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Icoeary rlaindealer. ?Y3r"" r. «*. M II n I.mMh ' **":' McHENRY, ' ILLINOIS. w< By John Taylor Waldorf vr; s m*?. ®;; W:- &-ki &c • Eacon. "Do you remember what Charls? Lamb says about roast pig? How he falls into an ecstasy of laudation, spelling the very name with .small cap­ itals, as if the lower case were too mean for such a delicacy, and break­ ing away from the cheap encomiums of the vulgar tongue to hail it in sonorous Latin as principes obsonior- uia. There is some truth in his com­ pliments, no doubt; but they are wasteful, excessive, imprudent. For if all this praise is to be lavished on plain, fresh, immature, roast pig, what adjectives shall we find for the riper, richer, more subtle and sustaining viand, broiled bacon? asks Henry Van Dyke, in Scribner's. On roast pig a man cannot work; often he cannot sleep, it he have partaken of it im­ moderately. Bt|t bacon "brings to its sweetness no" satiety." It strengthens the arm while it satisfies the palate. Crisp, juicy, savory; delicately salt as. the breeze that blows from the sea; faintly pungent as the blue smoke of incense wafted from a clean wood fire; * aromatic, appetizing, nourishing,* ' ft stimulant to the hunger which it ap­ peases, 'tis the matured bloom and consummation of the mild little pig, spared: by foresight for a nobler fate than juvenile roasting, and brought by art and man's device to a perfection surpassing nature. All the problems of woodland cookery are best solved by the baconian method. And when we say of one escaping great disaster that he has "saved his bacon," we say that the physical basis and the quin- tessinal comfort of his life are un­ touched and secure. New Plan to Save Child Labor. A proposition to take all children under 14 years of age from factories and other places of employment and send them to school has been made by N. O. Nelson, a millionaire manufac­ turer, to the women's clubs of St. Louis. Mr. Nelson is to pay the chil­ dren half the amount they would re­ ceive for their work, and the clubs the other half. The clubs have yet to give their decision and, pending it, Mr. Nel­ son has undertaken to do the work himself, says Reader Magazine. He has investigated for several weeks past every application to the truant officer for permits for children under agei to work in the factories, and has, at the present writing, found seven worthy cases. Each week these chil­ dren call at Nelson's office and receive the money they would have beqn paid for working--an average of three dol­ lars a week. Then the children have been returned to thei£ schools. In less than one-third of the cases inves­ tigated by Mr. Nelson did he find the people to be actually in need of Che children's services. Trouble Ahead. * fPh® trustees of the public library at> Maiden, Mass., announce that they will not "put in circulation a novel which a decent woman may not read to a decent man without blushing." As •this is a standard of excellence which cannot be applied a priori, ft may be necessary to appoint a committee to exercise the novel censorship. The difficulty of finding a deecnt man will be equalled only by that of submitting a decent woman to such an ordeal, says the New York Post The latter might, after a time, grow hardened and maintain a deathly pallor while reading aloud from dubious works. It would not always be easy to distin­ guish a blush of modesty from what novelists call " a flush of vexation." The man might even blush while the woman remained pale, and, lastly, the blushing might be caused not by the book, but by the presence of the man. if ' • big, hearty 'Tttffcs what (J; Index to Prosperity. The earnings of the great steel cor­ poration afford an infallible index to the prosperity of the country. The figures for the calendar year 1906 are impressive, the total being over $156,- 619,000, against $119,850,000 in 1905, $73,176,000 in 1904, and $109,271,000 in 1903. The showing for last year was a result of the phenomenal activity in- building, railroad construction and im­ provement and steadily increasing de­ mand for iron and steel in every form. And, continues the Troy Times, the business done by concerns outside the so-called "trust" attained still larger proportions. The new year begins with mills overcrowded with orders, those of the "trust" yet unfilled amounting to 8,489,718 tons, the largest ever known, and the