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A rs a : : ts tead He--0h, I didn't put it in that bald WOMEN AND HEIR WAYS ers have puzzled their wise old heads mors beudsotba_fursent = ead ola way. 1 only said t it was impos A Budget of Interesting Things For Fair Readers Clipped From Many Sources--Snatches of Poetry for Women Who Flirt. The question is, "Are there any women who do not flirt #' Conscious- ly or umconsciously, a spirit of fun and more or less coquetry is born in every woman, and it depends on her own character, mostly, as to the importance of the issue. The quality may develop into the mania of exact- ing the "scalp" of all her men friends; that is to say, ordinary friendship of men is unsatisfactory to her' without she can commsnd from them a deep- er feeling, and reduce the spirit of comraderie to sentimental depths: Alas ! for the pity of it. That is the sort of woman who flirts with evéry man any man, and causes girls who like not her me thods to veil their fun and harmless merriment for fear) of appearing to emulate her. She is not a satisfactory personage, she becomes in time in- capable of the finer: fedlings of affec- tion, and, . indeed, of any honest, heartfelt emotion at all. She is shue- ned by men who fear to comé under her sway, and carelessly tolerated by others as case-hardened as. herself. There are other varieties of flirta- tion, I know a woman who systema- tically flirts with her own husband-- she is young and pretty, and quite irresistible, and 'he' allows himself to be coquetted into all sorts of ir- dulgent weaknesses. He is so absolute- ly satisfied with the arrangement, however, that nothing can be said 'against it; and I expect he sees through it too. Men usually do. I do not know whether it is quite fair to call that light friendship that often exists hetween well-meaning members of the sexes "flirtation"; it is a word that car mean so much, and that often really signifies so lit- tle. The friendship that girls give to girls and that men give to men can- not be compared with it, vet often what is the difference ? 'Merely that spirit of coquetry that is setond na- tire to a woman and that fires 'men to admiration. The coguetry, probably remains harmless A handful of fun. A totich of vanity, and the merest spice of. , produce . a condition that is tly amusing and provoca- tive of merriment only, But it is when i is allowed to creep in, whem the uncurhed emotions are allowed full sway--then the serious side ol the question becomes appar- ent. A woman who flirts in the real sense of the word is one who is cal- lous enough to provoke deep emotion in a man for whom she has not the same amopnt of feeling. But to ton- demn wh women who "flirt"-- using the word in its lightest and most unserious sense--is to condemn comparatively the whole sex, from the merest baby in the railway carriage, who gurgles and simpers at the only mah present upwards to the matron who meets an old admirer at an ev- ening party, and rallies him to her side with a movement, of her fan. The Girl Behind The Pie. Baltimore News \ The man behind the cannon and the girl behind the man Have been sung in fabled story ever since the world b fe From the day of Trojan Helen leader of a grizzled 5 To the time of ** M Moorphy, mas- cot of de bloomin' Third." Round the world have sped the stories of the brave who do or die, But we've never heard an anthem of the Gig] Behind the Pie. There she stands with cup of coffee, slabs of pastry, chunks of cake, Temptingly arrayed around her, dyspepsia in their wake-- And she eyes the deadly sinkers with a most bewitching ey2, As a stream of willing victims sorrow- fully wander by: Filled or filling, starvedor foundered go they to their varied ways, And for her who works the pie pump they have nought but ready praise with Call her Liz or plain Eliza, or Elizabeth, mayhap, Since the chance is ten to nothing that she doesn't care a rap-- Call her "madam" she will snicker; her "honey" she will frown: But "you're safe to call her anything, so vou don't call her down "Sinkers up--draw one!" she murmurs: Ah! the magic of her voice Is a wicked death to sorrow, and a bid- ding to rejoice. call You may keep your fabled wonders in the long immortal line, But I'll take the little pio girl as the heroine in mine ! Ay. I'lligake the little pie girl jin her suit of drab, As she cuts a bran new custard, when 1 ask her for a slab! Laud vour man behind the cannon and his girl up to the . But I'm writing here this anthem to the Girl Behind the Pie. New Language. The language of gloves may now be added to those secret tongues which find speech in flowers, fans, and even the prosaic postage stamp, "Yes," so we are told, is implied by dropping one glove, "no," by rolling the gloves in the right hand, if encouragement strike your left shoulder. "I should like to be beside you" is implied by gently smoothing the gloves; the war- ning, "vou are observed," is signified by turning them round the fingers. To ask if you are loved, glove the leit | hand except the thumb, and declare | I love you," let both gloves fall. "1 love you no longer" is pronounced by K the gloves several times against the chin. "I hate you," by them the Romantic. displeasure strike the back of the hand against the gloves, and if you are furious take them away altogeth- er.