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Nhe thought of her father, *4 by his failure, cooped 1 «T s cottage, deprived of his all his dreams: ahe thought bright boy, with his wh starving in the colonies, a #wept over her. pfr ) . "" & word. a word of three letters, she could suve them. heak At that moment all Lady Pauline‘s leaâ€" sons inculeating the duty of selfâ€"sacrifice fashed acrose her mind. To live for others, to auffer for others, it was ‘.‘fi woman‘s ideal, the woman‘s duty, should be the woman‘s pleasure. No thought of herself rose to deter her. By earing vea ahe could eave those she loved. Xhe thoueht af ha» s.py.2 q IOTO _ br Th whe though only here . was not th aniles away Mershon t ahe v * there \ t he has «d he He She could save w Dee Ne u W that ‘. aud turned her a halfâ€"dazed, halfâ€" y should you he 1 got } "u" momentâ€"why. she knew notâ€" ought of Lord Gaunt. If he were ere to bhelp her, advise her. But he * there: he might be thousands of Away. She was alone and helpless. hon eyed her covertly. He knew the was struggling. but he knew here was no lo(\’mmle in the net e had drawn round her. it do you eay ?" he said at last. 4 mx seemed to wake us is ault _ # had 4 iid Decima, with her back alâ€" «d to him, "he has told me, and sorry. 1 am wrr& that you « «o much money through my ad m bear it," she said. "I have tolling Bobby that we must Noodbines and live very plainâ€" e poor gmp‘r which I supâ€" ill be ‘here is nothing very Her Great Love; i Decima, "he has told me raring it bravely, Poor Bobâ€" w a strugzle for him, he will ige with a very emall allowâ€" iid. But it will be all right « into the army, for he is t he is sure to get on." ent that he hasn‘t told you rehon I m afraid, Miss Deâ€" he case is worse than you i‘t know how bad it was myâ€" had a talk with your father ppressed a smile. 1 your brother haen‘t told ho case is we a‘t know how | had a talk wi together." oked at him rchension. you mean" she be worse?" said, with a e , "you talk ab our brother |g n afraid there nt coming . of aid back or*s fact is, Miss een going in iing â€"what we or _ win all. tn‘t know it â€" advised him +â€"that he h: szessed into t ed at him with wide eyee; ‘red, but no sound came. at and closed the door with 1 he came near to her, as ert rd Miss Decima," he said, "it‘s ese things straight out, and u the absolute truth. Your i. and your brother will ) at the ground, for the yes and white face dauntâ€" v a momentâ€""unless"â€"he llâ€"it all reste with you." Her lips formed the words; cely audible. you," he said. "Mirse Deâ€" traight manâ€"we have to ilight in the cityâ€"and I i as a child, but as a girl a whom her father‘s and ald. "I‘ve made the offer i\‘s business; but I could her way. 1 love you, Deâ€" i with all my heart and ‘ou more than I‘ve wanted ¢ in my life. If you‘d said > other night, you‘d never ything of this trowble; T‘d every penny and said not it it. That‘s my way. But ind I‘m obliged to tell {0‘ rgain with you. You elose and I‘ll never refer to it need know anything sbon‘ ur brother; for I can tel ¢« have turned out better ed. 1t will be easy to bamâ€" be knowe a« little of busiâ€" * of you. Do you mind me m a little upset. I see your elgarette." < curar, and his hand shook done, but with a different n« put up a sbhaking band he soft hair from her foreâ€" d in the fowler‘e net was than she wase at that moâ€" shon had said to his aister, © tightly. Her father ruinâ€" ulure . aheolutely blasted! ness and welfare depend. hout as big as it can be. inder with itâ€"unlese you n!" eaid Decima head. member what I said to zht at the Leaftmore Ball. ed you, and 1 asked io“ You said ‘no‘ then, but i‘t take your answer; I 1 ask you againâ€"now! 1 will take this trouble 1 will find the money ®t, 1 will double your nce, and pay his debts." reathed Decima. ed shortly. : are debts. He has been l‘ll do more than this; on your father for the after him. And I‘ll make you as large as you like." c«« he had taken a ltqi Decima drew back unti iin=t the window. Her ‘ling; she felt as if «he . and her eyes were fixed sharp face as if she were ill idea of the army and in the colonies, and a e it is, I‘m afraid. That aused and looked at her her with a curious ex ur father XX1â€"Continued). old you, Miss Decima, with a alight ebrug of 1 talk about paying me rother going