The Weekly Wisconsin from Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Page 3

SUBLIMITY. I asked a maiden In tbe bluah of youth. In whose gray eyes there shone tbe germs of troth, Whose soft red lips were parted ID a smile. Whose lovely face Innocent of eutle: "What do you hold dearest thing In "Tbo.be," she answer made, "a happy wife!" I asked the mother, as she softly pressed, With tender care, an Infant to her breast, Whose gentle glances hovered o'er tbe Which, -xlocplng, of tbe angels dreamed and "What the sweetest pnln there Is on earth? Ebe bent and Jrtssed the babe: "In giving birth!" I nsked the matron, who with loving pride the children clustered by her side; ho In wlrkrr chair rocked to-and robust as she rocketl-and crooned In years the greatest blessing God can send?" "A-home where love and sweet contentment blend!" I naked a wrinkled woman, o'er whose hend The -snows of many a winter had been shed, Whose children from the roof-tree far had whose husband In tho grave had long been "5'hnt the dearest memory of your life?" "The day that I was made a happy wife WOW TO BE A BELLE. An older woman win) has been through that maelstrom called society offers the following hints to her younger sisters who are about 'to make their nrst plunge -into the whirl.

"It takes some months," she says, "in ninny cases years, of the world's fine polishing to soften the little roughness aud those thousand nnd one incompletenesses that embitter extreme youth and turn every want-of attention, every slip of other people's tongues, into a perfect regiment of slights. "In this manner many girl's first year of social life is anything but the unalloyed inpnipess of which she has dreamed. Uhe first lesson for a debutante to learn IB that she is not the only debutante Jn tho room, nnd that every eye is by no means fixed upon her. Remember that each little debutante is just as-much occupied with herself ns yon are, and each mother who sits ranged iigaiust the wall is thinking very deeply of her own particular little duckling that has turned so suddenly into a swan. To realize this is, that everyone is not looking nt be a shock to the vanity, but at ''Will do more to lessen that painful shyness so wisely called by the French faux hante than auything else in the "No one really knows or remembers whether yon were out in a certain figure of the gerrnan or not, aud if you arc left there is no use in worrving aud feeling, until by the time sonif- one does turn up you have not the spirit left to make yourself agreeable.

"Being belle is often the merest accident. A girl iuny have a lot of cousins and brothers, who, with their friends, are determined to make her a success. Theu, again, her parents may have asked lot of people to some entertainment, and from decency, not snobbishness, the men have.bceu invited are bound to meet show her some attention. "In all probability you are just as attractive as this particular girl who is liaTing the 'better time, nnd ten to one the very men who are showing her attention for the'reasons 1 have mentioned know it. This is a most consoling thought if you happen to be left alone.

"Tho uio.st absolute necessity for being favorite.in every sense of the word is eiveeiiiess. Not xurtace but that genuine kindliness of heart which makes us considerate for all about us nt home as well ns ftln-oad, nnd which it is just ns sure to make itself evident as the tea rose is bound to exhale its exquisite perf uine. "Never say mean things about anyone. Your may laugh at the time, but they feel they may be the next to suffer, and one by one they dr'op away from you, for there is nothing absolutely killing as ridicule. a nmn with you against his will.

You may succeed very for once or twice, but he is bound to feel nidre or less 'stuck' nnd in the end wilt twoid you. After nil, your belledom is not for one two years, but perhaps for'a good many, especially in Americn, where girls marry late, and you don't want to make for only one season. "Accept -attention with so tmajet willingness that'the other will be positively glad he offered it, and if you to decline, do it as graciously nud as kindly as you can. "JNuvcr.bc lite for a or Veep any one waiting, and make a point of always speaking as soon as possible, and most I deferentially, the elderly people in a 1 room. "With these, small hints ns to the manners and the greater one as to sweetness which should' be iu our lives what the isjtt some beautiful piece of -a young girl -can thoroughly enjoy life ppd find a warm place in the hearts about Sun.

BORROWING HABIT. Probably there is np other women so universally disliked and execrated as the woman who- has contracted the borrowing habit, we all know her. We have all been her victims, for she has all times and seasons and neighborhoods for her vwn, and though you jonr- ney to tbe Uttermost parts of the earth you shall not escape her Importunities. $he is one of the pests of (Society, and the wonder is that in a world too full of have not yet found any way to abate her as an unmitigated Apparentlv she- never provides herself any of the necessities of life, how- cvcr much she may flaunt the luxuries before your face. Indeed, the time comes when you are forced to the conclusion that Her borrowing habit is nothing more 'taw than a kind of she levies on the neighborhood in order to iid iter money on show, and -not on in, every 'day At any rate, a amiliar and monotonous figure in your iiteben Boon to be herjiervant or child, with the request, B.

says will to her. Sometimes she pays it back, trolly 'in an Inferior article, oftenest hear of it again. Now. the of generosity doesn't enter into attcratalL You might, and would, fhted to give it outright to her if aled It. bnt 4t is troublesome to -things out, and equally away again if the most Inconvenient time, when you want least to be interrupted.

