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jli sermon Leighton gVparks which peered ina church paper ana started on a hew i is" his crucial sentence: jt wouMappeir 'as if all the trouble were women and that ''men were not at all to "--blame. That lsnot bnt'thls la true, the large' and the Urge majority' of those, who' desire primarily to be; are. and. there Is' a reason for It which. 'doea'notreflectron the virtue of 'men.

Imply'' meaW that can do without 'scandal that for wfcicn pay a heavy -f penalty, and that women need some mantle of and "therefore they seek it In what Is called a second third or I know not what number of marriages. Of eld. men put away their To-day in. the large majority of cases women seek the divorce, and wo men fan put the scandal to an end." And again of the educated and dissatisfied woman who i I have a mind that Is open to the highest in- lellectual pleasures I have a fsbul of my own to rsve. I will not the toy of any man's pleasure.

I will not be the slave of his whim. If he does 'not know the difference between a mistress and a wife I will leave him." A 'It is a good subject for Lenten thought, but all "women do not agree with its propositions. is something of the tendency in Dr? Parks' remarks of Adam, the earliest discoverer' of the' fautts of to say woman is 'the temptress. All women do not think so. "Mrs.

Charlie." who writes the letters In that bright book cl Mrs. Poultney Blgelow's, Charlie Was Away." does not, Charlie is a businesslike, matter-, of-fact naval officer who is never at home. When Charlie writes says Mrs. Charlie. In a letter to her appreciative Cousin Bill, "he ends rtth: -'v T- Do weigh your letters.

The last two were overweight Or else: 'Try to keep down "he more particular about the' front stairs. When I was at home last I thought they1 looked "Dusty! It makes rne want to be dusty Just a chan pinch of powder in a little urn on your mantelpiece. Bill I believe I'm crying I wonder why Oh. If, husbands would take half the trouble to Our love that -other men take to try to get It, how: few scandals and tragedies and tears there would be In the world." i 1 is one real woman outside of a book who says that she has not a bit Of sympathy with when they have patrimonial trials and tribu- 1 latlons. That is not because she blames the women's conduct on general principles or on anything at.

all except lack of forethought. 1 Didn't they know whom they were marrying? she aska If they were foolish enough to accept such husbands I don't sympathise with them." But then she is a bride of a year, still enjoying honeymoon-: bliss, she is certain that she has1 mar- rled one of the few elect of the earth, and that'mat-rimony- Is the only; State witb -a" capital for a wo- -v Does a man ort a Woman ever know what Tdnd of a partner he she Is taking? The men you know best are the ones you really know leaat," says, paradoxically, a nice girl who missed by a hair's breadth serious matrimonial troubles. The man she was to marry she had known i from the days when they were: children together. He had left home, but his life and 1 ts relations wery all, wll known to his friends and relatives visited -him they thought. But Incidentally Mrs.

Howe has recently been telling young Boston' churchwome'n something about'' the he had natural V11 th Venus; de MUoJ She takento drink, drugs. and a wife, and 'the nice girl believes inlt," and -of lopse garments, to who knew him so well only missed by a lucky chance body. Howe is.oniy'relteratlns: something that becoming the wife of a bigamist. "And all the. girls has-been saidby many- people' tlmest and know, who have.

married men they have' only undoubtedly It Is sound sense. It Is also as undoubt- known 'for a few years have-thoroughly good'hus- ed that the young; even 'the 'Boston young I he r'. I women, idbnot; Venus, as a modelMf womanly beaulyj to-day Every girl In the her-general culture 'becomes more or less acquainted 'with the Vehlis andalso admires her Is fortunate- enough to visit her In Paris." if she has suf ficient, artistic she' bows down and worships uccaaionauy there is a woman who seems to de- i serve the that comes to her, '-though. who can say who 'is responsible for traits of character. This woman said always of herself that she was more 01 a momer ana aaugncer man a -v-- s.

ah vW hin. heraesthetlcally and remembers her all the days of to do and she was urged into It. Her husband was devoted to her, even submissively so. He-sat the side of his own table while his wife's father sat v-j; at the head, and if he attempted to correct; his own boy, bis wife became a tigress, for Why should- any her- life. model for-a figure upoiv which to hanc sartorial effects! Every -once In "a-while those "nat- ural ahd'beauUful, waists "'are'tobe-seen.

