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0 VACMi 1 a By ANNIE CHAPTER V. C Compliments, Not Caresses. Belinda's eyes have met Roger's, End, in spite of all her foregone jealous resolves, the girl finds it hard to Bteel herself against Rosie's future husband. Never in her whole vaga! bond, loveless life has such honest human sunshine shone on her as shines now in Roger Temple's smile. "I don't know about falling in love, but I am sure Belinda and I mean to De inenas, Jttosie, ne says, auvauttng. "Do we not, my dear?" And before she can find time to put herself on guard, Captain Temple's bronzed mustache has touched her cheek. It is the kind of salutation that could scarce, by the very Iciest prude, be stigmatized as a kiss, and yet it bears a sufficiently marked family resemblance to one to be unpleasant in Rosie's sight. "I?I really, Roger?Belinda looks so ridiculously younger than she is!" "Not a bit!" cries Roger, and now he rests his hand kindly on the little girl's shoulder. "Belinda is fifteen years old?you told me, did you not, that she was fifteen? Well, and she looks it. Don't mind Rosie, Belinda. Bosie turns rusty at the thought of ? having a grown-up daughter." "I shall be seventeen the week after next," says Belinda, holding up iher chin. "I don't know what peo pie mean by taking me for a child. I have certainly seen enough of the world and its wickedness to make me feel old," she adds, with the accustomed hard little rebellious ring in fcer voice. "Belinda will look different?I trust Belinda will look totally different when she is properly dressed," says the widow, glancing down at her r. own elegantly flowing draperies. "I |;v must really have a serious talk with v Miss Burke about these short skirts." "Ah, but Miss Burke is not here to 7>e talked with, Rosie!" cries Belin* da, bent, it would seem, on disclosing every obnoxious truth she can hit ugon. "My natural guide and protector has been away in Spain a week or more, collecting facts for her book, ! and I am knocking about alone, as ./'yon see?me and my dog Costa." i AIUUC ; aiaiuuicio suuuncu -'not so much perhaps at the fact itself as at having Jfce fact exposed before Roger. "You don't mean actually alone, my dear?" | "Well, no; I have my chums, of y course, the fellows who wero with me in the street when you arrived. Now, Rese," she goes on pitilessly, "tell the truth?were you or were you not ashamed when you first saw 'u mff?" ??/ * "I?I was surprised, Belinda," says Rose, in her sweetest little feminine tfeble. "It is not usual in England, you know, to see a girl of seventeen Vl QT? Vlftw AnlrlftCT i*Y cauu5 uti ui t oo auu?c ixci auatco. And then those fearful?what must 'I call them, Belinda??what do they call those fearful door-mat things you have on your feet?" "They call those fearful things alpargetas in Spanish, espadrilles in French," answers Belinda, coolly holding out a ragged sandaled foot for inspection. "If you played paume on the hot sand for hours together as I do, you would be glad to wear espadrilles, Rose; yes, or to go barefoot altogether, as I do oftener than "Our dear Belinda wants a year or two of sound English training," she remarks, in a tone that to Roger sounds dove-like, but that Belinda remembers and interprets only too well. I "That is the worst of continental education! One has to sacrifice so many good solid English qualities for accomplishments. Still in these days a girl must be accomplished. A couple of years in a select English boarding-school will, I have no doubt, render Belinda all that our fondest wishes could desire." I Belinda, on the conclusion of this. Httle tirade, looks hard into her step- I mother's eyes for a moment or two; j then, shouldering her schistera, she moves across to the door. "I must be off," turning and bestowing a nod full of caustic meaning on the lovers. "And unless you ' want me to join some gang of wandering gypsy players, as I have often thought of doinsr, you had better not talk about boarding-schools any more. My accomplishments, Cantain Temple," looking with an air of mock , modesty?"Rose talks of my accomplishments, for which the good solid qualities have been sacrificed! I will tell you what they are, and you shall say which I am best suited for?a booth in a Basque fair, or a select I English boarding-school! Paume flaying?'tis the same game, Mr. Jones tells me, as your English fives ?paumes," checking off each accomplishment on her dark, slim fingers as she proceeds, "bolero dancing, a tolerable acquaintance with slang ih lour languages?" "Belinda!" "Oh! let me finish the