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Show EM a if - f' V' rr il :&; mm 'fit at C3 Ltf V ISKjf r?; 9 K? & ,S.. I CM . 2Sij iSsi v 1 r :y A. . m AV T V7 1 if f ' WOKK mk8aaAJT. r.: JW, Wvi? V 'Made TpIlKASINl iv !si! 'Ll I OX.1 2b Gold. )WERED iREPE VVsJ-af fO Preacher Who Became an Artist's Model ev m The Latest Accessories - i ?j In v Woman Who Is Industrious With Embroidery Samplar Canvas, Crochet Needle and the Like -- Jm ' ! . . 1. r- E A J y. n i'h a ru L3 iA J j, n y. -- .j?. iffji wti vt g 'M ra ic ; The Wi fft u & Cream-colore- Irrrcc t-i- , 5ewihg little basket X IDIANTY nxi noUPlNG NARROW the corner boxes. The thread and other sewing equipments are placed in the little corner compartments and the large pieces of work occupy tht centre of the box. A much more elaborate box, made by a clever woman, would do either as a jewel or sewing box. It is of red plush and moire silk. Pieces of cardboard are covered with the material and then sewed or pasted together so that no stitches show except those joining the silk in the back. The outer dox is covered with moire and a thinner piece of cardboard, covered with plush, forms the inner lining. Velvet bars are sewed across to hold the spools in place. The back of the box and sides of the sliding shelves are of wood and are joined together by means of little brass hinges. Red paper leatherette is pasted to the bottom of these triangular shelves. A very narrow band is pnt inside the top of the box edge, ana the moire is drawn over this and velvet lining piece fitted inside. Black elastic cords hold the sewing implements to the back of the box inches. of the screen are by means of straps at each end is sewed to and front of other right; put on contrariwise. These take the place of The two sides fastened together of stitched cretonne, two of the screen. One strap the back of the left screen the is the hinges. Tne turned-u- p flap pocket on one side of that forms a the screen is of pasteboard covered with denim and having a denim back, and then held in place by a ribbon loop and bows. On the other side the screen is a This is merely a bit of drop shelf. hoard covered with denim, sewed to the back of the screen and having a strap of denim, tipped with a small brass ring that hangs over a little brass hook screwed to the wooden tide of the screen. When not in use, the ring is takrn off the hook and the shelf falls flat against the screen. The screen is fitted up with and needle cases, an emery and a button hag. Nothing is wanting to make it thoroughly useful and lid. ns work-ba- g cast by rich old brocade with a pink flowered The ground for the bag. one-balf baa is ten inches long, eleven and inches wide, and is made with a center piece in a curve. The curved piece is lined with thin pasteboard, and is eight inches wide and eight and three-quartinches It is bordered with a pretty r,ng2'mp. The sides of the bag are made long, straight piece, folded in jf Jalf and sewed to both sides. The flap of the bag is seven and one-ha- lf mche across and five and inches deep, and a thick silk rope between the silk lining of the bag and the brocade outer side, back jf the flap. This rope forms the handle to the bag. Another pleasing work bag has for bottom a flat Japanese basket tray rval shape with a turned-u- p edge. A hag ten inches deep and thirty inches wide is gathered to the inner of this edge, which is ten inches A deep png and seven inches wide. hem at the is followed by a band top ior the drawing strings, and pretty kffen flowered ribbons are used to match the pink and green and white mwered stripes in the crepe bag. A nrt of heavy flowered crepe is Iry. Ppu1ar now for making fancy work, It comes in pleasing effects nd er - one-quart- er a'-e- -; p just box covered with pink and crepe and fitted with our short, covered pieces in each cor-rThese have a triangular cover, iso covered with crepe, which are wed to form a lid and tipped with Mels on the points. Bows of pink r'tbon are sewed to the box between v- The curve of the box might be made from pasteboard or from the hoop of a wooden basket. The box has a wooden back outside the regular back, and to this the lid is fastened with hinges and the whole back covered with a band of moire. The fastening is made from a glove clasp. A dainty and useful article is a case for holding narrow ribbons, for which women have constant need. The case is made from four round pieces of pasteboard a little larger than the circle of a bolt of baby ribbon. Each circle is covered with fancy silk on one side and the rough edges fastened down on the opposite side. Two are