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SUNDAY MORNING.
MY MOTHER.
3*Bo* TH* CHBIBTTAS 4BVOCAT*
Che gave th<! nest years of her life
With joy for me,-
Aral robbed herself, with loving heart
fib* <■*>
J’w ate with willing hands she toiled
EEjWw day to dy.
iWEto* *he prayed when headstrong joidh
Would have it* way.
j;Bwr s<nUe t ms, my cradle once,
Ij' Are treary now;
' And time h.i* set the seal of care
gggjfeon her brow. >
'And. though no other eyes than mine
;j Y Their lie ailing trace,
i I read my history in the lines
On her dear face.
■ Hi* gems, who showers gil ts
•; As- himng sands,
SsUpSomit her days as pearls that fall
S ; From His kind hands.
MAKING
GOOD.
YHT HE Universal Tracing Coru
' puny wasn't so much u trad-
us it was uni
ilH universality
afe:'itiWfeHy' , T,n its sumptuously litlio
letter head. Alters, the Pres I
•wrif, would have preferred to have the
Mphc Utter-Stellar Trading Company.
as Alters sometimes sadly ad-
IgßftttMl to himself, the present age is
,fat bi-himl the times,
ir-Abcis was a nervous little red-lleaded
s-Ltsp. Tie believed tpipUcttly in Alters.
Jriif religion was that the World owed
bitu ft living.
Any one entering the office of the
Ti;iv*r*<tf> Trading Company lmmedl
:: fiteiy found himself wedged between
the office door and a frosted glass par
• tifk-r. This partition had little slits or
5 it. ii la ladled respectively
1 VlAtiisiM” "Cables and Telegrams,"
‘•Cashier" and -{‘Bookkeeper." This was
the public was allowed to eon
template. (>u tlie other side of the
"■'#** was the letter clerk, the stenog
rapher. the telegram and cable cleric,
the cashier and the bookkeeper, His
name was JTlddlofbri: and he
•was a melancholy younf man. Mid
dleton’s work was to kt-pp one eye on
the four sms lu the glass, and the
other eye on Alters. This latter eye
was so busily employed that it had ne
fptired a slight east.
The word melancholy used above us
Meseriblng Middleton Is used reserved
ly, and merely serves the purpose of
expressing a condition of thought.
Abers bad the blues. If such an ex
pression may be used warding u red
headed man. Business as bud. All
that lie had was his original capital of
$15,000, and now this was threatened.
If he only had $15,000 more! This
sum would mean an Income of $l5OO a
year. Alters often thought that with
this Income a niew could buy a sub
rnban place somewhere, run for
Mayor, marry a rich widow, and there
you are! His preseut game wus to
get that other $15,000.
Ho found the game a stiff one, par
tlcularly as he had to play it alone.
He would have preferred a game more
jrfmilar to golf, for instance, where in
exasperating moments there is always
good heavy driving iron and u
friend's head handy. A solitary game
Mth losing odds would give even n
hopeful political statistician the blues.
It was In this stale of mind that Abers
decided to take in an uptown variety
theatre. As rule, theatres were
against his principles, lie lmd often
Impressed upon Middleton the fact that
tie had never been to the theatre In
Ills life.
Abers took great Interest In the show.
He laughed uproariously. There was
only one laugh In the house more ro
bust. than his, and Alters noted with
pride that that was a box laugh. Ho
glanced up at the box with a smile, hut
the smile slowly jellied on his face.
For In the box, basking in the smiles
of Beauty, was Middleton, the $lO
clerk-Middleton the melancholy, who
was very evidently supremely pleased
jtygt he was alive.
Abers shivered. “Say, now," he re
marked, "I’ll bet she wouldn't look at
anything less than wine, either."
The show immediately palled upon
him und he went hack to the office.
After an examination of the hooks the
Wues deserted him and what might
tie called the yellows set in.