prospects are favora­ ble to another record breaker. If the Elkhart man who, in a fit of jealousy, threw scalding coffee in bis pretty wife's face, disfiguring her for life, were to' be tried before a jury of women he would doubtless be sen­ tenced to be boiled in oil. If he had merely killed her he might have some hope. In the station platform at desolate Xerxes Junction stood two impatient men. The big, lumbering, round-faced man, was Col. Joe Layson; the thin, sallow one ;was Henry Clay Finley. It was campaign time, and the twain were "swinging around the circle,' Col. Layson as the candidate of the "Outs" for governor and Finley as the spellbinder paid to extol the merits of his party's standard bearer. The afternoon train that was to stop at Xerxes Junction and take on pas­ sengers for Ardenia was late, and the rough old colonel began to swear as he studied his watch. , "I'll be here in a minute, governor," said Finley soothingly, carefully ob­ serving the custom of " addressing can­ didates by the title to which they as­ pire. , A scrawny, bent-over- old woman, carrying an apronful of wood, came out of the clump of trees across the railroad track and limped along until she reached the platform, where she stopped and looked up into the colonel's face with vacant eyed curi­ osity. Finley was shocked. "Such beastly manners!" he ex­ claimed. "Shall I order her to be off, governor?" Before the colonel could answer the old woman clambered upon the platform and limped eagerly to his side. "Be you the guvner?" she asked The colonel smiled a smile, and answered: "Tlfiftte they call me." "Won't you pardon my boy? He's servin' five years in Osborn prison. The old man's been sick abed for months and I ain't able to work, and we're nearly starvin'. Pardon the boy, won't you, guvner? I wanted to go down to the capital a year ago when they took Dannie away, hut I had no money and I couldn't walk that far." The colonel raised his finger and seemed about to explain, but the wom­ an talked on piteously. "They say he stole a cow for Haider, the cattle king that lives down at Belden. Maybe you know him. I don't believe Dannie did any stealin', but if he did, guvner, it wouldn't be right rushin' him off to prison and Ieavin' old Haider free and still hirin' honest folks' boys to steal cattle for him." ' "It doesn't seem right, for a fact," admitted the colonel. "But, my good woman," interrupted Finley, "there was certainly no evi* dence against Mr. Haider, or surely the majesty of the law would have been sustained and he, too, would have suffered the punishment of the transgressor," - . « "I don't catch all your fine words, mister, but I know Dan's in 'prison and Haider is guilty. Fine words can't get round them facts." "Well put," chuckled the colonel. "Finley, it would be a good scheme if you'd talk English once in awhile." The woman looked puzzled a mo­ ment, but the colonel's face was kindly, and, throwing down her bundle of wood, she dropped on her knees before him. "Please pardon my boy, guvner: The old man and me'll die before spring if you don't. It won't hurt you to pardon him. He ain't ho dangerous crim'nal. Anybody round here'll tell you Dannie Higgs was never before the judge till this time. He's all the child I got left, guvner. Don't keep him from me." The colonel helped Mrs. Higgs to her feet and led her, to a bench just outside the door of the little telegraph office. All the while he was thinking deeply. He was the candidate of the "Outs" for governor; the "Ins" had a natural majority of 50,000 votes; Gov. John Randall, with a good official record to back him, was up for re­ election, and Col. Joe Layson had as much chance of becoming governor as he had of gaining the throne of Turkey. He had revolved the situa­ tion in his mind, and as he found his inspiration Mrs. Higgs started to rise, but he waved her back, saying: "Just wait, there, madam, until I send a message and get an answer. I'm go­ ing to investigate this matter at once." , Finley whistled, but the colonel only frowned anrf* stalked into the telegraph office. For perhaps two minutes he wrote steadily. When he had finished he hurriedly gathered up the satisfactory sheets and slammed them down on the operator's table. "Here, my man,** he commanded, "send this in a big hurry." The operator looked up Sleepily, rubbed his eyes and -read: "To lion. John Randall, "Executive Mansion, Eagleton: "My Dear Gov.