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CHAPTER VL
Continued.
"Tell me where you found the will,
Villain!" cried Elgin.
This morning, while Mrs. Harker
anil I were removing the rubbish and
your paintings, to prepare this room
for your occupancy the white and gold
chamber being too near the main
house the missing will was found
in a small box In which you kept your
vials of tints."
"Ah! I placed it there the day I was
taken sick, intending to give It to a
friend of mine the next day," said El
gin. "I wonder you did not find It be
fore."
I "The keenest search had overlooked
it," said Hammond. "A Vial of liquid
vermillion had somehow been shat
tered upon the envelope, and having
dr jpd, its appearance was that of a
mass of paint. When It fell upon the
lloor, the concussion shook off the
dried stuff enough to reveal your writ
ing. I carefully cleansed It, and All
became clear."
"And now what do you intend to dp?"
i "You shall learn ere long," remarked
Hammond, himself in doubt; for since
morning many things had happened to
perplex luV.. First, Elgin's restora
tion to speech and reason; secondly,
the discovery of the mutual love of
Catharine Elgin and James Greene;
thirdly, the present situation of Cath
arine; fourthly, the tidings of John
Marks; lastly, and most of all, the loss
cf the will.
t A rapping at the door, and the en
trance of a sneaking, cadaverous-looking
man, old but active, disturbed the
conversation.
i "Stephen," said Hammond, as this
person came in, "you are to watch with
the sick man to-night. Unbind him
You are too strong for him; but if he
tries any tricks "
' "I have" this to tame him," said
Stephen, in a hoarse, growling voice,
holding up a short club, suspended to
his wrist by a stout cord. "Daniel
told me about the row."
' "You will be careful. Elgin," said
Hammond, as Stephen unbound the un
fortunate man. "Stephen was once a
turnkey in the Tombs and understands
the business."
; "May God help and deliver me!"
groaned the prisoner.
, "Behave yourself and you'll be all
right," growled Stephen, as he drew a
blanket over the invalid.
; "If he asks for food or drink, Ste
phen," said Hammond, "furnish all he
'desires. But be areful to lock both
doors after you between this room and
the hall. I think he wants sleep more
than anything else."
Stephen growled an assent, and
Luke, avoiding Elgin's eye of scorn,
departed. . . '
CHAPTER VII.
BROTHER AND SISTEB.
Tassing along the hall until he
reached the white and gold chamber,
Luke Hammond rapped at the door.
Nancy Harker's thin, vulture-like
face appeared from within instantly.
"How is it with Miss Eigm?" asked
Hammond.
"She's as stiff as a gun-barrel," re
plied Mrs. Harker.
"Where is Daniel?"
' "Gone into the main house after bed
ding, etc."
"Has Miss Elgin attempted to con
verse with you, Mrs. Harker?"
"Not a bit. She draws back from me
when I go near her, as if I was a snake
or a spider." ' -
"When everything is arranged," said
Hammond, "come to my library. I'd
rather have her in tears or cast down
than so bold."
"Oh, we'll tame her," said Mrs.
Harker, with a grin that showed her
yellow fangs, and loud enough for poor
Kate to hear. "She's been looking
around the room for a place to get out,
but the windows are iron-barred and
the shutters nailed to the sill outside;
and she can't escape by the door, for
when I am not here bid Fan will be.
Better send old Fan here when you go
into the main house."
"I will," said Hammond. And Nancy
Harker closed the door, while he con
tinued on to his library.
He glanced at the bronze clock on the
ljantel-piece, and saw that it was half
past twelve.
"A great deal has happened since
vine," he muttered; "a, great deal, and
much more will certainly follow. What
shall I do?"
The first thing he did was to drink a
glass of brandy; then, remembering
Mrs. Harker's advice, he pulled at a
bell-cord hanging at the wall, and wait
ed for an answer. "
The summons was answered after a
few minutes by the appearance of an
;sed and much bent; woman, evil-eyed,
i!d with the face of a devil Incar
nate. This was "old Fan," the half crazy
ccok, a hag who would have sold her
f;oiil, such as it was, for a golden
Collar.