----Golden Penny. -- A Psalm Of Life. Tell me not in mournful pumbers, Eating is an empty dream; For the man is thin that hungers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real. life is earnest, And to diet is to starve; Dust thou art, to dust peturnest, Does not mean we should not carve Let us then be up and doing, With an appetite for bread, Still a-cooking, still a~chewing, Learn to eat and well fed. 3 Eva L. Fitch in Chicago Recorg-Herald. Daily Child Story. "I want a hair brufB for my mam- ma's birthday present," little Johnpy as he approached the gounter. "What kind of a brush wo! ypu like ?"' asked the clerk. "Oh, any kind, so it has a soft back," explained the youthful philo- sopher, | uMLLE, LUCIE FAURE, Daughter of the late President Faure, of Frante, - soon to marry M. Pierre Coyan, the noted author. Almost Leap Year, They had been talking as they walked. She had remarked parentheti- cally : "Oh, it must be terrible to a man to be rejected by.a woman." "Indeed it must," wa# his response. Then, after a while, with the- tic disihgenuousness, she exocla : "I don't think that I could ever have the heart to do it." And there came a silence between them as he thought it over.--London Tit-Bits, Wedding Superstitions. Stumbling upstajrs indicates a wed- ding in the home before the year is out, If a spinster or bachelor be inadver- tently placed between a married pair at the dinner. table, he or she will be married before the year is-out. If the . wedding gown, af being completed, is put on before time for the ceremony, the marrigge will never take place. A bride, to have good luck at her wedding must wear : ? Something old and something new, Something borrowed and sofisething blue, An odd superstition prevails in France which tells wus that in- a double wedding the bride who first leaves the church will have a boy for her first child, » Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. A rhyme of husbands tells us the best months to choose for marriage : A January husband will lcve none but you A February husband will be blest with shekels few; A March husband storms sometimes like March winds, An April husband's quite chapgeable you'll find, : A husband wed in May is handsome but not wise. A husband wed in June to fame is bound to rise A July husband's eiit is more of wealth than sense An August husband's knowledge 8 some- times guite immense. September grooms are said to care for eatine joys, October brings happiness withpat al- loys November husband's love grows sometimes rather cold. Pecamber, brings forth faithfulness and old pi If : hen cackles as a bride grosses the threshold of her new she will be a happy mother as lL as a contented wife. A Love Story. How does 4 man fall in love? As him, you say ? Bless vou, he doesn't know. He sees a pretty face, he feels a clinging hand, he meets a winning smile and it's all over with him. He takes to pazing sadly at the moon and humming sentimental songs. He madly scribbles verses, He dashes to the florist's. He spends agonized hours on his toilet. He writes a dozen notes before he produces one fit for the ob- ject of his dreams. Sleep deserts him. Food has no attraction. What is the matter ? Js he crazy ? Not at all. He is in love. He has been doing this sort of thing ever since Adam first met Eve under the applé.tree. How it inside out. As a sign of happens he doesn't kno. That's what about it more than about the immor- tality of the soul. What is it in a man that makes it possible ? What is it in a woman that makes it actual? Is it a beauty ? As a matter of fact some of the jest women in history have exerted the strongest fascination for men. Is it virtue? Hardly, Is it the innocence of youth ? Connoisseurs say that a woman is never really fas- cinating until she is past thirty-five. How it is that life-long friends quar- rel and separate, men light and die. kingdoms fall, all for love of a wo- man ?--Elizabeth Westwood, in New York World. The Tone Of Voice. Home Chat. It is not so much what vou say. As the manner in which you say it; It is not so much the language you use, As the tone in which you convey it. The words may be mild and fair, And the tones may piekce like a dart; The words may be soft as the summer air, And. the tonés may bréak the heart. -- The Canadian Girl At Her Best. The unity of the empire was not more seriously threatened by the Al- aska decision than it is by the pert pen of some English woman who has been traducing our = Canadian women and their dress. The prize of besuty between the English and the Canadian girl it must be left to Venus to award. That the arbitress of beauty would award the prize to the English girl is not so certain as the English. woman fancies. It is certain that she would hesitate long and that her deliverance would not be rude. The Englishwoman is bold enough to say that she would send her lover to Can- ada without any fear of his being captured by the attractions of Cana- dian girls. She had better not risk the experiment in summer, when the Canadian girl is in her simple and natural dress, with a bodice and skirt of different colors and a round straw hat. She might do it much more safe- ily when the Canadian girl is array- ed in one of the divine costumes so rapturously described in our society papers.