Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1894 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA STATE EMIXEL,- WEUXESÜAT MORXISG, 3LYY I(, 1 694 TAV ELVE TAGES.

WOMAN AND HER HOME.

JWOIIKING GIRLS AS AVIVES AND 3IAKEKS OF HAPPY HOMES. Women a Designern The Evolution of the Daushtfru The Long- Gown Age-lhe Girl Journaliftt St lUh AVoiurn Palled the all Miss Itepplier. The best and happiest wife in this and the next generation is and will be the eelf-supporting woman. It is so evident that arguments and proofs seem superfluous. From a. severely practical standpoint, a woman who has made her own living knows the value of -money, has had experience in making it go as far as possible, has sown all the wild oats of email extravagances and subsequent scrimping that make trouble in many new homes. A dollar to her represents so many hours work, not a few coaxing uord3 addressed to papa. She knows what kind of home it is pleasant to come to after a tiring day's work and what sort of breakfast 1.? the best foundation for eight hours' toil. She has been u?ed for so long to look after herself that it is almost heaven to have some one as-k if she had her rubbers on this morning, and the trifling attention will be repaid by a devotion to socks and buttons which the masculine mind will enj y while it may not entirely understand. Xo matter how plucky and successful ehe hr.s been, the self-supporting woman has been f.r years very tired, mentally and physically, with the weight of reeponsibility she ho.;-, carried. If one week has been brought to a close successfully. In comparative comfort and with no debt incurred, she can only draw a very fhort breath before the next one vmrnences. It may be very selfish, but isn't It delicious t- feel that some one else, whose shoulders are stronger, has taken this wearing burden from you and carries it easily too? What can be more delightful, after years of rushing down town Immediately after breakfast or shutting one's self up in a study or office early in the morning, than to draw a comfortable, happy breath at the table and then set about domestic duties? The sheltered feeling is indescribable and one that can not be appreciated by any woman who has not fought her own battles. Men as a general thin? are good natured and pleasant enough to women whom I hey meet in a business way, but however kind they may be the woman never can feel that she is at her best ouiside of her home. Do you think a self-reliant, plucky breadwinner, who Is, after ail, the more a woman for all ther brave march abreast with men, is going to toss her head and give utterance to the hackneyed statement about not giving up her lib?rty for the best man living, and is there anything particularly desirable in the liberty which consists in working day after day for fxd and clothes and a place to sleep, bareiy gained by wages which will be lost the moment some one else is willing to do the same work for less money? This applies to every wage earning woman, from the girl who spends her weary days behind a counter to the successful brain worker, who is more envied because less understood than any of the women who eat their own bread. Jessie M. Burogyne in Donahoe"s Magazine. "Women an Designers. The cheap production of machine made ornamentations Is doubtless thwarting to truly artistic and original design, but th? demand for new patterns and new designs is overwhelming, and manufacturers, being for the most part practical business men and not conscientious artists, naturally seek to meet the demand by every season producing some novelty in the decorations of their goods. JIany manufacturers keep their own designers on the premises. Yet many of the best makers are not averse to buying designs from outsiders, as they obtain thereby greater novelty and change. Herein comes the opportunity for work by trained women designers. But woman must first bo schooled as to the needs of manufacturers. She must learn the business side of her art. In these days of overcompeition any eoheme that promises even a possibility of helping women to help themselves should arouse interest and attention. The growing desire among the rising generation of drafters to earn their own living does not. I think, proceed from a desire to be selfishly independent of men. but from the natural and healthy wish to be free and honest in their thoughts and actions and to have some higher aim in life than the society girl's wearisome search for pleasure and a husband. If all women in their youth received a practical training in some practical craft, so that if necessity demanded they might be able to earn a living, they would be saved from the fear of sordid poverty and be enabled to work out their own destinl, and if providence did not see fit to provide them with a congenial mate they would still be able to find a fair field for the employment and remuneration of their talents. But even if woman does marry it by no means follows that she is provided for for the term of her natural life. The vagaries of an inexorable destiny in these,lays