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Show n rjwr,,aLmrM fu VL jSj-- w A jo and Interesting Way Entertain Your Friends the Spring Be Sure to Invite People Who Will Be Congenial and Are and Summer the wholesome fashion to go fine Prin d, picnicking be arranging Everybody seem to decide to give if but you pienics, r IS I of these Arcadian entertainments, the mistake of asking to not make friends to go on any expedition K interesting and important than a Z,d luncheon or a gypsv tramp vie word picnic i almostaoobao--J also in fashionable circles, and irti custom of driving out to aome and grasshopper infested 'pillar Sside to eat cold pie on the graaa gained any-Sturn without having ijcfot a slight attack of rheu-an- d touch of a iJfStion. 'J'he wood luncheon, to the new title, is a great tlii antiquated and dubious The wood 1'','rlieon" when SItiviiy !1i conducted, ia inexpensive and inald always prove profitable to Ulrrcme concerned. It is never without a definite object in Make that object whatever you or what the countryaide do not ask more than ten than six persons to join you. "jir,t and foremost, be sure, when jcling your company, to choose rtiierriil souls who are good walk-i- n Tick out from your acquaintances equal number of men and women, iiih a pleasant married couple amone are all strong of limb and them, who under-k- r wmi, and ready and willing to a walk of twelve, fourteen, eigh-- " in order n or even twenty mile You must m exploit aome hobby.. mt ak ynur friends to go walking -ill, you simply to satisfy an appetite for exercise, for the prime motive and itrenuoua entf this ertainment is to collect, or observe, or indulge in some favorite sport. sets forth with Every the arowrd purpose of indulging hi In sending out your her hobby. invitations, ask Miss Brown to go disdong with you for the purpose of covering new ferns or wild flowers, concr pursuing her investigations erning trees. Ask Mr. Jones to be one of your party that he may conthe ways of the wild birds in fer Ask a third which he is interested. person to enter the group of pilgrims because your route passes country mansions where Lafayette danced the George minuet and qnka where Washington took command of the Invite the pleasContinental forces. ant Thompsons because you know walkers, prime that they are first-rat- e companion! and delighted to have a chance to travel ten miles to an excellent trout atream. When you have got your company together, and have made it clear to ftem that every inch of the way ia to it walked, and that every member of fie party is obliged to play the part take aome i student along the way, among your opahle young man friends into your confidence and, with s map and a knowledge of the roads, Choose good lay out your itinerary. roads, but woodland roads when you can, and mark resting places at inter Personally Interesting green chiffon veils. All should carry (tout walking stick. The men will probably need no hint aa to their drrsi; a good golfing auit ia the correct costume for them to walk in. Ona woman should be deputed to carry a tube of cold cream, anothar third a powvinaigrette, der puff, and fourth a tiny packet of first aid to the injured appliance!. On the day appointed, it the expedition is to be a twelve-hou- r affair, the party should meet early. Aa tha head if the company, you should read aloud from the first page of the scribe's hook the itinerary, the avowed objects f tha expedition, and the duties of thoaa invested with the various iffice. Then should follow the names if those appointed to carry different articles, and a solemn request whether all agree to follow the route laid down and to complain no mort than they ?, well-defin- can help. After reading this rigamarole each ut individual may be requested to sign hia or her name, and then should follow a description of each tram per, written in a facetious vein. Finally, when the rompany sets forth, the leader can. with much ceremony, he presented with a small whistle or a tin horn. This is to be used to announce halts, to rouse the company to renewed action, to call straggler up into line, and to give the alarm when an automobile is heard or a meal i. Ei wood-lunch- er persons live almost MANY on vegetables during summer months and it is an excellent diet. But one Mst know how to cook vegetables Is makt them retain their nutriment Otherwise they are "flat, stale and unprofitable" as one finds them aa a rule ia restaurants, and aa they are pretty nrt to be if entrusted to the average servant to prepare. It ia a failing of most cooka to took vegetables until neither flavor or nutriment ia left in them. one Taka, for example, asparagus (f the most delicious and healthful of vegetables, with a fineness of flavor nsurpasaed. Nine times out of ten It is boiled till it is