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lowed by the villains playing lion and
tiger, and dad asked the Chicago man
what seemed to be the matter, and he
said: Matter enough; there has been
an earthquake. and the Coliseum has
fallen down, killing more than 10000
Romans, and the animals cages are
busted and the animals are loose, look
ing for fresh meat, and we better get
right back to Rome, too quick, or we will
be eaten alive. Come on if you are with
me! Do you hear the lions after us? 2"
said he, as the hired villains roared.
Well, you'd died to see dad get up
out of that prickly cactus, and take the
lead for good old Rome. l didn't know
he was such a sprinter, but we trailed
along behind, roaring like lions, and
snarling like tigers and yip-yapping like
hyenas and barking like timber wolves,
and We couldn't see dad for the dust, on
that moonlight night.
We slowed UP and let dad run ahead.
and he got to the hotel first, and we paid
off the villains, and finally we went in
the hotel and found dad in the bar
room putting and drinking a high-ball.
Pretty near hell, wasn't it," said dad,
to the soap man. did the lions catch
anybody" 20 a few of the lower
classes said the soap man, "but none of
the nobility. The nobility were in the
boxes, and that part of the Coliseum
never falls during an earthquake" and
the soap man joined dad in high-ball.
After dad got through putting and had
wiped about two quarts of perspiration
off his head and neck. and the soap man
had told him what great thing it was
to perspire in Rome, on account of the
Roman fever, that catches man at
night and kills him before morning, dad
turned to me and said: "Hennery, you
go pack up and we get out of this in the
morning, for 1 feel as though l had
been chewed by one of those hyenas.
Not any more Rome for papa" and the
high-ball party broke up, and we went
to bed to get sleep enough to leave town.
Do you know, the next morning those
hired villains made the soap man and l
pay ten dollars extra on account of
straining their lungs, roaring like
lions? But we paid for their lungs all
right, rather than have them present a
bill to dad
Well, good-by, old man. We are get
ting all the fun there is going. Your
only, HENNERY.
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Some Popular Linen Dresses

year. If the skirt escapes the ground
an inch in the front, it will be elevated
only an inch and half in the back
now.
Coats for linen suits are made semi
fitting in the back, square box front
is adorned with large pearl but
tons. The sleeves, very full at the
shoulders, are large and have plain
stitched cuffs. Skirts are not SO
volumous as they promised to be, fit
close about the hips and the flare,
though considerable, is not exagger-
ated.
For summer travelling, there will be
worn with silk skirts long coats OF
linen matching in color. Shoes and
stockings of like shade add to the style
of the costume, especially in browns
and tans. And speaking Of footwear,
there are now offered the most attrac.
tive embroidered white canvas shoes
which, worn with open-work stockings.
complete a white embroidered costume
very prettily. Our grandmothers, you
remember, had great fondness for
white hosiery, and we are coming to
appreciation Of what they approved.
ELLEN OSMONDE.
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M1nnaft 4 Entattrira-
TIM DrautttB Ararpr
BY MRS. LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE.

the older universities admitted compet
ton BOYS They afraid
them.
Hugo said that "he nineteenth century the womans
probable that the rise of will date from the
done that cycle and the twentieth century will see the fruon
all that have struggled for The
of the and OF the coming generation will the har
vest the the pioneers of the latter half Of
he nineteenth century.
the and will always be the future the
home the Of and her
will mark bright n the evolution Of the world.
preposterous suppose that the working for uf-
aee approved of singular financial social
conditions advocated time by fanatics 1t
hold the leaders the responsible
for peculiar entertained by people
have also favored woman suffrage
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OSCAR II.

The man with the Fren,h head and
Roman heart became Swedish king
And why and how? When his strange
opportunity came, Sweden was in sore
perplexity. Her king was old and weak
she had but recently acquired Norway.
was little afraid of Denmark and Rus
sia The thought came that it might
win the favor of the great Napoleon il
there were asked to be ruler of Sweden
one of his field marshals, namely tho
prince of Ponte-Corvo The prince was
connected by marriage with Napoleon.
his wife a sister of Joseph Bonaparte,
Napoleons Oldest brother. So the
Swedes argued Rcrnadotte surely is in
high favor with Napoleon, we will ask
him to our throne.