of speculative business and bank failures often leave a widow and orphans dependent upon the unselfishness of their relations. It would be invaluable under such circumstances for a woman to ave a working knowledge of some art or craft, so that she might be able to earn a decent living for herself and her children. Mrs. J. K. II. Gordon in Fortnightly Ilevlw. Some Summer Silk. A foulard showing a moss-green background has a violet, a single one, thrown here and there upon It; another with a mauve ground has a tiny forget-me-not for Its figure, writes Isabel A. Mallon in an illustrated article on "The Silks of the Summer" in the May Ladies' Home Journal. The shade known as Trappiste, which is really a golden brown, is made effective by pin points of a lighter shade cn its surface. In whites the preference la given to a creamy shade and a deep ecru, but occasionally a dead white is seen with a flower printed upon it, this flower being oftenest an orchid, because that permits the use of a Magenta collar and belt. A light blue that Is almost a gray i3 liked in summer silks, and is invariably trimmed with dead white ribbon or lace. Iiy-the-by. the laces used ere all coarse in design, being either real or Imitation Irish point, or real or imitation point de Venise. She who was fortunate enough to have gotten dome Irish crochet at the fair last summer uses It upon her silk grown and knows that it is what the fashionable women in London elect shall be given the preference over all other laces. The silks made up for evening or visiting wear are often of that curious pink which is first cousin to dove. Mia llepplier. The essayist may flourish In the United States, but we have at least cultivated one who i3 a mistress of the art. An there seems to be but one. need I print her name? And yet. though Miss Reppller does not write a great deal, she has a national reputation. She is not one of those who "dash off" their manuscript pages, if one may Judge by a writer's style. She writes with care and painstaking and seems to enjoy her work. There are touches here and there in her writing that Fhow that sense of humor which fw iunjyjisreons would deny

to women. I confess that there are no Mark Twains or Bill Neys among -the gentler sex unless you incline to rank the creator of "Josiah Allen's Wife" with these two funmakers, but I hardly think that you will. Miss Repplier's humor Is of the sort that is found in the novels of George Eliot and Jane Austen, and in a measure such as scintillates through the pages of Lowell's essays. I do not rank Miss Repplier with Lowell as an essayist, bear in mind, but I saythat she shares with him the gift of seeing the humorous side of the question, and it is a delightful gift, which both the reader and the writer enjoy. Critic. The Evolution of the Daughter. A great deal of the ill health of our delicate girls arises from repression of their young energy-. The boys. too. would be hysterical if their youth were hedged In with so many conventional restraints that there would be no room left for selfrestraint; if everything they wore, every word they spoke, every youthful grace and beauty, every intellectual .endowment, were habitually looked upon and openly spoken of as making them more salable articles. These things belong only to the ages of slavery, and I would once and for all protest that where there is a "market" marriage in its true sense cannot be said to exist. Marriage is the free union of the free, taking upon themselves such limitations of their freedom as will lead them into the highest realms of liberty. Liberty implies law, discerned to be the best for ourselves and our neighbors, the guaran

tee of a personal and national freedom. This is the sort of freedom, this is the sort of liberty, which has become a part of the Englishman's very self-consciousness, and it is the same liberty which our girls are claiming, are taking and are using well. It seems certain that the result must be to restrain the license into which men have turned their liberty. In fulfilling the logical sequence which .must give to a nation free women to stand by the side of free men, our English girls are also carrying on the destined work f England for the world. With grievous and daring exceptions, the example and influence of England have, on the whole, brought hope and delight and order to brutalized and enslaved nations, at least to the men of those nations. Here and there, even in the darkest recesses of paganism, a hint, a gleam of the freedom which Christianity means for women has reached the most down-trodden and tortured of the women of the world. They groan with a new apprehension of their misery, and it will lie in the hands of our daughters, freed themselves, to carry freedom to other women. Contemporary Review. The I-on: (iown Aspe. There is a universal habit indulged in by the girl in her teens that undoubtedly continues its hold throughout all tim. It is the systematic exaggeration of her age the adding of years that are not hers by right and the donning of womanly gowns and graces that