But they one Interfere with "her" child? She was fond, of are' not as beautiful 'robed as unrobed. The Italian i her husband In a friendly and passive fashion. woraeri who. can-carry a cord or twojmore or lesa while her feelings for other members of family' 'ef'' fire Iwood 'upon their -heads, through the were passionate. .1 '-'1- "treets'without, an ef ort have well-developed waists, "If I was only as sure of heaven as 1 biit-the glrldoes not ad- Dick." she was wont to say of her while' there is, a' sensible girl, of the Infelicities in other families.

''y who-does or tries to Then there was Illness, a pretty young and make herself think she does. Then the Influence of all that the husband had suffered he realised, and th'e young man is to he make haste to 1 hated his wife as he had loved her before. That was i plead' and -besiege this young woman with the nat-' the Inside of the trouble which became in the end a real tragedy and which the people who read it. in I the papers never understood. What a brute the man -was!" they said.

He i did. become a brute in his treatment of his wife eventually, but who would dare to say where the blame lay? Is society reaching such a pass that it event-I ually be necessary to have reference books for divorcees and -divorces, a "Divorce Annual, or. Who's Who in Matrimony?" That is what 'a woman knowing sufficiently the wheels within wheels asks. She first realized the serious nature of the many crossed lines In I seeing, It through the eyes of a young- Englishman visiting this country. He had arrived' in the Summer and was stopping at Newport.

There, with the smaller place and greater freedom of Summer, life, people are brought more closely in contact. The young man having become passably well acquainted, began to see that his bark was liable to suffer shipwreck in -the cross-currents of American society liter One afternoon at an early hour, be- fore the-woman who tells the story was ready to receive callers, a card from the young man bear- -lng a perturbed request for a few minutes interview as a special favor was brought to her. She hurried down and learned the trouble. Would not Mrs. Blank do him the great favor, be asked, of telling him the status of the different people he was meeting, who had been married to who.

and who was the ex-husband of who else, and keep him from making some terrible blunder? i My dear Mrs." "Blank," he said. I dare -not Speak to any one about any one, for if I do I see immediately that If I am not -talking about an ex-wife or husband, it is their sister or cousin, or I don't know who not Tou must help me." For twenty minutes' the older woman coached the young man. and when he left it was with a grateful heart, and sr- was wondering if It really was not necessary to have something in -the nature of divorce annual as a Social. Guide. nnl -Kon li tlfiil waist in Vfcoom it wlfo hMMM shells so healthful and will make a model wife and mothen, Not a bit of it He lets her severely alone, i and goes off and marries an unsensible girl who 1 looks pretty; marries her.

because he can't help it, i without a thought of whether she will make any kind of a wife or mother at all. i'vVi There is only one person who has ever done any-. thing that might by any chance make the classical dress, and. Incidentally, the classical figure, of the olden days fashionable. Of course It is a man.

Wo-j men, with all their "love for. fine raiment, do very 1 little about It aside from the wearing. The. man who 1 has made" classical dress JLb H. I Young of Columbia University.

Prof. might. i act as master of wardrobes to the little Aphrodite il of the Arts Club, a- lady who undoubtedly had many robes when she was not sitting for' her" picture. As ja side Issue, of his classical studies has made a thorough study of the attire of the women 'of the days of From bronzes, vases, and bas-reliefs he has evolved a classical wardrobe of wide range, fitted It to living- models. and the woman of to-day might follow his styles and have a more" elaborate outfit than she has In her 1 modern V.

I Prof. Young does not recommend this, He even says that draperies might be cold wearing In severe weather, although those that he has evolved have some of them been brought out in wool stuffs. His idea has only been to show what was worn by women of classic days, but he' has reduced the garments to their exact dimensions, length and width, and ly example shown that the woman of modern 'figure can put on draperies and look well In them, even though she has not the generous proportions of the Venus de Milo. This Is the first time that anything of this kind baa ever, been done, and a few of the professor's designs have actually been adopted by several women. This is only foe negligees, and the women wearers say they were never more comfortable.

