that heifers will require a
larger portion of nutrients for the
production of milk or butter fat than
do other cows after a certain age
has been reached, on the average
seven years of age, the food required
for the production of a unit of milk
or butter fat again increases, both as
regards dry matter and the digesti
ble component of the feed,
A good milk cow of exceptional
strength, kept under favorable cone
ditions, whose digestive system has
not been impaired, should continue
to be a profitable produeer until her
twelfth year, although the economy
of her production is apt to be some
what reduced before this age is
reached.—American Cultivator,
Good Shelter Saves Food.
Good warm dry quarters lessen the
quantity of food required to supply
the bodily heat in winter and when
any feed above that required for
warmth is fed it will be converted
into good healthy animal growth or
milk as the case may be. Put when
the shelter is such that the animal
is compelled to depend upon such
food for heat, the food then is a loss
rather than a profit.
It is not for winter only, however,
that shelter should be provided. All
seasons have their advantages and
disadvantages. Warmth in winter,
and sufficient ventilation in summer
should always be provided; in other
words, the comfort of the animals
should be considered at all seasons.
In feeding all kinds of animals the
greatest object should be the profit
that is to be made by so doing, and
every advantage should be taken to
increase this profit. I think one of
the heaviest losses incurred by many
farmers is the consumption of food
for the purpose of producing warmth
for the body because of improper
methods of sheltering the animals
during the period when snow, winds
and cold rains prevail.
This is a matter that should re
ceive attention by every farmer who
alms to reduce his expense of feeding
to the minimum.
It is not extravagant to invest
money in buildings that will keep the
animals comfortable. Nor is it nec
essary that the buildings be cestly.
When the conditions regarding
both feed and warmth are favorable
the young stock will do much better
and not only the young stock, but the
older animals will show a great dif
ference, and, therefore, the profit is
more sure. The floor of the cow
shed should be thickly covered with
straw at least once a week, which
will be much more comfortable for
them, and every few days I turn a
bunch of small pigs in with them to
clean out anything that might be
dropped. When the weather is not
”MW left to run loose in a
square with a good roof, thor
oughly ventilated and with plenty of
light, will be more comfortable and
less Hable to accident than when
fastened in any kind of stall and be
as clean as when on the summer pas
ture,—R. B. Rushing, in the Indiana
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Hale on Orcharding.
At a recent meeting of fruit grow
ers, J. H, Hale, the noted Connecticut
fruit specialist, told the orchardists
present that the old cider orchards
are passing out of existence and com
mercial orchards must supplant
them. The apple is the all the year
round fruit. He further said in
part:
Give the orchard the best soil you
have, rolling land preferred. Pre
pare this land thoroughly and con
tinue thorough tillage. Get good
trees. Plan. ahead and transplant
trees two or three times before set
ting in permanent place or pay nurs
erymen for doing it. Head your trees
low, Manufacture them to suit your
fdea. Get them down where you can
handle them easily and cheaply.
Prune annually and spray often and
thoroughly. Thin apples. Good
trees overbear. This is the most
paying operation of all. Pick two to
four times to get all of crop at proper
stages, of ripeness. We don’t pick
the whole of any other fruit crop at
once, why apples? Don’t plant
dwarfs, but rather dwarf your stand
ard trees by summer and root prun
ing if they are over-vigorous. He
has thrown such trees into bearing
by plowing deep and subsoiling. Cul
tivate early and thoroughly until mid
dle of July, then seed to cover crop
and let alone, Has no use for
mulched trees unless it be an expe
dient to throw overvigorous trees
into bearing. Mr. Hale has used
commercial fertilizers supplemented
by cover crops for forty years, and
thinks them equal to barnyard man
iure. Has secured results in color
iand quantity with potash. Use care
in harvesting. -+ If possible put apples
in cold storage every night. Com
imunitles should unite and build stor
age plants,
In concluding, Mr, Hale impressed
upon the young men the importance
of planting orchards and then caring
for them., He knew of no more prof
itable venture, but young men were
too impatient and the majority of the
apple orchards were being planted
by old men. There might be a mar
ket for a limited quantity of fancy
Western apples at a high price, but
the bulk used by classes of moderate
means would be the apples preduced
near home. Look about you. Most
golden opportunities are fonnd near
home if we can only see them.
