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SUNDAY MORNING.
IN HAUNTED WAYS*
In haunted vavs I sot my feet.
When pales the wistful after-glow;
The ghostly presence is so sweet.
No lightest fear ray heart may know!
The sign of darksome boughs 1 hear- -
One spell the whispering leaves repeat;
One only voice, in al\ I hear,
One only face 1 meet!
In haunted ways I set my feet,
By day, by night—'where’er I range;
I he ghostly presence is so sweet,
IMy heart, forsooth, desires no change!
Clear rings the thrush’s matin call.
The wakening eyes of flowers I greet;
One only voice l hear in all,
One only face I meet!
In haunted ways l set my foot,
Where’er I go—where’er I go;
The mystic thralldom is complete;
And yet, it was not always so.
I only loved since yester-year—
Then first my heart did truly beat!
Since then ope only voice l hear.
One only fare l.roret!
—Edith Thomas, in Harper's Bazar.
| A Prescription
For Two.
Di;. GILMAN rapped briskly on
front door and drew the col
lnr of his fur coat higher to
shut out the sharp north
wind. Inside the house there was a
moment's confusion, and then Mrs.
Green, assisted by six litile Greens,
opened the door.
"V\ hy, doctor!'’ site cried in surprise.
The little Groins lined up and held
their mouths onen.
“The governess. I hear, is iii.” i)-,-.
Gilman announced the fact dcHborate
ly. He stepped into the hall, holding
his medicine case with one itand while
'vit!i tile other lie made an opening in
the line of little Greens.
.Mrs. Green closed the door and pro
tested. “The governess is bore, but
she isn’t ill. That is, no more'n usual.
She s always ailing,’’ iu a disparaging
voice. "Hid site send for you?"
The doctor ignored her question. He
threw off itis fur coat, picked up his
medicine ease again and asked calmly:
“Where is she?"
“In the sitting room," replied >lrs.
Green, iter arms akimbo. It.siamiy
six small voices cried, "in her..." and
the noisy troop made a dash for a
weary-looking figure lying on a couch
near tho tirepiace.
Doctor Gilman pahl no aitenii.ui to
the figure on the couch, lie blockt I
the entrance against Mrs. Green and
said fifntly: "Come, children. I’m here
to visit the sick only.”
The Greens, unused to obeying,
looked sulky.
“Hurry up.” came t!;•* doctor's strong,
cheerful voice, and as Uvy filed slowly
past him, casting longing glances be
hind, ho added: "Now don’t let me
see any of you hack here again until
my visit ends." His glance included
both mother and children.
Thru he closed the door, drew a chair
In front of the conch and sat down.
“I have come to proscribe for you.
Miss Eggy.” he said, looking for the
first time at the girl on the couch.
At his abrupt entrance Becky Gggy
had sat up. Kl.a leaned an olbtw
against the hack of tho couch and
rested her throbbing head on her hand.
She was perplexed at this masked
call from Dr. Gilman.
Life was always offering p. rul. xiEos
to Becky Eggy. The first had been
her queer litile nanr-. and la • la t and
greatest was what to do wish her
queer Utile self.
At least Becky Egg.v had though! she
must be a queer litile self because ev
erything she loved had been taken
away and so many things sli • did not
iove lied bc-n substituted, while she
stood by, powerless to shape her life,
fn file midst of such great perplexities
Dr. Gilman's visit was the Las;.
"I am tiu! iii. doctor." -hr .-aid. in" a
wondering tom .
Dr. Gilman smih-1 in ratably a!
tho fire and held his pain:.; up to the
warmth. Then he turned s tddruiy and
looked keenly at Becky Eggy. She
fidgeted n : votisly with h< £ dre -.s
with one transparent hand. What was
going to happen? Had. lie come to
tell her she must give in her little
school? Poor little Becky Eggy! What
would become of her then?
All her faults swept in order before
her; she could not make the big boys
mind. How was that possible when
she had not strength enough even to
shake the little ones? Her head ached
so badly she often hod to rest it on rise
desk; perhaps ho had heard how. only
a few days before, she was so tired
she had insisted iliar, sis times eight
are fifiy-fonr. Sitting there before Dr.
Gilman she felt painfully ignorant and
weak.
