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jy Chlntsc* cmriostty. j<i i phinjoiian in Saa Francisco, ssyl I £ 1 ‘.,; el .‘i n the Philadelphia ball Record, big ti , y cr .ee an ivory as ur two fists, with six smaller balls It was the most wonderful l ever saw. The Chinaman said ' alls had been begun by his '"•Yitlicr and that he was the third to work on them. He told the work was done. J with solid block cf ivory, *' t lupins a is turned into a ball and then (a cd in a latticed pattern with tiny toothed knives. Through the lat uh other knives that are bent in far; shapes, the second hall is earv ,i Pi.t is kept fart to the first one by thin strip of ivory left at the top and , ti;er left at the bottom. Thou tall, with still finer knives, is ’ through the first and second ,1 so the work goes on till all C pails are finished, when the strips i *t hold them firm are cut away, and bey all revolve freely, one inside the Htlicr- H said It -This Chinaman ,was a com tiling for families to have such K ai i s for hundreds of years—grandfa Bier, futher. son and grandson working In them when they had nothing else to i 0 Thcv are priceless, of course. Some Ibean (v iluing balls carved are made while of the vegetable material lvo- is [eft. like a potato. than These, few though, dollars are at |ri worth more a lie most." TPe Evolution of tiie PocUet. The ancient wore a single pouch at lis pelt. The modern has—how many lockets in an ordinary costume for out loots? Let us count them: In the ronsers five, in the waistcoat five, in Be jack at five, in the overcoat five, nuking 20 in all. a arranged full score of little K.kcs or bags, and so couveu entiv that they are scarce noticed. Truly this is an evolution! How long :ny it he before we have pockets in ,ur had at mis—where the Irishman car¬ ies his pipe, the American soldier liis ootiihrnsh nr.d Internally, the p-ttifog ;er h; ■ local papers, the papers that iss predecessors in England thrust into he typical "green hag?" How long !-{> there. nia.v be pockets in our (love:- -for there are. 1 believe, patents •orering this invention— nm1 in our iboes? The cane also, with its screw :0 p. begins to he a useful receptacle. Two centuries from-miW. so the man jritb a long foresight can clearly see. ;he main idea underlying the wearing if clothes will have entirely changed friie chief purpose of garments will in ■ongrr lie considered to protect the Body. They will he regarded first of ail textile foundations for innumerable meeker--..-Tudor Jeuks in Woman’s Home Companion. -Tools ft Stec:i Advantage. I A-sup'-nimherary'- in Richard Mans¬ field's company who had been, to usffa Scotch phrase, continuously and cbm ftinuuli.v "heckled" by the manager nt [rehearsals [leged and between stupidity the acts the for nl displays of 0!) stage, I Ibis was informed that a near relative of had'departed this life and had left ■him a competence, so he decided to ■cave the (Irauni tic profession and. to ■jnote him, become respectable. Before ■raving he determined to take his re* ■•cage .on Mansfield for the attacks on ■iN amour prbpre that gentleman had ■mde. ■ The play was “Richard III,” and the Super Sm whs oiie of the soldiers who away the Duke of Buckingham Bcueu the king orders his demise. ■ In due time Richard remarked, “Off ■■'Mb his heart!" and this Was the sh ft s opportunity. Advancing, ho Bniched-his helmet in the style of a ■uotinun and replied loudly and genial [y: 'That’ll he attended to, old chap. f-Vil I light!” take and care retired of old gracefully. Buck. It’ll When bfl I ” infuriated Mansfield came off to r ■ anit murder, lie found the super had led.—Chicago Chronicle. h Pecnliarities of X Hays. '“we are many curious things about K rays which seem to puzzle even the [Dentists. Signor Briguiti, who has |r:U making experiments with them at erne . says that the visibility of a sub- 1; ■. re to the eye is 110 criterion of its ; - rtty to the X rays. The rays can- 1 r S( ’ e through glass, which is trans ;:t to the eye, whereas aluminium, ; u is opaque to the eye, is transpar II u> the X rays. The rays can see a r of glass in the hand, but not a : r of wood. Most inks are trails* t to the rays, including printer’s ’ t seme of them are opaque. The na see through a postoffice direet mt if a paper with words written put in the middle of the direct rays will reveal these words " thing behind them. Sometimes. i-'o'J subscribe to this statement _ I ™ lia “ ou -" llt to l00k 'U J t0 I ‘ inquired Mr. Meekton’a I f v ,, . •• jeuiietta,” do think that he answered when there la ‘ j - uangiug or anything like - n in the house it's a man’s ; • (•me the position of perilous ,! 