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^ , MT 0W\ FOUR 5VilXLS. ffne gtorm and night is on the waste, .Wild through the wind the herdsman calls, I&s fast on willing nag I hasto Home to my own four walls. Black, tossing clouds, with scarce a glimmer, < Envelop earth like sevenfold palls; Cut wifekiu watches, coffee-pot doth( simmer, J Home in my own four walla, !A. home and wife I too have got, A hearth to blaze whate'er befalls; {What needs a man that I have 'not Within my own four walls? King George has palaces of pride, And armed grooms must ward thocs halls; (With one stout bolt I safe abide U itQin my own ioui wans. Not all his men may sever this; It yields to friends, not monarch's calls; iMy whins tone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. iWhen fools or knaves do make a rout With gigmen, dinners, balls, cabals. I turn my back and shut them out? These are my own four walls. The moorland house, though rude it be, Mav stand the brunt when prouder falls; Twill screen my wife, my books and me, All in my own four walls. ?Thomas Carlyle. j f he arrest ") , ' i ofmuggsy! I So if: happened tbat Muggsy and Mary Ann, the waitress, became engaged. Muggsy was to borrow some money from a friend, and get a job, and be married. Now, it is hard for a burglarious loafer to get a job. It is harder still en * him fr, hnrmw mrkripv I3ut after five days of tramping the streets and visiting mills and factories and striking old friends intermittently for pecuniary aid, he obtained the promise of work in a foundry, to begin the following Monday, and a former "pal" lent him $10 to begin housekeeping with. So he was to be married on Sunday. It wa3 Saturday night, and Mary Ann's fiance was strolling through the streets, restless and happy. To) morrow he would be married. It seemed impossible, and yet there could be no doubt of it. Muggsy found himself staring vacantly into a shop window. The shop was closed, for it was late, and lights in the window were dim. There were three gilded balls over the door. Then Muggsy's gaze fell upon a tray of rings in the window, and he started. The awful truth flashed upon himr When people get married they .use weddings rings! And he had forgotten the ring. He took only one ring; once he would have taken the whole tray. He .was triumphant, but he was in danger. He ran quickly down the street to a passageway he knew of leading or> oiiotr nnrl thoTipo tn annthfir ' street, where he would be safe. But suddenly a blue uniform loomed up, and an excited voice ordered the fugitive to stop. A pistol shot added force to the command. Muggsy was frightened. He darted into the passageway, the patrolman after him in full chase. A fence had x been built there since last he came that way, and he was cornered. Muggsy was a man of peace. The game was up, and he surrendered. iWhen the turnkey searched him at the police station he still had the ring. It went into an envelope marked "Exhibit A." There was a big docket-In police court on Monday morning. An endless line of "drunks" shuffled out of the reeking "bull pen" and stood, nervously expectant, before the bench, where the magnaimous Judge O'Rourke dispensed fines and imprisonment for the protection of society. "Well, well!" ejaculated His Honor, with a broad grin. "Not very cneerxui mis muiuiug, iuusgsj'. >vuai. Is it now, Mooney?" "Burglary and larceny, Your Honor ?at 'is old tricks?smashed a jewelry window an' copped a ring?a .weddin' ring, too." The court officer smiled indulgently, and the prosecuting attorney inspected the ring, while the clerk read the affidavit and the spectators craned forward with interest?for the prisoner had many acquaintances present. The proof was too easy. The prosecutor yawned, and held up the ring for the inspection of the court. "Why didn't you take the rest?" he asked. "This ain't worth much, and there was a whole trayful." "I didn't need any more," muttered Muggsy. "Didn't need any more?" repeated the prosecutor, while the court attaches and police reporters showed signs of interest. "Then you confess to the theft?" he shrewdly added. "Naw, I don't confess not'in'." "Needed a wedding ring, did j-ou, Muggsy?" queried His Honor, with a smile that lit up the courtroom. "Me? Naw." "That reminds me." remarked Lieutenant O'Hara. "We found a marriage license in his clothes?Exhibit