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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
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Bless the person who first invented
the shirt waist. 1t is a boon to
feminity, second only to the comforts
of religion. The time was when the
shirt waist was not a joy forever. 1t
used to bag in the wrong places and
draw in folds where it ought to bag.
1t was years before any decent show
of friendlness could be arranged be-
tween it and the skirt worn by the av-
erage woman. The waist would pull
up and the skirt would pull down and
there was either a display of gar
ments which custom has somewhat
generally determined should remain in
seclusion, or else the mechanism of the
skirt belt with a profusion of safety
pins was made evident with a degree
of frankness which did not leave
enough to the imagination.
Then there were the mannsh shirt
waists with shiny fronts and other
accessories which made them difficult
to distinguish from the ones worn by
your brother. They were horrors as
the women soon discovered. Then came
on those big sleeved affairs which when
they were blown UP by the summer
breezes made girl look as If she We're
about to be taken skyward by the
balloon process. This year the shirt
waists are perfection. They make a
stylish girl look Gibsony and swell.
There are glorified waists that fill you
with a desire 10 take them off the
wearer and appropriate them to your
| own use. And then-well, there are
others. know a little lady who is
plump and is always carefully gowned,
who desires the sentiment employed in
her obituary notice. "She never wore
| a shirt waist" While this is not in
| tended as a reflection on the women
of all sizes and shapes who blithesome-
| ly don shirt waists feeling only the
utmost satisfaction in their own ap-
pearance and comfort it still indicates
that there are some people who en-
| tertain occasional doubts as to their
ability to wear anything you know"
But II would be a great pity to deny
stout people about the only really COM
| Portable style of dress they can put on
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Strong, steady nerves
Are needed for success
Everywhere. Nerves
Depend simply, solely,
Upon the blood.
Pure, rich, nourishing
Blood feeds the nerves
And makes them strong.
The great nerve tonic is
Hoods Sarsaparilla,
Because it makes
The blood rich and
Pure, giving it power
To feed the nerves.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Cures nervousness,
Dyspepsia, rheumatism,
Catarrh, scrofula,
And all forms of
Impure blood.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
Boys Clothing.
FOR LESS MONEY THAN ANY HOUSE nv THE STATE.

For wash suits, sizes 3
SIC to 8 years, full sailor
styles, blouse with deep COL
lar and embroidered shields.
Were 49c.
o. For wash suits of best
C/C fast color Galatea, sizes
; to 8; seven patterns; were
SI.25.
o- For your choice of fifty
ZoC styles in waists and
blouSeS, fast color; were 40c.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
National Educational Association
Excursion n--Washington, ID. e,

A large party, composed of Super
intendent Howell and friends, will
leave for Washington, d. c., at a. m.
Wednesday, July 6. route Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad to
Manunka Chunk and Pennsylvania
railroad Pullman vestibuled coaches
will be provided for their use, same to
run through from Scranton to Wash
ington without change. Fare for the
round trip, 1881. Tickets will be sold
good going July to inclusive. good
for return until July Is, or by deposit
ing ticket with joint agent return limit
alt- ctN'V
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
Fruits of EXperieuce.

"Heres a good article on the Art of
Making a Mustard Plaster"
Pooh! There's not art i'm making a
mustard plaster; the art is in getting il
put on your husband after you have made
it."-Chicago Record.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
ROnsted In the Bean.

Mrs. Yeast-How many times a day
does your husband take coffee?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Tm sure / couldn't
say He takes 1t after each drink, be-
leve.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

IT, For Fauntleroy Blouses,
/oC sizes 2 to 8, made of
linen lawn, with fancy double
collar and cuffs and prettily
trimmed down the fronts.
Were SI.I9.
600 For your choice of
pZ. ~ "a tWo-piece suits,
10 to IS years; all wool and
double-breaSted; only two or
three of a kind. Have been
$3.50, S4.So and $500.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02
Store Closed All Day Monday, the 4th
Last Day Of the American Sale
Monday Bargains---- To-day

THREE TRADE CONDITIONS will
brought
crowds the honest
Bargains always heand the Monday
having made Bargain Carnival
attention. Don't miss it.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Mrs. H. F. Atherton entertained a
company of friends on Monday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Mrs. G. d. Simpson entertained
guests yesterday afternoon at her
home on Olive street.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Mrs. Alexander Dryden entertained
friends informally Monday afternoon.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Diehl entertained
at dinner Monday evening.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Mr. and Mrs. G. NJ. Hallstead and
their guest, Miss Waters, of Buffalo;
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. MCGOWAN, Miss
Ssson, of Ithaca, N. Y; Messrs. ]. H.
s. Lynde and Scranton Wolfe will go
to Delaware Water Gap today on the
Comet" returning this evening.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

