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WOMANS WORLD. A unique talisman that has made a ft Old of "portentous charm” and "fatal r has drifted into the possession of - Emma Griffith Lutnm of Chicago. This calamitous token, says the Times aid of that city, is a chain of tiny ember beads woven into n tveh of finest threads, with a circuit measuring a yard m ,i a third and one-third of an inch wide. On this yellow strand, done in beads of a darker tint, is an inscription which is im bued with the cruel cause of a curse, which, according to the story told of this thing of omen,” is cradled in a fol lowing cipher. The inscription is: •'Yet. so thou base deserted!—go, and if some happier dame has kindled in thy heart the glow of love, deceitful flame! This burst of righteous Indignation ab ruptly concludes in three double clusters of beads in the darker tint over a line made of thirteen beads in a still darker hue; the figures 1873, two single clusters of beads over a line of thirteen, all of a deeper tint, finishing with a Greek cross in a lighter shade. The interpretation of the cipher devel opes in the story. I Many years ago, 1821, a beautiful and sweet tempered Kentucky maiden and o handsome, brilliant young man of the same state were betrothed. Both fami lies belonged to the most aristocratic class of the blue grass region, and the prospective topic for the smart sets of half a dozen counties. But alas! for the plighted trust of the beautiful young woman. A lovely girl come down from the North, and her fair charms fascinated the young man. Anguished and humil laied the Kentucky maid went into seclu sion To ease the bitterness in her heart she wove the amber chain, each tiny bead representing a tear. She traced her dismissal of the traitor in the darker beads, and added his retribution and the visitation of hie sin and its absolution in the cipher. One morning the recreant lover found a little box on his dressing table. He never knew how it came there. That he lifted the lid and discovered the "evil charm" Is quite clear in the fact that each em blematic tear was reflected in his life. It would seem that to destroy the telltale strand would have been ids first Impulse. Put the talisman held him in thrall, ap parently, for his bride of the North dis covered it among his bachelor relics, and was Instantly enamored of the yellow bauble. She wore it, glittering like a slen der, shining snake in the folds of her tiodice drapery, twisted in the coils of hpr fair hair, wound round her neck and arms. Within a year she faded, weaken ed and died. The bereft husband mourn ed bitterly, lost interest in life, became restless and troubled. The story has it that however far he wandered and how ever often he gave way or lost the fate ful strand, always it returned to him in a startling way. Each year added anew grief to his misery. Three times, with spaces of thirteen years between, 1834. IM7, 1860, all his hopes went into ashes and he stood alone in life "suffering enormously.” At the finish of the next significant count, 1873, he died, "nearly fourscore, and death his only blessing." With a few souvenirs the talisman went to distant relatives and carried misfor tune to them. In 1886 and last year, de struction and death were visited upon its hapless possessors. So, to Miss Lumm, the year 1900 Is pe culiarly significant, inasmuch as she es capes the span of the curse. She is a very distant relative of the immediate preceding owner and never met him. She wonders why the “thing of evil came to her But since its course was thus des tined she regrets that It did not arrive inst year or earlier, so that she might have made a study of its black art.” She had heard the story while visiting in Kentucky a few years ago, but had for gotten it until the yellow mesh revived the recollection. A Persian vinaigrette is attached to the chain, and this, it is raid, was added by a former owner while visiting in Europe. A solitaire diamond ring will no longer be the proper ic-ken of plighted froth. The * - igemenf ring of the future is to be an tn'in-ly different affair. If a man has pi'-ked up an odd and ancient circlet with a history and a peculiar significance in som*> out-of-the-way nook of the earth, so much the better. If his travels have not ' ilo n him in the way of such things he may be able to lind one in the houses that Import curios. Few of these rings have the ordinary finish of gold, many of them l> ok as if they had ben buried for years. Nevertheless, they are the proper things this year for engagement rings. A signet ring of quaint workmanship Is popular, and the Japanese dragon is an exceedingly effective design. Some of the fr**ml-precious stones set in the Egyptian manner are attractive. Others have the oriental richness of Turkish manufacture. I or those who do not fear the baleful cf f sof the opal there are some exquisite s iks set deep in massive, curiously cat v * gold, end to make the effect more un -1 al some of the opals contain tne quails "h.cn is embedded in them when they are b'k#n from the ground, and which oidl -1 liy is removed before the stone is poi idu and and set. Home of these strange, mysterious look b'g rings are really old; some of them ' v look so. A few of them have an interesting history; they all look as if they °ngbt to have. Ti>e history ran be made, however, by the wearer, and undoubtedly these massive with their rich, dull stones, have H f iHcination that the gleaming solitaire does not possess. Moreover, they are less expensive. A good-looking ring, without h. ni's or merely small ones for dragon's ran be bought for from $l5 to £lO, ** n J a really beautiful one, with an uncorn na>n~iooking gem, can be bought for from to $5O. Every man who has had to • diamond 1 for his sweetheart knows * hat $.7.