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ciples down there on Eighth street, near
Bryant, and those sewing-classes are one
of the most interesting features of the
special work being done in the public
schools. A comprehensive exhibition of
the sewing work done there, with accom-
panying statistics and other information,
would excite interest among educators
anywhere.
Sewing is slowly being added to the
work of some other Schools but it is not as
extensive as cooking, though it may be-
come so. The first sewing, as well as the
first cooking, in the public schools, was
done in the Franklin Grammar School
nearly three years ago, as result OF the
efforts and ideas of Principal James Ct.
Kennedy, who believes in practical educa-
ton as well as in culture. 1t was largely
the success of Mr.. Kennedy's experiment
that led to extending the work to other
schools along with the other features of the
manual training work that is steadily
growing. In only one other school has
there yet been employed special teacher
of sewing.
A visit to the Franklin Grammar School
would remove any ones doubts as to the
prJpriety or teaching girls in school how
to use needles as well as fractions The
location of the school in community OF
working people ADDS 10 the interest Inc
instruction is given by Mrs. Kennedy, the
principals wife, who is employed as a spe-
cial teacher of sewing. She is a cultured
lady, who has had several years successful
experience as a regular teacher, and these
qualifications have been very important
factors in her success with the sewing
classes. Such a teacher should be much
more than an expert needlewoman.
A large, light, neat classroom is devoted
to the sewing. Thirty-fve low chairs sur
round number of low tables. The black
boards are used to illustrate every variety
of stitch, the way to cut patterns, ways to
do patching, how garments should hang,
decorative ideas, etc. There is one sewing
machine but it is little used. There is a
good supply of needles, thread, scissors,
tapes and other working materials. The
instruction is given now to the first four
grammar grades. and in the two higher
grades attention is devoted to cooking.
Each girl spends about three-quarters of
an hour in the sewing-rOom twice week,
the different classes going to the sewing
room by turn, and Mrs. Kennedy has sew
eral different classes before her each day.
The course has been extended to cover
three years of school work, so that with
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work began 1873 garments have been made.
Most of Franklin School girls must soon
go to earning a living. Since the sewing
class was started eight of the girls have
had to quit school and go to sewing. Dress
makers require of apprentices six months
service without wages, and tailors and mill
liners will pay girl nothing, as rule, for
a good while. Of five of the girls who
went to work at once for dressmakers but
one had to work two weeks without re-
ceiving wages, so delighted were their en-
ployers with their unexpected skill with
the needle. Two, who went into millin-
ery-shop, got wages at once. One, who
went into tailor-shop, was paid after the
first month.
Some time ago Principal Kennedy adj
dressed 800 letters to mothers, asking if
the instruction in sewing had been of
assistance to their daughters in the per-
Torrance of household duties; if it had
developed habits of neatness and order in
them, and if the mothers addressed fav-
ored teaching sewing in the public schools.
But one negative reply was received to any
question. Every reply testified to the APP
probation of the mothers. Some wrote
that the work made their daughters neat
and orderly; others that it made them
helpful at home; that they had no time to
teach their daughters themselves ;'that the
girls took more interest in sewing at school
than at home, etc.
The value of this educational work in
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WEBSTER ON POTATOES.
A Lecture to a Party of Travelling Com
panions.

A Lecture to a Party of Travelling Com
panions.
1t was in the year 1S49, the year of the
gold fever, that l was on train returning
to Philadelphia from Harrisburg, Pa, and
Daniel Webster was in the same car.
Every one on board not only felt the influ-
ence of Webster's overpowering person.
atty but the majesty of his thoughtful
look and speech, as well as that grandeur
of simplicity in the familiar ease shown
toward some plan but intelligent farmers
whom he was entertaining, while they at
tentively listened to his agreeable talk
upon the subject of the simple and unam-
bilious potato Others upon the train
hearing of Mr. Webster's presence on
r board, before his talk was over he had an
audience of nearly a carful of people. Said
one of the farmers from Lancaster: "Have
YOU noticed how the Meshanocks and the
MERGERS are losing their foothold and be-
coming shockingly bad and tasteless ?
