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ey HOUGH Paris has gpproved - of it some months ago, the American woman is still dubious about the full skirt, refuses to take it seriously, , : insists upon compromises, and even when she does consent to voluminous fo{kis in her crepe or mousseline gown demands clinging lines in her clothr or zibelline or w\alvet. She will have to come around to the-fullness, but the_ capitulation comes slowly, and there’s no telling what skirt lines the Parisian makers will be advodating by the time the full skirt of the present mode is universally popular here. While ‘the latest skirts are fulled or plaited into the waist band and the skirt yoke is practically out of fashion in Paris, many devices are contrived to lessen the fullness around the hips and preserve a somewhat clinging effect at that point. A series of. sharp gores in the skirt top are employed by some of the great dressmakers. . i These extend to a point below the hip, line, where the ample fulness begins? but the gores lessen the amount of material to be fulled or plaited into the band, and the skirt top may be fulled klightly at_the waist line and still avoid any awkward excess of material at the band. or over the hips. ‘ ; * In soft lightweight materials for early spring such a precaution is hardly néc--essary, though even -here careful cutting and slight goring are demanded if

'Fashions for Mademoiselle

i N MORE ways than one, it : ¥* seems {0 me, the young girls A of the’present day are singu- \\ larly fortunate where ques- : 4 tions of fashion are concerned. Once upon a time, and that not so very long ago, either, their models were merely very badly carried out imitations of those fashions of their elders which kappened to be in vogue at the momert. Giris were not allowed to exercise any sort of individual taste on the choice of what they wore, and their clothes were frequently bad copies of those of their grown-up and newly “out” sisters. while in many instances the younger girls were most unshstly condemned to the wearing out of the second best garments.of those said sisters.after the elder members: of the family had taken off the first freshness of coats and skirts, party frocks and b1011§e& . - ; More especially in matters of millinery pirtureiquness is the keynote of the late winter : modes for mademoiselle. See that your hats are picturesque in themselves, and make sure beyond all things that they_"an'e becoming, and you will find that Mme. La Mode asks nothing more at your hands. You may choose what shape best pleasés you, and you may afterwards bend. and twist, and fold it according to your own sweet will. In the matter of color a similar freedom isallowed. Choose a comparatively neutral tint. where economy is an object, taking care to select something (if you

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can find it) which will look well with all your frocks. If, on the other hand. you happen to be one of those lucky peo.ple with an unlimited dress allowance, and can indulge yourself in half a dozen new hats at a time, il is as well-to have a hat to mateh each walking costume., since there will be a great vogue this winter for hats-and toques arranged to harmonize perfectly with the various coats and skirtsand other costumes with which they will be worn. - A smart little winter costime which guggests itself at once as being preeminently suitable for Sunday best may be seen in our second illustration. This frock should be made in a cosy and comfortable shade of red. and in one of those A COLONIAL MANSION. Unifed States Senator Kawe Now Lives in Residence Built by New Jersey’s I'irst Governor. & The. landmarks, which- have stood as monuments to designate the pathway of Washington and his copatriots -as they macured and perfected the policy which resulted in the establishment of this republic, are fast fading from view, and it will not be many generations before they will be known only in: hiztory. . s

the skirt is to hang and fit well. There ' must be no resemblance to the old-time gored skirt. The folds must fall in straight lines, changing gracefully with every movement of the body, yet the extreme fulness beginning high -above the knee, just below the hipsin fact, must swell to still greater dimensions at the foot. ‘ } ~ In some instances, particularly in the case of the frilled or flounced skirts, this effect is achieved by a circular flounce of great depth set upon a top also somewhat circular in cut, but less flaring. The joinings must be hidden under shirring, puffing, ruching or some other. trimming, and this trimming must be repeated above or below,.the line of union so that no suggestion of the added flounce may be given. : Flounces are not fashionable, but they must be franily full flounces, often cut altogether on the straight and many with upstandi headings of corded shirringx,:;yzg. etc. The circular flounce scheme for attaining correct skirt lines is regarded as a confession of inability to obtain the result in a more skillful way, and so is not to be acknowledged. . Where skirt yokes are used at all, they are shallow and consist of lines of corded shirring, smocking or gauging. Occasionally one sees yoke effects in vertical tucks or plaits, but this is, as a rule a concession to some special heaviness or stiffness of material. :

excellent finished cloths or tweeds which will not cockle with damp, nor ‘spot yvit'h rain, and which, therefore, are simply ideal fabrics for the modern out-of-doors: and open-air girl. The style of the frock is commendably simple, with its little Russian coat, which may be worn, by the way, over a warm winter blouse, its deep waist belt of stitched cloth and for sole trimming to