She looked at the doctor's hand lying
on his knee. Once, when she had been
so ii! that even site was obliged to ad
mit the fact, he had taken her head
between his hands and pressed the
ache out and she had slept.
As if in response to .he memory Ihe
doctor leaned forward and laid his
hand a moment, in his most profes
sional manner, on her hot forehead.
Then he settled back iu his chair and
said in a most unprofessional tone,
"Tired little Becky Eggy."
She rested her head against the high
back of the couch and hastily closed
her eyes, but not until the doctor, saw
the gathering tears. He scanned the
thin face and the shabby black dress
with a curious expression on Itis face.
Then he said abruptly, "Ko you are not
111?"
Becky shook her head. She could
not trust herself to speak after the
sympathy In the doctor's voice as he
said, "Tired little Becky Eggy."
But his voice was cot sympathetic
now. It was brusque. "People who
are well usually have a little! color in
their faces and plumpness in their
cheeks.”
"'lt’s walking so far i:i the snow and
void.’’ said Becky, faintly.
"Yon are not strong enough to walk.
You ought to ride.”
Becky attempted to smile. ‘ But the
‘ought’ doesn’t provide the horses."
"it does in this case,” still more ab
ruptly.
Becky's eyes opened widely now. itt
spite of the tears. Site made 1:0 reply,
and he scented to i Xpert mine. . "Your
school worries you, does it not? The
big hoys are a tiresome lot.”
Becky gasped. IS was the school
after ail. Abe dropped her eyes and a
pitiful expression came into her face.
Her voice fail-red.
•Til try to ii.) better, doc:cr. You
see. I'm not strong enough to punish
them. Perhapt if 1 tried harder 1
could manage all right -I'll try ”
There was a click • in her voice.
Dr. Gilman looked al the thin hands
moving nervously on tho black skirt,
and at Becky's strained, anxious face,
bhe did not look equal to the emer
gency of managing even the smallest
Greenl
The doctor's lips smile.!, hut not his
eyes. They filled as they looked into
Becky's, and her perplexity increased.
His abrupt tone vautshed, and Ills next
words were very gentle:
"Will you take my prescription?"
She glanced down at the medicine
chest on tho door and said submis
sively, "Are you going to give me a
tonic?”
Dr. Gilman laughed a litile and
pushed the medicine chest away with
His foot. "I brought that with me as
a bulwark against tho Greens."
liecky responded with a smile and
went on more cheerfully: "I am will
ing to take everything you advise, doc
tor.”
Dr. Gilman suddenly sat, up very
straight. "1 prescribe a home ” He
was looking at the lire now, but. lie saw
Becky’s lip quiver and her hands touch
her black dress, "and care and- love.”
“Xo, no,” she whispered, “you know,
perhaps you do not know they arc all
gone. There is no otic left except me."
Dr. Gilman looked at her with a
smile which made his ragged face
beautiful. "But It’s m.v home I'm pre
scribing, dear little Becky Eggy. and
my care, and my love. If they could
bring you happiness ” The doctor
did not finish the sentence, but looked
wistfully at Becky.
She gazed at: tho fire now. lis
warmth seemed to have settled around
her heart. She had felt so useless a
tew moments before, so shorn of
all womanly power and dignity. Now,
iter soul suddenly expanded iu the
knowledge of a satisfying love.
She looked up shyly, and said, hesi
tatingly, "If your home and your—
love—would bring me happing ;s would
I be the only one benefited by your pre
scription?'’
"Dear bine girl.” said Dr. Gilman.
He leant over and kissed her face, soft
in anew pad; glow. “It's useless to
confess lieu I’ve been prescribing for
myself nil tho while.”—N, w York
News.
