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WHERE THE EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY WAS MOST SEVERE., Be Courteous to f? Fowr Elders t Beatrice Fairfax. Mi, "TP IMS N OT long ago I sat in the reception room of one of the big hotels waiting for a friend. Presently a young woman and her mother came in and took seats near mo. The daughter was a bright-faced, sweet-looking girl and the mother was the dearest little old lady you ever saw. Anything more beautiful and thoughtful than the daugh ter's manner toward her mother I have rarely witnessed. She brought a comfortable chair for her, put a cushion It her back, saw that her back was toward the light, every once in awhile dviig her hand a loving little rat and saying, "Are you perfectly comfortable, (tear are you enjoying yourself?" They made a pretty picture. A little while afterward I saw another mother and daughter in the same potel, but, oh, how different they were from the first couple. The mother was a sad-faced, patient-looking woman, who looked as lough she had never had a good time or any petting in her life. That the daughter evidently looked on her as rather a nuisance was shown try the impatient manner in which she answered any questions her mother put J to her. Presently some young friends joined them. The mother stood patiently by uatil her daughter saw fit to introduce her, which she did in a negligent, disrespectful way. The contrast between the first and second mother and daughter was so Great as to be painful. There is nothing that shows a young person up in such a bad light as disrespect to an older person. If that person happens to be her mother or father is is doubly diis fraceful. When you see a young man or young woman comfortably seated while an older person stands or hear them address an older person rudely you may le sure that they do net amount to much. As far as your mother is ccT.rerned you never can do enough for her. All that's good in you you owe to her love and care. If girls would only learn to be more friendly and confidential with their mothers it would be an excellent thing for them. It would save them from many blunders and heartaches. So many girls look on. their mothers as too old to be interested in fun of any kind. And that is just where the girls make a great mistake, for the mothers would love to join in the fun and gaiety if any one were thoughtful enough to ask them to. If you treat your parents disrespectfully your friends will do the same. There is just one thing to be said in defence of the disrespectful child, and that is that tho parents are to blame in the beginning. If a child in its younger days is allowed to go uncorrected for disobed ience, impertinep.ee and wilfulness, 'it is pretty sure to grow into a self-willed, disrespectful boy or girl. The greatest wrong that parents can do their children is to spoil and in dulge them. They will grow into selfish men and women, and the parents will be the first ones to reap the benefit of their foolish training. Treat your elders with courtesy and respect and your mother with the tender love and homage that is hers by right. New York Journal. now Larnegte Has Wasted $12, 000,000 By Richard T. Crane, Sr., Millionaire Manufacturer of Chicago. w I Llljji BMW HY do men like Carnegie and Armour put their money into the technical schools, when .their money was made by men who had no such education? Look at the inconsistencies between what Mr. Carnegie says and what he does. I quote from Mr. Carnegie's "Empire of Business," the chapter headed "How to Win Fortunes," written by Mr. Car negie five years ago: "But the almost total absence of the technical school graduate from high positions in the business world seems to justify t-o conclusion that college education as it exists seems almost fatal to success in the business domain. The poor clerk and mechanic is the one who rules." Now, after all these illustrations, based on his own experience and ob servation, in favor of practical men against technical men against the grad uateMr. Carnegie enters into the field of pure speculation and backs hii fancy to the extent of a $12,000,000 technical institute. This is only' a whim of Mr.. Carnegie's. He might take his $12,000,000, add $12,000,000 to it and throw, the whole into the ocean, and this country would be better off. Is it for, the benedt of the public to turn out men who will be distanced by clerks and mechanics? Has he taken the sound business course? I would call his institute ths Carr.,egie Twelve Million Dollar Blunder. Now, I wish to say that I give Mr. Carnegie a chance to answer this attack. I' wiote him a letter and told him what I was going to do and asked him four quitters. I agreed treaiins answers", but I have had no response from him. These were the questions I Esked him: J3 .r--.. :.? . .Do vo-u owe ycu. ;u;:cs3 in business to the technically educated men tr yourmpio;-' or iy ipv ::ot so educated?, .1,, 4.- "it "ju owe jTur ?a: fcT's "To The tecliTi'ical men what is the proportion of these nicr. in ybuTempfoyto the men not so educated? n ' Ilavs. you observed in your business life that technically educated men are more successful than, these not so educated? The best education is long experience and observation in an up-to-data factor:'." He continued: "Four years in the shop is the training to get." All an apprentice needs is to understand English, be able to write and do plain arithmetic and draw. Ha can get this at the night school or at home. V V V V V V V V V V V V V V 4' V V V V V V V wv i&hmlish Xhiiiim Pnnmx ?? By Airs. G. Taylor Brown. T T31 HERE are homes, especially among the farm homes, whess larlors are closed rooms to the family except during the sprit's and autumn cleaning time. Then curtains are ia:sel and cobwebs swept down, and the rooms are shut up agni i. Children from such homes, unused to the furniture and b'.st things in the bousn, show it very plainly when in other par lors. Now, parents, we shall go this way but once. C;i. children, will soon be grown and out from the home. I wcu'.d preler to see the carpet faded near the windows rather thai ratca by moths in the dark. Three years ago a teacher was living in cue family, "and he organized a social purity club, meeting one evening in a we -ill. There 'were fifteen or sixteen members in it. The house was all open, and such good times as they had! True, some mud was brought in. It was some work to sweep and dust after, but it paid. Let us give them pleasant remom lranncs of a sweet, cherry home that they can treasure through life. Light all rooms. Invite in a few of the little ones to