-VEGETABLE dinners and unf ermented wines Mrs. John B. Henderson is credited with -'giving her guests in Washington, and they are enjoyed as much as any giveni In the city." is Henderson an absorbing conversation allst or is Washington being reformed? An eighth pair of twins have, arrived In the family jof an Iowa veteran of the civil war. The mother" is sixty-five, and the father seventy-eight, six feet one Inch tall, stalwart, and weighs 180 pounds. And yet people have fear of a depopulated country.

No more kisses in Paris. Even hand-kissing has gone out of fashion for sanitary, reasons. That is satisfactory for the but It is hard on the novelists. 1 "Fashionable women will wear during the Summer of 1005 something very closely akin to that monstrosity of bygone days the crinoline." English Fashion Paper. If the New York woman adopts the fashion and wears the crinoline In this city of tall buildings and strong winds she will be likely to 'learn some secrets of aerial travel.

"A woman's business desk Is usually a It is sure to show at least one framed medallion of either the dearest one in the world or of five poor motherless babies uptown." Newspaper Ccgnment, Every business man's desk shows the medallion picture of the dearest one in the world, and also a picture of all the Infants the family owns. and. njne chances out of ten, two or three pictures of each one. "A surprisingly large number, of automobiles are sold to women. And when a woman buys an automobile she almost invariably demands a chauffeur." As a -professional' chaff euse there is a qhance for new edition of the new woman.

Who would think that it would be Boston which is getting curvature of the spine from wearing corsets! But that is what Elisabeth Agnes Wright of the-Radclif re Gymnasium says. Thirty-six per cent, out -of eighty-four girls she examined were troubled In this way, and the corset was the reason. Perhaps ltwas the. fear of curvature which affected the New York girls. last There an epidemic of corsetless girls to be seen on the streets.

It continued all Summer, and was in evidence until Winter cloaks 'made it less noticeable. Pretty? maybe. That's a matter of taste. But. however the.

clothes reformers may' talk," the corsetless woman does not always present a ladylike appearance. That pretty young Frenchwoman who loops the gap in an automobile at the circus every night says that" women in America are not as Jealous as they are in Hero they applaud her freely, but in Paris, they did not; It was the masculine applause that- she received. Are. the men more fickle in France, and nave the women more reason to be Jealous? Or is the Madison Square Garden so largo' that no one has a chance to see how exceedingly -pretty the young" woman really Is? At the Folies Bergere, in everything Is on a smaller scJer' and the relation of performers and audience mora peisonaL Perhaps it requires the exciting atmosphere of a circus to induce women to applaud. For what does the college education of women count, after all! In the Hotel As tor one of the most charming, of the smaller rooms is the College Room.

Upon the walls are delightful paintings of college men engaged in athletic sports, and above, nearly encircling the room, are the coals of arms of Innumerable colleges men's colleges. The first college women who "lield meetings In the room were quick to discover this, but they found. too, that slight was not Intentional It did -not occur to the decorator that there were women's colleges. Bus now- the want Is known. If Vassar and Barnard will send In their college devices and the colors xhere are vacant places which may be died, and they -will be given positions of honor.

"I am convinced that God created the Germans for grand opera, and that In the captivating- froth of operettas, they are distinctly out of their says Mabel W. Daniel In 'her bright book. "An American Girl in Munich." That was after hearing "The Geisha" In Munich and finding the Amasons looking like tired waitresses." Would she have said the same thing If she had seen Mme. Schumann-Helnk, the beloved. In operetta? v--- A little Frenchwoman, who has not yet arrived as a dressmaker, who is on the road, made a gown for an American actress the other day.

Match, your hair and your eyes, and your beauty Is accentu- ated. say the experts. Madam the modiste did this for Madam the actress. The gown was a pretty, one. and actress thought she liked it, but she was not quite sure.