B over there. It's got iis name on, too, only he says it's for a cousin as has the same name as he has, an' . was to be married yesterday. I wonder?" and while he was wondering, a light suffused his massive face. "No such weddin' in the sassiety colyums," volunteered Mooney. "Why, what you blushin' about, Muggsy?" "You go to the devil," growled Muggsy, who, now the centre of all eyes, was really blushing for probably the first time in his life. Meanwhile a reporter was inspecting the marriage license. He was a tall, lean scribe, with a lazy, faraway look, and wore an eternal stogie 1Q ills mourn, xie isaueu uvsi ll? lug judge. The judge handed the license to the court officer. "Is Mary Ann Evans here present?" roared Mooney. Muggsy jerked himself erect, his square jaw set, his eyes flashing and his fists clenched. "Stop that, Mr. Officer!" he cried. "I don't want that there name mentioned in this p'lice court!" the prisoner gasped. _ The judge's bland sinhe had con 2 gealed. The reporter critically pofsed his stogie and emitted a low, thoughtful whistle. 1 Then the spell was broken by a commotion beyond the railing among : the spectators, and a little figura 'vith carroty hair and freckled face almost hidden beneath a faded shawl darted past the officer at the gate and stepped to the judge's bench. A young lad about to follow her was denied admittance. Muggsy was abashed. His figure slumped back to its normal posture, and again he gazed at the floor. "P-please, sir, I'm here," faltered the figure under the shawl, while a pair of greenish-yellow eyes roved back and forth between judge and prisoner. "Are you Mary Ann Evans?" asked His Honor. "Y-yes. sir. And I came here this mornin' because Jimmy?that's my brother ? seen in the paper that Muggsy was arrested, an' he said they'd try him this mornin'. An' I thought mebbe I could?do sumpin' ?fer 'im." Further elucidation was interrupted by the necessity for stopping a flow of tears with one corner of her shawl. "Is it this man, or his cousin, that you were going to marry?" asked the judge. Mary Ann checked an impulse to answer, and looked to the prisoner" for guidance. Muggsy's eyes slowly rose from -the floor, met hers, and read their honest appeal. That look shamed the duplicity out of him. He stepped nearer the judge, while the little group narrowed around the affianced pair, and he addressed the judge in a voice firm, but low, so that the curiosity-mongers beyond the railing could not hear: "I'll tell ye the truth, yer Honor," he said, "an* it'll be the first time I ever told it to ye. I lied w'en I said the license was fer me cousin, an' I lied about breakin' the windy by accident. This little girl had promised to marry me, yer Honor, an' the weddin' was to 'a' been yesterday. An' w'en I happened to think how I didn't have no ring, an'*how I needed one, and didn't have no money to buy one, nor not'in', w'y I don't know how it was, yer Honor, but I just couldn't help fergittin' I'd reformed. an." gittin' a ring tne oest way i could. An' now* I s'pose I got to go to the works again, an' I don't care much, fer I don't spose Mary Ann'll have anything to do with me now? fer she's a decent, respectable girl, yer Honor, an' not like me. Only I don't know what she'll do, on account of bein' out of a job, an' nobody to take care of her. But it's all up now, an' you might as well give me the sentence right away, yer Honor, fer there can't be no weddin', an' my job's lost, an' it's no use, I guess, tryin' to be decent." "Well, in view of the circumstances, I won't make it so long as I otherwise would," began the judge, as he resumed his judicial air. "It will be " But the reportorial face had suddenly approached His Honor's ear, and there was a quiet little conference, in which the prosecutor presently joined. "It will be?ahem!"?resumed His Honor, when the heads separated ?"three months and costs." He paused, impressively. "And, in view of certain extenuating circumstances fha confar)ncx ic QiianonH. ed during good behavior, and the fine to be paid at the convenience of the prisoner." Muggsy stared stupidly. "Go on!" said Mooney, nudging him good naturedly. "No, not that way," as the prisoner started back toward the "bull pen." "Out here, with your girl. You're free, as long as you behave yourself. See?"