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Show ea dent nature she the work of her education. Thus from week to week we listened with alight to the welcome budget Jim would bring. Sometimes Marys letters were only of her life at school, her books, her new friends and my heart would sink for then she seemed so far, so very far away! Again, she would write of herself, of the love she bore her father and her home, with an occasional a very occasional message for Harry, at which, of course, my heart would beat with joy, and I would r Heartfelt thanksgiving! cough or light my pipe, do anything to Oh! let it rise hide the tell-tal- e light I knew was in Like the mist of morn my eyes. During the last year she had Toward the azure skies; and written most of her Let the heart be glad letters had taken a tone of her lately And the song he gay. great seriousness, with many allusions As we welcome the joya to her duty as a woman. Of Thanksgiving Day. Ia her latest letter she begged that her father would take her more seriousHow sweet is home ly; she could not be a butterfly, and With its altar fires! she spoke of womans sphere being The meeting of sons McKenzie broad and With their happy sires! only laughed and said, Poor child! she The fair young wives is sighing for the mountain air. He And their little flocks, wrote he had of beautiful the her filly brand-ne, In coats trained and made ready for her use, And Sunday frocks. and she would soon see for herself how very long and broad her womans We gather around sphere could be. e The board. At last a letter came telling that she The blessing is asked. was surely coming home, and telling The tea is poured. how anxious she was to be with him on And the children laugh Thanksgiving Day. She complained In their merry way. ever so gently that she feared he had When the turkey comes la not taken her exactly as she wished On Thanksgiving Day. that she was no longer a child, and But whats this glee that her mind was quite occupied with To that which comes the problem of Womans Mission. In With the smoking pudding fact, she had lately been made president So full of plums? of the Womans Emancipation Circle, And the rosy fruit which organization had originated in Without stint or lack. jer school with every promise of beAnd, last of all, coming a power for great good among The nuts to crack? I subjoin, women. i she added, the maxims for which we pledge principal What beautiful seasons T ourselves to labor without ceasing: To him who roams, "We claim equal rights before the Are these meetings rare law. In the land of homes. We ask equal pay for equal work. When the young and old, We ask that men cease to impose The grave and gay. upon us by their empty flattery, and Lift up their hearts ; That we be recognized as reasonable On Thanksgiving Day! human beings with eyes to see for ourselves; hands to work as we will. This time even McKenzie could not fail to catch her meaning; he looked puzzled and troubled, and finally said: In the morning she will be half way home and I shall go to meet her. I think, he added slowly, I think Mary needs her father. Yes, Im sure dead sure she needs her father. Meanwhile I had registered a solemn vow that every claim and every assertion of this New Woman should be disproved and contradicted by Mary in her My chum, John Meredith, was going own sweet 6elf. When I closed my eyes home. He was always sighing for his that night it was to dream of Thanksgiving Day and Mary and I really bedome, and at times this longing possessed him so completely that he seem-!- d lieve that in my sleep I heard the sweet on the point of abandoning his pros- sound of wedding bells. pects of becoming a rich man. For some time the next day McKenMeredith had been in ill health, but ten years residence in the west had zie was shyly making his daughters made a new man of him. Success at acquaintance. He could not for the life last had come our way, and he sudden- of him see the slightest trace of the crely announced that he was going home dread phantom her last letter had for his Thanksgiving dinner. He was ated. He thanked God that she was and gentle; that her heart was i quiet, queer fellow, any way you put womanly error of fancy had gotwhatever right, seemed it; lately, however, he had ten into her head. wonderfully alert. The arrival of the Why, dear Mary! he answered her, weekly mail found him in a state of dont want to work like a man. you great expectation, and after he had You cant do it. When I was your age read his letters he would sit quietly handle a pick all day; I could all evening looking very happy and I could do it now. A womans work cannot be smiling as he read them over again. to mans; so it is hardly fair for equal He always was a chap, her to ask equal pay besides, it was was no time but this there mistaking to Adam the command was given to the signs, 60 I suspected his homesickearn his bread by the sweat of Lis ness, and judged his case, as one is brow. No of own. my apt to do, by the light Poor Mary! She could not help bewonder, poor fellow', that he wanted to ing disconcerted. Her fathers opinwipe out the 1,500 miles which alone ions, she knew, were always based on Thanksstood between him and that common sense. So it was some time giving turkey! For my own part, I can before she spoke again; and then it swear that no power as yet known to was to ask why it was that women did man could keep me back from Jim M- not have equal rights with men before cKenzies dinner, for the law. He answered that women Thanksgiving Mary was to be there Mary whom all surely do have equal rights before the these years I had remembered