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IANC8ENT CI Lively Note of Dress. Andrew Lang, in The rrr The study of the evolution of dress Above all of Greek dress, might paralyze the genius of a Darwin. Jusl "when a man thinks that he is. ai last, on the level of scientific opinior he finds that he has drifted leagues astern of it, or far away to the left or right. The subject is so difficuli because, naturally, we have no an cient costumes before us in linen 01 wool, while the early artists who de pict them are not always trustworthj persons. They have a strong tenden cy, from the dateless period of th( Artists contemporary with the mam' I moth and reindeer in France to th( bushmen in South. Africa, to dra^ men with wasp's waists, and to repre sent people as naked who were cer tainly clothed. Nobody was likely t( go naked in a climate that suited th( mammoth and reindeer, especially i: he was well supplied with bom needles to sew his raiment, as he certainly was. Yet palaeolithic mar usualy drew his species without t stitch or a clout. But yesterday wer< his paintings on rock-walls discov ered, in which his women wear skirts with a half moon cut out at the lowei ?nd to give play to the ankles. It is difficult to say whether, lr warm climates, dress was invented foi the sake of decorum or of decoration If we take the case of Egypt the olc Egyptian paintings show that for mer the ordinary loin cloth was usuallj sufficient. If we pass from Egypt tc Crete the art of the mysterious white men who founded and achievec (about 2500-1200 B. C.) its civiliza tion, shows in early periods men ir loin cloths, perhaps first worn bj them in Northern Africa. The wo men, in the opinion of Dr. Macken Izie, were originally no better clad On one side the ladies developed the loin cloth into "a belted panier ol polonaise," without any skirt or bod' Ice (as also did the men), and ther the women went on lengthening th< panier by overlapping additions til! they had a "compound skirt," like ? flounced skirt in outward appearance And Anally fashion revelled in skirts with' regular flounces and low bodices above. Having, perhaps, two thousand fears to devote to costume and fash? _ i- - e n n 1 ion, mese tauies ui v^reie evuivcu ar most every 3ort of dress known to us In Western Europe, from the Elizabethan ruff and puffed sleeves to th< dress of England at the end of th? eighteenth century, to early VictorIan, to gaudily colored and trimmec ""zouve J-ackets," with light fiouncec skirts, and even to the Tam-o'-Shan ter cap. tailor made coat, fitting tightly to the figure and tweed skirt There is a bronze statuette of z Cretan lady thus attired photographed in Dr. Mosso's account of his Cretan tour. Ladies even forsook sandals anc wore bottines; in fact, some of them in the ancient Cretan pictures, art known as "Les Parisiennes," verj gay little persons of about 1600 B C. The men. on the other hand clung to their loin cloths, or to bag gy short skirts like loose knickerj bockers, or wore tight, brief bathing drawers embroidered or embossed and only wore long robes on Sundays or at least when present at religious functions. The one fashion that the ancient Cretan women never adoptee was the familiar Greek peplos, sc graceful in its drapery, which has nc "body" or bodice, no separate skirt "but is, in fact, no more than ? :.square woolen blanket folded" Oil a way which I do not understand) 'and taken up round the waist bj a girdle." It was pinned up by safely pins or fibulae over eacl shoulder, and as much of It was j pulled up through the girdle, to fal over it in graceful folds, as th< wearer pleased. The dress dependec for its effect, and, indeed, for it? j permanence above the shoulders, 01 j these safety pins. ' If one of then -ceased to be "safe" down came th< dress. When the "Tale of Troy" wai acted many years ago by ladies whon Sir Frederick Leighton directed, th< pins caused great searchings o: hearts. However, they never failec to do their duty. This fashion alone the Cretan lad ies of 2500-1400 B. C. never evolved and no safety pins are found in the older sites of Cretan civilization They come in at the end of that per iod. As they are also found fa away in the north in Bosnia anc [Austria and all over Eastern Centra Europe it is probable that they wer< brought south from these quarter! by the prehistoric ancestors of th< i Greeks, the Achaeans, Dorians, anc so forth. The women would wea: ' the peplos, the men a belted smocl or chiton, with a cloak over it, als< fastened