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SUNDAY MORNING.
JUSTICE.
noTTCYor inexplicable may seem
Event and circumstance upon this earth.
Though favors fall on those whom none es
teem.
And insult and indifference greet worth;
Though poverty repays the life of toil.
And riches spring where idle feet have
trod.
And storms lay waste the patiently tilled
soil—
. Yet justice sways the universe of God.
Jifi undisturbed the stately stars remain
Beyond the g'are of day's obscuring light.
So justice dwells, though mortal eyes in
v vain
Seek it persistently by reason’s sight.
Cat when, once freed, the illumined soul
looks out.
Its erv will be, “O God, how could 1
doubt!”
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Brandur Maga
zine.
When Football
"Sand” Counted.
By Clinton r. Tickr.or.
1r was a great cross to Mr. aud Mrs.
Crompton that Clinton was appar
ently devoid of any worthy ambi
tion. Their two older hoys were
so utterly different. Harold had been
graduated from Yale with high hon
ors, and Eric was making remarkable
progress at the scientific school. In
'act, they were both exceptionally Cue
students, vjhieli made the contrast all
the more striking.
For Clinton was sadly unlike his
brothers. He seemed to labor under
the Impression that he had been sent
to eollege simply and solely for the
purpose of learning to play football.
Apparently nothing else had the pow
er to kindle the slightest enthusiasm
in his sluggish breast, and bis mother
argued and expostulated with him in
vain.
"You are frittering away your valu
able time,” she argued again and
again, “and letting slip golden oppor
tunities which, once goue. never will
come back to you. aud what have you
to show for it all but a broken nose
and a fractured collarbone?”
“Is there any prospective benefit to
be derived from those hours spent In
scrambling after a football?” his father
questioned, sceiei,. to ,\ iiich Clinton
merely responded, in liis usual offhand
style: “Who knows but I may be elect
ed captain of the 'Varsity team next
year?”
“is that the height of your ambi
tion?” his parent returned, bitterly,
“I am terribly disappointed In you. sir.
Are you to go on playing football for
ever and ever, or what do you propose
to make of your life? Perhaps you
think that your reputation as a foot
ball player will prove an ‘open sesame'
to all desirable positions. Do you
suppose that any one wants a fellow
who has willfully wasted his best op
portunities? I had hoped to make a
professional man of you—not a profes
sional athlete—and had even aspired
to sec you some day in our leading law
office with my old friend Robert
Choate, but it’s uo use. Choate only
wants young men of the highest prom
ise,” and Mr. Crompton sighed wearily.
“It does no good to talk to Clinton,”
lie confided to his wife afterward, “for
hardly ten minutes had elapsed after 1
had been remonstrating witli him about
the evils of football before he inquired
If I wouldn’t bring you down to see the
game on Saturday and Informed nte
that he had saved two tickets for us.”
Mrs. Crompton regarded her husband
helplessly. “What did you say to
tin*?'' she queried.
“I told him ‘certainly not,' ” Mr.
Crompton exclaimed, warmly, “and I
expressed my surprise at liis daring to
suggest stteh a thing. ‘Show me some
lasting benefit or any abiding good
that Is to be (Thrived from this ridicu
lous game.’ 1 told him, ‘and then come
to me to abet you in such folly, but not
till then.’ ”
And so Mr. and Mrs. Crompton failed
to witness that memorable game -in
which tlieir youngest son gained for
himself such enviable laurels. Once on
the Held, Clinton was like one trans
formed. Keen, alert, cool, rising splen
didly to every emergency, no one would
have known him for the same slow,
Indifferent, easy-going specimen of hu
manity who grieved the ambitious
souls, of his parents by ills small apti
tude for Greek. •
Not by any mean* that Clinton was
a dunce, for liis class standing was
fairly good, but wnai paim and his father
and mother was jMr recognition of
what be might havi;J(*eomplishcd had
it not been; for that afeh enemy foqt
ball.
The great game over, the victorious
team hastened back to the gymnasium
with all possible speed. They had
some little distance to go, as the gyin
nislum was not very near the hall
grounds, so that in order to reach It
they were obliged to traverse the cen
tre of the town and cross the railroad
tracks. y
Clinton, who had been detained a
moment or so longer than tiie others,
reached the station a short time after
they had crossed, and found the plat
forms crowded with people who were
returning from the game, mingled with
those who were alighting from the in
coming trains. As lie stepped from
the. platform he became conscious that
seething unusual was going on. and
he immediately perceived the eyes of
the multiutde were riveted upon a
figure half way across the tracks, a
figure pausing there in bewilderment.