she has no claim to assume prematurely. The ambition of every school girl points toward that eventful day when she may put up her hair and let down her frocks. While she is still engrossed in the care of a large and interesting doll family the greatfst part of the "make believe" is to put on mother's dress and trail about feeling very grown up and elegant. Just as soon as there is the least chance of success she begins to coax for attire that is suggestive of riper years, and if the mother consents the world will be treated to the mystifying transformation from girlhood to w manhood in the short space of twenty-four hours. Every ?irl that ever lived was wild to get into long gowns, and yet it is safe to say that not one out of the thousands but feel later on that she made a mistake, for by the time sh? is twenty society will look upon her as passee. just because it can rememher her as frown up for a dozen years at least, judging by her frocks. There is no use being too anxious to rub the bloom fron th? peach of youth. It gets rubbed off quickly enough, and girlhood is an all too brief season, long as it may seem to the school girl desirous of entering uiM,n that new world which appears to her like enchanted ground. With the long gowns come responsibilities that cannot lightly be thrown aside. What is pardoned in the girl is censured In the woman. He young just as long as you can. for as bewitching as the grownup modes may be to your feminine taste they will not compensate for the robbery of youth when the first novelty of such apparel has worn off. Philadelphia Times. The Olrl JonrnnUt. She is now alircst as popular as the man. Every newspaper and magazine contains some of her writings. All subjects are discussed by her, and she does not falter even when a political question appears, but bravely and unfalteringly argues the point. So many of our girls, and a great pitiy it is, too, think they are born to write. Xo one need say them nay, for thy feel sure It Is their vocation, and evn when article after article has been refused they plod on, never stopping . to think they may possibly be wrong, while buried away, o come to light later, as their true talent or art, for it is not always early in life that the rightful calling comes to us. The great mistake our "girl Journalist" makes is in the start, by allowing herself to write only on one subject. Take, for instance, the daily correspondent. She Invariably will write up fashions, and instead of allowing herself to wander off into the woman kingdom and write the many things pertaining to women the, in spite of all, clings simply to gowns, how they are made, etc. This is a grievous mistake, for If she allows herself to continue this style of writing she gets in a rut, and there she remains. The talent which she might have turned to great account is buried out of sight by her own hand simply because she took little or no trouble to exert herself. This work, if the young woman Is capable, is by far the nicest she can follow. She is free from the hardships and trials of the shop or office girl and is not subjected to the publicity that many other occupations call forth. N. Y. Commercial. When A ;irl Violin. When you are packing your trunk try and put In it everything that you will need so that you will not have to borrow from your hostess, writes Ruth Ashmore in a timely article on "The Girl "U'ho Goes A-Visiting" in the Ladies' Home Journal. You will require the silk or cotton matching your gowns, your needles, scissors and thimbie, and If you are an adept at artistic needlework I would suggest your doing a pretty piece while you are away one that may be left a a souvenir of your visit with your hostess. You must have with you your own brushes, your letter paper and pens, and when you open your trunk you must put your things in their proper places, giving them the same .re which you would If you were going to be in the house a year instead of a week. Heskie your clothes there must be some virtues packed in your trunk, virtues that you will take out and use all the time. One is consideration. You will find that a visitor well equipped with this will be much liked. Another is punctuality, that virtue of kings. And still another Is neatness, a dainty little virtue specially adapted to young women. Air Yonr Clothing. Everyday garments, particularly those which are not laundered, should be disinfected. Brushing Is not sufficient, as it does not remove the unpleasant odors which come from long usage." Some women sprinkle their waists and dresses with scent and use sachet powders to perfume their bonnets and wraps. All this would be admlrab'e if it were availing. Scent needs to be overpowering to ccmc-tiüj tea uwira sr-'ant emanations from

an old garment. Then the bouquet is fulsome and vulgar. Better than scentbag and potpourri are a clothespole and an open window. Turn the garments wrong side out and let the air and sunshine disinfect and deordorize them. Ail night airing is good, but a day of blowing winds and purify'ng sunlight is better. N. Y. Advertiser.

