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Show Of Merest to . tad f Readers OUT-DOOR GOWNS WILL BE GAY. i ' Jlany Are the Old Fashions Revived in the Dresses For the Coming Season Miss Edith Moton's Trousseau Glace Silks Will be j Much Worn With Elaborate Ruf- t fles of Chiffon and Lace Pretty Things in Cheaper Fabrics. (Special to the Tntermountain Catholic.) . Paris, April 5. Since the Prince of i , Wales hag adopted the new fad of dining din-ing informally, with London's smart set, at the fashionable hotels, there have been many requests for dinner gowns in which to meet the prince. They muH be informal, yet elegant, " rich, but not startling, and must be as drei-ey as it is possible for a high-; high-; necked and long sleeved dinner gown t to be. A gown was sent from Paris to Mrs. Arthur Keppel, that great London beauty who was the ensation of the last spring'? drawing rooms. It consisted con-sisted of a white net, sprigged with the : tiniest heather; it was built over a satin Mriped white silk, and was arranged with curving flounce of pink chiffon ; around the foot. The bodice was tucked over white satin and around the t neck there wa.s a cerise band over i , which was to be worn a diamond dog collar necklace. The belt wao a pointed point-ed one of cerise. The most charming little dinner coats - are fashioned of glace cerise silk, bor dered with a narrow band of ermine or t table, or even of chiffon ruching, which answers the purpose nicely. These little lit-tle euats are cut upon Eton lines without with-out lapels, the front being cut away to ' t how the vest of the gown. Charming little loouet?, yet well back upon the head and made of the same bright color and material as the jacket, are 1 worn, and there are many trifles in silk and velvet to correspond with the hat and coat. Fan ribbons, long abandoned, are coming back, and another returning fashion is that of wearing bands of velvet around the vrists. But alas for the simplicity of the decoration, thee. bands are to studded with gems that their cost exceeds that of precious metal. Since the raiding of money for South Africa hae. become the fashionable pas- lime to the exclusion of all others, it - has grown the fancy to wear a ribbon around the waist, to which is attached a bunch of keys. Lady Randolph Churchill, with a narrow watered silk ribbon around her waiit, from which dangled c ertain keys of the store rooms of the hospital hip Maine, took lun?h-enn lun?h-enn with the Princosis of Wales, who wore a beautifully jeweled key which opened the door of a royal bazar for the sending of supplies which were bought and shipped to the invalids of the Cace. FASHION'S FADS. Other little summer fads will include the slipper fastened with an elastic band which is twisted around the ankle, with bow attached to the front. Thete make tha ankles look elender. and are greedily taken up as a pretty possi- i bility of an old fashion revived. A dress for summer, if you would , have one modeled upon the favorite Parisian lines, is of glace silk, in brightest bright-est blue. The blue is made all the more brilliant by the addition of silver pail-rttes, pail-rttes, which sparkle from the belt, the neck and the yoke, and are again seen at the head of the llounces which are put on in a curious pattern around the foot of the skirt. This gown is for J pia.zza wear of an afternoon, or. if ' made upon expensive lines, with neck cut in point or square, is for evening. The new neck is decidedly pointed, find is for wear in street and house. Many couturieres are cuting the summer sum-mer net dresses with elbow sleeves and pointed necks. The necks can be filled in with vests and berthes. and the sleeves can be lengthened by gloves. They are alo making the lace sleeve to be worn under the elbow sleeve. The lace sleeve is gathered along both Foams, so that it is a s-hirred sleeve. If made of chiffon, the sleeve is shirred very thjckly, so as to require no lining. lin-ing. Summer skirt trimmings are varied, yet all skirts show something around the foot. If a ruffle is employed, it varies in width, from narrow to wide; if applique, it is put on in diamonds or circles, and. between the figures, there are the most elaborate bits of sequin ; or paiiette trimming. j Skirts have suddenly taken a leap j Into the vtrv midst of fashion's f uss- I and feathers. The plain skirt could once be worn with any. fancy waist, the elegance of the toilette depending upon the bodice alone. Hut now it is differ- ent; and the shops are fified with hand- j tome separate skirts which are to be j worn with plain wai3ts and little Etons. j I THE SILK SKIRT. The glace silk skirt i6 made most elaborately, with deep ruffles of chiffon put on over colored silk, the top of the deep ruffles being caught down by tiny runches of silk flowers. The skirts so treated are no longer tight, but show a tendency toward the umbrella, which Hares all the way around. In summer fabrics skirt are flowered end sprigged and made over a foundation founda-tion skirt of gay color. At first hint of spring all the gay -.or!J of Paris rushes off to the country coun-try places. Pack from the Riviera in ti e early part of March, or the )ajt of P'bruary, they remain at home only ir-.z enough to order fresh gowns and bwiy aeain to the country. "re 'Jay -the fashionable houses that r'-e the" beautiful vistas which open tv..ird the Arc de Triumph are aglow j v. ;;h flowers; the next day ihey are j f s-l. while the gay occupants have f :u-. All the country houses are t:.