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the plaited skirt some rows of tailorstitching round the hem. - . The present delighttul fashion of ‘wearing an embroidered turn-over mus< lin collar, with a stock tie, is one in which “Mademoiseile” may well rejoice, since it gives her so many opportunities for proving herself an expert in dainty and original needle-craft. Some girls who have the good fortyne to possess a flower name, such, for instance as Rose, Lily or Violet, find a “pleasure in embroidering these delicate little lawn collars. as well as the corners of their pocket handkerchiefs, with the blossoms of which they may happen to bear the name. This is rather a pretty idea. and one which can be carried fur-' ther when girls grow a little older, since they can choose for their favorite perfume the scent of their name flower, and can always wear roses, violets or lilieg, as the case may be, when they are ¢hoosing artificial blossoms for the decoration of their evening frocks, or real flowers which they can wear in the day time on suitable o¢casions. Stocking fronts! too, can be very prettily embroidered with small sprays of flowers, while they can also be interwoven with initials, in white embroideries, upon underwear. fiven the girls who have not flower names can choose a special flower of their own and remain faithful to the one per~ fume. Nightdress and handkerchief sachets should all be fragrant with the same scent, and embroidered ptettily on the outer side with the chosen blossom. 5 : ELLEN OSMONDE,

Scarcely any spot in the eastern‘ states is more interesting, or associated with more romantic and historic revolutionary incidents than Liberty Hall, now knewn as “Ursino,™ the residence of United States Senator Kane, of New Jersey, situated in the ’ou‘t%irts of the city of Elizas beth, in t state, says P. M. Babcock, in Four-Track News. : This palatial structure was built by William Livingston, the first governor of New Jersey, in 1773, who occupied it as his residence when he signed the declaration of independence. :

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson 3ix the International Series for February ,‘.;l, 1904—Jesus 2 ; and the Sabbath. . THE LESSON TEXT. 0 Matt, 12:1-13. : . GOLDEN TEXT.—It is lawful to do ‘wellon the sabbath days.—Matt. 12:12. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. ‘Calling of Matthew.............. Matt. 8:9-13 Calling of Matthew............ Mark 2:13-17. Calling of Matthew............. Luke 5:27-32, Question About Fasting........ Matt. 9:14-17. Question About, Fasting...... Mark 2:18-22. Question About Fasting...... Luke 5:23-29. Piucking Grain on Sabbath.... Matt. 12:1-8. Plucking Grain. on Sabbath... Mark 2:23-28, Plucking Grain on Sabbath...... Luke 6:1-5. Heal -on the Sabbath.......... Matt 12:9-14. Heal on the 5abbath.............Mark 3:1-6. Heal on the 5abbath.............Luke 6:6-11. “TIME.—The summer (harvest time) of A. D2B (part of '"The Yeuar of Public ayor').. . - PLACE.—A country road near Capernaum’ and a synagogue in one of ihe Galil¢an towns, : » NOTIES AND COMMENTS. Jesus' teachings and metkods and those of the orthodox religicus leaders ‘were so Cifferent in every particular that trouble was certain to come. Many of the scribes and Pharisees mmay have beengperfectly sincere, but their point of view was so entirely different from that of Jesus that they could never see things as He did, and of course they consgidered Him a heretic and a dangerous man. In the first place, in teaching, if not in character, He‘seemed to them to be an upstart. He spoke without ‘‘authority.” And then He had made a publican one of His disciples (9:9-13). The Pharisees saw in the publicans or tax collectors a set of contemptible, unpatriotic mercenaries who had sold themselves out to the hated Roman tyrants. Jesus’ eating with publicans and sinners convinced the Pharisees that He was a man of decidedly questionable character (11:19) Agaln Jesus and His disciples braved all criticism and ‘misunderstanding of the best people by ignoring the weekly fastings and the rabbinical laws enjoined and which all religious people observed. Jesus was directly opposed to asceticiem on principle. This oppoesition was considered an affront: to the whole religious system of the Jews. These four things, without the one we take up next, were enough to insure the bitter opposition of official Judaism. - (Matt.l2:l-8) One of Jesus’ most obnoxious heresies was in regard to the Jewish Sabbath. The Fourth Commandment He always reverenced and obeyed, but the absurd restrictions with which the seribes had surrounded it He rejected bodily. “Disciples were hungry:” ‘What the disciples did was to meet the physical necessity for food. “Begap to pluck ears and toeat:” This was permitted by Jewish law.on week days. A man passing by a wheat field or a vineyard might eat enough to saiis‘f,y' his hunger. But the oral law forbade this on the Sabbath, on the ground that to pick the heads of grain was harflesting, to rub them in the hands was threshing and to blow out the chaff was winnowIng—which things were unlawful! Note Jesus’ twofold defense of His disciples: (1) He cites examples (3-5); reminds them of what David once did to meet his own need (1 Sam. 21%6). They would not think of questioning the propriety of David’s act, especially since he did what he did with the sanction of the priest. In his case necessity wasseen to be above ritual. Even the law (Num. 28:9-10) recognized that certain work connected with the sacrifices was necessary and therefore right. (2) He shows the underlying principles (6-8). ““The Pharisees were men of rules, not accustomed to go.back on principles. The passion for minutiae killed reflection.”— Bruce. “One greater than the temple:” Commonly taken as a referénce to Himself, but the Greek reads: “But I say unto you a greater thing. than the temple is here.” The man-made regulations .had: given way before the claims of the temple service, the lesser interest givfng way to the greater. A greaterinterest than that of keeping up the temple sacrifices was involved here: it was the work of the kingdom itself. This interpretation is the more natural; either is possible. “I desire merey, and not satrifice:” (H05.6:6); Jesus’ way of reminding them that the principle He was contending for was Scriptural. “The Son of man is lord of the Sabbath:” Mark quotes Him as saying in this connection: “The Sabbath was made for man. and not man for the Sabbath.” The real good of the Sabbath had been lost: Christ’s purpose was to restore it. (V. 9:14). “Is 1t lawful to heal on the Sabbath day:” Jesus does not answer the question directly, but with an illustration tries to appeal to their common sense and humane feelings. The discussion over the picking of the heads of wheat made His position plain on works of necessity; this deals with works of, merey. “It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath:” To refuse to do good to one who needs it is to do evil, no matter what the day of the week. Jesus wasunyfelding, His influence was increasing ' and the Pharisees saw that the only way to silence Him was to kill Him, and’ He must be silenced.