with a safety pin, in colc weather. We have in Homer a full descrip tion of the smock, cloak and elab orate gold safety pin of Odysseus and his swineherd belts his smocl before he goes on a journey. This ii thv dress that Homer describes. Ti a war man put his corselet on ove: his chiton, of which the tails mus have hung down below it. Obviousl] the dress is mat 01 a cnmate toe cold to be content with the South ern loin cloth; in fact, it is very lik< the smock and l.ooched and belt.ee plaid of the Highlanders before th< philabeg or separate skirt came int< use, with the ccat over which th< plaid is now worn. So far all seems plain sailing a: to early dress in Greece. We have first the costumes of the Cretans, th< ladies in all sorts of mediaeval anc modern garb, the men iu loin cloths bathing drawers, or baggy knickerbockers, and never a needless safetj pin has been found of that period On the other side we have the Greeks with chiton and peplos, and indi& pensable safety pins in many styles But now comes in a set of fact! that puzzle me. I never have seer a representation in the art of, say 12QQ-8QQ B. C. of man or woman ii \ _OTHES. ? "o wa s on the Evolution loc re< mmm m9m m9m mmm ex; : no ! bo London Morning Post. ? sir , chiton or peplos. About 1000-800 th< - B. C. (very roughly speaking) the He t representations of men and worn- ha t en on vases are mere skeleton uli i figures like those designed by Tom- mi ; my Traddles in "David Copperfield." of t The body is an equilateral triangle thi t reversed. The drawing is detestable; loi . no costume, as a rule, can be made sal r out, by me at least. The figures in? . are bipeds and erect; what they wear bri j one does not usually know. I do ob- fas . serve, on a case from Tiryns, women wc ? with hoods which cover the head and . fall to the middle of the waist, then - lilra o mnriorntplv t.hlrk walk- I ? cv naiou m. uivuv? v?vv.^ ? - ,_ ing stick, then a separate skirt fall- , ing to the feet. I also perceive a man in what seems to be a rather A loose corselet or rings or scales fall- jff ing so low as to cover the hip joints. R? Another woman, decidedly, has a ^ body and separate skirt. These abortive designs may well be as old as ' 1000 B. C. The men are more like * birds than human beings, and one man's legs are shaped like the hind legs of a horse. But what has become of Homer's , wo belted chiton, and why have the women no peplos, with its folds, but separate skirts and bodices? I The trouble does not end here. . hp These hideous attempts at art seem . to be of Homer's own time, or rath- * er later, if we date him (or the older * members of the syndicate that was Homer) at 1200-1000 B. C. Yet the ^ human figures in thp art of that age . do not dre83 in accordance with Homer's descriptions. There is a woman giving a "send-off" to a marching regiment on "the warrior ^ vase" which seems to be as old as 1000 B. C. But she has no peplos, but a body, and a skirt with a cres- lQ( cent shaped cut-off at the foot, a t common Cretan and palaeolithic . kind of skirt. The chiton and pep- tj_ 1? TT . ^ IL>S ui. nuiiiui aic uuu i vj^/t wovuwu X0"] ; when they should be represented, jje I and, what is worse, they do not come t in much till about three or four centuries later. Here, at least, is a ^n 5 strange difference of opinion. Mr. ye . Walter Leaf, who has deeply studied j,e the subject, says that the dress in ig [ Homer was in all essentials identical iin with that of the Archaic age of Greece. Now, the "Archaic age" is, roughly speaking, of 800-550 B. C. When I looked at engravings of eSf works of art of that age, and found tw that the men do not wear belted Cai . j chitons but "combination" fleshings, pa I as tight as possible, from the shoull ders to four or five inches below the . hip joints, while the women seem of- dis . ten to wear bodies and separate a < skirts, rather than the peplos, I an t thought I must be wrong and Mr. . Leaf right. But the ancient sanctu} ary of Artemis at Sparta has recently tr? been dug out to the lowest stratum, So I and in lead figurines there offered to gri the goddess we find Pallas Athene in thi I a corselet and separate skirt, scooped wr r out in the Cretan fashion; and another lady in the same scooped out Cretan skirt. There is no pep! los, and yet the worjc is of the ou . "Archaic age." I would not venture ln? r this on my own evidence, but Mr. [ R. M. Dawkins, one of the learned ne excavators, writes "the female dress, wc ! consisting always of bodice and sep- we , arate skirt, suits the Archaic datI iDS-" an , It tins appears that neither in the an ) crude art nearest to Homer's own c0; time, nor in the Archaic art of the to, t next age (say 800-550 B. C.) do we th( t find the dress that Homer knew, or, st( i at least, to be safe, we find men in pa j fleshings and many women in a cos- na . tume far more Cretan than Greek. ~ei i Not till we come to the vases with 5 red figures, say about 480 B. C., do 1 we find that the graceful peplos and > long belted shirt or chiton is the reg1 ular wear /or men and women. Not 3 till then, I think, does the shirt of to i the armed warrior fall low beneath to ! his corslet. fli< > Thus the costume familiar to Horn- an 3 er is not represented in art (at i least I have nowhere found it rep- mr ; resented for the men) till 4 80-440 in1 f B. C. Now that is long after the age "V I of the Athenian tyrant, Pisistratus, Ye and his sons, who, according to many . critics, practically made our Homeric toi poems, edited and generally be- ca; ; witched them. Does it follow that kil BEANS AND 1 How Second Helpings Certain Boardi } ; It is told of an old-time boarding- up i mistress of Marblehead, a shrewd rei r dame, who kept her boarders under : admiral control, that once, on Satur- wa j day night, a daring man broke the mi 1 unwritten law of the establishment, tr< and asked a second time for beans. Mi - At once several others, who had not sic - dared, but were ready to follow a ; leader should he succeed, looked up bu c expectantly. le? 3 The landlady promptly ladled into on i the plate of the rash innovator a last an : spoonful, scraped from the deepest th< t interior of the dish, and sweeping wa j the table with a beaming smile, de- yo ) clared triumphantly: aw "There! I calculated on just en i enough to a bean!" i Second helpings were otherwise of j discouraged by a boarding-mistress scl j of Old Norley. A young school- in< ? teacher, late to dinner from a skat- by ing party, ate little of ttie Halt-cold ge 3 and unappetizing first courses, but Yc j ventured a second request for hot > mince pie. It was served without 1 comment, but a few minutes after , dinner the maid tapped at her door, ra; "Missus is afraid all that pie won't r set well," she announced, "and she wi . says, sha'n't she make you some gins ger tea?" thi The kind offer was declined; but th< . a half-hour later the maid appeared ie: 3 again. i "Missus says she's sure you , must be needin' ginger tea by now," Mj i she stated. "She'll send some right mc lors and milliners of Athens later luced the publishers to introduce ur latest modes," wholesale, by .y of advertisement? The case >ks very black, if my facts are cor* it. But there are objections; for imple, the safety pins, which are t needed for fleshings and for the 1 dice with separate skirt, certainly me into Greece as early as 1200 C., and are needed for belted lock and peplos, which, without ;m, would fall over the shoulders. >mer then, costume and all, must ve lived in the first age of the regir Greek costume, after which ist have followed a very long period fleshings and skirt and bodice, and j ;n a full and permanent revival of j lg belted shirts and peplos and 1 fety pins. The increase of a reads' public in 540-480 B. C. may have ought back Homeric costume into shion. "Try our Helen peplos," mid be the cry of the modiste. A Mr. and Mrs. Bean out in Iowa ve named their recently arrived ugh.ter Lima. The port of Rosario, Argentina, s a grain elevator capable of loadl 1000 tons an hour. Its cost was ,000,000. Little Joe Kane, of New York City, to killed baby Frances Lord when lying robbers, said he was glad to in jail, where nobody nagged him. Belgium has been offering reduced tes under certain conditions for ivel on Its passenger trains and the ange has resulted in enormously :reased business and revenues. Last year there were struck for .the tited Kingdom thirty-six million ver coins than in 1907, the decline Ing $38,000,000 in value. Siberia has the coldest weather own anywhere in the world. At irkhoyaonsk, Siberia, 90.4 degrees low zero was observed in January, 88, which goes below anything ever own in the world. A Long Island Railroad brakeman 10 returned a bag containing, it is ;imated, $30,000 in gems, got $100, o suits of clothes, a two weeks' vation and an offer of a job for life ying $100 a month. A rr fffltnKlinfr TTT O q A UUUHOU&U5 gauii/xmg ucu ttuo .covered in the private quarters of colonel in the fortress of SS. Peter d Paul, in St. Petersburg. Marshall