•‘"fhere’s n .train coming each way,”
somebody gasped. “Why doesn't he
get off the track?”
The station agent and one or two
other officials were shouting loudly,
hat the man, who was old and seem
ingly (leaf, appeared thoroughly dazed.
As he prepared to step upon the track
nearest him he had caught sight of one
train coming down upon him. and ho
now staggered back and was about to
plunge in front of the other down-com
ing express. Suddenly something very
unexpected hap caned. ——.
As the crowd of bystanders shrank
back with horror-stricken faces, con
vinced that they were about to witness
the terrible fate which must Instantly
overtake the old man, a figure in a
much-begrimed canvas jacket sprang
out among them, and clearing the
tracks at a bound, alighted beside the
swaying form of the man in danger.
A shudder and a wave of pitiful re
gret swept over the motionless crowd.
"Ho can never drag him back in time,”
they breathed. "They will both be
killed! Oh, the pity of it!”
But the football man had not thought
of dragging the unsteady figure in
front of either approaching engine. In
an instant lie had tackled the man and
thrown Idm flat upon the ground be
tween the two tracks, for all the world
quite as if lie had been an opponent
on the football field. Then lie dropped
lightly on top of him, and lay there
motionless, while the two trains thun
dered past on each side of them and
the crowd stood waiting, spellbound.
In much less time than it takes to
describe tile episode was over, and
what might have been a tragedy had
proved only a bit of melodrama after
all, yet as Clinton jumped up and
puHed the old man to his feet applause
and cheers louder than any that had
greeted him on the football field rang
in liis ears.
Abashed and overwhelmed by such
an ovation, Clinton made haste to el
bow his way through the crowd, aud
in fo doing nearly overthrew his own
brother Harold, who happened to be
standing directly in bis path.
"For heaven's sake, was that you,
Clinton?” lie cried in astonishment.
“Do let me get out of this,” his
brother responded, impatiently. "They
nerd not make such a fuss because I
knocked the old duffer over,” aiul ha
bolted iu the direction of the gymna
sium.
Saturday nights generally brought
the scattered members of the Crompton
family together, as the collegians all
spend Sunday under the parental roof
tree.
On this particular Saturday evening
all were assembled before Clinton came
in. Harold was all agog to describe
the scene that he had witnessed, but
lie unselfishly held his tongue. “I’ll
not spoil ids story for him, but will
give him a chance to do justice to it.”
he mentally ejaculated, as he watched
his brother swallowing his soup with
unruffled composure.
But Clinton said nothing upon the
vital subject, and Harold looked at him
with increasing surprise, as lie judi
cially set forth the respective merits of
the opposing football teams and called
attention to their most vulnerable
points.
“I’ll turn in early to-night, I think,”
lie yawned as lie withdrew from tlia
dining room. “1 put pretty solid work
into the last half of that game,” and
he leisurely wended liis way up stairs.
“I wish that Clinton would put a
little solid work Into something else,”
Ills father volunteered as he disap
peared from the room.
At this Harold, who had in limes
past repeatedly scoffed at his brother’s
athletic proclivities. Instantly tired up,
“Father,” he hurst forth, “you're
making a big mistake about Clinton,
lie's got more genuine stuff In him
than all the rest of us put together,
and if it’s foot ball dial's done it, (lie
sooner we all go in for the game the
better,” and thru he proceeded to give
a graphic account of die afternoon’s
experience, which caused his father
to blow Ida nose loudly and repeatedly,
while his eyes glistened with happy
pride, and which sent his mother weep
ing in search of the sleepy athlete,
who could not understand what he
had done that was worth making such
a fuss about.
A few days later Mr. Crompton re
ceived a note from Ills old friend Rob
ert'-Choate, which ran somewhat as
follows;
“Dear Crompton; I hear lliat your
Clinton is goiug in for law, and if so,
I want him. When he gets through
with dip law school you can hand him
over To me, for lie's just the material
that I am on the lookout for, and yon
mffy well be proud of him. He scared
nte out of a year's growth the oilier
afffejoon at the station, the young
rascal, but in spite of that I wish you
would tell him to come around and
take dinner with me sorep night, for
I want to talk to him. With kind re
gards to Mrs. Crompton, believe me
ever your friend,
"ROBERT CHOATE.”