Stylish Women. Just what constitutes that most desirable quality of "style" is very hard to determine. "Whether it in inborn only, or whether it may be acquired, is a very important question, as it Is a possession thai many women deem of greater importance than beauty inself. Ask any average "woman whether she would rather be pretty or "stylish," and she will choose the latter qualification almost invariably. It is the intangible something that gives grace and distinction, whereby the wearer of a cotton frock may look better dressed than the woman clothed in silk and velvet, and if in rich attire will outshine all rivals. As to whether or not style can be acquired; it may be said that in a certain measure it can be. Carriage, for instance, has an immense effect on style, and that certainly can be cultivated. A dowdy woman rarely has a good poise of the head and neck and never walks gracefully, and although grace and style are not at all synonymous It is impossible to have the one without a certain amount of the other. As grace or carriage is successfully taught by those who understand the principle, no doubt style also might be analyzed and growing girls instructed in the why and the- wherefore of this most coveted characteristic. X. Y. Tribune. Pulled the .all. This is womans age, and a business man who knows says there is positively nothing that she will not undertake. He was lounging in his office the other day when the door opened f.nd a welldressed, comely little woman appeared. She wore a resolute expression in addition to other apparel, and In her hand she carried a large tack-raiser. "Good morning," she said winnlnglv. "Is this Mr. Cash's office? Will you please tell me which chair it is that has that nail in it?" The -business man was confused the nice little woman was a total stranger to him. He answered wildly: "What chair? What nail?" "Why." she exclaimed, "my husband has come home thr-?e times recently with dreadful holes in his coat and trousers, and he sail he tore them on a chair in your office. I'm about tied darning and patching those rents and thought it would be more sensible and satisfactory to come down here, pull the nai! out .and be done with it. Don't you think so?" . Ftill in a trance, the merchant agreed with her. found the offending chair, extracted the nail, and with many thanks and smiles the enterprising little woman withdrew. X. Y. World. A Historian's Wife. Mrs. flreen. the widow of the historian, rnd the editor of his works, had as a girl an unusual education. Living In the country, she was compelled to work alone, and after devoting herself to Euclid, Greek and theology for some years she was stopped in her career by an affection of the eyes, resu'.ting from oxerwork. When she recovered, she tiok up various scientific studies, and after her marriage she did a great deal of hird reading. Her first attempt at independent literary work after Mr. Green's death was her "History of Il'-nry II." All the rmterial:? relating to the period wore in Latin, and the author whs obliged to master the language as ?11 as the hisorical material. She is the daughter of the late Archdeacon Stopford, and her grandfather was the bishop of Meath. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Kitchen Fire. When I hear that pieces of bread cannot be toasted nor the cup of soup he warmed because the lire has just befn "fixed," I know that the cook has let the fire burn down to the last bar of th" grate, and then it is necessary to put a bundle of Kindling and empty a whole scuttle of coal on the living embers. Hy such management much time Is lost and much coal is wasted. One hod of coal is sufficient to do the cooking for a good sized family in one day. If hot water is required, sometimes a second hod Is necessary to heat the water for the house. One thing must be remembered the fire should be raked morning and night and the stove kept closed when using and the upper drafts open when the stove is not in use, so that the cold air striking the coals may prevent the rapid burning. Household News. Care of the Nulls. Xo woman who confines her manicuring to a hasty use of a nailbrush and an occasional filing will ever have pretty nals. But she who takes a half hour every week and ten minutes a day to thi operation may have beautiful ones. First. the hands must be soaked in warm water, and when the skin about the nails is soft and pliable it should be pushed back and the little rought ends of cuticle cut off. The nails should be cleaned with soft orange wood sticks; then they should be cut. shapc and filed. A vigorous polishing simply with the ehamoi3 polisher, and without any powders or unguents, will leave them in a delightful condition. America. Mntn for the Tahle. It Is too bad to have one's polished tables and stands covered with little rings where a vase has stood