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Show Summer Afternoon Reading I ent and that if he desired to disrobe to retire back of the hone sheds, Lem Browns Dilemma which Sike done. Where was Lem all this time von For a full hour and a ball the regulation round neck. The 'V should start about three inches above the collar bones, quite concealing those ugly "salt cellars" which make life and full dress a misery to the Velvet Chrysanthemums. Select velvet ribbon, second elxe, In the desired color, and if possible with different shadings of the color, to be aa natural as possible. Cut the ribbon into Are pieces two and a half inchea long; fold each piece of ribbon in half and gather the five pieces together, fastening the Joined ends firmly by a wire. The loose ends should be cut In a point. Now cut ten pieces three and a half Inches long. Fold as before and fasten them around the center petals. Add as many more petals aa necessary, making each succeeding row a trifle longer than the last, until the flower is large enough. If the flower Is to have the stiff appearance of the real chrysanthemum, bony. The V may often be bordered with black velvet ribbon with excellent effect. A deep point of the kind Indicated cornea quite low enough to be considered decollete, while it mercifully hides defects and looks pretty at the same time. : mpoudoir IgfpConiidenced double pieces of velvet must be used dresses have velvet All tailor-mad- e for each pelal and a line wire thrust collars and cuffs. between the two ribbons. The satin Hats are growing sensibly larger, side of the petal is lightly covered with a hint of higher crowns. with photographers paste, a wire laid With dresses of soft tan, pearl gray down the center, and the upper riband the palest champagnes, long bon firmly pressed on it, velvet side of exactly the same shades are up, of course. Ilefore the paste has gloves worn, Instead of white. on ribbon rtfn the the up quite dried, Even suits show the strong wire, thus getting that crinkly effect Influencebathing of checks upon summer of the chrysanthemum. Only a few of the petals need to be treated In this styles. For check taffeta black and white make some stunning suits. way to gain a stiff effect. Narrow Rose color seems coming to the fore desired in ribbon satin the liberty for dresses. light cloth tailor-madHerald. shades is effective. Montreal And it is extremely effective with the sheer blouses that everybody Is wearAttractive In White Flannel. ing. with Blouse of white flannel made groups of stitched plaits fastened with Voile Is All the Go. The popular material Is voile of so sheer a quality as to closely resemble cblffon. It is striped, waved, checked, dotted and embroidered in all tbe delicate shades, and it almost invariably made over white taffeta. In dark colors dark blues and browns are shown, and these are also made over white and trimmed usually with taffeta of the same color as the gown. The girdles are of the voile, tightly drawn. Soft silk, an entirely new fabric resembling eollenne, is another popular material. It comes in all colors and is either rhecked, striped or dotted. Taffetas are striped and- - of light weight e little straps of the material and buttons. The center plait and the collar are also ornamented with buttons. The sleeves are full at the top, fitted telow, end trimmed like the blouse. Orange Sirup. Select well ripened, Juicy oranges and grate the outside peel from them. Cut up the fruit and press out the Juice, and to each quart of orange Juice add one pint of water and alx f of the pounds of sugar with grated peel. Set over the fire, stirring well, and gently simmer until the sugar is dissolved. Strain and act away In a cold place for use. one-fcal- Making Velvet New. Velvet cannot be sponged or pressed or even dipped in gasoline, and unless you thoroughly understand the proper method of cleaning it you had better not make the attempt, but send it to some cleaner. There is one means by which it can he accomplished successfully at home. Try water and spirits of ammonia in equal quantities, and rub the velvet with n brush dipped in the liquid. In doing this be very particular that it does not become soaked in any one spot When all stains have been removed raise the pile of the velvet by holding it over a hot flatiron on which n wet cloth has been folded. Use n brush very lightly for those places that are too much flattened for the Iron alone to renovate them. Pudding bags should be made of heavy Jean. Never wash raisins that are to be used in sweet dishes. It will make the pudding or cake heavy. A few drops of glycerin put In the fruit Jars the last thing before sealing them helps to keep preserves from molding on top. Here's a New Japanese Fad. Rancid butter, boiled In water with A decorative and useful fabric for a pinch of charcoal, will be divested which there is a growing demand and of its rancidity and may be used for for which we are indebted to