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y ei * . * TRI WEEKL WINNSBORO. S.C.. APRIL 24. 900. TH W EDIT1G*-.NL :N THE DARK WITH THE DREAM. BY rnANK L. STANTON. am here in the dark with your !ace, 3.anette Here in the dark with your face: I see o'er the dear brow the ringlets ot jet (Do you think of the kiss that I left on them yet?) &nd the cheek where the rose-dimples m2ze. I am here in I'Ne dark with your face, - Manette; I have said, "It has faded away; It passed with thespring sunsthat sorrow I Ing set, There the joy and the mcan and the mel cdy met. In the beautiful gardens of 3ay. "It passed liko the mystical light Of a star-like a wandering beam. Ievealiag the darkness that dwells with the ntght The darkness the kiss of God's morning makes white Like a spirit that moves in a dream:" But, lo! it is here, and I stand Aud stare at the darkness alone. Am I longing to-night for tue touch o1 your band, As me:nory leads to Love's beautiful land Where the roses are ever Love's own? I know not. This only I know: The grief and the glory are past; And if it be roses, or it It be snow In the vales where Love blossomed zn saug to me so, I shall rest in that Love's smile at last: It is oter--th.e peace and the pai: Ife's winter is white on the sod; Perchance I shall dream -all the deal dreams agai Under the sunlight, the rose and therain Under the daises ct God. . OtOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC .0 By 1. J. E was a big, awk -> ward fellow, work ing with some pa tient skill in at old-fashioned saw v; mill, and living ox the far outskirts o a pretty village. His home was gray old f arrm boase, where he dwelt with two maid en aunts, one of whom was a weak, fragile invalid, quick-tempered an querulous; the other was stout an< strong in body, but idiotic and silent, Often: he wai;tempted to go awy-t< rush out into,the world, and leave th( ldplace tQo to the dogs, an h"U vomen to the workhou aensebdU ago, b en wife died and le husband, always re positively gloomy. His t seldom heard him speak, but one da when the little Ralph was about fi years old, his moody father said, it strange, stern way: "I'm going to sell the farm. Y two girls can live here in the old how and I will deposit money enough the bank to keep you and the boy u til I can send you some more, I shi go to Australia." \Huldah, the invalid, cried c piteously, but her brother paid heed; Hannah, the idiot, stared stoni .and spoke not. That day the farm and the miii pri lege on the little river were sold to large corporation that had been tryi for some time to buy it, in order erect a cotton mill there. Ralph Mydack came home ai packed his trunk, but his motio were unsteady, his face pale, and t fore night he wvas sick, very sick. There was little that two helpIe women could do for him: the far hands were dismissed, all but Jare who was to stay and take care of tl coh; dotr they sent him oft f, thedocor,but when he return< Rtalph Mydack was dead. Ten bitter years dragged slowly b; T he little money in the bank was soc exhausted, and partly on charity, par ly by the few vegetables neighbo: helped them raise in the garden patel - the two old women and the awkwar< sullen -boy lived ou. !! It was well known that a large su of m ore had been paid to Mr. M1 dekfohis farm. but the corporatic had failed almost immediately after, nothing was done about the cottc mills, and from the hour of the pa: ment, when the legal papers wec signed, all trace of the money di appeared as effectually as though had been dr'opped iato the sea< oblivion. Lawyers searched the old housi lookedI over the few papers and book that Mr. Mydack had evidently it tended to- take with him, searched h. wearing appareI and gave up in de 'Walr. Little Ralpir grew up a stout,health lad, and when he was fifteen he aske s:>me of the n.eighbors to help hir r.ig the old saw-mill anew, that h might saw logs and thus eke out hi V scanty support. Everybody felt kindly toward him and season after season, when th water was high, he would work nigh and day among the fragrant pine an hemlock logs, earning quite an inde pendence. It was here that Gertrude Kenden nis found him one day early in June He had seen her bright face abou there the year before, but had turne< away fro:n her pleasant words with moodiness that was almost rude. Fo what had his weary, toileome life i