1 "The colors are very pretty," she said with grudging admiration. The little Frenchwoman clasped her hands while an expression of rapture came over her face. "It Is the color of your beautiful eyes. Madam. she.

said with great ferver in the time-worn French expresslorV And Madam the American, who 'had "never chanced to hear it before, was delighted. She admitted that the gown was a beauty and has sent all her friends who are not in any way rivals to the little Frenchwoman. It takes something more than business sense to make a good business woman, .:7 All these horrible things Dr. Emll Reich is saylns about American women In a pamphlet he has Just brought out, "A Study of In order to browbeat nature in her most elemen- tary cravings the American woman becomes a vio- lent temperance-sister, an' anti-tobacconist, an antl- theatrlst, an antl-Antlsabbatarian. a Christian Scientist, a Shakespeare-Baconlst.

or Bacon-Shake- spearean; she attends innumerable I lectures, learns or tries to. learn every science, she travels constantly, she is resolved and determined to be up-to-date in everything." i Could anything be flavored more strongly with, knowledge. i Dr. Reich, should take a little trip around New York restaurants, where he. will have the best chance at first hand to study all classes of American women, and see if he finds many who look the type he describes.

I Following Dr. Reich in an tmslsterly spirit the self-righteous editor of the woman's! page of The Dally Telegraph comments: If ail American women have to be only some of things, one begins to be glad that, there is au Atlantic! Happily Dr. Reich admits that we In England are not so awful." But It Is better to live and be many "antis" than to suffer the fate Dr. Reich sees ahead for the English woman. If she has but a little more Imperialism she "will be decomposed with exasperating Dear! Dear! tmmjfTlJLffiJ' ia rtASTS TOR FASTING xnjvmnr THIS Is the time of the annual rasis and the gay world, observing the season, devotes Itself largely to feasting.

This Is an anomaly, but it is literally true. There are no Urge festivities, little city house entertaining of any kind, and theatre' parties, with before and after gatherings, are legitimate Lenten amusements. Consequently nil the world, more of It even than usual, takes itself to the hotels and restaurants for luncheon, dinner, and after-theatre suppers. One must! dine, and the servants at home have a better opportunity for churchgolng. It is at this time of the year.

too. that the occasional stranger is within the gates of the city. There is always Spring shopping for the women, buying of all kinds, and there must be a smart place to dine and see the gay world which one msy or may not know. That la where the man who cornea from smaller places sometimes finds his Waterloo. He has the New York young woman and her mamma to entertain, perhaps, and though he I not provincial, he does not spend enough of his time In Urge cities to be thoroughly up to date, and to order a good dinner Is a fine art- j.

Following are three Sherry menus which win an Idea of smau xeuu would be a clever man who could arrange a more delicious menu: Caviar Conaomme de Tortue Vert, Lea Hon d'Oeuvraa. I TtaTapin Sherry. Sella d'Asneaa Modern. Pommcs Sabot aux Petlts Fola. I Jamboa de Virsinle Bauee Champaane.

Perdreaa Kotl. Coeur de Komalne a la Rlche. Glace. I Mousse de Vanilla. Gateaux.

Bonbons. Vniiowlner the theatre one feasts again umntuouslv: terrapin will be one of the of the supper, and If the man takes a late night or early morning train out of the city after It he will not suffer before his matutinal cup of coffee Is served: Gumbo passe en tasaa. Terrapin. Faisaa Montpensler Cbaud. Fommes O'Brien, Pole Gras ea Croute.

Coeur de Romalne PascaL Coudm tax FrtlMa Gateaux. Cafe. THE MIDDLE WOMAN. IS the middle woman to be one of the outcomes of the domestic ser-: vant problem and the Increased coun-try life In America! She has arrived at any rate. No more need for a forlorn husband from the suburbs to spend the better part of his business day In employment agenciea securing Impossible servants in a erase of domestic emergency.

It Is not necessary for the mistress of the house herself to undertake the drudgery, for the middle woman win do It all for her. She keeps in touch with the employment agency aad learns' to know the servants of different grades and where to go for them. She not only selects them and sends the right girl to the right place, but she Investigates references and does all the drudgery of the Intermediate work which stands between the housekeeper and a good servant. With her experience she is better able to do It than the housekeeper The middle woman Is a unit at present, but fills an empty niche In the domestic economy. CONTRADICTORY KITTY.

will look Which fair penitents, of ieni with fVMP It Is a luncheon there will be grape fruit first, and the menu might then run like this: Oumbo de Volatile passe ea tasee Oeufs Benedictine. 1 KotaMte d'Asneau de Prtntemps. raree de Marroa. Fotnroes Chateau. Pousslns Orille.

