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The Madison journal., 1913-06-07
Rock Cannon.

When the island of Malta was under
the rule OF the knights of st. John
they defended their Notifications with
cannon bored in the living rock. Each
one of these strange weapons con-
tanned an entire barrel Of powder, and
as 1t was not possible to vary the aim
of these cannon fifty were made ready,
facing various directions from which
the enemy might approach. When the
fame of these arms of defense became
known to the world the idea was taken
up of transporting rocks to submits
to serve the same purpose, but 1t was
soon recognized to be impracticable,
and the cannon of Malta, bored in
solid rock. have passed into history
as the sole weapons of the kind ever
known.-Harper's Weekly.
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At last l grasped one close and held it
closer to the light. read:
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me.
And may there be no moaning of the
bar
When | put out to sea!'
i whirled. Something had flashed
through my head. Here on the evil
dence of thievery, someone had writ
ten stanza of Tennyson's Crossing
the Bar l approached the captain,
for a wild idea had come.
If you please, l would like a little
expense money on this case / told
him. may be wrong in my belief,
but I've got little lead that may turn
out something.
Il received the money, and then
started out. The loop district looked
like the best chance for me and so
started around there. The first day
made eight barbershops and"
Made them?" | interrupted. 81
don't believe | quite understand"
Why" Miss Clement answered, 81
simply covered them like a salesman
would cover line of stores. And in
cidentally, | had become a salesman.
had figured it out that my man would
be either a poetic barber or a poetic
candy merchant of some kind. / knew
| someone who had something to do
with tissue paper of that size was
| either barber or candy man. In
one place it would be used for the
shaving. In the other, it would be
! used in putting the dressing in candy
boxes. And so, | got a job with a
candy manufacturer l knew and start.
ed out to drum up trade.
And you know" Miss Clement
added with smile, lin walking around
! Chicago, where the wind is always
blowing, ones face gets mighty grimy
and dusty. There is nothing that takes
the dust away like a massage. And
so, between every candy store, | would
manage to become grimy enough tC
need the assistance of barber. | al
ways did hate to go to these feminine
hairdressing establishments" she
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er than to the laundress, but the young
girl is not as a rule over careful OF
her clothes and if frock must 90 to
the cleaner often during the summer
one will have little cOmfOr- from 1t.
Perhaps the summer is to be spent
where no cleaning establishment Is
close n hand and Inconvenience is
added TO the time and expense en-
tailed.
II stands 70 reason therefore that
the froch actually dttcd for Tubing is
the practical dress for the girl whose
wardrobe Is limited and it is quite
possible 20 take this into consideration
without sacrificing too much upon the
altar of utility.
fin, linOn is the most satisfactory
material for the lingerie frock that is
10 endure Tubing, and it will pay to
obtain an excellent quality. Batiste,
voilcs and marGuisettes are softer and
launder well if carefully handled. but
lInon will outwear them every time.
The cotton marquisettes, cotton
yoiles and grapes are more recent ar
rivals and have achieved decided pop
uiarity, and very large percentage OF
the cotton graduating frocks this year
are being made up in these Materials
They laundcr well. are easily hand
led. are very soft and graceful, and
durable despite their sh-erness and
lend themselves admirably to simple
forms of trimming. although they may
be made very elaborate with hand en-
brOidery.
The cotton grapes in really good
quality are attractive materials and
are enjoying a great vogue, both for
blouscs and tub fruCks. II is said that
I they require no ironing and are very
/ practical on that account. but laun-
/ dresses insist that they are by no
means easily laundered, as they re-
quire stretching and more or less care
T ful pressing to get them into the right
shape after laundering.
Embroidered cotton voiles and mar
/ quisettes make attractive graduating
/ frocks and in all the shops where
/ youthful dresses are shown one finds
quantities of such frocks made of such
material
MARY DEAN.
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just the same, determined to take 8
chance got into his chair and called
for massage.
"As he worked | tried ID study his
face whenever ! could keep my eyes
OPEN to see if there | could find the
criminal lines that would depict the
kind of man | sought; or If | could
find that softer something which
would show that he was the sort of a
man who could appreciate a poem Of
the depth and the beauty of Tenny-
sons Crossing the Bar But 1t was
useless. For once In my life / was
stumped. | have always prided my
self that can read faces and see the
character outlined there, and in every
case with the other man had studied
had even been able to tell what
their best girls looked like. But
here"
Miss Clement shrugged her shOul-
ders, pursed her lips and spread forth
her hands to the drizZling rain. !
turned pair of inquiring eyes to her.
What was the trouble?" | asked.
Simply this: that mans face might
as well have been dough, as far as any
expression was concerned. There did
not seem to be a single bit of express
sion to the eyes, and his face did not
! change once. 1t interested me, that
countenance, studied it and studied
it, yet could derive nothing from it.
! determined that as soon as the mas
sage was over, would get my hair
/ combed for about the 900th time and
see If conversation would do any good.
And for a half hour talked, trying
| to draw him out, endeavoring to learn
! whether or not he knew anything OF
| literature; but his answers were al
most invariably in monosyllables.
gave up the attempt and left the shop.
That night as | was returning to
my apartment, / chanced, in changing
cars. to again pass the little shop
where l had wasted SO much of my
good time. l was tired, more than
that, was weary, ready almost to &c
to the captain and tell him that | had
made a failure of everything and that
my great clue had been nothing more
than the wild dream of woman's
brain, intangible, impractical. 1t was
Just about at that moment that
noticed my shoe string had become
united. | stopped to retie it, and as
rose, a figure approached and passed
me. That figure | knew, there wa:
/ Somathinp ahOut the general bearing
of the man that was familiar, might!
familiar to me. And yet, it seemed
had never seen the face before. True
the contour was similar, the color o
the hair and the eyes was the same a!
that of the man in the barbershop
But that was all Almost involuntaril!
turned and followed him few steps
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dressmaker for it and gives carte
blanche in matters of handwork and
real lace, and there are many girls
in ultra smart boarding schools who
have ordered frocks of this type. But
the great host of girl graduates is by
necessity limited to a less costly va
riety of frock simplicity. and after all,
the indefinable charm attached TO
youth has more TO do with the success
Of a graduation frock than hand tucks
and real lace.
There are quantities of models and
materials available for the youthful
graduate. The materials most in fa-
vor are fine cotton marquisette, cot
ton voile, fine linen lawns. lace. net
ard chiffon.
The most practical of graduating
frocks is, of course, the frock that
will stand tubing and look well after
the ordeal. Fine lingerie frocks are
nowadays more often sent to the clean
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FORGOTTEN Novelist.

