wha an sb eda gle Mrs. Cosy's Callers Come right on in, Misses Downs. Who's that with you? Oh, Judson White, as I'm alive! Why didn't he .come in, too No need to hurry off that way. Well, now it was right go agar © you to step right in. I wish Judson had o' come in, too; well, do tell! Well, I call it ree-al kind 6' you to come an' tell me first off. Married? Then you're not Misses Downs at all any more! Now, I'm ree-al glad to hear it. I must say I did kinda smell a rat when I hee-ard how you an' Judson White had both gone off to the city for a visit, Well, well, well! So you're goin' to live in Judson's house? That's nive, 'count o' the apple orchard an' the house bein' more modern- like than yours. Well, Misses White! Law, don't that seem fun- ny? You do look rosy an' well an' chirked up; an' such stylish fixin's ! , Take off your hat. My land, if she ~ hasn't got one of them new-fangled braids an' two curls! Well, Sallie Perkins Downs White, they do say there. ain't no fool like an old fool! There, now, don't go to gettin' mad, cause you know I've knowed an' been fond o' you-girl, woman an' child--for aes unto thirty-five 'r forty years, an' I know 'at you ain't no chicken; but, land, you cert'n'y do look ree-al young an' bloomin', It does seem 'at if we jus' wait long enough the good providence straightens things out an' fixes 'em up tl ey'ry time, Well, set down, an' when Judson comes back for you we'll have some currant wine an' fruit cake to cele- brate the joyful 'casion. Yes, was- n't it sad 'bout poor Miss Smith's mother! Though, what will that * girl live on, for the annuity died with the old lady? They-say a sec- ond cousin by marriage of old Mrs. Smith come to the fun'ral an' he's goin' to take Miss Smith home to help hig wife. They have a boardin' house an' a whole, raft o' children 0' their own. He sed he'd be glad to offer hig poor cousin a home; but I ~ do *spect he caught on to the fact that his lone lorn cousin was a mighty good worker an' a fine cook an' manager; an' spite o' the hard life Miss Smith has led, she's a nice, healthy, fine-lookin' young woman. Seems strange to me how she did take on "bout losin' her mother, though, when you come to think 9' the annuity---she's kinda tumbled out 0' the fryin' pan into the fire, I'm 'fraid, 'cause, from the looks o' him, that second cousin by marriage o' her mother's seems like the sort o nan 'at'd skin a flint. I went to the station to see her off an' she did look kinda down in the mouth, poo-oor soul! An' I sed, "Well, re- member if your kin isn't good to you Miss Smith, you can come live with me."? She looked fit to bust out eryin' right then and there; an' so, jus' to stren'then her up an' make her kinda mad like} T sed, 'What a pity you didn't get the minister, Miss Smith!" An' she tossed her head up an' stalked aboard the train with her eyes snappin' fit to beat the band, an' she sed, "Deed,-I'd never a' married no. weak-spirited male person like him, Miss Cozy, an' you can just rest assured o' that."' Did you go to the hairdresser's up in the city? I thought so, by the looks o' you. An' the "man-cure" ? T can't never tell why they call-them girls what fixes finger nails till they look like lookin' glasses, "man- eures," 'cause looks like to me the men'd never be cured o° lookin' at 7em; they're gen'rally sech pretty, dressed-up jookin' young wimmin. One 'o *em come to fix Letty's hands that time me 7?n Gran'ma Perkins was visitin' her an' me an' Gran*- ma Perkins satin Letty's boo- dwar, jus' to watch her' an' listen. - She sed-that one o' her customers used to get her to "'touch up' her hair for her. She sed she didn't want her husband to know nothin' 'bout it, though he hated gray hair worser 'n pizen; so one day her husband (the customer's husband) he said to her, 'Dear, IT notice your hair looks '- sech a pretty color lately; what are a ~ Why, jus' "éont, you a'usin' 7?" Well, my land, she says she was that scared; but she sed, .quick as, a wink, 'It's that grease, darlin'; that grease Miss Man-cure- is usin' on my hair is bringin' al! the color back again."' An' she sed there nothin? would do but she (the customer) must get some o' that grease for that poor deluded male creature, an' she sed it? :would fairly' touch' a heart o' stone to see him a-rubbin' an' a- rubbin' faithful ev'ry night, an' a- watchin' in vain for the color to ¢ome back to lis gray locks. Har! Bar! It does beat all how the wo- ~ . men can fool the men. Listen! Don't that sound like a buggy a-drivin' up? Wait till T look out. I b'lieve in my soul it's Jud- son White! Come on in, Judson; here's your bride. Well, I must 'say we've had a-nice little chat. - She's been a-tellin' méevall about: it. look. He's all togged too: New overcoat; what -queer-lookin' sleeves! What do they call 'em---raglan? Well, you -eert'n'y are a pair to go off an' -steaba march on Cozyville that way. Sit down by the fire and I'll get out the fruit eake an' the currant wine. I was jus' goin' to say it's a pity that Mattie an' 'Mr. Downs doesn't know what a good turn they cid you two by takin' flight to their heav'nly home; but thete! An' I cert'n'y wish you both a long life gp a Rappy one. se : My! A bran'-new bugg Weil, good-by! Come again real soon, " whe The fellow who depends on luck seldom gets any of it. 