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The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
THE SECRET Is OUT.
This Mny Account for Some OF the
Fair Sex Wishing to Keep
Their Hats On.

"Why, Lulu, how nice! Is this youl
seat right next to mine?" cried the
girl in the blue gown. You can slip il
without my getting up, can't you?
seldom come to the matinee, but just
had to see this play, and George is ou1
of town. Wasn't l good? l took of
my hat before anybody asked me!
Luckily there is vacant chair on the
other side of me, and l needn't hold it
for I never before knew how heavy il
is. Shall you take yours OFF,"
''Yes; it isn't very becoming, any
how. Why, Laura, your"
Its very good of you, I'm sure.
didn't mind taking mine off, because
I've such a lovely new way Of doing my
hair. How do you like it?"
'Why, there seems to be something
wrong; it is"
"Perhaps you don't like it, dear
Well, it's all for the best, since. OF
course, you haven't such heavy suit OF
hair as 1. Still. you might wear some
false. OF course, l would never dc
such thing, but"
"But, Laura, your hair is"
''Really too heavy for my head? In.
deed it is-George often says so. Really
1 think you had better keep your hat
on, you have SO little hair, and this the.
ater is full of drafts. You could easily
explain to the usher, you know, if he
said anything"
''Thanlls for the suggestion, but
think ! have quite as much hair as
"As Emmeline? Yes, of course. that
is, nearly as much, anyway. And really
you needn't envy me. My hair is usually
quite weight on my head, though it
seems to press less heavily than usual
to-day"
Il don't envy you at all, dear. In
fact L"
''That is very good of you. Dear me,
how people do look at my hair to-day;
it must be very becoming this way. I
! hope they will not think took off my
hat just to display it. Such an idea
never entered into my head"
Tin quite sure they will not think
| that, dear"
80, no; 1 didn't really think they
would-only, have such a perfect hor-
ror of vanity that-do look at that poor
woman over yonder with her hair done
up in knot the size of an egg. If
I had hair like that I'd wear my hat
in spite of 10000 old laws. What are
you laughing at. Lulu? Something in
the play? Goodness, had quite for
gotten that the actors were on the
stage!'
''They must have been there some
little time, but"
"Mercy, the first act isn't over, is it?
Why, haven't heard a word they were
saying. Let us go out into the lobby
and see if we can't get some caramels.
l suppose we must put our hats on,
though it will disarrange our hair aw-
fully"
Eyes, I think you had better put
yours on and keep it"
Goodness, what on earth is this
hanging from my hate" cried the girl
in the blue gown, as she took up that
article from the chair upon which she
had deposited it.
''It is all your back hair, dear" sweet
ly replied the girl in the tan coat. "Your
hatpins must have pulled it off with the
hat. I've been trying to tell you, but
couldn't get a chance!"- -Chicag go Times
IJoro11
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
HAVE THE KITCHEN SMALL.
1t Is Certainly More Convenient and
the Housewives Work Is
Made Much Easier.

BY all means have a small kitchen.
A large kitchen, with a cellar door at
one side, table at another, a range
at another, and sink at still another,
requires too much walking. Time is
consumed in going from one place to
another rather than with actual work.
Have your range placed in light and
convenient part of the kitchen; in
front have good-sized table, contain
ing drawers and spaces underneath for
keeping utensils, one portion of the
top covered with zinc and the other
half left plain. Have underneath the
top baking board which you can cas-
lily pull out. The sink should be near
at hand. The pantry may be on the
other side of the kitchen, and be suffi-
GENTLY large to hold barrel OF flour, q
small pastry table and convenient ar
rangement of shelves. The floor may
be of hard wood, or it may be covered
with linoleum or oilcloth, or the or
dinary rubber covering. A tile floor
is exceedingly handsome, but rather
hard on the feet, making small rugs or
bits of carpet necessity if comfort is
to be considered.-Mrs. S. T. Rorer, in
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Curious Sight I'm Japan.