A party composed Of the following
will go to Fleetville today to spend the
Fourth: Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Barker,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis kirkpatrick, Misses
Hanley, Gearhart, Miss Strong, of New
Brunswick, Miss Siebert. of Columbus,
o.; Miss Vail, of Blairstown, N. j.;
Miss Wheeler, of New York; Miss
Buck, James Cook, of Beilefonte;
Messrs. Ellison and Rob Snyder, VIM
Hanley. James Gearhart, H.. S. Kirk
patrick and j. NJ. Chance.
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A party composed of Mr.. T. ]. Foster
and family. Mr.. d. E. Taylor and fam
fly, Mrs. s. S. Derman, Mr.. A. W. Dick
son. Mr.. r. J. Foster and family, Mr..
and Mrs. C. w. Kirkpatrick, Mr.. It. f..
Wells and family, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
ID. Kennedy, Mrs. Bennell. Miss Dick
son. Miss Bennell and others will go to
Preston Park todayto spend the Fourth
at the Lodge.
Mrs. T. f. Jones gave thimble tea
on Wednesday in honor of her guests,
the Misses Wisner. Among those pres
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-02

Miss Ruth Dale entertained inform
ally in honor of Miss Mary Wallace on
Thursday evening. Among others pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Wallace
and Miss Lillian Shively.
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Is probably tho youngest member of his profession h the country. Though only fourteen wars old. he prcsides over the u. tie ,.lnw i:ii,.,t and began to give him
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When Christ went up into the mountain to pray and fast he set an example which the faithful have followed most eagerly since then. There is no religious observ- pnce that is accepted as thankfully as the Lent and none that is followed so gener- ally The forty days and nights wipe out years overindulgence, and the quiet of the five weeks gives opportunity of physical as well as religious recupera- tion.
 It is unlikely that Christ-unless the theory of foreknowledge be accepted though that in the years to come, his heroic act of self-denial would pave the way for similar ones from all people-so- ciety butterflies and men of stern mould nor is it likely that he had these classes in mind when he went up in the moun- tain fastnesses to pray for himself and the whole world. But no one act of the Savior has appealed to all classes more than this one deed, and, though in the past 1,S00 years other and gerater acts have been forgotten or have passed into Scriptural quotation only, this stands out and is commemorated with increasing fer
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great church organ like an experienced master, playing all the difficult masses and improvising with astonishing taste and skill.
 When the regular church organist re- signed three months ago the Rev. Dr. John McQuirk, the pastor, offered the place to his young parishioner, and now at every service, the slender. delicate form of the child musician may be seen bending over the double keyboard of the instrument he loves so well.
 Before he became organist last fall Master Wilkes fairly astounded the fifty singers who tried for position in the church quartet by playing for all of them Each applicant selected her own music, but the youth played all at sight. He first showed the wonderful talent that nature has given to him back in his home in Worcester, England, when he was less than five years old. In those days he used to stand before the piano and with his little hands bring harmony and mel ody from the instrument. His aunt Miss Fannie Wilkes, the blind organist of St. Osburg's church, Coventry, recognized the
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serves 1t in way that is almost. specrac- ular for the whole world to see.
 During the eleven months of her world liness the social butterfly devotes her mornings to gossip and chocolate, her af- ternoons to athletics and flirting, and her evenings to dancing.
 Now all these roles are dropped, and she devotes them all to-Lent!
 Three mornings in the week you can see her-teaching!
 Her little band consists of newsboys, street urchins, outcasts, poor waifs too low to be gathered in by the school laws, because too forlorn to boast of homes and parentage They frequent every al- ley of a gerat city growing and growing up, some gentle, some vicious, but all tender and ready for the good seed sown by many society girl during Christs Lent.
 With pretty gown and dainty ways she goes into the empty Sunday school rooms and chapels and there, with them in long array before her-teaches! And what does she teach? Not always the Bible, for it looks too hard and pug
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six years old his health was so delicate that his life was almost despaired of. In those trying days Miss Wilkes the blind musician would play soft harmonies for the sick boy as he lay on his bed. These soothed and quieted him as no medicine could.
