The National Forum

THE NATIONAL FORUM VANITY FAIR CONDUCTED BY JOHN H. WILLS. COLORED STUDENTS WINS AWARDED GASTON MEDAL. For Excellence In Oratory At Brown University. For the first time in the history of Brown University a colored student, Gough Decatur McDaniels, of Baltimore, won the Gaston medal for excellence in oratory recently, metal is the most valuable prize offered by the university. McDaniels is one of the first students of the senior class, and in his junior year won third in the Carter prize reading contest. He was grad- ated from the University High School 1996 and entered Brown in the fall of the same year. The prize is for the best original oration in English. McDaniels's subject was "A Plea for Liberia." Naturally the first thing man endeavors to excel in his speech, and by operation of a law which none know, the Negro gains prominence as an orator wherever his powers are given opportunity to develop in this art. The above special to the Washington Post, from Providence, R. I., records one more triumph in this field. THE ANNUAL SCROOL DRILL. Each year these exhibitions of skill in the art of war improve upon the past. This year we will witness the finest development of that art. Armstrong Manual Training School has four strong companies this year of which Company E, commanded by Capt. McKinley Bowle, an excellent soldier and gentleman appears to be the favorite. His friends are sure he will win. M Street High School with two companies, Company A, commanded by Capt. Wilfred Lawson, and Company B, commanded by Capt. Willis Richardson. These two companies are so nearly equal in skill and fitness that the experts as well as their most enthusiastic supporters can see no reason why either should lose the high honor. The contest this year will defer decidedly from those of former years, as there will be "an enemy in the field," composed of two squadrons detailed from the National Guard of the District which will act as the foe. Each contesting company will close upon the enemy by banking movement and strike by force and strategy to rout the foe and gain the position of victors. The great door athlete event of the year will meet on Decoration Day. The participants will be M Street High School, Armstrong Manual Training HOWARD UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT Dr. W. T. Vernon* Masterly Address A Signal Feature Of The Occasion —Held In Metropolitan A. M. E. Church—Alumni Banquet At University At Night—Greatest In History Of The School. Not in the history of Howard University, which is the educational Athens of the Negro of America, who is thirsting after higher education, has there been a more complete vindication of the useful and splendid purpose for which the institution is designed to serve, than was attested to by the commencement held May 25, 1910. With its usual foresight, the committee on arrangements had methodically looked after every detail, and it was contemplated that the exercises would be held in the open air amphitheatre, which in one of the beauties that nature has been generous enough to lavish as a natural ornament upon the Howard Campus. But the elements were unkind and the gods apparently unpropitious and as been, shortly after the alumni association held up on the campus that the contingency would live to be held indoors, which contingency had been thoughtfully provided for beforehand. The Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, noted for its capacity to accommodate large gatherings was taxed to its utmost, and the program was carried out without a hitch, and as if it had been originally intended to be held there. After the usual preliminaries, register of the treasury, Hon. W. T. Vernon arose to address the occasion and was greeted with an envious ovation. His job saying too much Dr. Vernon told himself commensurately thereunto. Right well did he arise to the demands of the hour. Not in the history of our longstanding acquaintance with him and his career do we think we have ever heard him to better effect. His remarks were pregnant with good advice, but pointed in the extreme; replete with logic but elastic enough with rhetoric to mildly displease, with cautious admonition, but with stillness those great truths that make up the sum total of life and which are only gained from wealth of personal experience by those who offer them After the customary presentation of the diplomas, some hundred and twenty degreeed men and women filed out of the church into the street and into the world to take up the battle of life and if possible to make it better for having lived and moved in its circle of human activity. Degrees of Doctor of divinity were conferred upon four distinguished prelates whose the institution delighted to honor. At night, as a benefitting symposium to splendid achievements of Mary, a banquet was held at the dining hall, where mirth, long minds, wisdom held wit ran riot. When Dean Kelly Miller presided once said that the institution of all of the above School, Howard University, Baltimore High School, Morgan College, Baltimore, Y. M. C. A., Washington, D. C., Oberlin Athletic Club, Washington, and a large number unattached athletes of high quality. On the program are a 100 yards dash, a 200 yards run, high and low hurdle races. The special feature will be the mile relay races. The meet will be under the management of the following officers of the I. S. A. A., W. A. J. Joiner, president; Edward Henderson, general manager; Bennie Washington, Haley Douglass, Wm. Decatur, Garnet Wilkinson. These meetings usually are very interesting and draw the best audiences with attendance ranging from 1,000 to 1,500, and this year the management expect to surpass all former events. BASE BALL. Among the interesting events of Decoration Day will be a double header game between "The Washington Giants," colored, and "The Eastern Buds," white, at the American League Park. To enlist the interest of the occasion, the score of the game between the Washington and New York, American League, will be given by innings. As to the local color, both have a large following of enthusiastic fans, and the "Buds" is the one local white team of high ability which plays annually a game with the best colored local team. The "Giants" is considered very strong, and a good game is to be expected. "GET TOGETHER" That was what I said last week. Some may not understand just what I mean. To begin what is progress for the nation means progress for us, that is, if we join in and take our part. No idea of antagonizing any of the better social forces must enter our action, but there is so much that can be accomplish by organization along civic and social lines that will divergent interests in the communities of our people can easily be welded into the common cause which we all must acknowledge, the sooner, the better. Unions for practical progress can be formed in neighborhoods, districts, cities and counties, with common aim—the betterment of social and eventually, general conditions. Our matters not how far away the social forces are from our interests in the matter of unions, there is one. named elements blended in beautiful and unbrashed harmony The college department was represented in a toast by Mr. Ocea Taylor, graduate of the college department and the law as well. Mr. Taylor acquitted himself nobly and was a living example of what the institution produces. Mr. Taylor at present is special agent in the census department and one of the editors of our worthy and well wished contemporaries in the field of journalism The Washington Men's Journal. The theological end of the affray of wit and wisdom was well looked after by Rev, G. F. Dillard who, while he was in spirit fully in harmony with the occasion lent dignity and balance to the same. Dr. E. D. Williston, our general and popular physician, "cut up" the occasion on the dissecting table of his ready and racy medical wit and proceeded at once to reconstruct a new and perfect whole. The law department was represented by Hon. Justin Carter of Harrisburg, on his plea for the bar was sufficient to convince a jury much more stealthful than the number of more than a hundred lawyers around this fessal board. Dr. Thirkield graced the occasion with his presence and showed plainly that he belonged in heart and mind to the esprit de corps. Howard University, with all of the officials, has every reason to be proud of this; its past year's work as it marks the high water tide in the progress of the institution from