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the mind OF the Unsophisticated guest.
The hostess and her daughters and the
guest whose visit in the house is the
occasion OF the function are the excep-
tons TO the rule.
Punctuality is absolutely obligatory
upon the guests. 1t is in bread to the
point of rudeness to be q minute be-
hind the hour named for tie luncheon
II Is also awkward 70 anticipate that
hour by more than ten minutes. The
butler, or the parlor maid, announces
that luncheon is ready from the door
OF the drawing room, addressing the
mistress pointedly, more IN dumb show
than audibly. The appearance Of the
man in correct attire. or Of the maid, in
her neat uniform Of black gown. apron.
and cap. is the signal for a general
rising-the hostess setting tho example
She marshals the party In a pleasant.
off-hand manner. coupling them as she
has arranged them In her own mind.
bringing UP the rear with the guest of
honor
II is no longer the fashion to have
decorated place cards a simple visit
ing card with the name Of the guest
written on It lies at her place.
How to Use Flowers.
In decorating the table avoid strong
ly perfumed flowers, and. II possible.
carry out a color scheme 50 well as 10
give harmonious character 20 the dis
play. The boutonnieres laid beside the
plates must be alike. and accord with
the low bowl of flowers in the middle Of
the cloth.
If your dining room be well lighted by
the natural illumination Of day, do not,
I beg. follow servilely a fashion intro
duced by jewellers in closely built blocks.
where the blessed sunshine is unknown
by the seeing of the eye after one
leaves the street If the rooms in which
you entertain your friends open % upon
shafts and courts. you must. perforce.
light the luncheon table with Candida
bra. supplemented by gas or electric
burners overhead. Shade all with silk
or paper screens. corresponding with
your color scheme.
LUNCHEON MENU.
Grapefruit
Cream Of Celery Soup.
Fried Smells with Lemon Sauce
Stuffed Potatoes. BrOiled Sweetbreads.
Asparagus a la Creme
French Chops. Green Peas.
Tomato and Lettuce Salad with
Mayonnaise.
Crackers and Cream Cheese.
Strawberry Mousse. Cake. Coffee.
Coffee and Bonbons.
Small dishes of olives. celery, sailed
nuts, and bOnbons are on the table
throughout the luncheon until the ice
cream is brought on Then ali are re-
moved except the bonbons. Coffee may
be served at table or in the drawing
room. In the latter case the bonbons
are also taken into the drawing room
or into the library.
All the carving and serving is done
from the kitchen-nominally from the
buffers pantry. With little training q
tolerably competent waitress will learn
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to garnish such dishes as are TO be
passed for the eaters to help themselves.
and 70 arrange tastefully the individual
portions to be set down before them.
For instance, the salad Of this simple
luncheon-which is easily within the
ability Of any housewife Of moderate
means and experience-is put on the
chilled plates thus; A cluster of three
crisp lettuce leaves Is the bed on which
half a tomato OF medium size is laid
Just before the salad goes 10 the dining
room a great spoonful of mayonnaise IS
poured upon the tomato. Minced chives
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you, the hostess. will be more at ease
II no plainly attired woman suffers in
ward modification from the contrast
with the superb costumes of the rest OF
the party
Hats Are Not Removed.
II should not be necessary at this day
20 observe that hats are not removed
at luncheon. Yet I have in memory
sundry incidents that show the expedi-
ency Of fixing this freak OF fashion in
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Economical Housekeeping Again.

Anything that saves time and patience
to a hous ekeepeT has a value which
entities il TO a place in this column.
Each time a discussion of economical
has appeared in your eN-
change I have been tempted to give my
experience, but have let the time go by
until l felt it almost too late. I would
like, however, to tell Mrs. H F." Of
Council Bluffs, that the dead issue"
is very much alive and thriving in one
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Household Expenses Vary With
Locality.

The following, on the ever-interest-
ing subject OF household expenses. will
be read attentively by all women who
keep a close watch on the Outgo of
money for domestic expenses. As this
includes g very large majority of aIl
I look for many and
fluent answers to the question asked by
the correspondent. She is right when
she says that expenses vary widely III
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are piquant addition to mayonnaIse, or
to French dressing.
A sauce of butter. beaten to a cream
with lemon juice and colored with finely
minced parsley, is put into the emptied
halves OF lemons and set In ice until
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FAMILY MEALS
FOR A WEEK
Sunday.
BREAKFAST

