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I When Your Back is Lame—Remember the Name' a ILTycV -grfcTl Sold by ell L*tai«n. Price 50 cents. Foster-MIibum Co.. Buffalo, ft Y„ Proprietors Talks With the Unknown Nora, the Cook By LILIAN LAUFERTY. P RETTY, red-haired Irish Nora had been the presiding: oeity of our kitchen for three years, and I had always prided mysolf on the kindly, friendly spirit—entirely free front con deacension—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 aomc one, you are probably treating that individual in u sufficiently Lady Ulara Vers DeVefe, Haughty Beauty manner to make the word “sister" slink in shame right out 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. Nora7 Too Much the Gentleman. "Just us a favor to me. Miss. You see it’s this way: Mr. Hobbs keeps a-comin’ to see me; l have asked him not agin and agin, and last evening he asked me to marry him. an - 1 said no, so l think it would be best to get a new vegetable man." I 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 he is far too much the gentleman for that! You see that is where the trouble lies; he is too much the gentleman." "Y oil see lie 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; I 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 ua both." I considered Nora as a girl like my self. Suppose you consider her. too, little sisters, iq your home nests. Think her over as a girl—a real girl—not merely as a took, 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 wprk. Would you "hold with such a marriage?" I think so. And though yim might consider the question of romantic love, J doubt very much If you would ever stop to weigh the vast question of suitability. Most of us nAxlest little feminine per sons think that, given a position, we can till it—and so, given a chance to rise in the world, we GRAB! Nora’s idea is different and very sim ple once you grasp all its modest sub tlety. She i.s 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 $5 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 works hard and plays with gusto, and is quite sure that God called tier to a certain place in the world, so why not fill that, place to' the best of | Her ability, instead of trying to leap two " r three rings of a social ladder I to a place she might be entirely un able to fill when she got there? That is Nora’s philosophy. Ambition and Avarice. Now. don t think that I have no am bition at all. Miss. I just would like to go on slow and sure in this world ami when 1 ant going to go anywhere make sure first that 1 can stay put after 1 arrive.’’ "Now me brogue. I’ve almost losht tliot, ye’ll be afther noticin', please. Miss, dear." 1 laughed. It was fresh, but refresh ing, and Nora had been proving herself a girl who knew her place. "i'\e tried other things besides being a servant. I could just live along on the dollar and a quarter a day 1 could make as a seamstress. Working up in that to where I could support myself and do a little for my folks was h <> slow , for what I seemed to work up most of all was an appetite. And I c.-uld not live on what 1 could buy. Bo I t > .k a place and tried to learn mani curing the while. I wasn't the kind for a shop —n >l bright enougn in the way a n.a:.jcun girl has to be. I seemed lost somehow, and here I am found; so here 1 stay in the class I belong. And maybe I’ll get married, but I’ll marry a man who will he having just as much ad vantage havin’ Nora Doyle for a wdfe 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 I do, Miss, and 1 have it. Please don't think I’m fresh to say it, but sometimes I think I 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 good 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 l can, and havin’ all the fun 1 have time for. and there's no one I envy or who envies me so now what more should 1 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 hat toil lest they cast her aside in SCjtfij-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 llie "Vegetable Alan’s" world. There is a middle ground, little sisters, between "avariciousness" and ambition—there is a fair chance for us all to win 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 and not report that chat as an "Interview With an Unknown." A Spring Song Morning and Evening as Dame Fashion Wills 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 u very pretty movement of pannier, and is finished by a high flounce of embroidered net, held up by a Ion a long cord of passementerie. A MORNING OR TEA DRESS. For late morning lounging or an afternoon tea gown, a clip of lenmn acccrdeon plaited silk muslin, and a pniall coal of tus^or striped emberald green, bordered by piping of the same color. A DINNER GOWN. Persian blue charmeuso is this gown's material The bodice i.s made of a band of ivofy satin. The decollete Ip fastened in front by a huge rose of red velvet. The ekirt is made in two parts, a flat slip with a draped train, the second crossing in front and making a draped knot on tlie side at the knee. t OHN," saiil Mrs Snitzer, “Mrs. ■ Gifford has a new hat." J "What of it?" asked John, nrmcently. “John Snitzer! Mrs. Gifford is the In .si 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 and joined the majority. I can’t stand Enjoy— Maxwell House Blend Coffee Ask Your Grocer For It. The Favorite in Homes Where Quality Reigns. Cbcek-Neal Coffee Co., Nashville, Houstoa. Jacksonville. it! I must have a new hat"' "I am surprised at Mrs. Gifford!" grow led Snitzer. “She always seemed such a sensible woman. She could re tain her status independent of her hats. She is a woman of intellect apd 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 Airs. 