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Spanish Queens Fanc1es.

The pretty young Spanish Queen
has inaugurated a new fashion in
manicuring. She lets the nails grow
longer than the finger tips. They are
very long and quite rounding. Very
often they are actually way beyond
the ends of the fingers, so that they
show white and glistening. This is
one of the new fads. Let the nails
grow very long, but do not cut them
pointed. Let them curve in a lovely
delicate rounding shape.
It is said that the young Queen
takes milk baths. She has the soft
white, Irish skin and, like the pretty
girls of the Emerald Isle, she takes
milk baths. She washes her face
daily in milk, SKINNED and allowed
to become slightly acid. This ds ap-
piled to skin, after it has been washed
in hot water, and it is allowed to dry
on. 1t soaks into the skin and when
it has penetrated the pores it is light
ly washed off with cold water. There
is nothing in all the world that whit
ems and softens the skin like this
course of Observation-Disclosures Eagle.
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er. This was so successful that they
very soon opened another one, and
shortly after that a third and a
fourth, and still people clamored at
their doors.
Then a retail organization heard
about these young women. 1t went tc
them and asked them to open n OF
their famous tea rooms in a store, and
after some consideration the young
women decided they would do it.
These two women are to-day man.
aging this new tea room. It is one OF
the coolest and most attractive spots
in New York in which to take lunch.
and nowhere in the city is the cook.
ing better or the service more prompt
nor the atmosphere quieter than In
this tea room. Nowhere is a deintier
luncheon served, nowhere is genuine
home cooking better done. They have
brought to bear their feminine taste
their delightful experience in the Cid
| World, and their curious American
power to focus on business, which IL
rapidly developing in our better class
Of women, in the making Of this lea
room.-New York Times.
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Eureka.

Eureka, or, rather, Heureka, is the
exclamation of Archimedes, the SYRIA
cusan philosopher, when he found ou'
how to test the purity of Hiero's
crown.
The tale is that Hero suspected
that a craftsman to whom he had Civ
en- a certain weight of gold to make
into q crown had alleged the metal
and he asked Archimedes to ascertain
if his suspicion vas we'll founded. The
philosopher, getting into his bath, OBJ
Served that the water ran over, and
it flashed into his mind that his body
displaced it's own bulk in water. Now,
suppose Hero gave the goldsmith one
pound of pure gold, and the crown
weighed one pound, it is manifest
that if the crown were pure gold both
ought to displace the same quantity
of water; but they did not do so. anc
therefore the gold had been lamp
cred with. Archimedes next Immersed
in water one pound CT silver, and the
difference of water displaced soon
gave the clue to the amount OF alloy
introduced by the .artif1cer. - New
York American.
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Two Women's Success.

This Is a short story, but a true
one. Once upon a time there were
two young women living in a small
town in Ohio, and they felt the great
impulse that comes to all young peo-
pie to go out into the world and make
a name and reputation for themselves.
So they packed their trunks with the
consent of their parents and came to
New York, one to become an artist
and the other a trained nurse. But
after looking the field W they found
they could make more money in other
ways. So one of them opened a small
tea room. She had an original plan
such an originalplan that in a short
time she had thousands Of women
asking for card emitting them to the
privilege of lunching in that tea room.
Shortly after this the second young
| woman came to the first and talked
! things over, and they packed their
trunks and went to Europe. While
there they visited the notable tea
rooms on the Continent and In the
British Isles. Then they came back
home and opened a tea room togeth.
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Horse Sympathy.

A chauffeur whose first love is
horses even if he is now welded to
an automobile made his appearance
on Seventh avenue on a scorching
afternoon. A string of automobiles
stood in the shade of a big hotel.
Presently a delivery wagon was
added to the row of vehicles, but the
shadows were not wide enough to
shelter it, too, and the horse stood
painting and trembling in the broiling
sun. The driver of the machine that
stood just behind the delivery wagon
alighted and patted the horses
sweaty flank.
"You poor old fellow" he said,
"it's a COMPOUNDED shame, isn't it,"
Then in the absence Of the horses
driver he undertook to remedy the
shame himself. His own machine
was run q little way from it's position
at the curb, the horse was backed
into the shade and the automobile
took its place in the sunshine. 1t is
not recorded that thereafter anyone
expressed sympathy for the automo-
bile.-New York Times.
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JUDGE BREWERS tale
ON TQLERANC.