Naturally, the borrower always has her nerve, as the slang goes, along with her. She doesn't hesitate to send over and borrow your new waist to see how the trimming is put on, or your patterns before you have -used them, or your papers and magazines before you get a chance to look over them. These are so many economies she permits herself a't your expense. Then, if sou happen to, have the misfortune to be staying in the same house with her, she borrows yonr stamps, and your fine stationery, and you soon come to know that if your perfume, or any little belonging is missing, you can hunt it up and locate it in her rooms. "You are so good-natured I know you wouldn't care," she says sweetly, "nnd I just happened to be out" as if she wasn't eternally out of everything she ought to have.

Worst of all the borrowing fiends is the one who borrows your clothes. On the slightest acquaintance she will presume to borrow your new cape, or your picture hat, and friendship with her is simply purchased at the expense of your entire wardrobe. Lacking herself in the refinement and delicacy that make the thought of borrowed plumage abhorrent, she can never understand how one's clothes can be so absolutely personal, one shudders at the mere thought of putting on a collar that another has worn. Such women not consciously professional dead-beats, but they are that in reality, and have taken the surest and shortest cut to making themselves a terror in their little world. There is no earthly excuse for borrowing.

It is simply a bad habit, of which erery self-respecting woman should break herself if she has contracted it. It is far better, far more dignified and respectable to do without things than it is to borrow Orleans Picayune. A WELCOME TO OUR HOME DINNER. The highest social compliment that we cnn extend to a friend is an invitation to dinner. Dinner-giving is nn art not admitting brief discussion.

It is the most pleasant phase of social life, the very luxury of hospitality. It is the occasion where our best mental and social gifts come into play; its atmosphere is one where acquaintance may ripen into friendship. For the hostess it affords opportunity for all the refinements and possibilities for her domestic talents, for her social graces, wit, tact and intellectual powers. Robbed of its supposed ex- peusiveness. of the excessive effort involved, it would be the most popular form of entertaining.

At the regular home dinner there is obviously no bar to the presence of the accidental or formally invited guests, since it costs us nothing but the impulse to give pleasure. Why not let a few of our friends without homes feel sure of a cordial reception whenever inclined to join us at our evening meal? If on three evenings out of every seven we had guests it would make no difference in the sum total of our yearly expenses, yet whot a delightful avenue of pleasure it might yield. Do not let us keep a debit and credit account, with miserly exactness, in our social affairs. We will naturally entertain those who entertain us, but let us be lenient in overstepping such limitations and also in giving two or more invitations for one received, if conditions are more favorable with us than with others. In short, one way of getting the most out of life is to make of our homes radiating centers out shafts of good, happiness uiid love, attracting a return proportionate to the five talents wisely employed.

To this we must study, in its very essential essence, the meaning of the word Times. HOW TO OBTAIN A GOOD FIGURE. Systematic exercise can. accomplish so much that it is a marvel to one who has enjoyed its benefits that it is not more generally practiced. It is entirely unnecessary to be mistress of a system of physical culture.

There are a few exercises which, takon regularly and thoroughly, will accomplish all that a system would. The tendency is, however, to be unsystematic in taking these exercises, and thus lose their good effect. It is best to take them at night. In bedroom slippers and gown, with no bands to bind, no collar to rub, a girl is ready for the exercise that will make her rest as tranquil and sweet as a baby's. Every muscle of the body is free to stretch, to stiffen with effort, or to rest itself in complete relaxation.

Clubs, dumb-bells and other gymnastic paraphernalia are unnecessary, and really are inore harmful than beneficial. Grasping the bells enlarges the knuckles; the friction of the clubs hardens the hands, aud as it is quite as easy to do without them, the.v are better unused. After all preparations for bed are made, even to arranging the rather flat and somewhat hard pillow, stand before your glass and begin your exercise. There is a real delight in watching the strong, eas movements of a healthful woman. this ease and strength is within the reac of nearly all women.

