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Her New Pose. Most girls change their manner? along with their clothes, and now tliat lingerie gowns and baby hats ha-?e come into vogue an ingenuousness of demeanor is affected by many of the wearers thereof. The tall, athletic maiden, who has taken to muslines, no longer defies conventions or glories in being called "a jolly good sort," but is nestling closely under her chncerone's sheltering wing. Tan. too, which was acquired by hours spent under a broiling sun, seems to have lost its charm, for only the most delicate of skins appears to advantage against light, fluffy attire. Some girls, following the example of a leader, wear their veils even while playing tenms. There may be a lack of genuineness in this departure, but it has the charm of novelty. it-' Linncrie Shirts and Hats. Every single penny that can be saved out of the dress aiowance, whether it be of the smallest or largest description, should be devoted now to the purchase of lingerie shirts. Nothing is , - going to be more fashionable in the immediate future than white embroidered blouses, very simply ma.de so that the embellishment that is given them is not overshadowed at all by the extravagance cf the manner in which they are constructed. Shirts one mass of broderie Anglaise are modish, and shirts covered with medallions of raised embroidery with eyelet holes here and there are equally fashionable. They look delightful with a tailormade coat and skirt costume, and as they wash like a rag they are not really extravagantly costly purchases. Many of these lovely shirts are made in Ireland, where so much white wear ?. is embroidered. yip; Miscellaneous Marriages. No one knows what type will be the best for survival in an unknown future environment. We often see the "exl&j tinction of families of parents whom any physician would have pronounced ideal, but their children lacked resistance to the invasion of pathogenic organisms or there was some other de. * feet which made them easy targets for climatie causes of physical decay. On the other hand, we quite often find that parents below par physically have fine families. The curious unions which take pace must be the result of W _ law such as we find in every biologic phenomenon. Man has the same instinct found in lower animals to select a mate who is more or less different # from himself. Should like types mate, their com? \ mon characteristics may be so exaggerated as to be harmful and the line perish. It is an instinct of those of x great intelligence to marry those of less than the average, for the offspring ? revert to the better average. It is very evident that if we try to improve the race intellectually by the marriage of like types we will violate the natural . . law upon which our existence is based. Artificial matrimonial selection has been tried, though the results were dis * T?f ?U?U~UUS. 'AlilCtlUUl lucuitilit. Buttons for Ornaments. Buttons in every conceivable shape and style are used for ornaments this season, small and large; glass, bone and all kinds of metal; the simple, unadorned, old-fashion mother-ofpearl kind and the latest designs, made with an amethyst centre surrounded by a circle of rhinestones that \ look more like brooches than buttons. There are gun metal buttons, heavy looking, and this effect is heightened by the use of three screws inserted in the outer edge. Those made in red and bronze metals look like Oriental pins and are most attractive. Buttons, like the rest of trimming used this year, are made to match the many shades of cloth in use. Many kinds are fashioned of two colors to match striped and checked materials or to harmonize with the cloth and the braid or silk used for trimming. A particularly pretty pattern in such design was made of brown cloth suit trimmed with white braid. With white gowns having a red flower design in the background round imitation coral buttons about as large as a 25-cent piece finished with a rim of rhinestones make enough decoration for an afternoon dress. A. r\r* n 1/vrvlr OliXUldl d LUC 111 J SI. UUUUUO iuun nrn when there is a lavender or blue pattern in the sheer summer material. Perhaps the black glass buttons with a ring of sparkling rhinestones are more admired than any other cf these new kinds.?Washington Times. A Fortune in Dressmaking. Droning musically, a great red motor car sped up to the station and a woman in beautiful clothes got out. She rode into town on the early morning train among a number 01' business men, and one of these said of her: "The woman makes $20,000 a year. She has ninety girls working for her in her big establishment down town. She won't make the simplest linAn :'rock under $23, and the average price she charges for a gown is $150. "She is a college girl. Twelve years ago she was a reporter on a morning paper, covering the board of education, women's clubs and so on, wearing shabby