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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

New York is to have a table d'hote
dinner served daily at some of its IN
town restaurants at So per person.
The name of the place is not am
nounced, but it is doubtless either Del
monico's or Sherry's. A man can thus
take three friends out to dine at an
assured cost Of 81. \ quart of "izz. )"
not an excessive quantity, will stand
him in four dollars more. and this
with liquors, cigars and a dollar tin to
the French pirate who serves the re-
past, will let him out at a little less
than twenty dollars. The rest of us
can still 50 around the corner to a
Creamerie.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
Holiday HANDKERCHIEF HARVEST.

We're ready in this department
with larger and better assortment
of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Fine
Handkerchiefs than ever before
A Dry Goods Store is usually
measured by the extent of it's hand
kerchief stock Christmas time for
the reason that most everyone buys
some handkerchiels for holiday
gifts.
Most of our HandkerchiefS are Sc
cured for US by our European repre-
sentatives and shipped direct to US,
in so doing we are not only enabled
to get the very newest and best
handkerchiefs, but save a considera-
bic amount by importing them
direct. This saving is yours.
We mention a few prices:-
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Superintendent Andrews, Of the Chi
cage public schools, has been reported
as saying that "Tbe idea of education
is to teach all views Of a subject, and
the pupils should decide for them
selves which view is the right one"
This doctrine seems somewhat risky.
Even if those who are qualified to Dur-
sue university courses Of study may be
trusted to rightly distinguish between
the true and the false, it will be neither
fair nor wise to expect young children
to exercise so broad a discretion as Or.
Andrews appears TO have had in mind
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seem not to be troubled abor,
amy such little matter as tba
constitution for there is no
mention Of constitutional diHlcnl-
ties in their list of topics to ho
debated. They should not forgot
however, to discuss the Hon. cy
sideways remarkable picture Of IN
American missionary with a Bible in
one hand and a shotgun in the otho,,
Joseph II, Choate has just argued foo
the seventh time the case of cIorl,
Laidlaw VS.. Russell Sage. This case il
will be remembered, dates back to tbo
dynamite explosion in Mr.. Sage's ofrlc.
several years ago, when Sage is said
to have used Laidlaw as a buffer 10
protect himself from injury. Laidlsu.
was quite seriously injured. and oa.b
time that the case has been tried la
has been awarded damages. Mr.. Cboata
has derived great satisfaction from tb,
opportunity afforded to make Mr.. saaa
ridiculous in the eyes of the court. bn,,
and spectators. In the course Of his Iaet
argument, he said that the cross-av-
animation Of the defendant had been.a
difficult matter; that it was, in fact, lik4
SHINING an intellectual eel"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04

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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
More than 10, 600 Different
Titles to select from.

All the standard works in new,
attractive bindings. All The new
copyrighted works in Holiday bind
ings.
Books for the children in great
variety. In fact, any book pub
lisled can be obtained here at a
lower price than elsewhere,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-04
A Magnificent Collection
of Christmas Gift
Books.
THE LARGEST and by far THE
BEST line to be found in
Worcester.

In connection with our large new
Book Department, a part OF the
section formerly occupied by Wash
Goods is now given over to the dis
play and sale of Christmas Books.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11

A babys come to our house, and if he under
stands
The meaning of his double chin, his little dmpled
hands,
Or eyes chock-full of laughter, as he bobbles up
and down
On his mothers knee so lightly he's the proudest
chap in town.
It's been a score of years, or So since our old
house has known
The cackle Of a baby boy we called ''our very
own
And yet, whene er a baby comes a-visting our
way,
We're back again that minute to some old.
familiar day
When babies toddled round us in our little cot
tage home
And made it dearer far to us than dreams of
Kingdom Come;
But now that dreamy kingdom is not half so far
away,
Since our babies, babes no longer, mingle in the
eager fray.
The thinking and the striving may bestow ripper
grace,
But nothing in the universe can match baby's
face
For feeding loves effulgent fame where trusting
souls recline,
UT gaineflnS IOr lhe dIIeIsioW ltS IduidhClSs
divine
baby's come to our house. and welcome rogue
is he;
He brings the sunshine with him and the robins
April glee;
His gurgIed google google and the pursing of
his lips
Calls up the fragrant blossoms whence the wan
dering wild bee Sips
What! Off so soon. my little one. and parting.
say,
'Alas! the baby's gone from us and dreary is the
day?'
in the door,
Shall warm and cheer US till the frowns of boreas
Ben s. Parker
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DOings of SOrOsis.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
Modern Education; It's Successes and It's
Failures" was the subject for discussion It
the Sorosis session yesterday. Needs of
Society" ''The Problem of the Worker -
Home as an Object Lesson "The Train
ing of the Emotions THE Successes Of
Modern Education" and THE Failures Of
Modern Education were some of the heads
into which the topic at large was charac-
teristically divided. Nothing was said as to
whether Sorosis ranked rs an educational
success or failure, though apropos of mod
ern socialism. one speaker said that ''wo1n-
en- 5 CLUBS had done much to elevate the
masses. one wondered which masses-hu-
nanlty IN general or benighted femininity
IN particular. Teach the girls and the
Doys 100, 30 keep their bureau drawers in
order, was the advice of another spell
Dlnder, which was interesting as showing
now closely the discussion stuck to the
SuCJect: Another woman put in a plea for
governing children by moral suaSon instead
OF spank1ng-only she didn't say spanking.
she called it the ''old-time style of CORPORAL
punishment. The session was remarkable
Tor Its stupidity; the oldest club inhabi-
Iant could remember nothing to equal it,
SeVer'd OF the bonnets were recognized as
naVng been on exhibition before Mrs
Dlmles /. 3. Dennison-Sorosis is especially
proud or that name-presided.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11
About Making Coffee.