? New Orleans Picayune. Unique Town. A Philadelphia business man, during the fine weather a few weeks ago, decided to make a horseback tour of Maryland. After being out for a few days he was struck with the number of towns in that State which had claim to historic interest. The principal brag of the various villages through which he passed was that Washington at one time or another had been a guest of the leading citizen, or that the first President had spent the night at the local tavern. The claims of the Marylanders be came so monotonous to the Philadelphian that when one evening, after a long day's ride, he was about to dismount from.his weary horse, he noticed opposite the hotel that he had picked out an ornate bronze tablet with the name "President Washington," in big, raised letters on it, he was moved to ridicule. Turning to the proprietor, who was standing near the curbstone, he said: "You Maryland people make me tired with your everlasting claim to have been visited by Washington. Why, every town I have been in lately was once his home." With a quiet smile, the hotel man told his prospective patron to read the inscription on the tablet, 'which, much to the visitor's astonio^monl "TUie fVi a nnltr fnn'n lQUOigU(,( ?? UO . 1 UIO 10 UUiJ IV W IX in Maryland that President Washington never visited."?Philadelphia Record. Etiquette in London Clnbland. In some of our ultra exclusive clubs it is a serious breach of etiquette for one member to speak to i another without obtaining a cere- : monious introduction beforehand. 1 A painful case has just occurred in a certain old-established and ex-, tremely respectable Pall Mall caravanserie. It appears that a newly joined member, in callous defiance, of custom, ventured the other after-; noon to make a remark about the: weather to a gentleman with whom' he was not personally acquainted. The recipient of this outrage glared stonilv at its nernetrator. "Did you presume to address me, sir?" he demanded, with an awful1 frown. 5 "Yes, I did," was the defiant reply. "I said it was a fine day." The other digested tha observation , thoughtfully. i Then, after an impressive pause, J he turned to its bold exponent^ "Well, pray don't let it occur again,1 ( he remarked, as he buried himsell once more in his paper. ?London Chronicle. HEAD OF THE S CHIEF JUSTICE MELVII Ship With a Hundred Paddles. An entirely new idea in the propelling mechanism of vessels has been patented by a Massachusetts man. A glance at the illustration will suffice to show the theory of his invention. Many sucn scnemes iook gooa on paper, but a practical demonstration i j j/"\ p o o o : ^r ' '<& . 0 S I \ f pAODUt \ I i* i One Hundred Paddles. * Is always necessary to prove their worth. This mechanism is located amidships in a vessel and below tiie keel, and consists of numerous paddles working in sprocket wheels. These paddles do not extend at each lide of the vessel, but are located ithin the interior in pairs. To se ure the greatest efficiency of propul- I L HOW CO. First Precarious Person (to Sec o I'll 'it yer wiv me "ammer."?Sketch. Famous Centenarian. Manuel Garcia, who died recently at the age of one hundred and one j'ears, was famous not only as a teacher of singing, but as an acci lental contributor to the profession ] )f medicine. In order to study the J . ocal cords as the instrument upon vhich he taught his pupils to play, he nvented the laryngoscope. This in- i itrument in improved form Js in the i 'ifinrts of every throat specialist. / . ? ' *v:v-v '; ; :'\; .. : / UPREME COURT. , Br y By^T>fflWBBHBBBnB 15691 B|p ^mmaas^^aoam BE . - n -LB WESTON FULLER. sion, the paddles are set at an angle with the bottom of the boat, so that when they are doing service in the orator their gnhmpropil nnrHnnB will incline toward the bow of the vessel. This will tend to raisS the how as the vessel is propelled, the paddles leaving the water freely and with less tendency to retard the progress of the vessel as they leave the water. The great number of paddles engaging the water at the same time, the Inventor claims, will give such constant and advantageous hold upon the water that the propelling power is exerted to the greatest advantage and attainment of speed. A Certain Sandwich Man. At the noon hour a prominent Wall Street banker was hurrying "out of his office when he suddenly stopped upon noticing a man across the street, and tipped his hat very respectfully. / The man was carrying a sandwich board emblazoning the merits of a near-by quick-lunch parlor, and looked altogether seedy. A friend of the banker, who had observed the momentary performance, started to guy him. "Who's your friend?" he asked. "He is a man I have considerable respect for," was the reply. "He was once a prosperous citizen down here, and worth several hundred thousand. He lost everything, and finally had to come to this.. Even the best of us are liable to go the same way, you know, and that is why I am not afraid to be respectful to a once brilliant man."