'fal GON THE QMNIBUS. The Frenchman Objected to Paying More for His Ride. John Bull, it seems, is not the only man who "knows his rights, and knowing dares maintain." The Parisian, for all his suavity, 3s quite as unwilling as the Englishman to let any one else get the better of him, even in trifles. In proof of which is submitted the following amusing episode : Omnibuses are bewildering in Paris. It used to be such a simple matter--you paid fifteen centimes on the roof, the delightful imperiale, and thirty centimes inside, for which sum you could also get a transfer. But now the tariffs have all been rearranged, The lines have been divided into a certain number of sections, and instead of paying the same for a long ride or a short one, you now pay ten centimes for one FH iy the.imperiale and fifteen for more than one, while inside, one section costs fifteen centimes, and more than ove twenty-five. What difference does it make? Two cents, three cents--surely that is not a matter of vital importance. Ah, but your Parisian does not look at it in that way. He hates change in general, and this one in particu- lar. He is always complaining about the length of the sections. The one in which he boards the ombibus is invariably shorter than the others. i charge him two cents for it when, farther on, you can ride twice as far for the same price! Ah, non, it is "too strong |" as he says. "But, monsieur,'"' the conductor remonstrates, "you have a ticket of two sous. You must descend here.' "But I don't feel like it."' "Then you must pay two sous more,"? "But I refuse.' "Then you must descend." "Do you think so? I don't." "We'll see about that,> mon- sieur!" says the conductor, seizing the man by the collar. "Be careful, monsieur," says the other, "or I'll have you arrested." "Monsieur, you must either pay the two sous or deseend." Meanwhile the omnibus has not left the spot, and the other passen- gers begin to clamor. "The beast !'? "Miser !'? "Tmpudent !"? But, monsieur, F'll pay the two sous for you."' "No, you won't!' the irate pas- senger bursts out. "'You just mind your own business, monsieur !" "Oh, -be quiet!' in chorus. 'Start along! We can't stay here till to-morrow |"? At last the omnibus rumbles on again. Now the passenger has de- cided ot dismount, but the condue- tor has also changed his mind. "T won't let you off till you've paid me the two sous, monsieur."' "But I intend to get off here,' "Well, you won't, monsieur !" says the conductor, shoving the man back into his seat without further formality. *fLook 22 here! Pay him the two sous,"? urges a bareheaded working woman, nudging the passenger. "The conductor isn't going to put it in his own poeket." 'Tyon't you think I know it? I objeet upon principle." Then a policeman is called to take the man's name and address, after Which he virtuously descends, and the omnibus proceeds. ee ANALYZED HIS CRIME. Russian Killed a Woman in Order to Record His Sensations. "Vadim the Vampire' was the name' assumed by a young man, the son of a magistrate whose trial for murder has just been concluded in Russia. Nikolai Ratkewitsch, the accused, made an address to the court in which he declared that he was not insane, and proceeded to confirm that contention in the minds of his- auditors by an analytical exposition of the causes of the degeneracy, in which apparently he took pride. Generally, his argument was that he was a murderer Because human nature was imperfect. He asked that' merey should not be shown, but a sentence of only eight years' imprisonment at hard labor was im- posed, The victim of the murder was 4 young girl, described as attractive, whom he had rebbed. -Her body showed thirty-five kmife wounds. Pinned on the wall was a piece of pape¥ on which Ratkewitsch had written: : "No, 2. Revenge on. the beauti- The money has been taken for the trouble in despatching her to the other. world i also because the dead need no money. The murder- er of this woman and also of an- other woman in the Dunai Hotel ts I, Vadim the Vampire." Ratkewitsch's diary indicated that he had committed the murder in or- der to analyze his feelings when do- ing so. He wrote: ' "When FT committed the murder f did not+experience the least move- ments of passion.' : But previous entries in the diary showed that he was horror-stricken while contemplating the deed. The police have satisfied them- selves that Ratkewitsch