absolutely vapid, sad so watery and mushy that it haa o suggestion of its own flavor. Then there are cooks who have no amre sense than to untie a bunch of asparagus and scrape each stalk. That is just the way to spoil it. To prepare and cook asparagus in perfection, nrver untie the bunches. Ju-- t stand them bud end up in cold water deep enough, to cover them, and let the cold water run through the hunch from the faucet. Thia will remove all the dust and sand. When ready to cook the asparagus, put the bunch in a sauce pan with enough cold water, slightly salted, to rover it. Place the sauce pan over the fire and let the asparagus cook Fifteen minutes after the waIMitly ter begins to boil, lift the bum h carefully tram the water, and let it drain moment in a colander. Then lay it a hot platter on a folded napkin, tut the bands which bind the stalks nd slip them carefully from the bunch. Serve with a rich cream sauce a sauce Hollandaiae in a separate dish. If you wish H to serve the asparagus a salad, make a sauce vinai grrtte. which should also be served in rim rate dish. lien asparagus ia to be serve J to1!1, dr'ip it in cold water as soon as ! ts rooked. Then lift it out and put t on ice till ready to use. Green peas. Shell the peaa dnd Prk them over carefully but do not them. Iut them in a sauce pan. Just cover with cold water, to which add iitt'r salt, l et the peas cook gently till aoft to yield to the pressure of thumb and finger. Then, if there is nT water left, drain it off, set the uce pan hack on the fire, season Pi.atahljr with salt and pepper, and generous amount of butter in Then serve. Thia is the English style of cooking 'arrleij by the birds, vals ot tire miles. Discover beforehand every landmark of interest along the route you intend to pursue, and also the bits of good scenery and the legends of each locality, and appoint some sprightly maiden to study up all these points so that she may lighten the pilgrims way with lively talk. But these precautions for the amusements of your company are not alone sufficient. You must select for their comfort that one in the party who has a natural gift for outdoor cookery; give to another the business of playing the part of cooks first assistant and firrman; to yet another the business of receiving and adjusting all complaints; and last, but not least, pitch upon the pilgrims' scribe and historian, whose duty it will be to keep the mimics of the day. For this purpose you must buy a blank book, suplight but pood-sice- d ply with it a pencil or fountain pen, and impress upon the scribe that it ia his or her business not to loaf when the resting places are gained, but to sit down at once and call the roll, get down the temperature not only of the day, but of every walkers mind, and ;reen peas, tf the peas are not fresh-- y plucked from the garden add a little sugar to the water while they are cooking, as peas lose their sweetness very quickly after being taken from the vines. Lima beans should be cooked according to the same directions given for cooking peas; it is necessary to be them. very careful not to over-coo- k JULE DE RYTHER. THE MAID AND THE REVOLVER A travelling salesman of St. Louis in telling of his experience recently, remarked: 1 have always made H a practice to carry a revolver with me wherever I go. This gun I have toted all over the world in my travels." Here he displayed a revolver, big enough to scare the most enthusiastic burglar or highwayman into submission. "The most remarkable experience I ever had with it," ha continued, was In New York not long ago. I was standing at tha desk in the hotel talking to the clerk when somebody called down through the telephone and said that the chambermaid on my floor was ill. The clerk sent a boy up to see what the trouble was. He came back in a few minutes and said he thought Id better go up there. I went up to investigate. There, in a big chair, sat the chambermaid, and fanning her stood her associate mistress of the bedchambers. Wbala the matter here? asked the cleric , The fainting woman opened her I aint going to make up any eyes. bed with cannon in em I she exclaimed. and promptly fainted again. There on the bed lay this revolver which I had left under my pillow. After that I put the gun away where it would not menace the health of sensitive chambermaids. the condition of their muscle and appetite. Furthermore, it ia the scribe business briefly to record the incidents of every hour the jokes that were cracked, whether good, bad or indifferent the examples of insubordination or of exemplary aubmiaaion to rules, the amount of food eaten, the distance covered, the objects of inter BY ELEANOR LEXINGTON. founder of the Morton was Count Robert da He was half brother to William the Conqueror, by whose side he fought at the battle of Hastings. On