Good Deeds and Bad. A Deeds are seeds. Jrie “Men come before medsures. o Greed is the devil’s seed of need. Death is the only escape from death. Spiritual forces cannot be set down in figures. z

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Secretary Taft's first official act was to summon the war department carpenter and teil him to make a new desk and chair and be quick about it. Secretary Taft is six feet tall and weighs 320 pounds. -He could barely squeeze into the chair used by Mi. Root, ar_u} there was grave danger of its breaking down. ‘When he tried the desk he discovered that the opening was too small to admit his legs. The new desk and chair will be of mammoth proportions, G e Gen. Chaffee, head of the army, was born at Orwell, in Ashtabula county, 0., the county in which also lived those great agitators of anti-slavery—Joshua R. Giddings and Benjamin F. Wade. A little more than a year ago Gen. Chaffee paid a visit to his ‘boyhood home, which he had not seen before in 20 years. The older residents of Orwell remember Mr. Chaffee as a boy building snow forts and attacking them with snowballs. In those days the future head of the American army wore homespun and worked upon his father’s farm‘, being especially pyoﬁcient at plowing and hoeing corn.

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BROKEN PROMISES. Tariff Reform by the Republican Party Not Among the Imminent Probabilities. ; A ppod many republican newspapers are coming to their senses about the fallacy of protection. They now say ‘that it was never intended to permanently adopt the system, but as a means to an end. That end, says the St. Paul Dispatch, “was the establishment of our manufactures upon a basis that would ‘make. them gecure against the assaults of foreign competition. When that was accomplished, when they should become able to meet that competition successfully, then protection had served its end. fulfilled its mission, and could and shouid be discarded.” In sbit_e of this newspaper evidence. ‘hat a large class of republican voters have become tired of paying tribute to trusts and protected monopolies, the republican leaders, incfuding‘ President Roosevelt, have determined to ‘“stand pat” rather than abate a jot or tittle of protection. Thus we have the American Protective Tariff league, through its organ, the American Economist, denouncing any republican who favors a revision of the most 'obnoxious schedule of the Dingley law, or-who even favors reciprocity to enlarge our trade with any nation who is willing to reciprocate. The result of this republican league with monopoly is the great increase in the cost of living and the decline in wages, so thdt nearly everyone is paying tribute to the trusts and even the skilled la‘bor employed in the px'ot,gcted industries is obliged to accept a smaller income and pay higher prices for many necessities. Both those great classes of consumers, the workingman and the farmers, are being bled from every port and are paying a tax to both the government and the combines, but much the greater tax to the favored monopolists. During the last campaign for the election of congress the revolt of republican voters'in many districts was only stayed by promises of reforming the tariff. in the manner the Dispatch suggests, but those- republican congressmen who- declared for reform have found it impossible to override the decree of their leaders fo “let well enough alone.” The emissaries of the protective tariff league ‘threaten political annihilation to any republican congressman that even talks for reform. Most of those who promised to curb the trusts, by reducing the tariff duties., did not honestly intend to try to do so, relying on the normal republican majority in their district and an ample campaign fund, provided by the trusts, to carry- them through in the coming election. It is-evident that no relief from trusts exactions and tariff taxation can be expected from the dominant party. Reform may be promised, but they are wedded to their idol and dare not loosen one.stone from the protection wall.

DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITIES, Will Be Immeasurably Bettered by the Adoption of a Concise | 2 Platform. : Much favorable comment is seen |in the press, without.particular regard (o political affiliations, concerning the recently issued call for the democratic national convention, says the Buffalo Times. Its brevity and its direct language, entirely free from vei‘bosity or tautology, has caused it to be referred to as a model. As a matter of fact, it is worthy of attention, and may ‘be studied with benefit by platform-malkers as well as by authors of shorter documents. In fact, the New York Sun considers its third and concluding paragraph a platform in itself. The first paragraph of the call simply ‘recites the action of the national committee in deciding upon July 6 as the date and St. Louis as the place of the convention. The second merely gives the numerical representation to which each state and territory will be entitled at the convention; while the third and last paragraph, which the Sun admires So greatly, is as follows: “All democratic citizens of the United States who can unite with ys in the effort for a pure and economical constitutional government are cordially invited to join us in sending delegates to the fonvention.” : ~ Of this the Albany Argus says: “If the democratic committee on resolutions will bear in mind the admirable language and swvirit of the convention call—if it will frame, and the convention adopt, a platform briefly, broadly and sufficiently covering thie issues of to-day—the chances of democratic victory, already =zood, will vbe immeasurably bettered.” : - ‘And who can doubt that, as the season for: the convention approaches; every day belters those .chances—nay, the word is not a gowl one—opportunities is stronger and more appropriate. ——The “constructive recess” dodge. having been apparently dropped by the president, republican papers waste time in arguing that the point was well taken; and they invite public ridicule by claiming, in face of the official records, that the republicans in the’ house were willing to let go of the extra mileage pluncer.—Buffalo Courier,

VIEW ON THE TARIFF. The General Principal That Protectionism Is Wrong Should Never Be h‘brg‘utten. " The two great parties are fundamentally divided as Jefferson and Hamilton were. Issues change with changing conditions from year to year, buat issuesare, after all, but the application of fundamental principles to conditions, writes John Sharp Williams, 'in Everybody’s. As to the tariff, the democratic party stands for the principle that protectionish is a system of taxation whereby many are robbed in order that a few may be hothoused by legislation into artificial prosperity. The method whereby protection does this is by deflecting capital and labor from naturally profitable pursuits into pursuits made by legislation profitable, pursuits which without legislation would have been less profitable, or perhaps not profitable at all. The ultimate goal of democratic striving is “tariff for revehue only,” but in the striving toward this goal common sense, good judgment and conservatism will prevail and time will enter as a factor. Perhaps it might be said that an ideal “democratic tariff for revenue only” would consist in levying import duties upon all, or nearly all, imports, dividing them, however, into three classes—first, necessaries of life * and necessaries. ¢f industries, second, comforts, and third, luxuries. The general principle that protectionism is wrong—morally wrong—a prosti--tution of government to private ends—should’;’never be forgotten; the goal ought/not to be lost sight of. At the same¢/time friends of tariff reform would not/strike down in a revolutionary way —fovernight,” as the Germans say—all the scaffolding which the false system has erected. Even in Great Britain, where free trade was and is. possible, free trade was not reached in that way. Duties were reduced amid the dismal predictions of the advocates of protectionism that “destruction and ruin,” “starvation a nd poverty” would follow. Destruction, ruin, starvation and poverty did not follow after duty was removed. Object lesson after object lesson was thus furnished to the people of the falsity of the claims of the advocates of the old system.