1 When Clinton came home tho follow
ing Saturday liis father handed him
the note, remarking: “I'm afraid I
haven’t appreciated your football, old
man, but I'm going to do better in the
future, and, by the way, Clinton, 1 hear
you're to play in tho game next
week. Is that.So?”
Clinton nodded.
“Very well, then,” Mr. Crompton con
tinued; "your mother and I would
like to have you get us the be3t seats
that can be bought, for we've set our
hearts upon going up to see you make
the first touch-down."—New Wjrk
Times.
Iteming Can.
The Northwestern Railway Company
of England hns equipped some of Its
trains with a unique heating system,
says the Baltimore Sun, which employs
two concentric cylinders, the annular
space between them communicating
with a steam pipe extending from the
locomotive boiler. The inner cylinder
contains aeetatn of soda, a compound
remarkable for its qualities of liquify
ing when heated and of cooling very
slowly. The radiators thus constituted
are incased in asbestos-lined boxes
having hinged doors: By opening or
closing the door of a box, the heat is
turned on or off.
Tbc Poughkeepsie bridge is being
painted a slate color, very similar -to
the shade of United States battleships
when they have their war paint on.
IN AN ANT ARMY'S TRACK
► •
'Expc.Cence of a Engineer in South America When '
the Very Ground Seemed to Ee Alive and Moving-Nothing
/Can Withstand aij Attack by the Little Insects, . \
ONE of the most extraordinary
•sights iu a tropical jungle is
an army of ants. Far and
wide, throughout ■'thousands
upon thousands of miles of unexplored
wilderness in South America, nothing
is feared more by man or blast
Before one may say that he has seen
a real ant army, lie must have seen
the very ground crawl. The jet black
soil of the dusky virgin forest must be
bidden completely beneath a blanket
of glistening, hustling, little black
beads, and the patter of the myriads
of feet must sound like the rustle of
the early evening zephyr as it drifts
through the impenetrable roof of green
which has from time Immemorial kept
God’s sunshine and the light out of
the maze of the tangled, busliroped
jungles under the equator.
“It was such an army as this which
descended early one morning on the
Dieu Dispose camp of the Witte Water
Mining Company, -Hit) miles up the
Saraniaeca River, In Dutch Guinea,
South America,” said a mining engi
neer. “The surprise came early one
morning shortly before sunrise, and the
way it routed us and the way tiie army
cleaned out the camp and continued
on its march of conquest was the most
wonderful thing 1 have seen ill twenty
years of mining and big game hunt
ing.
"The camp was a very pretentious
affair—built with a roof of sheet iron,
and oil six-foot pillars to raise the
floor from off the ground and preclude
malarial fevers. In the entire country
there was not and there probably never
will bo such another camp, for ils floor
space measured 50x100 feet, and noth
ing that the forethought of man could
devise, short of an ant army attack,
hud been omitted in the building.
"We were awakened out of deep
slumber one morning by the wild bray
ing of Don Pedro, the mascot jackass.
Don had never before misbehaved him
self, aud all six of us tumbled out of
our hummocks, rifles at hand, expect
ing to find the animal attacked by a
jaguar. Don was in the midst of an
ant army, acting as if he was crazy.
He had rolled on his back and was
writhing in pain, fighting and kicking
and biting everywhere at once, and
emitting cries of agony. We ran into
the midst of the little fighters and
saved Don by the ears and tail, the
only two safe places to lay hold of
him. Then ho was brushed clean of
J the little pests.
•The army was making a beeline
; for the camp, and It became a race bc
! tween ns and the Insects to see what
| could be saved. The program was to
store away wliot could be stored by
the only safe menus possible, and then
I to vacate and let the little visitors have
I the place till they got tired. Sugar,
I butter, rice, meats aud everything else
i was put on n table, the four legs of
i which were immersed in basins of
! water. Then we departed to await
j developments.
j “Outside the ground was literally
alive. Tiie entire clearing about the
camp crawled for a hundred feet
square, aud out of the jungle thicket
j the stream of ants continued steadily
i as if a black river were flooding out
of It. There was no danger or incon
j venienee in watching the army at
work. So long as one did not step into
! the group there would bo no trouble,
I and we watched the midgets from the
sidelines, one ant lending the uncouut
j able ones and the rest following iu a
solid mass.
