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Wisdon's S Whispers

Instinct is praised only when fortune
follows a financial venture.
The brains may refuse to respond but
the tongue manages to keep active.
A genuine poet is the one who finds
commentator in the few words placed
on a bank check.
1t is difficult to realize that We may
possess as many faults as those most
severely criticised.
Everyone finds a warm spot in the
heart for some individual.
The honesty of many men Is based on
the ability to discover the danger sig
nails.
But little value is attracted to the vic
tory that comes without something like
an opposition.
II you desire to impart flavor to
your conversation allow others to
show how little they know.
Bank books are not always as impor-
tant as they appear.
We all are willing to confess to our
selves how sadly deficient we are in
many important branches of informa-
tion.
1t is no trouble for a woman to tel
when a man is eyeing her critically.
Too many men think women are wor
through few commonplace compliments
A woman's contempt is thrown at a
man with sledge hammer force.
When men are by themselves they dis
cuss women with little in the way Of
polish.
1t touches a woman's heart when Z
mans sorrow shows in his face.
The hobby a man hugs most tightly
sometimes makes his seem wanting i.
good sense.
Women possess enough egotism to pre-
vent them falling in their own estimation
A pretty face and a trim figure col
knock spots out Of mans ideal women
Because a woman pronounces a maj
good looking 1t does not follow that 9th
ers think the same way.
/ 1t is astonishing how much "bosslng'
from a woman a man will submit to be
fore marriage.
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The cannibaI Tree.

The "cannlbal tree" as it is called, is
a native of Australia, though even
there it is exceedingly rare. Its elassi-
fication has hitherto proved a puzzle
to the natural historians Of the world,
for though its external appearance re-
sembles the Agave americana the lat
ter is without the peculiar Characters
tics Of the "cannibal tree"
1t was first discovered by a party OF
Australian explorers who were told
Of its flesh devouring propensities by
a tribe of natives who worshiped 1t
as we'll as used it as means of execu-
ton. The whole plant resembles the
cactus in appearance, but the leaves
are broader and fiatter, and so strong
as to bear the weight of a good sized
man. When the natives wish to ex-
ecute a victim they erect a rough sort
of scaffold close TO the tree and drop
him into the leaves, when they close
Immediately together, killing and ulti'
mately assimilating the man. On ac
count of a lack of victims and back
wardness on the part Of volunteers th'
explorers did not ee the plant per
form to its full capi ifitz,
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he should mo uer upVn nis tv,urn "a,
shape like a dragon, but that he was to
have no fear. He was to come TO her
and kiss her upon the mouth, however
dreadful might be the appearance
which she should assume.
Now, when the man returned to the
castle. after he had been made knight
by his fellows he rode upon a palfrey,
and he was attended by his squires
and his retainers and a great cavalcade
Of others who had come from far coun-
tries by ship with him.
And he rode into the castle yard, and
there he saw a dragon OF many yards
OF length and Of aspect most fearsome'
and he knew that the princess had
done what she told and that she had
taken form Of dragon TO fright him.
He would have kissed her on the
mouth as she had said, but his palfrey
took fright and reared terribly and
threw the knight to the ground.
Then the princess, thinking that be
was afeared Of the kiss Of the dragon
let cry sacrifice, and the knight ant
his horse and hia oaval"aha Dor'
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A Christmas Hint