"I'm wanted, am I?" said she, in a
cracked voice, and rolling, up . sleeves
which covered long and muscular arms,
uon which the muscles were knotted
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and twisted, for old Fan was a giant
ess in strength.
"You are wanted," said Hammond,
without looking at her.
"Some fresh deviltry, eh?" said Fan.
"What is it to you whether it is good
or bad?" said Hammond, looking at
her rapacious eyes, which looked more
like a rat's than a human being's.
"Not a mite, Mr. Hammond, so long
as I am paid for "the doing," said Fan.
"Right," said Hammond, tossing her
a coin of gold, which she caught in
her bird-like claws as it gleamed in
the air. "Hasten to the white and
gold chamber. You will find Mrs.
Harker there. Go!"
"You may be bad, and you be,"
muttered old Fan, as she departed,
"but a better paymaster never lived."
"The sight of that old wretch," said
Hammond, when alone, "always chills
my blood."
He glanced towards the decanter of
brandy, which he had left upon the
table.
"No, I'll drink no more to-night,"
said he, turning away. ' "The habit wili
be my ruin if I do not crush it. I am
beginning to drink brandy like water."
He opened a drawer of his desk, and
searched for some papers that which
we have said he had drawn up with
much care during the day, and which
he had slid in,to the drawer when Mrs.
Harker first appeared in this story.
The paper had disappeared!
"Ha!" he exclaimed, springing -from
drawej; to drawer in vaiu'search. "The
will I intended to forge drawn up vj
my own handwriting, to be copied into
Henry Elgin's, has been stolen! She
took it that girl Catharine! She has,
of course, secreted it with the genuine
will! A proof of my guilt, if it shall
be discovered! . Why did she take it?
Oh! a woman's eyes, are as quick as
light she noticed . the heading saw
'twas the body of a . will, and thinking
of .-v1 ills, carried it loff! I'll have the
secret of. -the hiding-place or her life
her life!" " " V
He stamped with rage, and was fum
ing like a fury when Nancy Harker
entered without ceremony.
"What's the matter now?" cried she.
"You areoing mad or drunk, Luke." .
""Mad! Drunk! I must have been
both this day to leave doors and draw
ers open, and I not here," thundered
Hammond., -
'You are getting too fond of brandy,
Luke," said Mrs. Harker, as her glance
fell upon the decanter.
"Mind your business, Nancy Harker!"
he cried, tossing a handful of papers
upon the table, and rummaging among
them. "Not only has Catharine Elgin
secreted the genuine will, but also one
drawn up by me, and which I meant
to forge."
"Mind my own business, Luker Ham
mond!" sneered Nancy Harker, looking
at bim, as he fumed and fretted. "If
I did, what would become of you since
you have taken to that?"
. She tapped the decanter with her lean
forefinger.
'"You take courage and strength from
that, and it will hang you yet, Luke."
VHang rne!" repeated Hammond, re
coiling from the prophecy.
"I mean it, Luke. Things are getting
into a snarl, and you'll work a rope
khot under your left ear, if you don't
look sharp."
Hammond grew pale, and stared at
her in silence.
Nancy Harker nodded her head, as if
it were set on springs of wire.
Vlf I do," said Hammond, sitting
down and pushing back his grizzly
hair; "if I do, I'll have your company,
Nancy Harker. But we must not quar
rel; we are brother and sister, you
know." '
."Hush!" whispered Nancy, and shak
ing her finger at him. "If you let that
secret out what becomes of you -and
your plans? I telf-you, you drink too
much, Luke. No one can suspect that
I am your sister unless you, like a fool,
set the suspicion afoot. The first thing
to be done now is to find the lost will."
"Right," said Hammond. "Do you
think she concealed it in this room?"
