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Show THE EVERYDAY DARLING. She i neither a beauty nor (renlus. And no one would coll her wise; In a crowd of other women She would draw bo stranger's eye Ien we who love her are pualed To say where her preclousness Ilea. 6ae is Just an everyday darling; In that her preciouaoesi lie. She Is sorry when others are sorry, So sweetly one likes to bo aad; And If people around her are merry, She is almost gladder than glad. Her sympathy i the swiftest, The truest a heart ever had. Ehe la just an everyday darling. The dearest that heart ever bad . Her hands are so white and little. It seems as If It were wrong They should ever work for a moment. And yet they are quick and strong. If any dear one needs helping, She will work the whole day long; The precious everyday darling, Every day and all day long. , the is loyal aa knights were loyal. In the days when no knights lied, And for sake of love or of hor, If It need bo, a true knight died; And she dreamt not she i braver Than the woman by her side, Tbls precious everyday darling, Woo makes suusnine at our side. Ah, envy her. Beauty and Cteniua, And women the world calls wise; The utmost of all your triumph - Would be empty In her eye (To love and be loved is her kingdom); In tbls her happiness lies, od bless her, the everyday darling! In this her preclouaneta lie. -at, Paul Glob One Way of Taking Cold. On this side of the Atlantio a single hower will frighten thousands of housekeepers house-keepers into closing their windows for a week. Warm weather may return tht next day, but the air blockade is main-tained, main-tained, and some fine morning tho whole family will be found coughing and nnce-Ing. nnce-Ing. "Caught cold," is the prompt .explanation, .ex-planation, though their affliction might bo more properly doflned as a congestion of the respiratory organs by a develop-ment develop-ment of disease germs, favored by a combination com-bination of heat and moisture. Up to the first of May, and even later, stove fires are often kept blazing while the outdoor out-door thermometer ranges in the eighties; children, flushed with outdoor sport and drenched by a transient April shower, enter a room where the slightest attempt At opening a window will elicit a prompt protest from grandpa's corner! wet clothes are dried near the stove, and the domestic atmosphere develops a harvest ot catarrh seeds as successfully as a batch of eggs are hatched in a patent incubator. in-cubator. Ladies' Home Journal. , |