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Mns. MAY WRIGHT sEwALL Is said to be the
youngest member of Sorosis.
Mns HENRY DARLINGTON, of the Women's
Exchange management, spends this weekin
New York.
The afternoon musicale has come to the
front again. Its first meeting was held a5
Mrs c. L. Magee's home Tuesday
THE Women's Press Club is about to in
nugurato a series of social meetings which
shall he open TO members and lew invited
guests. Luch will be served and q pleasant
time is expected generally.
The Needlework Guild, OF which Mrs.
James B. Scott is head, will have its dona-
ton day November II, that Il, its members
will turn over to the chairman all garments
completed tor 1t by them during the year.
Mrs. MARGARET PEEKE. Of Sandusky, o.,
who, it will be remembered, was one OF the
delegates sent by the Cleveland Women's
Press Club TO the international Convention
ago, has Just published a novel, "Born OF
Flame" 1t is issued under the nom de plume
"Pique," and is favorably spoken OF by the
critics,
TIE fact that society women In unprece-
IDENTIFY large numbers are preparing TO spend
THANKSGIVING in New York will have an I'M
fortunate effect in necessitating the post
poncment OF the usual Women's Exchange
iancy work sole until December There will
be, however, the annual display OF tooth
some dainties sacred to the day OF thanks
and eating.
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Do you suppose you can 60 down to Kings
lands-that's the name Of his place-and
pose as a competent housekeepsr in white
velvet and diamonds?"
Lady Werner stares at her.
"Clothes?" says she.
tfYes 1t Is a terribly material thought
no doubt, and rather destroys the romance
OF the thing, but suppose you will have to
get housekeeper's trocks (whatever they
may be like), IT you mean to carry out thi.
thing, You do mean to carry it out?''
She leans forward, unconsciously, and looks
keenly at Rhoda- There is undue anxiety
in her gaze. It would be plain to any OBJ
server that she is desirous Of Rhoda's ac-
ceptance of this chance offered her This
chance-that will take her out of Lopdon,
and out of the way generally OF all her
acquaintances.
II mean it." says Rhoda. thcughtfully.
She is evidently thinking of something else.
Of those clothes.
"Oh, well, promise you it shall not be
sky blue" says Lady Werner, still laughing
though her eyes are filled with saddest
tears-tears born of the wreckage of all her
young life 'But not drab either, I think.
Why not black, auntie?"
cries Brenda "And in black you always
look your loveliest."
"Ahl That is the last thing to be consid-
cred. In black, however, shall feel we'll
dressed, whatever the shapes and forms Of
the garments may be. Tomorrow, then,
we must set forth to find me raiment fitting
for my new vocation" She Is laughing
naturally now. Tomorrow"
SIT sounds dreadfully near" says Brenda,
with a quaver in her voice
'Not dreadfully. Delightfully."-" says her
cousin. She walks deliberately to one of
the long mirrors, and gazes at her charming
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Expenses of a Club Woman.

As her best friend came into the parlor
the club woman laid aside the sheet of
paper on which she had been figuring in
dustriously. Drawing an easy chair toward
the fire for the visitor, she said:
I've been thinking seriously this after
noon. Inever before knew what lot I
spend for these clubs. MIS-. Merriwell asked
me yesterday to join hers. l wanted to see
II L could afford it, I belong to only two
now and they cost just awfully. Now you
won't tell anybody, will you? This row Of
figures is for my first club. One dollar yearly
dues; that sounds cheap, doesn't 1tf We
meet every other week, so car fare is 81 80
laid out SO for books; no, that isn't nearly
so much as some of the ladies spent. I'm On
one of the committees and paid think
81 25 more car are, postage stamps, station
ary and one thing or other. Then we had
public meeting where 1 read paper. got
= new gown, of course; 1t cost $50.
parted with sis more. We were each as
sessed 81 25 ut different times during the
year. The cost Tor the entire year was
s48 70. MY second clubs dues were g.
spent only 81 70 or books; wanted to econ
miZe. paid $40 for gloves, flowers, lace and
ixIngs to wear with my old blue dress to
the annual club banquet. Car fare was 81 SO
more. We had an tertainmenr for the bene.
