Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 June 1910 — Page 3

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K n :BY: FRANCIS CcpyrJckt. 1906. CHAPTER III. (Continued.) (Thomas Jefferson, awe-struck anil gaping, found himself foot-loose for r. time in the Marlboro rotunda while hi father talked with a man who wanted to bargain for the entire output of the Paradise furnace by the year. The commercial transaction touched him lightly; but the moving groups, the imported bell-boys, the tesdelated floors, frescoed celling and plush-covered furniture these bit .deeply. Could this bo South Tredegar, the place that had hitherto figured chiefly to him a3 "court-day" town and the residence of his preacher uncle? It seemed hugely incredible. After the conference with the Iron buyer they crossed the street to the railway station; and again Thomas Jefferson was footloose while his father was closeted with some one in the manager's oflice. An express train, with hissing airbrakes,. Solomon-magnificent sleepingcars, and a locomotive large enough to wallow whole the small affair that used to bring the once-a-day train from Atlanta, had Just backed in, and the boy took its royal measure with eager and curious eyes, walking slowly up one side of It and down the other. At the rear of the . string of Pullmans was a private car, with a deep observation platform, much polished brass railing, and sundry other .luxurious appointments, apparent even to the 78 of unsophistication. Thomas Jefferson spelled the nam? In the medallion. "Psyche" spelled It without trying to pronounce It and then turned hi attention to the people who wens descending the rubber-carpeted steps and grouping themselves under the direction of a tall man who reminded Thomas- Jefferson of his Uncle Silas with an indescribable something left out of hi3 face. "As I was about to say. General, this station building Is one of the relic. Tou mustn't Judge South Tredegr.r our new South Tredegar by this. Eh? I beg your pardon, Mrs. Vanadam? Oh, the hotel? It Is Just across the street, and a very good house; remarkably good. Indeed, all things considered. In fast, we're quite proud of tha Marlboro." One of the younger women smiled. "How enthusiastic you are. Mr. Farley. I thought we had outgrown all that we moderns." "But." my dear Miss Elleroy, If you could know what we have to be enthusiastic about down here! Why, thes mountains we've been passing through for the last six hours are simply o aoany vast treasure-houses; coal at the top, iron at the bottom, and enough cf both to kep the world's Industries going for ages! There's millions in them!" Thomas Jefferson overheard without understandlnc, but his eyes served a better purpose. Away back in the Jlne of the Scottish Gordons there must have beei an ancestor with the seer's gift of Insight, and some drop or two of his blood had come down to this lober-faced country boy searching the faces of the excursionists for his cue f fellowship or antipathy. For the sweet-voiced young woman called Miss Elleroy there was love at first sight. For a severe, beskliked Mrs Vanadam there was awe. For the portly General with mutton-chop whiskers, overlooking eyes and the air if a dictator, there was awe, also, not unmingled with envy. For the tall man In the frock'-coat, whose face re-j minded him of his Undo Silas, thera had been shrinking antagonism at the first glance which keen first Impression was presently dulled and all but tffaced by the -enthusiasm, the suave tongue, and the benlsmant manner. Which proves that insight, like the film of a recording cameia, should ' have the dark shutter snapped on it .if the picture Is to be preserved. Thomas Jefferson made way when the party, marshaled by the enthusiast, prepared for its descent on the Marlboro. Afterward, the royalties having departed and a good-natured porter giving him leave, he was at Iibtrty to examine the wheeled palace it near-hand, ami even to climb into the .vestibule for a peep inside. Therewith, castles in the air began to rear themselves, tower on walL Here was the very sky-reaching summit of all things desirable; to have one's own brass-bound hotel on wheels; to come and go at will; to five curt orders to a respectful and uniformed porter, as the awe-inspiring rentleman with the mutton-chop whiskers had done. At the highest point on the hunched shoulder of the mountain Thomas Jefferson twisted himself in the buggy leat for a final backward look Into the ralley of new marvels. '' The summer flay was graying to it3 twilight, and a light hae was stealing out of the wooded ravines and across the river. From the tall chimneys of a rollingmill a dense column of smoke was aseendins, and at the psychological moment the slag flare from an iron-furnace charged the overhanging cloud Into a fiery aegis. Having no symbolism save that of Holy Writ, Thomas Jefferson's mind lelzed Instantly on the figure. buildin far better than t knew. It was a new