The Ladies' Home Journal 1902-06: Vol 19 Iss 7

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$625 Until July First HE JOURNAL’S offers of prizes for music and pictures are open until July 1. $450 for Bright, Catchy Music Divided into three sums worth working for. $15 FOR A TUNEFUL ORIGINAL WALTZ— something danceable, like ‘‘ Love’s Dream After the Ball,’’ for instance, to fill two pages of THE JOURNAL, when printed. $15 FOR A LIVELY TWO.-STEP, exhila- rating and tuneful,like ‘‘ The Tale of a Kangaroo,’’ or one of Mr. Sousa’s. It must be no longer than the waltz. $15 FOR A REALLY POPULAR SONG, re- ligious or secular (either will be considered), like ‘‘O Promise Me’’ or ‘“‘ The Holy City,’’ to fill one page of THE JOURNAL. All manuscripts must reach this office be- fore Tuesday, July 1. No composition or song before published will be eligible, and the awards will be made for those best suited to our use. 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EDITED BY EDWARD BOK $100 FOR BABY PICTURES HE JOURNAL has laid aside $100 with which to buy twenty unique baby pictures. We do not want regulation portraits, or photographs taken simply for the likeness, but something out of the ordinary, so far as pose and expression are con- cerned. What we want are photographs of pretty babies — singly or in groups, not necessarily your own, but any such pictures you happen to have — at play, or asleep, or eating, or laughing, or doing ‘anything that would make a stranger say ‘‘ Isn’t that cute!’’ For the twenty most unusual photographs we shall pay $5 apiece. Send them in before June ro, accompanied by address and return postage, to THE WANT BOX THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL Notre —The return of any photograph will indicate only that it is not available for the plan we have in mind. Ts ssaipuciiatailial ht niaciateanlaaeatll Four Doilars for Three Dollars The one-tint reproductions of the New England pictures by W. L. 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Of the senior Roosevelt there is an excellent picture, while the two of the President’s mother are even more interesting. All of these portraits are now in the possession of Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr., sister to the President, by whose courtesy they are pre- sented. Never before have any of these por- traits been publicly reproduced. ” up new and far-away places. the Opera House.”’ ‘* That lullaby would cost $14,000 if it could be bought.”’ This scene, which is not only described but pictured as well, opens this unique story, which then goes on, showing the world- renowned singers vying with each other to please the child. We see a great De Reszke crawling out on all fours from under a piano; we see the child on Plangon’s shoulder and pulling his beard ; we see Schumann-Heink trundling her ; we see Walter Damrosch playing train-conductor, and David Bispham imitating a desperado and ‘‘ holding the train while the opera company is ex route, for the story takes us across the continent with the famous singers, and we see them in And these scenes are shown in actual photographs — bringing to us the human side of the world’s greatest singers in their efforts to amuse the little foundling, who is adopted by them as ‘‘ The Child of No serial so thoroughly unique has ever been printed. With The young bride sees its unusual illustrations it will run four months in THE JOURNAL. the funny side of them Opera House in New York City. The doorkeeper took her in, and a little ARISTOCRATIC SOCIETY later Madame Calvé, who was to sing in ‘‘ Carmen ”’ that “en, vee of it. AS RELATED She asked that the baby be brought to her dressing-room. Meanwhile Jean and Edouard de Reszke, and Plangon, and Madame Schumann-Heink, and some of the HERE is a distinct ‘‘dead line ”’ in other great singers, also heard about the baby, and flocked to Calvé’s dressing- T Philadelphia society, and that line room. Then the baby began to cry, and Calvé started crooning a lullaby, in isastreet! If your house is which all the famous stars joined. Just then Mr. Grau stuck his head into the on one of the streets north of room, and when he had made some calculations with salary-figures, he said: Market, you are ‘‘out of it’’; if you live south of Market, you are decidedly ‘‘in it.’”’ ‘* It” means ‘* society.”’ A pretty New York girl hap- pens to attract a ‘‘ South of Market Street ’’? man of the bluest blood, and he marries her. But her Philadelphia _ relatives live ‘‘ North of Market Street’’! She sees no reason, after settling in the Quaker City, why she should give them up because of this. Her husband’s aristocratic mother does, however! Hence strange and odd complications arise. TWO GREAT NEW SERIALS BEGIN NEXT MONTH Gustav Kobbe’s Unique Story “THE CHILD OF THE OPERA HOUSE” NE evening a little baby girl was left at the stage door of the Metropolitan A Delightfully Breezy Satire “THE PHILADELPHIANS” BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF A BRIGHT NEW YORK GIRL IN THE SOLEMNLY- ¥ OF PHILADELPHIA ! BY HERSELF all — often to the consternation of that pedigreed mother-in-law and her ped- igreed family. The results are in- expressibly delightful, and the way the girl herself tells of them makes them even more droll. These are the points which make ‘‘ The Philadelphians’’ one of the most fascinating satires of a city’s people and social ideas that has been written in a long while. It’s breezy from the very beginning to the end. Equally fascinating and interesting are the pictures made by Mr. George Gibbs. Being a_ Philadel- phian himself, he en- tered the work of illus- trating the story with knowledge and zest, and he has missed none of the rollicking spirit of this readable satire. Fagh's mot The June Cover as a Poster O MANY have asked us to reproduce some of our cover designs in poster-form that we have had specially printed a limited number of Mr. Peirce’s dainty June Bride, in full color and on heavy coated paper, in all ways like the cover on this copy, except that there is nothing on the back. There is an artistic margin —the whole measuring 14x19 inches. We willsend this, packed and postpaid, to any address for 25 cents in stamps. Remit to The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia EE How We Can Keep Together N MOVING around this summer, you cannot always get THE JOURNAL where you go. 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FOURTH OF FIVE ARTICLES ABOUT BIRDS . com ringing cries of alarm, then of terror,

coming from a pair of robins one morn- ing in June caused me to drop my work suddenly, dash out-of-doors and follow the sound through the garden, across the lane to a meadow where a vagrant cat, with a now- or-never desperation, made a leap through the grass even as I approached, and, before my very eyes, snapped up a baby robin in its cruel jaws. With as frantic a leap upon the cat | pried its jaws apart and released the limp and apparently dead bird.

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Three other young robins, which had fallen out of the same nest in the cherry tree when a heavy thunder shower weakened its mud- plastered walls the night before, were squatting dejectedly on the ground, unable to fly. So I gathered them up in my arms, too, lest they fall a certain prey to the cat, and deposited the little family in an improvised flannel nest on a sunny upper balcony. One might have supposed that the parents would find them here, within fifty yards of their cherry tree home, and come to feed them. But the old birds’ cries of distress were the last sign from either of them in the neighborhood. After waiting in vain for some response from them to the incessant, insistent ‘‘ cheep, cheep”’ from the balcony nursery, I could resist the cries of hunger no longer. Even the baby which had been literally snatched A SONG SPARROW FEEDING HER YOUNG . a X yy AX - + How Birds Care for Their Babies By Neltje Blanchan, Author of ‘‘ Bird Neighbors, ee Nature’s Garden,’’ etc. L. W. BROWNELL from the jaws of death had now recovered from his fright, not having received so much as a scratch, and was clamoring for food as loudly as the others, jerking himself upright with every ‘‘ cheep”’ as if stamping both feet with impatience at delay. Krom that hour my preconceived ideas of bird life were radically changed. Once I had shared the popular notion of birds as rather idle creatures of pleasure, singing to pass the time away, free from every care while they flew aimlessly about in the sunshine, ted from the abun- dant hand of Nature. But bringing up those four feathered waifs taught me that birds doubtless work as hard for their living as any creatures on earth. At about four o’clock every morning sharp, hungry cries from the balcony awakened me. Perhaps it was because I was only a step- mother that I refused to go out on the lawn then in search of early worms. Another nap was more agreeably purchased by stuffing each little crop full of the yolk of hard-boiled egg and baked potato mashed into a soft paste, the lumps washed down with a tiny trickle of fresh water from a stylographic pen-dropper. Such gaping, yellow caverns as were stretched aloft to be filled while the little birds trembled with excitement, jostled one another and scrambled for first turn ! Every hour regularly throughout the long day those imperious babies had to be satisfied. Ants’ eggs from the bird store, a taste of mocking- bird food mixed with potato, and an occasional cherry or strawberry agreed with the litthe gourmands perfectly. A small boy who was sub- sidized to dig earthworms for them called the bargain off after one day's effort to supply their demand. Sixty worms had not been sufficient for creatures which eat considerably over their own weight of food every day.

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Page 4 The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 Doubtless they were spoiled babies from the first. At any rate, they had me completely enslaved: all other interests were forgotten ; not for anything would I have gone beyond their call. When, after about two weeks spent on and around the balcony, the last of the quartette spread his strong wings and flew off to the strawberry patch to pick up his own living thenceforth, I realized as never before why the alert, military-looking, red-breasted robin of the spring becomes more and more faded and dejected as summer advances, and the joyous song of courting days dimin- ishes until it ceases altogether after the father has helped his mate raise two broods. Yet with my utmost care | had probably not done half as much for those fledglings as their parents would have done. oe What it Means for a Robin to Rear a Brood N A STATE of Nature, what would a pair of robins do for their family? After the building of the nest — of itself no small labor — there follow fourteen long, weary days and nights of confinement upon the epes before they hatch. Thenceforth on the average of every fifteen minutes daily from dawn till dark both parents visit the nest, usually bringing in their bills food which they often travel far and work hard to find—earthworms, grass- hoppers, locusts, beetles, the larve of insects, choke- cherries or other small fruits to be crammed with sharp but painless thrusts into the ever-hungry mouths. The second an old bird alights on the home branch up spring the little heads, every one agape, like Jacks-in-the-box. In their loving zeal the parents themselves often forget to eat. After every feeding the nest must be inspected and cleaned, the excreta being either swallowed or car- ried away. Then the fledglings are picked over lest lice irritate their tender skins. Very many young birds die from this common pest of the nests, especially those whose cradles are lined with chicken feathers. Birds, like all wild creatures, live in a constant state of fear. Parenthood develops courage amazingly. When climbing cats, snakes, small boys, hawks, owls, crows, jays, aa squirrels and other foes do not threaten the baby robins’ safety, either heavy rains or fierce sun- shine may require the patient littke mother to brood over her treasures. Before they are a week old their education begins. On the eleventh day, if all goes well, usually it is the mother who utters low, endearing baby talk, coaxing the little fellows to hop out of the nest and about it. Coming nearer an ambitious youngster she stands but does not deliver a tempting morsel held just beyond his bill. Luring him with it farther and farther away, hopping and flying from branch to branch, she tantalizes the hungry baby, perhaps, but she edu- cates him with no loss of time. When finally the young are able to trip lightly, swiftly over the grass after their parents, have learned to cock their heads to one side and listen with the intentness of veterans for the stirring of worms beneath the sod, to capture their own food and fly swiftly out of the pres- ence of danger, their education is considered advanced. The remainder they must complete by experience, for even now their parents may be repairing the old nest or building a new one to receive a second lesed. ~~ The Lower and the Upper Classes of Birds T® labor involved in rearing a family differs, of course, with the species by reason of physical conditions and temperament, some birds of the lower orders hav- ing little required of them by Nature, and others, more highly organized, being enslaved by family cares as if they were afflicted with the New England conscience. But generally speaking, there are only two classes: the lower or precocial birds, including those which, fully clothed and wide-awake when hatched, are able to run or swim at once and pick up their own living, like our domestic fowls, ducks, Bob Whites, grouse, plover and snipe ; and the altricial birds—those which come into the world blind, naked and helpless, or nearly so, like the herons, kingfishers, woodpeckers, robins and all our song birds. The precocial ruffed grouse develops from an egg that is large in proportion to the size of the mother’s body, the heavy yolk nourishing it during eighteen days of incubation; whereas the altricial vireo lays a very small egg that hatches in one week. But, as in all arbi- trary divisions, it is not always possible to draw a sharp dividing line between precocial and altricial birds, for in both classes innumerable gradations occur. Among the lower bird forms, polygamy being com- mon, there can be no home life, and it is fortunate these chicks are independent little creatures from the first. Indeed, it was John Fiske who contributed to science the fact that the advancement of all creatures—not of the human race alone—has been measured by the prolonga- tion of the period of infancy. The longer the young are dependent on both parents the stronger the tie becomes between mates, the more prolonged and beautiful the home life with all its strengthening moral influences making for the uplift of the species, until among civilized humans home living becomes a life habit, far outlasting the presence of children beneath the roof. Se Fathers of Birds Who are Really Mothers ET the so-called advanced woman, with her unscien- tific notions of a readjustment of the partition of labor between the sexes, remember that the males among the ostrich tribe, most nearly related to the reptiles, take entire charge of the young. Plover fathers, too, attend to all nursery duties, even to sitting on the eggs, leav- ing their wives free to waste their strength on clubs, pink teas or whatever may be the equivalent among **advanced ”’ feathered females. On the other hand, the selfish, dandified drakes of some of our wild ducks desert their mates as soon as the first egg is laid lest any domestic duties might be demanded of them; nor do they rejoin their families until the ducklings are educated and fully able to fly. One has only to watch a hen care for her chicks to realize that even precocial birds need the guardianship of at least.one parent until they come to maturity. Devoted little Bob White, with a fidelity rare among precocial birds, is a model husband and father, volunteer- ing to take entire charge of the family while Mrs. White sits on the second set of eggs. When she leads forth the new brood to be educated in wood lore with their more advanced brothers and sisters, the bevy thenceforth enjoys an ideal family life. Roving through the grain fields, underbrush and stubble, the large family party keeps close together, especially at night, when parents and chicks huddle into a compact group, tails toward the centre, one of the number always remaining on guard to warn the sleepers of approaching danger. Such prolonged devotion among quails is the more beautiful in birds closely related to the polygamous, indifferent barnyard rooster, and to the turkey gobbler, from whom his mate runs away to hatch and rear her young lest they should fall victims to their father’s fits of jealous, murdering rage. ” Home Life Means More as They Progress Te higher that birds have ascended in the evolution- ary scale the more their home life means to them, the more pains they take to build a practical, beautiful nest, the more attached they become to it, to their mates and helpless young; so that, if there were not a few prominent exceptions among precocial birds, one might almost say that domestic virtues and true domestic bliss are monopolized by the altrices. However, among the latter it by no means follows that conjugal devotion necessarily extends beyond a single nesting season. Few birds, indeed, seem to enjoy the society of their mates the whole year through ; and we have seen that degenerates, like the cowbird, occur in the most respect- able altricial families. Even the eagle, which mates for life, appears to care less for the partner of his joys and sorrows after the annual brood is carefully reared than he does for his eyrie ; just as his relative, the osprey or fish-hawk, which also remains faithfully wedded to one mate till death parts them, appears to love nothing in the world quite so much as the great bundle of sticks, every year of greater bulk, which they build in some tree-top near the shore. Indeed, he thinks it no shame to snatch the fish from his wife’s talons and eat it himself. To see a pair of loving litthe downy woodpeckers at work in turn excavating their hollow home, or the mother feeding their young by regurgitating food from her crop into theirs, and the father considerately feeding her when she is too tired to hunt for her own dinner, one might think that here, at least, was devotion enough to last a lifetime ; but when the littlhe woodpeckers have flown, and winter nights are long and cold, it is Mr. Downy alone who occupies the sheltered cozy home in the tree-trunk, leaving his wife to excavate another shelter or shift for herself as best she may. en The Birds in Their Family Relations HE ‘‘ Mothers’ Meetings’’ department of this maga- zine might be filled month after month with stories of how the birds, like human parents, fail or succeed in training their young. Watch some over-indulgent little sparrow mother, harassed by the most spoiled of children as large as she and twice as greedy, which follow her about, drooping their wings to feign helplessness, teas- ing for food that they are perfectly able, but too lazy, to collect. On the other hand, many birds are strict disciplinarians and do not hesitate to enforce their com- mands with a vigorous slap of the wing. In his family relations a bird’s true character may be read most plainly. The kingbird, which usually shows only the pugnacious side of his disposition to the world, fearlessly dashing after the largest crow to drive him away from the sacred precincts of home, reserves his lovable traits for the family circle. No dragon-fly that he captures on the wing is too choice to deny him- self for the benefit of his babies, or too large, apparently, to be crammed down their little throats. In June, fear, envy and selfishness alike are overcome by love. If you will focus the opera-glasses on the nest to which the oriole’s rich, continuous song directed your suspicions a few weeks ago, you will see both father and mother feeding their noisy young at the rate of about twenty visits an hour. A more charming sight than an oriole family feasting on basket worms among the green sprays of a tamarix bush would be hard to find unless you happily discover a tiny humming-bird teaching her diminutive babies how to preen their feathers daintily with their needle-like bills. ap The Birds in the Care of Their Babies i* WAS the rattle of a male kingfisher, informing his babies hidden within the bank of a woodland stream that he was bringing them fish for dinner, that first adver- tised his nursery. Through the long tunnel the absurd- looking, skinny little birds, following one another in Indian file, would run forward to greet him, then as quickly run backward to receive the regurgitated fish. The distracted oven-bird, feigning a broken wing as she crosses your path in the woods, invites pity or per- haps destruction, if only you will spare those speckled treasures which she thinks you know must be some- where near, although, but for her frantic. performance, you might not discover the well-concealed nest. Sir Christopher Wren, by the very exuberance of his bubbling, continuous song, betrays the precious secret that Jenny, by her excited scoldings, no better conceals. But the bobolink, swaying on a stalk of timothy in the meadow, and singing with rollicking abandon, is quite as clever as the ventriloquial yellow-throat in luring you from his nest hidden in the grassy jungle. How jeal- ously the true bird lover likewise Maen. to guard nest secrets! The best children in the world can’t keep them. Some boys in North Carolina robbed a crow’s nest and kept the fledglings hung in a cage in their garden. The distracted parents visited the place hourly, brought food to their young and tried in vain to break open the wire prison. Finally, in despair, they dropped poisonous berries through the bars : it was evidently easier for them to see their babies dead than prisoners of the enemy. AWEDDING AND A QUESTION By Clifton Johnson T WAS a day in early June, clear and warm. The house stood well up a slope overlook- ing a wide valley. Through the lowlands wound the main highway, which could be seen here and there for miles. There were frequent teams on it this afternoon. They were all bound for the house on the hill. The wedding was to be at half-past three. All the relatives came, and all the neighborhood friends. The house was thrown open to the guests, from the kitchen at the back to the parlor and bedrooms at the front. The ceremony, as it centred about the two being mar- ried, had an almost tearful solemnity. But the feeling grew lighter and less serious from this inner circle out- ward. On the borders there was much craning of necks to see how the couple was standing it, and there was whispering and suppressed laughter. It is soon over—all this mystery of making two lives one ; the procession of guests has filed past the bride and groom with kisses, handshakes and congratulations ; the curious crowd has examined the array of presents spread out in one of the bedrooms, has discussed them and studied the cards to note who gave each one. Lastly, Japanese napkins, and ice cream, cake and coffee have been passed, and now the bride and groom are seated in the sitting-room chatting with friends. The groom from time to time looks uneasily out of the window. The younger portion of the guests observe his glances and conclude he is planning to escape them. They have rice-throwing and other parting greetings in mind, and they nudge and whisper among themselves. ep |‘ THE yard a laughing group of men and boys is dec- orating the bridal carriage. Some one has taken pains to provide a couple of old sheets. These are torn into strips, and the men tie them in ragged tangles to the wheel-spokes, the springs, the top, the whip—to anything and everything that offers a chance. The young women indoors presently get an inkling of what is going on and come fluttering out to help. The jollity and laughter are more than doubled then. The company about the carriage finally put the finish- ing touches on their work by fastening to the rear axletree several old shoes. This is hardly done when there are shouts indoors. The bride and groom have donned their traveling attire and are coming. Hands slip hastily into pockets or paper bags, and the rice-throwing begins. ‘The guests make this token of good will just as forcible as possible. If they were assailing their worst enemies they would not throw with harsherenergy. In the throng the couple gets separated and one runs this way and one that. But what is this? The bride and groom are piling into a two-horse carriage—not the one-horse one that is decorated. The bedecked vehicle is certainly the one the groom came in, and every one naturally supposed he would go away in it. He has played them a trick. The crowd is chagrined. Some of the men spring and catch the horses’ heads just as the groom gives them the word to start. Others begin to strip the ribbons from the single carriage and to transfer them. But now the groom has the reins, he applies the whip, the horses are mettlesome, and the men at their heads cannot hold them. They leap aside and the team dashes away. Right in the roadway, not three rods distant, stands a double covered carriage. An old man sits on the front seat waiting for his wife and daughters. He is uncon- scious of danger. The wedding carriage comes down on him like a thunderbolt. The groom, blinded by the rice that has never ceased its hurtling volleys, continues to ply his whip. There is an instant hush and every ear is intent for the crash that seems inevitable. But in the nick of*time the groom sees the danger, throws his whole weight on the lines and draws his horses back on their haunches. The crowd breathes easier and every man says to his neighbor : ‘‘ That was a narrow escape.”’ oe T® groom paused only for a moment. He seemed possessed by a fear of pursuit with more rice and more indignities in the way of decoration. He pulled his horses aside, passed the team that blocked the way, laid on the whip once more, and the carriage, bumping and swaying, went down the steep hill ahead at a gallop. The horses were thoroughly frightened. It looked as if they were running away, and as if the driver, his nerves high-wrought with the excitement of the escape, had lost control of them. A long strip of white was whirling about on a front wheel and adding to the horses’ frenzy. A little farther on the road joined the valley highway and made a sharp turn. Unless speed were slackened soon there would be an overturn. The groom was muscular and a good driver; and the watchers at the house could see him sawing the bits in the horses’ mouths. Yes! they were slowing their pace, and it was with great relief that the company on the hill saw the turn safely made. This is a faithful description of a real wedding. The people concerned were fully up to the average in intelli- gence, and they were most of them thrifty and fairly prosperous. In its main characteristics the wedding is a representative one. . It will be seen that the climax is not the ceremony, but the flurry of the bride and groom’s departure. Perhaps few weddings come so near the tragic as did this one, but the start from the house is nearly always in this same sort of riot. To one not especially con- cerned or active in helping the couple off the rice- throwing and the carriage-decorating seem simply barbaric, and the fun the company get out of it appears to be of just the same sort that a boy gets of fastening a tin can to a dog’s tail. That these things should be characteristic of the coun- try wedding, and only to be avoided by strategy, seems a pity. One feels that as a matter of fitness a wedding should have an atmosphere of quiet and sympathy. This aftermath of violence, even if it is supposed to express good will, destroys all the sentiment. Is it not time for a change —time for something civilized ? omen

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The President’s Mother By Emma Hamilton Bulloch

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IN PHOTOGRAPH BY BYRON PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S MOTHER PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S FATHER From a portrait painted in 1874 by Jennie S. Loop, now in the — ew a ° , ai — From a portrait painted in b nie} ntington. It i - wrench of thy Douglas sane, Jr.,a sister of the President. horsebac k-riding, picnics, etc., were the pleasures of the ered as as pire Ah omens iene Barer gn Hee Basra very young, as they were later coupled with other phases of social intercourse, balls and dinners, visiting, and hospi- LN THE early fifties journeys were not under- talities generally. At eighteen she was a bride, and the taken without good reason, and when a_ story of the wedding day, the bridesmaids, the gathering visitor came from afar the neighborhood of relatives and friends from far and near, the wedding visited was deeply stirred by the unusual supper, for which the ample resources of the storeroom and rooms, and last of all, the long drive in her father’s car- riage to meet the stage-coach for the honeymoon journey North —these are never-to-be-forgotten memories to the

lowed the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt at the Georgia mountain-side home of Major Bulloch, where he first saw, in Martha Bulloch, the young daughter of his host, the beautiful girl for whose smile he journeyed South again three years later. Then he appeared as her ac- cepted suitor. The wedding day of the President’s par- ents was December 18, 1853, and the house at Roswell, Georgia, where the ceremony took place, is still standing. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt started at once on their bridal trip North. They visited first Doctor and Mrs. Hilborne West, in Phila- delphia, the latter a sister of the bride, before proceeding to their home in New York City. ‘ ef ARTHA BULLOCH ROOSEVELT had an ancestry not only distinguished in the history-making of her State but also of a personal individuality of the most interest- ing character. Her father was Major James Stephens Bulloch, son of James Bulloch, who was the eldest son of Archibald Bulloch, first Governor of Georgia, and Commander- in-Chief of her forces in 1776. Her mother was the daughter of General Daniel Stewart, of Revolutionary fame, and Susanne Oswald Stewart. The President’s mother was born on her father’s plantation in Liberty County, a part of the shore country, but it was about the subsequent home of the family at Roswell that all her childish recollections centred. Roswell was founded by a number of shore planters, headed by Roswell King, and it was intended to obviate the necessity of the long and fatiguing trips North every summer made by these gentlemen and their families. The site, near the Chattahoochee River, in Cobb County, had a comfortable summer climate. Each new home displayed not only the wealth but also the individual taste of its owner, and the town stands to-day almost the same as when its projectors took possession. The Bulloch homestead was in keeping with the position of the family. After the style of most of the large residences it had great columns supporting a broad portico in front. Spacious and lofty rooms were on both sides of the wide central hall. _ Two other daughters went forth trom this home as brides of Northerners. Anna Bulloch be- came Mrs. James K. Gracie, of New York, and Susan Elliott married Dr. Hilborne West, of Philadelphia. Of the large family group only the latter survives. [wo sons of Major Bulloch died abroad a few years ago. HEN she was about sixteen _ years old Martha Bulloch (or ‘‘ Mittie’’ as she was called, the name being the nearest the colored tolks got to ‘‘ Missy’’) was through with school duties. She had gone to a neighboring young ladies’ seminary, then in vogue, and in leaving books alone, so far as a daily preparation of tasks was re- quired, the custom of the section was followed. Her home training was at once commerced, and as she talked of it in later years, and contrasted it with the system seemed quite as successful. adopted for her own children, it

ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT’S MOTHER From a photograph taken about the time the portrait shown above was painted. ‘‘She was fond of the style of dressing to which she had been accustomed in her youth.”’ aE 7 | 4 <= —_

Domestic accomplishments were as much insisted upon as the forma- tion of habits of grace in move- ment and speech. Outdoor life, } the unust J I Roosevelt family. The officiating minister at the wedding excitement. Delightful hospitalities fol- of the neighborhood were called upon, the flower-decked was the ae . B. Dunwoody, a nephew of the bride’s ather, and the service used was the Presby- terian form. Mrs. Roosevelt’s beauty was of an unusual type. Her marvelous complexion, of an almost dazzling whiteness and perfection, was its chief charm. This is — s the main reason why the pictures of her fall far short of doing her justice. Her features were regular, her teeth were white and even, and her eyes were blue. Her neck and arms, as revealed in evening dress, were as beautiful as her face. an H® youthful charms were but accentuated with the passing of years, although she died comparatively young, being but forty- nine, and having suffered only a short illness. Her manner was bright, her welcome most cordial, and the sparkle in her eyes and the laugh in her voice were both infectious. She was so fond of the style of dressing to which she had been accustomed in her youth— clinging soft muslins and generally of white —that in suitable seasons she never changed fromit. This love of old-fashioned ways was perhaps the keynote of that gentle dignity of character, which, while it made her queen in her home and the treasured friend of the cul- tured circle of well read and traveled men and women who were the intimates of her husband, made her also contented and happy within its boundaries. Her duties at home, the training of her children, European travel with her husband, and her interest in his participation in public affairs left neither leisure nor liking for the sphere of activity reached by the modern woman. From her lips her children learned the story of the South before, as well as after, the Civil War. Her mother, a link between these periods, ended her days at her daughter’s New York home. Martha Stewart, better known in the family annals as the beautiful ‘* er Stewart, was married at seventeen to John Elliott, then United States Senator. She had great personal charms and even a marked distinction in appearance in her youth. Her wedding journey was from her Georgia home to the National Capital in her husband’s carriage, drawn by four horses. The incidents of the trip, the social life of Washington, the widowhood with three young children—daughters who afterward became belles and beauties, and a son, a conqueror of hearts too along the same lines, who sang as sweetly as he wrote tuneful verses—and finally her second marriage, the severing of the close ties of relationship by death and of material interests by the war, were all events common enough in that day, but as told by their chief heroine were invested with special importance. on HE President’s mother, while she encouraged the bent which young Theodore’s mind early developed for natural his- tory, also shared the great arnuse- ment it caused among her other children, Anna, now Mrs. Com- mander W. S. Cowles; Elliott, since dead, and Corinne, now Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Jr., of New York. If she thought of any future for him at all it was in that connection. He had, how- ever, shown his liking for politics

MRS. ROOSEVELT’S HOME IN ROSWELL, GEORGIA After the style of most of the large residences in the South it had great columns supporting a broad portico in front. From this house Martha Bulloch went forth as the bride of Theodore Roosevelt. and had taken quite an interest in public affairs before she passed away, but to her that gave no hint of what he has since accomplished.

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Page 6 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 HE setting of the Coro- x nation ceremony, the color, costuming and etiquette, belongs to the Middle Ages, when every ceremony was a gorgeous display of gold and crimson and blue, harmoniously blended by the famous courtesy of those ‘‘ days of chivalry.”’ But the cere- mony itself is made up of symbols and symbolic acts. Everything done has its origin in an old custom, or a half-forgotten bit of history, or some deeply religious feeling that screens itself behind a symbol. The ceremony practically begins with the procession from the Palace to the Abbey, and this procession, which seems only a parade, has its origin in the old religious processions. From the earliest times, whenever a city or land was swept by any great emotion—joy or sorrow—or a binding act was to be we oO | processions were formed, with a statue of the favorite divinity borne in the centre. Toward this point every act was directed: the prayers for aid or of thanksgiving, the shouts of joy, the garlands of flowers, or the sacrifices and vows ot gifts. A sovereign is some one who is placed over the people, and so is the central figure in the Coronation procession, a sort of demi-divinity. ob The Crowning is in Westminster Abbey TP ee —- == THE CROWN THE KING WILL WEAR fe VERY English sovereign since the Conquest has been crowned in Westminster Abbey. The great officers of State, the Bishops and nobles meet the sovereign at the west door of the Abbey, carry- ing the cup and plate of the communion service, the Bible, and the crown and other symbols of royalty. This custom is derived from the Greeks and Romans, who had their candidates met by augurs (where we get our word ‘‘ inauguration’’) at the door of the temple in which they were to be invested with the symbols of priests or leaders. St. Edward’s Chapel is used as the robing-room, where the sovereign is dressed in the Parliamentary robes— Robes of State—usually made of crimson velvet and ermine. Crimson and scarlet are the colors of State, symbolical of courage and strength—red, in heraldry, always meaning fortitude. After the robing the procession forms in the chapel and passes slowly through the cathedral into the choir, where the sovereign and chief officers mount a platform covered with cloth-of-gold. The ‘‘ Recognition,’’ which begins the ceremony in the Abbey, and the enthroning or ‘‘ litting,’’ near the end, both spring out of the same custom, and date back to the time when ‘‘ chiefs’’ were elected by acclama- tion, and raised upon a shield that all might see and reassert the vote. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor, the Earl Marshal, led by the Deputy-( xarter, move forward to the side of the sovereign, and the Archbishop says : ‘* Sirs: I here present unto you , the undoubted King (or Queen) of this realm; whereupon, all you who are come this day to do your homage, are you willing to do the same ?”’ The question is put three times, the Archbishop turn- ing to right and left, and the peers shout their assent. The ‘* Recognition’’ has a parallel survival in the wedding service of the Church of England, when the minister says: ‘‘ If any of you know why this man and this woman should not lawfully be joined together, you shall now come forward, or else forever after hold your ec.”” After the ‘‘ Recognition’’ an offering is made at the altar—a rich pall (a sort of mantle), and a bar of gold weighing about a pound. The sovereign’s Robes of State were formerly offered, but now another mantle, rich and costly, is substituted. It was more significant in the older way, for it was then a survival of the casting aside of the habitual robes and insignia, and beginning a new life, the new robes symbolizing the outward ** putting on”’ of the inner responsibility. eb The Oath the Sovereign Takes "TAG the oath has been an important part of almost every ceremony from time immemorial. In every age any one taking an oath was ‘‘ set aside,’’ and required, by J w= pone sentiment, if by nothing else, to fulfill his vow. he sovereign, kneeling before the altar, with his right hand on the Bible, promises ‘‘ to perform the duties laid upon me as Chief of State,’ ending with the solemn words, ‘‘ so help me God,”’ which are all the more sol- emn when the older form is remembered : ‘‘ So help me God, at His Holy Judgment,”’ with the meaning, ‘‘ Help me only if | keep my vow.”’ Then he kisses the Bible and signs a copy of the oath. A kiss was, in old days, a reverential sign. Men kissed the hands of idols, or, when the idols were too large for them to reach, kissed their own hands and waved them toward the idols. It was a mark of adora- tion, and only given to what was deemed most sacred. Kissing the Book originally was a symbolic confession of faith in the God whose Book it was, and could practically be interpreted as: ‘‘ I believe in the God whose Book I hold, and by Him I swear.” The old belief was that a perjurer would be struck dead if he kissed the Book. In the more barbaric days oaths were signed in blood drawn from the arms of the persons taking them. Before the anointing the sovereign retires again to St. Edward’s Chapel, and, taking off the Parliamentary robes, puts on the Royal robes. The tunic is of linen— By Blanche W. Fischer as in the old days when Kings were priests as well as Kings—and represents the priestly linen vestments. It is white, to indicate purity —the old Scriptural ‘‘ being without blemish.”’ Over the tunic is thrown a robe — usually of cloth-of- gold ; the coronet is taken off, and the sovereign returns bare-headed, passes inside the chancel, and sits in the famous Coronation chair, facing the altar. é + The Same Chair in Use Since 1272 HE Coronation chair is of plain oak, with a step carved on the sides with the Lions of England—symbol- izing strength, majesty and endurance. Under the seat, on a sort of shelf, is the Coronation stone, brought from Scone by Edward I. The stone is probably part of the great stone chair in which every Scottish sovereign sat to be crowned, and has most marvelous legends and vir- tues ascribed to it. The most astonishing of all is that which credits it with being the stone on which Joseph pillowed his head when he ‘‘ saw the angels ascending and descending ’’ from the heavens. Every English sovereign since Edward I has been crowned in that chair, and woe betide the monarch who dares break the rule! The superstition is that it must never leave England, nor be set aside for another Coronation chair, or all sorts of ill luck will follow. Four Knights of the Garter—that order founded on the gallant story of Edward III and the Countess of Salisbury—hold a canopy of cloth-of-gold over the sovereign while the oil is poured on by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This canopy is now only a bit of the effective setting, but it originated in the old idea—the ‘*care-cloth ’’—which has another development in the wedding veil. It is, ina way, a symbolic shutting out of every other person from the immediate act. Anointing with holy oil is the seal of the church upon the election, an investing of the sovereign with ‘‘ the divine rightof Kings,’’ and symbolizes the spiritual side of his mission, as the crowning does the temporal. It was the most important part of the ceremony of creat- ing English monarchs before crowning became an in- dispensable feature. The oil is poured on the sover- eign’s head from a jeweled spoon that has been in the possession of England for centuries, and is probably the oldest piece of the service. The Ampulla—the golden eagle from which the oil is poured into the spoon — has all sorts of legendary lore connected with it. It is sup- posed to have been henuahe from Heaven by an angel, an idea probably suggested by the legends of the Holy Grail, which were the base of many of the legends of Heaven-sent vessels. The anointing is done in six places: on the head, symbolizing glory and wisdom ; on the breast, sanctity ; on the arms and both sides of the back, strength. “ Three Symbols Presented to the King gras are presented by the Lord Great Chamberlain, and returned by the sovereign, when they are solemnly offered at the altar. This is a relic of the days when Kings were shod and spurred at the Coronation as a sign that they were ready to go to battle against the foes of the nation. Then the sovereign is ‘‘ invested’’ with the Imperial robe, of purple velvet or cloth-of-gold lined with ermine, and presented with three symbols: the orb, the ring and the sceptre. The orb is a jeweled ball surmounted by a cross, symbolizing spiritual power over temporal power. A gold ring, set with a ruby and engraved with St. George and the dragon, is placed on the sovereign’s fourth finger, emblematic of the marriage of ruler to State, and symbolizing faithfulness and authority. THIS CHAIR HAS BEEN USED SINCE THE TIME OF EDWARD THE FIRST— 1272 What the Coronation Means The sceptre is the symbol of royalty next in impor- tance to the crown itself. It has been the symbol of imperial power in almost every country from Egypt down. Four sceptres are in use for present Corona- tions, all four having been made for Charles II, after the dispersing of the English regalia. The first is called St. Edward’s, and is about four feet and a half long, the orb at the end sup- posed to inclose a bit of the true cross. This sceptre is simply carried in the procession and presented during the ceremony. The second sceptre is for State occa- sions, and is of gold with a cross at the end, and is placed in the right hand by the Archbishop of Canterbury, while the third, with a gold dove (symbolizing mercy) on the end, ts placed in the left hand. The Queen Consort’s sceptre is beautifully jeweled. THE COAT-OF-ARMS OF GREAT BRITAIN P A The Design of the Modern Crown HE earliest form of a crown was probably a band to keep up the hair, but the crown idea has been devel- oped from age to age. The word comes from the Latin corona, and corona probably from cornu, horn. The ancient crowns were pointed like horns, and symbolized ‘* power, authority, strength and empire.’”’ The old crown with twelve points is familiar to every reader of fairy tales, but in real life it is no longer used. It was used by Kings of the East and Emperors to typify divinity, emblematic of the sun surrounded by its rays. Modern crowns are usually closed at the top—that is, banded with ‘‘ diadems,’’ which, in heraldry, mean arches. The English crown has four diadems support- ing the orb. The cap under the crown was first instituted by Henry VIII, and is derived from the cap known as the ‘‘ Cap of Maintenance (defense) or Dignity.’’ It is of crimson velvet, ‘‘ turned up’’ with ermine. The design of the crown is four Maltese crosses alter- nating with four fleur-de-lis (which, in the English crown, no longer have any reference to French possessions, but are used merely for decorative purposes), and every part is jeweled heavily. As soon as the crown is placed upon the sovereign’s head the Peers and Peeresses put on their coronets— which show nice distinctions in rank—the Bishops put on their caps, and the ‘‘ Kings-at-arms’’ their crowns. Then, ~ wd the Bible is presented to the sovereign and returned to the altar, the sovereign is surrounded by Archbishops, Bishops and Peers, and formally enthroned in the Chair of Homage on the platform where the ‘‘ Recognition’’ took place. This is a sur- vival of the old form of enthroning, and originally was a part of the ‘‘ Recognition.” After the enthroning the Peers, strictly preserving the order of rank, offer homage, taking this oath of alle- giance, which any one over twelve years of age is entitled to offer: ‘‘I do become your liegeman of life and limb, and of earthly worship ; and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die, against all manner of folks. So help me God.”’ As each takes the oath he kisses the hand of the sov- ereign and touches his own hand to the crown, symbol- izing his willing submission and allegiance. “p All the Costumes Mean Something AFTER the ceremony and the procession back from the Abbey it was customary in old days to have a great banquet, where the most astonishing dishes were served. While the royal party sat at table a knight rode into the hall and flung his glove down, while a herald pro- claimed three times that this knight was the King’s champion, ready to do battle for him against any one who doubted the King’s right to the throne. It was a quaint custom, rich in medizval color, reminiscent of the times when might meant right, a true relic of the old ordeals by arms, when men believed that the weaker, if in the right, would win by divine aid; and this, in itself, was a relic of the older ordeals by fire and water. But the symbolism is not only in the ceremony; even the costumes—the displays of crimson velvets and satins with their trimmings of rich furs, and the coronets and jewels—all tell their stories to one who is versed in heraldry. The length of a lady’s robe and the number of rows of fur trimming on it will show her degree of rank. Crimson velvet, trimmed with miniver and ermine, will be worn by the Peers and Peeresses; crimson satins lined with white satin, by knights and gentlemen ; and a modified old style of dress even for men. Miniver, by-the-way, is simply ermine with dots of sealskin instead of the ermine tails. It is a daintier fur than ermine, and has many historic associations and connections with royalty. According to strict heraldry no jewels should be worn in the coronets. ‘‘ Pearl’’ is a heraldic term meaning ball, and the pearls in the coronets are supposed to be ‘* pearls’’ of silver, although this rule has been disre- garded many a time, and jewels substituted. The strawberry leaves in the coronets are probably a decorative form of the trefoil, which has an important place in early architecture and romance, both for its beauty of form and for a symbolism ranging from the highest spiritual truths to the superstitions of good luck. Duke’s coronet is made with eight strawberry leaves; a Marquis’s, of four leaves, alternating with ‘* pearls’’ raised on points ; an Earl’s, of eight ‘‘ pearls”’ raised on points, with leaves between the points; a Viscount’s, simply of sixteen silver balls ; and a Baron’s, ~ of eight balls placed at equal distances on the circlet.

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PHUTOGRAPH BY COLLINS HELEN KELLER AND HER MOTHER The Story of My Life PART THIRD HE next important event in my life was my visit to Boston, in June, 1888. As if it were yesterday I remember the prepa- rations, the departure with my teacher and my mother, the journey, and finally the arrival in Boston. How different this journey was from the one I had made to Baltimore two years before ! I was no longer a restless, excitable little creature, requiring the attention of everybody on the train to keep me amused. I sat quietly beside Miss Sullivan, taking in with eager interest all that she told me about " what she saw out of the car window : the beautiful Tennessee River, the great cot- ton fields, the hills and woods, and the crowds of laughing negroes at the sta- tions, who waved to the people on the train and occasionally brought delicious candy and popcorn balls through the car. On the seat opposite me sat my big rag doll, Nancy, in anew gingham dress and a beruffled sunbonnet, looking at me out of two bead eyes. Sometimes when I was not absorbed in Miss Sullivan’s de- scriptions I remembered Nancy’s exist- ence and took her up in my arms, but I generally calmed my conscience by mak- ing myself believe that she was asleep. When the train at last pulled into the railroad station at Boston it was as if a beautiful fairy tale had come true. The ‘‘once upon a time’’ was now; the ‘* far-away country ” was here.

