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Housekeeping Among thc Creoles.

When Creole lady gives dinner party or
q midnight supper, ono may be sure that the
whole bill of fare has passed under her per-
sonal supervision, and sic herself will add to
the gunlbo that exact proportion of file nee
esSary to its perfection. While i'll the pot of
gumho, AZ It were, it may interest readers to
know that ct all evening entertainments,
which are kept up until the small hours, a
plate of this steaminS sacrifice, with snowy
island of dry rice, is passed to each guest
about two hours before supper, and most
staying, comforting prologue it is. This Gus
tom has given way to newer methods i'll New
Orleans, but is kept up i'll the plantation
houses.
Tho Creole mistress prepares herow mayon-
naise, bisque, devilcd crabs, ices and sweets,
ond is most particular that coffee is strong
and abundant enough. To come up to the
required standard of strength it must dye
the cup, but, then, a very small quantity is
drunk. Every Creole, of high or low degree,
believes that coffee was the Ulympian nectar.
The Creole woman can usually rely upon
gool service from her domcstcs, for she trains
them well and treats thcm with consideration,
even affection, never with that tie haut cn
bus air which the AnGlo-SaNon often assumes
towards lis interiors She has her reward,
for her servants stay with her, love her and
serve her faithfully, and such efficient cooks
and nurses DO they b2comc under her tutclage
that Creole servants, as they come to be
calicd, are III demand among all the American
housckecpcrs s--Harpcr's Bazaar.
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How Eorses arc Sometimes Trained.

GAS for Rarey, the most of his business was
trickery done by locustng and loading.
Horses are awfully fond of locusts and car
rots, and they will do almost anything for
them; but loading is the great trick"
"What is loading"
"Loadmg is slipping about on ounce weight
Of lead down the cars Of the horse You slip
q load, to which small piece of string is at-
tached, down the horses cars, and 10 matter
how vicious the beast may be it becomes dazed
and stupid when the load plugs its ears. The
horse docs not understand what has happened
to the world when ho cannot hear well, and
he becomes as locile rs you could wish. When
a horse is loaded you can yoke him do any
thing you wish with him and he will not OBJ
ject 1t is a thousand times more mcrciful
and far more effective than the horrible plan
of putting a twitch upon the car or upon the
nostril, practice still indulgcd in by some
horse coupery. Lcadcn weights arc made for
the purpose. Any small weight will 90, but
it is better to have one made to fit."-Inter-
view with Trainer.
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The Lesson of the War.

xI know wonan," said al old physician,
"who, in 1851, was as hcartless o. any
girl in the country. In all the days of her
young womanhood she had never bacf moved
by Il tender sentiment and had never shed
tear. She believed that sllf was to become n
commonplace, prosaic, hard hearted woman
about whom novelists wrote 50 much. She
looked upon herself rs deyicicnt i'll tenderness
and sentiment and womanlness but i'll the
first year of the war saw tears in her eyes
over the simplest occupations that were in
any way connected with the memory of the
boys i'll front In tlp second year Of the war
I saw her one OF tie most efficient of that
body of noble women who liSlied everything
to help the soldiers. In tho third year of the
war saw her an impulsivc, outspokcn
woman, to whose eyes the tears would come did
you but mention q poor soldiers grievance.
In the last year Of the war We counted her
anlo'''c the most sympathetic, among the
warnpst hearted, and among the most emo
tional of all the women engaged in the work
of relieving the soldiers. Inter Ocean "Cub-
stone CraVouS"
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Odd Phases of Life.

have been taking r7,n through New Eng
land, where Somesodd phases Of life have been
thrust OH my attention. My landlaly of a
night in q Massachusetts town lancntcd l"i
inability to secure female "bclp" for the
household. With 60,DO0 more females than
males in the old Bay state it struck INC that
this was IN anomalous condition. When
asked her for the reason of this scarcity nj
"hclp' she replied with some acrrbity: BE
cause the women have been spoiled by fac
tory work. They have crme to look Oh
housework as inferior. They make better
wages III the factories, and so, although the
work is not light, they will not work at any
thing else. You can scarcely set a woman
to do n days washing. Then too, the women
are intellectual, us they call it, and they get
above any work. Some of them who are
prime housekccpcrs, if they only set about it,
prefer to spend their time writing rhymes
and stories and sentiment for the papers,
New York Tribune.
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How It Feels to be Shot.