ALONE IN THE FIELD. Mr. Roosevelt l{ai Selected Himselt ; as the Hépnblhmn i ; ~ Candidate. r .Mr. Roosevelt now' informs visitors at the White House, in that ex-cathed-ral tone which is at once so impressive, and so dentrificial, that he “would not be surprised to see the democrats nominate Judge Gray, of Delaware, as his (my) opponent.” 3 Mr. Roosevelt; says the Albany Argus, takes upon himself, perhaps, too much of the burden and heat of the day. He has selected himself as the republican candidate, and by untiring and not too scrupulous use of the patronage which fell to his hands upon the death of President McKinley, he has rendered his nomination',(in our opinion) inevitable. If he has not yet “smoked Mark Hanna out,” the youthful supporters surrounding him have, at least, evolved many pipe-dreams. If the senator from Cleveland refuses to “fish or.cut bait,” that may be becausé he prefers to row the boat or to carry home the catch. If in addition to his arduous duties in seeing to it that the republican nomination shall go to the man of his choice, Mr. Roosevelt feels divinely commissioned to adjust the affairs of the democratic; prohibition, and social-ist-labor parties—picking = candidates for them, with that disinterestedness, care and judiciousness which are so markedly a- part of his make-up and temperament—the situation devolved upon Mr. Roposevelt, will be like, Mr.; Dooley’s Alone in Cuba, only more so.

~ PRESS COMMENTS. ; ——Ohio has been the mother of several presidents and the bother of-the others.—N. Y. World. ———The Foraker anti-trust bill seems chiefly notable for -the general lack of trust put in it.—N. Y. World. : ——With the republican elephant “standing pat” .on Mr. Roosevelt, we can see his finish, and its finish, too.— St. Louis Republic. . ——The widening breach between President Roosevelt and the senate should prompt some friend of the former to warn him against the belief.that he is a bigger man than his party.—Chicago Chronicle. , ’ ——Mr. Roosevelt is encouraging the idea that his appointees have nothing to do with the case, and that the people alone are to be considered in the matter of nominating the next republican presidential candidate; but he told the people to go to; anhd he appointed negroes to postmasterships for the very obvious purpose of securing the negro vote in the convention. For disingenuousness Mr. Roosevelt sometimes comes very near taking the cake. It renlains to be seen whether he'll caplure the plum.— St. Louis Republic.

MADE THE BAG EAT. e o > Haviax to Tay for Its Accommodationx the Man from Missourl o Filled It. Passengers on the St. Louis Limited over the Pennsylvania railroad one day lately found themselves gazing*\h more than idle interest at one of eir number. Tall, bony, and sunburned, he evidently had, as the event proved, a ticket though and a little beyond. His ill-fitting clothing was new and of modern cut, but his flat-brimmed silk hat was Of a pattern of 30 years ago. and he carried a monstrous old-fashioned valise, relates the New York Times. Apparently there was little in it, for its leathern sides hung limp from yéars of service.” But whatever it did contain must have been as geld and gems to its proprietor, for he held it tenderly on his knees, and the portér's polite attempt to stow it so that he would be more comfortable was gruffly rejected. ‘ The Missourian was the first toanswer the ¢a!l to. the dining-car, and he took his precious baggage back with him. WFirst he tried to eat over it as it rested on his knees, but then saw that it would be .diffieult. and placed it on the chair beside him. : “Sorvy, sir.” said the dining-car conductor, *but you will have to put that bag somewhere else. "It's against the rules. Besides, every place will be neede€d before you finish.” “No, sir-ee! That portmanty don't go out of my hands this trip. I've had it too long to také any chances with it now.”” He placed his left arm protectingly about it. “See here, mister, ain’t there some way we can fix it?"” “Well, all T can say is thatif that bag stays there in- that chair, you will have to pay for it, same as for your own place.,‘j,,}\ The traveler agreed eagerly, seeming1y greatly relieved to-be {reed from the dilemma of either having to separate from his valise or go hungry. - The waiter brougkt the oysters. ‘“Here, boy, give us another plate of oysters, please,” said the patron. “Ef so be as I've got to pay for the bag, by ginger, I'll make it eat!" He started to open one side of the valise while a brief discussion went on at the kitchen end of the car. The bag was no more than open when the second portien of: oysters arrived, and was tossed forthwith into its capacious maw. L Fish. entree, roast, dessert, and cheese. one portion of each. all went the same way. Then the bag’'s owner laid down two 'doliars for the bag and himself. He tipped for the bag, too. so he parted friends ‘with the help in thé car. But when supper was announced there was one passenger who did not return to the dining car. He was the man going home to Missouri. He ate cold victuals where he was.