When Middleton opened the office
Heor the next morning he had the
aback of his Ufe. A substantial look
ing policeman grabbed him by the arm,
while Abers danced excitedly around
the pair, pointing the linger of accu
sation at bis late assistant.
“Officer,”-said Abers, “that man has
robbed nia. at at least 51000. His books
lire short, 1 shall have an exinirt ex
am dilation made at onee. Meanwhile
IMgsli him arrested.”
IKw&it a moment," said Middleton.
srw'.'-',e ts such a thing as being in error.
*3 a know. Officer, what’s your name:
McCarty? Thanks. Mr. McCarty,
please wait In the hall two minutes,
{.wish to speak privately to Mr. Abers.
; “Now. look here, Mr. Alters " be went
|gpy?i SlfiOO. I knew It’d
tie sooner or later. Well
.jMi4 have cost you $l5OO, amt
Mohr 1 am going to be the mean a of
*j%& making 515,000 out of me. What
of >that?”
paused dramatically. Kvi
mjH'tly the education he had picked up
theatre boxes had not been en
tirely lost “Fifteen thousand,” he re
plied, “and you'll make it as eqsv
m -'winking."
, ASers gav* his shoulders a shrug ac-
The previous evening. “Don't
tail me.” bo said disdainfully.
“A* easy as winking," replied Middle,
tea. "Yon get a bond on ire from a
surety company for s2o,tio. We fix
up the books. You give me another
$3500. I skip. You go to the surely
company with tears in your eyes and
say. ‘My bookkeeper has skipped. He
Is $20,000 short.’ Then they come and
look at the books. Then they pay yon
the money and start after me. Well,
all I want Is a chance to spend that
$3500 and then they can get me.” .
Abers gazed In blank admiration at
the yonng man. "I don’t think we
need the policeman any longer,” he re
marked at length, with an air of ab
stract thought.
The time was six weeks later. Abers
was radiant. The first thing he did
that morning was to laugli. His last
action before going to sleep the night
before was to chuckle. He had even
smiled in his dreams. The scheme
was working beautifully. The bond
for $20,000 had been arranged. Anew
set of books lmd been cooked to per
fection. They showed a shortage of
$20,000. The old ones had been burned.
The day befere Middleton bad received
$3500 and- Bad disappeared. To-day
the mine was to be sprung, Abers’s
ambitions were never so near realiza
tion. On his way down town hr looked
In bis paper for suburban property for
sale. There seemed to be likely plages
In New .Jersey. Ho wondered If the
mosquitoes were really so bad over
there.
"Now for springing the mine.” He
picked up the letters and opened one
la Middleton's handwriting.
"Dear Mr. Albers,” It ran. "you will
remember that when yon applied for a
bond on me you signed a statement
that I had never been short In my ac
counts. This was wrong. Officer Mc-
Carty knows to the contrary. The old
cashbook which we burned was a copy,
1 have the original, with notations In
your handwriting, which you made for
our guidance In cooking up the new
book. If you take any action against
me I shall make a full statement, to the
surety company and hand them the
proofs. Of course, you know that you
have been guity of conspiracy. There
are meu In State’s Prison for that, and
I feat’ that the surety company would
make a horrible example of you i.- dis
courage farther attempts iu this Hue.
I am yours faithfully.
‘‘.FA(FOB MIDDT.K l < IN.”
“P. S.— l cooked up a check this
morning for sls,(Hit) on the firin' ac
count. I have Just received the cash.
“P. P. B.~Let (his lie a lesson to
you.”—New York Evening Sun.