11t OF the club and was out OF pocket 81 on
that. As delegate for the club to a meeting
in another city spent s25 more and. for peri
odicals Of one kind or another in regard to
clubs and women SO. 1 entertained the
members of the club at my home once. OF
course 1 did not need TO, but all the other
ladies entertain. That cost $50. My second
clubs expense account amounted to S7s 81.
Together they have cost sl2S 05. or about
81 80 week. I'm sure I haven't remem-
bered all either.
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What They Did at the Conference.

Four-ffths of the federated women's
clubs of Pennsylvania were present at the
convention OF State clubs held November
and 8 in the new Century Club building,
Philadelphia Miss Matilda Hindman, OF
Allegheny, who represented the Travellers
Club, WAS the oply delegate from this sec
tion. Mrs Charlotte Emerson Brown, Pros
ident OF the National Federation of
Women's Clubs, was present and made an
interesting address on the advantages Of
fedeTation. After that the ladies discussed
the desirabiliiy of State federation. As
none OF the delegates had been instructed
what to do in the matter, tt was referred
back to the clubs, action Co be taken at the
biennial council to he held at Philadelphia
in 1894. The question OF how dele1ates to
that council should be entertained was
judiciously referred to q committee of the
New Century Cub. Lunch was served dele
gates and officers of tile New Century Club.
The afternoon session was devoted to the
discussion of that much moo5ed question:
SIS IL Desirable for Women to Engage in
Active Business Pursuits?" Miss Hindman
was the first lady called upon to speak. Be-
fore she finished she had convinced the
Eastern ladies' that Pittsburg women really
Ind time for intellectual Improvements.
Eastern women seem firmly to believe that
in Pittsburg the men spend their time in the
manufacture of smoke, while the women
theirs with mop and broom, heroically bat
tling to annihilaLe It.
The Wayne Clubs reception closed the
conference.
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she knows that her whole life she has pined
for the country-has preferred its silent
ecstasies to ell the glittering glories Of the
town-snd she has seen SO little OF the
country since her marriage.
Well, if he accepts her as his house.
keeper she will be able to please him, she
thinks OF course it might be imagined (and
being born in the purple, as it were, and
the associations connected Herewith, would
necessarily destroy ones qualifications for
any menial services Servitude naturally
was an unknown quantity In her family,
government rather than servitude being the
rule with her people; and yet she tells her
self that she feels she could be an excellent
housekeeper if only she were given trial.
But sometimes old men are hard to please.
Old men! A sudden thought strikes her.
Old men live on Cruel and beef tea! Well,
she can make beef tea if she can't make
Cruel When staying at the Painleys last
year, during Ascot, little Dicky Painley
was very i'll, and she took q fancy to make
something for him, dear little lad, and the
'something" took the form of beet tea, and
everyone said 1t was better than cooks, e1-
cept Dicky; but Dicky was delirious, poor
little darling!
And Of course beef tea isn't all; it's not
everything! And besides this, old MI.
Drayton is an explorer An explorer
would probably make his own beef tea
This is depressing thought, but it fails
to conquer her. There are other things
that can please, and given brains and cour-
age, what is it q woman dare not do? And
the woman who has had to satisfy herself as
to the duties required of her own servants
is surely in the best position of all to know
what duties are required.
In such little yays she cheers herself and
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CHAPTER XII.
And dares't thou then
To beard the lion in his den,
The Douglas in his hall?


She rouses herself from her reverie to
look with interest at the gateway of the
place that may yet prove her City of
Refuge. The huge granite pillars of the
gate, surmounted by grifins rampant, look
imposing, and the deep, dark avenue hey ond
is, too, all it should be- On this not July
day, rne coolness, the duskiness OF the
drive, lalls like pleasant touch upon her
tired spirit. 1t is indeed delicious here.
Lea ming out of the miserable fly (that
creates faint regrets for comfortable car
riages left behind) she lets her eyes dwell
on all the sweetness round her. The over
hanging branches of the huge lines that
guard the avenue on either side, the grove
of rhododendrons, in full flower, over there,
the delicate dark shadows, moving amongst
the greenery all about, each and everything
has its charm for her.
What grand old place! Those trees
must have been mere babies many hundreds
of years agol And the turf-how soft, how
we'll kept-and the avenue itself
"Looks as if it we're swept with tea leaves
every morn" says she to herself with an
appreciatire smile.
