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With the Long Bow •—"Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as It files."

Ingenious Cleveland Lady Invents Patent Stair Step that Registers the Midnight Husband Unless He Crawls Up the Banisters.

TH E Cleveland Pla in Dealer-tells of a stair step in­vented by a Cleveland -woman. This patent stair makes her husband registor the time he comes >n

at night when he steps on it. As it can be applied to any stair , hubby is in a good deal of a quandary and may be obliged to crawl up the banis ters hand over hand or to climb up the water spout -and drop down into the a t t ic thru tho skylight. We once knew a husband who was so terrified lest his wife meet him on the landing tha t he never went home a t all unti l the next evening. Of course she had forgotten i t by t h a t t ime.

A very rich man is always credited wi th twice aa much as he has. Everybody thought t h a t Alfred Beit had a hundred million. Russell Sage was credited wi th the same comfortable sum. Their deaths cut these amounts down a half. Accused of being a billionaire, Mr. Rockefeller says tha t he hasn ' t half t ha t amount. ~~

"Recent hostile act ivi ty of the t ax assessor in this town brought to light the fact t h a t a large number of people who live like princes are, if the ' worst was known, in debt for the gasoline in their garages. I t may be laid down as a law tha t no man is as rich as he1 looks to his t ax assessor.

¥*->• There is a season of busy act iv i ty for the matri-

monisd club of St. Louis. A recent advert isement read :

" Notice—The Matrimonial club is to have a picnic a t Maple Grove next Saturday. Object, m a t r i m o n y . "

The object of the Matrimonial club is to give a series of matrimonial picnics and balls, to br ing the unmanned element of St. Louis together in a con­genial, friendly gathering.

Strwige as it may seem, the Matr imonial club*is t h e work of tho young gentlemen. The prospectus says :

" E v e r y day we see our sisters entering the work­shop and required to do work intended for men, in s t ead of being permit ted to remain a t home to beaut i fy the household for the stronger sex and add to the sunshine and happiness of our lives, for which our hearts crave.

" O u r first a t tempt to get the willing ones together-will be a t this picnic, and we want every unmarried person to be there wearing their best smiles as well as their best clothes. We want to see what is on the m a r k e t . ' '

I f a man can a t tend a function like this and remain a bachelor there is something wrong about him.

^^> An ex-eartoonist and a newspaper man, Ralph

Bergengren, fails to see any wit, t un or ar t in tho colored supplement. I n an article in the Atlant ic ho despairs of the future ot the republic because of the barbarous immorality of the supplement 's teachings. The point of view o± the supplements he denounces as very much tha t of the Spanish inquisition, the cat wi th the mouse, or the American Indian with a captive, joy in catastrophe and physical pain. The policeman always uses his club. The heels of the mule always reach an innocent stomach. Tho parent usually thrashes his offspring or the furn i tme is smashed, clothes ruined or pam inflicted on the dog.

We are not so bad as our enjoyment of certain forms of catastrophe m picture seem to make out. A man may laugh when he hears tha t his neighbor is kicked by a mule, but he will go d o ^ n into his pocket and contribute a dollar gladly to help provide him with a wooden leg. /

Mrs. Katzenjammer may be overpersuaded by her two young male offspring against her be t ter judgment t c shoot the chutes, but our jov in the incident is largely in the righteous vengeance tha t overtakes these children of Belial ra ther than in the unhappy experience of the somewhat overwoiked lady of Teu­tonic extraction.

As a rule the yellow supplement, like the cheap melodrama, is highly moial and the hand of vengeance falls heavily where it , by all the laws of ethics, should. We can peruse the comic supplement often wibhin^; i t were funnier, Lut without any fear for the future of our glorious countrv. —A. J . E.

A CROP T H A T A L I T T L E W E T W E A T H E R W I L L NOT I N J U R E .