“Up one of the posts headed the
leader and up the post followed those
behind, disappearing in the cracks and
crevices between tiie weather boards.
Then every upright became alive witli
the little pirates. In the place they
went, spreading everywhere, under the
roof, on the rafters, on the walls, till it
made one dizzy to sice the black, crawl
ing mass.”
“ ‘Wait till you sec a centipede fight,'
said one of the native foremen, and
barely had he said so than a blue
streak shot with the speed of light
ning down a wall from a hiding spot
under the roof. The centipede landed
in the centre of the floor, and it looked
as if he wore going to dash clear of tiie
tormentors when be made the fatal
stop that doomed him, as it dooms
everything else that fails to run clear
of the attacking force before fighting
the ones fastened in the body.
“Around and around spun tiie poison
ous insect thrashing the floor wildly in
an effort to squash tiie attacking party.
Afterwards we found thousands of
dead ants on the spot of the light, but
quick as some fell others took their
places, and tiie centipede was literally
covered with ants, each one fastening
teeth deeply Into him. For all of fif
teen minutes the fight continued. Then
the struggles of the centipede became
weaker and weaker till gradually lie
sank to quiet in sheer exhaustion, to
be eaten alive. Not a vestige of the
centipede remained by the time the
ants were finished with him, and this
clearing out process took place in sev
eral other spots iu tho camp, one of
the victims being a tarantalua and an
other a rat.
"Not till noon was the army finished.
At that time tiie camp presented a
wonderful sight from the outside.
High as an ordinary barn, every side
aud the roof of the building, formerly
light brown, were a mass of glistening
black, as if painted with jet dripping
under the fierce rays of the sun. Grad
ually as it had con t the army pro-
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
reeded about its business. Outside of
the provisions rescued on the fortified
table everything was cleared out" of
the camp as clean as a whistle. A
great bunch of battalias that lmd hung
in a corner had disappeared, all hut the
bare stumps. But within the building
there was not a thing of life left.
Not a iiy. not a spider, not even a
rival ant was to be found in the place,
and tiie floor was eaten clean and as
clear as if it had been swept and
scrubbed.
"But the army was not finished with
its destruction in our immediate neigh
borhood. A huge tree—larger than the
•biggest oak l have ever seen anywhere
—was stripped of its foliage in ioss
than an hour. The tree was five feet
in diameter, and tiie way the little ones
tackled it showed both sense and
system. Up cue side they went, crawl
ing and pushing, and presently down
the other side o: the trunk eame down
the vanguard, while the army stood
backed to a standstill to give the lead
ers a chance to mount the space too
narrow to accommodate tiie entire
number at once. It was as if a human
tinny had suddenly come to n halt at
a bridge to give'those ahead a chance
to cross.
“As each ant came down front above
he carried a small triangular piece oi
leaf, half as large as a thumb nail.
Each laborer held the leaf on his hack
with two tiny forefeet and plodded
along with incredible swiftness into
the jungle. We never found what they
did with the leaves.
"The stories that some of the natives
tell of the strength of an ant army
would put the best old-fashioned 'in
v.niou-ihort Ls-strength-fable' to blush.
A leopard or a panther Is hopelessly
lost when surrounded in his sleep by
an ant army. The death of tiie animal
is a dreadful one. Ants get into hi*
hide and they bite deep till the leopard,
or whatever it happens to oe, rolls
himself on the ground in the hope of
escaping his pursuers, if the animal
could stand the torture long enough
to clear the army in a few bounds he
would be saved, but no animal, save
the monkey or the ape, seems to have
sense enough foß' that. Instead, the
one overcome begius to light. The
more he fights the more he is beset
by tiie little pests, and the more lie is
beset the more he rolls and screams in
pain. Exhaustion comes after a time.
The struggles become weaker and
weaker, until finally they cease and
tiie unfortunate brute lies still, unable
to more, witli no help except to be
eaten alive, by inehefc.