Ninety years ago there died a nov
elist of whom it would have been con-
sidered sacrilege to suggest, in her
own time. that she would ever be for
gotten. The friend Of Mrs. Montagu,
Mrs. Piozzi and all the blue stockings,
she married William Radcliffe, editor
of the English Chronicle. and set the
town on fire with her novels. Scott
wrote of her that "the praise may be
claimed for Mrs. Radcliffe Of having
been the first to introduce into prose
fiction a beautiful and fanciful tone OF
natural description and narrative
which had hitherto been exclusively
appropriated to poetry" For The
Mysteries of Updolpho" she received
$500, and later book produced
GS00-great sums in those days, and
beyond the reach of many excellent
novelists today.
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MARY DEAN.
LATE IDEAS IN MILLINERY
Prevailing Styles Really Show Little
New, Though There Have Been
Few Changes Made.

Naturally, at this date very little
that can be rightfully termed new is
in evidence, says the Dry Goods Econ
omist. The most pronounced change
is the return of maline hats to strong
favor.
Drapes of maline over hemp are
especially favored; but brim extern
sion. ruffies and huge wired bows OF
maline are also being offered
Hats of Chantilly lace are being
prominently featured. Some of the
most striking of these have the lace
fitted so smoothly and firmly over a
wire foundation as to present almost
a tailored appearances
The popularity of quills continues
unabated. They are used either alone
or in combination with wheat, flowers,
ribbon or feathers. Among the smart
est models now shown are white
hemps trimmed with white quills and
white wheat. with white moire rib
bon band.
Another striking combination is a
broad black quill with tiny white paFl =
disc sprays curling out FROM It's CEN
ter.
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Eertilizc TIE LANGUAGE.