--I'm running against you, but you know it's only for exer- CROW HAD $200 RING. cise, and I want you to help me out of a hole that has nothing to do with politics. I've got an old woman here who takes me for you and wants me to pardon fi^r son. It would be a shame to undeceive her, and, anyway, I'm better looking than you are. The boy's name 4s Dan Higgs. He was sent up for five years for cattle steal­ ing. His father is slcl^ and both fa­ ther and mother are staring. Par­ don the boy for -me, John. I never en­ vied you your job until this minute, and. even now I want ,it only long enough to pardon a cow stealer. An­ swer at once. I'll wait here at this God forsaken junction until I hear from you. "Joseph Layson." It was the longest and by far the oddest .telegram knoWn in Xerxes junction. The operator looked du­ bious, and timidly suggested: "You might skeletonize this and save money." ' V "No, sir," said the colonel, decided­ ly. "Send every blamed word of it. This is a matter of state." The operator labored with the lpes- s&ge while the colonel went out\ on the platform to tell Mrs. Higgs to wait patiently. Soon after the message had gone over the, wires the Ardenia train came puffing in. "Come on, governor," said Finley. "We can't wait any longer." "I can't leave now," answered the colonel leaning languidly against the station door. "But you must. We speak In Ar­ denia to-night." ' "You can make enough noise for both of us." "Ardenia counts on hearing you, governor," urged Finley. "A willful disappointment like this might ruin your chances of election." "You know I never had any, Finley. What's the use of saying that? Any­ how, I'm not going." With that he took a seat on the bench beside Mrs. Higgs. "You'd better be moving, Fin­ ley," he added. "I'll join you at Beeds- burg in the morning." Just then the operator came rushing out with a message. The colonel seized it, almost tearing it in half In his eagerness, then held the pieces in shaking hands while he read: "Dear Colonel--Have telephoned to warden at Osborn. , No objection there. Higgs' pardon signed this min­ ute. Glad to be of service. "John Randall." The colonel turned to Mrs. Higgs. "It's all right," he said, thickly, "your boy will be home to-morrow." "Thank you, thank you. You're the best guvner God ever made." At this she broke down and sobbed. "All abroad!" shouted the conduc­ tor. The colonel took a step toward the train. "It's all right," he repeated. "I've done only my duty, but if you feel grateful, tell the boy to vote for me, John Randall, for governor." v; In Kansas City a man was fined for ^ taking his wife across his knee and spanking her. Evidently she did not consider that she was in her second childhoed. Leave Your Child Alone. If you'll get deep enough into a child's confidence you'll find that it's one burning desire--the one dream of what it intends to do when it gets grown--is to get away from mamma and papa and do some perfectly sim­ ple thing that it is not allowed to do at home. There is not one child in a thousand among well to do people who are able to give what they consider sufficient care to their children who isStyef per­ mitted the slightest independence of action or thought. That is what makes poverty a bless­ ing to children, and the reason that .so many of our most famous men and women and our most daring and orig­ inal thinkers have sprung from the humblest walks in life. ARE KEEN AFTER RECRUIT* Intense Rivalry Between Army arid Navy Departments. «, , An army officer In Washington on a visit has directed attention to difficul­ ty officers are experiencing in secur­ ing recruits for the army in order to keep it up to anywhere near its legal quota. He added that the scarcity of material for the making of fighting men had resulted in a peculiar condi­ tion in certain places where there are both arqpy and navy recruiting depots. It has been charged that officers in charge of naval recruiting have "swiped" recruits that had been prom­ ised to the army, and vice versa, so keen has beconje the rivalry between th» two branches of the service. He pointed to a recent occurrence at Sioux City, which is considered one of the best recruiting points in the United States. The army was the first to establish a station tb^re. Then fol­ lowed the marines, and lastly the navy came in its quest for sailormen. At first, it is said, the three officers in charge of the several stations were