Exodus, with its pillar of cloud by day B.nd Its pillar of fire by night. And Its Moses though this, we may suppose, was teyoi.d a boy's imagining was the frenzied, ruthless spirit of commercialism, named otherwise, by the multitude. Modern Progress. CHAPTER IV. If you have never had the pleasure f meeting a Southern gentleman of ' the patriarchal school, I despair of bringing you well acquainted with Major Caspar Pabney until you have lummered ord wintere! him. Bat tho Dabneys of Ieer Trace figure so Tartly In Thomas Jefferson's boyhood and routh as to be well-nigh elemental In the3 retroppective glimpses. It was about the time when Thomas Jefferson was beginning to reconsider his ideals, with aleaning toward brass-bound palaces on wheels and dictatorial authority over uniformed lackeys and other of his Tellow creatures, that fate dealt the Major ts final stab and prepared to pour wine and oTl into the wound though of the balm-pouring, none could guess at thi moment "of wounding. It was not m Caspar Dabney to be patient under a blow, and for a time his ragi.ngs threatened to shake even M .mmy Juliet's loyalty than which nothing mora convincing can be said. "MLtuh Scipio" she would say, uYs? Jus' erl.out wo'ed out! I done been knowin' Mawstuh Caspah ebber senco t was Or Mistis' tlah-'ooman, and T ain't nev' seen him so fractious1 ez he been sence dat letter come tellln him come get dat po li'l gal-child o' Mawgtuh Louis's. Seems lak he Jus' gwlne rar round twel he hu't somebody!" Sclplo. ihm Major's boüy-servant. had grown gray In the Dabney service, aad he was well used to the master'3 storm periods, "Doan you trouble yo'se'f none erbaut dat. Mis' Juliet. Mawstuh Majuh tekkln' hit mighty hawd 'cause Mawtuh Louis done dald. But blmeby you gwtne see him cllmm on his hawss an'

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LYN DE ty Francis Lynds ride up yondeh to whah de big steamboats comes in an'fotch dat li'l galchlld home; an' den: uck uh-h! look out, jiiggahs; dar ain't gwine be nuttin' on de top side dishyer yearih good ornough for li'l Missy. You watch what I done tol yer erbout dat, now!" Sclpio's prophecy, or as much of It as related to the bringing of the orphaned Ardea to Deer Trace Manor, wrought Itself out speedily, as a matter of course. At the close of the war. Captain Louis, the Major's only son, had become, like many another hothearted young Confederate, a self-ex-patrloted txile. On the eve of his departure for France he had married tho Virginia maiden who had nursed him alive after Chancellorsville. Major Caspar had given the bride away the war had spared no kinsman of hers to stand in this breach and when the God-speeds were said, had himself turned back to the weed-grown fields of Deer Trace Manor, embittered and hostile, swearing never to set foot outside of his home acres again. while the Union should stand. For more than twenty years he kept this vow almost literally. A few of the older negroes, a mere haiulful of the six score slaves of the old patriarchal days, cast in their lot' with their former muster, and with these the Major made shift thriftily, farming .a little, stock-raising a little, and, unlike most of tha war-broken plantation owners, clinging tenaciously to every rood of land covered by the original Dabney title-deeds. In this cenobitlc Interval, if you wanted a Dabney colt or a Dabnev cow, you went, or sent, to Deer TraÄ Manor on your own Initiative, and you. or your deputy, never met the Major: your business was transacted with lean, lantern-Jawed Japheth Pettigrass, the Major's stock-and-farm foreman. And although the Dabney stock was pedigreed, you kept your wits about you; else Pettlgrass got much the better of you In the trade, like the shrewd, calculating Alabama Yankee that he was. Ardea was born In Paris In the twelfth year of the exile; and the Virginia mother, pining always for the home land, died in the fifteenth year. Afterward Captain Louis fought a long-drawn, losing battle. figuring bravely in his infrequent letters to b!s fither as a rising miniature painter. He had his little girl back and forth between his lodgings and the studio where he painted pictures that nobody would buy, and eking out a miserable existence by 'giving lessons In English when he was happy enough to find a puplL The brave letters Imposed on the Major, as they were meant to do; and Ardea, the loyal, happening on one oi them In he first Deer Trace summer, read It thrcugh with childish. sobs and never thereafter opened her lips on the story of those distressful Paris days. Later she understood her father's motive better: how he would not be a charge on an old man rich In nothing but rain; und the rnemory of the pinched childhood became a thing sacred. How the Major, a second Rip Vm Winkle, found his way to New York, and to the pier of the Incoming French Line steamer, must always remain a mystery- But he was there, with ,tho fierce old eyes quenched and swimming and the