Field was a commercial iveler; so was John Wanamaker. also were Dwight L. Moody, the sat evangelist, and Richard Cobden, 9 famous English statesman and iter. Stolen Place Names. There are many stolen place names tside Lancashire, the most flagrant stance of theft being afforded by ruria, in Staffordshire, which anxed this name because Wedge od's copies of Etruscan pottery i ire manufactured there. Then in ales, we find Bethesda and Hebron, d in Scotland, Joppa, Alexandria d Portobello, Valentia, off the Irish ast, is named after the Spanish tvn; but this is hardly a case of sft, as the Spaniards themselves be>wed the name on the island. Astria, in Cumberland, looks like a T?a1W i ? | me uiuiicu hulu itai*, uui is, iu i llity, a corruption of Gospatrick.? ndon Chronicle. Ready to Do His Part. An eccentric country squire agreed employ an equally eccentric rustic | rid his mansion of its plague of j is, the terms being board, lodging i d beer for three days. j At the end of this period there were: >re flies than ever and the squire : :errogated his new employe thus: I Vhy ever haven't you made a start? I iu contracted to kill all the flies." "I'm waiting for you, guv'nor," re- j "ted the wily rustic; "you've got to i tch 'em first. I only promised to j 1 'em."?London Daily News. GINGER. H Are Discouraged in ng Houses. the minure you say so. It's all idy." Somewhat less graciously, the offer ls declined again; but in a few nutes the maid reappeared with a ly, and, "Here's your ginger tea. ! ssus says you better be on the safe le. and take it." "Missus says she's got to go out, t she ain't just easy in her mind to Lve you. She's put your ginger tea the back of the stove keepin' hot; d you'll find the extract bottle on 5 second shelf of the pantry, lr you mt any more. She says she hopes u'll be all right, but that pie was rful rich, and two pieces was ough to upset an ostrich." They did not disturb the digestion the healthy and hungry ycng loolmistress; but she never risked nirring. her landlady's solicitude . mere second helpings. The ginr tea bad cured her of that.? mth's Companion. Trouble Ahead. -.now tne women are reiusing 10 irry until they can vote." "In that case I guess we politicians 11 have to get 'em the ballot." "And invite more trouble? Then sy'll probably refuse to vote until ey can marry?"?Louisville Cour -Journal. The population of Buenos Aires on irch 31 was 1,198,802, or 58,525 jre than a year previously. ' - - . ' J jpwssEI^ New York City.?The naval blouse Is an unquestioned favorite and can bs utilized In various ways. It can bo f worn as illustrated or as shown in tht j, back view, and it makes a most satis- r factory garment for tennis, for golf, for boating and all occasions of the sort, and It also is much in demand for the college girl who utilizes it in a great many ways. This one is made E of white linen combined with blue, s and is exceedingly smart and attractive. It is an essentially simple garment, drawn on over the head, and involves ^ no difficulties In the making, while it g Is smart and comfortable and thor- s oughly satisfactory. E The blouse is made with front and a ri i i ' fj |i' Dacic. xnere is a snort opening ai ine i front, which Is closed by means of c lacings beneath the tie and the big a Bailor collar finishes the neck. The a patch pocket is arranged over the left a of the front, and there are short s sleeves that are without fulness at li their upper edges, but which are p gathered at the lower and finished p with straight cuffs. They can be d made either with or without openings. i< The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and p three-eighth yards twenty-seven, two c and a half yards thirty-two or forty- e four inches wide with one-half yard q twenty-seven for collar and cuffs. e fl Sweater Coats. e The automobile is where the new v long sweater coats, or coat sweaters, 8 are best appreciated. They are light r to carry or wear, take up no room, and are most acceptable If suddenly changed plans find one a considerable distance from home in the late evening. And there is a wicked delight in being perfectly comfortable as one whirls along at thirty miles an hour wraped apparently in a thin pongee coat but really in a cozy sweater. Walking Gown. The fashionable kilted skirt is a j good model for a walking gown. When the pleats are stitched and! pressed flat to yoke depth the skirt fits closely about the hips, the pleats falling free from that point flaring gracefully and allowing perfect freedom in