?New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch. ;LD HE? nd Ditto)?"Le'go me legs, Bill, or When Garcia's friends celebrated his hundredth anniversary, art, music and medicine united to honor him. John Chinaman. I have just received the following quaint story from a reader who is apparently unperturbed by the recent earthquake. A lady in San Francisco engaged a Chinese cook. When the Celestial came, among other things she asked him his name. "My name," said the Chinaman, smiling, "is Wang Hang Ho." "Oh, I can't remember all that," >aiu uie lauy. i win uuu juu junu. John smiled all over and asked: "What your namee?" "My name is Mrs. Melville Langion." "Me no memble all that," said lohn. "Chinaman he no savey Mrs. Membul London. I call you Tommy."?Tatler. Nearly 70,000 tons of cork are needed for the bottled beer and aoratoH wflfprQ pnncnmpd nnniiflllv in Britain.. r_:v ia.-'X I; V r' " ' ' ''K&p?;: X >* : ' 'p $ ar??~ j G 0 0 D @ i i 9 E 0 A D S. 1 t j l... > Roads and the Automobile. Bicycles did not a little toward (creating a general appreciation of and desire for good roads, and they would have done more had it not been for the mysterious blight which fell upon the popularity of those very able little machines just when they seemed about to become an essential and permanent part of civilized life. But the task which the bicycle only began the more efficient automobile has taken up, and now it really looks as if a long-standing disgrace to the country, the condition of its roads, was soon to receive serious consideration. Of course, It needs nothing else to be remedied, for the question of good roads is one with only a single side, and when the arguments are heard actions must be taken. It would be a mistake to assume that the automobilists are more interested in the improvement ol highways than other people. The farmers, for instate, suffer much more, in pocket at feast, from bad roads than do the automobilists, but both the expense and the- personal inconvenience fall so directly upon the automobilists that the latter are moved to "do something," w^ile the farmer can and does forget how rapidly bad roads wear out "his horses and his wagons, and he has not been taught to number the hauling of big loads with a small expenditure of energy among the possibilities o?? his life. Even for the automobilist good roads have some advantages to which he has paid little cr no attention. He knows what a difference it makes to the machine he now has whether highway grades are easy or steep, and whether the road surface is smooth and hard or rough and soft, hut it has not been noted by many of the fraternity that it is the lowpower machine that profits most by - g09d roads?that is turned by them from an unsatisfactory vehicle, frequently stalled and barred from many routes, into one in many ways as efficient for practical purposes as the big cars. And low power means a comparatively small original investment, simpler engines, smaller con ? C l..?1 J ? A slst surnpuuu ul iuki, auu <x mamuu uccreaae in bills for repairs. Good roads would.therefore enormously increase the number of people who could afford to have automobiles?of people, therefore who would buy and use them. And it would be much for the advantage, even of those to whom the cost of the best of the present machines is dot prohibitive, if machines much less expensive could come into something like common use. The greater the number of automobllists the less are they a "class" to be viewed enviously and hostilely and the less will they be bothered by needless and irritating regulations.?New York Times. Road to Adirondacks. A preliminary survey has been made for macadamized roads, such as are built by