LIVES IN A LOG. Herder of Horses in California Feorest Has a Genuine Log. © Cabin. . [ On the Marble and Middle Fork divide of the Kaweah river, California, there is a noble forest of sequoias, of which -Mr. John Muir, the well-known naturalist and mountaineer, writes: “After a general exploration of the Kaweah basin, this part of the sequoia, 6 belt seemed to me the finest, and I then named it the ‘Giant Forest.” It extends, a magnificent growth of giants grouped in pure temple groves ranged in colonnades along .the sides of meadows or scattered among the other trees, from the granite headlands overiooking the hot foothills and plains of the San Joaquin back to within a few miles. of the old glacier fountain at an elevation of 5,000 to 8.000 feet above the sea.” In this region, writes Arthur Inkersley, in Scientific American, Mr. Muir came across a man who was herding a band of horses that had been driven up a rough trail from the lowlands to feed on the forest meadows. When Mr. Muir, whose scanty supply of food was running very low, asked 1f he might have some flour. the man. said: ‘“Yes, of course, you can have anything I've got. Just ‘take my track and-it will lead you to my camp in a big hollow log on the side of a meadow two or thre2 miles from here. I’il be back before night: in the meantime, make vourself at 'home.”” By the middle of the afternoon Mr. Muir had discovered ‘‘his noble den in'a fallen sequoia hollowed by fire—a spacious.loghouse of one log, carbon-lined, centuries old. yet sweet and fresh, weather-proof, earthquale proof, likely to outlast the most. durable stone castle, and commanding ‘views of garden and grove grander far than the Tichest king ever enjoyed.” The mountaineer soon came in, and he and John Muir enjoyed a talk on trees, animals, etc., while he busily prepared the evening meal. r Mr. Muir wandered about for several days within a radivs of six or “seven miles of the camp, studying the surrounding country, and at last regretfully bade good-by to his host, “the kind sequoia cave dweller,” as he called him. 1

Ingredients of Chewing Gum. “It is impossible for me to state the amount of chewing gum manufactured in rhis cquntry." said W. W. Evans, of Indianapolis, wlﬁo represents the largest manufacturers of chewing gum in the world. - “Our specialty is spruce gum, but we manufacture all kinds. The spruce is obtained from the forests of Maine cnd Canada. The trees are not tapped for the pitch, but are scaled, and the product thus gathered. The great amount of gum is made from a vegetable product known as chiele, which comes from tropical countries. It is something like a sugar beet. Then a vast amm?t of paraffin is also used. These are the two principal products going into the manufacture of chewing gum, peppermint, wintergreen and other flavoring extracts being added. Millions of pounds are manufactured and consumed in the world, this country being the largest producer.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. Marbled Siabs of Cement. Marble slabs of colored cement, for use as table-tops, are made by pouring the tinted cement in proper .proportions on plates of highly polished mir-ror-glass, then - stirring the paste. When hardened, it is removed from the glass. The pieces thus obtained have a polished surface that can be improved upon by brushing with a diluted solution of potassium silicage Favorlite Word. ; A woman’s favorite word is alwaya the last one.~ Chicago Journal,

RUSSIANS AND THEIR PIPES. e ————ee e . Girls Hold J‘he S:n.noke Producers While Dancing with Their : Male Partners. & Church White tells the Atchison Globe that lin ‘the early days of Whiting preparations were made for a wedding. A man went into the store to buy a present. “It will be quite an affair, I suppose,” said the storekeeper. “Not much,” the customer replied, with’ a sneer; “only two-kegs,” And the incident suggests 'a- ‘comparison. Not long since there was a wedding in one of the Russian settlements of Ellis county. The principals were children of .weil-to-do farmers, and the wedding celebration is reported by a local paper to have been garnmisned with 122 kegs. However, saﬁ's the Kansas City Journal, the festivtties of a Russian wed= ding extend over three days. They are occasions of d?cing and drinking and feasting. A drink which is served to the women, but scorned by the men, is composed of tfiaa'. and whisky in egual parts. .It is as wicked as the western drink known ay ‘“‘ssone fence,” made ot equal parts of whisky and- cider. Ry the avay, the Russians ‘have a custom which may belof interest to mnative brides. At the wedding festivities the bride is expected to dance with the men one after anotﬁer unti she drops.with fatigue. It is a matter of pride with the brides to keep|going as long as possible, and it is not unusual to_ find a bride dancing as gay as any of them after three day's and nights of vigorous frolic. But the brides are magnificent specimens, considered physically. Another custom which might be emulated by. American society is practiced at the dances. ‘:‘Wh,en a girl is dancing with a man she always holds his pipe. Now, in American = society men are often puzzled to” know where to put their pipes when they\j wish to- float away in the delirlum of a waltz. If the woman partners, like the Russian girls, would delicately take the pipes and carry th'ent while the dance is in progress, it would add much to the joy of the occasion; A Russian gentleman once said-that it would be regarded as extremely rude’g if a man should continue to smoke his pipe while dancing with a girl. Some of the more punctilious of the Russian beaus go fo the length of knockl'ng the fire out of their pipes on their h%el-s before handing the pipes to the girls. But this.is frowned upon as being superelegant, as well as wasteful of tobi}cco. S e CELEBRAEJANUARY 26. Michigan l'_eoljle Resident at the National Ca ‘itol Get’ 'l‘bgethg'-_r i on| That Day.;