Buriiinß Mud*
Nowadays everything that will burn
Is Interesting. A fuel works at Stnug-
Ilorden, in Norway, where peat Is
made Into a useful fuel, should be of |
especial Interest, to Massachusetts,
which Is said to be talking of opening
up its extensive pent beds. The fac
tory at Stnngflordeu Is run by elec
tricity generated by water power, and
lias been in operation since 1808. The
chief difficulty In manufacturing fuel
from pent Is getting rid of the water
with which It Is always soaked. About
eighty-live per cent, by bulk is water,
and practically all of this must be re
moved before n satisfactory fuel is
obtained. At Stahgfiorden Ihe wet
peat Is brought to the factory iu boats,
from which It is removed by electric
conveyers und submitted to n prelim
inary rough drying aud pressing. The
briquettes tints formed are placed In
chambers, through which warm, dry
air Is driven, and are finally placed In
electrically heated retorts, where the
drying is completed.
The peat yields, besides those bri
quettes, tar, charcoal, creosote, sul
phate of ammonia and other by prod
nets. Tlic electric power Is obtained
from five eighty-kilowatt dynamos.
The plant is capable of turning out
1000 centners (a centner Is about 110
pounds) of air-dried peat n day. Tlit>
fuel Is said to burn well, yields little
Boot or ash and Is really salable In Ber
gen aud other towns.
When* People Are Content.
In his book, "The Soul of a People.”
Mr. 11. Fielding Hall gives an Interest
ing and sympathetic account of the
quiet life aud philosophy of the Bur
mese. Among other things ho says:
"And so all the people are on the
saute level. Richer and poorer there
are, of course, but there are no very
rich: there is none so poor tliar he can
not get plenty to eat aud drink. All
eat much the same food, all dress
much alike. The amusements of all
are the same, for entertainments are
always free. So the Butmtm does not
care to be rich. It Is not In his nature
to desire wealth. It Is not In his nature
to care to keep it when It comes to
hint. Beyond a sufficiency for Ills dally
needs money has not much value. He
does not care to add field to field or
coin to coin; the mere fact that he has
money causes him no pleasure. Money
!s worth to him wliat R will buy.
With us, when we have made a little
money, we keep it to be a nest egg to
make more from. Not so a Burma n:
He will spend it And after his own
little wants are satisfied, after ht has
bought himself anew silk, after He
has given his wife anew bangle, after
he has called all his village together
and entertained them with a dramatic
entertainment—sometimes even before
all this—he will spend the rest on
charity.”
Generous Britain.
A' correspondent who signs himself
"The Parson,” writes: “Some mouths
ago a laboring mau in a small parish
near Reading stopped, at some risk fo
himself, a runaway two-horse post
van. The horses had gone, without a
driver, at n great pace, half a mile or
more on a much-frequented high road.
The man was not thanked at the time,
but the matter was brought to the
notice of the G. F. O.; inquiry was
made, and he received—sixpence!—
Loudon Times.
Chinese Press
in America.
By Charles 7. Holder.
IN roaming through the famous
Chinatown of San Francisco, its
lanes and alleys, the stroller will
perhaps observe over a narrow
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A SAN FRANCISCO CHINESE NEWSPAPER.
door a mvatb’iil sign, and beneath It
the words Chuug-sul-Yiit-Po, the <l(iily
newspaper; and if eni'tous he may as
cend the narrow stair and reach the
editorial and other rooms of one of the
several Chinese papers published In
this Chinese-AtMrlcau city. Little Can
ton. as It Is sometimes called. This pa
per wag first started us a weekly, but
was elmiiged to a daily, add Is now
an influential organ of what might
be termed the Amerlcnnlned Chinese,
or the New Chinaman, as the editor
Is a Chinese minister of the Presby
terian Church, nan of high cultiva
tion from the American standpoint.
He I* the Rev. Ng Pooti < hew, and one
of hla literary advisers and aids is
John Fryer. 1,1. D., who tills the chair
of Chinese literature at the University
of California: but the typesetters, the
clerks, In fact all the employee, are
Chinamen, some of whom are gradu
ates of American schools. In the busi
ness office and editorial room there Is
little to attract the Attention. Amer
ican desks and chairs and telephone
are the finpllances of ‘he workers; but
when the visitor enters the composing
room, a high, cheerless hriek-woll-hi
eloscd'room, he is confronted with the
frtet that here as well as elsewhere In
China things are upside down. In a
word, the typesetter Is quite ns im
portant n factor as the editor: at least
such is the impression gained by the
observer who faces the extraordinary
cases of the Chinese compositor.
