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THE CHRISTMAS WORK BASKET SUGGESTIONS FOR YULETIDE. HOW TO BEAUTIFY TUB HOME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY. How to Utilise House Plants—Tiny Bells Add to More Stately Decora tions, and May Be Used by the Dozen—Poinsetta Hns Become a Popular Flower in Yuletide Deco rations—Some Yew Candle Shades Appropriate to the Season. By M. Le Mont. (Copyright, 1904, by T. C. McClure.) At Christmas time every one wants the home to be the most attractive (place upon earth, for if ever home sentiment and home feeling sweep over the land it is at Yuletide. At this season of the year ground pine and crowsfoot are to be found in masses under the dead leaves by road side and forest, or even under the snow, if that lies over the ground. They make the prettiest of decora tions for the home and the table. A mantel drapery of either, with fes toons about the pictures and table garlands of these lovely evergreen vines is newer than the evergreen wreathes with which ail are familiar, and which shed dry spikes long be fore they are taken down. In milder climes sumach can be gathered, in all its scarlet beauty, and used to make brilliant the house at Christmas time, while along the Gulf coast branches of shining magnolia foliage make a beautiful green decora tion which may serve as a background for color of a lighter and brighter sort. Ferns and Poinsetta*. Nothing makes a more effective Christmas table decoration than maid enhair ferns and poinsettas, whose spreading scarlet leaves seem particu larly vivid and beautiful when mingled with the delicacy of fern sprays. A single poinsetta laid here and there up on the cloth, with loose sprays of green as a background, makes a brilliant table, and the idea might be carried out by having candle shades of green foliage with a single poinsetta on the outer side. Holly decorations combine very well with these magnificent flow ers, but the blossoms are more striking when used with foliage alone. Chrysanthemums form an effective decorative scheme for Christmas adornment, and when the frost has not yet done its work, the small out door variety, which blooms all winter where snow does not fall, makes the most fascinating candle shades and garlands for the dinner table, in gold or in copper red or in many lovely shades of pink. Many people press bright colored autumn leaves and sprays of leaves in preparation for holiday decorations, and good results are secured by pin ning leaves over candle shades and sprinkling them over the table cloth. Oak and maple leaves are particular ly pretty. Quaint little dinner cards may be enriched with a leaf or two thrust through one corner and tied with a bronze or red ribbon. For Young Peoples’ Dinner. Quite an original idea for a young people’s Christmas dinner illustrates the sentiment of having ail the nations of the earth joined in celebrating the great festival day of the Christian Church, by dressing a doll to represent each prominent nationality—even to having a cunning Filipino and a Sand wich Island belle, an Iceland maiden, a little Laplander, and so on, gather ing all that would be picturesque, when all the doll.* are dressed they are tied to candlesticks so as to con ceal the standard, and each doll holds in one hand a strand of evergreen or flowers that is fastened in turn to a large Christinas bell of holly, mistle toe. or some Christmas foliage, high above the center of the table. Or a tall Santa Claus doll may hold the bell aioit and be hung over with small, bright cornucopias of candy, sewed to narrow red ribbons, for each child. The candle shade above each doll wiould be decorated with a Star of Bethlehem. Children love Christmas story and sentiment, and some such ta ble decoration would delight them. For the Middle of the Table. If an over-head decoration is un desirable, a looking glass In the mid *be table might be so covered with evergreen as to form the points of a shining star, the whole edged with flowers. The boy or girl who comes home trom school or college for the holidays is always pleased if some compliment is paid the college which they attend. A dinner in which the shades for can ,®* ar , e t made of panels emblazoned with college flags and pennants is sure to be a success among the young peo ple. Small college fans are useful In making these shades when one has not the time nor patience to paint the dee silk ° nS n ° r SeW them ° n ln bltß of It is pleasant to depart from usual customs at Christmas time and have Attention. Watch Oar Weekly Lists of New Subscribers, Pub lished Every Sunday. The Southern Bell Telephone and ~.®*T ap s Company has installed since last Sunday, Dec. 4, 1904: 36 New Subscribers. BUSINESS. 