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I Talks With the j Morning and Evening as Dame Fashion Wills j — Daysey Mayme and Unknown Na SJ t he Her Folks d.'ar. By LILIAN LAUFERTY. P RETTY, red-haired Irish Nora had been the presiding deity of our kitchen tor three years, and I had always prided myself on the kindly, friendly spirit—entirely free from con descension—I had shown toward her. But I have recently learned a little maxim, to wit: When you feel pleased with yourself for the charming demo cratic spirit you are showing toward some one. you arc probably treating that individual in a sufficiently Lady riaru Vere DeYere, Haughty Beauty manner to make the word “sister" slink in shame right «>ut of the English lan guage. Nora, as an individual, introduced herself to me in this wise: “Do you think your mother would be willing to get another vegetable man and let Mr. Hobbs go?" “Why do you ask that. Nora?" Too Much the Gentleman. “Just as u favor to me. Miss. You see it's this way: Mr. Hobbs keeps a-comin’ to see ine: £ have asked him not agin and agin, and last evening he asked me to marry him. an’ I said no, so 1 think it would be best to get a new vegetable man." 1 was inclined to treat the matter facetiously; it was only an affair of the cook’s. “Do you think he will revenge himself by giving us inferior vegeta bles in future. Nora?" “Oh, no. Miss be is far too much the gentleman for that: ,You see that is where the trouble lies; he is too much the gentleman." "You see he owns his own vege table farm and has a high school edu cation and his folks stand well in the community. Now, how would it do for him to marry a servant girl? He does not belong to my world. Miss; 1 don’t belong to his class, and as I don’t hold with such marriages, and there ain't much happiness in them, ah’ he will probably go tryin* to make love to me. I just, thought maybe your mother would fix things so 1 won’t be tempted to do what would never come out well for any of us both." I considered Nora as a girl like my self. Suppose you consider her, too, little sisters, in your home nests. Think her over as a girl—a real girl—not merely as a cook, and a representative of the servant class. Chance To Rise. Suppose a man of a class that had more of education, more of refinement and more of social position than your own, suppose such a man asked you to marry him. Suppose he offered you a haven of refuge money, protection and freedom from work. Would you "hold with sut h a-marriage?" I think so. And though you . might consider r)rc* question of .romantic love, J doubt vejry much if you would ever stop to wfcigh the vast question of suitability. Most of us modest little feminine per sons think that, given a position, we can fill it—and so, given a chance to rise in the world, we CRAB! Nora’s idea is different and very sim ple once you grasp all its modest sub tlety. She is actually proud of being a servant; proud that she can earn an honest living by her own efforts; proud that out of her $6 a week she can save enough to send the little mother in Ireland 55 each month; proud that she could bring her younger sister over and fit Annie out so “she wouldn't look such a greenhorn that no one would be want ing her except to tind the extreme back door." In her own world Nora has many friends. She wprks hard and plays with gusto, and is quite sure that Cod called her to a certain place in the world, so why not fill that place to the best *of | her ability, instead of trying to leap iwo .ir three rings of a social ladder * to a place she might be entirely un- i able to fill when she got there? That is Nora’s philosophy. Ambition and Avarice. Now. don't think that I have no am- I bition at ail, Miss. I just would like 11" K" on slow and sure In this world j and when 1 am going to go anywhere make r.ure iirst that 1 ran stay put after 1 arrive.” "Now me brogue. I've almost losht thot, ye’ll be afther noticin’, please. Miss, dear." I laughed. Ii was fresh, but refresh ing. and Nora had been proving herself a girl who knew’ her place. "I vb tried other things besides being a servant. 