Salade Sherry. Asperses sur Toast Hollandalse. Fralsee Melba. v. Oateaux.

Cafe. Caviar will whet the appetite at the beginning the dinner, the Spring lamb will be followed by old Virginia ham. the aoursea will run after this order, and it THA as DOES EDUCATION PAY? HAT is what a loving but sometimes cynical New York mother is asking. We have at last com Dieted the- educatlon of our son and heir," ahe says. "He has been graduated with sufficient honors from he has been sent abroad for finish, culture, and experience, and now that he is home again we are starting, him in business life.

He has begun In a downtown office and may be gaining much experience and laying a sound business foundation, but as far as I can find out he spends the greater part et his time In licking postage stamps for a pittance a While the pride of the family Is doing this me lire paying our chef $100 a month and expenses, and now I ask. Does education payT In very' truth I can't decide Where lies the charm of lovely Kitty. -Although it really hurts my pride, In very truth I can't decide. i You sre my angel! I have cried. Then straightway thought her devilish pretty.

In very truth I can't decide Where lies the charm of lovely Kitty. i a jj He Wu Safe. A teacher In one of the public schools asked a little Irish boy why he had been absent a day, to which the youth replied: My mother had the mumps and I had to go and get the doctor." But. don't you know that the mumps la catching. Johnny?" Tea, but thia la my step-mother and she never gives me anything." DIFFUSION OF CULTURE.

IS diffusion of culturetto be one of. the benefits which will-be evolved from the relations of. mistress and maid In the That was a suggestion made by the Rev. Dr. Charles R.

Henderson, Professor of Sociology tn the University of Chicago, at a woman's meeting In New York the other day. The doctor was scheduled to talk upon the subject of Domestic Service, and he did very charmingly, but the woman who expected to hear something new and practical to help her out of present difficulties was disappointed. Dr. Henderson spoke of noblesse oblige and the necessity of respect being shown. by men to all women.

Irrespective of their social station. Then he told of the fine manners of the Southern negro In slave days, manners i copied from their masters and mistresses. It Is from this that he gathers that the diffusion of culture might be a sociological process of the present day. It Is a charming theory and undoubtedly the servants of a household do to a certain extent reflect the character of the people forming It. But the woman who had come for practical help for do-mestie troubles shook her head, discouraged.

In the families of greatest wealth, as times are to-day. the mistress of the house does not' know her under servants by face or name. a family of comfortable circumstances. without wealth, there might be a chance for culture, provided good servants could be obtained In the first place. But diffusion of culture in a New Tork flat has a humorous sound.

When the women reached home she considered her Ignorant emigrant maid with some Interest as a possible culture medium. No." she murmured to herself. han't make any effort for it. If she so-' quires a little, though It doesn't look I am willing, but If I tesch her both cooking and culture she will leave me Inside of six montba" e-- The average girl believes In affinities and lots of them. TO EDITH'S VEIL.

Dainty, delicious, filmy thing; I draw it from Its hiding place; About it lingers still a trace i THE, VALUE, OF A WIFE. Of faint and sweet perfume. I hold It in my eager hands, My stolen treasure! Loving theft. And of cold honesty' bereft. smiling, wait my doom! The Wind was bolder far than He tore It from her waving hair.

And as I caught It high in air. She blushed at his caress. Just here it touched her dainty nose. And here it brushed against her lips; wondrous web, that dared eclipse Aught of her loveliness! i What precious secrets have you hid? I What answers veiled from lovers' If we could tear off all disguise From Life, as from her face! I'll thank the Wind, who was so bold; I'll summon all' my tender art, Deep in her eyes to read her heart: Ye gods! but give me grace! FRANCES IRVIN. i.

THE BACHELOR GIRL REFLECTS. Any person who Is lied about in public may- console himself by reflecting that he must be of some importance or people wouldn't take the trouble. The powers of changeability Inherent In the pronoun "he" In the laws Is an Instructive study In philology. If the law refers to voting, holding office, or almost anything nice, he means Just he." If It refers to paying taxes, going to Jail, or getting banged. be means he The woman that can sharpen a lead pencil without making it look as If she has used her teeth Instead of the knife is pretty new.