did not commit the murder at the Dunat Hotel, of which he accused himself in the paper pinned on the wall. They ascertained, however, that when Ratkewitsch+ was 13 years_old he had attempted to kill a girl at Novgorod when he was a member of a cadet corps. He was tried but acquitted on the ground that he was mentally abnormal. In his youth he travelled in Ger- many, Egypt and England, and on returning to Russia made an at- tempt at suicide by hanging. <A pasggrby cut hip ge F; ccording to the yee this rescuer proved t be a ats nérate, Witose Passion was killing women, This man, the po- lice learned, killed the woman at the Dupai Hotel and Ratkewitscl confessed the murder in order to help his teacher to escape, Tt is simply stealing to. IMPORTANCE OF WHEELS NOT THE KIND PEOPLE CARRY IN THEIR HEADS. HeIt Wasn't for Them Civilization _ Might Come to a Dead Stop. Simplicity is the chief character- istic of the most useful things the world possesses, and few among them are more simple than wheels. Their mechanisti can generally be grasped in a moment, but in spite of their almost childish construction they are man's best friends--friends on whom. he confidently relies for a thousand and One duties. Indeed, to such an extent do we put our faith in them that it is beyond' the power of the human mind to ima- gine what the world would be like if wheels became non-existent, But there is no danger of such a calam- ity befalling us, for we may be pretty sure they will continue to re- volve in some shape or form until time shall be no more, says the Lon- don Globe. Their origin must certainly date back to that problematical period which is known in the vernacular as the mist of antiquity, Even the Garden of Eden probably contained the germ'of the idea, for the near- est approach in nature in traveling on wheels is to be found in the movements of certain round gourds, These, when dry, roll along the ground rapidly, and so transport their concealed seed to a distance. In the 83rd Psalm is this passage: "Make them like unto a wheel," which is said to refer to the wheel- like running of the gourds, It is by ng means unlikely that the first wheel made was suggested to primi- tive man by the action of these par- ticular gourds, for not once nor twice, but over and over again, in- ventors haye found inspiration in the FAIRYLAND OF NATURE. Nevertheless, be their origin what it may, the fact remains that they haye withstood the whirligig of time as well as the ingenuity of man; nothing has ever been invent- ed to supplant them for the particu- lar and special offices which they fulfill. They are as permanently fixed in the human economy as the everlasting hills or the eternal sea, Undoubtedly, animals as the motive power of every variety of vehicle will one of these days be dispensed with for that purpe$e. When that time arrives wheels will still be as indispensable as they are now. Of a truth, wheels haye never had a real rival, and even Edison has not devised anything to take their place, while the weird imagination of our novelists, scientific or other- wise, has not hit upon a means of mechanical locomotion where wheels are conspicuous by their ab- sence, Although to the easual observer wheels may seem unimportant and insignificant, the more closely one investigates the subject the more one's wonder grows at the amazing and absolutely necessary part they play in the drama of life. It will be found that in some shape or form they are mixed up with almost everything connected with the world's work, and with a good deal of its pleasure, toe. Indeed, there can be no question that the outward march of civilization has been not a little due to their influence, and, undoubtedly, the growth of the Bri- tish Empire owes a considerable debt to them, while most of comforts and conveniences we joy are the outcome, for machinery IS THE LEADING FEATURE in every kind of manufacture, and what would machinery be like with- out wheels? Therefore, it cannot be considered exaggeration to. say that they are the very backbone and mainstay of the world's activity and life. Even the planet on which we live can almost be called a wheel, as it is ever revolving, slowly but surely, in the fashion of a wheel. And al- most everything that is used as a means of mechanical locomotion runs on wheels--our « forefathers travelled in coaches and post- chaises, we go hither and thither by trains, motors, bicycles, carriages and steamboats of all kinds, and to each and all of these wheels are a sine qua non. But to help in loco- motion is by no means the sole mis- sion of the wheel, for most things of daily use and utility are largely contrelied = and worked by its in- strumentality. In fact, one could demonstrate that, directly or in- directly, almost everything is in- debied to it. for it is often a very modest piece of machinery, doing