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T9911 Adele set to work in earnest to flmsh the mm: mm “Mamma, teach me to work it,” she said one day. “My fingers are ever so much finer and tinier than ours!” So she began to work a veil or her doll. and the facility with which she learnt the graceful work was surpris- ing. At the age of fifteen she was so uperl that Adele allowed her to take par: in lhe cxeution of the wonderful vet i:.self 9.11m- Start in business life. Know- ing that in Paris his noble relatives wuld not scruple to oppose such a course as he had. decided on, he chose Load . as the scene of his efforts, and cpmmmced business as a merchant l-W So again the pretty taper fingers toiled L-usi.y over the delicate lace, and masses of graceful flowers and fairy- llkc. ferns grew steadily under them. Little Victorine watched the pro- gress of the work with keenest in- terest. “I will finish it for you,” she said, “and then when the time comes for my little Victorine to be a bride, she will have a veil :o be proud of.” '°'Oh. the pretty lace!” she cried, clapping her hands, and dancing with degign: as Ade-1e shook it out of its town» "May I have it for a wedding- dress for my dolly, mamma 3” The pretty matron laughed and shook her head as she pressed the deli.- eaze fabric to her lips. Then she told the story of its making. me broke before it, sitting under the 11193 in sunny France. zine and then when Arthur .810 marry me, shall I not be a \o lady’ a veil shall :w goodness' 93KB, if you love me. i? For}; at it in my presence, dear :tfrmfi- 'And if I dared ask a spec- :‘Wor Of You. it should beâ€"â€"” '~ Fallsed. frightened at his own im- ,‘.n‘~"3~ She sat astemng 1n great WM- She said- “It should 1:eâ€"” var in: Arthur came to claim her long fore the veil was finished, and she med himâ€"her young English lov- 35 poor as herselfâ€"and went: with 5 :0 England. The veil went with .m, packed away at the bottom of gunk, andâ€"furgotten. 13;: forgotten for twelve years, ,. a 10"er liztle ten-year-old fairy pke iZS long sleep at last. "me had dark eyes, like the little each laceâ€"maker of old, but she had , English golden hairâ€"Arthur’s hi 3 knowledge of his bride’s extramion so annoyed him that m; irritab1e, impatient, fret- : finally he conceived an absurd en: dislike to the bridal veil- e the sight of it I” he cried one - When he. and ’ictorine were 1n ~m3de 110 answer, but his manly pride had received a maker!” he said to himself. girl! If I had but known (I my own: bridal veil in my and then when Arthur ry me, shall I not be a 3? No lady’s veil shall understood him‘ The {lurid had been, slow to . pnde of this French tor! Not tb'mih her 1366! a pride .3 stub- , though of quite a '_ “U Vuvu w vâ€" _ i So much tfiefibetter, madam; the use 30! tobacco is a poisonous habit. Does ihe frequent the clubs? .36 has never put his foot in one. I 3 Allow me to congratulate you. Does he never come home late? Never. He goes to bed directly after , 'A model young man. madam -â€" a gmodel young man. How old is he? 1 Just two months. ter a (11'an u; u me-nted liquor mad ter, richly spiced, groups and in ma: ‘ turn to their home broken by numerou BEAMTIFI Fussy 01d Gentleman, to chance traveling lady companion. Have you any children, madam? Yes, sir, a son. Ah, indeed! Does he smoxet No, sir; he has neven so much as touched a cigarette. __ J.__.. ‘1‘“ “an Pale and thin, and somewhat care- worn still, was the bride of the Mar- quis on her wedding day; but in his eyesâ€"the eyes of true and faithful love â€"i.1: was still the sweetest face in all Uv ”‘1‘" v.â€" And so it was. Many a fair and high-1m bride wore “the bridal veil of Riviere” in the years to come; but among them all none were more truly blesr. than the poor lace-maker, whose morher was a peasant girl, but who for true love’s sake and for love alone, was chosen by her faithful lover to be Madame la Marquise de la Ri- “I borrowed it of a lace-maker,” the lady who were it explained. “I would 'have bought it, but she would not sell. It was her momher's work.” “A young girl '5’" be gasped. “Oh, no, indeedl. A poor, thin, jad- ed creature, with fine eyes, certainly, but ill and warn. I shall be glad to give you her address if you have work for her. I am sure. she needs it.” And {fiéfivMarquis kissed the lace and blessed it because through it he had found her_again.