1330—A. C. L. Ry. Cos., Sup't. of M 0.... .... “ ve Power Office. vnil Canner, E. H. &F. A., saloon. lo™Zs°J ChklSß ' T ‘ J - srocer. & Cos., produce. io7 McKenzie Grocery Cos. Pennlman & Ennen. Life Insur *noe Agents. 9St~5 ealy ’ M A - Money Broker. Supply Department Southern n„ 5f u Tel - & Tel. Cos. A - H - <sree n Orocer. West Side Pharmacy. IIESIDENCE. wi!^'^ n,ono P o,o • Chri Augras, J. Mrs. 17^7—Brady, J. M. Mil~S en,hardt - J - c. *—Barr, M. H. 1 2531 l£ rln i, i0n ’ 8 - E ’ Dr * ???? Cooke, J. H. Mrs. Connor, E. W. Sf-Chenoweth, R. W. ‘"--Ennen, W. G. .115 —Orimn. J. W. 1(06—0111, W. F. < D. O. v- Hopffgarten, Phil Von mi-Huu, Jas. B . mr, Keny, Ed. J. iJi’C'l'ynne. F. K. Sergt, ,”*—“oHt'S-r, J. W. ini-Mof las, M. Mrs. McDermott, Frank k. H. Mrs. jin., Hhomak*r, 11. C, c. M. l*M Ward, O. B. Mrs. dolls and Brownies and odd conceits of any kind to supply the place of stereotyped candlesticks and eande libras, and to decorate the table. In stead of merely lighting it. as side lights upon the wall often do. Hothouse flowers are lovely and dec orative at all times, but where It is possible to get home-like blossoms and foliage it Is better to do so. The sen timent of Christmas is away from the artificial of any sort and toward the sweet simplicity of nature and child hood. Patting Up Gifts. It is always easy to select a pretty gift, but not every one thinks of an attractive and decorative manner in which to put it up. A bouquet of rare flowers in a jeweled or golden holder is a simple way out of the difficulty for the rich, but the great mass of people are not rich, and to these the question of how to put up a gift at tractively is an important one. A few bits of holly tied with a scar let ribbon are always pretty and cheap, and a small bunch of flowers with a holder of tea-matting, bound with a wide band of ribbon at the top and bottom, to resemble a golf case,* hold ing also a diminutive golf stick or two, is dainty when fastened to a gift box with a ribbon band and bow. Red ribbon is a most useful article at Christmas time. It can supply the place of other colors on the dressing table, the library or den, and when ever a bit of red will give more of a holiday appearance to the ordinary things of life. It lends a cheerful look to even the plainest Christmas box. and makes a delightful glow amid evergreen wreathes. Decoration for n Doorway. A real holiday decoration for a doorway is made of any sort of ever green frame procurable, tied to wires or string and tacked in place at the corners. If holly or mistletoe ber ries are added, the effect is all the prettier. Across the top of the door way a chime of bells, made of paper covered inside and out with green or flowers, and having a yellow flower or small orange for a clapper, forms a real Christmas welcome, while Stars of Bethlehem might form a pretty decoration for a bank of ever green or growing plants before a fire place. Ivy makes a most attractive Christ mas decoration, arid is strong enough to act as very graceful festoons with out any aid of wire or string. There is, too, a vine whose leaves grow red and copper colored and remain upon th ® stem up till Christmas time, which is most lovely as an adornment for the home at Christmas tide. The Christinas Tree. A Christmas tree is a decoration always enjoyed by young and old alike, and in a city is easy to adorn with the usual bright tinsel finery; but in small towns and country places one has to manufacture decorations for the tree that is intended for the holidays and not for one night only. Bright-colored fruit is pretty hung amid the green branches, and Christ mas bells can be made of any flowers that happen to be at hand, or of bright berries, sewed upon a little pa per foundation. These, with bright little silk bags, containing presents, give a touch of color. Oddly enough, one of the best plants for house decoration at Christ mas time is the Chinest lantern, a graceful green plant hung over with a lantern-shaped fruit of a bright red and yellowish-red color, whose ex terior surface or pod is as thin as paper, and whose interior fruit is a glossy, bright-colored ball. Such a plant, rising from a plat of green, is perfectly lovely, and the more at tractive for its oddity. The Christman Bag, The Christmas bag is an innovation planned by one housekeeper. The breakfast table is to be decorated with a mirror ln the center, outlined as a star by holly sprigs, and with a slen der cut glass vase in the center hold ing red chrysanthemums. Long stemmed flowers also radiate from the central star with the blossoms toward the plates of those for whom the flow ers are intended. Every napkin lies beneath a Christmas card with a sprig of holly tied upon It with red ribbon, and