One methodlcal book giver keeps @
blank book labeled Christmas Pres
ents." in which she keeps a list of all
those to whom she sends gifts. The
names and addresses are entered in
ink. When she first goes over the list
she writes the proposed present in pen
Gil, so that If necessary she can erase it.
Then when 1t is quite settled that a GER
tain gift shall go to a certain person
she writes 1t IN ink and thus keeps n
complete record of all she sends each
year.
Such a record IS of the greatest
value. The amount of time and trouble
1T saves is incredible. 1t also does away
with the horrible thought that perhaps
we are sending exactly the same pres
ent to a friend that we did last year.
with this list one can in a moment turn
back and see what one sent a friend
last Christmas and the Christmas be-
fore. "Oh, yes, a photograph frame
last year, and book the year before.
I must send her something quite differ
ent this year"
A word to the wise is sufficient. II
you are a busy woman and have not a
Christmas book start at once.
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aegree. But the Princess Tamara was
a proud princess. and she would have
none Of their favor-no, not favor,
even from the king Of farthest Ind.
She would have none Of him, and she
caused to make let a great joust and
tourney, and he was slain.
SO that was the end of that king.
Now, upon a day the Princess Tama-
ra performed a great magic. She let
make herself into the form Of drag
on, and nowhere ever in the world
was ever seen a dragon so terrible as
she. Then she caused messages to be
sent to all the princes Of the earth,
and all the kings, and all the knights,
and all the mobiles Of great degree, and
she said in this message that whose
ever, be he king or prince or noble,
should come and kiss her on the mouth
while she was in the form Of the drag
on. then he should be king over her
dominions and rule with her on the
throne.
Now, upon another day the Princess
Tamara was in a room in her castle
combing her hair-Dlack, IKE the hlBhl
and into the castle came a man who
had ridden from a great ship some
where, and he had heard Of the mar
velous beauty Of the Princess Tamara,
and he would have her to wife. Now,
in the mirror when she was combing
her hair she saw the image Of this
man, and she asked Of him II he were
knight. and he said, "Nay, am no
knight but only a sailor come from a
ship"
Then she told him to return to his
fellows and cause them TO make a
knight Of him, for he was fair of favor
and man such as might reign as king
in her dominions.
Then he returned to his ship. and his
companions made knight Of him.
But before he had gone from the CHS
tie the Princess Tamara had said that
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bed feet, but he win also get a vision
with which no florists shop and no
dirty city streets can compare.
Out in the woods the white snow lies
unbrolSen, except for the little foot
prints of the children of the wild-the
rabbits, the squirrels and the birds
The great white silence is interrupted
only by the faint cheep-oheep-cheep Of
winter birds, and the whisperings that
so on in the dead leaves Of oak trees
whisperings that doubtless concern
things that happened last summer when
the woods We're green and the oak tree
full OF singing birds.
Crunch, crunch go your footsteps
through the SNOW. You do we'll to take
them as softly as possible, for IL you
can conceal your great noisy presence
you may get intimate peeps of woods
life which will surprise and delight you.
For the woods Is not dead In winter,
as ignorant persons in comfortable
houses suppose. 1t is brim full of life.
But it has trick of withdrawing
within itself at the approach of IA
stranger. And it will not come out un-
I'll you have shown yourself a proper
one to behold its secrets.
The mystery Of the winter woods is
revealed only to the quick eye, the
keen ear and the patient heart. And
these must go delicately shod.
But the green's? Oh, yes, the greens.
They are a side issue. once you be-
gin to get them they will be cracking
and shaking OF snow.
Almost any wild green thing does for
wreaths. Cedar. powdered with it's
bluish-white berries makes charming
/ ones. SO does ordinary white pine
All the graceful growing things like
wintergreen, princes feather. and the
running, ground and coral pines, lend
themselves readily to the making oi
Wreaths.
You may have to brush the snow
away to get them-which is part of tn,
pleasure. 1t is such spotless, perfec
snow, after the sad mess we call snow
in town.
And the wreaths, when they are done
will be lovely. Beside which, there wa
the exhilarating joy of taking then
ourselves from the very hands of tn
winter woods.
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rhe Primitive noor.

The Oldest books in existence are,
doubtless, those OF the Babylonians,
but the great permanency Of these is
explained by the material OF which
they are composed. and it does not
follow that they were the first books
to be made. We know that the Egyp-
tlans employed a papyrus roll from the
earliest historical periods and that the
Hindoos made their palm leaf books at
n very early day. In short every civ
ilized nation is discovered at the very
dawn Of its history in full possession
Of a system Of bookmaking. 1t is I'm
possible to decide the question as to
whether one nation borrowed from an
other In developing the idea OF book
making. -Harper's Magazine.
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Wanted-A Woman

