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hor aqua er favorite cigarettes, praises some new china, suggests an alter- ation in the arrangement of the s, and makes critical discourses apropos of her collection of snuff Z he is going away he lin- gers s moment intently looking at "» patch box of vernis Martin, and says; with 'studied carelessness: " , tell me, when did you make She Acquaintance of Mme. Sabar- "Last year at Cannes: why de you want to know! She came and staid with us at Orme last' Eas- Jo . Is she not perfectly charm- 8 2) . "Very good looking," says Ger- vase, absently. "You don't know anything about her, then?' "Know? repeats his hostess. *"What should I know ! What every- body does, 1 suppose. 1 met her first at the Duchesse de Luynes. You can't possibly mean that there can be anything--anything--"' "Oh, nao,"" erplies Gervase, but It produces on his questioner the same effect as if hé had said 'Oh, yes." "How odious men are! such scan- dal-mongers,"' says Lady Usk, an- *grily. 'Talk of our 'damning with int praise' ! There is nothing com- parable to the way in which a man destroys a woman's reputation just by raising his eyebrows or twisting his mustache." "1 have no mustache to twist, and am sure there is no reputation which I wish to destroy,' says her cousin, ' "Then why do you ask me where I made her acquaintance!' "My dear Dolly! Burely the most innocent and general sort of ques: tion ever on the hips of any human being "rossibly ; not in the way you said it, however; and when one knows that you were a great deal in Russia it suggests five hundred _things--five thousand things -- snd of course one knows he waa shot in a duel -about her, and I believe people have talked.' "I have never helped them to talk. When do they not talk?' And beyond this she cannot pre- vail upon him to go; he pretends that the Princess Sabaroff is' be- yond all possibility of any approach of calumny, but >the protestation roduces on her the impression that pracy tell her a great deal wholly Jo the contrary if he chosé. ' "She dertainly was staying with ts. Hiady might 'not stay with the Archbishop of Canterbury?' replies Gervase. She 'is irritated and vexed. Xenia Sabaroff is her idol of the moment, and if her idol were prov- od human she would be very an- . She reflects that she will have Bodo and the children kept more strictly inthe school-room, not: lot the wander about over the as they do with their Russian most mornings. © Lo ° "One oan never be too careful with children of that, age." she _ muses; "and they are terribly evil- Usk's ardent, |but In "Never!"' exclaims Dorothy U "Perfectly vrue,"' says Mr. Wot- toon. *'Both of them staying at Dunrobin, and engagement publicly ARE inced. "n % ul . : rd Coltsfoot is heir to a duke-|. dom; Miss Hoard is the result in bullion of iron-works, del "Never I" reiterates Lady Usk, "It is impossible that he ean do}R, such a hogrible thing! Why, she has one shoulder higher than the other and red eyes." 3 ""There are ' six ~ millions. paid down," replies Mr, Wootton, sen- tentiously, ; "What the deuce will Mrs, Dou nington say I"" asks Usk "One never announces any mar- riage," remarks Mr. Wootton, 'but there is a universal outcry about what will some lady, matrigd long ago to somebdy else, say to iv. Curi- ous result of supposed modogamy :" "It is quite disgusfing," faye Usk. "'Bome of those asw pevpio are presentable, but she isn't; and Coltsfoot is so good-looking and su young." ; "Tt is what the French call aa 'alliance tres' comme il faut," " says Usk, from sheer spirit of con- tradiction. 'The duekdom is as full of holes as an old tin pot; she tin- oo |gte ane "Fruit-a-tives" 1s sold by ail dea 'at 50c a box, 6 for $2.50, or trial sige, 25e, Or may be obtained from IFrult-a<}lard irae Timited, Ottawa. RRB R tl Tr vot Td Lady Usk interropts the great man, angrily : 2 ** Very 'much 'au misux! What] barbarous polyglot language for a great crivic fie you! Must you have the sesistance of bad grams mar in two tongues to take away my friend's reputation?' Lord Usk chuckles, "Reputations aren't taken dway enters] Bleeves seem to. decided to remain short waists, 24 ; Shaded 'or ombre plumes in style, are favored sy hats, + ¢ b 80 easily ; they're very hardy plants} . now-a-days, and will stand a good deal' of bad weather." 4 Mr.; Wootton is shocked. "Oh, dearest Lady Usk! Repu- tation!' You: couldn't think I meant to imply of any = guesb of yours--only, you 'know, he was secretary in - Petersburg when he was Lord Baird, and so--and so--"" "Well] Tt doesn't follow that he is the lover of every woman in Petersburg!" Mr. Wootton. is infinitely distress. kers it up with her iron and gold; |. 