A N U N G E N T L E M A N L Y QUESTION

AS he chug-chugged across Fif th avenue and down Forty-second street toward Madison avenue in his big new steamer, you would have thought ,

to look a t the man, tha t ho knew all about automobiles and could tame the wildest one tha t ever chug-chugged. Altho he was not succeeding very well, i t was plain from the pained expression on his face tha t he was endeavoring to keep within the speed limit. As he neared Madison avenue, however, there was a, block of traffic t ha t brought him to a standsti l l . When the big policeman blew his whistle signaling him to go ahead, he jammed on the power and took his foot off the brake with the evident idea of making a meteoric s tar t . But the steamer d idn ' t move. It ut tered no word of protest ; i t simply stood still like a pat ient cow wait ing for fodder-. The man, who looked as if he knew things about automobiles, pulled first one lever and then another^/ and then pushed them all, but the car remained sti l l . I n a jiffy there were half a hundred people around the scene of his discomfiture and his complexion was rapidly assuming the shade of a healthy Indian. After pushing and pulling at all the scenery above decks he jumped on the ground and on his hands and knees peered up at the works underneath. He twisted a t a nut and wiggled the sprocket chain and then resumed his seat a t the steering gear, going thru the same pushing, and pulling process without get t ing any nearer home. Thrf crowd got larger and more solicitous.

" P l a y de p i a n n e r , " advised a youthful purveyor of rfewspapers. The automobile was equipped with a new-fangled whistle with five stops tha t resembled a low of keys on a typewriter , excepting tha t they were of highly polished brass. Properly manipulated, they would make a noise like a hungry moo-cow or the dying blast of a fog siren. The driver of the auto­mobile looked hurt , but said nothing.

" I f you pushed on the steering g e a r — " v e n t u i e l a l i t t le old man with a twinkle in his blue eyes. The man at the wheel tr ied to look unconcerned.

" Y o u ' l l be late to tea if you don ' t get a mov<* o n , " observed a fresh hackman who also advised tha t everybody rnng, " G e t a H o r s e . "

T h e si tuat ion of the man in the new motor car was becoming serious. Traffic was a t a standstil l for a block each way from the corner when a smart-looking woman in a neatly fitting %ailor-made suit

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Tho Baron—Don't worry about your money. I'm going to marry old Bullion's daughter.

The Creditor—That's what three other debtors have told me, too.—Fliegende Blaefcter.

A String of Good Stories "I cannot tell how the truth may be;

' say the tale as 'twas told to me."

A PERSISTENT BARGAINER

T HERE is a spur of the Baltimore & Ohio railway running up the valley of Virginia, from Harpers

Ferry to Strasburg. There is no dining car a t tached to the t ra in tha t makes the tr ip. To supply the wants of the hungry public on the coaches a t this hour, Dick Wells, an old Virginia " f o h de w a h " darky, has for the last th i r ty years served passengers wi th coffee, eggs, chicken sandwiches and pies on these cars; eveiy t r ip he is on the t ra in , serving lunches from a basket .

Recentlv on their way to the unveiling of the monu­ment a t Newmarket to the Pennsylvania soldieis who lost their lives a t this historical place were a great many northern veterans, and the quaint old negio reaped a rich harvest on these trips, often receiving double and treble what he asked for his wares. •>

A northern gentleman on his way to a t t end these ceremonies, while eat ing a ' ' s n a c k ' ' of chicken anu pie bought from old Dick, says Youth ' s Companion, be gan to compliment the chicken and past ry , and finally wound up by asking, " U n c l e , where do you get such nice ch i ckens?"

The old negro, wi th a twinkle in his eyes and a wink at the other passengers, replied, " B o s s , I sho knows you a i n ' t from de souf ."

' ' Why, unc l e , ' ' exclaimed the gentleman, ' ' how can you tell t ha t I am not from the s o u t h ? "

" 'Cause, s u h , " answered Dick, " n o southern gen­tleman ever compT-ermises a nigger by ask in ' him whar he gits his ch ickens . "

C H I N E S E F I G H T W I T H F I N G E R S

INSIDE INFORMATION 'You know all about your neighboi,"

Said a husband to his wife, 'And vou seem to h ^ e acquired

Ev'ry detail of her life, You're conversant with her cooking

And the gowns she has to wear, But I cannot understand it.

As you never visit theie."

"Oh, you men are very stupid In affairs like this," she said,

"I don't have to meet a woman To find out the life she's led

I know all about my neighbor, And it's easy, for, jou see,

Her modiste and washerwoman Now are doing work for me "

—Thomas B Chr-> stal m New York Press.

