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l)t Chatham Recorb, Clje Chatham Ilecord. RATES OP: ADVERTISING r Ooe sqnsr, on insertloa $1.00 One square, two insertion 1.60 One square, one month S.50 For Larger Advertise ments Liberal v Cpn tracts will be made. H. A. LONDON, Editor and Proprietor, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strict! Sir Advance VOL. XXVIII. PITTSBORQ, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. 0., THURSDAY APRIL 26, 1906. NO. 37V OR -StflRvn FOR blUlONb IN Bi FRANK CHAPTER VIIL Continued. . ' "This is no time for sleep, Thome"; vie , must watch through the night whether you like it qr not. if it is only for Miss Lasceile's sake." ' I readily 'agreed to this," and for an hour we walked on a part ofrthe lawn from which I could see Edith's win dow. Then tlfe rain, which had been drizzling for some time, fell heavily, and forced us to go in. We "changed our boots for slippers, and sat together iu iny room, I with a book.' he with his chin in his hands, Lis face hideous avHIi the light of the lamp on his protruding eyes. Heaven knows, I was .not wanting in love for' Edith, or solicitude for her welfare, aud yet I could not keep 'awake. It must be remembered that I had had no sleep the preceding niiht, and that I did believe in Edith's hal lucination, and therefore saw lio. ac tual danger menacing her. I tried to interest myself in the book, but my thoughts grew confused, the type swam before my eyes, and helped to bemuse my senses. At -length I put down the book, and shaking my .wits together, I said to Van Hoeck: "Let us talk." "Talk!' he muttered, scornfully; "why not ask me to sing you a comic song? If the Kid were Tiero I suppose vt.u wouldn't want me to amuse you. You could keep awake until 3 or 4 iu the morning watching her, but as it's your future wife who is con ' '.i-ned. you are loggerheaded before midnight." . - . The. sarcasm did not prevent me doz i: r again a few minutes later. I was !. chained of my drowsiness, and after a minute's doze I would wake with a guilty start, only to drop off again in a .f'-w moments. I know not how long 1h;s had been going on, when Van Hoeck shook me by the arm and woke m i thoroughly. "It is courting destruction to sit here with tii-; door open," he said, "one of l . 1 't.t.l ,? .A., .. ,1 .1 T ' ;:nnot stand it any longer; it is intol erable. Tell ma if it rains." - I went to the window and found that ti.3 rain had ceased. I told him this. ''I will go out; take me down to the dor" he said. T led him downstairs and gave him h:s umbrella and hat. Then I took l ine, and opened the door quietly, f.-ariug to awake Edith; I would have K-X'ompanied him. but he refused, say i:;g night and day were alike to him, : :u ho knew his way along the paths i. ;d about the lawn. ' Go back to your room and fasten yourself in," he said; "it is our only security. Tap at the" window to let jao know that all is fast. I beg you to ('a this," he added earnestly; "you can i cfc understand the feelings of a man 3 i my position the torture of cons-ions iaipoteney as you feel the ap proaching fate that you are powerless ty avert." His voice rattled iu his throat, and Indistinctly I heard "him mutter, as he groped his way along the wall of tiia terrace: " Cramped in a cof3n, and clods fall falling " I closed the door and returned to my rjom Avith a shudder. "When I had fastened myself in 1 tapped at the window, and Van Hoeck icolied by tapping on the wall below. The fresh air had revived me; I had !; longer to struggle with an irresis tible drowsiness the inclination to fc!eep was gone. I had my book to finish, but my mind v. ;ts nptjmffieiently composed to read i I walked about the room I thought f Edith and of Van Hoeck, wondering if there could be any connection be- iv, een her strange hallucination and Hie terrible presentiment which night it r.0. day possessed him. It seemed, as i there must be something abnormal .ia the conditions under which we lived, 1? produce an effect which, though fharaeterized by different peculiarities, was ia both cases attributable only to a disordered imagination, and I won dered if I, in my turn, should come under this occult influence. . . I might have been occupied with the fl.'sculation for half an hour or more v. iien I heard a scream of terror that I could not doubt came from the wing 'i which Edith lay. .In an instant I opened the door and ran through the oiTidor. The doors in the picture gal lery were open. As I drew aside the uirtain which closed in the staircase corridor of the left wing I saw Sir Ed Mund come from his room with a lamp The door of Edith's room exactly faced hi: it was wide open; all was dark v.iihJvi. -What is it; my dear? What is it?" h: called as he entered the room. Tlieva was no answer. I followed to the door. Sir Edmund vus standing by the empty bed, look i"r around him in blank dismay. ' She is gone!" he gasped. "The door vas Avide open " The bed stood away from the wall. I bade Sir Edmund look on the further tidp. There was scarcely room for him to bass between the