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Accept Life, ‘
One must accept life as it is. It
gives us great happiness if we are
wise enough to see it, and it balances
the scales by sending great SOrrows,
too. But that is life. If you would
make the world brighter, try to for
get your hurts, dry your eyes, and
turn to help those who need the pres
sure of a friendly hand, the encour
agement of a smiling look. Sorrows
and troubles of all kinds should
teach one a great lesson—the lesson
of universal kindness.—Home Chat.
Simplicity.
Simplicity is one of the most no
ticeable features of the fashionable
costumes, whether for day or even
ing wear, says the Pictorial Review.
And although trimming is used, and
used extensively, its purpose is not
merely decorative, for it must aid
in the creation of modish lines and
accentuate a salient point to enhance
its beauty, else the attractiveness of
both gown and trimming will be de
stroyed. Artistic effects must be
created and the trimming, as a trim
ming, must be unostentatious, blend
ing into the costume to form a com
plete part of the whole, without de
tracting from the simplicity and
beauty of the classical lines which
form the basis of present-day modes.
Careful Exercise.
A timely article on reducing the
hips is published in the Pictorial Re
view: When beginning the exercise
one should be very careful to get used
to it very gradually, as it puts a great
strain upon the muscles and is liable
to make one rather lame at first, if
taken too violently. One should be
extended upon the floor, supporting
one’s self by one hand, while the
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Paste in Your Scrap-Book.
Russian Cherry .Pie.—Beat two egg yolks, two table
spoonfuls of fresh butter, one tablespoonful of sugar and one
tablespoonful of milk to a smooth cream; add flour sufficient
to make a dough, knead well, spread on a buttered pile tin
and bake in a moderate oven to a golden brown. Thoroughly,
clean, soak and simmer one small cupful of dried pitted cher
ries, make very rich and sweet with sugar, and drain off the
juice; whip one cupful of chilled sour cream-—being careful
when whipping not to reach the “butter” point—llightly mix
the cherries and cream together, fill the crust and set in a
cold place until serving time. The reserved juice can be
slightly thickened with arrowroot and served as a cold sauce
to accompany the pie if so desired.
other is placed upon the hip. While
holding this position raise the body
gradually from the floor until the
whole weight is supported by the
hand and feet. It is comparatively
easy to get the body from the floor
as far as the knees, but to bring it up
to the full extent just described is
mot easy at first. It should be tried
first on one side and then on the
other.
American Princess in London. \
Princess Hatzfeldt has had a very}
romantic history; according to The
Sketch she began life as the beautiful
Miss Huntington, niece and adopted
daughter of perhaps the wealthiest
of American railway kings. Her fa
ther’s immense fortune was the sub
ject of the most costly law sult ever
fought in the States, but the charm
ing lady won it, and she is probably
the richest of the many beautiful
American women who have married
European noblemen.
Both Prince and Princess Hatzfeldt
are very fond of England, and they
live there most of the year, having
been for some years tenants of Lord
Cowley at Draycott Park, near Chip
penham, where the hospitable couple
delight in entertaining large house
parties.—New York Telegram.
Mrs. Montague’s Discovery.
Thirty years have passed since the
death of the woman who is supposed
to have founded the collar industry
in Troy, N. Y. As 20,000 persons
are engaged in making collars and
cuffs there, and as the city produces
nearly nine-tenths of the collars and
cuffs made in this country, it is evi
dent that the distinction of starting
the business is considerable. It seems
that Orlando Montague, a Troy shoe
manufacturer, was scrupulously neat,
and that his wife found the labor of
washing his shirts burdensome. The
shirts of the time had the collars and
cuffs attached, as have many fine
shirts to-day. To avoid washing the
whole shirt when only the collar was
soiled, Mrs. Montague made detach
able linen bands tied round the neck
with tapes. Under this arrangement
her husband could put on a clean
collar every morning and every even
ing without compelling her to spend
too much time over the washtub.