the State, through the heart of the Adirondacks from Old Forge to Blue Mountain. The general plan proposes that the road shall start from New York City, proceed thence to Albany, to Utica, Remsen, Old Forge and Fourth Lake. The , road will then follow the northern phores of Sixth, Seventh and Eighth lakes to Blue Mountain. The scheme is to return by way of North Creek to some point on Lake (Jeorge, and thence to Albany and New York, the starting point. The circuit will include all of the Fultonchain of lakes and nearly all the Adirondack and other resorts en f-oute. It 1st said that this improved highway will be built from the $50,OOOjOOO fund recently voted by the (State for highway improvements and new State roads. There will be comparatively little to do in the way of hew road building between Utica and New York, as much of that distance jias already been covered by the State, but the improvement along this ptretch will be eitensive. The road from Utica to Old Forge will be lm proved by widening and macadamizing. Then through the Adirondack Mountains, where the course follows the highway, the road will be improved, but for the most part the road will be new.?Utica (N. Y.) Correspondence of The Automobile. / 1 Improving Highways. Massachusetts is maintaining her very enviable reputation of progressiveness by adopting a policy of improving the State highways by means of shade tree planting. During the past year, according to a recent report of the Massachusetts Highway Commission over 3200 trees were planted along the various State roads, the varieties being restricted principally to Norway, white and sugar maples and a considerable portion of the different kinds of native elms. Vaporizing Iron. Henri Moissan, the French chemist, has recently continued his exnorimfints in the distillation, with the electric arc, of various metals and metalloids. He conclndes, as the result of these researches, that there exists no known substances which cannot be distilled in our laboratories. The ebullition of iron is very difficult to produce, yet Moissan has distilled 400 grams of iron in twenty minutes with an electric current of 1000 amperes at a pressure of 110 volts. In all cases the vapors of the metals condense in the form of a crystalline dust, possessing all the chemical properties of those metals when reduced to the form of powder. Moissan's experiments throw light on the probable temperature of the sua, where iron and the other chemical elements exist in the state of vapor. The maximum temperature of the electric arc is about 3500 degrees Centigrade. But, owing to the greater pressure produced by gravitation on the sun, it is probable that the temperature of ebullition of the elements there is higher than on the earth. i -"v: ; / '-:l- \~c v^yyut/i^ r ai ^ Athletics Make Girls Grow. The head mistress of a girls' school at Tunbridge Wells. England, has found it necessary to have the height of the school desks considerably in- ( creased. She says that owing to the influence of athletics on the modern girl desks which were high enough ten years ago are now much too low. Anchors For Auto Veils. Mrs. W. has solved the problem of keeping her automobile veil' ends from flying all about her face. She has them bunched up into little rosettes and finished with erolf hnlHnn tassels, which act as anchors and pre- ! vent these flimsy tails from floating about .her hat like the pennants on a 1 yacht. There Were No Waifs. Face to face with the fact that ' there was no one in Grand Rapids to eat the nice Thanksgiving day dinner they had provided, the twenty-five young women who compose Mrs. R. ( S. McCudry's class in the Wealthy Avenue Baptist Church sat down and , cried. -It was not a happy Thanksgiving for them. , They had planned to give a dinner , to twenty-five or thirty waifs, and ; Mr. Colegrove, of the Rescue Mission, had contracted to furnish the waifs. The dinner was cooked and spread when he informed them he could find . no children who were not eating . Thanksgiving dinners at home or [ were not otherwise already provided ! for.?Detroit Free Press. Collectors of Fans. Mrs. L. has a. weakness for fans. . She never carries one, but that-is probably because she thinks a really ] beautifully specimen should be ; looked upon as a work of art and not as a breeze stirrer. She has a col- } lection