clothes and earning, I suppose, $15 a week. She was too clever, far too clever, for such work, yet she stuck to her paper for two years and never an inch did she advance. "She had always liked dressmaking. She had always had good taste. Now, in despair, she took a course in cutting and fitting, and she interested in her idea one of the rich women whom she had met in her news-gatliermg among the clubs. "With this woman's help she opened a small dressmaking shop in a good neighborhood. Success seemed hard to achieve at first, but she liked the work and she got in time the patronage of three or four of our best-dressed young matrons. After " that she advanced rapidly. Today she is a woman to be envied by most men. "She built in 1902 a house that cost $40,000. She lives at the rate of $12,000 or $15,000 a year. And still she is saving money. "If intelligent college girls of good taste, putting aside their pride, would take up dressmaking instead of elbowing into the overcrowded ranks of literature cr journalism, they too might live in $40,000 nouses and drive 00horse-power motor cars and stil savr money."?Zvlinnieapolis Journal. Habit of Frowning. Did you ever notice the kinds and varieties of frowns you meet in a short walk on the streets? Perhaps it is the 20th century expression developing from the general hurry of the day. However, no matter how impatient people may be to get ahead of jtime, it never pays to hurry, inside or to walk with one's eyebrows. The majority of people nowadays hurry, hurry, hurry along the streets, their brows tied up in little tight knots of strenuous attention of some sort. It is refreshing to see any one move with quick energy; an alive and active gait is always to ?r*- Vi tt rwf Ka aVi UC IU11I iilCHUUU, UUl WL1JT HVL UC ful about it. It doesn't help one up the elevated steps a bit faster to frown about it. It doesn't make saleswomen hurry cr street cars stop or the weather cooler or anything. It only makes one look one's worst and grow old before one's time. Whenever I see the fretful young women of luxury frowning over her shopping I think how I should like to tell hew she's really harming others. Or I should like to show her the account in the paper of the poor janitress mother who worked for $5 a week and kept herself and four babies on sugar water and crackers until she fainted one day and wa's taken to the hospital. Not that I should want that to make her frown more. Maybe she would do something for the babies, and then feel happy, and make others happy, by smiling instead of frowning. Frowning is a habit. I often wonder how astonished some of the passersby on the street would be were we to suddenly stop them and say, '.'What is the matter? What are you frowning about?" I am sure half of them are not really conscious of it. Then some time they will discover deep wrinkles in their brows that are there to stay, and they'll long in vain to be rid of them. Mrs. Wriggs' advice never to feel sorry for one's self is well worth while. It never wins sympathy. To be cheerful, and even if not to look cheerful, is surely a duty we all owe to each other. Fashion Notes. Sheer gauze undershirts for small tots have a trimming of narrow Valenciennes lace around neck and armholes. Blue and brown veils are worn witli blue and brown bats; for light or white hats, white veils with black dots look best. The newest fad in colored stockings is to have the stockings match the dress (unless tbe dress is white) while the shots are black. Almost every small child wears socks, those of tan and white to match the shoes, or white to wear with black shoes, being the most popular. There's a new chiffon automobile veil out which eomes in all the pale colors and in white. It is embroidered ?with big and little dots in the same shade as the veil itself?and is gathered on to a ring. Every child, who can, is wearing allwhite; and the inexpensive canvas shoes?strong and braced to keep them in shape?have made it possible to carry out this white in the matter of shoes as well, even if you're not blessed with a robust purse. To keep the present craze for tan shoes something new in stockings comes out every little while. The newest are shadow stripes in tans and old blues with bands of color running around intwo shades, just a little different. Both blue and tan are worn I with tan shoes. ! SWEEDEN AND NORWAY. INTERESTING STATISTICS REGARDING RECENTLY SEPARATED NATIONS. I ; The Combined Population Practically ! the Same as That of State of New York?Agriculture the Mainstay in J Sweden?The Fisheries Are as Important as Farming in Norway. ! Some interesting information eon| cerning Sweden and Norway has just ! been compiled by the Bureau of Sta! tistics, Washington. It is shown that, ; notwithstanding less favorable natuj ral conditions, such as the poverty of the soil, about 75 percent of which is unproductive, and a rigorous clii mate in the larger part of the coun! try, also a relatively larger emigraj tion, the population in Norway ini creases faster than that of Sweden, j T.ius, the population of Sweden in) creased between 1S93 and 1303 from ! 