&
**.Wootilng I'nr 'l’oskii lm*,
“Shooting at game, unless ii is liv
ing or running, is tin :;t nn- porisinaii
lik”, I know,” sai l the Globe Trotter
to bis companiota on the deck *f ;t
transatlantic ::earner, "and should
never fie indulged in, unless it be in
tho ease of a lion, a fk: a or some
other destructive qnat'.n’.pcfl. but f
must, admit that f once found nyself
enjoying it.,a::d the victim:: were '.kese
harmless little erealures known as
’possums, i had sp i'.t several weeks
in Australia shooting w: lor fowl, wild
turkeys, quail, snipe aal the other
game birds winch abound titer- dmT'.g
the rainy season, am! had even In
dulged in the somewhat drg • ro• t:;
sport of chasing the nimbi-' kangaroo,
when my host suggorted Hint we go
‘mooning’ for ’possums. I didn't
l:;;i w what, that meant, but I found
that it was simple enough when ha
explained it. and tin, night wo tried
it. Waiting until the moon was hi;;!:
up ir. the starry firmament we catered
the forest: of stately eucalyptus trees,
and, moving stealthily along with our
eyes fixed on the lofty bran-'i-s,
scanned them closely for the little
black spots which were 'possums [
curled up for all the world like slurp,
ins kitlens. A si *a-}y, careful aim, a ,
Hash from the muzzle of the gun. a
crash like a p-al of thunder rciullng ]
the stillness of th- night, the and lil
s'iund of a soft object striking the
ground after " fall fron a great
height, and I bad enjoyed ray first, ex
perience at ’mooning* ’possums. I say
I enjoyed it, for. in spite of the unfair- i
ness of ir, i:> very weirdac s;i fascin
ated lue, and we kept it up for hours j
in the brilliant moonlight that made j
the forest almost as bright as day."— t
New York Tribune. !i >
Tim ir-.yuoln of tu, Ctnturj.
The radical evolution in business
methods, the long strides in .civiliza- i
tion, the multiplication of inventions 1
and discoveries, along all lints, which i
the past h.lf century has witnessed. I
necessitate an infinitely broader and
better training for men and women in
every walk of life than was requisite
twenty- -.<• or even ten years ago. i'he
watchword of this country is "Excel
sior.”
Each successive year, fer example, in !
order that Die best results may be
obtained, demands a higher standard
of education than before for the youth
who would become a merchant. A
knowledge of "the three It's,” unless
supplemented by unusual shrewdness
and foresight, no longer suffices to en
able a man to conduct a business suc
cessfully.—Orison Sv.-ett Harden, in
Success ,_.i _
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
Interesting Agricultural Lore,
Facta Gathered From History, Ancient anti Modern.
dr, . kroh', t.Ewismxti, v\.
Dr. Benjamin Knsli. Surgeon-General
of the American Army in the War of
the Revolution, has left the siaioment
that the principal vegetables of his
time were cabbage and turnips.
va , '
Dr. Rush also says Dm; the first real
gardens in America were made by the
Hessian prisoners.
* v *
In IfiDOthc city of Philadelphia main
tained a. “town bull."
* * ,
Sixty years age the tomato was cul
tivated us an oruamcutal plan;, und-'
the name of “love apple.'’ The fruit
was then thought to be poisonous.
|* ' *
it is said that timothy grass seed was
j first, collected something over 100 years
ago in a swamp in New Hampshire.
From that first seed this valuable plant
has been spread all over the oouutry.
w * *
The first Seckol pear tree was discov
ered in a thicket near Philadelphia.
The first Jeffries apple tree grew in a
clearing near West Chester, l’a.
* * *
The first Concord grapevine was
j discovered near Concord, X. H. The
i Bartlett and Kieffor pears were both
: discovered near Philadelphia. The
j most of our valuable fruits are
“chance” products and gifts of nature.
, * a
Dr. Benjamin Franklin was promi
nent: in his efforts to induce the l'arm
! era of his time to use “land plaster”-
| ground gypsum.
* * *
At the time of the Revolution all
farm laborers wore leathern aprons,
i similar to those now worn by biaek
: smiths.
. . c
The seed of Iho first rice grown in
America came from Madagascar. It
was a “chance” importation.
* * *
Among the farmers of Cuba and
Pono Itieo the wooden plow formed of
! a natural crooked stick found in the
| woods is still in common use.
$ * <■
The ox yoke used all around the Med
iterranean Sen and in Spanish America
consists of a straight stick of wood
tied to the horns or foreheads of the
cattle. Bows are not used in this yoke
at all.
V S’
i Tobacco, Die deadly nightshade. Die
tomato, the potato, tile eggplant, the
| cayenne or red pepper, the deadly
| Jamestown weed (datura) anil the Car
. olina nettle all belong to the same
family. It: is a strange association of
the noxious and tho wholesome.