sewed together with silk overseamed edges, allowing pins to run in between the circles of pasteboard. The other two pieces are treated in the same fashion and straps of ribbon are sewed to one side to hold the bodkin used in running the ribbon in underclothes. The bo ribbon is inserted between the two covers and a ribbon run through both covers and the bolt and tied in a bow on one side. Loops and bows of ribbon are used to hang up the Little button hags are made by takribbon ing a long strip of decorated and sewing each end up the ribbon for half its length. Drawing ribbons are run through the hems at the top and passed around the bags. These are easily and quickly replaced ce. soile'd. Plain little round wicker baskets are made into charming sewing baskets with a satin by filling the bottom covered cushion and hangingdecor-all round the sides small, round, ated cushions with bows of ribbons between them. Such a basket i made, sometimes, holds entirely for pins Each ofcushionand the pin, its own size and color middle one is filled with the common pins that are used daily. of Only a woman knows how muchand a comfort such a ornamental pin basket can prove, well-suppli- or US'' large-head- The box made of this crepe is rN THE fall of 189 before northern Luzon was taken by the L Americans, the smaller gunboats of the patroling squadron often came in dose to shore and raked the beach with rapid fire guns. The object was to frighten the nativea. After one of these sea attacks, the following article appeared in La the official insurgent organ: FIGHTING IN TIIE NORTH. Ai-- r- - - complete. An exceptionally handsome is given a quaint old-tim- e ifi, 5Ljyoveb wixGfcnEErt; ?Jr M RIBBONS For the Mikado's Sake UR Japanese papers are full these days of stories of Aoldiers devotion to the Emperor, said a Japanese merchant in New York, "but to my mind nothing so illustrates the depth of this feeling as an incident that occurred when I was a school boy of eight years. One spring day, as we were studying in the little school house in my native town, we were suddenly alarmed by the cry of flood and had barely time to make our way out of the building and flee to high land before the waters of the freshet were surging around the school house. While we were standing on a hillside watching the flood's progress, our teacher suddenly shouted The Emperor's picture!' The next instant he plunged into the swirling waters, and, though a poor swimmer, struck out for the school house, which, by this time, had been loosened from its foundations and was moving down the val-ley. We who were on the bank understood. Every school house in Japan has a large picture of the Emperor above the teacher's desk. This picture is held sacred and is kept covered with a purple cloth every day in the year except November 13, .the Emperor's birthday, when it is worshipped. It is the pride of a school never to permit harm to overtake the picture, and so we children, with our hearts in our mouths, followed our teacher as he pluckily breasted his way toward the school house. rAt last he reached it, vanished inside for a moment, reappeared with the picture rolled up and hastily but securely covered, plunged into the water, and struck out for the shore. After what seemed to us an eternity of time, he scrambled, exhausted, out of the water, with the picture safe And children that we and sound. were, we comprehended the heroic quality of his deed and cheered him heartily as he gained his breath. As I say, this to me, was a more heroic deed than any that the soldiers are now performing for the Emperor; for it was done not under the stress of wrought up patriotism, bur in a peaceful time, in the simple performance of duty. A Two-Side- d Flag. The strangest flag under which men ever fought is that of the Macedonian insurgents. It is red on one side and black on the other. The black side is inteaded to be symbolic of the iniquity of Turkish rule, and should the Macedonians ever or autonomy, the gin independence ould be changed. YOUNG Turk, who is a Yale graduate, tells of his early experience as a school teacher in Turkey. lie thus earned the money that brought him to this country. I was just sixteen, he says, "when went to Salonika to be examined. On account of my youth I found much difficulty in getting a bearing, but at last the day was set. I was ushered into the board room and found myself surrounded by old, men in snowy white tur-an- s, seated on divans against the walls. Some smoked cigarettes. Our first subject,' said the eldest and most venerable in a deep, solemn voice, will be geography.' An attendant nrolled a map of Europe. Where, said the first member of the board, 'is Turkey, and what is its capital? My answer was correct, and they nodded approval. 