Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 June 1897 — Page 2

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WHERE'S MOTHER,

bursting in from school or play, •This is what the children say, Trooping, crowding, big and small,

On the threshold, in the hall— Joining in the constant cry, Ever as the days go by, "Where's mother?"

From the weary bed of pain This same question comes again: From the boy with sparkling eyes, Bearing home his earliest prize From the bronzed and bearded son, Perils past and honors won: "Whene's mother?"

Burdened with a lonely task, One day we may vainly ask For the comfort of her face, For the rest of her embrace Let us love her while .we may*' 1 Well for us that we can say: 'Where's mother?"

Mother with- untiring hands At the post of duty stands. Patient, seeking not her own

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Anxious for the good alonfe Of her-children as they cry,, Ever as the days go by: "Where's mother?"

DO YOU KNOW HER

Miss Cordelia was fearful proof of the ?ide gulf 'twixt theory and practice. Cheerful Cordelia's theory was this: "For every evil under the sun

There is a remedy—or there's none, If there is one, try to find it, !, If there isn't, never mind it!

Her practice was this mournful strain: fcanish sunshine, bask in the clouds, dwell fcipon misery, feast upon gossip, carry ^rouble and worry. Cheerful Cordelia was fcne of those breezy creatures who would hake hands with you across the bier of loved friend, and would dry your tears JRrith a boisterous kiss and the cheering Jtvords, "My dear, I'm so glad to see you Jiere! How well black becomes you! I hope you may always wear it!" Were you in bridal robe the next time she saw you, she would clasp you in her arms and fcush, "You look divine in white! Always fcvear it." And then fairly lacerate your heart by wishing you "many, many happy returns of the day!" Shades of insincerity—it is your wedding day! You have been ill. Cheerful Cordelia brings you a bunch of white flowers. They are of ifleathly faint perfume. "I tied them with white ribbon," she says, "for I knew you were not yet out of danger, and they'd come handy either way. I've brought you something to read, too," handing you "Be on thy guard death tnay claim thee any hour." The title almost gives you heart failure. She tells grou of all the horrible catastrophies, tragic deaths, hopeless illness and evil Blander. There is much for her to relate. You have been ill many months, nay, recovery i£ not yet certain. But Miss Cordelia has come to "•cheer" you. She tells you "this life is naught but trouble and worry, that "it is much better to die and be out of it all. Of course, you will be mourned a short time, but then you will be forgotten. It will be as though you had n&ve'r lived at all." She feared you might have another relapse, so she came while she 6ould. This might be the very last time she would see you upon earth! "Now, my dear, if you should get worsetyphoid is so treacherous!—don't forget to leaye me some little keepsake—some little foken by which to remember you." Then the doctor comes, and wonders what httS made your fever jump so. Miss Cordelia continues her round of visits. Everywhere a tale of horrors to tit the victim. To an acquaintance who has been obliged to take medical treatment tor lung trouble she says: "How sorry I was to hear that you were going into consumption! Mrs. Smith said she didn't believe4 you would live six months. I Yiope'you will disappoint her, dear, for I Just despise Mrs. Smith with her everlasting gossip. But you are changcd I never-would have believed it of you. How thin you are getting, and how sallow your- complexicm! Dear me! it must be terrible to know that you have a disease that can't be cured. You remember poor Mary Brown—how miserable she was for months before the end came! Well," with E sigh, "we've all got to die some time." "I hope your child won't take diphtheria,"* She exclaims, after having kissed a proud mother's tiny prattler. "I've just tomp. from Mrs. X. Poor thing! She's heai^broken. Her Tommy was just the Bge af your Flossie. The funeral was )ast .Wednesday. Her baby looked perfectly lovely—like a wax angel! Why, that's thf matter with you? You*look teady to faint. You must take care of yourself. Gracious! if you should die, think of your idol, your Flossie, being reared by an unfeeling stepmother! Well, you are looking miserably! Do be careful! They say smallpox is in your neighborhood. But I'm not afraid of sickness. 1 never take anything."

Strange to say, she never does. But |he takes to others sickness, spreads contagion, misery, despair and incurable heartaches, in the name of sunshine and iheer.

A Poet All Through.

A Chicago poet, who, if not well known, has printed several volumes of very fcreditable verse, reached Chicago the other day without a cent after a disastrous provincial tour, delivering "author's readings."