foot of the bed and tk? Avail, but as Ue lowered the l".gUt b? zpAri in quick alarm : " "Sha in ligi's ucc6i3solof--yJs tU? THE VA && THE BIQQEST THE WORLD. RinnuTu I ran to the bell and rang it violently; .then from the stairs in the cross-gal-lety I called to the servants to come down. In the meantime Sir "Edmund .had raised Edith and placed her on the bed, where she lay like one dead. From hia room I got jt spirit case, but we knew not hoAV to apply the remedies at our hand, and it was an intense relief- to -us when the "housekeeper bustled in, followed by Edith's maid, for we were as helpless as children in this emergency. The housegkeeper told me to leave the room. I Avent to the door and stood there trembling from head to foot. I had taken Edith's hand, and the Icy coldness of the lifeless Angers- that I had only known mick with warm blood chilled. my very heart with fear. There was a long period of terrible suspense, and then I heard the dear voice -murmur, .and my heart bound ing with joy, I ventured forward that I might see the life once more-in her beautiful face. Sir Edmund stopped nie on the threshold. "Thank God," he said fervently, "she has come back to us; but the women say she must be kept quiet. Go back to your room, my dear fellow,, and we will talk it over at breakfast time. Good night, good night.'i I returned reluctantly to "my room. As I passed his chamber I heard the Judge snoring -doud aud long. It needed something more than such trifles to Avake him Avheu he had a bed -to sleep in. What alreadA- puzzled me was how Edith's door came to be wide open aud she had fainted in a quite remote part of the room. CHAPTER Whft happened in Edith's room that night I did. not -learn until the next morning, but I will give her account in this place in order to preserve the sequence of events. True to her resolve, she had left the window. open and the blind down, ex actly as on the preceding nights. It was her habit to lock the door, and that she did not omit to do so on this occasion she was convinced by the fact that she found some difficulty in turning the key, and had afterward tried the handle to know if the bolt was shot. She left the lamp burning on the table, screened from her by the lace curtains of the bed. It was half-, past eleven when she lay down, and she felt so little fear that v she fell asleep almost immediately. i A pillow slipping from beneath her head awoke her, she believed. Her first consciousness, was that her head felt uncomfortably low. She put her hand out to fir.d if she had slipped to the edge of the bed; but no, her posi tion was unchanged. Then it struck her that she had left- a light on the table; it was now out and all was dark. She wondered if this was a trick of imagination. Was she awake or asleep? She touched her eyes to be sure they were open. - Then it occurred to her that she might have been asleep a long while. There wras nothing ex traordinary in a lamp going out, or her head slipping from the pillow. Saying this to herself, she felt for the pillows. To her astonishment she found that both were gone. It was droll. She felt inclined to laugh, thinking how she must have tossed about in her sleep to knock both pillovjs out. But the bed clothes were perfectly smooth, the bed on each side of her even, and soft, and yielding. That was strange! "I must have done all the tossing with my head," she said to herself, still tickled by the oddity of the thing. One thing was certain she could not sleep In comfort with nothing but a bolster under her head. She leaned out and felt upon the floor as far as she could reach to the right. The pillows had not slipped out on that side. Then, putting her shoul der against the wall, she felt down on the left. Thero was nothing there. What did it all mean? Decidedly this must be a new freak of her imagina tion. She was not yet thoroughly fright ened. The spirit who could steal Iter pillows must have some sense of hu mor; it was preferable to drumming on the window panes and glaring through the blinds at her. Hearing and eight had been tried, " and now her sense of touch was to be tested. But .though she tried to make light of the affair, she felt that something terrible underlay its comic aspect, and a little shiver ran through her at the thought of getting up and striking a -light. It was so much easier to be courageous in the daylight than in such darkness as this. After all. perhaps the pillows had slid out:of the bed in . a natural way, and lay only a little beyond her reach. But rather than stretch her arm out again in-the dark, space, she preferred to put up with- the bolster doubled. She doubled the bolster, and gave it a little pat; then she put up a lock of hair that, had come down, and told herselfinot to be. stupid about a little thing hXe that; and, wondering wheth er she gbould. dare to tell of this inci dent in the morning, she dropped on lisr rtboW and-1 id dov.