The late Justice Brewer was noted
for his tolerant and broad minded
views. A Washington diplomat re-
called the other day a story told by
Justice Brewer in illustration of the
need for tolerance.
1--WE should respect the views OF
others"-so the story ran-"for NOR
atty itself is only a matter of"enVir-
onment.
"a missionary in the South Seas
was. distressed because his dusky par
ishioners were nude. He decided to
try d~elicately to get them to wear at
least a little clothing, and to this end
he leftsa great many pieces of scarlet
and green and yellow calico lying
about his hut.
can elderly dame called one after
noon for spiritual advice. The mis-
sionary noted how enviously her eye:
rested on the calico, and he took W
a two yard piece of the yellow, say
ing:
"Ill give you this if you'll veal
IT,
"The female draped the calico
about her like a skirt and departed II
great glee.
"But the next day, nude, as before
she returned with the fabric under
her arm. Handing it sadly to the
missionary, she said:
me no can wear it, missy. Nc
too shy.'"-Washington Post.
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M& 7m
kMAAEAsSloMH9!

Sheer linens are as good and quite
as correct for the washable guimpe
as are the eyelet embroideries.
A scarlet patent leather belt and q
tie of scarlet WORT with a plain white
tailored waist and a white linen skirt
will be one Of the seasons fads.
Persian silk covered cord put on in
braid patterns is n of the uses OF
| the many colored silks that are here
this season in such brilliant array.
One Of the smartest fxings for the
| shirt waist is the Persian trimmed
| silk Ascot or bow. There is no end
to the schemes to which it lends it.
self.
Buttons are made Of silver these
days and inlaid with little spots OF
bright enamel. Two or three of these
take the place of a dozen of any other
sort.
Clerical collars-the ones button.
ing at the back, with shaped turn
overs embroidered in white with a
touch of color-are among the popu-
lar trifles.
Striped materials, especially in the
| popular combination Of black and
white, gray and white and blue and
i black, come next in favor to the coin
dotted fabrics.
Soutache braiding combined with
embroidery, using heavy silk, makes
a more striking garniture than all
silk embroidery. This is yet a favor
tie decoration.
Wide etamine ribbons, all cotton,
but printed in chic Egyptian and Per-
! sian designs and colorings, are in de-
mand for scarfs for panama and 9TH
er outing hats.
The most popular ribbon rosette Is
made from half-inch double-faced
satin ribbons, made into a number OF
knotted groups. Five yards are need
ed for each rosette.
The Charlotte Corday is fast gain
ing in favor in the lace lingerie hats.
Lace is used over a colored silk lin
ing, and a bunch Of flowers or a rose
made Of ribbon is the trimming.
A novelty in the binding Of hats is
to take a ribbon about three inches
wide, gather at each edge. and draw
I'D to fit over the brim edge as wide
on the lower as on the upper side.
Persian and other Oriental effects
are leaders of the moment in ribbon
/! designs and colorings, and are ex-
tremeiy effective when combined with
! plain fabrics or other plain ribbons
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Lunch on Wheels.

New to me-" said a traveller late
ly returned from his first trip in the
South, was the lunch table on wheels
that they push alongside the trains
there for the convenience Of passen-
gers in the cars. We saw one of
these at a station in North Carolina.
Table, maybe four feet long by two
feet wide, built rather high and set
upon wheels big enough so that the
table could be moved about On them
easily. Sort Of a two story table
this, the lower story being practically
a long, broad shelf underneath, on
which they keep supplies from which
to replenish the things on sale
oranges, bananas, sandwiches and so
At Z station where there is no
dining room or where the train
doesn't stop long they roll this table
along at the side of the cars; the
table top is high enough for passen"
gers to reach the things on it from,
the car windows."-New York Sun.
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A Hard Heart.

