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SUM TOTAL Just land enough to till, And food, starved mouths to flu, And faith to find God's will. For more than these hath none Sweet toil from sun to sun, Sweet rest when toil is done. Ambition is but vain, Pleasure handmaid of p.iin; Fate follows in h^r train. An humble life-then cr xp The shadows over Sleep And Silence, dim and deep. 4 ? < Tte Thawii of i Professor. ? W WT V-""*^ ???? The professor was young and he looked still younger. He was ashamed of his juvenile appearance. He felt that it consorted poorly with his seri ous calling. To be professor of Eng lish literature at an old and well en dowed college at twenty-seven was a fact to be proud of, but the professor felt that his age was not a thing that should be flaunted in the faces of the undergraduates-nor in the faces of his grave and reverend sen iors of the faculty. So he decided to assume the characteristics of an age more in harmony with his official dig nity. He affected black garments of severe cut. He wore straight band col lars with narrow black ties. He decked ? his head with a stiff hat of unusual height of crown. Added to this outward semblance of severity to temperament, the professor cultivated an artificial manner of speech and an angular gait, both tend ing to convey the impression that he was a person of mature contempt for the glibness and friskiness of youth. The professor was a born actor, and he somewhat enjoyed this make-be lieve existence. After a while it be came second nature and was no longer a task. There were times, of course, when he longed to throw off these arti ficial shackles and be his true self again-and this longing was especial ly strong when pretty Mabel Benham 1 rallied him on his mournful air. Pret ty Mabel never seemed to have the proper appreciation of his dignity. She was in the senior class of the woman's collee- annex of the university, and the professor boarded with his mother. He had come to the city with letters of introduction to this estimable lady, and she had promptly offered him a home. "I wonder," said pretty Mabel to her mother after one unusually elevating course of dinner talk, "how long it took Prof. Philips to acquire that lab ored style of his?" "It doesn't seem quite natural," said her mother. "But I think he enjoys it." He had been with them nearly four mouths, when one afternoon some body rang the bell. The maids were ' busy elsewhere, so Mabel opened the door. She found the caller was a hand some young man, very neatly dressed, and very correct in deportment. "I beg your pardon," he said, as he gracefully raised his hat. "but is this the home of Mr. Jim Phillips, I should say Prof. James Phillips?" "Yes," replied Mabel, "but the pro fessor is out just at present. He has gone to the public library, but will re turn soon. Will you come in and wait for him?" "Thank you, I will," said the stranger. "I have come all the way from Chicago to see Jim, and I can't afford to miss him." He followed Mabel Into the parlor and took the seat she point-si out. "Jim and 1 are old chums," he went ont. "We wt :e quite insep _ arable in college, but luring the last few years have drifted apart Is he well and happy?' "He is well, I'm sure," replied Mabel. "But I'm afraid he doesn't look quite as happy as he might" And the wicked girl indulged in an inward giggle. "That's strange,' said the caller. "What's* the trouble? Isn't h j giving satisfaction?" "Oh, yes," replied Mabel; "every body says he's a rising man. You know he's one of the very youngest professors in the country." "It can't be financial difficulties," said the stranger. "Perhaps he's in love?" "Oh, no," said Mabel; "he's much too dignified to think of anything so trifling." "Jim Phillips dignified!" cried the stranger. 'Pardon me, but that's too good!" And he laughed merrily. ""Pray excuse me," said Mabel, as she backed toward the door. The stranger straightened his face and arose as she left the apartment But as she passed down the hall she heard him softly laughing again; "Mother," said Mabel as soon as she reached her parent, 'there's an ele gant young man in the parlor and he's come all the way from Chicago, and he knows everything about the profes sor, and calls him Jim, and laughs at his being dignified, and we must ask him to stay to dinner." "But, really, dear," said the moth er, "the professor might not like it." "I'll take the chances," cried Mabel. "Don't you see? This is an opportunity for lifting the veil of the professor's past." And she darted back to the parlor. "If you have no other engagement," she said in her prettiest manner, "my mother would be pleased to have you remain tc dinner." 