list, Rose! Let me make the best of myself that T can in Cantain Temnle's eyes. Bo Ilero-dancing. slang, paume?of each a little. Knowledge, learnt practi-, callv, of how to keep myself and dog j on twenty sous a day board-wages. And a taste for bull-Sghts so strong,, ph! so stronsr," this with unaffected (enthusiasm, "that I would sooner go without meat for a fortnight and church for a year than miss the chance of going to one. For further I particulars apply to JUr. Augustus Jones." And so er;t Belinda, whistling? res, Rose, whistling: keep from fainting if you ear.?as sue goes. "A quaint little original, our future daughter," says Roger, whose yes have certainly opened wider durng the conclusion of Belinda's tirade. 'But a good hearted child, I'll be w [II UDD miVTC I ijj nunuinjj |; i EDWARDS. I bound. You must not be too hard on her. Rose." "I bard?" sighs the widow, looking | at him reproachfully. "When was I ever hard on any one? If you knew, ! Roger?but of course men never understand these things?the trial that poor girl has always been! I can assure you I look upon Belinda as a chastisement, sent to me for some j wise purpose by Providence." She seats herself on a sofa, dis-1 creetly away in the half light, and with an air of resignation takes out I herpockethandkerchief. "Ihavemade J sacrifices no real mother would have made for her?can I ever forget the devoted, bland attachment of her poor dear papa for me? Sending her away, heaven knows at what expense, to the continent, and always writing that she should have the best of masters, and everything; and now this is the result. How painfully plain she is." "Plain? No, Rosie, anything but plain. Belinda is just at that awkward age when one does not know what to make of girls, and her dress ' is not quite like other people's, Is it? j But she has magnificent eyes, and a pretty hand." "A pretty hand! Belinda's hands pretty! Why, they are enormous, six and three-quarters at least, two sizes bigger than mine, and a brown, but you think every one you see lovely. Roger," says Rose pettishly. "I believe one might just as well be ugly one's self. I have never heard you speak of any woman yet that you could not find something to admire in her." "And all because of you, my dearest!" cries Captain Temple, with warmth. "When a man admires one woman supremely, can you not imagine that every other woman, yet, even the plainest, must possess something fair in his sight for her sake?" He comes across to her, stoops and rests hi3 hand on his betrothed's fair head. It is a favorite action of Roger's, and one that Rose would be exceedingly well pleased to see him abandon. Who can tell what horrible trick postiche or plait may not play one in some unguarded moment of more than common tenderness?" "Oh, Roger, how can you?" She shifts a little,uneasily from his touch. "Really you get sillier and sillier every day." it is a fixed idea of the widow's that Roger Temple's feelings for her are precisely of the same irrepressible and rapturous nature as they were when he was a boy of nineteen?a happy, fixed idea, lightening Roger's courtship more than he wots of. "Lucky, I am sure, that Belinda is gone. Do you know I was afraid you would say or do something embarrassing before her! How do I look, Roger dear? Tired and hideous, don't I? Now, I insist upon your telling me the truth." How do I look, Roger dear? is the burden ever of their love scenes. Compliments, not caresses, are what Rose's heart of hearts yearns for; and Roger, after the past few weeks' apprenticeship, finds it no very diffl cult task to frame them. To have to pay compliments to the same -woman during sit or eight hours of every consecutive day would in most cases be a tolerably severe strain on a man's imaginative faculty. Rose, who is absolutely without imagination herself, requires the exercise of none in others. A parrot gets no more wearied with its own eternal "Pretty Poll" than does poor Rosie of the eternal, pointless, stereotyped commonplaces of flattery. "You look charming. I never saw, you look better. Your eyes are as bright?" Roger does not find a simile come readily to his hand, but Rose is content to take his good intention on trust." "And your dress?all these mvcauci Aims auu iuii> >vuuc idic; i Rosie. how is it that you always man- j age to wear prettier dresses than any other woman in the world?" He must have asked her the same question, on a moderate calculation, about two hundred times since they were first engaged. At this moment he knows how often he has asked it, and the precise fluttering of denial, and little bewitching, foolish laugh with which Rosie will respond. And he sighs; if he had courage to relieve his soul in the way nature prompts, would yawn. Terrible point in a love affair when we have learned to disguise anything! "I shall be quite unhappy about my dresses if they do not arrive' ~^ >> Drv,? ? . 