to the back of every chair is tied a bag with a big red satin bow. The bags are of all sizes, and each is full of Individual gifts. One is an opera bag; another a shopping bag in black and gold; still another in brown leath er and gold nailheads; another a bag for collars and cuffs; another a gay laundry bag; one is suggestive of the scraps grandmother will put into it. and the other of books that a small girl will carry to school. All are as dainty and fine as careful workman ship and good materials can make them, and there will be fun emptying the contents of the various bags. A Basket Decoration. A basket decoration can be planned by having baskets for all sorts of purposes hung with ribbons to each chair and filled with Christmas pack ages. Christmas bells are very effective as decorations for the home, and can be made in any size of stiff paper, with the covering of foliage, flowers, leaves or berries. In the case of table gar lands, little gilt 'bells are purchased and hung amid the flowers and leaves, or little paper ones are covered with tinfoil and supplied with a berry for a clapper. They are cunning and add a touch of novelty to the decorations, while suggesting those Christmas chimes yhich “ring out across the snow.” HOW BANANAS GROW. What tUc Banana Would Say If It Coaid Talk. The Cuban children like bananas as well as Americans do. Their mothers bake green bananas in the oven, if you should prick the skin of a banana with a fork and bake it forty minutes, I think you would like them as well as the little Cubans. If bananas could talk, this is what they would say: I came from Cuba. While I was liv ing near the top of a tall tree with its great, broad leaves, I saw a banana farm planted near us In the. swampy woods. The trees were left .standing to shade the men from the hot sun while they cut away the brush. They measured the farm with long ropes six yards apart. This rope was stretched along the ground, and small shoots from banana trees were planted at every red tape. Next week the men came and cut down the forest trees. The shoots were left to grow for six months, then the grass and weeds were cut down with machetes. A ma chete has a long steel blade with a bone handle. Soon the sprouts were grown trees, and at the end of one year big bunches of bananas were cut from them. There were railroad tracks on this banana farm, and in two days all the great bunches of bananas were packed Into the cars and sent to the New York boat a waiting at the wharves. The man who owned the fsrm only got *0 rente for a large bunch end 1( cents for small ones. When the boat reached New York the beet bunches were eold for 16. There are as msny kinds of bsnsnss as there are varie ties of apples. If you should ssk any boy or girl which kind they like the beet, ten to one he or she would answer, "The Idgseet kind." SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SITSDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1004. ft Straight Talk From Rose On “Fake Whiskey Methods" We are not fn competition with “FAKE" PREPAID LIQUOR SCHEMES. We do not have to prepay express or offer premiums ln order to sell our product. Our goods are honestly worth the money asked, and we make the price so low, QUALITY CONSIDERED, that the con sumer can well afford to order from ua and pay express charges, whether he lives In Georgia or far distant states, like Maine or California. MOW THE PREPAID SCHEME IS WORKED When you order from Rose you DON’T PAY SOME OTHER CONSUMER’S EXPRESS CHARGES. The prepaid scheme is worked like this; Estimate cost of whiskey, add profit and also enough to cover any express charges, no matter how far away the consumer may be. For ex ample, a party in Georgia, whose express rate is 25 cents on a package, pays his part on a package going to a consumer ln California, whose rate is $1.75. Of course this additional cost must be made up ln some way. THE DEALERS IN “FAKE" LIQUORS KNOW MANY WAYS FOR MAKING UP THIS EXTRA COST. PURE WHISKEY ONLY IS MEDICINE BUYING LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL USE IS A SERIOUS BUBINEBS. THE BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD. Only pure whiskey is bene ficial as a medicine. The other kind poisons the tender lining and sensitive glands of the stomach BUY ONLY FROM RELIABLE, EXPERIENCED DISTILLE RS OF UNQUESTIONABLE INTEGRI TY. To find out If the dealer has this standing, pick out at random any business house or bank and write them, stamped envelope enclosed, or better, if possible, get a special Bradstreet or Dun report on the dealer’s standing, ask If he operates a distillery, and how he Is regarded in his own town. THAT’S THE KIND OF CUS TOMERS WE WANT—OUR COMPETITORS CAN HAVE THE OTHERS. COLD MEDAL ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION "ROSE, The Distiller, Atlanta. (R. M. ROSE CO.) Special Prices in Five-Gallon Kegs, or in Cases of One Dozen Quarts Each of One Brand. WRITE FOR COMPLETE PRICE LIST. i ISK. THE 'REVEJWE OFFICER.” JOHN KINKIN'. CHARI.K** ELIOT NOIITOI. It is well known that Mr. Charles Eliot Norton was the one American who Ruskln thought had any excuse for being. The famous art critic had some appreciation of Emerson, but Mr. Norton lie thought was really too fine to be an American. If Mr.