-n hit lJad 4offn, dowa down till It touch tfe 'What was this?" she asked herseir, starting up in a fright. She felt from side to side; now the bolster was gone; there was nothing there but the bed. But this pantomime trick was no longer comlc4 She felt the tears of fright springing in her eyes, and some thing rising in her throat. Cold feat chilled her to the bond Was she in reality awake? The striking of the clock in the belfry as Bured her-of that. Ding-dong, - ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong is lightly chimed; and then the hour was tolled out slowly, sonor ously, solemn.' ' Boom, boom, boom, boom. But if this was not hallucination what was it? The work of actual hands? What then? tf they had iiO more direful intention than to play a trick of this kind, they Avere not to be feared, n It AAras not terrific; it was merely childish mischief, and this- re flection suggested that, after all, it might only be Lola Avho was trying to frighten her. And just for one mo ment, as she leaned back on her elbowj she fancied she saw something like those luminous eyes in the midst, of the-darkness, and close to her there! there, above her, foAvard the side of the bed. "Is it you, Lola?" she asked, but in n voice so faint, for she was sick with fright, that she TIerieTf could "hardly hear the words she spoke." x It was a fancy, or the eyes 'were turned away. Yet, still leaning upon her elbow thatT quivered Under hei she strained her eyes to penetrate the darkness. - Not long, perhaps; though it seemed so, her heart beating painfully, her mouth parched and dry, the hot breath catching the back of her throat. Something seemed to be touching Jier hrir. Was it the lace curtain? - She" raised her trembling hand, and felt something level with the top of her head.. But it Avas not the curtain. It Avas the pilloAV, 6l she was mad. Her strength gave way, and she fell back upon the bed; but the terrile sus picion that'the pillows had been With drawn for the purpose of smothering her made her" throw her hand Up. ' The pillow had descended; r it was ?lose to her face. She tried to scream, but the pillow was already upon her mouth and smothered the cry. It closed down upon her head firm and hard. She could no longer breathe. J It pressed upon her throat, as she lay with the back of her head pushed down into the bed. The touch of death aroused the in stinct of self-preserA-ation Avithin her, and, with- a frantic effort, she tore herself" from under that suffocating pressure, flung herself from the bed, and, as respiration returned, cried with all her rorce for help. CHAPTER X. Ignorant of what had occurred In Edith's room before her cry for help, I paced my room, thinking how terri ble, the fright must have been that made her faipt a second time, and de spite her belief in the unreality of these mysterious appearances. "Your turn will come," Van Hoeck had said to me, und these words com ing back to my mind, I asked myself if the repeated attacks upon Edith might not be part of a complicated scheme to obtain the diamond. Such a plot was the more possible because it seemed impossible. An act of legerdemain succeeds or not, ac cording to the skill with which the conjuror fixes our attention on afalse train of operations while he works out the actual feat. As I made these re flections, I took the Great Hesper from the pouch on my waist strap, and buckled it in its case upon my left wrist; then I doubly locked the door, saw that there .was oil in the lamp, put a box of wax matches beside it on the table, and finally opened the long-bladed knife Van Hoeck had giv en me, and stuck it between the mat tress and the side of the bedstead. The room was thickly carpeted and oak peneled. The furniture AA-ith the exception of the toilet arrangements and a low saddle-back chair was an tique, and of oak. The bedstead was particularly wide, Avith four carved pillars carrying a baldaquin, and heavy curtains of some thick brocaded stuff, looped at the foot, but hanging loose at the head; it faced the oriel. Between the right side of the bed and the wall was a square table on which stood the lamp with the saddle-back chair beside it. On the left hand side of the bed was a tall carved black press. A large chimney with a sculptured mantel and an open hearth faced the door. A screen shut off the washstand, which stliod on the left of the oriel. A broad settle .with a va--lance, and covered with a stuff similar to the hangings of the bed, ran round the three-sided recess formed by the window-curtains of the same kind shut off the recess. A corner cabinet, with folding doors in the lower part, fitted the angle of the walls to the right; between this and the door was a deep, wide, and long chest, &d above it a large mirror. . An escritoire, some high-backed chairs, and a second ta ble, completed the furniture.' There was no door but the. opening upon the corridor, and no windoAY save the oriel. In the early part of the night I had described these particulars to Van Hoeck, at his request, and he made me examine the press, the old chest, and hangings of the bed and settles; every thing, in fact, which might afford a hiding place to Lola or another To be Continued. A. Canessa, a wealthy