An itinerant preacher preached to
a cowboy audience on the "Prodisai
Son." He described the foolish prod
igal's extravaganza and dissipation
he described his perjury and his husk-
eating with the swine in the sly; lie
described his return, his fathers loV-
ing welcome, the rejoicing and the
preparation of the fatted calf.
The preacher in his discourse no.
ticed a cowboy staring at him very
hard. He thought he had made a
convert, and addressing the COWBOY
personally, he said from the pulpit:
my dear friend, what would you
have done If you had had a prodigal
son returning home like that?"
Me-" said the cowboy, promptly
and fercely, "I'd have shot the boy
and raised the alf."-Detroit Free
Press.
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Conscious woman, then as she stirred
! feebly some one muttered sullenly:
Get her home-Ill help ye! But
mind, we amt through with"
Hands up"
he sharp command sent every
hand into the air. The newcomer
swung around in front of the hud-
| died group-smiling down at them
| sardonically from the back of a pow
erful gray horse.
1t was Jake Morley, the most noto-
rious horse thief in the country.
"It amt the boy you want" he
ieered. "You want me-and this
horse I'm riding! Well, we're yours
when you catch us!"
He whirled like a flash, and under
the prick of spurs the gray horse
Numbered out of sight before a single
man could draw his weapon.
AS the raging crowd scattered in
futile pursuit the boy cried:
Mother, why did you do it? Oh,
why did your"
'Listen!" covering his lips with
her hand.
And from the Red Lion there drift
ed through the darkness:
Search, if you will, the wide world
through
You'll find no love like the mother
love,
And never a heart so true!"
"The mother love'-that's WHY
she whispered.-Boston Post.
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Difficult Task For Management.

"Shoplifters are one of our most
troublesome Worries" said the head
of a big department store the other
day, "and they are becoming more
difficult to deal with every day. 1t Is
simple enough when we merely have
a professional. The chances are she
is recognized as soon as she sets foot
in the store, and n of our women
detectives is detailed to keep watch
until she catches her with the goods
failing which the unwelcome visitor
is called aside quietly, informed that
her record is known and asked to
feave. The real trouble comes when
boaa fde customers yield to the temp
tation to picking up a few unconsid-
cred trifes, or, as has been a con-
spicuously favorite trick during the
recent holiday rush, accidentally
takes I'D some one else's shopping
bag or parcel and walks off with 1t.
If we make any fuss we are liable
to suits for all sorts Of damages
for libel and false arrest, and as q
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DIR. Eexner ON Whiskers.

DR.. Simon Flexner, chief OF the
Rockefeller Institute, referred, at a
dinner in Philadelphia, to the increas.
ing number Of clean-shaven doctors.
1T is cleaner, safer. to be clean
shaven," he said. certainly, as far
as physicians are concerned, there
was more truth than poetry in the dia.
logue of the two little boys on the
street corner.
Don't you hate to have your face
washed?' said the first little boy.
"'Oh, don't I. thought the other
answered. You bet, when I grow up
I'll wear full whiskers.' - Detroit
Free Press.
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grew stronger, and within three months
/ was a perfectly well woman.
81 want this letter made public to
show the benefit women may derive
from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound."-Mrs JOHN G. MoLDAN,
2115 Second St., North, Minneapolis
MINI.
Thousands Of unsolicited and genu.
inc testimonials like the above prove
the efficiency Of Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound, which Is mada
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis,
tressing ills peculiar to their sex should,
not lose sight Of these facts or doubt
the ability Of Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound to restore theiI
health. !,
Ifyou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass,
urletterasstrictH
confidential. For 20 years she
has been helping sick women In
this way, free Of charge. Don't
hesitate write at once.
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LUCKY GLOUCESTER SKIPPER.
Never at Loss For Good Fishermen to
Ship With Him.