passionate Dabney lips trembling strangely under the great moustaches, when the black-frockod little waif from the Old World ran down, the landing stage and Into his arms! Small wonder that they clung to each other, these two at the further extremes of three- generations; or that the child opened a door in the heart of the fierce old partisan which was locked and doubly barred against all others. It was all new and very strange to a chjld whose only outlook on life had beensurban and banal. She had never seen a mountain, and nothing more nearly approaching a forest than tha oarked groves of the Pols de Boulogne. Would it be permitted that she should sometimes walk in the woods of the first Dabney, she asked, with the quaint French twisting of the phrases that 3he was never able fully to overcome. It would certainly be permitted; more, the Major would make her a deed to as many of the forest acres as she would care to include in her promenade. Hot-' the French-born child fitted Into the haphazard household at ' Deer Trace Manor, with what struggles she 'came through the Inevitable attack of homesickness, and how , Mammy Juliet and every one else petted and Indulged her, are matters which need not be dwelt cn. But" we shall gladly believe that she was too sensible, even at the early and tender age of 10, to be easily spoiled. She never forgot a summer day soon after her arrival when she first saw her grandfather transformed Into a frenzied madman. He vas sitting cn the wide portico directing Japheth Pettigrass, who was training the great crimson-rambler rose that ran well up to the eaves. Ardea, herself, was on the lawn, playing wl'.h her grandfather's latest gift, a huge, solemn-eyed Great Dane, so she did not see the man who had dismounted at the gate and walked up the driveway until he was handing hi3 card to her grandfather. When she did see him, ?he looked tdwice at him; not because he was trigly clad in brown duck and tightlybuttoned service leggings, but because he v.-ore his beard trimmed to a point, after the manner of the students In the L.atin Quarter, and so was reminiscent of things freshly forsaken. Her grandfather wa3 on his feet, towering above the visitor as If he were about to fall on and crush him. "Bring youh Yankee railroad through my fields and pastchuhs, suh? Foul the pure al-ah of this peaceful Gyarden of Eden with youh dust-filngin', smokepot locomotives? Not a rod, suh! not a foot or an Inch oven the Dabney lands! Do I make It plain to you. suh?" "But Major Dabney one moment; this Is purely a matter of business; there is nothing personal about It. Our company is able and willing to pay liberally ;for Its right of way; and you must remember that the coming of the railroad will treble and quadruple your hind values. I arn only asking you to consider thj matter In a business way, anu to name your own price." '"Not anotheh word, suh, or you'll make me lose my tempah! You add insult to injury, suh, when you offeh me youh contemptible Yankee gold. When I desiah to sell my birthright for youh beggahly mes3 of pottage, I'll send a black boy In town to lnfawm you. suh!" v It is conceivable that the locating engineer of the Great Southwestern Railway Company was younger than he looked; or, at all events, that his experience hitherto had not brought him in contact with fire-eating gentlemen of the old school Eis he would hardly have said what he did. "Of course, it Is optional with you, Major Dabney, whether you sell us our right of way peaceably or compel us to acquire it by condemnation proceedings in the courts. As for the rest 1 it

possible that you don't know the war is over?" With a roar like that of a maddened lion the Major bowed Jmself, caught his man In a miphty wrestler's grip arid fiun? him broadcast into the colors hod. The words that went with the fierce attack made Ardea crouch and

shiver and tako refuse behind the groat i dog. Japheth Pettigrass jumped down from his step-Hdder and went to help the engineer out of the Mower bed. "The oM f.rel-rand:" the engineer was muttering under his breath when Pettigrass reached him; but the foreman cut him short. , "You got mighty little sense, looks like, to me. Stove up any?" "Nothing to hurt. I guess." "Well, your hawss Is waitin' for ye down yonder nt the gate, and I don't b'lieve the Major is allowin' to ask yo to stay to supper." When the engineer had mounted and ridden away down the pike, the foreman straightened himself and faced about. The Major had dropped into his big arm-chair . Ills hands shook. Tettigrass moved nearer and spoke f-o that the child should not hear. "If you run me off the place the nex' minute. I'm goin' to tell you you ort to be tolerably 'shamed of yourse'f, Maje' Dabney. That po little gal Is scared out of a year's growin, right now." "I know, Japheth; I know. I'm an old heathen! For, Insultin' as he was, the man was for the time bein' my guett. suh my guest!" "I'm talkin' about the little one not that