"No," said Nancy, shaking her head.
"I think she has secreted it in her room
in the front."
"But I had the will in my hand the
instant before I went to the crimson
chamber," said Hammond, "and she
was there herself not five minutes after
my arrival there." - '
"She had time to come here, to find
the package, to run back to her room,
hide it, and then follow you," said
Nancy. "
"We must search instantly," said
Hammond, springing to his feet.
He lighted two lamps, gave one to his
sister, for such Nancy Harker was,
and with the other led the 'way to
Kate's late room.'
'In going thither It was necessary to
ascend a short flight of stairs, and as
Hammond placed his hand on the
uewel-post'of the banisters at the foot
of the flight the carved top-piece of
tht post slipped off in his grasp and
caused h'ro to stumble and bruise his
face.
"Confound that , post!" said he, re
gaining 4iis feet and clapping the top
back upon it. "It has played me that
trick twice. Go into that closet there
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and bring me a hammer and a couple
of large nails." -v
Nancy Harker did so, and Hammond
drove the long, strong nails into the
cap of the newel-post, which was large
and hollow, fastening it down hard and
fast.
l"That will hold till doomsday," said
he, as he finished the work and ascend
ed the statrs, followed by Nancy.
The. evil .pair entered Kate's room
and searched it from floor to ceiling,
leaving nothing undone that might give
them success. -
"It is not here," said Hammond, after
more than an hour's hard labor. -
"Then she has hidden it in the hall of
the eastern wing," said Nancy, as they
descended the stairs on their way back
to the library.
"The hall is as bare of crack or crev
ice as the sole of my boot," said Ham
mond. "She may have tossed it into some
one of the rooms," said Nancy.
"Every door is locked on each side of
the hall," replied Hammond. "But we
will search it."
They did, and found nothing. They
stared at each other in surprise, and
both noticed n mutual paleness.
. "Nancy," whispered Hammond, "this
is a serious matter."
. "It is," said she, in the same tone,
and feeling more uneasy than she cared
to tell.
"Suspicion once fastened on us," con
tinued Hammond, "for your name is
mentioned in the spurious will, and
how long will it b? before the detec
tive police are on our track?"
"Suspicion does exist, Luke," said
Nancy. "And in the mind of a man
whom you underrate infinitely."
"You meay James Greene, the car
penter," said Hammond. "No, I do not
underrate him. He has a bold heart, a
strong arm and a shrewd brain. We
must prepare to meet him, Nancy. So
again to my library that we may con
cert some plan to baf3e him."
Hammond first rapped at the door of
the Crimson Chamber and Stephen
opened it from within.
"How is he?" asked Hammond.
"See for yourself," said Stephen, as
he threw the door back upon its hinges.
Hammond entered with soft, cat-like
tread, and gazed upon the invalid. Mr.
Elgin was sleeping as calmly as a rosy,
healthy child, and hi3 features, though
thin and pale, wore a noble dignity in
their repose that Hammond could not
but admire.
"I cannot sleep like that," muttered
Hammond turning away.
Stephen heard the words and whis
pered: "I've seen men in prison cells asleep
thai rr.ir. rvhnn tlv hansrinan rnirlrln'1
I catch a wink; the night before they
1 were" to die."
"Die!" said Hammond, shuddering.
"Do you think ha is going to die?"
"Not yet," sr. id Stephen. "Aud them
I spoke of had a look around the
mouth that Hnry Elgin can never
have for he's never done a murder.
He's "
"Silence," naid Hammond, sternly;
for the man's words suggested unpleas
ant memories, "ou speak too loud.
He begins to mutter in his sleep."
Hammond held his ear near the pale
and moving lips and caught these
words:
"Poor Kate! what will become of
tbe-e!"
"He dreams of his child," thought
Hammond; and then with Nancy, who
had followed him, left the Crimson
Chamber.
Before the door of the imprisoned
Kate they halted again, and old Fan
answered the gentle tapping of Ham
mond's knuckles.