-"n open for a fortnight in eariy t; r:ii2, and house parties are numerous. .-' : the American triumph of the f " tens Castellane. her little ladyship I ''! been a recognized leader. She if i. "i pretty, but very chic. An er.rly fcf vinic gown worn not long ago -vas of (ii.ije taffeta sprigged in steel blue. : The underskirt had a three-inch flounce : b'Tdered around the top with a band rf blue velvet appiiqued with cut steel. The tunic had a long narrow point in I f'. ont, bordered with a narrow band of i vilvti: and round the sides and lack there were three very deep ruffles, put riii in an entirely new style, the ruffles J of varying width, growing wider to-r to-r ward the middle of the back. I Th waist was similarly unique v-jth the front cut in a Grecian square ever I h vest and sleeves of white mull em- oroidered in dalicate pink flowers. A Turkish tunic, very deep, confined the 5 waist. ; A picture hat, hfted at one side to f display a blue flower garden which f matched the blue of the outside, was pet jauntily back upon her brunette ? head. MISS MORTON'S GOWNS. A modiste showed me the order for a handsome American trousseau that she whispered was for Miss Morton, daugh- ter of Levi P. Morton, who is to be married this spring. The order gave her carte blanche to produce the hand- romest Newport gowns that could be selected for summer and autumn wear. One of the gowns already decided upon, and nearly completed, was a banana ba-nana colored silg-faced challie ap- .: .!..- very narrow leaf e?n satin ribbon, scarcely wider than a cording. The gown was in two parts, a princess falling from neck to floor, and a princess tunic open in front. The slip was made of cream colored mull, with a deep flounce of the challie around the foot. The tunic met at the neck and again at the waist with a diamond shaped opening oyer the bust. The new summer gowns are .o different differ-ent from those of preceding seasDnsj that ona looks at them with wonder, and, sometimes, with awe. The models are preposterously extravagant, and your fashion chronicler hesitates about describing them because they are so far above the moderate or average purse. On the other hand, they furnish puree. On the other hand, they serve the purpose for which they are intended, intend-ed, of conveying the advance styles, and nearly all of them are capable of being imitated in cheaper designs. A gown which the courtiers told me was for Mrs. George Law, the American beauty, was of the new Persian Per-sian taffeta,' combined with satin- striped silk put together in a ino?t novel way. The waist, which fastened in the back, had a square sailor collar of Point de Paris lace, of rather fine iual-ity. iual-ity. over emerald satin, and this furnished fur-nished the keynote for the tolitte, which was in pale cerise and light emerald. em-erald. A very tasteful little American pinger who adds to her income by singing at fashionable afternoons, and who has become quite the vogue, wore a gown of primrose pink net over a skirt of primrose pink imitation silk, which she had tastefully dotted with the tiniest tufts of black ribbon. The whole was cheap and effective. Some of the advance summer gowns are worthy of mention. One was a pistache green figured crepe, trimmed with white and black striped silk. It was made with a tunic opening in front over the striped silk. Another was a royal blue and white foulard, trimmed with white chi:Ton. The foulard was in a princess tunic or made of gingham, striped with pink 6atin, with yoke of white lawn. A pale old rose challie was covered with violet dots. It had a white lace yoke over white satin. There was a heading with pale violet ribbon run through. An ecru foulard was printed with a green vine and trimmed with black ribbons. There was a plain ecru polonaise, opening over a Princess slip. A summer dress for a. little girl was blouse and foot ruffle of the same. (jainerea nonon iormeu a tnmming tor the tunic and there was a plain white ribbon belt. An Eastern suggestion which fills the proverbial "long-felt want," is that of a really secure andhandy case for embroidery em-broidery silk. This little case is simply made. A piece of ribbon, live inches wide and three-eighths of a yard long, that is, thirteen, and a half inches is the starting )Kint. The ends of this ribbon should be turned over and feather feath-er stitched across, leaving room in the hem to slip in a stiff whalebone. These whalebones should be just a shade shorter than the width of the ribbon, and when they are in place in the hems, the hems should be overhanded. The decorations on one side of the little lit-tle bag may be either embroidered or painted, and when that is complete the two sides may be overhanded