He was glad to get back of course. Baid he had had a glorious time. No mortey, in it but that wasn't the main thing 40 be considered, anyway, in literary endeavor. "W«ll, what are you going to do now?" 1 inquired. "I don't know yet," he said slowly. "Ojie of the boys told me this morning thit there wa sto be a vacancy on the Usui of the Daily Blank to-day and said that he thought I could get the place if I'd go after it." "Have you been over to see about it." "Nope—not yet." he said. '"I guess I'll *all" around there to-morrow." "Why not to-day?" I insisted. "Why lot do it right away!" "Well, you see, I'm going to be busy 3iU$. «fternoon." "All the afternoon?" "tfepl They tell me the buds out in Lincoln Park are just beginning to start aicely and I'm going out there to see em start."

And he did.

What a relief it is to see little bovs dressed by sensible mothers who do not make guvs of them by retaining long, tfrlish curls after the youngster is in trcu»r».

THE INCONSIDERATE SHOPPER

It is She Who Defers Purchasing Until Almost Closing "time. The practice of some women of shopping just as the minute hand veers to the fulfillment of the hour of freedom may be categoried as one of woman's inhumanity to woman. Is there any cause for wonder if the clerk is hasty and impolite? Is there not reason? Our stores are publicly open at S in the ttiorning, and eVfen before that by several minutes one may receive attention from salespeople who are obliged to make a good start of the day to place the stock in appraisable position. Through all the long and confined hours of the day the shopper may expect a clerk's undivided service at whatever hour she may enter the store for lunch half hours and excursions to the ice cooler are. matters which no one has the faintest interest in. After 5 o'clock "has sounded a hope of liberation dawns oh, yes, even in the breast of the most conscientious clerk, for there is something very impersonal in being one of the small factors in a great emporium, an«j we are all selfish, after all. The last hour is always longest I have heard many a saleswoman say. Her weariness grows heavy, yet there is always that imminence of relief when she may shake off bondage and be something like a free being again. By common accord the clerks begin to set their stock to rights, rolling ribbon bolts, skeining laces, stacking parasols, sheeting the delicate silks and organdies in the mural repositories. I have seen many young girls, still fresh and blooming in the souvenir of a freer girlhood, stand watching the leisurely minute hand of the clock with the look almost of suspense on their faces. At five minutes before 6 a covert smoothing of the hair and straightening of the collar in another moment aorons are untied and slipped out of sight hats are donned, and as the first sonorous stroke of the angelus rings out the liberated cagelings who may only see the rise and setting of the great solar motor, flutter out of the doors. Can you censure the impatience then of one of these clerks when detained by a thoughtless customer whose patronage the shopkeeper will not risk losing? "Forward,"—the floorwalker spies a scurrying form—"Miss Asteriskforward, please hairpins for the lady!" Ah! woman, are you guilty of such detentions, such cruelty? You have the day to consider your wants in, and Should you not conform to convenient hours for your sister woman and brother m^n—or are you quite in need of moral renovation regarding the comfort of others?

TO MAKE GOOD TE-fc.

A Tea Taster Tells How to Prepare It Properly. It is Very remarkable thing that, although we drink so much tea in this country, we do not understand the art of making it in the least. A famous Chinaman who was over here was asked by his hostess if he took milk and sugar. "Yes," he replied, "lots of both." "Oh," remarked the lady, "I thought you drank it without either in China." Without a smile he remarked, "I take both here to disguise the flavor of the tea." Speaking to a member of a large China house, who was the tea taster for his firm, this lady ventured to ask him the proper way to prepare tea. "Well," he replied, "the kettle should just reach its first boil, the pot should be warmed, the leaves put in, and the boiling water poured upon them. They should^ stand from five to six minutes to draw." "So long as that?" she asked in surprise. "Certainly. We have a sort of hour-glass beside us when we are tasting, and we never let the infusion stand for lcs« than five minutes, and it is strange tea if it requires more than six. After that every minute the tea remains in the pot the liquid is spoiling and absorbing a certain amount of ^poison. Stewed tea is bad for the digestion and nerves, and everything else." Then he proceeded to tell how he had served several years' apprenticeship in tea tasting, how ill it had made him at first, and what self-denial had been called upon in giving up smoking and peppery foods to train the tongue to such acute sensitiveness, that the taster could tell to a fraction of a farthing che value of the tea he took into his mouth. Needles to say they taste without sugar or milk and that they do not swallow the liquid. To be a good tea taster is to be assured of an excellent income, for everytmng depends in tea-growing lands upon the taster. It is he who decides what to grow, and it is he who fixes the value when grown. Consequently a tea, taster has the entire wealth or ruin, so to speak, of his firm in his hands.

"WHERE WOMAN IS EXALTED.