* does not buy much of a sparkler. Many women, says the Chicago Times- T f‘ 1 •‘, have been stimulated to s* lfsc " by the example of Florence Night- Xo greater disciple has she ever " 1 than beautiful, piquant, self-wiled, ' *ble Dorothy Faltison, who would a\- heme to be a nurse, even against •• f r fathers will, and wh se tender h art * afterward reproached her. only to m.ik, her throw h rself with greater en into ler work, however. On the 1 '■ fs of the gr at coal and Iron di-tret ®‘ '• h Staffordshire, in the neigh bor n 1 of in m'ngham, is the town of Wal * 1 With its 35 COO inhabitants, its nurn ' s furnaces, snorting engines, clang- ; ntf * whizzing and whirling machinery—a ' , ' l ‘ g! aming at n'ght like the city of ' ith iho firm if furnaces. Here fur 1 T n yearn, as Sister Dora, she nursed ( ; ' h mutil and and and scald and men bark ' Ith, car. and fer their wives and their "nd alone with the aid fan old | ’ l ' 1 •' n roner, t ok charge of an e idem ■dal with twenty-eight nati nts in b n mall-pox raged throughou* th • 11 rv . ’d no no could be found cour ( O' <1 skillful rn ugh io help In tha Her story Is unique In *lhe annals y 1 " lf-?urr floe, for In r dally life ran one of wl ir-h would suffice a r ~,f' for an ordinary mo'dal. Her death ? 1 from cancer, long b rne and 'ong j ‘ ' 'd She v, 1 hed r o <>no to know of 'h’ * 1 so, an I her physicians respected ' wjsh. “T have bed a one let me die '' ' Were her lust wi rds. and h-r at j' iin oUf y, and and left her, albeit w ith k l, g hearts. A \ rownstone building In upper New Qrk was in flames ths other day, when a woman, manifestly laboring under in tense excitement and distress, rushed up to the fire lines and cried out: “Save them! Oh, please, mister, save them! They’ll be burned up sure if you don’t them out!” She began to weep and lament in heart breaking fashion. “Where are your children, madam?” eaid one of the firemen. “What floor are they on and in what room?” “They’re in the dentist’s office on the second floor.” sobbed the woman, “and they’ll surely be burned—boo-hoo-boo and I was to have ’em for to-morrow— boo-hoo-boo—to vfear ’em to church and to a dinner at a friend's.” The firemen stood amazed and for a moment forgot that there was a fire. “Wear ’em to church and to dinner?” gasped one. “Your children?” ‘\\ ho said children?” demanded the weeping Niobe. “They ain’t children they’re teeth; they’re the act of false teeth the dentist promised to have repair ed for me by to-morrow, and . I must have them. Oh, please save them before they’re burned up.” W’hal the firemen said would not look well in print. A man who denies that he is prejudiced, but claims that he is a good judge of fem inine beauty, declares that there is scarce ly a beautiful foot to be found among the women of to-day. The high heels, the ex aggerated curve at the ball of the foot, the heel stays and the pointed toes, he declares, have distorted the foot in a painful and ugly manner. The ankles are misshapen. In some rases the bones are enlarged until they bulge out so that ever bone is perceptible. The weight of the body thrown upon the toes has caused them to spread out. Crowded into pointed /toes, they stick up in clusters of knotty corns. The foot should be as shapely as the hand, footwear should fit us a glove tits the hand. The perfect foot is slender, with an arched instep and toes that lie smoothly and easily. The first step toward acquiring a pretty foot is to wear shoes that tit it comforta bly. The next is to take exercises that will render the toes strong and supple. Begin by spreading out the toes to the ut most extent; then hold four toes still and attempt to move the remaining one. Ev ery toe should be distinct and able to move separately. Every nail should keep Its shape, just as fingernails do. The big toe should be straighter and shorter than the next one and the arch should be shapely and pliant. The reminine foot of to-day renders a graceful carriage an impossibility. And all because Dame Fashion has deoreed that a short, high-heeled, pointed-toe shoe is the correct thing in dressy footgear, forgetting that there never was a human foot built that way. In Nemaha county, Kansas. Fay’s the Chi cago Chronicle, Miss Millie Dhniels, who is de.-crlbed as unusually handsome, has adopted a novel means of rewarding the faithful and well behaved among her pu pils, and her plan has been approved by ih© board of trusties, who have just en gaged her for another year. Miss Daniels whenever a student attends school one whole week without being tardy or ab rent, kieses that student, whether ma e or female. If the student is tardy only once or absent once she allows that stu dent to k ss her. All students who disobey this standard are ruled out of the kissing match. The kisses are given and taken every Friday afternoon. Needless to say the young men do net piay' “hooky” on that day. There are sixty-five pupils at the Wilson district school. Four y ars ago Miss Dan iels went there from Illinois. She was a good teacher, but the students, mostly’ boys were hopeless victims of the “hooky” habit. Try as she would the pret ty’ school ma’am could