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! Jt's to be really a hat, then?” “Yes." "A hat to wear?" "Yes, to kind of wear, you know." "Yes, f know. It will either conceal one eye and one car or one eye and both ears 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 inan gets trimmed. The crook is good. too. The bigger the crook on the hat the bigger the crook the old man has to be to be able to pay for it. Yours will have to be more like a but ton hook, my dear. 1 am outclassed in that line. 4 It I “Not exactly. 1 can not decide be tween a yellow crook and a black one.” “Take a black one. by all means. It sounds rather operatic. Yes. I am sure it should be a crook of the deepest dye. Kindly take this coat of mine, mv dear, and hold it near the light I want to see to part my hair, so I will use the coat for a mirror." 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 Bart el me to take over all essentially feminine eases, i She has proved most successful in dealing with wayward girls, or those “who never had a chance." No men are admitted to “Judge’’ Bartelme’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 Chinaman, residing in Malay Straits, was recently fined $IC0, with the alternative of three weeks im prisonment. for selling his adopted baby 1 for $50 to buy a coffin in which to , bury his wife. In the stomach of a crocodile which I 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 i of trousers. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull fights every year ex ceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1.200 bulls are sacrificed. More newspapers arc printed in the United States than in England, France and Germany combined. The first electric railway in the world was built in Ireland, from Bushmills to Gjunts Causeway. Shipping casualties of all nationali ties last year totaled 108 vessels, with a tonnage of 114,231. In London only persons over the age of sixteen may pawn goods. Gnat Britain own? 65 submarine na val vessels, France 58, # the United Stales and Japan 12. DON’T SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN. | );:ak miss Fairfax I am ll» yoars of ago. Last summer 1 met a man six years my senior whom I have learned to love dearly, and know that my love Is reciprocated. My father was opposed to him. and insulted him, which he took like a man, and I was forbidden to speak to him. I had not spoken to him for about three weeks, and one day I met him. Breaking my father’s command, 1 spoke to him, and found we love each othei* dearly. I speak to a number of other men, but I line! that 1 cpuldn’t love any as I love him. TRUSTFUL. You are only 16 and your father knows better than you know who L the best company for you. Don i speak to the man again - make no at tempt* to see him. and don’t deceive your father or disobey him again. IT CERTAINLY IS. D ear .miss Fairfax: In riding in the elevator of an office building is it not the proper thing for a gentleman to remove his hat when a lady is riding on the same elevator, even though he is not acquainted with her V ET IQ U ETT E. Thank you for asking the qu< stion It furnishes opportunity for making ;■ statement I hope many men will read A gentleman always removes hi hat when riding in an elevator with a lady whether he is acquainted oj not. YOU ARE VERY FOOLISH. nKAR MISS FAIRFAX. am 18 and about three months ago met a young man who called on me frequently, a.ml 1 tnough* he cared for me. One evening he made an appointment but never came. On the follow ing day be sent word he had gone on a distant business trip for an Indefinite stay. 1 found his so- called “trip” was a falsehood. He did not offer an apology, but said he would toll me some lime later. He si; v, rue hone that evening Daysey Mayme and Her Folks A Loyal D. A. R. By FRANCES L. GARSIDE. 1 YSANDER JOHN APPLETON al ways looks t»n the bright side. It is a good habit for a man of fam ily to cultivate, or else but why di gress? Lysandor John has the bright side habit in such perfect development that 1 if he ha<l preacher kin he could find l pleasure in bragging that when the preacher kin preaches they have to put chairs in tho aisles. An Optimist. His wife is an enthusiastic member of the l aughters of the Revolution. When she added D. A. R. receptions and 1* A H meetings and D A. R. excur sions to club, society, i: one 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 the bright side habit so as siduously that he became a veritable .Little Ray of Sunshine on a rainy day. He even ventured to inquire with some interest one evening while eating his cold meat whgt was the good of 1Jh6 or der He wanted to impress his wife with his lack of resentment, but, alas, the question suggested skepticism, igno rance and doubt, and aroused her to spirited defense. and made another appointment, hut when the time came ho sent a note saying he could wot conn* and offered a i'airlv good excuse. He made another appointment for a wtek later, but nt never rnme. In spit.- of all. I love him still. HKARTBRf )KEN. 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. n EAR MIBB FAIRFAX: Recently 1 returned to my home town, and while there must of my time was spent with the girl dearest to me. Borne of the town boys, who were 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 l am not allowed to visit at her house any more. T. P. C. This is unfortunate, but so long as the girl remains true you have no cause for worry. Conduct yourself in such a \ ay the mother will be con- \voj*(| f(H* it vinced she has been unjust to you No pleading, no argument, no inter vention of friends will help you as much as jour own good conduct. A MATTER OF NO MOMENT. I ALAR MIBB FAIRFAX * ' I am 16 and was going with a boy the same age The other day he sent me a letter, and mv father would not. giv. it to m*.-. 1 wrote and told the hoy not to write me any more letters and I would state why the next time I saw him. 1 have not heard of him since. Do you think 1 hurt his feelings? E. F. G. Your father was right. 