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Show FOE WOMEN AXI) HOME STIFLED 4FTERNOON DRESS Fact. ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. Uresi Bona Gown Cara of the Honda IJow On Women ltoea Without o ilattioura The Important of Sic Hands Our Cooking fed ooL Afternoon Mj first Sweetheart. I must have been six when I met her. And she was a sweet miss of five; 1 stumbled aero tt'nne thev d set her To wait for her nurse to arrive. With modesty I thought unpleasant The lady could not be induced To deign to note I was present. Until I had been introduced. ta-k- But. one minute after, betaeen us Acquaintance had ripened so fast That could you who read this Wave seetl us. Youd said we'd been friends for year past. And cot alone friends, nay. but lovers; My heart went at once to And half an hour after our "movers Discovered us. aims clasped, asleep! llo-Pre- p; Then age came, and with it new faces; As grown-up- we s, drifted apart; I found in new aweathearts new graces; She gave to another her heart. p The of childhood is wedded. Her children may now read this rhyme; But firm on my mind is embedded Her picture first sweetheart of mine, Philadelphia American. Bo-Pee- Car of the Hands. woman who lias beautiful hands writes: "For my own use my stock In trad consists of two buffers an unnecessary extravagance I allow celluloid nail cleaner, carefully selected as regards its cleansing capabilities, one pair of bowed scissors for cutting the nails, a box of emery boards, a box of rosallne and a box of nail enamel. That Is sufficient for the best results, and is certainly simple. Never dry your hands after washing them In hot water without first cooling them off under the faucet. There is a theory that this whitens them; it certainly hardens them to exposure. If addicted to chopped hands, bathe them at night in lukewarm water, then rub them In a mixture of rose water and glycerine. Avoid the ordinary concoctions for beautifying the hatsd3. Do not oil your hands and then put on gloves for the night; thi3 only increases the tendency to chap. Neve r use a steel file on the nails. It thickens them and makes them coarse. Soak the tips of your fingers in hot water till the nail Is pliable this prevents breaking. With the bowed scissors cut carefully in the shape of an almond do not point them; then, with the fine sides of the emery board, file off any rough edges. With a cellc.'oid remove any dr, or Ivory coloration, and then spread thoroughly over each nail and well down into the quick a thick layer of the rosaline. Dip the nail in the powder and polish. Never cut the cuticle, but carefully loosen It from the quick with the This should be done every morning after the bath. With warm water and a brush remove the red paste entirely and then give a final polish. If there are hangnails. It is Letter to tear them off, not roughly, and though the finger may be sore for a day or two, it Is preferable to cutting, whih only inc. eases the growth. I always prepare a new buffer for polishing by spreading a thin coat of rosaline on its surface, then a layer of powder, and rubbing both well in. My pet buffer has been my constant companion for ten years, and in that time was worn out twice. To rejuvenate an old buffer, select a piece of chamois, taking care to avoid the thin spots, soak In water and stretch over the frame, pulling tightly, then bind In the grove with cord and tie firmly. Clip away the superfluous part, and you have a buffer as good as new. No one should neglect her hands it matters not how homely or they may be. Carefully tended hands are the cf the woman. Montreal Herald. A my-cel- cold-wat- nail-clean- er en hall-mar- k Simple well-groom- ed Careless. The average woman will pay great attention to the curves in her figure and the style of the neckbands she must wear, and the way to arrange her hair, and the fit of her gloves; but she will dose her face with cold water and bad soap, use powder carelessly, and then wonder why her 6kin is not lovely. I have known womens skins lo be positively grimy and they were unconscious of the fact. I have known their noses to be filled with black pecks which were nothing but dirt, and yet these women believed that cleanliness is next to godliness. They imply did not know how to take care of tbemselve. If a woman wants to keep her face In good condition, she wants to wash it once a day with iot water. Not so hot that it stings, for that scratches the skin. The 6oap may he 10 cents a cake, but she wants to know that it is pure. Nothing with turpentine or resin. Soaps with oil ire the best When she finishes with this she must rinse the face with clean warm water, not a