together, stopping, however, just below the line of feather stitching. A narrow ribbon caught at each of the upper corners, with a bow at the top, is convenient to hang the bag at one's side while working, work-ing, and the bag has the merit of being always securely closed by the spring of the 'Whalebones. An addition, which makes the gift more complete, is that of half a dozen pieces of celluloid board cut as one does a visiting card for the same purpose, for winding one's silks, with a tiny slit for securing the end of the skein. THE GIRL WITH A TEMPER. An exchange has lately published an article on "The Girl With a Temper," which contains some excellent advice and will bear repetition. . "When a daughter not only begins to fchow decided signs of temper, but is inclined in-clined to boast that 'I am not one of your namby pamby girls who cannot stand up for her rights, it is time to convince her of her folly, or she will I reap lasting discomfort later, j "If the woman with an unrestrained I temper is young and beautiful, much 1 may be forgiven her.. In her amiable moments she is so charming that the words uttered in her unreasonable anger an-ger are almost forgotten, and ihe chances are that she will plunge some man into lifelong misery because the habit of tempestuous fits, if not firmly checked in time, will strengthen with the vears. "If the woman with a temper be plain in person, she will render life very dreadful for herself, but not necessarily so for many other people. Her ielatives and friends will learn in time to .shut her out from their intimate counsels to form a life for themselves from which they will force her to recede by j degrees, and, in the end, to stand alone, i I "The woman with a temper is seiaom well educated. She has not the concentration concen-tration and calm of mind which lead to the acquisition of knowledge. She may poeivss a share of accomplishments, may be a little musical, a little artistic, may pass muster among the superfic- ' ial. but the chances ere against her possessing the restful knowledge that comce-of thoroughness. "Then beware of the girl who boasts of her 'spirit' if you would later avoid the companionship of that very undesirable unde-sirable personage, the 'woman with a temper.' " CHOOSING YOUR COLORS. You must not select the colors of your dress in a shop firstly, because it is too public a place, and, secondly, because be-cause a shop has not the broad light required to make your selection. Let us take the first objection. Why not choose your material in a public place? Simply because the color of the dre-ss, not depending upon itself, but 1 upon the effect it has on your rom-plexion, rom-plexion, can only be chosen in a perfect per-fect light. It must be tried before a glass in a full light, bringing the various var-ious colors to the face, so as to see which is the most becoming. It would not only be disagreeable but ridiculous to make a spectacle of yourself your-self thus in public. Send either for large patterns or pieces on approval to your home and have a little experimen-tal experimen-tal trial in the manner I have recommended. recom-mended. This will enable you to take the opinion of your husband and thua avoid the inconvenience which fo many women experience that of hearing her husband cry out whenever she appears in a dre.i.-'. "What a pity the color is so unbecoming!" This will continue until the dress is worn out, for the more a husband cares for his wife the more he likes to Fee her well dressed and consequently the more this involuntary cry is likely to escape from his lips. The light must be extremely good for such a trial as this. Naturally the effect ef-fect that the proximity of certain colors col-ors produces on the complexion differs only by shades. Of course the most un becoming- color will not transform a white woman into a negrese. But one dress will give you a fresh complexion, a healthy complexion, whereas another will have an exactly contrary effect. A half light will not enable you to discriminate. dis-criminate. , " HOW TO BREW A CUP OF TEA. The Secret of the Peculiar Flavor and Aroma as Produced By the Orientals. Orien-tals. (By WU Tine Vane. Chines Minister.) These are the rules for making a cup of tea, as laid down by Wu Ting Pang, the Chinese Minister, to a woman reporter re-porter who recently called upon him to ask him a few important questions on tea making. "To get down to the basic principles of tea-brewing and tea-drinking as it is done in China you must realize that at home we do not drink tea on Stated occasions, or only at meals, as you do here. With us tea is the national na-tional beverage. "I might almost say, speaking to an American, that tea is the ice water of China. Instead of the silver water-cooler, water-cooler, which constitutes an almost invariable in-variable ornament of your dining rooms, you will find everywhere in China the teapot. Whenever we are thirsty we have recourse to the teapot instead of the cooler. "Let us first consider the teapot itself. it-self. It is invariably of porcelain and varies in style, cost and dimensions in accordance