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Show TRUTH Mrs. Talkingtons husband ought to be a good listener." "He is. He can listen to nearly two hundred words a The Smart Set. minute. When a widow says the men are all alike she indulges in a mental reservation in favor of her former husband. Boston Transcript. CirDo you think theyll marry? cumstances point in that direction. Her people object, and hes as poor as Detroit Free Press. ja church mouse. ; Oh, what a pleasant world t would be How smoothly wed slip through it, If all the fools who meant no harm Could manage not to do it. New York Times, The Latest Thins in Colts. The newest modification of the Eton or bolero jacket is a jaunty little affair termed the coffee coat or Monte Carlo coat, the attractive features of which have already won the favor of the First Lady of the Land," Mrs. Roosevelt, who has appeared on several occasions wearing a wrap of this type. Taffeta silk Is best adapted irt the garment, though It is alsd made up in moire, soft woolens, etc. Pretty Cloth Gov : J j Joakley Budds, the florist, has a 'big inquisitive plant on exhibition. an Whats inquisitive ;Coakley Rubber ! Phila Joakley delphia Press. Eating pie, old man? Why, I thought it never agreed with you. It doesnt. But I dont care; its my turn to take care of the baby anyway. plant ? Town Topics. He You are worth your weight In She gold, dear. Oh, thats old; give me something new. What shall it be? Say Im worth my weight in beef. Yonkers Statesman. I got the club! He Oh, Henry, prize at our womens Good! She Yes, I blackballed more members during the past year than any other member. Ohio State Journal. Knott I am having an awfully hard time. Its all I can do to keep the wolf from the door. Scott Why dont you let him in and train him to keep your creditors out? Teacher Now, Ethel, who wrote the Elegy in the Country ChurchEthel Please, maam, it yard? was Willie Smif. I seen him goin' in the churchyard at recess, maam. Chicago News. Tit-Bit- s. Dark red cloth gown. Waist small, pointed cape of red silk edged with red and white striped silk. Lace jabot down front. Pointed bands of, red and white striped silk down front; also dart seams bottom of tabs edged Belt of red silk. with Eame silk. Skirt, bias ruffle trimmed with band of red and white silk. M-tlie- p, derstand that life is not perpetual youth. Keen anxiety and sorrow she may ALPHABETICAL PETE. have missed also. Yet it is also true that "It were better to have loved and Alphabetical Pete was an N V S fellow U If should wear saffron, he'd hanker for lost than neved to have loved at all. The childless mother has not known yellow; D D was swagger, yet only too true, it the depths of degradation to which a Is said, N E bill E could B T would do it. child can bring its parents, nor yet As E Z as mud, when his clothing was C D has she known the fulfilment of greatHe (IIR A cab, tho decidedly needy, est love and bliss. Neither has she And drive to the tailors (or L C might known the anguish of the sting of walk it) R A himself swell, and the tailor would death, when her fondest hopes have chalk it. been laid low. She has escaped great Alphabetical Fete was C Qr with a lady, an ihey sighed M T things in loves pastures RKDN, Until she discovered his condi-- , tion said: tion! bankrupt You meander and C K posi- Ah! sad was the N D refused to do labor, punctured himself on an 0 D S sabre: A way of S IC P could not have found neater . Thats all I S A to relate about Peter! i Baltimore News. .And . The American Mother. Blonne of Crepe de Chine. recTpest. Mock Cherry Pie One cup of cranberries chopped, oue-hacup of raisins seeded and chopped, onc-hacup one of cold water, tablespoouful of flour, one cup of sugar, one-ha- lf lf lf tca-spoouf- extract of vanilla. ul Stir thoroughly and bake In two crusts. Baked Rhubarb Wash, peel and cut the stalks into inch pieces. Put it in a baking dish in layers, sprinkling each Jnyer with sugar, thin shavings of yellow rind of lemon and ginger. Add just enough water to cover, or a cup of water to a pound of rhubarb. Cover the dish with a plate or eartlieu dish (do not use tin) and bake in the oven until tender. Sponge Gingerbread Beat one egg, add to it half a cup of melted butter, half a cup of brown sugar, half a cup of molasses; dissolve one tea spoonful of soda In half a cup cf hot water; mix together one