4.824,150 to 5,231,291, or 8.2 percent, ' while that of Norway grew from 2,! 0S2,1C0 to 2,288,525, or 12.G percent j in the same period. The combined population of Sweden j and Norway is 7,484,301, practically the same as that of the State of New , York. The area of Sweden, is about | 40 percent more than that of Norway, ; the territorial extent of the two counI tries being 172.876 square miles and j 124.130 square miles, respectively. [ If the average population for the period 1893-1903?5,043,700 for Sweden I and 2,165,600 for Norway?be compared ; with the corresponding average emigration figures?23,610 for Sweden and 11,303 for Norway?the rate of emigre : tion appears higher for Norway than i for Sweden, 5.2 per thousand, as against 4.7 per thousand. During the i decade 1S93-1902, of the emigrants ; from Sw^len who left their country over 80 percent stated as their destina: tion the United States, while of 124,336 Norwegians who left their native country about 97 percent, at the port of embarkation, indicated this country as their future home. ' Of the total estimated population of : Sweden ih 19C3 only 22.3 percent ap pear under the head of urban dwellers, ! while of the total population of Norj way, according to the 1900 census, 28.8 ' percent are returned as Irving in ur, ban settlements. ; The difference in the industrial char, acter of the population is shown, furthI ermore, by the fact that in Sweden j the mainstay of the population is still I agriculture, with its cognate branches, | while in Norway the importance cf | agriculture is about the same as that ! of the fisheries, each of which indusj tries, according to official estimates, | furnishes an annual product of about ; $15,000,000, or about 10 percent of the | annual national income. The average i value of the principal cereal produej tions in Sweden for the years 1S98-1902 i is stated at $65,338,000, while the av< erage value of Norwegian cereal crops ! for 1896-1900 was estimated at $9,| 640,000 only. This, as well as the rela! tive absence of minerals of industrial | importance, involves a much greater J dependence on the part of Norway on j imported breadstuns and raw mate1 rials, and results," as a further consemuvnnn in n +?T?i ft nftll'nv - *4 UCUtC, 1UL a LUi 1U VX/lAV,^ UIWVAUUI. that of the sister nation. The imports j of breadstuffs, including flour, during I the calendar year 1903 into Sweden j amounted in value to $10,331,000, and | to $15,229,000 into Norway. The only common industry of impor tance, especially for the foreign trade, j is lumbering, inasmuch as both coun; tries abound in forests, particularly { spruce and pine, both of which variei ties find ready sales in British and j Continental markets. Of the total ! domestic exports from the two couni tries, the exports cf lumber and timber and manufactures thereof, sach as wood pulp and matches, constituted 51.7 percent in the case of Sweden and 40.4 percent in the case of Norway. The mining and metal industry, i which is an important source of na! tional wealth in Sweden, giving emf ployment to 30,731 persons in 1903, has but little importance in the national i economy of Norway, j On the other hand, the earnings of the Norwegian merchant marine, espe! cially of vessels engaged in the carry! ing trade between foreign ports, eon! stitute a large portion of the national : revenue, and serve to offset in part | the unfavorable trade balance. Nori way's merchant marine is fourth in ; size among the merchant marines of j the world; being exceeded only by j those of the United Kingdoip, the ! United States and Germany. Its total | tonnage is nearly 1,500,000 tons, as j against 625,000 tons for Sweden. Itsto; tal earnings in 1902 were $29,700,000, as against $13,400,000 earned by Swed; ish merchantmen, while the amounts earned by Norwegian vessels in carj rying freight between foreign ports j only was $22,375,000, as against $3,I 644,000 earned by Swedish vessels for , similar services. Sweden imports about $142,000,000 ; worth of merchandise annually, about $6,500,000 being from the United States ; and Norway imports about $78,500,000 worth of merchandise, a little less than j $5,000,000 being supplied by the United , States. The exports from Sweden in ! the latest available year were $118,j 250,000 in value, about $3,250,000 hav! ing been taken by the United States, ' while from Norway the exports were | $46,500,000 in value, of which less than | $2,000,000 were importet by the Unit! ed States. ; Our exports of domestic products to ' Sweden and Norway amounted to $11,i 325,383 in value during the fiscal year ! 