the Jap- cooking purposes. anese is the grass cloth used for cov811ver should not be put in woolen ering walls. This comes in all the standard colors, is a yard wide, and costa 4 for a roll of eight yards. The general effect when on the wall is very much that of burlap, except that it is of finer weave and has almost a glossy appearance. It is made of Chinese grass, which is woven in h unie manner as a loose weave cloth or woolen Roods. A very thin citing of rice paper is pasted with infinite care on the back of tbe cloth to give it body, and also to make it possible to attach it to a wall, the grass cloth Itself being of such a fiber that It will not hold paste. For Formal Affairs. Here is an ideal suggestion for a dressy afternoon gown. The material employed is pale gray collcnne and the skirt is made with a single box plait in front and back, with groups of aide plaits over the hips. A decidedly novel and attractive Jacket opens on the shoulders and is Joined by narrow straps of the material and buttons, matching those tiny used at the closing down front. This is worn over a rich blouse of embroidered batiste, whose sleeves are formed of four flounces of embroidery. The chic little turban is pale gray Neapolitan, with black velvet band and on last Brown, our Weusday morning I,em bags, as the sulphur In this cloth fan talented carpenter, painter aud genDishes the metal and neither should eral Jobber, stared cruel and relentless rubber be placed near silver. deth in tbe face, while brave men The addition of lemon Juice to thi and weeping wlnimen and delighted water in which rice is boiled will in- children looked on horriflde and helpcrease the whiteness and the grains less. was a awful experkru and It will readily separate thus treated. will go down in tbe annals of our town as one of the worst tbat ever hapSweetmeat Pudding. Take one ounce each of orange peel pened. Some time ago the Ladles Aid of lemon peel and citron. Slice then our church deslded that tbe church very thin. Line a dish with puff paste needed a new coat of paint. steeple lay the peel at the bottom, mix tht The ladles held a meeting and past a yolks of seven eggs with the whites vote to purchase paint sufficient to of two eggs, adding live ounces of r.alnt the steeple. Being as they was sugar. Pour it over the sweetmeats no money in the treasury of the aid Put it Into an oven well healed and the ladies went out with subscripshion bake thirty-fivminutes. papers soliciting money. Tbe members of the church didn't seem to be Attractive Simple Bodice. too keen for giving up good money any Tokio crepe and Insertion form thin to buy paint, but after two weeks' hedattractive bodice for a young girl. was deslded that they had Tbe yoke fits firmly over the shou- gin' it to buy the paint, pervidlng enough lders and allows a becoming blouie someone could be secured to put without unbecoming fullness about the same onto tbe steeple. I.em Brown neck, while a long puff and tight cuff was approached aud askt how much he effect a smart sleeve. The round would charge to paint the steeple. neck has been provided for in the Lem said he thought it ought to be pattern, and, if one desires, the entire worth about 75 cts. to him, but as discardcan and be sleeves yoke long the ladles want to spend any didnt ed, abort puffs taking the place of the of their money paint they told Lem, latter, and a deep bertha replacing to being as he was a member in good a certain extent the former. Media-ett- e was his of the it church, standing In dull blue, mousseline in gray, Christian duty to paint the steeple or crepe leda in rose, are suggested I for nothing. It took Lem a good while to see this the way they saw It, but after they had pestered him for several days he said: Oh, well, n it, if you think it's my Christ-chladuly to do it for nothing I reckon 111 haft to do it. but that's the last Job Ill do at them Aggers. The paint was bought at the Co. seat. It was white paint, and they was two gals of same. They was also 1 qt. of green paint for trimming. Lem started in on the Job bright and airly last Tuesday morning. He borrowed Cy Hoskins spple ladder and dim up to the ridge pole of the church beside the steeple, and then hauled up the ladder and set It straddle of the ridge pole on the roof and leaned the upper end against the top of the steeple. Lem then took a pall of white paint in one bend and a brush in the other appropriate materials, while among and started up the ladder. They was thin fabrics Egyptian tissue and silk considerable of a crowd standing mull will be found effective. around on the ground in front of the church to watch Lem do the Job, For the Summer Hop. wlch was a tickellsh one aa you Among a collection of gowaLfjpp might ear. When Lem started up tbe by a popular belle at Newport Is one ladder Gideon Smalley hollered at for evening functions made of pale blm, saying: green eollenne. Tiny ruffles of white Lem, you had ort to build a stagin