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Show im to wm the little child for the sake of Being Anna," exclaimed Antonia Saint Anna laughed. FOR WOMEN AND HOME : "Oh, shes net so small as all that, he replied. Saidie is eighteen and a great tall girl, but I call her my little I sister because she always has been my baby. She has been at Normal school and next season she will begin to teach.," Saidie cajue, and a rosebud of rare perfection she was a perfect type of blonde beauty, with a warm heart and a vivacity "7hich charmed all who met her. To her physical charms she added a character built on strongest foundations, for to this baby sister had Miss Anna given all the loving care and earnestness of thought all the building up of ideals that she had missed in her own girlhood and acquired in her hard battles with the world. The next time Antonio walked home with his "St. Anna" she insisted that he come In and see the "little sister." He came and they had a cup of tea, and Antonio, who was prepared to make himself agreeable for the sake of his patroness and friend, soon forgot all about her in the presence of the sparkling youth and beauty of Saidie. He came more often thin ever after that and sat in undisguised rapture and adoration at the feet of the younger girl. Nor was she less at--I tracted by the dark faced foreigner ' ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR AND MATRONS. MAIDS Tain of the Old Maid Many Homes Made Happier by the Old Whose Life lfas Been a SacriAce-Dulii- s A Effects in Furnishings. each spring for the reproduction af ancient Greek and Roman plays, says the London Daily.. Telegraph. What spot more Inspiring than that classic ground, little changed since', it was trod by the feet of Cicero and Virgil, and what surroundings more perfect for inspiration than the oaks under which these great men sat and the lake on which they floated? HOUSE GOWN VALUE OF OLD MAIDS. Certain lives seem destined to exercise the noblest and the most surprising withKINDER like the old songs, out adequate acknowledgment, says The songs I used to know In the dear old country the New York Evening Poet. The povillage. sition is anomolous; the inclination Of the dear old long ago. 3g g I kinder like the music of et aside is only known to the heart Ben Bolt, and other tunes which never permitted itself to speak They sang among the cedars Its sh aloud and the work would In the scented, amorous .rom its high level of human enJunes When the corn began' to deavor if performed in the light of tassel ; where it "could be praised of When the lazy summer age breeze men." Shook the perfume from In many a home, that woman of vathe flowers As it filtered through the trees, ried endowment, the maiden aunt, With the sunlight of the season her quiet role of unrecorded and plays where the grasses spread. dinting Where the roses fell in clusters. most valuable service, and her beneBlushing sweetly, deeply red ficiaries are scarcely aware of her sacAh. yes, I like the old songs. 3fs The kind they used to sing rifice of time or personal enjoyment, When life was like a primrose . or of the check she has to put to her 9$s Just bursting in the spring. Individual preferences or opinions in Somehow I like the old songs order to carry out the family rule, sfc Yes, The Maple on the Hill, Some Twenty rears Ago, Tom, which often she does not approve or And dear old Whippoorwill; with the sjs And soft black eyes. sympathize with. She is ever ready Starry Night for Ramble, And Coming Through the Rye, As Miss Anna watched them it all to take the helm when illness or abAnd other dear old melodies came to sence her as forces and not she the heads of the home to Of light weight gray cloth, with saw, They sung to you and I bands of gold embroidery done I old like a the Ah, yes. songs. through glass darkly, hut as in thq 7l?W It to other hands. The kind they used to sing on cloth. The folded glare of the morning light, how it all When life was like a primrose Bcr Charities. was and would be. She had built front Is of liberty satin In pale Just bursting in the spring. up If hasi an Independent Income, she these two, had given them sustenance this hades of tan and rose. Oh, how I love the old songs boy goes to college, and that girl I heard at mothers knee. from her own nature, had fed their reeives the musical education for The sweet, entrancing melodies souls and warmed their hearts, for which TENING FROCK She used to sing to me I she longs. .Too often, even in The dear old funny Frog song this very And could be thing. what Miss Mousie by his side grateful young hearts, no inquiry is 3$: better, she thought, than that these made And the song of Old Aunt Nancy, as to what might have come to two young things, full of life and love The old gray goose that died. And the songs about the foxes. and the sunshine of the present and her single, and in some, ways, lonely And the things