The flat chests, shapeless waists and badly-formed hip may be at least partially remedied, and i requires only a little effort and persist ence to accomplish it. Too many women lack persistence. Instead of conscien tiously taking their exercise every da; they skip a day when they are feeling tired or lazy; then two or three days at a time; nnd eventually they learn to forget it, or decide that the game is no worth the candle. To develop breadth of chest, place th hands on the waistline a little back the hips, the fingers pointing forwarc From this position move the elbows slow ly.back toward each other, making them come as nearly together as this several times, counting four as th elbows approach each other, and two recover position. By.

counting to thes movements a harmony is attained whic will develop the muscles ariue Eggleston Juukermann in Woman' Home Companion. GENTILITY PASSING AWAY. A frankness that is almost bruta seems to pass current in society for np-to date smartness, and tbe language that i now used by certain fashionable peopl among themselves is sometimes only little short of billingsgate, while "swea words" seem to have lost their awfulues and are used almost as freely by wome: as by men. It is curious how "gentility' both as a word and a quality has dis appeared. Fashionable people are distinctly no longer "genteel." They ma oil occasions be high bred, bnt tbe mine ing propriety of the belles and beans yore has entirely disappeared.

In a well known society novel written fifteen twenty years ago, which was a presum ably correct delineation of the manners and habits of the fashionable life of tba time, two heroines play their role. One, a Vere de Vere. with the correct speech and manners of her caste, and the othe a suddenly exalted bonrgeoise, who goe through the social fires of criticism am experience before she emerges true goli from the ordeal. Oddly enough, today tbj types might be reversed; it is the hour geoise who is "high-toned" and the Ver de Vere who is a slangy York Tribune. BE TACTFUL.

Economy in woman is generally pleas ing.to the husband. Hence it is well ti mention incidentally the prices of varion household supplies, as evidence of knowl edge of expenses. This should not lie done too frequently, ns it may awaken a spirit of inquiry, which may prove an noyiug if too far. It is nevei wise to inquire, on the other hand, the personal expenses of a husband who is being managed. Creature comforts having been wel considered and supplied, the discreet man ager will begin to mould the opinions am direct the desires in the wished-for di rections.

Contradiction is sheer folly. "Never contradict" is a motto emblazoned on the creed of every successful womai manager. The next step is to never lea( the husband to contradict. This is a nice point. Definite statements are to be avoided.

It is doubly difficult to effect a change if any decided stand has been taken. In this field tact aud intuition are invaluable. Always lead the husband to believe that the initiative the suggestive, comes from him. If this can be effected the family will tread a path of roses. If this condition is continually kept in mind it can, beyond question, be finally accomplished.

THE AMAZONS OF THE ITALIAN FIELDS. A great deal has been said and fell about the women of the lower classes working in the fields, and of the hard manual labor they are called to perform. In the light of the ideas that women should be delicate and refined physically, doubtless the broad backs, hard muscles and heavy, knotted frames of peasants we see appear discordant and unseemly. at Dieppe or Whitby, we know, and alongshore everywhere, hold their own against town councils when they dictate the policy of town governments. In moments of danger, when the signal gun summons the populace to the scenes of danger, then these women, the wives and mothers of the fishermen, man the lifeboats and breast the waves, going to the rescue of their relatives In distress.

Yet these fierce, strong women scarcely fill the modern idea of what womanhood should be. Now, however, very recently, when it is the fad that women should be athletic, broad-shouldered, and deep-lunged, to say nothing of the wider education of our high-bred and healthy modern girls, the question arises among the observant, why working in fields or carrying burdens is, after all. such a hardship and degradation to the peasant woman more than to the peasant man? Too much labor aud great toil doubtless break down and age both sexes. But Disraeli spoke of women as of the gentler, if not the weaker, sex; and when, in Monte Sacrp, I saw women swinging the scythe with broad swathes, or cutting the sweet hay on the mountain sides with -their sickles, and then filling up tall, pannier-like straw baskets, which they bore away on their shoulders filled with fragrant grass for the cattle, I asked myself if, after all, in their present BEWAEE OF MOBPfflNE. jara.

Pinkham Asks Women to Seek Permanent Cures and Not Mere Temporary Belief From Pain. Special forms of suffering lead many woman to acquire tbe morphine One oi these forms of suffering is a persistent pain in the side, accompanied by heat and throbbing. There is disincline I tion to work, because work only the pain. This is only one symptom of a chain of troubles; she has others she cannot bear to confide to her physician, for fear of. an examination, the terror of all modest women.

The physician, meantime, knows her cannot combat her shrinking terror. He yields to her supplication for something to relieve the He gives her a few morphine tablets, with very grave caution as to their use. Foolish- woman She thinks morphine will help her right along; she be- comeslts slave I A wise and a generous physician had snch a ease; he told his patient he could do nothing for her, as she was too nervons to undergo an examination. In despair, she went to visit a friend. -She said to her, Dont give yourself np; jnst go to the nearest druggist's and buy a bottle of Mrs.

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It will bnild you np. Yon will begin to-feel better with the first bottle," She after the fifth bottle her health was re-established. Here is her own letter about it: 'I was very miserable; was so weak that I could hardly get around tbe house, could not do any work without feel- Ing tired out My monthly periods had stopped and I was so tired and nervous all of the time.