'ky at the top of the step -Washington Star. i Gags and Egg*. 'j Greek tor-it was a case of Greek last night. Actor-How was that? ' what a bad egg our come . ae was struck by another just - Brooklyn Life. Boorish. :' That's Miss Winter. Love i awfully boorish. -How do you know? 7 5 !1 'oposed to her the other ? le didn’t s a>d that, though she lik P. care for puppies— T!if Address Ho Got. A Rossi;-®; gentleman tells a funny story of his first encounter with the English language, The day after his arrival in London he made a call on a friend in Park lane, and on leaving the premises in scribed in his notebook what he sup posed to be the correct address. The next day, desiring to go to the same place again, he called a cabman and pointed to the address that he had written down. The- cabman looked him over, laughed, cracked the whip, and drove away without him. This experience being repeated with two or three other ca^en.-Mlie Rus sian fvjrUed iadignahtl^Ab the police, with no belter results. One officer would laugh, another woul! tap hia head and make a motion imitating the revolution of a wheel. Finally the poor foreigner gave it up, and, with a great deal of difficulty, recalling the landmarks which he had observed the day before, found bis way to his friend’s house. Once there, and In company with one who couid under¬ stand him. he delivered himself of a hot condemnation Of'the cabmen and tiie police of London'for their imperti¬ nence and discourtesy. His friend asked for a look at the mirth provoking address, and the mystery was solved— ~Tb;£—was the entry: “Ring the bell.” The Russian had with great care copied, character for character, the legend of the gatepost, supposing that it indicated the house and street.— Pearson’s. Mustn’t “Own" Tlicir engines. The railroad engineer who "owns” his engine is not in favor \\;itlf his su¬ periors. Complaints about trivial mat¬ ters are likely to he made against him, and soon lie finds himself without s berth. The phrase "owning an engine” does not mean that the engineer has acquired title to his iron horse. Tho expression is used of a man who has been with a certain engine so long thal he becomes a part of it. He knows its every peculiarity, he feels its every protest against a heavy load, and he nurses it and coddles It as if it were his child. He dislikes to run the en¬ gine at top speed for fear something will happen to it. and in consequence his train is frequently behind time. He takes a grade at half the rate he should, and he runs cautiously down bill. Id a word, he “owns" his engine. Of course this is, all very nicp and idyllic, and It is tiie kind of thing a person Mkos to read about iu stories of the railroad. But plain, practical rail¬ road men look nt it differently. They argue that the best etlgilieer Is the man who never falls to run his train accord¬ ing to his running time, the mnn who is never behind and seldom ahead. So it comes about that the engineer who makes a master of that which should be his servant wonders who has a grudge against him. But it isn't a grudge: it's business.—New York Mail and Express. The Cost ot a Dnke. A correspondent of London M. A. P. tells a story of the Duchess of Mont¬ rose, whose beauty Is no less renowned than her philanthropy. The scene was a bazaar where the duchess was selling photographs. Ope old Scotchwoman was very ahxious to secure a photo¬ graph of the duchess, but the price ask¬ ed was 6 shillings'. The old woman iresitnted. She wanted the photograph, but she could pot well afford so much. "You cau have my husband.” said the riucliess. with an amused glance a1 the duke standing near, "for (id.” sThe would be purchaser looked at the duke iln'd then lit his photograph con temptuousiy. 