O N SUNDAY afternoon a Chinaman is reported to have been killed in a* house a t Talat Piu, Bang­

kok, as the lebult of a duel wi th another Chinaman. They fought with the two forefingers of each hand, stabbing each other with these in the region of the spleen and at the same level on the other side of the body. A strongly built coolie, using the weight of h ;s body, coulcLccrtainly give a nasty blow in that par t of the body, even with two fingers, and repeated blows of the kind are said usually to prove fatal . The men \i ho go m for this kind of contest practice every morn mg s tabbing bags of rice or paddy with these f ngevs t 11 they can use them like a piece of iron.—Ba.igko1; Times.

D E F I A N T E N G L I S H

W H E N struggling with a foreign language, ancient - or modern, one seldom stops to th ink how ludi­

crous our endeavors to t rans la te the meaning into our own tongue would seem to one born to speak tha t lan­guage as his own. To appreciate this, one has only to see the tables turned when t ravel ing in foreign par ts . Underneath the electric light but ton in the bedroom in a popular hotel m The Hague are these words: " T h e electric l ight dares not to be touched ."—Harpers Weekly.

and with a motoring cap and goggles edged her way thru the crowd and asked the perspiring driver the na tu ie of his trouble.

" I ' v e been tak ing lessons on this blooming thing for six weeks, and I thought I knew all about it , but blamed if I can make her m o v e , " he whispered to her, and he looked for all the world like a drowning man who was just being pulled out of the water wi th just enough consciousness left to smile gra t i tude a t his lescuer.

" R a i s e the h o o d , " commanded the woman with the goggles. The hood was raised. She passed a dainty gloved hand over the network of wires, screws, etc., and with a quick twist of the wrist did some­thing which appeared to remedy the auto-s ailment, for there was immediately; a " t h r o b t h r o b " t.hat brought a smile to the face^of the stalled driver and told him tha t everything was all r ight again. He thanked his savior effusively, played the moo-cow di t ty on the " p i a n o ; " the auto snorted; the crowd melted to each side and he thundered away, while the woman pushed her way thru the blockade, resumed her seat in a car tha t was a twin to the one which had been stalled and steamed off across the town like an old engineer.—New YOTIC Press.

C ENATOR TILLMAN, apropos of the rebate evil, »-> said:

"The day will come when freight rates will be as inexorably fixed as passenger rates. The idea of a man trying to get a lower freight rate than the schedule will then seem as ludicrous and absurd as it would now seem to us if we saw a traveler before a ticket window t rying to beat down the price of his t icket.

" W h e n the railway was first introduced in New England, the canny Yankee farmers could not under­stand tha t the price of the t ickets was fixed and unal­terable. A New England man once told me tha t , when he was a boy, on the opening day of a railway line thru this village, he heard an old man say to the t icket agent :

" ' W h a t ' s the price, friend, of a t icket to Boston J ' ' ' ' Two t e n , ' ' the agent answered. " 'Two ten? Never. Ye must be crazy. I ' l l give

ye, a dollar f n ' a quar ter . ' ' ' ' Two ten is the fare, s i r . ' " ' M a k e it a dollar and a half, and I ' l l go ye,

fr iend. ' " ' C a n ' t make reductions, s ir . ' " ' B u t i t ' s only a mat ter of eighty mile. ' " ' I can ' t help that . Two ten ' s the fa re . ' " ' I ' l l give ye one s ix ty . ' " ' T h a t won ' t do . ' " 'One seventy-five.' " *I\o, sir.*

" A t this point the t ra in departed. The old man waited till the next t ra in , when he renewed his offer of s dollar and a half. Above two dollars he would not go, and when the last t r a m left he was still bargain­ing. ' '

P I E S AND T H E RATE B I L L

W H E N the ra te bill in the senate was being hotly discussed, many of the senators had their re­

marks p u n t e d in pamphlet form, Mr. Tillman being one of the senators who did. Senator Spooner had gotten possession of one of the printed speeches and was sit­t ing in the senate cloakroom scanning it when Senator Tillman entered.

" H e l l o ! B e n , " exclaimed the Wisconsin senator, " I wonder you never told me tha t you had had your remarks on the rate bill printed in pamphlet. I hap­pened to see one this morning, and i t contained some of the best things I have yet seen in any pamphlet en the sub jec t . "

" I ' m very proud you think s o , " said Mr. Tillman, with a self satisfied a i l ; " and what were the things tha t pleased you so m u c h ? "

' ' W h y , ' ' replied Mr. Spooner, " a s I passed by a pas t iy shop this morning on my way down I saw a girl come out with two cherry pies wrapped up in one of your works ."—American Spectator.