1.. urn I auuu, xwac uu pi'tzseiiliy, 1CII J large cases, you remember." Does not Roger remember those awful ten cases well? in Paris, Bordeaux, everywhere? "And a bit of blue ribbon | on each. There can be no mistake 1 if the railway people are honest, but abroad one never knows. I'm sure nothing would have been easier than for Belinda to run back to the station; still, she did not offer, and in my delicate position as a stepmother I have never required the slightest attention from the pcor girl. "Oh, Roger," Rose's hancl is in her lover's new, and he is beside her on the sofa, "if I dared, how much 1 should like to tell you a secrei? something we are all concerned in!"i Roger's natural reply is, -what J should prevent her telling it? Ought, j there to be any secret, present or to come, between persons whose lives, | like theirs, are to he spent in one I lor:?, delightful confidence? "Well,' then?I'm a very naughty girl, I know," Roro avews kittenishly, "and i dare say you will scold me 5= r?c11 y, but I've been match-making! It is not quite by accident that Mr. Augustus Jones is in St. Jean do hvz'." "AccJdent or no accident, thr? fact I is a deuced unpleasant one," re- j marks Captain Temple. "How or why Mr. Jones came here is Mr. Jones' own concern, but the bore of j having to encounter h.imi I really. [ did hope, Rose, that we had seen the I laet of that atrocious man when we " left London." yj "You are prejudiced against him, ,sir. I'm afraid you don't like poor Augustus because he was a little too attentive to me." "Rose!" "Oh, come, Roger, I know what your ruling passion is, and always :j( has been. The green-eyed monster, ;c sir?" w "Rosie, I swear?" CI "Well, we cannot help these things, ri my dear; I am ridiculously without |E jealously myself. Poor Major O'Shea ' [3 often said he wished he could see me 1 D1 a little more jealous, but I can make every allowance for It in others. I j ^ ought, I am sure," adds Rose, with a 1 e, reminiscent sigh, "I ought to be able to bear all the jealous suspicious- sj ness of men's natures after the ex- 3l perience I have had!" 3, There is silence for a minute, and any one watching Roger Temple's face attentively might discern there ! ft] a good deal the look of a man who is j cc trying to repress his weariness under n, the perpetual, exacting babble of a ; S child. "I don't think you judge of tj. me quite correctly, Rose," he re- ?( marks, after a time. "Who ever judges another correctly? Who can ta read but by his own light? We were m talking of Mr. Jones, were we not? tc Ah, yes, and you think me jealous of Jones! So be it my dear. Poor littie Rosie." He bends forwards and q salutes the widow's cheek?very tenterly, I may almost say fearfully. T Roger ts better acquainted with feminine weakness, as regards rice pow- ^ der especially, than he was on that n) \ r?V? f of Urnmntnn 4<And 1 liiot miai "'b"" ? f j e, now what about this grand secret of , aj yours? You have been match-ma-1 g, king, have you? I hope you don't mean to marry our little daughter ] Belinda to Mr. Augustus Jones?" jj. "He would be an extremely nice I a, husband for her, from a worldly point i of view," says Rose, turning over and <j( over the diamond, a gift of Roger's, that rests on her plump third finger. Ej "And as to education?old Mr. Jones was sensible of his own deficiencies, ^ and had his son coached up by the ^ most expensive tutors. Any one d) hearing Augustus talk would say sl that he was quite well educated enough?for a married man." m "And presentable enough, refined enough? The sort of husband a girl could not only love, but be proud of? Well, Rosie, manage it as you choose. v] If you like Mr. Jones, and if Belinda l3( likes Mr. Jones, you may be sure that I shall not forbid the banns." a "Ah, there is the difficulty. Belin* I da does not like Mr. Jones. Belinda and I never liked the same thing or m : person yet." Poor Rosie, if the mantle of prophecy could but fall upon [ her shoulders at this moment! "But m you could help me so much, deir, 1! and vmi TXfUl T lrnnw?" I Jl/U TTUUiU??UU J v v? wr ?mm, * ? upraising her eyes coaxingly to her e, lover's. "You will help me in my Sl plans for Belinda's happiness? It was all through me, Roger?don't be cross with me if I confess the truth ?it was all through me that Mr. ?C Jones came to St. Jean de Luz." C1 "Through you that Mr. Jones came to St. Jean de Luz! And why should I be cross with you, you little goose?" Rosie talks like a girl of sixteen; Roger treats her like a girl of sixteen I C? ?yet is sensible, mournfully sensible, j ever, of the grotesqueness of so do- j ic ing. J si j "You see, I knew that Augustus i tt was antious to marry. I suspected, ! st feared," says Rose, with modest p] kin f^An/lO {T"t C/lVTlA d iVflP. ' V giaue, kxiac i-iio xjiwpvo *** ?