N OUR arrival at the Perkins Institu- tion for the Blind I at once began to make friends with the little blind chil- dren. It delighted me inexpressibly to find that they knew the manual alphabet. What happiness to talk with other chil- dren! Until then I had been a foreigner speaking through an interpreter. In the school where Laura Bridgman was taught the dream of my childhood was realized. It took me some time to appreciate the fact that my new friends were blind. I knew I could not see; but it did not seem possible that all the eager, loving children who gathered around me and joined heartily in my frolics were also blind. I remember the surprise and the pain I felt as I noticed that they placed their hands over mine when I talked to them and that they read books with their fingers. Although I had been told this betore, and although I understood my own deprivations, yet I had thought vaguely that, since they could hear, they must have a sort of ‘‘second sight,”’ and | was not prepared to find one child and another and yet another deprived of the same precious gift. But they were all so happy and contented that I lost all sense of pain in the pleasure of their companionship. Nancy had a sad experience soon after my arrival. She was covered with dirt—the remains of mud pies I had compelled her to eat, although she had never shown any special liking for them. The laundress at the Perkins Institution secretly carried her off to give her a bath. But this was too much for poor Nancy. When I next saw her she was a formless heap of cotton, which I should not have recognized at all except for the two bead eyes which looked out at me reproachfully. One day spent with the blind children made me feel thoroughly at home in my new environment, and I looked eagerly from one pleasant experience to another as the days flew swiftly by. I could not quite convince myself that there was much world left, for I regarded the city as the beginning and end of creation. “ HILE we were in Boston we visited Bunker Hill, and there I had my first lesson in history. The story of the brave men who had fought on the spot where we stood excited me greatly. I climbed the monument, counting the steps, and wondering as I went higher and yet higher it the soldiers had climbed this great stairway and shot at the enemy on the ground below. rhe next day we went to Plymouth by water. This Was my first trip on the ocean and my first experience in a steamboat. How full of life and motion it was! But the rumble of the machinery made me think it was thun- dering and I began to cry, because I feared we should not be able to have our picnic out-of-doors if it rained. | think I was more interested in the great rock on which the Pilgrims landed than in anything else in Plymouth. I could touch it, and perhaps that made the coming of the Pilgrims and their toils and great deeds seem more real to me. I have often held in my hand a little model of the CiPpsright, 1902, by Helen Keller. Right of translation reserved ‘‘ LISTENING,’’ WITH FINGERS ON THE LIPS, By Helen Keller Plymouth Rock which a kind gentleman gave me at Pilgrim Hall, and fingered its curves, the split in the centre and the embossed figures ‘‘1620,’’ and turned over in my mind all that I knew about the wonderful story of the Pilgrims. Just before the institution closed for the summer it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins. I was delighted, and my mind was full of the prospective joys and of the wonderful stories I had heard about the sea. My most vivid recollection of that summer is the ocean. I had always lived far inland and had never had so much as a whiff of salt air; but I had read ina big book called

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SPECIMEN OF BRAILLE, BY WHICH THE BLIND READ me with an exquisite, quivering joy. Suddenly my ecstasy gave place to terror, for my foot struck against a rock and the next instant there was a rush of water over my head. I thrust out my hands to grasp some support; I clutched at the water, and at the seaweed which the waves tossed into my face. But all my frantic efforts were in vain. The waves seemed to be playing a game with me, and tossed TO A FRIEND'S CONVERSATION me from one to another in their wild frolic. It was fearful! The good, firm earth had slipped from my feet, and everything seemed shut out from this strange, all- enveloping element—life, air, warmth and love. At last, however, the sea, as if weary of its new toy, threw me back on the shore, and in another instant I was clasped in my teacher’s arms. Oh, the comfort of the long, tender embrace! As soon as I had recovered from my panic sufficiently to say anything | demanded, ‘‘ Who put salt in the water ?’’ After | had recovered from my first experience in the water I thought it great fun to sit on a big rock in my bathing-suit and feel wave after wave dash against the rock sending up a shower of spray which quite covered me. I felt the pebbles rattling as the waves threw their ponderous weight against the shore ; the whole beach seemed racked by their terrific onset, and the air throbbed with their pulsations. The breakers would swoop back to gather themselves for a mightier leap, and I clung to the rock, tense, fascinated, as I felt the dash and roar of the rushing sea! 4 aia) COULD never stay long enough on the shore. The tang of the untainted, fresh and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought, and the shells and pebbles, and the seaweed, with tiny living creatures attached to it, never lost their fascination for me. One day Miss Sullivan attracted my attention to a strange object which she had captured basking in the shallow water. It was a great horseshoe crab—the first one [ had ever seen. I felt of him, keeping my fingers out of the way of his pin- cers, which snapped continually, and thought it very strange that he should carry his house on his back. It sud- denly occurred to me that he might make a delightful pet; so I seized him by the tail with both hands and carried him home. ‘This feat pleased me highly, as his body was very heavy, and it took all my strength to drag him half a mile. I would not leave Miss Sullivan in peace until she had put the crab in a trough near the well where I was confi- dent that he would be secure. But next morning I went to the trough, and lo, he had disappeared! Nobody knew where he hel gone or how he had escaped. My disappointment was bitter at the time; but little by little I came to realize that it was not kind or wise to force this poor dumb creature out of his element, and after a while I felt happy in the thought that perhaps he had returned to the sea. -” N THE autumn I returned to my Southern home with a heart full of joyous memories. As I recall that visit now | am filled with wonder at the richness and variety of the experiences that cluster about it. It seems to have been the beginning of everything. The treasures of a new, beautiful world were laid at my feet, and I took in pleas- ure and information at every turn. I lived myself into all things ; I was never still a moment; my life was as full of motion as those little insects that crowd a whole existence into one brief day. I met many people who talked with me by spelling into my hand, and thought in joyous sympathy leaped up to meet thought, and behold, a miracle had been wrought! The barren patch between my mind and the minds of others blossomed like the rose. I spent the autumn months with my family at our sum- mer cottage, on a mountain about fourteen miles from Tuscumbia. It was called Fern Quarry, because near it there was a limestone quarry long since abandoned. Three frolicsome little streams ran through it from springs in the rocks above, leaping here and tumbling there in laughing cascades wherever the rocks tried to bar their way. The opening was filled with ferns which completely covered the beds of limestone and in places hid the streams. The rest of the mountain was thickly wooded. Here were great oaks and splendid evergreens with trunks like massy pillars, from the branches of which hung gar- lands of ivy and mistletoe, and persimmon trees the odor of which pervaded every nook and corner of the wood —an illusive, tle something that made the heart glad. In places the wild muscadine and scuppernong vines stretched irom tree to tree, making arbors which were always full of butterflies and buzzing insects. It was delightful to lose ourselves in the green hollows of that tangled wood in the late afternoon and to smell the cool, delicious odors that came up from the earth at the close of day. Many visitors came to Fern Quarry. In the evening, by the camp-fire, the men played cards and whiled away 7

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Page 8 The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 the hours in talk and sport. They told stories of their wonderful feats with fowl, fish and quadruped— how many wild ducks and turkeys they had shot, what ‘*savage trout’’ they had caught, and how they had bagged the craftiest foxes, outwitted the most clever ‘possums and overtaken the fleetest deer, until | thought that surely the lion, the tiger, the bear and the rest of the wild tribe would not be able to stand before these wily hunters. ‘‘ To-morrow to the chase !’’ was their good-night shout as the circle of friends broke up for the night. he men slept in the hall outside our door, and I could feel the deep breathing of the dogs and hunters as they lay on their improvised beds. ~~ Memories of a Southern Hunting Season T DAWN I was awakened by the smell of coffee, the rattling of guns, and the heavy footsteps of the men as they strode about, promising themselves the greatest luck of the season. I could also feel the stamping of the horses which they had ridden out from town and hitched under the trees, where they stood all night, neighing loudly, impatient to be off. At last the men mounted, and away went the steeds with whips cracking and hounds racing ahead, and away went the champion hunters ‘‘ with hark and whoop and wild halloo!”’ Later in the morning we made preparations for a barbecue. A fire was kindled at the bottom of a deep hole in the ground, big sticks were laid crosswise at the top, and meat was hung from them and turned on spits. Around the fire squatted negroes, driving away the flies with long branches. The savory odor of the meat made me hungry long before the tables were set. At the height of the bustle and excitement of prepa- ration the hunting party made its appearance, strag- gling in by twos and threes, the men hot and weary, the , Bint covered with foam, and the jaded hounds panting and dejected—and not a single kill! Every man declared that he had seen at least one deer, and that the animal had come very close ; but however hotly the dogs might pursue the game, however well the guns might be aimed, at the snap of the trigger there was not a deer in sight. They had been as fortunate as the little boy who said he came very near seeing a rabbit—he saw his tracks. The party soon forgot its disappoint- ment, however, and we sat down, not to venison, but to a tamer feast of veal and roast pig. One summer I had my pony at Fern Quarry. I called him Black Beauty, as I had just read the book, and he resembled his namesake in every way, from his glossy black coat to the white star on his forehead. I spent many of my happiest hours on his back. Occasionally, when it was quite safe, my teacher would let go the leading-rein, and the pony sauntered on or stopped at his sweet will to eat grass or nibble the leaves of the trees that grew beside the narrow trail. he Thrilling Adventure on a Railroad Bridge N MORNINGS when I did not care for a ride my teacher and I would start after breakfast for a ramble in the woods, and allow ourselves to get lost amid the trees and vines, with no road to follow except the wind- ing paths made by cows and horses. Frequently we came upon impassable thickets which forced us to take a roundabout way. Overhead, the branches of the trees met to form a canopy, through which the sunlight came softened and made a wonderful checkerwork of light and shadow on the pine-needles. In places the trees were covered from the roots to the topmost branches with trailing moss, but usually the vines hid them from view. We always returned to the cottage with armfuls of laurel, goldenrod, ferns and gorgeous swamp-flowers, such as grow only in the South. Sometimes | would go with Mildred and my little cousins to gather persimmons. I did not eat them; ‘but I loved their fragrance and enjoyed hunting for them in the leaves and grass. We also went nutting, and I helped them open the chestnut-burrs and break the shells of hickory-nuts and walnuts — the big, sweet walnuts! At the foot of the mountain there was a railroad, and it always interested the children to watch the trains whiz by. Sometimes a terrific whistle brought us to the steps, and Mildred told me in great excitement that a cow or a horse had strayed on the track. Abouta mile distant there was a trestle spanning a deep gorge. It was very difficult to walk over, the ties were wide apart and so narrow that one felt as if one were walking on knives. I had never crossed it until one day Mildred, Miss Sullivan and I were lost in the woods and wandered for hours without finding a path. Suddenly Mildred pointed with her little hand and exclaimed, ‘‘ There’s the trestle!’? We would have taken any way rather than this; but it was late and growing dark, and the trestle was a short cut home. I had to feel for the rails with my toe ; but I was not afraid and got on very well, until all at once there came a faint ‘* puff, puff” trom the distance. ‘‘I see the train!” cried Mildred, and in another minute it would have been upon us had we not climbed down on the cross-braces while it rushed over our heads. I felt the hot breath from the engine on my face, and the smoke and ashes almost choked us. As the train rumbled by the trestle shook and swayed, until I thought we should be dashed to the chasm below. With the utmost difficulty we regained the track. Long after dark we reached home and found the cottage empty; for the family, being anxious, were all out hunting for us. bs A Happy Winter in New England Tit winter of 1889-90 I spent in the North. One day I went on a visit to a New England village with its frozen lakes and vast snow-fields. It was then that I had opportunities such as had never been mine to enter into the treasures of the snow. I recall my surprise on discovering that a mysterious hand had stripped the trees and bushes, leaving only here and there a wrinkled brown leaf. The birds had flown, and their empty nests in the bare trees were filled with snow. Winter was on hill and field. The earth seemed benumbed by his icy touch, and the very spirits of the trees had withdrawn to their roots, and there, curled up in the dark mould, lay fast asleep. All life seemed to ioe ebbed away, and even when the sun shone the day was ** Shrunk and cold, As if her veins were sapless and old, And she rose up decrepitly For a last dim look at earth and sea.”’ The withered grass and the bushes were transformed into a forest of icicles. Then came a day when the leaden sky portended a snowstorm. We rushed out-of-doors to feel the first few tiny flakes descending. Hour by hour the flakes dropped silently, softly from their airy height to the earth, and the country became more and more level. A snowy night closed upon the world, and in the morning one could scarcely recognize a feature of the landscape. All the roads were hidden, not a single landmark was visible, only a waste of snow with gray trees rising out of it. In the evening a wind from the northeast sprang up, and the flakes rushed hither and thither in furious mélée. Round the great fire we sat and told merry tales, and frolicked and quite forgot that we were in the midst of a desolate solitude, shut in from all communi- cation with the outside world. But during the night the fury of the wind increased to such a degree that it thrilled us with a vague terror. The rafters creaked and strained, and the branches of the trees surrounding the house rattled and beat against the windows, as the winds rioted up and down the country. oy When the First Snowstorm was Over QO’ THE third day after the beginning of the storm the snow ceased. The sun broke through the clouds and shone upon a vast, undulating white plain. High mounds, pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes, and im- penetrable drifts lay scattered in every direction. Narrow, winding paths were shoveled through the drifts. I put on my cloak and hood and went out. The air stung my cheeks like fire. The whole country was white and gold. Half walking in the narrow paths, half working our way through the lesser drifts, we succeeded in reaching a pine grove just outside a broad pasture. The trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze. There was no odor of pine-needles in that fairyland. The rays of the sun fell upon the trees, so that the twigs sparkled like diamonds and dropped in showers when we touched them. So dazzling was the light, it penetrated even the darkness that veils my eyes. As the days wore on the drifts gradually shrank, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that we scarcely saw the brown earth once all winter. At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were robbed of their diamonds ; but the lake Jay frozen and beautiful be- neath the sun. Our favorite amusement during that winter was tobog- ganing. In places the shore of the lake rises abruptly from the water’s edge. Down these steep slopes we used to coast. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us ashove, and off we would go! . Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its smooth, gleaming surface to the opposite bank. What joy! What exhil- arating madness! For one wild, glad moment we snap the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we feel ourselves divine ! Eagerness to Learn to Speak T WAS in the spring of 1890 that I learned to speak. For a long time I had known that the people about me used a method of communication quite different from mine. The impulse to utter audible sounds had always been strong within me. I used to make noises, keeping one hand on my throat while the other hand noted the movement of my lips. I was pleased with anything that made a noise and liked to feel the cat purr and the dog bark. I also liked to keep my hand ona singer’s throat, or on a piano when it was being played. Before I lost my sight and hearing I was fast learning to talk, but after my illness it was tound that I had ceased to speak because I could not hear a sound. I would sit in my mother’s lap all day long and keep my hands on her face because it amused me to feel the motions of her lips ; and I moved my lips, too, although I had forgotten what talking was. My laughter and cries were natural ; and for a while I made many sounds and word-elements, not because they were a means of communication, but because the need of exercising my vocal organs was imperative. However, there was one word the meaning of which I still remembered: ‘‘ water.’’ I pronounced it ‘‘ wa-wa,’’ and even this became less and less intelligible until the time when Miss Sullivan began to teach me. | stopped using it only after I had learned to spell the word on my fingers. No deaf child who has earnestly tried to speak the words which he has never heard—to come out of the prison of silence, where no tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music can ever pierce the stillness —can for- get the thrill of surprise, the pathos of pain, the joy of discovery which have come over him when he first learns to utter a word. Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, to stones, to trees, to birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call my little sister ran to me or my dogs obeyed my commands. It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need no interpretation. As I talk, happy thoughts flutter up out of my words that might perhaps have struggled in vain to escape the barriers of my fingers. Before I even heard that a deaf child could learn to speak I was conscious of dissatisfaction with the means of communica- tion I already possessed. One who is entirely depend- ent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness in one’s sphere of life. Such was the feeling that began to agitate me with a vexing, forward-reaching sense of a lack that should be filled. My thoughts would often rise and beat up like birds against the wind; and I persisted in using my lips and voice. Friends tried to discourage this tendency, fearing lest it would hurry me on to sorrow and disap- pointment ; but I never heeded them ; and an incident soon occurred which led to the breaking down of this great barrier: I heard the story of Ragnhild Kaata. In 1890 Mrs. Lampson, who had been one of Laura Bridgman’s teachers, and who had just returned from a visit to Norway and Sweden, came to see me and told me of Ragnhild Kaata, a deaf and blind girl in Norway who had actually been taught to speak. The lady had scarcely finished telling me about this girl’s success before I was on fire with eagerness: I resolved that I, too, would learn to speak. I would not rest satisfied until my teacher took me, for advice and assistance, to Miss Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School. This lovely, sweet-natured lady offered to teach me her- self, and we began the twenty-sixth of March. & Method of Teaching the Deaf to Speak ER method was this : she passed my hand lightly over her face, and let me feel the position of her tongue and lips when she made a sound. I was eager to imi- tate every motion and in an hour had learned six ele- ments of speech: M, P, A, S, T, I. Miss Fuller gave me eleven lessons in all. I shall never forget the sur- prise and delight I felt when I uttered my first connected sentence: ‘‘ It is warm.’’ True, they were broken and stammering syllables ; but they were human speech! My soul, conscious of new strength, came out from its prison-house, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith. But it must not be supposed that I could really talk in this short time. Far from it. I had learned only the elements of speech. Miss Fuller and my teacher, Miss Sullivan, could understand me, but most people would not have understood one word in a hundred. Nor is it true that, after I had learned these elements, I did the rest of the work myself. But for Miss Sullivan’s genius, untiring perseverance and devotion, I could not have progressed as far as I have toward perfect, natural speech. In the first place, I labored night and day before I could be understood even by my most intimate friends ; in the second place, I neoded Miss Sullivan’s assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. Even now she calls my attention daily to mis- pronounced words. All teachers of the deaf know what this means, and only they can at all appreciate the pecul- iar difficulties with which I had to contend. I was wholly dependent on my fingers : I had to use the sense of touch in catching the vibrations of the throat, the movements of the mouth and the expression of the face ; and often this sense was at fault. In such cases I was forced to repeat the words or sentences, sometimes for hours, until I felt the proper ‘‘ ring’’ in my own voice. My work was practice, practice, practice. Discourage- ment and weariness cast me down frequently ; but the next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had accomplished renewed my courage and spurred me on, and I eagerly looked forward to their pleasure in my achievement. a op Speech is the Dearest Treasure ‘* NAY LITTLE sister will understand me now,” was a thought stronger than all obstacles. I used to re- peat ecstatically, ‘‘ lam not dumb now.’’ I thought espe- cially of my dear mother, and I could not be despondent while I anticipated the delight of talking to her myself and reading her responses from her lips. It astonished me to find how much easier it is to talk than to spell on the hand, and I discarded the manual alphabet as a medium of communication on my part; but Miss Sullivan and a few friends still use it in speaking to me, for it is more convenient than lip-reading. Just here, perhaps, I had better explain our use of the manual alphabet, which seems to be a source of wonder and perplexity to people who do not know us. One who is reading or talking to me spells with his right hand, using the manual alphabet usually employed by the deaf. I place my right hand on the hand of the speaker so lightly as not to impede its motion. The position of the hand is as easy to feel as it is to see. I do not feel each letter any more than others see each letter separately when they read with their eyes. Con- stant practice makes the fingers very flexible, and some of my friends spell rapidly — about as fast as an expert writes on a typewriter. The mere spelling is, of course, no more an act of consciousness than in writing one is conscious of each letter. The manual alphabet is an old, trusty friend, but speech is the dearest treasure I have won; when I made it my own I could hardly wait to show it to those I loved. At last the happiest of happy moments arrived. I had made my homeward journey, talking constantly to Miss Sullivan, not for the sake of talking, but determined to improve to the last minute. Almost before I knew it the train stopped at the Tuscumbia station, and there on the platform stood my mother and the whole family. My eyes fill with tears now as I think how my mother pressed me close to her, speechless and trembling with delight, taking in every syllable that I spoke, while little Mildred seized my free hand and kissed it and danced with ecstasy, and my father and big brothers expressed their pride and affection in tender, broken exclamations. It was as if Isaiah’s ecstatic prophecy had been fulfilled in me: ‘‘ The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands !”’ (CONTINUED IN THE JULY JOURNAL) & ch Helen Keller as Her Friends Know Her It is hard for some people to believe that the story of Helen Keller’s life is really her own story, actually composed by the blind girl herself and written by means of her typewriter. For this reason it is a pleasure to announce that her articles will be supplemented by two others, in which her teacher, Miss Annie M. Sullivan, and one of her intimate friends, Mr. James Albert Macy, will tell all about her preparation of the wonderful story now appearing in THE JOURNAL, and show Miss Keller as her friends see her day by day. a a a R.. des Siew

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; ETE ame SOF Se DRAWN BY W. L. TAYLOR ““*OH, BLUEBONNET, BLUEBONNET!’ SHE SAID BROKENLY AND SOFTLY, ‘DO YOU KNOW WHOM YOU ARE CARRYING?’”’ THOSE DAYS IN OLD VIRGINIA By Laura Spencer Portor, Author of ‘‘A Gentleman of the Blue Grass,’’ etc. "ART FIVE HE Christmas festivities had come and gone at Exeter. For the time Colonel Tom had laid aside,-as much as possible, all more serious thought, determined that neither the cloud which was thickening across all sections of the South nor the broil of outside events should mar the great Virginia hearth festival. After the guests had all left, the old questions cropped up again, the old discussions and meetings continued. Colonel Tom came and went much between Richmond and Exeter. The early part of January found him at Richmond at meetings of the Virginia Assembly. Early in February he left for Washington, to be present at the meeting of the Peace Convention. Miss Tom was on the veranda to welcome him home. ‘You look tired, so tired, dear,’’ she said with a woman’s full sympathy in her voice. ‘* You are tired, too, Missy.’’ Colonel Tom took her hands tightly. ‘‘ I have noticed it for a long while.”’ ‘* And the Peace Convention, and all the rest i _‘‘ They have been of little use, I fear. The Peace Convention has practically failed. In a month’s time Virginia, too, may be forced to choose her ground, and stand firm, and then——”’ He paused thoughtfully. ‘‘ But we'll stand for peace, you and I, won’t we, Missy?’’ he said cheerily. ‘*‘ No matter what all the excitable parties say, we'll believe there won’t be war.”’ From that time on the subject was dropped between them, although Colonel Tom found an unconscious com- fort in the sympathetic seriousness with which now and then, past all her cheer, Miss Tom’s eyes met hisown. He noticed other things, too, besides mere seriousness in the girl, and grew thoughtful, drawing his own wide conclusions. oe It was the last of March. Mammy sat out on the veranda steps, in the hot spring sunshine, trying to reset the shoe-button eye of Baby Betty’s rag doll. ' Baby Betty, armed with a trowel, and aided by a sympathetic little black companion of her own age, was diligently digging up worms in the soft earth of the driveway border. _ Mammy was singing in a high quavering voice and beat- ing time in complicated rhythm with one broad foot. Suddenly she let drop the rag doll, dashed down the veranda steps, and seizing Baby Betty by the arm swung her around back of her, and herself received the rough shock and knock of a horse carelessly ridden at breakneck speed by a little negro. ‘“ Y’ ac’ lek y’ ain’ got good sense! I clar’ y’ ac’ lek you’s plum ’stracted! Whut you tryin’ to do noway?’’ Mammy called in a fierce, high key to the little negro who, making vain attempts to control the animal, was being horribly jolted by the slowing-up trot of his big field horse, and was too occupied with his own affairs to be as impressed with Mammy’s rating as he might easily otherwise have been. W 7 ‘* Aw, Mammy Sue,”’ he said, ‘‘ run tell Miss Tawm, please ma’am, Unc’ Wash he mighty sick agin!”’ Mammy waited for particulars, then she called Timberly to watch over Baby Betty and went into the house. A short while later Miss Tom, in her riding-habit and pulling on her gauntlets, came on to the veranda, ‘* Don’t you go a-strainin’ yussef, honey, wid kyurn fuh Wash. I clar’ dem fool niggahs ain’ satisfy lessen you's a-comin’ tuh’m fur somethin’. I ain’ gwina hev you gittin’ yussef plum wo’ out—naw | ain’.”’ Bluebonnet was waiting, champing a little impatiently at the bit. Miss Tom stood a moment rubbing her hand down the horse’s sleek nose. Then she mounted, gathered up the bridle, nodded to Mammy, and rode off down the driveway, bending forward a little now and then where the linden branches brushed low. be The air had, despite the hot sunshine, a crispness of the spring. The trees were in delicate leaf. Late violets and wild lilies dotted the ground. Redbud and dogwood were in full flower in the woods. There was the breath of wild crab-apple and sweet willow mixed with the damp odor of ferns and rich leaf-rot. Occasionally a branch of dogwood or wild plum brushed against Miss Tom’s face before she had noticed to bend away from it. Here and there the liquid note of a bluebird or robin, the sputter of a bobo- link, contrasted strangely with the raucous cries of crows. The late afternoon sunshine ran into gold and filtered into liquid color. At intervals, where a brook brawled, tracing its noisy course to the mill-race, lush young water-weeds and purple iris swayed with the swollen force of the water. Once Miss Tom drew bridle in the middle of a stream to watch the hazel glint of sunlight and water shadows on the brown shallows and pebbly bottom, and once Blue- bonnet stopped of her own will, looked from left to right, put her head out straight and sniffed the air, then on again with quick, easy gait. Uncle Wash had his cabin at the end of one of the great tobacco fields. One must go past the fields where the negroes, working, chanted in unison. Many of them looked up as the slight girlish figure and the horse skirted the field, and those near enough gave her greeting. Miss Tom reached at last the little log cabin, slipped from her saddle, buckled the bridle over a fence-rail, went on to the little veranda and pushed open the door gently, without knocking. The room was darkened. As she approached the bed where Uncle Wash lay half conscious, a negro girl crouched by the bedside, put her arms about Miss Tom’s ankles and hugged them with a dumb grati- tude and comfort. Miss Tom seated herself by the bed, administering such simple remedies or comforts as were possible. At last the doctor came, but could do nothing. He suggested merely sending one of the field-hands to take Miss Tom’s place; but she shook her head. If he would leave word in passing by Exeter that Uncle Wash’s niece was to be sent to her from the dairy, and Miss Matilda was to be asked, upon her return from Elmington, to drive down by the mill road to the cabin —that was all. Toward sundown Uncle Wash began murmuring to himself. Miss Tom bent nearer. She could catch only a few indistinct words: ‘‘ De still watahs’’—‘*‘ valley o’ de shadda’’ —‘‘ house o’ de Lawd.”’ ‘* Let us say it together, shall we, Uncle Wash?’’ Then, in an even voice, she began: ‘‘ The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.”’ After this the negro lay for a long while with a dull con- tentment on his face. At last he spoke laboredly : ‘* I’s gwina die, Miss Tawm. I ain’ skeered, but I feel Jurdan a-rollin’ cole roun’ muh feet. De Lawd ain’ tuk muh han’ yet. He ain’ gwina forgit, is He, Miss Tawm?’’ His teeth were chattering as with the shock of cold waters. Miss Tom took his hand firmly with herown. He clutched hers desperately with what little strength he had, and Minervy crouched, terrified, at Miss Tom’s feet. The grasp of the negro’s hand grew less. Miss Tom was saying over a few simple, comforting things. A little while more and Uncle Wash, with his hand still covered in Miss Tom’s two white ones, had got across ‘‘Jurdan.’’ Minervy buried her head in Miss Tom’s long riding-skirt, sobbing. A few moments later Miss Tom realized that in the evening gloom of the little cabin there stood some one looking at her. There was a moment of wonder, then she arose and said in a hushed voice, ‘‘ Why, Mr. Lowell!”’ and met his earnest eyes with hers full of tears. a When Uncle Wash’s niece and Miss Matilda had arrived, and there was no more to be done—when they were on their horses— Lowell explained. He was on his way to Charleston on United States Government duty. He had taken this opportunity to ride over to see her for a few hours. Mammy had told him where she was. ‘* It terrifies a fellow from the North,’’ he said at last, ‘the way you go about among these black people. If they should ever rise ; if the war should come ——”’ The girl shook her head. ‘‘ You don’t understand them. Besides, the war is not coming.”’ ‘* Yes,”’ he broke in impetuously, ‘* it’s bound to come. That’s why I’m here, because I know in a little while you won't feel the same ; you won’t want to see me or give me even just the common cordiality you give all other men. And though I know that you don't ove me—yet I wanted to come and tell you that whichever way the scales turn—if the war comes and I have to fight even against those who are dear to you, I do it with you in my heart— yes, with your name on my lips.’’ There was something humble and big in his manner which touched the girl, and touched into insignificance all the misunderstanding he had unwittingly caused. He watched her with passionate interest, then he continued impulsively : ‘‘ Do you know, I came down here with such 9

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Page 10 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 a very different idea of Southern girls? I thought them beautiful, charming, but petted, heartless coquettes. I’ve learned that they are women to slave for, to fight for, to worship ; that they may take the common pride out of a man, but that they make him proud to be humble, grateful to have touched their hands.”’ ‘* But that they are not women to help one win wagers,”’ she said with a smile. Then she put her hand out on to his quickly as they rode, to stop the hot, humble things he was saying. ‘* Whichever way affairs turn,’’ she said gently, ‘‘ brave men are brave men. I shall not misjudge you. You will be brave and fine like the rest — only —the need will not come.”’ He raised her hand to his lips. They were riding in the dusk of the lindens now ; the next moment, at the veranda, Robert, just home for his Easter holidays, came forward, lifted Miss Tom from her saddle and kissed her. With one arm about her still he gave his hand half haughtily to Lowell. Lowell remained for supper, but would not be per- suaded to stay longer. Flis duty in the South was important and admitted of no delay. Two evenings later Miss Tom stood on the veranda watching a long line of torches flickering and flaring smokily far down beyond the tobacco fields. There came up from the lowland the solemn chant of hundreds of negro voices, for the entire quarters had been called out by Colonel Tom to attend the funeral of Uncle Wash, and the number was augmented by negroes from neighboring plantations. The long procession wound through a short stretch of w and to the negro burying-ground and halted. The chant died down, and one heard the whip-poor-wills and frogs against the silence. Miss Tom bowed her head in her hands. When she looked up the chanting of the negroes had begun again. The torches got into a wavering line, the glare of them moving and dwindling as the dirge shook and lessened, and at last died away. oh ‘* You are tired, dear,’’ Miss Tom said, detaining Robert at the steps when a little later he returned from the funeral. A certain moodiness in his manner had troubled her. ‘‘ Where have you been all afternoon?”’ ‘*T went to the Prestons’ to see Miss Ratcliffe,’’ he said moodily. ‘‘ I wish everybody had her spirit about the South.’’ There was a moment’s silence, then he added : ‘‘ We’re not standing to the South here in Virginia at all. We're not in the Confederacy yet,’’ he said hotly. ‘‘I can’t talk to you of such things. You don’t feel asI do. If you did you couldn’t have cared ——’’ He stopped abruptly, then continued bitterly : ‘‘ If ou think I am hot-headed — but look at the outcome — ow should you feel—suppose there is war—to bring it home— suppose Exeter were taken away, given over to the Yankees ?”’ ‘* How can you!’’ Miss Tom’s fingers tightened over his. ‘‘ It’s too absurd. You talk as though the soldiers of two big armies—and there aren't any sol- diers to speak of in the whole country —were around the corner of the house there.”’ ** You can’tfeelasIdo.’’ The boy got up impatiently. ‘* You shun it because you’ve got sympathy —for the North — you’ ve let a Northern fellow — well, I see things differently, that’s all. I see Exeter and the land we’ve owned and loved, and the servants we cared for ——’’ ‘Hush, Robert; it won't be so,’’ the girl said steadily. ‘* Saying so doesn’t change it. Suppose it were so?’’ ‘* If it were,’’ she spoke with a sudden intensity, ‘* 1 don’t feel less than you do. I love Exeter as well as you do—every brick, every pillar, the very sills of the doors and cornices of the windows. I'd rather put a match to it myself———’’ She broke off abruptly. ‘‘ Why should you wish to arouse me! You and Mammy and every one seem to think I don’t want war because my heart’s there at the North—and you don’t see that I won't believe the gloomy reports because my heart is here at the South, all, all of it—yes, every bit of it— because if the reports were true you and father and — the very dearest on earth to me would be the first to go——”’ A quick half-sob stopped her. Robert had her in his arms in a moment, kissing her, calling himself a hot-headed brute, begging forgiveness. aa From that time on Robert seemed trying to atone for his mistake. Even more than the old happy intimacy grew up again between them. There were rides together through the wonderful spring woods; there were walks at the edge of the river and marshland in search of the early water flowers; or there were long sunny mornings in Robert’s boat, and afternoons spent in reading, or evenings at the piano singing duets. There was the usual spring house-party at Exeter, too, with its fishing and driving and picnics in the woods. One stormy evening at the great house there were impromptu tableaus and charades. Miss Tom and Nancy went up to the big rafter attic to search for stage properties, and a large supply there was, too, old knee-breeches and long-tailed coats, laced and ruffled suits of long-dead magnificence, snuff-boxes and fans and draperies there were, and bonnets of the Beautiful Betty, spinning-wheels and flax wheels, pow- der horns and a grim musket or two, paste buckles, —_ ——, and even fancy costumes from the day when Beautiful Betty’s mother was a leader at Williamsburg and Yorktown. Once Nancy paused full of a new romantic awe before a little black leather trunk and handled reverently the baby clothes it held —such baby clothes !— yellowed a little with age, made deli- cately by hand in those long evenings at old Exeter when Beautiful Betty and James Peyton waited for the new Exeter to be ready. Once Miss Tom knelt by an old trunk and put back the white foids of a satin wedding ee and bent to get the odor of cape-jasmine held y a few brown flowers in its folds. When they came downstairs laden with their treasures they found the men had made the library into an impromptu stage with a curtain drawn across the big arch leading to the hallway. The costumes were dis- tributed, and the tableaus and charades begun. There were proverbs besides and forfeits, and old songs and ballads acted out. The heavy storm continued, but the merrymaking went on uninterrupted. It was still early in the evening. Miss Ratcliffe, ina corn-colored Empire gown, was about to impersonate cruel-hearted ‘* Barbara Allen,’’ when Uncle Billy, who had been to get the mail and had been long detained by the storm, came to hand the mail-bag to Colonel Tom. Miss Tom was at the piano playing the prelude to the old ballad. In a few moments a low hum had gone over everything. Every one was talking, chairs were ushed back, and several people crowded about Colonel Tom. The curtain was drawn on the first scene, but no one looked. There was a moment's hesitation, then ‘* Barbara Allen’’ swept down from the stage followed by Robert and across to where Colonel Tom stood with an open paper in his hand. There was a moment's inquiry in her eyes, a quick question, then she took the paper, held it high and cried in a clear, ringing voice : ‘*-They’re firing on Fort Sumter !’’ ‘“* Firing on Fort Sumter!’’ echoed Robert triumph- antly, with-a sob of excitement in his voice. - It was several days later. Robert had not returned to Charlottesville. Miss Tom’s face had grown whiter and Mammy watched her more keenly. The early roses were in full bloom now, and one day Miss Tom gathered the first armful of them for Miss Alice's grave. She had closed the gateway of the little burying- ground behind her and was returning across the lawn when she looked up startled. Leading his horse Tempest, Courtney Nelson was coming toward her. ‘*f came with news for your father, but cannot find him. There has been at the North a call for troops.” ‘* ’ve kept the thought of war at bay so long,’’ she said, ‘‘ and you come to remind me of it.’’ ‘*Cannon will do so soon,’’ he answered a little grimly. Then, noticing the white look in her face, he added in a different tone, ‘‘ The struggle will be cruelly hard for you since you have those on both sides who ’* Something in her eyes, the old proud look that brooked nothing, stopped him abruptly. ‘* Southern men are brave, perhaps, but I don’t cout the women of the South will outdo them. I’m afraid I’m acoward,”’ he finished gloomily. ‘‘ The immediate prospect of war has taken some of my courage with it.’’ He was walking with his hands back of him holding Tempest’s bridle, and with his head bent. ‘* You mean ’’ she said coldly ; ‘* well, what do you mean? You were never anything but brave.’’ ‘*My dear Miss Tom,’’ he said, smiling oddly, ‘‘ a man who has so long stood your scorn and displeasure would be straining at gnats if he looked forward with any dread to bullets and steel. I shall gladly stand by the South. When the Governor of Virginia sees fit, as he soon must, to call for troops there’s a command awaiting me which he already knows I am eager to fill.”’ ‘* How cowardly then?”’ she said, steadying her voice. ‘* Cowardly in this,’’ he answered quickly, ‘‘ that I hadn’t the courage to go away as I meant to, without seeing you ; that I haven’t the courage to go away carry- ing with me your blame or displeasure. It seemed a simple thing at first to go into the fight and come out of it or not, not seeing you but just loving you still always. I have asked myself a hundred times why I should want to tell you of my love—I know you have no love to give to me in return, and why wish for your forgiveness when no blame of yours could alter my love. But now— as it all comes closer—I have no explanation to offer — nothing to say except that I love you too much— except that I can’t go into the fight without your forgiveness.”’ oh His head was still bent so that he did not see her face nor the light that had come into her eyes. ‘* Explain to me,’’ she said. ‘*What shall I forgive ?”’ He looked out across the lawn thoughtfully as he replied : ‘‘ I asked once there at the White the right to explain to you. You withheld that right. Everything is changed now. I cannot explain to you now. Any one can forgive a man who clears himself of all blame. The thing I came to ask of you-to-day is a more generous thing ; | came to ask that though you may still blame me you will forgive me fully.’’ ‘* I can’t forgive you that way,’’ she said—she held out her two hands to him, ‘‘ because I’ve no blame for you—none, no, none whatever.”’ To Nelson as he bent and kissed her hands the words meant only graciousness, and in no way implied the full knowledge of his former actions which Miss Ratcliffe had given the girl. He smiled down at her and put one arm over the sleek, black neck of his horse who had followed them patiently. ‘*Do you hear, Tempest?’’ he said with a boyish ride, ‘‘do you hear? There’s a lighter heart you'll e carrying proudly up and down the ranks.’’ He came a step or two closer, his arm still about his horse’s neck. ‘‘ You can’t know what it means to me to be back in the old place I used to hold. You cannot understand that it should mean so much to me, when I know so well you do not love me? Well, unless you had lived as I have, keeping a big, impetuous love all hidden and silent, or had watched a gulf widening between you and your happiness— with no power to cross—unless you knew these things you could not know what it means to be at peace again with the one whom one loves best in the world. I can go away now happily to face any danger, any death.” ** Wait !’’ she said, rising ; ‘‘ you must not go away without my telling you— without my telling you that [ know every bit of the explanation you say you can’t ive me. I wanted to let you know that I understood it all—but there was my pride.’’ She paused a moment. ‘‘ But now—I don't know where the old —_ is — it is gone I don’t know where ”’ — yet despite er words there was the proud look in her eyes again. ‘* It doesn’t seem like me at all. I leave it to you. Is it like me, do you think, to let any man know that I love him, that the days and nights are filled only with him, and have been for ever so long?’’ The lightness died out of her voice, and she said more slowly, ‘‘ That there’s no joy which lacking his loye would mean any- thing to me, and no sorrow which having him I could not brave to bear?’’ She waited an instant for his answer, but he did not speak. ‘‘ I don’t think it’s a bit like me, do you, to tell you all this, and not be sorry I’ve told you—only glad?”’ ‘I don’t know what you mean,’’ Nelson said at last desperately, watching her with a keen, hurt look. ‘* Don’t you, don’t you know what I mean? It is so simple. I don’t wonder, though. It isn’t like me. Nancy would say it wasn’t I.’’ She paused a moment, then all the old pride went down as her hot color died away —the imperious lines softened and trembled, and tears stood in her eyes. ‘‘ See, then—I mean that for days and days, such long ones—there has not been a moment but has brought you to me. I haven’t saida prayer for ever so long that hadn’t you in it, nor hada thought but turned to you in some way, because I love you —and all the while I thought you did not love me, and even that ——’”’ But Nelson had her in his arms and was kissing the words back on her lips. While Colonel Tom worked that night in his library and Miss Matilda wrote her opinions of the North and South toa distant cousin in Alabama, while Robert told his hopes and ambitions to Miss Ratcliffe on the veranda of the old Preston home, Nelson and Miss Tom walked out in the moonlight and shadows of the lawn at Exeter. Once Mammy with a shawl in her hand came on the veranda frowning. She sniffed the air and looked fiercely about. At last she stood thoughtfully, and her eyes wandered over to the gate of the little burying- ground, where it showed white in the moonlight—the little burying-ground where her Miss Alice lay, and where the yellow jasmine that had never said a prayer in its life was delicate again with waxy buds. As she looked the glint of Miss Tom’s white dress, as it drifted out of a shadow into the moonlight, caught her atten- tion. She squinted her eyes to get more clearly the outline of the two figures as they paused, as the girl lifted her face and the tall figure bent over it. Then Mammy collapsed heavily into a chair, flung her apron over her head, and rocked back and forth. ‘* De laws—um-umph! Miss Alice, honey. Wot I done tole you! Miss Tawm ain’ gwina marry no Yankee! No, ma’am, Miss Alice, honey !”’ a wn It was several weeks later. Miss Tom and Nelson were together under the lindens. On the gravel drive- way Timberly stood holding the bridles of two horses. ‘* Your love will make me brave, dear,’’ Nelson was saying, “ and to keep all harm away I’ll still carry here over my heart the little musk-cluster and the holly leaf I’ve carried there so long, the one still sweet like the long love I’ve given you, the other sharp like the long days when your face was turned from me.”’ ‘* You must give them back to me,”’ she said gently. ‘* The one you had without my consent, and the other I gave you in pique. You shall carry neither away, but this instead.’’ She took from her hair a blush rose of white petals and warm pink heart, kissed it and closed it in his hand. : ‘* It’s time we were off,’’ Robert called. ‘* Oh, my dear, must you go?’’ Miss Tom said with a sob and tightening her grasp on Nelson’s hand. They walked in silence to the house. Robert came down the steps proud and boyish with old James Peyton’s Revolutionary sword clanking at his side. Miss Tom reached her hand up to the boy’s heavy hair, held his eyes with hers an instant, then kissed him roudly, slipped _ her hands past the straps on his arms, eld his hands tightly a moment and kissed him again. Robert said hearty, brave good-bys to his father, to Carter, to Baby Betty, to Miss Matilda, to the house servants gathered about, kissed Mammy and wrung Uncle Ned’s hand, then down to where ‘Timberly, who had begged to go to war to follow the fortunes of his young master, held his horse, and where Nelson’s no less faithful body-servant stood also waiting for his young master to mount. Nelson took Miss Tom in his arms. Neither spoke. Then both men swung them- selves into their saddles. Nelson paused with his cap in his hand—the sunlight flecking down on his heavy hair. With a swift grace Miss Tom hurried to him and laid her cheek against his horse’s sleek face. ‘Oh, Bluebonnet, Bluebonnet!’ she said brokenly and softly, ‘do you know whom you are carrying? You’ve carried me so often, so carefully, dear. I wanted you to go with him because I can’t, I can’t, Bluebonnet! and because I thought you would know better than Tempest! Oh, Bluebonnet, you must carry him safely, salle. do you hear! And you will bring him back to me—you’ll surely bring him back to me.”’ Nelson leaned down from his saddle, put his arm about her and kissed her again a long, long kiss. ‘* Oh, my dear, good-by !”’ she said brokenly. ons The four horses wheeled and cantered off down the gravel. At the gate the men turned to look back at the group of blacks and whites on the veranda — at Colonel Tom on the steps—at the white girlish figure on the gravel, waving a scarf—the scarf Nelson remembered to have kissed —then the curve of the road hid them. ‘* You told me it wouldn’t come! And it has!”’ Miss Tom turned to Colonel Tom with a quick sob when the rest had gone indoors. ‘* Yes, Missy,’’ he put his arm about her, ‘‘ it’s come past all the men who didn’t want it. Virginia did her best to prevent it, but now since it has come none will fight better. It will be a short war, my dear—a few months only —a short war."’ The late afternoon sunlight and shadows slanted past the little burying-ground where the jasmine was opening its delicate buds over Miss Alice’s grave, on over the lawn, past the borders up the veranda steps, past the pillars, into the great hall and up to the frescoes planned long ago by the Beautiful Betty. Miss Matilda went about her usual duties. The sun set. As the shadows grew, Uncle Ned began leisurely lighting the candles in the hallways as he had always done ; Mammy came and stood in the doorway looking for Baby Betty to put her to sleep. The life at Exeter went on uncon- scious, save that a shadow lay across Colonel Tom’s thought, and a heartache in Miss Tom’s heart — uncon- scious that the last sun had set on those old days so full of light-heartedness and simple joys—those days in Old Virginia. (THE END)

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AS THE PLACE LOOKED WHEN ROBESON BOUGHT IT The Indifference of Juliet PART TWO DRAWINGS BY OSCAR L, SMITH AND GEORGE P,. FERNALD ig T MAY have been that Miss Marcy was piqued into trying to see how little she could spend, but certain it was that from the time she left the carpet shop she begged for no exceptions Robeson’s rule of strict economy. to Mr. She se- lected simple, delicate muslins for the win- dows, one and all, without a glance at finer draperies ; bought denims and printed stuffs as if she had never heard of costlier upholsteries ; and turned away from seductive pieces of Turkish and Indian embroideries offered for Ot her inspection with a demure, ‘‘ No, I don’t care to look at those now,”’ pass them by for lack of interest. three people spent—for a week which more than once brought a covert smile to Anthony’s lips and a twinkle to the eyes of the salesman. It was so very evident that the fair buyer did not Altogether, it was an interesting week these it took. hirenes AFTER IT WAS TRANSFORMED UNDER JULIET’S DIRECTIONS By Grace S. Richmond heer Arvewtn - Poac# Onin? Raed Live hoes Jf aehatod om or = Peoecn Livine-ood 0s0-Root jcc ee PLAN OF THE TWO FLOORS then finish in some way so it’s smooth and ery You could do that—I’m sure you could. lovely big PCRS. 7 OW OO Od e e SX Us 0 ° CA 2, Then you'd get the top you want. And the chairs—do you see the ‘THE STRAIGHT STAIRCASE HAD BEEN ALTERED BY MEANS OF A LANDING AND AN ABRUPT TURN”’ Anthony began to protest after the first two days, and said that he could not ask so much of his friends. But Juliet would not be hindered from taking infinite pains, and Mrs. Dingley good-humoredly lent the two her chaperonage and her occasional counsel, such as only the gray-haired matron of long housewifely experi- ence can furnish. The selection of the furniture took perhaps the most time, and was the hardest, because of the difficulty of finding good styles in keeping with the limited purse. Anthony possessed a few good pieces of antique character, but beyond these everything was to be purchased. Juliet turned in despair from one shop after another, and when it came to the fitting of the dining- room she grew indignant. ** It’s a perfect shame,’’ she said, ‘‘ that they can’t offer really good designs in the cheap things. Did you ever see anything so hideous ? ony, if | were you I’d rather eat my breakfast off one of those white kitchen tables —or——’’ She broke off suddenly, rushed away down the long room to a group of extremely elegant dining-room furniture and came back after a little with a face of great eagerness to drag her companions away with her. She took them to survey a set of the costliest of all. ‘* Have you gone crazy ?’’ Anthony inquired. ‘‘Not at all. Tony, just study that table. but it’s simple—simple as beauty always is. country place, strolled slowly over the lawn toward the river-edge. for a poor man’s wife yourself some day. That frock you have on now—isn’t that a sort of concession to the humble company you’re in ?”’ ‘*In what way?”’ the delicate pale green gown whose trailin length she was daintily lifting, and in which she looked like a flower in its calyx. rejoiced to exchange the dusty dress in which she had come home from town for this, which suggested both coolness and freshness. ** Why, it strikes me as about the simplest gown I ever saw you wear. well—the least expensive thing you have in that line for some time ?’’ The amused laugh with which this observa- tion was greeted might have been disconcert- ing to anybody but Anthony Robeson, but he maintained his ground with calmness. ‘* NOTHING COULD HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED OF THAT WAS MORE DAINTY THAN THE It’s massive, Look at those perfectly straight legs—what clever cabinet-maker couldn’t copy that in—in pine, Tony? Then there are stains —I’ve heard of them—that you rub into wood and BEDROOMS. plain, solid-looking things ? this way. HERE DENIMS, MUSLINS AND RIBBONS HAD RUN RIOT” I know they could be made Then the dining-room would be simply dear !’’ ‘* Juliet, you’re coming on,’’ declared Anthony with satistaction that evening as the two, back at the Marcy day’s out a letter. ‘* At this rate you’ll do Juliet glanced down at She had Isn’t it ecg rad ‘““THE DINING-ROOM WAS A STUDY IN ITS REDS AND BROWNS, AND ITS HOME-MADE FURNITURE WAS AN ASTONISHING SUCCESS”’ ‘* How many of these do you think you can furnish Mrs. Anthony with in a year?” she inquired, her lips forcing themselves to sober- ness, but the laughter lingering in her eyes. ‘*Several, as sweetly demure as that, I fancy,’’ asserted the young man with confidence. But Juliet’s momentary gravity broke down. ‘* Oh, you clever boy!’’ she said. ‘‘I shall advise Mrs. Anthony to send you shopping for her when she von | a new gown. You will order home just what she wants without stopping to ask the price, you will be so confident that you know a cheap thing when you see it. After- ward you will pay the bill—and then the awful frown on your brow! You will have to live on bread and milk for a month to get your accounts straightened out. Oh, Tony! No, I shouldn’t do for a poor man’s wife — not judging by this ‘ sweetly demure’ gown, you poor ae. But, Tony,’ with a swift change of manner, ‘‘ I do think the little house will be very charming indeed. I can hardly wait to know that the painting and papering are done, so we can go down and get things in order. I long to arrange those fascinating new tin things in that bit of cupboard. Tony’’—turning to him solemnly —‘‘ does she know how to cook ?”’ ‘*I think she is learning now,’’ he assured her. ‘‘Seems to me she mentioned it in to- ’’ He fumbled in his breast pocket and brought Juliet stole an interested glance at it. She observed that there were three closely-written sheets of the heavy linen paper, and that the handwriting was one suggestive of a delightful individuality. Anthony, in the II