into the aid there‘s little chance ming offâ€"not thai I ack orâ€"should take the is, Miss Decima, &onr oing in for this ing what we eall in the win all. It appearsâ€" know it or I should ised him againet such t he has put every d into this confounded urse he has lost it. In he has made himself in he has got. HMe says wit at him with slowly d hem by the one word Or, A Struggle For a Heart ou hesitate> ooped up in a laborâ€" 4 of his 'urt-lhop,uq:‘f thought of Bobb , his shattered {0”. if we aro very care. a low voice, "we may back some of the through us. 1 don‘t ArEP father, brokenâ€"heartâ€" to be sorry on my sha‘n‘t miss it. I‘m They s NATIONAL DAUVG ano ippealing gaze. sitate?®" ho .'\ ie said at last ke 28 if from he said, faintly. NAâ€"DRUâ€"CO Headache Wafers ©yes upon ind a shudder Whane e knew â€" Her lips quivered, but she forced a the net amile upon them, and met his anxione ze steadily. . ; last /1 am doing it of my own free willâ€" 'Nn\ 5. Robby." pan ‘ e drovped ber hand and drew a breath £2arA elief. P be J ,\ at‘e all right, then!‘ he eaid. "I -â€"-"‘\g \.v'. s« â€" er you feel a hoA +s promp:ly and surely. D0 =>=at contain phsnacetin, acetanilid or olb.l’a-“‘fl“ at your Druggist‘s. \ 125 | _ ‘‘Thank you," she eaid, almost gratefulâ€" |)v- for she ehrunk from the thought of having to tell them. He still stood looking at her {rreeoluteâ€" 1~â€" then he took ber hard half fearfully and touched it with his lips, which burnâ€" ed against the coldness of her hand. |\ _ Mer very innocence prevented her realâ€" | ising fully what it meant. Lady Paulime‘s «avyetem of perfect ignorance was bearing ‘il.s fruit. If Decima had known as much as other girls, that whiepered "Yes" would have been impoesible; and the knowledge would hare saved her from | a sacrifice all too common, but none the less wicked and unholy. aBiih a "It seems sudden to me, all the same," he eaid. "I didn‘t thinkâ€"" He bit his lip. "But, after all, Merehon‘s not a bad fellow. He‘e improvedâ€" Iâ€"Iâ€"beg your pardon, Decie; I do, indeed! But it‘s the truth; he has improved. He has behaved like a brick over this affair of the comâ€" | pany. He must be a good fellow at heari, orâ€"he would have cut . up rough. And then you see how fond his sister is of him! And â€"andâ€"Decie, I‘ve come to conâ€" gratulaie vyou." "Thank vou, Bobby," she eaid, very alowly. "Of cource,. he ien‘t worthy of you," be said, hurried}y, "I don‘t know _a man in the world who is, exceptâ€"‘ He stopâ€" ped and colored, and Decimi knewâ€"how, | she could not bave toldâ€"that the uuâ€" ‘epoken name was Gaunt. The blood rushâ€" ed to her face, then left it pale agn‘n. "You‘ll be very rich, Decie," he said, "and he simply worehips the fi.round you tread on. I conld see that while he was tellâ€" inge us. He has gone off like a man half : beaide himeelf with joy.‘. j# 3 "You eaid the other night that you didn‘t dislike me. I don‘t expect you to love me, but I dare say you like me well enough to be my wife. All the reet will come after we are married; it generally does. Anyhow, I‘ll chance it. Give m your answer. Say ‘yes," Decima, and T‘ll #o straight in and tell your father and brother that they needn‘t worry themâ€" selves any more about this miserable businees. Your father can go on playl:a at making his fortune by inventions, ai your brother can go into the army and be a general in time. Only say the word, and leave the rest to me." A When he had gone, Decim» looked at the hand vacantly, as if it did not belong to her, then she sunk on to one of the cages, and eat staring before her, trying to realize that she was to be Theodore Mershon‘s wife. N 7 He took a step toward her, with out stretched hands, as if to take her in his arms«; but eomething in her face, as she ehrunk back, arrested him. f There was almost a terror in her eyes, and she went pale to the lips, which formâ€" ed the monosyllable "No." W The color died from Mershon‘s cheek, and his arms fell to his sidee, as he stood looking at her irresolutely, But he was very much in love, and he wus wise enough to know that a half loaf is beilter than none. Besides, she had not told him that she loved him, but bad simply proâ€" mised to be his wite; and he must be conâ€" teut with thatâ€"for a time. \ t ‘"You have made me very hapgy. Deâ€" cima," he said. "I‘ve always got what Ive