with the taste, wealth and size of the family possessing it. It is, as you say, constantly 'in commission.' In the morning a sufficient quantity of the dry tea leaves is placed in it and on this is poured hot water. Let this infusion stand for a few minutes say four or five and you have what we. I think rightly, regard as a drink fit for the gods. "It is always ready. Whenever the pot needs replenishing all we have to do is to acM a little more tea and a little more water. There ia no hard and fast rule as to the proportions of tea and water or as to the character of tha tea itself. It is all a matter of individual individ-ual taste. We use black or green tea, and have it either weak or strong, jut as our tastes direct. "We never drink it boiling hot. as is dona in America and England, but at a moderate degree of warmth. To maintain main-tain this desirable temperature it is customary to cover the teapot with a sort of bag padded with cotton and lined with silk. A similar arrangement is often used in England and ia there known as a 'cozy.' "This is the usual family manner of preparing and drinking tea in China, but when visitors core courtesy demands de-mands that we should be a little more ceremonious. Then we have the tea brewed in individual cups, covered with dainty lids in order to retain the heat and aroma. As a matter of courss, tea ia always thus offered to a visitor the moment he enters the house. "The family teapot is simply emptied and replenished every morning, and not scoured inside, as that would rob the vessel f its delicate aroma. In this way an old teapot acquires a degree of fragrance that ia analogous to the seasoning sea-soning of a pipe that has been long in use. "We would regard with horror the suggestion that we should add anything to the contents of our teapot beyond hot water and tea." said the Minister, with a visible shudder. "Imagine putting put-ting rum in tea. as I am told is sometimes some-times done here, and is said to be a common practice in Russia! A cultured cul-tured taste revolts from the thought. The idea of milk and sugar is almost as bad. "Just one more hint regarding tea and I am done " said Minister Wu. "Remember that while there are expensive ex-pensive teas and chsap teas, there are no really bad teas except those that have be?n adultarated with deleterious ingredients, and this very adulteration is practiced solely to meet the taste, or lack of taste, of consumers who persist in so spoiling their tea by the addition of such adulterants as rum and milk and sugar. "If only they would drink their tea pure, as nature intended it to be drunk, they would instantly detect any attempt at adulteration, and that would be the end of the importation of impure teas." FOR MARRIAGEABLE GIRLS. Extravagance in Dress Is One Great Hindrance to Marriage. The Pittsburg Catholic, speaking of the reasons which deter men and women wo-men from entering the matrimonial state, says that: "Extravagance in dress rules too many, and that is one of the reasons why there are fewer marriages. mar-riages. The young women have become be-come so fond of dress and the young men have become frightened, and this is not good for society or religion. Appearance Ap-pearance is the rage: economy is at a discount; there never was a time when dress was more sedulously studied stud-ied than at present. It has been reduced re-duced to a system and the dressing of the body is just as much an art as sculpture and painting. It is a disorder that exists in 'both sexes of all ranks and classes of society. In fact, there is a great deal more abuse in respect to vanity of dress among the middle and lower classes than exists among those who are considered to be in positions posi-tions of wealth and opulence. If the conditions of one's calling regulated the outcome, marriage might be more in fashion." Look For the Comic Side. A very large proportion of the trials and difficulties of life have a comic side to them, and if we can only cultivate the habit of seeing it we shall find that we are provided with a most useful use-ful armor against the lesser evils which trouble us. Most of us can see the funny fun-ny side after the annoyance or difficulty diffi-culty has passed it. It is well that we can do so, but it would be better far if we could only realize it while it was Still present. In great and crushing troubles all one can do is to bow in submission, but after all these come very rarely in a life. It is the little pin pricks of everyday every-day existence which really sap the strength and sadden the nearer and against these an appreciation of the comic will generally pro-e an effective armor. To those who realize the funny side of things the minor troubles are simply molehills to be passed on the journey of life, and they never appear ap-pear to. be mountains whose frow'ning heights shut out all the sunlight and every glimpse of the pleasant country : beyond. It is often said that woman has no sense of humor. I am by no means prepared to grant that is true, but I must confess that she would be all the better for a larger amount of it. The fact is that