every viewpoint. The Forum congratulates the university, as well as its executors and officers, and wishes for it an indefinite period in point of duration for good and for accomplishing successfully, year after year, in increased proportion, the educational moment of turning over to the world in numbers these splendid specimens of young men and women who enter the life and "write their names high, among the galaxy of that immortal few that are born not to die." The following are the graduates of the University this year, which number represents only those who received degrees, there being many more graduates whose names do not appear on this list for that reason. Bachelor of Arts. Barnett, Charles W. Berry, Joanna M. Boyd, Norma E. Butts, Jonathan S. Chase, William C., Jr. Clifford, Joshua W. Dagler, James F. Jones, Ethel G. Jones, Lovy E. Love, Julius H. Love, William A. Lynch, Reginald L. Merlwether, Sarah N. Morris, Frederick D. Oldham, George W. F. Pollard, Ernest M. Ridout, John C. Snowden, Carrie E. Summers, Howard H. Terry, Harriet J. Walsh, William B. Cox, Henley L. Davis, Sadie B. Hanson, Bertha WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1910. M. "FOR JUSTICE AND GOOD GOVERNMENT." The contest now going on in the Sixth Congressional District of Maryland is full of interest for colored men, women and especially in the District of Columbia. In this day of the Whitman, disfranchisement and Jim Crow legislation, behooves colored men to watch with careful vigilance the record and character of men, who offer themselves as candidates in the primaries of the various states. It is therefore, a pleasure for the "Forum" to give Hawkins, Rusutus J. Murray, Alice P. Perry, Phoebe P. Deans, Anthony Diamond, John. C. Jackson, John T. Perkins, Lloyd A. **Doctor of Medicine.** Allen, Charles A. Ayers, John Harold W. Bagley, Joilet C. A. B. Barrett, William Henry A. Bemby, Henry C. A. B. Best, Edward Eleazer Braithwaite, Harold M. Brenn, Clarence E. Brown, Charles S. A. B. Coleman, William A. Edwards, Michael M. Ellis, John C. Harris, Alfred W., Jr. Harvey, William J., Jr., A. B. Haskins, George H., A. B. Holmes, William F., LL.B. Levy, Walter M. Lowrie, Thomas L. McDaniel, Robert. A. Mason, Edward S. Mendee, Clemente B. Menkelroy, Henry L. Pierce, John W., A. B. Rouhac, Christopher M. Scott, Walter L. Stella Raphael Vaughan, Roscoe M. Woodard, George N., B. S. Doctor of Dental Surgery. Borwn, James B. Cherry, Joseph B. Clarke, Conrad F. Freeman, Carey V. Gles, William D. Colter, William D. Goghgs, Gen B. Hymans, Adolph L. Jackson, Andrew L. Lawrence, Isaac M. B. A. Lumsden, George F., Phar. D. Morrison, Moses A., B. S. Rance, Egeron L. H. Tancil, Park Washington, Anthony V. Willis, Linford R. Doctor of Pharmacy. Bynum, James H. Campfield, Reginald Q. Catlett, Sherwood L. Dickerson, Enoch W. Gles, Robert E. Gerald Archure S., LLB. Habaway, James L. Minton, Nathaniel G. Weaver, Frank H. Bachelor of Laws. Bush, J. Fenwick Blackwell, George W. Blackwell, William R. Floyd, James E. Graham, Elijah J, Jr. Harvey, Robert L. Higgins, Tommie L. Hodges, John G, A. B. Johnson, Joseph H, A. M. Mason, issue S. Mason, Joseph H. Payne, Brown W, A. B Sexton, Charles E. Shellman, Wilfred F. Smith, Jerome B. Taverner, Clifford H. HON. GIST BLAIR. its hearty endorsement to the candidacy of Hon. Gill Blair, of Silver Springs, in the National Office of Representatives. It is no d'legement to other gentlemen seize that high honor to say that air is by nature best early acquaintance to present the Sixth District in Congress of a long line of distinguished anewry. His father, Hon. Montgomery Blair, was post-master general under and confidential friend of President Lincoln. Mr. Gill Blair has always stood up boldly for the enforcement of the War Amendments to our Con- Taylor, Walter R., A. B., A. M. Thomas, John W. White, Ralph W., A. B., A. M Rev. I. N. Ross returned from Jacksonville, Fla., on yesterday, where he had been called to deliver the annual address at the Edward Waters College. Rev. Ross reports the institution as being in splendid condition and the people of Florida as being generally prosperous. Miss Lethia Cousins, of Kimball, W. Va., who has been spending some time in Ashville, N. C., on the account of her health, contemplates spending the summer in the city of Washington. Mr. J. B. Cherry, one of the graduates of the Dental Department of Howard University, achieved the unique distinction of winning two prizes, both first and second for excellent workmanship in the Dental Infirmary. Mr. Cherry lead his class during its whole term and is the recipient of some exceedingly flattering offers to establish himself here in his profession. Miss Allie Johnson, of Philadelphia, is visiting her brother and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson, of 1818 Newtown Street, N. W. From this place she will visit her relatives in Leesburg, Va. Miss Nellie C. Robinson, an efficient and high grade clerk in the postoffice department, sixth auditor's office will leave for her home in Ohio where she will spend part of her vacation. Miss Robinson is a graduate of Oberlin College, and sister of Mr. M. P. Robinson of the ridgion fratern. Mr. Henry Johnson has been touring Pennsylvania in his machine. He stopped over enroute at the Battle Ground of Gettysburg. Conversing with Mr. Charles E. Gibson, driver of No. 16 engine company, we asked his opinion as to the electric fire engine. Mr. Gibson says, "These apparatus are very good for small cities, but are not suitable for crowded streets, as they are likely to endanger life and limb as they are not so easily controlled as horses, and are likely to break down. What the District needs most is the high water pressure system." Mr. Gibson is about 31 years of age, a veteran of the U. S. Navy, and was the first colored freeman appointed in the District of Columbia Fire Department for 23 years. The entertainment given by the Independent Club at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church on Friday evening, May 13, was very interesting. On the first Sunday in June, you be the first quarterly meeting of conference year at Metropolitan M. E. Church. On the second Sunday in May, you be Children's Day, and a $1 rally for the church was made at the M. E. Church. An appeal was made at the M situation and has fought and labored long and earnestly for the defeat of the infamous disarmamentizing laws in the State of Maryland. We could wish that there were more men similar to him in this great country. As State Central Committee chair, we have been involved, he and his part in preserving to the colored voters of Maryland the right of suffrage. Colored men, the country over, expect the colored voters of that District to do their duty to the race and to the nation by sending this patriotic citizen to represent them in the Congress of the United States. politan A. M. E. Church, Sundev, May 13, by Henrietta Vinton Davis, a representative of the Ladies' Auxiliary Board of the Sewing Course, with the interest of the non-sectarian home for the aged of the colored people of the District, and a good collection was given in response. The Sacred Song Service Sunday evening, May 15, was excellently rendered by Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Senior Choir, assisted by Miss Mary H. Demby and Mr. Frank Fowler Brown. The social given by the Mary A. Campbell Circle at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church parionage, Monday evening, May 23, was well attended and very successful. The Wesley Club of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church will give a musica recital, Thursday evening, June 2, 1900, at the residence of Mrs. James H. Washington, 1526 Pierce Place, N. W. Select program. Mrs. D. W. Onley, of New York, 's visiting her friends in Washington, it 328 T Street, N. W. Lead Pencils. "Lead pencils" is a misleading expression. They contain no lead properly so-called, but are composed of graphite or plumbago, an allotropic form of carbon. The manufacture of graphite pencils in England began in 1564, when a valuable graphite mine was discovered at Barrowdale, Cumberland. The pine containing the purest graphite discovered is located at Ticderoga, in New York State. The first manufacturer in the United States was William Monroe, of Concord, Mass., in 1812. Another pioneer in the industry was Joseph Dixon, in 1860—New York American. PEOPLE ATGRANT PARKON-THE-HILL In the District at 57th St.,N. E., On the Columbia Electric Railway H St. cars go direct to the property—50 car fare—30 minutes from 15th S. and N. Y. Ave. Pure spring water, fine shade, churches, schools, cu. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Competitive Drill MEET HIGH SCHOOL vs MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL American League Park and Florida Avenue, Northwest. MAY, MAY 28, 1910, 3 P. M. Covered Stand 25 Cents. Beachers 15 Cents. SIR---YOU'RE ON MY TRAIN!" —Cartoon by Truss, in the New York Press. Laughlin, in the May Scribner, writes a re-ment: Psychological hour to call for the creation of a simple life, of those who care for the real-ey, for the true inward pleasures of the mind, evanescent show? May it not be high sorry of those who do not ask how much one knows, but what one is? Gold, in the sense of all evil; but gold, in the sense of a standard root of the evil in our increased cost of VICE A NATIONAL VICE Warning Against Reckless Expenditure--- Haze a Case in Point---It is the Fashion how to Be Extravagant. Annual Competitive Drill M STREET HIGH SCHOOL vs ARMSTRONG MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL American League Park Seventh Street and Florida Avenue, Northwest. SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1910, 3 P. M. and Stani 35 Cents. Covered Stand 25 Cents. Beachers 15 Cents. "EXCUSE ME, SIR----YOU'RE ON MY TRAIN!" SUN "May it not be the psychological hour to call for the creation of a new aristocracy of the simple life, of those who care for the reality and not for the shadow, for the true inward pleasures of the mind rather than for the external, evanescent show? May it not be the high time to create a free-human society, not to ask how much the richness, but what one is? Gold, in the sense of riches, may be the root of all evil; but gold, in the sense of a standard of prices cannot be the sole root of the evil in our increased cost of living." EXTRAVAGANCE A NATIONAL VICE Joseph T. Talbert Sounds Warning Against Reckless Expenditure--- The Automobile Craze a Case in Point---It is the Fashion Now to Be Extravagant. "Thousands upon thousands of our people, frenzied by desire for pleasure and crazed by passion to spend, have mortgaged their homes, pledged their life insurance policies, withdrawn their hard-earned savings from banks to buy automobiles and assets into expanding and devouring liabilities. The spectacle is astounding. this Paper. It Pays. El Paso, Tex.—Extravagance has become not only a national vice but is in fact becoming a national menace in the opinion of Joseph T. Talbert, vice-president of the National City Bank, of New York. Joseph Talbert, of New York, Texas Banking Association, said that there does not appear anywhere to exist in the conduct of national, municipal or individual affairs, that appreciation of the economical and prudent use of resources and that adjustment of expenditures to means and incomes which always have been found necessary to the support of prosperity and maintenance of a condition of solvency. The speaker cited the automobile craze as a case in point. "We are squandering on pleasure vehicles annually sums of money running into hundreds of millions of dollars," he continued. "The initial cost of automobiles to American users amounts to not less than $250,000 a year. The up-keep and other necessary expenditures, as well as incidentals, which would not otherwise be incurred, amount to at least as much more than the actual equivalent economic waste each year to more than the value of property destroyed in the San Francisco fire—perhaps to twice as much. This sum, as large as it is, does not include the whole economic loss growing out of this single item of indulgence. The thousands of young and able-bodied men employed in manufacturing machines and in running and caring for cars, all are withdrawn from productive usefulness; they become consumers of our diminishing surplus products and constitute an added burden to the producers. The economic influence of this wish comes from the producing and addition to the con- flict is bound to be manifested in a tendency to higher prices. Its effect already must be considerable, and is comparable only to the maintenance of an enormous standing army. "In the matter of individual expenditures it is the fashion now to be extravagant to the point of wastefulness, and the fashion is running riot. Individual thrift is considered not merely miserly hoarding, but is looked upon as a vice and a thing to be despised. It is said that this is not a day of small things, and that wealth, as wealth goes now, may no longer be accumulated by the slow process of savings and economies. This may be true if we shall measure wealth only by billions or hundreds of millions, but, just as surely as there ever existed virtue in economy, of contentment and independence in frugality, they are there to-day, and just as surely as individual and national extrema in wealth. And the moment they are doing so to-day. Among nations, and among individuals, permanent wealth and material progress are the results, not so much of rich natural resources as they are the products of economy and thrift; not alone economy in the arts of production, but economy of use. "The maintenance of the present, high level of prices is dependent upon the sustained purchasing power of the individual which in turn depends very largely, if not wholly, upon the expansion of credit. Hersin lies one of the chief elements of weakness and danger in the situation. If the banks may by increasing loans create crests, which in turn create power and a sustained demand for high-priced goods, thereby still further advancing prices in the benefits of which all classes share except those who possess fixed incomes, it may be asked why this is not good, why not continue to promote the general ability to spend; why not continue giving to each individual an amount of enjoyment, luxury and pleasure unknown before, particularly when all this may be accomplished by merely increasing loans? The simple but comprehenient answer cannot be done because in the long run every act of wastefulness and every item of extravagance must be paid for to the last farthing; every item consumed must be earned." Mr. Talbert also discussed the danger of the country losing its favorable trade balance and of adding an adverse trade balance to the other debit items which run against this country to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Mr. Talbert estimated these items at a total of $ 900,000,600, including $ 200,000,000 spent abroad by American travelers, Subscription Rates Dane Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....50 FALPH W. WHITE Editor and Proprietor. Address all communications, checks and money orders to "THE TRUTH." The great immutable principle of truth is all too frequently purported to be confined to certain limitations, when the facts are that it finds expressions in every atom and molecule of Nature and at every turn and angle in all phases of life, whether it be in the lower or higher forms of the animal kingdom. We are wont at times to think that only expressions of truth eminate from pubits and other auxiliary organizations of the Christian world. No more erroneous impression could possibly find lodgement in the mind of any man. The truth is as much the truth if expressed in a hovel as in a palace and maintains the same proportion between what is right and what is wrong, when spoken by a pauper as by a prince. The one great end toward which all the world is striving, even if part of that striving is unconscious, is the truth. To dissemble and practice subtle forms of concealment is worse than open vice and inherent viciousness. Be the very best you can, but above all things be what you are. "OUR VACATION." Vacation is upon us and the all absorbing question is how shall we spend it. To those who enjoy a superfulous amount of this world's goods the reply is obvious. They have so many opportunities afforded them that is becomes a matter of knowing which to refuse. But to others not so fortunately placed, it becomes altogether a matter of choosing, while with those yet still more unfortunate, there is neither choice nor refusal. in position, however, need not hinder any of us from enjoying to the fullest extent what our station of life allows us to afford. Sunshine and pleasure, as well as no mean degree of comfort can be enjoyed by those unable to hide themselves away, as well as those who have this privilege. If you are