AFRAID I T WOULD SLIP

SENATOR TILLMAN piloted a constituent mound the Capitol building for a while and then, having

work to do on the floor, conducted him to the senato gallery.

Al te r an hour or so the visitor approached a gal­lery doorkeeper and said- " M y name is Swate. I am a i i i end of Senator Til lman's . He brought me here and I want to go out and look around a bi t . I thought I would tell you so I can get back i n . "

" T h a t ' s all r i g h t , " said the doorkeeper, " b u t I may not be here when you return. In order* to prevent any mistake I will give you the password so you can get your seat a g a i n . "

Swate '8 eyes rather popped out a t this. " W h a t ' s the w o r d ? " he asked.

' ' Id iosyerasy . ' ' " W h a t ? " ' ' Id iosyncrasy. ' ' " I guess I ' l l s tay i n , " said Swate.

I F T H E R E were as many men as women in the pro* tectorate of northern Nigeria the population of tha t par t of Africa would be increased 1,504,280

(not counting the resulting natural increase), and the total population then would be exactly 142,213, 1-25 greater than the ad valorem duty charged on Jaggery sugar in Ceylon. <>

If the 17,081,680 quarts of preserves and jellies im-~ ported into western Australia in 1904 were to be placed on the top shelves the result would be the breaking of 8,271 Ipgs of small children, 2,393 arms, and 1,320 ribs. The jam if spread at average thick­ness would be sufficient to put a thin layer of jam on 1,110,309,203 thin slices of bread—that is sixteen slice* to the pound loaf. I t would require 3,352 pounds of alum to produce this bread if i t were made in bakeries, and the t ax on this alum, if i t were imported into Sierra Leone, would be- $21*17.

If a pikul of rice is worth $12 i t would buy three and one-half muids of potatoes a t $3.60 a muid, the prevailing priee of potatoes north of the sixtieth parallel or ten muids of potatoes a t 40 cents a bushel. The pikul of rice could be traded for two and two-thirds caffsos of whisky a t $1 a gallon, or for 400 okes of neck steak at 9 3-10 cents a pound.

If L. G. Tooley, champion, should s ta r t lure casting with a solid rubber frog a t Pokegama, Minn., and cast from there to Niagara Falls, equaling his record a t each cast, i t would t ake 28,429 8-9 casts, or 2,069 1-D more than McKmley 's plural i ty over Bryan in Indiana in 1900.

If each of the 187,433,634 hens in the United Sta tes ( the number being arrived a t by calculating one looster to every seven hens) were tb lay an egg every four days thirteen hours and thirty-one minutes,, and if all the eggs were to be made into an omelet, the omelet would be 24,991,151,200 inches long, 14,994,690,720 inches wide, and 74,873,145,360 inches thick. If the hens ' eggs were all ostrich eggs, the omelet would be 8,330,383,733 yards and one toot long, 4,998,230,240 yards wide, and 2,776,794,577 yards and two feet thick.

If the 118,765,680 p igs ' feet pickled in the United States in 1905 paid the import duty of $1.78 charged on salted and pickled pork in Seychelles, and if tha t duty should be divided by 138,322,481,114,881, i t would equal exactly the number of hundredweights of areea nuts exported from Ceylon in 1905.

If there are 86,432,291 persons in the United States, and if 2,746 of them are worth over $1,000,000 eacn, and if all the bills introduced during the recent session of congress had become laws, there would have been a new law for every 1,546 persons in the United States, calculating on the basis t ha t no law applies to any man worth over $1,000,000.

If all the time wasted by the farmers of the United States sit t ing on rail fences and discussing the weather were used in plowing the yield of corn per aere would be increased one-third of 1 per cent per acft, whica would make the total crop 98,437,564,934 bushels. The acreage would be increased at the same rat io, minus three and three-quarters extra, the calculation being based on the fact tha t Charley Swartz of Mercer county, Ohio, never could be cured. The total acreage then would be 92,539,015 92-100.

If hammocks were abolished the number of October marriages would be decreased 34.7 per cent, which would mean exactly 734 fewer divorce suits in the courts of the United States in the next three years.

If all the tin cans tha t are tied to the workingmen of the United States in one year were real instead of figurative cans, the t in plate industry m this country would be increased 6 per cent, and the price of raw tin f. 0. b . at Singapore would be increased, which wouM add $24,433,077.11 to the price of the exports of the Stra i ts settlements.