I was troubled very much, with falling of the womb and hearing-down pains. A friend advised me to take Xydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; I have taken five bottles, and think it is the best medicine I ever used. Now I can work, and feel like myself. I used to he troubled greatly with my head, bnt Ihave had no had headaches or palpitation of the heart, womb trouble or hearing-down since I commenced to take Mrs.JPinkhaitfs I gladly recommend the Vegetable Com- -nseof one -women' of Taraflo- Sesial better or.

more healthily employed, They gang as they worked, and bright and- bronzed cheeks spoke, of healthy toiU-Snsan Nichols Carter in Seribner's. BACHELOR MAID'S DEN. For some time past, to hare a den or room of her own, has been a fad with onr Not only with, the professional bachelor girl. living in -one or two apartments, has this been so. bnt with the girl of leisure, who has the freedom of a whole boose.

It is to the girl that has come to town to study mnsic or art, or who is self-dependent, who is hot satisfied to take up her abode in a second or third rate apartment, that these few suggestions for picturesque interior effects in limited space are offered; Where several club together they, can afford better and pleasanter quartets than where one rooms alane. Of course, the foremost idea is to utilize every square inch of space and to hare a bedroom appear like a sitting room, where yon can receive your friends with comfortable privacy, and yet with perfect propriety. Pretty divans, which answer as comfortable beds at night, are constructed of cots with their mattresses covered with denim, a Bagdad or old brocades, if not beyond vonr Piled high, with cushions and. pillows, such a divan is ornamental as well as useful. As receptacles for clothes, flat-topped trunks can be deceptively and artistically treated by having tufted fitted top cushions, with ruffles falling to the floor, of chintz, pretty linen, or, best of the three denim outlined in Boston art silk or Roman floss.

Two square pillows, each half the length of the particular trunk, stand np at the back against the wall, as a finish. Kngs are to be much preferred to a carpet. Have either one large in the center of the floor, or a number of small ones scattered around. rugs with mounted heads are desirable. Corner bookshelves, in L-sbape, just two or three shelves, one above the other, are the height; of vogue, and several sets are used in one room.

These do not take up floor space, and are very effective, beside making a receptacle for bric-a-brac. Pretty curtains for these are made of softly-tinted China silk or art denim, outlined in Roman floss. Another indispensable adjunct to the room of the bachelor maid is the tea table." This is pretty, either of bamboo or wicker, and a blue and Awhile service of Japanese ware is considered very smart, though a collection of odd pieces is quite as much seen. Where one room has to answer the purpose of three of four, two or three screens will be found most useful. Have one, at least, of the gold-embroidered Japanese kind.

A piece of Japanese fretwork or a grille, to match the prevailing wood of the room, over the doorway, or to cut off the corner to form a cozy nook, adds very much to the appearance of any room. Of course, draperies are to be hung from it, a Bagdad brocaded tapestry, Siberian linen or denim being suitable and stylish. If the furnishings are not to be changed often, as is usually the case, chose rich dark tones in color and wear, than the lighter shades. If a box conch is used for the divan bed, instead of a cot, it serves as another receptacle for clothes, beside the trunk, tete-a-tete described above. A small ornamental table can be used as a dressing case.

Eschew any large, cumbersome pieces of furniture, and, if space is circumscribed, avoid having any piece, especially the table, in the center of the floor. Have a clear, open space there. With some few good pictures, a watercolor, an etching or two. a placque and a plaster cast mask as wall decorations, our busy woman may have as congenial surroundings as her sister in her whole Record. Pimples, blotches, blackheads, red, rough, oily, mothy skin, itching, scaly scalp, dry, thin, and filling bail, and baby blemishes prevented by CuncuaA.

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A. .07 "Haw Pcerem uikd ton. EVERY HUMOR to Senfalm teasing, bat that is precisely what it amounts to from the child's standpoint. Just recently the writer was witness to a scene which' is typical of much that may be observed in one's environment if he has occasion to look for it. A little child disliked very greatly to have anything touch its nose, and would make the liveliest efforts to dispel whatever came in therewith.

The sweet baby movements were, naturally enough, very amusing to "an adult, who did not see anything in them but fan for himself. Frequently some mature person, who knew the child's characteristic in this regard, would place a finger or other object near the delicate member to see the little one strive with arms, bead and body to drive it away. On one occasion a grown woman, whose years should have taught her better, was seen to tantalize the child for two or three minutes, finally throwing it into a state of fatigue. AYhen it grew restless and began crying, it was grabbed up, tossed and thrown about, nnd talked to in a loud voice. This violent stimulation overcame the child's impulse to cry for the moment, but had the effect to further fatigue it, which was shown later in con- tinoal crying- until it fell asleep.