wanted all through my life, and my luck haen‘t deserted me; it‘s not a bad thing to marry w lucky man, my dear." . T Decima winced at the ‘my dear," and shrunk back a little further. She was confused and bewildered, and the preâ€" dominant feeling at thas moment was the desire that he would goâ€"if he would only go and leave her malone to get her oreuth, as it were. I w But all she shrunk from was the thought of leaving The Woodbines and her father, and going to live in the society of Mr. Mershon and his sister at The Firs. She would have to be with him always, to To with him wherever he went; to live in the great new houee, the â€"«plendor of which oppressed her; to spend lone hours listening to Mrs. Sherborne‘s praise of her brother. . _ _ adnb uts .. There was silence in the room, broken only by the faint croak of the fwu:v an he preened his feathers. The elim, xlrhsh fAgure, with its white face and darkâ€"rimâ€" med eyes, leaned by the window. Her heart wase like lead, and beat slowly, heavily. as if it were imprieoned by m band of ice. To save them, the dear ones! "Well," he eaid, "what is your anewer?" Her hands clinched at her side, the marâ€" tyr‘se look came into her eyes. "1 mugtâ€"I must!" she breathed. "Yes." "You‘d better leave me to tell your father and brother," he eaid. "I dare say they won‘t be very much astonished; any one could have seen that I‘d fallen in love with you. Yes; Ill tell them." uc "Yes," Decima eaid; and almost inâ€" audible as the word was, it sent the blood ruehing to Mershon‘s face. This was all which presented itself to her imagination; but it was enough. Only one thought consoled herâ€"that she would still be near her father, and that she would be able to see him often; that she had saved him and Bobby from ruin, and that Bobby‘s future was assured. _ After a time she went n? to her own room. She caught «ighi of her face in the glass, and its expression startled her. A knock at the door sent her hand to her heart; and she turned round with a look in her eyes, almost of terror, as if she dreaded to seo Mr. Mershon. But it was Bobby. "Decima!" he exclaimed, half anxiously, and vet with something like relief in his voiee; "is this trueâ€"that Mershon has been telling us?" _ Ee Lh hes "Yes, it is true, Bobby," she said; and she managedâ€"Heaven only knows howâ€" to forcee a smile and epeak cheerfully. "Well," he exclaimed, ‘"it‘s taken my breath away. I hadn‘t the least idea! But I suppose it‘s been going on while I‘ve been away?" "Yee«," she faltered; "while you‘ve been away." He looked at her a little doubtfully, and began to pace up and down. °* e _ She stood with her back to and he could not see her face or it would have told its tale. But Decima did, and «he turned her hbead away. He locked at her still a liite uneasily, then he went to her and took ber hand. "Look here, Decie"‘ he eaid. "You‘re @lad, aren‘t you? You‘re doing this of your own free will? It‘s what you want?" vowe. Bobby laughed @hortly. "Oh, father‘e very glad; it‘s chsered him up wnderfnl:{ Besides, Merehon _ to‘d him that he thinks he can see a way to eave a greater portion of the money nomothi:: about foreign patente; 1 didn‘t qaite understand." A e esd CHENM:cAL, CO. OFf CANADA, And father?" eaid Decima in a low e coming on take CHAPTER XXII the light, distinctly, "Iâ€"I didn‘t mean to, Theodore," she eaid. "It‘sâ€"it‘s a good match for her." _ "I‘m eure I don‘t know," he retorted, his eyes shifting from side to side; for he knew that he had spoken the truth. "All I know is that you take the news in a ghoulish fashion that is eimply disgustâ€" ing. 1 euppose you are thinking that vou‘ll be turned out?" He sneered. "You needn‘t be afraid. I sbhall want you still I won‘t have her, Decima, my wife"â€"he epoke the word with an exultant prideâ€" "I won‘t have my wife worried with houseâ€" keeping. You can stay on hereâ€"if she‘ll let you. Perhaps you can console yourâ€" self with that and find something more cheerful to eay." She bent her head. "I‘m sure I hope she will be happy, Theodore," she eaid. "Happy!"