1t is very probable that Bernadotta
never at all enjoyed the favor Of Bona.
parte, but the emperor did nothing to
interfere when the Swedes made the
astonishing proposition to name him
their crown prince and carried cut the
astonishing proposition. The famous
general was adopted by the childless
king, and at the death of the latter
(1818) assembled the throne of Sweden
and Norway. He enjoyed long reign.
was king rs years, until his death in 1874.
AS Charles XIV. he succeeded Charles
XIII.
The story goes that Bernadotte was
suggested by an audacious young Swed-
ish officer, who was sent to Paris with
a message on the subject of Sweden's
future ruler, but that the message hao
in it no mention of Bernadotte. The
gay young gentleman took it upon him
self to talk matters over with Berna-
dotte and suggested the latter was the
man for the place. The daring of a
boy, if the story be true, gave Sweden
o new royal line.
Bernadotte was elected successor to
the throne some years before he became
king. Napoleon in 1910 made known
that he would not Interfere with this
succession, little thinking that present.
| ly his old field marshal would be drawn
into coalition that was to end his tri-
umphs. In that last successful coalition
Of the nations against Napoleon, Berna-
dotte was persuaded to join, and as
crown prince of Sweden and Norway
he took active part in the campaigns of
1894 against his former chief. AT
the battle of Leipsic, the decisive bat
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Lingerie waists blossom on every
tree, and an infinite variety of them
there is. AS Dame Rumor says they
are to be worn until late in the fall,
1t would be well for the far-sighted
maid to see that her stock is kept up.
How shall we begin to select and
describe when there are such num-
bers to choose from? Perhaps we had
better plunge in and bring forth what
we may. Here is one Of finest dotted
swiss, the dots very small. 1t is made
with round neck-the kind becom-
ing only to the happy maid with per-
feet throat and shoulders. It is sort
of baby waist, very simple, a few
gathers giving fullness in front, the
back plain. The sleeves are quite full
and extend just below the elbow, where
a deep frill Of wide footing edged with
narrow lace flows softly over the arm.
The neck is finished with narrower
footing likewise lace edged. Simple as
can be, but if well cut and fitted very
effective
Tucks have much place on the lin
garie waist, and are very attractive in
summer, emphasizing the sheerness
of the materials. One waist had a
wide strip Of fine insertion down the
front, on either side were long rows
of tucks alternating with short clus-
ters. At the shoulder deep under
plait gave the proper fullness, for the
waist set well over the bust. This
| plat was discovered" some years ago,
but, its value is still appreciated.
There is no end of lace waists, but
personally we prefer the thin materials
that are not so elaborate or ostenta-
tious as the heavy and rich all-over
patterns-the plain materials infinite
ly preferable to cheap imitation laces.
Even the best of the all-overs look
fussy rather than cool and fresh.
We noticed cool-looking maid this
morning. A black silk skirt, sheer
white lingerie waist, elbow sleeves and
long black silk gloves. The hat was a
white panama with China silk scarf
wound about it, the parasol a long
handled affair Of white pongee. She
could have worn this costume any
where of summer day, provided it
was as fresh and crisp as when ]
saw it.
Handles OF parasols are very long
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carefully. the material pulled into
shape, and iron when still very damp.
This will insure against further
shrinking. and the ironing while wet
brings out the gloss that makes linen
so attractive. In making, have the
pressing well done; tailor look is
the proper thing for the linen suit.
Some of the better sort, perhaps we
may say the majority are made with
no trimming save straps of self ma
terial. A few very good ones are
trimmed with heavy open work, have
elbow sleeves with turn-back cuff. and
girdles of silk instead Of the belt Of
linen or some wash trimming. These
are for linen costumes, though the
coat suits are more severe.
