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Show FOR WOMAN AND HOME ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. wherefores of the various articles ofil the subject of marriage. It always sets me wondering what madner ol people they must be who look no fur- ther for their authority than the frivolous gossip of the day, who never take The OK Kim Tree MarrUga b Still the trouble to go down into the heart of Nature and the impulses that govern the Greet Objective Felet he Life ( humanity, to find out why things are. All Single People Some Current Now somebody comes forward and Votee ef the Mod. publishes statistics of marriage In the various cities, and bewails the fact The Old Elm Tree. A C H morning, when my waking eyes first see, Through wreathed lattice, golden day a p -pear, There sits a robin on the old elm tree, And with such music stirring the I might forget that life bad pain or fear. I was wont to do. When hope was young, and Joy and life itself were new. And feel again as oer his heaps of hoarded gold. Nor monarch in the plenitude of power. Nor lover, free the chaste maid to enfold Who neer hath owned her. love till No miser, that blest hour. LITTLE MORE ing investigators, conscientious col- the struggling patriots and seemed to be slowly closing up that small opening through which the people yet saw hopes of a brighter day, this second great exploit must be considered now, as it was then the turning point of the war, the greatest achievement of the grandest man in the gloomiest WASHINGTON THE SOLDIER. In the estimation of his associates and others familiar with his military carrer, Washington was one of the few great military chieftains of the No higher tribute could be world. than that conveyed by Fredhim paid erick the Great of Prussia, whan he presented his sword to tb; American general with this Inscript,m upon it, ."From the oldest genera.'- of Europe to the greatest general in the world. Washington as a general has been criticised for 1 r resol utenes, and frequent resort to retreats while engaged in battle, but measured bj the results accomplished in this way these criti- period of the revolution. It cisms only add to his grevtness. With the memory of th scenes at Concord, Lexington and Ranker Hill, and the events at New Yqyk fresh in mind, it is pertinent to qnalder the effect of Washingtons rejreal from New York to the Jerseys, a distance of more than a hundred mdeit with a mere handful of freezing starving men before a powerful foe, gushed with victory, yet baffled is uK their attempts to cut off retreat and destroy ammunition stores. Grander tttsn any 'Victory, more difficult and dangerous than any battle, this famous retreat brought into public gaze the wonderful combination of courage and prudence in Washingtons character and gained for him the title of "American Fabhis. But followed and crowned as this maneuver was by the crossing of the Delaware, and the brilliant capture of the Hessian troops at a time when the assurance of success was so doubtful and the apparent probability of defeat so great, when the black clouds of despair hung so oppressively over Is hardly necessary to narrate the subsequent events, the terrible winter at Valley Forge, and the final surrenNoder of Cornwallis at Yorktown. where else in all his career does Washington exhibit to better advantage his noble and disinterested characteristics of heart and mind than he did when the war was thus so successfully closed. - i much greater than in others. Then they sigh and mourn over it, and really, fall to wondering what we all are coming to. There seems very little in the situation to wall over, for marrying and giving in marriage is going on every day, and there is no good reason to suppose that the end of this is anywhere near. Courting is Just as delicious nowadays as it was a hundred years ago, carping critics to the contrary notwithstanding. The prospect of a little home of their own is Just as alluring as it was to our forefathers, and, everything taken into consideration, it is not much more difficult to maintain a family now than it was then. There are always foes to fight, contingencies to provide against, .always chances of disappointments; but in the main the sweet old story gets told with quite as much sentiment as ever, the good-byare Just as hard to say, and the welcome Just as warm. It seems to me that people might bo a great deal better employed than iq worrying over the decadence of matrimony. Every article of this sort tka is put into print is read by some one whom it may discourage or fill with forebodings. This sort of literature 1s bringing about the very condition ol affairs that it deplores, and mores the pity that those who engage in It are unable to see the mischief they are es Nor poet, couched in rocky nook or bower, Knoweth more heartfelt happiness than should prefer the hero of Washinghe. ton's birthdays and of the Fourth of That never tiring warbler of the old elm tree. July orators to the real man who is our Pater Patriae. Preferring the From even the poorest of Heaven's man of flesh and blood to the man of such creatures, myth and legend, he set about strip- As know no rule but impulse, we may him of these sentimental trapping draw An pings. Gown. Lessons of sweet humility, and much An "Behold, says he, when he is done, Of house dress was deapt instruction in the homely law "our national hero. A great man, to be Of nature: and the time hath been, I signed for a woman whose dark beauty sure, but no. paragon in his private saw life, at least A man against whom beautiful or mean, but had for Naught, who and slander but calumny blew, me remained unsmirched. A man ol valor in the field, yet one who shrunk Borne charm, even like the warbler of the old elm tree. from the publicity of public life. A man who held the helm of state with And listening to his Joy inspiring lay. an iron hand, who fumbled his inaug- Borne sweet reflections are engendered uration address. A man whose sense thence: of propriety constrained him in afterAs half in tears, unto myself I say, life, when he knew that he had en- God, who hath given this creature rolled himself among the immortals, sources whence to undertake the revision of his pri- He such delight may gather and disvate correspondence, so that posterity pense. might not laugh at his awkward Eng- - Hath in my heart Joys living fountain placed. More free to flow, the oftener of its waves I taste. than a year ago a lectors of documents; but with their New York pubpedantry Is combined a lively apprelisher said to me: ciation of the function and possibiliwho ties of the literary art. "The man can predlot a fad The writing of history, therefore, to supplant the becomes in their practice a task waning Napoleonic Identical in aim to that of the historfad will be worth ical painter. They do not permit his weight In gold themselves to stop with the mere to a publisher." presentation of the facts of the past, I suggested but, because they are artists, they .Washington, and had the satisfaction must vitalize these facts, and bring of hearing my friend say he did not their readers, as do the painter and the historical novelist, into a vital as believe me. well as into an Intellectual relation But I was right, nevertheless. The Frenchman is dead: long live with a remote period. Their ideal requires not only that the American! It would be wearisome to review all they shall prove their case, but that the evidence. Besides, this rational the demonstration shall be as aethet-lcall- y convincing. Washington fad has not as yet gone Historical accuracy loses nothing far enough, and it is probable that greater works are now meditating by this treatment, and the personality of Washington gains Immeasurably. than have been written. For the moment, therefore, it will Both he and the past the picturesque, suffice as an indication of the direccourtly, eventful, elegant past In tion in which the current is setting which he moved live again before to call to mind that a new edition of our eyes; and the mind, lured to folis among the low an Imagination captivated by the Irving's "Washington recent announcements of one of our charm of style and dramatic incident, leading firms of publishers; that one loses its contemporaneousness and is of our most enterprising magasine merged in the theme of the history. As a sheer example of literary art. editors makes a "feature" of a series of Washington portraits in his cur- Prof. Wilson's study is perhaps to be rent number, and that within a few preferred to Mr. Fords. His is the months two of the most scholarly and richer in picturesque detail, and gifted of our American historians have shows clearly that the author has bepublished monographs on the father stowed greater pains on the elaboration of his backgrounds. Prof. Wilof our country. The writers to whom I refer are sons style is the best literary counterProf. Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Paul part I can think of of Mr. Pyles drawLeicester Ford. ings. His atmosphere, even his style, flavor. Both works are likable for many has an old-timore Ford attractis Mr. are direct; his style is chiefly reasons, but they ive to me, at least because of the lees colored; his aim less pictorial. extreme modernity of method they ex- As for his temper, to my thinking it emplify in the treatment of their betrays on occasion the quality of exMARTHA WASHINGTON, And by this I wish to con- asperation. theme. Mr. Ford supports his rini lish. Reading history sympathetically, idea that the method is at vey the once scholarly and artistic. Both Mr. but literally, he has allowed himself by numerous citations from original Ford and Prof. Wilson are painstak to be annoyed that his countrymen documents. . that the proportion is in some places the student of his personality and achievements. When it is remembered that Fisher Ames characterized Washington addressing the United States senate as an "allegory In which virtue personified was admonishing those she would make her votaries, it is not surprising that we who live one hundred years afterward should have come to consider this man in much the same light However, the close student of his career will not fall to appreciate the remarkable human element in Washington and also recognise that he was subject to the same passions and had some of the faults that characterize the public men of toWhile studying his personality day. and work at close range and the consequent humanizing of so majestic a historical figure, the result assuredly will be to bring him nearer the people