-Norton were not a true American his head might have been turned by Ruskln's esti mate of him, but it apparently has not been, and was not even when he was a young man and Ruskln singled him out as an object of his friendship and re ward. It was known before Ruskin’s death that Mr. Norton was to be his literary executor, and It may be said at once that Mr. Ruskln could not Wavc chosen more wisely. If I mistake not, Mr. Norton was also the literary exe cutor of James Russell Lowell. Men of letters have suffered so severely at the hands of their literary executors as, for insfance, Thomas Carlyle, who chose Mr. Frouda to fill that delicate office for him, that when one Is chosen who is discreet as well as learned congratulations are due on all sides. For the last few months a large pro portion of the correspondence of Rusk in with Mr. Norton has been published in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, pages that have seen some of the most interesting material of this sort that has ever been printed. But not all of the letters have been given In the Atlantic; a number were reserved for the work which is Just published by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Cos., in two volutnes In his interesting preface to these volumes Mr; Norton tells us that It is “with reluctance and question” that he has brought himself to publish these letters. He had contemplated leaving them in such condition tl'at nerhans some of them might be printed after his death. BOOK REVIEWS —AND LITERARY NOTES The Most Popular College Songs. Selected from the songs of all the colleges. New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 31-36 West Fifteenth street. Price, 60 cents. All of the famous old songs of col lege days are here—both words and notes. Every college man will be glad that the collection has been published. Arbitration and the Ilngue Court. By Hon. John W. Foster, New York- Houghton, Mifflin & Cos. Price, (1 net. Possibly the best criticism that could be written of this book would be a repetition of its title and the name of Its author. Mr. Foster is regarded ss one of America’s leading diplomats. He Is president of the National Arbi tration Conference, and is thoroughly familiar with what has been done throughout the world to mitigate the horrors of war and bring about the settlement of International disputes by means of arbitration. The book ts We cater for order* for medicinal use. MORE OF OUR WHISKEY 18 PRESCRIBED BY PHYSICIANS IN GEORGIA THAN ALL OTHER BRANDB COMBINED. We want more of this business ln southern and other states. We be lieve that there Is room for one large bouse which makes a specialty of absolutely pure high grade liquors for medicinal use. THAT’S WHY WE ADVERTISE; hut if we have to misrepre sent and run a “FAKE" BUSINESS TO GET IT, WE DON’T WANT IT. WE HAVE EAITH IN HONEST METHODS IF WE COULD RECEIVE 5,000 ORDERS BY MISREPRESENTING, AN ARTICLE IN OUR ADVERTISEMENTS, WE WOULD NOT DO IT. The newspapers are flooded with glar ing advertisements, offering six, eight, ten and twelve-year-old whiskey at ridiculously low prices. We are not looking for this class of customers. We have been told that our advertising would not pay; that we must offer BIG INDUCE MENTS— ln plain words —misrepresent our goods in order to compete with “fake" dealers. WE HAVE THE FAITH TO TRY, ANYWAY, FOR IF WE SECURE A CUSTOMER HE WILL CONTINUE TO PATRONIZE OUR FIRM, WHILE THE “FAKE" DEALERS HAVE TO KEEP LOOKING FOR “NEW GAME." We do not compete with dealers who have no repute tion to lose. THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REMEMBER—37 years of experience and rep utation are behind our goods; also, every article guaranteed exactly as represented or it can be returned at our expense and money will be promptly refunded. In buying whiskey from "fake" prepaid liquor houses, every purchaser helps “Jones to pay the freight" on every bottle shipped. WE SHIP THE CONSUMER DIRECT—AND THERE’S THE DIFFERENCE SO FAR AS THE PREPAID SCHEME IS CONCERNED. OUR WHISKEY IS AS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF “FAKE" DEALERS AS IS OUR METHOD OF CONDUCTING OUR BUSINESS. one that will be appreciated by stu dents of