and the water has overflowed. There is no need of this either. Everybody should have on hand an abundant supply of mats. These need not be obtrusive In design. In fact, no one wants any more the elaborate confections that were once wont to call attention to their crocheted splendors in our drawing rooms. Make the latter day vase mats of small rounds of olive green felt, preferably not ornamented at all except for a "pinked" border. Xoone will notice them, but they will keep your rosewood and mahogany from harm. Household. Dress Hints. High collars destroy graceful conversation. Some of Edwin Russell's laconics on dress are: Diamonds decrease in beauty as they increase in size. Jet is wicked. Tired, good woman should never wear jet. Do not wear selfish clothes. A crude green dress is its own worst enemy. Avoid black. Dress objectively and not subjectively. Women are larger natured In light colors. As you grow older wear lighter colors. White is intensely spiritual; gray, in a lesser degree, also spiritualizes. Large persons should not lose sight of their advantages. There are good points in being big power and grandeur. Gloves are worn too much. Kid gloves make wrinkles in the face; new ones because of their newness; old ones because of their want of respectability. Survival of nn Old Superstition. The old theory that lighted fires in the streets had power to drive away a pestilence has long been exploded, but the mayor of Uordeaux evidently believes there are occasions when public fires of this kind may be used with advantage. It appears-that there Is much poverty just now in Bordeaux, as. alas, elsewhere, and the mayor, being seized with pity for the condition of the unemployed, has had huge coal fires placed in certain parts of the city during the recent severe weather. 'The fires, which were placed, of course, only In the poorer quarters, gave much satisfaction, and thousands availed themselves of them to warm themselves, while some people even did their cooking by them. London News.

DOGS FOR THE ARCTIC DASH

WALTER WELLMAX WRITES ABOUT HIS CAMXE TEAMS. They Were Secured at Liege FiftyThree rieastn of Harden at an Averajf? Price of 40 Franca Aplce Hqiv the People of Western Europe Use Them In Place ofHoren. (Copyright, 1S94. by Walter Wellman. All rights reserved.) BERGEX, Norway, April 23. It is a genuine pleasure to be able to- report that the Wellman rorth polar expedition is moving along in good order. I was about to say "moving quietly along," but how could a party composed of a quartet of live Americans and fiftythree Belgian dogs do anything quietly? Our dogs have been a nine days' wonder over in Europe we and the dogs together. We have been the innocent cause of so much astonishment among the natives in two or three countries and have attracted so much attention en route that we scarcely know whether we are running a polar expedition or a circus. Xor could the old-fashioned country circus, flitting from town to town between midnight and morn, experience more hustling to the square inch than we have had since leaving London. We mm E. PLUniRUS. OUR FAVORITE dog. went straight to Liege. Belgium, being led thither by the kindly interest in the dog part of otlr project which had been taken by Col. Nicholas Smith, American consul. We had had correspondence with the consul concerning the use of Belgian draft dogs in the arctics, and his opinion, given after a year of close observation of the animals, confirmed the conclusion whih th writer had reached as a result of his own investigations in Europe last summer. Col. Smith had made an official report on the use of draft dogs in Belgium which attracted attention all over the world, especially in the United States, in which he showed beyond question the enormous industrial value of these faithful animals. In the United States he pointed out that there are about 7.000.000 dogs living in idleness more or less luxurious. These millions of animals contribute nothing whatever to the wealth of the country. They toil not; neither do they spin. Estimating the strength of a dog at Ö00 pounds, a low estimate. Col. Smith figured out that in these T'oO.ium) dugs .America has an idle force of 3,f0a,noO,00!) pounds, or n power which, like faith, if once exercised, could move mountains. Col. Smith's argument in favor of the use of draft dogs on the streets of our American cities was convincing ennuuh. but we were interested in draft hound as an arctic and nt as an industrial ; beast of burden. In reply to our in quiries Consul Smitii wrote as follows; "I have no doubt these Belgian dogs will suit you to a nicety. They easily draw a thousand pounds over the rousii block pavements which prevail here. They are quick in their movements, very tractable, as easily guided as one's own nose and are not subject to fits. Their feet, never tender, toughen