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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-04-27

CHAPTER 1V.--The doctor and his
mother care for her. and the latter is about
to diyu.-e some Of tie secrets relating 10
The ives and its people when she IS
checked by her SOL. Dorothy discovers
that Mrs Eidredge has SON who has been
absent from home for years, and is now
about to return She also notes some
strange happenings q. an abandoned build
In. Oh the grounds. known as the "Stone
House"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-04-27

CHAPTER VI. On returning from
visit. accompanied by Darracott, Dorothy
and he are startled by strange sounds com
ing from the Store House, and proceed 10
investigate.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
SHE RAISES SONG BIRDS.
A Pet Mocking- Bird suggented the Idea
to Southern Girl.

One of the latest of unusual avoca-
tions entered upon by woman is the
raising and training of native song
birds. Miss Louise Cheatam lives near
the popular winter resort, Aiken, S. c.,
and the idea was suggested by the sale
of pet mocking bird. This bird came
to her through a negro boy whom she
caught robbing the parent nest. The
Hedging was the weakling of the flock
and for that reason the boy considered
it worthless and left it on the ground
to die. Miss Cheatam rescued and
raised it.
The second winter of the birds life
it was purchased by a northern visitor
to Aiken, who, CHANGING to pass the
house, heard it singing. This sale gave
the young woman an idea which she
was not slow to follow, and now she
does a thriving business with native
song birds of the south.
Miss Cheatam does not attempt to
hatch them herself, but watching her
chance, goes boldly to the spot where
the parent birds have made their
homes and lifts the nests with their
young broods, off. This is the best and
most humane method, especially with
the mOcking birds, for if a human
hand once enters their nest the parent
bird will kill every remaining fiedging
and, according to Miss Cheatam, her
greatest enemies are these same par
ent birds, for they try in every way
to poison a bird which they find Gagged.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

Maude Adams does not keep snake
| in the hall of the hotel and a tiger in
the drawing-room to discourage admir-
ers and would-be interviewers. An ell
derby maid with an amethyst brooch
is the only obstacle the young actress
sets up between herself and callers of
every kind, says the Chicago Times
Herald The maid is the embodiment
of respectful attention, but her firm
ness shows no hint of wavering. The
fOrtitude of this faithful attendant has
been tried over and over again during
the weeks Babbie has been fascinating
not only the little minister but every
body else in Chicago. Miss Adams is
so sorry, but she can't see YOU, is re-
peated in unvarying tones to the pro
cession of fashionable women and stun
ming girls that pass in and out of the
swell north side fiat
An intimate of the captivating ac-
tTess asserts that the refusal to meet
people is not a desire to surround her
personality with a halo of distance, but
q real necessity to the success of her
work. Knowing that the sapping lit
licensees of society will retard her pro-
gress, if not actually bring her engag-
ing art to a standstill, she declines the
invitations that have been poured in
from everywhere, from the Lake shore
drive to Prairie avenue. Long ago she
discovered that society is not cOndu-
Give to any ambition that is devoted
and consistent. The men of the profess
sion do not permit lionizing or enter
tanning at pink teas, neither does this
theatrical light with the strong indi-
Viduality allow her best energies to be
dissipated in frivolities. Experience
has taught her that conservation of
force is the prime factor in the success
of her taxing art. OF not over-robust
physique, she has found it wise to con-
form absolutely to a rigid code of elm
nation. which leaves her way clear to
the heights she has determined to
reach.
Unlike the visitors, no end of letters
and photographs have penetrated the
rooms at the Virginia, and the requests
for autographs swept in with them
would crowd an express wagon. The
idol of matinee girls, she quietly closes
the doors of both her apartment and
dressing room against distracting
Establishments and bonbons and crested
notes, and spends the time between acts
reading some interesting book. The
daily routine, wherever she happens to
be during the working season, is divid-
ed into three parts. There is first study,
then stage appearance and last some
hours of freedom when the mask is off
and the simple woman attending to
everyday affairs asserts herself.
Miss Adams never ventures outside
her rooms at the Virginia except for a
drive or shopping tour or to go to the
theatre with Miss Florence, her COM
panion who is one of the we'll known
theatrical family of the name The
elderly maid is always included in the
party which gets into the waiting car
riage regularly at o'clock every after
noon. Miss Adams dimes in the dress
ing room, where Cor the hours inter
vening between her arrival shortly
after 4 o'clock she puts herself in the
proper mental attitude for the charac-
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