Sunday.
BREAKFAST.
Berries. cereal and cream. fried tripe.
nee mullins, brown toast, tea and cot
Zee.
LUNCHEON.
Cold lamb "a Ieft-over). baked pota-
toes. pulled bread. tomato and sbrfmn
salad crackers and cheese, strawberry
float and cake.
DINNER.
Onion soup "a leftover. stuffed breast
Of veal. asparagus. young beets. choco-
late custard, sponge cake. black coffee.
Monday.
BREAKFAST
Grapefruit hominy and cream. baked
eggs and minced ham. whole wheat
bread toast. French rolls. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
scallop Of veal "a leftover asnars-
gus souff1e "a left-overl. stewed +o-,s-
toes, cake and chocolate.
DINNER.
Tomato and bean soup. Irish stew
boiled macarcnf with cheese sauce let
tuee salad, Cassava crackers and Swiss
cheese, lemon meringue pie, black coffee.
Tuesday.
BREAKFAST.
Oranges. cereal and cream, fried
breakfast bacon. boiled eggs. baked
cream toast, cold graham bread. tee.
and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Irish stew. TO which have been added
green peas "a leftover. stuffed pota-
toes. radishes. tomato salad with nav
onnaise dressing, warm gingerbread ana
cheese. cocoa
DINNER.
Cream OF asparagus soup. smothered
beefsteak. onions done in cream. v-hinoe5
potatoes. date pudding VIII. hard sauce.
black coffee
Wednesday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit. cereal and cream. breakfast
bacon. Virginia batter bread, toast, tea
and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Beef stew "a left-over). potatoes.
boiled plain, with butter and parsley
sauce Tried hominy. radishes. water
n dressing
terday'S pudding, steamed; tea
DINNER.
Clam broth. boiled mutton with
csper sauce, young turnips, cooked in
white sauce string beans. rhubarb
tart, black coffee.
Thursday.
BREAKFAST
Berries, mush and cream. clam frit-
o 1ers, white and brown toast. tea and
LUNCHEON.
Scrambled eggs and tomatoes. cold
Ga left-over), brown bread (warnedT,
cup cake and marmalade, tea.
DINNER.
which mutton was bciled). roast
chicken, asparagus on toast rice
croQuettes, strawberry shortcake and.
cream. black coffee.
Friday.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit, cereal and cream. fried nan
nsh. stewed potatoes, brown and white
bread. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
Chicken croquettes "a left-overl
sardines, Dreaded and baked; graham
biscuits (hOO. asparagus and lettuce
salad "a .left-over). crackers and
cheese. rice. boiled with raisins, eaten
with cream cocoa
DINNER.
Clam ehowder Qong clams), boiled
Goldfish (fresh), with egg sauce; green
peas. stuffed tomatoes. lettuce salad,
with French dressing; cottage pudding,
hard sauce; black coffee.
Saturday.
BREAKFAST
Berries, cereal and cream, fried
bacon and sweet peppers. Corn-meal
mullins, toast. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Goldfish "a Ieft-over). potato
biscuits (hot), green pea sOuffie Ga
-left-Overl, marmalade pudding, tea.
DINNER.
Cream soup. with pOached eggs:
roast beef and Yorkshire pudding,
baked Bermuda onions, spinach a Ia
creme. strawberries and cream, light
cake, black coffee.
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household on the Eastern border or the
State, where prices must be even high
er for some things than in her own
town.
There are three IN my family, two
grown people and a child of eleven. Ny
grocery bill averages $40 a month. This
is exclusive OF butter, which / get from
farmer for 25 cents a pound the year
around ~ per month-and eggs. when
l can get them from this same farmer
They average about 81 a month Mix
is g month. OF course, we live very
simply, but 1 make n study of food val
ues ana try 20 have a welI-balanced
diet we use almost no meat except
breakfast bacon, substituting beans,
old peas. lentils. cheese. and nuts in
the winter, with eggs. milk. vegetables.
and fruit and whole-wheat bread the
year around. In the summer a tiny
garden is pleasure, and, carefully ar
ranged, gives us a large part of our
green vegetables. / always go to mar
ket and personally select what / wart
and not spoonful of Good is thrown
away. Until this year we were great
meat eaters. with some one always
complaining of indigestion. Now, while
we are none of us over average size,
we are thoroughly well and feel well
fed. and our food bill is reduced enc
third.
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/ am glad of the opportunity to print
so practical and helpful a letter as the
above. Not every kousekeeper has the
judgment to devise for herself bills OF
fare which will conserve food values.
and at the same time be appetizing and
economical. The recent experiments IN
comparison of strength between the
meat eaters and the nonmeat eaters
has spoken we'll for the results OF a
vegetarian diet AS a rule, all Ameri-
cans eat too much meat, and a dietary
that pleases the palate, the purse, and
the digestion is worth seeking
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cir IfIe1=Lzzeheoa GH2eEau

ing being necessary. Asparagus IS the
accompanying vegetable. as the stuffed
potatoes go with the fish, and green peas
with the chops. Celery and olives go
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Who take vacations IN Sanitanums,
on featherweight raiOns. but the
healthy vigorous manhood and
womanhood that constitute the
useful majority. The first roasted
packaged cofee;s sles Of Arbuck-
les ARIOSA Coffee for 81
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DINNER.