not keep them in school regularly. She arranged a lit of prizes to those who attend and regu’arlv, but they held no attractions for the eoun iry boys. Then she consulted with the school board on the kissing question. They were willing if she cared to experiment that way’. Some of (he school board said among themselves if she did adopt the plan they’ believed they would start to school again. So two years ago she adopted the scheme and it has worked well ever s nee. Speak ing of her unique experience Miss Daniels said: “I do not think I am doing anything wrong in allowing my young men stud ents to kiss me as prizes for obedience. Indeed, I think it is a great reform or I should not practice it. My pupils all re spect me. I have a good attendance. The patrons of the district like me, for hav en’t I just been given another two years' job? I do not mind criticism from outsid ers; my thoughts are about my school.” A young woman of Birmingham, Eng land, became betrothed last summer to a young solicitor, preliminaries were ar ranged. and the fond couple only awaited the arrival home of the bridegroom’s father from a lengthy sojourn in America to be made one. In due course he came, but when the bride beheld one who, while he would have easily qualified for “fat man” at a fair, asserted that in his son he once again beheld himself irryouth, she refused to fulfill her promise, and now seeks a lover to whom the future does not threaten such ample proportions. Some years since a lady was engaged to a gentleman who bore the name and was a relation of a certain gallant soldier, who, a month previous to the date ap pointed for the ceremony, while on service abroad had the misfortune to meet with a severe reverse. No sooner did the news come to hand than the lady, a mem ber of whose family had been wounded in the disastrous action, declined, unless he should promise to change his name, to become his wife. To this caprice the gen tlemen refused to submit, so the match fell through. The woman In the seat behind was tell ing her day’s experience In the store and dwelt eloquently on the hargalns she had seen without discussing especially what she had bought. Her voice was nasal and penetrated the suffocating air of the train, ller face, says the New York Sun, was flushed with the heat and she had a handkerchief tucked Into the collar of her shirtwaist. Her persistent talk never ceased. Occasionally her neighbors turn ed and looked at her. but her voice con tinued to sound stridently throughout the car. One woman silting in front of her turned to her companion and remarked that she would like to have that voice under cultivation for a while. “A voice like that?” asked her friend in astonishment. “Why nobody In the world could make that sound like any thing but the vulgar, strident, nasal tone that It Is. I should like to see you or anybody else able to change It." "1 would be willing td wager any reasonable sum,” answered the first wom an, "that I could change entirely the Have You Tried Mother’s Friend? If you have, you know it ia I one of the great scientific ilia coveries of the age. If you I have not tried it, why don’t you? It cannot hurt you— UB common sense will tell -rMwf you that—for it is to be f /y/ used externally. It is Rim- f ply to be rubbed into tho y muscles which are to bear the strain. That is all. Hut it makes labor short and painless,prevents all prey nancy Hickness, preserves the mother’syirllsh figure, I I and that is everything;. JF^V Art Mntbar's Frlcni At th t ~ druKiaU. |l pr t*ltl. Jr n THE BRAOf l( LO REGULATOR CO. VV— ATLANTA, OA MM Writs fr*r onr lllntrt*4 book. *' lUforA Bsby 1a Boro.” A £ THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1000. qualities of that voice within three months. Of course. 1 should need the cooperation of the womfcn herself. Noth ing could be done without that. But if she would promise to follow my instruc tions and really wanted to rid herself of such a voice, I could very easily train her to speak in such a way that she would not be recognizable by the tone of her voice at the end of a few months. I have taken worse cases than here end made them talk at the end of a certain number of lessons with refinement and breeding. “If singing can be taught in a way that changes almost entirely the quality of the natural voice, there is no reason in the world why the same thing should not be done with speech. I have taken women whose T’s’ burred like a buzz saw and succeeded in ridding them almost entirely of it. I say almost, because there have been certain cases when all traces of that dreadful *r’ would not gc\ try as I might to get rid of it. All drawling, whiny, twangv women can be taught to talk prop erly, if they are willing to take the trouble to follow instructions and devote some time to correcting natural defects. The most difficult thing is to convince a wo man that she does not talk as well-bred women who speak good English should. She never hears her own crudities and provincialisms of speech, and is naturally not Impressed with the necessity of im proving them. ”1 began to teach women to use their sp aking voices properly after I realized how much more necessary that was than the teaching of singing is. and how much less overcrowded the field of my work is. I have practically ihe monopoly of this kind of teaching. I began it while I was teaching singing in a fashionable school here. There was no great demand for that, but I was very much Impressed by the