They are not dry and mealy, as they were
a few seasons ago. | believe they are run
ming out" Then some one remarked that
it was almost time for new varieties to
appear.
hand in the talk, apologetically excusing
himself, and told his listeners how he had
worked upon his fathers farm in his
youth, ana also upon his own at Franklin,
n. H., and he had had some experience
with the potato; knew something about it,
although perhaps not enough to hurt, but
he considered himself the better from hav-
ing had some agricultural experience.
Having gained their attention, he now
launched into pleasant little potato his
tory and held their interest in the subject
until the end. Mr. Webster went back to
the remote times of the close of the fifteenth
century. when the potato was scrub
plant and the crew of the Pinta, with
Columbus, had landed upon the Western
continent, and found comfort in it as an
article of food; how it was afterward
carried to Europe by the Spaniards and
cultivated with the tomato, merely as
a garden curiosity; how Sir Francis
Drake, Hawkins and Raleigh in 1888 trans
planted it in Ireland and England, all the
time undertaking its merit, and how
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ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.
The Cost Held to Be Small One Com
parative1y.


parative1y.
The naval point of view which Mr.
Clements Markham took in his address at
the Royal United Service Institution re-
viewed an Antarctic expedition under
three of its aspects. The first was with
regard to its naval history, from which it
appeared that every adventure into the
frozen south has been taken under the
auspices of our navy; the second, with re-
gard to its effect on the service; and the
third, with regard to its expense. Its his
tory is thrilling and worthy of the best
naval traditions, and some of the adven-
lures of Sir John Ross with the Erebus
and the Terror might have inspired a
Stevenson TO give us something as memoir
able as his account of the great gale at
Samoa, says the London Graphic.
The advantages to the service are best
summed up in Mr. Markham's own words.
AN Antarctic expedition" he said, "ls,
then, a training squadron of great value to
the navy; a training squadron with double
pay and promotion and openings for gain
ing credit and distinction. 1t will supply
training in all those qualities which are
most valuable in time of war, while en-
couraging a spirit of enterprise and stimu-
lating zeal Tor the credit of the navy and OF
the country.
LAS AnsOn'S CircumnavigatOrs became
the foremost naval commanders during the
Seven Years War, so we may expect our
future Antarctic navigators TO return to the
regular service invigorated by new expert
ences and fresh energy, and more ready than
ever for anything that may befall." Mr..
Markham was sanguine on the score of
expense. AT the most it would cost
800, O00-the cost of two ships like the Alert
and Discovery-and as q matter of fact we
should have two serviceable ships for use
elsewhere when the expedition came to an
end. For instance, in the cases of the
Alert and Discovery, the Arctic expedition
in which they assisted had the use of them
only for eighteen months.
But since then the Alert has been in
constant use, doing valuable service in Ma
gellan Strait, in Hudson Bay and else
where during the following twenty years.
The Discovery has been necessarily used
for dockyard work during the same period
and is still in use. Consequently
the expedition ought only TO be charged
with about a twentieth of the EGO 600, or
1850, divided over three years in the case
OF an Antarctic exped ition, or 1850 a year
for the ships. The same applies to scien-
titic apparatus of all kinds. II is mislead-
ing to charge the whole cost to the expedi
ton; the estimate should only be for the
wear and tear during three years. When
the estimate is fairly and honestly pre-
pared, it will be found that the real cost is
about 600 900 a year-a mere trifle COM
pared with the great value of the scientific
results, and with the other benefits to the
navy and to the nation, that will be de-
rived from the Antarctic expedition"
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HOW WOMEN LUNCH
When They Are Downtown on Shop
ping Excursions.

When They Are Downtown on Shop
ping Excursions.