art collector of Naples, is In this country. He haa excavated $3,000,000 worth of art ia Italy, . . , r , 3;h0 Mexican Government has tided io'permit CUJnese imjaigmtiou. A SPENDTHRIFT COUNT. ANNA GiOULD'S HAS COST $2,017 A DAY, HER Th'd Amazing Extravagances of Count Eoni de Castellane in the Eleven1 Years of Their Married Life He Has Spent Over fOOOjOCO Even , if Count Boni de Casteilane effects a reconciliation with the CountesSj his income 'will be so Cut clown as to practically extinguish one of the greatest spenders that even prodigal Paris has eA-er known. Of all the American investments In Old World titles Anna Gould's has probably been the most costlyj Reduced to cold figures, the price of her title had been approximately $2,017 each and eA'ery day for the 11 years they have been married, or the equivalent every four AA'eeks of Presi dent RooseA'elt's salary for a year. Recently Frank - Work, the New York millionaire, and his daughter had a dispute that led Mrs. Roche to leave his home because for, & time she .spent about $3o0 a 'day, One-sixth Of the daily expenditures of the Count, his daughter's extravagances for only a few weeks, while Gedrge Gould's titled brother-in-law has hammered away until he has made the record of $9,000,000 for the eleven years of his married life. ( The Count has smilingly spent- $4 for cherry and cheerfully given enough to pay the bonded indebted ness of a small city for ft piece of bric-a-brac. He has made for himself a reputation as a spender that the caused the famous literary men of this and other capitals to write about him, and he has inflamed the Parisian populace more than once so that he has had to placate the city by great gifts to charity. . One Of his little foibles Was a vaude ville performance given at Auteuil when, for 350 guests, he presented an all star bill, no act of which cost him less than $500. Eclipse. That has been the rae idea of the Count from the moment he got his hands oh the Gould "fortune. He waited for others to give fetes or to buy jewels or antiques only that he might eclipse them, and generally hc has succeeded. He has lived to hear his praises sung, and the Countess paid the cost. For his world-famed mansion on the Avenue Bois de Boulogne, known as the "Red Palace," Boni spent more money than he can ever accurately tell. He liked the location so well that he paid $740,000 for the land alone, and before he got through he had produced a palace that any king in Europe might envj'. V He was told when he started to duplicate the historical Trianon at Versailles, in which Mine. Pompadour once lived, that it was going to cost tremendously, but he smiled and shook his bankbook, and for spite planned to spend an additional mil lion in furnishing the place. One of the few details of the palace is a set of fountains built in the gar den, which he could run for ten min utes at the trifling cost of $1,000. Then he got the idea that he wanted to be a yachtsman, so he bought the yacht Valhalla for 5200,000 and planned to sail her on a scale that totalled $150, 000 a year. Later he had to sell this toy, but that's another part of his story. , When he was elected to the Cham ber of Deputies he felt so good natured that he gave a feast that would have made Lucullus turn green. The bill was $200,000. He seemed to like that amount, for it figures fre quently in his accounts. At another time he got the idea that modern dress was all wrong and that it only required a daring individ ual to revive the styles of past centu ries. Toward thi3 end he gave a flower ball and all men appeared in the costumes of the Louis XVIII period. Bill $125,000. But then his ideas Avere always costly. While his palace was building, some of the lots he needed Avere occupied and although it was altogether un necessary, he impatiently bought the inhabited houses and evicted the tenants. That cost a pretty sum. Sometimes the Count's methods were what might be tgrmed question able, and in the light of the recent scandal, it is probable that one of his little mysteries is, ie-ealed. About six years ago he presented to his wife a necklace that he had paid $100,000 for. Anna Gould realized how he was draining her fortune, and when she looked at the bauble she didn't think it was worth -the money, so she hur ried to the jeweller. She found that he took a lofty attitude and insisted that his business was with the Count-. "You have cheated my husband," she declared hotly, "and you must take this back." ' Then the secret was let out. The jeweller lost his temper, and, taking the necklace in his hand, said angrily: "If you think, madam, I have cheat ed, you are wrong. When I sold this necklace to M. Le Cointe it had four rows of diamonds. - It has but two rows now. Can Madame tell me where the other two rows are?" Then the one-tiine Anna Gould went home and thought it over. Possibly she knows now where the other half of the necklace went. Perhaps it may be mentioned when her divorce comes to trial. " -The costly addition to the Gould family thought it might be useful to know the time occasionally, and he decided to have one of the finest clocks in France. When the aft dealers, heard of this they started to procure what he. wanted. In the end he paid f 0,000 for a Sevres creation ja it Is said that tov a ywr a clock. maker had the task of making It keep time. , .'