"How is she? Does she sleep?" he
asked.
Old Fan made no reply, but swung
(he door wide open.
Kate was still sitting in the armchair
and her eyes of fire and scorn as she
recognized Hammon peering in made
him shrink and quail.
"She does not sleep she plans," he
muttered, as he turned quickly away.
"Watch her well, Fan."
"Prop my eyelids with gold and
they'll never blink nor wink," croaked
the old hag, with a grimace that laid
bare her toothless gums.
"Right," said Hammond, and with
Nancy at his heels he strode on to his
library, for there he loved best to plot
and scheme.
CHAPTER VIII.
A TKAP FOR JAMES GREENE.
"And now," said Hammond, as he
and Nancy extinguished their lamps
and sat down under the gaslight, "to
talk about James Greene."
"You were an idiot to engage him to
repair that desk," said Nancy.
"Pish!" said Luke. "I did not know
that he was the intended heir of Henry
Elgin; nor did I know that he and Cath
arine had ever met before. You are a
woman, Nancy, and should have found
it out long ago."
He glanced toward the brandy de
canter, but Nancy pushed it beyond hia
reach.
"Catharine Elgin hated me from head
to heel," said Nancy, with a sour look,
"from the very day I entered this
house. And let me tell you, "Luke, that
when one woman hates another she Is
very careful what she says and does, in
her presence."
"The repairing of that unlucky desk,"1
said Hammond, after a pause, "has
caused all this trouble. Kate had for
gotten all about the groaning she had
heard, when rooming in this jpart of the
house, and if James Greene had not
damaged the partition, she would be
sleeping now. in her own room, the -genuine
will would have been mine or de
stroyed for I meant to destroy it and
James Greene were easily disposed of."
"It is fatality," said Nancy. "We,
must renew our search for the will by
daylight"
To be continued..
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Pleads For Good Roada.
EW HAMPSHIRE'S unique
situation, the nature of her
topography and the char
acter of her .population,
permanent and transient,
make the good roads prob
lem one of immediate interest and im
portance in the Granite State. In tes
timony whereof, the writer received a
communication from Charles J. Glid
den, the world famous automobilist.
Mr. Glidden entered a vigorous plea .
for better roads in New Hampshire,
urging especiallv State highways from
Nashua to Fabyans and thence to
Portsmouth, thus enabling, as he says,
"the automobile toeach the summer
places and induce people to locate per
manently among the granite hills."
What Mr. Glidden and all the other
automobilists want is just what most
of New Hampshire's other summer
residents ardently desire, and what will
be of great importance In many ways
to the business economy of the State
as a whole and all its interests. -
This fact has long been recognized, in
a degree, and for many years the State
has been giving aid to the towns in the
mountain and lake regions in keeping
their roads in repair. As to the degree
in which these appropriations have
reached useful ends, opinions differ;
but at any rate the State has thus
shown its good will to the amount of
several hundred thousand dollars.
There has "been a gradual improve
ment," also in the change from the high
.way district system of road construc
tion and repair to the town system,
and the Legislature of 1903 took a long
step in advance by initiating a move
for State supervision.
By this legislation the Governor and
Council, with the assistance of an en
gineer, were authorized to investigate
the highway problem and report to
the next Legislature in the form of a
bill their recommendations for the fu
ture policy of the State in this matter.
The engineer authorized in this act is
now at work mapping the roads of the
State, and the Governor and the mem
bers of his council are giving personal
Investigation to the matter.
The question now is not cne of State
aid to towns in repairing roads, but of
a comprehensive system of permanent
road Improvement, a system which can
be outlined with such exactness befdre
K dollar is expended in construction as
to clearly show where the permanently
Improved roads are to "begin and end,
the expense to the State for construc
tion and the annual expense of main
tenance. '
It will aim to permeate every section
of the State, and while no formal de
cision has as yet been reached, it is
very likely that it will be thought best,
taking everything into consideration, to
make this State system very largely of
well-ballasted, well-drained and well
surfaced gravel roads, whose cost, us
ing the present roadbed for a basis,
would be from $800 to $1500 a mile.