do with 'beauty or kind words? What, indeed? And yet she woul< not let him be. She went every da; ad wvatched, as by a resistless fascina tion, the pitiless, great saw tearing it siow way through the logs, makini them useful while seeming oaly to de s tor thera. He~ was twenty years old at last aut she was nine teen. She had been fussing about the 01< house, making gruel for Aunt Hualdah, and trying to coax a smile upon Aunt Hannah's stolid face, but really only waiting for R-.lph to return to the vil- i lage. He came in soon, and seeing her standing alone in the clean, poorly furnished room, he went straight to her and, taking both her hands in his, he said: "Now, Gertrude-Miss Kendennis -you really must not come here in this manner. People are talking of it down in the village. I heard it re marked upon to-day, and if your uncle t should hear of it he would send you to a nunnery and kill me outright." "Oh, you do not want me here!" she said trying to speak playfully, but with a little moan in her voice. "I do-I do," he answered, putting his arm about her, holding her close and touching her with a quick, caress ing motion. "God knows it is worse tban death to send you away, but, my darling, see the long, weary life stretching before me. See the work to be done here and you hovering like some bright bird just out of reach.' Could I drag you down to share this poor old nest? No, no, it would not be right. I have served duty too long to dare desert her now." "But you are so young," she mnr mured, leaning her face on his; shoulder; he could feel her breath i against his cheek. His heart beat so fast he thought it would strangle him, and that moment of rapture paid him for the suffering of years. "So young and so ambitions-and there is the invention down in the mill I am sure that is going to work well." "Ye-; but I have been to the village to-day for the last time trying to raise even fifty dollars to pay for the patent, and I cannot do it. Nobody has any faith in it: they think it is a boy's scheme, and I'm quite discouraged." "Oh. if I only had my money "Yes, but you have not, my darl ing; nor would I touch one penny of it if you had. No, you must go back to your own home and your own rela tives. I shal never marry, dear, but I shall cherish your memory as my one blessele-t gift. Now, don't feel! badly-don't." They wer both sobbing together by this time; she put her arm up around his neck, and their two tear wet faces nestled against each other i like t,:o grieved children. I Aunt Hannah put her white, flabby! .(face in at the door to say that dinner s ready, and seeing th- young peo -anding together there she start ryously and exclaimed: Ws sab-es! that's courtin', now ad as tbey neitl.. MVed n jiy anm?oan Ihe pered: "Ralphie, boy, to be married9" ,auntie," answeretl Gertrtide, "and we want your blessing." "But you want your money, too, ve don't you?" a "Yes, certainly; the marriage por tion," said Ralph, bitterly, brushing I the tears from his eyes and trying to .' face his lonely life once more. In "hen come upstair;," she laughed j out, in her queer, wild fashion. I"What does she mean?" asked Ger utrade, wonderingly.Ialiascr. "I do not know,"Rlpanwrd lv"I have not heard her speak so many -words at a time in ten years." * Beckoning them to fomlow her, she climbed the worn old stairs up, up to a the dusty garret, where broken chairs Sand long-idle spinning wheels made toup the furniture. dDown behind the big ch.imney crept the dart woman, and drew out a large, iloose bunidle of rags, in which wars e-islyly hidden rolls of strong parch iment. ssThey opened them there in the changeful light that flitted through the time-stained wind:ow. e There were $1000 in gold. The price of the farna lands. Not a great fortune, it is true, but a fabulous sum] for the young people who were brave fly and defiantly married ere long, to the great wonder of the village folks. And Rlalph's invention was thatI squeer new saw that has been winning jsuch notice in tha mechauical world these last few years. Oh, happy loved and lover! German 1U!ondes andu 1ro;'ttes. oThe German Anthropo!coical Soci n! ety has been collecting statistics rela -tive to the comparative frequency of athe blonde and brunette types and - their distribution throughout the t German Empire. The observations I were confined to school children, 6, 000,000J