its work out of sight, but not the. less efficiently because it is not always seen on the surface of things. For instanee, miracles: are enacted for us by wheels in connection with the day's work. -We find the proper hour to leave our couch by. their power in the form of a watch or clock. We bundle out of bed and sit down to breakfast, when we find that the food we eat at that meal would not have been there except through : THE AUD OF WHEELS: the en- -Then their instrumentality takes us to the eity or wherever we want to go, and they are, in some way or other, concerned with every kind of business in which men are-engaged. It will thus be seen that western nations live more or less in an auto- matic age, but we have not yet adopted a mechanical means of con- ducting our deyotions, such as the praying wheels used by the Hamaist ge tee eee ne ee cacy of prayé¥ consists in the wmulti- plicity of its repetition. These in- striments are of various ages, from small eylinders turned, by hand to huge ones driven by water or wind. Long strips of paper, with a written PERERA RE RE Sch or printed formula repeated hun- dreds or eyen thousands of times, are wrapped round these cylinders. As the cylinders revelve the paper rolls uncoil, and so the prayer is said. A traveler in Thibet speaks of a praying wheel holding 1,400 thin leaves, on each side of which the prayer is printed ten times. "This gives 28,000 prayers, all of whieh are put to the worshipper's credit in the werld to come, if, with the touch of his fingers, he makes the wheel revolve, once." tat PAINTING THE EIFFEL TOWER Every five or six years the Eiffel Tower in Paris is given a fresh coat of paint, at a cost of from $14,000 to 816,000. The tower is scheduled for another change of dress next month. Fifty painters will be employed for four or five months in. covering the 180,000 square yards of its surface with a shade of paint yet to be decided on. The tower started 22 years ago in orange, wore red in 1893, golden yellow. in 1899 and silver white on the summit and chrome yellow at the base in 1907, The tower is now used as a wireless telegraph sta- tion, as a post for an electric de- vice to prevent hailstorms and as a guiding mark for aviators. LADY HERBERT. Who is returning to England af- ter a winter spent-in California. She is an anti-suffragist, and says that "the chief argument against votes for Women is that the fran- chise, even if granted, would do ne good to the poor women, shop girls, and factory employes, who need it most."' a rs UNDERGROUND LONDON. Magnificent Tree Old Found Far Beneath Surface. Centuries A eurious discovery was made in Lendon, during excavations for a tube rail- way at Charing Cross. 'The pro- cess of tunneling was suddenly checked by an obstacle, which proyed to be a gigantic tree, em- bedded in sand, at a depth of forty feet from the present surface. When the sand had been cleared away the proportions of the obstacle were revealed. It was a magnificent and shapely cak, black with age and moisture, but by rotten and powerless against it. no means shov él The "pick were water which sat preserved the solidity and even the texture of the wood unimpaired for indefinite thousands of It is thought that the tree grew and lived centuries, not where it was found, but close beside an up- per reach of the Thames. The river, in time of flood, possibly unde mined. the bank and carried away the tree bodily, roots and all, to 'be caught at last in a sand bank buried deeper and deeper in which was destined to become site London. wood that it had to be sawn pieces before it could years. fay ae) and sol the into hauled along the tunnel and up to the shaft mouth, of So solid was be ae (oe eee CITY OWES: A BILLION. New York City, according to the official bookkeepers, now owes a billion dollars, and a trifle of $37, 811,718.81 more than that magnifi- cent total, says the New York Her- ald. The debt of the, United States is some twenty millions less. The statement is imteresting, but not Significant. The 'city is perfectly well able to pay what it owes. It has nearly half a billion of cash saved up for that. purpose, and if the worst should come to the worst it could pay off the remainder by eutting Central Park up into build- ing lots. But there will be no ne- cessity for that, The billion will be paid when it falls due, and: the city is not so much interested in what it owes as it is in getting the worth of its money. Gas Cae KISSES SPREAD DISEASE. Health Officer Frederich, of Cle- veland, Ohio, announced recently that he had completed his investiga- tion of the curious assortment of | diseases that attacked a score of women guests following a bridge party given by Mrs. Meyer Kasku- lek. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, ton- solitis and grip developed among the guests a few days after the party. "It is my belief,' Freder- ich said, 'that the women distri- buted the germs among themselves by kissing one another. J ean think of no other explanation." Cy Woe ean finish nothing in our lim- ited life, but we can make a begin- ning and bequeath a noble example. Most of us know when to stop, but the trouble is we don't exercise our knowledge. England, the other day, iment with its splendor. urated the sand at that depth had} the | THERE WILL BE NO NIGHT DAYLIGHT ALL THE TIME, SAY SCIENTISTS. What May Be the Result of Farth's Plunge Toward Cluster of Hercules. Twelve blazing suns in the earth's heavens are predicted by a group of astronomers in Europe who have been- closely watching our wild plunge into the Cluster of Hercules, says the Chicago Tribune. The world will know no deviation from the steady noonday glare-- that there will be no night.- The terrific glare, if it does not burn the world up and shrivel man- kind into a grease spot, will make all sorts of peculiar changes in the solar system. The Cluster of Hercules has been studied for years by the most able astronomers. It will net be many aeons before the world will find it- self in the midst of these brilliant stars. Nearly in line with the direction of the solar system's motion through space lies a cluster of bright stars. Are we, perhaps, des- tined to join that wonderful as- semblage? Such a consummation of the great flight: of the earth is probable, That star cluster toward which we are journeying is one of the su- preme marvels of the universe. It is believed to contain from twelve to fourteen thousand stars, crowd- ed so close together that in a teles- cope their light blends in an almost indistinguishable blaze. In the cen- tral parts it is impossible to sepa- rate the individual stars. Around the outskirts of the cluster they are | more: widely scattered. Long rows | of them are, arrayed like the wind- ing lanes and streets in the slums of a city, GOING FAST. Toward this wonderful metropolis of interstellar space We are speed- ing at the rate of 12 miles a second. Im the course of an ordinary life- time we draw more than 2,000,000,- 000 miles nearer to it, and yet its distance is so great that it does not seem to have perceptibly approach- ed. A slight change in the direction of our flight would send us straight into the heart of the cluster at the) end of our journey. | If, escaping all the perils of the} way, we should actually arrive! there, what would happen then? There might be a collision, or there might not. That would de-! pend entirely upon the direction of | our motion at the moment that we | entered the company. Owing to the |} multiplicity of attractions acting' simultaneously from so many stars, the chances are that a collision) would not occur and that our sun, | 'arrying the planets with it, would become, a member of the blage on equal terms with the oth- ers. The distance of the Hercules | Cluster is probably not less than a thousand millions of millions of miles. assem- 17,000 STARS. The first hint of the glories in store, would be furnished by the ap- pearance of the cluster itself. As the earth drew nearer it would ex pand until it filled half the firma- The rest of the universe would be forgotten and utterly disregarded in the cribable of that spectacle. On a dark, clear night about 3,000 stars the naked eye: On nearing the Hercules Cluster we would see ist 000 stars incomparably brighter | than any of the dozen at present| visible to us of the first magnitude. | Their united light would shed upon} us an effulgence brighter than that of the full moon. This would be the beginning--the first hint-of what was coming. . As the approach continued the splendor would rapidly increase. Soon those stars would be longer stars, but suns in brilliance. WOULD CHANGE LIFE: indes- glory we altogether with see; can no Tt can be shown methematically | that in the midst of such a cluster | perpetual daylight would prevail. | No matter though the earth contin- | ued to turn on its axis so that the | sun would rise and set alternative- | ly, as at present, yet all sides of it| would be forever illuminated by the | other suns around it.. If humanity } could continue to exist under such would be changed.. When the sun was set the illumination from the stars would not be quite as bril- liant' as that of full daylight, but still the sky would be so radiantly resplendent that one would hardly know which to call day and which night. 