Wanted-a woman-no saint. under
stand,
But a womanly woman, who, on every
hand,
Sheds a lustre Of purity. goodness and
grace,
Who carries her loveliness stamped on
her face;
Whose wisdom's intuitive, insight is
deep,
Who makes living sunshine where life's
shadows creep;
Who's poised in her little worlds CEN
tire; and who
Is gentle. responsive and tender and
true;
Whose sweetness and graciousness 1T
like a gown
Do you think I might find such a one
in town?
New Orleans Picayune.
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Dress to Increase Heiehth

Long perpendicular lines.
No horizontal effects.
No pronounced plaids.
Cuban heels.
For the street, skirts that just clear
the ground.
Trailing skirts for the house.
Plain fabrics, or those with fine, in
conspicuous pattern.
Narrow shoulders and dropping
sleeves.
Long stoles Of fur or feathers.
Either a hip jacket or a full-length
coat.
Toques rather than big hats.
No deep flOunces, no three-quarter
coats, no broad shoulder-puff, and no
deep-pointed girdle.
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cuffs Of linen embroidery so many girls
are wearing.
There's a run on Christmas post
cards, and as these souvenirs require
no envelopes they make about the least
expensive remembrance possible.
Among the seasons greetings that
can be put to use afterwards are the
beautifully decorated little bookmark5.
Evening journal., 1904-12-24
Getting Wreaths

There are two ways of getting Christ
mas wreaths.
One way is to buy them at a florist,
or from the men and women who sell
them on the streets.
The other way is to go out in the
woods and choose your greens and make
the wreaths yourself.
Blessed is that lucky individual who
has the woods and the leisure to adopt
this last procesl
He may get pricled hands and num-
Evening journal., 1904-12-24

Early numbers of The Century, 1t is an
nounced, will bring, among other good
things, fiction from Alice Hogan Rice, Ed
ward w. Townsend. Eden Philpotts,
Maud Wilder Goodwin. Caroline Abbot
Stanley. Margherlta Arlina Hamm, Kate
Douglas Wiggin, Maurice Francis Egan.
Anne Warner. and Helen r. Martin; and
articles of Importance and value on
Korea and Its Emperor" by William T..
Sands. former adviser of the emperor:
"The Everglades Of Florida and "Phila-
delphia in Art" A notable feature Of the
February number will be the story Of
THE Boston symphony Orchestra and
It's Founders" by Richard Aldrich, IL
lustrated with numerous portraits and
sketches. Early issues viii contain. too,
articles on the miracles wrought by
Luther Burbank's work in breeding fruits
and flowers; edible cacti, the white black
berry, the plumcot, etc, etc.
The January Red Book has appeared,
with n cover of artistic beauty and
brightness, high in the list of mid-win-
ter magazines. The Red Book has been
enlarged so that seventeen stories are
| included, and there is a new type dress
which increases its attractions typo
graphically. The special feature OF
Photographic art studies is a series OF
eighteen portraits of the most famous
stars of the operate world by Aimee
DUPONT, a feature particularly timely
just now in the midst of the grand op-
era season. The authors that are
represented in the number are Helen
TOmpkins, David Graham Phillips,
Frederick Walworth, Martha McCul-
loch-Williams, owen oliver, Constance
Norris, Wilbur d. Nesbit. Theodore
Waters. Maitland lie Roy Osborne,
David Q. Bangs Helen Palnar Edral
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Christmas Candies

Butter Scotch.-Boil one cupful OF
sugar. one cupful of butter and one cup.
full OF molasses until it hardens when
dropped into cold water. Spread thinly in
pans and mark in little squares.
Sugared Popcorn.-Boil together one
cupful of sugar, one tablespoonful Of but
ter and three teaspoonfuls of water until
candled. Pour on popcorn and stir briskly
until the corn is we'll coated. Flavor with
vanilla If desired.
Stuffed Dates.-Shell and skin peanuts,
remove the pits from dates and in each
date insert two whole nuts. Press together
and roll in granulated sugar.
Chocolate Caramels.-One cupful Of
milk, two cupfuls of sugar. one cupful OF
molasses. half a cupful OF grated choco-
late, and vanilla to suit. Boil for one and
quarter hours and cool in buttered tins.
Nolasses Candy-One cupful of New Or
leans molasses, n half cupful Of light
brown sugar, two tablespoonfuls Of Vine
gar and butter the size Of an egg. Boil
until the mixture hardens when dropped
into cold water, and then drop in Ole
/ fourth teaspoonful of soda. Pour on but.
/ tered plates TO cool.
Evening journal., 1904-12-24