*mw A tions might have heen just a little blighted, and the thought struak me ?as he was going abroad and had 1 asked me to plan his tour for him? ! w the thought struck me to bring him sc and Belinda together. What he >p wants is connection; what she wants p( is money?" j V( "But Belinda is a child still," in- o terrupts Roger Temple. "You are building all these castles in the air, pj dear, kind little soul that you are, <g( Rosie, for her good, but the thing is n( ridiculous. Belinda's home must be w with us for the next three or foui a years. Ample time then to begin e match-making. How could a child bt of her age possibly decide," goes on Si honest Roger?"how could an inno- p< cent-hearted child of Belinda's age t possibly decide whether she ought or tt ought not to sell herself for the so tc manv thousands a year snob like a i Jones?" I st To be Continued. b< Chinese Scholar on Marriage. Sir Robert Hart, speaking of marriage and death customs in the Fai East, tells a story of a great Chinese y< scholar and high official who said a that our foreign way of letting the to young people fall in love and choose re and the Chinese way of first marry- m ing and then making acquaintance reminded him of two kettles of cc water: the first?the foreign?was m taken at the boiling point from the fire by marriage and then grew cooler pc and cooler, whereas the second?the Chinese?was a kettle of cold water th put on the fire by wedlock and ever afterward growing warmer and ar warmer. So that," said his friend, "after fifty or sixty years wo are madly in love with each othfr" ? in Tit-Bits. i nc Out of Doors. | if Live out of doors as much as pos- nl sible. For the woman who is in the v country this advice is not difficult to a<^ follow and the time she gives to her garden is not wasted. The stay-intown woman will find it profitable to take little trips out of the city, if it Cc be only for the day, or use trolley ni lines which stretch for miles through Sc the country. It is so much better a t'.ian sitting at home complaining of the weather.?Green's Fruit Grower. sa The VIrnn?ii?ir of Trafp.lcnv. ])( Trafalgar is an Arabic word which j means "The Cape of Laurels," which pr is strangely applicable to trie scene of the fatuous battle and the derail 111 ro of England's greatest naval hero.? Home Notes. w< M French scientists are studying ? peculiar movement of the sands along the northern coasts of France, Bel- _ giunt and Holland. A fine sand orig- j , inating on the coast of Normandy has vi) been found as far away as Denmark- ric EN MUST STAND .OTHER-IN-LAW PLANT. "One Leaf Placed on Tongua Will Paralyze That Organ Foi Hours," Says Originator. There is a limit to the public paence, and it has been reached. News imeth that in the Botanic Gardens hlch the Government maintains lu eate, propagate and disseminate ire and valuable plants?that In this istitution that we men pay our good ix money to support there has beer roduced a new specimen known as ie "mother-in-law plant." Suffering oses! Shall men be pestered former? Instead of hanging his head lc laine as such a nefarious act, the iperintendent is proud of his work, tys the Baltimore News, and proves to make this plant a feature oi le flora of America. Though he mas ouse the just indignation of his )untry, the superintendent shall be ameless here, as we do not care tc ie a mob of frenzied men storming le glass doors of the Botanic Garsns. This mother-in-law plant is a vegeible squelcher. "One leaf from the :other-in-law plant placed upon the ingue will paralyze that organ foi aurs," says the promoter. That if ie mildest of its dangers. The one ling to do is to nip this thing in the ud, to stamp it out, root and branch his is no time for temporizing. Thousands of men who could have Drne marriage and a wife are now a ?