fearful accents of some of the West ern pupils. I spoke to the principal about it and she told me that the question of improving the speech of many of her scholars had often troubled her. She re ceived large sums for finishing them in New' York, took them about to theaters and the opera, and was expected to give them a veneer of metropolitan life for the large sums paid by wealthy parents in the West. She very truthfully said that she never sent them home again carrying along their same Western accents, with out feiing that a very important part of their New York finishing had been neg lected. “I told her I thought I could remedy that defect, and she offered to pay me twice as much as I was making by try ing to teach how to sing a few girls who had very little voice and w'ere quite in different to cultivating what they had. I started in, applied what principles I used in tfaching singing, and began to have successful results in a short time. The girls with a decided nasal twang had their voices W’orked out of their noses, just as they would have been had they intended to sing instead of talk. Whining girls w ere taught by exercises that I had used in singing to speak with precision and promptness. The position of tfacher to co r rect their faults of speech gave me ihe right to criticise their way of speaking, and that was in itself a great incentive to them to try to improve, chiefly because their at ention was attracted for the first time to their own peculiarities. That often accomplished wonders. “I found no defect that could not be remedied by principles that I had used always in e nging. Some voices, of course, were more agreeable than others, but it would astonish you to learn how much ran be accomplished merely teaching a woman to use only a certain volume of voice In speaking, instead of talking with all her might and main, as most of them do. Restraint in her tone and her manner of using her voice need only be contrasted with the effect created by an untrained, abrupt ami uncontrolled use of the voice, ruch as this nuisance behind us is now indulging in, to show how much can be done In the way of improvement by very little work. ”1 have since had all sorts of pupils. 'I had one Western heiress who was called Birdie by her family and she pronounced it as if it were stalled with twenty r’s. I have had actresses and one singer in ocmic opera, who wanted to go to Eng land and had very wisely decided to rid herself of her most objectionable Western isms of accent. I succeeded in imparting to both her and the heiress a very well bred, agreeable tone, w’hich. like the best kind of language and speech in all coun ttles, was without accent of any kind. That is my effort in all the pupils I take. Over the whole English-speaking w’orld, one manner of talking is in accord with the usages of the best breeding. That is without marked peculiarities of any kind. It is the manner of speech that I try to impart, and I have yet to see the woman whose voice, . however, disagreeable in quality it might be, could not be very much improved by instruction and study. I should like nothing better than to have this woman behind me as a pupil, just to show what my system will do.” The girl, says the New York Tribune, who has rot hot weather arms need not be discouraged. Dame Fashion has had her in mind and there are pretty styles for her. The hot weather arm Is that arm which Is Just plump enough and not too plump to look well under thin sleeves. A year or two ago It was a shocking vulgar ity to appear on the street with a sugges tion of flesh showing through a thin dress sleeve and every shop was filled with long sleeved underwaists, white, plnk.and blue, to wear with different gowns, and no mat ter what kind of an arm a girl had she tucked it away under these nice little long-sleeved waists. But there was more warmth in them than the average woman thinks she can bear in her summer frocks, and that fashion lasted exactly one sea son. The next season every mother's daughter blossomed out in thin sleeves and thin yoked gowns a little thinner and a little more sheer than she had ever worn before, and she has not worn a long underwaist since. That Is, with the ex ception of the girl who hasn’t the hot weather arm. and she Bometimes will wear a long sleeve because she thinks it looks better. But she can have her gowns made now In a style which will give the cool suggestion of bare flesh and still not make the arm look painfully thin. The skin-tight sleeve Is not the thing now. and the undersleeve fashion has brought with It puffed sleeves. What Joy to the slender girl to have a pretty muslin gown made with four or five puffs going around the upper part of the sleeve, with a large one at the elbow, while the lower part is plain to the wrist. Faffs are rather sat isfactory. They will iron well for one thing, and then they do not distort a pretty pattern of flowers Into some kind of botanical fright as tucking does. A plain large sleeve Is no relief with the girl who has not plump arms. A big sleeve always gives the Impression of the arm inside having wasted away: It is altogeth er worse for the slender girl than the snug one. "Ye!i, we are all down for Ihe summer.” said the house mistress, to a New York Tribune reporter, “and, n usual, we started In with an accident. We In variably have some excitement on ottr arrival. Last year ihe house got on fire, the year before Jack broke his leg tum bling off the roof of the stable before wo