* * *
A black walnut lias been discovered
in Pennsylvania which ha:; the shell of
; a hickory nut.
■-> # :|>
Rico is the cereal most in use by Die
I human family. It is not: so nutritions
! as wheal, by which ii is being dis
' placed, for Du; use of wheat flour is
ex lending into the vice eating coun
tries.
* , s
In Japan the burdock is considered
a valuable vegetable. The pigweed.
Die purslane, the pokeweed, docks and
other plants we call weeds are eaten
by some people.
* *
The peach derived its name from
; Persia, where it was first cultivated,
i The apricot Is named from Armen’a.
, The cherry from Ccrrtisw:, a city in
Western Asia, where the Romans
found it in one of their campaigns.
* * *
It is not known who Introduced the
potato into Europe from America, nor
is it known that any tribe of Indians
cultivated this tuber. The whole ;; .ni
ter of its introduction is a mystery.
* ❖ * -
Tiir- turkey is so called because it
was, supposed to have conic from the
Turks.
* *
Indian corn was once called Turkey
corn, under the belief that it came
from the Turks. In Europe it is now
known by its Indian name, maize. In
Spanish America it is known by no
other name.
* 3 *■
In Porto Rico in IS9S, with 1,000,000
population, there was not a single
power mill for grinding grain. The
work was all dono in hand mills.
V * ?•
Coffee was introduced from Arabia
and tea from China. Sugar came
from the East Indies. Four hundred
years ago our ancestors used neither
lea, coffee nor sugar.
* ,
Before the introduction of tea and
coffee our ancestors used various kinds
of beer, and their only substitute for
sugar- was honey.*
* n
Buckwheat was introduced into Eu
rope from Thibet about 100 years ago.
Then we may suppose, they first hud
buckwheat cakes and honey.
.. . *
The ancient civilizations knew noth
ing of soap, an essential to our times.
Soap was discovered by the Romans
in use among Die people they called
"the barbarous Germans.” When the
Germans overthrew Rome they took
soap along to clean up-their persons
and the houses they occupied.
* * 9
Five hundred thousand cubic feet of
cedar wood is used each year by the
lead pencil manufacturers of the
United States. ....
The finest cantaloupes are said to
be grown in Persia.
, *• -■?
Our beans and pumpkins are natives
nf America, and were cnnltivatod by
1 Die Indians.
* * *
Corks arc made from Die bark of an
i oak tree which grows along the Span
|Ml shores of Die Mediterranean. The
: Halted States consumes yearly ■.-"f.fiaO,-
i 1 oil worth of this baric.
* -a
lit IT Id CSOO!) was paid by I lie county
rut humic-: of Pennsylvania for sqttir
-1 tel scalps, which indicates (bat some
j S-ld,ooo of these mischievous animals
1 were killed that year iu :hc State.
* * *
j Egypt furnished "P.OOO.OfiO bushels of
' grain to Rome annually.
*s
In Egypt incidfafors, much of 1 lie
pattern as the: e now In use, were
used -1000 years ego.
* >:■ *
The ancient K vypliar.s lirsl cured
liny, lirsl pin-Herd rotation of crops
aud slorcd grain in granaries.
* * ,
Ancient paintings LOO years old
■ how plows, harrows and laud rollers
in use in Egypt.
* * *
Job had 500 yoke of oxen for plow
ing. ,
& * *
There was enough "old corn" stored
in granaries in Canaan to feed the
whole body of invading Israelites for a
year. They numbered 001,”50 llgiii
ing men, their wives, children and
camp followers. New York Tribune.
Tho Policeman art a *‘lSo;;y tUnn.**
One has only to sit for half an Hour
among the mothers and children in tlie
! walks of Central Park to realize limy
constantly policemen arc invoked or
conjured up as aids to family disci*,
pliue. "Look nut, tho cop'll gel you,"
"Here comes Die cop," are the most
Trequeut notes of admonition or rc-
KDcif ;o refractory boys and girls’. 1C
is-so common Unit the children pay
hardly more aiienUon than they would
in tlie old "Hush, huso, hush; hero
comes the bogey man.” A German
girl, perhaps twelve years old, sat in
the park the other day and watched
her two small red-haired brothers uu
lavflllijr throwing handfuls of grass
in the swans in the lake. No avenger
of the majesty of tin; law was iu
sight, but the girl so: mrd in fear for
k r brothers’ liberty. “Come back
'aero by me," she called; “see, do police
man''’ But the toddling Teutons
. itrtied around on their sturdy legs, saw
hat the coast, we a really clenr, hurled
.-mne more green stuff to the big birds,
and, adopting Die dialect-of another
nationality, mimicked her, saying:
“Cheese it, do cop.”