1 could just live along on the dollar and a quarter a day I could make as a seamstress Working up in that to where I could support myself and do a little for my folks was tco slow, for what 1 seemed to work up most of all was an appetite. And 1 c< uld not live on what 1 could buy. Ho I took a place and tried to learn mani curing the while. I wasn’t tho kind for a shop-—not bright enougn in the way a manicure girl has to be. T seemed lost somehow, and here 1 am found; so here 1 stay in the class 1 belong. And maybe I'll get married, but I’ll marry a man who will be having just as much ad vantage havin' Nora Doyle for a wife as she is goin’ to get out of being his missis. "I don't hold with avariciousness either, Miss, and though I’m going to carry myself as far as I can I'm not for pullin’ for some one else or shovin’ on my own part." Do You Enjoy Life? "But you are young like me. Nora. Don’t you want to enjoy life? Don’t you ever want a good time?" "Indeed 1 do, Miss, and 1 have it. Please don't think I'm fresh to say it, but sometimes I think 1 have more fun than you and your friends. I can go to a dance in a white shirt waist and en joy it fine; if I haven’t got a fellow to take me, I can go about by mesilf and have a godd time without any one say ing a word against me. And oh, Miss, dear, if you only knew what fun it is to have no- worries about my own way, working all I can, and havin’ all the fun I have time for, and there’s no one I envy or who envies me so now what more should I be after wantin’?" Pretty red-haired Irish Nora—I think you have just missed the great secret after all. "A hair, perhaps, divides the false and the true." "And upon what. prithee, does your life depend?" Catherine, the chambermaid, who was ashamed of her work, and who dared not let her friends know the nature of ihad toil lest they cast her aside In scorn -Catherine had no clew’ to The Se.- cret: of that I am sure. And Nora, for all her wholesome self-respect, misses The Secret Man’s" in her calm acceptance of the probable verdict of the "Vegetable Man’s" world. There is a middle ground, little sisters, between “avarieiousness" and ambition—there is a fair chance for us all to w’in the respect of a world that may be socially above us. but is never above us if we can pronounce the "Open Sesame" of in telligent, earnest striving forward and upward. True Sense of Value. Somewhere among my sisters of toil there is a girl who does her work well. Who Is proud of the doing, and who has the fearless democracy that will enable her to rise to the place where the in terviewer who comes after me will talk to her und not report that chat as an "Interview With an Unknown.” ^ t UHN," said Mrs. Snitzer, "Mrs. Gifford has a new hat." ‘J “What of it?" asked John, innocent! 5. "John Snitzer! Mrs. Gifford is the last! All the other neighbors got spring hats long ago. As long as Mrs. Gif ford kept me company it was endura ble. But now she has deserted me ami joined the majority. 1 can't stand Enjoy- Maxwell House Blend Coffee Ash Your Grocer For It. The Favorite in Homes Where Quality Reigns. Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., Nashville, Houstoa, Jacksonville. it! I must have a new hat!" * "I am surprised at Mrs. Gifford!" growled Snitzer. "Site always seemed such a sensible Woman. She could re tain her status independent of her hats. She is a woman of intellect apri horse sense. It is all right for climbers to dress up In the latest styles. They have to. But Mrs! Gifford could wear her husband’s hat." “That is what I thought." said Mrs. Snitzer. “But she has weakened and now she wears a new hat." “Very well. I give up. Do likewise. However, I hope you will not buy a hat that will look like an explosion in a hothouse." “No." said Mrs. Snitzer. "I will not." "Nor like a scrambled rainbow.’’ "No." "Ah, I am much relieved! It's to be really c, hat, then?" "Yes." " \ hat to wear?" "Yes. kind of wear, you know." “Yes. I know. It will either conceal one eye and one ear or one eye and both cars or both eyes and one ear or both eyes and both ears, or it will be suspended on top of the head and not touch anything." "No. it will be a hat.- and it will look like a hat, and it will have just one little leather sticking up like a question mark, or rather it is a good deal like a sickle or a shepherd's crook. "The sickle idea is good. It signifies that the old man gets trimmed. The crook is good-, too. The bigger the crook on the hat the bigger the crook the old man has to he to bo able to pay for it. Yours will have to be more like a but ton book, my dear. 1 am outclassed in that line. "Oh. you have selected it already?" "Not exactly. I qan not decide be tween a yellow crook and a black one." "Take a black one, by all means. It sounds rather operatic. Yes. 1 am sure it should be a crook of the deepest dye. Kindly take this coat of mine, rhv dear, and hold it near the Eg.A. I want to see to part my hair, so I will use the coat for a mirror." By FRANCES L. GARSIDE. 