Man Treats Her as Though She Were an Angel and She Appreciates It. All plantation life is to a considerable extent patriarchal, except that, instead of the women being subordinated to masculirie pleasure and aggrandizement, as with the patriarchs of old, they are set on a pedestal and practically worshipped. It makes little difference to this modern patriarch of the cotton belt if his cuffs are frayed and his coat rusty, so long as his wife and daughters wear suits to church that are as stylish as his crops can pay for and their village dressmaker can devise. It is a feature of the day in the south as well as elsewhere that women are being better educated than men. In the northern states of the Union this higher culture is tending manifestly to celibacy, but in rural localities through the south the girls come back from academies and colleges and accept the young men who stayed at home to work the plantations, the same ones they would have married had they not gone away tor the education the parents sacrificed so much to bestow. They know what material these men are made of, and in the attraction, between the eternal womanly and the eternal manly the question of learning counts for little. To lead a patriarchial life without a patri-' arch, would be dull indeed, and it must be said that it requires Courage of a superior order to remain single in a situation which would offer little aim and stimulus outside of wifehood imd maternity after youth has waned?' For this reason youth is considered th#*high prize, the valuable capital and stofck in trade. The women fade no earlier-rthan their Northern sisters, but, owing t8 an inherited habit of thought, .the la$el of decay is respectfully fastened on tiem by the popular mind while they

are

still in their

prime, and in the northern and eastern states would be accounted capable of all things, even of marrying welL

A Household Mystery.

"Our next door neighbors are the queerest people you ever saw." "What makes them seem odd?" "Why, they have five clocks in the house, and every one of the five keeps good time."

Did Not Have^to Talk Much. "Willie Wlshingtort," said the friend, "is one of those people who tell everything they know." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, wearily, "and he doesn't talk very much, either."

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THE NEWEST PURSES.

Chain Parses Passing: Away and teat&er Ones Now the Favorites. One of the most conspicuous accessories of a woman's toilet is her purse, fot she invariably carries it in her hand. As a result womankind is judged notr ohly by the inside of the pocketbook, but by the outside. Fashions change in purses with remarkable rapidity. For a year purses of leather have been absent. To-day the chain purses, whiph put all others in the background, are passing, and leather is the material most in demand. "The sales in leather purses and card cases," said a salesman in a store with a reputation for fine leather goodq, "are larger than they have been in years, and the articles are certainly more gorgeous than ever before. Women demanded them in rare shades to blend with novelties in rich costumes, and the dealers have supplied the demand. The newest thing is a tiny purse, shaped exactly like a chatelaine bag. This is worn on a long cl^ain, as was the toggle purse. Two materials are used, leather and silk. Those inade of silk are exceedingly popular and effective, and we keep in stock the most fashionable shades of purple", green and red. Card cases mounted in plain silver, silver gilded, and pure gold are made of the same material and are just as expensive as handsome leather card cases. Of course we make them to order to match any costume. Small side- bags are also made of silk. They are just large enough to hold a handkerchief and a tiny coin purse. The prices of leather coin purses and portmonnaies vary according to their mounts, of course, but there is no reason why a woman with the most limited income should not carry 'a real seal marked down to 48 cents.' It is possible to buy a really handsome, well- made leather purse for $2, and from that they run up to $40. This little portemonnaie retails at the latter price. It is made of monkey skin and handsomely mounted in solid gold, jewelled. Card cases, which, by the way, are designed to carry cajjds, and only cards, are exceedingly rich }n. design and color this season. The "raps| popular are made of levant or crushed rijorcftcb. This material treated in thl$ V&y obtains a dull finish, which tonesf down those ultra shades so sought after. -this one of a rich reddish violet Color. Its corners are enamelled, the new antique .finish being used. Most of the colored leather cases are embellished with enamel. Lizard, elephant and snake skins hold their own well, and are mounted in silver, gilded, and elaborately jewelled. They vary in price from $15 to $80, which is.the price of this one made of eleplmnt skin. The 3 (forners are solid gold, set With genuine diamonds and emeralds. I wish women would learn that card cases are made to carry cards. They stuff them full of samples, keys, money, handkerchiefs and a few other things, and wonder why they break "out at the sides. It is economy to own both a purse and a card case, for then neither is taxed beyond its usefulness. One of the latest things out'is a very small chatelaine bag made of pure white calfskin, with a rough finish. It is mounted in silver, gilded with a bright finish, and is worn with a belt of the same material similarly mounted. The whole thing looks as if it might be made of white monkey, skin, and is exceedingly, effective with dainty summer gowns. The price of the bag is $16, while the belt is onl $5.75. The woman who clings to her chain purse to-day is behind the times.

Leather is the correct thing."

DAINTIES FOR THE SUMMER MENU.