deprived of a vacation do not fume and fret, but just be patient and inject spirit and competency into your work, possessing yourself in patience and you will find the lot, not as hard a one as you had anticipated. At least, you will have the consolation of knowing that you are some sheckels better off than you would have been had your position in life permitted you to introduce yourself into the realm of luxury and ease for these few hot months to come. "THE SPRING GRADUATE." THIS is the time of the year when the young man's, and the young woman's for that matter, fancy turns lightly to thoughts of love and the graduates are abroad in the land. The young man, fresh from the rooms of the classies and professional laboratories looks at you with a quizical air when you interrogate him as to what vocation he thinks he might follow and assuming a beautiful pose draws out in tones of superior importance, that he has not quite decided as yet and that after having spent so much time and money as well, he behoves him to be very deliberate in the selection of his location as well as his avocation. The sweet young lady graduate smiles upon you suavely and shyly rejoins to a similar inquiry, that she hopes to take up some special line of work and pursue it to that point where her name and fame will ring in all of the four quarters of the earth. Blessed unsophisticated lambs, these. Yet it were well that entered in this hope and carry this inspiration for they both will enable them to better stem the tide of competition that has grown so sharp at every angle of life, and in after years to measure their success by the plumb line of experience, which, but for this same exhuberance of spirit might have been failure. Here's to the young army of graduates who go out to do battle with the world this spring. FORGIVE THEM FATHER. To all hopeful hearts wishing the betterment of humanity, desiring that society advance upward, praying to see the church, the mistress of the world, the light upon the hill leading men to goodness and glory, the incident of last week comes as a heavy blow, forcing back the onward march of progress. That men who call themselves "Soldiers of Christ" murching in "peace and goodness" should carry any human being a place in their ranks, fills with shame every heart who admires, reveres and loves the Great Master who embodied in Himself the spirit of love for all men. The narrowness, the bigotry, the total ignorance of charity and good will of those men who abused and debased all high human sentiments and emotions—men who encouraged the colored people of Washington, and the states to labor and work to make this convention of the world's Sunday Schools a great success, men who accepted their money and their labor and then debarred them from the fruit thereof, such men as these fall below contempt and awaken pity, not for themselves so much as for the uptoiling human hearts which they strove to drag down to their own shameful level. The soul inspiring words which flamed the night's sky: JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD was caused and created as much by the offerings of hundreds of colored children as of any other, yet these men would deny, if they could, these children, their friends, brothers, sisters and parents the privilege of looking upon that Blessed Light. As colored people this incident teaches us much. We must strive earnestly to find ourselves to know one another, to grow in fellowship, to unite our churches and our powers, to endeavor ourselves that we may be a force active for our own good and for the good of humanity. You cannot mend broke hearts, submits the Chicago Tribune, with soft solder. One reason, probably, why the women of Kansas do not care to vote, explains the Kansas City Times, is because they can. About the sorriest man in town, to the Dallas News, is one who would rather be a good fellow than an honest one. The sermons of the millionaires read well, to the Atlanta Constitution, when punctuated with hard, round dollars. Maryland has adopted Black-eyed Susan as the State flower, but she won't let the women vote, laments the Toledo Blade. Once Pittsburg Councilmen could command a price, but new, signs the Philadelphia Public Ledger, they give themselves away. If you tell the truth nowadays you don't shance the death, declares the Pittsburg Dispatch, as much as you do some prominent citizen. We hunt a lawyer, says the Commoner, when we want to get the best of a neighbor; a doctor when we want to get the best of ourselves. "New York has the prettiest girls I ever saw," said Lord Kitchener just before he sailed, and as Lord Kitchener is a bachelor, declares the Boston Globe, his opinion is worthy of respect. Mr. Johnston was injudicious enough to enter the parlor one evening without giving any warning of his approach, relates the Argonaut. The consequence was that he found his daughter and her sweetheart occupying a single chair. "Mr. Brown," said he severely, "when I was courting Mrs. Johnston she sat on one side of the room and I sat on the other." "Ah," said the daughter's admirer warmly, "that's exactly what I should have done if I had been courting Mrs. Johnston." The movement to provide public playgrounds for city children is a crusade that speaks for itself, observes the Duluth Herald. Nobody who has witnessed the difference between children playing in streets or alleys and children playing in well equipped public playgrounds needs to be told that the movement is a splendid thing. The Duluth Playground Association, at Saturday's meeting, was able to show that its work thus far in this city has justified itself, and its request for subscriptions to a fund of $1000 for new work should bring a prompt and generous response. Dr. Gustave Le Bon attempts to sum up in a few pages in The Independent his own book on the evolution of matter. This investigator has devoted more time to psychological than material phenomena, but like thousands of others he has been captivated by the suggestive discoveries of the Curies, Messrs. Rutherford and Joddy and Professor J. J. Thomson, and of late his inquiries have taken a new direction. Indeed, Dr. Le Bon has reported finding a form of invisible radiance different from anything previously observed. Other scientific men have been unable to get the same results as he when repeating his experiments, and have detected possibilities of self-deception which the Frenchman may have overlooked. Still, any doubt which may remain as to the existence of "N" rays should not influence any one's opinion concerning the soundness of Dr. Le Bon's ideas about matter. Indeed, these are largely shared by a number of well-known physicists, and up to a certain point spaculations of this kind are to be encouraged. CURING A CAPITALIST His Doctor Just Switched Him From Money Making to Basket Making. The experience of "a capitalist, man of many millions," who broke down from overwork and was sent to "an occupation and exercise cure" near New York, is told in the Outlook. He had first consulted a famous specialist, but an examination had shown that he had no organic disease of any kind. He told the physician that he was suffering frm what he called "inward trembling," with palpitation of the heart, poor sleep, occasional dizziness, pain in the back of the neck, difficulty in concentrating his attention, and, most of all, from various apprehensions, such as that of being about to fall, of losing his mind, of sudden death—he was afraid to be alone, and was continually tired, worried and harassed. He was informed that these were merely the ordinary symptoms of neurasthenia and were not dangerous. "One hundred per cent. of cases of neurasthenia are curable," said the specialist, and packed his client off to the "occupation and exercise cure." The morning after his arrival, the capitalist was escorted to the arts and crafts shop connected with the cure, a forty-acre place in Westchester county. He was introduced to an efficient and businesslike young woman, the instructress, who explained to him the nature of the avocations in which he might choose to interest himself. Here, too, he found his fellow patients busily and apparently congenially employed. In one of the shops a recent alumnus of one of the leading universities, who had undergone a nervous breakdown after graduation, was patiently hammering a sheet of brass with a view to converting it into a lampshade. A matron of nearly 60, who had previously spent eight years in