Senator Miller told ME he put up his hand
to feel if his head was not torn OF Ehen all
ounce ball struck him III the eye at Shiloh
But l did not feel so fcarfully hurt, SO that
was rather stunned than otherwise. l re-
member falling hard, and it seenod 10 me
that my head struck first on the rocks.
An arrow Lad hit me i'll the left check,
knocked out several teeth, and then plowel
OH around and stuck through at. the back OF
my neck. Gibson cut the point Of the arrow
of behind with his bowie knife, and then,
taking hold OF the tatter end, drew it out il
front. was conscious first at that time, and
remember distinctly Seeing his face. 1t was
palu, but full Of tenderness and pity.
knew he spoke to nc, but his words seemed
far away, and l could not understand. I
know the blood spurted out both ways when
he drew the arrow out. Il seems to me that
l heard the blood spatter OH the leaves. But
this must be merely imagination, for imme-
diately became unconscious, and, of course,
knew nothing more, Of my own Knowledge,
OF what took place in the bitter battle of Cas-
tie Rocks, thirty years and more ago, after
that-Joaquin Miller's Letter
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Let Married Couples Beware.

The perfect frankncss which should exist
between married couples must not be sup
posed to exclude the necessity for tact or to
compel the utterarcc of disagrcoabc truths
All families arc more or less faulty, and must,
in some way, jar OH the stranger admitted
within them. Their drawbacks are cvea
evident to their own members, and i'll the in.
innate friendship Of married life these failings
may sometimes be discussed; Int let every
married couple boware Of structures on the
conduct, character, or even manners and ap-
pcarancc Of rcl9tions-in-law. The husbam
may complain Of his own family, and &.
wife may sympathiZe, but she must ncrc
begin the subject, nor must size point out or
single additional flaw. In the samc way the
husband must respect the wife's SUSCEPTIBLE
ties However conscious we may be of tho
shortcomings of our. own flesh and blood, we
all Urstle like the frctful porcupine if we
hear our kindred attacked by anybody else,
and in this matter even marriage does not
extinguish all the natural emotions of family
ticS-Eychangp
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Oil Fuel Not Economical.

From Glasgow comes evidence Of an unmii-
tal;all. character that oil has brrn tried ANA
found wanting The managers of the Laird
line, astcr Il long trial OF oil on boarl one of
their steamers, have decided, Oh purely eco
nomic grounds, to abandon altogether the
Use of oil as Il fuel, having aSccrtained from
practical tests rxtcmtinG over Il considerable
period that coal is the cheaper fuel of the two
Accordingly, they have had the oil tanks
taken ont of their vessel and have returned to
the llsr of coal, notwithstanding the fact that
the oil tanks and the apparatus for accom-
plshins complete combustion Of the oil cost Il
considerable sum Of money. Although con-
siderable ingenuity las been Displayed md
several difficulties have been overcome, there
is nothing in the latest apparatus and ar
rangcmcnts which have been adopted in
southeastern Russia. where petroleum has
been extensively used rs fuel, which appears
likely to expedite the adoption of liquid fuel
in uUr mercantile mdl'inr. There is little
probability of petroleum hcing sold in this
county at IL price which will enable it to
take the place of coal-Tlc Shipping World.
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Discovery Of the Knockout" Blow.

"Excusc my ignorance, colonel, but what in
the Monastery blowH" .'
"Well, you must know that am the origh.
nator of u system of scientific boxing. in
troduced ten years ago or moro the method of,
evasion as means of defence preferable to.
parrying; "dueking' is the current term for
it. The offensive tactics are the moro impor-,
tant, however; the blow is the great thing in.
boxing. Success all Its in knowing how to.
hit-to establish line Of power from the.
shoulder to the lnuckles Of the second, third.
and fore fingers. The principle is the same in
fencing. Let me take n foil and deliver q:
thrust clancing downward and the point will
ONLY scratch you, whereas if deliver thrust
with the line of power behind it, the bones.
AMI muscles all backing each other with
cumulative force, the foil would 60 right
through YOU. discovered the scientific blow
that Sullivan uses-his knockout blow. 1t
c,nained for man thoroughly acquainted
nth the art of fencing to discover this blow,
which l.; produced exactly like thrust in
tiercc, sec: y blow so dealt by powerful
man will stun an OK, and a scientific light,
weight or gentleman amateur can by nleana
of il holl his own against any slugsvr in the
ring who is unfamiliar with the principle. ~
Chicago Tribune Interview.
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Gems of German Journalism.