1 “Half a crown!" she blurted out. “1 wouldna give a silver saxpence for him. But.” she added insinuatingly, “i am right willing to give liauf a croon for your bomiie sel'.” The duchess was unable to resist this, and herself added the other Halt crown to tiie bazaar coffet!Rgi>i\ as an¬ other version of the story goes, the de¬ spised duke proffered the balance. The l.ost Repeater. When monsieur-the first monsieur at the court of Louis XIV—discovered nt his levee tlist his watch had been stolen, presumably by one of’bis valets, he finished dressing' hastily and, ad¬ dressing them till, said: “Gentlemen, the watch strikes. Let us separate as quickly as we can.”- What a tact and finish were here! The spirit of monsieur was admira¬ bly caught by the French gentleman of the time, who, attacked by robbers at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, simply observed, "Sirs, you have opened very early today.”—Cornhiil. Caution, “That confounded life insurance com pnuv refused my application for a pol | ley.” said Hunker. . “Why, I should think yon were a fine | risk,” replied Rpatts. "What made them refuse your application?" , -\ V ell. they found out in some way 1 am j n the habit of eating mush rooU)S tbnt | gather myse!f.”-Detroil F r( >-- Press. Only n sii B ht Difference. “1 hear vour son. is achieving great success in his stage career.” “Yes.” replied the architect "1 should have thought he would have entered vour profession.” “Well it amounts to the same thing, We both make money by drawing good houses.”—Stray Stories. Careful Inquiries made in Polynesian islands. In New Guinea and west Afri ca indicate that typhoid fever does not occur in those regions, but seems to be a byproduct of civilization. A twentieth of Scotland's area is est . laud, . , seven-tenths ^ _ «_ Is heath and lake and only one-quarter _____ > cultivated land. What Frightened Kim. While trussing the isthmus of Pan& ma by rail some years ag ) too conduct or obligingly stopped the t.a.n for Mr, Campion to gataer some beautilul crimson (loners ly roadside. It was midday suuiji.lt m i.v hot. In bid Ca the 1 iuntici . i r. t an.p.un u.:sa peeiilai'. stoij ol iss.j Oouti picking expedience. . I refused ohers of assistance and went alone to pluck the 11 on ers. After gathering a handful I noticed a large bed of plants knee, high and cf delicata form and a beautiful green shade. I v. a.krd , , to them, , , broke oft a line spray and piaeed it v. ith the deweis. io iiij amazement 1 sao. that 1 had gat he toil a witliei ed. slim iTed. brown !sh need. I tnicw it iwtij. e;i.cf ally selected a large, br.glit green juant and plue.ved it. Again I had in my hand a bunch of withered lea ves. It flushed through my mmil Fiat a sudden attack of 1 annum fe\er. which nas very prevalent and much talked of, had struck me delirious. I went “oiT my bead from fright. In a panic I threw the (lowers down and uas about to run to the train. I looked around. Nothing seemed strange. I felt my pulse. Ail right. I " as in a perspiration, but the heat would have made a lizard perspire. Then I noticed that the plants where rn^Sdlc°i Can fully I >n mft put mv'iinrpr my huger on n a f'r/.sl,' fic.li branch. Instantly the leaves shrank• and begun to change color. I had been frightened by sens.tit e-plants. A Bit of Rod Tape, The absurdities of officialism have perhaps never been better illustrated than by the Incident iu the career of Lord Shaftesbury which the author of ‘•Collections and lit collections" relates: One winter evening iu 18(>7 he win sitting in his library in Orosvenor square, when the servant told him that there was a poor man waiting to see him. The man was shown in and proved to be a laborer from Cierken well nml one of tiie innumerable re¬ cipients of the old earl's charity. lie said. "My lord, you have been very good to me. and 1 have come to tell you what I have heard." It ap¬ peared that at the public house which he frequented he had overheard some Irishmen of desperate character p ot¬ ting to blow up Cierkenweii prison. He gave Lord Shaftesbury the iu formation, to lie used as“'he thought best, but made it a condition that his name should not be divulged. If it were, bis life would not l>e worth an hour’s purchase? Lord Shaftesbury pledged himself 10 secrecy, ordered his carriage and drove instantly to Whitehall. The authori¬ ties there refused; on grounds of offi¬ cial practice, to entertain the Informa¬ tion without the name nnd address of the informant. These, of course, could not he given. The warning was re¬ jected, and the Jail was blown up.