Cream OF asparagus soup. smothered
5ee1steak' onions done in cream. whipped
potatoes. date pudding witt. hard sauce
black coffee.
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LUNCHEON.

Irish stew. TO which have been added
green peas "a left-over). stuffed pota-
toes, radishes. tomato salad with nav
onnaise dressing, warm gingerbread and
cheese, cocoa.
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Tuesday.
BREAKFAST.

Oranges. cereal and cream, fried
breakfast bacon. boiled eggs. baked
cream toast, cold graham bread. tes
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Saturday.
BREAKFAST.

Berries, cereal and cream, fried
bacon and sweet peppers. corn-meaI
mullins, toast. tea and coffee.
LUNCHEON
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Onion soup "a leftover. stuffed breast
Of veal. asparagus. young bsets cboco-
late custard, sponge cake. biacl< coffas
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Monday.
BREAKFAST

Tomato and bean soup. Irish stew
boiled macarcnf with cheese sauce. let
tuee salad, Csssava crackers and Swiss
cheese, lemon meringue pie, black coffee.
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wednesday.
Thursday.

Berries, mush and cream. clam II,
ters, white and brown toast. tea a.
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The more detailed such estimates are
the greater is their valUa 90 house.
keepers.
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Cream soup. with pOached eggs:
roast beef and Yorkshire pudding,
baked Bermuda onions, spinach a Ia
creme, Strawberries and cream, light
cake, black coffee.
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Scotch broth Cbased on LIQUOR in
which mutton was bciled) roast
chickenf asparagus on toast. rice
croQuettes, strawberry shortcake and.
cream, black coffee.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05

casional inserting of heavy lace, such
as Irish crochet and crochet lace but
tons. enriches some of the gowns.
AS i'll gay colors there ever turks
the element of cOquetry, how irresisti-
BILE will be the maidens who carry those
quaint conceits, the cretonne or chintz
parasols.
Where skirts are made plain the best
materials to use are the glossy ones,
as they carry a certain dressiness with
them. The new and very brilliant silks
are the proper ones for the purpose,
and the new satins make up admirably
into the plain skirted suits. The skirts
must be rather full and must have an
elegant sweep, without which all style
is lost
An auto bag of dark green leather is
lined with silk and fitted with brushes
and combs and mirrors.
The illustration shows charming
blouse for young girl. In the cut it
is checked blue and white silk trim
med with blue velvet and a chemisette
of white lace. The way the bands of
velvet are arranged is decidedly chic
and novel. JUDO CHOLLET.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05

OF EMBROIDERED FLOUNCING-5451, 5629.
are worn with some types of gown, but
the preference seems to be for me-
dunn sized rather than the exaggerated
styles of headgear.
TussOre ribbons in cachemire patterns
or pompadour designs, with velvet and
silver and gold borders, are rich in eff
feet and high in price. These trim
elaborate gauze gowns-rather frocks
if one is to be correct.
Embroidered fiouncings and bordered
materials of various sorts are among
the features of summer fashion. and
many of these gowns are extremely
attractive. Illustrated is frock of
this description charmingly simple and
dainty. 1t is of founcing combined
with va!enciennes lace, but any Dor
dered foulard or batiste material can
be used in the same way.
JUDO CHOLLET.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05
FORECAST OF FASHION.
Accepted Glove of Eight Button
Leneth--FIowered Taffeta ParasoIs.

The new three-quarter length coat
sleeves demand gloves neither short
nor long. but of about the eight but
ton length.
Parasols of lowered taffeta. with
deep hens of a plain shade, go well
with linen suit TUNES and peplums
of lace are seen on many of the even
ing and reception gowns. Lace tunics
on undcrdresseS of soft material. such
as crepe de chine. soft satin or nous
seine, are charming in their effect
Long coats to initiate tunics are IA
vored for afternoon dresses.
The choicest piece of neckwcar to
day is the embroidered collar. y wide
assortment is offered. and one can get
them at any price The hemStitched
kind is good for everyday wear. but
the French linen with hand embroidery
is the really fashionable one
The shephertlcsS shaped hats are
very pot ular, and die directoire modes
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05
WRINKLES OF FASHION.
Hand Painted Lace the Voeue-Sprine
Millinery Notes.