_ he snarled. "Of course ehe will be! Why shouldn‘t she? She will "Iâ€"1 am only surprised, Theodore," she said, nervouely. "I didn‘t think that she â€"IL_meanâ€"" "I don‘t care what you mean!" he said, eavagely. "But what do you mean? Is it so very wonderful that she ehould acâ€" cept me, like me, care for meâ€"yes, love me? Am I hunchbacked, deformed, old? What is there so surprising in it that you turn as white as a sheet and gape at me? ‘‘No, no; why should I, Theodore?" ehe said. With this command he flung himself out of the room. They were very quiet that night at The Woodbines. Decima seemed be under the influence of @ spell from which even Bobâ€" oy‘s presence coud not free her. She had listened to Mr. Deane as he paced up and down the drawingâ€"room and talked in his rhapsodical way; now of her engageâ€" ment, now of some new invention, for, alas! the Electric Storage Company had lost its hold upon him, and he was off in another direction. Every now and then Bobby would glance at Decima with the expression of faint doubt and anxiety which his face had worn in her room; but she always met his Lfll:ume with a smile. And all ihrough e evening this thought buoyed er up: "I have eayed these two, and against their hapinees mine does not count." She felt very tired, but ehe sat up long after her father had gone to his laboraâ€" tory, while Bobby smoked endlees cigarâ€" ettesâ€"sat close ibeside him, her hands sometimes on his knee, her head on his shoulder. At last she went to her own room, and even then, in its eolitude, she did not realize what she had done. How could she, encireled _ by the innocence with which Lady Pauline‘s eystem had eurâ€" rounded and guarded her? ‘"What do you mean by that?" I supâ€" pose that you mean to insinuate that :getn ll!;nrryint me for my money? Is at it?" "Happy!_ he snarled. "Of course ehe will be! Why shouldn‘t she? She will have everything she wants, everything Fuduoy <&a jay. Ry Tove! UVd prl trhe moon out of the sky if ehe wanted it! You can tell her so, if you like, when you #o and «ee her toâ€"morrow." She after tory, ettes "Hope!" He laughed and eneered at her. "Of course I shall be happy. 1 alâ€" ways am when I get what I wart, and God kzows I want her badly enough. H_agpy! What man wouldn‘t be happy with the loveliest, eweetest girl in all the world for his wife? For Heaven‘s sake," be broke off, angrily, "dou‘t sit and stare at me as if I were some kind of monster at a fair." He was leaving the room, but he turned upon her savagely. 7 Aoma en Bhe mwase frightened by his voice, and visibly cowered in her chair. i Once or twice that night, all innocently, she thought of Lord Gaunt. Where wias he? Would he be glad or sorry to hear that she was going to marry Mr. Merâ€" shon? She dreamed of him that night. Bhe dreamed that he was far away in Africa; that she was trying to tell him what had happened, but that, thouih ehe cried at the top of her voice, it could not reach him, and in her eleep she sobbed at the thought. Her lips parted, but she said nothing. "Don‘t you understand?" he demanded. "Why do you gape at me as if I‘d said the world was coming to an end? I tell you, Decima Deane is going to be mlf wife. Bhe hae just accepted me. Well, can‘t you speak?" "Iâ€"I‘m very glad," she stammered. "I congratulate you, Theodore, and I hopeâ€"you will be happy." _ x . "Jinks appears to be putting aside something for a rainy day.‘"‘ "His failure to return umbrellss made me suspect as much.‘"‘ TEA DRINKING HABIT WRONG In the light of the latest scientifc analysis of this very popular beverâ€" age, no one can afford to ignore this mighty warning. The chemists have shown that there is 3 per cent. of caffeine (the same alkaloid as in coffee) in tea, and that there is from 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. of tannin, besides the other elements in the tea. The caffeine, formerly called theine, is the most virulent of poisons, but it would not be so bad if there were not also the tanâ€" nin, one of the most powerful asâ€" tringents known to chemistry. The longer the tea leaves are allowed to steep or draw t{lle larger the amount of tannin that is extracted from the leaves, and the greater the deleterious effect upon the system which absorbs the baneful brew. If tea be properly made drawing not longer than three minutes by | the clock the amount of tannin exâ€"| tracted is comparatively small, and | the ill effects are not so great,| especially if it is taken with solid: food. lfi taken unsweetened and| without milk, as the Chinese and‘ Japanese drink it, it is easily diâ€" gested, the full flavor is enjoyed and there n#eed be no ill effects.