In Japan the traveller sees manv
curious sights, one of the strangest of
which is the population washing itself
at the corners cf streets toward even
ing. In 9eddo the citizens frequent
large bathing establishments. Tho
street doors of such resorts stand
open, and striking spectacle. to saw
the least, is presented by the inmates
sitting washing themselves with the
utmost unconcern. This is a general
custom, and nothing whatever is
thought of it. Such an apparent want
Of modesty is difficult to comprehend.
and is not recuncilable with the ad-
vanced state of civilization of the Jan
anese. In many other of their man
ners and customs do the Japs offer
striking antagonism to those accent
ed by u.s.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
"TALkED ABOUT"

The neighbors talked about her nearly
everywhere they met.
They talked about her till she died; they
talk about her yet.
The high and low all spoke of her, as did
the old and young,
And every gossip tossed her name upon her
nimble tongue.
She always kept ADDING things by night
as we'll as day,
To set the tongues a-going in the swiftest
sort of way;
Across the backyard fences and from
kitchen door to door,
AT church and sociable her name was whis-
pered DER and o'er.
Twas she who kissed the baby first and
blest its happy birth;
Twas she who helped TO guide its feet
through all the paths of earth;
Twas she who watched beside the bed
whereon the dying lay,
Twas she who soothed the stricken friends
when one was called away.
TIL neighbors talked about her nearly
everywhere they met;
They talked about her till she died: they
talk about her yet.
They talked about her wondrous hands, her
heart so full of love.
And now the angels talk of her who dwells
with them above.
Nixon Waterman. in L. A. W. Bulletin.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
YOUNG GIRLS HEALTH.
Mrs. S. II. Rorer Gives Some Directions
Regarding Her Dress, Diver
sionS and Diet.

"a young girl should be taught to
carry her body erect, holding her alb
domen in, and putting the ball of her
foot first OH the ground" writes Mrs.
S. L. Rorer on :'The Best Diet for
Bloodless Girls" in the Ladies Home
Journal. This is Of the utmost impor-
tance to keep the organs in good posi-
ton. The clothing should be loose, light,
warm and suspended from the shoul-
ders. Skirts should be made of light
material-either wool Or silk The
stockings fastened to the waist by
means OF supporters: the one skirt worn
buttoned to the bottom of the waist,
with an outside dress supported from
the shoulders should form the neces-
sary clothing. The shoes should be
made to fit the feet, with broad soles
and low, broad heels. Gloves should be
sufficiently loose not to stop the circula-
tion atthe wrists. A short walk each day
may be taken, but fatigue should never
be produced; far better to spend most
OF the day out-of-doors in the hammock
| or a steamer-chair.
motto. In the morning, after sponge
bath with thorough rub she should
drink half a glass Of comfortably hot
water. When appetite is felt u soft
boiled egg, piece of whole wheat
bread thoroughly baked and we'll but
tered, and little while after a glass
OF cool water, not iced, may be taken.
The MONDAY meal should consist of
good, clear beef soup, broiled steak
or roasted beef, little boiled rice,
lettuce salad with olive oil dressing,
and some simple dessert, such as
| whipped or Bavarian cream. After
dinner, rest should be taken in the
open air, either in the hammock or
steamer-chair, and without reading or
heavy mental occupation. For supper,
beef or mutton broiled, and good whole
wheat bread well buttered. At the
close of this meal she should take
slowly about two teaspoonfuls of olive
oil and masticate it before swallow
ing"
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01

