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BONDS.
THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN STOCKS.

The dealings in stocks yesterday were on a
small scale and the changes in prices, except In
a few cases. were inconsequential. The bank
statement did not as usual serve to excite IN
terest and stimulate transactions. The state
ment conveyed a far better idea of the real con-
dition of the banks than did the one issued on
the preceding Saturday. which was nothing
short of absurdty. An expansion Of
S6,S37.400 in loans was plainly attributable to
exchange operations in connection with the
American subscription to the British EXchequer
loan. The loss of IS 341 500 in cash, SS, 1O6,900
being in gold, the result of the gold exports,
which also drew down deposits S309l,600, and
Offset the natural outcome of an increase in
loans While the effect of the various changes
was to reduce the surplus required only S112,9O0,
IT cut down the surplus reserve SI56S9OO leav-
ing ii at S20551050 against S150S2350 a year
ago, and SOS S39 80 two years ago. Possibly it
the fairly accurate representation of the
state of the banks that caused the statement to
be received without demonstration when the
reverse should have been the case, for bank
statement exhibiting accurately the condition of
the banks is something rarely beheld. The sys
tenn Of averages employed in making up the
statement is calculated TO yield misleading re-
suits, and al times 10 produce harmful conse-
quences.
The attention Of spectators in the operations
on the Stock Exchange naturally largely
devoted TO Brooklyn Rapid Transit. The COM
panys annual report considered favorable
on the whole, inasmuch as it showed that in the
last fiscal year something ike is per cent had
been earned on the capital stock with the prom
ise of a materially better showing in the cur
rent year. Notwithstanding this the stock de-
clined in price. which, owing to the peculiar
ways of Wall Street was not surprising. Buy
ing Of the stock had been proceeding and it had
been advancing in price for some time in antici-
patton of the appearance of the report. There
had been fairly exact advance knowledge in the
Street Of the contents of it. When this knowl-
edge was confirmed by the making public of the
figures, sales of the stock to secure accumulated
profits ensued. There was not the same demand
for the stock after the issuance of the report
that there previously had been, and the price
accordingly receded. 1t is generally the case
that a stock which has gone up in anticipation
Of a dividend sells off the declaration of it.
There effort to depIess Peoples Gas
which was moderately successful. Consolidated
Gas stock and rights relapsed into comparative
inactivity. and lost slightly in price. Weakness
developed in American Tobacco. There was
nothing doing in Continental Tobacco Sugar
Refining moved in narrow limits, and closed un-
changed. The trading in the steel stocks was
small, but these issues were steady The leading
railroad shares were quiet, and only fractional
changes in their prices were recorded.
The usual weekly table of price changes for the
more active stocks follow:
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Buying. Lice: selling 1-16c premium. Charleston
Buying par; selling. hc premium
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.-Call money In
ropdnp az ner cent Open market discount rate
for short bills S11-l6 per cent; for long bills S
per cent Berlin discount rate, 4h per cent Ber-
lin exchange on London, 20 marks 4SA pfennigs-
Paris exchange on London, % francs l7ls centimes'
Paris discount rate, 2% per cent
FOREIGN SECURITIES-The London Stock Ex-
change was closed yesterday Spanish As closed
at M French rentes. 100 francs so centimes.
THE SILVER MARKET.-Bar silver, 611sc. Mex
lean silver dollars, 1872. Bar silver in London
2Sisd
GOLD PRENrIUM-In Madrid 2SS7; Lisbon. $3.50;
Buenos Ayres, 1870; Rome. 6.75.
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WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES

LONDON CLOSED-The London Stock Ex
change closed yesterday. and there
quotations from that centre.
BANK CLEARINGS.-Bank clearings are
pandng at nearly all points except at New-York
where speculative inactivity keeps them down.
INSTALMENT DUE.-An instalment of 80 per
cent on subscriptions for the new stock OF the
Consolidated Gas Company Is due tomorrow.
A RUMOR.-The rumor is repeated that an alli-
of sort Is to be formed between the
Carnegie Steel Company and the American Steel
and Wire Company. There is no confirmation Of
the report.
COAL RATES.-There is a report that anthracite
coal prices will be again advanced on September
% cents ton
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BUYERS AND SELLERS.