| The excessive drinking of tea which makes certain persons tea drunkâ€" ards is as bad for the system as al-l ecohol could be, and the poor vieâ€" tims soon become nervous wreokn‘! It is a fact that if milk be poured into the tea the compound is a‘ most indigestible, leathery driak| that would strain the digestive‘ powers of an ostrich, and that tea‘ partaken of in this way is a comâ€"| mon cause of organic indigestion.! ‘‘The spectacle of a workingâ€"class girl having tea for breakfast, tea for dinner and tea for tea, repreâ€" sents to my mind a grievous phyâ€" siological and social wrong," is the deliberate opinion of one of the most eminent British physicians. Caffeinec, Most Virulent of Poisons, is in Tea. (To be continued.) A Sign. Crowded Eggs.â€"Chop the whites of twelve hardâ€"boiled eggs, and mix the yolks with a teaspoonful and a half of melted butter and a cupful and a quarter of sweet milk. Beaâ€" son with onion, salt, pepper and mustard. Add to this mixture the whites of the eggs and one cupful of softâ€"boiled rice, and bake to a light brown. A â€" Spanish Onion Dish.â€"Take the skin from one or more large Spanish onions; remove the core, leaving a hole large enough to inâ€" sert a sheep‘s kidney, nicely seaâ€" soned. For the kidney, minced ham can be substituted. Put the onions on a wellâ€"buttered bakingâ€" dish, baste them freely with melted butter, and bake until a golden brown. Breakf{ast Dish.â€"Slice very thin half a dozen goodâ€"sized boiled poâ€" tatoes. Put them in a fryingâ€"pan for a few minutes with butter ; let them sizzle until thoroughly heatâ€" ed, but do not let them really fry. Take six hardâ€"boiled eggs, sliced, and one and threeâ€"quarters cupâ€" fuls of finely chopped ham, moistâ€" aned with a cupful of cream ; put potatoes, eggs, rand ham. in layers in a buttereg bakingâ€"dish ; sprinkle breadâ€"crumbs with small pieces of butter and chopped parsley on top. Brown in the oven. Cinnamon Cakes.â€"Take one cupâ€" ful of molasses, oneâ€"half cupful of boiling water, ome teaspoonful of saleratus, oneâ€"half teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, and then stiffen the mixture with flour until it will just pour. Bake in gemâ€"pans, and serve hot with whipped cream. Selected Recipes. Sardines with Lemon.â€"Remove the bones and skin of the sardines. Pound the flesh, and with a large piece of butter make a paste of it. Add lemonâ€"juice to taste. Spread the paste in a dish, and garnish with gherkins. Egg Salad.â€"Boil half a dozen eggs. Remove the yolks. Cut the whites in rings. Mash the yolks to a paste and season well with salt, pepper and a dash of mustard. Add half a cupful of finely. minced ham. Moisten with a little mayonâ€" naise dressing. Roll into balls and place one ball in each ring of white. Garnish with watercress and stufâ€" fed olives and serve with mayonâ€" naise dressing. Vegetable Soup.â€"Cover a good sized soup bone with three quarts of cold water and cook slowly for two and oneâ€"half hours. Add three teaspoons of salt, one cup of toâ€" matoes, two medium sized potatoes diced, one medium sized onion into which stick three or four cloves, one carrot diced and one tableâ€" spoon of ocatmeal. Boil until vegeâ€" tables are tender. A little water may be added if it boils down too much. (The Ladies‘ Aid Cook Book, Charleston, "I1.) Fruit _ Salad _ (halt _ quantity ample)â€"One medium sized v»iacâ€" apple, _ three _ bananas, three oranges, cut into small cubes, pour the dressing over it ; let st;imyoon ice a ‘half hour or more before servâ€" ing with Golden Dressing â€" Two eggs, oueâ€"fourth cup light colored fruit juice (orange, apple or pineâ€" apple), oueâ€"fourth cup sugar, oneâ€" fourth cup lemon juice. Beat eggs slightly ; add the fruit juice, lemon juice and sugar. Stir constantly in a double boiler until it begins to thicken. Cool and serve on the sliced fruit. (One Hundred Recipes, Battle Creek, Mich.). Fig Cake.â€"Five eggs (whites), oneâ€"half cup butter, one and oneâ€" half cups sugar, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, oneâ€" half cup sweet milk, oneâ€"half teaâ€" spoon each of lemon and vanilla flavoring. Cream butter and sugar together until very light, add flour with baking powder mixed in it by thoroughly sifting together, and milk, Add well beaten whites and flavoring last. Bake in three layâ€" ers and put together with fig preâ€" serves. Canned Asparagus.