In jpreniatl similar to Mr. James Partons
last, {; Berlin critic quotes the following specl-
mems of journalistic German: "On examining
several samples of market butter the police
again detected three women having less than
the prescribed weight" "Count l.. de G. died
at Arsiui, in the province of Lucca, irt. 81,
in the al4ns Of his friend, the Marquis OF
Nocerc, where he was also buried" AN
Ulllcnburg confidence operator has swindlcd
Il number of our merchants out of sums vary
ing from 80 to :i0D marks. Detective $. yes
tcr,Iay succeeded III collaring his man Oil the
PotSIam depot, and took him back on tho
morning train, but only after spending n con-
sIcw;bic portion Of the ill-Sotten wealth"
'.Near the main entrance of the new club
house there is q HE sized plate Of stained
glass" "One Of the few surviving vctcran3
Of The campaign Of 1915 was buried last Tues
dny at Juterbock: :-Exchangc ...,.
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As = Co-Laborcr with Man.

Two difficulties lie at the root of woman's
success us q c0-lahorcr with man. Tho first
l. her lack Of training: the second her lack Of
perlnancnce As Il rule, woman is not etlu-
Gated with view to any special trade or pro
feSSion She drifts into it. Men expect their
daughters to marry. The daughters expect
it. But 50 long as women numerically exceed
men, the problem of woman's support cannot
Lc solved hy marriage. Even Wien a
womar's necessities compel her to become
selt-suppoiting. she DOES not look upon it as a
permanent thing. When she marries she
drops it, She docs not look upon trade or
a profession either as Il life work. Therefore,
her heart is often not i'll her work. She looks
upon it only us malieshift-a steppiuS-stone
to something better. OF course there arc
honorable exceptions-w!ole-souled, hearty,
enthusiastic women, who throw themselves
into their work, whatever it may be, either
froln 2 genune taste for that work or from
conscientious motives. And such women
make Il success OF their work--be it culinary,
domestic, literary or artistic.
Many woman fails through titnidity.
Sh. is conscious of strong leaning toward
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Pay of Il Cloak Model.

That all depends on their shape, its sym
metry and a,laptabiity to the business. The
woman who is of good height, weighs about
$50 pounds, has bust measure of thirty-six
inches or n little over, and is perfect in form,
receives SO week to stand up from 8 o'clock
in the morning until 6 in the afternoon trying
on cloaI;s She is receiving the highest price
and is the star model. She is always iii dc
mand, and has to do more, perhaps, than the
others Ten dollars is about the average price
for cloak models. Some belong to the fitting
and others to the cutting department, and Of
course the prices vary. Eight dollars week
is fair price, and few get under that per
wcck.-Ncw York Mail and Express.
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Governing the Little Ones.