3unyan's ideal picture of the "City of the Golden Streets and Pearly Gates." EVERYTHING IN MOTION. | the | not seem to have attractions for the | we | English woman. Tt would be a realization of | But everything would be in mo- ion. multitude -of suns surrounding would be continually evident. near the centre of the great cluster, where the stars_are closely packed, and now on its outskirts, where they 'are relatively scattered. So the aspect of the heavens would be undergoing continual changes. ' The sky would be a gigantic kaleiloscope, ceaselessly turning and at every moment presenting a new and more wonderful combina- tion of starry splendors. EARTH'S LOST CONTROL. Amid the contending attractions of so many suns the earth might be torn away from the control of its own sun and fall under the domin- The change of position of the | us] Our4 teen y oad own sun would fall into an Orbit of; = ; : amazing complexity, and with the pass. ay < # ae earth chasing after it, wohld be now; 20% and by mixine jon of another. 1 J happen again and again, so that 4 the course of time our planet wou be the slave of gravitation to many suns in turn, And with every change of master would aoe a change of solar influences asene upon the globe, and the condition of life would vary accordingly. ELIZABETHAN DA NCES. In Many a Great Deal of Kissing Introduced, 'When Elizabeth was Queen 2 England ' the style of dancing oF vogue is best described as pare 2 the homely or domestic style: : vious to the Reformation there nh no really national dances at sons but after that period there was , change, until in Elizabeth's oo such dancing had reached its pion popular epee, says the Londo é Y +. a = er ee of the dances then - yogue ~haye such quaint gas (some of which are familiar t ue from childhood games) as #UM the slipper," 'Kiss in the obs: "Here we go round the mul na bush,'? and many others. -- seems to have been a great deal 0 kissing introduced into these dances, which were more oF ee games, and doubtless caused much merriment. That was im Tudor times," of 'course, when customs, were different from what they are Phe Pavane was a most famous and stately dance and admirably suited to the dress of the period, when the ladies bore themselves proudly in rich gowns of stiff bro- cade, andthe gentlemen looked equally magnificent with their Yrich- ly plumed hats, gayly colored ne tumes and jewelled swords. 40 reality it was more of a procession than a dance, so slow and stately were the measures. Of Spanish origin, the Pavane ame to France, where 1b was ex- tremely popular, and at one time the dancers while going through the various figures used to sing: Approche done, ma belle, Approche-toi, mon bien ; Ne me suis plus rebelle,, -- Puisque mon coeur est tien: Pour mon ame apaiser, Ponne-moi un baiser-- and kissing formed a suitable ac- companiment to the words. This, then, evidently was another of the; "kissing"? dances then so popular. Kod ths could | Later on this part of the dance was eliminated and the dance gained, increased stateliness. } Another dance is the Galliard, | which is a lively dance, being one of the 'dances hautes" popular in sixteenth ~ century. These dances had usually a skipping step | and were in contradistinetion. to the 'dances basses,' which were | more courtly and dignified. 7 ET es gears =a} GRAND-DUCHESS OF MECK-) LENBERG-STRELITZ. Who has roused a hot controversy | in Germany by attending a Monte | Carlo prize fight in company with | the Kaiser's sister. Y. caso "Wie WOMAN DOCTORS IN SIBERIA. A number of influential Siberians are petitioning the Ministry of Edu-/ | cation in St. Petersburg to allow | women to be admitted to the medi. | eal faculty in the University of | Tobolsk, writes the Moscow corres- pondent of the London Standard. The petitioners point out that there | is a wide field for women doctors in| Siberia, where it is often difficult | for settlers to get medical aid. | There are many Mohammedans. in| the country, and it is explained that | only women doctors ean come to! |eonditions the whele scheme of life; their help in illness, as they do not permit men to see their wives and. daughters. Many women bave en-| tered the medical profession in Rus- sla proper, and there are a great many wonien practising dentistry. 9 department. of surgery which 'does | | company, fedness; she stru : | of depxession, while the fiend of @ only ' could only once say, "I am unnappy | because fight |aching for something else. P most common practice to use wall-papen i unsatisfactory color. e $ DISCONTENTED GIRL. 040045094 09000000 An Englishwoman of wide exp ence and ene whose work } brought her into elose contact w many girls and older women of astonishing variety of nature: desires, has written a little se to the discontented girl: ; A real evil is far easier to rem than an imaginary one, Most p ple" will disagree with me--at "Oh," they will exclaim unbe ingly, "how ridiculous ! An: nary ev'l is--well, itia only ino nary, while a real evil does a nite amount of harm."