If one will think of such things going on day after day throughout the early life of a child, the irritable, unbalanced, disagreeable children of one's acquaintance may be accounted for at least in Science Monthly. NIGHT WORK AMONG WOMEN. It may seem incredible that there is a large and growing body of women who work regularly all night, says Florence Kelley in the Chantauqnan, but it is- only necessary to reflect that all the department stores, railroad depots, office buildings and other sky-scrapers are scrubbed by women at night to verify this statement. The telephone girls in the offices of the great dailies work at night; and in one of the great electrical works, which employs more women than any other manufacturing; establishment in Illinois, girls are engaged regularly from 6 at night to 5 in the morning thirteen weeks of every year. The effect of this work upon the health is ruinous, for the girls' do not acquire the habit of regular and sufficient sleep by day, but work, as they say, "on nerve," using stimulants for the purpose of keeping awake.

In the sewing trades since the "Song of the Shirt" the hours of labor of women and girls have been reduced only in those establishments which have steam power, and even in these the improvement is seeming rather than real, many of them requiring employes to carry home work at the close of the day whenever a sudden pressure requires "rushing." Throughout these trades the pay is so meager and the season so short and precarious that girls who have -worked with the intensity which the steam-driven machine exacts, for nine, ten or even eleven or twelve hours a day, eagerly seize every opportunity to work overtime whenever opportunity offers. In all factories and shops in which foot power is used the working day is practically unlimited, being determined only by the endurance of the operative. Even in states in which the working day of women and girls is limited by statute to ten in any one day, or sixty in any one week, the garment shops are practically exempted from such limitations, by their very numbers and the impossibility of inspecting them often enough to enforce the law effecutally. YELLOW IN DECORATIONS. Few people, in furnishing a winter house, seem to recognize the value of yellow as an element of cheer in a room, jarJicularly if the latter is inclined to dark.

Tie sunshiny effect of yellow lamask, for instance, is striking, especially if the outer world is stormy and cheerless. Going recently into a little yellow drawing room on a rainy day, this fact struck the writer most forcibly. The contrast between the murky, cold and al- darkening winter afternoon and cheerful gleam of the firelight on le satin figures in the weave of the damask curtains and chairs and sofas, seeming almost like glancing sunbeams, lad produced an instantaneous effect on he mind and spirits of people present. The woodwork this pretty room was all white, the walls, wainscoted in square ranelling for about five feet from the ioor, were, above that, covered with the reliow damask to the width of about 'orty-two inches, having the edges covered with moulding of white, lorming broad panels, at the top of each if which WAS a looped wreath of flowers stucco, painted white and placed directly on the damask. On this pretty a number of water colors showed to excellent advantage.

The floor was of inlaid wood, highly polished and waxed, and covered only with white fur ruga. The yellowy furniture was all Em- dre, bnt a note of true comfort was track by a couple of "Sleepy Hollows" Irawn np before the fire on each side of he hearth. These, with a Perian patterned silk, were tufted and stuffed until they were veritable nests of comfort. A pretfy table, covered with a lace and linen cloth, holding a glittering ea equipage of "Old English" -silver, food near at hind ready for use; other ables were covered, some with curios md others magazines and books, and several "Empire" screens completed be furniture. The marked feature of the: oom was a number of palms and giant erns, in vases, which gave almost a.

ropical Jook to the place he illusion of sunny brightness which he walls altogether delight- nl habitation for wintry New fork Tribune. i TEASING The yonng to fresh, Innocent ways, Is not infrequently regarded is plaything the- entertainment of i ao'is -teased and tormented ways because its response EFFECTIVE COLOR SCHEMES FOR THE TABLE. A clever woman who, in the dinner- giving season, is kept busy devising novel and effective schemes for making a table beautiful, advises not only the massing of color but the graduating of it, as giving the most satisfactory effect. "A table where theehina, candle shades, flowers, are entirely in one color is always effective," she says, "but it is far more so if this color is kept in graduated shades. If the center decoration is deeper in tint than the outer part it gives an effect like that of a flower deepening at the heart, and this effect is very easily secured.

Take a table laid with roses or carnations, for instance; it can be made to fade from deepest rose to the palest shell tint, and thus give the variety in harmony so pleasing to the color-loving eye. A pretty arrangement on this plan is made with red carnations. A tall, ruby glass vase, twenty inches high, with a spreading margin, stands in the center of the table upon a plate-glass table mirror. In this vase are the deep-red carnations, separated from each other by misty sprays of asparagus, the vase and contents being imaged deep in the underlying mirror. At the corners of the large mahogany table are placed discs of carnations of pale red, made by tying the flowers in smail bunches and laying each bunch upon a ferny leaf of asparagus, in such a way as to secure the round or oval effect needed.