had been half an hour on the place, and we Inaugurated this season with a runaway, anew pair that we depended upon for the summer taking flight nt something and returning home cross country. It would have been a delight ful sight (If they had not belonged to us and carried behind them the remnant of our carriage) to see them iake the fences neck by neck and land finally on our lawn. There they immediately be gan to graze as If nothing h.wl happened. They were beautiful animalr, and the coachman, who hud not been with them when the runaway occurred (Jack, who was driving them, having left Ihrm for a second when he went inlo a shop), said that with careful handling he was sure they would be all right, and begged us to keep them. For a day or two the re sult seemed to Justify his prediction, for hs drove Ahem the next time without trou ble, and after several trials invited my old nurse to take a drive. As soon as she got into the wagon, however, the horses made a sudden bolt, and before the man could get them under control they were tearing madly across the lawn. " ‘I think, William.’ said old nurse, pla cidly, ‘that when you are ready to stop I will get out.* Before they got to the gate William succeeded in bringing them to a standstill. “ ‘Were you not frightened?’ I asked nurse, when I reached her, quite out of breath with terror and hurry. ‘No. ma’am,’ she answ’ered. ‘I thought the horses went on the grass because they liked it better than the gravel.’ ” Elopements, says the New York Journal, are never heard of in Germany, and yet there is no such thing as getting married there without the consent of the parents. Certain prescribed forms must bo gone through, or the marriage is null and void. When a girl haa arrived at what is con sidered a marriageable age, her parents make a point of inviting young men to the house, and usually two or three are in vited at the same time, so that the at tention may not tseem too pointed. • No young man, however, is ever invited to the house until after he has ctailed at least once, and thus signified hIS wish to have social intercourse with the family. If he takes to calling on several occasions in rather close succession., it is taken for granted that he has “intentions,” and he may be questioned concerning them. In Germany the man must be at least eighteen years of age before he can make a proposal, but when it is made and ac cepted, the proposal is speedily followed by the betrothal. This generally takes place privately, shortly after which the father of the bride, ns he is then called, gives a dinner or supper to the moat in timate friends on both aides when the fact declared, and naturally afterward be comes a matter of public knowledge. Some times the announcements are made by means of the newspapers, and formal an nouncements on cards, which are circu lated among friends and acquaintances. The man supplies a plain gold band ring for each. This is worn during the engage ment on the ring finger of the left hand. From this time the contracting parties are bride and bridegroom. Among conservative people the affianced couple Is scarcely al lowed to be alone, a chaperon being pro vided whenever the young people go out. If the young man is not in a position to settle in life at once, the betrothal may last for a number of years, but most fre quently the marriage soon takes place. The banns are only called twice at the church, and in cases when the time is short, twice on the same day. What is known as the “pay wedding” Is popular in Germany. The bride receives the guests with a basin set before her, and into this each visitor entering the recep tion room drops either some jewelry, a silver spoon, or a piece of money. In some parts of the country the ex penses of the marriage feast are met by each guest paying for what he or she may eat or drink. It would strike an American family as a very curious reception, but the visitors pay high prices, and the hap py couple make a handsome profit out of their wedding, as many as 300 visitors often being present at such a festivity. Among the middle class people all the girls are curiously alike, and invariably give themselves up to housekeeping, knot ting, sewing and cookery. Their sober, brown gowns are as much like one an other as are eo many peas, and the ma jority of them are home made. The Ger man girl cannot bo said to be ambitious, and in quite content to spend the whole of her life in one groove. She knows and gets the full value of every kreutzer she spends, and is always an adept at making coffee and cakes. Heroism, courage and fortitude, says Dr. F. T. Bryan in the New York World, are human qualities belonging to the en tire human race at large, and are not con fined to any age, sex or condition. Nature is kind, and when the time comes almost every one is ready to die. Yet the period of life at which death ar rives, the form It takes, the time for preparation, the circumstances, the tem perament of the person about to die, all have an Influence and Increase or de crease natural bravery, "Execute this man first,” said the great Mme. Roland, pointing to a friend, "for iie has not courage sufficient to see me die.” Her wish was gratified, and when her or\n head fell into the basket the executioner relates that streams of bicod gushed up like fountains from the large arteries in her neck, something that sel dom happens, for terror slows the circu lation and numbs the heart. Mme. Roland died as she had lived— bravely. Her’s