-':.:..-.. For his Countess he bought a tor toise shelf wardrobe in wjjich Louis Seize once kept his royal robes. About' $280,000 is said to have been the cost of this. In his boudoir he has the bed used by Napoleon on the night of his coronation, and the rest of hia pri vate quarters had deco. ions in keep ing, with the bed," One of his bills was for $10,000 fcr a small set of tapestry furniture. - One of the greatest extravagances tyas the purchase of the Palazza della Scala, in Verona, that he might get the eleven ceilings painted by Tiepolo. Scarcely had he written his check for a gigantic sum to . secure the palace when he made the artists of the world gasp by putting e force of men at work tearing it down. . Tiepolo Was a native Venetian who died in Spain nearly 150 years ago, and his mural decorations are of enormous . value. The Count ad the ceilings cut out in tact and then set up' in his palace in this city. For three Celadon A:ases with old French mounts he gave $16,000; for a set Of. two Rose du Barry jardin ieres and .two plates of the same pat tern $10,000; and for two pairs of Louis XVI gilt candlesticks $4,400. One bill he received for $104,000 cov ered a Louis XVI table in dove marble, a pair of old Sevres vases, a Louis XVI Entre-Deux, a pair of old French silver vases and severl minor articles. Another bill for $180,000 repre sented among other things a ward robe, Cabihet, small and large writing tabies of the Louis XIV period.' Two of his other large bills for antiques were contracted, one for $85,050 on May 27, 1896,' and another for $62,200 on , June 18, 1897. ! The Count could show innumerable bills for $10,000, $20,000 or $30,0f0, for little odd3 and ends. For the pleasure of insulting Presi dent Loubet he paid $100,000 to en gage Montjarfet, once the postillion of the French Republic. Montjarret became the little. (Count's outrider, simply because Boni didn't like "the Republic or the president, and he was willing to pay Montjarret's price. The outrider had led the processions-of all , the French presidents since Grevy, and he was always cheei-ed when he appeared at the head of a state pro cession. These are some of the' things Anna Gbuld has had to pay for to be a Countess. Given in detail the list would fill seen or eight columns of a newspaper. INDIAN CHARM FOR SNAKE BITE. At Least One Recorded Case 1 Where It Worked a Cure. . The report from the township Sandwich West that an attempt had been made to counteract' the effect of the poison in a boy's ; leg produced by the bite of a rattlesnake by a charm caused some inquiries to be made, and it was ascertained that snake poison charmers have been known in Essex county , for -the past hundred years. Tradition says that this power was received from the Indians, avJio roamed through the for ests on both sides of the Detroit river years before the white man mada i his appearance. - Henry MelocSie, Avho conducts a fish store in Windsor, and who is near ly sixty years old, said yesterday that when he was a small boy he witnessed the charm tried on his father, and claims that, without any medicine or medical aid, his parent recovered after the charm - had been worked. He said: "My father was bitten-in the field at S o'clock in the morning and a mes senger was at once 'despatched to Belle River for Jacques Latonier, who was famous as a snake poison charm er. He came to our. home as fast as his horse would carry him, and when he grieved he found the limb greatly swollen and a string, which had been tied around the leg to prevent the poison from reaching' the body, was buried in the flesh. "Latonier after making an examina tion of the wound, said is was a snake bite and he produced a piece of string made from a deer skin and proceeded to tie it around the leg. As he tied the first knot he muttered a single Avord and before he finished the work he had placed seven knots in the string and Lad uttered as many words. The words were in the Indian lang uage, and almost immediately after finishing h5s Jncantation we noticed that the swelling began to fall. "In a few hours the leg was down to its natural size and the deer "hide string fell about the ankle of its own accord, as it became too loose to re main on the leg. "I never saw.it" attempted on any other perscn," concluded Mr. Meloche, "but I have often heard of Latonier visiting different people who were bitten in the old- days. Snakes were plentiful in Essex county : fifty years ago, and it was not uncommon to be bitten by rattlers every ; year." De-J troit Free Press. A New Dish. ' It 1 was Tuesday "morning, th clothes had been washed,'- dried and folded the day previously, ; and com mon sense pointed to the Jfact that il was ironing day.u but ''.'cautious Scan- J jinavian Tillie, the new maid, was not going to make the 'mistake of going ahead before being sure that she wae right, " . .. ;.. Before - committing herself to the obvious task, she poked-her bead Intc the dining-room to say ajpe,alingly: "Meesis, I bkuld lake 'to speak some thing." : . - ys ' "Wha is it, Tilli?" "S'Kfll I cook some flWrcr Mfcf HUK earnestly.