“Nothing on the face of tiie earth is
dreaded by the little ones. The largest
boa constrictor Is tackled with the
same furious persistence that the
smallest spider is overcome and de
voured. and tiie poisonous snakes are
no more dreaded than the smallest
tarantula or centipede.
"In a village of bush negroes on
the Sara mu ecu they showed a half
witted man who had been maimed into
his condition by being ear lit In the
midst of an army of ants. The story is
that the man was suffering from an at
tack of Jungle fever, and had been left
in a hut, bound hand and foot, for lie
was in delirium and smashing things.
There lie was left by tiie half savages,
unversed iu medicines and human feel
ings. and when Ins friends returned at
night they found liiul in tiie midst of
an ant army, fighting for his life. Some
one rushed In and cut the thongs bind
ing the unfortunate victim, and lie
rose to iiis feet, and, amid shrieks of
anguish, dove Into the river, from
where he was rescued.
"The man never regained his reason,
lie was originally a coal-black bush
negro, the lineal descendant of African
slaves, and in patches his skin still
showed ebony blackness. But he was
covered with red and pink sears where
lie bad been bitten by the ants. At
times the scars would break open, and
then the fever of the ants came hack to
him. He would become violent until
it was necessary to tic him, and in his
delirium he saw the army of ants de
vouring him alive, ns It had begun on
him years before. The mere sight of
an ant was enough to unnerve the
idiot, and no white man who ever saw
the victim doubted the story as told by
the artless savages of the Snrainacca
tribe.
“lip nortb here people may credit
the kingship of the jungle to tlie lien
or to the tiger, or any one of these
species, hut, the real jungle man—the
man who ought to know—fears most
of all tiie army of nuts.”
It tVui Not a IlresiniK llooiti. 1
London Truth t ells a strange story
of a visitor to Cos vent. Garden, who
evidently imagined that, having paid
for a box, he was entitled to use it as
a dressing room. At one of the last
performances of the English Opera
season the gentleiaan, who had been
a constant: attendant, engaged a stage
■ box. and took possession. Shortly
after a man-servant brought along a
carpet bag and handed it to the gentle
man, who, retiring to the back of tiie
box, opened it, produced a dress suit,
and began a change of attire. He
took off Ids coat, his waistcoat fol
lowed, and—well, a gentleman in an
opposite box. realizing the situation,
gave the alarm to the management,
who promptly interfered.
It has been truly said, that she who
sings her own praises rarely receives
an encore. -
IDE OLD TOMBS PRISON
AND THE NEW.
/ ~y REAT Interest centres in the
I / disappearance of the ’old-time
V GT" wall about the original struc*
v ture of the Tombs Prison In
New York City, and the substitution
of the new granite inelosure. The
change attracts daily attention from
the little crowds of loungers who hang
about the neighborhood of the Crim
inal Court building. The process of
change from the old to the new Is so
gradual, yet so sure, that the ancient
regime will be merged into the new
almost without anybody knowing it
The removal of the administrative de
partments of the city prison into the
new commodious quarters on tile Cen
tre street side lias already taken place.
The change from the semi-dark ness
and musty, long out-worn conditions to
edacious and modern quarters brings
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i
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—From a Photograph by \V. F. Sibley.
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE TOMBS BUILDING AS IT STOOD IN
NEW YORK CITY FOR MANY YEARS.
witli It a contrast which for the mo- J
meat makes even a prison seem u very I
cheerful aud pleasant place.
When one entered the old prison one ,
was admitted by a lowering gate lteav- j
iiy barred with Iron into a lon nil-!
iilged room where many activities
seemed to lie crowded into small space
and where the tile of visitors waiting
to see the prisoners always tended to
overflow into the warden’s room and
down the dark corridors leading to the
cells.
A splendid suite of offices has now
been provided for the wardens and
clerks, several sizeable rooms where
prisoners can lie searched and where
they nmy see their counsel, and still
others where their friends may lie
searched before visiting them in their
cells. In the old Tombs tile conven
iences were of tiie slightest, and inade
quate to heat; tiie burden Id id upon
them. The old tub and showers were
Inadequate. Under the new rules pris
oners will be compelled to take two
hot baths n week. There are two
shower baths at the end of each-cor
ridor, and besides tliis are special bath
rooms In which new prisoners will lie
compelled to submit to a good scrub
bing with soap and water before being
placed in a cell. Another excellent
feature Hint is a great advance on tiie
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CITY riusox, THE Bt'COEHSOtt UP THE HISTORIC •"'TOMB’S.'"
old conditions Is the roof garden,
where the prisoners will take the air,
instead of dismally filing arotiud the
narrow corridors ns they do at present,
getting their only healthful draughts
of ozone through the narrow, heavily
barred corridors. The roof garden is
on tiie top floor, directly under the
steep pitched roof.