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Page 12 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 dim twilight, was scanning page after page in a lover's absorbed way. Juliet wal ~ along by his side in silence. She was thinking of the face in the photograph, and wondering if Miss Eleanor Langham really loved Anthony Robeson as he deserved to be loved. ‘* For he is a dear, dear fellow,’’ she said to herself, ** and if she could just see him planning so enthusiastic- ally for her comfort, even if he does have to economize, she’d ——”’ ‘* No, it’s not in this letter,’’ observed Anthony, putting the sheets together with a lingering touch which did not escape his companion’s quick eyes. ‘‘ It must have been in yesterday’s.”’ ** Does she write every day?’’ ** Did you ever hear of an engaged pair who didn’t write every day?’’ ‘* It must take a good deal of your time,’’ she re- marked. ‘‘ But, of course, she can cook. Every girl takes a cooking-school course nowadays. It's as essen- tial as French.”’ ** You did, then?’’ ‘* Of course. Don’t you remember when I used to edify you with new and wonderful dishes every time you dropped in to luncheon ?’’ “ But did you learn the more important things ?’’ ‘* I paid especial attention to soups, sir,’’ laughed —. ** Now, if Mrs. Anthony has dane that you can ive very economically.”’ **T’ll suggest it to her,’’ said Anthony gravely. ob It took several trips to the small house, and a great deal of hemming and ruffling of muslin on the part of Juliet and the Marcy sewing-woman, to say nothing of one entire day of Anthony’s hammering, to get every- thing in place. But it was all done at length, and the hour arrived ‘to close the new home and leave it to wait the oncoming day in September when it should be permanently opened. ‘* I'll just go over it once more,’’ said Juliet to Mrs. Dingley. The latter lady was lying in a hammock out under the apple trees, waiting for train time, and her final release trom duties which were becoming decidedly wearisome. It was the first day of August, and the evening was a warm one. Mrs. Dingley was too exhausted to offer to accompany her niece, and Juliet ran back into the house alone. Anthony ed go ve off upon a last errand of some sort. She wandered slowly through the rooms, looking about to see if there might be any perfecting touch which she could add. It was a charming place; even a daughter of the house of Marcy could not but own to that. Under her skillful management the little rooms had blossomed into a fresh, satisfying beauty which needed only the addi- tion of the personal adornments which Anthony’s bride was sure to bring, to become a home —the home not onl of a poor man but of a refined and cultured one as well. Restricted though she had been to the most inexpensive means of bringing about this happy result, Juliet had made them all tell toward an effect of great harmony and beauty. Perhaps to nobody was this more of a rev- elation than to the girl herself. She was very proud of the living-room, as she looked about it. The partition between it and the tiny hall had been removed, according to her suggestion, and the straight staircase altered by means of a landing and an abrupt turn which transformed it into pictur- esqueness. With its low, broad steps, its slender spindles and odd posts it added much to the character of the room. Like most old New England houses this one’s chief glory was its great central chimney, with big fireplaces opening both into the living-room and the dining-room. In the former, between the fireplace and the staircase, and forming a pretty suggestion of an inglenook, Juliet had contrived a high, wide seat, cushioned in dull green, and boasting a number of pretty pillows. It must be confessed that she had surreptitiously added a little to these in the matter of certain modestly rich bits of material, and she had contemplated the result with great satisfaction. it may be remarked, with no comment whatever, that in spite of their beauty, there was nota pillow of all those scattered about the house which a weary man might not tuck under his head without fear of ruining a creation too delicate for any use but to be admired. Having seized upon the idea of staining cheap mate- rial she had carried it out in a set of low bookcases across the end and one side of the room. These, cur- tained with one of the soft Oriental striped stuffs which she had rejoiced to find were of moderate price, awaited the coming of several hundreds of choice books which Anthony had saved from his father’s library. Two fine old portraits, dear to the hearts of many generations of the ‘‘ Robesons of Kentucky,’’ lent distinction to the home of their young descendant. Altogether the room was both quaint and artistic, and with its few plain chairs, all of good old Colonial design, was a room in which one could readily imagine one’s self sitting down to a winter evening of cozy comfort, such as is not always to be had in far finer abiding-places. eS The dining-room was a study in its reds and browns, and its home-made furniture was an astonishing suc- cess —if one were not too severely critical. As she sur- veyed it Juliet seemed to see the future master and mistress of this little home sitting down opposite one another in the fire glow, and smiling across into each other’s happy faces. The coming Mrs. Robeson, if one might judge by her photograph, was a woman to lend grace and dignity to her surroundings, whatever they might be. Juliet could imagine her pretty, stately way of presiding at such small feasts as the room was destined to see, making her guests quite forget that she was not mis- tress of a mansion equal to any in the land. Would she be happy? Could she be happy here, after all that she had had of another and very different sort of life? For some reason, as Juliet stood and looked and thought, her face grew very sober, and a long-drawn breath escaped her lips. The little kitchen was an exceedingly alluring spot, gay in the bravery of fresh paint and spotless, shining utensils. There were even crisp curtains—at eight , cents a yard—tied back at the high, wide-silled, triple window with its diminutive panes. It needed only a pot or two of growing plants in the window, and a neat-handed Phyllis in a figured gown, to be the old- time kitchen of one’s dreams. But it was upon the rooms on the upper floor that Juliet had exhausted her imagination and taste. Nothing could have been conceived of that was more dainty than they. Here her denims and muslins and ribbons had run riot. Low dressing-tables clad in ruffled hangings, their padded tops delicate with the breath of orris; beds valanced with similar stuffs ; high-backed chairs, their seats cushioned into comfort —evervthing was done in the cleverest imitation of the ancient styles in keep- ing with the old-fashioned house. It all made one think of the patter of high-heeled, buckled slippers, and stiff, rustling brocaded gowns, and rarwecy Wine hair, and the odors of long ago. Anthony would , never know what his friendly home-maker had put into these rooms of sentiment and charm. op At the door of the blue and white room, the one upon which the girl had lavished her most tender fancies, she stood at length, looking in. And as she looked some- thing swam before her eyes. A sob rose in her throat. She choked it back; she brushed her hand across her face. Then she tried to laugh. ‘‘ Oh, what a goose I am !’’ she said sternly to herself. And then she hur- riedly ran across the room, sank upon her knees before the window-seat with its blue and white cushions, and burying her face in one of them cried her wretched, jeal- ous, longing heart out. Anthony, coming in hastily but softly through the small kitchen, heard the rush of footsteps overhead, and stopped. He waited a moment, listening eagerly ; then he came noiselessly into the living-room and stood still. His face, always strong and somewhat stern in its repose, had in it to-night a certain unusual intensity. He looked at his watch and saw that there was an hour before train time. Then he sat down in the window- seat and waited. By-and-by light footsteps crossed the floor above and came to the top of the stairs. From where he sat Anthony could see the flutter of Juliet’s airy skirts. She stood there for a little ; then came slowly down. Half- way she looked down and met Anthony’s eyes looking up. In a fashion quite unusual to the straightforward gaze of his friend her eyes fell. He saw that her cheeks were pale. He rose to meet her. ‘* Come and rest,’’ he said. ‘‘ You are tired. You have worked too hard. Such a helper a man never had before. And what a success you have made. Juliet, I can’t thank you. It’s beyond that.”’ But she would not be led to the cozy corner by the window. She found something needing her attention in the curtain of the bookcase in the dimmest corner of the room, and began solicitously to pull it in various ways, as if there were something wrong with it. He watched her, standing with his arm on the high chimney- piece. ‘*] think you enjoyed it just a little bit yourself, though,’’ he observed. ‘‘ Didn't you, chum ?”’ ‘* Yes, indeed,”’ said Juliet. Her back was toward him, her head bent down, but his quick ear detected a peculiar quality in her voice. He questioned her again hurriedly. ‘* You’re not sorry you did it?”’ ‘* Oh, no,’’ said Juliet. ce Now there is not much in two simple replies as these to indicate the state of one’s mind and heart ; but when a girl has been crying stormily and uninterruptedly for a half-hour, and is only not crying still because she is holding back the torrent of her unhappiness by sheer force of will, it is radically impossible to say so much as four words in a perfectly natural way. Anthony understood ina breath that the unfamiliar note in his friend’s voice was that of tears. And, strange to say, into his face there flashed a look of triumph. But he only said very gently : ‘* Come here a minute — will you, Juliet ?”’ She bent lower over the curtain. Then she stood up, without looking at him, and moved toward the door. ‘*T believe I am rather tired,’’ she said in a low tone. m3 . has been so warm all day, and I—I have a head- ache.”’ In three steps he came after her, stopping her with his hand catching hers as she would have left the room. ‘*Come back, please,” he urged. ‘‘ Your aunt is asleep out there, I think. And I wanted to go over the house once more with you if you would. But you’re too tired for that. Just come back and sit down in this nook of yours, and let’s talk a little.’’ She could not well refuse, and he put her into a nest of cushions, arranging them carefully behind her back and head, and sat down facing her. He had placed her just where the waning light from the western sky fell full on her face ; his own was in the shadow. He was watching her unmercifully—she felt that, and desper- ately turned her face aside, burying in a friendly pillow the cheek which was coloring under his gaze. ‘*Is the headache so bad?” he asked softly. ‘‘ I never knew Juliet Marcy to have a headache before. Poor little girl—dear little girl— who has worked so hard to please her old friend.’’ He leaned forward and she felt his hand upon her hair. The tenderness in his voice and touch were carrying away all her defenses. But he went on without giving her respite. ‘* Do you think she will be happy here, chum? Will it take the place of the old life for a few years, till I can give her more? She’ll have nothing here, you know, outside of this little home, but my love. That wouldn’t be enough for many women, would it?’’ op She was not looking at him, but she could see him as plainly as if she were. Always she had thought him the cleverest, most splendid fellow she knew. He had been her devoted friend so long; she had not realized in the least until lately how it was going to seem to get on without him. But she knew now. She felt that dreadful choking in her throat again. It seemed to be closely connected with another peculiar sensation, as if her heart had turned into a lump of lead. In another minute she knew that she should break down, which would be humiliating beyond words. She started up from her cushions with a fierce attempt to keep a grip upon herself. ‘*T know you’re very happy,’’ she breathed, ‘‘ and I’m very ied. But really I— I’m not at all sentimental to-night. I’m afraid a hendetie does not make one sympathetic.”’ But she could not get past him; Anthony’s stalwart figure barred the way. His strong hands put her gently back among the coskions. She turned her head away, fighting hard for that thing she could not keep—her self-control. ‘* Ts it really a headache ?’’ asked the low voice in her ear. ‘‘ Justa headache? Not by any chance —a heart- ache, Juliet ?’’ ‘* Anthony Robeson !”’ she cried, but guardedly, lest the open window betray her. ‘‘ What do you mean? You say very strange things. Why should I have a heartache? Because you are marrying the girl you love ? How often have I begged you to go and find her? Do you think I would have done all this for her—and you —if I had cared ?’”’ She tried to look defiantly into his eyes—those fine eyes of his which were waseiiae her so very intently — tried to meet them steadily with her own lovely, tear- stained ones—and failed. Swiftly an intense color dyed her cheeks, and she dropped her head like a guilty child. ‘*Of course I care—that is, in a way,’’ she was somehow forced to admit before the bar of his silence. ‘* Why shouldn’t I hate to lose the friend who used to carry my books to school and fought the other boys for my sake, and has been a brother to me all these years? Of course I do. And when I am tired I cry for nothing —just nothing. I——’”’ ep It was certainly a brave attempt at eloquence, but perhaps it was not wonderfully convincing. At all events it did not keep Anthony from taking possession of one of her hands and interrupting her with a most irrele- vant speech. ** Juliet, do you remember telling me that you should expect a man who loved you to carry your likeness always with him? And you asked me for Aers—and I had to own I had left it behind. Yet I had one with me then—it is always with me—and that was why I forgot the other. Look.” He drew out a little silver case, and Juliet, reluctantly releasing one eye from the shelter of the friendly sofa- pillow, saw with a start her own face look smiling back at her. It was a little picture of her girlish self which she had given him several years before when he went away to college. ‘* No,’’ he said quickly, as he recognized the indig- nant question which instantly showed in her eyes, ‘* I’m not disloyal to Eleanor Langham, because — dear — there is no such person.”’ With a little cry she flung herself away from him among the pillows, hiding her face from sight. There was a moment’s silence while Anthony Robeson, his own face growing pale with the immensity of the stakes for which he played, made his last venture. ‘* The little home is only for you, Juliet. If you won't share it with me it shall be closed and sold. Perhaps it was an audacious thing to do—it has come over mea great many times that it was too audacious ever to be forgiven. But I couldn’t help the hope that if you should make the home yourself you might come to feel that life with a man who had his way to make could be borne after all—if you loved him enough. It all depended on that. As I said, I didn’t mean to be pre- sumptuous, but it was a desperate chance with me, dear. I couldn’t give you up, and I thought perhaps— just perhaps — you cared—more than you knew. Anyhow —I loved you so—I had to risk it.’’ Juliet’s charming brown head was buried so deep in the pillows that only its back with the masses of waving, half-rumpled hair was visible. But up from the depths came a smothered question : ‘** The photograph ?”’ Anthony’s face lightened as if the sun had struck it. But he kept his voice quiet. ‘‘ Borrowed—it’s my old friend Dennison’s. I never even saw the girl— though I ought to beg her pardon for the use I have made of her face. She’s married now, and lives abroad somewhere. Will you forgive me?”’ He was standing over her, leaning down so that his cheek touched the rumpled hair. ‘‘ How is it, Juliet? Could you live in a cottage — with love—and me?” ” It was a long time before he could get an answer. But at last a flushed, wet, radiant face came into view, an arm was reached out, and as with an inarticulate, deep note of joy he drew her up into his embrace, a voice, half tears, half laughter, cried : ‘* Oh, Tony—you dear, bad, darling, insolent boy ! I did think I could do without you—but I can’t. And —oh, Tony ’’—she was sobbing in his arms now, while he regarded the top of her head with laughing, exultant eyes—‘‘ I’m so glad—so glad—so glad—there isn’t any Eleanor Langham! Oh, how I hated her!”’ ‘* Did you, sweetheart?’’ he answered, laughing aloud now. Then bending, with his lips close to hers —‘ Well, to tell the truth’’—he took the kiss in the middle of the sentence because he found it impossible to wait longer for it—‘‘ to tell the truth, little girl—so did I!” (THE END) mm Love Stories of Some American Girls In the next (the July) issue of THE JOURNAL there will be presented a most delightfully interesting collection of “‘Love Stories of Some American Girls,” written by Anne Virginia Culbertson. In these little tales are related the romances of Molly Wilder and the unknown French nobleman; Agnes Surriage and Sir Harry Frankland; Sally St. Clair and Sergeant Jasper; Peggy Chew and Major André; Mary Vining and “*Mad Anthony ” Wayne, and Ruth Davies and George Mathiot. They are full of the charm and chivalry of the olden times, and contain much that has never before been written. Miss Culbertson’s sweet and simple style adds to their attractiveness. The stories will be illus- trated by W. D. Stevens. oo

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tila Nes Pretty Country Homes for $500 to $2600 These photographs were submitted in THE JOURNAL'S competitive series last year. In each case the sender of the photograph has assured us of the accuracy of the figures given. THE JOURNAL believes that these figures are correct, but, naturally, cannot assume any further responsibility for them. Other pages of moderate-cost homes, actually built, will follow later. BY COURTESY OF THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL BY COURTESY OF THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL THREE COTTAGES AT NORTH EVANSTON, ILLINOIS. COST ABOUT $2400 EACH Y, Chicago is noted for its beautiful suburbs, particularly those situated on the shore of Lake contract, have eight rooms and bath each, and cost about $6000 to build, including brick founda- Michigan, north of the city above Lincoln Park. In Evanston and North Evanston are many tions, cemented basement, furnace, good plumbing, etc. A conservative cost at present would Ly} handsome residences and summer cottages. The three here illustrated were built under one be from $2300 to $2400 for each house. Plans and photographs by Robert C. Spencer, Jr. WZ PHOTOGRAPH BY LORA SIRPLESS PHOTOGRAPH BY CATHERINE HILL V4, BUILT AT A COST OF $2300 — This two-story frame shingle-roof house at Niverville, Columbia County, iV \ ~~ AT DANVILLE, ILLINOIS. COST $2600 There are eight rooms and bath in this attractive frame house —five on the first floor, and three bedrooms upstairs. The first floor is finished in oak: the second in white pine. From plans by S.S. Ennis. New York, is finished throughout in white wood. It is 30x50 feet, exclusive of the wing in the rear. From plans by Lucas Vandenburg. > » i, 4 Tyg ve 3gh "eh Hyy PrOTOGRAPH BY ENGLE THIS CANADIAN HOUSE WOULD COST ABOUT $2000 TWO CALIFORNIA LOG CABINS. COST $1700 EACH Five miles from Quebec, at the base of the Laurentian Mountains, this quaint old Bark from the redwood trees of the Santa Cruz Mountains covers the outside of the French house was built in the eighteenth century. It adjoins the ruins of the logs of these seven-room cabins at San Mateo. The inside woodwork is of knotty Chateau Bigot, one of the principal places of interest around Quebec. redwood, waxed. From plans by T. M. Edwards. PHOTOGRAPH BY J. W. TAYLOR PHOTOGRAPH BY CLARA L. WARO PHOTOGRAPH BY ARTHUR O. BRITTINGHA® AT LAKE BLUFF, ILLINOIS. COST $2500 $2000 PAID FOR THIS LITTLE COTTAGE THIS COTTAGE COST ONLY $500 This house has ten rooms. A feature of the interior finish is that the The outside of this cottage, near Lake Okoboji, lowa, is of beaded ceil- Cobblestone (granite) was mainly used for the outside of this cozy walls are covered with canvas and papered. The ceilings are made of ing. The roof is shingled and stained a moss green. There is a cottage at Spofford Lake, New Hampshire. The woodwork is of Canvas stretched on frames. From plans by Sidney Lovell. cemented cellar under the kitchen. From plans by Hallett and Rawson. shingles. There is a cellar under half the house. > 13

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DRAWN BY 8. J. ROSENMEVER The Good-Time Garden “Green leaves and blossoms, and sunny warm weather, And singing and loving—all come back together!” UNE! Did ever four letters spell a sweeter word? We have just been talking it over in the Sun- shine room — Violet, Robin, Hazel, Baby Rose and the Garden Mother. Violet declared that just to say the word June made her feel happy even in the middle of winter. Then we fell to counting up the delightful things June brings to the children. Robin shouted ‘‘ Vacation!’’ the first thing. ‘‘It’s such jolly fun to hide one’s arithmetic, and geog- raphy, and spelling, and English books!” he said. Hazel said ‘‘ Roses !’’ And Baby Rose added ** Stawbollies !’’ with a rapturous gurgle. ‘‘I like stawbolly take,’’ she said earnestly. ** Strawberry shortcake, you mean, Baby,’’ cor- rected Hazel, with a kind smile at her little sister. The Garden Mother suggested daisies and sweet red clover. After that the list grew fast — faster than Violet’s pencil could write. When it was finished it did seem as though we had set down all the pleasantest words in the dictionary — and every one belonged to June. ** But there are ever so many children who wouldn’t know even what some of these pleasant words mean,’’ said Violet soberly. “‘ Don’t you remember that little child we saw in the city last summer who didn’t know what a butterfly was? ”’ ‘*We could help a little, couldn’t we, Garden Mother ? ’’ asked Robin, after a thoughtful pause. ** And if we helped a little every day,’’ chimed in Hazel eagerly, ‘‘ it would add up just like frac- tions into a lot of good after a while, wouldn’t it, Garden Mother ?”’ The Garden Mother said that Hazel had thought of just the right rule for making the world better and happier. ch HE very next morning we began. Violet and Hazel, armed with twine and scissors, tied up into sweet little nosegays the blossoms which Robin and Baby Rose brought them in great bunches from beds and borders. When all was finished there were two big pasteboard boxes full of the sweet little posies. It isn’t a long journey from the Good-Time Garden to the noisy, dusty city. The Garden Mother had a number of errands in one of the big shops, and Violet and Hazel quietly distributed the little bunches of flowers among the tired- looking young women who stood behind the counters, and among the boys and girls who car- ried the parcels. ** Everybody was glad,’’ said Hazel happily. And indeed it was astonishing to see the smiles breaking over the tired faces like sunshine ! The Garden Mother wishes that every one of the neighbors’ children who come to the Good- Time Garden would try to bring a bit of the sum- mer gladness into some sad or gloomy place dur- ing this beautiful month of June. If you live too far from the city to carry flowers to the boys and girls who live there you can find somebody who is sick or lonely or sad, who will be cheered by a lovely flower or a kind word. a ) NE day last week Robin lay flat on his stomach by the brookside for more than an hour. He seemed to be watching the tadpoles and craw- fish and other curious creatures who live under and on top of the water. But when he got up he told Hazel that he had been thinking about his birthday party. ‘* There are a great many kinds of birthday parties,”” he explained ; ‘‘ and some kinds are much nicer than others. I think I should like to have a brook party this year.’’ ** What is a brook party ?’’ asked Hazel. ** It will be mostly adventures, I think; and — a kind of a picnic,’’ said Robin slowly. ‘*‘ We shall carry lots of good things to eat in baskets; then we’ll explore and find out where the brook goes to. I’ve always wanted toknow. When we come to the prettiest place of all we’ll pretend we’re on a desert island and eat our lunch there.”’ The Garden Mother and the neighbors’ chil- dren liked this idea, so we all started out about ten o’clock the morning of Robin’s birthday. Just beyond the Good-Time Garden the brook winds about in the prettiest way, with big trees leaning over almost to the water’s edge, and clear pools where the minnows dart about in the water. The Garden Mother said that this place reminded her of one of the brooks she played in when she was a little girl. Then she laughed so much at something she remembered that the children begged fora story. So we all sat down on a green, shady bank and the Garden Mother related this true story of ‘‘ The Two Dippers.” ‘* They were tin dippers, and they held about a quart. Mine was bright and new. Brother Tom had bought it for me the day before espe- cially to catch minnows and turtles with; Alice had found hers in the bushes. It was rusty, of qe ~ *** You do look so funny!’ gasped Alice. * Your curls and your ruffles—oh my!’ and she went off into fresh peals of laughter. ‘** But I grew sober on the instant, for I heard some one calling me. It was Brother Tom. ***T am coming. Wait for me!’ I answered faintly; then my voice faltered. ‘I can’t go,’ I said. ‘ What shall I do?’ “WHY, YOU'RE ALL DRESSED UP’”’ course, and it leaked a good deal, but we agreed that it was just as good to dip for minnows. Alice was my next-door neighbor and we played in the brook almost every day. On that particu- lar day I was dressed in a blue and white ging- ham frock trimmed with lace-edged ruffles, which stood out very crisp and curly from Bridget’s smoothing-iron. Mother warned me particularly not to soil my clean dress as I started out THE BRIDGE OVER THE BROOK ** *Get dry, I suppose,’ suggested Alice coolly, as she scrambled out of the brook and pulled off her dripping apron. **T dolefully followed her example. I could hear Brother Tom, after searching for me a while longer, drive away with my younger sister for the coveted drive behind the new pony. Then Alice and I played that we were birds learning to fly, and skipped up and to play. } *** T shall be just as ' careful as can be!’ I assured her, and flew away on the tips of my toes to meet Alice, who was still wearing her morning pinafore of plain brown linen. *** Why, you’re all dressed up,’ she said in a disappointed tone. ‘I wanted to down the sunny bank, our damp petticoats held out like wings in the warm wind. Meanwhile our wet frocks were drying on the bushes. m7) e HEN I crept home in the twilight it was with a hanging head and catch minnows and turtles this afternoon.’ ‘*I displayed my new dipper, which we both decided was brighter and prettier than the silver dishes on the sideboard; then we wandered down to the brookside, my ruffles rustling delightfully as we waded through the meadow grass. The water looked so inviting we couldn’t resist it. *** T must be very careful, you know,’ I said as I stepped on to the smooth, pebbly bottom, ‘ ’cause ““ONE WHITE COW TURNED AND STARED AT US”’ limpruffles. Thetwo mischief-making dip- pers had floated away down the stream together and we never saw them afterward.’’ “What did your mother say?’ asked a little maid named Rosemary, gazing at the Garden Mother with wide blue eyes. ** She said that she was sorry I had missed my drive,” the Garden Mother said, smiling. ‘* The next day she bought two little flatirons, and HERE WE ATE OUR LUNCHEON I promised mother; besides, I’m going to drive with Brother Tom.’ ‘*T am sure I don’t know how it ever began, but someway Alice’s leaky dipper splashed some water on my crisp ruffles. I am sorry to have to tell you what a hot-tempered, impatient little girl I was, but in a minute I had raised my dipper. ‘You threw water at me, you naughty girl!’ I said, and spattered her apron with wet spots. ***T didn’t; but I will now !’ cried Alice, and she flung back a spiteful little dash at me. ‘*T began to cry. ‘ You’ve spoiled my ruffles!’ I wailed, and hurled the contents of my full dipper at the brown apron. i 7) LICE returned the attack with spirit. We were both crying now, and with the angry tears mingled flying torrents from the two tin dip- pers. Soon we were both streaming from head to foot. Alice’s blue eyes shone with determination; her fair hair was plastered in wet curves on each pink cheek. The brown apron clung to her plump little figure and dripped in a pattering circle. I dropped my dipper and laughed, forgetting my own sorry plight. Then we both laughed. WHERE THE BROOK BECAME A RIVER taught me how to wash and iron my doll’s clothes. I thought this was great fun at first, but it proved very warm work. I burned my fingers twice, and felt sorry for poor Bridget, who had my frock to do over again, long before I had fin- ished my task. I think I was always a little more careful of my clothes after that.” 4 ep RY? the explorers were eager to be on foot again, so we went on our way after the flying brook. It seemed to be ina great hurry to get somewhere after leaving the cool shadow of the great trees, and scurried away under a queer little bridge with a flash and a gurgle, a sparkle of foamy ripples and sheeny brown shallows. Lovely wild flowers leaned over the water; the children gathered great bunches of them, and tied them to their baskets and the handles of their fishing-nets. We must have presented a curious sight as we walked along covered with flowers, for some cows who were grazing in a pasture by the brookside looked very much surprised. One white cow in particular turned around and stared at us as long as she could see us. It seemed a very friendly curiosity; Hazel said she thought the poor thing Garden Mother was glad to see something besides the grass and the other cows. But we all agreed that nothing could be pleasanter than to live in such a lovely meadow, provided one liked grass to eat. Speaking of something to eat put Robin and the other boys in mind of the baskets. And just then we came to ‘‘ the prettiest place of all.”’ Here the brook tumbled over great rocks which were cushioned with the softest green mosses like emerald velvet, dripping in little cascades amid overarching ferns, and drooping sprays of foliage that reached down from the tall trees. 4 cp ERE we hada grand game of ** Desert Island.’’ First the Garden Mother hid all the baskets behind the rocks, while the explorers washed their hands in the brook and composed them- selves to rest on the mossy banks. After a long search one intrepid traveler discovered a part of the provisions, which it was decided had been concealed there by hostile Indians who occasion- ally visited those parts. When at last all the baskets were found a joyous feast followed. The stores of the hostile Indians were very much appreciated by the explorers, who kindly left the remnants of their meal for the squirrels and chip- munks who were scolding and chattering at us from the tree-tops. After this agreeable interlude the work of exploration was again begun in earnest. And all the way the brook grew bigger and noisier, till at last it became a river strong enough to turn the wheel of a sawmill. At the sawmill we found a very kind man who told us what became of the merry little stream. ‘*It runs right smack into the ocean about two miles from here,’’ he said; “ but it goes through salt meadows an’ a kind of a swamp for a mile an’ a half below, an’ I reckon you wouldn’t enjoy walkin’ through ’em. I'd advise you to turn ’round an’ go back the way you come.”’ Some of the children heaved a long sigh at these words, and little Rosemary’s head hung down like a tired flower. But surprises are always to be expected—at least on a birthday —and the Garden Mother, for one, was not at all astonished when at that very minute two brown horses appeared trotting soberly along the road in front of the sawmill. The horses were drawing a big three-seated buckboard, and Robin, who stared with all his eyes at the driver, gave a shout of pleasure. ‘‘ Why, it’s daddy!” he cried, ‘** and there’s Baby Rose !’’ So the explorers all scram- bled into the buckboard, and in a surprisingly short time, considering the vast extent of unknown territory over which we had traveled, were safe back in the Good-Time Garden. a or) Are the ride everybody was quite fresh and rested, and ready to play croquet and tennis, and to try the big swings and the hammocks. As for Baby Rose she was as sweet as her namesake blossom, and the daintiest hostess ever seen as she helped the Garden Mother pass strawberry short- cake and creamy milk among the guests at tea- time. Robin says he thinks the brook party is the very nicest kind of a birthday party. He doesn’t know whether a better kind could be invented. If anybody knows of one he would like to hear about it. The Garden Mother would like to have the girls and boys who are under fourteen write let- ters to the Good-Time Garden, describing the nicest outdoor party or picnic they know of. The best two letters will receive a prize which shall be either an Angora kitten like Hazel’s, or a camera with outfit and full instructions for taking photo- graphs, as the winners shall choose. The letters must be entirely original. By this I mean that you must write.your letter all by yourselves, and describe a real outdoor party or a picnic which you have actually attended. Robin says, ‘‘ But couldn’t they invent one, Garden Mother — just as I invented the brook party?” Yes, you may invent one, if you like, and we shall see how many bright ideas for outdoor par- ties the neighbors’ children can think of. ce 72 THE boy or girl who writes the next best letter will be sent a copy of Neltje Blanchan’s beautiful book, ‘‘ Nature’s Garden,” which con- tains descriptions of all our native wild flowers, and many lovely pictures in color. The writers of the ten next best letters will each receive a copy of Juliana Ewing’s delightful little story, “*‘ Mary’s Meadow.” © Address all letters to The Garden Mother, THE LApDIES’ HOME JouRNAL, Philadelphia. They should be mailed on or before June 15. 14

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ad THE SECOND CHAPTER ON TRACKS N STUDYING trails one must always keep | probabilities in mind. Sometimes one kind of track looks much like another; then the question is, Which is the likeliest in this place ? If I saw a Cougar track in India I should know it was made by a Leopard. If I founda Leopard trail in Colorado I should be sure 1 had found the mark of a Cougar or Mountain Lion. A Wolf track on Broadway would doubtless be the doing of a very large Dog, and a St. Bernard’s footmark in. the Rockies twenty miles from any- where would most likely turn out to be the happen-so imprint of a Gray-wolf’s foot. To be sure of the marks, then, one should know all the animals that belong to one’s neighborhood. The way to learn the tracks themselves is by drawing them, so that you will not come to your teacher and say, ‘‘I saw a queer track to-day; I can’t just describe it, but, oh! it was so queer,’’ but rather, ‘‘I saw a queer track to- day. There is the picture I made of it.”’ Then you will surely get light sooner or later. ca NCE I was much puzzled by seeing in the snow a mark like the one shown in Cut No. 7. I had never seen one like it before, so I sketched it and put it away. Later I learned by accident that this was the trail left by a Cock- sparrow strutting in the snow be- fore his chosen bride. In the mud I once found another puzzle that also turned out to be a very common thing, for it was only the trail of a Turtle. Having begun in this way you will be surprised to find, first, how many different animals are still living in your supposed barren woods; and second, how blind you have heretofore been when among them. While drawing must be relied on mostly for track studies it is also well to remember that imprints of any kind made by the animals themselves are much more valua- ble. The information in a draw- ing is usually limited by the knowledge of the draughtsman. But the real imprint is always ready to answer new questions, and to answer them with perfect relia- bility. For this reason it is well to get a series of ink tracks made by the animals themselves. While in Marshalltown, Iowa, recently, I found a most obliging tame Fox-squirrel who supplied me with a series of records that help to explain the tracks of all our Squirrels. These were obtained by making the Squirrel run over a ’ ¢ ee one 5 — TRACK OF A FOX-SQUIRREL printer’s-inked strip of paper, then across a long white strip. This animal differed from others of his kind in turning out his hindtoes so much; I think that I could recognize his track by this, combined with his small size. chs ‘Ts tracks must always be compared with the foot to be rightly understood. Cuts Nos. 1 and 2 show the feet of a Fox-squirrel, life size. Cut No. 8, made direct from the Squirrel’s own track, shows its relationship to the foot. i mch 8 — FOX-SQUIRREL’S TRACKS (REDUCED) The track of an ordinary Fox-squirrel running over the ground is also given (Cut No.5). This shows the longest jump I ever saw made by a Fox-squirrel on the ground —that is, 48 inches clear. Their ordinary hop in going over the snow is about 14 or 15 inches clear. I — FOX-SQUIRREL'S RIGHT HINDFOOT 2— FOX-SQUIRREL'S RIGHT FOREFOOT The Gray-squirrel’s track differs from that of the Fox-squirrel’s chiefly in being smaller. There are many differences in their feet, as will be seen by comparing the illustrations, but these rarely show in the trail. The Squirrel type of forepaw is a 4, 3, 2 arrangement of pads — that is, 4 finger- tip pads, 3 finger-base pads, and 2 palm pads. As with us, the finger that seems to lack the base pad is the second from the outside. One day as I walked through a small town in New England a boy addressed me by name and asked if it were possible to find any wild ani- mals in that neighborhood. It was about one hour before sundown, so I said, “ Can you, with- out going too far, show me a woods with a stream through it ?’’ He said that he could, and after a ten-minute walk we stood in a little valley full of second- growth timber. The snow was still on the ground, so I made a wide sweep and at length came on a trail. ‘* What is that ?’’ said he. ‘* That is a Cat track.”’ “Why, I didn’t know they came away out here !’’ ‘That may possibly be the track of your own Cat. They are such wanderers.” a S WE swung around a corner of the woods and climbed a stone fence we came on a.track that is very unmistakable — the track of a Skunk. ‘* Yes, I knew there were Skunks about. I sometimes smelled them,’’ the boy said. We followed this for half an hour, winding in and out among the trees, sliding down banks or galloping across little hollows; once or twice going out a little way into the open, where its track was lost on the hard ground, then back into the woods, where it was very easy to read. We followed it in many wanderings; ap- parently it was seeking for food, but it certainly found none. ‘Their food must be very scarce in the early spring, and that, no doubt, RIGHT FOREFOOT 10 — THE SKUNK USED THE BRIDGE—A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE RIVER 6 — SKUNK'S FEET ‘3, Ernest Thompson Seton’s Boys 24 The New Department of ‘American Woodcraft” for Boys: By tine Author of “ Wild Animals I Have Known” * is why they need the immense store of fat that their bodies contain when first they are called out by the returning warm weather. There is at least one satisfactory thing about a Skunk track. You know it will not go far. You may follow a Fox track all day and see noth- ing of Fox or den, but a Skunk is a slow traveler, and usually an hour’s follow ing will show you where he lives. At length the Skunk track neared the stream, which was in a deep bed with steep banks. On the other side we could see several similar tracks leading to a most interesting hole that was doubt- less the family headquarters. The Skunk had evidently gone home over there, but how did he cross this deep ditch with its ice-cold, unfrozen flood? A little examination showed how. He did just as any sensible animal would do when he did not wish to get wet—he used the bridge, and that bridge was simply a tree fallen across the river. I sketched it and have the drawing as an unanimal memento of an animal hunt. But I have here put in a couple of Skunks to show the RIGHT HINDFOOT 9 — THE TRAIL OF A SKUNK family going out for a ramble (Cut No. 10). We traveled yet farther, then came on a new trail like that shown in Cut No. 5. “ There,” said I, ‘* is the track of a Gray -squirrel. You see, the hindfoot was nearly 3 inches long —too long for a Red-squirrel, and it cannot be a Fox-squirrel, as they do not come into this region. Here is where probabilities help.” ‘* But there are no Gray- squirrels around here, either,’’ said the boy. ‘I have often looked and never yet saw one.” ** You think not; but see, we have here his own account of the visit; the track won’t 3 —GRAY-SQUIRREL’S RIGHT HINDFOOT 4 —GRAY-SQUIRREL’S RIGHT FOREFOOT tella lie. He was running that way; you see the large tracks made by the hindfeet are in advance because he was going fast.” Over the snow it was, of course, easy to tollow; but we came to a long open stretch of hard bare ground, at the north end of which was a grove of small pine trees. Around the sides were thickets of saplings, and lying up hill through the saplings at the south was a large fallen tree. ** Now,’’ said I, **the Squirrel would not go to those small pines because they are never hollow and have no food to offer. We cannot follow his trail here on the bare ground. Do you know of any big old trees in the neighborhood ?”’ He thought a minute, then said, ** Yes, there are two old white oaks off this way’’—and he pointed over the hill—“and some old beeches down that other way.’’ ‘* Have any of them dead tops ?”’ said I. ** Yes, the oaks have.’’ ‘* Then that means they are hol- low and the Squirrel lives there. We shall certainly find that he ran up that sloping log, since it is in line with the oaks.’’ oh E WENT to the place and found the Squirrel tracks. Of course the bare log gave no record, but the trail reappeared at the end, and led, as expected, toward the two oaks. Sometimes it disappeared entirely when the Squirrel had gone aloft to travel along the branches. But we now knew his direction. At one place it came down and led to a large hole in a bank. The snow was padded about the hole. It seemed to be the residence either of a Woodchuck or a Skunk, I could not tell which. It did not smell like Skunk, but it is not usual for a Woodchuck to come out so much when the snow is deep.* Why the Squirrel should busy himself about the hole I do not know. On the snow about the big oaks we found numberless Squirrel tracks of more than one size, and far up were several large holes, undoubtedly the doorways of the Squirrels’ home. These Squirrels I did not see. None of the hunt- ersintown knew * that they were there, they had become such experts at hiding. But now the boy knew their home he began to watch them, and he and they got quite well acquainted. Thus, thanks to the tracks, he got not only an insight into the life of a Gray- squirrel] but also an insight into himself, and learned that it was possible to see a wild animal without wishing to kill it. This is the sort of teaching that these wild neighbors of ours can do for us. ue 7—TRAIL OF A SUPPOSE that every boy tt nett in America loves to “ play Injun.’’ It was one of my greatest pleasures and 1 often wished for some one who could teach me more about it. That does not mean that I wanted to be a cruel savage, but rather that I wanted to know how to live in the woods as he does, and enjoy and understand the plants and living creatures that are found there. These papers are being written to teach every boy to do this and to get the most SCALE~2 FEET B GALLOPING ene | ~~ men meet pleasure possible out of playing Red Man. One of the first things the ‘‘ little brave” has to learn is trailing the Fourfoots that are so seldom seen. For that reason I begin with the tracks in the snow or mud. But we shall leave this subject now as the hot, dry, leafy months of summer are not good for trailing, and when the snow comes we can take it up again. The principal things necessary to play Indian are a tribe of the right kind of boys, woods, one or more teepees, bows and arrows, a head-dress or war-bonnet for each, and of course a knowledge of woodcraft, but that will come later. Almost any kind of a tent will do, though noth- ing else equals the teepee for comfort. One paper will be devoted to the making and painting of a real teepee. But the next—that is, the one in the July number — will treat of the Indian’s war- bonnet, how it can be made, and how each boy may win the right to wear one. *Later that year the boy wrote me that it turned out to be a Woodchuck’s den.

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The Greatness of One Thing HE American man isa fairly good example of the truth that our power increases in proportion as we centre every energy and thought in the mastery of one idea. A successful man rarely dissipates his energies. His mind and every effort he puts forth are focused on one thing. But the American woman has_ not learned this lesson. It may be that the many avenues recently opening to her have confused her choice. But, whatever the cause, the unpleasant fact confronts us that the American woman is a model dissipator of energy. She has acquired the habit of dabbling in many things rather than achieving power in any one thing. os AKE woman, for instance, in her present chase for what she calls her ‘* higher development,’’ and we see modern tendencies very clearly illustrated. The modern woman’s anxiety to acquire knowledge is very great. It is so great, as a matter of fact, that, as a rule, it ends in anxiety rather than in actual acquirement. | have lying within my reach now six or seven score of what are called the ‘‘ programs ”’ of ‘‘ courses of read- ing and study’’ for women, and the field that these ‘** programs’”’ cover is enough to make one gasp. It is the exception that these guilds, or circles, or clubs con- tent themselves with less than two courses of literature, for example, during a season of six months. The agil- ity with which the average woman’s ‘‘ classes’’ can fly from a series of three months’ study of English lit- erature to three months’ study of German literature, both during one winter, is enough to stagger the mind of a scholar. It is the same with art, music and the world of books. Here is, for example, the modest ‘* program ”’ for a single month of four Tuesdays laid out by one ‘‘ reading circle ’’: the first Tuesday, Goethe and his works; the second Tuesday, George Eliot and her books ; the third Tuesday, the Victorian poets ; the fourth Tuesday, the American New England school. And this is not an extreme but a typical case of a hun- dred of these ‘‘ programs.’’ I had the curiosity, and was given the privilege of looking over the ‘‘ papers ”’ read at these Tuesdays, and they were something remarkable for their undigested information. Another ‘‘ circle ’’ took up, in one winter, a considera- tion of the world’s greatest masterpieces of painting, and at the end of the fourth month announced that they had exhausted the list of really great paintings ! aa HE result of all this is very clearly apparent. Itisa common thing nowadays to hear a woman talk glibly of literature, art or music, and even of politics, in a manner which for the first few moments is apt to mis- lead one into a conviction that she really knows what she is talking about. But question her a bit and you see immediately how superficial and skin-deep is her knowl- edge. The most serious phase of all this unmasticated knowledge is in the endeavor of its possessor to maké it pass as the real article. One of the most pathetic and criminal phases of modern life is this affectation of knowledge. Pretension is rampant. It is ‘‘ the thing’’ to know something about a certain subject, and immedi- ately a woman rushes off, does some desultory reading, and she feels herself competent to talk and discuss. Take the Wagner craze in music as an example. There is an amount of insufferable pretense about the under- standing of Wagner’s music that would be humorous if it were not so pathetic. But it is ‘‘ the thing’’ to adore Wagner. Few know why it is. But it is, and immedi- ately the adoration starts. Here and there we find one who intelligently understands Wagner and his music, and we may well hope that the number is greater than itseems. But, for the most part, the affectation about Wagner is pathetically broadcast. Latterly there has been a revival of interest in Brahms’s music, and now we have thousands of Brahms adorers. Just how deep is this adoration one can generally decide for himself by attending a symphony concert and watching the fixed (!) attention of fully one-half the audience during a Brahms symphony. Yet it is always this same contingent that yawns through a Brahms symphony that is loudest in its exclamation of ‘‘ how lovely it was’’ and how ** simply wonderful is his music.’’ ea it IS the transparent character of this pretense that is so pathetic. Why is it deemed so necessary for a woman to affect knowledge when the affectation is per- fectly apparent? I do not say that this affectation of knowledge is confined to women. But one sees it less among men. A man is quicker to say ‘‘ I don’t know anything about it,” and that ends the matter for him. What is it that makes a woman seem to consider it nec- essary that she must be au courant with the passing fads of the day? It is palpably apparent that she cannot be. Then why pretend that she is? This higher develop- ment is rapidly drifting into a development of altogether By Edward Bok the wrong side of woman. And it is due very largely to the fact that she does not seem to be able to concen- trate her powers. The intelligent mastery of any one of the great sciences for which woman’s mind and tem- perament are peculiarly adapted is sufficient to absorb all her energies and power. Why must she turn aside from an honest grasp of one thing to acquire a scat- tering knowledge of a dozen things? Nothing is actually accomplished thereby. Information picked up at random is not knowledge. Knowledge, in its final analysis, is a clear perception of something: a finality, behind which you cannot get. ep T IS rare to find a woman who can put one great thing first in her life and then make all other things sec- ondary to it. A man does this. He puts his business first, and all things are adjusted thereto. In that very adjustment of things lies his success. If a woman has a home, for example, that home and its proper study in all its phases should be the very first thing in her life. Mind you, I do not say her whole life: I say the first thing, just as a man places his business first. In propor- tion as a woman studies that home and its wisest man- agement she brings leisure to herself, exactly as by a systematic management of his affairs a man_ brings leisure to himself. A complete absorption of domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all other things, is as dwarf- ing to a woman as a complete absorption of business affairs is detrimental to a man. A relief from the things which regularly absorb us the major part of each day is vitally necessary. But the nature of that relief should be carefully studied. The same concentrative force must be applied to our recreation as we apply to our vocation. Mr. Mabie, in last month’s JouRNAL, very aptly showed the value of the thrift of time in con- nection with reading, and the great power that comes with concentration in reading. And what is true of reading is true of whatever taste we may indulge. ce yp HE mind is receptive only when it is free, and it is free only when it is concentrated on the thing in hand to the exclusion of all else. This is Nature’s law: the doing of a single thing at a single time. This should demonstrate to us the folly of browsing in half a dozen fields at one time with the hope of reaping the slightest actual benefit. The man or woman does not live who can know all there is to know of more than one subject. As a matter of fact, no one subject is ever exhausted. The pleasure and exhilaration that honest knowledge brings to its possessor are always found in the kernel. Gold is never found on the surface. It requires digging to get it. So with whatever we want to know. We must work for it, seek it. It never comes to us either unbidden or without effort. This calls for time, for application, for concentrative effort. But when you reach the kernel you have something. You are a pos- sessor. You have distinctly gained something. Only one thing, it is true, but you have that one thing. It may be music: it may be art: it may be literature: it may be Nature study: it may be child study: it may be what you will. But you have something. It is this con- centrative element that our women need in their lives : this understanding of knowledge: this thrift of time. Each of us has some one special leaning : some one particular taste which it would give us the greatest pleasure and bring the most satisfying benefit to culti- vate and develop. If only an hour a day is possible wherein to indulge ourselves that hour should be sacred to that, and by letting that hour completely absorb us we get the satisfaction and refreshment that come of an innermost pleasure and the living in an atmosphere vitally different from the work of our lives. on Te prevailing notion of knowledge is precisely the opposite of all this. Knowledge, in the minds of too many women, seems to be a possession prized only as it enables one to have something to say on whatever topic may present itself in conversation. ‘‘I don’t like to appear ignorant,’’ is the oft-expressed excuse, and so our lady sips a little honey here and a little honey there. And out of this store she drops a bit here and a bit there. She talks, yes, but she talks without saying anything. And then we call such a woman ‘‘clever.’’ There is no current word in the English language that is quite so thoroughly abused as this little word ‘‘clever.’’ Everything is ‘‘clever’’ nowadays. There was a time when this word stood for something in the language, but latterly its only standing is apparently in its synonymity with superficiality. A ‘‘clever’’? woman has become a woman who knows a little of a great many things and very little of what she pretends to know. I would not say that this ‘‘cleverness”’ is without its value. Asa mat- ter of fact it has a distinct value,—with shallow people, since it is an easy art to make a little knowledge go a long way. We certainly see evidences of this in plenty on every hand, and so long as we make a new million- aire a day in this country these evidences will continue if not multiply. But the fact also remains that veneer of any sort has a way of coming off and showing the real grain under it, and there is nothing that wears quite so badly and is so unsatisfactory in the long run as the veneer of knowledge. A woman may acquire a smatter- ing of knowledge in a thousand directions if she will, but the time will come when this smattering will cease to satisfy, when it will no longer hold its color, and she will give much if she could change all her ‘‘ cleverness ”’ for one deep draught of honest, satisfying knowledge. The only trouble is that these after-regrets have a way of coming when it is too late to mend them. The really clever woman is she who is clever enough to know that it is given to each of us to know only one thing well, and strives to set in action every faculty given her to find out that one thing, and then to master it. eh yw" a good many of us stand in sad need of is a good washing-out of our minds, and a fresh start with a little clearer and more intelligent understanding of ourselves. We should get through with this un- worthy trick of making a lumber-room of the mind. We really belitthe our own capacity and play fast and loose with our own happiness. We do not seem to be able to bring ourselves to see the true happiness that lies within our reach by being simply ourselves, and by refusing to be what others think we should be. We are too much influenced by what we see others doing, and then, without stopping to gauge our own capacity, we follow in their lines to do as they do—and generally to outdo them. No thought is given to individuality and self-expression. We see some one who leads, and then, like sheep, we tumble over each other to follow or lead in the chase, and generally we end up in finding our- selves engaged in something for which we have not the least capacity and even less interest. We start wrong because we think of the thing and not whether we are fitted for it. Surely this is unworthy of the best within us. It does the object in which we are engaged no good, and it does us no good. On the contrary, both are injured, and we waste time, effort and strength. And, above all, sooner or later we awake to the realiza- tion that we have lowered our own self-respect. ¢ py HE starting point for many a woman to get herself right in this matter is the breaking away from a scattering whirlwind of interests in which, in too many instances, she now finds herself. A perfunctory part in any interest is belittling both toa woman and toa cause. The cause of the failure of so many excellent charities and interests is often traced to the fact that too many women belong to them simply to ‘* belong.’’ They are asked to ‘‘ take up” with them, and for some politic reason they acquiesce. But their names stand for noth- ing except a lack of courage to refuse. Nothing is more eloquent of woman’s weakness than the average list of membership of club, guild or charity. Much better would it be for every good cause if each name identified with it stood for an honest interest, a personal codpera- tion and an intelligent conception of its special needs. We should ever value our names enough that they should always stand for honesty of purpose and honesty of inter- est. No question of ‘‘ policy’’ or ulterior motive should ever actuate us in lending our names or whatever influ- ence we exert to a cause that does not honestly repre- sent our sympathy and interest. It is a grave weakness when we are afraid to stand for only what we believe in and for what honestly represents us. There are enough of us in America with varied enough tastes to make every good cause possible. We need never cuddle ourselves with the idea that we are either necessary or indispensable to any one thing. 4 T® honest thing to do is to do a thing for the sake of the thing itself — because we love it, because we believe in it, because we want to do it, because we feel that it is the one thing of all other things that we feel we can do and would like to do. Then we bring mind and heart together, and that is ever a combination that noth- ing can withstand in its highest and best results. Then we bring an honesty of purpose and a power of energy that always make for success to a cause and an ennobling influence to ourselves. For that one thing every woman should search herself to find. What is the one thing, above and beyond all other things, that I would like to do and feel that I can do? is the question she should ask herself. When we become honest with ourselves we become effective. We need have no fear that this con- finement to one expression of ourselves will have a narrowing influence. There is no way of knowledge that does not open to us all other ways. The study of any single life leads to the history of the world. 6 fea) T° KNOW one thing thoroughly, and to do that one thing in the very best way that it can be done, is a mighty big achievement,— creditable to the best of us. 16 Fe eee eee — Ae

