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TWO CLEVER NOVELS California girls have made I a success of a society novsl, Just published by the Century company. "Mrs. Esstngton" Is the title of the story, which promises to be one of the moat widely rend books of the summer season. "Mrs. Essington" a love story of smart people, told In a clever The scene Is laid at Mlramar, a country house on the California coast near Ban Francisco.

The leading characters are a young composer, well bred but hopelessly poor and the beautiful Mrs. Esalngton, a widow, youthful but some ten years his a woman who hag centered her Interests on his promising career. At the opening of the story the young man's gratitude has deepened Into an adoring affection, and Mrs. Esslngton is brought face to face with the problem that one day she will be an old woman while the man is yet In his prime. This is the situation at the opening of the story, and then It Is that the other woman appears In the person of the daughter of the house.

She is ft glorious out-of-doors creature, whose frank, fearless eyes look with favor upon the Ineligible composer, while an anxious mother strives to make her see the more or lens apocryphal virtues of a New York business man of vast means. These are the characters, and the plot Is worked out into a dramatic and absorbing love story of unusual power. "Mrs. Essington" Is a novel of manrers, and it Is one of the very few books In which smart people are convincingly and entertainingly depicted. Henry Hutt has made six full page 'illustrations for it In his usual clever 'style, and they are reproduced In tint.

It adds to the interest of "Mrs. to know that the authors, sis- Iters, Esther and Lucia Chamberlain, ip.re natives of California, who divide time now between the far west 'and New York city. "The book is not an observation of sectional types and local color," Lucia Chamberlain said recently of "Mrs. Essington," "but the California atmosphere and landscape are used with the story because that country and atmosphere are vital and young, and in these triumphant qualities they reflect the motif of the story." Esther and Lucia Chamberlain, joint authors of "Mrs. Essington," were born In California and have spent much of their life in this state.

Esther Chamberlain was one of the first women in New York to make a profession of supplying illustrative advertising matter. Lucia Chamberlain has contributed a number of short stories and poems, chiefly of the California country, to different magazines. In the spring of 1903 the sisters began to work together, producing first "The Blue Moon," a rovelette which was published in Ainslee's. "Mrs. Essington" was written during the winter of 1903 and 1904, be- gun in California and finished in Arizona while the authors were stopping In a Moqui Indian village.

JUSTIN M'CARTHY'S NEW NOVEL Justin Huntly McCarthy's new novel "The Dryad," just published by the Harpers, well sustains the high reputation of this author and playwright. The conception of "The Dryad" is daring, but Mr. McCarthy has so well mastered the elements of romance and imagination and clothed them with strong human interest that the illusion of reality, upon which a fanciful tale must always depend for its effect, is never for a moment lost. Stories based in part upon an Impossible hypothesis, yet true in other respects to the facts of human experience, have always a certain charm of their own, if the author has the wit to work out his conception plausibly, and It is for the successful manner in which this has been accomplished that "The Dryad" is primarily to be recommended. That Justin Huntly McCarthy, author of "If I Were King," "The Proud Prince," and others, is frequently confused with his father, Justin McCarthy, Is not surprising, since, besides being of the same name, they are both historians, both novelists and both have been members of parliament.

It is, however, as a historian that the elder Mc- Carthy is best known, as the author of the famous "History of Our Own Times," and though Justin Huntly Mc- Carthy began his literary work by writ- Ing verse and history it was through the historical romance und drama, "If I Were King." that he suddenly leaped into popularity. The essential quality of Justin McCarthy's novels has always been dramatic. His books present a swift succession of clear-cut scenes with telling dialogue, that requires but little rewriting to fit it for the Btage. E. 11.

Sothern, in "The Proud Prince" and "If I Were King," will long be remmbered by theatergoers, for seldom has this talented actor been fitted with parts more suited to his versatile gifts. Justin Huntly McCarthy was born in 1860, and though yet a young man he looks even younger than he is. He was educated at University college in England, and afterwards became a journalist. He has travelled extensively In Europe, Egypt, the Holy Land and the United States. In 1881 he began writing books.