On this calculation, by the appro
propriation of $100,000 a year for six
years the State could have at the end
of that time 600 miles of the best roads
fa the world for travel, traversing the
State from its entrances at the south
west, south centre and southeast to the
White Mountains and beyond, with sev
eral cross sections. This estimate con.
templates the division of the cost be
tween State, county and town.
Some parts of this system have al
ready, been constructed by the State
under special acts. In the White Moun
tains, for instance, there are some fifty
miles -of State highways practically
completed, which must be inevitably
the most picturesque and valuable sec
tion of the entire system. Along the
Bea coast the construction of a very
permanent and excellent ocean boule
yard is well advaned.
- The people of the State are coming
to recognize generally the fact that the
building of permanent roads is simply
a business proposition. There is no
more mystery about building rcadS
than about building houses. Let the
State determine the right kind of road
to be built, appropriate the money, tc
build it and thus enter upon a policy
of permanent highway in a practical
and business-like way.
We know up here in New Hampshire,
that within a day's ride of our summer
capital, Mount Washington, there are
10,000,000 people. " We would like to
have at least a tenth of them visit us
every summer. And in order to get
them in and keep them in as long as
we can we are planning these improve
ments. N. J. Bachellor, Governor of
"New Hampshire. .
950,000,000 For Good Koads.
A" largely attended meeting was held
at Buffalo, N. Y., in the interests of
good roads. Deputy State Engineer E.
F. Van Hoesen said that since the.Hig-bie-Armstrong
bill went into effect in
1898, 456 miles of good roads had been
built in the State. It was his expecta
tion that before January, 1906, there
would be a total of 704 miles, while
plans for 976 additional miles were un
der way. William Pierpont White said
the solution of the problem of good
roads was to issue $50,000,000 of bonds,
fifty per cent, of which would be paid
by the State, thirty-five per cent, by
the counties, according to the mileage
improved in each county, and. fifteen
per cent, by the towns, according to the
mileage improved in each town.
A fir tree was cut in Oregon recently
which made nine sawlogs averaging
fourteen feet in. length, scaling 21,483
feet board measure.
; The total number of bankruptcies in
England and Wales last yea; was 451
Charles Vergette, one of the candi
dates for a municipal election at Peter
borough, England, has spoken his ad
dress into a phonograph, and this is
reproduced at the various meetings.
Stone sawing is now done success
fully "by means of a simple wire in
place of a saw. An endless wire works
over pulleys, as in the bandsaw. It is
driven at a uniform speed and the cut
ting is done by sand mixed with water,
conveyed into-the saw-cut. ,v
Though the efficacy of cannon firing
for breaking- up hail clouds has been
questioned, statistics are claimed to
how marked reduction :n damage to
the vineyards of Southern Europe since
1900. Even lightning and thunder have
been suppressed in the protected area.
"Both Roentgen and radiuinrays have
given Dr. M. Koernicke a marked ac
tion on plants. Seedlings were retard
ed and eventually ceased growing, but
in some cases revived after an inter
val. Germination of bean and turnip
seeds was accelerated at first, beans
ceasing to develop after a time.
The intense het of liie electric arc is
not the highest produced in the work
shop: Probably the highest tempera
ture yet attained is that of A. G. Hima
laya, a Portuguese, whose method con
sists in concentrating sunlight, and who
by this means readily volatilizes every
known substance. In his St. Louis ex
periments 6000 silvered glass mirrors
were used to throw the rays on a sin
gle point.