^*1, srvous wrecKs on account ui uium s-in-law. Thousands of them are ready cowed and shrinking from th? ize of the grenadier ladies who par: yze them at a glance. What chance would men stand il lis mother-in-law plant should prove ; great a terror among the vegeta les as the regular mother-in-la^ ses in the animal kingdom? If the seeds of this new plant lould be scattered over the land, il ircrywhere he went, in the home, 1r le trolley car, in the theatre, on thf ighway, from every yard and garjn a mother-in-law, plant or animal lould spring up?oh. where coulc ;st be found, rest for the wearj an? Ho Wanted to Know. The door opened to admit an indi' dual of benign aspect, who at onc< 2gan: "You advertised that you had fount purse, did you not?" "Yes.*' "You said It contained a sum oi ioney?M "Yes." "In fact, a very large sun o! loney?" "That's so." "You mentioned, too, that the own could have the same by naming th< lm found and describing the purse?' "Yes; go on." "That is all I wanted to ask." "But you will have .to give a de :ription of the purse before you car aim it." "I haven't lost any purse." "You haven't?" "No.-" "Then why on earth nave yoi illed?" . "Oh. merely to sec what a mai ioks like who will find a very larg< im of money, and then advertisf le fact in the daily newspapers in ead of having a good time with th( iunder. Good morning, sir!"?Ne-w ork Journal. Tricks of the Diplomatic Trade. According to Mr. Griffith-Eosca en, Bismarck drank eight lemor luashes in the coursc of one speech he iron chancellor's naturally fine jwers of suction were, however, de Jloped by his diplomatic training n one occasion he boasted that ir is youth he drank a bottle of cham igne at one draft from a "puzzle Dblet so constructed that one coulc >t bring It close to one's lips, yet one as not allowed to spill a drop. Nol single drop fell on my waistcoat very one was immensely surprised at I said: 'Give me another . . . uch tricks were formerly an indissnsable part of the diplomat's trade hey drank the weaker vessels undei ie table, wormed all they wanted > know out of them, and made then: ;ree to things contrary to their inructions. . . . When they got so;r they could not imagine why the) id acted so."?London Chronicle. Pretty Good. "Woiir? Tnrnins!" said an arroeanl )ung man to a farmer driving along country road. "Give a fellow a lift Newton?" Without waiting for a ply he jumped into the cart: "1 ight as well ride with you as walk." After two or three miles had been ivered, the young man paused for a oment in his chatter and remarked: "It's more of a distance than I sup>sed." "It's a good distance," answered e farmer. Another twenty minutes passed, id then the young man inquired: "About how far is it to Newton?" "Well," replied the farmer, "keep' straight on the way we're going >w I sh'd say 'twould be a matter o' Aenty-five thousand miles or so, but you was favorable t' gettin' out o' y cart and walkin' it back it isn't :ry much above eight miles."?Can[ian Thresnerman. The Second Wearing. John Burns, the Socialist English ibinet Minister, celebrated last onth*his fifty-first birthday. At a icialist meeting in Milwaukee, after congratulatory message to Mr. Lirnrt had been drafted, a speaker id: "['11 tell you a characteristic story John Burns. When he first ap;are:d before tlie King in the gold ee and cocked hat and sword of a ivy councillor His Majesty excised pleasure r.t seeing him in the yal Windsor uniform. " 'But it is not the first time I have >rn your Majesty's uniform,' said r Rums. " 'No'." saM. thy Kin?;. " 'Your Majesty w.ll. perl aps, reeniiitr,' said .Mr. Bi i n..:. -tha stripes wore in Hollowu* .1 :.i 1 after my conation for the Trafalgar Square its.' "?Minneapolis Journal. Morse May Be Thankful He's in Good Hands. THE ATLANTA FEDERAL PENITENTIARY , IS SAID TO BE A MODEL INSTITUTION OF ITS KIND, j 1 Charles W. Morse should be thank1 fill?although he may now consider 1 J It a rather thin silver lining to his 1 j cloud?that If he was obliged to go > | to prison it should be to one like the Atlanta Federal penitentiary. This I prison illustrate?, in its construction ' I and routine of lite, what modern pen- ' ologists have decided to be required . in the reasonable and humane treat ment of feigns. In the construction of the buildings every effort was made r to have them conform to the modern i ! standards for the protection of health. > I The disciplinary regulations do not ? | forget the principle of reformation, ; and the value of self-respect 1b utll ized as a reformatory agent. When a convict enters the prison in a sense he becomes another man. ? His identity is swallowed up in a I number. He stands on a footing with ' every inmate of equal degree or uni tested behavior and has an oppor' .tunity to start his new life right. Be' fore he takes his allotted place in the . prison