1 am sure and the \oung man should not blame you for an obedience which is really both rare and commendable. You said you woujd explain when you saw him. If he avoids you, it Is evident he dot sn’t care for the explanation. Try to put him out of your mind. Some Missing'. Bulkins was very pious, very ford of the ladies and very bald on tlie back of his head. The other evening he was calling on a girl, and was giving flier considerable church talk. “Ah. Miss Mary." he said, "we are watched over very carefully. Even the hairs <*f our heads are numbered." “Yts, Mr. Hullans.’’ she replied, “but some of the hack numbers of yours ap pear to be missing!'’ “What is the good of it?" she ex claimed. “Isn’t it just like a man to ask such a foolish question 0 The good we do is boundless " In her wrath she took a quick breath that snapped her corset string. “It is boundless," she repeated, snapping an other. “I’ll rerull one noble deed out of ten hundred equally noble. “loist 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. His 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 da\a ami raised $38 5-1 for a wreath c? tubei-nx-.s i.» l>“ ‘-eut by express -.J.d IaM on that poor, sunken, neglected grave! “Oh, it is a beautiful thought that after all these weary years that poor dead man’s grave was. remembered at last! Think what such a tribute means to posterity! Look at its influence on patriotism! Think what it means 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. "A lover sees his sweetheart in ev erything ho lok* at, just as a man bitten by u mad dog, sees dogs in his meat, dogs in his drink, dogs all around him.’ George Denison Prentice. man and young women in his office recently had this experi ence. “What." he called to a young man. “is the address of the firm to which you made that consignment tiffs morning?" The young man looked up absently from his work and said dreamily, "Mad eline, Madeline Grey.” To a girl stenographer later, the em plover put this question, “Have you finished the first bunch of letters?" She looked a little startled as she replied. . i print to study, I have to watch him ill. a hawk to keep him from covering it with drawings of a girl’s face, and I haven’t 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 «>r John." It is the omniscience of love. It Is a sweet insanity that calls for renewed vigilance from those who arc sane to keep the prosaic affairs of tlie world* moving in their right grooves. This employer grumbled, hut he also laughed, and a grumble with a laugh underneath indicates a sympathj which is but poorly concealed. He knew what it was from experience. I hope we all do. To have seen one’s sweetheart all around one lias a most broadening ef fect on the sympathies. It also makes us charitable when suffering the annoy ante that this love madness in others causes. Th** girl in the kitchen fills tlie sugar bowl with suit; tho girl on tho cur going to work rides ten blocks beyond her des tination and is lute; the girl with no greater duties than presiding at pink lea table® sees only with the outer eyes the guests sht: is addressing. From the humblest walk to the highest everything is awry, misplaced, lost or forgotten, be- uround you. your right. Both Made Mistakes. 'T'HFRF hue been many innocent niis- * takes made by parsons. Among them is oe told of a rertain clergyman who left a notice in his pulpit to be read b.v the preacher who exchanged with him. 'The minister neglected to denote carefully a private postscript, and the people were astonished to hear the stranger end by saying: “You will pleuse come to dine with me at the parsonage after service " Another amusing story is told of a minister. The reverend gentleman was inclined to be absent-minded, and while walking one nn t a young lady whose face seemed familiar to him. Taking her to be one of his parishion ers' daughters, and not wishing to pass her without notice, he stepped forward and cordially shaking her hands, en tered into conversation. After coin • paring notes about the weather, lie bail at last to confess: “f know your lace quite well, but where have I seen you before ?“ "Uli, please, sir. I am your new parios maid," was the reply. Backache makes life a | burden. Headaches, dizzy ; spells and dist ressing uri nary disorders arc a con stant trial. Take warning! Suspect kidney trouble. Look about for a good kid ney remedy. Atlanta man’s Learn from is found relief from the same suffering. (iei Duan’s Kidney Pills the same that Mr. John son had. Atlanta testimony is good proof. It’s local, and can be verified. Atlanta Man Tells It i ^ ^ ATLANTA PROOF cause those who love see the object of their love in all around them. The value of concentration is un known; the necessity of putting one’s thought on the nearest duty and- Leap ing at a safe distance all temptation to let the mind wander, has no place in tlie consciousness of those who are in love. Of Course Not! A young girl writes to ask if she is to be blamed because she thinks so much of her lover she can’t keep her mind on her work. Bless tier, no! The blame is not hers, it goes away buck to the one who invented loving. On tlie shoulders of that great human* itarian there rests the blame of all the sweet folly that begins with the day "I flidn t know you wanted to know , w j jeM a man and woman discover they him. His name is Raul, and he is in love, and ends when their dream civil engineer.” Why Do They Day Dream? In both instances the employer made route comment about the world going :nad, and he would be glad when this falling in love had gone out of fash ion. “Why,” he complained to me later. boat bumps hard on the shore of that barren-looking island called Matrimony. The bump will coma soon enough. It will also be hard enough. It will come soon enough and hard enough to suit the most unsympathetic and unroman- tie. And so l gay to tiffs litle girl. Go on if l give a young man a valuable blue j dr wanting that .sou see your lover in all It is your privilege and Take an 1 for one who testimony of a Resident oj Richardson Street William K. 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