Great injustice is often done by the enforce
1nent of set rules when the child is i'll certain
moods and conditions OF mind and body. My
heart has ;vhcd sometimes to observe the COLI
scientious cruelty that's the wor,D of the
parental powers that be in enforcing a COM
mand by repeated punishments when the ill.,
creaSing excitement of the parent defeated
her own object by producing in the little one
such Il frantic irritation that it was for the
time really incapable of obedience. | think
most mothers possess fine lntultire sense,
shalpened by affection, which will tell them
what to DO in di:licult cases if they will hold
their minds equilibrium long enough to listen
to this inner voice know it is hard to he
always cool and patient, when every minute
of the long, bright day, with its leafy and
blosSomng enticements, is c%actcd by tho
work, rs is often the cas-. 1t has been mine
months at o time, and have learned by en-
pericnce that even love is not unelring when
it demands obedience without due reflection.
To illustrate, my little daughter of is
difficult to govern because of All Inherent ner-
Sous cXcitability which only my calmest
meo;is can hold in check. 1t is argued by
some that We should not try 10 reason with
Young children, or even compromise. 1t is
only thus that Gan reach her in some cases,
and am often forced to strategy to gain my
point. When 4 wee child | would take her III
my lap when punishment failed and the pros
pact of a story cuieted her Immediately. BY
a careful adjustment of my tale to the case
her baby heart was touched and subducd,
and Sic was conquered without further
trouble
speak Of this to show the value OF illustra-
tion in teaching thom. y principle or idea
that they cannot otherwise prrcci:e the force
of can thus be made clear and impressive to
their minds.
Tho childish appetite for stories is strong
anI many beautiful lessons can thus he con
yeycd. l know how weary mother covetS
rest when the story hour comes, hut have
found that we must save IL little freshness
and genial feeling for them. 1t is their right,
and far moro our duty than tile fashionillg Of
elaborate little suits or the cooking Of
dain:ics l have been pruning this over.
grown tree called work, and 10y looping of Il
branch here aud there, and trimming the
heavy foliage, found that not only did not
rob the tree hut that bits OF blue sky lecaine
visible and CLEANS OF deepest sunshine filtered
through.-Pruc Palmleat III Detroit Free
Press.
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some vocation; it may be 4 service, a trade or
a profession. But she is held back by CUSTOM
rropriety, the restraints of family, her station
in life, what the world will say, etc. Custom
has 4 powerful influence over woman Sho
is still in swa(ltllmg bands. We ore not
speaking of lawlcss cndeavors, but of lawful
channels, opening a little out Of the beaten
path. That one woman should run sawnill
in Florida and another navigate steamboat
in Louisiana, seem anomalies; in the one III
stance thriftless husband, in the other
defunct spouse were the instruments which
set these two plucky females atioat Many
women arc capable of carrying OH their hus-
bands business, net only with the hand, but
with the heal. They have tact, thrift, JudS-
ment, prolity in their favor.-Cor. Phila-
dclphia Times.
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PEOPLE IN AN EMERGENCY.
Women arc More Composed Than Mon
in Tino of DanCcr-BraIn Trouble.

Women arc More Composed Than Mon
in Timo of Danger-Brain Trouble.
The dclneanor of people under emergency
|; always al interesting show. l was once III
what threatened to be very serious smash
up OH the Eric road, between Buffalo and
Niagara Falls. Nearly every one on tho
train went clean crazy, rushing hither and
thither, some even trying to jump from tho
platforms, though the train was travelling ct
forty mile speed on q high embanInicnt.
The women were the most composed. l
fancicd because they were rigid with fright.
When the chain brakes were got to work, Ito
air brakes being crippled, and the train was
brought up, a dozen mcn tainted, and there
vas O chorus of hysterical sobbing all
around.
In the morning l was OH train ON the
Sixth avenue elevated when one sOnlc blocks
ahead broke down and brought us to halt.
For few minutes we all sat quiet enough,
reading cur papers Then somebody said:
"What the dickens is the mattcrF In g mo-
mcnt there was q stir. Some faces blanchcd,
others became serious. We looked out Of the
windows, but could sec nothing. A train
went by Oh the other track and mado the
structure shake, and twenty mon jumped up.
Then there came re,Sh from the rear cars.
The approach of train behind us had
aroused the fear of q siilasll-up.
This rush created veritable panic, which
was added to when gang Of worEmcn hur-
rie,l down the track evidently bent on bust
ness. There was cry that we should set
down and walk If the trainncn had not
shown determination tho track would have
becn blocked with passengers in a minute
After ten or fifteen minutes we got started
ogain, and you should have beard the sigh
of relief that sounded through that train. A
young woman opposite me had sat, during all
the tumult, perfectly composed. As soon as it
was over and the ghost Of danger was passed
she said: ooh, my" and collapsed i'll her seat.
She had fallen i'll a dead faint, not from
fright, but from nervous rcaction.-Ncw
York News "Babble"
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What England Has Dono for Indin.