From the center of the ceiling, directly over the table, hangs a one-globe chandelier, covered by a full red silk shade, which spreads out in umbrella fashion and throws a red glow over the table underneath. This scheme of decoration pets its value mainly from reflection and shape. The red lamp shade gives the glow, the ethereal quality of color, and this is reflected, not only in the table mirror, but upon the glasses and silver, while tbe shape is beautiful. "It is hard to secure the same graduation in a yellow table, as, for instance, with chrysanthemums or daffodils, because the shades of those of most yellow flowers are uniform. The depth of color can be supplied by using a center piece of orange-colored silk as a background.

"Ribbons, as a rule, should not be used in table decoration, because the qnaUty of dyed color is seldom in true or even subtle accord with the tints of flowers; but this does not apply to spreads of color used as a background. A green glass jar of tasteful shape holding a few slender- stemmed chrysanthemums, with thin, spiky leaves intermingled, shows 'to good advantage set upon a square of orange- colored silk. When the snrfaee of the silk is partly lightened by a fern-like growth of asparagus plumes it is easy to lead out from the central object to more delicate and more scattered 'effects of yellow. Yellow fruit can be utilized as an effective garland about a yellow brocade centerpiece. Deep orange-red mandarins, pale-yellow oranges, bright-yellow lemons, a few yellowish-white grapes, and an edging of orange leaves, with one or two buds and open flowers, make a charming combination of color.

"In using smaller flowers, such as pansies or nasturtiums, where the form of the flower is not in itself beautiful or stately, the masses of color must be carefully graded and varied in order to produce the best effect. Flowers such as lilies, roses, narcissus, daffodils and their kind, are graceful in shape and lend themselves more readily to a decorator's plans. The flenr de Us makes an ideal table decoration. A vase of purple glass, shaped like an inverted horn, and enlivened with gold, standing upon a square of purple velvet, makes a fitting bolder for the royal flower. There should be that vase twenty or thirty of the flowers with buds, and the sword-shaped leaves.

A tapestry effect of small foliage and velvety pansies should enrich the surface of the table at convenient points. The silver and glassware of the service reflect the pnrpler glow of the flower and the result is rich and satisfactory. "In long-stemmed-flowers," she continued, "much depends on the color of the jar or vase selected to hold them. this purpose glass is far better than china, as its transparency is in itself a Duality -of beauty. When very few are used, and those of white or pah; rose color especially, opalescent glass vases of dainty shape are to be preferred to vases of more pronounced hues.

Green glass jars are the most universally appropriate and useful. "Of course, satisfactory table decoration must take into account the china, glass and silver used, bnt when flowers are the predominating means of beanty it is only necessary to see that the table service does not in any Way dash, bnt rather help out the general scheme by suggestions of color. A beantifnl table is the. culmination. of refined living, of the effort to make the satisfaction of a bodily necessity the occasion of pure enjoyment for the ideal sense.

Table decoration is practically a new art, although a rediscovered one, and there'are many adepts and professionals trying to develop it to the possible Times. ROMAN LETTERED VISITING CAR.DS. "They're the very latest and the smartest," said an authority -on -visiting cards, apropos of the Roman-lettered pase- ooards now in vogue. "Bnt they'll never become popular. They're too A plate with Boman lettering costs Just- about three as much as one with, script, because it takes about three times as long to engrave The engraveirhas to use three times the cart and skill.

With script, a false cut may be oc, feast, made not noticeable," but': Boman-fctters must be- perfect-in can be.no. probably-pin their faith for come tft cards with Boman many persons -will stick to course, the same thine pzeren Roman lettering ever becoming popular will also prevent'it from becomlnc; common." GRANDPA-SWAY. Somehow, of all the day we children used to dread When night would come, and say, "Xow. children, so to bed;" Till grandpa came to visit us. Ho was a ana you see He's Just as good and pleasant as ever can-be.

i The very first night he asked mother with a It the children ever marched to bed in rood old soldier style. Then he commenced to count, one, two." I tell yon. it wat And yon don't know how quickly aB felt Into line. Since then, all day we kind of look ahead For night to come, when we like soldiers can march away to beov And grandpa gays, we've a task, we'll find It the It's so much easier to do If has a pleasant name. A.

Hayes In American Agriculturist. GIFTS OF TABLE LINEN. For the friend who is keeping house nothing could be more acceptable' than some pretty bit of hand-worked table linen. The variety in this line of work is too unlimited to allow space for even, a general recapitulation. Who does not know the joyous exclaiming over lunch, cloths, doilies, center pieces, table scarfs and the monogrammed or initialed'nap- kins? These were formerly have now been simplified by the insertion of a letter (ready-made in some kind of composition that not spoil by washing).

This is basted on and worked over with linen thread in plain ribbon stitch. A child could monogram napkins nowadays. ENGAGEMENT RINGS. the Egyptians engagement rings were always of iron, indicating the mutual sacrifice of liberty. One-of the earliest gems used in tbe engagement ring was a lodestone, which symbolized the force of attraction that drew the maiden from her own family into another.