'My only engagement is to meet my old friend,' said the stranger. "Pray thank your mother, and tell her I ac cept her invitation with much pleas ure." Just then a latchkey rattled in the <loor and the profesor entered. He had to pass ine parlor on his way to the stairs, and hearing a slight move ment he looked in. 'Why, Billy!" he cried, and sprang forward. And the last thing Mabel saw as she slipped away was the two men wildly shaKing hands and thumping each oth er on the breast. They had quieted down when Mal el and her mother came to announce din ner, but the professor colored up wnen he saw the ladies. "Mrs. Benham," he said, "permit me to present my friend, Mr. Gilbert. Miss Benham, Mr. Gilbert." Then he added hurriedly: "Mr. Gilbert and I ?? drne at the hotel this evening." j 'Sorry to disappoint you, dear boy," ?aid the newcomer, "but I have an other engagement." "May I ask where?" inquired the professor. "Here," replied the newcomer, as he followed Mrs. Benham to the dining foom. Then, when they were seated, te turned xto the hostess. "Madam," he ?aid, "am I to infer that you have a prejudice against the people of the ?tage?' "Certainly not," the lady replied. "But why do you ask such a ques tion?" "Because Prof. Jim Philips here quite neglected to state my business," said the newcomer with a quizzical smile. "And, naturally, I argue that he either is ashamed of his friends profession, or else he wished to spare your feelings. But I shall not spare his. It is right for you to learn just what company he keeps. Know then, madam, that I am an actor and a play wright" Mrs. Benham's eyes brightened. "You are not Mr. William Gilbert, of 'Shirley Hume* fame, are you?" she asked. "The same, madam." "This is an unexpected pleasure," said the good lady. "We have heard so much about you and your wonder fully succesful play. I am surprised that the professor has not mentioned you." "So am I," said the newcomer. "I am grieved. If a theatre hadn't burned and thrown us out of a three nights' en gagement I couldn't be here. And just think of it! If it hadn't been for Jim l never would have thought of making the stage a profession. Ile led me into it. Jim is the best amateur actor our old alma mater ever roofed, and he gave me the first part I ever learned in a little farce he wrote himself. Did you not. Jim?" A smile struggled across the profes sor's face. It deepened, and then he laughed merrily. And William Gilbert laughed, too, and so did Mabel and her mother. And then Mabel caught the eminent actor's merry eye. "I beg your pardon, professor," said Mrs. Benham, "but you don't mind our laughing, do you?' "Not in the least," replied the pro fessor, with a cheerful grin. "I take it as a compliment to my actor friend. It's his business to make people laugh, you know." "I declare," said the actor as they left the table, "I haven't enjoyed a dinner so much in I don't know when. Here I've been on the road for five months and haven't dared to crack a make-believe smile, much less the real article. I tell you it's a relief to get the risible muscles in working order again. I'd have walked all the way ' from Chicago for an evening like this." They were back in the parlor, and as the actor-playwright finished his little speech Mabel caught his eye. "I'm afraid," she said, "that the pro fessor has permitted your presence to make him forget a promise he gafe to mamma this morning." "And what was that, may I ask?" in quired Gilbert. "He promised he would finish his talk on "Unorganized Charity as a Wrecker of Spontaneous Sympathy' during the dinner tonight." "Dear, dear; does he run 'em in serial style?" inquired Gilbert in a tone of mock solicitude. "But, there, it's too late now to cry over wrecked sym pathy. The profesor and I will walk down to the hotel, get my travelling bag, enjoy a good cigar and presently reappear and make an evening of it Do I hear any objection?" "Does the professor really smoke?" said Mabel with lifted eyebrows. "Pray don't be astonished at any thing concerning my cloudy past that this alleged boyhood friend considers it pleasant to reveal," said the pro fessor. The two men were not gone long. They came back in the best of spirits. The professor was laughing merrily as they entered, and mother and daughter in the parlor, awaiting their return, smiled at the unwonted sound. Then ensured a most delightful even ing. Gilbert took pression of the piano and proved himself a player of remarkable resources. And the profes sor sang some astonishingly amusing songs, for which Gilbert told funny dialect stories, and he and 'he profes sor had a shrieking sidewalk con versation lu an awful German patois. "You didn't know you were enter taining a vaudeville angel unawares," said Gilbert