--Bystander in Weekly Sun. Heading Of A Gossip. Miss Kidder--They've only been mar- ried six months, but whenever her husband goes away on a business trip she's delighted and prepares to | have a good time. Miss Meanley--Aha ! 1 suspected something like that. ways said-- Miss Kidder--Yes. You see, he takes her with him. What She Thought Of Him. A little girl suffering from tooth- ache 'was in his chair to have the tooth removed. She refused to let him proceed at first, being afraid of the pain. "It won't hurt you, little one,™ said the dehtist. 'There, now, open your mouth. It won't hurt." Half a minute's work removed the tooth, and as the little girl cried softly, the den- tist said: "Didn't I tell you it wouldn't hurt ? What do you think of me now ?" Looking up at him with her big brown eyes she replied : "I think you're the biggest liar in town." The dentist has quit telling people tooth pulling doesn't = hurt."--Rich Hill, Mo., Review. Do vou know 1 al- Want It Revived. A marriage custom of the ggod old days, which many brides would like to see reviv is the giving of the dow purse. This was a sum of money placed in a purse and given by the bridegroom to the bride either on the evening -of their marriage or the next morning. Another phase of the same thing obtained formerly in Cumber- land, England, where the bridesroom provided himself with golden crown pieces. At the words "With all my worldly goods 1 thee endow," in the marriage service, he gave the clergv- man his fee and poured the rest of the money into a handkerchief held out by the bride. A Bunch Of Things. The hair will be worn high for ev- enings and ornamented with dainty wreaths of leaves, garlands of tiny pink or white roses, spravs of golden wheat, aigrettes of feather, lace or narrow gauge ribbon. Of.course the possessor of a diamond butterfly, star, sun or arrow will know what to do with it in the hair.--Chicago Exa- miner. Co-operative wedding presents are now, quite the fashion. When a couple plicates, the brideelect is often asked to say what she would like to have, Mrs. Gladstone helped her husband more by keeping the house and child- ren quiet when he was writing one of his great speeches than Ly criticising or actively helping him. Mr. Glad: stone gave her praise for his best work, ~Chicago News. The delicate "scent" known as law ender, which was in hich favor with the women of the English and French courts hundreds of years aco as 'a perfume, is being increasingly used among London's society folks, and in onsequence the cultivation of the [femprant plant from which it is dis- tilled is becoming more and more gen- r---- Promises. Once when 1 was very sick And doctor thought 1'd die And mother comldn't simile at me But it just turned to .cry That was the time for promises, You should have heard them tell The lots of good things, I could have If I'd gét well! But when the fever went away, And | bewan to mend, And begged to eat the goodies That Grandma Brown would send, They said' beel tea was better, And gave my pes to Nell, And lauched and said, You're mighty Cross Since you got well" ' ~Century. MISS CONSTANCE LIVERMORE, The popular society girl and daughter of the Baroness Seilliere, of New York, Newport and Paris, whose marriage to Count Odom de Lubersac, of Paris, will be the next t international marriage, according . t plans Miss Liver. more is LU Cross country rider. Almost Heroic. A farmer went Jito the office of a Bedicrd, Me dentist the other day and inquired what the charge was for pulling a tooth. "Twenty-five cents without gas and fifty. cents if you t gas," replied the dentist. "I don't want any gas," said the farmer. "I admire your courage," replied the dentist. "Most people want to take as." "Oh, it isn't me; it's my wife that's going to have the tooth out," explain ed the farmer.--New York Tribune, Tea Cup ' Fortunes.' When the tea has been drunk and only the tea leaves and tea dust are left in the cup, turn the cup over slowly, bottom side up, and turn it three times on the saucer. Then when you put it in proper. position again study the figures which the grounds resemble, or the figures they wouid make if lines were drawn from one particle to another. Here is a list of the meanings. Square--A journey, A heart--Good news from afar. Birds--Gocd news at. home. The mouse--A mounthin of trouble. 'Pot--Much fun and merriment at home. Pipe--Peace, contentment, good will Like All Dreams. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed small Wil- lie. "I dreamed that I had a real live pony !"' "And what became asked his mother. "I think it runned away at the place I woke up," apswered the little fel low. of it, dear?" Putting It Mild. She--Don't you think you were rather severe in saying that Matilda sible for her to keep her mouth shut except in a dentist's office.-- Boston Transcript, ---- The Motherlook. Chicago Tribune. You take the finest woman with th' roses in her cheeks. An' all th' birds a si each time she spea Her hair all black an' glowin' mass o' . An' still th' tale o' beauty isn't more th'a half way told There ain't a word that tells it; all de scription it defies-- The motherlook that lingers in a happy woman's eyes fin' 'In her voice Goamin' or a Bridget's Prosperity. "Pa," said little Tom, "ain't my own house *"' : s, laddie,"" said Indulgent Pa. " said Tom, with a tear in his brown eye, "why won't the hired girl let me do as I like in my own house ?"' "My child," said Pa, ft as harsh to me as she is to you. guess it's prosperity that ails her." this How Do You Treat Your Mother ? Girls, how many of you kiss your mother good night and morning? A loving kiss is a wonderful antidote for a care-furrowed brow and tired heart. y All through your life, in joy and in sorrow, that loving mother kiss has never failed you, and now turn, Your mother is the best friend you have ever had or ever will have. "All the world, father, brother, sister, hus- band, child, friends, may desert you, but shining steadfast and true, through good report and ill will be the beautiful mother love that has been yours ever since you were first placed in her arms a tiny pink-faced aby. What are you giving ker in return for all these years of seli-sacrifice and devotion ? Some day those loving, patient eyes will close forever, -and the dear, toil hardened hands will be quietly folded, ahd then with a passion of regret you will realize that you never did half enough for her. Do it now, and save yourself this suf- fering. --New York Journal, Daily Romance. They were engaged. Her great fear was she wouldn't. please his people. "l know that you love me Top hat will your people. like me? I want them to like me for your sake, and I am awfully afraid that they won't." "There's no occasion to worry about that, darling." ; "But 1 do worry, dearest: they may not see me with vour eyes, and it will be just terrible if they disapprove of me." "How could anybody" disapprove of you? I'm sure nobody could." "It's very sweet of you to say that; but Thm still worried for fear that may not be quite the girl that your relatives would have picked out = for You. "I think that I'm quite old enough to decide such matters for myself." 'I'm glad' you feel so hopeful, Jdear: that is, if you are - hopeful, and are not talking just to cheer me up." "I am perfectly sincere, darling, and know that my people will not cause you any trouble." "But when am 1 to see them} 1 hate to meet them, and vet I long to have the trial over. When is the meeting to be ?" "Not for some time yet, I hope. You'll have to wait and meet them in heaven. I am an orphan, and haven't a relative living." --New York Times. Fad, Fact And Fancy. A Bt. Louis widow was married pe- cently with a baby in her arms. Severity is in background this sea- son, as fashion elects that dainty fluf- fness shall rule. Stockings were first used in. the eleventh century. Previous to that cloth bandages were worn on the feet Men are beauty-seckers, too. Haven't you observed how they pursue a pretty girl *--Clicago Reo herald. i When 'masculine arms form knot any marriage see that they want Dispatch. v A man refuses to believe that a girl knows how to kiss unless he has it di- rect from her own lips.--~Chicago News, The yearly expenses of the sultan of Turkey have been. estimated at no Jess a sum than $20,000,000. Of this $7, 500,000 alone is spent on the clothing of the women. "Your blush is like the roses red." Said he, while courting the maiden sweet; But after marriage he simply said : "Jane, your face is as red as a beet !" a waist license clerk can knot. --Pit tshurg ~Chicago News. When packing one's finery for travel. ing roll ribbons and sash ends up tightly and fasten the end with a small pin. To fold them means to crease them across at regular intervals, and this surely involves the use of an iron before thoy are wearable. Look over-both tablecloth and nap kins before they are put to soak. Place the stained portion of the linen over, a deep bowl and pour boiling water through it, repeating the operation un- til the stain disappears. Soap will set stains made by fresh fruit, so it is necessary that they should be taken out before being laundried, In the universities and colleges, which in 1870 had hardly any women, there are to-day 23,000 women, ag op- posed to 37,000 men. Numerically the recent figures are almost striking, in 1800 women formed 31.9 per cent. of the whole body. In 1598 the women were 26.1 per cent. Between 1890 and 180% men in "co-ed" colleges increased 70 per cent. 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