railroader. So far as I know, he earned what he got. I allowed they'd mal3; some sort of a swap with you, so I didn't say anything - when they was layin' out their lines throo' the hawss-lot and across the lower cornfield this mornin' easy, now; no more r'arin' and t'arin' with that thar little gal not a-knowin which side o the earth's goin to cave in next!" "Laid out theyuh lines across my prope'ty? Japheth, faveh me by riding down to the i furnace and askin Caleb Gordon if he will do me the honor to come up hear this evenln', if he can. I I it's twenty yeahs and mo' since I've troubled the law cou'ts of ouh po", Yankee-ridden country with any affalah of mine; and row well, I don't know," with a despondent shake of the leonlrio ho?d. (To be continued.) CAT CENSUS ET Y0KAIIA3TA. Feline Infant Mortality Leuenftl ' by a Donna on 'Kitten. Yokohama, which prides itself upon being the most flourishing pert in Japan, received a shock last year. It believed that its cat population was decreasing alarmingly. With the painstaking care that characterizes Japanese officialdom the officers of the kencho, or city hall, set their agents to taking a census of the cati of Yokohama. There were about 7,000 able-bodied adult cats in all the confines of the city, these enumerators discovered; they even established tha fact that less than one-third of the cat population was male3. Something must be done at once to encourage the growth of the feline members of Yokohama society, the kencho officers decided. They were quite sure by observation of the family habits of certain cats selected from tha proletariat that race suicide was not a factor In thl3 decrease of the population. On the contrary, they found It to be a fact that In too many Instances human Intervention during the infancy of the cats brought about the les; sening of the. population by violence. J In all Japaneso cities bubonic plague is an ever present menace. There havo been times when the plague has swept through whole districts and only by the most rigorous efforts of the sanitary officials could It be stamped out. Rats arotbo chief disseminators of the plague. On occasions sucli vigorous campaigns have been waged against the rats that the governments of various citle3 have offered a quarter of a cent bounty for every rat carcass. Men went Into the trade of rat catching with handsome profits In sight But Yokohama decided that the most potent means of rat extermination lay in the city's cats. Hence the alarm felt at the discovery of the decrease la the number of rat catchers. So after the completion of the cat census a year ago the kencho officials decided to offer a bonus of CO sen (25 cents) for every kitten raised to maturity. Complication followed .fast in the path of this spur to cat culture, ths New York Sun asserts. Citizens flocked to the kencbo with cats not their own and cat chasing became one of the most serious pursuits of the street boys. The kencho officials finally had to rule that a 'preliminary clakn for the CO sen reward must be rra.de at the nearest police station upon the birth of every kitten and that the bonus would not be paid until such time a3 It could te shown that the same kitten had advanced to sufficient maturity to be considered a rat catcher. Consequently for a year past one of the chief duties of policemen has been the Inspection and registration of the adolescence of cats. Yokohama Is breathing easier now. The last cat census showed that thert were was la round numbers 12,000 cats In the city.. Yeu 1,975 (J9S7.50) has been paid out in bounties. Ok, 3Ian! Man! Maud Jack swears that he would traverse seas just to look Into my eyes. Ethel He called on you last night, a3 usual? Maud Not last night; he telephoned me that it was raining too hard. Boston Transcript. An Artltt, Anyway. Rival What a color Miss Smythe has to night. I wonder if she' paints? Adorer (turning his wistful eyes toward the central figure of an admiring circle) I don't know. She certainly draws well TIt-BItfi. Bachelor Take Warulnt;! Hoggs Alienists say that single men are much more liable to insanity than married. Dobbs Sure thej are! Single men are always in danger of going crazy over scene woman. Boston Transcript. After a most careful record kept by a Chicago company it was shown that tha electric vehicle was considerably cheaper to operate than the 'horse drawn delivery wagons and trucks. When It is remembered that the elecf trie vehicle makes a better appearance, travels faster and can bo handled quicker and easier there is nc question but what it will ultimately displace the horse. It Is a good thing to have good friends, but not to he dominated toe much or tco long by their example. Rev. wm. Dickie. No man can be brave who consider! pain to be the greatest evil of life; nor temperate who considers pleasuri the highest good Cicero. I save all I can and give all I can; that 13 all I have. Wesley. All is not gold that is shoved at you for the real shine.