If every man jn the United States owed as much more than his share of the public debt of his country as does the writei of these statist ics the total indebt­edness of the people of this country would* be $5,001,-574,418.64, or $2,696,555,000 more " than the national debt.

I f the wave motion of the ducks of the United States could be utilized as power, counting tha t e \e rv duck waddles nine times a minute eleven hours a da\' and tha t the a\ erage weight of a duck is 2 pounds 3 ounces, the amount of power generated by this double waddle every seven months would be 7 3-11 tnuo3 greater than the power generated by Niagara Falls. Save the ducks.

If an Egypt ian had bought May corn in the August preceding Joseph 's corner, and sold at every ten po.nt rise until April 7 of the big famine year" he would have been able to buy out Rameses and build a pyra­mid nine and a half times larger than the pyramid of Cheops. Bv judicious unloading in March of t h i t year he might have broken Joseph 's corner.—Chicago Tubune .

A DREAM OF ICE

It 's mighty cool in Greenland, and there we'd rather land Than roam by Afnc's fountains—1>> India's coral .strand; It 's mightj cool in Greenland and fine indeed 'twould b«« To play leapfrog o'er icebergs and chuin the Polar sea!

It's3 mighty cool in Greenland, and how'd you like to go An' li\» for fifteen minutes in a summer storm of snow ? You bet, 'twould be refreshm'1 and mighty fine 'twould be To hug a drippin' po'ar bear and swim the Polar Sea!

—Atlanta Constitution.

What the Market Affords "Leg of Lamb, 16 cents a pound. Sweetbreads, 60 cents a pound. Tomatoes, 10 cents a pound. Cucumbers, 10 cents a dozen. Summer Squash, 5 cents each. Dill, 5 cents a bunch. Cantaloups, 50 cents a basket .

Cucumber and sweetbread salad is made by par ing three large cucumbers and cut t ing them in thin slices; place in a saucepan, adding a s talk of bruised celery, six drops of onion juice, one tablespoon of whi te wine vinegar, a bay leaf, a scant half teaspoon o± salt, a dash of papr ika and a cup of cold water . Simmer slowly unti l the vegetable is tender and then press th ru "a puree sieve, re turning to the fire and s t i r r ing in three tablespoons of granulated gelat in; color slightly wi th a few drops of spinach juice and mold in a chilled r ing mold. A t serv­ing t ime unmold on a cut glass plat ter , filing the center wi th a mixture of cold, cooked sweetbreads (cut in dice), chopped celery and radishes moistened wi th mayonnaise dressing. Garnish

wi th small cucumber pickles cut m fancy forms and plumes of shredded celery.

The Boston Cooking School maga­zine gives the following directions for enhancing even the charms of the spicy cantaloup. Cut very small, chilled melons in halves, lengthwise, and carefully remove the edible por­tion. Cut this into pieces of the same size. Mix l ightly with sugar and re­turn wi th the shells to the iceehest un­til the moment of serving. The mel­ons should not be cut longer than five or six minutes before serving. Set the melon shells on paper doilies on indi­vidual plates. P u t in a spoonful or two of t h e prepared melon, above this a large spoonful of vanilla ice cream, pour over a tablespoonful of currant jelly sauce and sprinkle the whole with chopped pistachio nuts. To make the currant jelly sauce, melt a tumbler of currant jelly in a cup of boiling water , stir unt i l smooth and add a table-spoonful of lemon juice, also when cold, two of curacao, if desired.

WHERE FEMININE FANCY LIGHTS HUMAN HAIR FOR MENDING

• • —* PROM ELIZABETH LEE

Becoming Colors.

Dear Miss Lee : I am a young girl of 14 years. I am 5 feet 1 inch tall , weight 110 pounds, have brown hair, brown eyes and dark complexion. Would

- you please tell me what colors are most ^becoming to me, and how long should

J,I wear my dresses? Also how should I _^dress my hair? What colors will be

the most popular for fall wear? —Hanna.

Your colors are all reds and all ^yellows, also brown, dark olive green,

navy-b lue , cream, ivory, old rose, and, i f your skin is very dark, the pink on ^the salmon shades will be more becom­ing to you than genuine rose pink. Golden brown and golden t an will suit

,you, also fawn if your complexion is clear a n d lips red.