the famous Bayeux tapestry, Robert ia represented as ona of tha council of William, and his name ia painted on the chancel ceiling of the old church of Dives, in Normandy, aa ona of the invading army. Ha became possessed of manors in nearly every county of England, about 800 in all, and was made Earl of Cornwall One estate was held by the yearly service of a clove gillyflower; another by the gift of a rose, presented every midsummer THE land He was at Leyden, Holland, with John Robinsons Company, and It was there that he married Juliana Carpenter, of Bath, England. This was on June aj, 161a. Eleven year latw, with hia wife and five children, he came to America in the "Anne." The year prrviosu Thomas Morton had eoma ever in the "Charity," with thirty servants and provisions of all sorts fit to stock a plantation. So delighted was he with the new coun "If try that he wrote to his friends, this land he not rich, then is the whole world poor. There are fowl in abundance; fish in multitude; on the green bought, millions of turtle doves, which sit pecking the full, ripe, pleasant grapes. The land to me seema paradise." lie kept ill the holidays which are the commcn inheritance of "Merrir England," ind set up the first Maypole in the new world a pine tree eighty feet high. The song which eve. A Morton at many times in Eng-fis- h history haa been the power be- hind the throne; particularly may this be said of John Morton, who was Lord Chancellor of England in uao. John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, was executor of the will of Edward IV. At the magnificent ceremony when Frince Henry was knighted and created Duke of York, Archbishop Morton sat alone with the King at the high table. Albert Morton was Secretary of Stale to James I., and Thomas Morton entertained Charlei I. and his suite at Durham in such princely style that one days entertainment cost 1,50a Richard Morton was to James II. In the literary world, the family have been bright and shining lights. Charles Morton, a great acholar, had the honor of being the second librarian of the British Museum. When it was established, in 1756, he was appointed keeper of the manuscripts, also secretary to the trustees. A few year afterwards he became librarian, an office which he held until his death. The "History of Richard III," assented to Sir Thomas More, was probably originally written in Latin by Archbishop Morton, who is menIn later tioned by More in "Utopia. times less classic literature ha come from the pens of Mortons. That was popular farce, "Box and Cox," Morwritten by the dramatist, John ton, son of Thomas Morton, also a famous farce writer, who had the d honor of being elected honorary member of the Garrick rarely-aceorde- 4 ic THE WORLD OWES MUCH TO THE MORTONS The Scramble of the Fickannlnlea. I saw an amusing thing not long ago while traveling through North Carolina," said the affable drummer. "The train stopped for water at a rear way station, and I went to the little of a found group platform and colored boy standing between the tracks in the mud and water. "Say, bosa, doan you want xs.ter sing fer yerf was the first question, and before I could protest they were in the midst of a typical coon aong. "I tossed a coin out to them and each lad got down on his hand and in knees, and even flat on his breat. . the mud, in his struggle for poses-ion. This was repeated two or three H1; times, and jut is the lad ing out, the smallesthiaand dirtiestat me Club. eye up in the crowd rolled The American line of Mortons bewith George Morton, who is deto time gin 10x1 it aint '"Say, bosa, as a merchant of York, Eng scribed scramble F" aome but declare thcy j drove in est aeen on the road and the investigations made by every member of the pseudo-scientifband. By this means an exact, and. if yon choose. a highly diverting record of the days (Kting can be kept,, and by thu dividiag the duties of the undertaking nobody la overtaxed, everybody ia amused, and each walker ia invested with somewhat more or less authority. Of course, the most important factor in the success of a gypsy tramp ia the wrather. When you decide to captain such an expedition, investigate the almanac, consult the local prophets, and fix your date with pious reference to the best authorities. Then take measures with a view to properly feeding your followers. Do not carry a great deal of food, take nothing away from home that must be returned, and make every fellow tramp carry a contribution to the table comforta. Let one woman carry the pepper and salt, another the thin wooden trencher plates, a third the small tin forks and knives which can be got for a dime, and a fourth the Japanese napkins and the big tin dipper or cup. On the bark of one of the men bind a basket filled with all the old they ran otaer direction. Almost