NJ. Rcmcnyi, tho celebrated violinist, has
been travelling in India, playing the part of q
political observer Is well as musician, and ho
surls up his deductions from what he has seen
as follows in The Madras Mail: "Englishmcn
ought to be more proud Of having been Gblc
to govern 1ndiG's vast population than of any
thing else. 10 other nation Oil earth coulI
have undertaken such great task with such
glorious results. Don't misunderstood tic. 1
DO not mean to say that England'S rule in
India is pcrfection-far from it; but it is the
best possible under the million OF difficulties
which must have obStructcd the path Of the
English; and L repeat it again, and with Gil
plasis, that EEgliShmcn ought 10 congratulate
themselves Oh the happy result of their gov
ernnlcnt of glorious, grand old India, for,
through her coloni2:ing genius, England las
done more good to humanity than thousands
of visionary utopists ami poiiticaStcrs. New
York Tribune.
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salt pork. You cannot tempt the artisan
with the revelation of hot roast, fricasecs ana
warm vegetables as he opens pail or hamper,
but neither need you give him every day
slices of cold meats, packed between bread
and butter hunks" with pickles and pie as
after courses. Keep on hand tissue paper in
which to wrap hssandwiches; save up candy
and Christmas boxes for cake, buy fanciful
(and cheap TASKS and cruets for condiments.
See that lie has a clean napkin daily, not
ccre-cloth, in which the dead smell of yestel.
days lunch is embodied. In hot weather tel
him to buy ice at noon for the bottle of
slgarcd tea or Of cafe au lait you have put IL
cold, lest the warmth should melt butter ard
soften meat.-Cor. Philadelphia Press.
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Cause of Pride and Pleasure.

Women have hitherto been excluded from
thesittings of the French Academy of Sciences,
Lut the o!llcrday the Introduction WAS raised i'll
favor of Mile. Sophie kowlcwslia, professor
Of mathematics ut the University of Stock
holm, daughter of tho eminent palmontolo-
gist. Admiral Jurien dc Ia Graricrc, who
presided, welcomed her i'll graceful terms,
and said that her presence would hc a cause
of pride and pleasure not only to the mathe-
maticiul.s present, but to the whole academy.
brooklyn Eaglc
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4 New JaDaneSe Loan.

The japanese government has issued q
proclamation to raise funds for naval pur-
poses by floating another internal loan Of IL
OJj,m0 Yen. Tho principal features are that
the Whole amount is to bc raised in successive
instal.mcnts extending over period of thres
years: that the interest on the bonds shall be
per cent per annum: that the principal
shall bc completely redeemed by drawings i'll
thirty years, hrgirning with the sixth year
after the issue of the bonds: 10 drawings
shall take place during the first five years;
that the bonds are to he put upon the market
at their face ralue; that the interest shall he
pail in May and November racl. year anl
that the bonds are purchasable Dy foreigners.
Hartford Times.
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Fruit Among tho French.

The French do great deal with fruit,
while otbcr nations take it raw. For exam
pie, they make delicious apricot cheese, goose
bclry ices and j"llicS; they cat their melons
with pepper and salt, with sugar and vine
gar, sticking slips of cinnamon and cloves i'll
the green and crimson flesh for flavor;
oranges are sliced thinly with sharp silver
knife Into a giittcring cut-slass compoticr,
seasoned with powdered sugar, orange flower
water, and half IL glass of brandy. This must
stand several hours before scrving.-New
York Post
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Counting tie Hairs.

An eminent German has undergone the
enormous labor of counting the number OF
hairs III heads of four different cu.Or.. III 4
blonde he found 1itiAJ hairs; in II brown,
lUo, 40: il Il black, IL! ,"!, and in rca ":r",
~, 10 What the rcl and black hairs wanted
in number of hairs WIS maj" ,lp, however. i'll
the greater bulk Of the hairs individually,
and in all probability the scalls were pretty
equal in wei, It is to tho fncneSs anal
multiplicity of hairs that blond" trr>Ses owe
the rich color and silkiikr character of their
flow, n circumstance Which artists have So
loved to dwell ui'On.-Excl,anSc.
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\ i,nnucn rnr tlln pnrt.

"Hrlln, Vc:Scr, have you l!c;rl of tl!c Snmi-
weekly that is tu l.c start>l snnr" No.
What IS it TO be callci:' Cant tell yoa--that' :
Il secret. Eat l can tell you that Is going t"
he As bright and newasa Sol;l coin right frunl
the mint" Are you Oh the staff "YrS;
anil a precious piece of good luck it is, too,
for now I'll have Il chance OF getting ril Of
all the MSS. those cuufnlm,i,nl editors have
been sending back to NE f"ryears past. Tx
I.bnnUn