The principal buyers and sellers of stocks were
w. Frankenhemer bought St. Paul. Street & Nor
ton T. ]. Taylor and H 1. Judson' s. Co. sold
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Alling Reynolds & Co.
bought Northern Pacific common; Wassermann
Brothers sold. 1. & s. Wormser, H. Zuckerman
f. H. Palmer and H. Content & Co. bought Brook
lyn Rapid Transit; II. 1. hudson & Co. Q,OOO sold
r. H. Bissell & Co. and Watson & Brown sold
Peoples Gas. l.. Wormser, Kendall & Whitlock,
Bell & Co. and Wilcox & Co. bought Sugar Re
hning; Walsh, Taylor & Co. w. r. Houghtaling
Co and A H. Caspary sold. ]. H. Griese sold
600 HaIsted & Hodges $500 and Watson & Brown
1000 Peoples Gas Street & Norton sold 1000
American Tobacco.
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OUTSIDE SECURITIES.

The outside securities market closed steady.
Standard Oil closed at 53iQ5Ss, against 53OQ534 on
Friday. Last prices of other prominent issues
were Havana Commercial, S1aQ914; preferred 37q
SO; Baking Powder, 91d9S; Bay State Gas. 1a1ls;
Markeen Copper, 4@G; Amalgamated Copper. SS1kd
50; Interstate OIL, 577sq5s2; National Salt, 41q43;
preferred, $685. Amsterdam Gas 1st 6s, 1864 4qlO6,
Rubber Goods. 2714d277s; preferred. 7614G77; Dis
tng of America. 414Q4&: preferred. 19q1924; Stor-
age Power 149l5; General Carriage. 6l4a611 New
York Transportation SdS24. General quotations
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IRON AND STEEL.

Iron and Steel" says that the trade has i'm
proved appearance, and adds:
The downward trend of prices seems to be stll
further checked this week, and it is questionable
If the advances. on the whole. have not fully ball
anced declines. Bars certainly stronger. Plates
have come to a halt. Merchant steel Is hrmer
Even old material is regaining a wholesome view
of life On the other hand, merchant pipe has
out in a set of discounts somewhat
lower. and miscellaneous lot of manufactured
articles adjusting prices in harmony with the
reduction in the cost of the material from which
the. made
1t is not uncommon TO hear in pig iron circles
the remark that the decline has probably reached
the limit. That view is not universal among
sellers
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CONFIDENCE IN VALUES.

John H. Davis describes feature of the financial
situation thus
For time past the shares Of dividend pay
ing roads have been quietly but steadily picked UP
offered and are held by those who know the
properties they represent stronger physically
and financial!y-better managed and earning NOR"
net-than ever before. That they willing to buv
at these prices shows not only n confidence in the
stocks themselves. but is also an evidence TINT
they have no fear regarding the coming elections,
and willing to load up and then go eff for
their summer pleasures leaving the market to take
of itself and feeling that before the year
closes their purchases will show them a handsome
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CORN DAMAGE IN KANSAS.

Speaking of the damage to in Kansas.
director of the Atchson Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad says:
The corn acreage Of Kansas was very largely
increased that of last year. and the yield per
acre was expected to be exceptionally large; IN
other words bumper crop of corn was antci-
pated. As IL is. Kansas farmers will receive higher
prices for their corn, and had there been bump
err crop part of the corn yield would have had to
be burned because there not railroad facilities
sufficient TO carry 1t out, and the price would
have been so low not to have paid freight and
left a profitable return.
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THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN Roxns
GOVERNMENT BONDS-Market stead,, Ls,.
quotations follow.