all the records of the Plymouth colony and the united colonies were the work, or are in the handwriting, of Nathaniel Morton, who was secretary of the colony. One of his records is now in the possession of the Massachusetts Historical docSociety. It is a carefully-writte- n ument. At the first celebration of the landing of the pilgrims, Dccembrr 22, the third of the twelve toasts given at the banquet was "To the memory of that pious man and faithful historian, Mr. Secretary Morton. Another early ancestor in this country was the Puritan divine, Cha'lea Morton, who came over in 1686. It is said that the office of of Harvard waa cren deated for him. In the scription of the time, he waa "the soul of philosophy, the repository of all the arta and sciences, and of the graces, too." Under a charter creating a nobility Joseph Morton, who settled in South Carolina in 168a, was made a landgrave, and given about 50,000 acre of land in that State, and there ia a tradition that William Morton, the settler, or his sons, owned large tracts of land upon which portions of Washington, D. C., are now built. The first absolutely free public school in Amerira was established by John Morton. This was at Plymouth in 1671. He "erected and kept the school for the education of children and youth." In Colonial wars and in the Revolution, the Mortons proved themselves mighty men of valor; nearly every line can trace hark to a warlike ancestor, and "sons and "daughters thus eligibility to membership in patriotic societies. The aristocratic orthography "de Mortaigne las undergone various transitions before reaching Morton. There was Morteyn, Mertain, Mor-teiMoretoin, Moriton, Moretone, Moreton, and finally the only form now u ed M orton. In France the family is represented by the Marquis Morton de Chabrillon. The Morton arm are quarterly gules and ermine; in the dexter chief and sinister base, each, a goat's head rraed argent, attired, or. Creit, a goats head, argent, attired, or. nt high-flow- n, Morton LEFT-HANDE- Morton comoned for these festivities, ad a lyric form of wliic ha was also le author, were 1! e lirrt poetical effo in this country. To a Moon, or the wife of a Morton, mut be credited the f,r t This was The American nrel. Power of Sopathy. by Sarah, wife it of Pere Mrpm. of Plymouth, was publish! in 1789. Rober; Treat Paine call! her "the Amer'ian Sappho, at to be mentioned in her verse she 'tote an epic, "Beacon was to be Hill, and tber Poem immorteliaL PHILOSOPHY. D Ilabiti arc formed not made. What a great wrath a little aasa kindleth! -- my wives and my cmtiren.- It isnt always the tailor who makes the gentleman. Fertile brains are rot always the ones which produce the onget hair. int misunderstood she If a woman is pretty miserable until she makes someone think she ia. j uua condition. nicked and handlrag china cups you can find in your own kitchen or beg from your friends. Oblige another man to accept the burden of a strapped-ohasket of sandwiches, and distribute the weight of vmir buttle of coffee, ynur box of stuffed eggs, etc., among the remaining male memliers of the parly. If yours ia a company of fishing folk, and you propose to walk ten miles to a stream and lunch on its banks, then carry along a wire broiler w hich you can offer as a gift at the nearest farm house when luncheon ia over n , , to advise your women guests to wear short old skirts, stout old boots, shirt- dingy old gloves, snug-fittin- g goh caps or hats, smoked eye glasses and ELEVATORS IN SKYSCRAPERS "Few people realise Juit what the passenger traffic amounts to in a skyscraper's elevators," said the starter in New York's highest structure, the Park Row Building. "Our ten elevator take dp an average of forty thousand people in a day, lifting them to an average height of two hundred feet. The Broad Exchange Building, while not so high, takes up shout sixty thousand people in a day. and the American Tract SO' ciety Building average thirty thousand people. Thus the elevators of thee three building alone could carry three army corps in one day. It would take forty big transport to accommodate the passengers in the Park Row Building were they all to decide on a trip to Europe at once. If each person that goes up in the Broad Building in a day enlisted as a soldier, we should have as large an army as conquered the Philippine. "There are about one hundred skyscrapers in New York, and on an average each building's elevators lift ten thou-an- d people naily. Were they all to turn soldier, the army they would form, a million strong, nr a thousand regiments, should be able to wipe out the Russian and Japanese armies together. But it mut be remembered that many of thoe elevator passengers go up more than once in a day." Poetry Cornea Cheap in Palestine. An English tourist who recently