on friendly terms, but that condition Is said to exist no longer. Each officer is trying to outdo the other, and any in­ fringement on each other's territory I* quickly and hotly resented. It is un­ derstood that an applicant is not en­ listed until he reaches headquarters, and many are said to be. enticed to rival station^. Among the causes ad­ vanced for the scarcity of material for the" army are the severd penalties that are inflicted by the courts-martial and the absence of "extras" in the menus of the military posts, due to the abo­ lition of the army canteen, which for merly supplied a company fund to provide butter, milk and other things not contemplated in the army supply list. MADE LIVING FROM RUBBISH? Queer and Profitable Occupation of Washington Man. A queer character ^yho frequented the streets of Washington several years ago is said to have recently passed away in New York city. It was his practice during the regime of the old street-sweeping machines to go along the gutters on the main thor­ oughfares of the 'city every morning before the hand sweepers were out of their beds and delve into the piles of refuse that had been cast up by ma­ chine sweepers. It is said he found mkny articles of value and frequently money in the rubbish. The boys of the streets called the old man "Jack the Dipper." His right name was said to be McCarthy, and he was described as "lively and full of fun." One morning just at the peep o,s dawn McCarthy is said to have un­ earthed a pile of silver dimes and quarters and some nickels in one of the street piles. In all the find amounted to about three dollars, and the "dipper" declared that he felt like a Rockefeller. The pile was in front of a barroom, and he thought that the money had perhaps been lost by some drunken fellow who fell Into the street after the saloon had closed at midnight. Ever afterward he made it a point first to visit the saloon fronts along his "route" In quest of the losses of some belated "drunk." In New York he 4s said to have been employe^ as a member of tho great "flock" of "white wings." English Royalties on Thrones. It is interesting to note how rapidly the members of the English royal fam­ ily are dividing up the royal spoils of Europe. An English princess is on the throne of Norway; another, Princess Margaret of Connaught, will some day wear the Swedish crown. The daugh­ ter of the late Princess Alice, King Ed­ ward's sister, is now the czarina, the son of the duke of Albany is duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the eldest daugh­ ter of the duke of Edinburgh is crown princess of Rumania, the crown prin­ cess of Greece is a daughter of King Edward's eldest sister, while a daugh ter of Princess Henry of Battenberg wlth beauty and the present struc is on the Spanish throne. They Must Like It. "Does this powder really kill the cockroaches?" asked the housekeeper at the grocery. "Why, certainly not," replied the grocer. "If it. did we wouldn't sell a third of the quantity." Now it is reported ; that»**anot»er eruption is threatened of Mount Ve­ suvius. endangering the villages on the side of the mountain. It certainly looks as though the earth were trying bard to turn itself inside out without the slightest regard for the feelinS ot its population. investigator bas "'realty succeeded in overcoming gravi­ tation, then flying machines should be a matter? of • ten-cent wings. Feathered Pet's Liking for Bright Things Was Unfortunate. A $200 diamond ring was stolen from Mrs. Herman Stoddard's bed­ room, Verona, N. J., the black thief was killed and the ring recovered. Mrs. Stoddard loves birds. She calls her home "The Aviary." She feeds birds and builds homes for them on the estate. So they become quite fear­ less, but, of all, a crow has shown the greatest tameness and familiarity. The windows of Mrs. Stoddard'B room were open, her rings were on a dresser. A maid entered the room; the,crow was on the dresser; it said caw" pleasantly to the maid, flew out of ji window and perched on a tree branch near. The maid told Mra. Stoddard, who could not find her en­ gagement ring, where she had left it She \yfts loath to believe that any of her pets was dishonest, but the crow WPS under suclx strong suspicion that Adolph Schmidt shot it. He cut opei^ Chief Producers of Sllkb China and Japan between them pro­ duce 12,500 tons of silk yearly. band with three links of a small brass chain, sowing that it bad been in cap tivity at some time. Threading a Thousand Needles. A machine which threads 1,000 needles a minute is at work in a Swiss factory. The purpose of the machine Is to thread needles that are placed afterwards in a loom for making laceo Tho . device is almost entirely automatic. It takes the needle, carries it along, threads it, ties the knot, cuts the thread off a uniform length, then carries the needle across an open space, and places it in a rack. Tfte work of threading these needles wa^ fofmerly done by hand. ' Unlovely Water Tanks. 