The American typesetter is obliged
to be familiar with twenty-six letters,
ten figures llnd a few signs and sym
bols. ns periods, dollar marks, etc., but
the Chinese compositor must be fa
miliar with 11,000 character* of this
archaic language, about which Profes
sor R. K. Douglas says: "Every root
is it word, every word Is a root. It is
tvlthout Inflexion or even agglutination;
Its substantives are indeclinable, anti
Its verbs are not lo be conjugated: It
Is destitute of an alphabet, and finds
its expression, on pit pel' lu thousands
of distinct symbols."
it is needless to go Into a description
of this marvelous language to explain
the difficulties of the ('hluese compos
itor; but one illustration Is sufficient.
Pertain sounds often stand for several
hundred words, the difference, often
vital to an Intelligent presentation of
an Idea, depending on certain diacrit
ical marks neemnpattyng each word.
There are thousands of these symbols
which are engraved, each one repre
senting a type, but a well-regulated
newspaper will require but 11.000 char
acters; if others are needed they are
! made in the office. A font of type in
the Chinese language requires 11,000
: spaces, and in the large and spacious
! racks here shown inch word instead
of each letter, ns in English, has n
place for itself. There is also a pe
culiar grouping or classification of
symbols- into groups to further faeill
rate the mental labors of the typeset
j tors. Thus In the Immediate vicinity
j of the symbol for fish would be found
! the symbols for scales, net, tins, tail.
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I ' f.
INTERIOR OF CHINESE COMI’OMNG ROOM. SHOWING ENORMOUS
SIZE OF THE FONTS.
gills. This simplifies the labor, which
In any event must be so strenuous that
It is evident that the compositors end
of the Chinese newspaper should. If
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
perfect justice be the highest
paid.
The-compositor is n staid and dig
nified Individual, and as he slowiy
walks from symbol to symbol, picking
lip those which he requires with pro
voking caimness, the American com
positor might well wonder when the
work would be completed; and to set
up the limited type required for a
small four-page dally paper the con
stant labors of eigfit or nine skilled
Chinamen are required for twelve or
thirteen hours, the entire work iu ev-
ery department being the antipodes of
the < rush and whirl and marvelous
celerity of the modern American publi
cation.
When the paper Is set up It Is printed
on an American press, but the type,
tne symbols, are all made In Chinn.
There are three other newspapers
published in San Francisco besides the
one described—the Chinese World, the
Oriental News and the Commercial
News. Nearly f.ll have some special
object In view. Thus the World Is a
reform paper, virtually the organ of
the Empire Reform Association, a club
or society which Is very Influential In
Chinese circles in San Francisco and
said to include a fourth of the entire
population. Tl>e World opposed the
Boxers, is pro-American in Its Ideas; its
editor Is Tong Chong, a friend of the
late missionary, Mr. Masters; n man of
high culture and many attainments,
who has. by the aid of the society, of
which lie Is Secretary, attempted to
reform the entire Chinese Nation.—Sci
entific American.
TRACES OF A TRAGEDY.
Urewamit. lOnitiKlsr of Sav.g- ll.y. on
us F.ltglUli Chureh J>oor.
A ghastly relic of bygone days Is to
be seen on the church door at l’eui
bridgo, England.