Her neighbors followed her example,
and the demand for such collars was
80 great that a Methodist minister,
who kept a notion store in town, soon
employed several women to make
them, while he peddled them from
house to house. Mr. Montague saw
that the business might be profitable,
and opened a collar factory, where
his wife’s invention was developed
and exploited. Unlike many invent
ors, Mrs, Montague, through the pros
perity of her husband, profited by
her discovery.—Youth’s Companion,
Women at Work.
According to figures recently pre
pared by the Department of Com
merce and Labor, 13,821 out of 185,-
874 employees in the Government
civil service are women. These fig
ures are incomplete, as the total
number of such employes, even ex
cluding the consular and diplomatic
branches, aggregate 286,902; but
they will do well enough for purposes
of illustration. The number of wo
men in Government employ is increas
ing, both absolutely and relatively.
The ratio is now three to ten, as com
pared with the men, in Washington;
one to twenty-five outside the capi
tal. The average salary for the wo
men is $837 in Washington and $766
outside, as against sll7B and $935
for the men. The salary classification
offers these figures:
Men. ‘Women.
Under §720 ......28,819 6519
$720 to SB4O .....20,331 1491
SB4O to S9OO .....10,299 242
S9OO to SIOOO ....42,486 1804
SIOOO to SI2OO ...32,690 1431
SI2OO to SI4OO ...16,814 1457
SI4OO to SI6OO ... 8760 466
SI6OO to SIBOO ... 3186 ' | 152
SIBOO to S2OOO ... 2911 | 35
S2OOO to $2600 .;. 2314 . F 9,
$2500 and over ... 1872 2
It is readily seen that, while only,
some fourteen times as many men as
women are enumerated, 900 times as
many men draw the maximum sal
ary, and some 250 times as many
draw the next highest salary. Half
of the women draw the minimum
salary, less than one-sixth of the men.
It seems that a woman is much less
likely to rise to a good position un
der the Government than a man.
Yet it should be added that the av
erage age and length of service is
certainly far lower with the women
than with their co-workers of the
other sex. The women marry and
retire. The men marry and resume
the treadmill.
Large as is the Government’s corps
of women clerks, it is but a fraction
when set down against the army of
wage-earners in the trades and pro
fessions. The latest census figures,
available show 4,833,630 women at
work in the United States, exclusive
of Alaska and Territories. These fig
ures are already eight years old,
and are undoubtedly out of date.
The census of 1910 will certainly
show a largely increased number of
women who pay their living expenses
by the work of their own hands and
heads.—Richmond Times-Dispatch,
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Dull-finished leather shoes are in
great favor among fashionable wom
en,
Next to broadcloth in the season’s
mode come serges and other twilled
goods.
Dark and navy blues never g 0 out
of fashion and are always a safe
choice.
Satin and satin-finished or dull
crepe are the favorites in the realm
of silk,
New neckwear is exceedingly dain
ty, fine nets and laces being much
affected. .
New raincoats are full length, with
loose circular back and double
breasted.
One of the loveliest exponents of
the new lace fashions is the lace-bor
dered veil,
Satin cords and bands are being
extensively used for the new suits
and frocks,
~ Collars made entirely of soft satin
ribbon to match a frock or hat are
very smart,
There seems to be quite a fad for
strictly ‘“‘leather” colors, esgpecially
ag trimmings.
A perfectly flat back line is fash
lonable in conjunction with the slen
derest of hips,
Broadcloth will continue as a fav
ored fabric for dress suits, as the
soft, supple weaves will be preferred,
A single large calla lily rests
among the green-brown leaves that
surround the crown of a large hat
of felt,
Not a coat but a cloak of cloth to
match the color of the afternoon or
evening gown is one of the new ideas
this season.
The bias band will be used again
as a trimming to the skirt, but will
be wide and set on from five to seven
inches above the hem,
A few rough tweeds will be seen,
but smoothertweeds and rough-faced,
unfinished worsteds will be most pop«
ular made into suits for business and
street wear,
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