'No doubt," observed the man wbo has fallen into the habit of observing the doings of others with critical eyes, the structures which are being put up on the roofs of buildings in the business sections of the city add to the security from fire. For they are tanks filled with -water and their func­ tion is to flood the threatened build­ ing when the flre appears. There is no question about the utility of these attachments, but why should all re­ gard for appearance, not to say beauty, be overlooked in their design? If there is anything in preserving some uniformity in whaat artists and others delight to call the sky line of the streets of the city, why is the bare and unadorned water tank perched high up on the roofs of buildings al­ lowed?" "Have you any idea of what it costs to put up one of those unadorned water tanks as you term them?" asked one of the group, who heard the re­ marks of the critical citizen. "Per- h£^s if you did you would think they were beautiful, even though without ornamentation or artistic form as you suggest. "That's the usual argument put up by the ignorant sordid," replied the first speaker. "Cost has nothing to tures are a disgrace to the city."--- Washington Star. Too Eager Tor Birthday. The little girl had celebrated her third anniversary with a half-dozen little friends to help eat ice cream, cake and candy. In the evening, when mother was tucking her in her little crib, she asked the child whether she enjoyed her party and she responded brightly: "Yes, indeed, mathma. May I have another to-morrow day?" DO WOLVES EAT MEN? Moat of the Yarns to That Effect D* Jr clared to Be Fakes. • sceptical person/ callipg himself St. Croix, has been trying to find out whether wolves and bears are ma­ ligned by the popular stories of their man-eating ways. First he tried running down the stories told in newspaper dispatches. Foiled in this effort, he turned to the Indians: They knew the gray wolf, having wintered and summered with him. Had they ever known of an In­ dian being killed by one? N-no; but Mingan was very crafty and very much to be dreaded. Quite so, but once for all, had be ever to their knowledge killed a man? No, but they had heard-- So it went; always the same intangible, uncon­ firmed rumor and the same absence of proof. "Now for a few facts as to the wolf," writes St. Croix in Recreation. "He can go eight days without food and can then eat 40 pounds of meat at a sitting, so the Indians say. This is pretty fair for an animal weighing but 80 pounds. Yet we do not know the. length of the sitting. "The wolf will not venture on glare ice, he never crosses a lake until there Is enough snow to hide the ice. To wetting his feet he is as averse as the domestic cat. He will not kill his game in the shelter of the forest, al­ ways driving it into some open place for the kill. "When chasing a deer be goes at a leisurely lope, sitting down at Intervals to give the most dolorous and blood curdling howls. This drives the poor victim into a wild gallop and soon ex­ hausts it and as the wolf never tires he is sure sooner or later to catch up with the quarry. "In winter the deer often makes for some wild rapid into which it plunges, knowing that the wolf will not follow. Too often the deer drowns, but better such a death than one by the fangs. "In summer a couple of wolves will secure all the deer they need by very simple tactics. Having put up tho quarry, one wolf drives it by easy stages to some little lake--I speak now of the Laurentian country--and on reaching the shore the deer plunges unhesitatingly In, for its instinct tells it the enemy will not dare to follow. "So on it swims, while the pursuer sits on his haunches and howls dis­ mally, no doubt because he sees his dinner escaping. At length the tired deer drags itself wearily from the water, and shakes the drops from its coat on the sun warmed strand. Then the companion wolf, which has way­ laid its coming, springs at its throat and when the first wolf joins him they have a gorge that makes them inde­ pendent of fate for a whole week.'