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IN MEDITATION.

Within her fair white hands the Good Book lies:
AS reverently slow she turns its leaves,
The violet shadows veil her wistful eyes,
And as the nightfal sure and slowly weaves,
hear her dear voice clear and stronp-
set me as seal upon thy heart,
AS a seal upon thy arm,
For love is strong as death!'
And as she reads the Israel song
Her lips are like a roseleaf curled apart
In spicy sweetness warm
With incense of its breath.
On, on she reads; hushed on her snowy breast,
Iulled in its peace as of holy shrine,
Each tender sigh doth rock itself to rest;
Her face, love lit, doth glow with fire divine,
Her trembling voice doth linger long
Jealousy is cruel as the grave,
The Goals thereof are Goals of fire
With most vehement flame;"
Yet as she reads the singers song
She seems to grow more brave
In harmony of Israels Tyre
Attuned to loves dear name!
Dear fair white hands wherein the Good Book
lies
Dear tender signs that hush upon her breast,
Dear blue veined lids that veil her violet eyes,
Unto my life thou art sweet peace and rest!
Love, set me as seal upon her heart,
Thou, love, art strong-as strong as death thou
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Harriet Maxwell Converse in Home Journal
Tricks of the Stage Cosvumer's Trade.
New York SUM-
The reporter asked the customer if he
could make a crooked leg straight, and
he replied that he often cured people of
bow-leggedness, and made their legs
straight-an operation beyond the skill
of the most accomplished surgeon.
Padding out the hollows and judicious
proportion of padding at other points is
all chat is required. Of course, there
are special ways of padding for GER
tain lines of character, and the cos
tuner can turn shapely man into
hunchback or into fat man.
A slim actor need not be afraid to
play heroic character; for he can be
made stalwart-one-half as big again if
necessary. For him there are padded
shirts which give him splendid chest,
and also arm and shoulder pads.
There are special arm pads for Roman
characters, and shoulder pads are often
used to make the shoulders even, for
frequently one shoulder will be lower
than the other.
There are special cases in which the
deficiencies are so difficult to remedy
that a plaster cast is takens of the de-
ficient limb, and skillful workman set
to work to make special pair of tights
which will hide the deficiencies shown
in the plaster cast. This usually has
to be done in case or bow-leggedness;
also in case of large calves and small
thighs, in which case the tights have to
be nicely graduated. AS an example of
the difficulties he sometimes had to deal
with, the costumer told of case in which
he had to proportion pair of legs, the
calf of one being twelve and one-half
inches, that of the other fourteen
inches. The deficiency he has most
frequently to remedy for women is the
dent made by the garters. Actors most
frequently want calf and thigh tights.
The reporter was surprised to hear that
the wearing of padded tights is as COM
mon among actors as it is among
actresses. Nine out of ten actors pad.
Of the women on the stage the ballet
dancers make the greatest demand for
tights, as the exercise of dancing hard
ems and thinS the legs,