of fans in her drawing room ; on Fifth avenue worthy of a place in ( a museum, for it contains some of the ] rarest examples of old' French fans , of the time of Watteau; point lace 1 fans which hail from England, carved ] ivory ones from China, sandal wood , fans that breathe the spiced air of \ the Orient, fans from every part of the world and almost every age. They are kept in glass cabinets, and 6ome are so old, so frail from years, that they have been mounted in fan ahaped frames made of drmolu, with 1 glass, back and front, so that their ' beauty may not be hidden.?New ' York Tribune. ' V ( Astonishing Morning Costume. Miss G. is a beauty, with an enor- 1 mous fortune, a devoted family of brothers and sisters and a host of friends, but she has one fault, they all agree, and that is over-dressing. >j3he came into town from her country home the other day in a cerise broadcloth princess frock, embroidered in self-color and appliqued with a cutout design of the cloth. Her hat was of cerise felt,'with a large, curling plume of a darker shade on one side, and was draped with one of the new fashioned black lace veils, the dotted centre variety, with deep fioweted border. It was bunched up in the back oi the neck and held in place there with a diamond clapp. She wore a high, gold dog collar, studded with diamonds, black pumps, with gilt leather heels, and carried a gold mesh handbag, incrusted with brilliants. And all this in the morning.?New York Tribune. / _____ Princess of Wales Knits. Because of her demotion to her children, the Princess of Wales is called ^n "old fashioned" mother, to distinguish her from the smart set mothers who regard their offspring as a bore. Whenever it is possible she takes her youngsters with her. They are oh the scene at many public functions where the Princess figures, and, being uhable to take them to the pourts at Buckingham Palace, she inyariably visits their rooms before starting. j The Princess has imparted her love of needlework to her little daughter j Princess Victoria, who sews and j knits quite nicely. The Princess of Wales is hardly ever without a piece of knitting. It is a joke against her that she took her knitting with her c on her honeymoon, and even while visiting country houses now she knits * in the drawing room after dinner. * Women Clerks of Long Service. In the executive departments in Washington, where the business of the Government is carried on, there is no belief in the Osier theory as far as the women clerks are concerned. Several of the mo3t valued ones working for the Secretary of State passed three score and ten long ago. Mrs. Eliza Grldley, mother of the man who commanded the Olympia at the battle of Manila, is almost eighty, yet she holds a most responsible position in the general land office, and knows more about records and land law than any six clerks in the department. Miss Mason, who is nearing the same age, is a pillar of strength to seekers for information in the library of war records. She is the daughter of a former Minister to France. In the Department of Justice are women nearing seventy, s some of them wives and daughters of c former judges, who work faithfully i and intelligently, and who are ^ prized more highly than the younger wom^ii who compose the greater j working mass in the departments.? l Boston Globe. r i American Girls in Paris. A conspicuous article published this week on Americans in Paris gives the impression that there is a ( city full of them scattered on Mont t Parnasse, about the Place Vendome t and around the Arc de l'EJtoile. The i . ' i . ' . i / ' ..'v: -i ; %' * ' -x '; ' . ., ; 1,1,1 ^ ,3 writer comments on how easy Amerl* can women find it to live here. Ho makes the remarkable statement that statistics show that in four years 15 2: ^ American heiresses have come here ' bringing $240,000,000. Paul Bourget, writing to-day in Gil Bias on American women, says the French can never understand that wise innoosace of American girls which was illustrated in the remark of\ one of them' to him that the rea- * , ' 3on that a certain woman's husband had gone astray was that his wife X lid not know how to manage him and the other woman knew how to be 3eductive. M. Bourget asked a diplomat to explain this characteristic of Ameri- can girls. The diplomat answered > - : that they have a chaste