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Among other bankers the Merchants
National has not been regarded with any
suspicion, owing to the fair statements
made by order of the Controller OF the
Currency. 1t is as follows:
ReS0urces.
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existence like philosophers. The house
Is sumptuous with objects of art, pictures,
bibolets, historic faience, but the house
hold lives outdoors for the most part.
Madame Daudet is an exquisite woman.
Possessing a fine literary talent, she has
preferred to devote herself to her children
and her husband-perhaps writing out of
the very fuiness of sympathetic mother
hood her charming book, tThe Childhood
of Parisian,' where she has recorded
the sensations OF a child whose soul is
Weakening to life. 1t is a book that differs
from Mrs. Deland's 'tStory Of a Child, !"
and from Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's
''The One Knew Best of All, - as France
and our land differ, but is equally frank
record.
Madame Daudet is fond of gardening,
like many other sensitive, poetic, sincere
women. She bestows her care alike on
her roses and the kitchen garden, and
expends her solicitude fairly between the
lily and the pumpkin, the salads and
orchids, and Mr.. Daudet is equally at
tached to his easy coat, his farmers nat,
his dreams by the Seine and his 'slazy
mans nap'' in the cool chalet in the tall
strawberries where he sometimes thanks
heaven that for three months at time he
| has not written line.
emo" he says, 81 am not one of those,
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very different in effect from plain muslin

very different in effect from plain muslin
or chintz or anything else.
The top was covered with piece of the
muslin laid smoothly over the white cot
ton, and finished about the edge, where
the valance was attached, by a short
muslin frill.
She also covered a white cotton pin
cushion with the same dotted muslin and
frilIed it all around in a fetching fashion,
which, with her inexpensive glass toilets
and simple pin trays, and things, made in
itself quite an effective decoration.
Over the dressing table she hung an
old fashioned oval mirror with a common
deal frame, which she has cleared of its
smoke and dust, and then gilded neatly
with the liquid gliding that is sold so
cheaply now everywhere. She would
have done the same with the usual oblong
looking glass, but it would not have been
quite SO pretty.
1t looked very rich and shining when
it was done; but when she had draped it
after her own charming fancy it was i'm
pressive indeed.
She did not drape it, as everybody else
always Grapes mirrors and pictures-not
with a straight piece of stuff that is
bound to get aWry and look distressingly
inartistic; but she made two very full
frills of the muslin eight inches deep
fastened with a binding or band,
Just as one would a jabot for the
throat. These she fastened to the top
of the mirror with soft knot and let
them cascade down each side of the frame
in fluffy, snowy pillows; the effect was
exauisitely pretty and the tout ensemble
OF berufiied mirror and neat dressing table
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nine pounds OF prepared peppermint,
worth So, 918, were imported into the
United States in 1891.
Many of the aromatic herbs for the per-
fectlng of their leaves demand rich soils,
plenty of sunshine and moisture, such as
sage and sweet marjoram, rosemary and
thyme; SO do some of the flowers, odor-
Gus magnolias, orange and lemon flowers,
tube roses and jasamines.
There is no doubt that daintily tied
bundles of green sweet herbs, such as the
French serve with lettuce salads-sprigs
of chavil and tarrogon and chives-could
be proftably raised for city markets,
along with the dry herb business. There
is no reason why women could not sue
coed with salad gardens.
Orange flowers for brides, carefully
packed, can be sent to our large northern
cities in perfectly good condition even by
mail; one southern matron makes q good
income in this way.
In Westchestcr county, New York, d
violet farm owned and managed by a
woman receives orders to its full capacity
from private New York city families.
Rose and musk geraniums grow to tall
and vigorous shrubs where no frosts cut
them down. Great open-air plantations
of these plants are perfectly possible to
women's gardening. No plants ssslipp
more easily. Rapid propagation is prac-
ticaily unlimited. Tasteful small boxes
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them, who have taken so little pains with
their education-are not the parents in
the end the guilty ones? To give them
life is not sufficient-when a child de-
velopes alone it usually develops badly.
fBut,' said 1, cit is said that never
were children loved as today. How is it?