Surely there must be something the
matter with the vocabulary of our
young people when they have to de-
pend so exclusively upon such words
as "Sure," Dandy" and Wonder
full" to express their principal emo
tions. What is most extraordinary
about all this is that the vacabulary
of young women does not seem to be
improved by a college career. one
would think that it would be quite I'M
possible to study Latin and French
and German, literature and philosophy
for a number of years (even though
studied in the most superficial man.
ner) without acquiring enough variety
of words to carry one through any
common experience. The method OF
studying English in our schools is
entirely wrong. There should be
classes in djectives.-Life.
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Then | gasped. l heard him begin to
whistle the first few bars Of The
Melody in F.
And then l understood. | was on
the right track after all. Putting two
and two together, judging from the va
rious descriptions of the men who had
been fieeced, here was a man who had
the power, seemingly, of not only
changing his face, but his whole
bearing whenever it suited his pur-
pose. had studied his appearance in
the barbershop, ! had taken in every
detail of his clothing, and had 1t not
been for that and for that fact, too,
that | had seen him leaving the shop,
| never would have been able to rec
ognize him. But now was sure!
"A great feeling of relief surged
through me; / knew now that | could
go to the captain and tell him diff
ferent story from the one | had been
planning a short time before. More
than that, l would be the means Of
bringing in a criminal who was dan
gerous in the extreme, who would rep
resent all the finer arts of trickery
and whom it would be a triumph to
put behind the bars of a penitentiary.
Hurriedly | started toward my car,
that | might hasten to police head
quarters and arrange for the arrest
the next morning.
Then, just as suddenly, halted,
and although queer fear ran through
me. | could not help laughing at the
funny possibilities of the situation.
Just suppose" Miss Clemei-t began
to chuckle as she thought OF it, Just
suppose that this man should have
still another face which had never
been used, so to speak. and no one
could identify him? And that iden'
tity would be all upon which | could
have my case. had none of his para
phernalia, not witness had been able
to tell wne1e he was taken when the
money machine did its work and
ground out the supposed fortunes, and
/ so all | would have TO show to 9
( court would be group of disgruntlec
men who would swear that they had
been robbed but in a place they could
! not point out and by man they could
/ not identify. l decided all at once
that this was not a time for making
! arrests. There must be evidence and
II was UP to little Alice to get it."
She smiled as she said that, and
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For the Tea Table.

For the woman who loves a cup OF
tca Ia the afternoon and who also
likes a small cooky or cheese cracker
or some such tid-bit TO nibble while
slipping her tea. there Is a new sug.
gestion in the way OF serving waferi
and cakes
OFTEN even a sandwich plate will b,
too small to hold as many crackers az
are needed when three or four friend.
drop iL for cup of tea and gossiL.
and iOr this a flower basket, the styl..
that ;G nat with tall handle. general
ly used for the garden when PICKING
flowers, is just the thing, for 1t holds
a most surprising number of cakes
and in this way one can easily pass
large number of It'd bits at one tim,
without the least inconvenience. and
for crackers. decorated with jelly and
cheesr End such edibles as cannot be
laid on top Of each other. this fla,
/ basket IL unsurpassed
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LIKE THE SEPARATE COLLAR
No Accessory Of the Season Has Been
Received With More Genuine
Appreciation.

An accessory which can be adopted
with greater confidence is the separate
white collar to be worn with the coat.
A few years ago girls and younger
women wore embroidered white col
lars over their coat lapels, but the
present renaissance of the fashion Is
in a different form. The collars now
worn are much more attractive and
elaborate They come in all the modi-
fications of the square or rounded cut
and very often end in the long ruffle
or plating which Is so great fad
Just now. others are in the shape OF
modified fichu. They are both be-
coming and practical, as they protect
the waist underneath. Especially with
a collarless blouse-that is to say, an
open-necked one-they are almost nee
essary. Otherwise the hard line OF
the coat is very trying, both In ap-
pearance and in feeling.
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it nearer to the Hearts De