and lov- law. You see, my dear, he went on, ed so well. I had never forgotten her their rights are really identical, their beautiful deep, dark eyes, which seem- interests the same; and it is a mans ed to search one's soul with that penefirst notion of duty to see that these trating look one sees sometimes in a rights are repsected. I would like to see any person interfere with your babys eyes. There was but little out here in the r this or hear of any law that would mountains to relieve the tedium of our be unjust to you. By George! I would long evenings, so Jim McKenzie's week- soon show that your rights were my ly visits were always heralded with rights, and that the law exists solely Joy. We made merry over his coming, for the benefit of mankind, which you and our carefully prepared dinner we regarded as a feast. We talked it over In the morning, and when evening came we began to plan for next weeks coming. No wonder McKenzie was always His mind was stored with welcome. the thrilling adventures of early days in the mountains. We never tired of listening to the story of his own good luck: how, way down near the stream on the side of the mountain, his quick eye had detected the bits of shining gold; how, day by day and all alone, he followed up the little thread of gold until he had discovered the secret of the mountains heart, the generous yield of ore which had made him the richest man in Golden Point. With touching pathos he would tell us of the brave hearted men no less worthy than himself who had come out here to meet only bitter disappointment and blasted he would hopes. At rare intervals AN OCCASIONAL LETTER FROM speak to us of his own early trials, of HARRY. his dead wife, to whose loving care and gentle sympathy he confidently and know, my dear, includes woman kind, proudly attributed his entire success even the New Woman, too. Poor Mary was confounded. After and all that was good in him. Then, too, he always brought us news of his all, were men and women really equal daughter Mary. At first her letters were before the law? If that were so, what became of the enormous injustices and only outpourings of her homesick, loving heart; 6he was born to live in the vigaat'C abases .hat women had silentmountains, and declared she must have ly and patiently borne all these years? the freedom of the mountain bird. After It all seemed so confusing, so difficult, a while her lefters breathed a more sa very puzzilng; she could not doubt contented spirit. In an incredibly short that her father was right he always time the mountain bird bad ceased to was on practical questions. She looked Cutter against the ban of her cage. out of the car window, and was silent. Her quick and receptive mind scon Her eyes were full of tears. It was yielded to the guidance of those about harii to believe that the Woman's her. and with the full force of an ar Emancipation Circle was, after all, to pu-su- 36805 home-comin- g. w old-tim- In the world, and of her fine arguments, broad have no existence that all views on the woman subject were surely disappearing melting away before her father's clear and convincing asser- tions. She recognized at once that she had met defeat., and with all the bravery sbe could command, the conversation was turned to other things. In a short time they would be home and enjoy Thanksgiving day together. Was it in truth necessary for me to see McKenzie at once about that broken fence, or was it only the crisp mountain air that tempted me from the house hours before I was expected to arrive at Jim McKenzies? One thing w'as certain. I could not wait another moment, and in half an hour I was speeding along and nearing his place. As I rode up I saw her standing on the porch. She came quickly forward to meet me. I blushed like a schoolboy when I took her hand and looked into her eyes. Yes, there was still the deep, searching, truly baby look. I felt relieved at once and thought, It wont be so very hard, after all; she could not look like that and be really a New Woman, In a few moments I had forgotten about the cken fence, and we went together to see the beautiful brown filly. I suggested that there was time enough to try her before dinner, and M y acquiesced at once. She had a fancy to saddle the horse herself. I never thought of interfering until she came to tighten the girth; then I simply said: You would better let me do that for you. Never mind, she answered; why cant a woman use her hands and help herself? Of course I was disconcerted, and saw1 at once that I was treading on dangerous ground, hut I only laughed and said: She can. She certainly has the right, but why not allow a fellow the privilege? Then, In a defiant tone, she replied: We dont want privileges or aid; we only want what is just. At your hands, I answered, I dont ask for justice, at all; but I do yearn for privileges. She tossed her head in reply, and stood ready to mount. In a few moments we were off, scouring the country, riding up the mountains and walking our horses slowly down again. Near the base of the timber line Marys horse suddenly shied, her saddle turned, but in her terror she called to me. In an instant I was by in adjusting her sad Ti, mvS how me where It is finished with long, FOR WOMEN AND HOME back, did not hesitate to demand my obediblack satin sashes. These sashes ami ence when she really needed my servthe lower edge of the g.umeut itself ices. Jim ordered the turkey placed ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS are trimmed with flounces of b! t. k before Mary, and explained that her chiffon. while the velvet is studded with AND MATRONS. mother had always carved; no one