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Show FOR WOMAN AND HOME ITEMS OF INTE REST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. The Old Flm Tree Marriage Id Still the Great Objective Point la Life of All Slugle People Some Current Noted of the Mode. The Old Klin Tree. C H morning, when my waking ees first see. Through wreathed lattice, golden day a p - the . yi Theio sits a robin on the old elm tree, z: i And such with music stirring fills my ear, I might foiget that life had pain or fear. And feel again as I was wont to do. When hope was young, and joy and life itself were new. No miser, o'er his heaps of hoarded gold, Nor monarch in the plenitude of xi yC sq.Av pow er. Ppp . Vrq l( rx YU - ys good-bye- Nor lover, free the chaste maid to enfold Who ne'er hath owned her love till that biest hour, Nor poet, couched in rocky nook or bower, Knoweth more heartfelt happiness than should prefer the hero of Washinghe. tons 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 Heavens man of flesh and blood to the man of creatures, such myth and legend, he set about strip- As know no rule but impulse, we may ping him of these sentimental trapdraw An pings. Gown. Lessons of sweet humility, and much An Behold, says he, when he is done, Of house dress was deinstruction in the homely law our national hero. A great man, to be Of apt a for woman whose dark beauty signed nature: and the time hath been, I sure, but no paragon in his private saw life, at least. A man against whom Naught, beautiful or mean, but had for calumny and slander blew, but who me of remained unsmirched. A man Some charm, even like the warbler of valor in the field, yet one who shrunk 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- Some sweet reflections are engendered s p , V- - K a? vA uration address. A man whose sense thence: of propriety constrained him in after- As 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. LITTLE MORE than a year ago a New York pub- lisher said to me: who man The can predict a fad to supplant the waning Napoleonic fad will be worth his weight in gold to a publisher. I wherefores of the various articles cn the subject of marriage. It always sets me wondering what mariner of people they must be who look no further for their authority than the frivolous gossip of the day, who never take the trouble to go down Into the heart of Nature and the impulses that govern humanity, to find out why things are. Now somebody comes forward and publishes statistics of marriage in the various cities, and bewails the fact that the proportion Is in some places 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 wail over, for marrying and giving in marriage is going on evcry 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, chances of disappointments; but in the main the sweet old story get3 told with quite as much sentiment as s ever, the are just as hard to say, and the welcome just 33 warm. It seems to me that people might be a great deal better employed than in over the decadence of matrimony. Every article of this sort that is put into print is read by some ona whom it may discourage or fill with forebodings. This sort of literature is bringing about the very condition of affairs that It deplores, and mores tha pity that those who engage in it ara unable to see the mischief they are ing Investigators, conscientious collectors of documents; but with their pedantry is combined a lively appreciation of the function and possibilities of the literary art. The writing of history, therefore, becomes in their practice a task identical in aim to that of the historical painter. They do not permit themselves to stop with the mere presentation of the facts of the past, but, because they are artists, they must vitalize these facts, and bring their readers, as do the painter and the historical novelist, into a vital as well as into an intellectual relation with a remote period. Their ideal requires not only that they shall prove their case, but that the demonstration shall be as aethet-icall- y convincing. Historical accuracy loses nothing by this treatment, and the personality of Washington gains immeasurably. Both he and the past the picturesque, courtly, eventful, elegant past in which he moved live again before our eyes; and the mind, lured to follow an imagination captivated by the charm of style and dramatic incident, loses its contemporaneousness and Is merged in the theme of the history. As a sheer example of literary art, Frof. Wilsons study is perhaps to be preferred to Mr. Fords. His is the richer in picturesque and detail, shows clearly that the author has bestowed greater pains on the elaboration of his backgrounds. Prof. Wilsons style is the best literary counterpart I can think of of Mr. Pyles drawings. His atmosphere, even his style, e has an flavor. Mr. Ford is more direct; his style is less colored; his aim less pictorial. As for his temper, to my thinking it betrays on occasion the quality of exasperation. MARTHA WASHINGTON, Reading history Mr. Ford supports. his claims sympathetically, lish. but literally, he has allowed himself by numerous citations from original to he annoyed that his countrymen documents. suggested Washington, and had the satisfaction of hearing my friend say he did not believe me. But I was right, nevertheless. The Frenchman is dead: long live the American! It would be wearisome to review all the evidence. Besides, this rational Washington fad has not as yet gone far enough, and it is probable that greater works are now meditating than have been written. For the moment, therefore, it will suffice as an indication of the direction in which the current is setting to call to mind that a new edition of Irvings Washington is among the recent announcements of one of our leading firms of publishers: that one of our most enterprising magazine editors makes a feature of a series of Washington portraits in his current number, and that within a few mouths two of the most scholarly and gifted of our American historians have published monographs on the father of our country. The writers to whom I refer are Prof. Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Paul Leicester Ford. Both works are likable for many reasons, but they are chiefly attractive to me, at least because of the extreme modernity of method they exemplify in the treatment of their theme. And by this I wish to convey the idea that the method is at once scholarly and artistic. Both Mr. Ford and Prof. Wilson are painstak old-tim- w Jt, Pisiyi 1 Training for Negro Girls. Leading women of Columbia, Mo., have organized a movement to establish an industrial school in that city at which negro girls may he 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 solving the sevant-gir- l problem, in that 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. Ylttlo Girl's the struggling patriots and seemed to WASHINGTON THE SOLDIER. be slowly closing up that small openIn the estimation of his associates ing through which the people yet saw and others familiar with his military hopes of a brighter day, this second carrer, Washington was one, of the great exploit must be considped now, few great military chieftains of the as it was then the turning point of No higher tribute could be the war, the greatest achievement of world. him than that conveyed by Fredthe grandest man in the gloomiest paid erick the Great of Prussia, when he period of the revolution. presented his sword to tk; American It is hardly necessary to narrate the general with this inscript fn upen it, "From the oldest genera of In.rope subsequent events, the terrible winter to the greatest general in the world." at Valley Forge, and the final surrenWashington as a genera has been der of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Nocriticised for irresolutenes , and fre- where else in all his career does quent resort to retreats wljle engaged Washington exhibit to better advanin battle, but measured bj the results tage his noble and disinterested characcomplished In this way rhese criti- acteristics of heart and mind than he did when the war was thus so succisms only add to his gre .iiiess. cessfully closed. With the memory of th scenes at He did not try to establish a mlli- -, Concord, Lexington and R Hill, and the events at New Yck fresh in tary despotism as did Cromwell; he mind, it is pertinent to q .n slier the did not attempt to create an absolute effect of Washingtons re real from monarchy as did Napoleon, but quiet- -' New York to the Jerseys, a istar.ee ly and without ostentation he resigned of more than a hundred m with a as commander and chief of the army mere handful of freezin starving and retired to his home at Mount men before a powerful f..j, .lushed Vernon to resume the duties of a with victory, yet baffled R t.l- their private citizen. While he was thus attempts to cut off retreat and destroy engaged the unanimous vote of the ammunition stores. Grander tinn any peoples representatives called him victory, more difficult and dangerous into public life again to inaugurate, than any battle, this famous retreat outline and broadly establish the new brought into public gaze the wonder- government. ful combination of courage and pruSoldier, Statesman, Citizen. dence in Washingtons character and conceded is It that all history gained for him the title of American furnishes not another character Fabius," so symmetrical in all its parts first president But followed and crowned aa this a3 that of the maneuver was by the crossing of the of the United States. As a patriot, a Delaware, and the brilliant capture of citizen, a soldier and a statesman, the Hessian troops at a time when Washington stands out in bold relief on the pages of history, the greatest the assurance of success was so doubtful and the apparent probability of American that ever lived. It is this defeat so great, when the black clouds magnificent equipoise of character atof despair hung so oppressively over tributes that most strikingly impresses v r , the student of his personalitv and achievements. When it is remembered that Fisher Ames characterized Washington addressing the United States senate as an "alRgory in which virtue personified was admonishing those she make her votaries, it is not surprising that we who live one hundred years afterward should hate come to consider this man in much the same light. However, the close student of his career will not fail to appreciate the remarkable human element in Washington and also recognize 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 De to bring him nearer the people and render his influence on American citizenship and good morals the more vital and impressive. It may be said of Washington as was said of Louis Phil-lipHe had no youth; he was born a man. e- - ' j 15ox Coat. The box coat is the new fashionable Box is garment for the little girl. 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 Gen. Washington's Pleasures. Gen. Washington was fond of cards & makes yellow a favorite. The skirt was made of yellow crepe, trimmed with panels of pale yellow lace. The waist was made of yellow and white striped silk in toms that weie almost alike. The lining of the crepe skirt was a thin yellow muslin, looking almost like silk. This same material lined the lace yoke and sleeves. Tha 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. Styles In Summer Fnliriu. 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 num bered among the daintiest for organdies. The org indies this season have a bit of stiffening in them. The plain backgrounds are besprinkled with gay blossoms and they are us well striped. Scarlet poppies are found on mazo 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 tha 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 summer modes. Sashes will also decorat the more elaborate organdies. and billiards, usually with small stakes. His diary shows that he lost fully as often as he won at both games. He was also fond of fishing and hunting, the theater and the circus. Music Didn't Want th. Kindness, too, charmed him. He always lived well and while president he Charlie Will you lend me a quid, employed a steward and fourteen lower servants. Jack? Im awfully hard up. He gave public d.nners once a week! broadcloth with a lace edge and a big Jack Certainly, old man. Here y bow of taffeta. are. and his table was well supplied. In Charlie Thanks, awfully. I can reading Washington favored works never repay your kindness. on agriculture Marriage Still 1opnlar. and military science, Jtt is always int.resting," said Jack ReOh, hang the kindness! though there were historical books, bewoman of w de experience, pay the quid, and Ill be middle-age- d sides poems and novels by standard the whys and "to read up -d authors in his library. a- s4 |