with usag and they can easily endure such cold as you expect to encounter in the arcticsummer. They are tougher than either donkeys or mulfs. You know a foxhound will in a day run two or three horses down, and their cousins here are of equal bottom in harness. Thev are j nominally fed' on horseflesh and black Dreaa, tnougn tne meat is orten leit out of their bill of fare. A half pound of bread, the cost of which is a cent, saturated in broth of any kind, is regarded by the dogs as a sop fit for Cerberus. A ration ooFtinsr a cents a.nrt J weighing one-half pound would be a liberal allowance per day. CANDIDATES FOR POLAR HONORS. "We had asked Col. Smith to give his opinion of the draft dog as an article of food for man in case we should be reduced to the extremity of eating our friends in the arctics, and he replied In the following racy fashion: "As to the dog's edibility, you know he is the piece de resistance of all Celectial dinner tables, and I can only ascribe our Am erican love of free lunches to a mild form of rabies, that which comes from the biter being bitten. Be assured of the wholesomeness of his flesh. The question of appetite for him you can safely postpone till the repast Is served. You remember how Juan's spaniel. Spite of his entreating Was killed and portioned out for eating. "They do say there is a sauce prepared in the arctic regions so much more piquant than caviare or chatnee that it savors even an anthropophagous feast. In the selection of your party, therefore, consider their esculent qualities as well as those of your dogs. Be sure that you have no reverend Pedros in your train." It was therefore to Liege that we went from Iondon to have there the friendly assistance of this able champion of the draft dog. It was well that we did so, for we could not have been in better hands. The consul and his son the latter a bright lad of sixteen, whose name is simply that of his maternal grandfather, Horace Greeley, not Horace Greeley Smith, but with the last name dropped, were at our service, and in a large city containing only half a dozen English-speaking persons, and several thousands of dog-owners, dog dealers, commlsslonnalres and other vampires who think every American a rich, fat pigeon to be nicely plucked, this was a tremendous advantage. There was no luck of dogs. The streets were full of them. More dogs than horses were seen In use upon the thoroughfares. Fully two-thirds of the light traffic of Liege, as of all the Belgian, Dutch, west German and Swiss cities, are carried on with dogs as motive power. Those members of our party who had never seen the draft dog in use were simply amazed at his strength. They could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw a little beast trudging briskly along with a cart containing half a long ton of coal and pulliner in his collar as if he loved his work. Early in the morning the streets looked like a dog show. The butchers, the bakers, the coal dealers, the milk peddlers, the grocers, every conceivable sort of light delivery wagon was drawn by dogs. Most of them were attended by bareheaded women. Some of the carts had one dog, others two or three dogs. Market women came In from the suburbs with their carts heavily laden. Laundresses used dogs to deliver their bulky packages. In Belgium and Holland the dog is above all things the friend of the woman. In fact, it is an axiom there that dos horses and

women are the beasts of burden, and It is only by standing on the streets of one of those cities early in the morning that one is able to realize how much help the little beasts are to the overworked mothers and daughters of the lower classes. The draft dog is a tremendous factor in the social economy of western Europe. In all light work he Is equal to a horse and costs but one-fifteenth as much for the original outlay, and enly onesixth the cost of keeping a horse Will suffice for a dog. In fact the cost of keeping a draft dog is almost nothing. He lives on the scraps and waste from his master's table, poDr as those usually are. If he misses a meal, he only wags his tail and patiently awaits the next. Grocers and other dealers who found themselves approaching bankruptcy on account of tne cost of maintaining delivery wagons drawn by horses changed to dog power and grew rapidly rich. The carts used for dogs cost much less than wagons suitable for horses. The harness for the smaller animal is a mere trifle. A dog needs neither shoes nor stable. He requires no care. And he will take his load o? a thousand pounds and trudge along with it at a smart gait all the day long. After we get through with this north pole business, if we ever do, we think of taking a shipload of draft dogs to America and thus teach our countrymen the use of a new motive power. So far as that is concerned, the millions of idle dogs in