"lii, doro,” she .veiled, a riinuie later,
"here comes a, truly cup.” Ii was true.
Siic had not b" a crying "wolf.’’ As
Die liluccoat: strolieil down tin; path,
Die boys scampered before him, and
'sat down very dose to their sister.
"You funny boys," she said, “I didn't
• are about do grass and do gooses. I
niy vauti’d you to coma vile I gaffs
you ills candy.”—New York Post.
A 3iyfcT.v of riant Life.
' In a recent article on plant life r.
--• i" 111 1 si says Dull one of the most mar
vi Jolts and mysterious phcnnntcnft
about it is Dio power of one plant to |
produce medicinal secretions from Dio '
ar.ii anil the air, end of another, ;
i right by its side, to produce polsonou* j
j ••••—rclious. The clow i students of
nature stand ntlerly I'nml'onndcd be
fore the fact that of several plants J
growing in the same soil, suppi: <1 with
im? water, stimiui:i> I with Die sane j
■lit’ performing the functions of life i
: iaider the same condil ium one will
'!. c limn food for ids natural wants;
’ .mother, medicine for his ailments:
j a no! her, a perfume to delight him; an
o'.her, a fetid odor to disgust him, auic ;
a nothin',, a juice flint will kill him |
i’gfiable biology is couf run bail witft
this out; of ihe most perplexing qr.es
■ iocs of Die universe, and one (hat hat
never boon explained.
J-)vcr*M '* Idiuxcrr.”
"I never heard of a ’lunger’ until 1
•vent to Denier to the re: cat Hiber
nian convention,” said Edward Ryan, j
who was a delegate in the great gailicr
iag of Irisii-Ainericans there. “Soon i
after 1 arrived in Denver I heard per- j
suns using Die term ‘lunger.’ anil did
not know what it. meant. ’Pretty tine
city you have hi re,’ 1 remarked to a :
policemen ala street corner. ’Wall, Ii
guess it: would be a purtv good place ;
to make a livin’ in,’ he replied, ’if it
wasn't for the lungers.' ‘What is a '
lunger, anyhow?’ t asked. ’Why, a
lunger, as we call him,’ he replied, ‘is a
guy that comes out to Denver because
ids lungs are bad. Thousands of them
i rime here from all parts, and they are
willing to work for one-fourth a man’s j
.-.ages, so as to slay here.' These lung- i
rrs make wages very law.' Philadel- ;
: 'i;ia Record.
Dot* Kiperiencu Teach?
Experience teaches, they say, yet !
who Lathis by U! Death takes a dear
one, but arc we kinder to those stiil
living, who yet may have to go before
we meet again?—New York Nows.
A New (in>.
A Cleveland scientist claims to have
discovered a process whereby he can
extract a clu-mical gas from ordinary
air which will he both cheap and use
ful as a fuel
WOMAN’S ©
@ REALM.
NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMAN.
Tlie Couiplicale-ii I*ut lCouiunerative
ni*s of Koiiit'-lUaUinu'.
A now occupation has been added to
an already extensive list of what is
politely termed woman's work. It is
tlie complicated but remunerative busi
ness of home-making. None of the
seutiuy.’Htal. domestic train your chil
dren mid the hired girl as they should
go business, but a combination of the
talents of interior decorator, art col
lector, anil past mistress in the refine
ments of housekeeping. Tho idea, like
inventions, began with the mother of
necessity. A woman who was known
among her friends as having "such a
knack" iu arranging her little home
was forced by ill-fortune to give it up.
She lived, not in a shoe, but in a fiat
of minute dimensions, aud it was the
most ‘fascinating spot i:i the big. over
powering city which must hen; lie
nameless. Whoever saw the flat was
enraptured with it. Bill its occupant
bad to give it up and store or soil all
the treasures, and dissipate the evi
dences of taste which made it home iu
the best sense of that abused word.