and we didn't have no smudges fur the
fust time in 20 years. Nobody would
buy, however. Coin agin flies and
'ckeeters was goin' agin the Lawd,
they said, and heaps of 'em predicted
that some calamity would happen as
punishment. That's jest how it did
come out. and hain't fairly got over
bein' skeert yit."
"But what could lave happened" I
queried.
"I'll tell yo'. sab. Them flies and
'skeeters and gallinippers had bin hav-
in their way since the world was
created. If they wanted to enter my
cabin in Arkansaw the doahs and win
ders was open tc en-. If they could
bite body and git away that was all
right. The news spread around among
'em, and arter TO- or five days they be-
gun to come about mighty thick.
didn't take much notice till we had a
cloudy day. Then they begun to come
out O the swamps in such amazin'
swarms that we was driv into the
house, and the old mewl begun to bray
in alarm and kept it up right along.
there was h,ss-flies, blue-bottles,
swamp-wasps, house-fies, 'skeeters,
gallinippers and all sorts O. flynn bugs.
Seemed like brass band had got out
to call 'em all together, and at four
o'clock in the afternoon we had to
light a candle. l wasn't feelin' very
serious about it up to then, but the old
woman fops down on the floor and
cries out:
"'Abe, yo' was agin 'em, and jedg-
ment has bin sent upon us! We
amt goin' to live to see another sun
rise!'"
"Yes, said them very Words" added
Mrs. Hope.
"And what happened?"
"I'll tell yo', sab. By the time night
had come them insects was so thick
around the house that the roarin' of
'em was like high wind. They sung
and buzzed and roared. and they come
thicker and thicker, and they come
agin them screens till they made the
old cabin shake all over. Of all the
big hoss-fiies, and of all the sockdol-
oyer 'skeeters I ever did behold, the
tormentedest was right then and
there. They was so anxious to git at
us that they chanked their teeth and
made growlin' noise, and I'm tellin'
yo' that l wouldn't have been so skeert
of a dozen bars. I was thinkin' that
nutbin would save us. when all to once
Catfish creek, which was boomin' full
O. flood water, broke over it's banks jest
above the house. As it came roarin'
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
I'VE WAS DR1v INTO THE HOUSE."
picked up and carried

down we was picked up and carried
down the bayou and clear across and
landed on 'tother shore. We went
away from them insects like rabbit
humpin' fur home, and if they follered
along they lost US on the bayou. It
wasn't this cabin, yo' understand, but
the fust one built twas lifted right
up and f1oated off and most of it's over
there in the swamp yit. was out $50
on fy-screens, $3.50 on the cabin, and
mem the ole woman talked in whis-
pers fur the next three months. No,
sab, we amt keepin' flies and 'skeeters
outer the house. We was agin 'em
once and had u clus shave of it; and
though I'm free to say they dun pes
ter good deal, I'm not fur bein' agin
'em no no."
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
"she wished me to avoid music halls,

'She wished me to avoid music halls,
to forswear whisky, and to take her to
a lecture Oh the Primitive Something
brothers once week!"
"Why not?" My hostess shrugged
her shoulders and held out her hands
expansiveiy. shrugged my shoulders
with less elegance, but equal emphasis.
Because I'm-pink!" 1 said. She
studied the bows on her slippers for
few moments.
"You were very fond of her?" she
asked, suddenly. I dropped my gloves
and picked them up again before an
swering.
"Yes," said, stubbornly, II was"
"And you are?"
"Yes," said, Tam"
"You wish sometimes that you hadn't
parted?" 1 tapped the floor impa-
tiently.
Eyes, do. But as we could not
agree"
"Oh!" she cried, reproachfully, you
might have tried little harder. It
was only matter of really under
standing each other; only case of a
few concessions on each side. All peo-
pie have to make them-even Fred and
l." They certainly seem to get on very
we'll.
'I'm certain Thea wouldn't" said,
doggedly.
Don't you think she was very, very
fond of you?"
That's just what wasn't sure. If
had been"
II venture to say that am sure" I
thought 1 heard movement in the
next room. You can hear through the
folding-doors.
There isn't anyone in there, sup
pose?" I asked. "It sounded Just
like"
'The wind rattling the window" she
said, laughing, II haven't fastened it.
Don't you think Thea very pretty and
sweet and good?"
"Most certainly I do. I-well, shall
never think anyone like her." Inever
shall.
''Then why don't you put the mat
ter frankly to her? If you appea! to her
love for you, know she will meet you
halfway. And. my dear Mr.. Richmond"
she put her hand on my sleeve in her
agerness-''you wouldn't be any the
worse for an occasional keeping in
green!"
I considered the matter carefully for
few minutes. "You are quite right,
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
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) SQUATTER SKETCHES
3 Abe Hope Tells How He Went Aein
\: Flies and Mosquitoes.
3 BY N. QUAD. Copyright. lsoS
BY N. QUAD.
aaG;Gia,iS'iSa,;Ga3;Gs;i,a;1;asiGa;;;,S Observation-Disclosures