of whom have been examined. ,For purposes of classification only s those that had blue eyes and fair hair - and skin were counted as blondes, sand those whose eyes, hair and skin -were all dark as brunettes. All others (for example, children y with dark eyes and light hair or with Iblue eyes and dark hair and skin) were put in a third or " mixed" class.; eIn the Empire as a whole the blondes were found to numnber 3.. per cent., th2e brunettes 14 per cent. and the mixed types 54.2 per cent. In some districts the preponderance tof the blonde element was much mor' Imarked-especially in a part of the -Grand Duchy of Oidcnburg, whLere there were only 4 p2er cent. of pare -brunettes. The effect of the brunette Roman telement was marked distinctly .in t' southiern and southwestern parts'of the Empire. Near Worms and Speyer - one often sees faces which strongly Isuggest those of central Italy or R~om an statues and paintings. amnaDevico For asi Bread. A Western man has patented a warm-. ing device for raising bread, havings lamp set in the bottom of a casing. ' with a number of trays to carry the dough arranged in a tier in an upper compartmennt, the heat circulating around the trays andi passing off INDIAS AWFUL FAMINE. IARROWING SCENES AND INCIDENTS AMONG THE PERISHING NATIVESA 'he Western World Has Little Idea of the Suffering and Want Among the Lower Classes in Hindostan-Fed Dogs AVhile a Baby Starve-l. RS. HARRIETT TYTLER, widow of Colonel Robert C. Tytler, is selling her husband's famous collec ion in New York, in order to get aoney enough to permit her to re arn to India and open an orphanage or native children. Mrs. Tytler, iho is very charming, is the only vhite woman who passed unscathed brough the siege of Delhi and the In lian massacre at that place in 1857. "It is terrible the famine which tow prevails, following only three ,ears after a previous one. Even at he present moment there are forty iine millions of people suffering from ts effects, and before it is over that iumber will be doubled, if not treb ed." When asked the cause of tWe Indian amines she replied: "Native 'ndifference. The Rajahs md Nawabs spend millions upon heir personal gratifications and not yne penny toward irrigating their ter :itories so that the grow.ng grain may )e watered in times of drought. If ;he money they waste in luxury and lissipation were used for the buildlig f large reservoirs io hold the rain water such famines as this would be inlikely to occur. I"Zhe money which is wasted by the :ajahs and native dignitaries would b.nild canals, and turn those arid ,eserts into iraitful fields, which :old be made to yield at least a liv ing for the poor creatures who live .bout them. "Another cause of famine is the dis Eionesty of the native overseers. These men are given a certain amount of grain to be distributed among the poor in payment for their work in the ields. In times of famine grain is worth almost its weight in gold. Two large handfuls is the allowance for a day's labor. Instead of dipping the hands into the bag the grain is weighed out. The overseer adulter Ites it with sand,which is very heavy, and so the poor people get only a fraction of their due. The balance of the grain is kept by the overseer and sold for his own profit. "If money is sent to the mission ries they will see that it is used to feed these suflerers. The high caste -N*ves will do nothing for the poorer cla Parsees are the only one, hosii .kv "Starving mothers are , walkin -tkougli the streets to-day, with the] babies on their heads, cryin., 'Wh will buy? Who will buy?' These iu fants are sold for a mere trifle int life.long slavery. The mothers ar forced to sell by their poverty. "Just benre I left India I saw, sit ting outside one of the bazaars, starving native family, consisting C mot.her, father, son and da-zhtei They were emaciated .beyond descri tion, and1 seeiied too weak event raise their heads. An English gentle man tossed theum a rupee. At sight c it the woman started up, and then fe] and rolled into the roadway-dead Tue sight of the silver had killed hei "One day I found a poor starve< mother carrymng her child to the b: zaar to sell it. I( bought the child ani told the mother she might re main witi it. My next door neighbor was a1 EagJishman who had reveral dogs e was in his garden feeding his pap pies with milk. "I asked him if he would give me liitle of the milk for the starviun wom~nan. " N, e said, TI'e only enougl for my puppies.' "I took the woman home and di< for her and the baby as well as: could. A few months later the sami gentleman camne to see me one day The baby had grown~ fat and hand so me. "'How much will you take for th< b)aby?' he asked. "'You cannot have it at any price, I rep3lied. 