mere dash, but a good, wholesome soaking. Then rinse with entirely cold water until every bit of the face tingles and the blood Is brought to the cheeks. Once a week he should steam her face. Company Dinners. SuesU, Por-toric- er nail-cleane- Writing on fa Making Company of Edward Bok, in the December r. A MINNESOTA Indicate th fcW. cleans' Willingness to Learn. The Portorkan is mentally acute. The children learn with surprising ease and quickness. Boys and girls eight and ten years of age will do a sum in long division on the board without showing the process; doing the multiplying and subtracting mentally, and only setting down the figures of the quotient, with the remainder. I have talked with men and women In the poor quarters of several cities and towns, have seen the peasant in the field and in the market place, and did not find one with slow wits or dense ignorance of ordinary affairs. A workingman told me of a class of laborers he had formed in Arecibo who studied at night to prepare themselves for the educational test required for the franchise. He said they made rapid progress in learning to read, says Hon. H. K. Carroll in the Forum. The fact of illiteracy is not due to lack of intelligence, but rather to lack of opportunity and the lack, also, of a stimulus. The peasant has not been able to see how he could improve his condition by education. The mercantile and the banking business were almost exclusively in the hands of the Peninsular Spaniards. It was next to impossible for a native to get a position of any kind in one of these houses. They preferred young men from Spain, relatives of they had them. These young men would begin at the lowest round of the ladder, sleep in the store, live In the most economical fashion and trust to experience and opportunity for advancement, which seldom failed to come. When the heads of the house returned to Spain with a competency, to live the rest of their days in Gracia, the newer part of Barcelona, the clerks succeed to the business. A who has a large and paying business in San Juan says it was with the greatest difficulty that he found a chance for himself with a Spanish firm. There was apparently no chance anywhere for the peasant. If by the greatest possible good luck he got steady work, and lived so as to save something, he was likely to be made the victim of some unprincipled, covetous neighbor, who had property and influence. When a poor man was compelled to part with his cow because he could not raise eight pesos to pay the alleged tax on her, and she became the property of a rogue at half price, peasants would say, What is the use? Better have no belongings; we will Bpend as we go. They saw nothing to be gained by stinting and starving themselves to educate their children. The system was against them; and government and wealth seemed in league to prevent them from rising. The high rate of illiteracy in Porto Rico is not due to the unwillingness or inability of the people to learn, or to their indifference, but to conditions from which they could not extricate themselves. TVtiii-- for young girl, of blue silk, trimmed with a darker shade and ribbon plique. Vest of tucked yellow silk. Ladies' Home Journal, considers it a curious fact that American housewives are so loath to believe that a dinner with fuss and feathers Is dreaded by the vast majority of people. The highest compliment we can possibly show a guest at dinner is to let him partake of an ordinary meal to let him come quietly in and be one of the family yet this Is the very compliment which we withhold from him. Instead of giving a guest what he would relish most, we give him what he really enjoys best. Let a hostess be ever so graceful and tactful, let there be years of experience on her shoulders, yet nothing ran conceal from her guests that the dinner which she is serving is other than an unusual one. It is a formal affair, and no amount of grace can make anything else of it. For nothing speaks so loudly nor so unerringly as a formal company dinner. Every course shows It; every movement of the waitress proclaims it; every piece of china fairly cries out the occasion. And of course no one at the table really enjoys it. The guest certainly does not, because he knows he is being made company of, and that feeling is always enough to offset every enjoyment. The hostess does not, for she hasnt the time. Her eyes are for the table and her servants; not for her guest. OUR COOKING SCHOOL. ap- an Apricot Paff Pudding. One pint flour, one and a half baking powder, pinch of saltf Make the above into a soft batter with A DISAPPOINTED REPORTER. a little milk. Put into cups a spoonful of batter, then a Sh