lace and green velvet ribbon run from around that steeple to paint from. shoulder to waistline, on each side of Suppose tbat ladder would fall down the decollete waist, which has a front with you up to tbe top end of it of silver embroidered green silk and then, where would you be, hey?" ruffles of lace at set intervals. Small I've painted and carpentered man ruffles of lace form the shoulder caps and boy for more'n 30 years. says of sleeves and a band of embroidered Lem, pausing In his tracks about halfchifsilk serves as a finish. Self-ton- e way up the ladder and lookln down at fon velvet is used for the girdle. A Gid. I calkilate I know a thing or cluster of lace ruffles is set in at each two about the blzness. I'm a purty seam at foot of circular skirt good hand to tend to my own business, and I bope other folks will do the Useful for Outing. same." A coffee-colore- d pongee is a useful Lem then percceded on up the ladder, thing to buy for an outing. It is made and Gid he got mad and started off with full skirt laid in three or four home and said if I.em Brown fell and deep tucks around the foot There broke his neck, leaving his wife nothare embroidered dots In navy blue and ing but a widder, I.em couldn't blame there la a' deal of English eyelet work. him. ana be hoped be would fall. Big holes are profusely embroidered The crowd on the ground increased in blue wash silk. A deep blue silk until almost the entire impulashlon of petticoat is worn underneath the BingTille was present watching the dress, letting the color show through. brave painter with horriflde eyes and The waist is a mass of tucking and baited breaths. Before Lem started navy blue embroidery. In to paint he tilled up his pipe and lit it Jest as keerless as If he had of been sitting before his lire on a coolish like night. He was Jest aa unconcerned as you please and hummed a tune Jest to show them below that he felt at home and him dnrn near 40 ft. above the ground. Lem had Jest hung his paint pail over the top of the steeple and begin to sling paint like a expert when the ladder suddenly slipped on the roof and fell with a crash end over end clean to the ground. They was a deep groan went up from them below. Wimmen turned away their eyes and begin to scream. The men heit their e dod-dur- per-feck- ly breaths. All expeckted to see Lem drop from that dizzy height to the ground below cut-ste- el was still hangin onto the steeple for dear life and hollering Help! at the top of his lungs. But where was they any help to be found? Help was scarce. What could a person do to help Lem and him hangin in mid air as you might say 40 ft. from the ground? Rev. Moore, our beloved pastor, hollered up to Lem to try lifting his voice In prayer. What Lem replied to our pastor is not lit to appear in print, so we wisely expurgate It. Everybody present was awful shocked at the horrible profanity wlch flowed from Lem's lips to the pastor and Lem being on the threshold of deth as you might say, and also a church member hisself in addishlon. While people was ringing their hands in despair and wondering what d to do, Seth Dewberry, our town coustubble, slept forward and raised bis hand and said, Walt, men, I will save him! Seth then dim up into the belfry and detached the rope from the bell, and then crawled out Into the pick of the roof and coiled the rope up in his hand, and told Lem he was going to throw it up to blm and for him to ketch it. You must think I be a dura fod, hollers I.em. If I let loose my holts to ketch that rope. I'll fall and brake neck!" my But Seth told I.em he thought he could spare one hand to grab it, and Lem said he would try, and Seth throwed up the rope and It fell between Lem and the steeple, and Lem then wound the end of it around tbe top of the steeple and tied it fast and then he slid down the rope to safety, and him and Seth both come down to the ground, and everyboddy slept forward and shuk hands with Lem, and told him they never expeckted to see him alive again. Tbe bell rope still remains tied to the church steeple, and will probably remain there till it rots, and how the pastor is going to ring the bell for services is a mystery. Cy Hoskins ladder was broke In two by the fall, and Cy says If the Ladles' Aid don't pay for it hell bring suit against the church for damages. The Ladles Aid says they will never pay for the ladder, and tbat if Lem Brown dont come to time and pay for the paint he spilt hell git hisself into trouble. Lem says they can whissle for their paint far as he is concerned, because he's agoing to take hie name off the church list, for If he hadn't of been a church member he wouldn't of got Into sich a mess and come within a hairs breadth of being killed Instantly.' "Bingvllle Bugle Items in the Boston Post. lion-hearte- d Fla? of Paul Jones Paul JoneB' flag.' the first national ensign to be displsyed at the masthead of a United States ship, the first to be saluted by a foreign power, and the