Iced Desserts That Oujtlit to Appeal to the Most Capricious Palate. CURRANT MOUSSE.—Whip, a pint of thick cream to a froth, add a cupful of powdered sugar and beat stiff. Press the juice from a quart of red currants, mix with the beaten yolks of three eggs and the white of one, set in. a pan of boiling1' water, and stir until thick- let cool mix^

freeze three hours turn out and scrve»t Strawberry, raspberry or other fruit juiceb may be used in place of tb® currant

ROSE MOUSSE (aidaintjrice for a sum-ri mer luncheon or ygardeg'fparty).—'Soalqr half an ounce of gelatine^in a little colclr, water for half an hour. WThip one quart of cream with half.^cypf.ul .of powdered

sugar. oj spoonful of extract0 of JoseP and a few*drops of extract of 4Tmdhd color ros# with fruit coloring mix'with the creamr*' turn into a mold, patlk in salt and icei and let freeze for two hours. When ready to serve, turn out, garnish with, whipped' cream and candied rose leaves.

Flavor the gelatine with a tea

STRAWBERRY ICED SOUFFLE.Break the yolks of six eggs into a bowl, beat until light, and set in a pan of boiling water add a quarter of a pound of sugar and stir until the mixture is thick and smooth set on ice( add, a pint of strawberry juice. When cool, mix in gradually the white of two stiffly beaten eggs and a pint of whipped cream. Put in a souffle case or small cases, and pack in salt and ice for two hours. Send to the table in the case or cases. A souffle should be soft and smooth: rather than firm.

ORANGE SORBET.—Put a pound of sugar into a small saucepari, with the yellow rind of one: orange, cover with water and let boil five minutes take UD, strain, return to the saucepan and boil to a thick syrup: let cool, add a pint of orange juice and the juice of two lemons pour into a freezer and freeze to a semiliquid. Take up a.nd serve in sorbet glasses. All fruit juices may be used in making sorbets, but the acid varieties! or such as have a decided flavor, are best. Where wine or spirits are-not objected to, their addition to juices used for flavoring sorbets is considered an improvement.

A RECORD BREAKER.

On the shore by the breakers I found her, It was love at first sight on my part All the day I was hanging around her,

Till lost was my callow young heart,

All in vain for a time did I woo her,, Though gifts by the dozen I bought All in vain did I fondly pursue her.

Her heart was of marble I thought,

Bujt at Jast not a rival was in it. Ah, how they spluttered and raged. When her hand became inine in a mifflrtte,'

And I and my queen were engaged.'

Then I thought I was rather a hummer, But alas and alack TWas fash: She wftfc out for a record that summer^

And I was her thirtieth mash.

The Sample Rush.

"How did the manager get all thos* women out of that burning building, soj quickly?" "He went on the stage and announce^ that a man down at the entrance WSmL giving away samples of fcaking powder.

Ap Appropriate Tnne

Drusilla—Do you play, "Home, Sweet Home," on the $iano when it is time foir' Charlie Peterbee to say -good_ jjight?

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Dorothy—No. I have to play "In the Morning by the Bright Light."

Judging by the crowds arrays around, the shirt waist counters, yo»J Would thin] this style of gariiient was ftlie only oi known to tba feminine wot

TIE TALI cm OF TO-DAY

IDttSDF MARRIAGEABLE YOUNG REN IN ?HE RATTER OF A WIFE.

GIVOHEIR OPISIOHS FREELY

Are the Large, Robust Young fFomen of the Present Time More Thau '""the More Delicate Girls.

Thp young woman of the present day is very" ihuch taller, and more robust, baa bigger feet and hand's, and is more masculine generally than was tier "grand*motflferf This state of body has its advantage but it has its drawbacks, too, or atr lfiast that's what some marriageablegydfchg men say. A lot of them fell to talking about it in al club the other day. They had been discussing the baseball outlook and many mixed drinks just how the subject changed to the modern girl no one who was present will ever be able to tell. Perhaps it was because a tall, dashing mascularly built young woman stopped opposite their main window to talk to another girl who even overshadowed her maybe it wasn't, because there is an unwritten law iri this particular club which forbids any comments on the women who come and go through that street. Be that as it may, a Harvard man, who is a successful young lawyer, spoke up, saying: "Say, if you fellows were looking for a wife'would you fall in love with one of these big, strong, athletic'girls or would you look about for a small, dainty, trim little girl? Now, I'm a great a£hlete myself, as you all know but I must confess I don't like powerfully built women." "Who does?" shouted a dozen voices in chorus. "Do you all really believe that the average young woman of to-day is larger than her grandmother?" asked a Yale man.: "Undoubtedly so*" spoke up a successful young doctor, "Statistics pr6ve that women are really growing larger and stronger. Our grandmothers were delicately constructed women, who laced very tightly and took almost no vigorous exercise, either indoors or in the open air. Their granddaughters have taken up many forms of exercise, and are playing games that long were erroneously thought to belong exclusively to men. Already their forms have undergone a wonderful change, and ft generation will show a vast difference in the development of the sex. A great