life he is required to take a bath, have nis nair tnmmea ana exs change his clothes for a suit furnished r by the Government. The style of his hair cut and the character of his i clothes illustrate the official view of i the prisoner. His hair is trimmed, s not shaven, after the manner of the old school penology. The clothes, in I color and material a distinctive unij form, are not stripes of the old con i vict garb, which carried with it the f odium of a social outcast. The hu- I manistic view of imprisonment for t crime is further recognized in the f. absence of the lockstep. When i ' Morse's mustache was shaved off, two i | deep lines running from either side j of his nose to the corners of his lips , j were revealed. His appearance had I been changed in a marked manner. ' Before he is merged <with the ranks of the first grade convicts, the prisoner is photographed twice, first before his hair is trimmed and his face shaved, and the second tine following j the operations. His thumb print and I the Bertillon measurements are also I taken. The physical examination follows. This, has a bearing on the form of occupation he will be required f ; to take up, for all the prisoners, unJ less physically incapable, are expected I to spend eight hours daily in labor f j of some kind. He is vaccinated. If he is tuberculous he will be sent to\ the hospital, where that disease is treated by the open air method. | His social and physical status de' j termined, he has an opportunity to express his religious preferences. He will reccive a Bible and a set of the ' prison rules, which state the privi1 leges of a first class prisoner. It is then decided to what form of labor he will be assigned. The occupations cover a wide range. A prisoner may be appointed 1 a clerk or receive an opportunity to teach in the school, or he may be put' 1 at the trade of bricklaying or set at ! work in the garden. There is ample ' room for all forms of occupation, as the grounds around the prison are : 321 acres in area. 1 The occupation fixed upon, the prisoner is assigned to a cell in the division of prisoners having employment similar to that in which he is to engage. It has been reported that i Mr. Morse would be assigned to the . .tailor shop in a clerical capacity, ow:1 ing to his mental qualification and his I physical incapacity to undertake . ! manual labor because of his age and i , his lame leg. I The prisoner starts with everything ? In his favor, so far as life in the I prison is concerned. He is placed in ! the first grade, which entitles him to t all privileges enjoyed by any of the . inmates. He is permitted to write , letters to his family and friends, sub. j ject to the supervision of the prison authorities. He may have visitors, . although the frequency of calls is usually limited to once in two weeks. I' If he Is a smoker or user of tobacco i in any other form, his tastes in this > direction will be recognized and grat ified by a regular allowance. The ' prison library of several thousand volumes is at his service. He will also be permitted to receive magazines, books and newspapers from friends. - Occasionally he will have an op' portunity to enjoy an entertainment Ui. SUIiit? 1U1 ili. x UC cuici taiuaiwiito are given in the hall which is used l for the regular Sunday religious ser! i vices. This hall contains a modest stage. If he is musically inclined, | there may be an opportunity to join . the prison band. | So long as a prisoner is well behaved he retains the privileges which j are accorded him on his admission. I Should he not obey the requirements I of life in the first grade he will be reduced to the second, where his priv ileges will be somewhat curtailed. If he still is recalcitrant he will fall ! into the third grade, which practical ly deprives him of all privileges.? New York Tribune. 7Io\v He Got a Fur Coat. Samuel KIous, who says he is a mining engineer of Boston, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Swann in General Sessions to a year in the penitentiary because he went into a ; Broadway automobile agency with ; the ostensible purpose of buying an automobile and got away with the 1 proprietor's fur overcoat. He picked out a car, wrote a check for $1475 on 1 the Chase National Bank and asked to have the running of the car dem- 1 onstrated to him. It was a cold day ] and he borrowed the fur coat. The 1 chauffeur returned a few hours latpr 1 without customer or coat. He said : Klous had gone into a place to sot i [ warm and had escaped by another door. Tlu check was worthless.? j ( New York Sun. | ilclpiiii; Your