1 YSANDKU JOHN APPLETON al ways l(K>ks on the bright side. Jt is a. good habit for a man of fam ily to cultivate, or else—but why di gress? Lysandor John lias the bright side habit in such perfect development that If he had preacher kin be could find pleasure in bragging that when the preacher kin preaches they have to put • hairs in the aisles. An Optimist. His wife is an enthusiastic member of the 1 laughters of the Revolution When she added D. A. R. receptions and D. A. R meetings and D A. R. excur sions to club, society, home missionary and church work, he ate his cold pota toes without complaint, remembering that he had read somewhere cold meals are better for the stomach than hot. He cultivated tl « j bright side habit so as siduously that he became a veritable Little Kay of Sunshine on a rainy day. He even ventured to inquire with some interest ore evening while eating his cold men' what was the good of the or der. He wanted to impress his wife with hie lack of resentment, but, alas, the question suggested skepticism, igno rance and doubt, and aroused her to spirited defense. A THEATER WRAP. This wrap is made up of white embroidered net. It is trimmed with a high collarette of black plaited net. The wrap is draped in a very pretty movement of pannier, and is finished by a high flounce of embroidered net, held up by . ion a long cord of passementerie. A MORNING OR TEA DRESS. For late morning lounging or an afternoon tea gown, o'* .clip of lemon aecordepn plaited sJk muslin, and a small coa*. o-f tussor .striped embcrald ltd by piping of the same green color. bore A DINNER GOWN. Persian blue charmeuse is this gown’s material. The 'nodice is made of a band of ivory satin. The decollete is fastened in front by a huge rose of red velvet. Tiie skirt is made in twb part?, a flat slip with a draped train, the second crossing in front and making a draped knot on the side at the knee. Do You Know Thai — Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. The "Woman’s Court,’’ inaugurated in Chicago, has proved a great suc cess. Convinced that there were many cases in which a woman would prove a better arbitrator with her own sex than a mere man, Judge Pinckney ap pointed Miss Mary Bartelme to take over all essentially feminine cases. She has proved most, successful in dealing with wayward girls, or those "who never had a chance.” No men are admitted to "Judge" Rartelme’s court when cases of this class are being dealt with, the probation offi cers. court bailiffs, clerk and official stenographers and reporters being all •women. Tan Teong. a Chir man, residing in Malay Straits, was recently fined $100, with the alternative of three weeks im prisonment. for selling bis adopted baby i : for $50 to buy a coffin in which t<» bury bis wife. In the stomach of a crocodile which j was shot by Mr. Wells on the Merguan estate. Madras, were found a python 13 feet long, two tobacco pipes, a number of pieces of whisky bottles and a pair j of trousers. DON’T SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN. J^FAR MISS FAIRFAX 1 am 16 yea Bummer I met a r senior whom I love dearly, and Last an six years my live learned to know that my love is reciprocated. My father was opposed to him, and insulted him. which he took like a man. and 1 was forbidden to speak to him. I had not spoken to him for about three weeks, an’d otic day I met him. Breaking my father’s command. 1 spoke to him. and found we love earl) other dearly. I speak to a number of other men. but 1 find that I couldn’t lovb any as I love him. TRUSTFUL. You are only 16 and your fath *i knows better than you know who F the best company for you. Dor* speak to ‘he man again - make no at tempt*.* to see him. and don’t deceive your father or disobey him again. IT CERTAINLY IS. JJKAR .MISS FAIRFAX: tin In riding in an office building i proper tiling for a j remove his hat win riding on th»* same » • elevator of * it not the gentleman to •n a lady is levator, even The average number in Spanish bull lights needs 5,000. while from bulls are sacrificed. >f horses killed every year ex- 1.000 to 1.300 though her? 1 It futnish statement A g*-m e is not acquainted with KTIQF FTTH. du for asking the question s opportunity for making I hQpc* many men will roa*. ■man alv removes in More newspapers are printed in the United States than in England, France ar.