Sir Frederick Trevis says that among
230 patients operated on ' for appen
dicitis at a time when the acute mani
festations had subsided, no fewer than
eleven subsequently complained that
they were not at all ielieved by the
operation. Of every 100 patients in
whom, an abscess in the appendix re
gion is opened no fewer than seventeen
per cent, suffer from recurrence or
other trouble,
v
Sir William Ramsay, the great Eng
lish scientist, says: "All our progress
since the time of Sir Isaac Newton has
not falsified the saying of that great
man that we are' only children jpick
ing up here and there a pebble from the
shore of knowledge, while a whole un
known ocean stretches before our eyes.
Nothing can be more certain than that
we are just beginning to learn some
thing of the wonders of the world in
which we live and move and have our
being." N
Poisoning by cream tarts has been
reported in many countries and in nu
merous cases. A French chemist has
been led to investigate, taking up es
pecially the poisoning of five persons
near Lyons by cream cakes from a cer
tain bakery. Infection with some germ
and not .the materials of the tarts
proved to be the cause of the poisoning.
The exact nature of the germ was not
determined, but it seemed to be asso
ciated with fermentation and a peculiar
taste and odor.
Tonng America in British Eyes.
Whatever may be sa'id of the man
ners and customs of our English
schools and colleges, in the way of de
preciation, we can at. least congratu
late ourselves, even at the risk of being
Pharisaical,, that they are not like
those in vogue at similar institutions
in America. One cannot say, of
course, how far the stories which reach
us through the columns of the morn
ing papers are "to be relied; on. We
instinctively , mistrust any extravagant
tale that comes from the States. But
if only a tithe of the stories are true
there is need for a very substantial
reform in American colleges. We are
accustomed to look on bullying as an
obsolete practice, and the writer who
introduces it into a school story does
so at the risk of being laughed at. But
in the States it is a very genuine and
active evil. We read of doings which
seem almost incredible. As, for in
stance, the case of the young man who
was taken to an abandoned coal mine,
flogged,, thrown into a deep pool of
water, and dragged through the mud
fir a quarter of a mile all this by way
of a sportive practical joke. In another
case an electric chair was used oh the
victim, with the result that he was
crippled. We repeat that we take
these stories with a very large grain
of salt. 'But there is no doubt that
life at American colleges is decidedly
rough and calls for reform. There is
something of the Red Indian in Young
America. London Globe.
Th Matter With Smith.
A man in Chicago has 500 cents
which he can't spend, can't sell, can't
melt up, can't give away, and which
he can't even keep. At least if he does
any of these things he is breaking the
law, and he hasn't figured out the
answer yet. He is proprietor of a num
ber of penny-in-the-glot machines, and
the 500 pennies are the mutilated coin
that the machines have accepted in
six months without his consent. He
can't sell them for junk copper because
they are bad money, he can't pass them
off as pennies for the reason that they
are bad pennies and that might cause
him to pass some time in jail, and if
he keeps them he is liable for carrying
bad money. This was the opinion of
the United. States District Attorney,
md the Aistant United States Attorney-General,
who was in Chicago
looking after the Beef Trust, tried his
hand at the puzzle without better re
sults. Technically, the owner of the
pennies, one Smith, violates the law
whatever he does with them, Spring
field Republican, - .
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Why We Grow Old.
Bitter memories of a sinful life
which has gone all wrong make prem
ature furrows in the face, take the
brightness from the eyes and. the elas
ticity from the step and make one's
life sapless and uninteresting, says
Orison Swett Marden in Success.
We grow old because we do not know
enough to keep young, just as we do
not know enough to keep well. Sick
ness is a result of ignorance .and wrong
thinking. The time will come when a
man will no more harbor thoughts that
will make him sick or weak than he
would think of putting his hands into
fire. No man can be sick if he always
has right thoughts and takes ordinary
care of his body. If he will think only
youthful thoughts he can maintain his
youth far beyond the usual period. '
If you would "be young when old,"
adopt -the sun dial's motto, "I record
none but hours of . sunshine." Never
mind the dark or shadowed hours.
Forget the unpleasant, unhappy days.