? | Exactly, Strange as it may | that is my very point, pa A real evil does' do ai def amount of harm--of course it d but the harm is certain, me calculable, something which may arrested and killed. ~ ee With an imaginary evil there nothing solid to grasp or to fight is @ vague, misty somethi envelops and blinds ug, in which ¥ wander dazedly, knowing neithe origin, its power nor its purpose. There is a dark cloud of the gination which envelopes and sp the lives of many women to-day seems as though it would grow even. greater darkness to-mor and after. It is the twentieth ce tury woman's ourse--a very fier of unrest and vague discontent. -- Let me look into it, analyze i to suggest some remedies, for T sure that many who are reading' article either suffer from it through it. First, then, what is it? When girl is growing into womanhood eh begins to understand the world, itp" ways, and all there is, or may be, in it for her. She experiences first discontents--and let us ¢a fully follow her progress. The beginnings are generally home,*for it is not only charity starts there. The cause is somethi small and altogether imaginati fhe may want to do her hair up, to a dance or see a play with friend of her own choosing, or go to bridge party, or on the stage. © read some very doubtful novel. -- Possibly the parental foot 4 scends heavily and decided] squashing her young ideas; or haps she is allowed to do ag | wishes, which is more probable more, disastrous, For what happens next? She h certain desires--vain, perhaps, @ |eomparatively unimportant, but 4 finite and clear desires, after i They were gratified; she was all ed to have her own way, and # no longer wanted it--or, at leasty 'longer cared for having it. So off she goes again, her im nation careering wildly after s new fancy, until checked, | Her self-will rides roughshod: o¥ ' reason, happiness, love--she ds /yer happy unless discontented. She goes through the whole list: definite discontents--money, leisure, amusemen wants them all, and the lack of a ereates a harsh feeling, which vents on those who are nearest @ probably dearest to her. "In fact she goes through the @me tire list of possible, discontents, Ula. til by the time she is twenty Omg she has exhausted her practical@ | finite outeries. Everything she can think © hers--everything over whith she made trouble for years past. Then she reaches the stave | vague imaginative discontent: laches with mad, unknown, formle desires; she wanders blindly ery in a black fog of imaginary wreten 'oles in a deep & rest sits on her shoulder trymg push her head beneath the wave She is dreadfully unhappy, @ does not know why; Tf she eons fix on some reason-- she of so-and-so,'? she cout it, but she cannot settle anything in particular, so her mum feeds on all the dark, "unhappy far-off things" she can think of. By this time, no matter what sit has gained, her heart will ge om a =e = eee eee TINTED. WRITING PAPER. Oeulists have often called atte tion to the fact that the eyes are easily fatigued by the reflection from white. paper, especially wher the surface is under a strong ligh Since green is known to be the cole restful to the eyes, 1b- is and draperies of. that color libraries and private studies. "F writing-paper, however, green 18a It imparts | reddish appearance to the writil seein eaee ss DANGERS OF GASOLINE. How many persons know what! happens when & pint of faswuline is! left open in a room? Tf the témper- ature is normal the liquid entirely evaporates twenty-four hours The VapOv 28 BCAMEr thaveaie and | therefore sinks ta' the fldar, Wales. disturbed. it avilh remain thera ee L i With the air' | form an-explosive compound about | Seven times as powerful as enn powder. One pint of gasoline will make two hundred cubie feet of this compound. It is not necessar that a lighted match come Sees tact with it. A spark struck by ; nail in a shoe will explode it "So will & gas-jet, or even the ericlos a fire an the kitchen stove. Tf 3 necessary to use gasoline for thes fe ing gloves or other articles Seees only one safe place to do the ane iy Hi That is outdoors. = a No success 1s worth anythin 5 r ythin is won by thrusting down a | writing-paper same objection. i background taking unfair advantage of them and makes it hard to read. Yello is not open: te ani In strong dayligh Wis softer than pdre white pa and in artificial light is not #6 dark. Black Jetiers on a yellowtsl show clear and 4 1 Many tmathematicians yellow: paper in: fieurine long au dificult éalculations, andoom@ writers have adopted it for man empts. Tt has the additional me of chéapniss, : tmct. Se oe gone SHE DIDN'T WANT A VOTE A lady was asked recently she Stood on the vote for w: question. She replied she di Stand at all,' and iold a sto about a farmer's wife who ; very romantic ideas about the posite sex, and who, hurrying fro churn to sink, from sink to § and back to kitehen fire, was as if she wanted:to vote. 'Noa tainly a mit! I say i? there' little thing that the men folk ds alone for goodness vake let. do it!' she replied. ry.