__ _ o i 11": Q 1‘ "I love it now l" he cried. “It shall be kept as_a pmowus treasure always,” hafinble at first, then angry, his tears: they .had no power to change her re- And so at last they partgq coldly, lav-am 0+;11 n‘ lL--_L 2 . Wilsily = dead; and Victorine, quite overwhelm- ed with grief, was: prostrated with an attack of brain fevelz. Strange changes have been hap- pening them. Three lives that stood between him and the title and estates of the Marquis de la Riviere had been suddenly swept away, and so they sent for him, the heir. At first his heart swelled with ex- Well, she never needed for anything after that, night; love and happiness came to her in bounteous measrue, and; stayed with her forever afterward. the world that smiled under Adele’s bridal veil. The next day saw Rim starting for London. The once happy home was broken up; the husband and father had fol- lowed Adele to a better world; and their child, for whom husband, title, wnd fortune were waiting in sunny France, was earning sorrowful bread as a lace-maker. So the Marquis waited for an ans- wer in vain; until after many months his own letter was returned to him through the Dead Letter Office. It dame like a. messenger of hOpe. So! She had not ne'fused to answer hi:_L_n_, as he ‘I_1ad thought. Need I describe his welcome there, or tell of the crowds that flacked to claim acquaintance with “the Marquis?” But none could tell him: anything of Vic- torine, except the story of her sor- One evening he made one ofa party of a tableaux vivams, for he had to go into SO‘iSLy some-times, however lzt- tle he liked iL, amd the particular tab- leau in which he took part was that of a wedding. Suddenly one of the but- tons on his cuff caught in the bride’s laoe veil. In an instant he had recog- nized that once-hated laceâ€"it was Vic- toa'ine’s bridal veil! _ __ . -_ -_' â€"â€"w-‘1uw “V ha Riviere. But she never got the letter. The house to which it came was empty. And after three months’ search he had failed to find her. He had money, influence, deepest heart-interest to aid search, yet it failed. Gently, Vicmorine DIDN’T SMOKE. {1113133 she to IPRETTY ems ASTRIDE “ The provincial Government accepts. the services of the Lithuanian ladies with a view of selecting from them 500 to make up a regiment. The regiment is to be uniformed in the national dress of the country, and selects its own officers. subject to the approval of the President of the dis- trict. “ Members of. the regiment furnish their own horses, and each officer or subofficer is entitled to have a led horse. The horses may be put out to grassen the royal estates, but oats must be provided by their owners. . “The name and style of the regiment is Imperial Mounted Women Volun- teers; its members are entitled to the ordinary soldiers’ mess, but receive no As intimated, the negotiations that preceded the laying down and accept- e above rules were conduct- ed on horseback from vmouth to mouth. The proud Lithuanians wouldn‘t allow a piece of paper to stand between them and their “Duke;” moreover, they wouldn’t accept any agreement that ’t written in their own obsolete tongue, which the "waywode” Count does not master. Things having been ».arranged, the y directions to re- turn to their homes in the endless flat broken by numerous streams and BEAMTIF UL FORESTS. They have been drilling under their hetmen ‘twice a week ever since, and as these hetmen have mverlably seen The male Lithuanian is not given to demonstrative patriotism; he doesn’t recognize a King of Prussia at all, much less a German Emperor, Intense- ly provincial and forever living in the past, he looks upon William simply as his Dukeâ€"the Duke of ancient Borssia, i.e., “ the land adjacent to Russia.” As such he honors him. And because Wil- liam buys all the horses that can be raised on the big plains for his cavalry he regards him. “ as a good thing,” gen- erally, but further than that he has no use for His Majesty. Hence the ef- forts of the provincial Governors, Count Bismarck, the son of. the late Chancel- lor; Baron von Tischowa, and Herr He- gel, to get up some sort of popular welcome for the Kaiser upon the occa- sions of his semiannual visits to the province have always fallen flat. In less than a week over six hundred girls and women offered their services for a demonstration of a kind such as the century has hardly ever seen. “ True to the customs of our ancestors, we will receive His Majesty at the frontiers of our, the Gumbinnen, dis- trict and from there conduct him to Rominten in triumph,’.’ they told their councilmen and parsons, “but we make one condition; our Duke, meaning the Kaiser, must have no other bodyguard. During the time of his stay in our country we want to be his soldiers. We will garrison his castle, will .‘ beat ’ the ‘ game for him, will attend him on hisi trips around the country and see him! safely home when he decides to re- turn.” ALL DEPENDS ON THE GIRLS. Count Bismarck communicated with‘ the Emperor’s Court Marshal to find] out whether or not the offer provedl acceptable. The Court Marshal wrote:‘ “ It all depends on the girls; go and: look them over.” 80 His Excellency in- vited his fair petitioners to meet him‘ at Trakehnen, the celebrated horse farm, and at the same time arranged with the Governor of the place for the loan of a hall. But if the hall had been as big as a ten acre field it couldn’t have accommodated the assembly, for everyone of the 600 Lithuanian ladies came on horseback, many bringing led horses to boot, and all insisted upon attending the council seated on their charger. Such has been the custom of the country for hundreds, perhaps a thousand years and more, and the Lith- uanian rarely changes his habits and never foregoes a privilege. There was an open-air meeting then, and the Count, who is already alittle stiff in his joints, had to mount a b.ood- ed horse, despite his rheumatism, and make a speech from the saddle. President Hegel, of the Gumbinnen District, translated the address into the old Prussian tongue for the Lithuan: T0 ESCORT THE This spring the Count decided to ad- dress his appeal to the country women and, brave girls that they are, they responded most joyfullyâ€"every moth- er’s daughter of them. rnlqne Bodyguard Entirely of Fair Lithu- nlansâ€"The Most Fearless Riders In Prussia. Five hundred peasant girls in the Province of Prussia are forming into a cavalry regiment to offer Emperor William a right royal welcome when he repairs to his hunting grounds in Rominten Prairies at the close of the present yachting season. They are LithuanianSâ€"of the race that became famous under the Jagel- Ionsâ€"and their homes are in the dis- tricts of Gumbinnen and Koenigsberg, between the Baltic, Russia and P0. land. VA“ - - â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€".â€" - ians do not ufidEISLand German, and a regular exchange of news follow- ed, wuh this rqsult: -____- _---...‘.. RT THE KAISER ACROSS THEIR COUNTRY. the negotiatipns that ,ling under their - :to her rank. The gods will cer- sag ever since, and tainly destroy herâ€"the gods, for C . invariably seen though nominally Christians, the Lith 'i it as privates or uanians still cling to this day to their Lion As their whole life is spent on horse- back, the girls could give points to the reviewing officers in most of these exercises. These Lithuanians scramble upon a pony as soon as their legs are long enough to hold on; they learn The only complaint recorded is the SiI‘IS’ aversion to exercise on foot. “We have offered to serve His Majesty as his mounted bodyguard,” they say; “it’s out of our line to play at m- fantry.” Count Bill had to acknow- ledge, that, and slow-time marching and other “ lowly ” drills were drop- ped for more moving exercises cover- ing a great deal of space in an in- credibly short time. The drill decided upon is formation in squadrons, companies and sections, mounting of the guard, taking hurdles fences and ditches. attack en masse. deploy and rally, and finally " attend to the chase.” to tend large herds of cattle before they know their prayers, and they can wield a three-yard whip sooner than a Booking spoon. Learned men claim that the Lithu- anians came originally from India, and that their language resembles San- scrit. That may be true or not, cer- tain it is that these faraway Prussian subjects in one respect, at least. re- semble the Hindu women. Like them, they wouldn’t think of mounting a horse save to straddle it. A girl hang- ing in a saddle is an object of the greatest curiosity and wonder in their country; nothing can persuade them that she isn‘t a freak or a of the cavalry reserves, and the re- ports received are most encouraging. The reviewing officers agree that they never met with recruits exhibiting so much intelligence and skill in the handling of homes and in obeying sig- nals. Every second girl or woman would make an efficient “ flugelman,” they cried enthusiastically, if there was any need of them. The flugelman, you must know, is a sort of crack