-; K ;i ' ' - '. J ,' " Laces. Lace holds its own, and figures very effectively as the prettiest of all fab rics for . our evening dresses up to date. For the woman who is suffi ciently distinguished looking and it requires such a qualification to don the "Empire" style with impunity either black or ivory 'lace can be used over a satin foundation for an empire gown of the prettiest style. The lace chosen should, however, reveal a bold pattern, hang in very full folds to the feet and be confined at the waist If, Indeed, one.-can call it such by bands of gold or silver embroidery. Lace, too, offers just now the most rexquisite bagatelles, and so cunning are the so-called "imitations" that one ceases to be shocked by the suggestion of cheap simulations. Even in the scarfs some notable approximations to old lace are obtainaBle, but unless one can procure these goods of their kind it is as well to fall back upon the very pretty chiffon varieties. . fcace Buttons. 1 Lace buttons those most satisfactory little things for fastening blouses and -lingerie and baby things are almost impossible to get, the supply never seeming to equal the. demand. Just nqw it Is worse than ever. It is a peasant, industry the Irish peasants most . particularly and the work is tedious and slow for the re turns it brings. Once it was a flourish ing business, family after family doing that work in the long -winter inter vals between the Avork of the fields, handing it'down to the. next generation as a matter of course. 7. V But there's not much money in it, and-the younger element of the pres ent day is looking for something that means not only more money but less work and that in a different way any thing that doesn't require the patient, unremitting, careful placing of every thread. As a result it is dying out, and un less in a few years it can be revived, it will be a case of finding a satis factory substitute. So far there's nothing on the market that quite takes their place. Modes of the Little Trianon. v The delightfully simple little frocks that Marie-Antoinette used to indulge in upon the rare occasions when she and her court stole away to the Little Trianon to while away the hours in all sorts of pastoral pursuits haAe come down to us of today in many pictures and portraits. Such is one of those examples of elaborate simplicity whose cost is ap palling to the unintiated. The gown is in a sheer silk organdie, pointille and printed in a dull, blurred, faded -rose design, the ground being one of those indefinite and indefinable greens that throw up the design into exquisite har mony and relief. The front is after the so-called petticoat effect, and is in .a pale cold shade of light blue chiffon, with lace and upstanding satin ribbon ruffles. The organdie is thickly in crusted with a Spanish lace of sheer Aveb the real thing and a few touch es of black Valenciennes muchly en hance the rich effect. The bodice por tion is cut away in front, the should ers of lace with a scant rufl&e and a black-satin ribbon ceinture seeming to hold the gown into the figure at the waist. The long skirt has the fullness increased by the use of a flounce which, in' its turn, is decked with a pair of little shirred ruflles, cut on the bias and edged with lace. The quaint bonnet, with its pale blue satin strings adds the last touch of an old-world air to the entire costume. Nannette in New York Evening Supplement. . Keeping Servants. Here are a few rules given by a woman who enjoys a reputation for never having trouble with her numer ous servants and retaining them in her service for years: She pays good "wages; that is, she pays as liberally as she can afford, and is always punctual in payment. She allows her servants a reasonable share of all the dainties served the family, and is liberal in the jmatter of food, maintaining that, good work can: not be done on an empty stomach. She rarely criticizes but when reproof-is needed gives it with firmness and without fear, but kindly. Praise is always given when due; she thinks itwell to acknowledge good services to encourage. She allows each reasonable time for outings and to attend church. And hshe does not require service when a girl Is taking her afternoon off. She allows her -maids time to keep their clothes in order, and requires them to be neat, cleanly jand orderly about their sleeping apartments. She is never familiar; only evinces a kindly interest in the general welfare without becoming in any wayjn'volved in the family affairs of any one of her servants. . - If a matter goes wrong, she takes time to investigate . before reproving, and never scolds or rebukes when an gry. If necessary to dismiss a servant, she never does jbo when in a temper, but waits until she can control herself, ko as