first to wave In victory on a foreign sea, was made for him at a sewing bee by the girls of Portsmouth. N. H. They contributed portions of their best silk gowns for the purpose. The following dialogue took place in the Ross house In Philadelphia between Miss Mary Langdon, one of tbe makers of the flag, and Commodore Jones upon his return from his victorious cruise in February, 1781. Mury Unphin: What fortune ulcer your errant prow Asnln to greet our snore? Good morrow to your laureled brow, Most RHlIsnt Commodore! You come with ship and trusty crew And unexcelled renown: Hut where'e the Ah we made for you In drowsy Portsmouth town? Hnd thread "Right busily with shears We tolled that suinun-- r dny When snfe lsnenth tin- head The snucy Hunger lay. At your lielirst our silken best I'nstintedly we gave; With ruthless xc;il we idled the ateel So Hint your fhtg might ware. "Wo found Its white and crimson bars In t'iirilc's cedar press; Wt pieced its gillaxy of stars From Helen's wedding dress; To notice its axnre llcld ave, still I think of it with capuchin of glossy twill Fell victim to the shears! s 51 y with a dull sickening thud a lifeless "To guard Its fame through storm and corpse. Then they would throw a sheet fray You vowed In valiant tones; over him and gether him up tenderly Then where's that honored ting Chevalier John Paul Jones? and carry hla dead, lifeless and smashed remains home to his expectPaul Jones: ant wife. "Ah, Mistress Mnry. vows more deep Than might of lip or eye But Lem did not fail as anticipated. Were those 1 made when your flag disWhen he felt the ladder slippln from played its atant in n gladdened sky. under him he throwd the paint brush Into the air and hugged the steeple " 'Twas n gaudy strip on a pirate ship;' the vaunt of a lawless sword.1 with both arms, also rapping his legs Kilt'Twas n It rose, the sign of a line around same. Tho paint brush which When the Gallic salvo roared. fell so suddint of he let go swiftly, 'Twas 'a flaunting brag of a Rebel striking Dcscon Buitcrworth smack in rag!' When it snapped In a British breeie; the eye who was standing with his Hut it wnved our steel to a conquered mouth open looking up at Lem when keel In the wash of the Irish seas. the catastrofee happened. Lem also of a dreadful night upset the paint in the struggle, some "InI the pallid light shine Its rluster of It falling on Mrs. Uufe Green, who O'er saw the grimmest grip of ship and ship come out In her bare head and got it in the iore of the foaming brine. In she hair and mlxt her hasn't all up In shot-repride "ir gloried wide Atxive our mlxxen-truegot It out yet. Lem also bit off the swarmed the apllntered stem of hla pipe which fell striking Our boarders side. Sike Peters and some of tbe sparks The beaten foe had struck. went down Slke's neck and burnt his "But my brave old ship was a shattered back and 8ike thought he was aflre hulk; ller shot holes gaping wide. would and to of undress and began ?ne biy. a rolling, helpless bulk disgraced hisself then and there if Cy That drank the bubbling tide. lloskins hadn't called hia attenshion Yet still ths starry diadem to the fact that they was ladles pres Was bright above the wreck. free-bor- a bunch of white tips. Canned Beets. Select medium sized beets, cook until tender and remove the skins while still hot. Put the whole beets in Tho other gown Is or blHck cloth. Tbs The gown at the left le of mauve tafglass Jars with one teaspoonful of feta. full skirt, slightly rintptd In skirt is made of box plaits which open granulated sugar, fill the Jara with front. Tho Is trimmed at the bottom with out toward the bottom, where It ! encold vinegar and seal them tight. ruches of tho material forming a fancy circled with two tenuis of the material Is iilmost covered design. be added when they are with a The Mouse ends turned lark on arh side of the Splcea can shoulder collnr. romiswed Ihe large front und fastened with buttons. served if desired. Being whole, the of shaped ruffles of the silk edgr-- with Jacket with basque is plaited at The, of headed bunds mauve velvet and by in served can be form. beets any the shoulders and droned in front, where lace. Here's a Pretty Scheme. A clever little device for concealing tvs collar bones of the thin girl, at the same time giving her the satisfaction of a decollete neck, is to cut tho gown with a point Instead of with ask. It la finished around the slightly low neck with the velel fastened with loops bo: dels and buckles. This velvet also or the fronts opening over a frill then crosses Islow. Hie ends fastened with buckles to the wide corslet girdle, which Is also of velvet. are finThe sleeves, puffed slid diai-ed- . ished at the elbows with bunds of the velvet and lace mtttes. lm-i- It l ornamented with sliapa of the matt rial nnd buttons. The turn-oti- r collar apd the flrdle are of blsck velvet tbe feumer edged with a Inre rutile. Tin- chemisette is of linen cravat of green with silk. Tho sleeves are nuked crosswise at t):e top form box plaits on the outside and art finished nt the bottom with bnnus rf tht material, cuffs of evet and laic - k: And could I take their flag from them My dead upon her deck? "lkiwn by the head to ocean's bed tsiie plunged beneath the swell; And last of all, a silken pall Her banner waved farewelL "My deathless dead I left to her. That would not know defeat My gallant ship their sepulchre. Your flag their winding sheet!' Mary Langdon: Twas nobly dune! 