sanitariums, practically bedridden, was setting type in the printing office with greater activity than she had known before for two decades; two girls, one 16 and the other 12, the latter inclined to hysteria and the former once subject to acute nervous attacks, taking the cure in charge of trained nurses, were chattering gaily over a loom in the construction of a silk bag. A business man from a Western city, like the New York capitalist, broken down from overwork, was earnestly modelling in clay what he hoped might eventually become a jardinier; one of last season's debutants among the fashionables, who had been leading a life of too numerous gaysy that had told her her hero, was constructing a stamped leather portfolio with extra absorption. Tales of her outspoken young women, were engaged in wood carving, bookbinding, block printing, tapestry weaving or basket making, each one of them under treatment for some nervous derangement. The new patient decided to try his hand at basket making, and although he figured out that it would take him about four days to turn out a product that might sell for 10 cents, he was soon so much interested in mastering the manual details of the craft that he was disinclined to put the work aside when the medical superintendent suggested a horseback ride. When, at the advice of the specialist, the capitalist had decided to try the occupation and exercise cure, he did so with little faith that it would restore him to health, though he felt that there was perhaps a slight chance that it might help him. The remedy seemed to him too simple to overcome a disease that was paralyzing his energies. To his great surprise he began to improve at once, and though for the first week he got little sleep, and his dizziness, with the pain in the back of his neck and his apprehensions, continued to recur for weeks, they did so always at increasing intervals. He learned bookbinding, and sent to his library for some favorite volumes and put them into new dress; he made elaborate waste paper baskets and beat brass into ornamental desk trays, which he proudly presented to his friends in the city as specimens of his skill. Work with him, as with the others of the patients, was continually varied by recreation. In the summer months there was lawn tennis, golf, croquet, canoeing, rowing, fishing, riding and driving. In winter such outdoor sports as skating, tobogganing, coasting, skiing, snowshoeing and lacrosse were varied by billiards, bowling, squash, the medicine ball and basket and tether ball. The capitalist was astonished to find that he could take an interest in games. The net results of his experience was that at the end of four months he returned to New York sound in mind and body, feeling younger than he had for years. Dangerous Dog Bite. Dangerous Dog Bite. Many "mad dog" scares and frights come where a dog has eaten too much meat, or forl food, has become overheated, or suffers from lack of water. Again, mild sirrchine poisoning in a dog may be mistaken for rabies. Many say there is no such thing as hydrophobia. Suppose there is not. Anyhow, dog bite seems dangerous, if its fright kills strong men. Friends of dogs and owners of valuable ones, by aiding to keep homeless dogs off city streets, will lend a helping hand against the prevalent and spreading dog prejudice which has grown up hereabout in the last year or two—New York Press. Where to Find Symptoms The Poet—What misery recognized. Where can I pathy? Unsympathetic Friend—I tionary, under the letter S. vant. The palm tree's life is 250 GLEANINGS Wreckless railroads will come when reckless railroading goes, puns the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Lamps, explains the Chicago Tribune, are to be known by their radiance, not by the racket they make. As some see it, an elastic conscience, suggests the Dallas News, is more respectable than a rubberneck. The nine leading articles of export from Brazil are coffee, rubber, tobacco, sugar, mate, cacao, cotton, hides, skins. A man can generally make his wife happy, muses the New York Times, by talking back when she is looking for an argument. Truth crushed to earth will rise again, but, to the Philadelphia Record, the probabilities are that the life will be there first. The latest fashionable wedding in New York brought out the usual crowd of well-dressed barbarians, sneers the Providence Journal. You are not really having a good time today, asserts the Commoner, if a couple of weeks from now you would be happy if you could forget it. England's naval budget calls for $203,018,500 to provide 30 more war craft. Provision for England's impoverished and unemployed, notes the Philadelphia Ledger, is another problem. Long sharp hatpins have been taboed by law in Chicago, and the women now declare that they are entirely defenceless while on the streets. A compromise allowing them to wear twelve-inch hatpins with scabbards, says the Washington Herald, has been suggested. A producer arrested in New York City and charged with being responsible for a public exhibition of indecency, tried writing a play a couple of years ago and was convicted of a public exhibition of stupidity. The indecent play, declares the Louisville Courier-Journal, is often a last resort of the incapable. Submits the Providence Journal: Probably the majority of the saloon keepers would rather observe the law than break it. The present perverted condition will not be overthrown at once; perhaps it never will be overthrown entirely. But strayer has certainly taken a seat, toward seizing, a reform severe consequence. The Phishing bin handler complains: A parcel weighing four pounds can be sent from Philadelphia to Hankow, a city in the heart of China, seven or eight hundred miles from the coast, for 48 cents, whereas, the charge for the transmission of such a parcel across the Delaware to Camden, is 64 cents. Moreover, the weight limit is four pounds in the domestic case and eleven pounds in the other. This is sufficiently absurd but thus far all attempts to induce Congress to amend the situation as common sense and the public convenience require have failed. District Attorney Wayman of Chicago, will urge the passage of a law providing for the simplification of the form of indictments. "More power to his elbow," says the Chicago Tribune, which adds: "The ease with which indictments are shot full of holes by acute counsel is a public scandal to justice and a chief cause of the delay in punishing criminals who have money enough to hire acute counsel and pay for appeals to the review courts. The hall thief may not profit by this. But the big criminal finds it altogether too easy to escape the pursuit of justice in the jungle of legal verbage. One charged with a crime should be informed in plain and unequivocal terms what the charge is." Impure milk is not cheap at any price, insists the Boston Herald. Protestants against the board of health order requiring all milk retained to be sold in bottles must find some argument other than the consequent advance in price with which to combat this health regulation if they would succeed. There is little use in enforcing sanitary regulations as to the handling of the milk supply from the time of production, through collection and the earlier phases of distribution if in the final and widely scattered distributing centers, more difficult of supervision than the central depots, the supply is allowed to be kept in open receptacles, to be dipped out and handled with no protection against disease germs. If the milk supply requires protection that protection should be maintained until it reaches the consumer. Employment of the so-called "third degree" in extracting information from persons accused of serious crime, was defended by police officials at the meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia, reports the Hartford Times. Police Superintendent Baker, of New York City, and MaJ. Sylvester, of Washington, D. C., pronounced the "third degree" a myth, and strongly defended the sharp questioning of a person charged with a serious offense. They insist that crime is no punishment or torture, either mental or physical, in the process generally applied. If it didn't for the series of loaded interrogation points hurled at Bertram G. Buccher, the Springfield murderer, it must have been a long time before confessed to having committed a act of telonics. RELIGION FOR MEN The Present Demand Replenishment of the Churches with Masculine Virtues In the shifting conditions of