walking. fi s For House Gowns. t' Self colored taffeta ruffles trim an tl effective afternoon house gown. Lit- t; tie bows of the same dot the white e lace tucker. q hi Buttoned in Front. Frocks may be buttoned down the :c ront as well as the back, since fash- &i on has suddenly become more liberal at nlnded In this respect. fa ii Like the Dress. Lr The silk stockings worn with a E larty dress that is embroidered in sil- se er are also embroidered in silver, the 31 leslgn being the same, too, only Id d! nlniature. ;i 01 Brand-New Fabric. It A brand-new fabric Just from ovei he water is called pongee serge. It fa s of a fabric like pongee, but has a m erge twill. It is an ideal material d or the coat and skirt costume. 1< Button Rosettes. h Above .the plain cuff and frilly edg? ai if the elbow sleeve, set among the no olds of the full sleeve, one sees now il nd then a large rosette with button w entre, the whole made of the thin ? loth material of which the gown Is ashloned. }i tl New Shirt Waists. t< Among the newest models in shirt a raists are those made up from what h nay be termed real dark colors in tl rash goods. Black galateas, ging- tj tarns and cotton cheviots are all repesented and are developed in moa? p everely tailored styles. tl b Blouse or Dress Sleeves. 'tr Sleeves so often need remodeling is rhile the remainder of the gown Is in a: ;ood style that new designs are con- a tantly in demand. Here are shown b ilaln long sleeves, shirt waist sleeves ti >nd three-quarter sleeves of moderate K b ' i \ ' / ! t : c m ulness finished with rolled-over uffs. Each is good in its way and all ,re the latest style. The plain sleeves ^ ,re adapted to more dressy blouses nd the shirt waist and three-quarter leeves to the simpler ones. These ast are moderately full, while the ^ lain sleeves are snug at the lower ortions but slightly full at the shoul- .j ers, suggesting the leg-of-mutton lea. J8 The plain sleeves are cut in one f iece each and are fitted by small rosswise darts at the inside of the lbows. The shirt waist and threeuarter sleeves are made in one piece ach, but the shirt waist sleeves are inished with openings at their lower dges, overlaps and straight cuffs, rhile the three-quarter sleeves are & ;athered into bands to which the oiled-over cuffs are attached, The quantity of material required or the medium size is, for any q leeves, one and five-eighth yards n wenty-one or twenty-four, one yaod ^ hirty-two or three-quarter yard for- n y-four inches wide with one and an h ighth yards of bauding for the threeuarter sleeves. Unmade History* |j By PRISCILLA LEONARD. "Doing to-day's duty and meeting * -day's emergency is what makes story." Any lad studying history the high school knows that when comes to knowledge within the cc vers of his books. The heroes of h< story are those who did their dutj< m the right moment, and the historic) ilures are the men and women who ;J; d not meet emergency promptly, uther did his duty, and Henry the ?c ighth did not. Lincoln proved him ! 1 f quite equal to every emergency, f" tephen A. Douglas did not. Henry Navarre united France by his de- sc sion and courage. The Bourbons rought on the French Revolution by leir vices and their weak unreadi3ss. AH the history ever made so J ir teaches righteousness and readi- r< ess as necessary for heroes and naoni. ^ ~? . But ffae Iaa who Knows all tEIs ^ Des not often apply it to the unmade istory among which he is moving, ad which he is himself helping to 8j iake. He keeps on believing that a ttle shirking does not hurt; that a ej rong afct has no consequences; that tj decision can safely be postponed, nd so on. So all the others?the ^ thers that were failures?thought in le days when they were making his- s] >ry for the boy to study. They ^ ever Intended to fail any more than C( e does. ' But they did fail, and for v le very reasons that will make him u ill if he does not change his ways. a The decision that many lads post- f. one is whether they shall be Chris- n' ans or not. They think they will n e, some day, but not now. And j, leanwhile duty comes every day and p i not done as unto God; and emerg- B ncies which require consecration r, re no^ met. Nobility dies out; life g ecomes selfish and small. Another a iiinre?and the failure's own fault. ^ tlstory goes on and leaves him off er roll of the heroes and the work- % re. a But he could have been there? 