The ring, as an accessory of the marriage ceremony, was in use long before the Christian era. In Egypt, at a very early time, gold money used ft circulate in the form of rings, and. the Egyptian at his marriage placed one of the gold rings on his wife's finger to signify that he intrusted her with att his property. So, too, with ns, when "the bridegroom places the ring on. his bride's finger, he says: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." So far as known, the ring has always been placed on the fourth finger.

FUR VS. THROATS. If the woman with a delicate throat would eschew fur collars and socks, bathe her neck and chest in cold water every morning, following this heroic measure by friction with a crash towel, and indulge in honey at all meals except dinner, she would not need cough mixtures and iodine, mustard leaves and cold compressesv Muffling the throat in silk handkerchiefs and heavy and collars is an excellent way to make it sensitive. Breathing through the month; sleeping in a close room and getting the feet wet, any woman with a. tendency to throat trouble should guard against.

Excessive fatigue often brings tonailitis on children, and in cases where are apt to settle in the throat children should be encouraged to eat honey on their bread instead of butter, and to use it in preference to sweetmeats, syrup, etc. Uice puddings, in which honey has been substituted for sugar, are delicious and wholesome. From Lact of Money in- Half the boys and girls are, by sity, prevented from reaching beyond the common school. Over two hundred and fifty have Been at our. expense.

Our offer ti stifl open. The pupil f. need not spend, a penny. Lethersun- ply write to The Publishing Philadelphia NOT TRUE. Rev.

Anna Shaw says it is not true that "the hand that rocks the cradle rales the world." The trouble is that the child does not stay long enough in the- cradle. It Is soon out in the front if there is one. and then the mother's influence is still pretty well maintained; but when it gets out on the sidewalk and into, the street tbe. child then is in the domain of man, where women are not supposed to be wise enough to regulate affaira. The dangers and temptations that then assail the young are those that man, not woman, Is responsible'for.

EXTRA BODICES. Dressmakers and tailors have agreed that no costume is complete unless its skirt is accompanied by two or more waists. For example, everyone of the best tailored dresses is made with a tight-fitting basque and shirt waist, that the wearer may alternate between the close and the easy body, as she pleases; while the evening dresses are made with as many as three one high in throat and sleeves for receptions and small dinners, and one loose shirt, simple or elaborate, as desired. MEDICAL WATER- VALUE OP CRESS. The medical value of watercress, according to a medical paper, is not sufficiently appreciated.

A London physician asserts that tbe large consumption of cress in that metropolis, where it Is sold; in, vast quantities at the market every morning, is an important contribntive factor to the noticeable health of London. WATERING PLANTS. One reason why plants fade so soon In ordinary living rooms is because due attention is not paid to them. The mere supplying them with water is not tbe leaves should be kept perfectly clean, for plants breathe by their leaves, and if their surfaces are clogged with dust, respiration is hindered, or may be altogether prevented. Plants perspire by their leaves, too, and dirt, of course, impedes this perspiration, and as they 'also feed in the same manner, it is evident that there can be no thriving and growth cleanliness.

Cast the eyes upon the foliage of plants kept in the ordinary sitting room, then draw a white handkerchief over the leaves and it will be seen that they are far from being as clean as their nature requires. i FAMILY HOW TO HANDLE THE WASH. "The laundry work, one of the most important of our domestic, tasks, is, as. a rule, left entirely to the management of untrained household servants," writes Mrs. 8.

T. Rorer in Ladies' Home Journal, telling how to do the family washing. "And' being untrained, they "naturally select the most difficult way of doing what, under proper conditions, should he easy work. The person responsible for the family wash should understand a "certain amount of chemistry, in order to preserve the coloring in different fabrics, and to understand how to remove stains and various spots. To the flannels from shrinking she should know the condition and character of the fiber of wool, and the difference between that and 'the fiber of cotton.

If the coloring matter in a colored garment Is acid and aftnlinn soap will dissolve or neutralize it, and the garment will come from the- wash- entirely faded. The average housewife returns- to the laundry all articles improperly laundered, but she fails to pin to each, article, a little suggestion of how they may be made better, with the result that the articles are returned again the- week in exactly the same unsatisfactory 'I WISCONSIN ITEMS. music hall at Mayville by John Herberg to Arthur for $6300. Yagt was struck by an i bound St. Paul train at Madison.

1 in the hospital some hours later. Robert Cross of Palmyra at the age of 78 years; Mrs. James Hn ley of Chilton died at the age of 30 ye Spring, a farmer living Plover, was killed In a runaway, was 60 years old and leaves i dren. grocery store and stock of Knssman at Appleton was destroy fire recently. The loss is about with tUOO insurance.