One evening, as we sat on the squat
ter's doorstep, with a smoke at our
feet to drive the mosquitoes away, I
asked the old man if it never occurr ed
to him to protect the doors and win
dows of his cabin against the pests.
"Lawd bless yo', sab, but doin' that
very thing mighty nigh ruined me
three years ago!" he replied, as he
struck at gallinipper almost as big
as bee.
Eyes, sab, it 1id,~ added his wife, as
she sat down between us, land we
amt takin' no mo- chances"
When had urged them to tell the
story, the old man raked some more
chips on the fire to thicken the smoke,
and then said:
1T was OWN to that Kurnel Bunker,
sab. He comes along yere one day on
his hoss, and arter stoppin' fur a nip
from the jug and lookin' around, he
says to me that what's keepin' the
state of Arkansaw down on her back
is the drafted flies and 'skeeters,
Couldn't no country get ahead where
her people had to fight flies by day and
'skeeters by night, with gallinippers
miNin' in between times. After an
other nip he warns up, and standin'
on this doah-step he makes one O. the
purtiest speeches yo' ever listened to.
He makes out that them flies and
'skeeters has kept America back by a
hundred years, and that the state of
Arkansaw would be Paradise with
out 'em. He put it mighty plain that
we used up half our time slappin' at
the pcslly things, and that every wom-
an, child, hoss, mewl and dog in the
state would git two hours mo- sleep
every night if we could do away with
'skeeters. I wasn't sayin' a word, and
the old woman was keepin' mighty still,
and arter the kurrel had spoke fur
half an hour he says:
"'Abe Hope, the guv'nor is busy jest
now whitewashin' the co'ncribs on his
plantation, and I've got heap to do
to look arter politics, but thar is man
who's got the time and the money and
| the ambition to save the state of Ar
kansaw, and he's sittin' right yere fe-
fo' me. His name ar Abe Hope, and
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Chicken Hash ON Rice To,st

This is ali excellent way of using up
remnants of poultry, and is prepared
by trimming off the meat from the
bones; remove the skin, cut the meat
fine. put it in small saucepan with
water to moisten it. and a little butter.
with salt and white pepper. Have
ready some cold boiled rice which has
been cooled with a weight on it, so it
will keep its shape. Cut in slices half
an inch thick, arrange on the double
broiler and toast to delicate brown.
Lay on hot platter, butter them, put
spoonful of the chicken on each and
serve. A poached egg served with each
slice makes an excellent breakfast
dish.-Detroit Free Press.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01

layer should be at least an inch deep
and should be we'll pressed down upon
the layer of sand. The filter is now
ready for use.
Water is poured into the lamp shade
and allowed to percolate slowly
through to the decanter beneath.
After a time the charcoal will get
clogged and little must be taken
from the top and boiled for few min
utes and then spread out before the
fire. 1t will then be as good as ever
and can be thus cleansed indefinitely.
From time to time, also, the whole ap-
paratus will want cleansing, and the
whole of the charcoal, as well as the
bag of sand and the cotton wool, or
sponge, will have-to be taken out and
thoroughly boiled, or, better still, re-
placed with new material.
Provided the filter be thus kept
thoroughly clean it will yield as good
results as any of the patent filters on
the market costing many times the
value of this simple apparatus.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01