New York Post
The last word about coffee seems never
to be said. All authorities lay great stress
upon the cleanliness of the coffee pot 1t
should be washed with cloth kept for that
purpose alone, and nothing will insure this
except eternal vigilance on the part of the
housekeeper Mrs. Lincoln's formula for the
breakfast coffee calls for twice as many
level tablespoonfuls of ground coffee as there
are cups to be served. To this add some
eggshells washed before the eggs were
broken. or the white Of an egg, which is
sufficient to clear about seven tablespoon
fuls OF coffee. A tablespoonful of cold water
Tor each cup needed is added and thorough
~ mixed with the grounds: then as many
cups OF boiling water as will be served are
poured over. Boil hard five minutes. A little
very cold water, perhaps four tablespoon
luls,. IS poured down the spout a table
spoonful of fresh coffee is stirred in a stop
per OF tissue paper put in the spout, and
Ine Ii pot set where it will keep hot without
slInIneIlng Tor ten minutes. 1t should then
pe served at once, and should be at the
highest state of perfection
II some or 1t must be kept for late risers
II should oe promp--y poured off the grounds
the conee-pot cleaned out and the clear
liquid restored to it. The dead taste of
co1ee so often encountered at boarding
mouse tables, and private tables as well
comes from the grounds. AT the hgh-class
notes and restaurants fresh coffee is made
several times during the hours of serving
breakfast. Black coffee for dinner is a
strong concoction and can be made in the
same way slightly increasing the proportion
oIscoHee ana very much reducing the amount
OF water The Oriental double coffee" is
made by using a strong black coffee con-
coction IN place of water in making the sec
ond infusion. This double coffee should be
served in the tiniest of cups, holding not
feet is powerful
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11

one of the divine mysteries of mans life
in this world that, while he is always deal
ing with material things struggling for
them, storing them up and counting himself
rich or poor as he increases or diminishes
them he is ready at any moment to hold
them as dust in the balances if the things
he carries in his heart are in peril. He will
open the dikeS and destroy the country he
has worked for centuries to create rather
than suffer her enemies to possess her. he
will sacrifice everything he has accumu-
lated for the love of wife or child. I'M
merSed in materialism, man is always at
the mastery and acquisition of things he is
always finding his life in ideas, emotions,
convictions. He works with the material
but he lives in the spiritual If the spiritual
is Withdrawn from him he Withers like a
flower from which the light has departed
same roof are invisible, and the things
which hold and sway u.s. as the moon con-
that God is not within the grasp of the
hand, nor the realm of those who have laid
aside garments we once knew within the
range of the eye? We pass through a room
in a vase. and straightway we know that
one has been there. We go alone into a
house, and Immediately an unseen person
stands beside us, evoked in memory by a
small inanimate things which, through the
disclosure of a selective principle, fill the
house with manifold suggestions of an in
visible personality So to-day at Bethle-
hem and the Mount of Olives a figure stands
beside the traveller whose hands no human
hand has touched these many centuries;
and in the last universe which God made
and through which He has passed there are
everywhere intimations of His presence, evil
dences of His care. We do not see Him any
more clearly than we see ourselves; but be-
cause He lives we live, and because we live
He must live.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11

John Burroughs. in December Critic.