Some Of the linen dresses have only
cuffs and collars of openwork embroi-
derry. and occasionally heavy Irish
crochet is used. There is quite lik-
ing for collar and cuffs Of contrasting
color; this is q feature of the present
season. Skirts are short, but there is not
noticeable the rise in the back as las5
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tie Of nations" the Swedish contingent
pressed the French hard, Bernadotte,
who had earlier in the campaign fallen
under suspicion as traitor, showed
himself loyal 70 the coalition, loyal to
the Swedes, whom Napoleon had re-
Gently threatened with starvation by
the closing of their ports.
Bernadotte's wife, as we said above,
was a sister of the wife of Joseph Bona
parte, from family OF wealth and posi-
ton, though not Of high birth. Their
son and the second king of the House
Of Bernadotte, married Josephine.
daughter of Prince Eugene of Lechten-
berg. King Charles XIV, their son,
died in 1872, and was succeeded by King
Oscar H., the present monarch Oscar
married Sophia, daughter Of Duke Will
helm Of Nassau. The children Of Oscar
and Queen Sophia are Crown Prince
Gustaf, married to Princess Victoria.
daughter of the grand duke Of Baden;
Prince Oscar Bernadotte, who renounced
his succession to the throne and mar
ried Ebba Munck; Prince Carl, married
to Princess Ingeborg, daughter Of the
crown prince of Denmark; and Prince
Eugene.
KATHERINE POPE.
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great fondness. Bernadotte was above
fiattery and above intimidation, and
had to be handled with diplomacy.
When Napoleon overthrow the directory
and had himself made First Consul.
Bernadotte would have been glad to
defend the directory had he been backed
up with strong stroops. But the troops
were lacking and the imperator's power
grew apace. Bernadotte said of Ma
poleon after his first meeting with the
Corsican: Il have seen man 26 or q
years old who wishes to be thought so:
this does not augur we'll for the repub-
lic''
Napoleon's judgment of Bernadotta
also was discerning: HE has French
head and Roman heart. He has iron
blood in his veins" Napoleon had to
reward this dangerous man, however.
and try to placade him. He made him
a mashal of France. After Austerlitz
Bernadotte was more than ever hero
with the people, aad there must be added
show of imperial favor; Napoleon pre-
scented him with the principally Of
Ponte Corvo. And presently Berna.
dotte was offered still higher post,
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In England one can buy linen for
something like ten cents a yard. It
costs five times that and more here,
many times more for very good-but it
is worn this season by everyone.
White comes first in favor, and
then may be mentioned the gobelin
blue, cream and tans, delft blue, navy
blue, greens and raspberry shades.
Linen should always be well shrunk
before it is made up, and If the shrink
ing is done at home this is the plan
to follow: Pour boiling water on the
goods, let stand until cool, hang up
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Copyright. 1905. BY Joseph 3. Bowles.)

Copyright. 1905. by Joseph y. Bowles.)
ROME. ITALY.-MY DEAR OLD
"PARD:" Well, sir, if you could see me
now, you wouldn't know me, because
foreign travel has broadened me out, so
[ can talk on any subject and people
of my age look upon me as an author
ity. and they surround me everywhere
/ go, and urge me to talk. The fact that
the boys and girls do not understand
word / say, makes no difference. They
do not wear many clothes here, and there
is no style about them, and when they
see me, with a whole suit of clothes on,
and hat and shoes and socks, and a
scarf-pin on my 1lecktie, they think
must be an Americana that is too rich
for any use, or something that ranks
with a prince at least, and the boys de-
light to be with me, and do errands for
me, and the girls seem to be in love with
me.
There is no way you can tell if girl
is in love with you, except that she looks
at you with eyes that are as black as
coal, and they seem TO burn hole right
into your insides, and when they take
hold of your hand they hang on, and
squeeze like alamand-left, in dance
at home, and they snug up to you, and
are as warm and cheerful as gas stove.