Is it true, Mr.. Daudet2''
San depends on the manner of loving, -
was the energetic reply. SIT is easy for
D mother to ruin child, although she
kisses it every hour of the day; and it is
easy fer a.father to let it do as it pleases
so save himself trouble. But to bring
children up seriously it is difficult To
work for them is nothing-but to make
them work.
'tWhy today is my son mine still?
Why since he has created a home OF his
own does he never fail to come to me
for an hour each day-an hour of COM
plete abandon, of confide c of perfect
understanding? Why i associated
with his entire life? s aply be luse he
IS and always has bee y associated with
mine.''
Until my son wa ten be had never
left his parents, had always been under
bis mothers wing-a motAe- worthy of
ell admiration as you know. From her
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a GIRLS IDEA.
Dressing Table Which Anyone Can
Have.

a Dressing Table Which Anyone Can
Have.
There Is no place in which the average
girl takes so much pride and interest as
her own room, her little kingdom where
in she can exhibit her individuality to her
hearts content, and arrange things after
her own ideas of picturesqueness and
neatness. But, alas, there are so many
girls who have very little to do work up
on and whose rooms are often barren and
cherries places because of the lack of
dainty decoration, due often to meagre
means, but oftener to a lack OF ideas for
making very little go great ways to-
wards identifying.
So l am going to tell a little story about
bright idea that was carried out not
long ago by girl who possessed very lit
tie in the way of the worlds goods, but
who was rich in inventiveness and artls-
Vic instincts. Perhaps it may prove
helpful to others who like to fashion
pretty things.
This girl wanted dressing table to fill
up an ugly space in her bedroom, SO she
put on her thinking cap and the graceful
conceit illustrated was the result.
To make it, she first did what other girls
have done before her-took packing box
and covered it smoothly with a worn
sheet. Over this she gathered valance
of dotted white muslin which sells for 10
cents a yard and often less. This dotted
muslin was one of the pecul1arities. 1t is
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of these dried leaves to perfume closets
and drawers would readily sell in cities.
The lemon verbena is another plant OF
value. A couple of its leaves, fresh or
dried, dropped into the tea cup just as
/ the hot tea is poured in, adds a delight
| full aromatic taste. These dainty leaves
are largely used in Spain as tonic, and
as sedative in headaches, and in child
ish complaints. Pretty boxes filled with
them might bring in good returns to
some thrifty countrywoman, and become
/ the fashion at modern teas.
However, the large returns must come
from large plantations and farms where
crops of flowers ana herbs-the sweet,
the aromatic and the homely bitter native
growths of our hills and meadows-are
/ planted, cultivated, gathered, dried,
packed and shipped to fill orders from
druggists, perfumers and fine soap man
ufacturers. No detail of the work, ex-
cepting perhaps the preparation OF the
ground with the plough, is too hard or
too constant 10 be performed wholly by
women, and for the most part it is dainty,
light, easy and agreeable.
A few statistics as to imports into the
United States of the herbs and flowers
which might be raised by women here are
given. They are a few of many gathered
with infinite labor and the kindly aid of
United States officials in New York, Bos-
ION ana WasnlnSVon' Inc HSures are lof
1891:
Rose leaves, Sc. s66; jasmine, 81 .SS6;
lavender, S102. $3.50; rosemary, S33, 345;
thyme, $50, $40; orange flowers, S53, 9S3;
bay leaves essence and OILY 81, 1917.
OF dried flowers, roots and barks used
by our perfume and soap makers, officials
say it is well nigh impossible to get full
accounts, one firm alone using ten tons of
dried flowers yearly.
Nor does the list above bear any refer
ence to the millions of bottles and pre-
partitions for the toilet or family use, the
choice soaps and perfumes imported from
Europe; as yet the French, European,
and Asiatic perfumers and soap makers
stand unrivalled.