when he's conkered the flies and
'akeeters and led us out O. this land
o desolashun, any reward he kin name
shall be his
That's the way he talked, sah," said
Abe, "and he just made me believe 1
orter do sumthin' right away. When I
axed him what could be done, he told
me to go into wire screens. He p'inted
out that there wasn't such a thing
used about any house fur so miles
around yere, and that when the folks
came to see 'em they'd sell to beat the
band. I'd be maxim heap O. money
and savin' the state at the same time,
and his talk was SO slick and smooth
that me n the old woman was took in
by it,"
"And you went into screens?"
asked.
"Yes, sah-went right in. sent down
to Nashville and got IS screen-doahs,
| and screens fur hundred winders,
and when they came loaded 'em into
| the cart and set off to sell 'em. The
kurnel had given me fggers, and when
l driv up to Bill Freeman's cabin I
knowed jest what to say. Bill comes
| out and looks at them screens and
| says:
"'Abe, It pears to me them milk
strainers is larger than any ever seed
hefo'. is the object to strain hull
bar'l of milk to once?'
"'Didn't yo' ever hear of f7y-screens?
l says.
"'Never did,
"'Then yere yo' are. They are fur
doahs and winders. Can't no flies git
in by day or 'skeeters at night. Let's
the air in, but keeps out the insects.
Don't have to build no smudges nor do
no slappin'. Saves half yer energy and
all yer cussin'.'
"'Abe Hope says Bill, arter takin'
time to think it over, it pears to me
yo' are agin flies and 'skeeters. If yo'
are, then yo' are also agin the Lawd.
| The Lawd created the state of Arkan-
saw. He knowed what He was about
when he made her half-swamp and la
goon. The object was to raise flies and
'skeeters-heaps o. 'em. Folks was put
yere to be bit and pestered, and any
man as goes agin it won't have no
luc-:.'
That's the way he talked" said the
squatter, "and that was the way all the
rest of 'em talked. 1t wasn't no good
putin fggers at 'em. They jest an
severed that if the Lawd hadn't reck-
oned on flies and 'skeeters when He
made this world He would have made
'em all wild turkeys instead. l driv
around fur week and didn't make u
sale, and then l come home. ! was
powerfully put out with Kurnel Bun
ker, but he comes over and hears my
story and says:
"'Abe Hope, the people has got to be
given few weeks time and eddecated
up to it. Just fix up yer own cabin and
let 'em all see how them fy-screcns
work.
II fixed 1t. ! screened the windcrs
and the doahs. and put screens up at
the mew-shed and the co'n-crib. Then
l fixed up screens clear out to the road,
and the folks who come to see declared
Il was u monstrous sight. Not u fly
nor Z 'Ekeeter could git into the house.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
HE HAD TO LET GO.

Copyright, 1ses ByM Quad.
'Purty bad weather, isn't it?" said
the man next to the door as big man
boarded the car and firted the snow
off his overcoat.
No answer was made, but after q
minute the question was again put:
Rather hard weather, isn't it?'
Neither was any notice taken of this.
Some men would have given up right
there, but the man next to the door
had persistent streak in his nature,
and pretty soon he raised his voice
note higher, and observed:
II think this snow will turn to rain
before night"
The big man partly turned and gave
him look, but it was a vacant, far
away look. 1t occurred to the aues-
toner that this man was deaf, and he
leaned over and said:
Don't you think this will change
around into rain before night?"
Speaking to me, sir?" quietly asked
the big man.
"Of course I was speaking to YOU"
"Well, I'm not deaf. I believe you
oeNAu - was AalAeI udiu WeaIner?
II did, but you didn't answer"
"Then you said you thought this
snow would turn into rain"
"Yes, sir, did"
"And then you asked me if thought
it wouldn't"
"Yes, sir. If you have got ready to
answer civil question. go ahead"
II want nothing to say about the
weather." continued the big man, "A
year ago, in a car, began talking
about the weather with stranger. and
he handed me his card and asked me
to call at his Office
"And you called?"
II did. He was n lawyer. 1 had
asked him If he thought it was going
to snow, and he had written out legal
opinion and charged me ten dollars for
it,"
"But, sir, I'm no lawyer!" protested
the other.
mo, of course; but you are n doc
tor. You want to lead up to the
wcather-catarrh rheumatism and
soon get Off u bit of advice and send in
Q bill. The weather, sir, is damnabIe,
and so are you and SO am /, and that's
nll there Is to 1t. and now let's shut
upl"
In Germany there are NO fewer than
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
I WENT THROUGH ALONE.