— Youth’s Companion. He*- Wc«i«lln« “Tower." Au accommodation train on a dis¬ tant railroad was dragging njoug. when a long, lean and sallow woman, in what appeared to be subdued bridal finery, leaned across the aisle of the car and said seriously to 11 lady sitting opposite her: "Dear me! It's n kind of a solemn thing to lie travertin with two bus bands, now. ain't it?" "I do not know what you mean,” re¬ plied the Indy. “Oh. mebbe not. Well, you see. my first husband died ’bout a year ago an was buried over in Patrick county, an last week 1 was married ag'in. an me an my second husband have been over in Patrick cpuuty ou a little wed din tower, au l thought I'd kind of like to have my first husband buried in the graveyard nigli where P111 goin to live now, an my second husband was willin. so we tuk my first bus band up. an he's in the baggage car along with our other things. My sec¬ ond husband is settin out on the plntform takin a smoke, an l been settin here thinkin how solemn it is to go on a weddin tower with two husbands, it's a turtiblc solemn piece of bizness when you come to think of it.”—Laurence Lee in Lippincott’s Magazine. Why Cables Get Tired. There has been- some question, says The Electrical Engineer, as to the rea soil why certain cables lose their con¬ ducting properties and have in some Instances to be replaced. A learned Frenchman Ims submitted a paper on the subject to the Academic des Kci euces. In tills paper he states that when cables lose their electrical prop¬ erties it is because they are always used for one kind of current only, ei¬ ther positive or negntive. 1 f used sometimes for positive and sometimes for negative, they will, be state-, pre serve their conductive qualities indef luitely. Experiments with nine wires running from Paris to Dijon demon¬ strated this, he says. t’nsympBthetlc. “You haven't much sympathy for the request from your employees for short¬ er hours.” “Not much." answered Mr. Cumrox. “It goes to show that men don t know wheu they are well off. If they had been invited around to mnsieales and dragged through Europe by Mrs. and the girls like I have, maybe they d appreciate the privilege of staying in a nice, comfortable, businesslike office ! nine or ten hours a day.”—Washington * Star. : j Still Anxions. “Have you fastened the dear?" she asked, as they were about to retire for the night. “No. What’s the Use? I gave you the last dollar I had to buy that new bat. and nftrl tx-rt wo nonHh’t needn't fn»l fear I* hllfO'lfirS.” burglars." "But they might sit down on the bat., I you know.”—^Washington Post. Her Own Selection. Through oceans of remnants and rib fcons the puffing big woman towed the meek F: tie man. "What in the world shall I send her, John?" she Mustered. "Colne, suggest something that would please Aunt Ret gy. Something inexpensive. Why don't you ray something?” "Stationery. books or Workboxes,” gugg; sted the meek little mitn. j “Nothing of the kind. You couldn't s-.-rteet a present for the Ashman. I will look at some of those fancy boxes of snap.” . I They were before the sohp counter, and s j H> ( u , t . .ftjjgpj. <pn #ti elaborate p ux contain tug six round eakos cf white soap. "Famy and perfumed!" she said, i lifting a cake. "The very thing that would please her the most. You may \ wrap that up. miss!" “But. my dear," protested the meek little man. •-> “Toil just keep qulet._ 1 .don't care for any suggestions from a person wi thout faste.” “ R ,, n ny-_ , - “Keep quiet, John Tonbrook!” scemo( j as if p or V0 j 0( j had pane (rated every corner of the groat store. aiK j Rlp ptf-jp ma u shrank away in mor tification. , * * ♦ * * * “T’cll. .Tolln. what did she say about little T P "iff * ,ft * *' Somethin" onwthins nice uico ’ I 1 “She returned it.” “Wliat?” '“Yes: you will find a note in the box.” She unfolded the missive rfnd rend; “Niece —1 return the box of shaving soap. 1 am a little too old to appreciate the joke of being called tip- ‘Bearded Lady.’ Your Aunt Betsy;”—Chicago News. Fate of Old Overcoat*, “Where do the old overcoats go?” is a query that is a natural successor to the 0 ]d riddle, "Where do the flics go in winter?" Tho old overcoats seem somehow tc- fade away, no one knows just how. The overcoat starts its ca reer ou the hack of its mvnef, who paid 5:45 for it. It keeps him warm and shelters him from cold winds and from storms until it commences Jo get fray¬ ed at tiie edges and the [lockets are torn down the sides. Then the owner uses the cost for rainy days only, and no move docs he take it to : call on his fiancee or to recline on the- lmck of a clmir while he is rending rit the club. | He keeps it another summer, and the moths get into it. and when-he takes it out in the fall it lias holes here and there. So the owner gives it to the janitor. If the janitor Is not a cold, haughty mnn, and the janitor wears it awhile until his wife gives it to the tramp who wheeled out the three bar¬ rels of ashes. The tramp weurs it until the old coat commences to fall apart. Then he gives it to another.tramp, mid It falls apart still more. And then some day th:> coat lias entirely disap¬ peared. No one knows how or when. The coat just simply faded away. That’s all anybody knows about it.— Chicago Tribune. Trylnis to Keen Ooi. A slr-k man who was really near to death could not resist the temptation to have n little fun with Ids spiritual ad vlser. He had n lingering malady, but bis days were certainly numbered by a few weeks at the most. He had not been known as a maw of strong reli¬ gions convictions, and yet there was little if anything which could lie said against litin It was one of those delf cate eases in which it Is hard for the minister to do anything. Rome one suggested to Rev Paul Weyand. then stationed at Moi-niugslde. that he make a call upon the patient. Going to the bouse, lie found the man propped up in bed to relieve a smother Ing sensation, The sick man could scarcely talk above a whisper, nnd Rev. Mr. Weyand begun to make subtle in¬ quiries about his spiritual welfare. The Invalid's answers were all non committal and evasive, and finally in despair the pastor asked: "Do you really want to go to heaven. Mr. Blank?" "Do 1 want to go to heaven?" repeat¬ ed the dying tiist's man In a hoarse whisper. “Why. the place I've been fight¬ ing so hard to keep out of for the last two years!”—Pittsburg News. Met on ft Screen. Ono of the happiest uses served . . by that wonderful and many named in- j vention. the moving picture machine, appears in a story told In the Loudon Music-Hall. A party of gentlemen were natch ing the pictures when In one of the South African scenes they recognized an officer friend. I he wife of the ■ officer, on being told of this, n rote to the manager and asked that this pic ture might l>e put on on a certain evening when she would pu.posely j Journey from Glasgow. She had not seen her husband for over a year, but at last observed him In a group—on the screen of a cine¬ matograph. Too Stronc 1* Teinplntlon. “Yes. George asked me how old I would tie on my next birthday.” "The impudent fellow! Of course you said lit?" j "No: I sold Wl.” : Mercy, girl, you ain’t but 24 !” j : No. lint George Is going to give me a cluster ring with a diamond in it for every year ’-Cleveland Plain Dealer. , Flr«t \e«*d. “What ten books would you take If you had to pass the rest of your life on a desen island?" "Oh. 1 wouldn't take books at all; I’d take things to eat”-Exchange. A federal union c.f vegetarian j tics exists in London. London lias a vegetarian hospital with 20 beds in , connection with it l'osi 1 1!n 1 1 See Hie llnmor, “1 can't for the Inc of me see," re* hiarked a:i Englishman during tiie cou,m» of conversation with Nat Rood win ( nee. • wl:at people mean by Atuer lean humor. To me ail humor is alike, Whither it be of American or English origin. I'erlsaju: yon < ;;:i explain to me just what distinguishes American liu* inor from any ether sort?" "We 11 ." replied Mr. Coodwln, "1 tli'nk the A merit an tvpe cf humor Is rather more subtle, it doesn't always fu’ly Imprt ss itself upon von nt once. Tl. • more you think about it the funnier it seems. I <a i pciliaps host Illustrate lay mcnniT" with a little story, "A'nan was walking along the street one day when he passed another man who was enrrying a letter in his hand, **• Pardon me.’ said the man with tint letter. ‘Du you know where the post¬ office Is?’ “‘Yes.’ said the other man and pass ed on. On second thought he decided that he had been rude and went hack to where the man with the letter was still standing, “ ‘Do you wish to know where the postoffice is?' he asked, “‘No.’ said ihe other man.” The Englishman's gaze was vacant, “Just tiirn 'Tt over in your mind for a few minutes and tell me what you think of it.” said Mr. Goodwill. Ten "dntitcs later the Englirhman clutched nt Mr. Goodwin's elbow. “You Wo n't bounded. will you. old chap?” he murmured. “But. really. I think they were bath blawsted rude!”—Sat mday Evening Post. Closeness PersonlCcd. There's a good story told on a young fellow hero noted for his closeness. He went to spend the night with a friend. During the entire night be betrayed much restlessness, which kept the host wide awake, and finally the slumberer betrayed signs of violent emotion. “He’s going to have n nightmare." said tiie friend. "Tint lie always grumbles so when you wake him up that i hate to disturb him.” ...lie waited awhile Ion sitting up in tied staring on the miserable- sleeper, and finally, becom ing alarmed, he roused him. He sprang U)) | n p,,,]. glared wildly around ami said: '’.Where ,nm I? I don't see the storm.” “Wh.v, here in my room," said the h ost soothingly. “You remember you ptai(1 n]1 niglu wjtli me? 1 beg your p ; ,rdon for waking you up. but you car on so j [ m d to.” “Beg your pardon." gasped the guest. •‘1 shall never be grateful enough to you. 1 dreamed I was out with Miss tlud. and a terrible storm came up. and piy shoes Were new. und I was Just ordering a coupe for two when you toused me. Old hoy. yon have saved me n dollar." And the host says lie was actually afraid to go to sleep again that night for fear the coupe would come.—Louis¬ ville Times. A Social Amhl.wnlty. He had hoped to be asked to take her in to dinner, but to bis great disap¬ pointment that duty fell to somebody else. And so until the men arose to let the women file m;i lie could only gaze at her from afar r‘-d be politely stupid to the woman no,, u.m. lie had never met her lie ft. re. but somehow they seemed to know each other very well by th(> time they had spoken n few words in the course of Hie short wait before .tiie guests paired off on their way to the dining room. He didn’t know wliat she thought of him. Imt ho knew that from his point of view she jvas about right. And he was a man difficult to please. The men seemed lo him to Huger over their cigars an interminable time. At last they trooped to the drawing room lie sought her out. "How did you get along?" he asked. "To tell you tiie truth.” she said frankly, and her frankness was charm ing. "I have been bored to death. Have you been?" “Yes.” he said. "Isn't it a pity.” site remarked, "that we didn't get the chance to lie bored in each other's company?”—New York Sun. Lost Her Mnteh. Loren P. Merrill of Paris tells the „ Story of the particular old woman, nnd he makes her n resident of Livermore She was not only old, but she was of the worrying fretting species of nntiq g hl , | )11(1 netted away her friends nn(J until she was at length Ijvfn „ in ., sm .,H house in the Qui^fi-ts of the town -lust 11s she was retiring one bitter cold night she dis |,„f onf > unlighted match ^ >n , nin<>( j lu , lle t Jn „ SP . she lay awake nntj| ; ,|:„ost daylight, worrying and nrliliif? herself with wondering if matoi: was good At last she got np hunted up tl.* match and t truck , f {() Krp )r it wolll( ] n^t her kindlings in , 1)e tnorn j n g.-Lewistou (Me.l Jour nal. Token l»y Snrprlit, “That cousin of yours Is from Chica¬ go. Isn't he?" asked the village post¬ master. "Yes.” replied' Farmer Ilaycrnft. “How d'ye know?" "When lie was in here yesterday nnd as i iP( ) if there was any mail for Ihc Haycrafts. I to!*l him no. And then n second later when he was turning away I said: 'Hold up. There Is one |,qp. r f ( ,r them.’ I noticed that when I said 'Hold «)> he threw np his hands quiokef'n lightning."-Chicago Trib une. Poor Par Dr. Fill—That's the worst paying j family I ever attended. jy r Pellet - Yes; I once attended them, but 1 never succeeded In getting a penny out of them. Dr ['ill-Well. I have had letter luck. I got a nickel out of one of tho children after it had nearly choked the kid to death.