Professor Langley will not long hence
have one National Botanic garden at
Washingt on in good order. He will have
what is now only to be foudd in one place
in the world-at the Garden of Plants in
Paris-alI the plants, shrubs, trees and
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he received his first education-to read,
write and count. Until the time
came for him to enter the Iycee
he had never known but one
teacher-his mather, Madame Daudeb.
''Then my time came. With him l re-
newed my studies. Never night did
go to sleep without first having heard
Lucien recite all his lessons. At school
he had a professor, and at home second
master who was the real one. This work
for father is wearisome-but what a
recompense to see the little brain expand,
the little man develop.
"All for the moral as well as the in
tellectual education you must preach
from example. Look and see what be-
comes of the children of families not
united. Look what becomes of the sons
of many fathers, of the daughters of
many mathers whose conduct is not above
reproach.
s'But, Mr.. Daudet," said I, s.there is
a moral education to be given aside from
example. fave your children been edu-
Gated religiously-or have you omitted
the religion?''
81 have given it-religiously, an
swered the novelist. ''My wife and l
are Catholics, and we have brought up
our children in the Catholic faith. AS
men, they are left free to believe or dis
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odorous blossoms. Flowers there are re-
garded as property, they represent a
business, - and stand for an income.
Now there can be no doubt at all that
the great variety OF soil and climate in
the United States opens to women and
even girls the pleasureabie French way of
making money; and joined to it might be
the culture of herbs and seeds used in
kitchens, and in the preparing of candies
and sweet-m meats. and in the compound
ing of medicines: over 800 different kinds
are in demand by chemists and pharma-
cists.
The business would not be wholly an
untried experiment. here. For instance,
four miles out of Boston there is a profit
able herb farm. 1t is situated in that
strip of rich soil extending from Airing
ton up towards Worcester. called forty
odd years ago, so old people tell me, "the
New Jersey of Massachusetts, - on ac-
count of the quantities of peaches raised
there. This herb farm has brought good
steady profits to its owners for three gen
erations.
In answer to my own fnquiries, the
United States department of agricultural
states that it holds the opinion that some
thing might be done in our country by
raising flowers for perfumes and soap
makers.
1t suggests Oregon and Washington as
suitable climate for flower farms; also
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that orange blossoms, jasanl nes, roses
geraniums and acacias could be grown
south, where broad acres lying waste
since the war might be converted into
paradises OF bloom.
The famous rose gardens of Bancroft,
the historian, prove that parts OF Rhode
Island would grow roses abundently.
All down the Atlantic coast in favored
localities, spring flowers could be raised
for the city flower markets, as is done at
Lands End, England, where crocuses,
jonouils, narcissus, daffodils and hya-
cinths are grown and sent daily to Lon :
don, the short and early crop proving the
most profitable.
There are seven perfect perfume flowers
demanded and used by perfumers and
soap makers: Orange, rose. jasmine.
violet, acacia, tube rose and layendar.
Added to these are many other favorites
important to those manufacturers, such
as mignonette, night blooming cereus,
magnolia, besides thyme bergamont and
bay leaves, and there are woods and banks
like sandal, aloe, fir, cedar, cinnamon
cascarilba.
Druggists demand many of our familiar
herbs, seeds and roots-peppermint,
anise, coreander and caraway, rosemary
chamomile, sage, mustard and sarsapa-
rilla-all used in compromising medicines
and essences or sold in packages.
Some plants are probably grown in
France for their sweet-scented leaves. A
skillful French chemist has succeeded in
producing perfect imitation of the cost
~ oriental altar of roses. The French
altar can be distinguished from the real
only by experts, and it sells at very
high price. Into its composition, instead
OF rose leaves, the foliage leaves of rose
geranium enter largely.
Other fine and high priced Installations
are made from peppermint, thyme and
lavender grown in Surrey, England.
A few peppermint farms in western New
York, said to be the only ones in the
United States with the exception of one or
two in Michigan, bring in large revenues
to their owners. But there are obstacles
to the general growing of peppermint
crops. The plant requires a rich, moist
soil, and peculiar conditions. Where it
can be raised it proves a good staple.