The handle Is fastened by some elab
orate Ironwork to the stout oak boards,
and round the edges of this, snvs the
Queen, may still he seen fragment*
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THE TRACE OF A TRAOEDY.
that look like coarse yellow parch
ment. The casual visitor passes then:
by unobserved, and with little idea
that he is on the tracks of a tragedy,
for the parchment scrap* are not por
tions of the notices of prehistoric
church wardens, but the actual frag
ments of the skin of some bygone
malefactor, caught red-handed in roll
blag the church, his hide being nailed
to the doors as a perpetual warning
io evildoers. Tradition reports that
1 lie was a Dane, but more nrobably he
was some Welsh marauder of thi
mountains, and at any rate t- this da)
the ghastly memorial of his crimes h
still visible.
AN ALPJNJEJHOSTESS.
A. Venue of Milo, Clad In s Man’s Attire, a
Tourist’s Discovery.
We had been climbing since 5, catch
ing glimpses of rosy - topped mount
ains, and at last the sun shone forth
in all his glory over a snowy peak.
As we turned from the dazzling splen
dor of our first sunrise in the Alps we
could not help exclaiming, “Have the
gods deserted Olympus!” For there in
the doorway of one of the chalets stood
the Venus of Milo. A pair of mall's
trousers tucked into top-boots, a short,
rough jacket and a velvet cap could
cot extinguish the majesty of that
pose. Her eyes, blue as the mountain
(lowers, looked down upon one from
another sphere, and kiuky gold hair
framed the ineffable calm of the face;
i calm not of (his world.
"Golly!” whispered the irrepressible
one, “If she looks like that In those
togs, what would she be in a Worth
gown!” Our guide told us she was
waiting breakfast, for us, and we fo!
lowed her Into the chalet, feeling much
as one would if the marble Venus
should lean from her pedestal some
morning and say: "Come, have some
bread and butter.” Only bread and
butter and black coffee she gave us,
but exquisitely served, In spite of the
coarse napery and dishes, as only at
goddess could serve it. At: each place
was a little bunch of blue harebells we
hud reveled lit while tramping through
the lovely green -valley to Cbampiry.
We could scarcely eat, hungry as we
were, so fascinated were we by every
movement of the Immortal as she
glided about waiting upon tis. She
spoke no word and we longed for her
voice.
“Do you live up here, mademoiselle?"
we asked In French. In perfectly good
English a voice that matched the face
replied: “Only while the cattle graze,
madam.”
“And then?”
“Then I go to my homo in the val
ley.”
This was all. “News and pottage"
were not In her lino. Wo came away
feeling that we could not leave her, we
must kuow more of her.
“Who Is she?” We asked the guide.
“Oh. her? Her Angliss, come over
here to climb up lak we. Young man
fine too, but dunno how kep Ills foot
from slip- En nom De. it is so high
down! Ver long her sick, and now her
nev’ go way home 't all, jes stay lak
she spec ‘Un to come back sometimes.
Her boss th’ farm and tech tIT chfl’n.”
The little bunch of blue harebells
Ties among tny treasures crisp and
faded, but that wonderful breakfast
In the Alps would be such stuff ns
dreams are made of but for Us pres
ence.—Clara StoweH Honeymau, in
Good Housekeeping.
Thn Sun.tilny CJirl.
The girl who Is everybody's favorite
Is generally a girl of average qualifi
cations. '
She Is not wonderfully beautiful nor
astonishingly clever, nor so wise that
she knows other people's business bet
ter than they do themselves, yet she
Is beloved by all. young and old. and
she will he sought for when the pout
ing beauty, with her matchless liair
and eyes, is left alone, smt the student
who can tell you all about the things
of science sits moping In a *OO7llOl,
while the all-wise person is shunned
as a plague.
The universal attraction Is a gift
which Is born with one, and. although
1 will not say that It could not pos
sibly lie acquired. It is not often the
result of education.
We see babies who toddle Into onr
hearts with their firs: trembling steps,
whose dimpled hands bold our fond
est, warmest loves as firmly as they
clutch our hair.
They may be among the dearest
things in the world to us all through
childhood to maturity, and some day
we awaken to Hud that the laughing
baby has developed Into the beloved
woman, whose voice is music in all
ears, and who has fond hearts scat
tered so thickly along her path that
the whole road seems rose-colored.