RAILROAD BONDs-Market irregular ro.oi
sales amounted in par value TO s229OO against seso
OO on Friday. The heaviest dealings were IN the
Atchison general As, Canada Southern lst 5s Mex
ican international IS. St Louis and Iron Mounta,r
general IS, ST. Louis Southwestern 2ds, Southern
Pacific Is, Wabash debenture Bs and Western New
S---~ 2Ed Pennsylvania general s-4s
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Bankers posted rates were;

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE Orleans Com
merciai. 5oa75c discount; bank 81 premium
San Francisco-sight. lOc: telegraph l21hc Cincin
nati-Between banks. I5c discount over the counter
0oc premium. Boston-Par and &c premium Chi
cago-Par. st, Louis-5oc discount Savannah
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A QUIET DAY IN STOCKS.
RATIONAL BANK STATEMENT.
BRooKLYN RAPI0 TRANsIr ZEE oBJEcr
OF INTEREST IN SPECULATION.

Closing prices yesterday of the principal
tive securities and net changes from Fridays
,rscss v-ere.
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COLORADO SPRINGS STOCFS

Closing quotations on the Colorado Springs NJ,
Ing Stock Exchange. furnished by William p p
bright & Co.. Of Colorado Springs.
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TIE FEDERAL TREASURY.

Washington. Aug. S-Thes condition of the Trea-
sury division of issues and redemption, at the be-
ginning OF business to-day was as follows:
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CHICAGO STOCKS.

FURNISHED by walker Brothers. No. Il Broaau.,,
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$4,000.


secured. profitable investnieh.
presented; il is particularly 50 10 enc VINO S,y
devote services. as he would acquire - -,
knowledge of what soon Will be a great ue-s
investment and he will have many OppOrIGN-.ST
for profitable speculation therein. To one 80, -,
fled for the position salary OF SStNN = A. In
will he paid. and this vii. soon be matstls~' bas
creased Preference given 20 one Wh' -.
knowledge OF financial affairs and WHOSE - bs
ness or social acquaintance might Uitilile'' ,sl-
of value in extending the affairs or tAe Ssas
pany engaging his services. For the lnves'l. Il
a stock interest will be given. the diyideHCs "a.
which will amount to S6OOO or $S.N. 80 = Q
and the investment will be secured th'v~Sslsi Sslsi
Trust company. and will be returned ~ -
months thereafter or he reinVEsted on tefuJ Jsa3
be then agreed upon. Particulars can y orel
only at interview at subsCTil er's One Ser
satisfactory evidence OF qualifications az
nished Address. osses
"LUNDY." Box 20. Tribune JIM
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Surplus ........ SOS 125950 S2oo51O50 DecS156SOOO
The Clearing House statement yesterday was as
follows Exchanges 6S5; balances. s0Sl5,269
For the week: Exchanges. s730, 760,297; balances,
against exchanges last week of S66 1856 lO5
and balances of $!,729,667.
The following are the changes for the correspond
ing weeks three preceding years: 1Se9-Ioans
increased 81 O4s6O0 cash increased $1Oo7,6Oo de-
posits Increased $12S25OO and surplus reserve in
creased $685. s75 1S9SLoans increased T3S2200 cash
decreased 80 207 500 deposits increased s. 25s2OO and
surplus reserve decreased $42726o0 1ss7-Loans in
creased s. 4475OO cash increased $222260o deposits
Increased s. 800 and surplus reserve increased
sS7O.725
The following table shows the bank holdings on
the respective dates:
Leans $500 743 400 S747, 1913 900 $S1S $50 GOO
Snecie lG4 573 200 173,66.2GO 16S e229OO
Legal tenders ..-... 555195OO 54,2G6.4Oo l52l3Gt0
DEPOSITS 185 O13 800 S5l, ,201OOO S4311s0O
Circulation =. ..... II 600 64,2GG,4GO 2SOSS GOO
The following shows the relation between the
total reserve and total deposits on the respec
tive dates
Aug % '9S Aug 10. Aug IS. 90
specie .Sl64 S1T3. &c., 200 S16S 922 900
Legal tenders 5551o5O0 5426d4oo '@2l56oo
rota. reserve O02 100 s227 $50 600 s244
X required .. - -,
against deposits l0l Dob 100 2l2SOZ1o I'D Ide 40o
Surplus ...... SOS 839 $50 s15.Os2s50 SO 557 O5O
Percentage ...,.....- 81 -o' st.
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GOOD MoNEY IN pEF- .ULrgD sOND.