Remember only the days of rich ex
periences; let the others drop into ob
livion. - It is said that "long livers are great
hopers." If you keep your hope bright
In spite of discouragements, and meet
all difficulties with cheerful face, it
will be very difficult for age to trace
its furrows on your brow. There is
longevity i; cheerfulness.
Sliirrs nnd Hats to Match.
Every single penny that can be saved
out of the dress allowance, whether it
be of the smallest or largest descrip
tion, should be devoted . now to the
purchase of lingerie shirts. Nothing is
going to be more fashionable in the
immediate future than white embroid
ered blouses, very simply made so that
the embellishment that is given them
is not overshadowed at all by the ex
travagance of the manner in which
they are constructed. Shirts one mass
of broderie Anglaise are modish and
shirts covered with . medallions of
raised embroidery with eyelet holes
here and there are equally fashion
able. They look delightful with a
tailor-made coat and -skirt costume,
and as they wash like a rag they are
not really extravagantly-costly " pur
chases. Many of these lovely shirts
are made in Ireland, where so much
white wear is embroidered, i
Lingerie hats are going to follow in
the wake of shirts of this description
when summer comes, and as there is
nothing more charming above a girlish
face, their possibilities should be
stored up In cherished remembrance.
Irish lace turban toques are even now
being seen mounted on masses of chif
fon. A lovely model of pale pink chif
fon, with a crown and brim of Irish
guipure, and at one side masses of
soft pink and cream ostrich feathers,
was seen and admired immensely at a
wedding last week. Washington
Times.
Oar Bachelor Girls. .
"As far as appearance goes, the bach
ilof girl who prevails t the present
time would delude the unwary into
thinking that she was of the old school.
She shuns eccentricities of clress, the
unbecoming masculine lines at the one
extreme, as carefully as the rouge-pot
and high heels at the other. Her
clothes are only a little simpler than
those of her sister in society. She
does not swear or smoke cigars al
though she reserves the right to do so
if she wishes. Her manners are sim
ple and direct.
The social settlements have been a
boon to girls of this class. They form
stepping-stones between college and
Bohemia.. Allied to this sort of interest
are -other movements, in which bach
elor girls of sentiment and education
may become twentieth-century minis
tering angels. One of these is the great
system of organized charities employ
ing tens of thousands of workers, an
other the profession of trained nurses,
and a third the promoters of economic
and municipal reforms.
Literary and artistic bachelor girls
writers, sculptors, illustrators, paint
ers and the like also hold, their devo
tion to ideals responsible for their man
ner of living. They are to be found in
places as closely resembling those of
the Paris Latin-Quarter as brand-new
America can furnish.
Similarly women doctors, lawyers
and architects and all sorts of pro
fessionals do their work as their broth
ers do, asking no favors and planning
independent lives in establishments of
their own. London- Telegraph,
Uo longer, a Cariosity.
. We are no longer asked to. pity; we
have the far more difficult task of
lauding the self-supporting woman of
the present. We have got past the
day of celebrating her daring In en
tering the professions. Mr.. Howells
long ago turned his light arrows of
satire against the woman doctor and
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has more than
once bent her serious gaze in the same
direction. -The literary woman has
played the part of heroine from time
to time for half a century and more,
and now, just as the woman of busi
ness has ceased to feerherself an ob
ject of interest as such to her friends,
she is taken. up by the novelist as a
new and welcome discovery. It would
seem to the observer of things as they;
are that the so-called "psychological
moment" -for her appearance Is past;
and that, considering the multiplicity
of her class, she might be taken frank
ly-for granted. Yft it must be owed
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that she presents alluring opportuni-4 s
ties for both the novelist of character'
and the novelist of society.' The recon-
ciliation between innate ."ladyhood."
and the occupations of business is fre
quently accomplished in life, and chal
lenges the skill and delicacy of - the
most endowed historian of the twen
tieth century. A few. serious miiids,
also,' have set themselves to prove to
a public that perhaps needs little proof,
how enlivening to women of - receptive
intelligence is the contact with large
interests and complicated ' business
problems. Most of us are well aware
that hope of opportunity ' for such free
play of the mind has sent., many an
eager girl into the most disappointing
and monotonous drudgery. Scribner's.