as he glanced at his watch. "What! Why, it's midnight! Here, this precocious phenomenon must bc taken to bed. Say good night to the ladies." And they shook hands all around. As Mabel let her hand rest in the professor's she softly said: T think your are ever BO much nicer when you are your real self.'' When the two meu came down to breakfast the next morning the profes sor was wearing a collar with bent corners and a dark blue tie. "Mr. Gilbert presented me with these," he said when he saw the ladies' amused glances. "I'm wearing them for his sake." "How little it takes to make some men look handsome," said Gilbert as he stared at the professor with his head very much at one side. "I will be back here for a week in May," he pres ently added, "and I hope to see still further improvement in my honest, but misguided friend. I will send you a box, madam, if you will agree to pro vide a chaperon for James. Another thing, 'lhere is but one sure way to prevent his lapsing back to his frozen fossil state." "And that is?" "To keep him thawed out"-Cleve land Plain Dealer. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Virtue consists in action.-Dutch proverb. Love grows with' obstacles.-Ger man proverb. He who would rest must work. Italian proverb. Praise the sea and keep on land. French proverb. Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.-French proverb. The bad man always suspects knavery.-Spanish proverb. Many shun the brook and fall into the river.-German proverb. The unfortunate know who are their friends.-Italian proverb. Favor oft avails more than reason or justice.-Portuguese proverb. If you would have your work Ul done Day beforehand.-Italian prov erb. A good word quenches more than a cauldron of water.-Portuguese prov erb. Couldn't Get Within Rance. "One of these guns can throw a projectile 16 miles." "It wouldn't do me any good. My mother-in-law lives 30 miles from here."-New York Press. A Sad Spectacle. Hewitt-There warn't a dry eye In the house when I had finished my re marks. Jewett-It's enough to make any body cry to see a man make a fool of himself.-New York Press. Tho OptitniRt. Grandpa-Well, Horace, we haven't caught, any fish; it's hard lines. Horace-But we had good luck dlg 'n' worms.-Chicago News. Out of 452 members of both houses of congress 238, or more than ono half. are college graduates. Coverlnci for Polished Table?. If tho summer coverings for polished tables are made at home, it should be remembered that a close fitting cover of some soft fabric of the flannel va riety should first be fitted over tho polished top and comers. Thc dornet flannel or white DTit.'UA flannel is su". a! lo for the purpose. This prevents the stiff holland from scratching the surface, as might otnevwise be thu case. The high finish of the piano top needs similar protection. Care of Knishes and Combs. A girl's idea of neatness is some> times like the ostrich's idea of con ct aiment-he will hide his head in the sand and rest in the comfort that he has eluded observation. Often girl3 who wash their hair persistently give never a thought to the care of the brushes and combs. A specialist says Uiat hair brushes should be washed once a week at least, and if used on hair in which there is much dandruff, twice a week is not too often The Tubber JMnnt. \.nen In good condition a rubber plant is one of the most elrective ol house plauis, its dark green, glossy foliage being particularly decorative, j But it is or appears to be in many cases a diihcult matter to keep ? plant in full foliage, and bereft of its lower leaves, with scraggly stems topped by dull, yellow spotted leaves, it is far from being an object of beau ty. An authority suggests the fellow ing method of caring for the plant and guarantees successful results if the di rections are faithfully followed: "Ev ery spring the plant should be repot ted in good soil, each time in a larger pot, and dun ag the summer months kept in the shady part of the house, away from the sun, and watered daily. In winter tho piant should te kept in a light place in the house, but should not have too much sun. Once each week the entire pot should be thor oughly immersed in a bucket or tub of water and allowed to soak over night, giving the water ample opportunity to soak to its centre. Next morning tafcj the pot out of its bathtub and allow it to drain a while and do not give it any more water for two or three days; then let it have a drink each morning, until time for its next bath. By care fully following this plan ttke large, glossy leaves will acquire a beautiful lustre and there will be no trouble with falling leaves. l?ottle-IV imbin;; for Lace. The dainty laces that are so thin and delicate that Ihey are