1OoR hONL& Nv OER- NN-1 ~ ,,a.r6
A small issues OF good sound s,e.N i--sz ~
bonds behind iE interest payments tenpoI a4 80 n'l
hard times yet be bought low kns-SS sssss
intrinsic merits Now paying more lhala ta',t n ~
rate catching fast Quick they1 ale.s harli
defauting list viii jump 10 70 - points InF' urkass
a little along 1his line address Olr,s5 :
Spokane. WASH
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Saturday, Saturday, Net
, aug. II. Aug. IS. changes
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MONEY RATEs.-Money CALL IA per cent.
Time money per cent for sixty days. 5A per cent
for three months per cent for four months and
4a4h per cent for six months. railroad col
lateral Commercial paper. 4d5 per cent for three.
four and six months for the best names. and above
for names not so well known.
FOREIGN ExCHANGE.-Market dull Actual
closing rates follow
Cabler. Sight Sixty days.
Sterling ..4ssh@4ssk 4.s7h 4s4Q4. 81 4
i
Reichsm'ks 05k @95 5-i6 95t4o5 3-l0 94hd94 D-i0
oSuilders. 40Ad40 3-i6 80 1915
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SEX dividend TEX rights.
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OTHER CITIES.
FERRY COMPANIES.

And interest. tDividend OF per cent declared pay
September l.
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SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS.

Actual tales CLOSING Share
Open HighILow. Fin. Bid. Ask. sold.
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HONEY AND EXCHANGE.

ENLISTED
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Total sales f1r :he week
Total in preceding week.
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of troops and was finally parched into
submission.
The English army had already been
making use of the heliograph in AZ
ghanistan, and during the Boer war Of
twenty years made effective use of the
Nance photographic apparatus. The
great service this means Of communica-
ton has been to the different British
commanders besieged by the Beers in
the present South African was is very
well known.
The field heliOgraph apparatus, as
used to-day, consists of a sole leather
pouch containing a sun mirror and a
station mirror, a small screen or shut
ter, a sighting rod and two small tripod
stands for the mirrors. The entire ap-
paratus does not weigh over ten pounds
and can easily be carried over the arm
When the air is clear, signals may b'
easily taken by the naked eye at dis
lance of 100 miles, and by an expert
at the rate of fifteen words a minute.
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Paid DutY on a Mouse.

Uncle Sam is a stern stickler for form
and the amount of red tape employed in
the custom house is really remarkable
1t was demonstrated the other day that
not even a tiny mouse can creep into
our domains from foreign shores with
out paying duty. A gentleman return
ing from Europe brought with him to
Philadelphia a pet white mouse, of
which he had grown very fond. His
"mouselets" was assessed at 20 per
cent. which so enraged the owner that
he vigorously protested. This case was
appealed and, the board Of classical
ton Of general appraisers. after mature
deliberation in solemn conclave. hand
ed down a decision in which the protest
was oyerruled.
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flash, is sent out These flashes are
read by the person at the receiving end
with the ease of a telegraph operator
taking a message. The Photograph was
invented in 1921 by Gauss, who used it
as a signal in the measurement Of an
giles. The longer the line the larger
must be the disk The longest line thus
far observed iss192 miles. which was
observed in California, and required
mirror of seventy-seven square inches
in area. Ordinary heliOtrOpes used on
lines less than fifty miles in length are
only about two square inches in area.
For it's successful operation clear at
mosphere is necessary. Two hours be-
fore sunset is the most favorable time.
The military value Of the photographic
method Of transmitting Information
may be readily imagined. Its first adj
vantage is its extreme simplicity. 1t
does not necessltate the keeping open Of
| lines of cOmmunicat ton, there are no
wires to protect no batteries to look
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rhe Nnrmandy Barber.