encouraging archery. A club of ten mem
bers has been formed already, and active
work is soon to begin.
An especially attractive Barn swallow
meeting made Saturday evening memora-
DE for some days beforehand. A large
poster on the elevator bulletin displayed
very life-like clown and an urgent invita-
ton to Barn Swallow members to come
and bring five cents for pink lemonade.
1t turned out TO be a genuine circus.
The stage was abandoned and a ring
constructed in the middle of the barn,
where clowns, acrobats and trained beasts
showed their powers to advantage: The
audience was disposed in concentric cir
cleS round about the ring, ana greeted
the actors with laughter and applause.
By an unfortunate coincidence Society
Zeta Alpha had invited on this same eve
ming many of its friends to Society Hall,
to hear Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son lecture. The size of Society Hall lin
tied the number of invitations, but those
who were there tell of very delightful
Dr.. MacDougall of the Harvard philoso-
phy department lectured before the Phil
osophy Club on "Wednesday night. His
subject was: 1.-The habit of duty
The history club held its fortnightly
meeting on Friday evening in Stone Hall
parlor. The subject of the meeting was
colonization schemes in Africa The
speakers were the following students
Miss Coburn. Miss Sanderson, Miss Kill
patrick and Miss Crosby
President Hyde of BOwdoin is announced
week.
The Pf Eta men of Harvard are TO give
a performance of their attraction for this
wear, 1.-The Bellies of Bellesley," in the
Town hall Monday night. There is much
interest manifested among the students
and the sale of tickets has been excep-
tionally good.
tdIv nearing completion. The work on
the interior is nearly finished. The chairs
within the chancel and the reading desk
which was presented by the club-have
been placed, and it is now supposed that
the chapel will be ready for dedication by
the first of June BY that time it viii be
nossible for the grading to be finished, so
that the building may be seen to the best
advantage in the peculiarly favorable To-
There has lately been much interest
manifested among the students in the in
mates of the Sherborn reformatory prison
for women. Under the auspices of the
Christian Association, an attempt has
been made to regularly send student to
the reformatOry every two weeks 10 tax
TO the women on various subjects and
keen their interests alive. The subjects
chosen have been simple and familiar.
and the girls have been peculiarly sue
cessful in talking to an audience OF this
character
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insincere ministers. who preach in a
tame. Intellectual way the old dogmas,
the stern theology of the last genera
ton.
AS DR.. Holmes said to me one day in
his own study, of a college president
who argued with cheerful conviction on
the certainty of damnation for all who
had not heard of Christ's atonement,
he is lighting for an issue long since
dead and buried" DR. Thomas is a
brave. lovable, conscientious man, who
brings all who hear him to desire a
better life. one nearer the Savior's
ideal. He writes me:
s"I1wanted to make folks read on a
subject which in the abstract they
would be likely to regard with indiffer-
ence. There is very little of the novel
in it. The strongest passages in the
book are actual occurrences"
I shall not reveal the simple plot or
hint at the romance, or even quote the
good things You will want to enjoy it
for yourselves.
My brain octopuses are a little weary
just, now, and so I presume are yours.
Kate SanbOrn
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