popularly known as "spider-web fabrics" will re quire special care in renovating and cleaning. In fact, it is impossible to wash them without injury by any of the usual methods of lauuderiivg. The plan of bottle washing is the only safe method of cleansing them in thc hands o? any one but a professional; and, indeed, it is claimed that this is the method frequent iy employed by pro fessional lace cleaners. Whether this is true or not, the method has oroven peifectly satisfactory for the house wife who is the possessor of laces too delicate to bc civen into the care af the laundress/ Select a smooth round bottle and wrap the lace around it as tight as pos * sible without injuring the lace-this will prevent its wrinkling in the wash ing. Se that it is smoothly and even ly rolled and baste the strips together by taking a few stitches here and there after it is on the bottle 'o hold it in place. Wrap a piece of old muslin ever it, baste this in place also, then tie a string around thc neck of the bot tle to hang it up hy. Now let this go through the wash ing, boiling and rinsing waters, as you t?o the other white clothes, squeezing and working it with the hands, care fully to prevent it becoming deranged. Hang it on the line, and when quite I dry take out the bastings and unwind the lace, lt will he as smooth is if j ironed, and will have the appearance of new lace. Several thicknesses of it may be wrapped on the bottle if care is taken to keep it perfectly smooth. ! as one would wonder how the washing can penetrate to the under layers of lace first wrapped around the bottle; hut when the soaping, the boiling and the rinsing have been thoroughly done, the lowest layers of the delicate lace will be as thoroughly cleansed as the outside wrappings. Maple Ice Cream.-Scald one and ? a half cupfuls of milk, add one cup ful of hot maple syrup; add this slowly to the yolks of two well beaten eggs; turn all into the double boiler and cook until the consistency of a soft custard or thick cream; strain, then add one tablespoonful of vanil la and one pint of cream freeze. Scalloped Tomatoes and Rice. i Wash half a cupful of rice; let it soak for two hours; put in the bot tom of a baking dish a layer of stewed tomatoes, then a sprinkle of the uncooked rice; season with salt and pepper, then another layer of to matoes and rice, and so on, until the dish is fu" ? bake for 30 to 40 minutes in a quL.v oven. Pineapple Sherbet-Peel and re move the eyes from a medium sized pineapple, then grate it. Put in a bowl with two cups of sugar.add the juice of two lemons and one orange, the grated rind of half the orange and one quart of water. Let it stand two hours and run through a fine sieve. Put lt in the freezer and when partly frozen ad the whites of the eggs and finish freezing. Scotch Shortcake-Cream one cup ful of butter and one cupful of sugar, add two eggs well beaten; one tea spoon of vanilla and work in gradu ally one pound of sifted flour; turn the dough out on a floured board; roll out; cut in rounds or squares; ornament each with strips of candied lemon peel or sugared caraway seeds; put them in ungreased tins and bake in a moderate oven. Salmon Curry.-Chop fine half a medium sized onion and fry in one tablespoonful of butter until a little browned; add to it the liquor from the can of salmon and half a cup of water; simmer five m'nutes, strain and return to the fire; add half a tablespoonful of flour rubbed smooth in a little cold water, one teaspoon of curry powder, one teaspoon of lem on juice, salt and peper to taste; when boiling add the fish broken .in large pieces. BIG BARBECUES. Editors and Mayors to be Entertained at Atlanta's Fair. Atlanta's big Fair will give two great barbecues in October, one to all the editors and the other to all the mayors in Georgia. The editors' 'cue will be on Satur day, October 11th, and the mayors' on Tuesday, October 14th. Everything at the fair will be free to the editor? and mayors. Secretary Frank Weldon B?yft that the fair will spend $500.00 a day on free attractions and amusements. One of the features will be a man carrying a woman On hts shoulders and riding a bicycle across a wire 100 feet above the ground. There will be a trained bull which is ? cr?ck pistol shot; acrobats and performers, fire works and a midway that never sleeps. This year's fair will '.ry to bring out the largest and finest exhibits of cat tle, swine, sheep and poultry ever seen at one show. There will be races every day and fireworks every night. Increase In Cremation. Cremation is one of the oldest forms of disposal of the d<?ad, yet it is a form that lapsed from use for centuries. It appears to be in process of restoration. True, it has made but little