political science. Songs from n Georgia Garden. By Robert Loveman. Philadelphia: J. B. Lipplncott Company. Mr. Loveman’s former volume, “Gates of Silence,” stamped him as a true poet. A quotation will serve to show the merit of his new books. Here are three verses from a literary char acterization: Byran, Shelley, Keats and Poe, Wrath and rapture, wit and woe: Dreamers, debauchees divine. Frantic with a frenzy fine. Hearts of fire, souls of snow, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Poe. Byron, Shelley, Keats and Poe, Oh, sweet pain the Poets know; Doomed and damned, and crowned and caught To bliss u|hjii the wings of thought; Brain and vein, and pulse aglow, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Poe, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Poe, Kingdoms crumble, empires go, j Truth the Jewels, wrought in rhyme, I Sparkles on the brow of Time; j Gods upon them peace bestow, | Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Poe. The Voice of Nature. By Rev. Charles Wagner, author of "The Simple Life." New York: J. S. Ogllvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose street. Price, 80 cents. It is refreshing in these days to find such a book. It is like the spicy breath from a pine-covered mountain, set to the music of murmuring waters and perfumed by the opening flowers. The author takes as subjects for discussion the most commonplace and every-day occurrences, and describes them with such clearness and minuteness that no one who reads can help saying: ”1 have seen Just those things and thought Just as he does." In this book Mr. Wagner has come even closer to the people than he did In "Simple Life.” He never preaches nor tacks a moral to what he says, but presents it in such a way that the deeper meanings seem to lie bared before the reader's eves. LITERARY NOTES. One of the amusing stories told In connection with the "Life and Corre spondence of John Duke, Lord Coler idge,” just published In this country by the Apple tons, Is of an Incident which occurred when the young Coler idge was sent to boarding school. Feel ing a little anxious over having such a little chap travel alone, his father l CORN. Rose's Old Reserve Stock. (Six Years Old.) Full qt., $1; 4 qts $3.75 Ballon, Jug 3.50 ROSE'S OLD GEORGIA. (Four Years Old.) Full qt., 80c; 4 qts $3.00 Gallon, Jug 2.70 ROSE’S BLUE RIDGE. (Two Years Old.) Full qt., 65c, 4 qts $2.50 Gallon, Jug 2-20 Cobb County (New). Gallon $2.00 Instructed him to telegraph the one word “yes" upon his safe arrival. The telegram was duly dispatched and re ceived, but Sir John was deeply Im mersed at that time In uffnirs of state, and had forgotten his parting Injunc tion. Therefore he was puzzled to receive a telegram which read simply: “Yes—John." He promptly wired back the very natural question: “Yes. what?" It was then that Lord Coleridge's early training revealed Itself, and his courtesy, came to the front. In an swer to hi* query, the mystified par ent received the simple answer: “Yes, sir.” Hall Caine was once asked during what hours he did his writing. "Hours?” replied the Manx writer, “what hours? Why, it would be im possible for me to write at any stated hours. When I am reaching a climax in my story there is neither time nor space for me. I simply write until I must sleep, or the climax is achieved." Pierre Loti and Vedel’s new French tianslatlon of “King Lear” is about to he presented in Paris. The piece will be produced without any cuts, and there will be twenty-six or twenty seven scenes, necessitating fifteen dif ferent sets of scenery. ’ Any French man who sits through a performance of such length will probably be con firmed in his view that Shakespeare la u barbarian. Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 10.—Miss Car oline Mays Brevard’s “History and Government of Florida" has Just been Issued by the American Book Com pany. It Is a small volume, but a cur sory examination convinces us that it is admirably adapted for the purposes for which It was prepared. It was written to supply the need in school work, of a brief, but accurate history of Florida, suited for practical use in the school room. The questions on each page and at the close of the chapters as grouped will be of great service to both teacher and pupil. It contains much valuable Informa tion in tabulated form for easy and quick reference. For Instance, you huve a condensed but full statement of the population of Florida by counties from 1830 to 100, all op one page. On another page you find a list of all the territorial and state Governors and the year each served In that capacity. Then follows a list of each couflty, giv ing date of the establishing of each. Such Information so arranged will be very