0 aat's the pity of it! n ?i?: n c ! Where Two Wives Are Belter 2 ? i Than One. S t a 1 In his article in Harper's Maga- e ine on "The Home Life of the Es- f ;imo," V. Stefaansson, the ethnolo- j 1st, tells of a conversation with his t Eskimo host, explaining his reasons s [>r requiring two wives. "It was after dinner one evening a hat I asked Ovayuak why he had 8 wo wives while no other man in the j ountry had more than one. That ? ras, he said, because he was a prom- j [lent man, had a big household and j, * *' ? II?A fnw _ a any visitors couuiiutmjr. -n- >* g ears ago his wife, Anaratziak, had t aid to him: 'I am becoming old r iow; my first daughter will soon be i aarried; there is pauch work in pre- i taring food for all your guests. Why t lon't you get a young^ife who can s telp me with the housework?' That f cas why he married' Illerok, who is oung and strong. 'But Illerok is tot so important as Anaratziak. See low Illerok cooks the fish, put them t m a platter and brings them to Anar- t .tziak so she may pick out for Jier- i elf and her favorite son as many c if the heads and tails as she likes. 1 llerok does what she is told, for she a 3 the younger wife.' And never did a wo women get along more amicably g ogether than these two wives of i )vayuak's." . t ??r-rr-?? I Romance of the Ring. _ a When yob see the diamond engage- f aent ring encirling the snow-white t inger of a girl you may think it was t lipped on to the accompaniment of a i manly voice saying, "You are u aine." Nothing in it. The girl has ? corked and schemed for that soli- t aire diamond, and many times had s o come right out and ask for it. At i; east, an Atchison woman who has a d ;ood deal of experience says if a t nor. ?on o-ot nnf nf a-ivlne an eneasre- I [lent ring he will. She says she waa ngaged a whole year and he did not J aention engagement ring un'.ll one ; vening she said to him, "Jim, aren't | e ou going to give me an engagement j t ing?" He said, "I had not thought ; e f it; what kind do you want?" She j c old him a solitaire diamond. He e ras quite poor, and so sai<f, "You j t on't want much." But he gave it to j r er. In such cases a man is in the r ame position as when a skillful n gent gets hold of him?he is worked tl efore he knows it.?Atchison Globe, v, t] Perfectly Natural History. n A party of young men were camp- <1 lg and to avert annoying questions ti iey made it a rule that the one who sked a question that he could not k nswer himself had to do the cook- Cl lg. Ci One evening, while sitting around S le fire, one of the boys asked, "Why a i it that a ground-squirrel never ;aves any dirt at the mouth of its urrow?" They all guessed and missed. So ci e was asked to answer it himself. Vl "Why," he said, "because they al- p ays begin to dig at the other end of ? le hole." "But." one asked, "how does he et to the other end of the hole?" ^ "Well," was the reply, "that's t? our question."?Cleveland Leader. ^ A Different Case. Judge Giles Baker, of a Pennsylvala county, was likewise cashier of " is home bank. A man presented a ieck one day for payment. He was a Granger. His evidence of ldentifica- 15 on was not satisfactory to the cash- ^ sr. C( "Why, judge," said the man, "I've nown you to sentence men to be anged on no better evidence than lis!" n "Very likely," replied the judge. w But when it comes to letting go of aid cash we have to be mighty care- c< ll."?Browning's Magazine. d 'e John Dawson, private secretary to d overnor Stubbs, said to a group oi ewspaper men in the Governor's ofce the other day: "Every good 01 ewspaper man has something about. ei im that is godlike. He so frequent- w r makes something out of nothing.". -Kansas City. Journal. . t i III || ^00^ Hoa&s <^??V?<V?<V?? ?"^.?^?^?^?'*b^?y?'*>? Automobiles and Good Roads. In the making of good roads in thii ', >untry there is always a new mud* jle in the way. Wherefore the work oves slowly. There is steady pro* ess toward the desired results, but /j le most earnest and active figures in le movement* can-but admit that, insiderlng the amount of energy and rains put into the work in recent jars, results arenotwhat they should i. Bad luck, which is apparently >metimes sent to test the metal o 1 ten and measures, has waited upon le good roads advocates, and when ^ lis fact is considered the degree of access attained by them in many tates is evidence of an indomitable ^solution and an unfaltering faith Id le final triumph, of public intelllefece. It would seem at times as If le hard roads people work the hardst to get out of one mudhole, as a leans of discovering, as soon as poable, how far It may be to the next 1 , Die. Their