She breathes rspturously as if to inIale
as much as possible OF the perfumed air
around her. After moment or two sud-
den turn brings her to an open space, tree.
less. full out from which stretches green
expanse; it gives q handsome glimpse of the
park be ond; and crossing this open space
betx cen the lines moves the figure of q
young man, as if to throw touch of lie
into the lovely picture.
He is decidedly young man. Rhoda,
on FIRST catching sight OF him, had looked
eagerly, thinking that perhaps here--on
view, as it Observation-Disclosures
master" is o horrid word. She has had
one master too many 90 far! But there is
no sign Of age about the tall young man
crossing the Held with brace Of terriers at
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that is to ,ake her to Kingslands her heart
sinSs within her.
Strangely enough. from first to last of this
eventful journey of hers, her thoughts have
not once travelled to her husband. She has
put him behind her, as it were, and though
he is still behind (on her track, perhaps
all through her fight) she throws him not
SO much as one passing memory. Truly
this must mean something-much-all
What he will do on discovery concerns her
so little that her mind refuses to trouble it.
self about it. Poor womani What had she
not suffered at his hands before she, with
her sweet spirit, could thus cast him so en-
tirely from her.
On travels the fly over the dusty roads,
The sun is at its best. Even lying back in
lhe fly, shrinking from the burning sun.
beams, their heat reaches her, and the
journey has been long and tedious and Lady
Carysfort's sandwiches have never once
been touched. Her glad, happy mood dies,
and again despair seizes on her.
Of course, Mr.. Drayton will not engage
her! She must have been mad to dream oil
it What old man would care for house.
keeper under 60? He will not trust her
that fatal gilt, youth, still presses heavily
on her, and will for many years, and So
Oh, that she were old-quite old, and less
-less-well, if she could only be a little
less good looking, and staid, much more
staid in appearance-more TO the manner
born OF housekeepers, how far greater her
chance OF gaining this engagement would
be
All old men are crotchety. Many object
to a Young face. Auntie had drilled all
this into her in her desire t, keep her at
home, or else send her abroad to be happy
on her (auntie's) money; but Rhoda would
none OF these things. She would be inde-
pendent or nothing-thst is--her husbands IS
slave!
Here, the fly turning into more brilliant
part OF the country, her spirits rise again.
A last fond hope has come to her. Old Mr.
Drayton may be halt blind. He may not
be able to see very we'll. Explorers fre-
quently suffer from desert blindness. that
is, presumably, sand in the eyes; and there
tore he may not notice that she is at this
side of the ffties! She is almost on the
point of hoping her desired master is suffer-
ing from some new form of ophthalmia,
when the fly draws up at the entrance gates
OF Kingslands.
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SILVER AT BRUSSELS.
Dr.. Soetbeer's Proposition of a Ratio
of 20 to 1 the Great Issue
AT THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.
The American Delegation Is Representative
of ALI the Views.
FEELING IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.I
The financial telescopes of the world will
be leveled at the Belgian capital next week,
and yet Brussels has witnessed more eIeit-
ing episodes than the quiet gathering
which is to be termed the International
Monetary Conference. Great men from all
nations will be there, but it concerns the
United States most of all, for the initial
steps resulting in the International delibera-
tions were taken by this Government. The
move shelved a vexed question just before
Presidential campaign, and 1t will now be
seen how international action will change
the problem.
The American delegation consists Of ex.
Comptroller Henry w. Cannon, Senator
William B. Allison, of Iowa; Senator John
B. Jones, of Nevada; President E. Ben
jamin Andrews, of Brown University;
Congressman McCreary, of Kentucky, and
Edward O. Leech. Director of the Mint.
All Sorts of Views Represented.
ssThe delegates, said Mr.. Cannon to me
before he left for Europe, certainly repre-
sent all the views of Americans on the sub
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13
WHAT Is A COLD?
The Answer Given in q Lecture

The Answer Given in q Lecture by DR.. Hart
man ut the Surgical Hotel. Columbus
Ohio.