Friends said. "Let the place fur
nished,” but one day somebody came
along and said, "Soil it out to me. I'll
pay you what you ask and lake the
lease. Everything here suits me down
to the ground!" This transaction gave
birth to the "idea." Another individual,
who wanted to set up a cosoy little
apartment, hearing of this clever labor
saving scheme, also engaged the
woman to seek out. another fiat and to
furnish it precisely "to suit herself.”
No suggestions were offered, but a suit
able sum fixed on, with Die request
that the place might be ready for the
new owner’s occupancy on such and
such a date. From this tiny commis
sion others followed, and now tills
liomc-makcr declares she is in her ele
ment, and only one part: of her busi
ness distresses her. For, as soon as tlie
borne is exactly as she wants it, with
all the dainty touches laid on to her
satisfaction, she must abandon it, and
her client steps in and reaps ail the
benefits. Surely an original means of
earning a livelihood.—Boston Herald.
Selr-Defiiiise For Women.
A Fcnnsylvauia girl of nineteen re
cently gave a tramp a lesson which Is
likely to last him for some time. Ha
attempted to rob her while she was en
joying a rest by tho roadside after a
ride on her wheel, and sin; lold him
lo depart. II” treated the proposal
with scorn and started to seize her,
when she caught bis liaml and gave
it a twist that enlightened him. She
then delivered a blow on the point: of
the cilia which landed him on the
grass, and he was only too glad to get
away.
It is op. unfortunate.! fact that, most
country places turn n and as safe for
lone women aw they were a g; iteration
ago, and for many f those it is some
thing of .; problem to know what to Cos
about if.
This particular girl hail taken lessens
l.i boxing fn.: l her brother, and stud
ied the science of self-defense. Luch
knowledge is a fairly good substitute
Hr strength when cue is obliged to
cater ialo a physical argument with
an antagonist who has only brute force
and no brains behind if. Of eenrse,
the experience of tills girl might have
had a very different termination had
rbe encountered a rulimi with both
science and strength, but -r.s It was
olio gave her assailant the surprise of
iii.; life, and undoubtedly saved herself
from an attack which would have been
intensely disagreeable.
It is not. likely that any woman will
rashly take such risks, but it might lie
r, good thing if more of then were pro
part'd lo defend themselves. Ii such
cases the surprise is half the battle.
Biray scoundrels do not expect a
woman to understand boxing, thong?
they are not wholly unprepared to see
her pull out a pis. 01. Cne woman en
gaged in philanthropic work, which
took her into some dangerous places,
carried a paper of red popper iu her
pocket, and on one occasion filing It in
iii' face of an assailant. Before lie
could recover from his surprise she
had escaped.—Now York News.
Tlin Average Mother in ■ iisulfistli.
Y/hilo it is a common theory that, "o
matter what the father and husband
may be. the mother and wife must, rise
superior to her environments, the faet
remains that the home is as much the
man’s as Die woman's, aud lie is re
lieved of stone of his responsibilities
because society assigns ii, to her as
her special province. No man lias a
right to shirk itis duly to. his ehiidren
because, perchance, lie has a good wife
anil they have a good mother. The
wife and mother rules by love, if she
rule at all; the father and husband
may rule by authority as well as love.
The wife and mother who finds that
her love is losing i:s influent' • over her
ehiidren requires, but la too often de
nied, Die disciplinary authority of the
husband and father. The wrecks of
children may be traced oftener to the
failure of tho husband to come to the
assistance of the wife than to any fault
of the latter.
Too much, we believe, is said of the
shortcomings of women in these days.
Those mothers and wives who are neg
lectful of their homes constitute the
minority. The average American
mother is serious, unselfish and loving.
If this were not the case we should not
have, as we have to-day, a higher aver
age of young manhood than any other
country on earth. The assumption
that wives and mrthers are mainly to
blame for the waywardness of children
lis neither reasonable nor fair. It la
| due usually to a few exceptional cases
| which, because of their exceptional
! character, deeply Impress the observ
j or. Di general woman’s devotion and
! love do not change ns the child grows
olil, sav.” for the better.—Chicago In.
tcr-OccKn.
Ciiitdicu amt KiH*in s .