was sublime fortitude, a radiant courage in face of disaster. The time, the circumstances, the act of saving another pain and anguish, together with the strength of her mind and body, her temperament, made it possible for her lo meet death as calmly as if it were a sleep of hours instead of ages. Women generally have a firmer faith In orthodox religion than men, and its teachings in regard to a future life nat urally for them mitigate the sting of death to a great degree. The rewards that the upright expect to receive in heaven make the transition as easy as stepping through an open door into another house. One such woman allowed fortitude to a remaikable degree. Suffering severe pain Intermittently for years—pain due to an aggravated heart trouble—the time came when all her forces tended to extinction, when "death came a-knocklng at the door.” In turn each member of tho fam ily was called to listen to a brief fare well—the little children, husband, father, brothers and sisters—and to receive a lov ing message for the absent. Then, turn ing to a nurse, she said quietly; "There Is nothing more that can be said now, so I shall not speak again.” And turning her face to the wall she rested with clos ed eyelids for nearly an hour, when "sweet, amiable death," as Shakespeare calls it, stilled forever (he tired heart. For many women it does not require much courage to die—Just to stop breath ing and be at rest—so hard for Ihem is the strife and turmoil, the strain and struggle of dally living. “Why bother about dying?” said one auch humble philosopher. “Either you’ve reached home or you’re nr where. And both way are better than this.” The plight of being alive presses heav ily upon women who have survived their loved ones and who have outlived their social jtosltloi]. Off the west coast of Africa a ship sud denly struck n rock anrl began filling with water. An officer walked through the bright moonlight telling each passen ger that the vessel was going down; that rescue would be Impossible. Some of the men fainted at the thought of those dependent upon them, their busi ness liabilities and matters of personal honor. A bright American suddenly be thought her that now she would never be obliged to give all her money to a poor little Englishwoman whose husband was dying of African fever—a kind deed she had originally planned—and was greatly consoled with the Idea that her purse need not now he emptied. An Eng lishwoman who had traveler! all over the world lamented In anger that her life must end off the wretched west coast of Africa, the last place In the world to die In. An opera singer began a little sere nade. A mother sat In a stateroom with two sleeping children. “Will It be long before we go down?” she asked, quietly. “No; only a short time,” the officer answered. “Then I'll not wake the children,” sho said, and with a calm smile she awaited what seemed to be the inevitable. Hap pily. nil were rescued. “Listen! I want to speak to you,” said a woman a few days ngo, standing nt an open porthole penned In amid the fiamrs of the Saale. The face was so sw'ollen in Its horror of agony that rough men turned away from the lurid spectacle. “Listen! I have a message. Remember It! It is too late to save me! J am dy ing! It will soon be over! Send a mes sage to my mother!" She gave the name and residence. “Tell her that my kaM thought was of her. Tell her to take all my money from the bank; it is hers. God save us all!” A burst of flame and the face disap peared. So died this steadfast daughter. A stevedore was equally brave, penned In the hold, gaining a porthole for a!r. He was quite calm, but aware that he was to die. His resignation as he dis cussed his terrible surroundings was an extraordinary exhibition of fortitude, and the men who heard him wept at Ihe hor ror. Which are bravest in face of death men or women? Who can tell? Human ity is brave. I have never known but two persons alv solutcly unwilling to die when the sum mons came. One was a young girl, who lamented bitterly ns long as breath last ed the Injustice of her departure from the world before tasting all Its joys and pleasures. The other was a beautiful young wo man, the mother of four sweet little chil dren, the youngest but a few days old. It required all the fortitude of a faithful heart, all the discipline of a well-trained mind, to enable this lovely creature to retain her composure with a steadfast front She kept repeating reassuring verses from the Bible and from the poes. “Death once dead, there’s no more dy ing then,” was quickly followed by this: “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I w ill fear no evil.” The question of bravery depends upon the age of the person and the manner of dying. Those who ore for a time ill in bed, with lowered vitality and all the processes of life tending toward extinc tion, gradually become willing to go and die bravely. When well. strong and walk ing about it is rot so easy. As to w’hich sex is braver when fac ing sudden and unwelcome death, our de cision must always remain in doubt. There is no eex in courage. People with “feelings,” says the New York Tribune, are a misery to themselves and to their friends, while to the world nt large they' are voted great bores—and treated accordingly. The Irish maid, who complains constantly to her mistress that the other servants are “insultin’ of her” is not more foolish in her generation than the society girl wljo is constantly imag ining slights and brooding