Xeijjlilioi*. j Schtme to <io some good to every ) neiuhKir and see how happy you will I t l'eel wneii you accomplish results. | i THE ,s?: ttrDtrr?VTDE,'C [ JUS A.VVCIAJ^ CORNER ^ I Mi\e<l Fruits. In arranging a bowl of fruit it is not necessary to limit one's self to bananas, sweet oranges, grapes and grapefruit. Put in a few kumquats and mandarins, also two or three Japanese persimmons and fresh flgs, with a mango or two, if possible, and use red bananas instead of the yellow because they have a finer flavor.? New York Tribune. f Tomato Soap With Cheese. A clear tomato soup is improved in both flavor and nutritive value by the use of cheese. Pass a small sauce'* containing grated Parmesan cheese around with the soup, or, if preferred, small squares of ordinary yellow cheese can be used Instead of croutons or some of the other familiar garnishes. The serving of cheese with soup is quite common in some foreign countries.?New York Tribune. Strawberry Coupe. Fill sherbet glasses with vanilla ice cream to within a fourth of .the distance from the top. Then cover the cream with a spoonful of strawberry : nresorvfl ?nrf nnp or two of whiDDed I f.wv. ? ? r. cream. The coupe may be prepared at the table by the housewife herself, the vanilla creaip being placed before her on a small platter with the whipped cream and the preserve in two glass bowls beside it.?New York Tribune. Cherry Cobbler. Use pitted cherries mixed with sufficient sugar to sweeten. Make a paste of one pound of whole wheat flour and three ounces of olive oil, or butter may be used instead; add a little salt and rub together. Moisten into dough of medium thickness with cold water; roll paste rather thin; line a pan with it. Pick the crust all over with a fork to prevent blistering, and bake in the oven. Place the cherries on the Are; bring to a boil and thicken a litUe with cornstarch; when the crust is done, remove from the oven and pour the cherries in. A top crust may be put over and baked if desired.?Boston Post. Asparagus and Cauliflower. This is a delicious combination. Cook together in very little water so that when the vegetables are tender there will remain less than a cup of the liquid. Put in a large tablespoon of butter as soon as the water begins to boil, so the seasoning will be absorbed. When done remove carefully and thicken the remaining liquid with cornstarch. If only a few spoonfuls of water remain, milk added to make a sauce improves the dish still more. If there are tough ends on the asparagus, cut them off, simmer them next day in a little water, put through a sieve, thicken and serve as soup.? Boston Post. Chicken a la Marengo. Cut up a chicken as for fricasse. Put a gill of olive oil in a saucepan. Let it become very hot. Then put the pieces of chicken in it, being careful that they do not overlap. Fry in the same pan with the chicken a clove of garlic and two small shallots or a tiny onion, a bay leaf, a sprig of thyme and a bunch of parsley. When the chicken is well fried remove it carefully to a hot platter. Stir a tablespoonful of flour into the oil that remains in .the nan. Then add a pint of broth and let the sauce boil for five minutes. Add more seasonings, if necessary, and strain the sauce over the chicken. A few mushrooms, when obtainable, should be cooked in the sauce and served around the chicken as a garnish.?New York Tribune. SgmoiKffidLDl j HINTS * | Croutons for soup brown better if the bread is buttered on ootn siaes i before putting in the oven. Steamed bread and puddings can be cooked in coffee cans. Fill the cans three-fourths full to allow for rising. If you wish the top moist, cover the can. Almond meal in the water removes the protecting cream with its accumulation of dirt after a dusty ride much better than soap, and leaves the skin soft and smooth. Delicious sandwiches for afternoon tea are made of raisins and nuts chopped together very fine, moistened with a little whipped cream and seasoned with a little salt. For a refreshing dessert partly fill sherbet glasses with vanilla ice cream. Put over each service a spoonful of ?