visited Palestine was presented by the poet laureate of a Druse tribe with a poem he had composed in his honor. He hinted that it was worth a quarter of a "mejideh (about 25 cents). For that insignificant price he paid the following splendid compliments: Welcome to one who has visited ni, the dispeller of sorrow! To one who is gifted with intelligence and penetrating thought, who has illuminated wit and surpassed the lord of the ages, Our leader, the most high, to whom praise is due, and ot whom perfection is the attribute; Verily, the pure of heart has been encountered in the paths of God, the Exalted, the Sublime." How Barnum Got a Front Seat. Rev. Dr. Robert O'llyer. New York famous octogenarian preacher, is fond of telling this story: One Sunday morning shortly after I had entered the pulpit 1 got up and aid: I see in the Congregation a good way back a man who always gives me a good seat whenever I go to see him and his. I want to reciprocate his kindness. Let him come up front. "And when the congregation turned a one man to see who was making his way up the aisle they saw none other than P. T. Barnum." I CUMiiUf 11VU1 AlMRW M Ml ready. Thu prepared and eqn'ppfd, the expedition should go forward in a merry and spirited fashion The walkers should be allowed to pair ff to auit themselves. As often as not, the wood limrhAi.i A begin and ends in an afternoon. hall dozen or more friends will get together, walk five miles to a trout utresrn, catch and broil the fish on the bank, drink tea. and then tramp back by moonlight, or return by a longer route in an automobile or carriage that has been sent to meet them at an appointed spot. Very often there is no acknowledged host or hostess. A group of congenial friends will each rontrilntre something and swiltg around the country aide on a wild flower hunt or an historic landmark tramp, lunch sumptuously in the wond.and be home by nightfall with a diary full of accounts of wonderful escapes and daring adventures, written out by a fair srribe with a pretty tasta in fiction. One group of fashionable young men and women, under competent chapernnsge, prowled In thia wise through the New England farming region Jest spring ia apple blossom time. They made the frivolous etise that they were trying to find Already and two found a food imitation of that happy land by discovering the existence of a mutual and romantic attachment Thy tried to hide the fact from the acribe and other spies, but it was discovered and formally registered in the minute honlt as an EMILY HOLT. engagement The Optical Delusion of the Brooklyn Bridge One Of the world's seven wonders to the sailor i the Brooklyn Bridge. Turkish tailors tell of It in the Black Sea, and Finnish whalemen ,dicua it in the Arctic Ocean. It ia not as a wonderful feat of engineering alone that they regard it, but as one of the greatest optical delusions to le nirt with during a seafaring career. Nor is it less wonderful ill this respect to a landsman. A riiip comes in through the Nire d rows a big ship, with lofty rigging. After all the harbor regulations have been complied with, a tug take her in tow. It Is announced that she i going up East River, beyond the Bridge. Then the obi sailors, who have been there before, get out their pipes, lean over the railings and prepare for a long, comfortable smoke. Not so the strangers, especially foreigners. A they see the big structure before them, anticipating official commands, they gather no the necessary gear for lowering all the tops. One man starts aloft on each of tie four riggings. "Come down there," shout- - the mate, "get for'd, you men; let alone that gear." The men go for'd, a good deal surprised. Meanwhile the ship Is fat The pred approaching the bridge. continues the same, and the black arch is sweeping down. The men anxiously regard the topmasts, then cast apprehensive glances towards the apparently low hanging bridge. "What is the blame fool skipper trying to dor" growls an old English four-maste- salt Meanwhile the old timers are leaning against the bulwark, smoking and chuckling. What waa once kern anxiety to them is now a huge joke. The other sailors are gettirg bewil- piiarently the bridge will strike the .foremast just below tha crostrees. In alarm they hurry aft. as though to appeal to the pilot ana the officers, but those men are complacently tranquil r.n the poop. "Look out! Stand from under! yell one sailor. The bridge is apparently about to sweep through tha fore rigging, when suddenly it shoots upward and curses gracefully over the fore truck, fifty feet above. In a minute it is all over. The bridge drop again. It actually teems as if it had raided especially to allow this ship to pass. To the foreign ailors it seems a miracle, and they tell of it for the ret of their lives. WUttrafi. em I ftiaUMN -- |