immense jetted balls. Another garknew so well as she how to select the ment is bloused ail around under a Gowns Iluk a Popular belt and has choicest bits and give to each one just Ptcmrfsqas large bishop sleeves. What Ouxeti leather the dainty morsel most coveted, and l.tutug Md gives it its decidedly unique air, hownow Mary must learn to do the same. el Popular Trliuralnf Embroidered ever, is the embroidery which covers She took the large knife in her hand Wrap! Transforming tha Bodlr. it. This embroidery is all done in. ?! and gazed at it, looking very dubious; inch wide blatk moire ribbon. The then she stuck the fork well into the ribtxm is not set on plain, but is ve-- y Smile. Thy turkeys breast and made another atIS hard to shard full and stitched down on each edge. tempt to use the knife. her smites aii'i As the design is carried out in large She looked at her father a moment, many! scrolls, of course the garment would Ami while she Is not but his attention was altogether bent If you become a small person. dear to me. upon selecting a choice bit of celery. To far that T, far have a silk bodice that is too light to me a hurried, appealing Then she gave Uss than any. wear late in the fall, veil it with black Call out her unglance! I moved my chair a little, but or dark blue chiffon put on full. A it's witchrv! said nothing. At length she turned to novel idea is to veil the entile Lun k To turnout unl my arm me again and put her hand on my hfiirt wlun ear and one-haof th. starting the and gently said: her latter on the left o.,ulder and bringI ut believe I say, men are Trembling Harry, ing it dowu to finis'ft on the right side tlance and lane. stronger and bigger and brater Ilian Ami ft el the while at the belt- - Of course, you understand women. Wont you please carve this each charm grow dearer for me? That wil not beam for me alone. was can scored, and My last point How can she thus, sweet spendthrift, you wonder that I consider Thankssquander of the and the The treasures one alone can prize! day greatest year, giving Hr can her eves io all thus wander, the American turkey the greatest of When I hut live In those sweet eyes! birds? But here we call it the falcon Those syrtn tones so lightly spoken it sometimes catches mountain birds. Cause many a heart 1 know lo thrill. 1 But mine, and only mine, till broken. r In every pulse must still. 1 33 SHE CAME OUT TO MEET ME." her side and just saved her from fail- ing to the ground. Of course I had to straighten the saddle; and I simply as- serted: You see, I am stronger than you, I yielded my right too easily. You and will always let me saddle your horse in future! I suppose it was the shock that made her blush and look so baffled as sbe glanced at me, and I felt sure that I had scored a point. After this we rode quickly home. It was almost time for dinner, and McKenzie was waiting for us on the porch. We went together to look after the broken fence. When we returned to the house I found Mary in the parlor, struggling with a big log of wood that had rolled from its place, and I further noticed that her gown was in danger from the flames. So intent was she in her efforts to replace the burning log that she did not notice my approach. I stood there quietly, watching the smoking log on the rug, which momentarily I expected to see burst into flames. She looked so pitiful and helpless that my heart softened entirely, and I was about to go to her, when she turned and saw me quietly looking on. . Why dont you come? she said. "Dont you see I can not budge this log? Surely this W'as my day for luck! I saw another chance and took it. Step aside, I said; let me take it up. With the aid of the tongs and a shovel I easily put the log back in place. You see, men are stronger than women, I said. This time she would give me no answer, but in her eyes I read that I had scored my second point. In a few moments dinner was ready, and a happier trio never sat down to a Thanksgiving feast. Mary had for the moment forgotten her misadventures, and a more charming hostess could not be imagined. In the quiet joy of Marys return McKenzie looked blissful and eontented. I confess to having felt a little nervous. So far the day had gone well with me, but I wanted to score my third and last point. I anxiously awaited my opportunity, which presently came in the shape of the great American turkey. The turkey was brought in just as I was telling in a triumphant tone of Marys proud refusal of my good offices lf am-wi- nil Picture INr, FV,Gl Gowns. She made a pretty 'picture flitting along Broadway. Her gown was a blatk alpaca and dipped here and there as she tripped along, revealing now and again a bit of pink lining. She wore a black bolero jacket, and just beneath it, forming a hair line about the waist, a touch of pink again appeared. Her hat was high and blatk and in the cache peigne of roses was more pink a mass of it, shading to the deep-- j est rose. In this city of beautiful gowns every other gown has a pink lining. And it matched well with the rosy, sun brow tied faces of our beauties. An autumn gown showing the tendency toward vivid greens and i & Pleasant games for Thanksgiving, in which both old and young people are interested, are played as follows: Transpositions Write a list of words for each person present by using only once the letters found in the names of certain flowers, states, authors, etc., s or any words you may select. The of these words transposed give the word sought. For instance, take Rhododendron. Using the letters we have the words odd, or, end, horn. From Bachelors Button, chub, lose, tab, torn. Massachusetts gives