head against the custom of burial, yet there is an increase every year in such pro portion that we may look for a wide adoption of it within tho next .quarter century. There aro in this country but twenty-six crematories, yet this is against but two eighteen years ago, and the number of cremations'ls. 2,500 or more a year. When statistics-yere first collected on the subject, efghteen years ago. the annual ( rematlons num bered sixteen. It is because they are common and have so ceased to be an occasion Of comment that an impres sion may have been created which is contrary to this fact of growth, but the truth that about 14,000 incin erations bave occurred in the United States, which, added to the large num ber in Eurone, certainly indicates an Increase-Brooklyn. Eagle. A Woman's Temper. "A woman's love may grow cofd," says the cynical bachelor, "but her temper will remain as hot as ever. < Philadelphia Rccr.rd. AMc Vom* Dealer For Allen's Foot-Kane, A powder. It rests tho feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, f ore, Hot, Cnllous,Aching. Sweating Feet nnd Ingrowing Nails. Allen a Foot-Ease mokes new or tight shoes easy. At till Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cents.-' Ac cept no substitute. Sample malled FBEK. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LuBoy, N. Y: The man who admits hie own weakness lias lost half the battle. Rev.H.P. Carson, Scotland,Dak.,says. "Two bottles f Hall's Catarrh Curo completely cured my little gi ri." Sold by Druggists, 7?c. Procrastination is a word that carries trait FITS permanently cured.No Ats ornervous ness after Arst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nervoltestorer. Atrial bottle and treatisefreo Dr. lt.H. KLINE, Ltd., WU Arch8t.,Phlla.,?a. The lawyer doesn't believe that .".very man is entitled to his opinion. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, sefton tho gums, reduces inflamma tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 26c. a bottle Thc horn of plenty can easily be blown riBo's'Cure -jurr. bo too highly spoken ol BB u cough cure.^-J. W? O'BBIZN, 822 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1903 Spruce grows nearer the arctic regions than any other tree. "I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor for over thirty years, lt has kept my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turn ing gray." -Mrs. F. A. Soule, Billings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer's Hair Vigor-it is a hair food, not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. Butgraduallytheold color comes back,-all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too. $1.04 a bottle. All draRlsti. y you, I If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar nnd \re will express you a bottle Be sure and give the name of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. il hus? Dizzy? Headache? Pain back of your eyes? It's your liver! use Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use Buokinghei?i'sDye 50cts.of dfugc'?t?orR. P. Hal! Sc Co., Nasliuc, N.H To say tbat I am surprised at their action Avili convey but a slight Idea of the value I set upon Rlpans Tab ules. I derived immediate benefit and to Ripans Tabules am deeply Indebted for feeling as I do to-day. If the people of this country knew the efficacy of Ripans Tabules for stomach and head troubles they would he relieved from many af flictions. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. Dna*** Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something: inst as good." HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL GUTS. WOUNDS 'AI^/DRUGG ?STS- SELL. . IT C ON SUMP Tl ON K Securing Wavy li.v.r. A simple contrivance for producing soft waves in the hair is made of rub ber in colors to match theshade of tie haih It is flat, about a quarter of an hich at the widest part. At one ead is a tiny knob and at the other a small ring, while through the centre runs a narrow slit. Through this opening the strand of hair is drawn and tEe hair wound around the curler. A rubber cord loops into the ring and is pulled over and caught on thc opposite knob. The waviness is secured much more quickly than by other methods, and the rubber does not in any way injure the hair.-New York Sun. S um m CM- H;it". There are some exceedingly smart hats in a shape that looks like the old* fashioned shepherdess shape, trimmed with flowers, folds of tulle, and light taffeta ribbons. These are very at tractive, as are also the hats Of pink heather made over pink tull?i There are two sizes id smart sum mer hats, one much smaller than has been worn for some time, and another exaggeratedly large. Thc small one is worn off the face, and is like a toque In shape, and there is something of the French bonnet about it The large hat is flat, sometimes has the brim turned up at one side, is quit? short at the back, and and is very elaborate in its trimmings. The pretty hov/ at the back of the hat is not nearly so fashionable as it was, and is now rare ly eeen execptiiig made of iac? ot vel vet, for, strangely enough, velvet la coming in as a fashionable Bummer crimming.