'Now,' he continued, what is the capital of Sweden? 'Stockholm,' I replied readily. 'Point to Switzerland on the ed mi did so. 'Mashallah! Msshallahr they NE of the best known models attempt to rail' at him, and when he among New York artists is poses for them, their conversation is niot circumspect man who was formerly a always This former preacher's daughter his Methodist preacher. also taken to posing, her specialties This man stepped right from the being her arms and hair. As with her pulpit into the studio. He was in father, her time is well occupied and charge of a small church in a Long Island village a number of years ago, when a man called at the parsonage and introduced himself in this fashion: the artist, of New am Mr. York City. 1 was up this way last Sunday and happened to stroll into your church. 1 am constantly on the lookout for good models, and I was at once struck with your fine head of gray hair and benign look. I want you to pose for a sketch. The preacher was flattered nothing so exciting had come into his life for years and he readily consented. Then, while the artist worked, the two talked and it came out that a good model could make good money. But not so much as I'm getting? queried the preacher, in hit naive way, and naming a few hundred dollars. deal more decidedly A great more, replied the artist. The preacher said no more until the artist nad closed his sketch book. Then he spoke. 1 have been thinking while fitting here, he said, "what I have often thought before that I have been a failure as a preacher. I've been ((reaching for over thirty years now, and have got no further than this. I'm tired tired of seeing my wife and daughter put up with hardship. You you say 1 could make more posing a great deal more? Then, perhaps, that was whit 1 was intended for, and 1 believe I'll try it. Try it he did, and since then he has been a favorite model of New York artists, his hair and expression being pronounced perfect of tneir kind. He also frequently poses in Philadelphia and Boston, ana his time is taken up far in advance. His income now is sufficient to enable him and hia family to live in a comfortable apartment on the upper west side, and "my wife no longer has to stint," he says. Ills work as a model has not caused him to sever all connection with his church, however. He not infrequently acts as supply, and during rests, while posing, ne almost invarianly occupies his mind by reading a small Bible that he carriea with him. He ii known a The Saint" at the studioa, but, aa every one recognizes in him a sincere man, not even the most ribald i ' Filipino War Journalism I two pieces, each frame made in the same manner. Two strips of wood are joined across the top and an inch from the bottom by two shorter strips of wood. The long and the short pieces are thirty-si- x ones about eighteen or nineteen inches There is another short piece long. set across the middle of each screen, which adds strength to the screen, and iho serves as a shelf for spools. Six long brass nails are- driven in a row along the top of each shelf, and spools oi any size fit over these. d cretonne, with a stripe of pink flowers and green foliage, is tacked to the frame with short, brass tacks. The pieces nf cretonne inches are thirty-tw- o A blue denim long and fifteen wide. pocket, gathered at the bottom and shirred below the hem at the top, is tacked to the upper part of each frame, and a deeper pocket is set in the bottom, on each side. The top pocket is a trifle over five inches deep and the bottom one a little over '1'iare . to wield is a sewing screen. The screen is in is cheap. 'M i mm embroidery silk, samplar canvas, crochet needles, or something, in their leisure hours. This fancy has inspired the ingenious woman to make all sorts 0 pretty bags and baskets in which to tuck her fancy work. The most novel thing in this line nine ' vj, i? & V v - VERY woman of wealth and leisure, a well as every woman of leisure without' wealth, is a needlewoman or pretends It is a fad for to be these days. to be industrious . rtv a Silk, women r . ex Wonderful! ile claimed together. knows, this beardless boy.' Next came history. 1 was asked to name all the sultans since Othoman I to Abdul Hamid. Fortunately, knew the first three sultans, then I went off into a jumble of names any that came to my head until suddenly I ended with Abdul Hamid Khan the Second. During my wild, historical the board sat passively ravings frowning. Lut as I ended they broke out into pleased ejaculations. 