Hand Painted Lace the Vosue-Sprine
Millinery Notes.
Hand painted lace is the last cry in
Paris. 1t is made of coarse net with
muslin flowers appliqued in design and
hand painted in natural colors.
Large hats are raised at one side or
at the back, and masses of tulle. ma
lines or ribbon and flowers fill in the
angle.
All the popular spring flowers are
used upon the spring hats. One very
lovely helmet shaped hat is wound
with heliotrope silk, while at the side
there is a shower bouquet of violets
falling upon the hair, with few chif
fon loops and ends 1t is inexpensive,
but becoming and beautiful.
Crochet buttons of silk and linen are
extremely smart and are to be had in
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05
ARTICLE II.

| The purposes for which this corpora
ton is established and the nature of the
business to be carried on by it are de-
clared to be to weigh and store cotton
and other produce, as vegetables, fruits,
goods, wares and merchandise, and gen.
orally to hold and exercise all such Incl
dental powers. The affairs of this cor
Iporation shall be managed and controlled
by board of directors consisting of FIVE
| 60 stockholders, who shall be elected by
the stockholders at meeting held for
that purpose on the third Monday in Al
gust of each year, and said board of di-
rectors shall hold their office until their
successors are duly elected and installed
The first board Of directors shall be S.
B. Burney, chairman; P NJ Williams,
secretary; W. P Pearson, O. NJ. Lewis
and w. A. Daniels; and the officers Of
the company for the first year shall be
r. +. L. Huckabay, president; O, G..
Garner, vice president; ]. D. Lewis, sec
rotary All legal process shall
be served on the president, or in his alb
sence on the vice president, or i'll the
absence of both OH the sccretary-treas-
urer
The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at the sum of three thous-
and dollars, divided into 600 shares of
five dollars each, and shall commence
business when 100000 of the capital
stock is subscribed for; all stock sub
scribed for shall be pad in cash, or labor
performed for the corporation before the
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05

OF fieas, once commissioned some arc
tic whalers to obtain for him speci-
mems of the fieas of arctic animals.
and there was a story that Charles
had offered prize of $1,000 for a sin
gle example of the flea of the arctic
fox. This was denied. but 1t was not
denied that he had made special in
ducements to the arctic fishermen to
find for him specimens of insects from
the polar regions. Charles Rothschild
has manifested strange devotion to his
singular hobby. He says that every
mammal and bird has a particular
kind of flea and that some of them
have several kinds, so that the flea
affords more diverse material for n
collector than any living creature. He
has fleas from every corner of the
world, over 10000 different varieties.
1t affords him as great delight to Sc.
cure new kind of flea as it does ]
Pierpont Morgan to obtain a rare spec
linen of the work of an old master.
In the publication of the work on
extinct birds great care has been taken
to render It so far as possible imperish
able, The most expensive paper is
used. and the blocks for the color
plates cost over thousand pounds
Among the birds now extinct, or prac-
tically so. of which the book has ilIus.
trations are the great aux, the whale
headed stork, the King Albert's bird
OF paradise from New Guinea, the
Labrador duck and ManteiPs XVII.
The Hon. Lionel Walter Rothschld,
though thirty eight years of age and
though occupied with business cares
and his duties rs a member of parlia-
ment, has attained reputation as a sci
enlist. The study of animals and in
sects and their collection are with him
no mere hobby, and he has written
several works on natural history
which have been accepted as authori-
Ties In their field He was one of
the first Englishmen to employ the
zebra for driving and farm purposes.
He startled the staid British public n
few years ago by driving zebras four
abreast through the streets of London
His collections embrace a wide variety
Of specimens belonging to the animal
Kingdom. living and dead. but perhaps
II takes the greatest interest in birds.
Among stuffed specimens of the latter
Ia his museum at Tring Park is an ex-
ample OF the great aux. with two eggs
bird and eggs together being valued nj
about S1,Ioo. Another rare and ex-
tinct bird In the museum Is the gro
tesquc whale headed stork from the
White Nile.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05
CAREER OF cAVALlERI.
Beautiful Cantatrice Was Not Content
ed to Remain a Music Hall Singer.