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A from A PHOT IRCULATING libraries were once chiefly reservoirs of reading matter, collections of books made in defer- ence to public de- mand ; they followed rather than guided public taste. For many years intelli- gent librarians have endeavored to de- velop the educational uses of the books at their command, and to aid readers, by hints and information, to substitute good for inferior books. It is evident that, so far as fiction is concerned, the librarian must use his discretion and discriminate between the books which perish in the first reading and those which survive to be read again and again. GRAPH BY HOMEIER AND CLARK MISS ELLEN GLASGOW ce REVIEWS OFTEN UNTRUSTWORTHY O RIGID rule can be laid down, but it is reasonable to assume that no one will read a new book until he has gotten a definite impression of its value. No one can read all the novels of the day, and if one is not to read them all some principle of selection must be adopted. It is safe, of course, to read the new book by the thoroughly te ssted and trained novelist. It may be iken for granted that anything which Mr. Cable, Mr. Howe ‘Ils, Mr. ‘Allen, Mr. Page, Miss Jewett or Miss Wilkins is willing to put before the public will be worth serious attention, though even the best writers sometimes nod. It is wiser to wait, how- ever, when the book of the new writer appears, until one can get some impres- sion of its value. The reviews of new books are often partial, superficial and untrustworthy, but one who reads them soon discovers whether the book under discussion is ‘ likely to be of value or interest to him. Books are circulated much more largely by readers than by critics, and one’s curi- osity is quickened when he hears the title of a new novel in current conversation. The men and women with whom one talks are not always good judges of books, but their comments convey information if not wisdom. The reader who respects his mind and values his time has opportuni- ties of forming an opinion of the probable value of a book before he reads it. It is well to read most new books by proxy ; to select those which minister to our needs or will contribute to our self-education, and to let the new novel wait until it comes to us with some sort of introduction. GIVE PLACE TO OLD AND NEW HE additions to literature are few even in the most prolific publishing season, and the chief concern of intelligent readers is never, therefore, with the books of the season, but with the books of all seasons. The main lines of reading ought always, unless one reads for scientific or technical ends, to run through the classics. It is well to have a few books of the day on the table, but the shelves ought to be filled with the books which have been accepted as authoritative and enduring. By all means read Mr. Brownell, but read also Coleridge, Lamb, Arnold, Sainte-Beuve and Bagehot. Do not make the mistake of assuming that all the good poetry was written by the past generation ; read Mr. Phillips, Mr. Moody, Mr. Carmen, Miss Peabody, Mr. Bridges, but put the emphasis of time and thought on the poets whose works have been accepted not only as illustrating a great art but also as ‘‘ human docu- ments”? of permanent value. To leave ‘‘ In Memoriam ”’ unread, for instance, is to miss not only a book of verse of a very beautiful quality but also a very searching record of the spiritual life of the English race in the middle of the nineteenth century. Hospit: ility to new thought, fresh feeling, the buoyant life which youth is always bringing to the weary old world, is not only a duty but also one of the greatest joys of the open-minded and open-hearted; but the I: irgest rooms must be reserved for those friends who have become entitled to the privi- leges of the house, not because they are old, but because the ‘+y are the conte mpors iries of every new gene ration. TAKING NOTES IS A GOOD PLAN HERE is no method of reading which is best for all people, as there is no course of reading which can be imposed on all readers. Those who find it difficult to remember the contents of a book, when they have finished it, would do well to put the chief points in a few notes ‘and fix them in the mind by going over them from time to time. Some readers find it an advantage to place a brief summary of the contents of a book ona flyleaf; others make full notes of everything they read. Every reader must find out for himself the method which serves him best. If he has a methodical mind and enjoys the mac hinery of notebooks and pigeon- holes let him devise a system which is not too elaborate to keep the results of his re -ading within his reach. If FROM A PHOTOG 2 ¢ Mr. MN, abies Lit erary Tale note-taking is irksome let him write out a brief analysis of a book ; the clear thinking which the preparation of such an analy sis involves will fasten the chief points in the memory. Readers of all habits will do well to think over a book after it is finished, and make sure that they have it clearly in mind. Any device which serves to make the knowledge or thought of the book ours is worth trying. A CHARMING VIRGINIA NOVEL T= fiction of the season promises to put into the hands of readers a few stories of genuine value. Among these one of the most c ‘harming is Miss Ellen Glasgow’s ‘‘The Battle Ground.” Miss Glasgow is a Virginian and knows the traditions of her State as well as its pres- ent conditions. In ‘‘ The Voice of the People’’ she drew a very engaging picture of contemporary life in the old Colonial capital of the State and an admirable por- trait of a self-made man of to-day. In her latest story she sketches, by way of background, a group of families bred in the old-time social traditions and admirably interpreting their idealism and also their insularity. Upon this delightful life of ease and good manners the war breaks like a tempest, and the tragic changes which it brings in its train are graphically suggested. The story is notable not only as a picture of a vanished social life, full of dignity and refinement, but also for its sanity of judgment and breadth of view. Very few writers who have reproduced the charm of the Old South have shown such insight into the diverse elements in a civili- zation full of striking and tragic contrasts of condition. RAPH BY RUSK MR. JOHN BURROUGHS ‘* The Battle Ground” is an admirable story, and it is also a valuable contribution to that literature of interpre- tation and reconciliation which is fast making a nation out of once warring sections. THE INDIAN ONCE MORE Wy IS an abrupt transition to pass from this story of Virginia life to the frontier army post and Indian reservation in Mr. Hi imlin Garland’s ‘‘ Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop,’’ but nothing could more strikingly illustrate the range of material for fiction in this country. Mr. Garland always writes with his e ye on the fact, and the pictures of Indian, cowboy and army life in this interesting story are convincing in their sincerity and candor. Mr. Garland does not succeed so well when he describes society in Washington, but this is an episode in a novel which sets the condition of the Indian in a fresh light without impeding the movement of the narrative. Those readers who have not forgotten ‘* Ramona’? will find food for thought in this tale. OUTDOOR BOOKS FOR SUMMER READING T IS well to take a hint from the seasons in selecting books for summer reading. In the time of long days and high lights the wise re -ader brings out his Thoreau, B urroughs and Jefferies. When he starts for his vac ation he puts a copy of the Golden Treasury Wordsworth in his bag, and refreshes himself with those notations of Nature’s unsung songs which opened a new world to a host of readers. For love rs of Nature who are also lovers of poetry — and the two ought never to be se parated — Mr. John Burroughs has per- formed a real service in bringing together a collection of the most sincere and genuine ‘‘ Songs of Nature,’’ in a book of moderate size and covering a wide range of themes and writers. The selec- tion gains an added interest from the fact that in making it, Mr. Burroughs tells us, he was guided entirely by his own taste, accepting nothing which is not absolutely true to the fact, or which does not translate sensuous im- pression into spiritual longing. MR. ROBERT BRIDGES STORIES OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS NEW kind of prose literature about Nature has appeared of late years : a study of animal life against a background sympathetically sketched, at once accurate and dramatic. Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton has been telling stories of bears and wolves and other wild crea- tures to delighted audiences in all parts of the country, and his written reports of wild life in ‘‘ The Lives of the Hunted ’’ and ‘*‘ Wild Animals I Have Known”’ have opened a new field to many readers. He loves animals and writes about them with an intimacy which makes us feel that we know them. He dramatizes their lives by reading into them a psychology which is, of course, largely human; he makes the bear and wolf intelligible by tracing their actions to the motives which would move men under similar circumstances. That he humanizes them too much is probable ; but his report of the things they be is trustworthy, Mr. William J. Long is a lover of wild life whose reports ye what goes on in earth and air are fresh, vital and picturesque ; material for home and school education of the most engaging kind, and delightful reading as well. Mr. Long has evidently been abroad at all hours, and has sur- prised beasts and birds in their most un- guarded moments. In ‘‘ Fowls of the Air’ and ‘‘ Beasts of the Field’”’ the out- of-doors world seems to live in all its multiform and hidden activities. It is with the citizens of the woods and fields that Mr. Long concerns himself, but one gets the atmosphere of Nature in all man- ner of incidental ways, as the hunter bent on securing his game receives all manner of impressions of the woods while he waits, silent and intent, upon the move- ments of his prey. Mr. Long has a fresh, sincere style, an eager curiosity and a trained habit of observation, and he writes with unaffected skill. TWO RECENT BOOKS OF VERSE GREAT deal of the verse of the day is touched with sentimentalism or is a record of pretty fancies. Mr. Robert Bridges strikes a few clear notes in ‘* Bramble Brae,’’ and wins us by his un- affected sincerity. The range of subjects is not great, but the feeling is genuine and the sentiment sincere. From the dedica- tion to the Envoy the thought and the style have asimplicity, a directness and a reality which give the collection of verse far more importance e than attaches to more preten- tious volumes. The vigor of the verse is happily con- veyed with a light touc h, and its seriousness never drops to the prose line of moralizing. Mr. Richard Watson’ Gilder’s ‘‘ Poems and Inscriptions’? is valuable not only for the verse it con- tains but also for the really noble interpretations of the American attitude and spirit which Mr. Gilder put into the form of inscriptions for the buildings at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo last summer. The dual interests of Mr. Gilder’s life, art and public affairs, are very happily expressed in a volume significant of his fine devotion to the highest ideals of citizenship. PRACTICAL ADVICE IN THESE BOOKS A™ ING the books of suggestion for the management of life and the settlement of personal problems of education, work and growth, an important place must be given to Dr. James H. Canfield’s ‘‘ College Student and His Problems,’? and Dr. Nathan Oppenheim’s ‘* Mental Growth and Control.’’ Doctor Canfield has drawn upon his experience and study of American educational life for the benefit of those who are per- plexed by the question whether they shall go to college or not, by the claims of different lines of study and by the problems of college life generally. His discussion of these matters is intelligent, practical and sympathetic. Doctor Oppenheim deals with the growth of character, the training of the imagination, emotions, will, instinct, reason ; the real education of self for power, produc- tivity and the highest enjoyment of living. Nirvwin W. Mobs, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY 4. 6. CARRINGTON

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Page 18 HE strawberry is not a berry at all. At least, the scientist will not consent to call it so. To him a berry is a very definite kind of fruit. It must be pulpy, and this the strawberry is; but it must have its seeds buried in the pulp, and this the strawberry has not. A cranberry is to the scientist a berry, and so is a currant; a strawberry is not, nor is a blackberry, a raspberry or a mul- berry. But, then, to him the grape deserves that name, and so does the tomato. In this case I believe Nature and the people agree, and the scientist is on a side-track. To the popular mind any small pulpy fruit is a berry; and Nature, | think, has classed them all together, for they are the fruits with which she tempts the birds. The pulp is theirs if they will but scatter the imbedded seeds. We are robbing the birds when we eat the small fruits. The apple, the peach and the plum are for us. But we have taken in the wild strawberry and taught it to make fruit as big as plums, so I suppose we are entitled to our own share, though we certainly have no right to be indig- nant when the birds come for theirs. ey How the Strawberry Protects Itself HE strawberry has a double safe- guard against extermination. When the old plant dies out a new one may spring up either from the seed of the old or from runners. Seeds are, of course, the usual provision against such danger, and are used by all higher plants unless interfered with by over- cultivation, as in the case of the banana and some oranges. But the runners are uncommon. These are long, slender branches whose leaves have degenerated into scales. They stretch out just above the ground and root at the end. Then a new plant springs up from this point, and later the connecting link with the original stalk dies, as may the parent plant itself. But when this is gone there are left round about it half adozen baby plants. The inter- esting point about these shoots is that, being actual parts of the one parent, they are as much like it and each other as it is possible for plants to be. Hence when the gardener has produced a fine strain of berries he ‘‘ keeps it true’’ by propagating only by runners. oe How Nature Betters Plants mut Nature’s reason for using this method so seldom is a valid one. It furnishes no chance for improvement. Seeds are ever so much more hopeful. Each of them has been produced by parts of two plants, and when it grows up it will be something be- tween them. Of course this is quite as likely to be poorer than either as to be better. But that is easily corrected. The competition is so keen that the defective ones die and only the good ones grow on. Better still, there comes now and then a strawberry genius that is quite as successful in its own world as a human genius is in our world, and here is the Starting point for a better and stronger race. It is these crosses that the experimental gar- dener is always trying. Hundreds of them turn out worthless, but now and then his efforts are rewarded by a new seedling that repays him for all his seemingly lost labor. a. The Chipmunk a “ Missing Link” HE “‘ chippie’’ is a ‘‘ missing link ’’— one of those animals that lies on the border- land between two groups. It is only recently we have come to recognize how many of these there are, and they often furnish us our most interesting forms. The great squirrel family in this country starts with the humble, stupid, The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Seeing Things Outdoors By Professor S. C. Schmucker ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATHARINE clumsy woodchuck, who has earned for him self the disrespectful title of groundhog, and it ends with the active, soft-eyed, beautiful flying squirrel. Just about midway in the series, no longer so servilely bound to the soil as the groundhog, and yet not released from it like the squirrel, comes our sprightly, thrifty, comely chipmunk. His bunchy body, not so slender as that of his true squirrel cousins, with its yellowish brown coat and its striped back, is dear to every country boy who is not mean enough or thoughtless enough to stone it on sight. - How “Chippie”’ Stores His Winter Food HE little fellow is the most provident of all his tribe. He makes a burrow, some- times of considerable length, under the ground. Along its course are often several storehouses, and these he fills with his winter provisions, and in them he stays from December until March. Then he comes with the first song of the robin and bluebird, and the first cheerful cackle of the blackbird. Soon he will begin to hide cherry stones. Often in climbing over a worm fence an old hollow rail has broken under my hand, and from the open end have come pouring cherry stones by the hundreds. What numberless journeys this must mean. The little fellow has fur-lined pockets on the inner side of his cheeks, and these he filis with the materials he is to carry home. THE CHIPMUNK WORKS HARD An Animal that Works Hard NE of the daintiest wild sights I have seen was that of a chipmunk who gleaned a mountain lane after a wagon loaded with wheat sheaves had passed by. The little fel- low would pick up a stalk of wheat and bite off itshead. Then, holding it up with the beard pointing downward and away from his mouth, he quickly worked through the entire head. To see how the chaff flew and his cheeks swelled with the store of wheat kernels was most delightful. When he had hulled two or three heads his pockets would hold no more, so away he scampered. Along the fence he ran in his quick, jerky way, as if he never could assure himself of his safety for more than five seconds at a time. So he would look about him, make a dash, look about him again and take another spurt. Still I thought he soon learned when one was friendly to him. He would come quite close, but any quick movement in his direction sent him scurrying away. The entrance to his home lay between two big stones used to prop the worn fence, and beneath the post was a fine chamber. A later visit to his quarters proved that in the fall he found material easier to gather. He had hoarded up nearly half a bushel of chestnuts. ce The Chipmunk and the Squirrel HE only point in which our little friend falls short of his squirrel cousins in beauty is in the matter of tail. Squirrels have developed great, broad brushes that serve for sails in their splendid leaps from tree totree. The ‘‘ chippie’’ has a far inferior tail, but to make up for it he has a black stripe along his back, and a dark stripe with a white central line along eachside. The result is, at least to me, more pleasing than that of any true squirrel. SCHMUCKER Why the Bee Likes the Violet HILDREN and bees love the violets. ‘* Grown-ups’’ seem to need highly scented or double kinds, but the commonest roadside violets are quite attractive enough to satisfy the children, for they gather them by the handful. I have just asked a little girl why she is so fond of them, and her answer is ‘TI like the color.’’ And that certainly is the bee’s first reason. Nectar is, of course, what he is after, but, strange to say, he would always more gladly visit a blue flower to get nectar than one of any other color. I have seen bumblebees pass over cannas and glad- ioli as if they were nowhere in sight, and hurry on to a tall, blue, mintlike plant whose flowers would never have caught my eye at half the distance at which their gay neighbors arrested my attention immediately. The hooded violet that grows so commonly in our fields and by our roadsides has almost all the good qualities of the family in general and a few of its own. About the only one it lacks is the odor, which indeed but few spe- cies have. Asa family they hang their heads, though not in shame nor even in modesty. Their reason is far more practical: they do not want their pollen wetted. So they hold their faces away from the possibility of being rain-washed. Plants that are to grow in the cropped grass must be either very small or keep their stems close to the ground so that a browsing animal may get nothing but leaves. But the brightest piece of the violet’s intelligence can only be seen when you look it full and fair in the face. It has put its nectar deep in the spur that projects from the back of the flower. The way down to this treasure is guarded by a fence of bristling hairs that discourages any ants that might creep up the stem, while a pair of trig- gers, which are just on the road down to the spur, are so set that when the bee sticks his tongue into the flower the pollen drops right into his face and in turn is carried by him to the next violet. Here it sets the seed. *” Violets Have Flowers in the Ground Yt this very exclusive plan is the product of a vaulting ambition that overleaps itself. The apparatus is too complicated or our bees too clumsy. As a result, those lovely blue flowers frequently fail to set seed, even when freely visited by the bees. Sothey have been obliged in self-defense to take another plan. Down in the ground about the base of the plant may be found some of the most peculiar flowers im- aginable. They have no colored petals, no odor, no nectar; they never blossom, are never visited by insects. But their own pollen fertilizes their own ovules and sets theirown seed. Of course this is not as good as cross-fertilization; at least so scientists seem to think. But one thing is sure, these secret flowers of the violet become fine pods full of big, round seeds. Surely they are better than no seeds at all. To find these strange cleistogamous flowers, as they are called, one must go after the first flush of blue flowers is over and hunt close to the ground, if not actually beneath it. But late in June you can scarcely fail to find them on our common violet, which, with its dark flowers and heart-shaped leaves, decorates every grassy country roadside and invades almost every lawn and pasture. STRAWBERRIES HAVE A DOUBLE SAFEGUARD Mellins Food Sullivan, Ind. “Our boy, Phillip Reed Jen- kins, is a Mellin’s.Food product, being raised entirely on the bottle. We tried several foods but could get nothing that would agree with him until we used Mellin’s Food; his picture shows whether it agreed with him or not. “We can heartily recommend Mellin’s Food to anyone.” MELLIN’S FOOD SAMPLES FREE MELLIN’S FOOD COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. LIMOGES AT MODERATE COST The daintiness and exclusiveness of this china has made ‘‘ Bassett’’ familiar to women who enjoy fine china. Your dealer can probably show you several patterns of this ware. He can supply extra pieces at any time with which to replace broken ones. We will mail free to readers of THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL colored illustrations of twelve handsome sets. AWD [LIMOGES| George F. Bassett & Co. 49 Barclay St. New York 29 Years Selling Direct We are the largest manufacturers of ve hicles and harness in the world selling to consumers, and we have been do- ing inthis way for 29 years. WE HAVE NO AGENTS but ship any- where s examination Re. guaranteeing vies safe delivery. business for 725. 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The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 The Journal’s Puzzle School

Each picture represents a flower. No. 1 is Rose. Guess the rest, and tell, in not more than 25 words, what you know about the country which has the rose for its national flower. For your skill in solving the puzzles and writing the article we will give A Check for $25.00 to the Person Sending a Correct Solution, and, in the Judgment of the Editor of The Journal, the Best Article About the Country in Question. A Check for $10.00 for the Second Correct List and Best Article. A Check for $5.00 for Each of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Correct Lists and Best Articles, and $1.00 each for the Next Twenty-Five (25). Thirty (30) Rewards in All, Amounting to $75.00.

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bd ie aah ; « é Me. fp. «78. ™ werd er. ~ , y \ . 4 m s ” a 7 a eer No, 12 SOLUTION OF THE APRIL PUZZLES Well-Known American Rivers 1 Mississippi 2 Ohio 3 Hudson 4 James 5 Missouri 6 Suwanee 7 Connecticut 8 Schuylkill 9 Rappahannock 10 Columbia 11 Merrimac 12 Delaware PRIZE WINNERS First Prize Ada M. Bowron, Birmingham, Alabama. Second Prize Anna C. Evans, Stillwater, Minnesota. Third Prize Clara H. Sharp, Tampico, Mexico. Fourth Prize Mrs. S. B. White, West Point, Mississippi. Fifth Prize Helen B. Strader, Beverly, West Virginia. Other Prizes —Jane M. Harpell, New Orleans, Louisi- ana; Mrs. Benjamin D. Bradley, Cassopolis, Michigan; Julia Farrell Miller, Salonica, Turkey; Willard Spurden Mcintyre, Chipman, New Brunswick; Mamie Mayer, Mayer, Arizona; Christine Peabody, Kansas City, Missouri; K. M. Sweegan, Charleston, South Caro- lina; Sarah H. Gregg, Braddock, Pennsylvania; Mrs. F. L. Kenton, Heppner, Oregon; Mrs. Lizzie G. Bibb, Clarksville, Tennessee; Irene K. Best, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Master Jack Adams, Brookiyn, New York; Ada Reynolds, Asheville, North Carolina; M. N. Caswell, Gardner, Massachusetts; Emma Dodson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mrs. F. M. Oakes, Denver, Colorado; Mrs.S. B. Flower, Chicago, Illinois; Sallie R. Ewing, St. Matthew's, Kentucky; Mrs. C. G. Paterson, San Francisco, California; Mrs. M. A. Gates, Marietta, Ohio: Mrs.William L.Veatch, Cedar Falis, lowa: Isabelle De Vine, Buffalo, New York: Ada Coleman, Topeka, Kansas: Ruby E. Haner, Richmond, Indiana; Gertrude M. Wilkins, Mobile, Alabama. Page 19

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Colonial Model. 1902 Style of Case. Ivers & Pond PIANOS. A Small Piano For a Small Room. This chaste, small model, which looks as if made to order from your own de- sign, is an ideal style if you are weary of carved work and long for simplicity. It is a 20th Century musical instrument in an 18th Century casing. Made as small as it is advisable to build a 7% oc- tave piano, it is just the thing for that little room. It could not possibly be better made if done to order for $5000. The tone is mellow, musical, brilliant, of surprising volume; the action en- trancingly responsive. May we not send you our beautiful catalogue, pic- turing this and many other models? How to Buy. Wherever in the United States no dealer sells them, we send Ivers & Pond Pianos on trial at our risk. If the Piano fails to please, it returns at our expense for railway freights both ways. May we send you our catalogue (free), quote lowest prices, and explain our unique easy pay plans? We can thus practically bring Boston's largest piano establishment to your door, though it be in the smallest and most remote village in the country. Write us to-day. IVERS & POND PIANO CO., 117 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. “The Rennert” OF BALTIMORE (Via Pennsylvania or B. & O, R. R. from any part of the United States) The Foremost Hotel of the South Ideal in Management at HE RENNERT ” is THE hotel of ‘‘The Monumental City;’’ which holds Johns Hopkins University, the seat of the American Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, the Woman's College, Peabody Institute, Walter’s Art Gallery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Washington Monument, Maryland Institute, six theatres, and Druid Hill Park, with its celebrated drives extending into the famous Green Spring Valley! Baltimore is convenient to Washington (only 40 minutes), and is the terminal point of the Boston, Savannah, West Indiaand South American steamers, as well as several trans-Atlantic lines. Baltimore is the natural pausing-point for tour- ists between Florida and the North, and “* THE RENNERT” alone provides the comforts to which they are accustomed. “‘THE RENNERT’’ has made Terrapin and Chesapeake Bay Game and Oysters Famous. Every Progressive Accessory of Luxurious Hotel Life Provided. SPOOL SILK Select your sewing materials with care. When you use .si you want good, strong silk. Corticelli Spool Silk sews pe it “4 en in size and always full length and full strength. As Corticelli costs YOU no more than poor silk, why don’t you buy it? Our beautifully illustrated Fashion Booklet mailed free on receipt of your name and address. Address CORTICELLI SILK MILLS, 25 Nonotuck Street, Florence, Mass, Of Also Makers of Corticelli Filo Embroidery Sitk, Corticelli Crochet Silk and Corticelli Purse Twist. = Dp p The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Hadley’s Needlework Lessons A Series of Six Lessons: By Sara Hadley SECOND LESSON: NEEDLE POINT LACE cP EEDLE point is one of the finer mod regular intervals across the space and worked ern laces. The braids used are back or twisted. Cross lines are similarly sary ~ sheer and narrow, allowing as many formed at right angles to these. Work asmall H stitches to be placed in the piece as __ rosette on every spot where two lines cross by 3. Rose Point possible. The best of linen material only working under and over the two lines six or should be used. As so much work is required in the filling of the spaces W ith fine stitches the use of other than the best will in the end prove unsatisfactory. In basting braid tothe pattern make it go as far as possible without cutting. Frequent joins will be necessary in any point lace. These should be done neatly Baste with fine thread to prevent injuring the texture of braid, and make short stitches. In joining, the ends of the braid should be folded over before basting The aim of a good lace- worker is to have the wrong side of the lace so neat as to make it dificult totell the wrong from the right side. The braid need not all be basted before the stitches are begun. One soon tires of basting alone, and a part of that may be finished later. Many a time the worker may not just feel in the mood for making stitches, while basting would be agreeable em- ployment and consider- ably less fatiguing for the eyes. Such little changes in work serve to lighten and give vari- ety to the dainty pas- time. If the braid on curves or abrupt turns does not lay perfectly ONE OF THE BUDS It includes four of the stitches used in this design. smooth on the pattern it should be overhanded and drawn into place. Two or three sizes of thread are required— fine thread for over- handing or whipping, a finer forthe lace stitches, and heavier for the background stitch. The foundation for working all the fine point lace stitches is a single row of loops or the Brussels stitch. This should be worked from left to right, taking in the merest edge of the braid. The four stitches used in the bud are: 1. Point de Sorrento —Two Stitch or Double- Line Stitch: After the loops are formed from left to right the thread is carried back to the left in a straight line, | then two loops are made in each single loop, taking in the line. This is done in every loop. Then another line is crossed from right to left and the working stitch is begun as inthe preceding line, two stitches in each loop. This is duplicated until the space is filled. 2. Point d’Angleterre or English Stitch: The threads are carried at WORKING PATTERN OF BERTHA WITH BRAIDS PARTLY BASTED The pattern is stamped on blue material, and is backed with cloth or heavy paper to stiffen and preserve the shape in working. A FLOWER, BUD AND OTHER FIGURES It requires eight different stitches to complete this section of the design, besides the groundwork stitch. COMPLETED BERTHA IN NEEDLE POINT LACE Any young woman would find pleasant pastime in the making of such a piece of work, even though it might require a year to complete the bertha. eight times or as many times as may be neces- When one line is complete another row of squares may be formed in the same way. Lace Wheel: Either five, seven or nine lines are made by putting the needle in the edge of the braid and winding the thread two or more times around the needle and drawing up to form a loop Repeat until all the lines or loops are finished. Thethread is then carried over and under several times around, leaving a hole or opening in the cen- tre Buttonhole the edge of the centre to form a ring or wheel This stitch is very much used in point lace. 4. Point d’Alencon or Double-Point Bars: Pass the thread back and forth in space to form a footing for the stitches, then come back over the lines, working three or four buttonhole stitches on each wide space of the stitch. Work these back and forth on top of the lines already formed, making a diag- onal pattern. This is a pretty method for filling in narrow spaces. One style of stitch is used throughout the pattern for the back- ground. Asingle thread is crossed from left to rightof thespace. Itis then twisted back to, say, its centre, and se- cured with a loop knot. To form the little picot, make three single stitches in this loop, securing with a knot. The thread should then SMALL PART OF’ DESIGN FINISHED Showing method of applying shirred or gathered braid to outline of flower. be twisted over the single line to its end. Repeat these lines until the space is filled. Two or more picots are made on each thread if its length permits. The body of the flower illustrated is worked entirely with the Church stitch. Make four rows of close loops after di- rections given for the Point de Sorrento stitch, and with no spaces be- tween. Then make a row of open loops, twist- ing the thread back and spacing for another four rows of loops. So con- tinue till complete. To finish the edge of the bertha use a fancy loop, made with single buttonhole in edge of braid, containing three single stitches and a knot tosecure. This is worked closely around the outer edge. After the work is re- moved from the pattern, to give a raised effect extra braid is gathered quite closely and sewed to the outline of the flowers as shown in the illustration. My third lesson, which will appear in the next JOURNAL, will tell how Russian lace is made. _—

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Pcs The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 THREE PILLOWS FOR THE SUMMER PIAZZA Fifty-Cent Summer Pillow-Covers By Jane Benson ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS HE washable sofa-pillow cover, made with buttons and buttonholes so that it may be easily removed, will be found a great conve- nience and a great comfort, particularly for the summer cottage, where the sofa-pillows must do duty not only in the house but also on the piazza. Any one of the covers shown here may be duplicated for fifty cents. These covers may be made of figured chintz, organdy, cretonne, dimity or checked linen. If something particularly dainty is re- quired they may be made of white lawn alternate squares are worked in spider webs with white or colored thread, and the double ruffles around the edge are finished with double cross stitch. Still daintier washable covers may be made from the dotted dimities which come now in such delicate colors. Three yards will make a ruffled cover at an expense of a little over thirty cents. Half a dozen of these covers would make a pretty gift for a summer bride. with deep ruffles, and outlined in em- broidery stitch. Green and white or pink and white gingham, in small un- broken checks, make pretty covers, if the Pine, hop, clover and balsam pillows are all very soothing and comforting when one is | weary. The clover blooms for the pillows may be gathered and dried upon a sheet in | the shade, being turned constantly until they are quite dry, then put in a cover of strong calico, over which the washable cover of something which suggests coolness and sum- mer may be slipped. The pine pillows are made by picking off the terminal buds and the needles, and filling the pillow with them as with down. The pine needles are aromatic, and pillows made from them are said to be conducive to sleep. Neither pine nor balsam pillows should be filled too full. 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Over 50 years of experience is within the lid of every Emerson made to-day. A fair amount al- lowed for old instruments in ex- change. Write for illustrated cat- alogue and easy payment plan. EMERSO, PIANO CO. 120 Boylston St., BOSTON, MASS. Special Factory Sale for June Colonial Side Table A rarely fine and artistle table and exceptionally convenient, The hinged top gives a beauti- ful lished background, in which the china, cut glass and silver are artistically re- flected. Converts instantly inte a handsome center table with 34 x 28 shaped top and heavily rounded French legs. Equally good as a serving, card, par- lor, bed-room, tea or lunch table. Made in finest polished solid Mahogany,@11. Quartered Oak, $9.50, Brown or Green Ash (for porch or cottage use), $7.50, Order to-day as these special prices and Sreight prepaid any- where in U. S. are good only during June. Guaranteed to please thoroughly and worth 50 per cent. more of money back. A. Linn Murray, Designer and Maker, Grand Rapids, Mich. Invalids’ chairs—a third less than usual. We build them ourselves, from start to finish. Strong, easy-running, perfect finish. Our name on all our chairs. Send for book. We pay freight anywhere in the United States. PHILADELPHIA BABY CARRIAGE FACTORY Eighth and Spring Garden, Philadelphia ps

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GLIMPSES IN SOME Bl From Photographs Taken by Thomas E. Marr, Maxfield Parrish, WHEN HOLLYHOCKS ARE GROWN IN MASSES The decorative effect of hollyhocks when grown in large inasses is charmingly illustrated in this garden. The amateur gardener will find the hollyhock both rich and effective when used in a border. RAPH BY T. E, MARR A BED OF PERENNIAL PHLOX The great advantage gained by grouping perennial phlox, instead of scattering it about, is forcibly shown here. The edging of box adds a quaint effect to this charming garden. , +- my, antl ee ee PROTOGRAPH Gy T £. MARR AN OLD WORLD AND A NEW WORLD GARDEN An effective combination of some of the distinctive features of the European and the American garden is portrayed in this picture — especially the former, as shown in the liberal use of potted bays and laurels. A HEDGE OF DAISIES This California garden shows a hedge of daisies, suggestive of a snow- storm in summer. It is another illustration of the fine effect resulting from growing flowers in large masses. ~ . Y ae Bavod oye = PHUIGURAPH BY T. E. MARR A NOVEL WATER GARDEN owner to grow aquatic plants in variety. The willow adds a fitting touch beauty to this picture of a most charming nook. Because of its originality this garden is interesting. The tank enables its PROTOGRAPH bY T. E. MARR SUMMER BEAUTIES IN COMBINATION A combination of hardy plants and annuals which gives evidence of careful study in arrangement is shown in this attractive garden. The sloping effect allows each plant to display itself to advantage. of

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E BEAUTIFUL GARDENS eld Parrish, Henry Troth and N. H. Reed Especially for The Journal A PRETTY ARCH OF VINES This picture shows the possibilities of the vine in garden decoration. The mass of wistaria which covers the arch gives one the impression of a green curtain lifted to afford a glimpse of more beauty beyond. DECORATIVE EFFECT OF POTTED PLANTS To those who have potted plants, which can be used to ornament the steps of the front entrance to a house, this garden is full of suggestions. The decorative possibility of the hydrangea is charmingly shown. SOME OF OUR OLD FRIENDS Old-fashioned flowers run riot in this beautiful garden nook, with its prim box- edged path and prettily swarded terrace, crowned with sweet peas, which show most effectively against a background of luxuriant foliage. PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRY TROTH A GARDEN OF DELIGHTS This view is especially pleasing because of its combination of peculiar effects. The box-bordered beds, the luxuriant growth of vine covering the house, and the roses in the foreground will delight the amateur gardener. A PRETTY BIT OF FORMALITY This picture affords a glimpse of a garden where straicht lines take the place of curves, with its pleasing combination of border-plants, shrubs, and large quantities of the gladiolus next to the path. A STUDY IN HYDRANGEAS The ornamental effect of large specimens of hydrangeas in full bloom is illustrated here. The variety shown is H. Hortensis, not the hardy variety. It must be wintered in a cellar or a cool greenhouse.

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PHOTOGRAP™ BY D/LLON Mrs. Rorer’s Cooking School ."E egg of the domestic fowl : is atypical or perfect food — 4 that is, it contains all the . elements of the blood and is therefore capable of build- ing the young chick. But it is not, however, a com- plete food for the adult human being. In clas ‘fication, eggs are placed with the nitrogenc or proteid group, the muscle or tissue bui ing foods, which are principally digested i: the stomach. In composition the white and yolk of the egg widely differ. The yolk contains fat, and a small amount of sul- phur, athickening proteid material known as globulin, and yellow coloring matter. The white of .he egg is comparatively free from fat and much richer in the nitrogenous ele- ment, albumin. The carbonaceous matte, in an egg, calculate! as starch, is equal in the proportion of 1.75 to one of nitrogen. For this reason we mix oil with our eggs for salads, or serve bacon with them, or use them as a garnish with very fat meats, or serve them with white bread and butter or other farina- ceous materials as in puddings. Although eggs are more easily digested raw than cooked they are not difficult of digestion when carefully cooked. The white of the egg if boiled rapidly is hard and horny, diffi- cult of digestion, and requires most thorough mastication. If, however, the egg is put into warm water, brought to the boiling point, and kept just below that for twenty minutes, the yolk is rendered easy of digestion, and the white loses its density. If finely divided, or put through a vegetable press, eggs may be taken by invalids or children. In Arranging Bills-of-Fare HEN making out bills-of-fare, or arrang- ing a diet, it is well to compare the analyses of all the nitrogenous foods on the one side and the carbonaceous foods on the other; for instance, compare the analyses of meat, milk and egg that you may be able to arrange these materials in proper propor- tions. According to Yeo the following table is correct: White of Egg Yolk Water 84.8 51.5 Albuminates 12.0 15.0 Fats 2.0 30.0 Mineral matter 1.2 1.4 Extractives 2.3 To make sure that you are quite correct in arranging the minerals in perfect diet, com- pare the mineral matter of milk, eggs and meat. You will find in lean flesh, potassium, phosphoric and sulphuric acids, but little lime, however, or sodium, while milk is rich in calcium and chlorine, and eggs contain a goodly quantity of sodium, iron and phos- phoric acid. Itis well to bear all this in mind when substituting eggs or milk for beef, or beef for eggs and milk. The yolk of an egg cooks more quickly than the white, hence in a soft-boiled egg the white is frequently unchanged, uncoagulated, while the yolk is cooked. How to Tell Fresh Eggs O ASCERTAIN the freshness of eggs with- out breaking, fold your hand around an egg, hold the egg between the sun or a bright light and yourself and look through it. If the yolk appears round and the white surrounding it clear, itis fresh. A good egg will alsosink when dropped into a bucket of water; if it topples around in the water, apparently stand- ing on its end, it is fairly fresh; if it floats, beware of it. The shell of a fresh egg looks dull and porous; that of an old egg, thin and shiny. When eggs are kept any length of time they lose water by evaporation through the pores of the shell, and rattle or shake. This is not a sign of particular staleness, although stale eggs rattle; in warm weather this will occur the second day, and the egg will still be quite good. Some Ways to Preserve Eggs HERE are several easy methods of pre- serving eggs as it is only necessary to close the pores of the shells. This may be done by dipping them in melted suet, or packing them, small ends down, in salt, using a goodly quantity of salt between the layers of eggs. Bran may be used for packing, but it is not as good as salt. Eggs are varnished to close the pores, but this spoils the flavor. By Mrs. S. T. Rorer EIGHTH LESSON: EGGS The air may also be excluded by placing the eggs in a keg of lime-water; this protects them from the air and also acts as a germi- cide. Eggs should be packed not later than the middle of May nor earlier than the first of April. They will keep easily in cold storage for months, but must be used as soon as taken from that temperature. They will not keep in good condition over twenty-four hours after exposure to heat. Eggs also may be evaporated and kept in glass bottles or jars. Separate the whites and yolks, spread a few at a time on a clean stoneware or china platter, and slowly evapo- rate or dry ina very cool oven. When the mixture is fine and perfectly dry it is ready to put away. This powder is capable of tak- ing up the same amount of water that has evaporated from it, and may then be used as fresh eggs. There are in the market a number of egg powders, sold under various names; they are, as a rule, composed of evaporated eggs only. Do not confound these with “‘ egg substi tutes ’’ sold under various names that sound like egg mixtures; these are composed mostly of corn or potato starch and do not in any way take the place of eggs. One that I have in mind, which is quite a good seller, contains four parts of potato or corn starch, two parts tartaric acid, one part bicarbonate of soda, mixed and colored with turmeric powder. This gives, when moistened, the yellow col- oring of egg, and acts also as a “ leaven’’ when mixed with dough. Eggs Should Not be * Boiled” HE ordinary term “ boiled eggs’’ really should not be used, or rather eggs should not be boiled. To cook in the shell put the eggs into hot water, cover the vessel and keep them away from the fire until the white has coagulated. The greater the number of eggs the longer they must stand and the greater amount of water. Two eggs in a quart of water will take ten minutes; four eggs ina quart of water will take twenty minutes. To cook a larger quantity of eggs for breakfast put them into a saucepan; pour over them a quart of boiling water; allow them to stand on the table ten minutes; drain off this water; cover again with boiling water; stand five minutes; then put them into a large bowl or dish. Cover again with a quart of boiling water and send at once to the table. By this method the whites will be coagulated, and the yolks will be perfectly cooked. Poached or Dropped Eggs HIS method of cooking requires perfectly fresh eggs. In opening a fresh egg you will notice the white is held in a membrane; to poach or drop this must be in good condi- tion or the white will become thin and ‘‘ ragged,’’ leaving the yolk exposed. Have ready over the fire a saucepan of boiling water; select the number of eggs desired; take them to the side of the stove, and have with you asaucer; break an egg in the saucer, slip it at once into the boiling water and so continue until you have the desired number. Pull the saucepan to one side where the water cannot possibly boil; with a spoon, baste the top of the eggs with the hot water, being very careful not to crack the white which has coagulated on top of the yolks. Have ready slices of nicely toasted bread; lift each egg on a skimmer; cut off the edges and slide the egg on to its piece of toast. Dust lightly with salt and pepper and send at once to the table. The toast should be quickly made, the crust or edge of the bread just rolled around in hot water, and at once buttered. When You Want a Hard-Boiled Egg HERE is such a difference between hard- boiled eggs that it seems necessary to give a decided receipt, as many dishes call for hard-boiled eggs. Put the eggs into warm water; bring slowly to 200° Fahrenheit and keep them at this tem- perature for thirty minutes. When done lift and drop them quickly into cold water and removethe shells. This prevents the yolk of the egg from discoloration. If eggs are dropped into boiling water and boiled rapidly for five minutes, it is true they will be hard, but the whites wiil be tough and indigestible; the yolks will be mealy on the outside, tough in the centre and almost as indigestible as the whites. Beauregard Eggs i D-BOIL five eggs. Removethe shells; separate the whites from the yolks; put the yolks through a sieve; chop the whites very fine or put them through a vegetable press. Rub a tablespoonful of butter and one of flour | together; add half a pint of milk and stir until boiling; add half a teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper and the whites of the eggs. Stand this over hot water while you toast five slices of bread. Arrange them neatly on a platter. ture, dust over this the yolks, and a little salt and pepper; stand a moment at the oven door, and after the yolks are warm send to the table. Shirred Eggs pee grein the bottom of individual dishes with breadcrumbs; drop one or two eggs in each dish. Dust the edges lightly with crumbs, stand the dishes in a baking-pan of hot water and bake in the oven until the eggs are just set. Remove and dust lightly with salt and pepper, and place a bit of butter in | the centre. Send at once to the table. All Sorts of Omelets (> good rule will answer for all omelets. Variety is given by the different garnish- ings. For instance, a parsley omelet is made by adding chopped parsley to a plain omelet. A Spanish omelet is made by cooking onion in the butter into which the eggs are turned. Oyster omelets are plain omelets served with oyster sauce. An omelet with peas is a plain omelet gar- nished with hot, nicely seasoned peas. Omelet with tomato is a plain omelet with tomato sauce poured over and around. An omelet with ham is plain omelet with minced ham mixed with the egg. Then there are a lot of sweet, light omelets that are served as plain desserts, as omelet with jelly or jam, and fruit omelets. To make a plain omelet select a perfectly smooth omelet-pan. Rub thoroughly with salt and then put ina tablespoonful of butter ; stand this over the back part of the stove where the butter will melt slowly. Beat four eggs for a moment until they are thoroughly mixed; add four tablespoonfuls of warm water, a rounding teaspoonful of butter and a saltspoonful of pepper. Beat this; draw the omelet-pan over the hottest part of the fire; when hot turn in the egg mixture. Shake the pan, keeping the omelet loose; dust it with half a teaspoonful of salt, and every now and then with a limber knife lift the side of the omelet and drain the soft mixture underneath. Continue this until the omelet is ‘‘ set’’ inthe centre; then quickly fold over one-half and turn it out on a heated platter. Do not sep- arate the eggs; such omelets are tough, taste- less and liable to fall. Japanese Eggs ARD-BOIL six eggs, and boil carefully one cupful of washed rice. When the Pour over the white mix- | The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 rice is done, drain in a colander and stand in | the oven to dry. Remove the shells and cut the eggs into halves crosswise; take out the yolks; rub them, adding gradually four bone- less sardines, half a teaspoonful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper, and two tablespoon- fuls of melted butter or olive oil. Roll the mixture into balls, and put it into the space from which the yolks were taken. Take off a little of the convex end of the whites so that they will stand. Put the rice in the centre of a platter, making it flat like a little plateau; stand the eggs down in the rice; pour over | them half a pint of cream or tomato sauce and send at once to the table. Egg Brouillé or Scrambled Eggs EAT four eggs, without separating, until thoroughly mixed; add fourtablespoon- | fuls of cream, four tablespoonfuls of stock, half a teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of pepper. Turn into a_ perfectly clean saucepan or chafing-dish; stand over a mod- erate fire and beat constantly until the eggs are jelly-like. Turn out on squares of toast and send at once to the table. Eggs cannot be scrambled properly in an iron pan. & Next month (July) Mrs. Rorer’s Cooking Lesson will treat o ‘* Milk: Its Uses and Abuses ’”’ Considering the subject from every aspect. RECOMMENDED BY THE DiRECTOR OF THE COURT HOUSEHOLD OF H.I. M. EMpPeror Austria (TRANSLATION ) ‘‘Armour’s Extract of Beef has been thoroughly tested by the administra- tion of the I. R. Court Household. It greatly improves the flavor of Soups, Sauces, etc.; is an excellent substitute for meat for preparing ‘Stock.’ We consider it a perfect Beef Extract in every respect.’’ Wien 16, Janner, 1902. Vom K.u.K. Hofwirtschafts-Amt FRANZ V. WORLITZKY, M. P. Director. The fame of Vienna cooking is worldwide. That the first kitchen of Austria prefers Armour’s Ex- tract of Beef is an endorsement thatconfirms ourclaim that it is the BEST EXTRACT of the BEST BEEF Sotp By Att Druacists anp Grocers Armours French Potage An Evaporated Soup. Will keep indefinitely. Packed in Glass Jars. Clean, wholesome, delicious. Five Flavors Tomato Green Pea | Cream Celery Navy Bean | Mulligatawny Each jar will make one quart of soup, by the addition of water and boiling. Sold by all Grocers, or sent postpaid in the United States on receipt of 15 cents. Armour & Company a Chicago we you kx not per- The E No.1