81 suppose no man ought to complain Of
that which puts money in his pocket" re-
marked well-known doctor 10 me the
other day, 'and therefore it is not a matter
that am going to move heaven and earth
to reform, but at the same time l don't
mind giving anybody the benefit of my
opinion that the lunch parlors that have
sprung up in the shopping districts have
been productive of much dyspepsia among
women, especially that class whom might
call chronic shoppers But that such is
the case is, of course, purely the fault of
the women themselves, who persist IN
gorging themselves on pies and cakes and
meringues and creams and puts, and all
manner of connections that are prepared
with an eye single to their capacity for
tickling the palate, without regard 10
their digestive qualities.
at is fact which has brought many
dollars to my pocket that when 1t comes to
ordering what they call light lunch most
women will order the very things that
they ought most to avoid. Instead of the
plain and wholesome they VIII choose the
variegated and bilious. 1hey are much
worse sinners than men In this respect.
Where a man would take ham or tongue
sandwich, a woman, nine times out of ten,
would select by way of starter, cream
nnff or a tart. or some indigestible COM
pound with 'highfalutin' name. Though
at home they feed with some regard to the
eternal fitness of things, when on these
luncheon orgies, as | call them, women
seem to abandon themselves to reckless
desire to crafty their tastes, utterly re-
CARELESS of the pains and penalties which
It entails on their stomachs. Everything
goes-sweet and sour viands, hot ana cold
fluids, light and solid compounds, without
any regard to natural order and precedence.
"There is something coming, too, that is
going to make matters worse. That is the
rapid transit lunch,' for women in the
shopping district as we have it in the
downtown business districts for men.
Then when women have simply to stretch
out their hands to get whatever tempts
their appetites most, and in an at
mosphere where fast feeding is conta-
gious, many will soon fall to wonder
ing what makes them so cross and ir-
ritable, and their husbands will be racking
their brains for excuses for stavine out
late more frequently. But as a doctor with
a keen appreciation of the good things
that money will buy, the prospect is one
that can at least regard with philosophi-
cal resignation. New York Herald.
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hutton. Before the work was begun many
of the girls would come to school with torn
and dirty clothes, buttons off shoes and a
careless appearance, or would dress nicely
with no display of taste. Now every girl
in the school looks neat and bright, wears
an apron she made herself and would be
ashamed of a rent or missing button
The influence of the sewing classes has
been felt in the homes of the children in
many ways, practically and morally
Every idea gathered and every bit OF skill
acquired will be of constant use through
life, and many homes and lives will be
substantially bettered.
During the first six months of the pres
ent school year, besides all the purely
practice work done, there were worked IN
the classes 1900 button-holes, 446 stockings
brought from home were darned, and there
We're made 100 undergarments, So aprons
SO handkerchiefs, 80 stocking bags, 6wrap-
pers, petticoats, 8 suits, dress skirts, s
tides and lot of pillow-shams, cushions,
splashers. doll dresses. etc. Since the
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the two years of cooking the Franklin
Grammar School girls study domestic econ
omy for five years. Some of the classes
will be found doing elementary stitching
and some making dresses.
The little girls learn stitches first, and
there are more kinds of stitches shown in
working drawings and samples of work than
most people have heard of. Basting scraps
together comes first, and the basting the
girls soon do looks too pretty to undo.
Two short stitches and one long one are re-
girls advance to the simple running stitch,
and then on to overcasting, backstitching,
hemstitching, telling, overhanding, button
hole working and all the rest OF the pri-
mary operations of needle. They learn
just how to put in gussets and facings, and
pretty soon they enter the great domain of
mending.
That is where the work soon tells. Mrs.
Kennedy allows no torn or buttopless
clothes among the girls of that school. The
girls mend their own clothes in the class,
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ARE THE SENSES IDENTICAL ?
1t Is Claimed That the Power to Taste
and Smell Have the Same Source.

1t Is Claimed That the ROVER to taste
and Smell Have the Same Source.
The man who smoked in the dark one
night and discovered that when he couldn't
see the smoke all the pleasure of burning
tobacco was lost is not more remarkable
than the individual who has now discov-
cred that the senses of taste and of smell
are identical. This gentleman advances
the theory that the sense of taste depends
upon the number of minute tentacles
which constitute the surface of the tongue
and he says that some men have three
times as many of these as others. The
latter never become gourmands, and their
sense of smell is, says the observer, de-
ficient.