-Harper's Bazar. She Remembers Ella. Probably Mrs. Coe of London is the only person living in England v. no s&P personal recollections of Charles Lanu, says the New York Mail and Expr?s >. More than seventy years ago she was a little girl living at the Widford water mill, and because of her quickness in catching a mischievous idea she was a great favorite with the genial essayist Some of her recollections Mr. E. V( Lucas, the wel-known Lamb scholar, has transcribed as the result of recent conversations with her. She remem bers Lamb's affected conviction that her hair curled only by artificial means, and his repeated warnings at bedtime that she must not forget to put. it id tiapers. To beggars, she says, he al ways gave just what his hand hap pened to draw from his pocket. He Was fond of treating the village chil dren to candy, his favorite confection being 'Gibraltar rock." Here is a pen picture of him as he appeared to the child: His clothes were rusty and shabby, like a poor dissenting minister's. He was very thin and looked half-starved, partly the effect of high cheek-bones. He wore lenee breeches and gaiters and & high stock: He carried ? walking stick, with which he used to strike at pebbles. He smoked a black clay pipe. No one would have taken him for what he was, but he was clearly a man apart. He took a pleasure in looking eccen . >ric._ _ Smart Oat ins .Woden. Outing gowns are such a prominent part of the feminine wardrobe just dow that a few of the very latest and most correct suggestions are inter esting. Of course, all outing gowns these days have a short skin, not an unbe comingly short one, but just the right length for comfort. Side and box pleated models are the littest, but those with tucks, so stitched that they stim ulate pleats while being perfectly flat, are most popular. These tucks run al most to the foot of the skirt, where they are allowed to flare: in materials, pique, linen, galatea, denim and duck are the m6st favored wash fabrics. Wash silks; so much cooler than the stuff that need starch, yet bearing laundering quite as well; make ideal outing suits. Pongee, co fashionable this season, is ai30 found among the desirable fab rics for outing and is now to be had in so many attractive colorings that many very smart suits may be made from lt Gray, dark blue or tan pongee piped in white both looks and is de* lightfully cool. While many outing costumes^ ex ceedingly swagger ones, too, are made perfectly plaiu, yet braid in two or three flat rows is a much used garni ture. Hercules braid is used on the woolen stuffs, while any one of the innumerable kinds of wash or cotton braids are used on the "tub" gowns. Broad for the moment is better style tnan stitched bands for trimming. But touch, are all small, and are of pearl, silver or gilt Tho Homo Instinct in College Girl?. The home-making instinct is delight fully evident in the social life of col leges for girls, writes Jeannette A. Marks in Good Housekeeping. All the little Sunday evening suppers in their own rooms from which kuey rise say ing: "Well, hasn't this been quiet and homelike!" and all the attempts to make home out of one or two rooms, are evidences of this instinct So ciety houses or society rooms are sim ply larger efforts to make larger homes. As in the case with any home, these houses which the members of a so cieyt build and carry on afford a whole some problem; the economical making of an attractive place which shall be comfortably furnished and arranged. College girls frequently have means but. seldom wealth. There is necessity for economy, and these unfledged home-makers learn to spend money wisely. They do not give five dollars for a two-inch bronze pug dog and ninety-five cents for a flimsy, spindle legged chair intended for gilding. They discover that durability as well as ex penditure is a part of economy. It is well that these homes are not controlled by the tastes of two or three members, but by the entire society. The advantages of such a republic are many; no bad taste, no eccentricity, no extravagance of furnishing can pre dominate, and at least a "happy me dium" of good taste is the result. Re sponsibility for such a house, whether it be in the process of evolution or complete, has a direct edlicational value.. The student quickly