sire.
"'Do you mean anything especial by
that? l asked in a half Joking way. He
turned quickly. saw that the proprie-
tor was out of the shop, and then
came close to me.
Yes, do he whispered.
"'What?' | appeared surprised.
"'Mrs. Marion he said, (that WAS
my name. you know Have you
noticed anything queer about that
money | have been giving you for the
last two weeks?'"
mo. Why?'
Because it has all been counter
felt, that's all
He was mine at last, My eyes
danced as he hurriedly went into his
bogus confession of how he had
learned the secrets of the Bureau or
Printing and Engraving at Washing
ton. He told of his money machine,
how 1t could turn out cash like so
much printed calico-and then came
the real nubbin Of the whole affair
He told me of his poor old mother,
blind, dying. She was about TO be
thrown out of her home for debt OF
$1,000. He could make the money, II
is true, but if he went TO the bank
with that many fresh bills they would
suspect And so, could let him have
s., 900 providing he would turn me
out $4,000 on his trusty machine!
Wouldn't | do this for him? Couldn't
| see that he loved me, that he held
me above all other women on earth?
81 would talk like this to no other
woman he pleaded. But ! love you.
Some of these days am going to ask
you that most important of questions
that a man can ever ask. | have con-
fessed to you what never would have
confessed to anyone" he added, and
his eyes shone with a passion | could
hardly believe was feigned. have
confessed to you; it is within your
| power to have me put behind bars.
But you won't do 1t, will you" he
pleaded. You'll help me-just for
| this last time. and then | will be
| through forever. | will be straight
from then on, / will lead the life that
| should lead. And won't you help
me?'
AZ gazed at him steadily moment
Then held out hand.
Terry I said, III help you
"He sprang forward.
Tonight then, at s o'clock, meet
me here. There will be a taxicab tt
take us to the place where can make
the impressions of the money. VII
you have the $4,000 with you?'
"I WILL | answered.
Then Miss Clement stopped and fol
ten minutes as we walked along, she
added nothing to her narrative.
"Well?" l asked finally, whats thu
rest of it?"
The rest?" Miss Clement turned t.
me and laughed. What rest neet
there be, There was only one NOR
detail, you see. met him. | had tn
5000 and we went in the taxicab
But,"-and there came that mischiev
Gus light into her eyes again, "ther
were certain persons who tagge'
along behind, who followed that tax
cab, who fingered outside of the doc
to the room in which he took me, anC
at the crucial moment, walked in. An
when they walked in, Mr.. Terry La
fan walked out. with a couple G
decorations on his wrists. He's sti
walking-in lockstep."
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of love. The next day when came in
for my usual headache cure he asked
if was not late.
"T hardly think so,' answered,
'why?'
Nothing he said slowly. only it
just seemed / had been expecting you
for a good while, that's ALL
Cute, wasn't it?" MISS Clement
laughed. Let me tell you that Ter
ence Laffan (which wasn't his real
name at alb certainly knew the game
of love. They tell me that barber is
the most dangerous love-maker in the
world, anyhow; at least, that's what
the new detectives down at headquar-
ters always have said. And certainly
Terry didn't miss out on any Of the
fine points when he was going to col
lege-."
Barber college, of course" / sup
piled.
Here, we're getting away from
the story, Miss Clement broke in.
What / was trying to say was that
within the next two weeks, Terry Laf-
fan managed to work up the finest
case of love at first sight you ever
heard of. The fact that he was only
a barber while l was supposed to be a
rich woman, didn't worry him in the
| least. And then the poetry began to
spring forth. And all the time, under.
stand, he was changing the bills
gave him and handing me back clean
new money. Once or twice, just to
see what would happen, | asked him
what 1t meant, how he happened al
ways to have new money. He only
/ smiled at me- Then he would recite a
little strain of mystic verse to me as
! sat in the chair, something that
would show he was far better read
than |. And then one afternoon came
the clincher. He pulled bit Of tissue
paper from his pocket and handed Il
to me.
81 was thinking Of you when
wrote that this noon. It's bit o.
Omar's philosophy. | often pick up {
scrap of paper here and scribble oil
it.
And then, | read:
'Ah love. could you and l with Hin
conspire,
To grasp this sorry scheme of thing
entire,
Would We not shatter 1t to bits AM
then.
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Make Your Own Hatpins.