In proof of these assertions it is said that
when you have bad cold you almost lose
both these senses; that you can neither de-
teCt delicate odOrs, like that of perfume
otherwise so noticeable, nor identify the
favors of different kinds of food and
drinks. The smoker who has a severe cold
finds that his cigar or cigarette yields but
little pleasure and ne finds that his glass
of claret or champagne at dinner is almost
as fiat to the taste as so much water.
BGllat-Savarin. who lifted cooking from
the kitchen to the library and made gas
tronomy a fine art, said that of all the
senses in their natural state taste procures
us the greatest number Of enjoyments.
For this he gives six reasons, as follows:
Because the pleasure of eating, taken in
moderation, is the only one that is not
followed by fatigue.
Because it is common to every age, time
and condition.
Because it must return once at least
every day, and may during that space of
time be easily repeated two or three times.
Because it can combine with all our
other pleasures and even console US for
their absence.
Because it's sensations are at once more
lasting than others and more subject to our
will.
Because we have a certain special but in
defnable satisfaction, arising from the in
stinctive knowledge that, by the very act
Of eating, we are making good our losses
and prolonging our existence.
These are the reasons advanced by this
eminent writer to prove that taste is the
most important of the senses. He was also
one OF the first to suspect the identity of
the senses of taste and smell, and he said
that OF two guests seated at the same ban
quet one may have delicious sensations
while the other seems to eat only because
compelled, the reason being that the latter
has tongue and nostrils only poorly fur
nished for enjoyment. 1t is thus that the
empire of taste has its blind men and its
deaf.-New York World.
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long a while it took to awaken within the
public mind a knowledge of its worth;
how finally confession was extorted from
European high authority that the potato
and Indian corn were the two greatest
blessings America ever gave to the world;
how, notwithstanding all this, they were
still used as food for cattle and horses,
though in a pinch it was thought they
might help bridge over a starving people
who had met with failure in the crop of
cereals.
Mr.. Webster related that even in Wash
ingtons day the Father of his Country
had proclaimed loudly against the vile
land vulgar horse food, as he called it,
known then and now as corn meal, and
which was not considered good enough for
the soldier. Mr.. Webster spoke of the
German and French people, who wouldn't
eat either of these articles of food; that
when Antoine Parmentier, philan-
thropist, had helped on and improved
their cultivation and urged their daily use,
Johnny Crapaud would not listen to him.
Finally the Government felt the need OF
aiding, this business, and the geendarmes
were placed around the potato field, plentl-
fully planted with them, as if to guard
highly precious commodity, and Louis
XIV ordered the potato blossom to be
worn by the ladies of the court. This done
the tide turned in favor of the poor, perse-
cuted potato, and unGer the loftler name
of pOmme de terre it came out OF the lire
of opposition cooked, as it is now said to
be by the French cuisine in some 800 diff
ferent ways. BY this compulsory recog-
milton it now holds an honored place upon
the table, an indispensable adjunct. In
terrupted occasionally, but respectfully,
however, by some questions his hearers
now and then put to him, Mr.. Webster
cheerfully continued his potato talk for
I. - III
help to lessening the monotony of the trip,
can assure you.-Baltimore American.
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HOW SHE GOT THE PIN.
The Story of a Second Husband and
Tailor.


Tailor.
ooh, what perfectly adorable diamond
pin!" cried the young woman with the
violet bonnet.
Eyes, and my husband gave it to me of
his own accord, replied the young woman
with the black silk gown.
"You mean he thought he did"
81 mean nothing of the kind. I'll die
if don't tell somebody and it might just
as well be you as anybody else; but don't
tell your husband"
81 won't. I'll let him think your hus-
band gave it to you out of pure generos-
ity-he hates to have anybody get ahead
of him."
81 know. Well, my new gown came home
a ruin, an absolute wreck, and, to tell the
truth, took most OF my rage out on An
tOnius, because | wasn't afraid of him, and
L was of her. a day or two later his new
suit came home from the tailor. 1t was a
perfect fit, except that the coat sleeves
were half an inch or so too long. | told
him that it didn't really matter much, for
they could easily be shortened. He replied
that he wasn't afraid of his tailor if l was
of my dressmaker."