to command respect. " She will not allow her children to be rudi or ineoteut to the servants, her will-sh sUew too $yii familiarity, And her 'servants remain with her decades and are devoted to her. . Engaged to a Princess. "Perhaps this is the blithest moment of his life," -writes Vance Thompson in "His Majesty the King of Spain," in Everybody's, "to be 20 years of age the monarch of a fair land and to ride abroad, from court to court, seeking the princess of his heart; it is like the things that come to pass in fairy tales. And, indeed, his life so far has been little else.. What character can a lad of his age have? He is frank) cordial and good. No vices haver taken hold upon him. He has courage and affec tion and what passes in kings for wit and. wisdom. Every year thou sands of suck boys come from the . schools and colleges in every land and set- about the business of life. He would be more than a prophet Avho could forecast the life of anyone , of them. Those who know Alfonso best' can only say of him that he is a prom ising young man brave and clean and good. His little life history so far is Summed up in lessons and sports and the parade of royalty. Alfonso XIII is the fifteenth Spanish sovereign who was crowned while still a boy. Each of those who came before had his own destiny and went to good or evil, and of the last of these 15 boy kings, no man can say what the future will he In 1898 he was too young to realize the tragic significance of the Spanish American war. Since then there has come no great event to test him; but so far as he has had any influence, it has been for the good of his country. His very youth has served him. The chivalrous Spaniards made ' peace around him. The republican agitation has almost ceased for who Avould rob a child of his throne? and the Carlist rebels have eried a truce. All this is a tribute to youth. ' His destiny, as the destiny, of Spain, depends upon the manhood into which he is enter ing." Cost of Gloves. It takes a small fortune to glove a . woman well , in ths day of the elbow "sleeve. The ordinary long glace 'or suede glove necessary Avith the cos tume of the hour cost $3.50 a pair. Few women;-- even those living a comparatively simple life, can get on with less tjian a dozen pairs, and the gloves seem to give Avay in gusset or seams or finger tips in an uncon scionably short time. , The ever alert French people ha'e a remedy at hand in the -shape of a handless glove. The economically in clined can be as well gloved as her rich sister by its use. The" long arms come in 16 and 20 glace kid, and A'ary in price from $1.65 to $1.85. At the wrist are two button holes which fasten to any ordinary short glove. This means a great sav ing for one pair of ,tops outlasts a dozen gloves and then the tops do not soil so easily as the hand part; and so one cheafr the cleaner, too. Glove men say that it is impossible to fill the demand for these tops, and they hope soon to get in all colors. Anolher good feature about having the top of the glove separate is that it does away with tucking the glove into the top when .eating. This not only looks awkward, giving the wrist a clumsy appearance, but made the glove shabby in short order. Now it is a simple matter" to unfasten the top and remove the short glove, leaving the forearm fashionably covered. Of course the very smartest gloves are all in one piece and run as high as $20 a pair. They come in exquisitely delicate shades and are richly em broidered. In most cases the suede is of such fine texture that it is gone with one or two wearings and is far too dainty to lend itself to the cleaner's none too gentle art. Gloves for full dress evening wear are gorgeously wrought in gold and silver and take one back to the days when one's faith in fairyland was the largest thing in life. They cost 'fabulous sums. Fashion Notes. Plaids, and checks are as popular as ever. Nearly all plaited skirts are made on machines these days. Nearly all the figured cottons have small flower or bouquet designs. Of course girdles will be worn, but the one-piece effect will be retained. -s "The lingerie hat is seen in renewed glory and in several novel combina tions. . Nearly all the advance models of white muslins and handkerchief linens are in one piece. It is prophesied that the coilarlesa y blouse or Dutch neck, will be highly popular for cotton gowns. It is said that the shirtwaist suit, or. a glorified reincarnation of it, is to be a feature of the .coming season. Popular as gaugings, shirrlngs, cord- -ings and gatherings are there is noth ing quite so satisfactory as plaitings. The pale blue hats will suit blonde women and brunettes whose color is high.: No one wears pale blue better than the latter type. ' Dimities, muslins, lawns and other ( white materials .are shown with half inch satin stripes 'on which appear little pompadour bouquet! ia dtllc&tq colon.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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April 26, 1906, edition 1
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