â€"Fill an asâ€" paragus boiler nearly full of hot salted water, bring it to a boil, and when this point is reached lay the asparagus in the water. Boil unâ€" til the asparagus is tender, but not until it is soft or broken. Take it out carefully, stand it on end, the tips uppermost, in fruit jars. Turn the boiling water in which the asâ€" paragus was cooked into the jars, 2C Ne t ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO filling each to overflowing, and seal at once. Be sure that your rubâ€" bers are in perfect condition and that the tops fit closely. Keep the jars in a dark place. Unvarnished furniture can be polished with beeswax and turpenâ€" tine. Bcratches on furniture can be taken from varnish by rubbing with kerosene. Clean glass with ammonia. Clean piano keys with alcohol. Clean wall paper with stale bread. Remove white sp>*s firom furni ture by rubbing with camphene. Wash linoleum with warm soap water, then apply equal parts of linseed oil and vinegar mixed. _â€"On taking cakes baked in a tin out of the oven stand the tin on & wet aloth for 10 or 15 minutes. The Paint can be removed by rubbing with spirits of turpentine. & If sweet oil is applied to the skin immediately after a blow or bruise, it wi\ not turn black and blue. In making a cocoanut pie or cusâ€" tard, soak the cocoanut in the milk for a few minutes before adding the other ingredients. A liniment for inflammatory rheu A liniment for inflammatory rheumatism is made by taking one ounce of pulverized saltpetre and putting it into a pint of sweet oil. Batho the parts agec_ted: & 5 An external remedy that is good for a bad chest is an ointment comâ€" posed of an ounce of pure white vaseline, in which ten drops each of spirits of camphor and turpenâ€" tine have been stirred. O# hot glyâ€" cerine may be rubbed on the chest, which cover over afterwards with soft fine flannel. Instead of using a flat iron to steam velvet, try a soapstone and see how much better and smoother the velvet will be. If chairs are only a little sagged but no canes are broken turn%mt- tom side up and wash in hot water ; this will shrink the canes and they will look very nice when dry. To test a new broom when buyâ€" ing, press its edge against the floor, If the straws bristle out and bend the broom is a poor one. In a good broom they remain in a solid and firm mass. When cleaning, use a child‘s iong, handle broom to brush under the bath tub and under gas stove in kitchen. It is much easier than reaching under with a cloth or short handle broom. Rice should be washed in several waters before cooking it. The best way to do this is to put the rice in a sieve and plunge it up and down in a pan of water. Hot water is far better thar cold, for if the rice kernels have been coated with paâ€" raffin the hot water will wash it off. This is impossible with the cold waâ€" Stains on flannels may be removâ€" ed by applying yolks of eggs and glycerine in equal quantities. Leave it for half an hour and then wash out. A candle may be made to fit any candlestick if you will soften the wax by dipping it in hot water. Then push the candle into the canâ€" dlestick. If it is too small it will @queeze in ; if it is too large, t_he soft wax will spread and hold the candle up. & ied To prevent the contents of a ketâ€" tle boiling over on the stove wipe the inside of the kettle around the top with butter. & Fold a piece of emery paper in the centre and draw the knife raâ€" pidly back and forth several times, turning it from side to side. This is an excellent sharpener for paring knives. A tight shoe may sometimes be made easy by laying a cloth wet in hot water across where it pinches, changinig several times. Tge leaâ€" ther will shape itself to the foot. By placing thin silk between ;two pieces of tissue paper, you will hnd that you can cut it as straight as though it were a heavy cloth ; there will be no annoying puckering. An old table with marble top may be utilized for a number ~of purposes in the kitchen, such as rolling out pastry, cutting meat, etc., and may be cleaned easily. 