The old people regard lief ns a sun
beunt; the yonng think no gathering Is
complete or enjoyable without her;
and the children hang after her with
adoring eyes and hearts, which are
not the least of her triumphs.
She can always ge what she wants,
and the paradox is that she doesn't
want things half so badly as other
people who are never gratified.
She is content to take what comes
her way, and she never sighs after the
unattainable, which might as easily
be hers, if she wished, as the most or
dinary. everyday things of life are
owned by other mortals.
This girl Is a puzzle. The girls won
der why she is so 1 gloved by their
brothers -and cousins.
“Of course.’? they reason, "she Is a
dear, sweet linle thing, but then there
is nothing extraordinary about her,"
never dreaming that it is just that
j quality which is admired and loved.
Extraordinary- ihlugs are all very
well whom we go sightseeing, or take
a day's Journey into some curiosity
; cabinet to see rite queer articles which
I are in the world, lint for the every
day purposes of life we want some
thing like ourselves, something not
above sympathizing with our ills, ail
ments and tempers.—Marion F. Mow
! bray, in New >Ycrk News.
Mixed Motive*.
Motives are almost always mixed in
this imperfect world of ours, and It is
often hard even for the people them
selves who are termed philanthropic to
distinguish just where self-iuteiest
ends and tree charity begins. Mrs. A-.
who has social aspirations, anti Is also
of a kindly disposition, develops, under
the combined promptings of her am
bition and her conscience, into a most
efficient worker in certain charitable
associations, and it is not for Ihotdft
who, urged by no such promptings, do*
little for the good of mankind to criti
cise her actions or analyze unkindly
her motives in associating herself with
Mrs. Midas and Mrs. Hnut-Ton, who
are alpo interested in the work. Never
theless, it is impossible not to remark*
that the bread east upon the waters
is returned in of substantial
loaves Indeed. Mrs. A. succeeds in cs
tablishlng her footing by virtue of
hard, cheerful work among her asso
ciates, and slowly but surely climbs
the ladder of social success, while she
not unnaturally feels a glow of satis
faction in contemplating the good
whic h she feels she lias accomplished.
The face value is what we must look
for in this life, and the rest'we must
take on trust. No op* yyhdUy good;
neither Is ‘any otic wholly had. 111
every direction one finds genuine feel
ing mixed up with self-iniejest, and
he who is without Sin* in this respect
is the only one who should cast stoma
of criticism.—New York Tribune.
The Art of hlttifit:.
Such a simple art—one that we. spend
so much of our, lives lu doing, especial
ly If our occupation Is of the kind
known as sedentary, says the Lady’s
Magazine. Too much cannot be said
against the indiscriminate habit of
lounging. Naturally, If the muscles
:> let off their proper work, they com
plain when' suCWruty expected to per
form tneir natural duties, with the re
sult that tii? unfortunate person l*e
ioifies aware that it is next to impossi
ble to sit or stand perfectly erect, and
therefore she flics to the support of
stays, or those abominations known
as shoulder braces. Seek rather to de
velop and strengthen all the muscles,
and, having done this, sit up. There is
m need to assume an attitude of ram
rodlike stiffness: It is quite possible to
si; correctly and gracefully at the same
time.
I'hrruasttitiooiii Petticoat*.
Quito Japanesque is the chrysan
themum petticoat. Not only because
the design Is of chrysanthemums, but
because the embroidery is 011 the lines
laid down by Japanese experts. And
there’s no embroidery so utterly soft
and yet so heavily rich looking as t lie
Japanese.
This particular petticoat is of palest
blue taffeta and tucked narrow frills
edge the deep flounce. It is upon this
flounce that Ihore is 11 veritable riot ol
chrysanthemums. These dainty, fan
tastlc, capricious blossoms are in any
number of delicate pink shades, and
they are given additional beauty by
means of a smart open-work design,
the edges of which are finely done in
black-a mere line, just enough to ac
cent the exquisitely pale colorings.