woman's training is at fault. Hitherto her sphere of action has been very limited, and her ideas and thoughts being necessarily limited, too, she has suffered from the warped sense of proportion which people must have who look on life from behind bars, insted of seeing it in its entirety among their fellows. The woman who has really lived and who has faced, some of the graver problems of life does not worry herself nearly distracted over the delinquencies of the cook, the impudence of the butcher's boy or inferiority of har smartest gown to even the simnlest costume cos-tume of her neighbor, Mrs. Midas-Over-t noway. She has learned that all those things are really not worth vexing herself her-self about, and bears them with smiling philosophy. . sees the comic side of the very things which formerly would have troubled her, and instead of magnifying mag-nifying them into troubles she beholds their true proportion and smiles afresh not only at her present superiority, but at her past defeats. WAYS TO SERVE DISHES FROM EGGS. The dishes that can be prepared from eggs are almost countless. A chef whose good fortune it is to prepare pre-pare diahce for the household of a European monarch is authority for the sULtement that no lews than 150 differ ent dishes can be cooked, using eggs as the chief Ingredient. It is essential that all eggs used on the table should be absolutely fresh. In order to determine this point drop the egs into a pan of cold water. If they are fresh they will sink, if not they will float upon the surface. Following are some recipes for the choicest dishes that can be prepared from the egg. AN ITALIAN RECIPE. Prepare a border as follows: Cut half a medium onion into very small slices, fry these with four ounces of butter without coloring, then add four ounces of rice; moisten with broth, then season sea-son to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg; nut-meg; boil up, cover the saucepan and push Oit into the oven for twenty minutes. min-utes. When the rice is cooked stir it up with a fork and place it in" a buttered but-tered border mold; preys it down forcibly forci-bly in the mold, then unmold it into a dinh suitable to be put in the oven. Garnish the center with eight hard I boiled eggs, each one cut lengthwise in four. Prepare a cream sauce not too thick, season it properly and add to it J 6ome finely chopped watercress or garden gar-den cress. Pour this over the eggs to cover them entirely and mask the surface sur-face with bread crumbs and a little grated rarmesan cheese and pour over some melted butter; brown nicely in the hot oven and serve. PLOVERS' EGGS IN NEST. Place one dozen plovers' eggs in a saucepan, cover with cold water and place on the fire. Boil eight minutes and remove to cool. Take some batter bat-ter and with a dough syringe make a nest on a round dish and bake in the oven. When done let it cool and fill the center with watercress and dreas the eggs on top. A COLONIAL DISH. Poach two eggs, dress them upon two round, fresh toasted croutons, the same sine as the eggs. Garnish your croutons crou-tons with Ruci?ian caviar. Take Gome fresh tomatoes, elived. the same size as the croutons, and dip them in flour and fry them in hot melted butter. Then place your tomatoes upon your croutons crou-tons of caviar. Then for poaching add a pounr xiiece of sweet pepper, the size of a quarter. Turn around your eggs a sauce Montebelio and serve it very hot. EGGS A LA CASTELLAXE. Prepare six eolf poached eggs and wrap them in six French pancakes already al-ready stuffed with durcels of fresh mushrooms. 'Bread them a 1'Anglaise and fry. Serve on bread crusts and garnish them in the middle with demi-glace demi-glace or Madeira sauce, with truffles rognons and cretes de cogs. Serve cold. COOKED WITH MUSHROOMS. Take three hard boiled eggs, split lengthwise and remove the yolks. Chop the yolks and add half the amount in bulk of cooked and chopped fresh mushrooms. Mix gently with a table-spoonful table-spoonful of Bechamel sauce, season with salt, pepper and nutmeg, and garnish gar-nish the empty white pieces of the egg with this stuffing. Dilute a little Bechamel sauce with a tablespoonful of cream and a small piece o'f butter. Put a part of the sauce on the bottom of a baking pan, enough to cover it, and lay the eggs on it and cover with the rest of the sauce. Put a pinch of Parmesan cheese on each egg and bake for ten. minutes. EGGS AND ARTICHOKES. Poach eggs in the ordinary way, keeping then warm by a hot water jacket. Prepare half a dozen arti-I arti-I choke tips, placing them on a hot plate. Then take the poached eggs and place 1 them on the artichoke tips, garnishing the whole with a half measure of finely , chopped truffles. Dress the sides of the plate with bread crumbs, fried in butter; but-ter; the whole forming a trimming like a rooster's comb. . SHIRRED A L'ANGLAISE. Small stone china dishes holding one or two eggs each are convenient for this method of serving eggs. Break ' the eggs carefully into the dishes so that the yolks may remain intact. Put ft a little salt and a small piece of butter i on each egg and