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a The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 ) THE JEWEL Instantaneous and Portable Water Heater Has merits possessed by i no other water heater. "aaa Mothers’ Meetings 120 degrees in one Any parental experience in sensible child training or schooling of children will be welcomed to this If you would have your Baby strong-boned and well, free from Cholera Infantum and all COPYRIGHT BY MESIER A, GETZ other hot-weather troubles, use - minute and will sash keep a stream ~ flowing at that temperature. Can be used in Bath- department. Likewise any experience showing the criminality of the modern “ cramming” system at room, school —in fact, any experience that will help mothers. Each experience must be told in two hundred Kitchen, words. Full name and address must be given. Address all letters to The Editor of “ Mothers’ —_ Meetings,” The Ladies’ Home Journal, Philadelphia. ever there is gas, and be moved read- ily from room to room, as all connections may be made with rubber hose as shown. Heater is hung on supports fastened to the wall by four screws. ‘The Heater is small and compact; about one foot square, and just one foot high. Will burn manufactured, natural and machine yas. We make this Heater with tank and burner for gasoline where there is no gas. Costs but 2c to Heat Enough Water for a Bath Can be used in Bathroom, Kitchen and L sundry, Sick-Room, Hospital, Barber Shop, Office, Kestaurant, Drug Store, Buffet, Laboratory, Lunch Counter, Surgeon's Office, the Nursery, and for Dentists’ use, as well as in many other places. ‘t bree six-foot lengths of cloth insertion rubber tubing are furnished with each heater, Any one can attach it. It can be set on floor or stand if preferred. Every one guaranteed, Lowest-Priced Water Heater on the Market If your dealer doesn’t have the “Jewel” send to us and we will see that you are supplied. Illustrated deseriptive catalogue and price list SENT FREE, AMERICAN STOVE Co. GEORGE M. CLARK & COMPANY, piv. Makers of Jewel Gas Stoves 64 and 68 Lake Street CHICAGO Coward Good Sense Shoe « Better know nothing at ali, Than know what isn't so.” And better that Children have no Shoes at all, than wear Shoes that may deform their feet for life. ‘This you know, and know it’s so. And you OUGHT to know that with the Coward Good Sense Shoe there’s not the slightest danger. It’s absolutely Right. Costs no more — Sold nowhere else. JAMES S. COWARD 268 to 274 Greenwich St., near Warren St., New York No Baby Talk in this Household SHE clearness with which the young children of a certain family pronounce their words has caused much surprise and speculation among the other fami- lies in the neighborhood whose little ones lisp or otherwise mutilate the English language. The father recently took a party of neighbors into the large, sunny nursery where his little ones play. With a wave of his hand he said: “ That is the secret of it all.’”’ The visitors followed their host’s gesture and saw a large black-letter sign on each wall. The signs read: ‘‘ Please don’t talk nonsense to the children.’’ ‘‘ Kindly refrain from baby talk.’’ ‘* The sentence, ‘Did oo hurt oo’s itty tootsy- wootsy,’ is not in the English language.’’ ‘‘A child’s mind is like the blank record of a phonograph. Don’t say what you wouldn’t want repeated.”’ “ T have some ideas of my own,” said the author of the signs, ‘‘and one of them is that children should be treated with consideration. If you speak to a child plainly he will skip the period of baby talk and pronounce his words well from the start. The maudlin prattle contemporary with the ‘nursery era’ is tabooed in this house, and that is the whole thing in a nutshell.” Pennsylvania. E. B. eh. Explaining Our Actions to Our Children FAULT of parents is that they exact blind obedience of their children. We tried the experiment with our boy of never asking him to do anything without at the same time explaining to him why we asked it, and why we thought it was for his good that he should do a thing or should not do it. We pursue the same plan when we find it necessary to deprive him of something: we explain to him why we do it. The effect has been of the best. Whenever, as a test, we ask him to do some- thing without an explanation, he hesitates and looks at us in an inquiring way. But the moment we explain to him he does it without murmur. All the child asks is what we older children ask: the why. I think it has made us, as parents, too, more just, more reasonable, as we feel that we must explain our requests. This method has proven many of our requests as unreasonable to ourselves. It gives us a better idea of fairness, and makes us more reasonable in our demands upon our children. New York. A MOTHER AND FATHER. ey A Daughter Handicapped for Life A Boy’s Book of Falsehoods BOUGHT a little book and pencil and showed my boy the clear, pure, white pages, and told him that every time he told a lie he must write on one of the pages, ‘‘I told a lie ,” and the date, and must sign his name to theentry. If he did not tell a lie for a week he was privileged to rub the entries for the week before out as clean as he could. The smudge on the page showed him the smudge on his character, and he would struggle diligently to get the page as clean as possible. Pennsylvania. Mrs. C.D.H. he Entertaining Children on the Cars HILDREN are apt to become fretful and impa- tient during a long ride on the cars; so, preparatory to a day’s trip on the train, a loving and ingenious aunt recently improvised a most successful entertainment box for her little niece and nephew, my children. An ordinary pasteboard shoe-box was lined with bright red chintz and then covered on the outside with a pretty decorative paper. A shawl-strap made a substantia) holder. The contents were varied and curious. Several envelopes containing pictures, paper dolls and games were sealed, and marked to be opened at intervals during the day. Another package contained a small slate and pen- cils. Of toys there was a jumping-jack, a king’s jester, a woolly dog, and a baa-baa sheep. Several of the children’s favorite stories and nursery rhymes which had been copied from their books were also placed in the box. A small china doll with two dresses was included for the little girl, and a soldier cap for the boy. The opening of each package was greeted by the little ones with almost breathless delight, and their happy faces and merry laughter spread sunshine throughout the car. New York. + F. M. B. A Happy Community of Mothers AST year I took THk JouURNAL’Ss advice and wrote, at the beginning of the school term, to the teachers of both my boy and girl that under no circumstances wouldI permit any home study. ‘rhe teachers came to me and explained that my chil- dren would fall behind in their studies. I told them that I was perfectly willing that they should. Other mothers hearing what I had done did the same. ‘The teachers carried the matter to the prin- cipal, and to make a long story short the studies were changed and a study hour introduced at school. The result is that the health of the children is I send you herewith pictures of my twin babies, Bernard and Margaret, just one year old. I have had them on your food ever since they have taken fod, and can- not say enough in its favor. The pictures will speak for themselves. I cannot find words to thank you for what Eskay’s Food has done for my children. Bernard weighs 24 lbs. and Margaret 22} Ibs. MRS. D. DOLAN, Schenectady, N. Y. Send for our hook, ** How to Care for the Baby,” me help to the mother who is auxious that Lee id should be strong and well —sent free with a sample of Eskay's Food, SmirnH, KLingE & FRENCH Co, PHILADELPHIA, PA, It Nourishes from Infancy to Old Age at Y ELDEST daughter was, from a mere baby, markedly better; progress has been actually greater 66 A ” N an extremely bright and promising child, pas- and surer, and both teachers and principals con- ero ec sionately fond of stories and poetry, and much alive cede the wisdom of the plan. In consequence, we to impressions of beauty in Nature. I was bent on are a very happy little community of mothers. It | Hand Finished giving her every advantage of education, as I felt simply called for some one to take the initiative. / sure she was destined to be something above the ordi- Georgia. A SOUTHENN MOTHER. Ribbed nary. Indeed, she willingly studied most assidu- rs | ously, and needed no stimulus save her own eager : 7. Underwear ambition, Her teachers, proud of her,keptherhard Children Live Up to Our Expectations | 75 Vest at work. At seventeen she was graduated, highly | HAD heard much about a certain little girl who TRACE ao e - MARK | — ' accomplished, and even mature in mind. Mean- every one said was so naughty and disobedient. | Drawers Tights while, though naturally of an excellent constitution, I saw her first when she was six years old. After UNDERWEA 5 Union Suits she had run up into a tall, thin, sickly girl: nerv- a few days of observation my only wonder was that All dealers who have their customers’ interests at : ous, and habitually ‘* dark under the eyes.’’ Fool- she behaved as well as she did. Her mother heart sell“ Forest Mills” Underwear, Madeinevery 1 The best Ribbed ait 1 , : : ce style and size of latest and best shapes. Special Underwear for ishly, we had let her feed the mind at the expense expected her to be naughty, and would say in the | attention to proper proportions in each and every . Women and Chil- of a starved and impoverished body! Ill healthin child’s hearing, ‘‘I suppose I shall have to take | garment qeouges ontietectom, wens, ane i oe every | dren because it is more pronounced form soon came. Before she had Ruth, but I know she will act like fury.’’ Of | gnowent, FaOe 2 cST DUEL. y : Hand Finished. reached her thirtieth birthday 4 -_ _ Te course a = that rig thing, but — rages FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN | Solc years an invalid, and was finally only relieved bya her mother she seemed to me a very lovable, docile Our illustrated catalog showing styles * FOREST MILLS” ’ = ; 480 severe and dangerous operation, She is a child. One day she sprang to hand a crutch to an | — and“ GOKDON DYB™ Hoslesy mailed free ter the leading most intelligent woman —but handicapped in the’ invalid. Her mother spoke out suddenly, “ Well, I | | BROWS, DURRELL & €O., 102 Kingston St., Boston, Mass. Dry-Goods race of life by physical disability. NowI realize am surprised. It would have been more like you to | houses that ‘‘ the game was not worth the candle.’ run and hide that.’’ A sudden cloud overshadowed in America. South Carolina. Mrs. M.A. O. the bright, little face, and my heart ached for the 2: he poor child who only needed encouragement to make ~ ‘ “ ; - LORD & her a good girl. ~ MeAocdeé TAYLOR Took Two Men to Help This Child Children usually live up to the expectations of ns eee HAND FINISHE 4, (Whelesale) HAD reason to note to my neighbor, the secretary their elders. If s is — for granted that they | Always go with the «Cortes UNDERWEAR Sitstaie of a large concern, that I should have to take will do right, they will not often disappoint. But chown ‘to énlams’ a my children from school very soon, in order to allow __ if one expects them to do wrong they seldom fail in taste and there Gre eryles Ser TRAST ANN NEW vo them the rest and growth necessary to childhood, doing so. widths, Quality and work- , I remarked a a ee eae Connecticut, + C.M.G. | care in’ construction insures Ask for DEWEY’S Im roved loaded, we om - s¢ ~_ c “ not cou we os Y perte ft, i tory ——— amprovee and that after the children learned to read I should jae.” Of unthte ck tt Ge : take them from school and read the very best things How to Have a Sunny Boy IRMA 21-41N send to us. Whether you Acme Dress and Corset Protector with them just as we liked. We would not worry HEN our little boy came to us his father and INEZ 2--IN Silo cople ucabton ennt Siac ” Better and cheaper than Dress Shields, being a com- about the arithmetic, for we had calculated that all I decided to try the experiment of always | IRIS. 13-6IN Dept. C, Troy, N.Y. plete garment, always ready to wear of it in the elementary schools ought to be well greeting him with a smile wherever and whenever =* | ian a learned in three years’ study in school or home. he met either of us. We wished to impress upon | CORLI SS eee) & CO tector that can “Why,” said our neighbor, ‘‘our little one in him that a smiling face was not a thing to be worn we 9 ia shut Weists the sixth grade brings home problems that none of — occasionally, but should be a matter of each day Ww ithout sew us can solve in less than’three or four hours, and and hour, From the day of his birth we followed ingin. The that keeps us up after bedtime. We called in a_ this plan. Now he is nearly five, and we have p mw Pal friend. a mechanical engineer, to help us, and for- adhered to the plan. A merrier boy you can tection £ tunately he had been helping the teacher of the scarcely find. He is always smiling himself, for a ag grade which the little one attends, so he was not smile begets a smile, and he sees naught else on puzzled as we were. He did pretty well, although the faces of his parents. He smiles at everybody, we turned to and helped in order to get to bed at’ and a sunnier disposition it would be difficult to ) ited spiration, nine o’clock. find. ‘The effect on us as parents has been as salu- " The Best Shield for bieyele riders. One pair dogs the work of six In those who have passed through the mill Ican tary as it has been on our boy. So successfui has i $1.00 per Year 25¢, 3 Months’ Trial ¥ ) > ~e anne jo > = nb — eo cor es | only see that they are well ground, rather than well been the experiment a I — strongly commend helpful sugusetions iev'the prodemnonal iam 8 | Y Agents Wanted. Catalogue Free. Send money by P. O. Order. | grounded. , it ~ parents present and to aS: a | dressmaker. Sample copy for three 2-cent stamps. | M. DEWEY, Manfr., 1395 B, W. 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Page 26 The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 Summer Laundry Work By Maria Parloa Household questions will be answered each month, but inquirers must give their names and addresses. Correspondents wishing replies by mail should inclose stamps or addressed stamped envelopes. HE charm of the summer wardrobe depends largely upon its freshness. A properly laundered garment, no matter how simple or inexpensive, is always attractive and in good taste. For the benefit of the women who have this work done in their homes I have written the following directions. If they are followed with care the work will be found simple and the results most satisfactory. White Cotton and Linen Articles. Soak the articles in cold water forhalf anhour. Wring from the cold water; soap and rub the soiled places; drop into hot water; wash well. Soap again and drop into boiling water. Partially cool in this water; rinse in several clear waters, then in bluing water. Wring dry and starch. Dry in the sunshine. An hour or two before beginning to iron dip the articles in boiling water and pass through the wringer. Roll in a sheet or towel. Iron on.the right side, being careful to press until perfectly dry. Embroidery and lace should be ironed on the wrong side and over a piece of clean flannel, that the pattern may be brought out. Colored Cotton Fabrics. Materials with colors printed ona white ground should be washed in two tepid soapsuds. Rinse in sev- eral cold waters and finally in bluing water. Starch, and dry in theshade. About an hour before ironing sprinkle and roll ina cloth. Fabrics in dark colors or in solid delicate shades should not be washed with soap. Starch will clean them perfectly and leave the goods practically the same as new. Any kind of starch may be employed, the best being cornstarch or flour, or the water in which rice has been boiled (three quarts of water to half a pint of rice). The starch must be strained and used tepid, not hot. Wash the garments in two starch waters, then rinse and blue. Enough starch will remain in the fabric to make it about as stiff as when new. If you wish it a little stiffer dip in a very thin solution of gum-arabic. If quite stiff, dip in the gum-arabic and starch preparation, Dry in the shade. Dampen, and iron on the wrong side. Shirt-Waists, CuffsandCollars. Shirt-waists are no longer worn very stiff, but when plain cuffs and collars are worn with them they must be made stiff enough to keep their form by starching as directed. Dip the cuffs and collars in the thick starch, and clap and rub the articles between the hands until every thread is saturated withit. Draw through the hand to remove the superfluous starch (or, better, fold in a cloth and pass through the wringer). Dry quickly, dip in tepid water, and roll in adry cloth. When ironing spread a piece of cheesecloth between the iron and the cuff or collar. If the articles are white, remove the cloth when the ironing is partially done, then polish. If the articles are colored, use the gum- arabic and starch and do not have it hot. For dark colors do not have the irons very hot, as heat dulls colors. To Launder Silk, Pongee, Etc. It is not difficult to launder silk if one will be patient and painstaking. Here are a few general rules to observe: Do the work quickly. Rinse the articles thoroughly. Press or shake out the water, but do not wring silk. When the washing is completed spread the article on a clean, dry sheet or cloth and roll it up. Irom in an hour’s, or Jess, time. Silk must never be sprinkled. If it gets too dry dampen it by rolling in a wet cloth. If you care for a little stiffening in the silk use isinglass or gelatine. Do. not use a very hot iron, always have a piece of cheesecloth between the iron and the silk, and press until the silk is perfectly dry. For white silk, shave fine one ounce of white soap, and put it in a bow! with half a pint of alcohol and a gill of white honey. Stir over hot water until the soap is melted. Spread the garment on a clean table, rub the soiled parts with the preparation, using a soft brush or sponge. Rinse in several céld waters. For light and colored silks and pongees, make a strong suds with hot water and fine white soap. Put this in twotubs or bowls. When tepid put the garmentin. Wash by rubbing between the palms of the hands. Wash in the second suds in the same manner. Rinse in cold water. Roll in a clean, dry sheet and iron as soon as possible. If stiffening is liked dip in a dilute preparation of isinglass or gelatine. The Preparation of Starch and Other Stiffening HE necessity for perfect cleanliness inall the operations of starch- ing cannot be too strongly urged. All the utensils, the cloths, the water and the hands must be perfectly clean. In stiffening an article care must be taken that every thread of the fabric is wet. with the preparation. White goods require well-boiled starch. Dark goods on which the starch might show are better stiffened with any of the following preparations: gelatine, gum-arabic, or a mixture of thin starch and gum-arabic, or mourning starch. To Make Starch havea kettle of boiling water. Inaclean, enam- eled saucepan stir until smooth half a cupful of starch and one cup- ful of cold water. Then gradually add boiling water, stirring all the time. Boil the starch for ten minutes, stirring constantly. Now add a little white wax or a piece of sperm candle. If wax or candle is not available use a teaspoonful of butter or lard. Cover the saucepan and let the starch simmer twenty minutes longer. Adda few drops of bluing. As soon as cool enough to handle strain through cheesecloth. The amount of boiling water added to the starch and cold water will depend upon how stiff the articles are to be made. For shirt bosoms, cuffs and collars add one quart of boiling water. For dresses, underskirts,,etc., use two quarts of boiling water. Gum-Arabic and Starch for Dark Materials. Soak one ounce of gum-arabic and a pint of water over night. Inthe morning put ina Saticepan, surround with cold water and place on the range. When the gum is dissolved strain through cheesecloth and add to a thin starch, made with half a cupful of dry starch, one cupful of cold water and three quarts of boiling water. Isinglass or Gelatine for Silks. Put one ounce of broken Russian isinglass or of gelatine into a large bow! with one quart of cold water and one tablespoonful of acetic acid. When it has soaked for three hours add two quarts of boiling water. Place the bowl over boiling water and cook two hours. Strain and cool. The Serving of Fruits By Mrs. S. T. Rorer Questions about cooking will be answered every month, but inquirers must give their names and addresses. Correspondents wishing replies by mati should inclose stamps or addressed stamped envelopes. URING the summer months substitute green succulent vege- tables and fruits for the heavier starches, sugars and meats. That they may be wholesome and easy of diges- ’ tion serve them as simply as possible. Small fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and cur rants, should be only moderately chilled; over-chilling makes them acid and unpalatable. The sub-acid or sweet fruits—cantaloups, watermelons, mulberries, guavas and bananas—should be served quite cold, and peaches only moderately so. The soft fruits should be handled as lightly as possible, and if sandy, washed by putting them into a colander, then dipping the colander down several times in a pan of clear, cold water. Do not, under any conditions, throw fruit into water and then take it out with either the hands or a skimmer. In almost every community leaves from fruit trees, or leaves from appropriate flowers, may be secured for the garnishing of fruit. The French go so far in winter as to use artificial leaves, which are, of course, not to be recommended, but the desire for artistic decorations is always to be considered. For breakfast, strawberries are far daintier if served with the hulls on, simply dipped in powdered sugar, and eaten from the fingers. It must be remembered that all fruits contain a sufficient amount of sugar. If they are too acid to be palatable they are too acid to be eaten. This is Nature’s way of warning us against unwholesome or unpalatable foods. Sugar in no way corrects an acid; it may cover the fruit, disguise it and make it pass the palate, but the two enter the stomach as they originally were —the acid as acid and the sugar as sugar. Both are in more dangerous condition than they were at first as the sugar with the fruit is liable to cause fermentation and flatulence. To Serve Strawberries with the Hulls On select large, fine ber- ries and arrange them in circles around the edge of individual fruit- dishes, placing in the centre of each a tablespoonful of powdered sugar. Strawberries Hulled. At the very last moment, just before serv- ing time, turn the strawberries into a colander, lift the colander in and out of cold water three or four times, stand it on a plate and quickly stem the berries. Pass with them powdered sugar if you use it. But it is far better to serve them plain. Many prefer granulated sugar, feeling that it is purer than pulver- ized. There is no reason why the granulated should not be served with soft fruits provided it is the fine variety. Frozen Strawberries. Mash one quart of strawberries; add half a pint of sugar and the juice of two lemons; cover and stand aside for one hour, Boil together half a pound of sugar and one quart of water for five minutes; strain and cool. Mix this with the strawberries, turn into the freezer and stir slowly until the mixture is frozen. Serve plain or with whipped cream. Strawberries, French Fashion, Stem and cut the strawberries into slices; put them into punch or lemonade glasses; fill each cup two-thirds full with strained orange juice; add a tablespoonful of powdered sugar, a tablespoonful of chipped ice, and use as first course for breakfast or luncheon. Fruit Punches, In the early spring days when strawberries are just coming, mixed fruits served in small punch-glasses under the name of fruit cocktails or fruit punches are exceedingly attractive. Into each glass put three or four strawberries sliced; squeeze over them the juice of one large orange, add a few thin slices of banana and a little pineapple, or any canned fruit that you may have in the house that will blend with the orange, as peaches, apricots or cherries. At serving time add a tablespoonful of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of chipped ice. Fruit punches are usually served at the beginning of luncheon or dinner and take the place of both soup and oysters. * Tutti-Frutti. Make a mixture precisely the same as for a fruit punch and stand aside to cool. At serving time fill glasses half full with this mixture and put in the centre of each two tablespoonfuls of orange or lemon ice, or if you like, mintice. Serve as dessert for luncheon. To Serve Raspberries. As these are perhaps the most delicate of soft fruits they require careful handling. They do not, as a rule, require washing; when they do, put them into a colander, and lift them carefully in and out of the water at the last moment before serving. Heap lightly in a glass bowl or deep dish. The juice ofa lemon added to raspberries at the last moment intensifies the flavor. Raspberry Cup. Mash and strain one pint of currants stripped from the stems; look over the raspberries and stand them aside to moderately chill. At serving time fill lemonade glasses half full of currant juice, then add the raspberries and send at once to the table. Raspberry cup may be used as a dessert or a first course for luncheon or breakfast. When Serving Whole Fruits. Select a raised dish with a cen- tre stand, sold under the name of “‘high’’ fruit dish. Arrange the apples and oranges in the bottom of the dish, and stick ripe bananas here and there. Arrange clusters of grapes to fall gracefully over the edge of the dish, and place one bunch right in the centre. Stick among the fruit any green leaves or ferns, or if you are out of town huckleberry or vine leaves. The colors of the fruits should be made to blend harmoniously. Stand the dish at once on the table. Whole fruit should be properly chilled before arranging it in a dish. Watermelons. Wash, wipe and put the melon into a cold place to rest for several hours as it must be thoroughly chilled. Cut slices from the ends of the watermelon, one thin, simply to make it stand firmly on a round plate, the other thick, down to the flesh. Decorate the dish with flowers or leaves and send at once to the table. To serve, scoop out the pulp in large egg-shaped pieces with a table or serving spoon. It is never dainty to serve the rind of watermelon on individual plates. | ra) Simple, Isn’t It ? Cog wheels are enclosed in this ball- like frame. Can’t get out of order. The simplest freezer and the easiest to turn is the Peerless Iceland Freezer Or the One Motion Freezer Freezes in three minutes. Pleasanter to freeze a dessert in hot weather than to cook it. More appetizing too, and the only expense is the cost of the materials. Write for booklet Ice Cream Secrets. Full of new recipes, all easy to make. Take one home and if not pleased, return it and dealer will refund money. Should your dealer not handle them, write us for address of one who does. Be sure you get a Peerless Iceland. DANA & CO., Dept. H, Cincinnati, O. The Peerless Ice Chipper, to chip ice properly, saves ice, time and hands. 25c. at all dealers or from us. KN OX’S GELATINE The Gelatine Standard of Our Day by which all other gelatines are judged. K-N-O-X Gelatine does not merely /ook well, it tastes good, digests quickly and unlike other kinds, acts as a refreshment on the system. A pure-food dessert that is also a health-/ood, No Charge For My Book of seventy * Dainty Desserts for Dainty People" fo grocer’s name. Or iustead send a 2c. stamp. F stamps, the book and full pint sample, For lc. aud tull two-quart package (two for 25c.). Pink color for fancy clesserts in every large packaye. A package of Kuox’s Gelatine makes two quarts — half gallon — of jelly. CHAS. B. KNOX 12 Railroad Avenue Johnstown, N.Y. CHECKER BOARO PACKACES DELICIOUS FOODS FOR SUMMER WEATHER alston BREAKFAST FOOD AND Ralston Breakfast Food is the only cereal that forms an ideal, natural combination with fruit. Nothing could be more delicious, cooling and healthful for a summer breakfast than a dish of Ralston served with fresh, ripe strawberries and cream. Cooks in Five Minutes Try it—a 2-Ib. checkerboard package costs only 15 cents at your grocer’s—a week’s supply for an average family. A Free Sample for your Grocer’s Name PURINA MILLS “Where Purily is Paramount’’ 834 Gratiot St. St. Louis, Mo. Produces a beau- tiful, ‘‘Velvety”’ Lawn by removing cut and dead grass leaves, etc., and thicken ing the grass growth. Sweeps pavements also. The Apollo Lawn-_ Sweeper Our free booklet tells all about it. THE GREENE MFG. CO., 15 East Street, Springfield, 0., U. >. 4

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Perfection for abies. The INKAL stocking summer or winter for all, Two separate jarts, best yarn, best nuon-potsononus dyes, best every way. Try a pair. We pay postage. Cost no more than other youd stockings. Sent on approval on re eipt of price where not kept by dealers. Write for circular THE FAY STOCKING COMPANY 22 T Street, Eiyria, Ohio F A STOCKINGS Home Journal for June 1902 Girls’ Problems By Margaret E. Sangster Questions of interest to girls will be answered on this page, but inquirers must give their names and Correspondents inclosing stamps or addressed stamped envelopes will be answered by mail. addresses. F ONLY I could be sure what is right!’’ The girl who talked to me was honestly anxious to do the right and just thing in a difficult case, but there were several people to be con- sidered and the situation was not She lifted puzzled brows, and her blue eyes **T do not know,”’ ‘* But God knows, dear,” I answered. ** And if God knows, and you ask Him, He will show you what is the right thing to do.”’ In our graver anxieties, as in our lesser ones, the safe way is to trust the intuitions we have, and, once resolv- ing on a course of action, to go forward, wasting no time later in vain regrets thaf¥e did not do some- thing else. Years ago, when I was a girl I wrote a little verse, which you may like: simple. looked questioningly into space. she said. I cannot do much, said a little star, ‘To make this dark world bright ; Mvy silvery beams cannot travel far Through the folding gloom of night ; But I am a part of God’s great plan, So I'll shine, and do the best that I can. When a Girl Should Choose for Herself I am a girl of twenty-three. I am teaching a country school in a little village in the mountains. You know the sort—a small red schoolhouse by the road. My pupils’ come from farms, for dis tances of a mile or two. I do not want to be a teacher all my life—I don’t care for teaching, and I'd rather be a trained nurse, but my parents think Iam too young to leave home. To them I am still a child. I am very unhappy and feel that I am throwing away precious time. MARGARET. At twenty-three you are old enough to choose for yourself. Parents often fail to appreciate the fact that their children are grown. If you can be spared from home I think you would do well to put your- self in training for the profession that attracts you, though nursing is by no means easy work. You may be looking at it from the romantic side, and thinking how pretty the uniform is. There is a vast deal of plain prose about a nurse’s life, and many fail to endure its hardships. But one thing is certain: you will never be a successful teacher if you have an aversion to teaching. Some of the best men in the nation had their first training in the little red schoo)house, but not from half-hearted teachers. The Evil of Outer Confidences What do you think of a girl who takes compara- tive strangers into her confidence and tells them family affairs to the detriment of her nearest kin ? C, A,B I fancy the girl who does this is very young and immature. Her action is indiscreet. Possibly her family are to blame in treating her with undue harshness or indifference. Loss of Caste in Honest Work Iam thinking of taking a place as waitress ina summer hotel so that I may earn money to pay my school bills next autumn. Does one lose caste by such a step? MARIE. Perhaps no question is more frequently repeated in my correspondence than this. same 1 have always the answer: no one ever loses caste by doing honorable work in a faithful girls earn a creditably Jarge sum by undertaking such way. Many clever work at summer inns and boarding-houses in the vacation season. A Case Needing Infinite Patience I have a sister who is apparently perfectly well; at any rate she looks so. But she gives up to her nerves, and makes everybody wait on her. I am out of patience with such demands. LETITIA. It is possible that your sister is suffering from some form of nerve-exhaustion. We who are well are not always in sympathy with those who suffer from obscure forms of illness. ‘Try to be gentle. One is never sorry in the end for patience, kind- Don’t you know that ‘** Charity suffereth long, and is kind ”’? ness and love. Racing Through Books How many books ought one to read in a month? Last month I read fourteen, and my mind isa blank page as to their contents. Being a book-lover I simply race through book after book. ELOISE. One or two books carefully read and quietly enjoyed are to be preferred to a dozen which are crammed in the fashion you have adopted. You will become a literary dyspeptic if you go on in this way. I cannot call you a book-lover. When is a Girl Most Fascinating to Men? Under what circumstances is a girl under thirty most fascinating and attractive to men ? ROBINE. When she is most indifferent to them, absotbed in her own occupations and evidently able to stand on her own feet, and enjoy her life in independence of the other sex. The impersonal girl is always the most charming. If to this quality she add good temper and good manners she will be extremely popular with the men she meets The Girl at Home After College My people made great sacrifices to send me to college. I did well and was happy while there. At home again, lam a misfit. The plain ways of my family are very trying to me, for I. now realize | that they would seem shocking in good society, and I have become fastidious. Am I to blame? ELEANOR. Pardon me for being candid, I think you are weak and ungrateful—weak in being disturbed | over what you cannot alter, and ungrateful in for- getting the self-denial that gave you the larger out- look and the wider privilege. Bestir yourself and do something to show yourself worthy of the educa- tion you have received. Just now you are the victim of reaction, and it will pass if you are brave. A Case of the Wrong Topic In a literary society to which I belong I have been assigned to the writing of a paper on a theme which I do not understand, in which I take no inter- est, and concerning which I can gather no facts or illustrations. What shall I do? JuLtiA M. K. Let somebody else write the paper. Decline to do it. You are trebly handicapped, and would make a failure. An Engagement in Haste I fancied that I was in love with a man whom I met at my sister’s last month, and, after a very short acquaintance, I consented to become engaged to him. As soon as I came home, and there were a hundred miles between us, I saw that I had made a mistake. I am not interested in this man now, and the thought of spending my life with him is repul- sive. ‘What shall Ido? ESTHER. You unwise to be so easily won. Your vanity was no doubt flattered by the homage of a stranger, and you were far too impulsive for discretion. Write at once, tell the truth, sparing yourself no mortification, and break the engage- ment. To marry a man whom you do not love would be little short of criminal. were most Beyond the Age of Daily Supervision My dear mother died when I was seventeen years old while I was still at boarding-school. I was preparing for college, but had to come home and take her place as well as I could, keeping house and caring for the younger children. My father is well-to-do, but fond of money, and I have never had an allow- ance, nor liberty to spend anything that could be helped, though sometimes he would buy goods for me to make up. Often my sisters and I have not been comfortably clothed. Last summer, when we were in great need, father went to town and pur- chased a whole piece of hideous red calico, telling us we might make that up if we liked. It was very different when mother was living. Father was not so miserly then. I am now twenty-seven, and my father has married again. Do you think I am justi- tied in leaving home, and doing something for my own support ? HELEN. In ten years the children have had time to grow beyond the need of daily supervision, and your father’s second marriage, in my judgment, sets you free. You will prize independence. Choose with care the line of work for which yousare best fitted. Physical Culture is Good for Girls Do you approve of physical culture ? Amy. I suppose by this question you mean exercises which develop the muscles, give a graceful carriage, and teach girls how to stand, walk and breathe well. I do indeed. ‘Try them yourself. A Short Cut to History Wishing to be well informed on the history of my own and other countries, but having had very little schooling and being employed in the daytime, I want to know the shortest way to reach my end. MATILDA. The short cut to the general knowledge you long for leads through biography. Read the lives of great men and you will gain a fair idea of the times in which they lived and the events they influenced. Lincoln’s Life is itself a good history of the Civil War; Washington’s, of the Revolution; Napoleon’s, of the period in which his brilliant spectacular feats of arms were performed. Biography is history, science, poetry and political economy combined. A Faultfinding Brother I have a brother who is in most ways very exem- piary, but who has developed of late a faultfinding disposition, especially at meals. Before he went to college he was pleased with our simple ways, but now nothing at home comes up to his standard, and mother and I are miserable in consequence. FRANCES. The young man went to college to little purpose if this is the result. Perhaps he is dyspeptic and needs a course of semi-starvation. The only way to treat a chronic faultfinder at the table is to have everything well cooked and daintily served, and then oppose an absolute placidity to every criticism. Simply do not mind the petty pin-pricks. Be amiably deaf to suggestions which are superfluous, and allow no such trifles to make you wretched. Trio pauene SAA YOROTEOORGRERBRCESREIOOALIS CUUUURAUTURASEOA) CRAERSOULARORADIL of the Box is the face of the discoverer of MENNEN’S BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER, put there for your protection. So many injurious imitations of MENNEN’S are abroad that this trade mark is put on the genuine as something that cannot be imitated. MENNEN’S is the only toilet powder absolutely safe to use on broken or irritated skin. Made of the finest re- fined talcum, prepared anti- septically, MENNEN’S Borated Talcum Toilet Powder is essential for children’s health and comfort, a luxury for ladies’ toilet, delightful after shaving, refreshing after the bath, cooling for sunburn, net- tle rash, prickly heat, and all conditions of the skin requir- ing soothing treatment. For blistered and perspiring feet it has no equal, Of course it costs a trifle more than imita- tions, but it’s worth much more. A sample by mail, free, if you mention this magazine. Sold everywhere. By mail, 25 cents. GERHARD MENNEN COMPANY 100 Orange Street Newark, N. J.