-Exchange, FACTS ABOUT BO LLS. CAUSE OF THE or;CM o~ WAX AND china v* * They Were First I - ■ Off Moods <>.f lostl;, e Sfvfntefnlli c j YV< list . ranbitin fupr: » \ r .. y, 4 . .. The origin of the word doll c-uri ous. Centuries r.gy, whm raint;.' v r-a wt’rt* mucii i 'ugne for chil-il/en. Dorotf.i a was the most p : : > r. an her mime the beet and i ; : • ti ..t could be given to :i Ett 1* nickname win Do'ly. or Del;, and ■m giving babies the nickname i v n easy step to pass ;t on m ;T • tile images of which the habit we;',- so fond. The word doll Is not found m cotn mou use in our language r::Li the middle of the eighteenth cemr; . and, as far as.can he discovered. un pears in The Gentleman's Mag: for September, 1751 , in the i : ug: “Several dolls with different dr;-, es, • made in St. James street, have ! •.-■an sent to the czarina to show the tm;inter of dressing at present iu fashion ---mg English ladies.” Previous to this the word u: ! to describe the favorite plaything all girls in all countries and iu ; - eg was “baby,” which is to bo ::sd, together with “poppet,” or "p: i,” In this sense in the works of of the earlier writers. The wax :*nd china doll oibfianted In the middle cf the seven::.- . i-en tury. There were no fashion ,>rs as now. and iu order lo show w’: . as being worn on the continent d-.-.i vo e beautifully and expensively ed and sent to the various European c on tries, and from the model m.. worn taken. The dolls, to show <., tiieir costly garb, must be made a,;' re precious stuff than wood, ml cbiua and even ivory ones we: Thuringia is the laud \vl. ; t dolls are born—pupt>eilnml. r.s di¬ ed on tiiis account. About 2 d . ur* ago most of the dolls were : ill Flanders, and they were f’}> not dolls, but Flanders' bn ides. Ti; <1 to bean old English couplet v-ddd ran ■ thus: The children of Holland l#tw I'loaaiirr- i What the children ot KngUnd take p Pi brrakihK. At one European doll facto: v ? the present day 100.000 dolls an- ; : d annually, some fiOO me", wo:, : : 1 Children being employed. To t. do one talking doll requires the joint labor of JO men. Dolls' eyes are made in ua* ilerground rooms, into which t'a* Min light rarely peeps, nnd violet 012s are the most difficult to color. There is one town in Germany where three fourths of all the dolls’ eyes in the world are made. Only In the case of the most expensive dolls is real human hair -used. In a doll factory are wood carvers, hendmnkeiT,, leg and arm makers, eye makers, portrait artists, hairdressers, doll sewers ami doll staffers: also a small army of fashionable dressmakers and milliners. ’The Hindoo child ' is probably the only doll-less child In the world The lit tie Egyptians have their wo Ten “Uslmbti." the same In style ns 4.000 yenrs ago. These were sometimes made of porcelain. When a child died. Its dolls were hurled with it. in the ex¬ pectation that their spirit forms would rise nnd do service in another world. The paradise of dolls is Japan, where they are most elaborately and gor¬ geously attired affairs. So are the dolls of Kioto— “genroku,” as they are call¬ ed. They are often valuable wood carvings, enameled iu colors or statu¬ ettes of great artistic merit. One of the most interesting eo!lec--j tlons of dolls iu this country is that* belonging to the bureau of ethnology, Washington. They are dolls of the Ltd Indians of Arizona nnd are made from the roots or subterranean branches of the cotton weed tree, whittled out with knives. They are decorated hr',gist red, yellow, green and represent tiie gods of the tribe—the god of the snow, the god that eats up the rainclouds, the fire god, the sun god and the corn goddess. The Uui children play with these dolls as other children do. Any one who goes into a Uni habitation is certain to see a row of these dolls suspended from the celling. When not in use, they nre Imng up until wanted. La Infatitila is a doll with a history It is made of clay nod is considered by Its owner, a Mexican Indy, and by hosts of other persons to be a worker of miracles, and quantities of costly gifts are constantly offered to It. A room in the house of its owner set aside for Its exclusive use. Hero it re¬ clines In a canopy bed of solid silver. It lias beautiful dresses and rich i v elry. value,:! at thousands of u s. Among its latest gifts is a mnr.; .it piano, which Is played upon t-j e who visit the dotl. as n part of ti -rv Irv of adoration. —New York Sun E* Baking Pawck er Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum* Alum " baking 1 ----- powders ate tbs gve urj ROYAi. BAKItsa POWOE8 tO.. HP# YCRV.