1904, as against $10,071,565 during the | preceding year. Less than 20 articles I or groups of articles supply the bulk ! of the merchandise exported to Swedj en and Norway from the United States. I Arranged in the order of magnitud? in f -I nn i XT r ? iwi, iue moitr iiuyurutui. ai uuca exported include the following:- Refined mineral oil, $2,068,324; olemargarin-*, $1,201,266; raw cotton, $1,155,708; iron and steel manufactures, $796,671; lard, $688,754; wheat flour, $565,755; copper and manufactures, $393,791. Our imports from Sweden and Norway were valued at $5,258,114 in 1904, as against $4,975,234 in the preceding year. We are thus exporting to Sweden and Norway a little over twice as much as we import from those countries. Wood pulp forms a large portion of our imports from Sweden and Norway, the figures for 1904 being $1,? 202,455. Bar iron is next in order, $1,014,378; wire rods amounted to $559,914; machinery to $413,500, and hidea and skins, except fur skins, $309,518. Nearly all of the remaining imports were fish products, amounting to about $1,000,000. While no geld or silver bullion appears to have been sent to or received from Sweden and Norway, United States Consul Bergh. at Gothenburg, reports incoming money orders to the value of $2,500,000 sent from tne United States to Sweden during 1904, and outgoing money orders to the value of $500,000 sent from Sweden to this country, a net movement of $2,000,000 to Sweden from the United States during a single year. j MUTINY WHILE BATTLE WAS ON. i Reason Why Two of Rojestvensky's Fleet Wouldn't Fight. According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of La Liberte Admiral Rojestvensky, in his report on the battle of Tsu Shima Straits, which resulted in the practical annihilation of his feet, says that his ships were bad. They had been not only hastily but dishonestly buiit. The thickness of their armor did not agree with the official figures in the case of any of the vessels. Moreover, it was of inferior quality. The shells were bad. None of the ships attained the guaranteed speed. The engines and boilers were poor and always requiring repairs. Two-thirds of the crews, including those of Vice-Admiral Niebogatoff's squadron, were incapable. The gunners were ignorant of the elementary laws of firing. A mutiny occurred while that fleet was at Madagascar and fourteen men were put to death. Admiral Rojestvensky had to train guns on two of his ships, the Admiral Seniavin and Admiral Aprazlne, coast defense vessels, to restore order. The crews had decided secretly to surrender to the enemy. This was discovered too late. There was another mutiny in Vice-Admiral Niebogatoff's squadron near Formosa, and Admiral Rojestvensky had difficulty in preventing the mutineers from seizing the greater part of the squadron. AHrnir'al Dnioctvon cL-rr cn tt from tho outset of the battle that the Admiral Seniavin and Admiral Apraxine were not fighting and were ignoring orders. They fired only when he sent torpedo boats to them and threatened to sink them unless they obeyed. If Admiral Rojestvensky had not | been wounded at the beginning of j the battle the result might have been | different. Almost simultaneously with i his removal to a torpedo boat Admiral I Enquist disappeared, Admiral Foel| kersahm was killed and Admiral Niei bogatoff, who was unpopular with the i sailors, was obliged to take command. Then the rout began. Admiral Niebogatoff's orders were ignored. It was every one for himself. The crews of some of the ships threatened to kill their officers unless they surrendered. Admiral Rojestvensky confirms what is generally known of the shattering and scattering of his fleet. He describes the attempt to blow up the Orel after she had surrendered. He says that a party of engineers and young officers were surprised by the Japanese just as they were about to fire the ship's magazine. A struggle followed. If the Orel's crew had supported their officers the conspiracy would have succeeded, but none of the men stirred. The admiral confirms the reports already published that he relied on the fog to enable him to get through the straits, but says it lifted two hours too soon. The Rase for Decoration. The number of those decorated with stars, ribbons, orders, medals, etc., is remarkable in society nowadays. If women still retain the position of being the decorative sex, men are certainly the decorated. Orders, medals and so on are distinctly a decoration, as a general rule, and noth* ing more. The last thing in the world that they mark is personal distinction. It is a common masculine affectation that titles are accepted mainly to please wives, who have a weakness for being "my ladies." The ribbons, medals, etc., which are not shared with the wives are just as eagerly coveted and accepted.?London Truth. How the Pigmies Shave. The latest tonsorial fashion to be imported into this country is the eyelash shave. This may be seen at the Hippodrome when the pigmies are performing their toilet. After making their usual protest