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As soon as he is seated, the hostess and her daughters, and any of their girl friends who happen to be in the house at the time, come and sit about the guest, touch him lightly with their fingers, and commence to weep loudly and to shed many tears; during this ceremony, in a sort of connected discourse, they recite everything that has happenâ€" ed to them recently, and talk of the hardships of the road that the visiâ€" tor has suffered, and of anything and everything that can arouse compassion and tears. The guest,. his hand before his face, pretends cakes can then be turned out with" out the aid of a knife and will not stick to the tin, as frequently hapâ€" pens otherwise. 1 Btranger than any of these cusâ€" toms is the weeping salutation that has been observed among central Bouth American Indians. This form of greeting occurs, too, in the Anâ€" daman Islands, New Zealand, and Polynesia. A Portuguese explorer describes the custom as he saw it used among a tribe of South Ameriâ€" can Indians: the most universal use at the preâ€" sent day. Yet there exist races to whom these forms of greeting would seem as ludicrous as their own customs seem to us. In this connection Reclam‘s Universum deâ€" scribes some curious customs that the people of various races observe when they greet one another. use, are only more pronounced forms of the bow. So there is a connection between the embrace, so common in civilized countries, and the greeting of the member of the Koiari tribe of British New Guinea, who, in saluting a missionary, placed one arm about his neck and stroked him under the chin. Among the Masai and the Ukerâ€" ewe, it is a mark of respect to greet an acquaintance or a stranger by spitting at him. Almost as strange is the custom ascribed to the Tibeâ€" tans of sticking out the tongue by way of salutation. Rubbing noses is quite common ; the Burmese, and many tribes of Eskimos, Laplandâ€" ers, and Malays do so. w w.isz;, ~~" dees not speak until the crying has gone on for wotmt time. _ Then they all wipe away their tears, and become as lively and merry as if they had never cried in all their lives." Bo long as a man has the courage to face one more day so long will he be a factor in the race for material success. He whose past looms up constantly in front of him, who lives in retrospect, has cheated the boatman of the Styx and encumbers the machinery of this world. To live is to be up and doing toâ€"day, not to be counting on the things that were, but to figure on the things that are and will be, not to say that toâ€"day is not so good as yesterday, but to declare that toâ€" morrow will be the best day the universe has ever seen,. And toâ€" morrow is always a better dav than Some Strange Customs the People of Various Races Obserc. The kiss, the handâ€"shake and the bpw are the salutations that are in The prostration and the salaam, salutations that many Orientals It gives warmth where the ordinary heat does not go. It chases the chill from the breakfastâ€"room or bedroom in a few minutes. Carry it wherever you need it. Light, easy to handle, clean; durable, and at the same time ornamental. â€" Stock carried at all chief points. Always a Better Toâ€"morrow. 4 /, CURIOUS GREETINXGS. PERFECTION Smokeless Oil Heater gives just that touch of extra comfort you need rery cold weather. FE pEerrection ABY /{ Proverbs in various languages gather round the wellâ€"known adâ€" vice ‘"After dinner sit a while; after eupper walk a mile." "If you would be ill sup and go to bed" is another way in which the truth is expressed ; the proverb that says, ‘‘Who goes supperiess to bed, all night tumbles and tosses," is in apparent contradiction to it; but it is easy to see that what is here meant is the restlessness which folâ€" lows fastings; supper taken at a suitable and sufficient time before retiring to rest being rewarded by quiet slumbers. The waning digesâ€" +Jve nowers of old age are perhaps hinted at in to« .""~"»#,, ‘*Me yrongs to«day. We shall all be further along the road, we shall all know more, feel more, approach a little closer the goal which is yet hidden. The man acclaimed as successful never feels his spirits flag, never lacks the courage to face another day, never looks backward except to profit by his experiences. Briggsâ€"My wife wore hers that way one night, and it fell out of the window. B. A. De Greeâ€"My stomach‘s out of order, doctor. Doc. 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