GX Stooplen Dnntpun Sorr. ( Women are generally agreed that cue of the most serious features of household work is the Incessant stoop ing which seems to be necessary in tho performance of the daily routine of tho household work. Doctor claim that it is this alcne which Is In a large .measure responsible for the many ills and. ailments which women aro afflicted with and which the men are free frcm. So new pl'stpax. many of her daily tasks require that she should lean or stoop over that It is not long before this unnatural attitude Is responsible for some serious and chronic illness which often makes, her an invalid for the rest of her life. The stoopless dustpan, which has recently been Invented, enables her to do the work of gathering up the accumulations on the floor without ih least inclination of her body. The new Implement has a long handle by which It Is carried conveniently, and at the same time the handle controls the operation of a lid which opens for the reception of the dust when the pan U placed on the floor and. as it is raised after gathering up the accumulations, the lid closes, hiding the contents from view and preventing their being -scattered br the wind or by accident Health and Beauty Hint. Avoid fear in all its varied forms of expression. Keep In the sunlight; nothing beautiful or sweet ripens in the darkness. Simply refuse to grow old by counting your years or anticipating old ago. Don't allow yourself to think, on your birthday, that yon are a year older. Refrain from all kinds of 6tlmulants and sedatives; they will shorten your life. Nature Is the great rejuvenator; her spirit is ever young. Live with her; study her; love her. Avoid excesses of all kinds; they are Injurious. The long liTe must be a temperate, regular life. Keep mental cobwebs, dust and brain ashes brushed off by frequent trips to the country, or by travel. Never look on the dark side; take suuny views of everything; a sunny thought drives away the shadows. Cultivate the spirit of contentment; all discontent and dissatisfaction bring age-furrows prematurely to the face. Think beautiful thoughts harmony thoughts, truth thoughts, thoughts of innocence, of youth, of love and of kindness. Phsician3 claim that sleep Is more refreshing In a darkened room. It is well to accustom children from Infancy to sleep In the dark. After living for several months on gLmple foods, In addition to increased good health, it would be found that an Increased susceptibility of taste and a keener relish have been acquired. Massage 13 not only a beautifying agent, but it is a wonderful cure for neuralgia, If attention is paid especially to the muscles of the eyes and brow. It Is excellent also for sleeplessness and all nervous conditions. ' For ingrowing nalU wear wider boots and clip the nails so they curve down In the center of the top. Nails as a rule are a little rounded or pointed, but by cutting them in the nails bend a little and are less apt to1 hurt the flesh at the sides. Keep them short all the time. Stw Type of Woman, The eyes,of ihe world are directed at the matured women who are doing things. The exclusive society woman and she who has only good looks to recommend her are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. We are living in an intensely practical age. So rapidly are we living that all forces are amalgamating and evolving a type of woman such as the world, has never teen before. She is not a fledgling, nor a merely pretty thing, but a woman of gracious tact and wide sympathy, who has lived down many a bitter disappointment and crushed many a sorrow, put who Is imbued with the optimistic spirit of Young America; she knows that In order to do her best she must look her best; she Inspires old and young with her youthful enthusiasm; she is sincerely interested In every humane question of the day; thus unconsciously does sho cultivate those endearing qualities of the heart, the daily exhibition of which, in tho course of years. Imparts an atmosphere cf Bolt, sweet femininity, and gives to a woman when she reaches middle life that delightful subtle spirit we call "charm." This is perhaps what the satirical Bernard Shaw meant when he asserted that no woman Is possible until she has reached her thirty-fifth year, and not worth talking with until ber fortieth! The Delineator. I 'con oniy In lluintf. Comparatively fiv housekeepers appreciate the econo ny of buying household supplies In large quantities at wholesale rates. Try it for a while, keeping strict accounts and at the end of a year you will be surprised at the amount of money saved. When it is Impossible for one to buy In large quantities, owing, perhaps, to a small family, lot several housekeepers club together, one woman who has business ability attending to the ordering, or they can take turns in doing that part of the work if they choose. Of course, it is some trouble, but it pays well for the time spent. Many articles in dally use, as dried fruits, canned good.?, spices, etc., can be- kept for a long time if properly cared fur. Soap is much better kept a Inng time the longer Urn better. Buttor if put up In prints or. small packages, can be wrapped in a clean wet doth cr wet butter paper, and put into a Jar of strong brine as much salt In tho water as It will dissolve when it will keep indefinitely if care is taken to keep the butter always covered with tho brine. Perishable food will, of course, have to be ordered oficner. In place of the Thlpplng used In sewing ruffles on tl Danas or lace, the woman who makes fcer own lingerie will find this method"

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much easier, quicker and quite a3 effective: Turn down the edge of the ruffle as if to make a very narrow hem, but instead of hemming, gather with a fine thread, then place the gathers evenly, hold them firmly in place and whip on to the lace. The gathering thread will not show and the work will be strong enough for laundering. This can be done in half the time, and the most critical admirer of neat and dainty sewing can not detect It from rolling and whipping.