'When it was starving yom would not deprive your puppies of: drop of nrilk to keep it alive, and nov you cannot have it.' "He was astonishcd, but repeated his offer. He wanteda healthy child, which might be trained to be a good house servant. "I could tell yon of scores of cases of starvation which have come under my observation, each more dreadful than the bthers. There is no remedy unless the native potentates will work with the Government in building a series of canals and reservoirs, thus establishing a system of irrigation, to be used during such famines as the present one promises to be. "All along the edges of the Govern ment canals, even in a long drought, the wheat and corn are green. By constant watching and watering these famines may be mitigated, though I hardly think they will ever be entirely done away with. By the way, did you ever hear the story of how the first corn came from India?" Going over to a glass case, in which were dozens of pottery lamps, and taking a small one in her hand, Mrs. Tytler said: "You know, of course, that when a man dies in India, many kinds of eat ables and other articles which might be uiseful to him iu the other world are placed in the tomb with him. A lamp sike this one is always put in. Upon one of these tombs being opened one day, many years ago, a lamp, maybe larger than this, was found. Upon being turnea upside down a kernel of orn dropped out. No one knew wvbat it was. It had been there For centuries. Some one planted it. En a little while a green sprig sprang 2p. On it was a small ear of corn. Phesn kernr.ls, in tun,n were nlanted. and then, when ripe, were. regianted, until there was a sufficient amc-ant of corn to distribute among .the peo ple. "In good yeaes there were two crops grown, so that you can readily under stand that it did not take long to grow quite a crop of corn."-New York Herald. - SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The London Electrician asys that the shell-factory of the Boers recently destroyed at Johannesburg was par t:ularly well equipped. All the ma chinery in the plant was driven by electric power, the machinery alone having cost $100,000. All organs of sense are stimulated by electricity, Dr. J. Mount Bleyer points out. In the retina it excites sensations of glare and dazzling, in thd ear it produces a pecua-: buzzing noise, in the fongue it gives a very characteristic metallio sensation, and in the nose it creates sneezing irrita tion and an odor of ammonia. The cold of liquid air has been proven by Messrs. A. and L. Lumiere to retard the action of light on a sen sitive plate, making it appear t1at the photographic action is a chemical rather than a physical effect, The re tarding is only temporary, however, the plate recovering its sensitiveness on removal from the cold, and images already impressed are no wIy affected. Professor Arthur Thompson, in Knowledge, deals .a the form of I skulls and brain capacity. The aver age weight of a man's brain is aboat fifty ounces, that of a woman about forty-five ounces. This difference be tween the sexes is less marked in sav age than in civilized races, and is ap parently explained by the fact that in the higher races more attention is paid to the education of the male-than the female, and consequently the brain is stimulated to increased growth. It has been reported to the Under Secretary of State for India that th* making of iron and steel in that coun try is entirely practicable owing to the large deposits of .iron ore which are found in Madras and Bengal, a plenti ful supply of native coal, and lime stone to be procured at small expense from Burmah. The. eap labor of India is also an importat considera tion, and if the plantswi ufficiently large and located n leutta it is believed that the ~ 'ould prove successful. A simple metho sting rid of snperfluous obsol !way. rolling Sstock hV' bee foundry in Michman, U 8 cars were recei r company. -The o D worth saving was t problem was 'to sep D I timber