Ray Stannard Bakers article on Lynch
ing in the South, which readers viii hnd
in the January McClure's is an achieve
ment an too fare IN th6.discussion of the
negro problem. Neither academic nor par
tizan. it is an authoritative study Of tho
causes which led to the recent outbreaks
In Statesboro, Ga, and Huntsville, Ala.
by trained journalist in whom humaa
sympathy takes the place of sectional
prejudice. With no thesis TO prove, Mr.
Baker visited the actual scenes of these
mob tragedies, and obtained Information
from the very actors themselves, Eien
and low, black and white. The facts and
conclusions that he puts so dramaticall"
will do more TO break down the barriers
Of sectional misunderstanding than many
an act Of Congress.
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thrown into the river a thousand feet
below.
And the princess reigned alone. and
never came man who would dare kiss
the dragon on the mouth.-New York
Press.
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Franklin, Jeannie Pendleton, Cora
Leadbetter, Winifred Mallon and Lynn
ID. Follett.
North and south, east and west, tho
Bible Society sows; and that no ground is
too barren for its seed. surely the follow
ing true incident proves.
A Cree Indian and his son, fishing IN the
Northwest some years ago during the
viater season, travelled on snow-shocs s
across the plains. thinking they carried
s. hat they called the Book OF Heaven"
in their pack. When they reached n
hunting-ground, however. ono hundred
and forty miles distant from tho fishery,
they found the book had been left be-
hind. 1t is a fact that one OF them went
back on his tracks, walking In four days
two hundred and eighty miles through the
wild, bear-infested forests 20 regain that
Bible-"sowing the Bible" EyerS body .
Magazine for January.
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The only sure way to an envious
mans favor is not To deserve it.
Steele.
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eventually forced to discontinue it IN
til he returned to England.
But, although he was not practicing
his art, his residence in India had it's
compromising advantages. 1t afforded
him ample opportunities, of which he
was not slow to avail himself, Of
studying the wild denizens of the JUL
gle, which he loves to portray.
The silhouette must necessarily
leave much to the Imagination there
is no shading to relieve the flatness OF
the picture. All depends on the per-
lection of the outline to convey an i'm
preston of depth, so that the minds
eye may fill in the details.
Stays are, perhaps, the most diff
cult of all animals to delineate correct
ly. The perspective of the horns
changes with the slightest turn of the
head; the very gracefulness of the
body and the slender legs are boz
rowed from a certain ungainliness, so
to say, shown in their various atti-
tudes.
To glance at the illustrations Of this
article one would imagine that the
artist who "scissored" these out of
black paper must be an expert
draughtsman.
This is not the case. On the con-
trary, If anyone asked Capt. Tharp to
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equally true that the cultivation OF
very poor land. Some growers, from
force of habit, perhaps, every spring
plant corn on land which they know is
too poor to produce profitable corn.
The blowing and cultivating Of poor
soil is as expensive as the blowing and
cultivating of fertile soil. Corn grow
ing should not be attempted on such
land until it is brought into a fertile
condition by the growing and blowing
under of leguminous crops, the appli-
cation Of manures, etc. In the mean
time some of the crops that require
less fertility than corn may be grown.
It should be remembered that the ma
ture of the corr plant Is such that it
will not produce grain unless the soil
is rich enough to afford considerable
growth of stalk, and that the belt yield
Of ears is not obtained unless the
stalks have made maximum growth.
For this reason some other plants will
produce small or fair crops on soil too
poor to produce corn. A cotton plant
adjusts it's yield of lint to the fertility
of the coil, small plant producing a
small number of bolls containing lint
of as good quality as that from a
larger plant bearing many more bolls.
A hay crop is also quite regular in
proportion to the fertility of the soil.
This is not true, however, of corn.
When poor soil dwarfs grass to half its
IF fc
by about one-half, but when poor soil
dwarfs the corn plants to half their
normal size it is probable that there
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construction. There is no remedy for
an ungainly pose but to- commence the
scene all over again.
1t would be more correct \ call sill
houette-cutting a gift rather han IN
art No amount Of practice Will ena-
BILE anyone to produce such pictures
unless he has a natural talent for tho
work.