bake until white and firm. Serve in the dishes just as they come from the oven. I How Jennie June Got Hsr Name. Mrs. J. C. Croly, who has just rounded round-ed her seventy years,, is the literal em- ' bodiment of the woman's movement, . being not only the progenitor of wo- ' man's clubdom, but the pioneer press woman of the country- Few of her contemporaries know that her pen ( name, "Jennie Croly," is one of the . sweetest reminiscences of- her child- 1 hood. When she was only 12 a gentle- i man who bad been visiting her family wrote to a friend: ( "She is the Juniest httle girl I ever . knew!" ? ' In after years, when she made her i first adventure into print and sought for a signature, she remembere-d the ( quaint fancy and promptly became "Jennie June." ( Fancy Sponge Bags. ' The once humble sponge bag has be- ( come a thing of beauty under the at- ( tentions of the jeweller. It is no longer long-er of somber rubber, but of delicately ( barred and striped rubber silk, lined t with a plain, pale color. Instead of closing with the drawing string, which t has a habit of always being damp and obstinate, it fastens with a silver or i silver gilt clasp, such as the netted . purses have. Toilet Hints. f Never use hard water for washing, i If you cannot procure naturally soft ( water, soften the hard by the addition . of a few drops of ammonia or a little ( borax. t When the face is dusty, do not at- tempt to cleanse it with cold water. & Instead give it a hot bath, using plenty j of good soap, and then rinsing it thor- I oughly with plenty of warm water, i Finally, sponge it with water thtt is . nearly cold. f People who suffer with perspiring feet will find the benefit of bathing C them frequently with warm (not hot) CV water, to which a little ammonia has , been added. After drying, the feet ( should be dusted over with boracic J ' powder. Bathing in alum water will i. afford relief to burning and tender feet. J Women's Age. ( Why do women hesitate to tell their ! age? By common consent it is regarded '. as very rude and boorish to ask a j woman a categorical question regard- ing the number of her birthdays. Yet there should be no diffidence on the point, and reticence upon the subject is hard to explain. Except for some reason connected with business, which may find in accumulating years a handicap, han-dicap, a man is usually very open about his age and as ready to proclaim it as his wife and his sister are to conceal con-ceal theirs. Probably the feeling in the matter had its origin , in the long ago, when matrimony was the ordinary woman's only desirable goal, and when as she grew older- her chances of finding find-ing a mate diminished perceptibly, says Collier's Weekly. The situation has so entirely changed and spinsterhood has become so inviting that we should expect ex-pect to discover an alteration in the manners of women on this point and to find them quite candid as to their claims to maturity or the reverse. Fifty years 'today looks as 40 did a score of years ago. Thirty, always a very winsome age. the age of woman's most captivating beauty, is not now to be distinguished in freshness and bloom from 25. Outdoor life is doing for women what nothing else can do, making mak-ing them beautiful and keeping them young. Why She Stopped the Paper. . She came down.the street, three steps at a time and sailed Into our printing office 'like a whirlwind. She waited for no ceremony, but wildly asked: "Is this the paper printing office?" "Yes, madam." "I want to stop my paper." "All right, madam." "Stop it right away, too." "It's stopped." the foreman fore-man said, as he drew a blue pencil line across her husband's name on the suh- scription list. "There now," she said, "maybe that will learn you some hosa sense and how to do the square thing next time and not slight people jus! because they are poor. If some rich, stuck-up folks happen to have a bald-headed, bald-headed, knock-kneed, cross-eyed and toothless trat born to them, you're in an awful hurry to put it in the paper and make it out an angel, but when poor people have a baby you can't say a word about it, even if it is the purtiest baby borned. That's what I am stopping the. paper for. This ort to be a lesson to every paper," and she went out as mad as an old wet hen. "O YE OF LITTLE FAITH!" A Sower sowed his seed, with doubts and fears, "I dare not hope," he said, "for fruitful ears; Poor hath the Harvest been in other years." Yet ere the August moon had waxen old Fair stood his fields, a waving sea of I polcl ; He reaped a thousandfold! In the dark place one dropt a kindly word; "So weak my voice,' 'he sighed, 'perchance 'per-chance none heard, Or if they did, no answering impulse stirred." Yetin an hour his fortunes were at stake: One put a life in peril for his sake, Because that word he spake! "Little I have to give, O Lord," one cried, "A wayward heart that oft hath Thee denied; Couldst Thou with such a gift be satisfied?" satis-fied?" Yet when the soul had ceased Its mournful mourn-ful plaint, God took the love that seemed so poor a?l faint Anu made from it a saint! Christian Burkt, i |