Marrlace. This mating business is much more serious than young people can ever be made to realize, and, while I believe young people should be left to make their own selections I believe also that they should be made to see, before a critical stage is reached, as nearly as possible what marriage moans, says Erman J. Illdgway in the Delineator, What does marriage mean? Not In transports, high spots, purple days, but In terms of every day. It i3 generally believed that the most successful marriages follow tae mating of contrasts, nervous with phlegmatic, "sunny with solemn, light with dark, and so on. There Is probably something in the theory, though If the contrast are too marked the result is likely to be misery. The chasm is too wide to bridge. A perfect mating Is hardly attainable. There -ould be fewer misunderstandings and more "successful" marriages lSeiore people realizzed that a marriage can be successful without being perfect. Terhaps, tco, there would be easier sledding If more people realized that marriage 13 aa attempt at three matlngs: The mating of two souls; the mating of two minds; the mating of two bodies. Two people fairly mated in any two of these can make a very happy, marriage of it, even if the other mating is hopeless, as long as they understand the situation and decide to make the best of it. 1 Ileaddrea for Morning. The tendency ha3 been of late years to leave off hats in the summer tim as much as possible. Girls have knotted veils behind the ears and have contrived many other little fanciful headdresses to protect their tresses from the winds, but it has remained for an American girl artist in Paris to send us a charming and Frenchy little design that will catch the eye of our summer girls one and all on the Instant It Is simply a large silk handker-

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The above sketch was taken from a gown of soft cashmere In a new and lovely shide of Dresden blue. The skirt, perfect in cut, is arranged with crossing folds in front. Bodice is blue linon over soft silk, in palest possible shade of rose . leaf pink. Over this are bretellcs and bands of cashmere, finely embroidered with silk, and trimmed with narrow cords of satin In same shade of blue. Upper part of bodice Is filled in with fine creme lace, like that used for the undersloeves; the latter lined with pale pink chiffon and finished with deep cuffs of fine cream net, bordered at wrista with a piping of blue satin.

chief in cashmere design draped over a very largö wire frame which is light in weight and protects the hair. The 'kerchief is edged with black moire, and there is a black tassel at each coriKT. And it may be made at home, which is not the least of its charms.

Happy Honte. Heines would be happier IF Married people were as agreeable as in tho days of their courting. IF Each tried to be a real support and comfort to the other. IF Household expenses were under and not over the sum given for them. IF Married people remembered they were married for worse as well as better. IF. People were as polite to each other In private as they are In public, and IF Husbands and wives did not make the fatal mistake of drifting into humdrum machines. Keeplnsr Up Appearances. Your everyday toilet i3 a part of your character, says a writer. A girl who looks like a "fury" or a sloven in the morning is not to be trusted, however finely she may. look in the evening. Look tidy in the morning and after the dinner is over improve your toilet. Make it a rule of your daily life to "dress" in the afternoon. Your dress may or may net be anything better than calico, but with a ribbon or flower or some bit of ornament you can have anjr of self-respect and satisfaction that invariably commends you to heaven. Folding Ironed Clothes. In folding cldthe3 for ironing each article should always be folded lengthwise, and the reason they should be so folded I3 because the thread that runs In that direction is always strongest. These threads go around the loom, while the woof, which goes to and fro over and under the long threads. Is not so strong, so that ironing crosswise will not only draw the, article out of shape, but will cause it to wear more quiekjy. This is especially true of table and bed linens. Women as Farmer, More than 700,000 woman had a share last year in raising the crops of the nation. That more twomenare taking up farming each year Is & fact, en.4 tVtot frA tvinef rf afä rÄwt fing is equally true. They are running cattle ranches, cotton plantations, raising melons, wheat, corn, fruit aad -managing stock farms and chlck3n ranches. In every part of the country the invasion of the agricultural field by women is going on, but it is more marked In the West. VVatliinsr Glove. Make a lather of lukewarm water and good white soap Add one-half teaspoonful of borax. "Wash gloves, squeezing and patting gently until the dirt is out. Do not wring or squeeze hard. Jtinse ixi more lukewarm water and lay them on a soft towel until most of the water is absorbed. Hang up to dry, and when almost dry gently pull and stretch with the hands. . A Cruel Hint. Nell Harry hdd such a masterful way about his proposing that I liked. Belle Did you? That's queer, for It was exactly what made most of us other girls turn him down. Baltimore American. "ot Her Fault. Being upbraided by her mother for being the lowest In her class, little Mabel exclaimed, In tones of Injured Innocence: "It ain't my fault. The girl who has always been at the foot has left school." Modern Society. Hot for Ulm. Johnson That girl is a jewel. Morrison Why don't you marry her? Johnson I can't, furnish the setting. Smart Set.