~ “Michigan, so named by the Indians 'because. in their language it means ‘Big Lake, is gne of the many states of the union with a history,” so says Mr. David S. Barry in the article on ‘Michigan that Ll;e contributes to The Story: of the States series running in i-Pearson's Magazine. “Its record of ‘mineral, marine, agricultural, political and industrial progress has made it-one of the most igteresting and powerful of the American commonwealths, and the story@f m}' original settlement, its struggles with foreign and domestic foes, the indoiﬁitable spirit of its pioneers, their gradual conquering of the repeliant force: of nature, its growth from a missionary post in the wilderness. to a free iand sovereign state under the guidande of men whose achievements in domjst,ic government, - politics, statesmanghip, war and - professions in timeg of piping peace,;’ and days of savage and scientific warfare is one that caxrnot, be too often told. “When all tﬁe Michiganders resident at the capital qf-'the nation get together on the 26th of January of each year, as they always dp, to listen to speeches about Michigan and her famons sons and daughters, by men of the state distinguished in public life. civil and military, some one, after the cockles of the ‘heart have been made warm by the 'good cheer that goes about the board, generally strikes a tune—any old tune —and lets out the first line of the song that never fails to stir the blood of a true Wolvering. . Few know all the words, but they improvise as they. go along and wake the. echoes with “Micriggn, my Michigan.” . “A Michigan man likes to hold. an office as well as his neighbor does, and when all of Unecle Sam's servants, distinguished and humble that are on the government pay roll- at Washington, get together ‘in one room and sing “Michigan, my] Michigan,”. the volumeof soufid is not/small. : “This 26th O&NJ‘anu‘ary ‘reunion celebrates the facs that on that date 67 yvears ago, inilB37,vthe territory of Michigan became a ‘member of the sisterhood of stat';ls. On that day it passed I out from its td;rm of probation to become a sSovereign state of the American union.” F (‘n‘rlong African City. Gen. Sir I{rq‘derick Lugard says ot Kano, recently conquered. by the British: “Kano|alone among the cities of Africa which I have seen, with the exception of Kafsena, is. worthy of the name of city, for its houses. are of solid mud witlﬁ flat roofs impervious to fire and lasting through the centuries, instead ‘Lt the " beehive-shaped huts of the populous - towns of the south. Traces pf Moorish architecture are visible everywhere. 1 took up my quarters in the| small hall of audience in the mud pajace of the sultan of Kano, a room |25 feet square, 18 feet high, decorated with’ quaint shapes and designs in black, white, pale green and yellow—the latter formed of micaceous sand, which glistens like gold. The dome-shaped roof is supported by 20 arches, all pf mud, but admirably fashioned.” ot : " Japanese Deities. I Japanese deities are as kindly and gentle-hearted as the people themselves. Their story of the creation is quaint. Two gods (whose very lengthy names may be | shortened to. Izanagi and Izanami), standing -upon the bridge of-Heaven, cast grains of rice abroad ) dispel the darkness. They then pushed a spear down into -the green plain of the sea and’ stirred it around. This spear became the axis of the earth, started it revolving and thus brought v;d‘bouﬂt dry lamg, . Wages in Various Ceuntries. Wages in the United States on the ayerage are more than twice those in Beigium, three times. those of Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and one .and a half those in Engladd and §cotlnﬁﬂ.' o - e :