seat, suet, smash; or hats, seat, muses. Newfoundland, weld, nun, do, fan. North Carolina, no, chair, la, torn. From Constance Fenimore Woolson, we have Moore, stain, scowl, fence, noon. It is much easier to ascertain the word sought if designated as a flower, author, etc., but it sharpens ones wits wonderfully to find them without any clue. In the list of ten or a dozen words, which is about all a person w'ill care to have at once, it is nice to- includo his or her name. Glaribel. Rhyming. Arrange the company in a line or circle around the room. Let the first one announce a line of poetry. The second must follow with a line that rhymes with the first and agrees with it in meter or measure. The third browns is of maple green cloth, with must follow with another, and so on an edge of mink about the bottom of around. If there are many in the com- the skirt. The bodice opens in front, over a front of pany the last word of the first line with fur edged revets, should be one that has plenty of rhym- brown oozed leather, one of the latest novelties in New York. The waist is ing words. If the company ia small, encircled by a belt of the vest leather, nvre difficult rhymes may be selected. two stiff loops are arranged on the 1 1. a recent game the following was the rviult. The first one repeated a line aide and long ends fall on the left side. ftom one of Bryants poems, and the others followed as indicated; , 1. "Heaped in the hollows of the m, let-ter- &FX TC'.nVtV that the entire left side is covered, and effect ia that of a surpllc. The Latest. that the How It's Done. If you want to know how to get youfr wife to mend yodr clothes, find the secret in the following domestic Its strange I cant get my wife to mend my clothes, remarked Mr. Brl- -' 1 asked her1 (lie, in a tone of disgust. to sew a button oil this vest thia1 morning, and Hite hasnt touched it. You asked her, said Mr. Norris, with a slight shrug of his shoulders. "Yes; what else should I do? You havent been married very long,! and perhaps you'll take a pointer from me, answered Mr. Norris, with a fath"Never ask a woman to erly air. mend anything. Thats fatal. Why, what do you mean? Do as I do. When I want a shirt mended, for instance, I take It in my hand and hunt up my wife, Where's, Mrs. Norris? I demand, that rag-bain a stern voice. What do you want the rag-ba- g for? she says, suspiciously. I want to throw tills shirt away; its all worn out, I reply. 'Let mo see,' she demands. But I put the garment behind my back. "No, my dear, I answer, there's (prove. 2. Lie all the ashes from our stove. 3. Well scatter them all round the cove. 4. And cover up the treasure-trov- e. Then you and I together, love, 6. Will all around this country rove. A good deal of amusement is afforded by the odd and incongruous lines that are sometimes given. The line must be supplied in a given time, say one minute, or a forfeit must be paid. G. C. II. The Messenger. The party are seated in line, or round the side of the room, and some one previously appointed enters with the message, My master sends me to you, madam, or, sir, ae the case may be, directed to any individual he may select at his option. What for? is the natural inquiry. To do as I do; and with this the messenger commences to perform some antic which the lady or gentleman must imitate say he wags his head side to side, or taps with one foot incessantly on the floor. The person whose duty it is to obey, commands his neighbor to the right or to the left to Do as I do, also; and so on until the whole company is in motion, when the messenger leaves the room, it with fresh injunctions. While the messenger is in the room he must see his masters will olteyed, and no one must stop from the movement without suffering a forfpit. The messenger should b some one ingenious in making the antics ludicrous, and yet keep withiq moderate bounds, and the game will no fail to produce shouts of laughter. Another game, of much the sam? character, is known by the title, Thus says the Grand Seignor. The chief difference is that the first player is stationed in the center of the room and prefaces his movements, which th others must all follow, by the above words. If he varies his command by framing it, So says the Grand Seig-nothe party must remain still and dcine to follow his example. Any one who mover. when he begins with "So, or does not follow him when he commences with Thus, has to pay a forfeit. 5. :ai2 BRIDAL AND GOING AWAY GOWN. These sash like ends are slashed about six Inches up from the bottom and adorned with handsome medallions of no use of your attempting to do anything with it. It needs Let. me see it, she reiterates. But its all worn out, I tell you. " Now, John, you give me that shirt! she says, in her most peremptory tone. While Laded brown passementerie. oozed leather is not always available, this gown may lie copied with brown The silk selected silk trimmings. I hand over the shirt. should he V2ry dull, however, if the proper effect Is to be secured. The Why, John Norris, she cries, with a womanly triumph, 'this is a perfectLatest. Ail it needs is And ly good shirt. then she mends it. Velvet Wrap Embroidered In North Dakota the killing of quail Embroidered velvet is the very newand English and Chinese pneasants is est There is a patent on a noisething for evening and dressy wraps. prohibited until 1'JuG, and beaver and An exceedingly smart garment, very less baby carriage. ponding Now, if some otter can not be tra-w- d or killed untij introduce a noiseless baby what French In appearance, is of green velvet, end crosses under the arms to the a shower of blessings he would recel . r, one-woul- |