When but 24 he was elected member of parliament, and retained his neat until a period of eight years. After the defeat of Parnell, he left parliament and devoted himself to literary work. Besides being an author, ha is also -well known as a lecturer and dramatic critic. As a public speaker he is extremely witty. Mr.

McCarthy is fond of athletics, his favorite recreations being punting, cycling and playing golf. He is a member of prominent clubs on both sides of the Atlantic. When at home, Mr. McCarthy lives In Westgate-on-Sea, a little seaside town in Kent, England. The house Is Dn the crest of a hill, and la surrounded by.

a spacious garden. Mr. McCarthy bas Riven his home the name of "Herdholt," JUSTIN HUNTLY M'CARTHY ESTHER AND LUCIA CHAMBERLAIN which is the name of the dwelling of the famous Scandinavian hero, Olaf the Peacock, in the Icelandic "Laxdaela Saga," one of his favorite books. Olaf was the son of an Irish princess, and it was the association of his own country with a northern legend that prompted Mr. McCarthy in the naming of his home.

It was at Herdholt that "The Proud Prince" and other novels were On the first opening of "The Dryad," It strikes one with a sense of pleasureable surprise to find a French soldier of fortune astray In the woods of Eleusls, where the ancient Grecian mysteries were wont to be celebrated: and as one reads on he discovers, if he does not know it already, that in the beginning of the fourteenth century the land of Greece was held, in large part, by French invaders, who styled themselves dukes of the various cities which they had taken by violence and lived in them, without regard to classic tradition, after the manner common to medieval barons all over Europe. The author has certainly chosen a novel and picturesque setting for his and we may well believe his asseveration that "the history of the ages has no stranger, as it has no more bravely painted page than that which records the rule of the French dukes in Athens and Peloponnesus." Into this setting of medievalized Greece, Mr. Radium and Solar Heat The discovery of radio-activity makes it necessary to reconsider our estimates of the time during which tha enrth can have been fitted for the abode of living lieings. Consider first the sun's heat. Wo know that the sun is that it Is a glowing white hot body.

It has been Riving off heat for countless ages. Now, how can this heat supply be kept up, Why does not the sun not cool down owing to the loss of Its primeval heat? The most obvious answer would be that this does happen, but that the cooling of bo large a body is too slow to be noticeable even In very long periods of time. That might seem at first sight to be plauslblo solution enough. But calculation conclusively proves that it Is Insufficient. The heat which Is stored up in a white-hot body would very soon be exhausted if It gave out heat at anything like the rata that the sun does.

The same reason prevents our supposing that combustion, can account for the output of solar heat. Until lately the theory advanced by Yon Helmboltz has held the field, lie showed that if the sun was assumed to be steadily contracting to smaller dimensions, If In fact, the outer parts assumed to be falling down on the Inner ones, enough heat would be generated in the process to account for the observed output for a considerable period. The contraction which it would be necessary to postulate Is too small to be detected even by the most careful observations on the sun's diameter which can be made. It will readily be understood that calculations of this kind arc affected by considerable sources of uncertainty; but when due allowances have been made for these it seems impossible to admit that this source of heat can keep LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT. McCarthy has introduced a number of most enjoyable characters, the one who first captures the rcader'o attention being the aforesaid soldier of fortune, one Simon of Rouen, who is a rascally fellow enough, and yet preserves a certain manliness through his rascality which somehow wins him the reader's respect.

The Dryad of the story is a real dryad the last remaining upon earth of the race of Greek immortals. Her character Is an exquisite and legitimate working-out of the old Greek conception; for she Is as much human as divine In her attributes, and Is in reality an idealized and perfected woman rather than a supernatural being. There Is a suggestion of allegory In "The Dryad" which gives it a depth and seriousness of interest adding no little to its effect. Yet if the reader choose to ignore all but the more obvious features of the story, he will find It a spirited tale, full of love and action, enlivened by a dash of Grecian myth. In his manner of telling this delicately imagined tale, Mr.