Three thousand one hundred and forty
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believe in this faith in which they have
been reared. 1t will then be a
question OF temperament, or personal
Judgment. But they will at any rate
know what they are rejecting and why
they are rejecting it. Like most ply
sicians,'5 observed Mr.. Daudet, "my son
Leon believes in nothing.''
''And the younger ones?''
sob, as yet his brother is only four
teen and has plenty OF time to form his
religious opinions. AS to my daughter.
my little Edmee, my little girl, added
NJ. Daudet with smile, ''she finds the
sacred history which she is learning from
her mother very interesting. She was
telling me the other day the story OF the
paradise lost, the Garden of Eden, and
can hear her yef, when she came to the
story of the apple, saying in that little
way of hers, and when the bon Dieu
knew that, there was an affair." -
In the house at Champrosay, on the
sleepy Seine, M. Daudet and his wife and
the family lead quiet life, living in the
gardens and on the lawns and on the
river, and taking time to look at human
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THE STRIKING FACTS.

paper before making a selection, be the
paper for what room it may.
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herbs used in the manufacturers arts
and sciences; each growing in its own
group and labelled with its own peculiar
colored label.
Professor Langley viii also publish
complete lists of such plants, and the
localities where they can be grown in the
United States, for the guidance and profit
OF our farmers and florists.
With this information I offer my sug
gesticn OF "FIowers and Herb Farms" TO
the women of our country.
MARY B. Garrett.
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His Views on the Rearing of Children
How the Household Lives at
Rustic Champrosay.


How the Household Lives at
Rustic Champrosay
Correspondence Of The HERALD
PARIS, April 2.-The French novelist
the other Gay expressed some very
Interesting opinions on the subject
Of the new novel, Family Life, -
which he is soon to bring out. During
the conversation he described some of
the methods he had followed in the
Draining Of his own children, especially
with his Oldest son, who is now launched
in active life as a physician, with a little
family of his own He married the grand
daughter Of Victor Hugo.
II have been studying the younger
generation, Daudet said; 'sthis gem
eration which is just embarking. There
seems to be no gaiety in them. They
enter life their hearts dry, their souls
closed to all generous ideas, to tender
Eesss, and to all the Illusions and ideals
that charm. / know them well. My
eldest son Leon is their age, and though
he is not one of them, he elbows them at
every step, and through him l see them
and judge them.
Injudging them pity them. Are they
responsible after ali? The fathers that
have misunderstood their duties toward
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like Zola, who work every day fixed
number OF hours.'' JESSIE LEACH.
FLOWER AND HERB FARMS.
What We Pay for a Few Pounds of For
eign Grown Leaves.

What We Pay for Few Pounds of For
eign Grown Leaves.
In the south of France large tracts OF
land are devoted to the raising of flowers.
Some of the products are sent as fresh cut
flowers to Paris and other cities, but the
bulk of the blossoms are bought by the
makers of perfumes, cologne, aromatic
essences, rose and lavender waters, and
the soaps and toilet articles for which the
French are famous.
Villagers and tourists walk freely
among the paths aud lovely lanes of these
flower farms, but nobody tears down a
vine or bush to gather some superb rose,
rising queenly and perfect on it's stem
amid the court of glossy, green leaves; no
one mutilates sprays to gather the tossing
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Among all the beautiful papers and TIE
costly fabrics, there are some few facts
that are apparent before all else. Green
in all it's lines, from the tenderest shade
known to opening buds to the richest,
deepest olive. will be the vogue.
Gilt is little used except in ceilings.
Dados are no longer considered ''the
thing' for bedrooms, rawing-rooms or
sitting rooms.
The heavy or deep frieZe has disappeared
from walls that are hung with either
tapestry or gobelin papers.
With all the lovely fresh papers de-
signed for bedroom or boudoir, are gold
cretonnes, or silkolines, for draperies,
woven in harmonizing colors and designs.
WHERE DADos ARE USED.
For libraries, dining-rooms and halls
are shown dados that are simply splendid
in effect, and for the walls above there
are hangings of genuine artistic worth.