IMPROVEMENT IN DRESS has also done mUch to better woman's physique. The wasp waist is

thing of

the past, and the girls nowadays give theif' lungs, heart, and liver a little shoW For my part, I like the modern girl best,

have

no use for her wasp-

waisited, midget'*f a, 'grandmother, with her tiny feet aiid

:hands

man

and her hysteri

cal fainting spells." v.t., "Oh, darn it all, you dpn't catch the Idea at all," put in a jolly broker. "None, of tjs would care, to marry a sickly womarv: but if you ask' the avferage man, in his .jjjjane moment^' Whether he prefers a. large woman or a dainty little creature, he #ill choose the small one every time." •"that is easily explained," began the cynic deliberately.- "That which flatters a man's vanity pleases him at first sight. You take a small man and he isn't going to like a woman who towers head and shoulders above him. He really feels spiteful toward her, and will go every time for the girl who, by her smallness, gives, him height and dignity. Men like to be protectors and not protected, and a

certainly can't feel that he must

care for a great, big, strapping woman, who could throw him in a fair fight. When a man pictures to himself the kind of woman that he would like for a wife he always thinks of her as a little, dainty sinuous creature that he can gather to his heart and not a woman that he has to caress in sections. He.w'ants one that jie jan feel is all his at^ the same time but you chaps needn't mention my name in connection with this opinion because it might hurt my chances with the plump widow with the fat income." "I think you are right about that, old man," said the literary fellow, turning to the cynic. "Any "cloise observer knows that large women as a rule are masculine in their manners and tastes, and few men like that—in their wives. Masculine women are as a rule good sports, and you can have a good time with 'em occasionally, but they don't do for a steady diet. They pall on one. Men prefer as wives distinctly -feminine women. You never kpow wha.t "to expect of such a woman, fcha she' Is always interesting. You love .to'study her Womanish moods and out-

to* And her next day. The only thing about her that you can positively count on is her

unselfish

devotion to you. Never

a day passes bi}fc/,what you all hear some iijan say, 'She/jS.^P delicious!y feminine.' 'Kot once ou'C^ ^. hundred times are tjiose Wdirds appnea a big, buxom woman." ". "Now, let jtoe jget word," said an married mftw w-hd" had been a silent terter. 'atfs^AlV-V^%iell to talk about nbt liking the modefjf girls as well as the lijttlo beauties of irast generations and to sky that you couldn't love a woman tailed and broader than yourself. I want to tell you a secret. You never know how women are going to turn out. Now, when I was a young chap I couldn't abide large girls and .never so much as flirted with one in my life* The first thing

THAT ATTRACTED ME

to my wife was her size. She was only 4 feet 9 inches tall, weighed ninety pounds, and tripped about like a little fairy. It seems to me I remember writing a poem to her in which I said her little hands reminded me of rose petals, and I know her waist only measured seventeen inches, and she wore a No. 13 shoe. Oh, I loved every inch of her. and felt as happy as the proverbial king on his throne when she was by my side. You know I'm rather a small man myself, and she made me feel that 1 was a perfect giant, a pillar of strength. It was a glorious feeling. Well, finally we married, and for two years things went all right. Then she began to get plump. I thought that was delightful at first, but we've just celebrated our twentyfifth anniversary, and she is still getting plumper. She now weighs 225 pounds, her waist measures one yard, she wears a six and a half glove and a number five shoe, and I love her a thousand times better than I did the day we were married. LoVe, my dear fellow, changes even a woman's form. You may say to-day, and reallv believe it, that you would not marry a strikingly large woman, and yet to-morrow you may fall dead in love with one who towers above you physically and mentally. It is- hard to lay down a rule about such things." "By jingo!" exclaimed the man known as the Little Corporal. "I feel on this question

very

much as the little, boy did

Who Was called upon to write1& composition oh the seasons, H#" wrote: •Sdmfe like winter'and some like sumfner but as for me, give me liberty or give ifce death." "Oh£ yoQ l)lankety blank, crusty old bachelor," said a smooth faced youth, "what do you know about the kind of women that

marriageable

men want for

their wives? You are too skeptical about matrimony to

able to judge."