Say, l sat on bench in a plaza with a
girl about my age, for an hour, while
the other girls and boys sat on the
ground and looked at us in admiration.
and when / put my arm around her and
kissed her on her pouting lips, it brought
on a revolution. An Italian soldier po
liceman took me by the neck and threw
me across the street, the girl scratched
me with her finger nails and bit me. and
yelled some grand hailing sign of dis
tress, her brother and ragged boy that
was I'm love with the girl, and was jeal-
Gus, drew daggers, and the whole
crowd yelled murder, and started for
our hotel on run, and the whole popu-
lation of Rome seemed to follow me- and
/ might as well have been negro ac-
cEsed of crime in the states. / thought
they would burr me at the stake, but
dad came out of the hotel and threw a
handful of small change into the crowd,
and it was all off.
After they picked up the coin they
beckoned me to come out and play some
more, but not any more for little Hen
merry. have been in love in all coun-
tries where we have Travelled. and in all
languages, but this Italian love takes
the whole bakery ana do not go around
any more without a chaperone. The
girls are ragged, and wear shawls over
their heads, and there are holes in their
dresses and their skin isn't white, like
American girls, but is what they call
olive complexion, like stuffed olives you
buy in bottles, stuffed with cayenne pep
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off the boards for over 1000 years,
that the eating of human prisoners by
wild beasts in the presence of the
Roman populace was played out, and
that the Coliseum was ruin and did not
exist as a place of amusement. He
thought everything that he had read
about the horrors of a Roman holiday
was running to-day, as side show, and
he wanted to see it, and had encouraged
him in his ideas, because he was nervous,
and I didn't want to undeceiye him.
He had come to Rome to see things he
couldn't find at home, and it was up to
me to deliver the goods.
Gee, but it made me sweat, cause l
knew if dad did not get a show for his
money, he would lay it up against me,
so l told him we would go to the
lions and tigers eat some of the leading
citizens, just as they did when Caesar
run the show Then found an Ameri-
can from Chicago at the hotel, who
sells soap in Rome, and told him what
dad expected of me in the way of amuse-
ment and he said the only way was to
take dad out to the Coliseum, and in
the dark roll barrel of broken glass
down the tiers of seats and make him
believe there was an earthquake that
had destroyed the Coliseum, and that the
lions and tigers were all loose. looking
for people to eat, and scare dad and
make a run back to toyA.
didn II ant RI MAY cyJah q scandal Ion .
trick on dad, but the Chicago man said
that was the only way out of it, and he
could get barrel of broken glass for a
dollar. and hire four ruffians that could
roar like lions for few dollars, and it
would give dad good exercise and may
be save him from run of Roman fever,
cause there was nothing like good
sweat to knock the fever cut of a fell
lows system. The thing struck me as
not only a good experience for dad, but
a life saver, so whacked up the money,
and the Chicago soap man did the rest.
After dark we went out to the ruin of
the Coliseum, where great many tour
lists go to look at the ruins by moon
light, and dad was as anxious and blood
thirsty as young surgeon cutting up his
first "stiff." When we got to the right
place. and I told dad we were little
early, because the nobility were not in
their seats, the villains began to roar
three dollars worth, like hungry lions,
and dad turned a little pale, and said
that sounded like the real thing.
! told him we better not get too near,
because we were not accustomed to see
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Oscar II. Of Sweden is one of the
ablest, most distinguished monarchs of
the day, but cannot boast of descent
from long line of rulers. In fact it is
but the third generation of Bernadottes
that now occupies the throne.
Oscar is the fourth of the house, how
ever, that has reigned, succeeding his
brother, who died childless.
Thus runs the line: First, Charles
XIV; then his son, Oscar r; he was
succeeded by his son, Charles XIV; next
Oscar H. became king.
Long lines of kings are apt to result
in weaklings, unable to guide the ship
of state, intellectually and physically
unfit for their responsible positions.
The House of Bernadotte has occasion to
| take pride in it's record as yet made
Mr.. Chamberlain, writing in the Chi
cago Record-Herald, thus presents the
story of the Bernadottes:
.'Of the reigning families Of Europe
none has added more to the luster OF
kingly honor than that to which belongs
the present monarch of Sweden. From
the time of its founding by the distin-
guished marshal of France, the prince
of Ponte-Corvo, whose title came
through the empiric power of the great
Napoleon, the house of Bernadotte has
been one which has ever commanded
the highest respect and admiration.