There's a proverb which insinuates
tbar travellers tales" are always open
~ snspicion. Therefore we do not vouch
for This one. reported by Paris CORE
snondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, on
The authority of a friend who had just
visited Normandy.
lie tells me that in a little village up
here ne was shaved once by woman
narher To moisten the soap she spat
~ n like a bootblack on his backing.
rs that the usual way Of making a
latherY" he asked her.
"No." replied the tonsorial artist I'VE
only do that with strangers. That's our
regular way" and she pointed to SIS
tor barber who was shaving a peasant
in an adjoining chair
Nv friend looked around and saw a
.roceful illustration Of the local fash
;on The other woman was splitting on
tIa mans cheeks and moistening the
brush in that way
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lecturer at Cambridge IN 1867 and AZ
Slade professor of the fine arts at OK.
ford in 1870.
during his long and brilliant career
says the Chicago Tribune. many sub.
Jects engaged Mr.. Ruskin's attention
besides those pertaining to art in its
various forms. He utilized the oppor
tunlties of his lectures before various
workingmen's societies and on other
public occasions to treat subjects of
pohtlco-economical, philosophical and
social nature. Though not always or.
thodox in these directions and some
times impracticable, the beauty Of his
style, his glowing Imagery, and the elo-
quence of his dlctiOn made his address.
es singularly attractive, and they were
read with interest the world over when
they appeared in book form. While his
most important contributions to ART
were his earliest works, yet some of
those which followed notably Unto
This Last" Ethics of the Dust" "Ses-
anne and Lilies" Grown of wild
OllVe, The Queen of the Air" and
The Cestus of Aglaia" will be always
more popular, not alone because they
are less technical but also because they
contain some Of the most exquilstely
finished passages in the whole range Of
modern literature.
Mr.. Ruskin's powers were exhausted
long ago by overwork and the fever o
production. For some years past h
has lived in seclusion, hopelessly wreck
ed in mind and body, but the brillian
work he accomplished in his prime ha
added UNNECESSARILY not alone to tn
progress of art but to the wealth o
English literature. In art he made him
self an authority. To literature he ha
contributed from the pure well of Ell
glish undefled."
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weather Is cold. becomes always larger.
1t builds out from the edges, and in
few hours It will Increase many feet in
diameter. So much for the broad and
sleepy flow Of the Mississippi.
1t is another sort Of ice foe that floats
on the Missouri. for the Missouri IS an
other sort of river. Where the Missis-
sippi flows from two to three miles an
hour at normal current velocity, the
Missouri is racing along seven and eight
miles and. while the Mississippi is
sweeping evenly and smoothly. the Mis-
souri, is rushing. swlrling and cutting
mn after the fashion of the famous wa
ters that fall at Lodore.
So the foes of the Missouri are
whlrled and ground one against the 9th
or until they are round as wheel
averv one of them. and half Of them
SHINING one way, and the balance the
other. They rarely get larger than four
feet in diameter, and the major portion
of Them are not more than three Con
stant grinding upon their edges builds
nm a cornice Of white, powdered Ice
and ike little ice plates that would
hold water. and looking for all the
world like 10000 oyster patties migra
t,ne TO the sea. they 90 bobbing and
spinning along in the prettiest Of pro
cessions.
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inter and no burdensome APPARATUS TO