Site Kfrlairas '<fh?ict). *
Eugenie ili' Meyer, a ltussiiiu woman,
ban Mudcrtakeu Ihe work of reclaiming
the convicts of tlio petal settlement o"
Saghnliec. To this island only tlie
worst typo of criminals are sent.
Among three are StMX) murderers. l>ut
their luave conn try woman lives there
with them entirely unprotected and.
except for the hospitality of the offi
cials. entirely unmolested. The condi
tions of the life at the settlement are
such ns to dismay the stoutest heart
and blunt the kindliest feeling, and the
keepers are. reported as a brutalized
set at best. The keen interest of the
t zarltsa in this self-sacrificing work of
her young subject is all that makes its
continuance possible.
fIRCTTY BL
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TO W£Afc4j|P
Chenille will be freely worn i;
fringes.
I.nec Of the same color ns the gowr
set in, forms one of the most exclusive
trimming ideas of the season.
A corded white siik purse covered
with dnehesse lace and mutated with
gold makes a charming bridal gift.
Green and black is a favorite com
bination. and a number of the new ma
terials arc woven in these two colors.
Reproduction of rings that were
worn in the days of the third George
are included among the season’s de
signs.
Dragon flies, butterflies and hum
ming birds represent some new effects'
in hair oruamenrs that are pretty as
well ns inexpensive.
Horizontal effects are much mere
preferred this,season for skirt garni
ture than the up-and-down styles. This
applies particularly to tucks,
Collars of guipure with stole ends
caught together with bows of chiffon
are worn with many of the smartest of
the new blouses in crepe de chine and
Jfcitey silk.
Many tails are off< red for the mod
ish long boas, as the tails must hang
down the centre of the back as well
as at the waist and others are required
to finish the etuis.
Velvet for street dresses is among
the extravagant ideas of the day.
Brown in the very darkest of hues is
trimmed with a woolen lace of the
same shade, upon a silk lining that
shows through the wide iaeshes.
The very newest of the new is the
ideated skirt—a pretty old fashion re
vived, This is arranged In folds round
the hips and at the baek. but the front
is still kept fairly plain. This, let me
tell you, is charming for a smart frock,
but must not be composed of too thick
a material. Tailors adore the new
box-pleated or kilted skirt, whleh they
mostly put into a plain piece fitted
round the hips.
DECEMBER 14
OUR NOSES. /
The Roseate Hoe and Infantile Snnb—
Proper Noe For Mankind.
The molding influences which render
the patrician nose to some extent a
of eitluire seems mainly traeo
abSto a close pssociation which exists
beS’eeu certain muscles attached to
tbifmore flexible parts of the nose and
thtiie '|n the immediate neighborhood.
Nbwhire Is the lasting mark of domin
ant, nftnuil habits, more plainly seen
than fp the muscles about the mouth.
They ftre continually in action, when
we exercise the will—either in self
control or In attempts to control other
men or things—and every time they
cofue into play they give a chastening
tug at our noses. Finally, it may be
said that for the maintenance of a pa
trician nose at its best a well balanced
mind Is almost as necessary as careful
ness in outward behavior. Its chastily
of tint and outline is endangered, not
only by high living and low thinking,
but also by the habitual and unre
grained Indulgence of emotions gener
iftly deemed innocent, and even laurt#’
ble. These, through their strange sec
ondary inflimbc*'--?, upon the nerves
wblfch regulate th?circulation and nu
trition of the skin and far* Rre quite,
capable of inducing a certain eoarsP
ness of exmasslAT), curiously akin to
that jiidueetTwy -ice In vicious
pleasures. Herein, perhaps, may be
found some sort of crude and general
recipe for an aristocratic nose, which
is offered in all good faith—but with no
absolute warranty—to every one with
good powers of mental assimilation.