over fancied neglets. Hypersensitiveness is a great mistake in modern social life. No one should feel offended or aggrieved because he or she is left out of even large func tions, or not included in wedding parties, while In the case of email dinners, dances and drawing room concerts it is obvious ly’ impossible for a hostess to invite more than her rooms (generally’ of a moderate size) can comfortably accommodate. This should be remembered by her friends and if they' are not included in her invitations, they should not on that account feel that they' are slighted intentionally, but have sufficient self-respect and dignity to give the affair no further thought. “I always dread to meet Mrs. A..” com mented an acquaintance, because she al ways is aggrieved about something. Ixist time it was because I had not returned her visit—the time before because my sis ter had not asked her daughter to her email dance. Last year I forgot to her to be patroness of our charity bazar, and she did not rocover from that for months. If she could only realize what a bore she Is with her string of grievances, I think she might learn to keep her sen sitive feeling** under better control, and make herself more agreeable to her asso ciates.” There are, says the Pittsburg Press, three types of girls recognized Just now. the girl who Is pretty, the girl who is stylish, and the girl who Is picturesque. Of course there are types of the intellect ual and the studious, but when they are these they eeaaa to be called girls, and are given the more dignified title of wo men, so the girls may readily be con fined with’n the. limits of the three; types first mentioned. The girl who is pretty seems to have an invincible weapon 111 her hands She Is taught from her Infan cy that she Is favored above other girls, and. a’as, by the law of nature's compen sation. ehe generally grows up without an idea in her fluffy pate, beyond (he best pose for that same pate, and the best becoming piece of millinery with which to adorn it. She may be of the dashing vivid style of beauty, In which case she is often bold and forward, or she may be of the sweet clinging style, in which case she Is al most always envefghed, and she may be neither, but merely pret ty, with a good complexion, pret ty eyes and pretty hair. At first glance one might suppose the pretty girls to have the best of the race, but exper ience proves otherwise. The stylish girl Is the one whose clothes seem made for her and her alone. She will take the commonplace hat of her pretty sister and, placing it on her modish head give it a pat or two which will transform It until her ne ghbors will swear It is Im ported. Her gowns may be plain and cheap but they are worn with an Indefin able air, which makes them better look ing than the satins and velvets which the other woman wrars with an ill grace. Everything belonging to her partakes of her individuality, until even the every day sailor or rough straw Is dlstinguishe 1 as It hangs on the hall rack, and the fuz zy brown cape which she dons In wet weather looks more perky and self-satis fied than Its neighbor, the sealskin, which <oes not belong to the stylish girl. It Is some vague power within her which ena ble* her to se ect out of the thousand and one hats at the mll'inery op-ntng the very bit of headgear which will make her the cynosure of all eyes. She may Ire a millionaire’s daughter, In which case she Is invariably the belle of the season, and makes the very best match, or she may be a shopgirl \yho sells ribbons and laces by the yard, in which ense her coll of hair is the smoothest and best groomed looking in the days of smooth hair, and her curled bang the fluffiest and most ethereal looking In the days of puffed curls. She has an air which her envious fellow women would give half tfielr lives to possess, and which attracts the admiring eye of all the men on the street when she appears. Now the picturesque girl does not strike one at first sight so favorably, but she is the one who grows on us until she seems the nicest thing In the rooms, and the best bit of beauty within sight. Her gowns always have a dreamy fall to them, as If some of her soft, poetical nature had animated their folds. There are. grace ful curves where another woman would have commonplace drapery. Her hair has also a soft silken wave which suggests beauty, poetry, art, all sorts of delightful visions, and her hands and feet—well, these are her strong points ,and If she Is a wise, picturesque girl, she knows it and makes the best of them. Standing beside a fluted pillar, with one round arm above her head and a far away look on her face, she Is a subject for a dream, an*J seated in a garden, always with some roses tumbling out of her hands, she looks like the fairest bit of nature's handiwork the enraptured on looker has ever gazed on. She Is always delightful, for she Is continually a con trast to the women about her. because there Is generally only one of her In a community. Of course, she has Imitators, hut they are always recognized as such, for their graceful falling draperies are always untidy, but the red, first-dais bona-fide, picturesque girl is a tblug of beauty and a Joy forevtr. find her path Is generally one ot roses and sunshine all her life through. ■ 111 * ♦ * t Off the Track. This means disaster and d< nth when ap plied to a fast express train. Uls equal ly serious when It refers to people whose blood Is disordered and who consequent ly have pimples und sores, had stomachs, deranged kidneys, weak nerves and that tired feeling. Hood's Sarsaparilla puts the wheels hack on Ihe track by making pure, rich blood and curing these trou bles. Constipation la cured by Hood'a Pills.. 