"You know," spoke up a lawyer, a confirmed bachelor, "that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Here we ve been discussing for forty-seven minutes by the clock whether marriageable young hieU like the girls of to-day with their large feet,

large-hands,

broad chests, and

long limbs best as wives, or do they prefer flainty, delicately constructed women. Of bourse I do not mean delicate in the seise of unhealthy. As yet we've not me near a conclusion. The way to get the

TRUTH OF THE MATTER

is to settle whether there Is as much marriage or giving in marriage as there wa® in the days of our grandmothers. Jn ssse-Jis

other words, are there more old maids to-day than thete were theft? Are young men as meager to marry nowadays'as they were twb generations back? We've settled one point, and that is~th&t women are taller and broader than their grandmothers were. That-is indisputable. Corset makers, say tfast. our grandmothers nearly all wore No. 17 corsets now that number is extinct, and there are only rare calls for an eighteen, which has to be ihade to ordei\ htimfter is twenty-five. Twenty, and twenty-two are considered small. Women's feet are keeping pac6 with their" waists. They are gradually lengthening and broadening, and if thpy keep on developing at the present rtUo the- dainty little No. 1 and No. 2 shoes wilt probably, be unheard of in ten years. They wiU go the* Way of the Nq. 17 and No. 18 corsets. Glove dealers tell the same story about woman's hands. They claim that an Outdoor life has so increased the size of the average wpmah's hand that their trade in small numbers practically amounts to nothing, and so it gtoes. If there are not so many marriages1 to^day ipferhaps it is because men are not- tb apt-to fall .in love, with the modem: girl." "You are getting at the key which will unlock this question," said a, young man who is marriageable from every point, of view. He has plenty of money, a good social position, is successful In his profession, and is fond of a home life. "Therei are more old ftiaids in Society today than ever before,"' he went on enthusiastically, "and by society I don't simply mean the exclusive swell set of this city, but society in the broadest sense. People have a way of saying that women do not marry so early as they used to, but the truth ot the business is countless thousands don't marry after they get old either* It has been the history of the world that races of very large and power/ul women developed great independence. As our American women grow larger they depend less and less on men for protection, and one of these real clinging little women is getting to bo as hard to find as a hen's tooth. The young man of to-day admires the modern girl as a splendid creature, but he does hot feel sentimental toward her. She is not calculated to inspire sentiment, and I think that largely acounts for so many charming unmarried girls and so many lonely bachelors. Men do not like these whining, silly women, but they do like a woman who looks to them for support who feels that it is her

RIGHT TO BE PETTED

and coddled and loved and looked after and spoiled. I say it is better for the women to have strong, healthy bodies, and to lead lives Independent of men, but it isn't man's fault that they aren't so lovable as the small, dainty girls that were as if made to receive caresses.'' "Well, the modern girl seeins to be getting a black eye around here"' said a fat fellow, "but I say this, she has her fling. Love still exists, and men and women still fall In love. Why, it's love that mak6s the world go 'round. Size hasn't anything to do with it. A fellow never knows when he is going to be struck, or by what size or shape, so to speak. It's ail very well to theorize about the kind of woman that the young man of to-day is looking for, but he can't always regulate his heart to suit his ideals. As somebody said when We started out on this discussion, ask a man who is not in love whether he likeS a large or a small woman better, and ten to one he will answer a small one but, once in love, he cares not a continental red whether she is tall and divinely fair or short and fat. Even If succeeding generations of girls continue to grow larger and larger. I don't think there is any danger of the institution of marriage being Wiped out of existence." "I guess that's right," spoke up the Little Corporal again. "Some old philosopher has said that if a man marries he regrets it, and if he doesn't he regrets it so I suppose It is a toss up between the two evils." "By jove," sang out a great big fellow, springing up, "there's a dear, dainty iittle woman waiting for me now, and I'm going to leave you chaps to fight this out among yourselves." "And there's a. dear, tall girl whose body has been allowed to develop, unrestricted by barbarous clothing, waiting for me.' put in a deep bass voice, "and I shall tell her what you all said about the robust girl of to-ddy." "Big or little, strong or delicate, a woman is a woman, for a' that," said the stock broker. "And. I say, let's drink a toast to all womankind.^ God bless 'eqi." And they all did.

AN ISVER-BLOOMING PLANT.