'Twas but their tfUGf For who but those should claim That riddled flag ihe fearless crew That died to give it fame? though none may mark. "go may it float,Northern Sea. Beneath the Above the unfoi gotten bark Whole Town Stuns Up There was a good deal of excitement in this vicinity on last Tuesday morning at half past 9 o'clock a. m., which for a time greatly disturbed the erstwhile calm and quiet of our thriving community and resulted in pain and profanity to a large number of our most respected citizens. Lafe Hoover has a piece of ground which borders on the west side of Bingvllle, perhaps 10 acres In all, which he let come np in timothy this set last Tuesday to season. cut this timothy and employed Hank Dewberry to help him do the same. Lafe and Hank started in bright and early. Hank he drove the mower and Lafe he come behint later with his old sorrel mare hitched to the hay tedder. There was a large crowd along the street leaning over the fence watching Lafe and Hank do the work and offering suggestions aa to how it should be done. It Is the general belief that this crown was attracted by the spectacle of Hank actually working, which is so rare a sight that the people of Bingvllle can hardly be blamed for turning out en masse, as you might say. Along about 9:30 Hank suddenly drove over a bumblebees nest and afterwhat happened Immediately wards almost beggars description. Hank hadn't been stung more than a dozen times until he dropped the lines and started to ran for the fence where all the people was congregated. As soon as the horses found themselves at liberty they too, goaded by the bumblebees, lit out for parts unknown, dragging the mower after them at the rate of about 15 miles an hour and running into a stump and breaking off the cutterbar. Then they pro- -' ceeded to the far end of the field and run Into a atone fence, and finding their progress blocked in this direction and several bumblebees still prodding them they stood still and begin to kick and kicked until they kicked every dura bit of harness offen them' and then they went to eating grass. As Deacon Bradbury feared th bees then begin to scatter and to the innocent as well as the guilty, sparing neither men, women or children. Mrs. Salina Cooper who had come oat to the fence witn her infant son aged three months and is so heavy on her feet that she can't run very fast being as she weigns 275 llis., started home, but the bees stung her once on her escape and once on her infant son. Deacon Hrad berry was stung a couple of times on the rar, and one bee got fast in his whiskers and he dont know how many times It stung him before he got it untangled he counted up to 11 stings and then he lost count, because it was too painful to remember. Misa Sally Hoskins, who was passing along the street to mall a letter to her beat fellow who lives at Snake to s'.ing her Bend had a bumble-beon the ankle through her openwork stockings. Snide Fetersby had two hoes to get up his pant leg and he got out in the road and danced a jig for about two minutes. Ras Slocomb said after it. was all over that he never knowtl Snide eould dance like that being as Snide always complained of being crippled up with rheumatlz, but with them two bees up his pant leg he was as suppl and spy as a Several others whose names we failed to get were stung on differei.t localities, and in a short time aftt r the bees got Into the crowd the slrt et was deserted being as those who had got atung dispersed at once to their homea where they bathed the affected parts In various linaments. Hank Dewberry suffered awful. His face, especially his lips, was ail stung up fearful where thw bees jabbed it to him. Hank said he wouldnt be exaggerating it any if he said that I his upper lip felt about two feet and a half long whereas it was only about three inches long by actual measiio-nien- t. fe e I.afe Hoover whose mowing machine was almost a total loss not oniy refused to pay Hank any wages tor helping him cut his timothy, but has Hank charged up with the loss of hii mower. Hank says is welcome to the money to pay for his mowi r If he can get It. Hank says before he would pay for that mower after having hia feelings outraged and hiss if mutilated so by them bumblebees hr would carry suit for damages up to the Supreme Court and spend every cent he had In the world fighting the suit. If Hank spent every rent he had in the world he would expend about 15 ctz. "Blngvll'a Bugle Items la the Boston Post. |