discovers that she has the latchkey to a house which is Old Dutch, or Renaissance. Italian, or Elizabethan, or colonial in architecture. And she soon learns,too, not only the characteristics of the ar chitecture, but also of the furniture and general arrangements. Juvenil.' Modos. Silk collar and cuffs (preferably of white taffeta) are innovations on little boys' suits, but are a trifle too outre to be generally popular. Besides, ono email boy would have their freshness marred in one wearing: Basket weaves in both Wool and cotton stuffs are very fashionable for children's clothes. In summer tcp coats for boys, the shapes are loose and rather long. The middy reefer of blue or red and the tan covert box coat are the leading favorites-. Black and white have a monopoly for leather belts for Ruslan blouse suits for the diminutive man. While some mothers stil cling to the three-piece suit of knickerbocke.-s, fancy-ruffled blouse waist and jacket, it is not worn by the children of up per tendom nor has it the smart ap pearance of the plainer Russian blouse style. Wm te is the color for excellence of the season for girls' wear, and white gowns, white coats, white hats of cloth, pique or silk, unrelieved by any color, arc. the height of vogue. Smart little hats for very young girls to wear with a white pique suit or coat s re of white pique in a broad sailor shape, with narrow, small crown, and banded With black satin or black velvet ribbons, with long ends at the back, Khaki-colored linen, with a white collar and white bolt, makes an ex ceedingly smajrt suit for either a little boy or a little girl. Another attractive style is a white duck sailor suit trimmed with bands of light blue linen stit-hed on, and a black silk scarf, A black scarf is the correct thing no matter what color the sailor suit. Figured materials are not fashion able for young girls this year, except in flowered and striped muslins and thin fabrics.-Philadelphia Record. Why Women Like Fiction. Do women find in fiction the roman tic element they crave, and perhaps do not find in sufficient quantity in lif?' How otherwise are we to acco?r. their devotion to novels, wi*" ^ut which the story-writer would ft..e hut ill up on the slim diet of an unfilled purse, and the publisher share the disaster? If .Mr. Carnegie should be able to keep out of libraries, as he suggested, all fiction under three years old, it might safely be said that the women would be against him-which means that the they could not be done. Women like new fiction; they want the book that ts "just out." If it is a historical novel, they feel that they are gathering in formation, Heaven bless them! If it is a romance, pure and simple, they for get over its pages the uomestic trials of the morning or the afternoon. It does them no more harm than has been done for countless generations. For women are nourished upon fiction from the days of their birth. Our girls are reared in an atmosphere rarefied and cleared from all impurities. The world is shown them through a rose tinctured glass. "Here, dearest, is a city, a wonderful city of happy homes, of beautiful art, of heavenly aspiratoin. And these-these are men, noble, high minded beings who will always guide and teach and protect you. These other are women, lovller than everything else," And so on. Fiction without dis crimination is fed to the girl who looks with heaven-givet? trust into the eyes of her well-meaning teachers. And when she becomes a woman, the habit has sent its roots into her soul, and he she happy or pensive, she reads fic tion. With men it is different; They do not expect from life what women " do. When they read novels it is to for get the rigors of business, to enter de liberately a region which they know doea not exist. But women can seldom quite believe that it docs not exist. To them life is romance, if it does not turn out well, so much the worse tor life, and they turn to books, where the happy ending is fairly sure to be counted upon. In women's love for fiction there ls something more than superficially apparent.