«i Germany combined. acquainted The first electric ri was built in Ireland, Giants Causeway. Jlway in the world from Bushmills t•» Shipping casualties of all natlonali lies last year totaled 108 vessels, with a torn age of 114,331. In London only per: f sixteen may pawn ons over the goods. age Gnat Britain owns 65 submarine na val vessels. France 58, the United Slates and Japan 12. D YOU ARE VERY FOOLISH. EAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am 18 and about three months ago met a young man who called on me frequently, and 1 though*, he cared for me. One evening he made an appointment but never came. On the follow ing day he sent word he had gone on a distant business trip for an indefinite stay. I found his so- called "trip” \va.s a falsehood. He did not .offer an apology, but said he would tell me some time later. He saw me home Foot evening Some Missing. and made another appointment, but when the time came lie sent a note saying he could not com ■ and offered a fairly good excuse. LJe made another appointment for a week later,’but he m v» .* came. In spite of all. I love him .-till. HEARTBROKEN. If you permit this man to make an other appointment with you, you will deserve the neglectful treatment you are receiving. TIME WILL AID YOU. ] A FA R MISS FA IR FA X Recently I returned to my home town, and while there most of my time was spent with the girl dearest to me. Some of the town boy.-, who ware envious of me. did their best to put me in a false light. They succeeded in doing so as far as her mother is concerned. The consequence is that 1 am not allowed to visit at her house any more?"' T. P. (\ This is unfortunate*, but so long as the girl remains true you have no cause for worry. Gonduet yourself'In such a way the mother will be con vinced she lias been unjust to >ou No plea ling, no argument, no inter vention of friends will help you as much as your own good conduct. A MATTER OF NO MOMENT. I \ I*! A : t MISS FAIRFAX I am 16 and ua- going with a boy tlie same ag(. The other day lit sent me a lotto:, and my lather would not giv< u io im 1 wrote and told the boy not to write in< any more letter* and I would state why the next time I saw him. I have not heard of him since. Do you think I hurt his feelings? E. F. (I. Your father was right. J am sure and the \oung man should not blame you for an obedience which is really both rare and commendable. You s;; you would explain when you saw him If he avoids you. it is evident In doesn’t t are for . oe explanation. Try to put him out of your mind. Bulk ins was very pious . very fond of the lu« lies am I vert bald ' on the hue k of his lit •ml. T he other on ening he was call Inn r on a gill, i and v, as giving her cennid era hie . church talk. 4 Ah, , Miss Mary, " he said 1 4 VVc are wu ten. i*d over very car eft; illy, h Jveti the hairs ' of our heads an* m ,i inhered.” "Yt , «, Mr. 1 Hell.hn shi a repli' (Ml, 4 ‘but .f the 1 luck number a of yours up- "What Is the go.xl of it?” she ex claimed. "Isn't It just Jike a man to ask such a foolish question? The good we do is boundless.” In her wrath she took a quick breath that snapped her corset string. “It in boundless.” she repeated, snapping an other. "I'll recall one noble deed out of ten hundred equally noble. "l^ast summer we got trace of a man who fought in the Revolutionary war, and who was buried in a little country grave-yard in Western Nebraska. Hi« poor grave was all sunk in and neg lected “ What They Did. Here she stopped to wipe away a sym pathetic tear. “Do you know what we did? We gave a fair that lasted three days and raised $38.64 for a wreath of tuberoses to be sent by express and laid on that poor, sunken, neglected grave! "Oh, it Is a beautiful thought, thai after all these weary years that poor dead man’s grave was remembered ar last! Think what such a tribute means to posterity! Look at its influence on patriotism! Think what if mean* to HIM!" Here ’ the picture of a wreath lying on that poor man’s grave after so many unflowered years caused such emotion that she broke more corset strings, and had to leave the room for repairs. The Omniscience of Love By BEATRICE FAIRFAX ■■ v Iovpt sees his sweetheart in ev erythin* he Inks at, Just as a man bitten by a mail iloic, sees rioRs In his meat, dogs in his ilrink, (log* all around him." George Denison Prentice. man and young women in bis office recently had this experl- A el) i "What.” be called to a young tr.an. "is the address of the firm to which you made that consignment this morning'”’ The young man looked up absently from his work and said dreamily, “Mad eline. Madeline Gray.” To plover put this question, “Have you finished the first bunch of letters?" She looked a little startled as she replied, "I didn’t know him. His name civil engineer." cause those who love see tho object of their love in all around them. The value of concentration is un known; tho necessity of putting one* thought on the nearest duty and 1 keep ing at a safe distance oil temptation To let the mind