modern life thoughtful minds are pondering the best ways of adapting church machinery to new problems. One of the features of the present awakening of religious interest is the demand for a replenishment of the churches with the masculine virtues. The demand is not premature. The census shows that in most of the denominations the women outnumber the men nearly two to one. The Christian Scientists, naturally enough, lead off with the largest percentage of women: in that communion the "mother" element might be expected to prevail. The highest percentage of men is found in some of the Lutheran divisions, which may be explained in part by the fact that all the children, male and female, are required to learn the catechism and be confirmed; but it is doubtful whether the proportion of adult males in actual service of the church is larger among the Lutherans than among the other sects. Various explanations of this disproportion of sex are offered. It is sometimes intimated that the types of religion presented by the churches are more adapted to the feminine than to the masculine mind; but if that were true it would still be questionable whether it was a cause or a consequence. Some light is thrown upon the question by the fact that the church is not the only field of activity in which we find a large preponderance of women. Public education is largely in the hands of women; they are giving to the fine arts far more attention than men, and among our philanthropic workers they are in a heavy majority. The spiritual side of civilization seems to be committed quite largely to their care. The reason is that the men are so much engrossed in the development of the material side of civilization that they find little time for these higher pursuits. The consequences of this neglect by men of the superior interests of their lives we have been reaping in the appalling infidelities and dishonesties which have recently been uncovered. It is true that the men have been dropping out of the churches and losing interest in religious matters, and it does not look as though this were working well. In the quarters where this tendency has been most shown there has clearly been a marked decrease in masculine morality. It begins to be questionable whether sound character is likely to be sustained smart from the spiritual ideals. If it be evident that the man need religion, it is not less evident that religion needs the men. God made mankind in His image, male and female, the feminine qualities represent one side of the divinity that is in us and the masculine qualities another; and the complete revelation requires both. A church which is two-thirds women cannot fully represent this divine life; it cannot make a true impression of the great realities of religion upon the community in which it stands. There can be no doubt that the church has been greatly enfeebled by this withdrawal of a large number of men from active participation in its life. It is the discovery of this fact that awakened the widespread interest now finding expression in the brotherhoods springing into vigorous life in all the Christian denominations. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the Episcopal church has long been an efficient organization, and the healthy growth of that communion is due in large part to this agency. But all the other denominations are now rallying their men for similar service; in great conventions, East and West, the men of the churches are coming together to envisage their tasks and shoulder their responsibilities. Some of the most enthusiastic gatherers which have recently taken place in this country are these assemblies of men, stirred by the religious motive, and eager to find ways in which they may promote the work of the churches. For the most part their action has been entirely rational; they have not proposed much new machinery; they have usually sought to know how they might apply their own power more efficiently to the machinery already in operation. The late Neil Burgess used to clutch, with an anecdote, his claim that atheists were always ignorant. "A coarse, swaggering fellow," he would begin, "declared in a barber shop: "I don't believe in no hereafter. You live and die, and that's the end of ye." "Why, you must be a Unitarian, George," the barber said. "Huh, not me! was the reply. I'm too fond o' meat for that."—Minneapolis' Journal. A. Grand Future. "That boy surely will go to Congress when he grows up," says the father, after a vain effort to convince his young hopeful of the enormity of continued disobedience. "What makes you think that?" the another asks. "Every time we send him to do something he does just what we don't want him to do and then comes home and argues it was what we wanted, but that we didn't know it."—Chicago Evening Post. Dead Swell A young girl, incorrigibly given to slang, went with her mother to the funeral of an aunt. The dead woman had been strikingly handsome in life, and her features retained all their attractiveness. "How do you think Aunt Blanche looks?" asked the mother, when they had viewed the corpse. Enthusiastically the child replied, "Dead swell, didn't she, mother?" THE PANTHER AND THE DOG In 1795 Joseph Ingham, of Quaken parentage, removed from Berks County (of which he was a native), to Bradford County, Pa., when it was a "howling wilderness" in which roamed pandas, bears, wolves, wild cats and deers. Like all the other early settlers, he lived in a small log house, until able to build a better residence. Like the others, he and his family endured great hardships and privations, which are unavoidable in settling in a wooded country without roads, churches, mills, or stores, or mall facilities. Often the whole neighborhood (a short time before harvests) would be entirely out of grain of any kind, and would have starved had not greens been plentiful, and droves of deer in the woods which supplied them with meat. Wild animals at that time were numerous in the woods, and destructive to sheep, swine and poultry. To protect his farm stock Mr. Inghau raised two dogs. When quite young though brothers of the same age and size, they differed wonderfully in disposition and conduct. One of them was bright, vigilant, active, displaying great intelligence, and giving promise of making a useful watch dog. The other acted stupid, dull lazy, sleeping most of the time. Not much was expected of him. When full grown, an amazing change had taken place in their characters and conduct. The bright, vigilant pup, became a lazy cowardly cur, and could not be induced to take a pig by the ear. The stupid, sleepy pup developed into one of the most intelligent, courageous and watchful dogs in the county. He was known to seize a bull by the nose on the full run, and throw him flat on the ground by jerking his head to one side. He seemed to be always awake, and on guard, day and night. The one was a valuable dog, the other good for nothing. "One night," said my father, "I was awakened by the fowling of theowardly dog. When I got up in the morning he led me upon the orchard hill above the house. The other dog was missing. A tracking snow had fallen the evening before, and I found the tracks of a wild beast and the dog's tracks. The wild beast had come from the woods and started for the sheepbarn. He had been intercepted by the dogs and turned on his back tracks, evidently having given up his intentions of feasting on mutton and not feeling sure he could whip two dogs that appeared warlords and furious. When about fifteen rods from the house, the courageous dog had attacked him. If he had expected any assistance from his cowardly brother he did not get it. The cowardly brother believed that "discretion was the better part of valor," and had kept himself at a distance from the combat. There were evidences of a desperate fight between the dog and wild beast. The snow for rods around was trampled, and boy where the combatants had fought, standing on their hind legs, and fought on the ground, rolling and tumbling. The wild beast was a warrior, larger and with sharper teeth and claws than the dog, who died on the battle field in the unequal contest, and when found was partly eaten up by the panther, the remains having been dragged about a dozen rods and buried under the roots of a tree that had lately blown down by the wind. Evidently the panther intended to come back in the night and make a supper out of the remains. "There's many a slip between the cup and the lip." The panther never ate any more of the dog. My father and "Life" Marsh—a noted hunter—started in pursuit of the panther with dogs and guns. He had gone about a mile into the woods, pawed together some leaves from under the snow to make a bed and had lain down to rest after his exhaustion from baiting with the dog. Started up from his slumber by the dogs, he sprang into a tree, which was just what the hunters wanted, but had management of himself. He was soon dispatched by the rides of his pursuers, and when he fell to the ground dead, the cowardly dog became very brave and bit and shook the lifeless panther as long as he was allowed to do so.