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2Modern Most Rooms Very Low and o es Ouite Small By MARGARET BATESON HREE-QUARTERS of a century ago it was the ambition of. every prosperous citizen to build himself a house. His dining! table, the altar of ceremonious hospitality. gave two dozen people ample space to dine and gesticulate around its polished spread of mahogany. At expansive moments toward the end of the feast some small child elaborately dressed and curled would be placed on the table and invited to make her way along with the decanters to the other end without upsetting the dishes of dessert. And there was space for the performa ance of the feat. These houses really held things. There were immense pictures, of rich dark oils, in the dining room, and fine unfettered ezpanses of waterj olors in the drawing room. There was not only that great table, with any leaves dedicated to eating; but in all the sitting rooms there would ever so many fine, spacious solid tables on which work could be done d things could be laid. The people who could now be living in big houses have packed them .lves into small ones, and I believe they will discover one of these days they have lost a good deal by the change. They have lost more than certain number of feet of space; they have lost the effect upon the mind ;nd character that a spacious life gives. We all know that peojle living moors and prairies have as a rule a certain dignity that people who are, ch crowded lack. What the large farm or homestead does for the, er%, fCoufryian as compared with the oft crowded villager, that the stately a wn house does for its inhabitants and especially for children and young; both people. ehe. p It makes the human being feel small by comparison with his sur roundings, as the heavens and the ocean make him seem small. But it tdoes not make him feel cheap and superfluous. The petty diminutive, abode says daily to its owner: "Make haste; get out. Your room, little as it is, is wanted for others." But all this community of house room proved at last too trying., tGive me a place to myself, however small, was the cry that went up: ]from sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, and even from parents, twearied with the noise of the family breakfast table and the personalities! and occasional quarrels of the domestic board. The cry has been answered-by builders and hotel keepers. We have pnt iplace to ourselves, and small they are. We have diminutive flats with iireception rooms that just receive a tottering little table and nothing else. IWe dine at a table which accommodates a baby cruet almost under pro elest. The narrow beds in our little bedrooms have sides. but no middle., here are no more fine pictures, only a quantity of plotographs peiilouslyl dged against a narrow slat of wood. And worst of all, there is not a decent table at which. a person can sit with books nnd work at it. A drawing room may look prettier since the abolition from it of all sensible tables. But it is much less habitable. It is small wonder that people nowadays try continually-to cur tail the time after dinner. It is because there is noth tng one can do in a drawing room. At best somebody - - r ' s; at woaLs the pinola is set gog. The poet who wished for "an hour of crowded ife" should try living now. On the score of crowd 'edness, if not of life, he would be well content. Some sm hs fhmnwe People t con o aifcoiy scmo Unableaphnmnnaiti. retoeite to Shiowvmnls ypteicta hs h e G rief dwterhnkrheswt era ByCOL.HUGH BRAINARD ~lapahue New Otheateow asen tteeer oactr e oracrs e thots lachryhase ofhman and mad? in ~in~thi I isk abot meis e someh in li ned yto lenagh andbe~g cllo acont inhma wsatifcil, amoste aomn 'othermenoomsniims.ntarthoseenmsh The easo I m inl ud irthce wofd. Fi heerst am s hau-k iitof hartandsecod, ne , is sympatetin thran wrtchedose whbe The fctitius gre deo the ir de hntkerchiefsa withl tr, for I uow the portrayerfofothe woetis otherfevgning. Her~ antherpoit: ill ths glyoouse. woer hi ee u Newa uu jbo Orlean y be owll as quimte dsofv iat n I shul thethosrchance runeintorthe realmarticlel ~ervdaabmatifestationsoofesure-enongh soffarih, and inxayngths rs he calleday wrinha weeh an moer an other coplimentayeterms Th rasonIa inln d om a hoi two.rkst I am naur ht of er, ncod thould jsoting in udna retchee that The fetitous rief ofhe st doesnt touc me ittle bo 0it. o now thet isrnotyarrof thelwoemasterlandethereg. P ee'so thrpont ltee goo aoll dwho crythinree out ver puup jb o misry e eul~y a ic tof dissol i nashoul heyerehne u into th realatclefv; n oi.Km.temn I Coften oe ifte1epr.i hetr are osrdl of uchfed byf A n atin wd ag tatio is opin ter rido nfvro rprosrac f an wma vhowokdsi dv ofth we should join* inavoain cmleeda. PRAYER IS WITHOUT RESULT Boy's Patience Is Exhausted After Frequent Petitions to Throne of Grace. A young man who is prominent in church work in Philadelphia tells this about his nephew. Harold is the youngster's name, and next door lives another boy by the name of Dewey. They are each seven years old, and like most children of their age are disposed to get into mis 'chief as often as possible. Several days ago -they found a man's coat lying on the front pavement while the own er was fixing a gas main.