'Now comes arithmetic,' said the Ye shall ask you a diffpresident. icult problem, for which you may hive half an hour to work over. If a load of hay, weighing a thousand kilos, be sold for a piaster and a half a kilo, what is the price of the entire wagon load? Take your time with it.' They turned away and left me to myself. At the end of twenty min utes I submitted the answer, carefully marked out on paper. Mashallah! Very good. You are a great scholar!' they exclaimed Now read some veres from the Koran,' they commanded. I read for ten minutes, singing out The examiners closed the rhymes. their eyes in esthetic delight. I stopped. 'Go on, boy, you read beautifully. Rrad it over again.' I did. and they listened, nodding and sighing approval. Mashallah! Mashallah! was all they could say. And the certificate they gave me stated that I was most wonderful scholar, fitted to teach in any of the Sultaa'a schools. Yankee Fleet Attacks Northern Stronghold. aAgsin the Yankees have assaulted our defenseless coast towns, without the usual warnings demanded by international laW. amar poured a Yesterday the heavy fire into Bucay, bombarding the town for three hours. Our forces replied with a heavy rifle fire. What the damage to the enemy was could not be ascertained. At three oclock the battle raged hottest, but finally the enemy withdrew, repulsed. On our side we lost in killed one carabao, belonging to Citizen Jose Paredes. "Filipinos, behold the perfidy of 'he accursed Yankees. They fire upon our unfortified towns and slay our carabaos, and endanger the livea of our people. Who shall recompense Citizen Taredes for the loss of his ox? They, our vile traducera, are the real barbarians. Filipinos, rise and clefrnd your national honor! The time has come when you must show these Yankee invaders that life and property ia sacred yes, even carabaos. her income qmte satisfactory. Artists who know them say that their combined weekly income averages in the dollars. neighborhood of seventy-fiv- e On the Schoolship St Mary's A radically wrong impression prevails in many quarters regarding the work accomplished by the training ship St. Mary's, which is under the direction of the Department of Education of the City of New York. It was primarily established for the training of sailors, but in recent years, so great has been the advance in the work, that the school now turns out regularly fitted officers for minor positions of the merchant marine. Many successful officers of the service had their first training in the famous old ship, but there is an impression in certain quarters that the school is a reform school of some sort, and that there is some stigma attached to the boys who arc there. Commander Hanus, who has charge of tbe work of the ship, says that a woman came to him one day, bringing a boy of sixteen, who had said he wanted to enter the school. She im mediately began to cry, and it with tome difficulty that ha finally made her tell what the trouble was. Oh, dear! she exclaimed, what will hia little brothers think when they grow up and find that Charlie's in a reform school?" But the womans fears were groundless, for Charlie did not pass the required examination for admission. ''But, says Commander Hanus, the impression that the training ship St. Marys is a reform school should be corrected. We try to make good boys out of our students, but we don't take bad ones on board if we xnow it" The General Utility Consul. In those larger towns in Turkey where England is represented by a consul that official is looked upon at a sort of Court of Appeal by Christians. Armenians, Bulgarians, Mace donians and even Jews, who have probably never heard an English word spoken, will appeal to the British Consul when in difficulties, and he rarely refuses his kind offices. In ordinary cases hit unofficial backing of the giaours ia effective. THE MIGHTY ARMY OF THE SMITHS By ELEANOR LEXINGTON. IIE Smiths are lineal descendants of Noah's son Shem. Sbem, Shemit, Shmit, Smit, Smith it is quite simple. If, however, this derivation does not satisfy the critical reader, who prefers to dig for nominal roots, let him be told that literally it is sometimes tiresome to be too literal Smith means smiter one who smites or hammers. In olden days, when every bit of metal, copper, iron, silver or gold had to be hammered by mighty strokes into armor, tools and plate, there were many smiters. They were not men of brawn alone, but had to possess also skill and a ready brain. Some genius of computation has figured out that if all the men and