I ture of Babbie was done in intaglio in
the centre and upon the right hand cor
ner was cut another picture of Miss
Adams taken from a photograph, which
showed the changefuI face before it
was turned toward the dramatic Mecca
in the east.
Another possession of the actress,
whose real name, by the way, is Maude
Kiskaden, is an enormous scrap book
which is at once the wonder and joy of
| those fortunate enough to see it. The
volume is made up of all the kilograms
and letters and newspaper clippings
relating to "The Little Minister."t - At
the coming out night in New York Miss
Adams was in such a tremOr that she
could scarcely remain in her dressing
room until it was time for her to go on.
The first act was about to begin when
tap at the door was heard and the
business manager of the Empire pre-
scented himself attended by two small
boys carrying big clothes basket piled
with messages which had been tele-
graphed and posted from all over the
world The threatened hysteria dis
appeared in establishments and when
Babbie was called to her triumph
there were no longer traces of nervous
ness. The success brought still more
messages, and the three hundredth
performance more still, and then the
scrap book was begun.
The messages of sentiment were first
inserted. There are yards and yards of
these. Charles Frohman, Miss Adams
manager started the initial page.
Then, written with the authors own
hand, is one by j. M. Barrie. William
Furst the musical director of the En-
pire, contributes some bars of the
music which comes occasionally into
the play, and he also put in an original
composition called the "Babbie Waltz"
E. S. Merritt, the designer and painter
of the scenery, and other artists con-
nected with him, reproduced the diff
ferent scenes of the play in water col
ors on the pages.
To put in practical form the interest
in "Thrums,' or Kirriemuir, which is
the geographical name of the town
where the scene of THE Little Min
ister is laid Miss Adams has sent a
fine library of American books to the
little school connected with the kirk.
A reciprocal compliment to the actress
is a big picture of her as Babbie, which
hangs in the town hall and was re-
Gently unveiled with great ceremony.
Miss Adams has a house in De Lancy
place, New York, where with her
mother and Miss Florence to complete
the family circle, she lives when in
! that town. On big farm off on the
edge of Long Island she spends the hot
months driving or riding about the
country on her favorite horse or play
ing golf on the links in the neighbor-
hood. Even there some hours of each
day are consumed in study which
seems a relaxation rather than a task.
The public never gets into this in
formal home environment which en-
velops her personality as effeetually
as does the alluring mask Of the mad
cap Babbie.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
FANCIES IN HATS.
4FiisEtl
Worcester Women
Have Styles Of Their
Own in Headgear.
MODEST MILLINERY.
j .~ go E.15Q
There is Little Demand
Here for Paris y
Patterns. 1oa

To be possessed of a new spring hat
is the ultra ambition Of every woman
in Christendom, be she the wife OF a
multi-miIiionaire or the daughter Of
rag-picker. .....-..- ,..--.3.4
1t must be stylish. if possible, new
and decidedly springy. There may. be
nothing to go with it, not even new
shoe laces, but without a SPRING. hat
life is but an empty. dream; death
welcome relief from the misery Of hay
ing to wear last winters bonnet, after
Easter. .-..
OF course there are exceptions to
this rule, but exceptions don't count
AS in everything else, Worcester has
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
WELLESLEY COLLEGE.
The Barn Swallow Circus and Other
Notes of Interest.

Wellesley. April IS. = The students of
Wellesley College returned from the ten
days Easter vacation Monday and Tues
day. This return is always greeted by
many changes. During this vacation the
storm doors disappear and also the ice in
the lake.
The force of hired men is at present en-
gagged in raking away dead leaves, and
the summer benches have already begun
to appear. Walking is just now the chief
recreation of the Wellesley student, and
the main business of the biologist, VINO
pursues the April birds with her opera
glass. Some of the more enthusiastic
wheel-women have discovered that the
roads are quite dry and respectable, and
the outdoor migration has begun
Lacrosse has, after long struggles,
gained a place as a registered sport in
the department Of physical training. Thir-
ty students have entered their names for
the sport, and it promises to be popular.
If this promise is fulfilled it will apply
next spring for organization in the ath-
letic association. It is chiefly Miss Hill,
the director of physical training, and the
freshmen who are responsible for the Ia
crosse departure and the same people are
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
THE POSSIBILITIES OF VINES.