John Burroughs, in December critic.
The stylst's main effort is d verbal one,
to md meaning Tor words; he does not
WEes6ie with ideas, but with terms and
phrases; his thoughts are word begotten,
and are often as unsubstantlal as specIers
and shadows. Ihe stylist cuitivates words
as the florist cultivates mowers, and a new
adjective, or new coIiocative OF terms, is,
10 him, what a new cnrysanthemum or u
new combination of cOsors Is to mis- brother
OF the forcing house. he is more EURO
pean product than an American. London
and Paris abound men VINO cultivate The
art of expression for its own sake, VINO
study how - combine words so as 10 tickle
the verbal sense without much reference 10
the value OF the idea expressed Club and
university life. excessive literary culture Il
sort OF indoor, hothouse literary atmosphere
foster this sort of thing. All writer's with
whom literature is an art aim at style In
the sense that they aim 10 prese.4t their
subject matter in the most effective form
with cle2rness. freshness. force. Ihey De-
come stgAists when their thoughts wait upon
their words. as in Swinburne or when their
thoughts are word-begotten. Writers like
Gibbcn. DeQuincey. Macaulay have studied
and elaborated styles. but in each the SUBJ
ject matter is paramount and the mind
nnds something solid TO rest upon.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11
All the World Fidgets.
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
IF 1 had the power to confer one single
accomplishment upon all mankind said a
sensible-looking woman at a recent tea, 81
believe I'd choose the art of sitting still
and keeping absolutely quiet-the art of re-
pose, 1 suppose one might call it. L don't
believe that anything wears more on
human being than the constant fidgeting of
other human beings 1 sometimes wonder
whether 1 am more nervous than most per-
sons. Perhaps 1 am, and yet it doesn't
show in most of the situations which call
for a display of feminine nerves. But one
thing is sure / haven't gone to theater or
concert or even church in years without
having my pleasure partly spoiled by some
little annoying habit on the part of persons
near me.
can be quiet. At the last concert L attend
ed the man next to me tapped in accom-
paniment to all the numbers on the arm of
his seat. 1t was a little thing. but it got
upon my nerves and marred the evening
for me.
Il went to the theater three evenings last
week One night the man just behind me
scraped the bottom of my seat with his
feet all the evening long and kept his shoes
creaking. Another time the woman beside
me claSped and unclapsed her bonbonniere
inceSsantly, making a sharp. clicking noise.
At church on Sunday the woman to whom
[ offered part of my pew had a creaky lit
tie fan. which she futtered or opened and
shut all through the service.
'At the matinee on Saturday two girls
behind me nibbled some sort of brittle
candy from the time the curtain first went
up until it fell after the last act.
''Of course, you think l am crank, but
it irritateS me to sec how careless and in
consderate the average man or woman is,
and what absurd habits most persons have.
When L see any one sit still for five minutes
at a time feel like introducing myself and
congratulating him on his valuable accom-
plishment. All the world wriggles nova
days. and when it isn't wrigging it has
nervous prostration.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11
Odds and Ends.

Fresh ink stains on carpets or tablecloths
can can be- be removed by repeated applications of
frightened if wiped with clean cloths
wrung FROM salt water. Coarse salt sprinkled
occasionally around the edge of carpets is a
moth destroyer
Ladies tailors have taken very readily to
the new skirts that are sheath-shaped on
the front and sides. and made with under
folding fulness at the back, where they as
a rule are made to fasten invisibly benea tb
decorative simulated fastening of fine silk
cord laced over tiny silk tailor buttons
There is right and a wrong way to
water plants When sprinklng small plots
of garden vegetables use plenty of water
and make the ground wet 1t should he
done late in the afternoon Early the next
morning rake the surface of the ground, not
more than half an inch in depth. The loose
earth will prevent the water from evapor-
ating.
The hats that milliners consider their
masterpieces are even larger than the pic
ture hats of the summer and their width
across the front is excessive owing to the
very long feathers curving right and left
acove the prlm, Whlch serve to exaggerate
the width of the hat itself. The bonnets and
hats made wholly of fur are the newest
things from Paris, but they certainly can
not be recommended from a sanitary point
of view.
A horror party is a form of diversion
that some recent gatherings of young folks
have enjoyed. Each young woman is asked
10 bring the facsimile OF pet aversion.
These are put up at auction and are
knocked down to the highest bidder amone
the young men, who pay in beans that are
provided in little slken bags distributed
among them for that purpose Not until the
young man secures his purchase does he
know whose horror he has bought It's
possession gives him the right to claim the
first dance from the young woman and The
privilege of escorting her to supper Snakes
SPIDERS, caterpillars and mice are usually
the articles sold, but occasionally a young
woman suggests an abstract horror in \
picture of an Arctic scene typifying extreme
cold weather or some similar embodiment
of favorite dislike.
A pretty novelty in the way Of a table
cover will be seen at one of the early De.
cember fairs. 1t is made out of the paper
japanese napkins. and the cost is only a
few cents. Four of these napkins are
stitched together on the machine 10 form :
sufficiently large center. A single layer al
sheet-wa6ding is then fitted over and =
cover similarly made of four more napkins
Is placed above that. The two sets are ther
stitched together all the way around For
the fringe napkins are folded in straight
folds in four thicknesses They are ther
fringed by cutting in quarter-fnch strips
almost across. leaving only sufficient edge
TO use In sewing on. Enough napkins are
cut TO make a double row of this fringe
They are then basted around the cover one
fold coming from the under side. the other
lying against the upper. the fringe POINTING
to the center, and are stitched again BY the
machine When this is done the fringes fall
together cOncealirg the seam. and making
q thick fluffy trimming.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11
Dressmaking i'm India.
1ot. in Harper's Bazar.

