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Show Woman' Mistak In Mttnpptog. Ko pursuit known to the femlulne world so successfully and delusively tli;.)ota of time as nhoppinR. The experienced husband hus-band and father known that any encasement encase-ment with his family which stands nt the end of a shopping dny hi larjj chunees against fulfillment. Even a woman of I.s-cretion I.s-cretion iu other matter who ha but an bour at her disposal will plan enough r ratuls for th;;t time to rrowd a half day. "It Is 3 o'clock," siirs the shnpixr. "Two hours more, and in that time lean easily call on the dressmaker np town, make eral purchases at Bartle's and nm in to look at the new etchings t the gallery, since 1 shall be so near. I'll hk at tha book store ns I come down and select a book for Susio's birthday. Then I can take a cross town or- and pet borne in good season." When the prxxt church bell chimes 0 she Is shocked, dismayed and ashamed to Ilnd that she must bo bite to dimior and keep the family waiting, and she frets herself Into such a itcrvcu condition because of what she has done nnd what she has failed to do that hualmnd and children learn to dread the days "when mother pea shopping." shop-ping." A little foreUiouiiht, and especially the remembering what so many women forget, that it takes time to ro from place to place, and that street cars are not lightning light-ning transits, would mnko a vast diuVr4 euce in many cases. Harper's Ilaiuir. How to O.lre Money to Children. Give your little folks a weekly allowance as sixin as they aro able to stand before a cundy counter that comprise what an allowance al-lowance would mean to the average child Kivinn them to understand that just so much is the limit ot their pin money. (I believe 1 beiran with two cents, Increasing In time to five.) Then add to that weekly j whatever they may earn in little way, j Teach them the prido of having earned pennies. Many a ood habit can lc Inculcated Incul-cated by at tlrst at i mutating It by a small , reward. For Instance, a penny for having I clean hands, clean nails, clean teeth, for '..well conibod hair, for hanging up coat and i hut in coming from school on nails put low and especially for them, for filling the j wood box, and o on for various things j adapted to varied circumstances, i But that is not nil. Teach them what the I nioney Is distinctly for, and that if tho ro quiroments are slighted or undone the pen-i pen-i nic will not be forthcoming. Teach them that they cannot hove the "biiir combed penny" tf they com to dinner with a frowsy head, or that the door mat penny is not theirs if there are muddy tracks iu tho kituheu. Cor. Good Housekeeping. How llnby Is .l. i My baby nurses praetleally when she Is hungry, every four to six hour, on the average. I am inclined to thiuk that hot-j hot-j tied babies should not be fed oftener than once lu four to six hours. Our baby I nover overfed, aud wo never allow her to , nurse until w know that he I hungry. 1 Nor do we ever Interrupt her sleep to feed . ber. Not long ago she woke up at noon, ; nursed, went, to aloep again at 8 o'clock and slept till 10 o'clock at night 10 hours without nursing. Tho sleep was of a munh benefit to her as the food given when she waked hungry, i vv hm tliKi. she v. ill nurse until ah Is 13 or 15 month old, and we will not begin to give her cow's milk lint II we e that the mother' milk la actually tiumfilrleiit. Whcnnhetsready to Ui-eeulM food, which she will not bo until ho is l'J or 15 month old, then she will get graham bread with t" milk and wo may add a littlo fruit 1.. jr. Many bablu die of dyspept io starvation star-vation by overfeeding, and I don't Intend to let mine. Interview in Boston Globe. Tito Toutif Woman ot Today, i ItlsnotenoiiKh that the young women of today shall be what their mother re or were. They must lie mort, The spirit of tho time cull on women for a hlher order af thliiKS, and the requirement of the woman of tha future will be great. I must not be misconstrued Into saying tht the future woman will be one of mind rather than of heart. Power of mind In Itself It-self no moromnkesatrui! woman than doe wealth, beanty of person, or social station. But a clear Intellect, a well trained mind adorns a woman, just a an Ivy will adorn a splendid oak; a true woman bo a power, something peculiarly her own, In ber moral Influence, which, when duly developed, makes her queen ever ft wide real m of plrit. but thlsuhe can possesjionlyaa her power pow-er are cultivated. Cnltlvated women wield the scaptor of authority over th world at larce. Wherever a cultivated woman dwell be sure that there yon will Bnd refinement, moral powurand life Is Its highest form. For a woman to be cul-;lvatodshe cul-;lvatodshe must begin early, the days ef girlhood ar transitory and fat fleeting, and girls are women before w know It to these rapid time. Every girl ha certain cer-tain station to occupy In thl life, Kim one place to fill, and often he meke ber own station by her capacity to create and fill It. The beginning Influence the end. Ladies' Home Journal. 1n,ltilB. but Neat. Alter your soup aud Bh you begin to talk with your nebjbbor. bhe I au American married to a Frenchman, French-man, and ho tlW you thl funny little story aur-Dt a famou tittle beauty who had lieon betrothed to ber hiuibaiid before she ever met him. Said she: "I wits little under the went her. aud o whu she called I had to ask ber to come to my boudoir. On my writing doak tood a plctute of my liubnd one be bad giveu niewheu I first met hiiu and which wa framed vary gorgeously In llver. Alter she bad talked about herself a little while he went over to thl piiAure, kv It the moat loving look auJ said: 'Ab, be bad that taken for me.' Angry! Of course I w angry, but my j Dative wit didn't Atmtt me. I waited for a few minute after uyiug. 'Did her' And then I reached out aud got lil tie case frttra the table jut beside me, opened It and showed ber the pictur Itislda. It wa th head of my liuaijaud nd myself taken together on our wedding trip, and then I Wiiionnced: 'lie hd that taken for me.' I don't thlukshe will bore me'ln." Yon couldn't help but laugh, ft wassueb an Intensely In-tensely womanly thing to do. St. Loui lUoiubllC |