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Page 28 A GIFT FOR LIFE A gift which embodies beauty, truth, faithful ness — just as a DUEBER- HAMPDEN WATCH “ACCURATE TO THE SECOND” embodies beauty and accu racy and faithful service. What could be more appro printe for a gift to the bride han "THE FOUR HUNDRED” The smallest, accu rate watch in the world and built ex pressly for women’s wear, “THE CARE OF A WATCH” A most entertaining book- let. Will give you valuable information and save an- noyance and repair bills We send it with catalog request, DUEBER-HAMPDEN WATCH CO. 10 South Street Canton, Ohio THE senson is now at hand when out- of-door sports are in order, and there is not a more fascinating sport for a young lady than shooting, and every year it grows more popular. In hunt- ing it takes you into the woods and fields, and nature study is very instructive. In our Kircr CONTEST we offer you an opportunity to try your marksmanship. In our last contest hundreds of young ladies participated. Weare to day making the finest line of ladies’ rifles to be found. We offer 100 prizes, amounting to $1000.00, and you may enter if youowna ‘““STEVENS”’ Send for a copy of our booklet, giving eonditions and results for 1901. Nearly every dealer in Sporting Goods carries a line of our ARMS, Ve issue a handsome cata- logue of interest; yours if requested. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CO. 290 Main Street CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. FOR THE JUNE BRIDE The extreme beauty and richness of design of 7 **1835 R. WALLACE’’ silver plated ware makes it Wark desirable for wedding ag oe The “R. W. "trade-mark on Sterling silver is a guaranty of pb e. We will The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 exe CORRECT SPEAKING AND ) WRITING By Elisabeth A. Withey Onestions w A correspondent who: INCE Class Day invitations will soon reach us, it may not be amiss to point out a few errors that are committed every year in answering these invita tions,— errors in t English, I mean: breaches of etiquette I leave to The Lady from Philadelphia. The errors will, perhaps, be clearer if I give first the usual simple forms of acceptance and non-acceptance, which are about as follows: — 519 BLANK STREET NEW YORK Mr. JoHN BARNARD BROWN accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of the Blank Blank Club for Class Day. June eleventh. 510 BLANK STREET NEW YORK Miss MARY BARNARD SMITH regrets that she is unable to accept the kind invitation of the Blank Blank Club for Class Day. June eleventh, It seems superfluous to say that a note which begins in the third person should keep to the third person, and yet many a college man writes ‘‘ Mr. John Barnard Brown accepts with pleasure your kind invitation,’’ though he has addressed no one; others begin with a direct address, “ Dear Miss Smith,’’ and continue, ‘‘ Mr, John Barnard Brown accepts,’’ etc.; and now and then one begins ‘* Mr. John Barnard Brown accepts,” sincerely,’’ and ends ‘** Yours with his name again. Tar more common than any of these blunders of inex perience is the mistake of replying in the fuiure tense rather than in the present, and this is not preeminently a man’s blunder. Again and again and again, any one who is receiving answers to ia) invitations meets the forms accept, will be happy to regrets that she will be unable to accept.’’ Now acceptance or non-acceptance takes place at the time of writing, and therefore one ** is happy to accept ’’ or ‘* at that time. 19 be regrets that she is unable to accept’ “ Effected” is the Word Please inform me whether the word “ affected ’’ is correctly used in the newspaper column headlines enclosed: A COMPROMISE It May Yet Be Arrecren IN LEGISLATIVE IGM G. We It isnot. “ Effected’’ is the proper word. “No Objection” Says All that is Intended Is there any choice between ‘‘T have no objec- tions ’’ and ‘‘ I have no objection ”’ ? A.R. “T have no objection ’’ no objections ”’ is preferable to ‘‘ I have : if one has not a single objection, one has not more. The point is rather a fine one, but it is one of those which make the difference between excellent English and mediocre English. “Most” to be Distinguished from “Almost” Won’t you say a word or two about the misuse of ‘most,’’ as in ** Most any one,’’ which we so fre- quently hear ? FRANCES L, We do, indeed, frequently hear ‘‘ Most any one can tell you,’’ “ It is most a year since I left home,’ and similar expressions, in which ‘* most’? is incor- rectly used for ‘‘almost.’’ ‘* Most’’ often means “nearly all,’’—that is, ‘‘ almost all,’’—as in ‘Most boys like him’’; but it never means ‘nearly’’: when “ nearly’’ can be substituted for it, ‘*most’’ should be changed to “ almost.’’ The Piural of “ Apparatus” Will you publish in THE JOURNAL the correct plural of ‘‘ apparatus ’’ ? ™ FR ‘¢ Apparatus’’ is sometimes used for the plural, but the better form is ‘‘ apparatuses.’’ ” A Provincialism Please let me know if the word “lift” in the enclosed part of a pass-book is correct. Or should it be ‘‘take up’’? Cc. Fee * Take up,’”’ or ** collect,’’ would be much better than “‘ lift ’’ in the sentence ‘‘ If the cover comes off the book the conductor will lift the coupons and return them to the office.’’ Such a use of ‘‘ lift ’’ is a provincialism, as is the Scotchman’s when he speaks of “ lifting rents,’’ or Sir Thomas Lipton’s when he speaks of * lifting the cup.’’ “Without” Should Not be Used for “ Unless” Iam told that I use ** without ’’ where I should use ‘ unless ’’; can you explain this error ? L.M. **Without’’ is correctly used in ‘‘ I cannot come without him’’; incorrectly used, for ‘‘ unless,’’ in ill be answered every mouth on this page. ishes an answer by mail should inclose a stampo luquirers must give their names and addresses, ranaddressed stamped envelope, How Mr. Riis Pronounces His Name Can you tell me how Jacob Riis pronounces his last name ? A. B.S. In a personal letter, Mr. Riis himself says: ** My name is pronounced as if spelled Rees. The‘ i has the ‘e’ Doubling the vowel is just the old way of emphasizing it.”’ sound in Danish. Questions Not Always Sentences I do not understand the punctuation of Mr. Bok’s question in aformer issue of THE JOURNAL: ** What single article, department, or feature in this number of THE LApIES’ HOME JOURNAL do you like least? and why?” If there are two questions, why does not ‘‘and’’ begin with a capital ? r.€ Mr. Bok’s question has two interrogation-points and yet ‘‘and’”’ begins with a small letter, for the reason that, though there are two questions, these questions are, nevertheless, so closely connected in meaning that they are but parts of one sentence. In a series of questions, if each question is a com- plete sentence, it is customary to begin each with a capital letter and end it with a mark of interroga- tion; but, if each question is not a complete sentence, it is customary to begin all but the first with small letters and toend each with a mark of interrogation, or, if all are to be thought of together as forming one question, to separate the parts by commas or semicolons, and begin the question with a capital letter and end it with a mark of interrogation. * Less” and “ Lesser” What is the proper distinction between ‘ less”’ and ** lesser ’’? hee Dee See ** Less ”’ may be either an adjective or an adverb,— as, ** less wit,’”’ ‘* less witty’’; ‘* lesser’’ is never an adverb, and as an adjective it is to be used, in prose, only in the sense of smaller, minor, or inferior,— ” is, ** the lesser evil,’’ ** the lesser prophets. A Subjanctive Form Kindly explain the use of ** were ”’ in ‘* I remem ber my first fishing-excursion as if it were but yesterday.’’ Is not the subject ‘* excursion.”’ a it’’ which refers to ‘f excursion.”’ not plural, but the subjunctive The subjunctive is used in a supposition which is contrary to a fact,—the ‘* fishing-excur- sion’’ was longer ago than yesterday. The subject is ** ‘*Were’’ singular. is here, The Possessive of “Adams” and “ Louis” Will you kindly give the correct form of the pos sessive of *‘ Adams’’ and * Isouis’’; is the first ‘Adams’”’ or ‘* Adams’s”? and is the second ** Louis’’’ or ** Louis’s’’?’? If both forms are allowable, which is preferred ? Joun HH. allowable ; but the weight of present usage is with ‘* Adams’s,”’ ‘ Louis’s,”’ unless the context is such as to make ‘* Adams’ ,’’ euphonious. We should say ** Louis’s mother,” but not ‘‘ for Both forms are * Louis’,’? more ** Adams’s hat,” Adams’s sake,’’ ‘* I.ouis’s sauciness’”’: the latter have too many ‘‘s’s’’ forthe hearer’s comfort. One cannot safely, however, be dogmatic on questions of euphony; for what is agreeable to one pair of ears may be disagreeable to another. A Question of Popular Usage Should we say ‘‘ Come to see me ”’ see me’’? or ‘* Come and KATHRYN B, Either iscorrect. ‘ Come and,” like “ try and,” is often objected to, but it is an established idiom Emigrant and Iminigrant Will you please grant discriminate between ‘‘ emi- ” and ** immigrant.” M. W. The whole story is told in the prefixes: the ‘‘e’’ of *‘emigrant’’ is the Latin preposition “e” or **ex,”? meaning ‘fout of’ or **from’’; the ‘tim ”’ of ‘immigrant ’’ is the Latin preposition ‘in ’’ meaning ‘‘ into’’ or ‘*to.’’ An ‘‘emigrant’’ is, then, one who migrates from a country; an ‘* immi- grant,’’ one who migrates to a country: thus, an Irishman who leaves his native land and settles in the United States is an emigrant from Ireland, ai immigrant to the United States, and whether we shall speak of him as one or the other depends on our point of view,— whether we think of him with reference to his country or with reference to ours. Concerning the “j”" in “Jr.” I am in the habit of writing my name * John Brown, jr.’ My use of a smali *‘j”’ in the abbre- viation for ‘‘ junior’’ has been questioned ; is there any authority for it? JOHN BRown, JR. There is authority for it: the Oxford Diction ary, the Standard, the Century, and Webster’s International all give the abbreviation for ‘* junior ’’ with a small ‘* j”’ and with a capital ‘ j however, is in favor of the capital. Usage, Hus J erevere to be successful, It is not enough for you to wish that your husband, your brother, or your son hada better position. You can be of real help by urging iim to fill in, cut out, and send us the coupon below. Women, as well as men, can qualify for the positions printed in tlalic. for better work and day and learn how We have had ten years’ expe rience in training ambitious Write fo INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Box S31, Seranton, Pa. Exp'ain how I cau qu alify for position marked X. Mechanieul Eng. Mech. Draft«man Steam Engineer Electrical Eng. Eleetrician Civil Engineer Mining Engineer Architect Arch. Draft«aman Analytl Chem tL iti it Cotton Mill Supt. W ovolen Mill Supt. |_| Textile Designer. 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Send for Of the best dealers everywhere. Wallingford, Coun. > that one or two heathens winced slightly when the new booklets .bout shutters and lenses. Please give the correct semanas’ " ‘oppo- holy water was sprinkled on the coffin.” Is _ nent. PE. ‘*heathens’’ correct? I thought that ‘‘ heathen ”’ Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The correct pronunciation is Se the had but one form for the singular and the plural. NEW YORK Rochester, N.Y. CHICAGO Rm @ @ @ DO @ OD @ @ OOD DD ODO“ accent, or stress, is on the second syllable, of which H.P.1 the *‘o”’ is long (as in ‘‘note’’); according to Stormonth, the first ‘‘o’’ is short (as in ** not ’’); | according to the American dictionaries it is obscure (as in ‘‘ atom ’’); but these sounds are scarcely dis- | tinguishable from each other in rapid speech. SOOBOHO56O55 55850 SCHOOLS OF EXPRESSION Oratory Music Dramatic Art Prof. E. A. OTT, Author and Lecturer, Pre Summer School, Investigate—Catal Des Moines, ta. 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to e\' as i 2 i i i, he i i Oi ian S5OB555555656 | se The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 MME. SUZANNE ADAMS. The Popular American Prima Donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company Indorses the Famous Lablache Face Powder HOTEL BELLEVUE. Messrs. Ben Levy & Co.: I have used your face powder, “Lablache,” and shall be much obliged to you if you will send me two more packets to take to London with me. It is by far the best face powder that has been brought to my notice, and I shall certainly use no other. Yours tru/y, SUZANNE ADAMS. Boston, March 18, 1902, Lablache ‘Face Powder is used and indorsed by society and professional ladies all over the world. It is an exquisite toilet necessity. Avery woman may possess the charm of a lovely complexion by its use. It soothes, freshens, clears, beautifies, pre- serves a fine complexion, restores a faded one, Avoid spurious imitations and all substitutes. Flesh, White, Pink, Cream tints. FIFTY CENTS PER BOX Of All Druggists or by Mail: BEN LEVY & CO. 125 Kingston Street, Boston, Mass. Dangerous Counterfeits are on the market; Beware ! Why not have a dainty, mod- ern bathroom inyour house ?— the price is within your reach. Send us your plumber’s name and we will send you, free, our book, ““MODERN BATH- ROOMS,” which shows many especially de- signed interiors, with suggestions for decoration and arrangement, and revised cost list, giving reduced prices of tubs. The bathroom shown abeve costs $245 Next month we will show one to cost $225 STANDARD SANITARY MFG. COMPANY Box K, Pittsburg, Pa.. ARE THE MANTELS FOR THE DIS- CRIMINATING BUYER They cover a line of designs suitable from the smallest cottage to the finest residence, and in every point of material, construction, design and finish have no Superior at prices asked. Sold Direct From Factory and we pay the freight. Our hand- some catalogue, 10x 14 inches, the most complete book of its kind ever issued, will be sent to interested puar- ties for 10 cents in stamps to cover ac- tual cost of postage. KING MANTEL COMPANY Knoxville, Tenn. * Suppose we ask The Lady from Philadelphia what is best to be done” Questions will be answered every month on this page. Inquirers must give their names and addresses. Correspondents wishing answers by mail should inclose stamps or addressed stamped envelopes, CLERGYMAN once said that he always made the same little speech to each couple that he married, for he thought that it contained wisdom. Tothe man he said, ‘‘ May you be as happy as you deserve,’’ and to the woman, ‘* Your happiness lies in your own hands.’’ HE making of the home does lie in the woman’s hands, and she can make it a little bit of Heaven if she has much love and high ideals. BOVE all things have a home, not a mere lodging-place in some hotel or boarding-house, if you would not lose the romance of life. PITY the homeless wife who has no duties, nothing upon which to exercise her skill, ingenuity and interest. After her husband has left her for the day —for he is usually a busy bee and has work to do — this queen bee, who leads the life of a drone, has to plan how to kill time. HE husband receives none of the loving little ministries, resulting from the labor of her hands or of her wit in direction and management which are so endearing. She shops and she visits, and, unless her soul is a very earnest one, Satan will find some mischief for her idle hands. Her freedom from responsibility dwarfs the powers, which deteriorate from lack of use. N°? MATTER how small, how simple, how unfashionable the neighborhood, let your home be your own —for a time at least — where every detail of furnishing, every bit of ornament, expresses your own taste and wisdom in selection — in short, yourself. Mest women possess what Hawthorne calls *‘a kind of natural magic’’ that enables them to bring out hidden possibilities and give a look of habitableness to the least promising surroundings, EW things increase love like pride in the beloved. When your husband can bring his friends about him in pleasant hospitality to a cozy, com fortable home, to provide which has not too severely taxed his means, you will have a new joy in his deeper appreciation of you, as he hears his old comrades confess that they envy him, and that his home and happiness tempt them to marry. WIFE must not remain a mere pet, and an object to please his eyes, if she would keep her husband's heart. The word ‘‘ together ’’ holds happiness enough at first, but we are complex mortals, and our mental needs have their claims. ” YOU have married a healthy, hearty, hard working man —as I hope you have — you will find that his love and happiness thrive apace upon well-cooked, well-served meals three times a day. Before marriage you had only to be charming, but now you have undertaken to satisfy the entire man, to be to him all in all. The commissariat depart- ment is as much a part of your responsibility as the meeting of expenses is his duty. OUSEKEEPING is not a knack that comes by nature. It is a profession and your oppor tunity to show what is in you—a field for clever management and the exhibition of that artistic economy in which the French so excel. ig PROVIDING for your table order your sup- plies in person. See the meat cut and weighed, and pay cash for everything. The telephone and the order-book are responsible for many poor meals and big bills. One is able to pick up many a deli cacy by being on the spot to take advantage of special prices. A little watchful care will teach you just how long supplies ought to last. EEP a strict account of all that youspend. Be a just steward. Be ashamed to lay upon the man of your heart burdens too heavy for him to carry easily and joyously, if you can help it. sow what it costs you to live. Keep yourself and your belongings well in hand that you may be ready to retrench if need arise. Learn to be independent for pleasure of what money will buy. Cultivate all your internal resources and the power to get pleasure from simple things. Have some pleasant ‘* hobby,’’ to which you may turn in leisure moments—with all the more zest and interest because an indulgence to be enjoyed only when duty presses no claim. F YOU are to have servants choose them yourself —don’t get ‘‘ mother ’’ to engage them for you. Select those whom you will not be afraid to direct. Be the mistress of your own house, but be aisoa friend to the girl, and by your kindliness change drudgery into pleasant duty. Save and plan in the early days of matrimony for the permanent home that may be bought or built. T IS an esthetic blunder to dress in a manner that is not in keeping with the furnishings of the house. The background should be in harmony. HEN Hiawatha and his bride took their joyous way to their new home together all Nature sympathized. The sun advised him to rule by love, and the moon said, “ Rule by patience, Laughing Water.’’ Don’t grow teary and tell yourself that he does not love you if he speaks sharply some- | times. You have married a man, not an angel. Remember that the most valuable possession a wife has is her husband’s affection. Let her never jeop- ardize it, cost what it may to pride. OT the least among wifely arts is that of cre- ating a cheerful atmosphere. Try to make his home-coming always a pleasure, and the time spent with you restful and inspiring. NEVER retail your small worries and your domestic grievances into his ear upon his return home. He has burdens of his own to bear. A sunshiny face, a merry tongue and an even temper are qualities in a wife that will help him to forget business cares and give him courage to meet them. EEP up a measure of social life and interest, and treasure all that is entertaining to share with your lord and master, being careful to betray no one’s secrets or confidence, and repeating only that which shall not depreciate others. HE young matron with a pleasant home and hospitable tastes may make her husband's friends welcome at their fireside and influence them for good. By her conduct and speech they will weigh the value of wives and homes in general. “THE pretty dignity of a loved and loving wife who treats them with a half-sisterly, half- maternal freedom is very engaging and winning to young men forming conclusions about life and love. An increased respect and regard for womanhood come to them and help to form ideals that shall make them better, purer and happier men. HE young wife in her r6le of hostess should con- fine herself to simple, informal merrymakings. A luncheon for half a dozen girl friends needs no more elaborate menu than fruit or bouillon, one hot dish, a salad and a simple sweet. A little dinner may bring a few friends pleasantly together. Soup, a roast with two vegetables, a salad, a sweet course and black coffee will suffice. Afternoon tea offers another opportunity for the exercise of hospitable instincts, when toasted crackers or wafer-like bread-and-butter sandwiches are all that need be provided. ‘id BRIDE and groom are fond of gathering their friends about them let them tax their wits and ingenuity rather than their pocketbooks to provide entertainment. The result will be gratifying. HEARD recently of a musical guessing contest called ‘*‘ The Wedding of the Operas.” Each guest was given a doubled card or booklet with pencil attached, the cover representing a mini ature sheet of music. Upon one page was a list of numbered questions, the answers to be written upon the opposite page; suggested by selections from well-known operas and operettas played upon the piano or other instrument. The names of the operas answered the questions. The following was the program: 1. Who were the bride and groom? 2. What was the bride called —from the circum- stances of her wedding? 3. At what sort of party did they meet? 4. He weut asa minstrel. What was he called? 5. She weut as an Austrian peasant. What was she called? 6. At the wedding what Spanish girl was maid of honor ? 7. What noted Swiss was best man? 8. What two ladies (friends of Donizetti's) were bridesmaids? g. What four Germans were the ushers ? 10. What mythological personage presided over the music ? 11. Who sang at the ceremony ? 12. What noted person from Japan was present ? 13. What noted bells were rung in honor of the wedding ? 14. What ship did they take for their wedding trip? 15. When on the voyage who captured them ? 16. What virtue sustained them in captivity ? 17. What gentleman of dark complexion rescued them ? 18, What historical people entettained them in Frauce? 19. In Northeast Italy what grand affair did they attend ? 20. Who showed them the sights of Venice? And the music gave answer, as follows: 1. Romeo and Juliet. 2. The Runaway Girl. 3. Masked Ball. 4. Trovatore. 5. The Bohemian Girl. 6. Carmen. 7. William Tell. 8. Lucia di Lammermoor and Linda di Chamouni. g. Lohengrin, Faust, Tanuhauser and Siegfried. 10. Orpheus. 11. The Meistersinger. 12. The Mikado. 13. The Chimes of Normandy. 14. H. M.S. Pinafore. 15. The Pirates of Penzance. 16. Patience. 17. Othello. 18. The Huguenots. 19. The Carnival of Venice. 20. The Gondoliers. Page 29 One of the above watch cases is solid gold, the other is a Jas, Boss Stiffened Gold Case. Which is which ? ‘There is only one way to tell them apart — wear each of them 25 years —the solid gold case will. wear too thin to protect the works, ‘he Jas, Boss Case will re tain its original appearance and stability. ‘The JAS. BOSS Stiffened GOLD Watch Case is neither an imitation of a solid gold case, nor a substitute for it. Z/ is befler. It wears longer than a solid gold case; always remains rigid; never bends or dents; and perma- nently protects the works. Sold by every jeweler as the standard of watch-case quality, This trade-mark is in every genuine Jas. 1c Boss Case. Send for Booklet The Keystone Watch Case Company Philadelphia Makes, Keeps and Restores beauty in Nature’s owu way HE cup-shaped teeth have a suction effect on the skin that smooths out wrinkles, rounds out the beauty muscles, and gives perfect circulation of the blood. It is so constructed that it treats every portion of the face and neck perfectly, even to the “‘crow’'s feet’ in the corners of the eyes. A Jar of skin food GIVEN with every Koller, For sale by all dealers, or malled upon receipt of price, Rubber Catalogue Free, Agents Wanted, Cc. J. BAILEY & CO. 22 Boylston Street, BOSTON, MASS. Protection from germs is sure if you use Creolin-Pearson, the ideal germ destroyer, deodorant, and _ disin- fectant. Medical authorities endorse it. All druggists sell it. ‘Two sizes—— 50 cents and $1.00. Disinfectants are always needed, not only when there is smallpox in the neighborhood. Creolin-Pearson keeps the air pure, When buying look for signature of Merck & Co. on yellow strip around neck of bottle. Send for our booklet, “ Health Hints.” (Free of charge.) CREOLIN-PEARSON, 13-19 University Place, N. Y. ‘ ‘ Piano, Organ, Music Learning At Home wisi, ccter Mandolin, Harmony and (Com- position. Send for free booklet, teliing how you can learn to play any of these instruments without going to a teacher. If you want an instrument send for Speelal Otter. Address U. 8. School of Music, 19 Union Square, Dept. A, New York, N. ¥.

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HEN the baby is taken away from the city during the hot months, hotels and boarding-houses should be avoided, if possible. The most simple little house in the most unfashionable village is preferable, and really less expensive in the end. Children who are at all inclined to have colds or | coughs, or who are susceptible to lung troubles of any kind, thrive better either in the mountains or country than at the seashore. Children who are subject to disturbances of the | digestive organs frequently do better at the sea- shore. Even then it is not wise to choose a cottage situated directly on the beach, but one that is five or ten minutes’ walk from it. Keep the baby on the beach all you can on pleasant days, but during sudden changes of weather, storms, etc., it will be wiser not to expose him to the ocean breezes. Until a child is two years and a half old it is bet- | ter to have the salt water brought to the house and | thinly clad, heated to 98° Fahrenheit when the bath is given; after that age the child may go into the ocean once a day if clad in a flannel bathing suit, and be allowed to stay in well covered by the water for five or ten minutes, then gently but briskly rubbed down in the bathhouse, and dressed quickly. When selecting a house in the country one situ- ated on high ground should be secured if possible, and one which is not near stagnant water or small brooks. Mosquitoes are apt to abound near such water and often bring malaria. If the baby is old enough to toddle give him a sand pile under a shady tree and he will be happy for hours at a time. If obliged to remain in the city, keep the baby, in the house during the most heated period of the day, taking him out in the early morn- ing, and between five and seven in the afternoon. | | | | | The question of food for a bottle-fed infant while traveling is often aserious problem. If you expect to take a long sea voyage and then travel a good deal afterward it is not safe to rely altogether on cow’s milk. This is one of the times when prepared foods may be allowed. It is well to accustom the child to the use of the food you select for a week or two before you start. If your jour- | ney is to be limited to not more than six or seven days get pure, fresh milk that has been rapidly | cooled, and hermetically sealed in glass jars; keep | these jars packed in ice constantly and you may then safely use the milk to prepare the baby’s food. There is an excellent little basket now made for carrying bottles of food for the baby. It is lined with felt and contains a galvanized ice-box anda rack large enough to hold twelve six-ounce bottles or four and eight ounce bottles. If the journey is not to be a very extensive one the food may be pre pared at home, packed in one of these baskets, and simply heated by means of an alcohol lamp on the train, or in the kitchen of the steamer. Tf you have a very young baby, and do not care to move his crib for the summer, get a large-sized clothes-basket, pack in it the army blanket to be used for mattress, the little hair pillow, and any other things you may wish to take; then cord it, using a piece of ticking or burlap for the covering, and it will be much easier than moving acrib. It | may stand on two chairs close to the mother’s bed, and will be far healthier than allowing the baby to sleep in the same bed with an adult. The folding rubber bathtub, which will fit in the bottom of a trunk, will be found a great comfort. It has a faucet, by means of which the water may be drawn off, thus making it easy to empty. If the baby carriage is large and comfortable the baby may sleep in it out-of-doors in the daytime in summer. But be careful to cover him with a piece | of netting to keep away flies and mosquitoes. After | the child is a year old he had better be brought into | the house for his nap. Every morning in summer the baby should have | his full tub bath, the temperature of the water being 98° Fahrenheit. It is often a good plan to give the bath just before nap time. If the nap is to be taken | in the house the nightdress should be put on. During very warm weather it is well to add two | | | teaspoonfuls of cooking soda to a basin ot tepid water, and use this to sponge the baby’s body every night before he is put to bed. If the child is teeth- ing, is very restless or has any fever, a tablespoon- ful of alcohol to a basin of tepid water is excellent to use for sponging purposes. The sponging may | be done two or three times a day if necessary. | Always use a soft washcloth. If the child has prickly heat a little vinegar added to the tepid water in which he is bathed will be found very cooling. are also excellent for this trouble from which so many babies suffer in summer. To give a starch bath enough starch should be added to give the water a milky appearance. The child may be put in the water or else he may be frequently sponged with it during the day. After the bath the parts affected with prickly heat should be dusted with baby powder, made from two parts of starch, two of talcum, and one part boric acid powder. When the body is covered with the eruption a little linen or cotton shirt worn inside the one of thin gauze will give considerable relief to the little sufferer. Never forget to give the baby his full share ot water. What he takes in his food is by no means enough. Water for an infant should be boiled, then put into a clean bottle, corked, and left ina cool place. It should not be allowed to stand, but should be prepared every day. It may be given to a young infant either by means of a medicine- dropper, a spoon, or put into a nursing-bottle. At the very least water should be given the baby during the hot weather three times a day, and as much oftener as he will take it. Next month I shall give some further and fuller sug- gestions regarding the summer care of a baby from every point. | | | | Bran baths and starch baths | | | The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 Are necessary if you want the best results in your Preserved Fruits 4 Ye full strength of Tone’s Spices is yielded to the pre- serves. The ideal results are because of the purity — because there is nothing but spice to give flavor. For your pickled peaches, tomatoes, chilisauce, chow-chow, spiced curranls, relishes get TONE’S SPICES mangoes, citron, catsup and all your preserves and All pure and always packed in ten-cent flavor-retaining packages. FREE We will send you free a s: imple of any spice you want, if you will give us your groce r’s name. free, * Tone’s Spicy ‘Talks L, We will include also, * giving you twenty of our best recipes, including our famous $150 ginger bread recipe. Tone’s Spices go farther because of their strength. Women who buy care- fully, regardful of the family health, insist on they know they are pure. If you for ‘TYoue’s. Tone’s Spices because Ask can’t get them send ten cents for a pack- age any kind. Write to-day for sample and booklet “ L.” TONE BROS., Des Moines, Iowa Bulk spices ave dangerously adulterated. _A shining example of true merit. LECTRO SILICON | Used by owners of valuable Plate for more than a quarter century. Trial quantity for the asking ; send ad- dress on postal, in stamps. Box, postpaid, 15 cts. At grocers and druggists. THE ELECTRO SILICON €O., 34 CUM Street, New York NO MORE DARNING Racine Feet A New Pair Hose for 10¢ Cut off ragged feet, attach “ Racine Feet” to legs of hosiery by our new Stockinette Stitch,and you have a pair of hose as good as new. Cost only 10c and a few moments’ time. Racine Feet come in cotton, sizes 5toll, black or white. Price, 10c. a pair; prepaid, Booklet, ** The Stockinette Stitcl,”’ tells everything. Sent free. Racine Knitting Co. Dept. E, Racine, Wis. METALAC for all metal surfaces. Produces a beautiful silver finish, does not tarnish. Good for bathtubs, sinks, pipes, radiators, fences, smoke stacks, everything metal indoors or outdoors. Durable, wearable, withstands fire or frost, boiling water or ice. Applied by brush, dries rapidly. Write for Trial Can Enough to cover 15 square feet by mail, 25 cents. much, 40c, Illustrated information free. Agents wanted. Twice as Ask your dealer for it. THE BILLINGS-CHAPIN CO. Finest Paluts and Varnishes Dept. C, CLEVELAND, OHIO Sole distributors west of Rochester, N. Y., north of Gulf Coast. Breeders of ure Shetland Ponies SUNNYSIDE Shetland Pony Farm Beautiful and intelligent little pets for children constantly on hand ind for sale. Correspondence solic- ited. Write for handsomely illus- trated pony catalogue to MILNE BROS, 600 Eighth St. Monmouth, Ill. _ Wh N t G t Th Your children will enjoy y 0 4 CM it sore than anything ° else. It's an education a Colfax Pony Rig? in itself—fosters kind- ness to dumb animals, encourages thrift and assists in developing mind and body. COLFAX PONY RIGS are the best that are made. Noted for wearing qualities, elegant finish and exclusive designs. Every Colfax vehicle guaran- teed. We can fit you out very reasonably. 1902 Book and prices /ree, also copy of little magazine** Ponyland."’ Write to-day. “SHYNEY-SHYNE” SILVER POLISH Contains no acids, Non-injuriouws. Makes beautiful Cleans all metals. Use it once, then always. A million orders wanted this season. By mail 15 cents. Two boxes 25 cents. Till August a useful present will be put in each box. THE SHYNEY-SHYNE CO., Cincinnati, Ohio lustre. Have a Box of CANDY ? It is FREE MOTHERS who will write us how many children they have, send name and ad- dress of their grocer, and state where they saw this advertise- ment — enclose 5c. to pay postage — will re- ceive free of charge a sample box of Sanitas Food Candy The New, Delicious Health Confection May be freely eaten without the least injury to teeth or health. Is an aid to digestion. Specially good for puny children and thin people. Put up in the form of caramels, with or without nuts. 40c. per pound, with 16c. added if by mail, 4 pounds delivered east of Mississippi river for $1.60. SANITAS NUT FOOD CO., Ltd. 6 Washington Avenue, North, Battle Creek, Mich, A tooth paste comm re vot = Rider Agents Wanted One in each town to ride and exhibit a sample 1902 Bicycle. 1902 Models, $9 to $15 "O01 and 00 Models, high grade, $7 to $11 500 Second-hand Wheels all makes and models, good as new, to $8. Great Factory Clearing Sale at half factory cost. We ship to anyone on approval and ten days’ trial without a cent in advance. Karn a Bleyele distributing 1000 catalogues for us. Write at once for bargain list , and our wonderful special offer to agents. Tires, equipment, sundries, all kinds, half regular prices. MEAD CYCLE CO., Pest. 23 H, cricager iil. CLASS PINS ®,03: two or three S letters with ‘01, 02, '03, enameled in one or two colors, sterling silver, 25c. each ; $2.50 a doz. Silver plated, 10c. each ; $1.00a doz. Special designs in pins or badges made for any class or society at reason- able prices; send design and class colors for estimates. C atalog free. Address BASTIN BROS., Rochester, N. Y- STANMER Our 200-page book “* The nage A ot Treatment of Stammering"’ sent Free to any address. Enclose 6 cents to pay postage. LEWIS STAMMERING SC nook, ‘eo Adelaide St.. Detroit, Mieh. nl Wardrobe Patterns PATTERNS for 82 different articles —long clothes with full » «irections for making, showing nec- essary material, etc., or 10 pat- terns for short clothes, either set sent postpaid for only 25 cents. A large illustrated booklet, showing everything necessary for mother and infant, sent y free with every order. Send Silver or stamps. Address MRS. C. E. ATSMA, BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY utiful nder- fell Py sh in the veo gl for “Our ki neh id ay babe abrics are NOVELTY KNITTING COMPANY 312 Broadway, Albany, N.Y. | Infant’s Outfit 23 Pieces $5.69 Everything for Babies and Children. Send 3c. for Spring and Summer Catalogue. “We cater to the little ones.” NYE & HERRING, 635 Madison Street, Chicago, Il], | ~~ —"==4 A Labor and Time Saver for Women For convenience nothing can com- pare with using The GEM Ironing Machine It absolutely saves nine-tenths time, great amount of labor and all worry Economical, practical, durable. Only 1 cent per hour to heat by gas or gaso- line. Sent FREE—Illustzated book- let, ‘‘ Modern Methods in Ironing ® \Vrite to-day. Domestic Mangle Co., Hox E Racine Junction, Wis. ~ oe

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The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 i! Vinegar @oceeas Freeport ~ Ills. U.S.A. Meyer’s Cereo Vinegar The most healthful vinegar in the world. Sold by best grocers everywhere. If yours does not keep it, send us his name and we will send you asample bottle, prepaid, with recipe by Mrs. Elizabeth O. Hiller, Prin. Chicago Domestic Science Training School, for the delicious new Salad a la Vera, FREE. CAUTION: Many bulk vinegars are adulterated with acids which are unhealthful and dangerous. Insist on getting Meyer's Cereo Vinegar—sold only in bottles. Write for our booklet on Pure Food Vinegar. CHAS. E, MEYER & CO. Department L Freeport, Ill, CANT STOP COOK LUNCH Too busy? It is to cook. Take a hasty lunch with crackers or bread together with UNDERWOOD’S DEVILED HAM Requires no Cooking A \%-lb. can costing but 15c. will make twelve sandwiches, enough for a lunch for the whole family. Made of the Finest Ham and Choicest Spices. Pure, wholesome, appetizing and economical. not necessary OF We should like to send you our little free booklet of receipts; a postal request brings it. We will seni you a can of Deviled Ham for 15 cents and pay the postage. WM. UNDERWOOD Co. 52 Fulton Street Boston, Mass. For One Cent you can makea quart of delicious, dainty dessert —any flavor, and better than custards or ices. ONE TABLET makes pudding for the entire family. It is the easiest made, most economical and satisfactory «dessert to be had. Every woman should keep them in her kitchen. With each package we willsendour Martha Taft Wentworth’s New Recipe Book Free of charge. It contains many interest- ing suggestions for new desserts,etc. Wonderland Pudding Tablets have “B" on every tablet—10 in a package. Full- Sized packaye sent to any address upon receipt of 10 cents. THE H. J. BLODGETT CO., Inc., Mfrs. 10 India Street, Boston, Mass. Also Manufacturers of fey ALPHA eso SALAD CREAM For the Lawn or Balcony Does away with unsightly Posts and dangerous pulley lines. Ask your Hardware Dealer for them. Over 200,000 in use. Send for Catalogue O. We pay the freight. HILL DRYER COMPANY Worcester, Mass. | | | } Good Health for Girls By Emma E. Walker, M. D. Questions of general interest will be answered on this page every month, but inquirers must give theirnames and addresses. A r? ETHER BALL or a Tether Tennis is an agreeable change from the old- fashioned Court Tennis. Some one was ingenious enough to think of a way of tethering the ball, so that you never have to run after it. It is said that we ought never to let a day pass without indulging in some form of exercise that will cause general perspira- tion of the whole body. You will hardly find a game that will bring about this result more quickly than will Tether Tennis. ‘The strokes have to be Correspondents wishing answers by mail should inclose stamps or addressed stamped envelopes. Tennis Game for the Smallest Yard given in such rapid succession that the player soon becomes very much overheated. This game is more appropriate for the cooler days than Court Tennis, especially when doubles are played. It requires great quickness of eye and agility, otherwise there is a good chance of being hit with the ball. There are various advantages in this sport over the old-fashioned tennis. The space demanded is very limited; an area twenty feet square is quite suffi- cient. The balls do not have to be chased, and there are none of the long waits as in Court Tennis when you are looking for a lost ball. The umpire does not have the nice decisions to make that often come up in the older game. The expense of the game is far less than that of Court Tennis, as there are no nets or backstops to be provided. It is rapid and interesting, and can be played by girls as well as boys, and is, on account of these various advantages, deservedly popular. Seasonable Hints About Health ULTIVATE air-hunger. We should learn to be as hungry for fresh air as we are naturally thirsty for pure water. ‘The old-fashioned ideas concerning stuffy living or bed rooms are now, for- tunately, out of date, and should never be revived. A clear skin is one of the essentials of good health and beauty, and nothing conduces more to this end than frequent baths and brisk rubbings. They will do much to keep the skin soft and the whole body vigorous. Are you always careful how the weight of your clothing is distributed? Have as much of it as possible suspended from the shoulders. Much energy needed for other purposes is expended in carrying about heavy clothes. Ocean voyages are often very beneficial in cases of worry, sleeplessness, overwork, mental ‘* break- down,” and intensely nervous conditions. A sea trip is often beneficial for those individuals who are very susceptible to ‘‘ colds’’ and rheumatism. Starchy foods, such as potatoes and cereals, should always be thoroughly cooked so that the starch granules may be made easy to digest. Lawn Tennis as an paoeAaes most girls go through with the same stages in tennis, and at the end make only fairly good players. Various reasons are given for this, such as deficient strength and Jack of physical “training. However, most of us enjoy tennis, and do not lose our love for it even though new sports claim our attention. ‘Tennis is a healthy exercise for both body and mind. To play to the best advantage the court should be properly laid out, especially in regard to space, light and drainage. ‘The court itself should occupy a space sixty feet by one hundred and twenty, and OR blackheads or enlarged pores at the sides of the nose it is a good plan once or twice a week, after washing the face with hot water and soap at night, to press out the contents of the engorged pores. Rub on these spots soap lather and let it dry and remain on the parts overnight. It will help to reduce the size of the pores, The girl with round shoulders will find the fol- lowing exercises beneficial: Stretch the arms out at the sides at a level with the shoulders, palms up; rotate the arms in small circles, well back. ‘Take the exaggerated correct standing position and hold it rigidly. A good lotion for freckles is composed of a tea- spoonful of ammonium chloride to four ounces of distilled water. Fruit is most laxative when taken between meals, for its course is not then impeded by the presence of other food. The laxative action is also increased by drinking at the same time a glass or two of water. Ripe cherries and plums are very healthful on account of the vegetable acids and salts which they contain. Exercise for Girls way. It must be timed correctly, and this depends entirely upon the eye. Unfortunately this fine observation cannot be taught. If you adopt a good style at first then persistence will bring progressive improvement. It isa good plan to begin by driv- ing a ball against a wall. You must never allow any stiffness of arm or elbow. Do not aim at grace or effect. All correct strokes allow easy, free body- movements which are bound to be natural and graceful. Every muscle of the body is exercised in a vigorous game of tennis. Agility and grace are cultivated by the free swing of legs and arms. it should be surrounded by wire backstop nettings ten or twelve feet high, and at the same distance from the lines. It should be laid out from north to south, never from east to west, as in the latter case the players on one side will always be blinded by the sun. It should be in a space always flooded by | sunlight, where no shadow can cross it. Its back- ground should be green or black, or any dark, even color. The ground should be either naturally or arti- ficially drained, otherwise | there will be many times after a rain when you will not be able to play without drenching your feet. THE English are ahead of us in various points | which go to make up the | comfort of a tennis court. In the first place they have POSITION FOR SERVING Another factor of value is the running. Learn to run hard. In this way many a ball that would otherwise be out of reach may be returned. 6 on OR a forehanded stroke the left foot should be advanced, not first, but just as you are ready for the stroke, so that the weight of the body, the swing of the arms, and the strength of the wrist all act together. The body is held sideways, and the bal- ance at the time of striking is on the left foot. In this attitude the strokes attain greatest freedom, and the body is held quite steady. The correct position of the legs contributes greatly to successful playing. There are, of course, many strokes in which the arm and wrist play the chief part. Accuracy and ra- **ball-boys.”’ Then, in tournaments, they provide large Japanese sun-umbrellas as a protection for the referees. In order to become a good tennis player one should begin right at the outset. Practice does not make perfect if the foundation is not correctly laid. The successful stroke does not always consist in the force that is applied to a ball as much as it does in the manner in which that force is applied. The | ball must be hit at the right time and in the right pidity of stroke are also essential to good playing. The shoulder-joints are made supple, and the sinews of the wrist are strengthened. Tennis develops the muscles of the arms and legs especially, as well as those of the chest. In order to play as you ought you should wear a con- venient costume. The dress should be loose and of light weight, while the weight of the clothing should hang fromthe shoulders. The collar should be low and the sleeves loose. Avoid that claim to do all First Taste convinces you of the su of ice creams and ices made with a WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER. all the “lazy folks frosnen riority the work. They cannot make smooth, fine ice cream, with- | out Motion beating gives most time and freezes the quickest. ‘The best ice cream can be made in four minutes witha TRIPLE MOTION mixture. ‘The ‘Triple beating in the least White Mountain Ice Cream Freezer It is the standard freezer of the world; the most famous; the best constructed and most enduring. is * Frozen Dainties” written, Exaniine it at the near- est hardware or housefurnishing stores. FREE handsomely A new edition, enlarged, re- illustrated, Send your name. WHITE MOUNTAIN FREEZER Co. Dept. F Nashua, N. H. What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Letus answer it to-day. Try Jell-O A DELICIOUS and HEALTHFUL DESSERT Prepared in 2 minutes. No boiling! No baking! Simply add boiling wa- ter and set to cool. FLAVORS: Lemon, Orange, Strawberry. Get a package at your grocer’s to-day. 10 cents. PREPARED BY THE GENESEE PURE FOOD CO., Le Roy, N. Y. For real concentrated delicious- | fi] ness there is no fruit put up in the world toda that will compare with BISHOP’S CALIFORNIA ORANGEATE. It is a refresh- ing, appetiz change from the ordinary run of preserved fruits. If your grocer does not have it send us his name and $1 for four full-size jars, express paid. BISHOP & COMPANY Los Angeles, Cal. ALABASTINE serasie'srs ‘statin? want coating, ALABASTINE, and of the beautiful effects that you can get without using poisonous paper or glue kalsomines. Write for free information. ALABASTINE CO., 35 N. Division St., Grand Rapide, Mich.

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Page 32 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Following the Flowers By Eben E. Rexford y Yj Inquirers must give their names and \ Whit 4 addresses. Correspondents who inclose ft) stamps or addressed stamped envelopes as will be answered by mail. T MAY be necessary to do some transplant- | ing this month if the seeds have failed to | germinate where sown. In doing this wait until the evening if a cloudy day does not happen along at the right time. Disturb the roots of the plants as little as possible when you are removing them. If the soil in which they are is dry give them a liberal water- ing before lifting them. Water well after putting them in their new places and give them plenty of shade for two or three days. The Undervest Which is Corset Cover Too Korso is the only garment which can be worn as an under- vest or as a combination of undervest and corset cover. By untying the shoulder ribbons the upper part of Korso can be folded over the top of the corset—covering it tightly and smoothly—leaving neck and shoulders free. An ideal garment when thin waists and evening gowns are worn. In Elastic Ribbed Cotton, 50 cents In Fine Silk-Lisle, $1.00 Both handsomely trimmed with Val lace and silk ribbon. - ; TRADE-MARK The lawn will begin to need regular attention by this time. Mow it at least twice a week, unless the weather is very dry. Do not have the mower- knives set so low that the sward is shaved down to the junction of root and stool, as too close cutting destroys the velvety effect which is one of the chief charms of a good lawn. Allow at least an inch of leaf above the roots of the grass. Keep the mower sharp if you would do a satisfactory job with it. Dull knives make the grass look as if it had been gnawed off. Oil the mower well everytime you use it if you want to save yourself hard work. If you do not use a grass-gathering attachment, which collects the clippings as you go along, go over the lawn with a wire rake after each mowing, and gather up all the clippings. HIR Rootbeer Hires Rootbeer brings to the home, in the most delightful form, a preparation of herbs, roots, barks and berries —Mother Nature’s most helpful gift to Human Nature. A temperance beverage that satis- fies the thirst and pleases the palate. The more the children drink of it the stronger they grow ; the more grown folks drink of it the better they feel. Hires Root- Enquire of your dealer. If he does not keep Korso, send your bust measure and money order direct to us, WAY KNITTING MILLS COMPANY, 377-3797 BROADWAY, NEW YORK DEPARTMENT B FROM MOTHER TO DAUGHTER Many times during the past half outer iven as a wedding gift to her daughter the “ 1847 ers ros.” silverware that she herself used in early life. With many years of wear already to its credit, it was still in con- dition to satisfy another generation. What better proof of the actual value of “1847 ROGERS BROS” SPOONS, FORKS, ETC. is necessary? All pieces stamped with the com plete trade-mark “ 1847 ers Bros.” are en during in quality, beautiful in design, finely finished and known as “.Si/ver Plate that Wears.” Leading dealers sell thein. Send for Catalozue No. 61 R. MERIDEN BRITANNIA CO. (International Silver Co., Successor) MERIDEN, CONN. has the mother The clippings of the lawn will be found very useful as a mulch if the weather is warm and dry. Tea Roses are greatly benefited by having them spread about their roots. ‘They not only assist the | soil in retaining moisture but they also act as a sort of fertilizer if dug into the soil from time to time. Keep the ground well stirred by the frequent use of the hoe. You need not be afraid to use it daily in dry weather, for a light, loose soil is more reten- tive of moisture than a hard one. There will be a good deal to do in the line of weed-pulling this month. There isa weeder on the beer purifies the blood, tones the nerves and aids digestion. You make it right at home. 25c. package makes 5 gallons. Send 2c stamp for booklet of “Unnatural market which greatly simplifies this work. It is New York. i .. — History.” Cash ‘ oad : 4 ce a ‘ amilton, Canada. : ; like a claw, with bent teeth, or fingers. These prizes for solving loosen the weed at the first stroke, and the second stroke pullsitup. The use of this weeder not only uproots weeds but keeps the soil in a mellow condi- tion as well. One can do more work, and better work, with it in ten minutes than can be done in half a day under the old system of hand weeding. combinations, Garden work is greatly lightened by the use of good tools. Half the hard labor is done away with, and vastly more expeditious work is the result. Every amateur gardener ought to have a V-shaped hoe. This enables one to work close to the roots of a plant without running the risk of cutting it off or uprooting it, as is frequently done where the old broad-bladed hoe is used. All gardeners ought to own a transplanting trowel. There should also be an iron-toothed rake and some clipping shears, a watering-pot and a spade. If one has a large garden a small hand cul- tivator will be found extremely useful, as it enables one to work to advantage among most plants that grow in rows. Make it a point never to allow a weed to ripen seed. If you do this the ground will soon be entirely free from weed-seeds. a os \ \ Pye ‘ / iw SW yiy5 TH yyy LAM BT eT A Little Story About a Bed beautifully illustrated, is our book, entitled Ezybeds of Kapok It tells all about our light, soft, luxurious, hygienic mattresses, pillows and cushions made of Kapok Kapok, the silky fluff that comes fromJava It tells you how we sell them On 60 Nights’ Free Trial express prepaid. It tells you how we make them to order, any size. It tells you why, and offers to prove that the Ezybed Mattress is the best in the world. It illus- trates a lot of suggestions for cozy corners to make the corners cozy, and for soft seats to seat you softly. Free for your address. Want one? The Bohnert-Brunsman Co, Dept. K, Cincinnati,O. Don’t bother with de- veloping at home, or pay fancy prices for your work, Send your film here. Prompt service and the best results assured. For developing rolls: Nos. 1 to 2, 15 cents per roll; Nos. 3to 4, 20 cents; No, 5, 25 cents. Photogriphic supplies of all kinds by mail, Write for booklet. W. HOWARD MORRISON 118 Sixth Street Pittsburg, Pa. Go through the garden this month and furnish support for all plants needing it. If this is done now it may be the means of preventing the serious damage which otherwise would be likely to result from sudden and severe storms of wind and rain. If the growth of old plants seems crowded cut away a part of it. If any have a weak look apply a fertilizer at once. If you find plants occupying locations where they are not effective mark them for removal at the close of the season. We make mistakes every year in placing plants, and the only way to rectify these mistakes is by taking observa- tions during the season, and finding out why they are not satisfactory. This done, we can almost always find a place for the plant where it will ap- pear to better advantage, and there it should go as soon as it is safe to transplant it. Don’t Swear over bamboo screens with kinking cords and rough wooden pulleys. Fit your house with rs ad Vaudo —_ PATENTED Shades. Made from Linden Fiber in 10 ornamental colorings. Let the air through, but keep the sunlight Don’t Be Bothered With Ants Any More W , out. Roll up like a theatre curtain and never give ATSON S trouble. One dealer in principal towns sells them, nN = uga IF YOU CAN’T BUY THEM, WRITE y toed RIB SPS yf Greenhouses and small conservatories having | rr rhis is a powder, not a poison, THE HOUGH PORCH SHADE CORPORATION 70 Central Street, Worcester, Mass. | Postal us for “ Story of Comfort.” and may be safely sprinkled wherever you find ants, and they Pleasant, Effective and Harmless. Price 25e, postpaid, or at grocers’ and druggists’ The Bristol Drug Co., 96 Main Street, Ansonia, Conn. The Most Modern Im- 5 provements can be ys found in SENECA CAMERAS Finest finish andl work- | manship. Best lenses and shutter. glass roofs will require a shading of some kind to prevent injury to plants under them. A curtain of muslin will be found satisfactory. It should be large enough to cover all the glass well when spread out. Small brass rings should be fastened to each side of it. Through these run two stout wires — one at the top and the other at the bottom —and stretch these wires taut at the apex and eaves of the roof. By the use of such a curtain, sliding easily | over the wires, shade may be given as needed or dispensed with entirely. The roof covering may TRADE-MARK. will quickly vacate. Iver Johnson's Arms &Cycle Works FITCHBURG wmass.usa NEW YORK SALESROOM 99 CHAMBERS STREET Buy a $7599 Diamond al With THE SELF-HEATING FLAT IRON y solves the ironing problem. No stove necessary. No heating of room in hot days. Absolutely safe. No tubing or (@ connections with gas or electric fix- eee be regulated to fit the weather conditions. Such oe tures. Always hot. Handle cool. aA Vi ill be f i in | a 5 hours’ ironing costs but le. The Re — our an arrangement wi ound more satisfactory in sag A or o> only satisfactory. self-heating iron. x every way than a wash of lime or white lead applied : oo Monthly Pin Money Choice of these beautiful diamond rings $75. Pay $9.38 cash and $9.88 every month until paid for. The diamonds weigh 5% carat and are standard quality. A special offer because we have more than a plenty of best 5 carats, imported to our advantage. Diamonds set as pin, ring, stud or ear drops, and sent you SUBJECT TO APPROVAL Express Prepaid Goods shipped on first payment. Send them back at our expense if they don't suit. Purchase exchanged or your money back for the asking. Onur certificate of guarantee warranting our state- ment of quality accompanies every purchase. Backed by $100,000. Sen! reference in ordering goods for approval. FREE — Our book- let is interesting reading. A pleasure tosendit. Tells important points to guide ony in dia- mond buying. Explains why we save you so much on the best Gamende. Write to-day. GEO. E-MARSHALL, 97 State Street, Chicago, Ill. } | a nicotine shower-bath. to the glass, because, when no longer needed, it can be removed with but little trouble, which is not the case with any wash. Azaleas are benefited by full exposure to out- door conditions if care is taken to prevent their getting dry at the roots. It is of the greatest im- portance that this should never occur, as they form the buds from which they will develop flowers next season during the summer months, and any injury to them at this time is likely to result in the partial or total failure of the crop of flowers which should reward the grower for a long season’s care and attention. Therefore make it a point to water them daily during the summer. If aphides attack the tops of Aster plants apply If the aphis is found at the roots dig away some of the soil and scatter Tobacco dust over the exposed roots, after which return the soil, giving it a liberal dusting of the insecticide. - for catalog. SENECA CAMERA C@O., Rochester, N. Y. The OMNIGRAPH is the new way to learn telegraphy. Expert op- 2 erator with you all the MANUFACTURING COMPANY time. Price $4.00. Dept. A, 39 Cortlandt Street, New York. Circular free | Booklet, testimonials and prices free on request. The Self-Heating Flat Iron Co,, 24 E. Randolph St., Chicago $ 3.0 Silk Elastic Stocking. $ ? 00 Thread Elastic, FLAVELL’S, 1005 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pa. WRITE FOR PAMPHLET F. to the motions of the body fabric as the waist itself. ripping off, because the strain comes on the yielding, flexible bands that give, yet sup- port the clothing as does an elastic suspender. If your dealer does not keep the E. 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7" oe The Ladies’ Home Journal for June is not as harmless as it seems. It brings into the house many undesirable things which it picks up with its hairy, cup-shaped feet. Among them are disease germs. Aftera fly has entered your home it is a menace to your family’s health,—you should make it harmless. But you cannot do it without Tanglefoot Sticky Fly Paper, which catches the fly and the germs it carries and coats them v— over with a varnish from which they “an never escape. Poisoning the fly will not do,—as the germ is not poisoned. A fly trap will not do,—as the buzzing of the fly will blow the germs through “he meshes and you will inhale them. So Tanglefoot is the only remedy. Every dealer has it. It is an Inexpensive safeguard. Artistic Painting r The Dining Room Floor that is as durable as it is beautiful, can be secured! at a very small cost if you remember to get the right kind — yhe Heth CREOLITE For Floor Painting Does not crack or scale off like inferior kinds. best paint for all floors Write for our booklet—* Household Hints in Floor Painting," also our beautiful folder showing combination of colors for centers and borders. HEATH & MILLIGAN M’F’G COMPANY Makers of best prepared Paint and RailwayWhite Lead, Dept. H, 172 Randolph St., Chicago, Ill. Established 1851. It is the A Beautiful Home Good paint has much to do with mak- ing the house beautiful —internally and externally. For this reason we urge the use of Peninsular Pure Prepared Paint, which cannot disappoint in beauty and durability. It is reliably good from be ginning to end, If your dealer will not sell you Penin- sular Pure Prepared Paint, we'll see that you are promptly supplie 2d. Write to-day for Rook “ Cottage and Mansion” with Sree color-cards, Peninsular Lead and Color Works LIMITED Address Dept. A, DETROIT. MICH. FAN $150 MEASUREMENT 10 IN. Throws air equal to any $15 electric fan. Runs by Water Can be connected in any rvom or lo any spigot. Fed by '/ie-inch Hole Descriptive ciscular free on vequest. AGENTS WANTED. > 681 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa ALL PAPERS AT 50% DISCOUNT _ your wall paper direct from the jobber and save See 3 retailer's profit. Every Landlord, Real Estate Age mt, > Per Hanger a, — sewife should have my samples — fre PON application. - BIDWELL, 244 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 2000 REVOLUTIONS A MINUTE! DELAWARE KUBBER CO. _—_——.. 1902 Answers to Floral Questions By Eben E. Rexford Inquirers must give their names and addresses. Correspondents who inclose stamps or addressed stamped envelopes will be answered by mail. Water All Plants After Sundown |* THE season happens to be a dry one how often should I water my plants? E.j.R. Water should be applied to most plants at least every other day. Do this after sundown. Then evaporation will take place slowly, and the water you apply will have a chance to do its work before the heat of the sun-rays can appropriate it. If water is applied in the morning of a sunny day half of it will be absorbed by the heated atmos- phere before the plants have derived any benefit whatever from it. Cultivating Chrysanthemums Please tell me how to care for my Chrysanthemums so that I may have fine flowers next autumn. Mrs. L. Y. Watch your plants closely. If the black fly attacks them apply a shower or dip bath of water in which extract of nicotine is used in the propor- tion advised on the can or bottle in which it comes. Use it promptly, and keep up the use of it as long as an aphis is to be seen. Pinch back the plants frequently. If you keep them in pots it will be necessary to shift them about this month. Put them into eight or nine inch pots. By the liberal use of fertilizers during August and September, after their roots have filled the pots into which you shift them, they may be kept in vigorous growth without giving more root-room or fresh soil. Balsams are Returning to Favor What can I do to make my Balsams grow? . u.J.L. If you clip away the foliage growing most thickly along the stalk once a week, or thereabouts, the flowers will have all the opportunity they need in which to fully display themselves. There are few plants which show a wider range of color. The double Balsam of to-day is as perfect as a Camellia, which it so closely resembles that some of the Rose- colored varieties might be mistaken for that flower if seen among its foliage. Growing Dahlias Is the Dahlia a late grower and is it a difficult plant to grow? | The Dahlias are indispensable for late blooming. The Cactus Dahlias are delightful flowers, wholly without the formal primness which characterized the old, very double sort. For cutting, for use in large vases, they are magnificent. In color they are equal to the older sorts. To grow them well have the ground very rich, spade it with a depth of at least a foot and a half, and keep it well watered. Selection of Fertilizers I have not been able to see any results from the fertilizer which I used in my garden last week. What is the reason ? GARDEN CITY. Do not be impatient of results. show immediate improvement. A plant will not Because it has not begun to make rank growth in a week do not con- clude that the fertilizer was good for nothing, and try something else. Be sure to select a reliable one to begin with, and then give it a chance to prove its merit. Two or three weeks will generally show the effect of it in the increased size and color of the foliage of the plants for which it has been used. Fuchsias Require Plenty of Water As I wish to grow Fuchsias I shall be glad if you will give me a few points concerning them. Jean B. Fuchsias should be given plenty of water, not only at the roots but also overhead. Shower them daily, being sure that you get at the under side of the foliage. This will keep the red spider down. Give them some good fertilizer at least once a fort- night. If the branches on which flowers were pro- duced are cut back at least half their length from time to time, new branches will be sent out from the portion remaining in a very short time, and these, in turn, will soon give a good crop of bloom. In this way the Fuchsia can be kept growing and blooming until November. Then it should be allowed to rest. Putting Callas Out-of-Doors When shall I put my Callas out-of-doors ? MAry M This month. Turn the pots on their sides and leave them without any attention whatever until September. The old leaves will die off, but the roots will not be injured in consequence. About the middle of September shake the roots out of the old soil and repot in fresh earth. Give water moderately until growth begins. Then increase the supply. In most instances Callas summered in this way will come into bloom by the beginning of the year, and give much larger and finer flowers than plants which have been kept growing through- out the season. When Plants are Used in Masses Are plants that are massed .much trouble to Manage ¢ If Coleus, Achyranthes, Alternanthera and plants of similar character are used in masses it will be necessary to go over them with the clippers at least once a week. Keep them trimmed evenly, and run the shears along between each color, cutting off each branch that grows across the boundary line. Only by doing this can beds of bright-colored foli- age be made and kept attractive. Every dead and dying leaf should be removed as soon as seen. Page 33 rs . R Registered, 1v01, The Bon Ami Co. Vlasnt scratched vez . JAPALA kee ino Is the new liquid prep- P- ae aration § for finishing floors, front doors, fur- niture, or any article of wood or metal work. Anyone can apply it and produce a smooth, brilliant finish that will wear like iron. Its cost is so little, and it is so easily applied, that there is now no excuse for shabby furniture, rough, discolored floors, or onneney me oa sive carpets. Try a sample can and you'll be delighted with the results. Made in the following colors: Natural or Clear (best for natural woods) Cherry, Mahogany, Oak, Malachite Green, Ox Blood Red, Walnut, Ivory, Yellow, Brilliant or Dead Black Sample can ('4 pint, ong color) by mail, postpaid, for 10 cents Mention this magazine and we will send you, free, saniples of finished wood and valuable booklet, THE GLIDDEN VARNISH CO. pow hf Dept. L, Cleveland, Ohio High-Grade Varnishes. sects sewoe A Shade of Annoyance is often caused by a roller of poor quality. Either good or | bad shades generally tear away from tacks. Nothing is more unsightly from the outside or inside. With the IMPROVED HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLER ripping is avoided. It does its own work easily, quickly and | regularly, and you have no | trouble at all with it. Notacks. | The genuine Hartshorn shade rollers have the autograph of Léa 0 Meher always on the label. Sold by reputable dealers everywhere. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers GOLD DUST solves the problem of easy dish washing. It cuts grease and cleans dishes better than anything else. Does its work quickly, well and economical. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, New York, Boston, St. Louis. Makers of OVAL FAIRY SOAP. The Saddle of Comfort THE “Rubber N ” The patented inde- structible honey- combed rubber cush- ions, covered with smooth leather, yield to every y motion and conform qutometi ally to the form of the rider, The air spaces keep the saddle cool and thoroughly ventilated, 1902 patterns also have the Naber hygienic spring, giving additional comfort. No other saddle so easy. A promi- nent physician says of this saddle: **No person can be injured by using this saddle, as it does not press on any part that it can hurt, and fitting as it does the muscles as they work, will prove to be less tiring than any other make I have examined,” Special Offer: For the next 30 days we will ship this §3.75 saddle, express prepaid, on receipt of only ®2,.50, Catalogue and testimonials on application, If your dealer hasn't the ** Rubber Neck "’ send direct to THE BUNKER SADDLE CO,, 68 Milwankee Ave., Chicago, Il. BEAUTY IN THE HOME The ideal effects in walls, ceilings and interlor decorations can best be secured through the use of MOORE’S BHURESCO. It comes in white and fourteen tints, can be applied by anybody and produces the most dainty, artistic and permanent- ly pleasing effects. Ask your dealer for MOOKE’S NURESCO. If he doesn't sell it, write us direct and we will forward full information and instructions, a tint book, showing color schemes and sugyes- tions as to the proper combinations of shades, a handsome celluloid bookmark, etc. BENJAMIN MOOKE & COMPANY No. 258 Water Sireet Brooklyn, N.Y. Water will not hurt 61 FLOOR FINISH Every germ, every spot, every particle of dust is as easily removed from its surface as from polished glass. The most permanent, sani- tary and satisfactory floor finish on the market. Our bouoklet, ** Floor Plan free for the asking. PRATT & LAMBERT Long Island City NEW YORK CHICAGO Hercules Hammock Stand Can be set anywhere on the lawn or veranda, moved about by one person, or packed in a buygy for use at a picnic or outing. Handsomely finished; saves the trees, saves the lawn. Price $8.75. Llustrated catalogue free. HERCULES MFG. CO., Dept. 50, Centerville, Iowa ‘Mum?’ takes all the odor out of perspira- tion, but doesn’t stop you from perspiring. That would do harm. 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Send postal for our booklet: ‘* Cooking With Milk Made Easy It tersely tells how handy it is to always have HIGHLAND cxexn'" in the pantry, for you then have fresh cream and are not dependent on a milk man, ene Evaporated Cream can be used the same as dairy milk or cream, as it is simply pure, full-cream cows’ milk, sterilized, evaporated to a cream-like consistency and canned, Free from cane sugar and all foreign ingredients; so Highland Evaporated Cream retains all the nutritive properties of the fresh cream and fairly smacks of the green pastures of our Highland farms. You can always depend on Highland Evaporated Cream; always sweet, free from all germs, will keep fresh and pure in any climate, and is always of the same excellent quality. Most Grocers Sell It. If yours doesn't, _ us his name and we will send you ree, postpaid, a can to try. It will please you. Helvetia Milk Condensing Co. Dept. A, Highland, Ill. ** Where Model Dairy Farms Abound.”