A cold is the starting point of more than
half of the fatal illnesses from November to
May. A cold is the first chapter in the his
tory of every case OF consumption. A cold
Is the first stage of chronic cstarrh, the most
loathsome and stubborn OF diseases A cold
is the legitimate parent of urge family OF
diseases, such as bronchitis. pleurisy, pneu-
monis, and quinsy To neglect q cold Is
almost suicide, To isil 10 provide against
this well-nish inevitable evil is DANGEROUS
negligence. Pe-ru-na Is a safeguard As a
preventive, specific IS q cure Tor all cases
Of catarrh, acute and chronic, coughs, colds.
consumption. elc., etc. Every family should
be provided With copy of The Family
Physician No. 2. complete guide to pre-
vent and cure winter diseases. Sent free by
The Pe-ru-na Drug Manuiacturing Com
pany, Columbus, Ohio
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moneyed institutions to accept the prin-
cipal silver coins of the country in payment
to an amount equal to three times the value
of the lowest standard gold coin.
9. Issues of silver certificates by the prin-
cipal mints or central banks against the de-
posit of the full value of the face thereof In
the principal silver coins in denominations
not lower than one-half of the value Of the
lowest standard gold coin, and also In mul.
tiples of such amount. The immediate spe-
Gle redemption of the silver certificates in
principal silver coins on demand and at all
times at the places of issue.
10. No issue of credit notes payable In
silver only.
IL Liberty of each State to recede from
this monetary treaty alter 10 months no.
tice.
L. Obligations of the several Govern
ments to inform each other at the close of
each calendar year of all laws, regulations
and proolamations issued respecting the
monetary system.
Secretary Foster Expects a Decision.
/ had talk with New York fnancier
on England's real attitude to the CONFER
ence and he believed that the interests of
India were in many respects like those of
America, and that this fact would alone sui
fee to. alter its obstinacy on the side of
monometallism.
Secretary Foster, however, is extremely
hopeful of decisive results, but others who
have scanned closely the European papers
appreciate the tact that there is a tremend-
Gus body of hostile feeling to overcome
among the leading countries of Europe
before any treaty can be agreed upon pro-
vlding for the larger use of silver The
fluctuations ip feeling in Europe are not so
easy of measurement. Whether the mani
fest opposition to bimetallism Is on the
point OF giving way is something the Amer
lean delegates will find out when they reach
Europe On the whole it is safe to say
that DR.. soetbeer's plan for the new ratio
of to 20 may, after all, be the entering
wedge that will lead to an international
"bmetallism" agreement. W. D..
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The Duquesne Ceramic Club.

Inc Du4uesnc Ccrdinlc CluO.
It was early in January that 20 ladies met
In the music room of Prof Simeon Bissell
on Sixth street to discuss the advisability Of
organizing club for the advancement of the
interests of local china painters. The even
ing was q dIsagreeable one, and the repre-
sentation not very encouraging. Deter
mined not to be baked by the weather,
however, . temporary organization was
effected At the second meeting eircum-
stances were more felicitous, and real live
club with very business-like name result
ed. Long they deliberated over that inn
portant feature-the name. Duquesne in
stead of Pittsburg was adopted out of con-
sideration for the aesthetic, while Ceramic
was sandwiched In by the practical to indi-
cate its sphere Of usefulness. Mrs. Jennie
P. Liljigren was elected President, Mrs.
Charles Aull, Secretary, and Mrs. Simeon
Bissell, Treasurer.
Since then meetings have been held at
stated intervals, at which there has been an
interchange of ideas in regard to art work
that the members have found very helpful.
The original 20 active and 10 honorary
members of the club have been largely added
to and the organization is well on the high
road OF prosperity, to say nothing of fame
and fortune. Meetings are most frequently
held in Prot. BisselPs studio, thanks 10 his
kindness
One aim of the organization is to make
creditable exhibit Of work at the Worlds
Fair. In the spring an exhibition was
given in the parIors of the Academy of
Science and Art. A second exhibition will
| be given in the near future and, il is said.
it will far eclipse their first effort
The president of the club is not only an
able executive aficer, but an artist of rare
ability. She is a native of Illinois, al
though her childhood was passed near Al
bany, n. Y. Her family was of good old
Puritan stock. A fine education was ac-
quired at the Delaware Literary Institute
and Cazenovia Seminary, both located in
central New York. Mrs. Liljigren spent
several years in the study of art in studios
in New York city, and later under Mrs.
Tracelton, of Milwaukee, the well-known
china painter. She was married in 1882,
and has since resided in the East End.
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Simple Remedy for Sprains.