Your dresses should come to within 3 inches of your shoetops. The style of

. dressing the hair becomingly depends ^entirely upon the features . Girls of ^rour age, however, usually draw i t soft ly back from the face, to the nape of the neck, and then either t ie it there a n d curl i t , or braid i t , and turn up in a loop.

• Gjay is certainly holding i ts own and

bids fair to be a popular fall color; still, one never can tell. I t is one th ing to launch a color and another, entirely, to " m a k e i t t a k e . " Reds often spring up at this time of the year, and brown and navy are always a safe choice.

—Elizabeth Lee.

HOUSEHOLD H E L P S

Should the lamp be overturned, smother the flame. Do not use water , for i t will simply spread i t . Instead, throw down flour, sand, garden ear th or salt, any of which will have the de­sired effect.

A new mucilage brush to clean a sewing machine is very satisfactory. Lif t ing the head, insert the brush into every crevice and crack, paying par­t icular a t tent ion to the region beneath the needle-bar^ All this , of course, be­fore oiling it . Then wash the brush and pu t i t in the sewing machine drawer for future use.

A whiskbroomv makes the best of sprinklers for the house plants, the fine spray tha t i t slj^ds when dipped in" water and shaken over them coming in contact with all the foliage and over­coming in pa r t the dry heat of the house. If the table and other small ferns ^are sprinkled in this way every night their jardinieres will have to be replenished less frequently.

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(The Housekeeper.) Did you ever t ry mending jagged

tears in a coat or jacket wi th hair— human hair? Well, t ry it , before you exclaim in your doubt as to the out­come. You know long ago mending used to be a work of ar t . Clothes were much harder to get, and once obtained, every care was given them unti l they li terally went to pieces, Some one who lived in those days—a' dear old lady— taught me to mend with hair, and the torn place in my jacket , or what had been the torn place, became a mat ter of pride, because the mending was the best kind of art—useful.

Place the torn spot in an embroidery hoop, if possible, and then take a long hair from a head of brown or black hair and darn with a very, very fine needle back and forth, tak ing up threads away beyond the tea r on both sides. Press the spot with a warm flat-iron, after dampening it slightly on the wrong side, and it is finished.

The embroidery hoop is useful for mending tears in the legs of hosiery, a dropped stitch in "drop-s t i t ch stock­i n g s " being taken up easily in the hoop. Handkerchiefs, napkins, table linen and tears in dresses and aprons can all be patched without a wrinkle if the goods is first stretched in the hoop.

THE COMMUTER AND H I S GARDEN. (Counting the Cost*}

MRS. ROOSEVELT'S RECREATION

In view of the practice of many wives of fleeing to the seashore with the first breath of summer, leaving their husbands to slave in the city, Mrs. Roosevelt has set a good example in tha t she has deferred her departure from Washington for Oyster Bay unti l public business shall .have lulled suffi­ciently to permit the president to ac­company her. In the sultry afternoons tha t mark June in Washington, she finds comfort and diversion in t ak ing long drives thru Rock Creek park. Usually she handles the r e ins ' and her sister, Miss Carow, is her companion. The cart is a high basket affair, drawn by a big bay horse, which has been used by the family for five or six years. No liveried servants for Mrs. Roose­velt when on these tours. She gener­ally wears a white embroidered linen suit and her blaek Tuscan braid ha t has a red rose Set jaunt i ly <m the left side.

The Magic of a Woman's Influence BY POLLY P E N N .

The woman who talks most about a ! glances, her smiles, her actions, her

" I ' v e been figuring up the garden account, Agnes. I find tha t i t has cost* for seeds, $6.50; for fertilizer, $9.50; labor, $12; implements, $8; garden hat , $28. So far ,"we 've had only a mess of s t r ing b e a n s ! "

" O h — b u t , Rutherford, you forget t ha t cunning lit t le cucumber we had earlier in the season!"—New Yoik Press .