| / •. its crop; ithere was the ring. Around the bird's leg was & feather v.' An Opportunity Slighted. "Why don't yon buy stock in that company?" "It doesn't siem to me that the men running it have good business judgment. They say that in a month the price .of tb^ stock will b» double." " >• . "Yes?* •' /'r v- ' *'/ "Well, why don't they wjtltf. a month before selling. It to me? Disposing of Increased Salary, > A group of congressmen were ae* sembled in the lobby of the Willard the other night and were discussing the recent increase in salaries voted to themselves. One of the number, a poor man from the far west, found no difficulty in finding justification for his vote in favor of the proposition. But at the same time he regaled his colleagues with a statement made to him by a brother congressman, a rich man, by the way, whose income in one week more than equaled the congres­ sional pay for a year. "I don't pro­ pose to use a cent of the increase," had declared the wealthy member. "I shall give it all to the hospitals of my district." He was somewhat taken aback when his colleague remarked tttat he also would not use a cent of the increase. "How's that?" said the rich fellow. "Well," returned the poor man, "I intend to let my, creditors have it" « 1 * The Get-Away. The race is not always to the swift, but it cannot be denied that the man who gets started first has a big ad­ vantage. , January Festival of Japan. Of the many Japanese festivals none equals in importance the bright, three- day celebration of Sho-gatsu, at the opening of the year, says the Crafts­ man. Before the last night of the old season comes all business debts must be paid, all family differences settled, and the houses themselves scoured and swept to the tiniest corner where dust--or a lingering imp of bad luck-- might be hiding. The New Year sun is supposed to rise upon an immacu­ late community. The ume, being as it were a part of this happy festival, is a symbol of congratulation and good will. But aside from Sho-gatsu, the ume is, to tbe people, essentially a classic flower; sprung from the golden age of China's past. We hav£~something of the same feeling toward the narcissus, the Grecian myrtle and the pomegran­ ate. For old China is to Japan, Greece and Rome in one. The date of the actual bringing over of the ume is not known. In the earliest collection of Japanese poems the Manyoshu, published in the eighth century of our era, many allusions to them as^oa plant already loved and known are found. One charming stanza, done into English by Mr. As­ ton, says: . "On the plnm-blossoms Thick fell the snow. I wished to gather some to show thee But It melted in my hands.1' The dainty conception of the snow on plum flowers, so intermingled in fragile beauty and in faint, chill fra­ grance that one is mistaken for the other, is a favorite among the Japa­ nese, and is often met with in later verse. ' Church for Rest and Prayer. Within a few yards of the marble arch, Hyde Park, London, stands a unique building. This Church of the Ascension was erected at the expense of Mrs. Russel Gurney, widow of the late recorder of London. The building is for rest and meditation only, for no services are ever held within its walls, and on Sundays it Is altogether closed. The floor is tesselated and the walls are covered with paintings, the work 9f Frederick Shields. Admission, which is free, is betweeij three o'clock and five only, When the visitor is ex­ pected to enter his name in a book kept for the purpose. The object of this church is set forth on either side of the entrance as follows: "Passen­ gers through the busy streets of Lon­ don enter this sanctuary for rest and silence and prayer. Let the pictured walls within speak of the past yet ever continuing ways of God and SB man." Paid Back. "Oh, George," she whispered, wben be slipped the engagement ring on her finger, "how sweet of you to remem­ ber my favorite stone. None of the others were so thoughtful." George was staggered for but a moment. Then he came back with: "Not at all, dear; you overrate me. This is the one I've always used." She was inconsistent enough to 017 about it The Crooked Path. "Who is the poor man in tbe ragged coat, mamma?" "An inventor, my child. Thanks to him, the world saves an Incalculable amount of time, labor and money." "And the gentleman with the for* lined coat--he ia not an Inventor, la he?" "Indeed, no. He steals and improves tb6 inventions of others." A • : ,»3 |f » .