Omaha daily bee., 1894-02-11

with gold. laid over them. On tho bolting
cloth were daintily painted such exquisite
subjects as Aurora, in her airy drBpeiy,
cooling the wings OF Love, THE Opening
Flower. - "Wooing,' Little Thief" ana the
like. These designs are susceptible OF
home adaptation to one at all skillful with
the brush.
Booklets are very popular and are shown
in great varieties. all being characterized by
delicacy Of c%oloring and the beauty of verses
selected.
And always a most acceptable valentine
may 90 from the florist.
A well known s]tationer is authority for
the statement that valentines as such are
less used than formerly, the tendency Of
late years being to select some little gift
that Will serve the purpose and be useful as
well. Accordingly designers have set their
wits to work and evolved all sorts OF odd,
pretty novelties to suit the occasion.
One OF the most ingenious is a calendar,
heart-shaped, of fine, soft leather. In the
center is an oblong opening for n thermome-
ter. and Just above II a smaller one for the
year 1894. On the left side. a heart-shaped
opening discloses the day Of the week, and
on the right, the name of the month. Be
low the thermometer Is the space for the
date. The calendar is partially supported
by q brass arrow on either side, which runs
through the heart near the top.
They are, Of course, all set for February
II, and the full significance of the design is,
as the dealer explained, that, though the
heart Of the purchaser is as tough as
leather, cupid's arrows have pierced It.
A dainty trife, suitable for either sex, Is
a jewel bag or watch case OF delicate pink
satin. The shape is that of one heart over
tapping another, and In front the outline of
each is indicated by "A border of daintily
painted forget-me-nots. On either side is a
graceful spray of the same Hover, and in
the center the words, The Seasons Greet
inng ~ To ihn hlplF ig ntt1phnI "a G1frpa1
satin pocket with ribbons to hang up by.
Father Then of Wichita was in town a
day or two ago and told the following story,
says the Kansas City Times:
You never heard of the time / married a
couple before they knew it? Well, soon
after | was made a priest | was engaged to
perform a marriage ceremony. 1t was to be
a swell wedding. l arrived at the house
rather early, according to request, and was
taken up stairs at once. There l laid aside
my hat and overcoat, and then the brides
mother knocked at the door and said her
daughter wished to see me. OF course, |
obeyed the m but was surprised to
learn that the couple wanted the marriage
ceremony performed in an upstairs room
Immediately. l thought it was very queer,
but went through the ceremony, and mar
ried them fast and sure right there. When
the ceremony was over, the bride said:
Now, we will go down into the parlor and
be married.
but you are married already l ex-
claimed. L can't go through the ceremony
again.
"And then / learned that all they wanted
was to practice the ceremony, so as to
go through it properly when in the midst OF
their friends. But there was no help for it.
Married they were, and | couldn't repeat
the which with us is a sacra-
ment."
The child is the most important object
upon earth for our consideration. His
health. his nurture, his training, his de-
v%elopment are far more worthy of our re-
gard than anything else. Yet l am quite
positive that all will agree with me that
there Is less known about the child and
less attention given to his care than to any
thing else, writes Prof. Oscar Chrisman in
the February Forum. In order to make 1t
possible that the parent, the teacher, the
physician, the minister, the merchant, may
know how to treat the child 1t is necessary
that the child be studied, analyzed-cata-
logued, one might say. 1t seems to me
that the best way to do this is to train
young men and young women in our colleges
and schools in the study OF the child, ana SO
send out a number of people into the various
walks of life who can get into the life or
the child. IL this study is scientifically and
properly carried on there is no doubt in my
mind but that 1t will revolutionize all the
present methods of approach to the chlld.
| predict that some OF my readers VIII i've
long enough to wonder how it was possible
for colleges and universities to have existed
so long, and to have differentiated so many
departments of study and yet to nave
waited almost till the beginning of the
twentieth century to create a department
of study which is-shall l W more
than all the others put together? They will
live to see the day when the science or the
child will have taught the world more in
fifty years about the child than the world
learned during the preceding 5000 years.
A vounp woman. Miss Fay Fuller OF Ia
coma, a daughter of an editor OF that city,
has recently accomplished the perilous feat
of climbing Mount Tacoma, Americas most
difficult peak. 1t is a grim old nil, tower
ing IA, 444 heat high, with glaciers extending
far up it's base.
1t took four days to manage the first 1000
feet Of ascent over dangerous streams and
through dense forests, although the party,
consisting of three gentlemen and a guide,
besides Miss Fuller, was on horseback.
After that they proceeded on foot, as the
way was too rough and wild for horses. Al
II, 900 feet the wind blew a hurricane. Gre
vases big enough to drop a house into were
crossed.
The summit, when reached, was found
to be about two miles across.
Standing on the top. says the San
Francisco Chronicle, the adventurous
climbers could see below them two large
craterS, looking like immense DoWlS, with
a central, common rim. The big crater was
three-fourths of a mile across. Both were
filed with snow and ice, with the rim
around the bare rocks rising in places sixty
feet. The steam kept the rocks bare. Com
ing down from the summit, where they
could hardly stand, because Of the fierce
wind, they took shelter in the crater and
examined the steam Jets. These looked
like a row of boiling teakettles along the
ridge. The party sat on the rocks and were
soon damp with the moisture and parboiled
by the heat, and it was obligatory, as ever,
to move on again.
The party passed the night on the sum
nit before beginning the descent, which
was more perilous than the upward climb.
or this night spent in the shelter Of the big
crater Miss Fuller says: 1.-TWO blankets
over us seemed little protection. Through
the small opening in the cave we could
watch the stars and meteors and hear the
awful avalanches roaring down the noun
tain sides. | was the only one who could
sleep. When we woke our shoes were frozen
stiff and had to be thawed out in the steam.
The blankets were ICY"
Miss Fuller is the first woman to attempt
this feat, and few men have cared to risk
it; Of these few still fewer have accom-
plished 1t.
Fashion Notes.
Crepes of every sort are promised a very
successful season.