and render his influence on American citizenship and good morals the more vital and impressive. It may be of Washington as was said of Louis Phillips: He had no youth; he was bom a man. All-Tallo- w all-yell- Training for Nagro Gills. Leading women of Columbia, Mo., have organized a movement to establish an industrial school in that city at which negro girls may be trained in cooking, sewing and in general housework. The movement has met a ready response from the housekeepers of Columbia and may be the means of problem, in that solving the sevan vicinity at least The negro population has expressed itself as favorable o the enterprise, and the industrial school promises to have all the pupils that it can accommodate. The school will have regular Instruction given by Columbia women and be managed on the same lines as an Industrial school for white children which is now in operation as a part of the mission work under the control of the churches of the city. Little Glrl'e Box Coat. The box coat is the new fashionable garment for the little girL "Box is the English term applied to any coat that is long and loose and without side forms. Cut the coat to within two Inches of the bottom of the dress and edge with ermine. There is an imitation ermine that is very pretty and quite cheap. Cut double lapels and cuffs from this fur, and if you cannot buy a readymade muff shape one over a large baking powder box. For the muff use layer after layer of wool wadding, then crinoline and haircloth, and finally the fur. The hat is a pudding bag of blue irl : He did not try to establish a military despotism as did Cromwell; he did not attempt to create an absolute monarchy as did Napoleon, but quietly and without ostentation he resigned as commander and chief of the army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon to resume the duties of a private citizen. While he was thus engaged the unanimous vote of the Gen. Waiblngton'i PleamrM. peoples representatives called him Gen. Washington was fond of cards into public life again to inaugurate, and billiards, usually with small outline and broadly establish the new stakes. His diary shows that he lost government. fully as often as he won at both games. He was also fond of fishing and huntSoldier, ItktMmin, Cltltcn. It is conceded that all history ing, the theater and the circus. Music, not another character too, charmed him. He always lived furnishes in all its parts well and while president he employed so symmetrical first president a steward and fourteen lower servants. as that of the of the United States. As a patriot, a He gave public dinners once a week, broadcloth with a lace edge and a big citizen, a soldier and a statesman, and bis table was well supplied. In bow of taffeta. Washington stands out in bold relief reading Washington favored works Marriage Still Fopnlan on the pages of history, the greatest on agriculture and military science, "It is always Interesting, said e American that ever lived. It is this though there were historical books, bemiddle-age- d woman of wide experience, magnificent equipoise of character at- sides poems and novels by standard "to read up sd stud the whys and his in most authors that library. tributes strikingly impresses was made of yellow crepe, trimmed with panels of pale yellow lace. The waist was made of yellow and white striped silk in tones that were almost alike. The lining of the crepe skirt was a thin yellow muslin, looking al- most like silk. This same material lined the lace yoke and sleeves. The stock and belt were of striped yellow silk ribbon that exactly matched the dress material. The sleeves had big puffs of yellow and white striped silk. Yellow roses or white chrysanthemums look well with this gown. Style In Bammar Fabric. The counters and the windows of the shops are now crowded with the latest imported and domestic fabrics for midsummer. Brilliant effects continue to reign. Poppy decorations are numbered among the daintiest for organdies. The organdies this season have a bit of stiffening in them. The plain backgrounds are besprinkled with gay blossoms and they are as well striped. Scarlet poppies are found on maze backgrounds, purple ones embellish the black muslin, and the yellow flower of sleep is seen on vivid leaf green. Ducks of all kinds, both white and colored, are found in the most fascinating designs. Dresden patterns will be very fashionable, and the polka dot returns this year as a novelty. Rose designs on barred and dotted muslins are most alluring. Plaid ginghams will hold their own, as will also striped dimities and percales. It is a bit early yet to forecast modes, but everything points to ruffled skirts, full bodices, and even smaller sleeves than are now worn. Skirts will be tied back close over the hips, and they will stand out a bit at the bottom. Skirts will be longer and all the fullness gathered In a few inches at the back. Belts, and especially; ribbon belts, will be a feature of sum mer modes. Sashes will also decoraff the more elaborate organdies. Didn't Went th Klndna, Charlie "Will you lend me a quid. Jack? Im awfully hard up. Jack "Certainly, old man. Here yc: are. Charlie "Thanks, awfully. I can never repay your kindness. Jack "Oh, hang the kindness! Repay the quid, and I'll be satisfied.' Tid-Blt- s. |