BOHN SIPHON SYSTEM REFRIGERATORS Are ideal from an economical and sani- tary standpoint, at a price trifling for the great advantages conferred on the ice user. Ice consump- tion is lessened be- cause our special siphon method of circulation and ven- tilation makes the cost much less for a

in other refrigerators with a minimum of 52° to 62°. The Siphon ventila- ting system absolutely prevents accu- and so prevents liability of growth of of i disease-bearing germs. Ne contaminating odors or taste can possibly result from association of vegetables, meats, butter, milk, etc., even if placed in the same compartment. Booklet explains it. The white enamel lining, being non- in the old style gerators. Cleans perfectly with moist cloth. The Siphon principle, then, makes these refrigerators the most scientifically peactical,

ae one. | 4 | ° wt = than | add the gelatine. | rous, is a more healthful lining than is used | and is perfectly harmless. } market. Adopted by The Pullman Co., Northern Pacific Ry., | Great Northern Ry., Pennsylvania, C. M. & St. P.,C. B.& Q Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chicago & Alton, Illinois Central, Southern Ry,., etc. BOOKLET is full of valuable information on care and econ- omy ofa refrigerator, FREE. Send for it. Any selection you make will be delivered to your depot on re- al itis represented to be, we will refund your money. Write to-day. WHITE ENAMEL REFRIGERATOR COMPANY 403 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn.

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¢ ., Northwestern University ool of Music “ss cise Complete courdes in music under superior instructors, with the many advantages in- cident to a large university. Send for catalogue containing full information to p, ¢, LUTKIN, Dean, Music Hall, Evanston, Ill. | eggs, the yolks and whites separately. | the yolks a cupful of flour and a little salt; beat the batter well and add two tablespoonfuls of cream. | Lastly, stir in the well-beaten whites of the eggs. | | sugar and half their weight in flour. What May be Done With Pineapples

By Eleanor M. Lucas HE flavor of the pineapple is delicious, but its acidity and astringent qualities make it deleterious to weak stomachs if par- taken of too freely in its raw state. Its acrid juices may be mellowed by dip- ping the slices in lemon or orange juice, and using ple..ty of sugar. A few receipts for using this fruitage of rare and delicious flavor may enable the housewife to maintain * The spice of life That gives it all its flavor."’ A Refreshing Summer Beverage which brings an involuntary grace to one’s lips as it is quaffed is a fruit punch in which the pineapple plays a promi- nent part. Put in a bowl the juice of three lemons, two oranges, sliced and seeded, one grated pineapple and one cupful of sugar. Let stand for one hour to extract the juice, then press and strain. Add to | the juice two quarts of iced water and two slices of pineapple shredded, and it will be ready to serve. A Pineapple Omelet. teaspoonful of lemon juice and a heaping table- spoonful of powdered sugar. Place in the utensil in which it is to be cooked a generous tablespoon- ful of butter. When it begins to bubble pour in the eggs. brown on one side, place in the middle two heap- ing. tablespoonfuls of pineapple grated fine and | Fold the omelet, turn on to | | a hot dish, dust some powdered sugar over the | surface and serve. sweetened with sugar. This is a most delicious and savory omelet, and since it is so quickly and easily made it furnishes an excellent dish to pre pare on the chafing-dish, which will insure its perfection, as it | may then be served as soon as it is cooked. Frozen Pineapple. and water. grated pineapple, the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one. Strain through a flannel bag. Freeze. When half frozen stir into the ice small bits of pineapple cut in the form of stars; con- tinue to stir until the ice is frozen solid. Make a syrup of sugar Beat four eggs with a | When the eggs are firm and nicely | To a pint of syrup add a pint of | Then | mould in fancy moulds and pack in ice and salt. | The frozen pineapple may be colored if desired. A dainty shade of green may be obtained with a few drops of spinach juice, and a clear yellow with saffron extract. Pineapple Fritters. Pare the pineapple, cut it into thin slices and soak them in lemon juice and sugar fortwo hours. Make a batter by beating four Stir with The batter, to be of the proper consistency, should be thick enough to drop from a spoon. When the brown, and when done drain on blotting-paper. | Serve piled on a white doily with pulverized sugar | and slices of lemon. | delicious finish to a breakfast. Pineapple fritters make a Delicious Pineapple Eclairs. Weigh four eggs in their shells. Take the weight of the eggs in Add to the flour a teaspoonful of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Sift the flour. Beat the yolks of the eggs until thick, adding alternately the flour and sugar. | Lastly, stir in the well-whisked whites of the eggs, with vanilla flavoring. Bake in small tins; put bake in a steady oven. When nearly cold spread them with pineapple marmalade, and place two together, the rounded side outward. ~ Mask with dull pink icing flavored with pineapple. Pineapple Jelly. Soak one ounce of gelatine in half a pint of water for one hour. Peel and cut a pineapple into small pieces. Place it over the fire with three half-pints of water, and allow it to simmer slowly for half an hour. Strain into a saucepan; add sufficient sugar to sweeten, the juice of one lemon and the beaten white of one egg. Place over the fire until the sugar is dissolved; then Remove from the fire, place where it will keep hot for twenty minutes without boiling. Strain through a flannel bag, and pour into moulds to harden. Color one-half the jelly, | batter is ready dip in the pieces of pineapple and | | fry in boiling lard; turn them when sufficiently | FLIES IN when still in a liquid state, a pretty shade of red. | Cochineal tincture will produce any shade of red, Mould the jelly in small pineapple shapes. When ready to serve carefully on a glass dish. Crystallized Pineapple. Pare the pineapple; | cut into slices and then into cubes, stars or tri- pe-y a hepden price, and if in ten days you are not satisfied thatitis | drain. A angles. Simmer in water until tender; remove and Place one pound of granulated sugar ina | saucepan, add to it a gill of water, and place on the | |

stove to boil. Do not stir after the sugar is dis- solved. Keep it boiling until the sugar snaps when dropped in a cup of ice water. It must be brittle without being sticky. Squeeze in a little lemon juice. economical and sanitary on the | disengage the jelly from the moulds, and serve | Place the fruit in a deep dish and pour over | it the boiling syrup; press down with a plate to | keep the fruit submerged, and let it remain over night. The next morning drain off the syrup, heat it and repeat the process. Do this for eight days, renewing the syrup if necessary. At the end of this time drain the fruit from the syrup and place on a sieve to dry, turning it frequently. When well candied and dry, pack in layers between sheets of waxed paper. Place in a dry, cool place and it will keep for months. Crystallized pineapple is a very dainty confection. Pineapple Shortcake. For the cake make rich but rather soft paste, divide into equal parts, press one-half into a buttered pie-plate, spread liberally with butter and place the other half of the paste on top. Bake in a quick oven. Several hours before serving take a very ripe, finely flavored pineapple, peel and shave it in thin slices, sprinkle with sugar and the juice of one or two lemons; then cover it close. When it is time to serve the shortcake split the cake in half, spread the prepared pineapple - | house of flies and mosquitoes in a few minutes. less than a tablespoonful of butter in each, and | y i

between the layers and on top of the cake, and serve | with sweetened whipped cream. The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Universal Wringers HORSE-SHOE BRAND

Over Six Million Universal Wringers have been sold, giving Universal Satisfaction. The rolls are of good elastic rubber which wring the thick and thin parts They Patent Guide Board which spreads the Clothes, and are warranted have the equally dry. for three years as stated on the Horse-Shoe Warranty Card at- tached to each Wringer. ALL DEALERS. The American Wringer Co. 99 Chambers Street, New York

IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE Grand Rapids is Famous for Fine Furniture, Bis

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Use the “KING” Fly Killer It is the most unique and useful contrivance for this purpose ever inveuted, With it you can clean your It kills without crushing — soils nothing. It is neat and durable; size 5 x 18 inches. You would not be without one for many times its cost after trying it. Users say: “Best thing I ever suw;” “Cannot do without them;” “Can recommend it to anyone.” If your dealer will not supply you remit direct to us. Price lic. each, two for 25c., or one dozen $1.00, prepaid. Postage or coin. R.R. MONTGOMERY & CO., Sole Mirs., Decatur, Ill FROM FACTORY 0) | -50

Buys this Beautiful Drop Head Machine Golden oak fin- ish, full sized, high arm, daé/ bearing, none better made. Sold on Approval If not satisfactory return at our expense. Write for samples of the work done with attachments. Send for Catalogue ae No. B-206. THE HOMER YOUNG COMPANY, Ltd., Toledo, Ohio PHOTO PHOTO PHOTO The sun may shine blazingly from any direction, but if you use Newcomb’s Non Halation Backing it will never fog your plates. Take Nature as you find her, from or towards the sun at will. Every one does who uses my Backing. 50c—u1o0 stamps. Full directions. Enough for 250 plates. The Camerist’s Guide, illustrated in color, free. Edward W.Newcomb, Photo, Expert, 271 Bible House, New York City

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weather destroy white lead paints. Patton’s eror Paints are weather proof—almost time proof. 40 colors and shades. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. General Distributers Send for Book of Paint | Knowledge and Advice, free, to Patton Paint Co, P. 0. Drawer 15 Milwaukee, 27s pm) bh =) AND DAUGHTERS You can make summer cook- ing a pleasure by using our Steam Cooker With Doors Entire meal cooked over one burner. Saves fuel, labor and provisions. Only cooker made with steam condenser and copper tank, sold on 30 days’ trial. Money maker for agents. Send for illustrated circulars free. OHIO STEAM COOKER CO. 48 Ontario Building, Ont. and Jeff. Sts., Toledo, Ohio ORNAMENTAL FENC 25 designs, all ateel. Handsome, durable.— Cheaper than a wood fence. Special inducements to church and cemeteries. Catalogue free. KOKOMO FENCE MACHINE COMPANY 408 North St. Kokomo, Indiana Let us tell Photography Expensive ? 1s: st! Amateurs can earn money from their work. We pay highest cash prices for artistic photographs suitable for illustrations, advertising, etc. It will pay | you to write for particulars, State size of your camera. | Western Camera Pub.Co., 38.7th St., Minneapolis, Minn,

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The sparkle of cut glass that constitutes so much of its charm cannot be preserved indefinitely by the mere use of soap and water. The beautiful facets and prisms take on after a time a dull and lifeless look beyond the reach of ordinary cleansing and polishing agents. There is one thing however that will restore the original fire and brilliancy to cut glass quickly and easily, and thatis an application of COLONIAL SPIRITS. COLONIAL SPIRITS is put up in sealed packages only, and if your dealer should not happen to keep it in stock send us 20 cents and we will send you a sample bottle by express, carriage paid. We will also include one of our pretty souvenirs if you will give us the name of your dealer. BERRY BROTHERS, Limited, DETROIT

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7: ro) The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Is the make of and Blouses See them Go by the Label Send for the PictureBook: and whois your » merchant’ Chas Eisenman Co FOR HEALTH, PLEASURE, AND BUSINESS, RIDE wae Rowddror Piburs BICYCLES MOTOR, CHAINLESS AND CHAIN FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS American Cycle Mfg. Co. NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 4% Interest On Savings Accounts We have depositors all over the country. Our system makes bank- ing by mail both easy and safe. Write for booklet giving Sull particulars. PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK Peoples Savings Bank Building PITTSBURG, PA. Capital and Surplus, $700,000 We claim Purity and Safety, and substan- tiate this claim with Chemists’ Certificates By the Blue Label used only by us (and fully sustained by recent U. S. Circuit Court decision) pasted on every piece of genuine Agate Nickel-Steel Ware. Booklet showing facsimile of this label, etc., mailed free to any address. Agate Nickel-Steel Ware is sold by the leading Department and Housefurnishing Stores. Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. New York, Boston, Chicago THE IDEAL STEAM COOKER -ooks a whole meal over one burner, o7 &asoline, oil, gas, or common cook stove. REDUCES FUEL BILLS ONE-HALF Makes tough meats tender. Pre- yents steam and odors. Holds 12 one-quart Jars in canning fruits. Whistle blows ee Cooker needs more water. Seam- 909 copper bottom and sides. We omake Square Cookers with doors. , Send for illustrated catalogue. We Puy express. Agents wanted TOLEDO COOKER CO., Box 10, Toledo, 0. Patented Jan. 23, 1900. Encouraging Children to Save By Elisabeth Robinson Scovil of childhood. All the necessaries of life are provided for a child, and he receives them as a matter of course, neither questioning e ‘HRIFT is not one of the natural virtues their source nor speculating whether they will con- | tinue or not. Many children can have almost any- thing they want for the mere asking, so there is no | incentive to save. For them putting money by for a rainy day merely means having more to spend on the next rainy day when they are in want of amuse- ment. Much of the happiness of life depends upon the wise expenditure of money, and particularly upon the power of living within one’s means. This is only possible to the large majority of persons by their having the power to save; if this is not their natural disposition they will never acquire it unless they are taught it in childhood. Before a child can save he must have some money that is absolutely his own to dispose of as he pleases. This may be given him as an allowance, but it is better that it should come in the form of wages for some task performed — honest recompense for honest toil. No matter how trifling the work is he should be made to do it faithfully and to the best of his ability, and the remuneration should be paid as punctually as any laborer’s wages. When the child has the money in his hand it is the mother’s part to guide him in its disposal. It is here that the foundation is laid for the habits of a lifetime Teach him first to think of others, and to put aside something, if only a penny, for those who are poorer than himself. When he has accumulated enough to be of use let him buy a few flowers or a little fruit for a sick child or an old person, and give it himself, to show him practically the value of sympathy. that money is a trust, not to be expended solely for Try to instil into his mind the fact | self; that a part is due to those who need, and that | he must share it with them if he is a faithful steward. Next let him lay by a portion for the future. Some end not too distant should be chosen at first — a thing that he wishes very much to possess and can buy if he saves enough to do so; a little journey that he may take if he has the money for the expenses; something, whatever it may be, that he can attain in a reasonably short time. impress upon him as nothing else can the advan- tages of being forehanded, as one expressive idiom has it. Lastly, let him have a little money to spend on passing pleasures — candy, if that is a treat to him, or whatever he likes best; only make him know - that self-indulgence should come last, not first, and that what is wasted cannot be had back again. Ten cents a week amounts to five dollars and twenty cents in the course of a year. This, if allowed to accumulate at compound interest, will attain respectable proportions in fifteen years, and be enough to give substantial aid when the | child needs it on starting out in life. It is always easier to save when there is a special receptacle where the savings may be deposited. There are many pretty toy banks made, some of them with amusing mechanical devices by which the penny is taken possession of and tossed to its destination. These make the first steps in saving more attractive to the beginner. Besides the desirability of forming habits of prudence in children, and teaching them how to save, to their great benefit in after life, it is the parents’ duty to save for their children. They are responsible for bringing them into the world, and as far as possible they should provide means to set them forth in life in the best possible manner. There are several ways in which this saving may be accomplished. A small] fixed sum may be set aside each week, or each month, and deposited in a sav- ings bank of undoubted reputation. As has been said before, money deposited regularly, at even a small rate of interest, soon mounts up. Some parents accustom themselves to save all the small change that comes into their possession for the chil- dren, putting away the five and ten-cent pieces until This will | enough have accumulated to be deposited in a | bank. Others deny themselves little indulgences, as unnecessary rides in the street cars, soda-water, expensive cigars, and add the money that would have been expended on them to the children’s fund. Many insurance companies offer special induce- | ments to parents in the form of endowment policies, requiring quarterly, semi-annual or annual pay- ments, as may be agreed upon, These mature at the end of a certain number of years, when the whole sum is paid over by the company and may be applied to the use of the child. Sometimes a bonus is given which may be used toward the payment of the premium. The mother may help very materially by dressing her children simply and putting away for their after use the money that would otherwise be spent in elaborate clothing. Simplicity in dress is a mark of refined taste. Handsome materials are not suited for children’s use. Children require plain garments not easily spoiled by the freedom of action which is their birthright. These garments may be as pretty and dainty as possible, but rich fabrics and expensive ornament are out of place on a child. | luxuries of the table is seldom thought of as a means of saving, and yet a simpler diet may be of more real benefit to the family, and the money saved may be more wisely used if laid aside for the future. p Plain food may be made as dainty and appetizing as the more costly kinds if it is properly cooked, and seasoned or flavored with skill, and there is an art in buying only those delicacies which are in season when their price is the lowest that makes a sub- stantial saving for the family purse. Expensive toys are often purchased for little children who do not appreciate their value and can- not take care of them. Cheaper playthings would give nearly, if not quite, as much pleasure, and the | difference in price might go to swell the bank account for the owner’s future use. Luxurious living is so much the custom in our | prosperous American homes that curtailing the | CRYSTAL Page 35 A Triumph in Sugar MralUiibem Facts about Crystal Domino Sugar bulk. **CRYSTAL DOMINO SUGAR”? is packed in neat, sealed boxes, and is NEVER sold in _It is packed at the refinery and opened in the household;—there is no intermediate handling. Hence, no dirt, no waste, no possible adulteration. Every piece alike—and every piece sparkles like a cluster of diamonds, the result of its perfect crystallization. Conve- nient in form, perfect in quality, brilliant in appearance, no sugar made can equal it in ex- cellence. When buying this sugar remember that the sealed package bears the design of a “Domino”’ Mask, “ Domino” Stones, the name of ‘Crystal Domino,” as well as the names of the manufacturers. You will be pleased the moment you open a box. You will be better pleased when you have tried it in your tea, coffee, etc. It is sold by all first-class Grocers, and is manufactured only by HAVEMEYERS & ELDER SUGAR REFINERY, NEW YORK. Cy | [=e Ss : is so simple. Feel: 2 os or I The Weir Jar To seal it air- tight, press the lever down on the cover. To open the jar, raise the lever. ameled inside and out, and never breaks. fruit, which therefore retains its flavor and color. twice as long as in ordinary jars. It is of earthenware en- No light gets to the Contents keep Weir Jars range in size, holding a pint to ten gallons, and the best grocers and crock- ery ware dealers sell them. Cost less than glass in the end. You know the fruit or vegetables will keep if you use the Weir, because of the air-tight test. This is told about in our booklet for housekeepers. It contains very valuable fruit recipes, tells all about our jars, and will be sent free if you send us your dealer's name. No matter what jar you use, you need our booklet. Write today. WEIR POTTERY COMPANY, 200 Main St., Monmouth, Ill, Heinz, the pickle man, has just ordered 500000 Weir Fars. SO ie meee eT A THERMOSTATIC For Your Dwelling watch while you sleep, heat from a slight fire will cause it to ring the alarm. If placed in stables or outbuildings, the alarm bell will ring in your house. For Greenhouses For Ships Manufactured by H.C. VIERKANT, Tarrytown, N. Y. The alarm can be seen there in operation. sale by all leading electricians and bell-hangers. FIRE ALARM Which will remove all danger of being burned to death. It will It is attached to ceiling, and the It can be attached to your dovr- bell. It can be reversed; will ring if tem- perature goes down to danger point. If placed in Holds, will ring the alarm if cargo is overheated, For AGENTS WANTED ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE A Powder for the Feet. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease. It relieves pain- ful, swollen,smarting, and nervous feet, and is the Greatest Comfort Discovery of the Age. Allen’s loot-Kase makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy, and brings comfort to tired, aching feet. We have many thousand testimonials. ‘Try it to-day. Sold by all drug- gists and ~ sa Stores, 2hc. ° not accept an imitation. Sent by mail for 25c. in stamps. FREE TRIAL PACKAGE sent by mail, Address ALLEN 8. OLMSTED,LeRoy, N.Y. “Oh, What Rest and Comfort!” OO TDD AED 9,9, My A URAVIVIVIVIAY i AVA AVA IVA AAA VA DXA ALATA The most beautiful, ornamental and durable fence for Lawns, Parks, Cemeteries, etc., is our PERFECTION ‘ence FENCE It is cheaper than a good picket fence, looks better, and will last infinitely longer. Adds to the beauty and neatness of any enclosure. Made in many styles and designs. Write for Illustrated Catalogue. Dwiggins Wire Fence Company ANDERSON, IND. ROOK Paves CULTURE FOR CHILDREN” SEND 24. STAMP FOR POSTAGE . BOOK GIVEN WITH COMPLIMENTS OF THE MAKERS Or we rt We Carpet Your-Floor for $3 To introduce our new, serviceable and healthful BRUSSELETTE ART RUGS Attractive and artistic patterns, woven on both sides and in all colors and sizes. Easily kept clean and warranted to out- wear higher-priced carpets. Sent prepaid to any point east of the Rocky Mountains. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Illustrated catalogue showing rugs tn actual colors sent free. Sanitary Mfg. Company ‘?,fizure Bulldine At Stores or By Mail Coin or ac, stamps STITCH RIPPER Rips and picks out machine stitching and bastings. Draws threads for hemstitching. Saves = fingers. Not Scia- sors. Does Not Cut. With Silver-Mounted Han- dles, 85c and 50c; with Sterling-Silver Handle, $1.00. Money back if you want it. Agente Wanted. A. E. DeMERRITT, 89 Canal St., Boston, Masa. OTAMMERIN Permanently Removed. Pay Us No Mo: Until We Give You Fluent, Natural S h, Our klet of Nature’s Method Free. atural Instruction Institute, 29 Ashland Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y. a Stallman’s Dresser Trunk davon Have you seen one? It is up-to-date. { ~ / ; Think of it, everything within reach. No heavy trays, but light, smooth drawers. Holds as much and costs no more than a good box trunk. Hand riveted, almost indestructible. Once tried, always recommended. Sent C. O. D., privilege examination. ac. Stamp for Catalog. F. A. STALLMAN 43 W. Spring St., Columbus, O, I have a hook to hang on, and am sold in a yellow box. in irregular tu hold it. brush, Florence Mfg. Co., 110 Pine St., Florence, Nass. So_tp ONLY IN A YELLOW Box —for your postnaion. Curved handle and face to fit the mouth. Bristles ts — cleans between the teeth, ‘This means much to cleanly persons —the only ones who like our Adults’ 35c. Youths’ 25c. Hole in handle and hook to Children’s 25c. By mail or at dealers’. Send for free booklet“ Tooth Truths.”

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Page 36 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 SLI ESLIESLYS SSL ASSAM LISS AAS VASO ASS MAS MAES MOA MAS AS SE AAS AADAC iy > {= | ROYAL WORCESTER x ¢ fe o (am% r Ke Y . 4) , Smartest STraight Front models of the Season. Imparting a } slender look and graceful carriage lo their wearers of SALE BY DEATERS Send for x akoval Blue Fook illustrated ORSET CO. LaACOy ;: & ge WORCESTER, MASS. tts” a | —— SSIES SIV E SSUES OLY OSS I ERS SP EDS ES SSS ENS SS LESS) ESS OOS ES SLE ONS S/S e/ » (Las 7) 22/OSSV2 OQWTB SL ~ G o For Women for allaying the discomforts of perspiration,sun burn, tan, foot soreness, etc. For Babies to prevent chaf- ing and chapping. Keeps the skin ma soft and sweet. For Men necessary ad- junct to a com tortable shave. Keep it with your cup at the shop, or on your dress er at home if you shave yourself. After Athletics and Exereise Queen Antiseptic = en oo. YL, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says: Antiseptic and p bh Pp ? “Nothing can be more beautiful and beautifying. Sweet- " M. D bl desirable than the various materials ens the breath. Puri- ost esifable from which Lewis Union Suits are knit. Proper and comfortable dressing has much to do with health,” TRIAL fies the mouth. Whi- BOTTLE tens and cleans the | FREE Bn Hardens soft FOR MEN AND WOMEN and bleeding gums. ‘An aid to ‘ though it is, Lace Aunit is the ] j ‘ ~F ‘ s, L popular underwear | ood health. Astandard dentifrice. Medium Priced with the discriminating —those whose means do ndorsed by dentists. ‘ not dictate selection. Par- ‘ “RL eS a we) ticularly sanitary in its At Druggists, 25c. a & skin ventilation, and du- Graves’ Tooth Powder Co., Chicago, Ill. weave permits of stronger rable because the open thread than the closely | there is always comfort ID. OL i D. woven. No matter how v4 al Li e - aose ren ' « ere Talcum Toilet ) pa wi Lace Knit, y) vith a a “ Powder SAMPLES of Lace Knit and our matchless full-fashioned underwear fabrics FREE. We will ; ; send catalogue and self-measurement blanks to any address, and guarantee satisfactory results. Can be purchased If your dealer does not handle the Lewis goods and you prefer to wy of him, send us his name. at am dealers - | : vill sent b LEWIS KNITTING COMPANY, 200 MAIN STREET, JANESVILLE, WIS. Made of pure refined talcum, wen ee y of tin or brass, being distin- guished as the ONE toilet Sample Free | powder that comes in a rich OWDER. ’ | bottle QUEEN Hy Oho receipt of 25c., g mi : fumed and free from the odor cuin or stamps. | is antiseptic, delicately per mail prepaid on COMPLEXION | > " white glass : with Johnson’s Prepared Wax Makes Mirror Floors || PX siieenisioe" gd] cizmicat co 305 Dearborn St. Chicago Beautifies Without Injury Made of purest materials. Contains nolead, arsenic, lime or anything else poisonous or injurious. The wooden box preserves the delicate perfume. Sold everywhere. FULL SIZE BOX SENT ON RECEIPT OF 50c J. A. Pozzoni Co., Chicago, Ill. DRESS The (QMO sitter The Only Perfect Shield ae = There is more difference in the quality of floor wax than you imagine. Many floors have been ruined by using a cheap or inferior grade of wax. Don’t do it. It’s poor policy. You get the best without any more cost when you purchase Johnson’s Prepared Wax. It is the standard floor polish of the world, Keeps floor in fine condition with little work Preserves, beautifies and polishes. Ask for Jolnson’s, insist on having it. BLACKMAN Shirt $3 50 Waists Price Imported Madras and Oxford Shirtings, carefully selected, and adapted for stylish Shirt Waists. These garments are thorouglily * Tailor-Made;"’ fit and workman- ship second to none. The quality of the fabrics used is the very best that can be obtained. Our large assort- ment of patterns gives a variety to select from. Send for samples and illustrations. Order blanks enclosed with samples. Mail orders receive careful and prompt attention. Address Department K, C.S. BLACKMAN, 67 and 69 Wash. St., Chicago SPECIAL: Send us the name of your paint or drug dealer who does not handle our wax, and we will send you, free of cost, one can sufficient to finish one small floor. SENT FREE: Valuable booklet, “The Proper Treatment For Floors,” or new catalogue, ** Ornamental Hardwood Floors," S.C. JOHNSON & SON, RACINE, WISCONSIN ‘“‘ The Hardwood Floor Authorities ’’ / BECAUSE it is Absolute- | | — ly Odorless, Absolutely | | : - eed Impervious, Absolutely Hygienically Pure. Every pair Warranted to the , Wearer. Can be washed. | | is the Raven Brand These are the five essen- tial features of a perfect | fee ARMOR CLADS TRA) Dress Shit heel || CALIFORNIA sea preg all the lead- | | 4 : Where the wear comes on the knee, heel and toe, three q e ing dry-goods stores in the | ah ' ah . : threads are woven in. That is the reason Armor Clad hl , , : Via Chicago & North-Western, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific : ‘lads wear so much longer —almost three times as | railways. Daily and personally conducted excursions to California United States and Canada. . H : s tf ne . | and Oregon. Special attention to organizing family partic Uh : long as the ordinary kinds. They don’t fade, because Senter Renaie, Game dee we mans. Lemans vichet No Chemicals or ag Rocga yt ' py)? they are dyed with Raven Black, our special dye. Write W. B. KNISKERN, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago “ er Us y its aeeniaaiere. sample pair. p x fit Only the best dry-goods dealers sell Armor Clads. based on accurate, scientific knowledge and an actual class-room experience with nearly 2000 staminerers It leads to a perfectly normal speech in the shortest possible time | For free booklet explaining methods, write to FRANK A. 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The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 The Journal’s Department of Women’s Clothes MRS. RALSTON’S CHAT ILLUSTRATIONS BY KATHARINE N. RICHARDSON A Special Word to Readers of This Page Mrs. Ralston is in Europe to look over the ad- vance fashions and to get new ideas for her JOURNAL work. She will be absent until July 1. Any letters sent to her during her absence will be opened and answered by Mrs. Holden. IMPLICITY in dress and all things pertaining thereto is the best rule for the femi- nine mind to follow, and this rule applies especially to those who are ignorant of the subtle art of good dressing. A word to the wise is usually sufficient. The tendency to overtrim the summer gown is almost irresistible, and this temp- tation appeals particularly to the less skillful dress- Trimmings can never cover the defects of poor cutting and indifferent work. The first great point is the understanding of outline. It isthe fundamental principle with all those who know how to make clothes. The trimmings and their arrangement add grace and are the finishing touches which bring out the good points of the outline. Trimmings should be the expression of charac- ter in clothes, as manners are in men. makers. HE chief charm of summer clothes lies in their freshness, daintiness and simplic- ity, although this may be said to be true of clothes at all seasons; still it particularly applies to the clothes of the washable mate- rials of summer which demand a crispness and cleanliness to a large extent only obtainable by means of the washtub. Summer gowns made with a view to their being laundered are both satisfactory and economical, and as a rule look quite as well atthe end of the season as at the begin- ning. This can- not be said of the gowns which are overburdened and inappropriately trimmed with un- washable trim- mings, which make the cleaning of them a difficult matter. ATISTE prom ises to be popular as a ma- terial for summer gowns. The soft beige and écru shades predominate, and are most popular this summer in all the new materials. Batiste and Swiss come with the most lovely flowered borders, and also borders of a contrasting shade embroidered in white. In this way the material and the trimmings are combined. A gown of this kind is quite pretty when made with a double skirt. A GOWN of grenadine still has first place in the wardrobe of anelderly lady. For its trimming lace and chiffon appliqué are the prettiest that can be used, the lace being put on over white. Gowns of this material should never be laden with trimming, as the character of the material should not be overlooked. AWNS in gray and black and black and white are being made up so pret- tily for ‘‘young”’ old ladies that they are envied by the daugh- ters and grand- ; children. Soft, thin fabrics are becoming, as a rule, to older women. A gray lawn gown with insertions of thin lace may be made into the prettiest possible summer gown. When worn with a bonnet trimmed with lace and chiffon such a Own is quite suitable for church and after- noon wear. Black foulard with the tiniest Pin-point polka-dot is another material emi- nently suitable for the summer gown of the elderly lady. The bias fold is a trimming which I am sure these same elderly ladies will remember from their earlier days, as one of the best of many ways for the trimming of Skirts. These folds are slip-stitched quite flatly and put on above the hem, extending in graduated widths to the knees. The same mode of trimming is adapted to the bodice with the addition of a few fine plaits or rows of lace insertion. FPS ” THE recurring revivals of fashion once again have come many lovely flowered materials which are known as Pompadour. The fabrics are as varied as the designs, rang- ing from the most stately brocade for the dow- ager to the dainty organdy for the most youth- ful of maidens. Not the least useful of these materials are the foulards and silk mulls. Gowns made from these goods have the singu- lar adaptability of suiting all ages. The colors of the flowers are gay but not aggres- sive, and the gowns require but little trim- ming. GPEARING of dow- agers, black fou- lards with sprays and bunches of flowers are particularly pretty goods for their mid- summer gowns, the coloring of the ma- terial not being in the least conspicuous. These gowns are ef- fective when made up with any of the net laces, the material being cut away underneath. HE finishing of the collar is an important point to those who are no longer young. It is most necessary that the collar should be becoming. For this reason it is best to have it soft, and not stiffly lined and harsh in finish or outline. For gowns of summer materials the collar of lace is pretty when made up without any lining except that of the thinnest China silk. In many cases only chiffon is used, the collar being held in place by small bones at each side and in the back. A narrow fold of velvet or silk usually finishes the edge of the collar, and in many cases tiny pipings of narrow crépe lisse edge the fold of velvet. The soft Persian silks make pretty pipings and folds for black dresses of all sorts, but so little must be used that I am almost afraid to mention this. HE most noticeable difference, and ap- parently the dividing line between the bodice to a costume and the blouse to be worn with the tailor suit or odd skirt, is in the arrange- ment and manner of the trimming, the bodice being trimmed more elaborately, with trim- ming of a fluffier descrip- tion than the blouse. HE combination of thin, transparent materials, such as silk mull and mousseline de soie, with the heavier laces appliquéd, is for the moment popular. This combination is especially adaptable for the summer blouse for evening wear which is made quite simply with the fullness on the shoulder and waist- line, and with the lace appliquéd to form the trimming. The sleeves on these dressy blouses are usually of elbow length, and fin- ished with plissé frills of the material. HE value and usefulness of pongee and linen gowns for the summer cannot be overestimated. The pongee comes not only in the lovely natural écru shade, but in colors as well. To be sure, these gowns are meant for service more than for dressy occasions. The linen gowns are made in both shirt-waist suit fashion, and coat and skirt style. When in the latter the Eton, very short bolero, or Norfolk are the shapes selected for the jackets. OME very pretty new models of the Eton in linen are made with short, bell-shaped sleeves just reaching the elbows, opening some few inches up the back and rounding off at the corners. The full bishop sleeve of the blouse worn under- neath gives the double effect which is necessary. These little jackets are ‘most becoming, and when worn over a thin blouse at the seashore or in the mountains often give just the necessary weight to the costume. Stitching in a contrasting shade of the linen is the most accepted trimming for linen gowns, the yokes for the bodices and the plaits on the skirts being stitched and fin- ished with embroidered crow’s feet. OR the patient, industrious woman who is clever with her needle whole gowns are made of bands of the material joined together by fagot stitching. This, although really elaborate, gives a rather simple effect, and makes a pretty trimming for a blouse, the plaits or bands being joined vertically with fagot stitching, which is done in a very heavy silk or linen thread, according to the material of the blouse or gown. PROPOS of this, many of the new collars and stocks this summer are made of four narrow bands of velvet or moiré ribbon joined with fagot stitching, the collar fastening up the back under two or three tiny rosettes of the ribbon. These stocks are unlined and held in place by small feather-bones, placed as in the transparent collars I have already spoken of. The same idea could be carried out to form either belts or girdles. If made in a contrasting shade to the gown they would be particularly pretty. It is these little things that add to the appearance of one’s costume. HE use of lace this season is prodigious — hats, parasols, gowns, and even jackets being made entirely of it. made entirely of lace, carrying out the idea of the gown. In fact, there seems to be a threatened re- vival of the sleeve of contrasting ma- terial and shade to the gown, though as yet it is only noticed in elaborate gowns that are trimmed with lace. EPARATE collars and fichus to wear with summer gowns are made of the new filet lace, and of even batiste in incrustations of Irish lace set in above the hem. of fichus are made of fine double frills of the material, which are hemstitched or trimmed with lace. in front and may have ends or not, as one’s fancy dictates, but they usually end at the waist-line underneath the belt and buckle. HE all-white hat and the hat made entirely of flow- ers cannot be surpassed for general appropriateness to wear with all gowns. The white hats are this year serious rivals of the black ones. Hats made of flowers cannot be excelled for prettiness to wear with gowns of thin summer fabrics. one made on a wire and tulle foundation, and composed entirely of flowers and their foliage, is the favorite. Asa rule the flowers used upon such a hat are of one kind, but in several shades, relieved by the green of the foliage and the soft facing of tulle or chiffon which comes next to the face. The all-white hat may be adapted for the most particular and most elaborate costumes, the stiff sailors of white straw trimmed simply with rosettes and quills for the morning gown of duck or linen, and the softer hats of chip with facings and trimmings of lace and chiffon for very best. One of the new hats are trimmed with lovely scarfs made of tulle and chiffon embroidered and dotted in chenille; these are most perishable and only appropriate for the woman who can afford many hats. Something quite new and original for the trimming of hats are the wreaths and pompons made entirely of ribbon in imitation of flowers. The roses are especially beautiful. They are made of several shades of changeable silk ribbon. Long boas to wear with summer gowns are made entirely of silk and chiffon flowers, and the effect is indescribably pretty. These ruches are quite long, reaching below the knees, are full and thick around the neck, and are formed entirely of the shaded petals of flowers. They come in many colorings. On some of the | dressier bodices and gowns the sleeves are | All manner | muslin and batiste edged with | These | fichus fasten with a loose knot | The flat toque-shaped | Page 37 We have no agents or branch stores. All orders should be sent direct to us. Reduced Prices on Suits and Skirts FEW weeks ago an importer received from abroad a large shipment of fine suitings and skirtings. They arrived too late, however, for his trade, and he offered them to us at a considerable reduction from regular and skirts to order only at one-third less than regular prices. many of our own fabrics. Nearly all of our styles share in this sale. Note these reductions: Suits in the newest models, made of all-wool materials and lined throughout; former price $10, reduced to $6.67. 12 Suits reduced to $8. 15 Suits reduced to $10. $20 Suits reduced to $13.34, $25 Suits reduced to $16.67. | Skirts, in the latest designs; former price $5, reduced to $3.34. $6 Skirts reduced to $4. $7.50 Skirts reduced to $5. ACH day the sash is more in evidence, and many are the ways in which it is tied. The bordered ribbon and the brioche flower ribbon sashes are among the prettiest to wear with thin summer gowns of batiste and mus- lin, while the tucked ones of chiffon give a dainty touch to summer evening costumes. 40 Skirts reduced to $6.67. 12 Skirts reduced to $8. Rainy-day, Golf and Traveling Shite, just the thin for the mountains and seashore; former price $6, reduced to $4. $7.50 Skirts reduced to $5. $9 Skirts reduced to $6. Reduced Prices on: Traveling Suits, Rainy-day Suits, Raglans, Riding Habits, etc. Weare also closing out a few Sample Suits and Skirts (which were made up for exhibition in our Salesroom) at one-half of regular prices. There are no reductions on Wash Suits or Skirts, but our prices are extremely reasonable. Shirt -Waist Suits and Wash Dresses, $3 up. Wash Skirts, $3 up. The Catalogue, Samples and Reduced Price List, giving interesting information about this sale, will be sent free at your request, but you must write quickly for the choicest goods will be sold first. Your order will be filled promptly and to your liking. If you are not perfectly satisfied with what you pa us, send back the garment and we will refund your money. THE NATIONAL CLOAK CO,., 139 and 125 West 23d Street, New York. prices. We purchased the choicest part of the lot, and shall make these goods into suits We have added to this lot - NN eee —