The completion of the city prison lias
been delayed far beyond the time speci
fied In the contract. The building was
begun live years ago—during the ad
ministration of tiie late Mayor Strong.
Warden Van de Carr is delighted
over getting into the new building.
Since lie resumed his duties several
months ago the contractors have made
rapid progress toward the completion
of the building. It is expected that
tiie. present administration will pro
vide a detached house in the prison
yard for tiie use of the Warden. The
Warden’s family now occupies dismal
quarters.
The removal of the west wall along
Elm street by the rapid transit contrac
tors inarns the beginning of the de
struction of that portion of the Juil
yqrd where the old-time Sheriffs of
New York County hanged their con
demned prisoners.
From a twenty-vear-old mulberry
tree 218 pounds of leaves have been
picked in a year.
took on n Ilnttlo,
Many safety poison phials have been
devised, but it is doubtful if any one
Is so secure as the simply locked
stopper illustrated herewith. No one
In the dark, or sunlight, no matter
LOCK ON THE POISON BOTTLE.
how preoccupied or deranged by suf
fering, could possibly accidentally
take a draught of poison from such
a flask. As will be seen by the sketch
the lock is opened by a small key,
but it automatically locks Itself when
I the cover Is closed down. Any de
! iicd method -of closing bottles or
! flasks may be employed in oonjnne
j non with the lock. Not a less wide
I field for the use of such a device is
to prevent unauthorized persons as,
for instance, servants, from meddling
with liquors, perfumes, etc.
A Lolly £t:anitt>at Koute.
The loftiest steamboat route in the
world is doubtless that just opened be
tween Ptmo and CliUaya, Peru, on
Lake Titicaca, 1i!,572 feet high or twice
the altitude of Mt. Washington.
A Peculiar Pear Disease.
In an article which appeared in
American Agriculturist September l!7,
1902, Professor F. C. Stewart, of tiie
New York Experiment Station, called
attention to the spotting and cracking
of fruit, and particularly that of the
Flemish Beauty pear. The specimens
received from \V. 11. Phillips, of Onon
daga County, New York, were sub
mitted to Professor Stewart for exam
ination, who reports that the difficulty
is the same as that described in liis
previous article. Very often it Is im
possible to determine tiie variety of
fruit, on account of its diseased condi
tion.
A specimen of tfce pear- infested with
(his dtsc#SP is j&defa.-lnr the accom
panying illustration, furnished us by
Professor Stewart. This disease is
caused by a fungus and can he pre
vented to a large extent by thorough-
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A DISEASED PIAR.
]v spraying with bordeattx mixture
However, where tiie fruit on the treei
cracks regularly each season, It would
perhaps be best to graft the top witi
some other variety. 1
DECEMBER 14
HOUSEHOLD 9 9
9 * * * MATTERS
Cleaning Sliellui-ked Floor*, ''y
Shellacked floor* may be cleansed
without injury to tho,polish by wiping
with cloths dipped into clear warm
r. 1,. w hits been add,
sent' oil in tiie protyjg(ji{§) of one table*?;£
spoonful to a pail o?VvaTer. Th
ins process must lie a rapid one. -Thffe
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A Japanese lien,
Tiie ,Tapnnese den is the latest and
as tin, existence of a den presupposes
its use as a smoking room the intro
duction of the Japanese form of dec-?;
oration is regarded with interest ly;:Y
those who like simple furnishings and |
object to the use of heavy draperies,-1
such as have been characteristic offij
the dens of the past when TurkiatM
Moorish and like schemes of decora* |
tion served ns models. In a .lapanesa
room the keynote of tiie furnishing la ;
simplicity and i a. the light?!
divans .and chairs-'being smnkeprqdif,;
while the draperies are easily removed?
and aired. The Japanese form of dec
oration. which << likely to meet witlf*
favor on account of Its originality, j#
thoroughly characteristic. It consists :
of the application of split btiinboi|
tho wall.-
that arc unmistakably
Colonial C urtains.