Flower Growers Find a Valuable Novelty to the Empress of China Kose. The new hardy climbing rose now being introduced tmder the name of Empress of China seeniiS io be a really valuable novelty. It isi'readily, ^established and grows very rapidly ifesj foliage Is dense, graceful. pnd of rich* green color. The plant begins to bloom the tfrst season and continues to grow and bloom till after the coming of frosts and what is especially commendable is the fact that it is perfectly, hardy. The prairie roses are excellent climbers and produce beautiful flowers, but their season is only for a short period during midsummer. The climbing hybrid perpetual roses rarely make a satisfactory growth for a pillar or wall, and bloom but sparingly during autumn. But here we have a climbing rose that grows almost as freely as a prairie rose, blooms continuously from spring until late in the autumn, and will endure the winter with perfect safety and be ready fpr. servicfe early in the spring, enlarging from year to year, and yielding a display of flowers throughout the season that elicits praise and admiration from all observers. The Empress of China, like other China roses, is of mediuni size, but the petals are rather broad and Of good substance, and when full blown the form is moderately full, and the fragrance emitted is deliciously swoet.

The

buds' are gracefully

pointed and of a bright carmine rose color. As they develop, however, they change to the beautiful rosy white which is so much admired in the lovely apple bloom. For the buttonhole the halfopen bud with a spray of the foliage is exquisite, and for tt modest hand bouquet the vigorous clusters of buds and flowers, with their accompanying foliage, are all that could bS desired. "Grows like a morning glory and. is as hardy as a grape vine," writes one enthusiastic florist. His enthusiasm may have carried his description too far but this new climbing rose is evidently one of more than passing merit, and deserves the attention of all who wish an everbloomirtg hardy climbing rose.

MY LADY'S TAKASOLS.

She Should Have a Dozen—How She Can Get Along With Three. Parasols have blossomed out into a variety and fresh Importance in the realm of fashion which is really disheartening to all women except the few who are blessed with unlimited incomes or a mind above' the5frivolous things of lifei Fashion decrees that the up-to-date woman must haveeifrom six to a dozen- of these expensive trifles to harmonize respectively with her various costumes, but with three* well selected she can' meet all the requirements of fashionable dre^s. One should be" of changeable or foulard silk, or ecru batiste, another of brocadert silk, and a third one of cblfforr or lace'to carry with thin gowns. The chiffon paVasol is a thing of frills and fluff, which is a puzzle to any one except the ingenious designer who fashioned it. In thi6 class of parasols there are various kinds similarly elaborate, made of net, lace and gauze, and the handles are of gold set with jewels, with rock crystal and enamelled heads of tortoise shell or some choice wood. Elegant brocadcd a|d moire silks are used for covering, bup^here are all sorts of less expensive silk parasols in plain colors, plaids and stripes without limit to the variety. Ecru batiste parasols lined with a color and trimmed with narrow ecru lacc arc extremely pretty and useful as well a* good style, and a lacquered wood harioie is sure to be a desirable choice.

BRIGHTEN WEB'DHS

THE CLEVER YOUNG WOMAN FINDS & WAY TO ENJOY AN OUTtSG.

COST OF IT OSLY MERE TRIFLE

The Mission of the Entertainer at iooable Resorts and How She Goer to Work to Fulfill It.

All eyes are turned countrywa^d nowv or to ocean, beach- or .nacny^u^n lieishV People who can will soon establish them?* selves tit one or the other for. as long' a time as they can afford. It is irftferestitig to note the avenue^ open to p#opi«» of" ready wit and tactful resource: for identifying themselves with t&is. out» going tide and Achieving a. good ,tlm^ change of air and. scene, and all the opier benefits of a summer outing J^t, a minimum of cost. 7 "I shall spend thrfee weeks at A. irtd a week at B. and perhaps a month at C. this summer," says a certain vivacious person. "But those are all expensive places how can she afford to go?" her friends ask one another, and they arrive at th® conclusion that the traveler's income must be more than they supposed. The vivacious person goes to these ,popular resorts ostensibly as a guest, but hei* real mission is that of entertainer. Sum* mer resorts as ft general thing are dull. The guests crave something more than mere food and sleeping accommodations. They like a place where there Is something going on, and if they find stich a place they stay in It, and, moreover, they tell their, frttuda £bout it and advise themiisDjctftner.bhbffc. FThe summer hotel keeper, feijftlfsiyiat .haying a lively set at his. ^t^act people. Some time? :4#on& Iri February or March he gets a Tetter fnjm cC vivacious worrtan offering to make this inducement possible at his placc during a few weeks of the season in return