| Never dG lOSS TUT uoou ~
Ship With Him.
We inland people knowing the sea
only as a source Of amusement or
pleasure, a thing in which to battle or
on which to sail or as a beautiful
view, often fail to realize that a con-
| siderable population in the eastern
part of our State view that magnif-
| cent body of water solely with a bust
ness eye. The sea has fish, and from
| the earliest days Of the colony the
fishing industry has been an i'm
| portant one. =.
Boston and Gloucester are the
headquarters of fishing, but the latter
| city, largely because it is wholly given
I'D to the business, is popularity con-
| sidered the fishing town Of the United
| States. On one day recently eleven
vessels came into Gloucester with
$4,000 pounds of fish, and on the
same day eighteen vessels arrived at
Boston with 100000 pounds. On
this day, too, ten vessels left Glouces-
ter for haddock and halibut.
Just now the interest among the
fishermen is in the mackerel fleet
| Sol Jacobs, the veteran Gloucester
skipper, several days ago brought into
| Fortress Monroe, Va, the first mack
erel of the eason and thereby OBJ
tanned one Of the coveted honors OF
the season. Thirty-eight sloops and
schooners are now planning to join
the fleet from Boston and Gloucester.
All summer they will chase the elu-
sive mackerel up the coast as far as
Nova Scotia.
Gloucester papers keep a close tab
on the catch that each vessel brings
in, and the captain who gets the
greatest amount for the season is
high line" and the fact is prominent
ly recorded. A skipper who shows up
we'll in the list year after year is
never at a loss for good fishermen to
ship with him, and some keep the
same crew year after year.
The fishermen share in the fares,
and to sail with a clever captain, n
who can find the fish, is financially de-
sirable. There is much said about the
hcroism of the fishermen, and they are
indeed a courageous lot. But they
take their work as do a fire fighter
or a policem2A or a railroad man, and
they thems elves make no claims to
the qualities given them by their
friends.
Some are Nova Scotian youths who
come from Cape Breton farms settled
by their Scotch ancestors years ago.
and when the fishing season is over
they go back home with more ready
money in their pockets than they
would see in years if they stuck to
the farms.-Springdeld Republican.
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The Feast.

A farmer who was taking his first
long trip on a railroad train found
himself getting hungry. The train
boy came through and, after some eff
fort, sold the farmer three bananas
for ten cents.
The farmer peeled the bananas.
threw away the fruit and ate the
skins.
Presently the boy came back. Want
some more bananas?" he asked.
mo, I guess not
"Why, wasn't they gCod?"
"Oh, goods common, suppose; but
they's too blamed much cob about
Enthusiastically Evening Post
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Golden.

Almost painfully dazzling is a gold
colored gown wrought with sequins
beads and crystal all in gold, the
whole dress being covered with 1t
There is a wonderful salmon-colol
that almost takes the breath away
and there is a so-called emerald thai
would "kill" the true stone quite
dead. Another sequin is called grass
green, but if any meadow were te
don such a tint the COWS would de-
cline to enter it, and would certainly
retreat in much confusion.
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Cutting Sarcasm.

Mothers compliments" said a
voungster to a butcher who keeps a
shop in a busy. suburban thorough
fare, land she's sent me to show you
the big bone brought with the piece
of beef this morning"
TELL your mother next time Kills
a bullock without bones in 1t I'll
make her a present of a joint said
the man Of meat, with a grin.
Mothers compliments" continued
the boy, land she says next time you
find a. bit Of sirloin with a shoulder
of mutton bone in it she'd like to
buy the whole carcass as a curiosity
philadelphia Inquirer.
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TIE GUEST.

My daddy is a 'fessor at a big, big 'cademy,
And he has got a picture book of stars,
called 'stronomy.
But, oh, you ought to hear him talk to
me and brother Jack
! Bout all the funny folks who live up in
the Sody Ack.
I don't know what the Sodys do,
And never saw an Ack, did you?
My dady has a telescope that pokes up
through the trees.
He let me see the Ram one night, the one
with Golden Fleas,
And pointed out the Fishes in the Pie
Seas of the sky.
I couldn't find the Fishes, so I tried to
find the Pie,
And found it, too. all by myself,
On Aunt Lucinda's pantry shelf!
Harold Skinner, in Woman's Home
Companion.
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The Dentists Joke.