McCarthy has displayed even more than his customary art. He has managed to impart an air of reality to his scenes and characters sufficient to secure a lively interest In them, without ever becoming so realistic as to impair the glamour which Is the story's princlpnl charm. up the supply for more than, say, fifty million years. Indeed, very high authority puts it lower than that. Fifty million years is a long time, judged by human standards.

Hut there are strong reasons for regarding It as an insufficient allowance. These are partly geological, partly zoological. The earth's surface la composed In the main of stratified rocks that is, of layers of consolidated mud, deposited one on top of another. These layers extend to an enormous thickness, na we are able to see when we examine where some of the lowest ones have been brought to the surface by upheaval. We can form dome idea of the gigantic period which the deposition of these layers would take If we examine cases where the process is now In operation.

The prevalent opinion Is that fifty million years is quite an Insufficient allowance of time. All but the very lowest of the stratified rocks (and perhaps even the very lowest) contain fossils; thus it is certain that the earth's surface was fitted for the abode of animal life at the time they were deposited. In other words, Its temperature cannot have then been widely different from what It now Ifl, and the sun must have been shining then with much the same brilliancy that it does now, so that geological evidence seems to require a much older age for the sun's heat than tt has possible to account for. Electricity seems destined to flgury prominently In lumbering. Trolleys mil telephones are now used In places, and the latest device is a "saw" consisting of a thin platinum wire heated to a white heat by the current.

It is claimed that this will do the work more quickly and not only permit of the tree belngr cut closer to the ground, but save a considerable proportion of the butt the cleaner cut. New Aureole Fashion for Smart Girls IT Is no longer a question of fitting the hat to the hair. Millinery has now reached that exalted place In the ranks of feminine fashions where, metaphorically speaking, It can snap Its fingers In the face of and nay "Dress the hair to suit me, design new coiffures with special reference to the vagaries of my lines and trimming or your fnlr patrons will be In despair." Thus It appears that there has started a revolution In hair dressing styles. When the winter toque was discarded nnd women rushed to buy the latest thing In spring hats they were dismayed to find that nil were built upon radically different lines. make them becoming the hair had to be pulle-1 out a little here, fluffed a bit there, and In some cases an entire new fashion had to be adopted.

Tn word, tresses had to be reorganized, nnd those who could remember the days before the universally popular marcel made Its appearance were reminded of the trials! when the suave milliner would say: "You must do your hair higher with this hnt," or "This one needs a low coiffure." Those were the days when one had to readjust one's coiffure to each hat. Things have been different of late: that Is, until the latest spring and summer millinery confections made their appearance fresh from Paris. Now fashion history must chronicle another epoch. The trim, undulated and marcelled head has been with us so long that the world has grown accustomed to Its comb-lnden waves, Its well drawn up back hair, Its soft pompadour nnd the invisible, or at least inconspicuous, knot, buried on top. Everybody has looked upon It as a distinctly Parisian and New Tork fashion, which owed its construction to the deft fingered hairdresser.

Only nn expert could produce the correct contour and effect. Each woman emerged from the hands of her professional coiffeur looking exactly like every other woman who had had her hair with possibly two exception the color of the hair nnd the ornaments on her full set of combs. Demands Upon Hairdressers The professional hairdresser is called upon to turn out fashionable heads in much the same manner as before, only there are these differences: When he has finished the hair Is not pulled up so tightly in the back; It Is allowed to puff out here and the pompadour is fluffier and larger, at least It appears so by comparison with some of the tiny new hats shaped like pill boxes. Those who need the extra fulness may add false pieces. These constitute the chief concessions to the brand new millinery modes.