Both incrusta- walton and a heavy
three-ply raised paper are excellent as
dados; they are made in patterns espec-
tally suited to that use.
The Hncrusta- walton is pasted to the
walls with composition of raw linseed
oil, plaster of paris, glue and water.
The paste is always applied hot. Full
directions accompanying each roll.
One of the chief merits of this papering
is that it can be cleansed with soap and
water or turpentine; it will stand this
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odorous blossoms. Flowers there are re-
garded as property, " they represent a
"business. ,, and stand for an income.
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PRICE: FIVE CENTs

was all that the most fastidious of maid
ems could wish for bedroom corner.
1 must not forget to mention that the
edges of the muslin frills were cut into
tiny scaDops and buttonholed around in
white cotton, but as this is not & small
task a simple hem would serve.
MARIE JoUREAUs
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THE SPRING WALL PAPERS.

Excessive Beauty Their Only Fauit-whers
Dados and Friezes May Be Used.
There are ''spring fashions in wall
paper as in gowns, and it is absolutely
true that the fundamental laws that IN
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-03-25
KILLED BY AN ELECTRIC WIRE.
George Hughes Meets Almost Instant
Death at the Power-House.

George Hughes. whito man about ~
years Of age. who was employed at the
electric pOwe--hOuse on Johnsons
Island. at the foot Of Free Bridge, net an
almost instant death this morning about z
o'clock by accidentally touching ono OF
the wires connected with a dynamo.
The deceased at the time of the accident
was engaged in oiling the machinery. ana
in some manner his can touched the dead
IL conductor. transmitted the shock, and
caused him 10 fall senselcss to the floor.
Several of the operatives ran to Hughes's as-
sIstancc rs soon as they perceived wha; had
happened and removed him from the spot
He wasimmedlately stripped Of his clothing
and strenuous efforts were made 90 revive
the vital spark but IL was too late. Mean
while DR.. Hugh Taylor and another phys'-
clan were tclephoned for. and although
they arrived about twenty minutes after
the catastrophe they could do nothing TOR
the man wa dead-or Just about 10 expire
when they reached the plant. Musk and
camphor were injected and artificial re-
spiration was attempted by the doctors but
their efforts were useless.
The wire which hughes tonched wes
charged with 1000 volts. and the dynamo
to which it was attached was used for
supplying electric lights. Although the
deceased must have received n tremen-
dous shock. there were no marks upon
his hands or body 10 indicate what had
happened. At the point where he Is sup
posed 20 have brushed up against the wire
there Is q slight mark which looks rs il 1t
might have been caused by melted wax or
grease.
The operatives atthe power house rather
exhibited reticence about relating the
circumstances Of the accident TO the re-
porter. but Mr.. TrafIord, the superinten-
dent. who was summoned 10 scene. fur
nished what information he could about
the matter.
Hughes resided on Oregon Hill some
where near the pcnItentlary aud over .
drugstore" as one of his friends expressed
1t. Beyond this but little information
could be obtained about the deceased, and
the DISPATCH representative was unable TO
learn whether the family Of the unfOrtI-
nate man had been Informed Of his fgto.
Hughes was said to nave been unmarried.
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and head often severe headaches would
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hours.
"Nes. 7 had several pLys.c.aus. but thoy
all said no help was possible.
- was IN despair until ! took DR..
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b. the time had taken the first bottle
found that had been greatly benefited.
continued its usa and have now resaiuod
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And She looked It, for she Is picture Of
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By the by. dld You ever hosr Of 4 failure
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sick use IL. for It VIII curc y0u. Especially
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wear, ~ "A spring medicine - absolutely
necessary % the maintenance ~ good
health, and doctors recommend thia as the
best srring medicine. for 10 Wlll surely lu-
yigoratc the blood, strengthen the nerves.
and restore the organs 60 natural ant
healthy action. You can get It OF any
DRUGGIST for 81. and We Know u - purely
vegetable and harmless. Besides yOu can
consult Dr. Greene free of charge conceIn-
ing your case at any time, personally OF by
letter.