- From the pockets of the coat the two boys ab stracted several tickets, and when Harold's mother found it out she made him return the tickets and explained the sin which he had committed, warning him to pray that he be for given 'that night. He obeyed, and while on his knees added a prayer for Dewey as well. The next night Harold's mother was in the next room when he said his prayers, and she heard him ask God to forgive Dewey for stealing a piece of cake. On the following evening he again was moved to ask forgiveness for his friend, this time for stealing three pieces of candy. Apparently his patience was exhausted, for the next evening his mother was in the adjoin ing room when he offered his evening prayer, and this is what she heard: "Gosh darn it, God, I have done the 1est I could for Dewey. I guess you -1ill have to watch him yourself." Philadelphia Record. HIRAM CARPENTER'S WONDER FUL CURE OF PSORIASIS. "I have been afflicted for twenty years with An obstinate skin disease, called by some M. D.'s. psoriasis, and 'ethers leprosy, commencing on my scalp; and in spite of all I could do, with the help of the most skilful doc tors, It slowly but surely extended un til a year ago this winter It covered my entire person in the form of dry scales. For the last three years I have been unable to do any labor, and uffering intensely all the time. Every morning there would be nearly a dust panful of scales taken from the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the envelope containing this letter. In the latter part of winter my skin 'commenced cracking open. I tried everything, almost, that could be thought of, -without any relief. The 12th of June I started West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs. I reached Detroit and was so low I thought I should have to go to the hospital, but finally got as far as Lan sing, MiCh., where I had a sister liv ing. One Dr. - treated me about two weeks, but did me no good. All thought I had but a short time to live. I earnestly prayed to die. Cracked through the skin all over my back. across my ribs, arms, hands, limbs; feet badly swollen; toe-nails came off; finger-nails dead and hard as a bone; hair dead, dry and lifeless as old straw. O my God! how I did suffer. "My sister wouldn't give up; said, 'We will try Cuticura.' Some was ap led to one hand and arm. Eureka! there was relief; stopped the terrible burning sensation from the word go. They immediately got Cuticura Re solvent, Ointment and Soap. I com menced by taking Cuticura Resolvent three time a day after meals; had a bath once a day, water about blood heat; used Cuticura Soap freely; ap plied Cuticura Ointment morning and evening. Result: returned to my home in just.six weeks from the time I left, and my skin as smooth as this sheet of paper. Hiram E. Carpenter, Henderson, N. Y." The above remarkable testimonial was written January 19, 1880, and is republished because of the perman ency of the cure. 'Under date of April 22, 1910, Mr. Carpenter wrote from his present home, 610 Walnut St. So., Lansing, Mich.: "I have never suf fered a return of the psoriasis and al though many years have passed I have got forgotten the terrible suffering I imdured before using the Cuticura. Remedies." What impressed Him. W. H. Child, president of the Tel lowstone Park association, went to Europe two or three years ago and had for a companion a man Interested in the hotel business. They traveled over Europe, investigating hotel and commissary problems to some extent, and finally arrived in Rome. They went into St. Peter's and stood be neath the dome. "Well," said Child, "here it is. Here's the dome." The hotel mnan took one, look torward. Then he turned to Chiid and asked: "How ~nuch did that man In London say he 'wanted for them hams ?" Not What He.. Asked For. A smail boy hurried into the cor ner butcher shop and told the -propri etor his mother 'wanted a nice, ten-. der turkey for Thanksgiving, and she wanted it dressed. The butcher se lected fust such--.g bird from the lot In the window, and-said, with satisfac "Here's a dandy, my boy-just what your mother wants!" "No, it aint:" returned the youth. 'That turkey hasn't any clothes on." -Judge. WAS TOO PUBLIC FOR HIM Mild Mannered Little Man Has Very Embarrassing Experience on Street. He was a mild-mannered little man, short, with gray hair and spectacles. It was noon on Washington street, and as usual the crowds were shov ing and pushing to get somewhere. The little man was trying to worm his way through the crowds. A well-dressed woman, accompanied by a small boy, was mixed up in the crowd. She wanted to cross the street. The boy stopped to look in a window. The lady reached down and grasped a hand, saying: "Take my hand, dear." "Not right here on the public street," she was startled to hear some one reply. Looking down she saw that she was clasping the hand of the very In offensive little man, who seemed to be - much confused and embarrassed. "Sir!" said she, haughtily, "I don't want you; I want my son."-Boston Traveler. He Won. Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor of Tennessee was once entertaining a northern guest, who was rather skeptical about the prevailing dialect in stories of southern negroes. He thought it over drawn. To disprove the contention. 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