useful for all. Indeed this is the first publication that we know of where a Floridian can get at one glance a list of all the men who have served the state In the capacity of chief executive. The work will prove a valuable ac quisition to the literature of the state, and with Its questions and full index will be a necessity for the school room. Miss Brevard's experience as teacher in the school room prompted the work, and she has been liberally as sisted by Prof. Bennett of the State Normal School. Miss Brevard Is an easy and graceful writer, and we predict for the “His tory and Government of Florida” a warm welcome with thd students and reading public. AT 0B E RAMMERGAuTn 1905. (Continued from Opposite Page.) on the production of "The School of the Cross," and the performances are to take place In the months of Juns, July, August and September. Like the Passion Play, the piece is a religious drama. In the life of David, portrayed in living pictures, is fore showed that of the Urester King 4<- B< cndrjg from him. The words are written by the Rev. Mr. Hei her, of Munich, and set to musto by Prof. Muller, Five hundnd performers, thirty-two singers, and RYE. ROSE'S CONSTITUTION?* •' (Very Fine Old Whiskey.) Full qt„ sl.so;4qts $5.50 Gallon, Jug 5.00 ROSE'S PERFECT. (A Smooth, Mellow Whiskey.) Full qt., $1.25; 4qts $4.50 Gallon, Jug 4.00 ROSE’S PURITY. (Absolutely Pure, for Medicinal Use.) Full qt., $1; 4 qts $3.75 Gallon, Jug 3.50 ROSE'S OLD CABINET, f Full qt .75 Gallon, Jug $2.70 forty musicians will be engaged in the production. The piece was first given in the Pas sion Theater In 1875 as a thank-offering in recognlzatlon of Ihe great service rendered by King Ludwig of Bavaria in presenting a magnificent calvary to commemorate the Passion Play of 1879- ■ 1871. The King had witnessed this per formance, and had been greatly im pressed by it. The play will begin at 1:80 p. m. each day, and, wdth an interval of three quarters of an hour, will end at 6 o’clock. The prices for seats, which range from 10 to 25 cents, will do lit tle more than meet the expenses of the new scenes and new dresses. THE CORNELL GLEE CLUB CONCERT JAN. 3 (Continued from Opposite Page.) will be an event of considerable inter est socially, as well as musically. The Cornell Alumni in Savannah, com posed of Mr. Gordon Saussy, Mr. Or monde B. Strong, Capt. W. R. Doorea, U. S. A., Mr. Horace B. Mack, Mr. G. A. Gregory. Mr. James Lynah, Mr. Paschal N. Strong, and Mr. Savage Lynah, will be in charge of the club during Its stay here. Mr. Saussy was a member of the Glee Club while a student at Cornell, and is chalrm'an of the Alumni Committee. The theater will be decorated In the Cornell col ors for the concert, and the Cornell yell will be given in salute by the club. PAID SI 0.000 BLIND FOR HALF INTEREST. Ktrke fit Shell* Thinks He Has a Prise Even at That Price. A pleasant surprise awaits Augustus Thomas, now on his way from Europe. Kirke La Shelle will furnish the sur prise, for he has paid to Daniel V. Ar thur SIO,OOO for a half interest In Mr. Thomas’ play, “The Education of Mr. Pipp,” said to be the highest price ever paid for an interest In an unpro duced drama. What most men would regard as an extra hazardous speculation Mr. La Shelle views ‘as a good bargain, for the reason that he has had exceptional success in the handling of Thomas pro ductions. Mr. Thomas, who comes to put on a comedy for Charles Frohman, will have a second piece to produce before he return to Purls. Mr. Arthur, after holding the rights to “The Education of Mr. Plpp” for more than a year, has now agreed with Mr. La Shelle to produce it within the next few weeks, and to enlist the author's service in the work. The new play is based upon the series of cartoons published under the same title some years ago by Charles Dkna Gibson. Several attempts were made to obtain the dramatic rights be fore Mr. Arthur succeeded and en gaged Augustus Thomas to write the Play. , —Kitty— "Harry proposed last even ing.” Nettle— " Yes?” Kitty—“And I was awfully mad with him too. He actually had the engagement ring in his pocket! Just think of the pre sumption! If I hadn't already said yes. arid if the ring hadn't been a daisy, 1 don't believe I'd accepted him.”—Boston Transcript. —Winston Churchill, the son of Lord "Handy,” has some of his father's physical characteristics, but generally takes after his beautiful mother, * formerly Miss Jerome of New York. The young man. who has been soldier and journllst, with not a little success In both professions, has s knack of ad vertising himself. He has a well-. 4- Veloped case of American hustle, and being one of the best looking man In England managers to keap himself In the limelight most of the Uina. 33