 It was at this time that the boys father, Walter Wilkes, came to this country with his little family consisting of his wife, son and little daughter, Winifred. The father opened q small grocery store at No. 169 East One Hundred and Tenth street, where he lives now. He was man of most moderate means, but he and his wife gladly denied themselves to continue their boys musical education.
 Under the instruction of a competent teacher Master Wilkes progressed rapidly and before he was ten years old he was playing the piano music of Hayden and Mozart, his favOrite composers.
 Took Up Organ Study.
 The mysteries of the pipe organ were unknown to the boy until about four years ago, when the wonderful possibilities of the instrument began to unfold themselves to him. It tooksonl few lessons for Master Wilkes to find an outlet for all the music in him on the organ, and in the summer of 1894 Father McQuirk called upon him to play a requiem mass.
 The regular Organist did not come to the church, and the boy of ten was the only alternative. He was equal to the emer- gency and played the service without any breaks. This so pleased Father McQuirk that he gave the organ key to the boy and said: "Go into the church, my child, and play on the organ when you wish." And so when other boys were playing in the street Master Wilkes would be found over the organ, filling the church with improvised harmony.
 A AYouthful Composer. N
 Master Wilkes is slender, pale faced boy with a pleasant expression; has brown hair and eyes and wears knickerbockers. He is in the sub-freshman class at Man. haitian college, and stands well there.s Master Wilkes has already composed sev-l eral works, including a kyrie and gloria in B flat for four voices, with an accom- paniment for the organ. He is now working on a mass, which he hopes to complete and render in the church by Easter. St. Paul's, in East One Hundred and Sixth street, where's he plays, is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Harlem and seats two thousand persons. T
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luce were other homemade colorings. Af- ter the wools were dyed the housewife \ spread them in layers, if a mixed color was desired, and carded them again and again. The wool was slightly greased with rape oil or melted 'swine's grease" to be carded-a trying process. At last the wool was carded into small light, loose rolls, about as large around as the little finger, which were then spun into yarn.
 The yarn was wound as it was spun upon a broach, which was usually simply stiff roll of paper or corn husk. When the ball was as large as the broach would hold, the spinner placed pegs in the spokes of the spinning wheel and tied the end of the yarn to a peg. Then she held the ball of yarn in her hand and whirred the big wheel round, winding the yarn on the pegs into hands or clews If the yarn was to be woven, the hank was placed on the reel or swift. quill made from a piece of reed was then placed on the spindle, the wheel again set in motion, and the yarn wound off on the quill, cut the exact length of the loom shuttle by which the yarn was to be woven into woolen cloth When wound full the quill was placed in the shuttle and was then ready for the loom. The home-spun yarn was woven in hand looms into heavy cloth. which was washed. dyed, shrunken dressed, fulled and then clothed the house. hold.
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zIlng co iler. Not always the command ments, for they seem absurd to the poor little handicapped youngsters. Not even the laws of the great city which menace them so cruelty does she teach Nor the Golden Rule, for it sounds funny to them, Do unto others as you would be done by" nor yet "book learning" which is so desirable for them.
 No, the society girl does none of these. But she tried at them all. With Bible, prayer book and hymnal in hand she goes among them and sits That word covers the first lesson. She sits among them.
 And He came and sat among them."
 With her presence there floats into their lives the first bit of perfume they have ever scented, the first touch of refine ment They get breaths of sweet flowers and sounds of gentle words. They get soft caressing touches instead of hard words, and they learn a little, very lit- tie, of the gospel of kindness. Be gentle to Willie. He is lame, you know" said a Lenten girl Ash Wednesday year ago. "All de more reason fur sluggin' him. He
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can't slug back An he tux de pa- pers off me-"
 By Easter lame Willie understood how wrong it was to take the papers off another boy, and the other boy knew how cowardly it was to strike a boy who couldn't strike back Now both slugger and sluggee anxiously awaiting Lent the time when the pretty lady comes down with pretty clothes and-cake!
 The Lenten girl never forgets the ma teral along with the spiritual; and in min istering to the spirit remembers how Christ fed the multitude to enforce his teachings. Over the coffee and cake she makes them realize the awful self-denial practiced by the Savior in his forty days of fasting.
 Afternoons the Lenten girl sews. No matter what, as long as she makes some- thing. Nothing goes amiss when there
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An Earnest Painter.