THE TAPANESE WOMAN AS SHE IS IN REAL LIFE, Mrs. Hugh rraser. daushter of '2ri Shttr ef Marion Crawford. noeHet and writer travels, has braucbt out several books upoa 'pan. 8be spent najie rears la the country, husband, the late Hush rraser, being bis Majesty's Minister to Japan.

71 IT MB Pierre LoU'p cnarejng UtUe Japanese III heroine, and tha sweet, ephemeral A I M. butterfly creatures of the stage from whom Americans form their Ueae. are delusions and. snares as types the Japanese woman as she Is to-day as she Is snd has been as a type of. er race.

She has all the delicacy, and charm with which she Is plct-d. but with It she has the most sub-Manual quail tie. economy, and executive ability are not monopolised 7 the Japanese men. They are every? virtues of the Japanese women, and the Japanese girl is thrown upon her resources and obliged to support her-K after this devastating war she will quit as well prepared for It as the Ctrl of the hemisphere. There will tha rhlnra In her life that was made when the American girl went "Into business," for In the artisan class he has always done more or less work In her own home as well as In the factories.

This Is the opinion of people who It would not be possible for the women to be lacking- In the solid qualities which the men possess." says Mrs. Hugh jrraser. who knows 'the Japanese women perhaps better than! any other foreigner. It Is the mother who brings up the boys and educates them to be what they are. The father baa nothing to say concerning the education of the boy until he la seven years old and very little after, and the qualities that he develops" In after llfe'must be Inculcated by her.

All Japanese worsen understand the value of money, and they are the most economical In the world. That Is the reason foreigners who have bee." In former more than at present In the employment of the Japanese Government have married Japanese wives, and they have made them perfectly happy In their domestic lives. I have talked with many of them about It. They can live, better on the small salaries they receive with a Japanese wife to manage the household than on ten times the sum with a European or American wife in charge of the menage. "Wives of the Japanese farmers av sturdy, helpful, and devoted to their husbands, and the wives among the artisan class occupy the position of Frenchwomen In circumstances.

They understand their husbands' btudneaa in every detail, go into the shops, and are as competent to manage them aa their husband Sy In the higher classes this is seen even In a more marked degree. Where a man the nobility is occupied with military or political affairs be nas.no time to look after bis estate, and this Is entirely in his, wife's hands. She has a competent steward, usually one of the Samurai, a man who can be depended and he must give account to her of everything to the smallest bag of rice from the furthest corner of the estate. Among the artisan classes the children, from their earliest years, take part in whatever Is the particular industry In which the parents are engaged. They consider tt a privilege to assist the father Okka-ean.

Different manufactures are carried on In a small way in the homes of fans, pottery making, carving, cotton printing aad weaving, and the girls also work tn the factories. They are as dexterous as the boy in all these employments. The children only work oat of school hours. All the family will work to the same hour at night. The Japanese wife in her home Is the most industrious creature-In the world.

The women arise at dawn ad they are occupied continually throughout the day. One can never enter a Japanese house without finding two or three little Japanese maids polishing the ebony steps, the ebony posts to the doors, or the lower parts of the walla, Among. the higher classes the mistress of the house will not perform, the actual work, but she will direct everything. She does not cook herself, but she must understand cooking from beginning to end. or her servants would despise her.

There are many things to which she must attend person-' ally. One of these is the making of the wests, which Is an art that the women study seriously. In going. to the'reeep-tions at the palsco when I was living ta japan there would be the most beautiful creations tn these sugar flowers, and always those, appropriate for the In the Fall there would be beautiful little maple tree leaves tn and reds, the Autumn. colors, and tiny chrysanthemums perfectly formed.

Later 'there there Is occasionally, 10. too, and ones In a way $100, but I can assure you wives do not range high according to the wedding fees." In Denver, CoL they have set down the value of a wife In cold figures, and It Is Si.Ooa This for a wife young, and also a wage earner. All these things Chief Justice Oabbert of tb4 Supreme Court took into The young wo man had been killed in a railroad accident and the company was sued by the husband. A Jury in the first place fixed the value, showing that twelve 'men considered an Industrious young wlfs worth that This was. too, being In Colorado, a voting wife, which may have added to or detracted from her value.