ed to Remain a Music Hall Singer.
Lima Cavalieri, who made pro-
nounced hit as member of Heinrich
Conried's Metropolitan Opera company
the past season. was heralded rs a
great beauty before her advent on
American shores. Some years ago she
was known rs the most beautiful girl
in Venice" A little later they called
her in Paris 1.-The most beautiful wo-
man in Europe" When she stepped
ashore at New York with Manager
Conried last autumn. he enthusiastic
ally declared her to be the most beau
tiful woman in the world
Not many years ago she was selling
covers with her mother in her native
Italy. She also worked at one time as
a seamstress. Then she began singing
in music halls and soon had won great
popularity because of her loneliness
and the quality of her voice But she
was ambitious. She was not satisfied
to remain music hall favorite She
longed for success in grand opera 1t
is sometimes said that her fondness
for a Russian prince had something to
do with this. She has had several love
affairs. One was with an Italian Off
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05
DIR. AND MRS. WATSON.
Author Of "Eeside the Bonnie 6r'er
Bush" and His Wife.

The Rev. Or. John Watson, known
better by his pen name Of Ian Mac
laren. who came to America recently
to preach and lecture, is fond OF tax
ing his wife with him on his travels
She accompanies him on his present
trip and was here once before. This Is
DIR, Watsons third visit to the United
States. The author of Reside the Bon
ME Rrier Bush" has a charming home
in Liverpool where he was so long
pastor Of Seton Park Presbyteria.
church. DR.. and Mrs. Watson have
several children. and the family in
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05

are very smart. For Instance, q gown
of gray and white printed chiffon has
a surplus ice bodice folded over a
cream chantilly yoke and vest. At the
top of the lace stock is a narrow line
of soft silvery green silk. Below the
neck are three demure little bows of
the same. At the elbow where the I'M
dersleeves of white null emerge from
those of chiffon and lace are narrow
pipings of the green silk
Dainty summer frocks In batiste or
muslin have finely gathered bodices
and skirts, the uncommon touch being
a box plat Of satin ribbon down the
center, decorated with tiny ruched
rosettes Of ribbon in place of buttons
The neck is finished with the daintiest
of snail Lawn and valenciennes col
lars
Panama cloth is favorite material
for spring suits, and the model illus
trated is of this cloth in smoked gray
trimmed With braid. The little vest is
of velvet overlaid with oriental en-
broidery. that gives touch of color
and brilliancy to the whole
JUDO CHOLLET.
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No. o734-In the First Judicial District
Court of Caddo Parish, Louisiana:
S. Herold & Son VS. Green Frazier.
By virtue Of writ of heri facias, to
me issued i'll the above entitled and
numbered suit, by the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, | have seized and will offer
for sale at public auction for cash ac-
cording to law, at the principal front
door Of the court house of Caddo Par
ish i'll the City of Shreveport, La, dur
ing the legal hours for sales on
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1907,
Lot seven CD of the Foster & Long
subdivision of the City of Shreveport,
La, together with all buildings and i'm
provements thereon.
Said property seized as belonging to
the defendant and to be sold to satisfy
the debt specified in the said writ in the
sum of thirty-six dollars and thirty-four
cents with per cent interest from Dc
tober I, 1901, less credits OF $3.50 paid
June 10, 1908, and $500 paid June I,
1904; forty-two dollars and sixty-seveu
cents with 8 per cent interest from
March 8. 1903, and 10 per cent additional
on principal and interest as attorneys
fees. One hundred dollars with per
cent per annum interest from March g,
1903, and 10 per cent in addition On
principal and interest as attorneys fees,
and all cost of suit.
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff of Caddo Parish
Caucasian, April II, 1907.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-05

all colorings. Buttons of tortoise and
other shells, enriched with gold o.
mock jewels, are fetching
One Of the new haas is of tobacco
brown with wide hrim. At the back
there is cascade of brown feathers
The uncurled feather. looking wild
to the unaccustomed eye, graces many
a hat. and the feather that stands up
straight. all incurred and shaded Mt the
tip, is also seen. Truly there is an
assortment IN the feathers of today.
Checked snitings are very smart this
season. In the cut is one that COM
5ines an attractive little Elton coat
with one of the fayorite skirts that are
tucked in clusters
JUDO CHOLLET.
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cludes a large number Of animal pets
The author signs his own name to his
writings on religious topics. and in the
case of his stories uses the pen nah,e
of Ian Maclaren. The Tan of this
name is Gaelic for John, and Maclaren
was his mothers maiden name. He
recently finished new story, a hstor
ical romance entitled John Graham of
Claverhouse" 1t deals with the adj
ventures of q Scotch cavalier.