• » • $ FEMININE QUALITY OF TACT REALLY LITTLE MORE THAN CO,M- MON POLITENESS. Means Avoiding Sayifi|f Tftlnga That Will Hurt a Friend--Pit­ falls for the Oversymp§thetic Person to Oversympathi n to Avoid. ity is a H a quality 0&t is a good btt of a misnomer! There's a species of lying that Is often called tact. "Do you really Iil^e this hat? Mme. Cerise sent it home nearly a week ago, and I have 'been trylhg it on in every pos­ sible angle, and have almost made up myjmind that it is not my style. Do you like me in it? Tell me frankly." "My dear, it is perfectly ducky on you! The prettiest hat I have ever seen you wear." And then, as we three part at the corner Lady Tactful says: "My dear, she looks a perfect pig in that hat! But, after all the nice things she said about my new furs, I couldn't tell her so, could I?" And I said "No." What else cotdd I say? There's a long distance rrtrna 'her method and that of the horrid creat­ ure who prides herself on her "ffank- ness" and who in the expressing of it rides rough-shod over the most sensi­ tive souls, and who would have said: "You're a sight In that hat. I thought so that day you wore It at Maude's luncheon." She doesn't mean to be horrid, and the effect upon that unfortunate hat would have been excellent, for it would have been sent back to Mme. Cerise Instanter and done over, though its poor owner would never have for­ gotten how awfully she, doubtless, looked at Maude's luncheon. Some other person who had achieved the happy mean--I suppose I mean myself; we're all Inclined to think we have a corner on tact--would have found a tiny fault, and after that had been recognized found a dozen others that in total had the effect of happily packing up th#hat in its tissue cover­ ings en route to its maker. But the result would have been no in ware tears nor unhappy feelings of dis- trustfulness toward the fibbing friend or toward the frank one, writes garet Chilton. ^ Politeness goes a long way towafd smoothing the path of long friend­ ships, and wfcmen have a tendency to too great intimacies, during the course of which small politenesses are laid aside as "unnecessary." They never are. The frank person so rarely ia hurt herself by equal sledge-hammer blows that she thinks the sensitive person is merely lacking In courage to facing truths. And the sensitive one thinks her" blunt friend lacking in cacy of character, which probably laii*t so at all. *--^ - Tact is only common politeness! Avoid saying the one thing that's gofc ing to hurt that particular friend; pre­ sumably you know her well enough to know what does hurt. It means avoid* lng discussing scandals or even small shortcomings of the other's loved friends or/relatives. One mostly doesn't ado?e one's relatives for sorpe unexplained reason that we neverthe­ less recognize; but, in spite of that, we usually like to do all the "slanging" ef them ourselves. And the role of con­ fidante on this particular subject hat its own especial pitfalls for the over- sympathetic one who hasn't learned the first principles of tact 4 The truly tactful a person Is mo3t§| polite to elderly people, but doesn^t do it as though the poor dears were actually antique, but as though sbe naturally had a courtesy toward a woman older than herself. She doesn't bubble over with sweetness to the one shabbily dressed woman at k bridge afternoon, but quietly includes her aa part of them all. She talks to the shy man as though she found him especial­ ly interesting, and does most of the talking herself till he is ready to con­ quer his diffidence, and, above all, she doesn't comment to others of her mint istrations. Politeness, golden rule and a few other long-taught maxims nice­ ly cover the question of tact. A wom­ an of tact is one whose love for hu­ manity is second only in her life's <J% votion, and whose watchword is tat* selfishness in thought and action regard to otherB. FOR THEATER OR EVENINQ. Elaborately Trimmed Waist of .Em­ broidered Batiste, VT. Dainty theater or evening waist of embroidered^ -batiste elaborately trimmed w|m ©pen-work Insertion, V/ rosettes of embroidery and Valen­ ciennes lace. . ' On the front of the Ifiouse Is a ruf­ fle of lace headed by a band of inser­ tion. The bretelles are of the ma­ terial ornamented with loops of ribbon and buttons. The sleeves are covered with lace ruffles and finished with cuffs of the open-work embroidery and lace inser- In the Mp$»« The checked velveteens make de­ lightful walking suits. Underskirts of Batiste and chint silk are in season again. Some of the novelty suitings are spotted with big chenille dots. Trim your black net waist with rib­ bon velvet .in the Greek key pat­ tern." Very beautiful old-fashioned bro­ cades are shown for evening gowns for older women. High girdles of silk elastic with handsome buckles are worn with gowns of more or less formality. Mandarin sleeves, having no seam at all on the shoulder, but all join­ ed under the arm, are seen on a few bodices. Screen for Sick Room. A screen is indispensable in a sick room, for It is needed to keep the light from the patient's eyes, to guard the bed from drafts or to shut out the sight of medicine bottles or any cor­ ner of the room where work is done. An emergency screen may be made by using a small clothes horse for a frame; it should be enameled in white, then a pretty figured denim or cre­ tonne stretched and tacked to it; be­ fore tacking on a number of pockets should be made on one side; in these pockets may be kept woolen and linen cloths, articles for poultices, absorbent cotton, surgeon's scissors, a box of mustard papers, a hot-water bag, a clinical thermometer. Fancy Coats Will Be Popular. Fancy coats of all descriptions are going to be tremendously popular not only in the summer, but in the early spring, and if the few models shown thus early are any criterion, they de- aerve* all the praise given to them. One of these is of a soft, glossy Eng­ lish cloth, resembling broadoloth,.ex­ cept for its extremely light weight, and there i? a loose jacket cut on Eaa- JACKETS OF THE SEASON. Garment Made Up In Particularly I fective Manner. Many jackets this year are made so as to look very like dress waist bat they open down the center in the regular way and underneath is worn the fine lingerie or silk bodice. o*» Inodel was exceedingly pretty in a tan, ' Or, rather, light brown broadcloth. This jacket was made with a wldo fitted yoke cut rather in the shape of a sailor collar, and this was bordered with a double row of soutache braid. Below the yoke the cloth was laid in six box plaits, that is, three on each side of the center plait, and these, opening out, allowed the material to blouse slightly over the wide stitch«|t ~ cloth belt. , Below the belt was a short shapw';" ; hip piece. There was a small round collar of hand embroidered silk, through which was run black taffeta ribbon, which, tied in a four-in-hand bow, fell half way to the belt. The cuffs at the elbows were embroidered, jvith taffeta r|bbon run through in tli^:; * same way as on the collar. FROCKS FOR THE NURSERY. The little girl standing on the rig#' has a frock of tan cashmere, trimmed with black velvet ribbons, with square lace medallions cut in half and used^. as revers on the waist and trimming* on the skirt. The boy on the floor wears a suit of* blue and white striped flannel wi^||, the stripes on the yoke, cuffs and belt running in a crosswise direction. * • The girl has a pretty dress of gi light weight cheviot, trimmed wit bands of bright plaid with a frill ecru lace falling across the front pireJines in back, that is with tl|* half-length coat and high waist-Uni,^1' cut bolero effect in front, two-pointed tabs with the coat sloping from arm-sides diagonally away from WPS" . . Bronze Green Popular. ? i The shades of bronze green bid to hold their prestige better than t! reds, and are considered particular! chic. Several extremely, smart street costumes in this color are made of a fine novelty, cloth, showing inch-wide stripes in one-tone effect. Almond, green, too, is well liked, and the soft; reseda shades are still modish. A reseda marquisette illustrates the lik- :". ing for sheer stuffs of dark or ne«^ tral tone made up over white, and ispl^ V - most practical and delightful littia frock, with its clever embroidery q# soft narrow reseda silk" ribbon and iil ribbon girdle And crossing ribbon* over the white net and lace front " That Settled It. A young lady being asked by a rlcfe . bachelor, "If not yourself, who wrml jpu rather be?" replied rrreotly aa4t| modestly, "Yours truly." - " « • , mm 'MMM