America should be set to work. A little training would convert the great majority of them into useful draft animals. It is high time our lazy old dDgs were taught a few new tricks. These Belgian draft dogs are of no special breed. They are conglomerates. If there is any type among them, it is the long-eared foxhound, though a pure pedigree is almost unknown. Their value consists not of blood or of breeding, but of the uses to which they are put, though it must be true that the employment of generation after generation for draft Is gradually developing not only mental aptitude for work, so to speak, but physical adaptability to pulling heavy loads. If the thousands of men who devote their energies to the breeding of dogs for beauty, ugliness, for the chase or for pets were to turn their attention for a few decades to the production of a breed for draft, they might evolve a dog that could pull 2,000 pounds, or as much as an ordinary horse, and In so doing they would give the world a new power that would possess almost as great an Importance industrially as electricity. Already the mere circumstance of use has in western Europe produced a dog with extraordinarily tough feet, heavily muscled legs, sinewy shoulders a dog which gets himself down toward the ground and pulls like a mule. If thi.s is the result of the chance of mere use, what could not be done with the design of skillful Interbreeding of hounds, mastiffs and bulldops? The special advantage which these dogs possess for our use in the arctics consists of their strength, which is greater than that of the Eskimo or Siberian dog; of their tractability. which Is such that one team will follow another even without a driver: of their immunity from the epidemics which carry off so many of the packs heretofore used in the arctics, and of their ability to get along with so little food. "We have been asked about a

TESTING A DOG IN A CART. trillion times if these dogs can withstand the cold of the arctics, and about a half-million times we have replied th3t the summer of the arctics has no severe cold, and we have further explained that the two mn?t adaptable animals of the world are the two which we are taking with us men and dogs. These are the creatures that are able to pass in a single season from equatorial heat to arctic cold without suffering ill effects from the violent transition. Whatever a man can endure a dog can withstand, and not much depends upon the breed in either case. Payer had with him on his sledge journeys in Franz-Josef Land four or live swarthy Italians and they endured 40 degrees below zero without a murmur. Nor are we the first to take European dogs to the arctics. Payer had with him in Franz-Josef Land a number of digs from Vienna, and he testified that they were of more service to him, even in extreme cold, than the Siberian animals which he had with him. The only trouble with his European dogs, he explained, was that they had not been trained to draft. In this respect our pack is ideal. We had great sport buying our dogs In Liege. Besides we gave the lazy Liegois such a shock of astonishment as they had never before experienced. We arrived there on a Monday morning. To avoid bulling a market in which we were the only buyers we caused the report to be spread that we wanted a dozen dogs, though to our friends we confessed that we wanted half a hundred. Moreover, we wanted them quickly. A few dog experts were called into consultation. "Yes, you can get fifty dogs here," they said, "but it will take you three weeks to do it." This would not do for our expedition that Is to make its dash toward the pole in the space of a single summer, and we gently suggested that three days and not three weeks would be more in our line. "Impossible, monsieur!" But we thought we would try it. That American confidence in the power of gold and hustle combined has not yet been beaten out of us. We organized Cur forces for a dog campaign that was to be short, sharp and decisive. Consul Smith gave us good advice and told Kentucky stories which made even the dogs laugh and coax their masters for the privilege of staying with us. Young Horace Greeley developed energy and shrewdness worthy the great name which he bears. Mr. Dodge, with Mr. Winship, a young English engineer living in Liege and who is now a member of our polar party, opened headquarters at a stable. A milkman was hired to go out and run in dogs. Half a dozen commissionnaires, dog dealers and other agents were hired for the same purpose. Advertisement were put in the daily papers which over here are written one day, the type set the second and the forms put to press on the third, so that our advertisements appeared about the time we were ready to leave town. There were plenty of dogs to sell. Streams of dogs ran down all the thoroughfares leading to our mart. Men, women