An eminent American artist, who is now an old man, has never forgotten the les- son he learned from Sir Frederick Leigh ton in his youth. Leighton was then . brilliant and fascinating young painter, whose future was still before him. He was at work upon an Italian landscape, or upon picture with an Italian backl ground. In that background he was anx- ious to introduce an olive tree. He re- membered tree which he had seen in the south of Italy and remembered it quite distinctly enough to reproduce 1t, but he was not content to trust his memory.
 The American artist remembers how Leighton came into cafe in Rome on his way to Southern Italy, making the long journey from England for the express pur, pose of studying that olive tree and of taking home an exact sketch of 1t, and hk remembers also how. four or i've weeke later, the ardent young Englihsman brils liant, enthusiastic, versatile. but with capacity for taking pains, reappeared with wonderful sketch of the olive tree. upon which he had spent days of unbroken otl servation and work. From this little Inc cident the American student learned . lesson. which he never forgot. and which went far to secure the success which came to him in later life. The story. Ilus- trates the great quality which Hes behsud all real success. alike for the man "f E>n- ius and the man of talent
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A GOWN IN COLONIAL TIMES.
The Homespun Cloth and How It Was
 Made.

From the Chautauquan.
 The ''all-wool goods yard wide" which we so easily purchase today meant to the colonial dame or daughter the work of months from the time when the freshly sheared feeces were first given to her delft hands. The fieeces had to be opened with care, and have all pitched or tarred locks, brands, "dag-locks' and 'feltings'' cut out These were spun into coarse yarn, to be used as twine. The white locks were care- fully tossed, separated and cleaned and tied into net bags with tallies to be dyed. Another homely saying, "dyed in the wool" demanded process of much skill. Indigo furnished the blue shades, and cochineal, madder and logwood beautiful reds. Domestic dyes of brown and yell low, from the bark of the red oak and the hickory-nut. were universal. Copperas and sassafras also dyed yellow: the flower of the geldenrod, 'set" with alum, was the foundation. combined with indigo, of a beautiful green. Pokeberry juice and vio- let dye from the petals of the flower-de-
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vor as the years roll by.
 And what does Lent mean to that gay est of all creatures, Inc society girl, to whom the whole world is one round Of pleasure, and to whola the awful story of Christ on the cross is shuddcrinS an1 a penance? To the Wall street man the man of business, the man of affairs, :t means oft time a period os cessation 'n expense, time of quiet, of solemn bells and a chance to go to church at neon when services are held in the old churches in the business part of the town.
 To the matron it mea IS much more. for she, of all others, has sins of plotting, sins of thought. sins of worry and care which she would cast off.
 To the working woman it means a time of thanksgiving, Tor in these five weeks she can drop into the churches at odd times and thank God for the privilege of life and earning. It means economy for her, too!
 But it is to the society girl that one must look for the active, eager, earnest, dem- onstrative carrying out of Lent. She who has time and money to observe it; ob-
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are cold ones. nothing Is wasted when there are people waiting for clothes.
 Between whiles, if she be~the true Lem ten Queen, she drops into church. and prays that God will forgive her all the things she has done the past year-and may do again! Even the Savior asked her to do no more than that-obtain for giveness for the past
 In the evening it is whispered that the Lenten girls becomes worldly again and indulges in sly Irritation under the chan deier. But if so what matter it. for the girl who has worked so faithfully all day for her souls salvation will have the grace to come untainted through her ev- ening of pleasure, unsullied by the one touch of worldliness allowed her in her forty days and nights of self-denial.
 AUGUSTA PRESCOTT
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OPPORTUNITY.

By John J. Ingalls. s. Master of human destinies am |; Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
 wait. -
 Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate. If sleeping, wake; if feasting. rise before = turn away. It is the hour of fate And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire. and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesi-
 tate Condemned to failure, penury and woe
 Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not and return no more.
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BROAD-MINDED DR. PATTON.
Says Princeton VIII Greatly the Trade
 Cork Screws.
m C0rk.SCreWS.

when Dr. Patton signified his willingness to take the reins of Princeton. McCosh had been it's backbone and muscle and Patton became it's strengthening power.
 In the public eye Dr. Patton has been seen of late defending Princeton Inn. At the recent dinner of the Princeton club he said: Students need discipline, but
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VERY YOUTHFUL 0RCAN|ST Master RobertWaIter Wilkes the Youngest of His Profession. HE PLAYS NOW IN HARLEM He is But Fourteen Years Old, and is the Composer of Mass-0ffered Place
 at St. PauPs, Where the Slen-
 der Youngster Plays. 

Robert Walter Wilkes. organist of St. Paul's Roman Catholic church, in Harlem.
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"Dr. McCosh wanted to resign ten years before he did," said Robert Bonner, in recent interview, "and it was not until mentioned certain thing to him that he decided to remain. I told him that cer- tain undesirable man wanted the place, and he then said he would remain"
 That resolution was only withdrawn
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablefs All druggists refund the money if l. fails to cure. 25c. 9-23-9lf
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lessons. with surprising results.
 A Frail I,iysiaur.

But If the child's mind was s;rung and perceptivc. his body was weak, and when