-lorn nnrl cnvpr V Cl J antci LU11UUV JUUI v- . -with a pyramid of whipped cream. Instead of pouring hot water ovei the frozen faucet fill the hot watei bag with hot water, insert the faucet , In it and fasten securely. The heat I will soon open the faucet if it is not j too badly frozen. Milk jars in which the milk ha? j soured can be most quickly cleaned j by putting first under the cold water ! spigot, then filling with hot water in : which has been dissolved a liberal amount of washing soda. Before using plates, pie dishes, etc., ' for rcoking purposes, it is a very wise i lilan to put them in a pan of cold j water. Place oyer the fire and let the , water come to the boil. By so doing I rou will find the heat of the oven will :iot crack tbo dishes so easily. An old-fashioned rule for preserved nirrants is the following: Pick over' , iml wash seven pounds of red curArid t!ir#>"> niuts of currant infc??, a pound of raisins and s^ven sounds of sugar. Cook the whole, 1 itirrixicc frequently, for ten minutes, md seal. i *>3^ Literary Assistance. They eat on a big, roomy sofa, but he Was afraid to space up any nearer; He talked of his aims as writer, and she Proved a very intelligent hearer. "They tell me" (he said) "I'm diffuse; and I think That perhaps I've a fault of digression." "You have," said the maid, with a critical blink, j? "You should study the art of compre* f sion." . ?F. Moxon, in Puck. , The Way It Happened, j> With determined mien John Alden started the phonograph. "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" snapped Priscilla.?Puck. No Blarney For Bridget. Mistress?"Bridget, it always seems to me that the crankiest mistressesget the best cooks." Cook?"Ah! Go on wid yer blarney."?Philadelphia Inquirer. Sure A'hlng! 'What do you think of a man with. a rip in his coat and only three buttons on his vest?" "He should either get married otl divorced."?Boston T.anscript. A Christmas Idea. "I think I'll have my picture taken/' "What for?" "Oh, they make lovely Christmas gifts for folks you don't care to spend much money on."?New York Journal. ? ^ He Was Busy. ^ "Husband, what shall we call the baby?" "Oh, I dunno," 6aid the professor. i"Don't bother me now. I'm trying to think up a new name for a new microbe."?Kansas City Journal. His Fate. "So Jones has married that Miss Gabble? Poor devil*" "Yes; they're on their wedding tour now." "He'll think it's a lecture tour before he gets b%:k."?New York Journal. i Has a Cook. A New Jersey man claims to hare paten sixtv buckwheat cakes and two pounds of sausage at a sitting.?Albany Journal. What a patient, hard working wife that man must have!?Syracuse Standard. Nothing New. "I'm a little hazy on my Shakes- t peare. What was the troutfle between the Montagues and the Capulets?" "Same old row. There was a love affair, and each family thought its offspring was marrying low."?Kansas City Journal. Trying to Make Life Unpleasant. "No," said Mr. Sirius Barker, "I don't like those neighbors of mine." ' "Then why do you buy their children drums and tin whistles and accordions for Christmas?" "Eecause I don't like them."?* Washington Star. \ There's a Reason. "That woman's heartless!" "Why do you say that?" "She devotes more attention to her pet dog than she does to her own * child!" "Hum! Have you seen the child?" ?New York Journal. Chasing the Cure. "What dou you think, my dear? Such luck! We leave for Paris in an hour." "Really?" "Yes, we're going to Pasteur's. My husband has just been bitten by a mad dog."?Bon Vivant. The Brutal Friend. "What do you think of my latest novel?" "You should have made it your earliest instead of your latest," said the brutal friend. "As a first effort there might have been some excuse for it."?Washington Star. Worldly Analysis. "Do you think I ought to considei wealth in selecting a husband?" said the confiding girl. "It depends," answered Miss Cayenne, "on whether you are looking forward to a hapfy home or to a divorce that will pay dividends."?New York Journal. Doing Her Best. j iiTrr.? u 4-wnr l/%vn mfl 9" hfl "W Oil t )UU njr IU lutv liiv, . sighed. "I have tried," she replied, kindly but firmly. "My rich aunt Iras just died," he went on. "In that case, dear, I will try again."?Puck. Not a Model Family. "Your father doesn't think you have been especially well behaved," said the small boy's uncle. "I know that," answered the precocious juvenile. "But things I have heard mother say make me think he isn't any great judge of high-class deportment."?Washington Star. All Through With Him. The professional point of view i? rarely that of the humanitarian. A passenger on a Lionuon omniuus cans out to the conductor: " 'Ere, there! Whoa! There's an old chap fallen off the bus!" '"All right," responds the conductoi cheerfully. " 'Ee's paid his fare!"? London Sketch. i Htlirrv1 Q.nl:p. "Ought to have ^onrs with me lasrv night?there was a fancy cakewalk of blonde--, ten of tho cutest Bacchantes. a lot of living pictures, and?" "Great! What theatre?" "Theatre? It was the soeicty entertainment for the beneiit of tiifr Little OruHans' Home."?Puck.