against being compelled to bathe In warm water, the pigmies, instead of shaving the stub ble of beard from tneir races as wmte men do, cut off their eyelashes with i the razor-like edges of their tiny ar- j rows. It is a painful operation to j watch, but it is said to become fascin- ! ating. If a visitor shows too much in- j terest in the proceeding, one of the ! pigmies will courteously offer in pan- j tomime to give him an eyelash shave. | ?London Standard I ALLIGATOR AN ECONOMICAL PET. . Even a Big One Can Live on Flies and Such Trifles. The 9 foot alligator at the Aquarium is a little off its feed. As a matter of fact, it has not eaten anything, so far J as is known, for six months, and all it has eaten since July, 1904, is eight her- j ring weighing about a pound and a half apiece and a live rat. At frequent intervals in the course I of the six months just past it has been tempted with food such as it would be likely to fancy, but it has uniformly declined it. And yet this alligator is I far from emaciated; indeed, it is fat | about the jaws and neck, and appears j to be in good condition. "Why, that's nothing," said a visitor j at the Aquarium the other day who in response to some inquiries had learned about its long abstinence from food. "I've been toldVhat alligators will go without eating for a year. Let me tell you about an alligator that I knew of once that went without eating for six j months, or that ate so little it wasn't j enough to count. "For years I've spent my winters in J Florida., on the east coast, and one winter when I was down there like that, when the swamps all 'round in the region in which I stayed were all very dry, this alligator that I speak of, which was a big fellow, 14 or 15 feet j long I should think, though we never : cared to go near enough to it to measure it, came out on the land and stayed there, sort of dormant, all winter and longer, six months altogether, and in that time never moved fifty feet. "How do I know it never went back into the water? I don't knew that abj solutely of my own knowledge, but I am satisfied in my mind, from all the I indications, after it first came out, j more than fifty feet on the land, as I ! have told you. And I know that birds ! built their nests on this alligator's back and hatched out their young there. "And all this time that the big alligator was lying there pretty much all it had to eat was flics and snakes. There is said to be something about the odor or something of an alligator's open mouth that attracts flies; and this alligator lying there would throw back its upper jaw like a great trapdoor and keep it up like that for quite a while, and about a million flies would light inside its mouth, and then suddenly the big 'gator would cast off the catch that held its jaw up, somej! where, and down it would drop and catch a million flies. But what's a million flies to a fifteen foot aligator? "And sometimes it would catch a snake. A snake would go sliding past and that alligator would swing its head 'round and grab it. But what's an occasional snake to an alligator of that size? "And we thought?that is, a friend of mine living there and myself?that we'd give the alligator something to eat. And we did give it one chicken. "But not by hand. We gave it to him from a safe distance, and yet in a manner that was simple and easy. We tied it in the middle of a cord about thirty feet long, of which my friend held one end and I the other, and holding the chicken in that way we brought it down close to the alligator's jaws and the alligator snapped it and seemed to enjoy it. "But what are a few million flies and a few snakes and one chicken to a fifteen foot alligator in six months? Practically nothing. And yet that alii- j ! gator looked at the end or tnat time j just as well as this alligator does here; | and I've no doubt it would have gone ! back into the water again in due time ! and started active life and hearty eating again, and just as well as ever, though it hadn't eaten anything for six mohths. ' But I wanted a good alligator bag and I knew i could get a good one out of the hide of this 'gator. So I shot the big alligator finally and had its skin taken off and pickled and sent ! North, and had it tanned and had this j bag made out of it." And the visitor held the bag up to j view as he spoke.?New York Sun. J Aliens in London's West End. There were aliens in the West End ! as we.i as in the East End. Take the I case of a man who came to London j for a night's pleasure to see what was i going on here. At a West End hotel | he was received by a cashier who was i a Frenchman, shown to the lift by a j German, and a Swiss took him to I his room and carried his luggage. He l ordered his dinner from a French j maitre d'hotel, he was served by a j German and the food was cooked by a | French chef. Afterward he entered a i motor car driven by a French chauf1 feur, and he visited