- MME. HELENA'S RISE*

Mme. Edith Helena, the American singer who has been eighteen months in Europe, returned yesterday on the Baltic to begin an engagement or Sat-

" L a Traviata" at the Royal opera. Just as her carriage had stopped in front of her hotel a dogcart driven by drunke' English jockeys dashed clown the Hvtmxe, wrecking Mme. Helena's carriage, knocking down her horse,

urday at Brighton Beach and another, | 1 ill n ,̂ the jockeys' horse, wrecking Aug._15, in San Francisco. In Buchar- theii dogcart, throwing them out and est, Rumania, she jumped from vaude ville into grand opera, making her de­but in " L a Traviata," which she sang in Italian. Carmen Sylvia, queen re­gent, was one of her auditors. After three weeks in vaudeville at the Palais D'Ete, in Brussels, Mme. Helena sang

throw'ng the singer from her carriage. She was slightly bruised. The mob wanted to lynch the jockeys, but the prefect of police called at the hotel and asked her to show- herself on the bal­cony, r Her appearance appeased the mob, which cheered her and dispersed.

woman's influence generally doesn't have any influence. The kind tha t counts works silently. I t is not her­alded with t rumpets nor clapped with applause.

For this reason a woman is a little shy of even considering such a subject as her influence over men. So far from boast ing of it even in her thoughts she will barely acknowledge it to herself.

That is all right. Jus t the way a nice, modest woman should feel about it. Nevertheless, there can be no harm in asserting the fact—just among women, tho—that a woman can influ­ence a man very potently, if she goes about it in the right way.

For the right woman man will do almost anything. He has been doing i t for centuries, long before the t ime when Solomon fell to worshiping the gods of his wives, and when Herod sacrificed John the Baptist to his pre t ty niece. He has been known to climb from the lowest depths to a high calling under a woman 's influence, and he has been dashed from high places to the darkest depths by reason of tha t same myste­rious magic.

I t must please any woman to hear the story of Owen Kildare, a New York Bowery tough, who at 30 could neither read nor write and was proud of his slum reputation as the toughest of sluggers. Now, a t a l i t t le past 40, he is wri t ing for magazines and working to bet ter the condition of just such peo­ple as those from whose ranks he was lifted. »

And how was he l i f ted l A woman 's voice called him.

A woman oame into his life of u t te r degradation. She gave the best she could to aid him. She led, he followed. For years he was pupil and she was teacher. And then she died, and i t was then tha t her influence was most pow­erful. Realizing what she had done for him, he set himself to follow the windings of the path she had outlined. The path led to reform, manliness, Strength and usefulness.

Only ten years between his ignorant, dissipated life and the bright , promis­ing life of an author and philanthrop-ical worker. Scoff as the unsentimental may, all this was accomplished by a noble woman 's influence.

I t ought to make a woman mighty proud, and a t the same time mighty humble, to have a responsibility like that in her hands. - Her words, her

beauty, her whole character, can work either for a man ' s help or for ^ s harm.

She needn ' t speak of it, nor th ink much about it. Yet, silently, and in a large, sweet, wholesome way, she can have a care which way her influence is working.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S FAD

In common with the majority of lser sex, "Victoria, the queen of Spa*n, bis a pet fad of making dainty han.ik*"--clncfs. Li t t le inconsequent affairs of the sheerest linen with a t iny jnset embroidered border, her royal mono­gram in one corner, and som"tunes, by way of finish, an edging of rare Valen­ciennes or Mechlin scarcely more than a third of an inch wide. All the hand­kerchiefs in her trousseau are hand- ^ made, and all except the priceless lace ones tha t have eome t o her as gifts cr heirlooms par take of these, general characteristics.

That is why the society girl on ei ther side of the Atlantic has gons daft over the lit t le embroidered mouchoirs that have just come into vogue.

To possess a set of handkerchiefs of one'ie own embroidery is, however, the special fad of- the moment, a n l many of the betrothed young women who ex­pect , to become brides in th«> autumn, and who are spending the interim a t summer resorts, have laid in 1 stock of sheer handkerchief linen a t $2 a yard, and are converting it a t odd moments to mouchoirs which arc de­cidedly " t h i n g s of b e a u t y , " whether or not they are destined to be a joy forever.

The old b u t . s t u n n i n g handkerchiefs of colored or checked bat is te are really a new development of the automobile craze, for it is impossible to ke-n.> one'a mouchoir in a s ta te of imnu'enHte whiteness during a long dusty t r ip in a bubble wagon.

The colored handkerchiefs are, how­ever, extremely smart, and they are certainly not offensively cheap, for the prices run all t h e way from 50 cents to-$2 . - Some very -pret ty designs are shown, and the colorings are charm- ^ ingly blended, the pastel shades being in the lead. . , - *

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