The changes were imperative because with the old style of halrdresslng women wouldn't look as as the fashion pictures made them In the best French magazines. There arethree new types of hats for which special hair arrangement must be made in order to secure the best results. First let us consider the polo hat, with Its chic and perfectly round brimless crown set Just a trifle to one side, with the trimming placed over the left ear. As these odd shapes measure scarcely more than the length of the hand In diameter the coiffure is much in evidence, and, of course, a becoming and suitable foundation Is required. Otherwise they would look ridiculous.

French women have adopted extreme measures to render the polo hat becoming, and above all to make it look as though it belongs where it is worn. Which means, In a word, that the aureole pompadour Is having an Inning. The woman who Is old fashioned enough to draw her hair back closely to her head and let the front fall in natural Individual lines must give the Jaunty polo hat a wide berth. She may have found the winter toque a possibility, but she has only to set one of these hats on her unconventional hair to see how inconsiderate the arbiters of fashion are of any but the women who dress alike, wear their hair alike and really appear to be duplicates of one another. With the fluffy pompadour as the keynote of the scheme to make the polo hat though it must be remembered that the hair should not look frowsy, as if one had really been playing the one may go about securing this fluffy arrangement in any reasonable way.

Here is an excellent hint taken from those clever Parisians who are always equal to a sartorial occasion or eccentricity. If the prettily waved hair does not. stand out softly and fluffy of its own accord a few invisible hairpins used to fasten the locks to the hat will accomplish the deed in a wonderful way. The desired effect is to have the pill box of a hat look as though it were surrounded by these waving tresses with Its base half hidden under their masses. The back of the hair need not be very loose, neither should it be pulled up tight.

Next for consideration with a to a suitable dressing of the hair Is the plateau or slightly rolling, saucer shaped hat, which tilts perilously over the tip of a pretty feminine nose and rears Itself alarmingly at the back, 1 where it appears to rest upon a very substantial foundation resembling an old fashioned flower bed or Bection of a florist's window. With this more common, or garden, variety of hat the front arrangement of the hair usually remains the same. Attention Is concentrated on the back, and here one ob. serves a much looser twist, giving a real curve to the head. Fancy how ridiculous a woman would look If the Insisted upon wearing her hair dressed In the drawn up fashion of a season ago and this great mass of blooms placed on top.

The effect would heavy, clumsy and Inartistic. So, to secure a balance, tha hair Is waved and WITH THE MUSICIANS YSAYE AND HIS FAMOUS VIOLIN THE two appearances this week of Ysaye, the celebrated Belgian violinist, will overshadow most of the musical events of the season. This eminent artist has triumphs far exceeding those of any violinist who ever visited this country. The great success won on his American tours by Vieuxtemps; the brilliant accomplishments of Ole Bull, the people's Idol of fifty years ago; the artistic successes of Wllhelmj, and the later achievements of such violinists as Wlenlawskl, Brodsky, Herrmann, Kubelik, Thlbaud and other celebrities, have been eclipsed by the recent successes of Ysaye. In New York, where Ysaye played made to puff quite a little from the head, as though the hat had a firm rest- Ing place.

Like the straight front, the tight back Is out for this style of hat and the French twist Is advised. If one likes the style. Combs have lost none of their charm, apparently, and the flower garden hat may flourish above a well colffed head modlshly adorned with essential and non-essential rims of amber or shell. The straight up and down comb Is still worn, while the reliable side ornaments fulfil their duties in much the same manner as of yore. The problem of the hat which has the widest part of the brim at the back Is the next in importance to deal with, from the halrdresses'e point, of view.

This presents new and unique difficulties at first, for the brim width gives a peculiar effect to the head dressed in the style now considered passe. However, when provided with the proper coiffure this hat looks much better than it sounds. With this style tha tight back has to unloosen considerably. Having grown used to the head which presented an almost straight line from the top of the hat crown to the nape of the neck. It may take some time to make up our minds to approve of the change.