at swall cost. e were built, and two train released at the top of th - allowed to collide at the wreck was then burned I collected. - ExtrmetseofBao > An sloostf ique case - disease was1 investigated at lasi f sitting of the French Academy ol I Medicine. The patient is a younz . Roumanian, whose malady has been .been observed by Dr. Marinesco oi l'Bucharest. The most aurious mani~ - festation of his disease takes the shape l! of what is known among scientists at t I "mirror-writing," which means that the characters are v:ritten backward, so that when reflected ina mirror they -are to be read in the ordinary way. Dr. Marinesco had observed that the hands of his patient, when unoc Scupied, were aftcted with a nervous trembling which c3ased to a great ex tent when they were usedfor a definite purpose. Wishing to see what effet tthis symptom of the malady had on Sthe hand writing, Dr. Marinesco asked the patient to write a few lines from dictatipn; to his astonishment he (founfthamt the entire passage had been w ritten backward with absolute ac curacy. The experiment was repeated several times with exactly the same result, and it is, in fact, impossible for the patient to write otherwise. When asked to trace a word with his foot on the ground it, too, was found to be written backward. The patient beingf a Jew, a final experiment was made with Hebrew. This language, as is well known, is always wvritten backward. but the patient, reversing, as usual. te normal process, can only write it from left to right. Partial cases of mirror writing have been ob served before, but none in which The tendency was so .irresistible.-Pall Mall Gazette. The Letter "E." A thoughtless contemporary having assailed the letter "e," Editor Halsey, of the Tallahomian, in Tennessee, comes to the rescue as follo ws: "An exchange says 'e' is the most unfor tunate letter in the English alphabet, because it is never in cash, always in debt and never ont of danger. It for gets that the aforesaid letter is never in war, but always in peace. It is the beginning of existence, the com mencemnent of ease and the end of trouble. Without it there would be no water, no bread, no meat, no life,~ no gospel, no 'Jesus, no father,'no mother, brother, sister, home or heaven."-A. O. U. W. Messenger. Created a Big Sulphur Lake. In the western part ci* the Mexican State of M.ichoacan, near the Lake of Chapula, in the Gudrache' hacienda, an underground rumbling .was he'ard recently, followed by a strong detona tion, wvhich threw the population into a panic. Au immense column of smoke rose from a neighboring hill, which is famous for its sulphur springs. A. lake oI hot sulphur water formed on the platean of the hill. The lake is *NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Kerchiefs of Lawn and Lace. Drawn-thread work, hemstitching and lace insertious beautify the cob webby pocket handkerchiefs of the moment. Some have wreaths of raised embroidery, others with scalloped edges have prettily worked corners. Irish linen kerchiefs with fine peasant embroidery are extremely dainty, and initialled handkerchiefs with hem sLitched or lace borders are very fine and pretty. Fine scraps of softest mull, for the bride to cry in, are in serted and bordered with Valenciennes lace or have frills of Brussels or Irish point. I Several Irnteresting Adventures. Mrs. Laura Switchenberg, inspee tor-general of the hospital corps of the White Cross Society of America, can show a longer record of adventures during the last year than any other woman in this country. One of her most interesting trips was her visit to the Sulu group with the Commission ers of the United States to negotiate with the Sultan. Mrs. Swichenberg took with her to Manila many packagesfor the soldiers sent by their friends. She was sue cessful in delivering all the packages, even to the men on the firing line. She went into the trenches, after don ning an officer's rain coat, and was forced to keep moving so as to dodge the Maasers. The Well-Formed Woman. A well-formed woman of to-day weighs 145 pounds-a gain of twenty pounds over her grandmother. When the arms are extended a perfecty modelled woman should measure, from tip of the middle finger to tip of the other middle finger five feet six inches, or exactly her own height. From the thighs to the ground she should measure just what she meas ures