Shcnsley of Mineral and James Hogan of La Crosse leave soon to represent Wisconsin at thOT World's Fish congress at Tampa, Flaw Kallgren, fell under a mo train at Ashland and was instantly k) He was a car carpenter for a logging-, railroad. He leaves a wife and four chil-' dren, Werrick, an old soldier Ilvingi-ifcl near Beloit, is dead at the age of 68 years. S3 Mrs. John Early of Holland, Brownf Je county, died suddenly at the age years. the 6-year-old son, qffJSJ 'Stephen Brieske of La Crosse.

was by the kick of a horse. Mr. Brieste feeding the animal while his boy v3 playing about. The kick fractured skull. Miller, ft farmer living near tsi Marinette, was knocked insensible by blow from a- limb of a tree which, he cutting.

He lay unconscious in the for several hours and almost died from the exposure. 10-year-old son of Frank Noth of Prairie du Chien accidentally struck 1 his little sister in the back with a 3 The child nearly bled to death before as-'vjj arrived. She now recovering: -If from the wound. burning of $40,000 worth, of her in the fire at Bland Junction belong' i to tbe Sherry company has brought' f'; np a. question to the receivers and credit- is, ors as to who will get the 'money, which about equals the lost.

lumber was held by C. Howard of ft Neenuh. on notes, but tbe policies had er been transferred to him. The question win probably come up in the courts. engine on the Siakiwitt Logging railway recently became ageable and collided with another 'which was standing on the main Una at.il Nash.

The collision opened the of the latter engine, on which nobody was aboard, and it sped down the toward the bay at a. terrific rate. It rant off the dock, fa it landed right side up on the ice and is not seriously damaged. revenue collections in the dis- 'J5 trict composed of the counties of La 'A Crosse, Pierce, Pepin, Buffalo. Trempen-" 'lean, Vernon, Monroe, Jackson, and Adams amount for 1887 to- SJ 471.2*.

This is a gain from "4 1 in 1896, of The city oft Crosse pays of this sum for 1S9T 190.15. There are 658 firms paying spe- yl cial tax as retail liquor dealers and twen- ty-eight paying tax as wholesalers V. that district. 'K United States District Attorney lips has charge of the suit of the I government against T. E.

Dockery of Fond du Lac, charged with violating the yl alien contract' labor law by bringing int Canadian workmen to Hanaford, in 1894. The government has roed for" $7000, the minimum fine for each; fense being $1000. The'ease has been:" "ft! in the courts for a long time. -Mr. Dock- ery denies that he was guilty of--any; violation of the law.

-jS the safe of the postoffice Oneida -reservation were found seven, orfg-iFS inal treaties made by the Oneida when they ceded then- land to the.state of 4 New York and came to Wisconsin. treaties are written on sheepskin and still legible. The oldest is dated Septem--vs ber 22, 1788, and bears the signature George Clinton, first governor of Ne.w*- York. The treaties were the i old Chief Skendanore. who died recently.

An effort will be made to purchase 'for the State Historical society. rrC. H. Ogden, a resident of 1 gan Falls, has reason to believe is heir to $25,000, for which a. is sought in Michigan.

On Janua "wanted" was printed in the Free Press, saying that C. H. who was a resident of that city ah ten years ago, had fallen heir to $25,0 and that his present address was di by the postmaster of New Haven, Mr. Ogden had an uncle living near froit long ago whom he believes owner of the estate. He will take I to inquire into the matter at once, Wisconsin Land and ment company of Stevens Point, has purchased 2000; acres of land in age county, which it proposes and reclaim for cultivation, the.

following officers: Ge W. Boyce; vice-president W. H. lyn; secretary, James W. Wilson; H.

V. Foster; manager, (Xcj. directors, W. Boyee. Jama Assignment at LonisviHe, Jan.

of the directors of 'the Trust company, held at noon, an assttmnent in the Columbia Finance and Trait company was ordered and the signment wfflJte by the- ident, P. D. Ormsby, thjg has been known that the- concen buMfeM! in hard fines for some time the night alleged -peculation President and ecke. Scotc.l>lclitoii Jan. Wilson and Mr.

Gaiy of Llewellyn of Rhode B. V. ter of New York and A. M. JJehi this city.

The. company expects, to $400,000 in. improving the swampiJ and to embark in the sugar Industry. C. Pierce of St.

begun suit in the federal court at" ison against ex-Senator CotTJ Knight, M-. J. McGngan and secure an injunction to prevent of logs down the Bruje is the outcome of the efforts'of ing. clubs which have the Brute to keep the from the head waters of the si an effort to protect the fishing Mr. Fierce alleges that ne baa 2 of ground on both: sides of and bar spent fanj on the all of whicbi A rafting if permitted, A order was grantedprofiiMting the-''stream until February case wilt come up..