and a half cups of sifted Pretty blouse of dull green crepe de flour, one teaspoon of cinuamon, one chine, trimmed with fagoting done The teaspoon of ginger, half a teaspoon of with silk of the same shade. a of calt; add undersleeves cloves aud half teaspoon plastron and well and to bent the first this mixture; are of white luxeuil lace, and over the in a shallow pan; bake twenty former is a pretty draped fichu of pour, minutes. mousseline de sole, which passes Macedoine of Fruit Soak half a box through eyelet holes in the fronts of the blouse, and is knotted on the bust. of gelatine in half a cup of cold water The girdle Is of the crepe de chine one hour; peel the rind of one lemon, fastened in fiont with an old gold add It to the soaking gelatine; pour over one cupful of boiling water, stir buckle. Wiener Chic. over the fire two minutes, add one cupThe Faehlonable Womb. ful of sugar, juice of one lemon and have newest all the corsages Nearly one pint of orange juice; strain; pour a tiny basque in the back; sometimes in a mold to the depth of half an inch It Is formed by the ribbons of the some of the liquid; when it is stiffened celnture, but it is always a basque, put in a layer of mixed fruits-banannondescript as it may be. oranges. or pineapple then more liquid; For the street during shopping hours when stiffened add more fruit and cona great many blouses will be worn, tinue until fruit aud liquid arc used; much trimmed with the fashionable stand the mold in a cool place; ccrve English embroideries, lace and tuckcream. with ing. The marked change in their cut EB17 to Get. is noticeable In the sleeve, which Is lace a Have you real smart more ample than last season, and In the shoulders, which show less inclin- jacket? If you havent, and want one, and ation to sloping. cannot pay the price In the shops?, The Poison of the Lily. make one for yourself. A German botanist lias discovered Get an eton pattern and cut and fit that the pretty flower known as the it. Finish with a lace or beribboned lily of ihe valley contains a poison of edge. Use your skill with the needle the most deadly kind. Not only the and your good taste and presto! you flower itself but also the stem as well become the possessor of. about the contains an appreciable quantity of same thing on exhibit in the shops. prussic acid. While injecting a concocYou see, time and art and needle-cra- ft tion of lily of the valley into the ear of and design must be counted in a guinea pig he noticed the animal suc- the price of the garment you admire cumbed immediately, with all the in the shop. symptoms of poisoning by hydrocyanic Litlla Tips. acid, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. little of Chemical analysis the The juice of a lemon taken In hot plant has disclosed, however, the presence of water on awakening in the morning is an excellent liver corrective and is this poisonous constituent, to which medicine instrange to say scientists attribute pre- better than any anti-fa- t cisely the penetrating perfume of the vented. The finest of manicure acids Is lily of the valley. The attention of the German botanist has been drawn by made by putting a teaspoonful of lemthe fact that one of his gardeners has on juice in a cupful of warm water. felt himself seized with dizziness and This removes most stains from tho vomiting after having Inadvertently lingers and nails To prevent a mustard plaster injurraised a bunch of lilies of the valley to his mouth, the lips of which were ing the skin mix the mustard with the white of an egg. cracked. as, Stern Father What an unearthly hour that young fellow stops till every Childless night, Dora. What does your mother The wife who has passed her many say about it? Daughter She says years of married life in childless mothmen havent altered a bit since she was erhood, has lost from out that life a young, pa. Glasgow Times. greatness and pleasure that she may skin-deenot have realized at first, but that is Beautys only so they say; Ah, well, thats plenty deep enough for brought home to her with redoubled me; force and meaning when she has never get me to give myself away While the surface still is beautiful to passed the zenith and is coming to unsee. care and responsibility, but she has lost from her life in unalloyed joy more than she has escaped of sorrow. close-fittin- g to-nig- ht, She (proudly) o all-ov- er |