Here are some of the qualitlea of a good wife according to the remarks of. the court in announcing the decision. The Judge considered the wife's "ego, health, condition of life and probable duration of life, her habits of Industry, frugality, her mental and physical capacity to render services, her sblllty to earn money, and her disposition to sid br sssist the plaintiff." Also that being twenty-three years of sse the time she might expect to live would be "a little over forty years; that since her marriage she had been earning something like $400 per annum; that from ber earnings she had purchased supplies for their Intended home; that she was Intelligent, cultured, frugal, and Industrious, snd a devoted wife." Valuing In the Qualifications of a wlfs youth. Industry, and wage-earning capacity, to say nothing of the worth of a wife to a husband with political affinities la a State where ahe can vote, what would be the value of aa older wife without those qualities, though she might have education, culture, social prestige, and a thousand other more aesthetic Qualities? Would a Jury consider them? And M.00O does not seem Mrh for a wife when a fine bora is wort a $0Ofi, almost any price and he wiu require mora servants than a wife In ber household. I INJ FICTION i would be the blossoms of the Jspaaese etably longer than they are wide, stuffed plum trees, and bare little brown twigs to the depth two lncbta.with Japa- showed that Winter had To all neae straw, and then covered with a the mistress of the house must at- fine silk or manlla straw matting.

Mme. tend herself as well as to the giftmak- Arnold, the wife of Sir Edwin Arnold, lag. which takes ber time for several told me that every la her hoie la vaeks before the new year, when every Japan these mats were taken up find 'one must be remembered. relatives, the floor swept and scrubbed underneath, friends, and acquaintance. Heretofore practically an Japanese girls have married and married-early.

They do not marry now as young as they I "No one who has not visited them un- did. the age limit being placed at six- derstands the work Involved in the care teen. If. because of the war they are of those little Japaiese houses. Every- obliged, to become self-supporting they thing most be immaculately clean win be found to have the traits which every part of them.

The rooms are aep- will make it possible and win aceoro- i arated by. carved lattice work, tn which push It without a great change In their la set translucent white paper, and with occupations. IJnte. Katsuda, who la the sllghest spot or dent which mars now In New York arransln? to enlarge the freshness Jt must be renewed. The ber school la Tokio to teach branches floors are covered with mats, and the maklny the girls self-supporting, will ret else of a room Is reckoned by the sum- Introduce anything outside of ber of mats which coter tb floor.

These lines of work. There are many wo- mats consist of frames, conald- writers la Jajaa." He How mueh do you think I ousht te rive the minister, dear? She Whatever it Is worth. He But I can't tall that until afterward. Ufa. HERB Was once a young woman- she was not married who, without knowing the facts, had always cherished the idea that a large part of a Income was derived from the marriage fees.

She had known something of ardor of the young man in love, his Leander like readiness and. daring to do anything to win the lady upon whom his heart was. set, and. considering this, she figured naively, to herself, that having won the lady he must feel that he was making a thank offering for the great Joy that had come to him. Nothing, of course.

In proportion to the real value of the treasure, but something so much In advance of a legal marriage fee aa to make It evident every one that he had reached the summit of life's bliss. If his Income was in sny degree generous why $100, for instance, would be a generous token to the clergyman and be a email outlet for the exuberance of the bridegroom's feelings. To the clergyman'a wife, by some unwritten law In all denominations and religions, go the marriage fees. They sre her. perquisites, and a few hundred-dollar brides a week would make a comfortable amount of pin money.

That is what the young woman dreamed, und one day allowed something of the thought to escape her In the presence of the wife of a minister who has secured In the bonds of matrimony many palpitating hearts. The minister's wife should have modestly that from this lucrative source she did obtain the money for her private charities, for her dressmaker snd ber milliner, and to entertain the extra visitors. But she did nothing of the kind. My dear! ahe gasped, you think a man believes he Is giving something In a wsy eauivalent to the value of his- wife tn his marriage fee? Well. If that Is so there is a surprising number of $1 wives floating, around the country.

Oh, NOT.