from the same point to the top of the head. The knee should come-ex aetly midway between the thigh and the heel. A woman of the last gener ation took pride in a waist of eighteen inches, but to-day a woman is not con sidered well fcrmed if she has a waist measuring less than twenty-four inches and a bust less than thirty-six inches. New Dress Styles. Many skirts are almost covered with stitched bands of the material, piped with satin, and these bands occasion ally form a latticework round the skirt either at the hem or at the waist. The braiding on many of these gowns nderful, interblended with gray satin, ,covered with pail ,'nga embroidery of silver ver, s qit anew style of dinner gown. L:stiea' Hats Oft ira Church. The Oflicial Board of the Methodist Church in Mason City, Iowa, at a re cent meeting adopted these resoln 'Resolned, by the Official Board of the .lethodist Church, That it being in perfect harmony with movements ell over the cour.try, and that it is in strict conformity with customs and :with laws in some of the States in the I Union, therefore be it "Resolved, That the ladies of the Methodliet Church be encouraged in the removal of their hats during morning and evening services. That while we admire the artistic creations of the headgear of orr wives and sweethearts we will promise not to loose any of our love and affection for Ithem if they will unanimously grant Ithe requnest of this petition." These resolutions were read in the church on the following Sunday morn ing and every big hat was removed, much to the delight of the preacher and the male portion of the audienee. It is understood that a similar custom is to be adopted in the other churches in the city. _____ IIow to Wear a Doi.ted Veil. "Here is a now veil for you, Annie!" exnlaimed a well preserved ,good look-1 ing, middle aged woman to her niece, throwing her a filmy bit of the fash ionable gauze covered with occasional large spots, which are just pow so much in vogue. "Perhaps you can manage these coquettish dots, whiich' are so apt to slip, giving one an un natural scowl, knocking out a front tooth, or accentuating in a ridiculous manner the end of one's nose. Imust confess that at my age I object to running any risk of being made ridic ulous. "I bought this veil yesterday, think ing that with my white hair it would look quite chic. I put it carefully on before the glass, getting every spot in a becoming place, and then went to Mrs. A. 's luncheon. Of course, I bad to push up mny-veil to eat, and after ward pulled it down and thought no more about it. From the luncheon I went on to make some calls, and endea the afternoon by attending several 'at i homes.' Taking it all in all, I sawi about every one I knew. When I3 reached home I went up to the library fire, and, as I have a habit of doing, i I rested my foot on the fender to warm i it, and examined my appearance in I the mirror above the mantel, smilingf as I did so at somo remark of your cousin, who was in the room. Well, I i I assure you I started back in mo-| mentary fright! Not only was one tooth apparently gone, as I have saidt (the black spot giving the es:act sem b!aneof a hole), but another spot cov-| ;o that the result was to make me look juite crosseyed. The illusion was so Lpparent that when I turnedto Nelly, aying, tragically, 'Look at the -ffect A >f your "coquettish dots!"' she went 'J >J into shrieks of laughter, and ou i ny offering to give it to her she re- x 'nsed, saying that since I had shown ier the possible results she would not T lare to wear it. I thought it my duty p o warn -you, but perhaps you can c nanage to fasten it in the place it 1 ihould stay, in which case the bi lack dots will be really most becom 1ng."-New York Tribune. Gossip. S Ninety per cent. of American wonin c pend less than $50 a year for clota ng. A woman near New York raises and tells $1500 worth of goldfish anna ally. Mrs. Grant Allen, the widow of the iovelist, is about to open a bookshop n London. Qaeen Victoria's agt 's most shown a her handwriting. This has growa 1 rregular and at times almost illegible. The Czarina has taken up the type 0 writer, and owns a machine with gil led bars, the frame being set with pearls. The mother of former Senator In- -v Zalls, of Kansas, is in her 100th year. t She is bright and lively and in the t best of health. Her home is in Bos bon. Mrs. Lassiz, the former President I f Badeliffe College, is at work upon I a history of that institution, of which ihe was the head from the beginning p to a very short time ago. - There are complaints in Russian journals that many of the woman a physicians are willing to practise for uch -small pay that the profession is thereby injared and degraded. Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the Gover 0 noi of Kentucky, was in no way in timidated by the exciting times in Frankfort. She visited the soldiers s each day and carried to them baskets of cake and sweetmeats. Lady Emily Foley, of Engla'd, who b died recently in her ninetieth year, r had been a widow fifty-fo.ur years, s during which period she enjoyed her life interest in the property of her t husband, who died in 1816. a One of the streets on the campus n of Stanford University has been set t apart exclusively for fraternity houses. i1 Two fine society. buildings have al- p ready been put up, and plans have c been completed for three others. The difference in wages paid men and women for the same kind of work a has led the Ohio Legislature to pass i a law re. niring women to be a' he rai own families Tne head nurse is the gest sister of Joseph Pope, Un <ter Secretary of State. Another nurse is the daughter of Jaqge Forbes, of Halifax. Mrs. Catt, who has been elected President of the Woman's National Saffrage Association, was educated in Iowa, and took a special course in law. She was principal of the high selioo and General Superintendent of. Schools in Mason C'ty, Iowa, but of late years has devoted most of her time to the cause of suffrage. Fashion's Ful5 ,sud Faucicu.fo Soft vests of lace are arrangedfo the new boleros. Now come tucked and machine stitched spring and summer hats in straw, velvet and tulle. Silk and wool challies in a vast ar. r.ay of floral and fancy stripe effecti *1l be used for summer gowns. Velvet ribbons in black, white and violet promise to be popular as a gatr nitura for silky summer fabrics. A macked tendency toward drapery in gown'sof light fabrics, sach us lib. erty, satiierepe de chine, or thin wool goods. M. Black velvet dresses are being made with two bodices-one for day and one for evening-by the very best houses. They have short trains. Valenciennes lace is to be very pop-: ular for trimming summer gowns. Fringes will be a feature of many oS the handsomest costumes. Much of the white crepe de chine is being sequined with silver. the bodices being adorned with lace bo eros profusely bespangled with pail-ji lettes.- i Skirts still retain a certain amount I of tightness, but they have not such a I severely strained effect as of yore, while below the knees they float ont< with a great deal of froa-frou. New weaves in crepo de chine and I chion are now especialli creped for mourning uses. They are made up as c much as possible without solid foan. a dations, light taffetas in jet black be- i ing first choice. An imported clasp buckle shows two " enameled bulldog heads, with broad I collars of 'irilliants or colored stones. E nother novelty is an owl buckle of gold and enamel, with ruby eyes, the r >wl being perched on an enameled fi bwig.n One of the things which mag be at. P ached to the neck-chain or chatelaiine s a gold button-hook for gloves. The iew ones open and close like a pocket- t nile, and when handsomely engraved r studiled with jewels are 'ooth ale- 13 ant and costly. Apropos of foulards, the newest blue 3' or these fabrics, as well as for India " ilk, is the "royal marine." Having n it a shade more of green than the - 'roya blge," which was so popular F at season, it is said to be less trying i o the complexion. The second city in size of 'the Brit- C Beaufy of the Table. A table without a centre-piece or ny decoration is a sorry spectacle.