L g e { - DIGGING UP THE PAST. Talk Was All About Others, Yet There Were Personal Reflections in { the Allusionx. Sl Yo : o s “Do you know, my Gear,” she suddene Iy said, as she looked up from her work —*“do you know that next week will be the twentieth anniversary of gur wedding?” . .“Is that so? By George! how time fMes. Why, I had no jdea of it.” 1 . ""Yes,'we have been married almost 20 long years.” she continued,”with something of a sigh. Yon have been a good husband to me, darling." - L “*“And you have ‘beln a blessed little wife to me, Susan. Come here and let me kiss you. There!” = . = ’ *“I was thinkirg to-day—l was thinkinz of—of—" i : : “Of that sickly-faced babloon who used to walk.home with yoi from church before I knew you?" he inter‘Tupted. : © “"Who do you mean?” “Why, that Brace feHow*” - - “Why, George, he wasn't such a badl fellow.” ) [ “Wasn't he? ,Well, I'd like to krow of a worse one; and there you were as good as engaged to him.” - . ~ “Yes, George, and you were keeping company. at the same time with that Helen Perkins.” 1 _“That Helen Perkins! Wasn't Miss Perkins one of the leveliest and pretti“est young ladies in Liverpocl?” , “No, she wasn’t. She had teeth like a horse!” - L “She did. eh? How about that steepshouldered. white-headed Brace®” - “And such big feet asshe had! Why, George, she was the laughing stock of ‘the town.” ‘ “Nothing of the kind—nothing of the kind! She was a young !ady who would ‘have made a model wife.” ‘ “Then why didn't-you pfarry her. arg all her moles and warts and mushroom eyes?” Y “Don’t talk that way fo me! Hereyes were as nice as yours!"” . “They were not!™ - “They were. I believe you are sorry because you didn't marry that Brace.” “And T know that you are sorry because you didn’t marry that beautiful and accomplished Miss "Perkins!” “I am? Oh! I thought you said I had been a good husband to you s “And. didn’t you call me your biessed little wife?” 2 - . -Then he plumped down and began to read the mortgage sales and advertisements in the paper, and she picked up her sewing -and gave the cat a gentle kick. These old things wilbrome up ‘now and then. and somehow neither side. “ever gets entirely over them. - e i

THE HOUSEWIFE'S DRESS. Women of Roﬂned,"!"nﬂpn Gows Themselves in n Fitting Manner for Work. ) - The “disheveled housewife. with faded calico wrapper much shrunken in skirt and out at elbow, apron torn and stained, shoes cracked and overrun, and hair half tumbling down, who answers our knock at the kitchen door on a week-day morning. is to many of us a fg.miliar personage. We pity her, but more those who are sabout her daily. We are tempted to offer an apology for our early call. As a matter of habit with her, her excuses ars readily forthcomimg. *“Really, 1 have had such a time.this morning. Baby is cutting her teeth, and is SO Cross. I haven’t had time even to comb my hair.” But we whisper to=ourselves that it was the same before:there was a baby;.it would have been better had she attempted no excuse. If there is ever-a time and a place for a woman to be well dresséd, it is in her own home and in the morn_ig_é hours. says Good Health. The sloven1y habits into which so many housewives:fall are studiously avoided -, by every woman of refined tastes. What pleasure can the husband derive from his breakfast if his wife by = her appearance reminds him more of" the I women who go about beggip{g than of _the girl he once asked to become his wife? ,And what an example to set before her children! ° ‘“When one is dressed for his work, no occasion demands an apology,” someone wrote, and very truly. When the housewife is properly gowned, no neighborly call, either received or given, or errand to the nearest shop, will ‘demand of - her an apology for her appearance. . ' : . Candied Sweet Potatoes. Cut into halves lengthwise, medinm ‘gsize sweet potatoes%cover\wifh water, and boil till tender—when half or nearly done add one-large tablespoonful of sugar and two salt spoonfuls of salt." When - done drain off all but one-half cupful of the water, which pour into another vessel. Let potatoes dry out as much as possible. _Have sizzing hot in a frying pan one generous tablespoonful of butter. Now -put potatoes in pan and turn until hrown on all ‘sides, watching closely, as they are :apt to burn. In case they stick to the pan add the reserved water at the last, but let it boil nearly all out before ‘taking up.—Chicago Tribune. : To Martnade Steak. - If. there is any doubt abant the. steak, -or if- fish. marinade it. It iseasy enough. Make a dressing ol three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, two of oil, a -teaspoonful of onion juice, one. saltspoonful of pepper. and lay the meat or fish in this for an hour before _ cooking. Turn it so that it will be seasoned on all sides. The most tasteless kind of fish will be delicious after its bath of marinade dressing, and. steak will prove more tender: Cooking is to proceed as if there had been no marinading done.—Country Gentleman. : | =ty I = 32 A “Fairy” Egg. o A trained nurse cooked a “fairy”. esg for her patient in this—way: Beat the white to a stiff- froth, butter a moderately hot frying-pan, and put the white. in, making a depression in the top, into which drop the unbroken yolk. Cover, and cook for three reinutes. Befqre eating. the yolk“was stirred through the white with a fork, and seasoning was ggfied. The crust that forms undergfath should not be eaten by an invalid with a weak- digestion.—Farm and Fireside. i \\ © Umexpecied Agreement. 4 - Tramp—Maaam, 1 was not always thus. Ao & o - Housewife—No; it was-your other arm you had in a sling last week.— Cassell's Journal, Il