In furnishing and decorating a room;
ii certain fifuess must be inaituaiitaL j
For instance, if you are nrrMugiitg.yestrdl
family heirlooms of mahogaby?
room, you should not set them off WftbjJ
modern plush curtains of lace *nn S
pieces. The claw-foot chairs .ialt B|pi
lectnble candle-stands and sewing tits
bios, or curd tables with folding lids;
demand a certain propriety of aoeotti- ,
imminent. The mise-en-scenc Will
better if you can <1 rape your window#;
with ancestral dainnsk curtains of old
bine or amber, a little faded, perhaps,,;
bur “peaking alo -d of Colonial Spouts.
The old-fashioned Indian cotton < rtf
tains are del>h ! M accessories to a
Colonial room her aSßm'
white, with blue figures,'has a truly
Colonial air. There are other colors
softly blended In these old East India
cottons. A dull dahlia or plum color
which verges into brown is seen in
these pre-Revolutionary fabrics. Al
most any of the colors which you see
in old china are acceptable In the sash
curtains for a Colonial room; if you
cannot procure these you can at least
choose white dimity or some cld-fash
ioned looking muslin. Avoid the Mexi
can work or drawn-thread, cotton cur
taining for your Colonial room; it has
no part nor parcel in such an machine!
made apartr rut; nor should modern
lace drapery e suggested.
lEodrnom Ventilation.
Every room In the house should be
well ventilated, but the bedroom should
be especially well ventilated, and the
orifices at which air is admitted should
be well above the level of a person oc
cupying the room.
T he current of inflowing nir, in fact,
should be directed toward the ceiling,
for air admitted near tbo ceiling very
soon ceases to exist as a distinctive
current .uni will lie found at a short
distance from the inlet to have mingled
with the general mass of the nir. and
therefore attained the temperature of
the room, partly owing to the larger
mass of air iu the room with which
the inflowing current mingles, partly
to tho action of gravity in eases where
the inflowing nir is colder than the air
in the room. •
It may be regarded as an axiom in
ventilating and warming that the feat
lie kept warm and the head cool. Those
who complain of lieing tired in the
morning should look into this matter
at once.
The tired feeling may be due to an
overweight of lied clothing, to overex
ertion during the day, to indigestion
(•mixed by taking too late a (heal, or to
poor ventilation of the sleeping room.
If there is another room to which yon
can retire, try what a change of sleep
ing apartment will do. Many people
enn sleep better at the top of a house
than on the first floor.—American
Queen.
Fish and Egg Salad Pick the bones
from any cold cooked fish; to two cup
fuls of Ash add four hard boiled eggs
chopped fine, and four or five pickles
chopped; mix thoroughly and add a
little boiled or mayonnaise dressing;
serve In lettuce leaves; garnish witl
nasturtium leaves.
Quince Butter—Pare and core the
quinces, cutting them rather fine, cover
them with wafer,- cook
Place the parings and cores in another
saucepan, just enough water to pre
vent burning. < ook'UiuU* Jft; strain o@
tiie juice and add to the quinces. To
each pound of fruit allow three-fourths
of a pound of sugar. Boil down until
smooth and thick, stirring to prevent
burning. Put in jelly glasses and seal.
Keep 111 end. dry pla
Orange Cream -Soak half a bbs of
gelatine in half a cup of cold w;;U'V
one hour; Veat the yolks oC,tlu-eh|gifigs :
with one cupful of sugar ftn# lhe
grated rind of one orangey seitjid,?'sfel*
pint of milk and pour it over t:|ie
egg mixi tire: refut'd t; ■ tbs;-?tita‘bie
•1.-.;..-in- ov-:- ding Wittvf-uuM
creamy, then add 1 lie soaked. oMitftw*;-
and stir until dissolved off,
•-train, and when cool add tlpsjijgp}’ of
i!\c oranges: when it begin*'ib stiffea ■■
add one CUP Of rtr'hi^’Tt^piHHpfflffl
folding ii in carefully,
meld and stand in the-ice?cies|’'t>%6^l®
ui.'u hours. '