Didn't Call on MUs Grace Iodg Again. couple of pieces of stewed apricots, A woman newspaper reporter, who is then another of batter. Steam three n now a author, once called hours and serve with apricot sauce. upon Miss Grace Dodge, the millionCream feandwlches. aire organizer and head of the New Make nice short pastry and roll out York Working Girls Clubs, who is also rather thin, and then eut three inches the author of A Bundle of Letters to long and one and inches wide, Busy Girls, says the Philadelphia and bake in a sharp oven. When done Post. The servant looked sympathetia light brown brush over with the yolk cally at the reporter, Invited ner into of an egg, cut lengthwise and spread the house, took away her wet rubbers raspberry jam to form a sandwich, and and shoes and brought dry ones, an put whipped cream, flavored with va- act which filled the visitors heart with nilla, and a teaspoonful of castor sugar joy. Then she brought a cup of tea and and white of an egg beaten to a froth some biscuit. After a long wait Miss on the top of cream. Are you a reporter?" Dodge came In. "Yes? she asked the newsgatherer. Compote of Date.. am I come should have A date compote is very sorry very you easily made. Stone the fruit (one pound will be up here this rainy day to see me. You sufficient for six) and put it in a know I never talk about my plans for we can have just as saucepan containing syrup made by publication, but nice a time talking about books and boiling together for three minutes one Wont you have another cup pictures. of one and cupful sugar pint of water. I am Cover closely and place over hot water of tea? Must you be going? or at the back of the fire, where it will very sorry. "Wait a minute and have keep very hot, but not boil, for an the coachman drive you to your office hour. Remove the dates to a dish or or your home. Come up some day when bowl, and boil down the syrup until we can have more time, and Ill tell He use Gown reduced Flavor with vanilla you all about the Working Girls Clubs, and pour it over the dates; serve very but of course you wont print any of it." The reporter rode home, but she cold with the whipped cream. didnt call again at feast, not on busiMapl Sugar Calr. ness. A delicious maple sugar cake that an old housekeeper makes takes one Heavy Calls Upon th Cnr's Furs. cupful of sugar, cupful of butNo sovereign is so rich as the czar, ter, cupful of milk, three eggs, and no sovereign has such heavy calls the whites of two removed. Add laatly Tte grand dukes one and a half cupfuls of flour, in upon his purse. Michael, Vladimir, Alexis, Serge and which one heaping teaspoonful of Paul Alexandrovitch, as the sons of baking powder has been stirred. It of Russia, receive from the emperors will make two long cakes. For the head of the house an annual sum of filling, take enough maple sugar to 185,000 roubles (26,200) each, which make a cupful when It has been to added means, makes them private melted on the stove, with as little and widows of wives rich. The very water as possible, and the whites of dukes receive 40,000 Russian grand the two eggs beaten stiff, with two sons 150,000 roubles each; their of powdered sugar. tablespoonfuls was Czar roubles. Alexander the It Pour the maple sugar on the eggs hot, who decreed that every member of III. and beat all together until cool enough the imperial family must spend a part to spread. Spread on one cake for fillof the year in Russia, or else lose a ing, place the other on it and frost with the remainder of the maple sugar third of his or her allowance. mixture. In a Trying Position. She (in affright) The fewer superlatives you inject Oh, Tom, why into your conversation the more at- do you make such awful faces at rae?" I cant help it, dear. of figured blue India silk, tucked tention people will pay to what you He (contritely) My eyeglasses are falling off and I yoke of corn color panne velvet; deep say. dont wsnt to let pj uf your hands. collar of white satin embroidered in "The holding of thoughts among blue. Stories. Is worse than useless." well-greas- well-know- one-ha- lf one-hal- f. one-ha- lf one-ha- lf FARMER I Docs Well In Western Canada. Virden, Man., Nov. 18, 1S99. Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada Sir; Thinking that my experience in Manitoba might be both useful and interesting to my in the United States who may be locking to Manitoba and the northwest with the intention of settling there, I have much pleasure in stating that through infellow-countrym- formation received from Mr. W. F. McCreary, immigration commissioner at Winnipeg, I was induced to visit Manitoba in February, 1893. When I called upon Mr. McCreary he spared no pains to give me ail the information, etc., in his possession, the result of which was that I came here with a letter of introduction from him to the secretary of the Virden Board of Trade. That gentleman provided me with a competent land guide, and, although there was considerable snow on the ground, I had no difficulty in selecting three homesteads for myself and sons. Having made the necessary homestead entries at the land office in Brandon, 1 returned to my home in Lyon county, Minnesota, and came back here in May following, accompanied by one of my boys, bringing with us two teams of horses, implements, etc. Our first work was to erect a temp rary shanty and stable, after which we broke and leveled sevcnty-te acres and put up thirty tons of Lay. I went back to Minnesota about July 20, leaving my son here. I returned in October, bringing my family with me. I found that the land we had acquired was of good quality, being a strong clay loam with clay subsoil. Last spring I sowed 100 acres in wheat and fifty acres in oats and barley. acres of this grain was (Seventy-fh- e sowed on plowed last My crop was thrashed in spring.) October, the result being over 2,700 bushels of grain in all. Wheat averaged fifteen bushels per acre and graded No. 1 hard, but that which was sown on land other than sod (go-bacwent twenty four and bushels per acre. To say that I am well pleased with the result of my first year's farming operations in Manitoba dees not adequately express my feelings, and I have no hesitation in advising those who are living in districts where land is high in price to come out here, if they are willing to do a fair amount of work. I am ten miles from Virden. which is a good market town, and nine miles from Hargrave, where there are two elevators. This summer I erected a dwelling house of native stone and of land adjoinbought a ing our homesteads, for which I paid a very moderate price. There are still some homesteads in this district, and land of fine quality can be purchased from the Canadian Pacific Railway company at $3.50 per acre on liberal terms. Good water is generally found at a depth of from fifteen to twenty feet. I have 175 acres ready for crop next year. The cost of living here is about the same as in southern Minnesota. Some commodities are higher and others lower In price, but the average is about the same. I remain, your obedient servant. (Signed.) JACOB REICHERT. -- h go-ba- k) one-ha- lf half-secti- Ancient Dead. Removal of human remains from the crypt of St. Georges church at Southwark, London, which is now in progress, is another instance of the gradual disturbing of the resting places of ancient dead. From many burial grounds in the heart of London these removals have taken place of late years as business encroached. For example, from St. Michael's, Wood street, has been taken the dust of those buried between 1559 and 1853 a period of 300 years. That takes one back to the days of Queen Bess, when her brave and reckless seadogs were laying the foundation of the British navy. Many of the dead removed must have been contemporaries of Shakespeare; many must have witnessed the execution of Charles I., experienced the horrors of civil war and been astounded at the court doings of the restoration. During the last ten years the remains of tens of thousands have been taken from London to Brockwood. Thousands were removed from St. Botolphs in 1893, large wooden cases being made to receive the crumbling caskets. Frtnknaii In the Horn. Youre an ignorant woman, Marla! Marla I dont know everything, John. John Umph! Some peoJohn dont know enough to know how little they do know. Maria Im surprised to hear you say that, John; I didnt think you were frank enough to make such an honest confession. Boston Courier. ple Tim and Distance Annihilated. lit keeping with its past unapproachable record, Union Pacific R. R., the Great Overland Route, will, on October loth, place in service an entirely new, strictly first-clas- s limited train to be known by the old familiar name of "The Overland Limited. This in addition to the present excellent schedule which will be continued. The NEW OVERLAND LIMITED will leave Salt Lake City dally at 11:45 a. m., Ogden 1:15 p. m., arrive Denver 9 a. m., Omaha 7:15 p. m., and Chicago 0:30 a. m., hi ample time for all eastern connection to New York, Boston, Washington, etc., and be the most handsomely equipped and fastest train ever given to the western people. A usual there will be no change of cars to Denver, Omaha and Chicago, and only one change to principal eastern cities. Further particulars at companys offloe, "Old Btand, 801 Main street. Salt Lake City. ' |