curiosity, and untiring lergy In satisfying It, has shown that le holes are never far apart. The ancient and universal prejifc Ice In rural districts against the cost f such undertakings has of late years aown some signs of abating. The irmer has had to be shown that the ' . Dst would return to him in increased alue of lands and better opportunl- . ies? for getting his product to market t a saving of time, which, with every . , : irmer, as with everybody else, la loney. The farmer is a shrewd busiess man. He has studied the pxob- j 2m closely, and' had reached the olnt of admitting that It had two ' ] Ides before the inauguration and $ apid extension of rural mail delivery ave the good roads advocate anothei rgument with which to appeal to lm. The extension of electric lines into arm sections has also contributed omethfng to make the farmer more pen to conviction. The objection It o longer as to the disparity between ' ost and return, but it lies now gainst "dudes on rubber tires," and here is the mudhole In the good road. X t is the crazy automobilist who li * urnlng back the hands of the clock nd stopping the wheels of progress. 'he farmer Is getting ready to consld. . r the advisability of taxing himself or the gain of , wealth, but not for ^ os8 of life or limb. And it cannot " -'j ie denied that, on many good tretches of road In this country, iuilt at the expense of the owners of hutting lands, there have been con* tant efforts to rival the chariot races _ -n? ?... mi.(? i. A LI DCU xzur? iuio ao iuu uon miiu* LOle In the good roads movement, and t must be admitted to be a deep one, lumerous appeals to automobilists by - .. ;ood roads advocates have been made "'j 0 give them a lift out of the mnd b j educing their time schedule and go. ng out of opposition to the railroad > ines, unless, Indeed, like railroads, hey are willing to incorporate them? elves and put up their own money or their own roadways.?Epitomist, Good Advice. ~ i It is particularly advisable, in the , ise of concrete for a surfacing maerlal, and on account of its monoithic nature, that aj^ sewer pipea, ionduits and mines for public utilties, with their house connections, ,s are likely to become necessary for 1 number of years in the^ future, hould be installed duringfthe bulld^ ' J g of the road to avoid disturbing he pavement after jt has been laid, t is possible," undoubtedly, to restore . pavement that has been torn up or the placing of pipes, so that it will * lot show appreciable damage, but . \ he fact is that the care necessary to .ccomplish this result is seldom or lever taken by those in chkrge of the work of repair and the pavement deeriorates and Is destroyed much ooner than it should be, entailing arge expense on the taxpayers in adition to the inconvenience of having he street repeatedly torn #up.?Good loads Magazine. r Sun Better Than Shade. Concerning trees for the roadside, ay advice is, that the less trees on he roadside the better for the roads, ither in summer or winter, writes a orrespondent of Orange Judd Farm- * r. One reason is, that in summer hey shade the roads ,too much in ainy weather, thereby keeping' the pads wet too long where there is too luch shade, while the other parts of tie road dry up quickly. In winter, rhere there are trees on the road, tie snow accumulates, piles up too luch in windy weather, making It ifflcult and sometimes dangerous to ravel, and takes longer in the springime to thaw away and consequently eeps the roads much longer in bad Dndition than if otherwise were the ' ' " '$ ase. I agree, however, with the sugestion that on a 160-acre farm, .ten cres should be devoted to trees. _ I A \^aac x'wi Two matrons of a certain Western Ity, whose respective matrimonial sntures did not in the first instance rove altogether satisfactory, met at woman's club one day, when the rst matron remarked: "Hattie, I met your 'ex,' dear old om, the day before yesterday. We ilked much ol you." , "Is that so?" asked the other ma on. "Did he seem sorry when you >ld him of my second marriage?" "Indeed he did, and said so most ankly." "Honest?" "Honest! He oaid he was extreme r sorry, though, he addtAl, ha didn't now the man personally."?LippinDtt's. Twins. "Yas'm. Missus Johnsing has done amed the twins at last. Her old man anted .to call 'em Beto and Repeat, at she done thought that was too jmmon for her family. But sho one hit it at last. She's goin' to have >ui baptized Max and Climax."?Inianapolis News. 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