sol- dier, whose movements his comrades must simultaneously follow. IN TH E SPINROOM. The Lithuanians are bionde or brown; the race doesn’t produce dark or redâ€" headed girls. One of the sights of the regiment will be the Amazones’ braids of wondrously long and thick hair. When the girls are on horseback their braids reach to their heels, They Ei'm to wear them drawn over the left bi;- som, but it’s a question whether mil- itary rules will permit this act of van- ity. The regiment will have no hats. The only head dress custom permits the Lithuanians to wear is the raisztis, a sort of linen cap festooned with lace and flowers. To this they cling with something akin of religious fervor There are maids, brides, housewives widows and old women’s caps, and woe to the party who dons one not belong- PROFESSIONAL CIRCUS RIDE. Count Bismarck says that up to the time he met the great cavalcade at Trakehnen, he inclined to believe in the time-honored assertion that the aver- age woman’s legs are too short to al- low of straddling amd managing a horse. “ The nonsense of it was most forcibly brought home to me when I met these natives,” he continued, “for the Lithuanians are a small race, com- pactly built, they have a limited stretch of limb. men and women be- ing much alike in outward appearance; Yet these girls have what cavalry men call “ an iron seat.’ They seem to man- euver their horses at will, though scorning stirrups and spurs and whip.” goods are home made. When the W0- men get too old to ride they turn to weaving and embroidery. Every farmhouse has its old-fashioned loom and the winter evenings are general- 1 y spent uncommissicned officers, they are well able t‘o teach thg girls their business. Ordinarily the marginne is half hid- den by a white apron in front and back, but this part of the costume has been discarded. the ladies admitting that apron-ed soldiers wouldn’t be quite the thing. With the colored skirt the mounted volunteers wear a black vel- vet jupe laced in front like the “Mieder” of the Swiss maiden. And, like hers, it is cut decollete, exhibit- ing a snowy white shirt bosom. with big leg of mutton sleeves fastened at the wrist. The skirt has pretty epau- Iettes. embroidered in many colors, and the sleeves, too. exhibit elaborate em- broidery. For regimentfil purposes the company or squadron number will be placed on the shoulder straps. Around their waists the girls usually wear a girdle called " josta,” which, like their garters. is inscribed with pious mot- toes in their own language. The Emperor has promised his vol- unteers beautiful new fangled “jos- tas ” appropriate to the occasion in the national colors, black and white.bear- ing some patriotic motto. but it is not yet settled that the gift Will be ac- cepted. The Lithuanians are a very superstitious race, and fear to lose caste with their fellows by adorning themselves with anything coming from Germany. All their stuffs and 0: late Count 3mm" erck oi-défiéff 1:6; views of the different " squadrons” to I}; held under the guidance of officers Unlike the peasant women of oth- er parts, the Lithuanians wear skirts reaching nearly to the ground, which shows that their clothes are primarily adopted for riding: the uniform of the Amazone Regiment follows the nation- al dress common in old Prussia in all respects. " The manginne” of the First Squad- ron, is light blue; for the second, vio- let has been selected; for the third green, for the fourth red, and for the fifth yellow. These frocks are accor- dion pleated and very wide to allow them to fall in graceful folds from the horse’s back. "How; do yob. do it?” one of thém was asked. “ What have I got my thighs and knfiegufor ?’_’ she gave back. The troop has been divided into five squadrons, recognizable by the color of their "marginnes”â€"skirts, from mar- gas, bright. ancient mythology and heathen no- tions. They ride to church on Sun- days well enough, but on the way thither worship some traditional deity sppposed to reside in a tree, on an river bed or seashore, with offerings of graph, eggs or chickens. Rominten is usually furnished with a guard of 200 infantry during the Kais- er’s stay there. The girls will take the places of these foot soldiers, and like them bivouac under canvas. Their long herding Whips are their only wea- pon. but they will do in case of ob- noxious curiosity seekers, or even 0! poachers. The regiment proposes to meet the Kaiser at some railway station not. yet