'Humph He would be if his tailor was
woman
"M'hm. He said he would go right
down and give him piece OF his mind
that he'd tell him he wasn't fit to make
pair of bicycle boomers, Indeed, he used
such awful language that I was really
alarmed. That made him more ferociouS
yet. and 1 trembled for the consequences. -
ooh, well, you know it takes nine tailors
to make man."
$50 Antonius remarked. l tried to calm
him by reminding him that the poor man
was probably a weak, nervous creature,
with large family depending upon him,
but he refused to listen and rushed off
downtown"
Then he sent messenger with the coat
and polite note saying the sleeves were
too long"
Nothing of the kind. He came back in
a cab an hour or so later with his overcoat
torn, piece of court plaster on his cheek,
and, oh, such an eye!"
How cross he must have beenW
ooh, not as much so as you might mag
inc. didn't lose my presence of mind. I
just cried out:
:" 'Antonius Bittersweet, 1 hope you
didn't quite kill that poor tailor?'
And he got you the pin the first day his
eye was fit for him to go out? Well I'm
sure you are a remarkable woman"
"Oh, well, not as remarkable as you
might think, " modestly replied the young
woman with the black silk gown. "You
must remember that Antonius is my Sec
ond husband. Chicago Tribune.
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and bring all sorts of mending from home.
They are especially encouraged to bring to
school any hard jobs of repairing, such as
a mothers torn silk dress or a torn lace
curtain. The girls learn to put on patches
that can hardly be seen, and to darn rents
with exquisite dizziness. Stocking-darning
is made of special importance, and they do
work that few of their grandmothers could
match.
From repairing the girls go to making
undergarments and then handkerchiefs,
aprons and almost everything made of
cloth belonging to home, and they learn
how to cut them and make them well and
pretty. Finally dresses are reached, and
most of the dresses that the girls now
wear were made by themselves. So far
they have been taught only how to select
patterns and cut from them, but system
of dress-cutting will soon be taught. There
is plenty of material to work on besides
scraps of goods, for the girls bring from
home every kind of material to make up.
Names of materials are among the many
things taught constantly besides the work
with the needle. From the first day every
scrap and piece of goods is named, studied
and criticized, and now most OF the Frank
lin School girls are experts on cloths. They
learn where the different kinds of cloth
come from and how they are made.
They can tell just how much cotton,
wool, silk or linen is in a sample. just
about what it ought to cost, how likely 1t
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TO SING It IN SCHOOLS
The Golden Corn" a New
National Song, May Be
Introduced.
AS SUNG IN EASTERN CITIES
School Directors Interested in
Placing 1t Before the
Children.

The Board of Education will be asked at
its next meeting to introduce into the
schools new national song, The Golden
Corn" which has been sung for some time
past in the public schools of Boston and
New York. Some members of the board
have heard the song and are highly pleased
with the proposition to have the school
children sing it and make them familiar
with the national emblem, and some in
fuential ladies interested in it have
received assurances Of support from those
directors.
When the national convention composed
of members of Congress met in Washing
ton the corn was selected above all flowers
and plants as the emblem of America.
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Begged a Thousand Pardons.

a charming young woman, who lives on
the West Side, and her young man found
the Summit-street cars packed to the doors
last Friday evening when they started
home from the Auditorium. NOTHING
daunted, Miss West Side sought a place
upon the step of the platform. She had
barely room for one foot, and, as the car
lurched and heeled, she chung to Charley
big, strong hand. Occasionally, under
cover of the darkness, she squeezed it ten
derby, because-well. because she and Char
ley are engaged. And so she held on to
the hand for many blocks.
Charley" said she, aren't you about
worn out holding me on the car with your
one, poor, tired hand?''
"What?" cried Charley, in Mortified
tone.
Mademoiselle looked up and then dropped
the hand frantically. She had been hold
ing to and squeezing the hand of an entire
stranger, young fellow with black mus
tache and pleasing eye.
i beg q, thousand pardonsp' gasped
mademoiseile.
Don't mention it, replied the stranger.
~ GU were entirely welcome. kansas