—J. W. Ingham, in the Indiana Farmer. ROMAN WEATHER IN ENGLAND. When the Romans did us the honor of living in England they seem to have enjoyed better weather than their successors of to-day. For Mr. Clement Reid assures us that the fig and grape seeds which he has dug out of Roman dust-heaps-at Silchester, Caerwent and Pevenshire were the offspring of fig trees and vines that grew on our native soil. Of the plants introduced by the Romans these ancient dust-heaps reveal the pea, the mulberry, the apple; but the peach, the apricot and the almond seeds are all missing. The fact that all the fruits and spices found are only such as could be grown in Britain now seems to show that the Romans were not importers of fruit in the dried state, and that the mulberry seeds represent a native growth. — Washington Star. ATTENTION! from woolens that regularly sell at $20 and $22.50. Choice of 73 patterns. Vevy few chances now left to buy cheap h mes in the District of Columbia. Go out and look at East Deanwood, Burville, Beverly, D. C. This subdivision lies on both sides of the COLUMBIA ELECTRIC R. R., between Bernings, D. C., and 1 tuespeake Junction. One fare and 20 minutes' time to the city. Get off at Brooks' Sta ion, East Deanwood, D. C. Buy now when you can get lots cheap. Prices will soon advance. Greater Washington is spreading out in every direction and will soon cover the entire District of Columbia. Lots sold on easy monthly payments. No interest and no taxes till lots are paid for. Tittle perfect. This is now the only section of the District in which laboring people and people of moderate means c n buy h mes. Buy now. The price will so be double what it is to day. The undersigned agent will show the ground. Call and see him and arrange to go out to look the subdivision over. Architectural Plans Prepared. Materials selected or furnished. All building details superintended with skill and promptness. Office: 51st and G St., N. E. Address R. 3, Box No. 44 EAST DEANWOOD D. C. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD'S GARDEN. Ernest was five years old when he went with papa and mamma to spend the Easter holidays with Aunt Jessica and Uncle William and the cousins on the farm. Ralph and James were older than Ernest; but they had fine times playing together, and the two country boys were proud and happy to show their city cousin all the wonders of the hillside. The big garden, which had just been plowed and made into beds ready for the planting, interested Ernest very much, especially when his cousins told him that this year they were going to have a garden all their own, and were to raise resistance and lettuce and peas and beans and corn, and all the true, good things that go to make up a fine vegetable garden. "Oh, I'm going to ask papa if I can't have a garden!" cried Ernest. "Ho! in your little coop up back yard!" laughed James. "I guess you'd raise about one cucumber and two peas," chuckled Ralph. "Why, I don't see why I can't," replied Ernest, his face sober and a little grieved. "There's isn't room enough, chicken! It takes room for corn and beans and such things, don't you know? Besides, you aren't old enough to take care of them, that's why!" "I'm going to have my cabbages here," called Ralph. "Where will you have yours, James?" So Ernest followed his cousins around the patch that had been set aside for them and listened to their nappy planning, his heart disappointed and sore. But, when they were home again, and he ventured to ask papa about the coveted garden, papa seemed to be of an altogether different opinion from his cousins. "A capital idea!" papa said. "It will be good for you, even if nothing more comes from it. And who knows but you can raise enough for quite a taste! I'll have the ground spaded right away—" "And you'll get the seeds, and let me plant them?" broke in Ernest, excited. "Sure, boy! You shall have all the seeds the yard will hold." Those spring days were full of joy. Papa showed Ernest how to handle the small garden tools that he bought for him, and told him how to plant and how to take care of his little seedlings when they were up. Oh, how much Ernest did learn! And what a faithful little farmer he was! One day before frost time the country aunt and uncle and cousins came down for a short visit. Of course, Ernest had to talk about his garden the very first thing. "Yes, I'm glad you stirred up my boy on gardening," added papa. "He has really done wonders this summer in our little back yard. We have had lettuce and radishes and peas and beets and bush limas and corn—" "Bantam corn," put in Ernest, "and patty-pan squashes!" "It is a great garden," laughed papa. "The tomatoes are coming on finely now; we can have some for dinner, can't we. Ernest?" "Oh, yes!" he answered. "Perhaps they aren't so big as yours," turning toward his cousins, "but they're good. You've got a beautiful garden, I suppose." Ralph and James did not answer. They wriggled uneasily in their chairs. Their father laughed. "You ought to see their garden," he said. "They be not the best crop of weeds on the p. but—not much else. heard the. trying to discourse last spring, but you can them now." 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The Indians of the plains, who lived almost entirely on flesh, were fierce and warlike enough; the Eskimos, who also live entirely on flesh, are among the mildest and most peaceable of men. The unfortunate Armenians, per contra, are periodically massacred by a race of bloodthirsty vegetarians. The Hindus of Bengal are the traditional horrible example of the effects of living on rice. But the Chinese and Japanese, who also live on rice—in sufficient quantity—are about the toughest and most enduring of mankind. During the race of the allied armies to Pekin the Japanese army, on a diet of rice and dried fish, outmarched the Europeans by fifty per cent. Even in India, the Sikhs and Rajputs, who eat but twice a day and rarely touch meat, are among the finest men physically and the best soldiers on earth. In the old days before the telegraph the messenger service from Madras to Bombay and Calcutta was made up of runners who did sixty miles for a day's work and kept it up one thousand and 1400 miles on end—on a diet of boiled rice.—Metropolitan Magazine. GUARANTEEING ATTENDANCE. "Going to have an Old Home week, eh?" "Yes, we want all our wandering boys to come back. When had we better hold it." "After the Grand Jury adjournins, I should say." — Louisville Courier- Journal. A Breakfast Joy— Sweet, Criap, Golden-Brown Post Toasties Ready to serve from the package with cream—no locking necessary. The Memory Lingers" Pkg. 10c and 15c. POSTUM. CEREAL CO., LTD., Battle Creek, Mich. HOME IDEAS AND ECONOMIES SPEAKS FOR MRS. BELMONT. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, president of the Political Equality League, was early in her office at No. 505 Fifth avenue, says the New York Tribune, happy over the news from Washington, D. C., that the National Suffrage Association, in convention at Washington, had agreed to her proposition to allow the national headquarters to remain under her protection for another year. The contract for this, which also carried the proviso that Mrs. Ida Husted Harper be retained as press representative for the same period, was duly signed by the suffragists on Wednesday. Mrs. Harper, speaking for Mrs. Belmont, said the situation was wholly satisfactory. "Mrs. Belmont has gone right to work to plan for the fall, and will, if her health permits, accomplish much more than was done last season," said Mrs. Harper. "It is her aim, so far as the Political Equality League is concerned, to organize a branch in every district in New York City. From this point she will branch out into the surrounding territory. "Many persons claim the honor of being the originator of the political settlement, but as a matter of fact I sugges'ed it to Mrs. Belmont a year ago, and she indorsed the idea at once and put it into immediate operation. As an educational measure it is admirable, and from a political standpoint the only practical plan to help the cause. Mrs. Belmont gave what seemed to us tremendous sums for suffrage last year, but this year, with her town house, which cost more than $250,000, completed, the mausoleum erected to her husband completed and the hospital at Hempstead off her hands, she expects to spend much more to help women win the ballot. "In spite of the fact that she is under very strict orders from her physician to quit active work, Mrs. Belmont says she means to live to see the plan she has laid out through. Her whole time, thought and much of her means are to be devoted from now on to the cause of suffrage." The Rev. Anna Shaw, accompanied by Miss Rae Costello, the young English suffragette, has started on a tour of the Southern States, lecturing on suffrage. Her first stop was the University of Virginia. WHEEL OF FASHION Will the fashion mongers never cease sending out alarming statements about fashions that may or may not come to stay? Now they are predicting a return to the Victorian costume—of the early nineteenth century. This means full skirts covered with flamenco all the way up, nylon bodices, short, tight sleeves and wrap waistbands. It means, too, a high culture with boobing curls over the ears and a tortoise shell comb of generous dimensions to top it. It wouldn't be impossible for worse things have been seen in this day and generation. But no matter what the wheel of fashion brings at its next turn, there will always be a large percentage of dissatisfied and grumbling women who would have it otherwise. A recent collection of letters written by women in the days when fashion news could be obtained only through correspondence with city residents shows that discontent with prevailing styles is historic. Writes Mrs. Delaney in the year 1746: "The only thing that seems general is hoops of enormous size, and most people wear vast winkers to their heads. They are now coming to such extravagance in these two particulars that I expect soon to see the other extreme of thread paper heads and no hoops, and from appearing like so many blown bladders we should look like so many bodkins stalking about." That her prophecy was evidently not fulfilled is shown by Miss Eliza beth Carter's disgust with her kind in the year 1750. "Our fine ladies," she writes, "disgrace the human shape divine, and become helpless to themselves and troublesome to all the world besides with French hoops and run into an indecent extravance of dress inconsistent with all rules of sober appearance and good economy." "What would either of these women say to the present "stalking bodkins" or the helpless creature of modern times? Do they disgrace "the human shape divine" or honor it? "It is all," says the man who reuses to argue, "a matter of individual taste."—New York Tribune. THROUGH ROSE TINTED SPECI- TACLES. America is the country for nervousness, owing to the strenuous life women lead in that country. Says a Yankee lady:—What must be done is to create a nerve reservoir, and to fill it with nerve power to draw from. Suppose one is a teacher or a busy woman who comes home fagged, irritable and utterly nervous. The first thing to do is to lie down for half an hour, or longer. This is the way to fill your reservoir. After you lie down, relax every muscle and every nerve tension. Let go of everything. Let the bottom drop out. Let all annoying things drift right away from you. Do not think a thing. Make your mind a blank. "Take deep, slow breaths, then after a while write these words mentally across a blank sheet of your mind: Power, force, strength in the univise, and they will flow into my reservoir and fill it. The spiritual atmosphere is full of these helpful forces. In this way the nerve strength will be renewed, and a feeling of repose and peace will replace the irritable, unhappy and restless condition. Probably the patient will sleep, and on awakening find herself wonderfully recuperated and ready to see life once more through rosette-tined spectacles."—Woman's Life. BE CHEERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL Engraved faces are more often the result of habit than the marks of Time, that professional etcher who usually receives all the credit for feminine ugliness. Woman is not content with expressing herself in words; she must needs make little noses and funny faces to give completion to her ideas. If you wall about your lack of beauty, watch yourself for one short day. You will be surprised to find what wonderful things you will do with your own face. If countenances were not so substantially built they would sooner show the wear and tear imposed upon them. Wrinkles and lines are indexes to one's life book. The fretter has a signboard on her forehead, and she advertises her profession of official worrier by growing box pleats between her eyes, by allowing her mouth to droop at the corners and by taking on the plaintive portrait of misery in which she really rejoices. But the optimist, the individual of good cheer and laughter, sails serenely along the high seas of existence with a smooth, nicely ironed face, which makes her remain so young that she never really outgrows her happy days of mud pies and pinafores.-Woman's Life. PINK MRS. TAFTS FAVGRITE. Pink, plain pink—not corse or rose or any of the new-fangled names under which that old-fashioned color now goes—is the favorite color of the present mistress of the White House. Satin has long been recognized as the material for a gown which Mrs. Taft likes best and pink as the shade which is most becoming to her. She always has a satin costume of that color, and often her carriage gowns are so close to pink that it seems like taking a liberty to call them rose or salmon or peach bloom. One of the daintest garments which Mrs. Taft has worn recently is a pink broadcloth trimmed with deep red braid with a touch of silver. It has insets of yellow lace on the bodice and big designs of the same in the half draped skirt. Pink gowns for daylight are no longer rare enough to cause comment.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The secret of all charm and of the most genuine popularity lies in avoiding all pretenses and being sincere. Artificiality is always vinegar, however highly placed the person who assumes it may be. But in point of fact a really highly placed person never does "put on side." A woman in a good position is so sure of herself that she has no need to put on an affected manner. She is, on the contrary, so simple and sincere and genuinely courteous that not even the most envious of humbler friends can grudge her her success. If she is not always sincere and sweet—why, she only lays herself open to the suspicion that she has been very badly brought up and has had her head turned by a little money—Indianapolis News. Silverware, of course, as elaborate as your taste dictates, as much as your purse can afford. A handsome clock to tick away the happy hours for the honeymooners. A bit of Vienna bronze for the cabinet will please the bride who delights in such things. Royal Doulton plates—to give her a dozen would be to give her a present de luxe. One of the new and handsome lamps or electroliers will be most acceptable if they're going housekeeping. And it wouldn't be a wedding if the bride didn't get some pictures. But whatever you give, remember that it is the bride and the bridegroom whose tastes should be borne in mind—not your own—Philadelphia Record. Have you ever caught a glimpse of yourself in the mirror when you are doing your hair, brushing your teeth or putting the finishing touches to your toilet? If you haven't, just try it once, and you will probably see, to your amazement, that you are making horrible grimaces and twisting your forehead into all sorts of frowns and wrinkles while doing these simple duties. Many people encourage wrinkles in this way, and when too late to remedy matters wonder how in the world they got them - Home Chat. FASHION NOTES. Habitat skins are shown in the daintest colors and in an amazing variety of stripes and small checks. The chiffon motor bonnet is finding a new use. The traveller dons it on the train on removing her own hat. Tucked yokes are not used as much now as are plain ones of either fancy striped or dotted net. 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