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Organdies K 15c Come This Week. A Store Full of Good Bargains. GUSTAVE EGKSTEIN & GO. Gray Goose Tales. The Grity Goo.e Gander Telia Abont the Obstinate Bull-Frog. Three or four years ago, when our pond was quite full of water, and the ducks and geese were taking lots of comfort, there came to u from some other pond a strange bull-frog. He was a whop ping big fellow, who made all our frogs hustle around, and he had a voice on him which could be heard a full mile on a quiet night. There was room enough for the stranger, and we made him welcome, hut on the very first night of his stay he kept us all awake and made no end of trouble, Almost ns goon as It was dark h took his seat on n log in the middle of the pond and cried out; "How! How'! How! Oh-h-h-h! How! How! How!” The noise woke up every fowl on the place, inoluding the peacock, who was HE TOOK HIS SE AT ON A LOO. almost deaf with old age, but the frog had no care for our rights. He had slept all day, and now wanted to croek ail night. As he was a stranger, nothing was said to him that night, but next day, ns he came out of the water to get his sun bath I sworn out to the log and said to him: “I/ast night you kept us all awake with your croaking, and I want to know If you are going to <k> the same to-night?” “I am going to do aw I please about it,” he replied, ns ho swelled up and tried to look as big cis a barrel. “Hut we must have our sleep," I said. “We shall not find fault If you croak softly now nnd then, but to bellow as loud and an long ns you do Is more than w* onn put up with." “I’d like to we you help yourselves!" ho shouted In anger. “My voice is my own, and I shall use *lt all I want to! If you don't like things you'd better go away." “But this Is our pond." "Oh, it is! Well, I’ll show you that a bull frog can take up his quarters in any pond he wishes to. Granddaddy Gander, you go back and tell the fowls that I shall croak all night for tho next ten nights to come." “If you do, you'll get Into trouble,” I said. “Bring on your trouble,” he sneered, as he kicked his hind lege at me. The and geese were for driving him aWay at once, and the hens said it was a shame for n frog to <bine to a strange pond and be so Impudent, but I said to th**in: "We will do nothing yet. We will wall three or four nights more, and then if he Is not more reasonable we will glvo him a surprise party..” It was the same on the second night as on the first. He kept calling out: "How! 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That is, the frog started in soon, after dark to make the night hideous again, and some of the ducks unit geese were for driving him out at once, when I saw one of the farmer’s son* come skulking down to the pond. He stood for a minute until ha made out the frog on the log, and then he drew back ills arm ami hurled a stone. His aim was true and the frog fell into the water as dead as a nail. Then the boy turned to go back to tlie house and we heard him say: "Oh, ho, old frog! You wanted to know 'How! How!’ it was, and I’ve altown yotif You kept me awake two nights, but I guess you won’t do any more croaking this summer!” MATCH HOYS. Disappear From Trn.le Reenn.a SinoUrrs l>t IV'ot Hay Matches. From the New York Times. “What has become of the matoh boy?** is the question asked especially by smok ers, for the lads who used to be numeroufl on the streets, and who used to invnd* offices and stores selling: matches, are n longer to be seen in the lower part of tha city, and a match is a hard thing to buy. These lads have not been driven out ot business by the Match Trust, for the in crease in price of penny boxes of matches has been only two cents a grosa. These in.itchea can be bought at fiO cents a gross, giving a profit of 94 cents on each pack age. Nor can it be the license fee, which is 13 a year, or only two-thirds of a cent for each business day, the license allowing its holder to sell anything that he can car ry. At the city marshal’s office the opinion in that the disappearance of the match boy la duo to the lack of demand for hki wares. "No one buys Thatches now,” said tha city marshul, “except the cigar dealer, tha restaurant keeper and the housekeeper. The wrrfbker fills his pocket with matches when he leaves home. Ho buys a cigar and puts n couple of matches in his pocket, or if he buys half a dozen clgnra the clerk hands him h small box of matches. At noon the business man goes into a restau rant for his luncheon, and when he lights his cigar lie lays in another supply of matches, drawing upon the match box on tlie table. On his way home the tabac conist supplies him again. “It is the same way with toothpicks. Who buys toothpicks nowadays? The res taurants supply them. Pockets are filled at the luncheon hour, and consequently vo one finds any business selling thoere bits of wood, and the # wooden article has driv en out the quill almost entirely." Not only has the match peddler disap peared, but few of the men who have stands for the sale of small articles carry either matches or toothpicks. M Morphine and Whiskey hab its treated without pair or confinement. Cure guaran teed or no pay. B. H. VRAL* Man’gr Lithia Bprings San itarium. U. Austell, Go* 13