Pauline Root, in Harper BaZar.
At the risk of sending all my readers to
India for dressmaking. 1 shall let you into
one of the secrets of India's charm to the
Anglo-Indian. Since coming back to this
country nothing seems harder than to get
sewing and dressmaking done; and though
Indian tailors might drive an ordinary home
dressmaker insane, they certainly do take
care Of their mistresses in a most fatherly
manner. OF course they are men. and of
course they are as much a part of ones
establishment as the cook or the butler. My
tailor was an inheritance. and fell to my
happy lot along with my dignified white
haired cook. my maid, and my portly and
lordly butler.
Pandarum was ever faithful TO my inter-
ests, and, when work waxed short, did not
rebel at being ''let OUT to other ladies. In
fact so famous was Pandarum as a buyer,
and for style and exquisite embroidery, that
he was oftener called for by my missionary
and civilian friends than liked. He had a
goodly family who all. of course. lived on
the tailor street. / remember well his hand
some old parayzed father, and less we'll his
wife and children. think there were seven
in the family. and yet Pandarum's wages
were but three dollars and a quarter a
month--and no meals,
Promptly each morning lie came TO my
ROOM took out his mat and unrolled il on
the veranda under my window and placed
upon it his hand Singer sewing machine and
his large basket OF work. Mending he sell
native ayah: but he had so real an interest
in ali my wardrobe that he saw TO 1t that
"long-cloth" and cambric in quantity were
kept on hand, and that i made frequent and
SUFFICIENT purchase Of handmade laces and
eTnbrOiderfes from the native schools to keen
me In an assortment Of lingerie such as he
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11

thought fitting. How he loved to plan and
fussi What concoctions IN ruffles and tucks
and insertions adorned my night dresses,
skirts, and other garments. When no other
work was ordered, he would inspect my
bureau drawers, and inform me that
needed new nightgowns or skirts, and that.
Il it was madam's pleasure. he would begin
the garments at once. / might have to in
terrupt him, but, though a man of much de-
cfsion OF character, he was enough or
Hindoo to respect my authority, and would
lay aside his tucks and shirringS TO refine
the carriage or to mend the saddle, which
had perhaps been hung too near the wall,
and so had become the feeding ground for
white ants.
slippers TO go with an evening dress: Unth
month ago / had one pair which was
wholly handmade. and which had kept as
a curiosity. The soles were cut out by the
native leather worker who brought his tools
to the veranda and copied the soles from an
other pair. The lining was of plain satin.
ana the outside of pale yellow satin, embrol-
dered in gold.
The India tailors can copy almost any
thing from fashion papers Though they have
not the Worth touch in drapery). and as for
gowns from home, they copy them so literal
ly that newcomer not only has the salts
faction of setting the fashion, but soon, to
the arousing Of another set of emotions. finds
herself without one gown which is distinctly
her own.
Some of the tailors do excellent embroi-
derry still have (and wear at times. when
dia silk-to which the yellow slippers be-
ionged-heavily and exquisitely embroidered
in gold.
Usually embroiderers are specialists. and
old. but he did my dress as part Of his regu-
lar work and as beautifully as any special
ist from the temple could have done
and cottans Of corse1 aing 1i the strong
nettings for beds, or punkahs which are so
necessary to our comfort, he had no superior.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11
The Ambition to BE "E,iternrv

Womans Home Companion
The reading club, the whole has been
blessing as an educational influence; but
there are cases where light draughts from
the literary spring have not been beneficial
1t must be owned that an ambition to be-
come literary, when aroused in a shallow
mind, often has the effect of uniting it for
probabilities of achievement, while failing
cial woman whose desire is to get into the
trend of the fashion the paper" of the
literary club becomes delusion and a snare
IL tempts to mental J1asquerading and pla-
garism, and in many cases has robbed
women of needed rest and of a naturalness
that is part of their charm. Having no
very original thoughts of a given subject
and no well-defined idea of its proper treat
ment, she takes the reference books. not as
suggestive helps. but in the way of compile
ton, and so unconsciously often becomes a
cheat, and subjects herself to intellectual
Generalization.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-11

cannot help much Don't stand of and find
fault: take hold and see how much you can
do to better the situation. There should be
"a loyal cooperation between all unseifish
men who are trying to be benefactors OF
their race.
The Christian minister can only plead for
the recognition of the churches on the
ground tnat they are striving, though I'M
which is another name for the kingdom OF
f1od