-Harper's Week ly. Among new ribbons is one of crepe de Chime. Bands of cloth trim some stylish gowns of mohair. Sashes of tucked chiffon are dainty thing? to wear with thin summery gowns. Summer negligees of thin lawn are trimmed with wide bands of Valencien nes lace. Short stole ends finish the front or some of the round turn-down collars, the kind the grandmothers used to wear. A dainty accessory for the summer evening gown is a sash of tulle trim med with lace insertion and finished with a lace ruffle. Black currants and their foliage are used for hat decoration, while a wreath oi heliotrope and white poppies makes an effective garniture for a black lace hat. Batiste comes with flowered borders i" ri with borders of a contrasting f.nade embroidered in white. Gowns of this are usually made with a double skirt. Hop sacking is worn to a consider able extent and in the delicate tones makes au especially effective costume. Ivory tinted hopsack patterned with little bunches of violets represents one of the newest designs. A new wrist bag of silver has a round of silver bracelet to slip on over the hand, and from it two silver chains extend to the bag, which is long and narrow. Another peculiarity of the bag is that on the front of it and attaoched to the frame, is a change purse in silver. The smartest dressmakers are using woolen laces in profusion for all kinds of lightweight cloth gowns. They are somet?ales white, sometimes cream of sometimes match the gown in color, and are found in the form of inlets, yokes, trimmings, and even as whole coates mounted on satin or taffeta. It is much like the old fashioned Yak lace, which might be used instead if one chanced to have any laid away. An Ktfectlve Way. "They say," said the young drama tist, "that I shall have to cut my play down, but I really don't know where to begin." "Why not start at both ends," his candid friend asked, "and work to1 ward the middle?"-Chicago Record Herald. I'eoplo Killed by r>:mn. Elephants killed 36 persons in In dia last year out of 22,393 killed by wild beasts. MOTHER AND Cured by Pe*ru*na of An Interesting Letter From Mrs. M. K. Bousch, of; Richmond, and Her Little; Daughter, Pearl. v^wwviwv%w?wwiv?wvv Mrs. M. K. Bousch, Richmond, Va., writes: "I had catarrh, all through my Sys tem for tivo years and could get no relief. I was advised to try Peruna, and 1 have taken five bottles of it and am well and better now than I have been for years. I can advise any one who has catarrh of any part of the body to take Peruna. Sly little girl, who is eleven years old, had catarrh, but was cured by Peruna. Before 1 began to take Peruna 1 was sick all nc time, but noir I am entirely cured and all praise is due Peru na.*'-Mrs. Af. R. Bousch. Miss Pearl Bousch writes: "When I was Is the oldest and only business college in Va. own. ina its building-a grand new one- No vacations. Ladies & geutlemeu. Bookkeeping,Shorthand, Typewriting, Penmanship. Telegraphy, &c. *' Leading business college south ol the Potomac lher.fc-mitti Stenographer. Address, G- M. SmithdeaL President. Richmond. Va. Women Who Work In home, shop or factory can : their work much easier if they comfortable corsets. The Stttigbt Front Royd Worcester and Boo Ton Gorse Combine Comfort, Eise ?ndElegant Ask your dealer to show them to you Royal Worcester Corset Co., Worcester, Sleep for skin-tortm tired, fretted Mothers CuTicuRA SOAP, and g C?TicuRA OINTMENT, and greatest of skin ci severe cases by mild d SOLVENT PILLS. 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Catalog free. cfcofeoMofcofeoMoMoMoMofcofcoMolt I HEADACHE, ???* I O "fl FEVERISH CONDITIONS jj g I AND COLDS CURED BY o g X1C ^LPXJJD IIS JE S 8old by all Druggist*. ?? eXoi^oatoHoifoiioi(oitoitoiioiiolioito .'.'""Give the name of this paper when writing 'o advertisers-(At. 35, *02) Systematic Catarrh? x baby I contracted catarrh, and was doc tored by several good physicians, but none did mo any good. My mother was taking Peruna at the time and gave some of it to me, and I soon began to improve, and am now well and fat as a little pig. I am twelve years old. The doctors told mother I had the consumption, but it waa only ca tarrh."-Miss Pearl Bousch. It is no longer a question as to whether Peruna can be relied on to cure ail such cases. During the many years in which Peruna has been put to test in.all forma and stager of acute and chronic catarrh no one year has put this remedy to greater test than thc past year. Peruna is the acknowledged catarrh rem edy of the age. Dr. Hartman, the com pounder of Feruna, has written a book on the phases of catarrh peculiar to women, untitled, "Health and Beauty." It will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory' results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. * - Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. penni y Fast ly ?undo, at home,| ILK DAI mulline circulars. No can visaing. Th* Home Keiiif dv Co. Austoll Bulldlnjc. ATLANTA. GA. NEW PENSION LAWS IISI Apply to NATHAN BICKFORD, 914 F Ht., \V tubing ton, D. C.. red Babies and rest for in warm baths with ;entle anointings with purest of emollients ires, to be followed in jses of CUTICURA RE ?S the purest, sweetest, ;nt, and economical of ing, disfiguring, itch g, scaly, crusted, and humours, with loss of ldren, as well as adults. 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