Springing as it did from the loins Of old
fighting stock, it has comprehended al
most all that makes for greatness In the
view Of the world. 1t is family Of sail
Drs, able seamen, who from boyhood
were familiar with ships in all their de-
tails; navigatorS, who, beginning with
the boxing of compass, acquired a
knowledge of every trick and turn of
wind and wave; soldiers, taking natural
ly to bivouac and battlefield and know
| ing of experience the ranks and grades
of fighting men, from the private in the
squad to the commander in chief pos
sessed of the baton of field marshal.
In the arts and sciences its members
have given to the world artists, whose
/ handiwork has been of a superior order
of merit and whose paintings and mod
elings adorn public galleries and private
collections; singers, whose rare voices
have successfully competed with the
splendid native vocalism Of the land
which has born Nilsson, Arnoldson and
Lind; composers, who have created love
songs of sweetness; anthems grand and
religious, and military measures of in
spring melody; poets, whose verse
would be an inspiration to any litera-
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ing live men chewed up BY beasts, and
dad said he didn't care how near we got,
as long as they chewed and tore to
pieces the natives; so We started to work
up little nearer, when there was a
noise such as never heard before, as the
hogshead of broken glass began to roll
down the tiers Of stone seats, and fell
over on the ground. and pushed dad, and
he went over in the sand and struck his
pants on cactus, and yelled that he was
stabbed with dirk. and got up and
fell down again. and just then the Chi
cago soap man came up on gallop. fol-
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FACTS ABOUT SUN SPOTS.
They Often Break Out and Disappear
Under the Eye of the -
Observer.

That great sun spot that Chicagoans
were treated to recently did not smash
the record for bigness, even though 1t
did appear to do so to those who looked
at it with naked eyes through Chicago'S
smoke, says the News, of that city.
Some astronomers said that the spot
was SO, 900 miles across. and others that
it's diameter was $4,000 miles. But even
10000 miles would not be the record
diameter. For, back in 1S43, when the
Millerites were looking for the end Of
the world, there was a great sun spot
that to many seemed to lend weight to
the Millerites' arguments from the time
prophecies in the Bible. For week in
that year there was sun spot that was
visible to the naked eye. 1t measured
74,S16 miles across. On the day of the
eclipse in 1858 spot 107 900 miles in
extent was clearly seen. These spots
are considered to be storms in the glow
ing gases that correspond to the atmos-
phere of this earth. If there were ships
on the sun as large as this earth they
would be tossed about like autumn
leaves IN an ocean STORM.
These solar spots are most abundant
on the two sides of the suns equator.
where they mark something akin to a
terrestrial cyclone belt. The center of
cyclone is rarefied and therefore cold
er. Cold on the sun is darkness. An
carry down into the depths of the solar
mass the cooler materials of the upper
layers, formed principally of hydrogen,
and thus produce in their center a de-
cided extinction of light and heat as
long as the gyratory movement lasts.
Finally the hydrogen, set free at the
base of the whirlpool, becomes reheated
at this great depth and rises up tumult-
uously, forming irregular jets, which
appear above the chromosphere.
Sun spots often break out or disap-
pear under the eye of the observer.
They divide like piece of ice dropped
on the surface of a frozen pond, the
pieces sliding off in every direction, or
they combine like separate foes driven
together into pack. Sometimes spot
will last for more than 200 days, through
six or eight revolutions of the sun.
Sometimes spot viii last only half an
hour.
THE velocities indicated by these
movements" writes Henry White War
rem. D. D.. "are incredible. An uprush
and downrush at the sides has been
measured of 20 miles a second, a side
rush or whirl of 120 miles a second.
These tempests are over regions so wide
that our own Indian ocean is too small
to be used for comparison AS they
cease the advancing sides of the spots
approach each other at the rate of 20. 900
miles an hour. They strike together and
the rising spray leaps thousands Of miles
into space"