Vines, indeed, may cover multitude
of sins-foundations, bare walls, I'M
slightly board fences, often covered
with signs, and implanted sheds; vines
may serve as screens, and give privacy
to the yard; vines may give a shady
nook in the little corner that has so
often worried us to care for. But,
above all. vines may make our houses
homes indeed, adding grace and beauty
to even the stateliest mansion. There
is such an endless variety of vines, and
most of them are so easily cultivated
that they appeal to the veriest novice
or the busiest housewife. In planting
you may have all of the once-kind or
choose many varieties. For quick eff
fects over balcony, fence or screen, the
morning glory, moon flower, nasturti-
UNI, Cobaea scandens and cypress vine
give most pleasing effects For slower
and more permanent results are the
ivies. woodbines, honeYsuckles and
their kind.-E. L. Shuey in the April
Woman's Home Companion.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
THE OLD SLAVE AND THE NEW.
Chicago News.)

He promised that he'd be her slave,
But that was long ago;
For her he'd plan and toll and save,
But that was long ago;
He helped her from the car and he
Would run to get her chair when she
Was twenty and he twenty-three-
But that was long ago.
He took her gently by the arm
But that was long ago
To guide her well away from harm,
But that was long ago.
He bounded at her beck and call;
Before her he was fam to fall
And put her rubbers on, but all
This happened long ago.
He won the maiden's love, and they
Were married long ago;
She sometimes sits and signs today
For dear old long ago.
She's getting gray at thirty-four;
He puts her rubbers on no more,
And all she does is toll and bore
Her slave Of long ago.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
AS THEY DRINK 1T IN PARIS,
a DIsquistion on China and Ceylor
Teas.

The European edition of the New
York Herald not long since had a long
article on teas and tea drinking in
Paris, in the course of which it said:
China tea has a coarser taste, and you
might, under similar circumstances,
think it stronger, but in reality it is
not. 1t is perfectly certain that Ceylon
tea is better and more popular, and can
be made stronger than any other kind
though for ordinary tastes
you would have to use a less quantity
to make a strong cup of tea.
"Ceylon tea does not require to steep
more than three minutes, while China
tea takes four minutes. To make tea
at home, the proper way is to have two
earthenware teapots, heating one first
and then putting the tea in, pouring
freshly boiled water on it, and sleeping
as above, Then pour off the tea into
the other tea pot, having the latter hot
and dry. Tea thus made may stand as
long as you like, and it is always good.
Sleeping tea too long releases the tan
min, which gives the liquid pungent,
sometimes a bitter flavor"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

mere money value, but hold some SEN
timent or suggestion of it for the reel
pient Among the last is big slab
of ONYX from Utah, where in the Nor
mon stronghold the little actress lived
the early years of her life with a
charming actress mother. When it was
found that the pride of Salt Lake City
could not greet her old-time friends in
the familiar places, it was decided to
send bit of the west to her. The re-
membrane took the form of a small
slab of polished onyx dug from it's ma
tive bed for the purpose. Then pic
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

average woman, whether off the stage
or on, being wanting Her figure is very
slender and her hair is of pale, ashy
brown, with no CLINT of gold in its
waves. Her habitual attitude is one of
thoughtfulness, and when not occupied
in conversation she usually has the
nervous speaking hands of Babbie
respectfully clasped on her knee Her
voice is low pitched and of unusual
sweetness, and there comes into it at
times some CLEANS of the gaiety of
Babbie's stage tones. She is a very I'M
ostentatious dresser, wearing chiefly
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

just as she consults ShaLspere for the
next success which she hopes for in
Juliet
Miss Adams will probably take her
fresh honors with the unruffled serenity
which has marked her advancement
from the ranks. No change has taken
place in the gentle actress since her
fame has sounded throughout her ma
tive land. The good will, and in some
cases the affection of her coworkers, is
hers. 1t is said by one of the mem
bers of THE Little Minister" COM
pany, that her charming manner has
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
MISS. MAUDE ADAMS, THE IDOL OF THE MATINEE GIRLS