At q recent dinner Of the Authors
club in London to Mr.. Owen Seaman,
the editor Of Punch, Mr.. Walter
Emanuel, another member Of the staf
of Punch, referred to the fact that the
man with the largest sense Of humor
he had ever struck was an lGnglishman
"a dentist. He went to him after SUI
fering long with a toothache. He re-
fused to have gas, and the dentist
pulled out a tooth, leaving him with
ing in pain, and took the tooth to the
window, where he laughed quite heart
lily. He groaned: whats the joker"
Wrong TOOTH" said the dentist.
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JAP QUICK AT FIGURES.
Using an Abacus, HeBeat Bank Clerk
With Aiding Machine.

At a meeting of the Tacoma chap
ter Of the American Institute OF Bank
Clerks the other night a Japanese
clerk, using a "saroban," "put 1t all
over" a Tacoma bank clerk using a
modern adding machine in casting up
a long column Of figures.
The Japanese, with his ~"saroban,"
did the arithmetical stunt" in thir-
ty seconds, while the bank clerk, with
his modern adding machine, took
ffty-four seconds to obtain a total,
and afterward it was found the clerk
Or the modern adding machine had
made an error, while the Japanese
with his little abacus or "saroban"
obtained the correct result the first
time. In another test the Japanese
might make an error, as did the bank
clerk. However, it is significant that
the Japanese did not err and that he
obtained a correct result far more
quickly, though he used an ancient
arithmetical device.
The Japanese that won the contest
in adding was once a clerk in a bank
at Osaka, Japan. He disclaims being
an expert in adding, and says many
japanese are much faster on the "sa-
rohan" than he. The little old fash
toned adding machine used by the
japanese is what we call an abacus.
Years ago in our public school rooms
the abacus used to hang on the wall,
and it was sometimes used In the
study Of arithmetic. 1t is not used
much nowadays, though it would ap-
pear from the speed and accuracy or
the Japanese that it might be en-
ployed with good results.
The abacus in use in China is
known as the swan pan. The Chinese
are also rapid calculators. The aba
Gus is a very simple device when COM
pared with the modern adding ma
chine. It is probable that it requires
mere practice and more arithmetical
ability to get correct results from an
abacus than are required with the
modern adding machine.
The abacus is very ancient. 1t was
used by the Egyptians and Greeks IN
a form similar to that now used IN
Japan, China, Arabia and Russia. The
word Is traced through the Greek to a
word meaning dust" 1t is said that
dust was spread upon board and that
numerals were inscribed in the dust.
In early times the Greeks used
such a board, and it is supposed that
geometry as we'll as arithmetic was
taught with the use of that kind OF an
abacus. Later an abacus was devel-
oped in which beads slid on wire or in
GOV the beads having a value de-
pending upon column. This was
probably like the abacus now used IN
japan and China. The word "calcu-
late" is traced to a Greek word mean
ing pebble. 1t is supposed that peb-
bles were used in the early abacus.
The victory Of the Tacoma japan.
csc with his "saroban" over n OF
our bank clerks with a modern add
inc machine is not an exceptional in
stance. A few months ago, when the
japanese commercial commissioners
visited the United States, a contest
was held in which a Japanese came
ont ahead in a calculation contest IN
which he used an abacus
Ledger.
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Bacteria.

Not long since it was announced
that Regnault had discovered bacte-
ria in coal. Continuing his researches
he found evidence that bacteria were
probably coeval with the first appear
anee of organic life on the earth.
They attacked vegetable tissues, as
we'll as the bones and teeth of ami
mails, but as a rule they belonged to
species distinct from the bacteria of
to-day.-Philadelphia Record.
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Jewel Shades.

These jewel shades in rich silken
fabrics have not been equaled in any
thing shown heretofore. Burnt topaz
is q remarkable shade Of deep rich
yellow. Ruby is the deep red OF the
popular late winter gown. Amethyst
in these soft qualities Of wonderful
dress silk Is more pale than purple.
The turquoise is a heavenly shade
and aquamarine is an indescribable
pale green.
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BLACK JeweIry in Demand.

Wholesale jewellers of the Maiden
Lane district say that the death OF
King Edward has caused a notable
revival in this country, as we'll as
abroad, in the demand for black jew
elry, Including jet, black onyx, opals
and other stones of dark hues. They
say that a similar effect followed the
death of Queen Victoria and of the
Prince Consort in the early years of
her reign.