the Italian opera. I The overture at the opera was played by a foreign band, and the only man who looked like an Englishman was the player of a triangle. After the opera his supper was served in an Italian restaurant, and he went home after smoking a Turkish cigarette.? Westminster Gazette. How Paul Jones Countered. "What! Paul Jones the pirate!"' j must have been the shocked reflection ! of many an honest Briton on hearing ! j that the United States was about to j i nov honors to the famous "re- j j negade." He himself, .by the way, j I farher neatl ycountered the English ! | government's denunciation of him as | I a pirate. He replied that he had lookI ed in the dictionary and found a pirate j defined as "an enemy of mankind," i and "as England was then at war j ) with the whole of America, the greater part of Europe, and much of Asia, j not to speak of a bit of Africa, she in ' point of fact came as near being the I enemy of mankind as could well be j conceived, and that England was 1 therefore the pirate, and not Paul Jones."?London Chronicle. . V-. / LIEUT. F. S. DAVIDSON. ! THE ENTIRE SYSTEl: v Jjjp^ '^3 'W&E& %&$% : '0'<f~ - %??? r;5m -jbSM '"$81 ':$$ .-,- ;^5JTgSfJ ". Vvv^'^ ? ??*vwvvvv\vvvv\v?vvvvvvvvwww{ If you do not derive prompt and satisinc- ' ?&? ? tory results from tho use of Peruna, Write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full state- '$$*4. ir.ent of your case, and he will be pleased V'lIraS : to give you his valuable advice gratis Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President ".' I v^f The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, By the Sweat of His Brow. "\, hen I was oil the stage," re- ;a||1s| marked Chief Clerk McDermott, of the St. Francis, who eternally de* ! lights to recall his many triumphs |$s; ES E 1 nespian, l UiHJC uiay cu uio jm. waves in 'Monte Cristo.' You re- Mfti) member the scene where Edmund ' V $ ;; Dantes climbs up on the rock, with : the billowy, bounding deop surging madly around him? He poses heroically on the rock, looks up at the i|||B gallery and says, 'The world is mine!* Well, I placed the billowy bounding deep in that scene. The waves consisted of a piece of green canvas at- < tached to a rocker. I worked the rocker and made the waves roll. .v'-'-'Viy Now and then another fellow, tossed a bucket of real water up against the I rock to add a little realism to the vvJj scene. The first night I played that ' -v-?> part one of those buckets of water ^*^$1 missed the target and caught me *in . the neck. The stgge manager took one look at mp when the curtain was & rung down. I was dripping wet 'Fine!' he said. 'Great! You're the first fellow that ever perspired play- ' Ing that part.' yja "And I was engaged for the whole r season right there and then."?San v'^jgj Francisco Chronicle. Making Child Linguists. A new method of teaching lanI guages by interchanging children between different countries is being popularized by an institution which v jf} has its headquarters in Paris. Sir Oliver Lodge has adopted this method of teaohing his children1 French by exchanging them for a limited period with members of the fam ily af M. Toni-Mathieu, the director ; of the society. I In its first year thevsociety has j been the means of exchanging no . v l fewer than eighty-eight children and ' ? JbB young people between ramines in -s->. England, France, Germany and Austria.?London Mail. STRONGER THAN MEAT. ^ 'V A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nats* ??? A gentleman who has acquired a Judicial turn of mind from experience on the bench out in the Sunflower State, write* a carefully considered opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts as food. He says: "For the past Ave years Grape-Nuts has been a prominent feature in our bill of fare. ? "The crisp food with the delicious, nutty flavor has become an indispensable necessity in my family's everyday life. ? "It has proved to be most healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and pies from our table, for the chiltjrni prefer Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and unwholesome food. "Grape-Nuts keeps us all in perfect physical condition?as a preventive of disease it is beyond value. I have been particularly impressed by the beneficial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by 4 ladies who are troubled with face blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. It f clears up the complexion wonderfully. ' , "As to its nutritive qualities, my expoience is that one small dish of GrapeNuts is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which is an important consideration for any one. It satisfies the appetite and strengthens the pow -* 4I ." llo nca in. . er or restsrms ^u^uc, nunc *?.<? volves none of the disagreeable conse- i quences that sometimes follow a meat breakfast." Name given by PostuiD Co.. Battle Creek, Micb. There's a reason. ' . ^