boys in the world were enrolled, an army of seven million Smiths would be Allowing feminine among them. Smiths to be as numerous, the world has fourteen million Smiths, of whom there are i&xtfloo in the United States. In New York alone there are iififioo. Three thousand Smiths are employed by the United States Government. Nineteen Smiths die every day. As a matter of fact the whole family of Whites are masquerading undrr an assumed name. They belong to the noble army of Smiths, for the name White is derived, not from the Saxon hwit (albus), but from hwita a sharpener, an armorer. Add Whites to Smiths, and verily the family possesses the earth. If any one wants a neat diminutive. Smithett is the word. Then there are other forms to choose from Smeeth, which is peculiar to the county of Kent England; Smight, and Smeith. In the plural we have Smithes, Smithyes, Smythirs. In the compare tive degree, Smither, Smiters and Smythers; there is no Smithest. We also have the allied active forms, Smithen, Stnitham. aba Smithson and Smythson. Smijthe is another form. One John Smijtt was high sheriff of Essex in the time of Henry VIII. One Smith is not a very exact description, yet it occurs in Domesday Book. Some members of tke Smith family would take us farther back even than Domesday Book, to prove the antiquity of the name. They would have us believe that among the cartouches on the temple of Osiris, in Egypt, is the name of Pharaoh Smithosis; and that he was the founder of the celebrated temple of Smithopolis Magna. This statement the reader may take for fact or fancy, as the spirit moves him. Another bit of Smilniana ia that the Phrygian Apollo was railed Smin theus. This discovery is the result of profound research. Some one has unkindly said that, John being the commonest of ChriM-lanames, John Smith is really no name at all. To confound this scoffer, ri 7 Vs Vs over in 1638, and John Smith the first and original John who settled in Boston in the same year. Two years previous Henry Smith, with his wife, three sons and two daughters, three men servants and two maid servants, settled in New Hampshire, and William Smith, a Quaker from Yorkshire, England, came to Philadelphia in 1684. One of the earliest charts of the New Hampshire coast was made by the first Admiral of New England, Captain John Smith. No truer patriot ever lived than Major Simeon Smith, who was always first at the post of danger. Ife was among the foremost of that gallant little band of eighteen who flew to Sionington upon the bombardment of that town, and there fought with indomitable courage. The Rev. Cotton Mather Smith, of Sharon, Connecticut, volunteered as chaplain to the Fourth Connecticut Regiment. A graphic scene in the Sharon meeting house is described by his wife. Before the close of the last hymn a messenger, with jingling spurs, strode down the aisle and up the high pulpit stairs, and spoke to my husband, who proclaimed in dear, ringing tones that the die had been cast; that blood had been shed, and there was no longer any choice between war and slavery. Asael Smith, who served during the Revolution, and whose home was in Topsfield, Massachusetts was something of a wag. Instead of swearing off nia taxes he took them in good part apparently and even "dropped into poetry, inspired by the theme: Mjr land is acres eighty-twWhich larch the Record you'll find Vy o. true; And this is all T have in store, thank you if you'll tax no more. Smith is often a very convenient alias. When Louis Philippe found himself in a snug hotel at Newhaven. after abdicating his throne and when fleeing for his life, he asked the name of his landlady. Mrs. Smith? Eh hien, I think I have heard that name before! He had, for it was the very alias he had adopted, and William Smith was written upon the passport he had at that moment in his pocket. One Smith coat of arms displays two martlets in chief and one in base. Crest, a sword crossed by a pen. Motto, Mea Spes Est In Deo (My e is in God"). Semper Fidelis (Always faithful") is a motto used by some branches of the family. 111 Smttfy the following list has been ?s pared: ohanus In Latin, "John Smith Smithius; in Italian, Giovanni Smithi, or Fabbroni; in Spanish, Juan Smithaa; in Dutch, Hans Schmiths or Schmidt, or Schmitees; in French, Jean Smeets; in Greek. Ion Skmiton; in Polish, Ivan Schmittiweiki; in Welsh, Iihen Schmidd; in Scotch, Jean Gowans: in Russian, Jouloff Skmittowski; in Chinese Jahon Shim-mi- t; in Icelandic, Jahne Smithson; in Mexican, Jontli F'Smith; in Tusca-rorTon Qu Smittia. Among early settlers in this country were Robert Smith, who came a. |