The artist who aspires to this meth
cd of delineation must possess two
qualities-an accurate eye for form,
and steady hand Without both
these, he can TO nothing Steadiness
of the hand is absolutely necessary, es-
pecially in the production of the fine
tracery work shown in some of the
illustrations.
Before commencing to work, he
must have perfect image in his mind
of what he intends to produce. Unlike
the artist with brush and pencil, he
cannot improve and embellish his ideas
as he goes along. No, he must begin
with a fixed purpose, and end with
that purpose. Again, he cannot with
few seconds applica ton of the rub
Der eradicate any defects. When
once a piece of paper is cut out it is
gone forever. No amount of india
rubber can replace it. This shows
that the silhouettist must be a more
ready artist than he that Yields the
pencil, for one misscut may necessi-
tate commencing the picture afresh.
The materials and tools for silhou-
citing are neither costly nor numerous.
They consist of what is called "sur-
face" paper (unglazed), which is dull
black on one side. For mounting his
pictures Capt. Tharp, the silhouettist,
uses the best cardboard, which can be
bought at any stationer's
All, but what about the scissors?
you will say.
The magic "shears" he uses are
either ladies' embroidery or surgical
scissors, very sharp and long in the
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ing published statements have caused
some to cease trying to learn better
methods from the experiences of 9TH
ers, but a study of the conditions will
show good reasons for the conflicting
results reported
The methods of cultivation in gener-
al use in one section of the country
differ greatly from those in another
section. Thu implements and methods
employed in Iowa are as different from
those of Connecticut as these in turn
are different from those of Georgia;
and while these differences are to some
extent due to the nature of the farm
land or to the class of labor employed,
they are to a still greater extent due
to the conservatism of the farmers
themselves.
In the south Atlantic states the OBJ
servant corn grower would notice the
use of terraces for preventing the
washing away of the top soil. He
would also see the advantage of spac-
ing rows and stalks in the rows at dis
tances suited to the fertility of the
sol . and, where poor soil necessitates
the planting of the rows six feet apart.
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60 bushels per acre, but the average of
the entire United States for the past
ten years (231a bushels per acre.
shows that many are annually harvest
ing less than half of this quantity.
Since the average crop in the states
best adapted to corn growing is but
little above the general average of the
entire country, it is evident that the
average is not lowered to any great ex-
tent by the poor crops in sections I'M
suited to corn growing. Moreover, the
yield per acre in the New England
states, with their poor soil and short
growing season, is greater than in any
other part of the country. This clearly
indicates the possibility of greatly in
creasing the yield per acre in the corn
belt. This is especially easy Of &C
complishment in the southern states,
where the present average is low and
where the growing season is not short
ened by frosts.
The most valuable information re-
garding the growing of corn in any
particular section can be obtained
from unprejudiced observant corn
growers of many years experience;
and the writer wishes to thank the
hundreds who have so kindly given
him such information. The fact that
the experiences of growers in different
localities and the reports of expert
ments from the various state expert
ment stations do not agree should not
lower the estimation of the value of
either. Such disagreement follows nee
essarily from the different soils, alti-
tudes, ATTITUDES and seasons Conflict
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make pencil drawing OF even ths
simplest of his works he would fail
completely.
This is a problem that even the art
list himself fails to explain. Give him
a pencil and paper and he can do
nothing, but exchange the former for
scissors, and, amidst flying bits Of
paper, he will in a few minutes pro-
duce picture.
Take, for instance. the group Of red
deer. Here the slightest slip of the
scissors would have severed the grace
full antlers and spoilt the silhouette.
To draw such picture from mem
DRY would task the skill of the most
competent artist for several hours.
Every now and then he would become
dissatisfied with the posture of one
of the deer, rup it out, and redraw it.
When the outline had been produced to
his satisfaction, he would ink it over,
AID it would be complete.
All this Is denied to the worker in
the black art" Every time he ships
his scissors it must be the beginning
and the eod of the part in process OF