Before the appearance of the new spring millinery whatever a woman owned in the way of hair and whatever she purchased In the shape of coils and puffs were brought as far to the front as the laws of gravity would allow and she grew complacent in the knowledge that her head looked Just like all the other fashionables. In addition to the looseness above noted there Is another and more decided departure from the old style dressing of the hair. To meet the requirements of the new rear hat brim extension not only must the hair be fluffed at the back, but some women are adding a pretty fringe of curls Just below the brim. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are a separate feature to be attached where and when one will. If the halris long enough the ends may be wound over the fingers or curled on the iron.

Then they am left to fall below the flat knot which has fallen In line and now comes down over the crown of the head a bit further than it was wont to do ere the spring hat arrived. To refer once more to those clever women on the other side who are equal to any millinery emergency, some of them have devised a scheme by which the curls are secured without any bother in the dressing of the hair. A fringe of ringlets Is sewed In the lnsldo of the hat brim Just across the back so that the tiny tendrils fill In the space made by the oddly built brim. This arrangement adds to the becoming qualities of the hat and gives the modish coiffure a pretty contour by Increasing the apparent depth of the head. While the styles mentioned here have already been launched and will probably have aa great popularity as the coiffure Just being discarded there are variations and modifications which may be adopted to make the predominating styles of hats look well on the Individual.

The main differences are the lopsenera tn tha back, softer Mini fuller pompadour and use of, curia whers they uda to. tha upward of seventeen times, the audiences which confronted him were the largest that ever listened to a violinist in this country. Ysaye is by far the highest priced violinist who ever came to America. An enormous guarantee was demanded by him and $50,000 had to be deposited In. a bank before he would sail for the United States.

J. T. Fitzgerald Is the local manager for Ysaye. The seats for the two concerts are on Bale at all the music stores. LONG BEACH CHAUTAUQUA Arrangements for the Long Beach Chautauqua are rapidly being completed.

A great array of lecturers, speakers, entertainers and three monster concerts, Endurance of Barrels The Introduction of Improved machinery in its manufacture has made the American cooperage business the largest in the world, writes George E. Walsh in the Scientific American. There are upward of 300,000,000 barrels and circular, packages manufactured in this country annually, and the demand increases so that this output must be steadily broadened In order to keep pace with the growth of the business. The largest consumption of barrels is in the cement business, which approximately demands 35,000,000 a year for the trade, while flour comes next, with a demand for fence staples, bolts, nuts and nails require 18,000,000 and sugar 15,000,000. Roasted coffee, spices, crockery and fruits and vegetables use up about 5,000,000 barrels a year each, while the glassware trade, baking powder companies, distilled liquor manufacturers, and candy, tobacco and cheese packers are big users of barrels, averaging in each trade from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 barrels.

The consumption of barrels for molasses, oil, lard and pork Is also enormous, while dry paint, glue, snuff, oatmeal, screws, 'castings and general hardware increase the demand on the cooperage supply. Supposed to Last a Year While the amount of expenditures lor barrels can be closely estimated for a given year, it is not possible to say how many barrels are in actual use. The life of a barrel is put down at one year by the trade; but that is far from true. The great majority of barrels have as many lives as a cat. They begin as sugar or.

flour barrels, and are then sold to the farmer for shipping his produce to market. It may be they are returned to him several times, carrying potatoes or pickles to market in the first, trlpi and then cabbages or lettuce in the next, each cargo being lighter in weight than the previous cne, owing to the weakened condition of the barrel. Finally, the barrel may serve out Its life work as a garbage leceptacle, and may be burned in the end in some tenement home to keep out the winter's chill. Thus It may be said that a barrel serves a more useful career than almost any other munufactured article, and its life is much longer than a season. The demand for barrels is steadily Increasing because modern machinery has made it possible to make them for the trade cheaper than almost any other form of package has long been acknowledged.