Don't throw the whole effect OF your
hat entirely out of key by the use OF
discordant hatpins. II is simple mat
ter to have handsome hatpins to
harmonic with your hat, and at
small expense, too A bit of lace, SILK,
brocade. or any other material VIII
do. 4 hat trimmed with a touch OF
coral. bright blue. or green. would
look all the better if its hatpins were
made of large button mOlds covered
with the same bright material with an
ordinary penny hatpin with white or
black head stuck right through the
hole in the mold.
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smiled at me, land so just acted like
a man, walked into the barbershop,
sat down in the chair and ordered
massage.
When the night of the first day
came, my face was as sore as boil.
The next day | decided that had bet
ter change my method until my face
got over the various rubbings 1t had
received the day before, and so l found
that my hair was giving me a head
ache and needed a good combing.
Ten times that day | went into barber
shops and had my hair combed, then
dressed by the manicurist. No luck.
Nor were the candy stores any
more enlightening. The men / saw
we're sordid brutes. They had no more
poetry in their systems than a block
of wood. / began to realize that l was
working on a mighty slim clue, to be-
gin with, that it was wild in the ex-
treme and that there was little chance
of me winning out in my fight to catch
a man simply through the fact that
there had been some poetry written
on tissue paper. But l persisted just
the same.
"And things steadily grew worse.
The loop district was covered, did
every barbershop and every candy
store in the radius of the confines of
l. structures which go to make up the
real business district of Chicago. In
not one of them could | find a man
whose face or whose personality at all
tailed with that of the one | sought.
After all, had been foolish. | had
spent a lot of good money on quest
that | should have known, before
started. would be fruitless. Yet some
thing impelled me to keep on.
Il visited every shop in the tougher
districts of the city. Not an item OF
evidence did | find. | went out into
the residence districts; and then, in q
small, two-man shop, saw some
shaving paper of exactly the kind OF
which the fake money bundle had
been prepared. | took hope-then lost
/ il again. The owner of the shop was
/ small and dull-eyed and a glance a
him showed that by no possibility
could he the man described by the
various victims. The other barber
was nearer the size / sought, but Il
seemed that there was ploddins
something, a characteristic about hin
that never had been described. Bu
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TO HOLD DAINTY NIGHTORESS
Pretty Case of Pale Pink Satin Lined
With White Slk-Strings to
Match Material.

Something very pretty in the shape
of a nightdress case may be seen in
the accompanying sketch. 1t is car
ried out in pale pink satin and lined
with soft white silk and edged with
silk cord and tied together with rib
bon strings of a color to match the
satin.
Between the covers and the lining
double thickness of swansdown
fannelette should be sewn in to give
the case substance On the front cf
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SIMPLICITY IS CHARM
WELL TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN
ORDERING GRADUATION DRESS.
The More Girlish the Frock, the Bet
ter Will the Wearer Appear. and
There Are Many Materials to
Select From.

Girlish simplicity is the correct
thing in graduation .rocks-eycn the
most ambitious of graduates recOg
nIzes that fact But there are many
versions of this simplicity, and it is
attainable at varying prices and diff
ferent degrees of elaboration
1t is easy enough to make a distinct
ly girlish frock of sheer lingerie or
net or lace and chiffon cost $50 or
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Ssshes Revived.

The narrow sashes OF the COS have
been revived. They are offered in
many styles. those of brocade in
bright colors and odd designs being
especially popular. The plain ones
have embroidered ends and most Of
them are finished with fringes. The
sasLcg are knotted at the side or
lcoped at the back They are worn
with all sorts of costumes and give
an effective touch of color TO som,
ber gown
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the case a design OF three white dog
roses and foliage is embroidered, but
there are, of course. many other pr"t-
ty designs that might take its place.
and for this purpose a transfer pat
tern of some suitable floral design
may be easily obtained at trifiins
cost
The blossoms should, however, be
worked in white, as white blossoms
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and green foliage always look charm
ing upon a pink background.
The case opens in front for a third
of the way down. and after the night
dress has been placed inside. the flap
is folded upwards and secured with
the ribbon strings
The small sketch on the right hand
side shows the case so closed, and by
the way. the silk cord. which is OF a
fancy pattern, is carried into three
little loops at each corner.
This sachet might. of course. be
made in other colors. and it is al
ways a pretty idea with articles of
this description to select colors to
match or harmonic with that of the
bed quilt or perhaps in the event OF
a white bed quilt. the wall paper.
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Touch Of Health,

The pale faces with carmine lips al
disappearing. Paris 10 permitting
faint glow OF healthful mink the
cheeks