</" 'here is scarcely anything lesa,ta . ag, unler-it - a arely served ?eal. Table decorations need not be a ensive. They nee' Aot represent a reat amount of wasted nerve power a the part of the mistress of the ease. Decorating a Doorway. A handsome doorway seen not long go had the actual frame covered ,noothly with a brocade pattern of retone before the portiere was hung i the usual way. The effect given ,as that of a deep recess. This ap lication of fabrics to woodwork is ecoming popular with the best dec rators. In this way alone is it pos ible to get satisfactory color effeOts, One Way to Bouan PbotgraphSI. A pretty conceit in the way of fram ig a numbor of small unmounted hotographs or blue prints is to tako panel-shaped piece of dark gray artridge paper and paste the edges f the pictures face downward on the ack. Arrange them irregularly, or i lines or groups as preferred. When ry turn over on the right side, and ith scissors or the fingers tear open le paper covering the face of the pic ire in irregular points, turning them ack after the manner of a calyx. retty effects are also obtained by nrning the points into rough edges ith a match. How to Economize Space. It is the little things which take up Lost room, and in a small house or partment floor space is atapremium. Book-shelves fastened over a couci ot only economize space, but look at active. Any carpenter can putthem p, and after they have been stained r enamelled you could wish for noth ig better. A box-couch in the dining-room may erve as the receptacle of table linen; 3 the library odd books and news apers may be stowed in it; in the edroom it serves as a shoe-box or a !pository for best bodices, dress kirts and lingerie. Where closets are scare a shelf fa mned at a convenient height for gowns ad hung with a cretonne curtain iakes a substitute. Hooks are fas mned to the under side -and the shelf enamelled. On top are books and hotographs, whichimislead the casua bserver. How to Serve Tea.I How shall the tea be made an erved when all is ready? The,_ s a simple busines/ and, like-V3. iimple thlings is' -The old r prove upool,. of the choice e spoonful mustbeinai hen the pot has been scalded with he contents of the- kettle,:the tea measured into the pot,. and about cupful of boiling water turned upon it, a cozy should be drawn overthe' pot during the five minutes that the herb must steep. Upon the cozy-any amount of dainty and elaborate nee diework may be expended.' Tho prime requisite is that it should-be well wadded. When brew has. stoo4 the required time, the teapot may be . C led from the boiling kettle, and the cups that cheer poured at once... The hostess may either inquire as to her guests' preferences in thie matter of cream and sugar and add theseto their cups, or allow them to qualify tlwir~ tea for themselves. The services of a waitress are notnecessar.yatafternoon tea after all that has been needed for it has been broughtin.-Harper's Ba .nedpes.' -Citron Cream-Make a 'custard o" one pint milk, the yolks of three eggs, one cup of sugar and one teaspoonful. of corn starch. When cold add one pint of cream, one-half cup inely chopped citron, the beaten whites of three eggs; tint a pale green and freeze. Bernaise Sauce-Stir in a saucepan over the fire until jellylike theyolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls each of tock and oil; take from the fire; add lowly half a tablespoonful of tarragon einegar, one chopped olive and half a ablespoonful each of finely chopped 'rsley and capers. Serve cold..' MaIsh Sticks-Make stiff cornmeal nush, season a pint with a saltspoon > pepper and half-teaspoonful of salt nat' pour into a mold. When coldcut~ to sticks one inch thick and six nches long, roll in melted butter, lace on tins and baire in oven until irown. These sticks are superior if aush is made with meat broth instead if water. Onion Bouillon-One cup each 'of inely chopped cracklings, onions and ooked dried apples or peaches, 'e-half cup rice, teaspoonful of salt d one-half teaspoon pepper. Bol a three pints of water until it can be ressed through a sieve; add if neces ary enough of any stock, mulk or ater to make five cupfuls. Beheat, tra and serve. Fish Puff-A delicious way of using. enants of cold cooked fish. Chop sh and mix with it an equal part of - iashed potato. Season with salt and epper and an ounce of melted butter. tir into it two well-beaten eggs. rm into a roll and place on buttered -'=~ n. Brush over with a beaten egg. oli in bread cruntos and ba'ke dnas alf hour in hot oven. Fruit Biscuits-Take five co1d bak - tg powder or soda biscuits, cut each to three slices and br.tter eachi slice.' lace bottom slice of each biscut'-in separats dish,'- pour "over it any/ .icy small 'fruit, bbiling hot: and ' > eetened. -Arrange the other'Isyers ternately with fruit, lastlyt pouring nit and juice over the top and.ground' ch. Serve hot or cold, .with or ithout cream.