A writer on the subject of simple rene-
dies says there is no medicine known that
approaches hot water in value in injuries in
which the skin is not broken. 1t Is strange
that this remedy is not more in vogue on
the football and baseball fields PROBES
sional players are often disabled Tor weeks
by effects which ought to be counteracted In
a few days. If an injury is so located that
treatment can be conveniently applied, as
on the hand, the arm or the leg, the affected
parts should be instantly plunged into
water as hot as can be borne and kept there
for half an hour, and twice that length OF
time il the accident is serious. When the
bath is discontinued the injured parts
should have water dressings applied, and
these, also, should be kept hot until all the
tenderness has been drawn out.
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figure in a deliberate sort of way. "Velvet
and diamonds tonight; sackcloth and ashes
tomorrow! A thorough change, at all
events"
at is all too ridiculous" says Lady
Carvstort, with frown that fades into q
tear. "But it is only tor moment-a
mere scene in short-lived drama You will
give il up"
''ob, mol I shall not give it up" still
gazing at herself in the mirror. "How
pretty am." she says suddenly. ''Prettier
than Lady Daleworth, l think, naming q
society beauty.
"How can you make such comparison?
SAYS Lady Carysfort.
Haven't you heard that her portraits are
being withdrawn from the windows?" says
Brenda.
mot for mine to take their place" says
Lady Werner decidedly. 81 am glad now
that I never allowed anything of that sort.
Nv chances of situation as housekeeper or
schoolmistress would have been SO greatly
diminished if had done so. I should have
been SO universally known. And so you
think mo prettier than Lady Daleworth
So pretty, and all for naught So pretty,
and vet could not keep even my own hus-
band at my side. l." slowly, giving last,
lingering, annoyed glance at herself in the
mirror, must be q most detestable
woman"
She moves away.
"It is lie who is detestable!" !" says Lady
Carvsfort, fondly and Indignantly.
"Oh, he!' says Brenda.
She is looking with admiration at Rhoda,
and as she looks an idea strikes upon her
fertile brain.
"whatever you do, Rhoda," says she,
''don't leave your diamonds behind you."
"Behind me 2"
Eyes. Take them with you TOTO Kings
lands"
"What should I do with them there? A
servant with diamonds 1t would be q
burlesque in petto."
'For all that, take them! They are valu-
able. They were your poor mothers. says
Lady Carysfort. "They are your own.
Brenda is quite right. Why should you
leave them behind you?"
"For CASTOR to sell and squander True!
shall not do that shall take them, "
says Lady Werner, with frown.
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CHAPTER XL.
Give me again my hollow tree,
A crust OF bread and liberty.

A crust OF bread and liberty.
1t is glorious day! Hurrying through
the country in the down train, Rhoda's eyes
(still sad and tear-smitten because of that
late sorrowful parting with Lady Carysfort)
nox dry themselves and widen into an
eager appreciation of the exquisite glimpses
of Nature at her best now atto rded her.
Swift as the train flies northward 1t can
not altoge her hide from her the loveliness
of field and lawn and branching trees.
Here there flashes to the eyes, for all too
short time, the pale green toaming o. a
tiny cataract that dashes unanimously over
bank and rock and all impediments into the
cool, still basin lar below.
And now her eye catches sight of one of
England's many homesteads-a warm, cozy
cottage, nesting among its stacks and bee
hives, and set about with beech trees in full
foliage and behind them many frs, tall and
stately, some dark Of hue, "and some Q glad
light green"
The yellow cornfields, ripening for the
coming harvest, make brave color among
all the other tints that Mother Earta has
brought TO fullest lite; and sweetly smelling
cocks of hay, and fragrant breaths of sweet
briar, and some late honeysuckle delight
the air, and come to her through the win
dows of the carriage; while as for the sing
Ing of the birds, could one have thought SO
many little feathered minstrels were alive
in all the world?
The brides sang. it is no nay,
The sperhawk and the popinjay,
That 10y it was to hear;
Tho Ihrostle cock made eke his lay,
The woode dove upon the spray,
She sang full loud and clear
A rest-a sense of great peace falls on
Rhoda 1t is almost too good a thing to
find herself here, alone in this comfortable
com artment. fving last from all her cares
Up to this it had seemed to be only that she
was flying toward fresh troubles, but the
lovely day, the balmy winds, the sights and
sounds of nature have all acted with q
gracious bene6cence upon her tired heart
and soul.
Still leaning forward to catch each psss-
ing breath of air, she tells herself that nov