wander, has no place in the consciousness of those who are In love. Of Course Not! I A young girl writes to ask if she if* to be blamed because she thinks so much of her lover she can't keep her mind on her work. Bless her, no! The blame is not hers. It goes away back to the Kiri slcnosrapber later, the em- one who lnvenle<1 i„ v lng. On the shoulders of that great human itarian there rests the bla^ne of all the sweet folly that begins with the day man and woman discover they you wanted to know j when is Paul, and he is a arc j n j ove and ends when their dream b oat bumps hard on the shore of that Why Do They Day Dream? barren-looking island called Matrimony In both Instances the employer made Home comment about the world going mad, and he would be glad when this falling in love had gone out of fash ion. "Why," he complained to mo later, ' ff l give a young man a valuable blue print to study, 1 have to watch him like a hawk to keep Dim from covering it with drawings of a girl’s face, and 1 haven’4 a girl working for me who hears the first time she is addressed. .She is away off in some dream boat with *George or Bill or John." It is the omniscience of love. It is a sweet insanity that calls for renewed vigilance from those who are sane to keep the prosaic affairs of the world moving in their right grooves. Tills' employer grumbled, but he also laughed, and a grumble with a laugh underneath indicates a sympathy which is but poorly concealed. He knew whut it was from experience. I hope we all do. To have seen ones sweetheart all around one has a most broadening ef fect on the y\mpathies. It also makes us charitable when suffering the annoy ar.oc ihat this love madness in others causes. The girl in the kitchen fills the sugar howl with suit; the girl on the car going to v.vrk rides ten blocks beyond her des tination and is lute; the giri with no greater duties than presiding at pink tea tables seer only with the outer eyes the guests she is addressing. From the humblest walk to the highest everything Is awry, misplaced, lost or forgotten, Ik- The bump will come soon enough. It. will also be*hard enough. It will come soon enough and hard enough to suit the most unsympathetic and unroman- ttc And so I say to this iiilc girl. Go on dreaming that you see. your lover in all around you. It is your privilege and your right. T 1 Ail Atlanta Man "Fells It ATLANTA PROOF backache makes life a burden. Headaches, dizzy spells ;iii(i distressing uri- narv disorders are a stunt trial. Takt Suspect kidney Look about con- 1 warning: trouble, for a good kid- nev remedy Take an word for it. one who bus from t be sauu < Jet I> an "s Vtlanta man's Hearn from s found relief suffering. Kirinev Pills the same 1 bat M r. John son had. Atlanta testimony is !good proof. It’s local, and lean be verified. *aan3Wnn(Sl “ E very Picture Tells a Story. 7estimony of a Resident of Richardson Street William R. Johnson, carpen ter. 168 Richardson Street, At lanta. (ia.. says: "I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills on two oc casions and don't mind saying ihat they are the best kidney remedy in existence. My back oftpn ached and the kidney se cretions were too frequent and broke my rest at night. I no ticed a change for the better soon after using Doan’s Kidney Pills, and before long I was well.” - “T- •. y./.r ***•> "When Your Back is Lame—Remember the Name” ICttN 3 KIDNEY PILLS Sold by ell Pea.srj. Pi ice SO cents. fosler-Milbum Co, Buffalo, N. Y.. Proprietors Within The Law This Powerful Story of Adventure, Intrigue and Love Will Begin On This Page Next WEDNESDAY—READ IT. Most Gripping Story That Was Ever Written. Ingenious Plot Both Made Mistakes. HERE hac been many innocent mis takes made by parsons. Among them is oe told of a certain clergyman who left n notice iti his pulpit to bo road by the preacher who exchanged with him. The minister neglected to denote carefully a private postscript, an<l the people were astonished to hear the stranger end by saying: "You will please come to dine with me ut the parsonage after service ’’ Another amusing story is told of x minister. The reverend gentleman inclined to be absent-minded, and while walking one dr., met a young larly whose face seemed familiar to him. Taking her t<* be one of his parishion er*’ daughters, and not wishing to pass her without notice, he stopped forward and cordially shaking her hands, en tered into conversation. After com paring notes about the weather, he bad at lust: to confess: "I know your face quite well, but where have I seen you before?” “Oh, please, sir. I am your new parlor maid," was the reply.