named, between Koenigsberg and Gum- binned, take him into its midst and march him in triumph all through Lithuania, or Lithauen, as the Germans say. Lithuania comprises the greater half of East Prussia, and contains many royal castles, hunting grounds, studs and other crown domains. The flat country, intersected by forests, through which beautiful roads lead to the various country houses and villages belonging to His Majesty, is well ad- apted to a showy procession of that kind, and if, after reaching headquar- ters at Rominten, William feels like alarming the garrison, he can do so without disturbing the sleep of outv siders. Not the least interesting part of this Amazon regiment are the horses, bred from Arab, Neapolitan, Spanish and English stcck. They are, as a rule, alert animals with brainy foreheads and intelligent eyes set wide apart. The head of the Lithuanian horse is small and carried on a lengthy neck. He has sloping shoulders, a roomy chest and small ears. The best of these horses look like thoroughbreds, with their prominent muscles, wide hips and their general air of gentleness and fearlessness. torekeeperâ€"What kind of chew- ing-gum do you want, my. little boy: We have peppermint, sass‘afras, wih. tergreen, lilac, heliotmpe. and attar 01 p: roses. Dunphy is pretty well battered up Yes He and McCracken had a pas sage of words. ' Only words: That's ail. McCracken threw a die, {Medical scientists tell us that we may no longer kiss, that it injures the health, and the evils resulting from the osculatory habit, if persisted in, are set forth ad libitum and ad nau- seum. (Man is the only animal that kisses as a mark of affection, and the kiss is undoubtedly as old as human nature. In the old catacomb pictures of Egypt, fond lovers are depicted in kissing attitudes, while as far back as Jacob, we are told that this worthy patriarch kissed Rachel and “lifted up his voice and wept,” though why he wept is only a matter for conjecture. The Romans divided kisses into three classesâ€"the osculum, basium and sau- vium, which! meant the kiss of fr1end~ ship, of politeness and of love. The Greeks recognized but one, the kiss of love. We of the present day have the kiss of reconciliation, of respect, of adoration, and who of us does not re- ‘member the first kiss of love? Fair nights and; starry skies come home to every heart. Who has not wandered by love's Elysian streams? Who has not accepted a betrothal witnessed by Saturn's triple circlet? And. who has not held. in his arms a being of soft- est, most sensuous clay, and lived,per- naps, ’hours of ecstacy in a single mo- mouth, To kiss them all at once from north '.to south." Kisses have even appeared as mat- ters, of litigation. Then there is thc last kiss, which, with bursting heart. we press upon the cold, senseless clay, which; will never more respond to on) caresses. But saddest of all is the kiss of satiety. Who can tell the bit- terness of the worn out passion, the jaded nerves, the touch of lips unde: which whither all gladness, all joy, :11. liberty. The trite caress, the hollow ecstacy is, alas, almost as well known as; the kiss which Herrick defines at “love's sweetest language," and oi which the man or woman who haw never: loved, knows as little as the in- land dweller knows of the sea. Pas- sion and the sea are like each other The kiss that burns, and the salt spray that stings; words shall no* tell them or color portray them. What will the scientists give us in lieu o; the sweet, time-honored kiss? Per haps, after awhile, we, like the Nev Zealanders, will ru'o noses as a mark of affection. Doesn’t the shape 0' yer nose suit yer; Alrs.F112riubons. W but do ye mane, Jlrs. Corklns? When ye 're lookin' met this wa} ye 're, ..‘.ways Lurni n’ yer nnse up. Small Boyâ€"Wail, gimme lilac! lwam some kind dat’l‘l look like plug-ter- backer when yer spits! merit? Kisses {have also played a very prominent part in history. The celebrated kiss given Caesar by the conspirators, and the historic one which James L, of Scotland, did not give to Anne, of Denmark, are fami- liar to all. In romance and poetry they figure far more prominently, and are sometimes chosen as a theme. The kiss which the angel took to the pear 131 gates as atonement for a lost soul will never be forgotten, while every one knows Byron‘s “Long, long kiss. and kiss of youth and love,” and his wish “That womanhood had but one rosy iAzCROSS THE BACK-YARD 'FEN CE. HES PREFERENCE. A VVORDY ROW. 3%