Chair an Ironing-Iloard. One of the most ingenious Inventions for household use recently patented Is the combination rocking chair and Ironing-board designed by a Texas woman. This seems to solve the problem other inventors have been working on, of what to do with the ironing-board when not in use. The seat-board and back of the chair are hinged to a board which extends across the front legs, and both are detachably affixed to seat rails and back rails. When it is designed to use the affair for ironing he chair i3 turned over so that It rests on the ends of the rockers and the top of the back rails. The seat and back are then straightened out till they form one long board and held in position by a support which is hinged to the back and folds down behind it when the device is used a3 a chair. This gives a firm, broad surface on which to iron, the end of the board forming the chairback being tapered as is the end of an ordinary ironing-board. A ailncc Meat Receipt. Here is a receipt for mince meat, which comes from one of London's most famous chefs: Four pounds of apples pared, cored and minced; one and cne-half pounds of raisins, stoned and minced; four pounds of dried currants; two pounds of beef suet finely shredded; one pound of sugar; quarter ounce of mixed spice; quarter punce of salt; the minced rinds, of four lemons, and the juice of two; onethird pint of sweet ..wine and one-third pint of brandy. Carrot Soup. Cut up some carrots 'very fine, put into a pot with either a small piece of raw beef or the bone remaining from a roast leg of mutton, two or three onions, one turnip, pepper and salt; boil for three hours, and then put through a colander or sieve. Make this the day before it is wanted, and rewarm. Potato soup is excellent made in the same way, only substituting po'tatoes for the carrots and adding one carrot. To Keep Batter Cool. ' ' Where one ha 4np Ice box, set the butter in a sauctf or soup plate and place in a larger dish. Invert a coarse flower pot over the butter and spread over thJa a cloth wet In ice water or strong salt water. ,Let the ends fall Into the liquid in the outer dish. Aa this evaporates, renew. Cloths wrung out of a strong solution of borax and water, then wrapped around butter rolls, will keep then fairly hard. Rhubarb Sauce. Peel and cut rhubarb In small pieces. Put into a preserving kettle or agate saucepan. Cover generously with sugar and add about one-half cup of water to prevent it from burning. Cook slowly until tender. If cooked rapidly the pieces will not keep their form. On account of the large amount of water in, rb.ubarb, only enough water need be' added to prevent It from burning. Stuffed noaated Green Pepper. Cut off tops of the peppers and remove the seeds. Make a forced meat of minced chicken and rice, seasoned with, salt and onion juice and softened with melted butter. Fill the peppers with this, arrange them in a baking dish, pour about them a little gravy or stock, that they may not burn, cover and bake In a moderate oven for an hour. Uncover and brown. Potato Shells. Mince one-half cup of cold meat very fine. Season with a piach of sweet herbs, pepper and salt and add one level tablespoon of butter. Mix thl3 meat with two cups of mashed potatoes and fill buttered scallop shells with the mixture. Put a teaspoon of butter on each and sprinkle with a. few bread crumbs. Brown in a moderate oven and serve hot. Datter Cakes for Breakfast. When batter cakes are desired for breakfast they are much nicer if mixed the night before, Prepare as usual, leaving the batter quite thin, as it will thicken from standing, and beat thoroughly. In the morning it is only necessary to add the soda dissolved in mil'i or water stir well, and they are ready to bake. Fresno Raisin Pie. One pound seeded or seedless raisins, one cup sugar; one pint water. Stew in saucepan till raisins are done. Add Juice of one large or two small lemons, and two beaten eggs. Thicken with dry bread crumbs. Bake sam as lemon pie, cover with whipped cream or meringue. Finest ever. Eolk'd Corn. Remove from the corn all the silk, but leave on the husk. Wrap this again about the cob and tie at the top with soft cord. Bring a pot of salted water to a hard boil, lay in the ears and cook for fifteen minutes. Strip off the leaves Just before sending to the table. Tomato Sauce. ' With roast veal or pork, or with baked beans in place of vinegar. Cook six or eight tomatoes witti a chopped onion, rub through a coarse sieve or fine colander to remove the seeds, and add to plain white sauce. Canned tomatoes may be used. Cream of Potato Soup. ( Cook until tender about four pared and cut potatoes In salt water. Drain and mash; stir thi3 pulp into one quart of hot milk, add a little butter and white pepper. Serve hot with crackers. Plum lirouu Dread. One cup of rye meal, oie cup of Indian meal, two cups of flour, one cup of molasses, one cup of raisins, one teaspoonful of Foda; mx with sour milk and steam three hours. Keep Butter In Jars. Tut your butter in fruit jars if you would lessen the bill and preserve the taste. A pound of butter can be packed snugly in a pint jar. Flavoring for Strap. The tender leaves and small ends of celery should never be thrown away. If dried, they aro found excellent for flavoring soups. Ilalaln Jam. One pound seeded raisins, cooked with one-half pound sugar and one cup water. Cook until thick. Add nutmeg If duired.