There can be no doubt that the ordi
nary nlehian nose, with its somewhat
low bridge, concave profile and wide.
nostrils, is. above all others, the nose
which is proper to mankind. All other
types are developed from it, Even
now the whole human species, of what -
ever race, possesses it in early infancy.
—Blackwood's Magazine.
Th* Geography of tltshoncsty;
Is dishonesty a matter of geographi
cal location? And are Its boundaries
so well defined that one may pass
from virtue to vice by the simple ex
pedient of crossing the street? A certain
well-known “quick-lunch” proprietor
conducts two establishments, both sit
uated on the same street, although on
different blocks. But in the matter of
administration they are as far apart
as the poles, At the upper place,cmitt
denee In the patrons of the establish
ment is apparently unlimited. The
loaves and fishes are in plain view
and within easy reach of the
Everybody helps himself, and even the*
formality of a lunch check Is omitted.
You merely step to the cashier's desk
and lay down a coin whose denomina
tion is the exact measure of your appe
tite and Incidentally your conscience.
No questions asked. At the establish
ment of the same name and only a
block away the atmosphere is decid
edly different—almost chilling, Indeed.
Here a servitor at the door compels
you to accept a numbered check be
fore you are allowed to pass the por
tals. All the viands are out of reach,
and with each separate article that you
receive your indebtedness is unalter
ably recorded upon your slip of paste
board. And no one goes out unless
be delivers up his passport and other
wise makes good. In such wise arc the
sheep separated from tha goats, and
* yet but a single street divides them.
Strange as it may seetn, one place Is
always jammed to the doors, while at
the other scats may be had in plenty.
Aafttmilatlng Foreigners.
And yet it is not difficult to grow fa
miliar with the salient East London
types. The city is really cosmopolitan
In character, for all the principal coun
tries of Europe hare long been contrib
uting to its population in a stream of
immigration, which adds quite 10,000
to Its numbers every year. This to an
American is scarcely an impressive
number, as applying to immigration,
but the fact is, nevertheless, notable
when we consider a yearly assimila
tion of' 10.000 foreigners by a growing
city of nearly 2,000,000, aud the com
plete success of the assimilation except
as affecting the incoming Jews. Sir
Walter Besant declares that the pow
er of England to absorb an alien popu
lation is even greater than that of the
United States, by which, qf course, he
means proportionately greater. He is
certainly mistaken. I think, but he in
dicates. with much point, the fact that
for all the inflow of foreigners, con
tinued now- through many years, there
are. apart from the Jewish quarter,
practically no foreign settlements in
East London. And. furthermore, the
children of the aliens are soon, as he
insists. English through and through.—
Scribner’s.
Worltl’g f;ocrftpliy Class.
It is not to be denied that this expan
sion of our knowledge of the world is
a sequence of our victories in the Span
ish war. Whether trade follows the
flag, certainly knowledge does. What
• the geography is doing for the school
boy, thq newspapers and magazines
arc doing for the adult. “Nature will
be reported,’’ says Emerson, and cer
tainly never was this so true as to-day.
A hundred agencies mainly com
merce. invention, tvavel. benerpjiftftie
and disaster,—are conspiring to p 6riiig
in touch .all the nations of tta Vforld
and to demand the fullest'knowledge
of all by each. Tt ji are those who
think that this .*# Tiilpg interest in
the actualities eventsijs
being cultiv.St ' jhe oxptgihe jet
great creatlw fajfTV an epoch of
large wealth h y-*f <2 v,usually the pre-';
cursor of a Pei¥"*2.gj<*Ka£t WbejjH
this period c p’-Vv
will be ail
uable that tl* people of the efrUi will
have reached a sympathetic* l under
standing through the widest knowl
edge.—The Century.
The things that mate life worth liv
ing arc the things that we don’t pos
sess.
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