Children should lie carefully Instruct
ed and have it early impressed upon
their minds to give and receive kisses
only to and from those they lovo and
wlio love them. Even then some re
straint is obligatory upon adults who
are not perfectly well anil iu the ease
of a man who uses tobacco.
Children and adults are alike subject
to contagious and infectious diseases
from kissing, and this possibility
should In* a caution against the fashion
of promiscuous kissing. Several cases
of smallpox resulted from this iuilis-
I't'.miwde kissing of a lady who was
thought lo lie only slightly ailing.
Do not i-xgrass your sympathy for
i!::> sick by kissing. Parents should
never allow their children to be kissed
by si'’angers, and children should lie
prohibited from kissing each other.
Inrluen::a or the epidemic form of
catarrhal fever is undoubtedly trans
i:”'rcil from one child to another often.
•Dinas by the contact of kissing. Scar
let fever, measles, cliickenpox, whoop
ing eougli, -mumps and diphtheria aro
often eo’.umv.nh’sttod in this way.
Squares and Mlitmttiuls.
While iliscs and medallions will un
dottbtcdly hold good, they will find
strong rival;.; in tHo newer squares and
diamond:--. These will be in cloth,
heavy net and velvet, adorned with
braid, embroidery, appliques or stitch
ing. They are set. on tight together or
in designs in which only the corners
meet. .f
A lovely new dress of green c-lotli'
shows them in white elotli, edged In
black cross stitch scrolls aud a dainty
sprinkling of French dots.
One in mode more on suit lines, has a
row of velvet diamonds two shades
deeper. Olie of those serves to catch 1
each pleat of the skirt at about the
knees.
They may figure very well on fragile
costumes. As seen iu a frame of ap
plique they are decidedly graceful.
Simulated squares and diamonds will
lie sect), too. A collar of velvet is
marked off in these shapes by means
of strapping or braid.
Chains of hea Shells.
Ear Western women have adopted a:
new fashion the wearing of shell
necklaces and chains. The shells are
tiny and iridi .-cent, and come from the
Eolith Pea islands. The Kan Francisco
jewelers, who are directly responsible
for the fad, say that the delicately
formed shells suitable for my lady’s
neck aro extremely rare, and that na
tives grovel iu the sands for days to
obtain a small handful. In California!
aud the arid States the shell chains
have become popular instantly, even
without the approval i.f New York
fashionables, and they may reach here
by autumn.—New York Press.
U.S.J
A Dainty Stock.
A certain pretty girl has made for
herself one of Die prettiest stock col
lars! And it is one which any girl who
is at ail clever with her needle can
copy. The material used was white
liberty satin. Around the top were
t wo rows of French dots in black, then:
a row of baby ribbon, of a dainty pink,
edged with black. Just below these
are two lucre rows of dots, then an-:
other double row of dots, making three
double rows of dots and two of ribbon.
Tlie decoration comes a little below
Die middle of the stock. It is both
dressy,, becoming and dainty.
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Semi-blind embroideries have super
seded all other kinds in favor.
Filet lace, both black and white, Is
the popular fancy of the hour.
Stock collar.; with a decided clown-*
ward point in front arc very popular, j
\ cil beads of Jet sewed on Has folds
of black sal in make very effective gar.
uiturc.
Henry Vlt. and Mary Tudor are two
of the coming shapes iu cool weather
headgear.
A line of braid an inch wide at each
scam of the skirl is quite fashionable
at present.
White cotton fringe is the extremely
novel yd, chic trimming used on’ the
side of a beige linen blouse.
Taffeta costumes are favorites for
autumn and arc made comfortable by
a cloth or knitted waistcoat.
Hats of soft white felt trimmed in
wings and scarfs; iu black and white
arc: to be the* popular autumn head
gear. j
Garlands of small artificial flowers
held together with bebe velvet ribbon
effectiveiy trim mousseline evening
gowns.
A •
The double t hi effect—that is two
veils in one—o:ie to wear over the face
cud one over Die !;a:, has only had very
moderate success.
The effect o." slenderness that is
rather counteracted by the universal
basque is given to the autumn jackets
by strapping the scams in the back
with bias bands of the material.
The exceedingly loose coats, a sort of
combination of cloak and coat, that
were considered too extreme In the
spring are now iu high favor, since
Milady has become more accustomed
to them. .. -,.„m j
OCTOBER 19