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"My mother used to have a very bad bumor on her head which the doctor called an eczema, and for it I had two different doctors. Her head was very Bore and-her hair nearly all fell out in spite of what they both did. Ona day her niece came in and they wer speaking of how her hair was fallinx cut and the doctors did It no good. She says, "Aunt, why don't you - trj Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment?' Mother did and they helped her.- In six months' time the itching, burning and scaling of ber head waa over and her hair began growing. Today she feels much in debt to Cuticura Soap and Ointment for the fin head of hair she has for an old lady of seventy-four. "My own case wa3 an eczema in my feet. As soon as the cold weather came my feet would itch and burn and then they would crack open and bleed. Then I thought I would flee to my mother's friends, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. I did for four or five winters, and now my feet are aj smooth as any one's. Ellsworth Duaham, Hiram, Me., Sept 30. 1909." The Cocoa Plantation. A traveler in South Africa, whert the cocoa tree is largely cultivated, speaks of the great care with whfch the young plants have to be protected from the sun, which If very strong Is fatal to them. To secure this protection the planters shield them by ba nana trees and plalntaln trees, tha broad leaves of which give them the needed shade. And even when they are fully gTown they need protection, which is given by frees known as "imraortels,' or, as the planters call them, "the mother of the cocoa." Thus th vhole cocoa plantation has a sort cf canopy. Watch Your Refriaerator. You'll save many a doctor bill by watching- your refrigerator. Keep it absolutely clean all the time. The best way to clean it 13 to take clean hot water, maka a suds with Easy Task soap and wash every nook and corner in the ice box or refrigerator. Thea the food doesn't get smelly and carry disease germs to tho table. Easy Task soap, being made of pure cocoanut oil, borax, naptha and clean tallow, is antisepticas well . as cleansing. It is a wonderful soap and a nickel a cake. As They Motored. There!" snapped Mrs. Vick-Senn, grabbing him by the arm; ' with you recklessness you nearly ran over that newsboy!" "Catch anybody running over a newsboy!" he muttered. "Well, It looked as if you were trying to do It! Running: through th streets of a crowded city at a rate of twenty-five miles an hour! Tou'ra nothing but a speed maniac! Yur wha tthey call a Joy rfder! "I may be a joy rider," said her husband, letting the machine out another Botch, "but I'm not half as jawy as you , are!" Chicago Tribune. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and Invigorate stomach, liver and bowels and cure constipation. . Makes It Piy. Bonser Old Dullhoover Is a close . the bark on a tree, and he never forgets anything. Batterson You're rlsht. on both counts. Evpn if he 'merely wants to remember something he "charges his nind" with it. . Don't spoil vour clothes. Use Kuss bleaching bin und keep tbem white aa snow. lOe package at grocers. Feedlnir to the Finish. Justice Monkey ate all the cheesa that he was called upon to divldt equally between two Joint owners, be cause at one time he bit a little too mueh from what wa3 in one scalepaa and the next time a little too mucti from what was in the other. Somewhat similar was the predicament in which a guest at the table of C. IL McCormlck, the inventor of the reaper found himself. The Btory Is told la' the recently published book, "Cyrus Hall McCormlck. A very dignified and selfentered military officer was taking supper wltÄ the McCormlck family. The first course, as usual, was corn meal mus'a and milk. It was served in Scotch fashion, with the hot mush in one bowl and the cold milk in another. Th practice was so to co-ordinate the eating of them that bott were finished at the same time. - The oftcer planned his spoonfuls badly, and was soon out of milk. "Have some more milk to finish youi mush, colonel," said McCormlck Several minutes later the colonel's mush bowl was empty, at which McCorm!c said, "Have some more mush to finlss your milk." And so It went,,wlth mils for the mush and mush for the milk; until the unfortunate colonel was hope . lessly incapacitated for the four or fin courses that came afterward. Itemludlny Htm. Isabel, Is thr.t you?" "Hello! t'Yes." "Say, dearest " "'Sh, Gerald! Haven't you seen ths new rule, that you mustn't talk ovsr the telephone as you would if you wert face to face?" ' A DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE. Hediclne.Xot Needed In This Case It Is hard to convince some reopls that coffee does them an injuvy! They la their bad feelings to almost every" cause but the true and unsuspected one. But the doctor knows. His wide experience has proven to Lim that, to some systems, coffee Is an Insidious poison that undermines the health. Ask the doctor if coffee is the cause of constipation, stomach and nervocj troubles. "I have been a coffee drinker all my life. I am now 42 years old and when takn sick to years go with nervous prostration, the doctor said that my nervous system was broken down and that I woul ü have, to give tip coffee. "I got so weak and shaky I could not work, and reading your advertisement of Postum, I asked rriy grocer if he had any of it. He said. 'Yes.' and that ho used it in his family and It was all it claimed to be. "So I quit coffee and commenced to use Postum steadily and found in about two weeks' time I could sleep soundly at night and get up In the morning lecling fresh. In about two months I began to gain flesh. I weighed only 14 G pounds when I commenced on Postum and now I weigh 1CT and feel better than I did at 20 years of age. "I am working every day and sleep well at night. My two children' were great coffee drinkers, but they have not drank any 'since Postum came into the house, and are far more healthy than they were before."' Read "The RoaJ to Wellville," found in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.