and children were the conductors. They came singly, in pairs, triplets and quartets. It seemed that every mother's son and father's daughter in Liege had heard we were Americans who wanted to buy dogs, and being -Americans were, of course, full of shekels and softness. At any rate, the price of dogs took a sudden and appalling upward bound. Dirty brindle pups that ordinarily were worth 20 francs were put to us for a hundred. Really goods dogs were priced at hundreds of francs, and crestfallen were the countenances of the owners when a 200 franc tender was met with a counter proposal of 30. Fond expectations of getting out of the Americans as the price of one dog enough money to maintain a whole family for a twelvemonth were rudely and quickly shattered, though not without an almost endless gabble and clatter in French and Walloons, the voices of the d'sconsolate and suspicious dogs swelling the din. As soon as these notions about fancy prices and flowing American gold had been dispelled the negotiations reached a common sense level. Almost with tears in their eyes owners dropped from a hundred francs by easy stages to half a hundred and then on down to 40, or even lower, accompanied by grimaces and contortions resembling the great American process of pulling teeth. The average price paid was a little under 40 francs. Our dog mart was a picture. A courtyard surrounded by stables; plenty of loafers; dogs in leash howling; all hands.

human and canine, trying to talk together and succeeding almost all the time; an occasional show of paper money at the conclusion cf a transaction in pups, bringing a dense and unsavory crowd round the central figures; now and then a dog fight or a series of wordy combats between owners, and in the midst of all the din Mr. Dodge, calm and critical, watching everybody and everything and occasionally giving vent to his feelings by telling some one or other to go to the hot place, a perfectly safe bit of advice when given in the English 'tongue. The dog sellers soon perceived that Mr. Dodge could not be fooled. He carefully examined the feet of the animals offered him, took up each individual leg and searched it for fractures and hurts, looked in every mouth and had every dog hitched to a cart and tested as to his strength and tractability. More than one man or woman who had been tempted by needed money to dispose of the household pet and cart companion bade bood-by to Leon or Blancpied or Bowpier or Melord or -whatever the beast's name was by means of an affectionate though moist farewell kiss upon the nose of the sacrificed canine. . At the end of the third day fifty-three dogs, satisfactory in size and other particulars, were tied up in our stables. How many of them were stolen from their rightful owners we never will know. We had at least the satisfaction of showing the Belgians what American hustle can do when it sets to work in earnest. Next came the question of transportation. We wanted to put those dogs on board a steamer which was to sail from Rotterdam for Bergen Thursday evening. But how? There is no such thing as an express company as we know it in America this side of the Atlantic. The "fast freight" would run to Rotterdam, 150 miles, in four days. A special car could not be attached to a passenger train for love or money because the cars did not have airbrakes. The railways being under government control, a special train could not be arranged for without about a week's correspondence with the authorities. But there was one way out of the difficulty, and this was suggested by a railway official merely as an Illustration of their methods of doing business and without the faintest idea that we should adopt it. Great was his surprise and th? people when we caught at his suggestion, made passengers of our dogs, bought a third-class ticket for each and every one of them, put a dozen men at work making boxes and bottling up our beasts and rode in triumph and four special cars from Liege to Rotterdam Thursday afternoon. Our dogs filled the deck of the Ingerid. And on the voyage through the North sea a fog came on. with extraordinary results. Capt. Lever blew his fog whistle, and first one dog and then another took it up and echoed its long plaintive note until the whole pack were filling the misty air with their contributions. When the dogs first took up the chorus Capt. Lever thought other steamers were answering his warning, and when a dozen canine foghorns blew h" said to himself, with a true sailor's cviss word, that never before in all his experience had he known so many steamers to be gathered near together in the North sea and rang the bell to have the Ingerid's engines stopped. And this is how we bought our pack of draft hounds in Belgium and brought them on to Norway. WALTER WELLMAN.

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