as usual said, resolutely. 81 will go
and see Thea as soon as have thought
out what to say. But I don't suppose
she'll ever
''Now you are getting dismal" said
my hostess, brightly. go and think it
out in pink" She opened the folding
doors, and l went through--alone!
Thea was futtering against the pas
sage-door, with her hands on the
handle, like frightened bird trying 10
escape.
'Thea, my dearest!"I cried.
"She didn't tell me you were COM
ing" she said, brokenly, land she
locked the door! And-and-" Then I
held out my arms and she flung herself
into them.
I shan't tell you what we said, or how
we compromised our differences. But I
may remark that Thea is growing as
merry as-pink; and l am improving
under mild course of green!-St.
Paul's.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Easily Satisfied,

1T was brave and manly act
young man," said the millionaire
with deep feeling. AT the risk OF
your own life You rushed into the
burning building and saved my only
daughter from horrible fate. How
can l ever repay such hcroism?"
"Oh. l don't know" replied the
brave rescuer. do you think couple
of dollars would be too much ?"-Chi.
cago Evening News.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Youthful Training.

1t is the crude comparison between
a course of compulsion and one of
passive indulgence and neglect that so
often leads well-meaning parents to
choose the former. Should the gar
dener in cherishing plant fall into
either error, he would be deemed i'm
becile. He neither leaves it to itself
nor represses its nature. but gathers
around it all favorable influences, and
gently trains it to the highest life
OF which it is capable. Does the in
calculably more delicate and difficult
work Of forming character demand
less wisdom and watchfulness p
Leisure Hours,
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
German Tongues.

Take two small beef tongues ard boil
until the skin can be peeled off. Re-
move ali skin and cut the tongues into
slices, then lay in saucepan with
covering of brown stock, some slices
of onion and handful of herbs, and
stew slowly for perhaps thrce-quurtcrs
OF nn hour. just five minutes before
finishing, throw in II handful of washed
and stoned rnlsins, and good table
spoonful of vinegar, Serve with tho
sauce poured over the slices OF meat.
-HOstOA Globe.
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Decorating with a Shawl

A pleasing effect was achieved in the
decoration of music-room recently,
on the occasion of wedding, by the
use OF an India shawl. 1t was large
and fine one, with pink center. This
was spread over the grand piano. and
on the pink center stood pink lar
diniere filled with apple blossoms. At
the side of the piano, in tall Chinese
jar OF pale pinkand green, were massed
more blooms Of dogwood and APPLE
blossoms mingled,
The Hope pioneer., 1898-12-01
Delicious Sponge Cake.

For sponge cake, weigh six eggs,
take their weight in sugar, and half
their weight in -four; separate the eggs
carefully; add the sugar to the yolks,
and beat until light; then stir in care
fully the we'll beaten whites; sift the
Hour two or three times, adding it a
little at time, folding and cutting it
in. Turn into pan lined with creased
paper, and bake in quick oven for
from 20 to rs minutes.-Mrs. s. T.
Rorer, in Ladies' Home Journal.