depravity.1 M. Bourget calls the answer severe. ?Paris Correspondence of the New: x York Sun. /"'ao# a# 117/\manfo TI?mvco -j ' u& vv uui^u a , ;; Miss Giulia Morosini's calculation. yjM of the necessities of a smart,New, York woman in the matter of dress, "y which are reproduced here, led to - ? Inquiries of fashionable West End' ' ; tradesmen for the purposes of comparison. These show that the most extravagant English woman in London spends less than, one-third of 4 Miss Morosini's estimate. The English woman is content ^$8 with fifty gowns costing $500 apiece. Instead of 100 costing double that ^ amount. Her lingerie costs just one- ' \ V:?j fourth of what Miss Morosini's does, tier furs one-half and her shoes one- - ?-^1 tenth, while her miscellaneous ex- v penditure is placed '* $15,000, instead of $45,000i The rich French woman, it is said, - rarely spends large sums on clothes,. Her natural taste and quick eye en- v ' Viable her to seize the simplest ideas and evolve a masterpiece therefrom.; '. - "g [f the fashionable shops on the Rue 3e la Paii in Paris had fr depend on' . French customers they v?,ould have to ilose their doors in a mOnth. It is the Americans, Brazilians, English, ; Italians, Russians and some Germans ' who keep them going.?London Let- P&M ter to the Nes York Sun. Society's Newest Fad. * An/)/%?i ia nrAmiooil Q TV O (TA rtf uuuuuu W IUUUUSV UUk UQv w? wv blue stocking. London's society, woman has a fantastic mental palate;] 0r; she demands change and novelty. As ^ jne leader was overhead to say, "No Dne plays bridge* now." Of course, ~'v$ everybody, i. e., the grande dame who can think for herself, must have * jomething else to fill the hours deroted to bridge for several years. [Kf And she has decided to be Intelectual; Mile. Scialtlel, a talented and ? rery attractive French woman, haa )een selected as guide and Victor. x 3ugo as the subject in this Intejlec- : ;ual flight.. The first "causerie" took' jlace the other-f&ay at Claridge's un- >~i ler most distinguished patronage, a* :ountess, vlscoui^eqig^ baroness and jaronet's lady and* some of the lesser. ank giving the cachet of their names '' )f course, the talk was ip French, md it was rather noticeable that the ?.*& adies of Mayfair are a little?Ju?t a ittle?rusty in their French. No loubt in a few months, when the fad: lad percolated to the lower strata of iociety, French will become a really % i'31 second tongue in London.' There is low a fear that in place of the some;ime3 extremely poor music with1 ' 1 vhich a hostess tortures her guests :or the .hour after dinner society may? lave to endure recitations from 3ugo, de Musset and other Gallic1 poets delivered in very insular.' Trench. But even an intellectual fad + A s better than everlasting bridge.?Philadelphia Record. t ' -I Crochet covered and braid buttons ire very popular. There are some combinations of * jrown and black that are particulary modish. A little V of white velvet at the ^ hroat is a becoming touch upon one )f the dark, iong haired fur coats. The style of decorating with short )its of braid or velvet straps terminiting in fancy buttons permits many. variations. The soft draped tam crown of velvet or jetted lace is in evidence upon iome of the smart millinery models >f the season. 1 s Those with whom the poppy design * - ?J Unaltr s a iavorue win uuu mauj imei/i ines among the silver gift things of he season. A JUS In new skirts there is a decided ireference for length of line effectid by pleats, panels, etc., in place of ound ard round trimmings. There is no hard and fast rule as v: o hair dressing now, and consequenty everybody is at liberty to select he most becoming fashion. Fancy buttons made by sewing fathered lace to cover moulds, and entered by a jet or steel nail head .jl >r a colored bead, ornament many ostumes. Hats of fur are expensive in themelves, and though they do not reluire a great deal of trimming, it nifst be of a quality to correspond vith. the fur foundation. While gray and tan gaiters with ^ >atent leather shoes are not in the east unusual, white ones are a little nore so; however, they are very stylsh and make a stunning finish for a Iressy black costume. - M Wurtemburg is the fruit centre of Jermany. The last count showed' hat it had 8,250,000 apple and pear rees of tke 78,000,000 in the em-j >ir?. . ? . 'Cq