The ancient cooper's art was a skilled one, and the work of cutting out the staves and then assembling them required long practice and apprenticeship. Today machinery performs in a fraction of the time what hand labor did so slowly and clumsily. The modern veneer machines have been Instrumental In reducing the cost of barrels. Hand labor is eliminated here to such an extent that the work of feeding the machines constitutes most of the requlrementa of the operators. Tha stavea ara cut to tha concerts, besides the preludes will enter? tain tho public for two weeks beginning July 10.

The opening concert will be given by DonntelU's Royal Italian band with the well known vocalist, Senor Domenico Ruftso, as soloist. Among the lecturers are the famous Dr. sauluft, president of the Armour Institute, who will deliver his well known lectures on "Savonarola" and "Oliver Cromwell," and Dr. William A. Quayla who will present Victor Hugo's "Jean Valjean." A superbly Illustrated lecture on the world's fair at Bt.

will be one of the features and an even- Ing of three centuries of song and ballads In costume, will he another. Carter, a noted Impersonator and magician, with famous Impersonation of the great Chinese magician Chlng Ling Fu, will furnish a program. Depart- ments for art, physical culture, child study, domestic science, cooking, the study of current events, singing, will be conducted by competent teachers. The Chautauqua this season is under the management of L. E.

Behymer of tho Mason Opera house. CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT Prof. Julius Albert Jahn will present next month through the medium of the Los Angeles Choral association, the third and last oratorio of the season. The program Is to be a diversified consisting of selections from the great oratorios, quartet and solo work. Among, the soloists will be Harry Clifford Lott.

FELLOWSHIP CHORAL UNION The final rehearsals of the Fellowship Choral union In preparation for "The Holy City," are now being conducted. Mr. Louis F. Gottschalk has the chorus well in hand. The date is June 2, at Simpson auditorium.

NEW LOVE BALLAD Arthur L. Holgate, a Los Angeles musician, Is the composer of tha music of a catchy ballad, "I Miss You Most Dear, All the Time," which ought to win popular favor. The words are by Florence Jones. The recent birth rate for St. George's-in-the-East, London, the headquarters of the alien Invasion, is at the rate of 60.8 per 1000.

This is the highest birth rate ever recorded in England. thickness by the machines, and then pressed Into shape by hydraulic pressure until they are ready for the assembling machine. One class of barrels must be absolutely water tight, without a flaw of any kind in their staves. -Barrels made for the oil, whisky and paint trade must not only be flawless, but they must have a resistance power equal to a lateral pressure of 500 pounds. In order to secure thia the staves must be put to a rigid test beforehand, and they must be cured so there will be no danger of shrinkage atid damage when put into use.

Lumber used for this work must be carefully selected, and it must be cured by nature's slow but sure process. Kiln dried lumber would never do. The condition of kiln dried wood is such that it would prove too brittle. The choicest hickory, ash, or other hardwood must be selected for barrels used for such purposes, and their coat is consequently in proportion to the extra labor and cost of the new product. The second grade of barrels comprises those 'which must endure a great lateral strain, but which do not have to be water tight.

To this class belong the sugar barrels and all those used for packing hardware. The staves must be made of hardwood, but they only require strength and a power to resist 300 to 400 pounds lateral pressure. It Is possible to use for theso barrels most of the lumber rejected for the first class of barrels. There must not be knotholes in the barrels, however, for tightness to some extent is essential. While the sugar and flour barrels have paper lining inside of them, they will spill more or less of the contents if holes and cracks of an unusual size are left In them.

The question of hoops for these commercial barrels is fully as Important as the staves. The use of wire and flat iron hoops has become quite universal, but where wooden hoops can be used as well they always receive the preference. The most satisfactory method to use wooden hoops, reinforced by Iron or wire ones. A great many of the barrels used in the trade are thus held together. Upon the strength and endurance of the hoops the life of a barlel largely appends.

SSfffeS Novels Worth treading The Pioneer, by Geraldlno OP Bonner. Price The Tyranny of the Dark, by i Hamlin Garland. Mrs. Esalngton, by Esther and Lucia Chamberlain. Qt Jit thm Big Bookstore Stoll Thaycr Co.

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