made the scene shutters as much her
slaves as the audiences she enthralls
over the footIights.
Presents are sent to this admired
woman from every quarter of the
globe. If accepted there would have
been quite enough to start a respect
able museum of latter-day wonders.
Occasionally simple token of admira-
ton or some flowers are accepted but
all other gifts are declined. The ex-
ception, it is noted by those nearest her.
Is in favor of presents that have not
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

ter she is to assume. No visiting is car
ried on between the friends except at
the dinner hour, which is jolly with
chat in which no topic touching the
stage or its business is mentioned. The
nervous energy required to bear Miss
Adams through the play of the even
ing is not drawn upon, and her mind is
kept fresh for the coming tax to be put
upon it.
off the stage Miss Adams shows not
the slightest trace of makeup, even the
powder which is a necessity to the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

costumes of dark cloth for the street,
with soft toques trimmed with rosettes
and other close arrangements. When
driving a long cloak of dull brown cloth
is thrown over the shoulders, and it's
folds reach to the hem of the gown.
Although such a close student and Civ
en- to absorbed interest in her art, there
is still enough of the ordinary woman
in the little actress to make the search
through a fashion book a matter of
pleasure. She likes to glance at the pages
of Vogue for inspiration in gowning,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
Fraulein Elsa Neuman was pro

Fraulein Elsa Neuman was promoted
to her degree of doctor of philosophy in
Berlin University the other day, the first
woman to be so hOnored. She obtained it
in the studies of chemistry and mathe-
MATES, which she had pursued at Gottin-
gen and finished at Berlin. The hall where
the ceremony took place was crowded to
suffocation, and the young woman re-
ceived great applause from the general
public and the students present.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

NASAL CATARRH quickly Yields IA
treatment by Ely.s Cream Balm, which il
agreeably aromatic 1t is received through
the nostrils, cleanses and heals the u-bSis
surface over which it diffuses itself A
remedy Tor nasal catarrh which is driving
or exciting to the diseased membTanS
ognized as a specific. Price 50 cents al
druggists or by mail. A cold in the head
immediately disappears when Cream Balm
Is used. Ely Brothers, IS Warren street
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

But can't you learn to love me?' per
sisted the young man.
She shook her head gently.
i've learned a good many difficult
things she replied. but they have al
ways been things that I wanted to learn.
Stray Stories.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

Evening gown a Ia Grecque, by Doucet.
The fashionable tunic appeals to lovers
of the antique as it recalls the classic
lines of the Greek models Our model is
a successful blending of the antique and
modern. The full, fiaring underskirt is Of
pale yellow mousseline de sole with mar
row border Of semi-precious stones. The
tunic which forms the peplUm, is OF
white india Vellng' ana IS emOroIdered
and amber. The girdle is fine example
of renaissance jewelry, as is also the
necklace of antique canoes. The hair is
done a la Grecque, and is tied with mar
row gold bands.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

The decree has gone forth that while
gloves shall hereafter be relegated to
place filled by cream, mode, mastic,
limbo for dressy occasions and their
putty, colored and ivory shades. Now
people are beginning to discover that
there was something glazing and hard
about white gloves, anyway.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16
NOTES ON FASHIONS.
Pointers That the Wise Woman VIII NOT
Overlook. f..

The Juliette umbrella unites extra
ordinary Iightness with strength. 1t is
covered with light, serviceable silk,
furls so close as to resemble a walking
stick of average thickness, and is sold
at moderate price.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-16

Bunting, the cool, clean and practi-
cally indestructable material is COM
ing back into favor after an iterregnum
of a decade. Black bunting makes
about the most satisfactory street dress
for hot weather a woman can put on
her back, while white bunting makes
an equally useful home or afternoon
frock There are many more ornamen-
tai and dressy fabrics to be bought, but
the woman who is wise will include
one gown of bunting in her summers
wardrobe
Little cape collars are fashionable
Several have already been seen in Wor-
cester and now that tight sleeves are
an accomplished fact, look stylish in
the extreme.