FOR HER OWN BOARD

and lodging. She represents herself as knowing how things ought to be done and as being a "good hand" to keep the social ball in motion. The hotel keeper thlnHs well of the scheme so aptly described and agrees to give it a trial. Unquestlon-, ably he gets full value for his hospitality. There are more tableaux, golf and tennis tournaments, fishing parties and picnics planned among his guests in a given time than in many rival houses during the entire season. All of these goings, comings, and happenings make opportunity for the wearing of distinctive toilets. Moreover, they serve another purpose. They break down the barrier of formality and constraint, natural to a lot of peopla thrown together haphazard in a country place away from their usual resourced of entertainment. The altn of the summer hotel visitor is to kill time. Mi^9 Smith or Mr. Brown helps on this anomolous pursuit amazingly, therefore pro* prietor and guests alike admire her en« ergy and fertility of resource. The servants receive strict orders to attend to all her wants minutely. She Is a treasure in the house. She has guests to dine and sup frequently, is really lavish In entertaining, and her example prompts the other guests to do likewise. According to previous arrangement, when her term of probation is drawing to a close the entertainer incognito announces her approaching departure. Everybody is in despair. What can they do without her? The matrons, to whom she showed novelties in fancy work and new sititches in croohet and knitting, are disconsolate. Even the children are. sorry, and the young people, who lacked a Jeader for their frolics, are loud In protest. Under the circumstances it is judged best that Mrs. Brown or Miss j?,mith should pro-« long hdr stay. Those initiated behind the screens of summer resort life stattf that Mrs. Brown or Miss Smith frequently has an aide-de-camp or a rival In her particular line. An aide-de-camp resembles her exactly except in the matter of sex. Mr. Brown or Mr. Smith is a good dancer and tennis player, knows how,, tel manage hops and concerts and tead^^ cotillon, for which the fancy work

SPINSTERS AND DOWAGERS work the favors. Mr. Smith and Mn Brown are just as legitimate and vital factors in the proprietor's list of necessities as the quality of the curtains in the reception room, or the flower beds on tha lawn. The flowers and the latest style curtains and the up-to-date people who are amusing the guests, without letting them know that they are doing so, ara all a component part of the. scheme. If, be It understood, the entertainer knowj a few of the right kind of people and can Inveigle them into staying at hef hotel and so shedding the beneficence of their presence on others eager to meet them, her future welcome at that particular hostelry is assured. The readers and lecturers on current topics and oil out-of-the-way topics along the lines of mental advancement are other welcoma guests at the summer hotels. There 19 a certain class of women. Increasing In number each year, who eschew frivolity and flippancy of every description (excepting, of course, the all-compelling sway of fasnion in regard to clothes) an who, having passed the diversions of girlhood, find most of their pleasure'in some sort

as well as the older and more settled people, entertainment must be provided., and the landlord is only too glad to hava a series of parlor readings or lecture.? or talks in return for board, ^nese talks may be about birds, botany, music, architecture, literature, science, the woman question, marriage or noted people of either sex. whom the lecturer may havd met or heard of. Sandwiched in between are judiciously chosen selections frdm various authors and enlivened ^ith

ANECDOTE AND STORY

and bits of verse, they are. a verj passable order of entertainment. The woman who promotes them meets congenial people and creates a little niche for herself in their memory. The woman who has a knack for fiat trimrtilng. for devising dainty aigrettes, caps and. orrtaments for the hair, for making pretty bodice draperies oi^ khicklwitk'WS ffefr th® toilet, gets up a sutfpTy Sf sitcft accessories, rents a pafltt'r in a fashionable hotel, in which to tnste the joys of chang# of sceno and drive a profitable trade well. Women to be content must be buying something, even if y.'ell supplied, and if no shops are at hahd any substitute that offers itself. In which their passion for purchasing may be indulged, is welcome. The winter of favorite bits *l view, the mender .the purveyor of unique darning bags, traveling companions and the hundred and one various kinds of hand-made cases, covers of embioidery silks and crewels, likewise, find, temporary custom, but none of jhe.^y last haf the same opportunity as the entertainer and the lecturer. Their- expenses are. only eked out, not entirely liquidated.,

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mental diversion. For these,,

Loyal to HI* 1'ntron.

A Pearl street jeweler was conversing with a

the other day when a large,

stylishly dressed woman and her daughter, of about 10 years, dropped ill and wanted to look at some diamond?. Tha jeweler displayed a trayfal oi pllitering gems, and the elderly lalh 'lt '-.ild: "I want to get a stone to match, till*

It Is for a Christmas present for my, other daughter, and I want to surpriso the dear girl." '.

Whereupon she slipped off a soluairo ring which the younger caller wofe. and handed it to the jeweler. "Well," he said, "I can match the stone, of course, If you will give mo a little time. It is a finer grade than wo usually carry in stock." "What will ono like that costf Inquired the woman. "About $W0—approximately," re* piled, and the customers, with c.T4islv« thanks, departed. "I sold that stone a weele r.T." remarked the jeweler as he rejoined his frierid. "It cost $1*3. The old lady is simply dving with cut'Iorlty .to find oat what her daughter's engagement ring cost. Ah, there are tricks iu uli tr«M3^f but ours."