The Beauty of Simplicity., i ,
Mrs. Frederick Tracy believes there
is only one way for a woman to man
age her home successfully.'" "f'
"I feel," said Mrs. Tracy, "that; tt
rjoman's happiness , or dissatisfaction
depends on the amount," of common
sense she has and uses in the manage- -ment
of her home. If she uses her
best energy in making the home. run
smoothly, and in giving it an air of
wholesome content, the homo will
show this desire.. , r ; -.-fi
"Now, in the first place, common
sense calls for a wise expenditure of
money and many people 'show7 that
they don't exercise their sense all the
time by spending their money so fool:
ishly. It does not take much to make
a home attractive if we once know
how; it should be furnished with the
things that are attractive, simple aud
repi'esentwhat we enjoy most.
"No home that ever was built' made
its owner" happy, for happiness ger
minates from within. A splendid man
sion and beautiful gowns may increase
our happiness, but they don't' make
happiness. Clothes add to- a: woman,
but they 'don't make her. Wise , ex
penditure is therefore the first prin
ciple to be recognized in the founding
of a happy home. r? .I;
"A woman cannot add to this alone;
her husband must assist her; he should
let her know exactly what they may'
and. may not afford, and together con
sider the household expenses .as care
fully as he does his business expenses.
"Extravagance, and needless extrav
agance, is one of the great evils of the
modern home and especially in this
country.' Women must be taught that
the simple may be beautiful by its very
simplicity and the elaborate : by,;. its
very costliness is oftentimes vulgar.
"An actress who is known -for her
beautiful gowns "was told recently by,
a friend that her wardrobe must hava
cost a king's ransom? . She explained
good naturedly that she selected her
frocks for their becomingness and not
for their cost. Modern life affords us
many advantages and new resources,
but It still must teach us the value of
simple living." Chicago Post. 1
Fewest
fashions
A very handsome small hat. was In
two tones of blue straw, one ol the
rough spiny varieties. ' :'
Gowns in shepherds' checks In blue,
black, brown, mauve and. red, .with
white, are fashionable. v , . t ,t
The belted coats with pleated backs
are still in high favor,, and the redin
gote styles are much worn. .
- There are any number of short bo
leros, some of them resembling the
loose cape bolero of last season. - '
Raincoats are indispensable for the
school girl's outfit, and come" in most
excellent styles in the spring lines.
Even the sailor shapes are made
jaunty by a high bandeau in the back,
which tilts the hat over the forehead.
Mauve and white check is especially
dainty. The skirt is tucked almost to
the knee with a fancy brand put on
in a patterrTabove. . " . '
The crop of parasols is very gay in
deed. A parasol being one of the most
becoming adjuncts of a toilette, a little
extravagance is to be allowed. t.
Among other dashing shapes, the so
called collar hat is conspicuous.' The
collar is merely a second brim attached
to the crown, the space between the
two brims giving an excuse for more
trimming.
Most of the new hats are extremely
dashing. The object of the many turns
and bends into "which the turned-up
brims are twisted seems to be to give
the hat the most youthful and jaunty
effect possible. . v ,
The small turbans are worn also for
dressy hats. A dainty model was made
of white maline covered with tiny or
chids in pink and mauve. ' A small
white ostrich feather and a ...white
aigrette trimmed one side. ; .', v
It has been hinted that pongees in
the rougher weaves .will not be fash
ionable. Thu. is true only In a general
way. The smoother weaves of. this
and other silks have a sort of yoguo
just at present, but rough silks will
probably hold their own later on. The
roughest silk, which resembles sack
ing of homespun, will be made up into
coats rather than gowns, and this is
really as it should be. -