4 and I bet you that your friend Coltsfoot's gowns so that one shoulder higher than the other will become all the rage next season." "Of course you set no store on such a simple thing as happiness,' says his wife, with acerbity, "Happiness? © Lord, my dear! Happiness was buried with Stre- phon and Chole centuries-ago! We are amused or bored, we are suc- cessful or unsuccessful, we are po- pular or unpopular, we are some- body or we are nobody, but we are never éither happy or miserable.' "People 'who have a heart are stil both {™ "A heart! You mean spoons!' "What a hideous expression | Strephon and" Chlos never used that." "When we have an 'unfortunate passion now," remarks Mr, Woot- ton, "we go to Carlsbad. It's only an affair of the liver." "Or the nerves,' suggests Usk, {Flirtation is the proper thing; flirtation never hurts anybody ; it's like puff paste, seltzer water, and Turkish cigarettes." "puff paste may bring on an indi- gestion when one's too old to eat it!" ' "There! Didn't I tell you sol She's always saying = something about my age. A man ig the age that he feels."' 2st "No a woman is the age that she looks. If you: will quote things, quote them properly." "The age that she looks? That's 80 very variable.' Bhe's: 20: when she enters a ball-room at midnight; she's 50 when she comes out at sunrise; she's 16 when she goes to meet anybody at Hurlingham; she's 60 when she soolds her maid and has @ scene with her husband. Lady Usk interrups' him; with Vie E and twenty when he's in Paris, and five and ninety when-he's grumbling i at home?' 'Because 'ough 1s, -atter ail, spirits. If you oul he's Bored" 'at home! only 8900 acity ; ; (roUEe "Add hel Pray, isn't he five' "Oh, indeed! I didn't'mean any: thing of that sort." "You did mean everything of that sort, murmurs his hostess. "But you see he admired her very 'much, was constantly with her, and yesterday. I saw they don't speak to each other, so I was curi- ous to know what could be thereas gon.' "T believe she didn't recognize him." Mr, Wootton smiles. Uh, ladies have puch prodigious powers "of Oblivion--and remem- brance!" "Yes," observes Usk, with: com- placency, "the storms of memory sometimes sink into them as if they were sponges, and sometimes lide off them ag if they were ducks. % is just as they find it convent ont. But Mme. Sabharoff can't havs been more. than a child when Gor- vase was in Russia." : Mr, Wootton smiles again signi: ficantly. "'She 'wag married:"' "To a brutel" cries Dorithy Usk, ~ <All husbands," says Usk, with a chuckle, 'are brutes, anl all wives are angels. O'est imprime!" "I hope no one will ever call me an angel; I should know al once that 'T was a bore!" =. 0 & "No danger, my lady; you'v2 £0 wings on your shoulders, and you've salt on your bongue," [iui 0 "I'm sure. you. mean fo be odi ously: rude, biit to great compliment." (My dear Alan," gg i Usk, 'having gob him at w disad- vantage in her boudoir one-quarter, of an hour after luncheon, "what| has there been: between 'yu and the Princess Sabarofi1 = Everybody fesls there is something. 'It /is in the air. Indeed, Jovershody is 'talking me. Tie evmbari sieoh 7c ui "Everybody in the house is sure of ihe continues: ae Hostess "don't say so, of course, bu ig Thy in Tamdy : METHODS OF MILKING. Most wen think they know all about milking--can't tell « thém anything about "that'; 'and 'yet, if we could know what the cows think on that question, it may be we would find that there. are some things for us to learn: Tt is worth while, 'at any rate, to leok to our ways in this respect and get all the | qu; For when we |i; suggestions we can. have said and done all, the process of milking is one of the most im- portant farmers have' fo perform, | First, then, is sympathy on the part of the milker. It never pays to be harsh with cows. If this eounld | only 'be deeply impressed on the minds of men everywhere it would add 'thousands of dollars to the farm revenue of the country. And then; a good grip with the hand counts for mush. Some men ave a way of bending the fingers 0 'that>the ends' stick right fate the sides of the teats. If the nails are long, milkers who do Thats cause cows a B 0 in, any- thing that does Shah Binders a po. from: doing her' ) have nerves and anything that, ef- fects 'them unfavorably makes the' cow hold back part of héx/milk; and 1;am quite sure that what she does give is not' as rich as it otherwise | would be. The nails should be well trimmed and the fingers kept out' rv ie Wms clasp y evenly. There are milkers 'who jerk the 8 hard when at their work. ny cannot "be sit work This table to: the cow... Kap: better: fo my taste its a}: g this The noises Which are many stables at! milkin ress 0 Pa Lui sores scolding, perhaps swearing: Ning Cugrony: Yho} & Oil ggg ed - . : "Formerly, a ; because cows | : -also like. the. for large dres-|w un it should be I least half time: silo adds anything to the nutrikive | ements in a vornstalk, but it.docs | 'this coun add' palatability, and for a great deal. 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