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Page 38 The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 With the Close of the Schools BP HILDREN labor under the disad- vantage of not only wearing out their clothes but of quickly out- growing them as well. Both things they accomplish with a rapidity which is trying to their appearance and also to their parents’ pocket- books. With the closing of the schools for the holidays summer clothes for the children are pressing necessities confronting every mother. The needs of children in this direction far outnumber those of their elders, although in saying this I fully realize that I am treading upon delicate ground. Wash Materials are decidedly the best for children’s summer clothes. The light- weight and light-colored stuff materials have, to be sure, their advantages, but they soil so easily, and the expense, to say nothing of the bother of constant cleaning, outweighs their other good qualities. The washable materials come now in a wide range of colors, extend- ing through the many darker shades which are such a saving in the matter of laundry work in the summer months. Guimpes of All-Over Embroidery or fine French nainsook are pretty to wear with these darker gowns. For the older girls — those from ten to sixteen—the blouse and skirt fashion, in cotton gowns, is much the best, the skirt trimmed only with stitching or fancifully arranged bands stitched in white. The collar and wristbands are often finished with rows of narrow white washable braid. The blouse is worn under the skirt. In many cases the band of the skirt is made to answer the purpose of the finishing belt, being closely stitched, and lapping in the back with a pointed end which fastens with one or two white pearl buttons, the size of the buttons depending upon the width of the belt. This fashion seems particularly adaptable for young girls’ dresses. It is easy to arrange and gives a very trim appearance. The bodices to wear ‘with guimpes are made full, the fullness being accomplished by either shirring or plaits, both in the back and the front. : The Full-Gathered Ruffle outlining the yoke is now confined almost exclusively to the thin, sheer white muslin dresses. On those of cheviot, linen, etc., collars, revers and bretelles are mostly used, these being shaped, and without fullness unless it be the fullness which is given by a circular cut. By Mrs. Ralston a os a The Wide Effect the shoulders seems as necessary in the dresses of children as in those of their mothers. For this reason the square cut and arrangement of trimming is used for the bodice finishing. Bands of embroidery or plain stitched ones are put on extending from arm to arm both back and front. Below this the material is full and worn loose to blouse well over the belt. This style is becoming to slender figures. across The Sleeves are often quite a minus quan- tity, a narrow shoulder strap keeping the bodice up, the sleeves of the guimpe being considered quite sufficient. Short, full puffs worn below the shoulder make quaint little sleeves for a child’s dress which is worn with aguimpe. Thestraight bell sleeve end- ing at the elbow is another style to wear with a guimpe. Sashes Will be Greatly in Vogue with dresses of thin, transparent materials. They will be made, in many instances, of the same material as the dress, the ends being ruffled or tucked. The skirts to the thin dresses are pretty when either ruffled or tucked. When the latter, the tucks graduate in depth as they ascend. This is a most economical fashion as it allows for shrinking and the growth of the child, and also for inheritance by the younger members of the family. Dresses Made of Striped Material often have the stripes of the entire gown run around. With a dress made up in this way plain white bands of linen or piqué are the prettiest trimming. Flowered Challies and satin-striped chal- lies are extremely dainty for afternoon and for little party dresses when trimmed with rows of ribbon matching in color the flowers or stripes in the material. Smocking is a Pretty Way of finishing children’s frocks. Inasense it happily com- bines both making and trimming. The Reaction Against the absurdly long-waisted dresses of last year is marked, and again the pretty, graceful princesse and Mother Hubbard styles are worn. The fullness of the back is often held in place by either a sash coming from the side seams, or a belt which buttons on, also coming from the side or under-arm seams. The sash and belt are made of the same material as the dress, or of plain white material if the dress is of washable goods. 7 Ecru is as Prominent a Color in chil dren’s clothes this summer as in ‘‘ grown- ups’.’’ Holland makes the nicest possible dresses for the hardest sort of wear and tear, and seems to be worn by children of all ages, the tiniest children, both boys and girls, hav- ing dresses and suits made of this material. A Coat of Some Description is a neces- sity for every child —one that can not only be worn throughout the summer for many pur- poses, but one which will also be useful during the early autumn when school begins again. For this purpose the navy blue jacket, in short and three-quarter length, is hard to displace in its lasting and all-round good qualities. The Coats of Covert Cloth and of a dark gray mixed material are considered equally as useful from the practical point of view. The shapes show much diversity, and it would be difficult to especially designate one style as being preferred above another, the selec- tion being largely a question of the needs and the age of the child. The Eton and Norfolk Jacket shapes are still the first favorites for the older girls. White corduroy makes smart-looking coats for children of allages. Such coats look well when worn with white duck skirts. Hats for Children and the younger girls excel in beauty those of their elders, they are so essentially simple and graceful. The brims, as a rule, are wide, drooping downward over the face. Garlands of field flowers, mixed with grasses, make the most useful of hat trimmings, as the gay medley of coloring in the flowers combines prettily with all kinds of dresses. Muslin hats, with ruffled and shirred brims, are among the prettiest and most becoming to children. Some of these hats have the brims shirred on cords; the edges of the brims laid in three small graduated tucks which fall down in ruffle fashion over the edge. These hats in the simpler styles are washable. Leghorn Hats seem to belong by right and tradition to children, which fact, to my mind, is conclusively proved by their becom- ingness to a child’s face when worn in original shape, not twisted into an impossible one. Roman Silk Sashes. Mothers who have kept safely put away these sashes worn by children years ago will be rewarded for their trouble, as the sashes, with all their gay color- ings, have again a place in Fashion’s favor. Altering Last Summer’s Hats SA HEN last summer’s hats are brought out and looked over their appearance is apt to be discour- aging. A brisk brushing to re- move all hidden dust, and then a thorough sponging off with warm water, slightly diluted with ammonia, will restore some of the lost freshness. If You Wish to Change the Shape that, of course, is the first point to be considered. In the case, for example, of a sailor shape where you wish to add some extra width to the sides to give it this season’s low, broad “effect, the width must be added at the edge of the brim, beginning at the back of the brim, and allowing the straw braid to curve out at each side and gradually narrow in the back and front. Do not cut the braid before sew- ing iton. If more than one row is needed sew it round and round and cut it off at the back of the hat in a slanting direction on the left side. Do not lap the braid closely or it will make the brim clumsy and add to the weight of the hat. Always sew from right to left, taking stitches quite half an inch long and using a strong needle. The Edges of the Brim being the first place to break and show wear their refurbish- ing is an important point. When the brim has lost its shape and needs straightening into proper lines again wire it on the under edge from a quarter to half an inch from the edge; use a heavy satin-covered wire (if it is to show) and sew it on with a long button- hole stitch. A binding around the brim edge is an excellent method of covering broken, worn edges. First, the edge of the brim must be neatly and very smoothly bound with strips of muslin, sewed on with long stitches on both sides. This under binding makes the edge quite smooth and allows no edges to show through the finishing binding of velvet or silk. Cut the binding on the bias and stretch around the brim tightly, turning in both edges and slip-stitching them to the upper and under brim edges evenly. By Mrs. Ralston Folds are Another Possibility in this matter of renovating the brim of a hat. For these also the material must be cut bias. When a wider and softer effect is wished the folds may be put on the under, as well as the upper, brim. Stretch the outer edge as flat as possible and then sew in one long strip round and round, allowing the folds to over- lap each other just enough to hide the stitches. Entire facings of chiffon and maline are exceedingly pretty and becoming. Narrow Ruchings and Quillings of taf- feta silk are among the new ways of trimming which seem especially adaptable when a hat is being remodeled. The silk is cut from four to six inches wide and gathered or box-plaited through the centre, the edges being ‘“‘ pinked.’’ This ruche is then put around the crown of the hat and is finished in the back with two rosettes or a bow. The ruche or quilling for the edge of the brim is cut not more than two inches wide. The effect of this is exceedingly good and becom- ing to most faces. This style of trimming possesses the great value of concealing successfully the greater part of brim and crown, so an old hat is the very thing upon which to use it. Facings of Transparent Materials will be much used on all summer hats, these fac- ings being put on with considerable fullness, which is given either by small hand-run plaits or rows of shirring arranged in small clusters from the edge to the crown. To the Girl with Clever Fingers home millinery is an easy task, and many hats for her summer gowns are possible. If you pos- sess an old hat—a Leghorn would be a good one—cut out the crown and replace it with one made entirely of flowers, first making a light, structural foundation for the flower crown of cap net cut round in shape to fit the head size of the crown. The brim may be left plain or faced, this depending more or less upon its condition. Lace Will be Much Used in millinery this summer asa trimming and for entire hats. To make an entire new brim to add to an old crown —the brim to be made entirely of lace | and bound around the edge with a velvet fold— the brim should be made of cap net. Measure a twelve-inch square, or larger if a very wide brim is desired, fold diagonally into halves, then quarters, and cut the edges in an even curve. When opened out it should be per- fectly round. Then cut a six-inch square and proceed in like manner. Place the smaller round piece upon the large one, outline with a pencil and then cut out. This gives the head-line in the brim. If You Wish This Brim Narrower in the back it is an easy matter to cut it down into the desired shape. Wire the under edge of the brim, sewing the wire close to the edge. It would be well, also, to put a wire around the head-line, sewing this wire on the top | side. Cover the cap-net frame with a couple of layers of maline before covering with the lace, which may be put on plain or draped in veil or scarf style on the top of the brim, end- ing in the back with ends falling on to the hair. Instead of lace, closely set folds of chiffon or maline may be used to make the brim. The crown could be of flowers, straw, or of lace matching the brim. The Dahlia is a New Flower for hats this year. It is suitable for the every-day hat in constant use. Perhaps you may have left over from several seasons back quite a collection of artificial flowers which have served their turn on various hats. If so, pick out the best, being careful to choose the colors which harmonize, and make them into tight bunches resembling rosettes. Some new foliage would greatly freshen up and improve the effect, mixing the foliage with the flowers and add- ing around the edge as a border. It will be quite the fashion this summer to | use many varieties of flowers on hats. The “Aristocrat,” a dressy boys’ shoe in patent leather ** Better-Wear’”’ Shoes are the finest footwear for boys ever produced by a maker of shoes. They embody the best ideas in style, with the strength required for hard wear. Will out- wear two pairs of ordinary shoes and look well to the end. 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To the cleverest we offer respectively : $20, $10, $5, and a $5 Columbia Zither besides It will cost you nothing to get the full par- ticulars of this contest, in which every bright person will be interested, and you won't have to bother your friends about selling something for us. Just a little thoughtful effort and you may be one of the winners. For information address THE PHONOMARP CO. Dept. L, 152 Liverpool St. East Boston, Mass. APAUYORMAOD Chih boat tb eed t 7 aad

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The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 The Dolly Varden Gown Original Designs by Mrs. Ralston WITH A SPANISH RUFFLE FLowEnso muslin gown, the skirt of which is gored and made with a graduated Spanish ruffle. The bodice is a simple gath- ered one, bloused both back and front. The sleeves are bell-shaped and cut in deep Vandyke points. The undersleeves and fichu shaped collar are of embroidered batiste. The high collar and the V-shaped vest are also of the batiste. AN EVENING GOWN OF CHINE SILK THE gored skirt of this gown is formed jnto a shirred yoke at the top. The bodice fastens in surplice fashion crosswise, and over it is laid a large collar of Irish lace. The high girdle is formed of bias folds of the silk and fastens at the left side under Stiff choux of the silk. The sleeves are double ruffles of the mousseline shirred at the top. Drawings by Thomas Mitchell Peirce inence the many new diaphanous materials which seem, with their dainty flower designs, to have been especially made to reproduce the quaint, picturesque Dolly Varden style. The illustrations on this page show a few of the many ways in which these materials may be utilized. well as the gowns are suitable for any occasion and may be used for morning, afternoon or evening wear, the quality of the fabric selected depending altogether upon the occasion for which the gown is intended. flowered dimities and lawns may be selected, and for the after- noon and evening the silk mulls and the chiné silks. ‘| revival of the Dolly Varden gown has brought into prom- The materials as For the morning the pretty OF POMPADOUR SILK ua { THE gown illustrated below Is suitable for a & 4 MAN summer evening. The skirtis perfectly plain. The bodice has short jacket fronts of the silk, and postilion back, and is made with a vest of The yoke and bertha are of em- broidered mousseline, and the elbow sleeves are trimmed with double frills of the same. mousseline FOR AFTERNOON WEAR sash is of black ribbon velvet. PRETTY MORNING GOWN OF DIMITY THE skirt of this morning gown is trimmed with three spaced ruffles headed by clusters of fine plaits. The bodice is a simple gathered one made with a fichu of white silk mull, edged with a quilling of the mull, which ties in a loose knot in the front. The sleeves are full bishop ones tucked across the top and gathered into deep tucked cuffs. Tis gown of flowered silk mull is made with a gored skirt trimmed with three gathered ruffies of embroidery which are finished at the top with bands of insertion. The bodice, which fastens invisibly down the back, blouses in front and has a simu- lated yoke formed of bands of the insertion; the high collar is of the embroidery. The Page 39 @auford Shee For Men and Women, $3,50 If you have not received a set of Crawford Art Plates, send before it is too late. Fifteen rich water-color sketches—eight of outdoor pastimes, and seven elegant costumes for 15 women, photographed on living models. On Art Plates the backs of these plates are illustrations of the newest fashionsinSpring FREE and Summer footwear. If interested in what you wear you should have these plates. They will post you on correct New York, London and Paris fashions. Don’t send stamp—just drop postal. Address Mail- Order Dept., Room 42, 140 Duane St., N. Y. City. The Crawford Shoe has the in- dividuality, cut and style of the highest priced cus- tom shoes. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded British, for Women A mannish walking boot, designed for rough wear, stylish and comfortable. Made of BOX CALF, heavy sole, low broad heel, perforated foxing, If not obtainable in your vicinity, we can fit you through our Mail Order Department. 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Page 40 (~ WOMEN’S and CHILDREN’S ) | Warm-weather | ear Women’s Shirt Waists— Of fine Percale, in neat black-and-white stripes; stylish blouse or pouch front; three bias box plaits in back and one down front; finished with small pearl buttons ; narrow pointed collar, Ne. 98, $5.00 Children’s Suits — Of Grass Cloth, Linen Crash or Chamray, in solid colors and effect ive stripe combinations of white with blues, pink or gray ; Norfolk blouse, with collar, cuffs, shield and tie of white piqué. Full, straight skirt; sizes Neo 48,408, $ 1.25 Shirt Waist Suits Of fine Chambray, in light blue, red, dark blue, gray, green or yink (solid color). T The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 The Midsummer Hat Designed and Drawn Especially for The Journal By Katherine Vaughan Holden HE hats illustrated on this page have all been designed with a view to simplicity and ease of construction. It has been my object to select shapes and styles that may be found in any of the better shops, and to design the trimming in a simple way that any woman with ingenuity and good taste may follow. Thus the cost of each hat is reduced to a minimum. FOR MANY OCCASIONS HE hat illustrated above is simple and a good style for use with a plainly made foulard, ashirt-waist suit, or a linen gown. It is of soft straw, and is trimmed with black ribbon velvet, the trimming being arranged in a large bow at the back, Cabochon but- tons of straw ornament the front. FOR A YOUNG GIRL HE hat pictured above is well adapted for a young girl. The straw of butter color is soft and durable. Around the edge of the brim is a row of white daisies, while below is threaded black ribbon velvet. The brim of the hat is quite rolling, comes well down over the back of the hair, and is especially suited to alow coiffure. A simple band of biack ribbon velvet is tied around the crown, with the loops and ends falling low. Blouse has deep sailor collar extending over shoulders, trimmed with band of the material and row of white insert- ing; sailor tle; breton is separate from waist; full sleeves and natty cuffs, Skirt has gradu- ated flounce, finished at top with bias band of Ke 85.100, . $2075 Shirt Waist Suits — Of excellent Cham- bray, in blue, tan or ox- hloott (solid color) Blouse-front waist, with straps of the material A COLONIAL SHAPE HIS hat, with its wide rolling brim, is THe simple hat of cream “ rough-and- SHIRT-WAIST HAT modeled after the Colonial shape. it ready"’ straw has a three-inch-wide forming yoke back and front; trimming around the hottom of blouse; straps, stocks and cuffs piped and stitched with white. Skirt has gradu- ated flounce, with No. 85,104, . $5600 All superior in style, material and making. If not entirely satisfactory, the purchase price will be promptly refunded. Sent C. O. D. if desired, with privilege of OUR SPECIAL SUMMER CATALOGUE ! of Women’s and Children’s Warm-weather Wear mailed | free on request. 1] i L STRAWBRIDGE & CLOTHIER examination. | PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. J a ™ J is an all-silk skirt lining sold everywhere at Half the Price yaina-Mai is a style that may easily be found in the shops. For a young girl the color selected might be palest biue, with the indentations caught with strings of roses. band of black ribbon velvet tied about the crown, with a stiff bow in the front. This severe style of trimming gives a smart tailored effect. usually charged for Taffetas. The semi-transparent sheer wool fabrics so | fashionable to-day for gowns, are not a success in economy and appearance, unless the skirt is made over HAT OF PALE PINK STRAW HIS hat, with its full tam-shaped crown, is of a soft straw in pale pink. The trimming is mostly confined to the HAT OF NEAPOLITAN STRAW HE hat here shown isa fine Neapolitan straw, cream white in color. The rather wide brim is draped in soft creamy under part of the brim, and consists of lace. The tam crown is encircled by full-blown flat roses. The band and bow are of black ribbon velvet. YAMA-MAI The name is stamped on the selvage of every yard, so that you may not be de- ceived by poor substitutes. AMERICA’S GREATEST RETAILERS SELL IT MANUFACTURED BY | DUNCAN & STENZ, 466-468 Broome St., New York SPIRAL SPRING SIDE ST )) } )) yellow roses, and a bunch of the roses THE PLATEAU SHAPE IS POPULAR is fastened against the side of the crown. THs shape, which Is quite popular this summer, isvery smart. The hat illus- trated above is trimmed with a wreath of roses. in the midst of the wreath, perched stiffly across the front, is a full bow of broad black ribbon velvet. EELS NEVER BREAK \)\ | The H&C CORSET is the only corset made with Spiral or Braided tempered piano wire steels like the above illustration. They are light, flexible and con- Jorm to every shape and position, giving utmost style and comfort to the wearer; never losing their tension, always keeping the Corset exact with the form. LATEST STYLES Straight Front Bias Gore Prices $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00 Ask Your Dealer. If he hasn't them send to us. , T 00 * ry a $3. pair QUITE A SMART HAT Postage free, just to introduce them. é Sample Braided Wire Steel FRER. MADE of a soft rope kind of The H, & C. Corset Co., Dept. J, Bridgeport, Conn. straw, braided. It has a J. V. Farwell Co., Chicago, Sole Wholesale Western Agents. rolling brim with indentations. DING INVITATIONS tssctssenes cull of good proportions an quill of good proportions and durable quality, fastened into Printed and Engraved. Latest Styles. ~~ place with a cabochon button STATIONERY. est work. 100 Visiting Cards T5c. f stra f th 1 f the hat. Samples and Valuable Booklet, “* Wedding Etiquette,” ea ee ee eee FREE. J. W. COCKRUM, 532 Main St., Onkland City, Ind. SUMMER REST fxciin, a ~— including service. Woodcliff, N. J. ly by letter (or in person on with a spray of leaves in dull green tones. Wednesday mornings from 10 to 12 o'clock) to Mrs, Edward King The back part of the brim is bent becom- Care Dr. Henrietia P. Johnson, 206 East 15th St., New York City ingly. The ribbon velvet used is black THE MODIFIED SAILOR NE of the sailor shapes this season has a slightly rolling brim. In the one shown above the brim is bound with black velvet. If desired, pale blue may be used. The band should be of the same color as the vel- vet, and also the quill. TRIMMED IN QUIET TONES Excellent accommodations ao ane. j ARGE flat hat of coarse Leghorn. A similar one may be found in any shop. This particular model is ornamented omen. Terms, $5.00

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lawn, with the trimming either of a good Valenciennes lace or of fine lawn embroidery. The bodice closes at the back. Thefichu is a separate affair trimmed with lace and fastening in the front. When the gown is laundered the fichu may be removed and replaced with little trouble. The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 The All-White Gown Designed and Drawn Especially for The Journal WITH A FICHU EFFECT HIS design may be repro- duced in white Persian A SHIRT-WAIST SUIT T° MAKE a shirt-waist suit of white is a good idea, as the one skirt may do service with at least two bodices. This one has the widths and hem of the skirt separated by a tiny beading. The bodice carries out the same idea, with appliqués of lace as the drawing shows. By Katherine Vaughan Holden TUCKS PUT IN BY HAND THE design illustrated above may be developed in thin white lawn or cream-colored batiste. There is a fitted bertha on the bodice and there are circular ruffies on the skirt. The tiny tucks shown on the yoke, bertha and ruffles are hand-run. Between the rows of tucks are French knots done in white cotton. The lace used is Cluny. FOR A HOT AFTERNOON foru batiste Is charming for a sum- mer gown. The design pictured above is of embroidered batiste trimmed with embroidery. The bodice closes down the left side. The sash and bows are of velvet. OF POINT D’ESPRIT Dressy gown of white point d'esprit trimmed with em- bellishments of yellow lace. This touch of yellow on a pure white gown is often a smart note and an effective one. The lace used is in the form of an insertion, in three different widths. A SURPLICE GOWN | Ths surplice gown, | which may be worn with or without the shield, is made of one of the soft lawns with a simple trimming of lace insertion. The skirt Is cut In three sections, with tiny tucks at the top of each one. This, like most of the gowns on this page, may be made up without lining | to facilitate laundering. ao, a A CHARMING DESIGN Doetreo Swiss muslin or plain organdy may be used for the design which is illustrated above. The bodice is finished with rows of tucks. The rows of insertion may be of Oriental or a thin guipure lace. with a deep, graduated flounce. The skirt is a cut one -STENOGRAPHY #28air-" Page 41 THE 10,000,000th has just been made. This is ‘‘high-water mark’’ in watch making the greatest number of watches one of these ever ten made million by one Elgin factory. Watches was sold on its own merits and has fully maintained the Elgin reputation for accuracy and durability. Sold everywhere, guaranteed perfect. Booklet on watches free, Elgin National Watch Co. Elgin, Illinois Can You Knit or Crochet ? $1,000.00 in Prizes is offered by the well-known and responsible firm of CALHOUN, ROBBINS & CO. (estab- lished over 60 years), for the best specimens of knitting or crocheting done with their » TION BRAND “YARNS” The following prizes will be awarded by a Committee of Experts, selected by editors of “ Delineator,” ‘‘ Harper’s Bazar” and *‘ McCall's Magazine.” One Prize, $200.00 | Two Prizes, $50.00 One ‘“ 150.00 | Four nd 25.00 One “ 100.00 | Five - 15.00 One ‘“ 75.00 | Ten ” 10.00 Twenty ‘ 5.00 Allarticles returned to owner or purchased at price set. Send postal-card request for Full Particulars of Contest. You risk nothing and may get a large award. MARK POSTAL “ CONTEST," DEPARTMENT A. CALHOUN, ROBBINS & COMPANY 408 and 410 Broadway, New York $$$) 2 ‘Peau de Crépe TRADE-MARK REGISTERED has the name woven in the selvage. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT IT This fashionable pure silk fabric is soft —clinging—and drapes grace- fully. Beautiful colors. For dainty summer costumes—Evening wear and Wedding dresses. PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YARD Made only in 26-inch width If your dealer does not keep it, write for samples and color card, and where to get it, to NORFOLK SILK COMPANY 469-471 Broome St., New York City pert ery secret of rapid writing taught. Complete mail course, 65.00. Rev. J. JONES, Art School, West Creek, N. J. $$ Ree ee eee eer = Sanaa SR A A AT A LT A NT

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The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902 How a Girl Can Take Care of Her Clothes By Emma M. Hooper

OUNG girls, and women as well, have a natural desire for dainty, pretty clothes, a desire which is difficult to grat- ify because very dainty belong- ings are, as a rule, easily soiled and expensive to replace. If, however,a girl’s clothes are well taken care of they may be made to last and look well indefinitely, with slight exertion and at small cost. About Shoes. As ‘‘a lady bred dresses her feet before her head,’’ I will commence with the shoes —one of the hall-marks of a refined woman, the French claim, and they, as a rule, are very fastidi- ous about the shoes they wear. Shoe trees or forms keep shoes in shape, but if unable to have either keep your shoes in a well-ventilated box or drawer or open shoe-bag. Having two pairs of shoes, so that the same pair need not be worn every day, is a good plan and an economical one. When Shoes are Damp dry them in a cool room; when dusty, wipe all dust from them with an old silk or flannel cloth. Always keep your shoes clean and dry; occasionally rub them with a little vase- line on a piece of flannel. If they are not in con- stant use keep them wrapped in tissue-paper in a pasteboard box. Renew the buttons when shabby. Calfskin Shoes for Rainy Days may be made water-proof by greasing them with mutton tallow and then rubbing with ink and sweet oil instead of blacking. Patent leather ties may be cleaned with flannel and shoe cream. When not in keep them wrapped in flannel. use Suede Slippers Clean Nicely with cornmeal or dry bread rubbed on, or if much soiled they may be cleaned as gloves are. White satin slippers may be freshened with bran or powdered magnesia. ‘Tan-colored shoes are easily cleaned with a flannel cloth moistened with a little water or tur- pentine, followed by an application of shoe paste. From Shoes to Gloves is but a step. There can be no excuse for untidy gloves. Silk or cotton gloves should be mended with fine silk as soon as a broken stitch appears. Mend kid gloves with a glove needle and cotton of the shade used in the seaming; follow the style of sewing, which may be buttonhole stitches, the edges lapped, and stitched or sewed through and through in a ‘‘ prick’’ seam. Always mend gloves on the right side. If a hole is worn or pulled apart do not pull the edges together and spoil the shape, but work all around the edge with one or more rows of buttonholing which will fill the space, joining the last rows by a line of over and over stitches. Light Suede Gloves if slightly soiled may be cleaned by rubbing them with cornmeal or dry bread; when genuinely soiled both suéde and glacé gloves may be cleaned with naphtha or gasoline Remember both these fluids are explosive when exposed to fire or artificial light. When cleaning gloves put one on and with a piece of flannel wet in naphtha rub every part of it, rubbing twice where the glove is much soiled; rub dry with a second piece of flannel, and dust talcum powder over it; keep on the hand until dry, or shape over a wooden hand; shake the powder from it, and finally hang in the air to remove the odor of the cleansing fluid. Black glacé gloves when worn white may be brushed with a feather dipped in ink and the spot then rubbed with flannel and sweet oil; freshen black suéde gloves with the ink only. It Pays to Buy Good White Gloves, for they wiil stand many cleaning processes. White and yellow chamois gloves may be washed in lukewarm suds | made from white soap, rinsed in clean warm water and partly dried in the sun, finishing the process on wooden hands, or the owner’s, until the gloves are dry. Gloves cleaned and dried in this way retain their shape perfectly. Gloves when not in use should be wrapped in tissue-paper and kept in a glove box. If Hat Ribbons, and Ribbons which have been worn for collars, belts, etc., become soiled dip them in naphtha or gasoline, shake and dry in the open | air. Usually ribbon does not require ironing. Some- times a taffeta ribbon will not dry without wrin- kling, in which case it must be pressed under a piece of muslin with a hot iron. Black ribbons may be renovated by sponging them with a mixture of one- third alcohol to two-thirds water. When partly dry iron them under a piece of black crinoline. If Steel Buckles Rust soak them in kerosene and then rub with flannel and powdered unslaked lime. When a hat or a belt with steel buckles is laid away cover the steel with soft paper. Jet passementerie is easily brightened by spong- ing it with warm water and alcohol and polishing it with a piece of clean flannel. If you have a patent leather belt keep it in tissue- paper when not in use. A White Wool Evening Hood or shoulder shawl when bereft of its original purity may be laid in flour or cornmeal for twenty-four hours, then shaken, and it should be beautifully clean. If You Have Silk Hose or Undervests do not put them in the family wash, but wash them out yourself as you would laces in warm suds, never rubbing soap on them, but gently dipping them up and down in the suds. Rinse in clear warm water, partly dry, pull into shape and iron with a moder- ately hot iron, having a soft cloth under the iron. A White Silk or White Woolen Waist or gown that is not to be worn for some time should be folded in dark blue tissue-paper, and then in an old sheet to prevent its becoming yellow. Dress Shields of Stockinet or rubber may be washed in warm soapsuds, rinsed, partly dried and then ironed, and they will be almost as good as new. Corsets May be Cleaned by scrubbing them with a hand brush and warm soapsuds, after remov ing the steels and laces. Rinse. When dry mend carefully and put the steels and laces back in place. Tulle Rosettes and Folds which decorate sum mer stocks may be made to appear fresh and crisp by ripping them apart and passing the tulle through the steam of a pan of boiling water. Chiffon and silk mousseline may be renovated in the same way, but must afterward be pressed under a damp cloth. All fine white materials, white satin slippers and white laces, when not in use, should be laid away in blue tissue-paper. Nothing is More Untidy in Appearance than a dress skirt which is frayed on the lower edge of the flounce, or the skirt proper. Keep all your skirts nicely bound with velveteen, which should project an eighth of an inch below the edge so as to afford the necessary protection. A drop skirt lin- ing with a plaited ruffle needs on the lower edge of the ruffle a narrow mohair braid run flatly on the under side, and stitched in with the hem to save the edge from wear, as the velveteen does the shaped flounce when put on as an extension on the skirt edge when the gores extend below the flounce. Make a Point of Cleaning Your Dresses of dust stains, etc., before putting them away and they will look well to their last days. Put Your Ribbons and Belts 4 way in boxes so as to keep them uncrushed. Smooth out your face veils and fold them when putting them away; fold your ribbons, belts and collars, and they will last twice as long. The washable collars and ties now worn will repay their owner for the little extra care which the ordinary lawn dress will not give. Put salt in the soapsuds in which you wash them and in the rinsing water to set the color; dry in the shade and iron soft, as starch is not a factor nowadays. Have Your Cotton without starch, colors ”’ water. Shirt-Waists done up dry in the shade, and ‘set the with a teaspoonful of salt to a quart ot Pink and green cottons are ‘‘ set’’ with a cupful of vinegar dissolved in a gallon of water. When a black piqué skirt is laundered have it starched slightly with black starch. Now that Pongee Has Returned to Favor for waists and skirts it is well to know that it may be washed perfectly in a lather of warm soapsuds in which has been placed a handful of salt. It should be dried in the shade, rolled up in a clean sheet for a day, and then ironed on the wrong side with a moderately warm iron. If You Have a Circular Flounce on any wash gown see that when washed the skirt is shaken out while wet, and then ironed with the flounce part with the grain of the material, not up and down, or it will pull out of shape. The White Woolen Waists which are now so much worn may be dry-cleaned with hot, dry corn- meal, rubbing the goods in the meal as though it were water. Brush and repeat if necessary. on the wrong side. Iron Keep Your Laces Clean; dirt neither makes them valuable nor attractive. When lace is too much yellowed with age wet it and lay it in the sun to bleach. As a rule laces are not ironed, but if this finish seems necessary lay old muslin over the lace and iron with a moderately warm iron. White lace, if soaked all night in milk and soap- suds, and soused in the liquid, rinsed in cold water, patted nearly dry and laid out flatly on a folded | sheet, pinning down the scallops, will, when quite dry, appear like new. Cotton laces may be gently washed in warm soapsuds and rinsed and treated as silk lace. Real lace may be cleaned by placing it between layers of white tissue-paper, well sprinkled with calcined magnesia, and then putting it between the leaves of a book under a heavy weight for three days. Then the powder may be shaken off and the lace will be found quite clean and almost like new. Rusty black lace should be ripped from a gown and rinsed in a cupful of water with a tablespoonful of boraxand alcohol. Pat nearly dry, wind around a bottle covcred with muslin, and pin each scallop down until perfectly dry.

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The Ladies’ Home Journal for June 1902 Page 43 vine War So Costumes ¥ DHUMUMNer Hats for Children Teapetinaeer rig snd Somer Fashion Catalogue, No. 5! SHOWING SOME OF THE NEWEST SHAPES Mailed free for the asking. | THIS HANDSOME $4 98 GIBSON WAIST, ° No. 4855 A. An extremely nobby Silk Waist, made in the new Gibson style of a fine quality Taffeta Silk in Black, Okt Rose, Light Blue and White, istrimmed ff | front and back with clusters of pin tucking and finished with numerous §f small, silk-covered buttons. Sleeves and standing collar similarly trim- med,made over fitted lining, @4.98 Handsome LACE $8 98 DROP SKIRT, ° 4492 A. This very beautiful Drop . Skirt of finest black Brussels Net- ting, is trimmed with two accor- | dion-plaited Taffeta Silk ruffles and is entirely covered with rows of silk ribbon ruching, drop skirt of black lusterine wfth accordion- plaited ruffle. Price, $8.98 and either or Agents Send $1 both of the Wanted, above described gar- Write ments will be forwarded to-day wes to your nearest express and state 4 office C. O. D. with experi. privilege of exam- ence. r ination for balance and charges. ATENT SUSTAINED P BY U. S. CIRCUIT COURT “The proof shows that the Gorton Clasp was the first perfectly successful and operative ever made. JUDGE COXE The Sample pair,by mail,25¢. CUSHION — TRIMMED WITH FRILLS QUAINT SUNBONNET LITTLE DUTCH CAP SUP RTER Made of insertion with rib- Of Swiss muslin with ruf- Baby's cap of nainsook, PO bon run through it. tles of embroidery. trimmed with lace. NEVER SLIPS, TEARS NOR UNFASTENS EVERY PAIR WARRANTED GEORGE FROST CoO., Makers, Boston, “@6 Look for the name on every loop, and for the Molded Rubber Button. | Ball and Socket GARMENT FASTENER FOR WAISTS AND DRESSES Better than Button or Hook- and-Eye in many ways. They hold tight and are easily manipula- | ted. Neat and | hidden from view. We originated this fastener, | which has been cheaply imitated. To get the genuine, which are strong and perfect, be sure that our trade-mark is on every card of fasteners. If your dealer hasn't them, send his name and 2-cent stamp for samples, or 6 cents for trial set. THE BALL AND SOCKET MFG. CO. 68 Essex St., Boston, Mass. t The BLOCH (adjustable) Baby Ss is as much ahead of the rest in strength, beauty Go-Cart and finish, as in its handy, easy-working and simple mechanism. It is the most easily and com- pletely adjustable of all; it balances per- fectly ; it doesn’t run sideways or wabble ; it is light. It is not in the same class with the rest. It is the BLOCH. People are delighted with any BLOCH, but most everybody prefers it with porcelain handles and reachers of bicycle tubing. BLOCH is stamped onevery FOR A LITTLE GIRL : PIQUE HAT FOR TINY BOY Bloch go-cart. We F nsertio Made of whit iqué. Crow > ; io ‘@. No Buttons Ne Trou ble mn ll pr na " § pusbees fs icoo-odiaee and waid) — palsy of sO. S000 = SNe the United States; or A WORD TO MOTHERS you can get it of The Rubens Shirt is a veritable life preserver. It your dealer. affords full protection to lungs and abdomen, thus . preventing colds and couglis, so fatal toa great many Send for Book children G ] once. lake no others, no walter whet Sour anepagreenive dale page, Th ies PHILADELPHIA BABY CARRIAGE FACTORY Eighth and Spring Garden, Philadelphia DWARD B.GROSSMAN;G THE CREAT MAIL ORDER CLOAK HOUSE The Dr. Deimel Underwear Women and children will find the Dr. Deimel Linen-Mesh Underwear espe- cially soothing to their delicate and ten- der skin. Children brought up in these garments are free from skin eruptions of all kinds. The Dr. Deimel Dress Shields are the best made. Can be easily washed; are odorless. All genuine We guarantee every pair. Dr. Deimel gar- Booklet and samples free. ments bear this trade-mark. Address ‘ . The Deimel Linen-Mesh Co. 497 Broadway, New York SAN FRANCISCO, 6th FLOOR HAYWARDS BUILDING. WASHINGTON, 728 FIFTEENTH Sr., N. W. MONTREAL, 2202 ST. CATHERINE Sr. LONDON, E. C., ENG., 10-12 BREAD ST HAT FOR A TINY GIRL PRETTY RUFFLED HAT Shirred and tucked hat of pink chambray Lawn hat with ruffled brim, trimmed with with lace pompon rosette of gauze ribbon. TO SHADE HER EYES Sunbonnet of dimity trimmed with lace-edged ruffles. doesn’t keep them write to us. ‘The Rubens Shirt has gladdened the hearts of thousands of mothers, therefore we want it accessible to all the world, and no child ought to be without it. ~] N they are made in merino, wool, silk and wool, and all silk, to ) i Something Cw fit trom birth to six years. Sold ‘at Dey oods Stores. Circulars, with Price-List, free. Manufacturect by E. M. MARBLE & CO., 90 Market St., Chicago, UI. Pears is not only the best soap for | For the Baby ©) There have been other Baby } Jumpers, but not like our ungncBasy =" BOUNCING IAW BABY CHAIR (Patent Applied For) Chair, Swing and Jumper in one. Strong, Convenient, Economical, Attractive Folds away into a box 1% in. deep. Sup- ported iby heavy cord with strong, elastic rope, giving gentle (not too violent) bounc- ing motion. A comfortable seat and back ° FOR SUMMER AFTERNOONS LITTLE GIRL'S BEST HAT Bed for the baby. wer per ee lawn or plants. o ‘a P - - ndless amusement for baby, and relief fur weary mothers. toilet and bath but also for Hat made of fine Swiss, trimmed with ruffles Hat made of point d'esprit, trimmed with flow- s + Ys ra y y edged with Valenciennes. ers and ribbon. ent prepaid anywhere $3 45 F q in U. S. or Canada for Shaving. Pears was the in- | . 0. C. A. 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Our lhand- some Catalog of Up-to-Date Ideas in Chil- dren's Clothing, Toys, Nursery Outfits sent free with each order or on request LITTLE ae PATTERN CO., Dept. D 26 W. 24th St., N. ¥. City Send for samples (or send | | money order for goods) of fine quality black taffeta pti. 4} silks, wear guaranteed. 19 toch, 5c; 91 Inch, O6e: 21 inch, 340: : Gertrude Baby Suit 1 inch $ inch, 88e; ne : 21 in., Biy By A 22 in., pure dye, #1. 18 A “DU BARRY "' BONNET FOR A WEE BABY A POKE SHAPE F 7 - ae ya | way ¢ peng | Baby. Ps ay health : ' and comfor aves time. Only one pin neede ysicians Sold dence to the consumer at % less than retailers : F a little baby this shape Poke bonnet made of dim- can possibly afford to sell. Satisfaction guaranteed or A new shape developed In oye : , endorse it. Send 26 cents for pattern and full instructions. money refunded. The Lenox Silk Works, Box 17, Stat’n A, New York | embroidered muslin. is very useful and pretty. ity. Broad satin bow on top BABYHOOD PUB. 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Summer Comfort Every requirement of comfort — every requisite of healthful beauty —is supplied by FERRIS GOOD SENSE CORSET WAISTS. They are made in sum- mer net as shown in illustration; also in soft, lightweight material. If you want to realize the perfec- tion of comfort, combined with the satisfaction of knowing you look as well as you feel, try a FERRIS Good Sense CORSET WAIST Made in shapes to suit every form and size. Sold by leading dealers everywhere. Be sure you get the genuine with the name sewed on in red. The Ferris Book sent free. THE FERRIS BROS, COMPANY L 341 Broadway, New York

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A SPECIAL WORD TO THE READERS OF THESE COLUMNS Mrs. Ralston is in Europe to look over the advance fashions and to get new ideas for her Journal work. She will be absent until July 1. opened and answered by Mrs. Holden. N THE many tones of écru and the different shades of brown, blue and gray are found the fashionable colors. More black, and more white, and more combinations of black and white costumes are being worn than ever before ; indeed, the black and white costume may be said to be the most stylish, effective and popular of all this season.

Coat Suitable for Slender Woman How can I make a coat of cream-white cloth to wear during the summer? I have a slender figure. Mas. &. 7. 3- One of the paletot shapes, which does not clearly define the figure, would, I am sure, be becoming to you. Deep double capes are pretty on coats of this kind. Many of the new coats are made with deep lace yokes, strapped with stitched bands of the cloth. The sleeves should be very loose and wide, in kimono shape with rolling turn-over cuffs. For a Girl of Fifteen Should a girl of fifteen wear a corset? How should she wear her hair? How long should her dresses be ? Mrs. A. B. J. Yes, I think she should wear a low, short corset —one which is not too heavily boned. Her hair would be pretty braided, turned under and tied with a bow of ribbon; another bow may be worn on the top of the head where the hair is divided and drawn up. Dresses for girls of fifteen should be worn just to the extreme top of the shoes. White Vests in Sailor Suits In making a cotton gown for summer in sailor blouse fashion is it permissible when one is in deep mourning to have it made with a little white vest ? BESSIE BLACK. As you speak of making your gown in a sailor blouse style I take it for granted that you are a young girl, which makes a white vest quite appro priate even in deep mourning. A little white is always permissible as a finish to a sailor gown at the throat and wrists, provided always that the white be perfectly plain without lace or elaborate embroidery. Remodeling a White Flannel Skirt How can I make over a cream-white flannel skirt which was made four yearsago? It has full straight widths, and is gathered at the back. ae, A Recut the skirt and gore it. I do not think that you will have much difficulty in matching the material ; buy enough new goods to add one or two circular flounces around the lower edge, trimming them with stitching. A skirt of this kind would be most useful if made in walking length. Washable Sunbonnets for Boy Babies What kind of bonnets do boy babies wear in mid summer ? 4 The washable sunbonnets of piqué, linen or lawn are the nicest for hot summer days, and thoroughly suitable for boy babies. How to Dress a Three-Vear-Old Boy How shall I dress my little boy three years old ? I do not wish to put him into trousers. Mrs. KATE M. 5. Russian blouse suits to be worn over full bloomer trousers are much the best for a boy of this age. One-piece suits trimmed with sailor collars in con- trasting colors are another suitable style for boys of this age. Separate Skirt for a Young Girl Ts a separate skirt of black silk too old for a girl of sixteen ? PATTIE M. I think a separate skirt of taffeta silk a little too old for a girl of sixteen. One in a thin, light- weight veiling material made up in one of the full plaited models would be more appropriate and far more pretty for a girl of that age. Ruffles on Summer Gowns Will straight or bias ruffles be used on summer gowns of wash material, such as dimity ? MArY R. Ruffles are made in both ways, but personally I prefer straight ones for dimity gowns as they keep their shape better when being laundered. Altering a White Bodice How can I alter a perfectly plain white net bodice to give it a more dressy look ? Mrs. EDWARD S. Add a pointed collar of net edged with double ruffles of the same. Slash your sleeves to the elbows and insert a piece of net to give the full flaring effect at the wrists. Making Over a Gros-Grain Gown How can an old-fashioned black gros-grain silk gown be altered into a pretty one suitable for after- noon wear in the summer? The skirt is in straight breadths. Miss K.I.R. Gore your skirt and trim it with two twelve-inch ruffles of Brussels net, the ruffles finely knife- plaited and edged with a narrow quilling of the net both at the top and bottom. Trim your bodice with a fichu of the net and use the upper part of your silk sleeves, making under ones of the net. The un- dersleeves should be very big and loose and finished at the wrists with one-inch bands of the net. A pointed girdle of ribbon in a Pompadour design would be a pretty finish for a gown of this sort. Any letters sent to her during her absence will be Making Over a Skirt Kindly help me by telling me how to make over an old gored skirt of black and white mixed goods. 1 ® A A circular flounce of either taffeta or peau,de soie trimmed with braid would be an excellent way to alter your skirt into the present fashion. Shoes to Wear with Different Skirts What.is the correct kind of shoe to wear with a walking skirt? And what kind should be worn with lighter weight gowns, such as foulards ? Mrs. Epwarp D. J. High boots of calfskin, either buttoned or laced, are the best to wear with walking skirts. half-shoes in French kid or patent leather are nice for wearing with gowns of foulard. Low or Cambric is Nice for a Boy’s Dresses What is the best material to use in making dresses for a two-year-old boy ? Mrs. D. E. F. Soft-finished cambric is a nice material for this purpose. To Remove Creases from Black Silk Is there any way of removing creases from a black silk skirt which has been packed away for a long time ? ALICE 5. Place a damp piece of flannel over the silk and iron the back of the silk between sheets of heavy paper. The flannel is to dampen the silk, which should be pressed thoroughly dry. Be careful to use heavy paper. Gloves for Street Wear What color gloves are most worn on the street ? G.M. and tan The worn Gray and the various shades of leather preferred for street lighter shades of gray, and white gloves are every-day wear. are in the afternoon and evening principally. Freshening a Cloth Suit low can I freshen up a navy blue cloth suit? It is trimmed with stitched bands of the material. Mrs. C.L.N Remove the stitched folds of cloth and replace them with a fancy braid in blue and white, or blue and silver mixture. ‘Trim the jacket to match and finish with white pearl or silver buttons. Dinner Dress for a Young Girl For a girl of seventeen what would he nice for a home dinner dress and for informal occasions ? PERPLEXED. A pale blue veiling would be most charming for a dinner frock if made very simply. The skirt might be trimmed with tiny frills put on with small headings, and the bodice made full and trimmed with a fichu of mousseline de soie edged with frills and narrow ribbon. <A wide sash of peau de soie ribbon would be extremely pretty to wear with a gown of this kind. Bodice to Wear with Plaid Skirt I have a green and blue plaid skirt. What mate- rial shall I get to make a blouse to wear with it ? JEANNETTE S. Match the blue part of your plaid with soft Oriental satin or taffeta silk for your blouse, and trim it with a little Irish lace around the neck and down the front. Accordion-Plaited Flounces Will accordion-plaited flounces be worn this sum- mer? And will blouses fasten down the back ? Miss H. A. Yes, accordion-plaited flounces will be worn this summer. The transparent materials suitable for evening wear are always pretty when trimmed with soft, graceful flounces. Blouses will continue to be fastened down the back, the fastenings being hidden under the trimming or plaits, as the case may be. Traveling Frock for a Child What material shall I get for a traveling frock for my little girl of nine, and how shall it be made ? Mrs, J. WARE. A dress of blue and white shepherd’s plaid or plain navy blue serge would be pretty for your little girl. Make it with a circular skirt with a deep hem finished with several rows of blue and white mixed braid. Plait the bodice back and front in two-inch plaits, and trim with the braid in yoke effect. The sleeves should be bishop in shape, and have cuffs trimmed with the braid. trimmed with braid. back under a plait. The belt also should be Fasten the dress down the Evening Blouse of White Satin How shall I make a separate blouse of soft white satin suitable to wear in the evening ? x. DD. Make it with a transparent yoke and collar and cuffs of lace, and have it tucked in clusters of small plaits in the front and back alike. If you wish to make it more elaborate add lace insertion between the clusters of plaits. Have it made to fasten in the back. To Tone a Plaid Gown Please tell me how to make a gown of green and blue plaid in woolen goods to tone it down a little. ALICE T.N. I think if you make it up with a great deal of black silk trimmings as bands of moiré silk or fine you will be pleased with the result. cloth trimmin og 's The Ladies Home Journal for June 1902

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— —_ co ~v Stained Hand Are the sorrowful accompaniment to the BERRY SEASON It is impossible to avoid soiling the hands when handling fruit Non-Pa-Reil Rubber Gloves protect the hands from stains, and keep them soft and white. ‘They are soft, thin, flexible and you can do anything with thei on your hands that you can without them. kivery pair fully guaranteed. For Sale by Dealers or sent prepaid on re ceipt of price, @1.25. None genuine with- out this trade-mark. In ordering give size of kid glove worn— Long or Short fingers. Booklet sent on request. THE FAULTLESS RUBBER Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.

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PEET’S INVISIBLE EYE is visible only when you are dressing; invisible after the hook is fastened. ‘lakes the place of silk loops; holds securely; makes a flat seam; links com forttosafety. Ideal for plackets. ‘Two dozen Eyes, 5 cents; with Hooks, 10 cents—white or black. At ail stores, or sent by mail, prepai PEET BROS., Philadelphia, Pa.

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