after and no burdensOme apparatus TO
carry about.
The Indians of America, like the old
warriors of the Scotch highlands, real
lied the Importance Of signal fires in
war time and made use Of code Of fire
flashes: but it was not until 1922 that
Colonel Colby Of the British Royal en-
rineers devised a more adequate system
for transmitting messages by sun
flashes. His method Of doing this was
nv mailing a certain number Of pieces
Of bright tin on poles and exposing
Them TO the suns rays. Some time
later this was improved on by the adop-
tion of Il plain mirror. In 1888 an En-
glish officer at Gibraltar used an ordi-
nary looking glass to reflect flashes
across the strait to Tangier, thereby
carving on long distance conversa-
tion with other English officers in At
RIGA.
This mirror system was experiment.
oil with and improved upon until the
year 1878. when the United States gov
eminent purchased the latest models
and began the instruction Of a specia
signal corps in photography. The mill
AIRY value Of such sun writing was wei
lt,nown when. in 1856. General Mile;
began his Indian campaign agains
Geronimo. II the truth We're only
known. it was the Photograph more
han anything else that led to the round
ing up and capture Of the famous
lblood-drinking red man. one can i'm
lagine the surprise of the Indians whel
they found that they could not NOV
without the fact being known to tn
Americans and the movement mystic
riously anticipated. Signal parties, il
fact were flashing hourly information
from mountain peak to mountain peak
and the Indian warriors headquarter
were always known at Miles camp
Through the use Of the heliograpI
Geronimo was kept away from waite
by rapidly stationed and mobile band
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which was subsequently enlarged INTO
he standard volume known as Modern
PAINTERS" which appeared in 1913. his
theories were strenuously opposed D!
9ther art critics, and in the second eu'-
lion Of Modern Painters he replied 70
hem. This work was warmly receiver
both in Europe and America and estao-
iShed his fame as a writer. Temporary
y leaving the subject of painting NE
turned his attention to architecture anu
his next two volumes. "Seven Lamps OF
Architecture" and "Stones Of Venice,
increased his reputation and made MS
Tame as critic secure. Volume at'er
volume rapidly appeared. He was a
prodlgious worker In addition TO ms
looks he was frequent contributor 10
newspapers and periodicals and ne soon
became one Of the most popular Zee
'urers in England. His services 10 arr
ere recognized by his appointment -
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HIS IDEAL WOMAN.
Not So Much of an Angel as a Sympa-
thetic, All-Forgiving Human.

Not So Much of an Angel as a Sympa-
thetic, All-FOrgiving Human.
"AIan has a number of fixed, old
fashioned notions about the ideal wom
an which are quite apart from ques-
lions of complexion and Dress writes
Carrie L. Garrett in the Woman's
Home Companion.
The sober truth is that while men
may seek diversion with the more
snowy, fippant type of girl, and are
often caught by mere gli' ter, they have
an ideal far. far above lis cheap type
which is imperishable. A man does not
picture a completely limp and charac-
terless creature as his souls ideal. how
ever sweet Yet the woman as she
appears in his dreams is not too clever.
1t is n pleasure to him to be a little
superior to his mate-to be looked up
to-and as the true woman desires to
look up it is clear that Natures ar
rangements In these matters are not
without design. The most charming
woman Of all is she who has the con
summate wit to seem TO look up when
really she stands on a level with the
man who loves her, or perchance "A lit
tie above him.
zone thing imperatively demanded in
the makeup of the ideal woman is
sympathy-that all-divlning, all-forgiv
ing quality which makes the whole
world akin. Sympathy is one Of the
prime factors of charm. SO is humor
\ man is fearfully lonesome when biz
wife cannot see his jokes. She cOulC
hardly offer him a more deadly affron
than to laugh in the wrong place a
one of his pet stories. The ideal WON
an is Relationships the wise, sweet
old-fashiOned notions about right ant
wrong. \ man IS quite capable o
making merry over his wife's scruple
of conscience, but I think he would b