the foxes stole Oh, the mellowing cadences! of the future, should love each life, had she used the money to grati- promise How they sting a fellows soul! other. Nothing, she told herself, noth- ty herself. She is dear and good and Ah, yes, I like the old songs, generous they fully understand that; kind they used to sing ing could be better. It was natural. but .The where she would have traveled, When life was like a It was right. Just bursting in the primrose what she would have taken delight In spring. As she stood in front of her glass New Orleans possessing books, pictures, a home he looked closely at herself, scanning which was her very own. In which to her features critically. express herself they do not think or "You thought you could be young dream of these. How could she be again?" she said, but you had more than she is? happier than ten years against you." Beside a sickbed she keeps her close She looked closely at her heavy and tender watch, and when the mothbrown hair and noting the few gray refreshed er, by sleep, made beneficial hairs about the temples she smiled a her by trust In the care which perfect little sadly to herself. She looked lovher own, returns to her ingly at Saidie, asleep on the bed, .nfl supplements post, she sees with unjealous eyes the said softly: with which the patient welcomes Joy "He is her Johnnie Morgan," and back the Never to be then with a weary sigh, jpfc, how glad the and yet gladly and He certainly was unusually hand- I am that Wellesley "needs another Her Johnnie Morgan. to fill all cheerfully the offices in some and he looked even teacher next yeal. younger than drawing which a brave many and If Saidie had been awake instead of woman he was for his face possessed a great serves her family, calls forth BY WILLIAM WENDHAM. she asleep might have seen above the the and ingenuousness of expressincerity very highest type of character and (Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) sion. The soft dark head of St. Anna, the ring of white eyes and olive His name was not Johnnie Morgan; skin were enhanced belongs light which crowned the head of this endeavor.to the noblest class of human Of pink crepe, embroidered in black, the by exceeding was Antonio But Pansada from thinness of the face it hunwith fine white tucked mousseline de (that day almost a year ago when she gry look in the eyee aand by the sole. Black velvet trimmings. hunger for spirfirst heard and saw him, a very dirty itual and DARING EFFECTS IN FURNISHINGS. as mental well as physiand very picturesque Italian violinist, cal "In my country cottage, said a food, which, from those shining CAN SHE DO IT AND LIVX. fiddling his way through the tightened dark eyes woman one day, I tried all sorts of y power-fifiland appealed directly One of the most dangerous and thrill.purse strings and into the hearts of all daring effects In furnishings. Those to this d woman. who heard him, she had christened that are pleasing after use I often ing feats ever attempted by a huof Knowing In an. the opening college Is scheduled to occur on him and to herself had called him he transplant with success to my city man being quietly put the man and the op25 "Johnnie Morgan." Almost a year It next, when Cora Beckwith, a home. For example, two or three sum- Sept. with portunity the result together, that was and to her the shortest year she the mers ago we rented a cottage In which slim English girl, who is now doing Italian, within a month, was givhad ever lived, for it seemed as if this the dining room was dull and dark, swimming feats in the Antonio had brought with him Into ing lessons to a class. And the class says the New York Evening Post. I exhibition, will, according to her own immediately from three to thirher life the blue sky and the sunshine grew got a pot of white paint, together with announcement, throw herself Into teen. of his own Italy. the. owner's consent, and painted the the Niagara river, at the head of the To his he owed patroness Miss Anna Gilbert was the teacher all, and woodwork, the chairs, and table white, Whirlpool rapids, in the firm belief of drawing and painting in the Girls never did he cease to pour out to her with the effect that the room became that she will emerge at the other end his He treated gratitude. her with the and well. College at Madisonville, and was more perceptibly brighter. If I could have aliveshe beloved than any teacher of the col- greatest reverence and when walking succeeds she will have If d changed the wall It would have been home with her or her meeting was never what coming done lege had ever been before. The title to her Btill. before, lighter duties he would hold open the (Which the girls had givn her, "Saint "My city dining room had long dis- says the New York Telegram. Swimor raise gate his as hat if were she a was Anna," truly deserved, for so princess. Then she tressed me because of its want of light ming experts declare she cannot make got Into the habit thickly did she sow the seeds of good- of and that autumn I boldly trans the trial and live. asking him to como in when he ness about her that had her harvest of Cora Beckwith says she can. formed it. The walls I had papered walked home with her of and thanks from poor struggling students a mairing In a striped white paper, painted the cup of tea in her little bachelor room, been wheat at the right time of the WIDOWS FLAG. woodwork white, and put a white lin.market it would have given her a which always seemed cosy and pleasIn if a woman is left a on oleum the floor.. Sumatra, The furniture was ant to them both, and had made his He is her Johnnie Morgan." princess' Income. too handsome to tamper with, for It widow, immediately after her husoverflow to "Mees Anna." She During her youth, for it must be thanks is in aint this her supreme hour of mahogany, in a simple colonial bands death she plants a flagstaff at confessed her youth was mostly be- discovered that he was saving almost design, but the white background eff- her door, upon which a flag is raised. hind her, she had worked and sacri- all his earnings toward a sum which iciently did the work of brightening So long as the flag remains untorn by ficed for her parents until their death, would enable him to bring over his room to the most delightfully the wind the etiquette of Sumatra forthe Clerer London Cabby, .and then she struggled for the educa-itlo-n old father and mother. bids her to marry, but at the first rent, cheerful point." A He poured out his music to Miss two London "cabby says that once r. of her younger brother and however tiny, she can lay aside her distinguished strangers hailed him Gilbert, as he did his troubles, with at Westminster and accept the first offer she weeds REVIVAL OF A ROMAN SCHEME. palace and bade him One gray October morning on her those foolish girls who will not work drive A great scheme, which at one time has. Womanhood. at top speed to Marlborough And to all his plans house. After way to work she had been struck by at ze lesson. a moment of recollection fired the imagination of the Romans, LEAGUE. and troubles she listened with sym- he was and then to allowed Wales and of the recognized now Prince is women The drop, of the Island of Crete pathy, as she always had done to any his friend the to about be revived a in An modified form. of have founded Belgium. a King of the students in whom she was takleague similar to that awkward attempt at an obeisance from Eleanora Duse, the actress, and which insituted at Athens a Lyslstrata Interest. But sympathy the box was ing special dAnnunzio famous and ,the a rebuked, for half writer, The promptly day. association has and friendliness In a womans heart were the moving spirits in a project the of restricting the luxury of object toward a man, when the man is young, the cabby settled down to his business to erect on the shores of the Lake of the women of Crete. Its handsome and manly, is going to grow of driving his royal guests as fast as members are a hansom may go in London streets. Albano, above Rome, a great tragic forbidden to wear Jewels or rich raiinto love as surely as the acorn which Dame Nature also planted is going to They stopped at Marlborough house theater, to be opened a few months ment Brussels Beige Independence. and it was time to pay. Well driven, grow into an oak. said the prince; "what do I cabby, One June day after he had walked THREE HEW HATS FOR FALL WEAR. owe you?" "Please, sir. I've already home with her she sat in her room e, and with many blushes faced it faced 'ad a sovereign and a arf in the replied cabby, bowing to the this fact that she loved the violinist. and the king of Belgium. Heres price The song was all. true: She loved her for the king of Belgium, then, said "Johnnie Morgan. And why not? she the prince, asked herself. Had she not worked handing the driver a sov"I dont count, you know. hard for others all her life and been ereign; faithful In all things? Was It not London on the Wane. right that the sunshine of love and come should London is rapidly losing its position Into her life. happiness She dreamed that night of a cottage as a port, for the absurd people confilled with the music of a violin; and trolling Its docks are behind never had she looked so radiant and the times., Grimsby andpitifully A picturesque Italian violinist. Hull are seizso young as she did the next day. ing all our trade. Liverpool and Souththe evident genius of the young Italian, "I had a letter this morning from ampton are fast beating London; and who. was playing his violin on the my little sister," she said to Antonio Rotterdam, Havre, Bordeaux, Bremen street. Always attracted by music he the next evening as he walked home and are Hamburg also benefiting. stopped to listen and was struck by with her. 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