spend an evening. Lay tside the work you are doing. There is time enough for that. Play the sim ple games, pop. the corn. Never mind a little scattered. Never mind the little fret that lightly mar the chairs. This is a trifle compared to keeping our children in the home instead of seeking pleasure in places we do not know. So open the rooms and make bright .nd happy the lives God has given to yciw keeping, and if no little ones dwell under your roof invite some to ipake you young and happy again yourself. Surely it will do it, and we can not take our funture and carpets with us when we leave this earth. L?t us wear them out inmaking eome one happy here and now. No closed parlors -l stuffy, close xoms for me From The New York Tribune Farmer. A Desolated Street In Ferruzano, Bhowing the Destructive Effect of the' Seismic Shocks on the Buildings of the Town. Illustrazione Italiana. A Rising Chinaman. An official report states that an- jther great man has arisen in China, me who, by hi3 ability and his ichievements, gives promise of being i fit successor to the late Li Hung 3hang. This new leader in the Celes- :ial Kingdom is Yuan-Shih-Kai, who lot long ago was appointed president Df the board of foreign affairs at Pekin. He was formerly viceroy of hih-Li, entering on the duties of the jfiice when that province was in dis order and chaos. He grasped the eigns of government with a firm land, put down thieves and plunder ers of all kinds, and made himself ;eared and hated by all evil-doers in that section of the country. The good effects of his strong and righteous rule became speedily apparent, and le was recognized as the ablest and most patriotic official in the whole empire. While governor of Chih-Li ae instituted good relations with for eigners, and became, popular with the YUAN-SHIH-KAI, Who is coming to the front as China's greatest and most influential statesman. Unique Door Bell. A most unique and at the same time practical doorbell is the recent invention of a Virginia man. As shown in the illustration the bell fs of the push-button variety and. is combined with the door-knob. Even in the uarsest nignt a. caller ca readily locate the doorknob and, hav ing done so, easily locates and pushes the bell button. The bell is placed in the inside knob, which is made hollow for the purpose. Washington Star. latives as well. His advice was fre juently sought by the imperial gov ernment, and some of the best edicts issued by it were suggested by him. tie Is mainly responsible for the de cree suppressing the opium traffic and for the steps taken to establish a constitutional-government in China. The empire is fortunate in having at this critical stage of its affairs so able and progressive a man to guide it and to shape its destinies. Leslie's iVeekly. Plenty of Hot Water. Boardinghouse Keeper "A glass if hot water! What can the man want with a glass of hot water? He doesn't shave." Cook "He wants ter drink it." "To drink it? Well, I never!" "Oh, all the boarders is sending for hot water now, three tim:s a Jay.j' nGoodness me! What for?" "Fur to drink. They calls it the hot-water cure. It beats all new fangled notions what come up." "What does it cure?", "Oh, they say it do cure everything just splendid." "Thank fortune, it's cheap. Give 'em all the hot water they want, ;.I"r:a." "Yes'm." "So hot water is a great cure, is it? Well, I shan't let any ol my board ers get ill for want of medicine. Just put another gallon of hot water in that ox-tail soup, Maria, and I think you'd better take out the ox-ti.il now; it might get too rich." Tit-Bits. A Royal Prerogative. The King can do no wrong, but there is one innocent thing that no sovereign ever does namely, to stand with his back against the wall. At the royal stand at Newmarket or elsewhere his majesty invariably leaves ample room for the persons to pass behind him, so that he may escape having perpetually to reply to their salutations, which he would be bound to notice did those people pass in front of him. London Chronicle. Box Seat. To make a box seat you must have two boxes just the same size. Knock one side off of one of the boxes. Cover both boxes with some- heavy goods denim or burlap is the best. Use very small tacks for the corners, but for the rest you can use brass headed tacks. Then take the brass tacks and on the front of the bottom box make some pretty design. Then put hinges on the boxes, and there you have a seat and shoe box which will make a pretty present. Irwin A. Rawson, in the New York Tribune. The most wonderful, costly and magnificent garment in the world is the state robe of the Queen of Siara, which she wears about once a year. ip$$$e&tM wf tmd w'mMm QUAINT BUILDING OF THE NAVAL Y. M. C. A. AT CAVITE, P. I. From Leslie's Weekly. New York City. Every variation 5f the blouse that is cut in one with the sleeves is to be noted just now, and here is one of the prettiest and most graceful that yet have appeared. It can be made either with elbow or Elaborate Braiding. Elaborate braiding is seen on many of the newest models, both In cloth and velvet, the narrow soutache being the most popular. Braiding, com- I bined with heavy embroidery, is par- tlcularly effective on broadcloth or velvet. Empire Skirt. The skirt that is made with tho round Empire line is one of the latest developments of fashion and prom ises to gain still further favor as tho season advances. This one Is emin ently graceful and attractive and can be made with the circular portions laid oyer onto the front gore, forming the inverted pleats as illustrated, or with the front gore laid over onto the circular portions, forming one wide box pleat, as liked. In the illus tration chiffon broadcloth is simply stitched with belding silk and trimmed with little buttons, but the heavier silks, pongee and henrietta cloth and all materials that are of sufficient weight to take satisfactory folds are appropriate. The skirt is cut in three pieces, the front gore and the circular portions. The fulness at the back is laid in in verted pleats, and it is perforated both for walking length and for the natural waist line, so that the Empire line is not obligatory. mf Tar 7 long sleeves, and Is adapted to all the pretty thin materials, which are very nearly legion. In this Instance, how ever, it is made of banana colored crepe de Chine, with trimming of vel vet ribbon and bands of stitched taf feta. The long narrow chemisette is a feature, and the high girdle gives the short waist line that is so popular just now. In this instance tucked mousseline makes the chemisette, but all-over lace and lingerie materials are having equal vogue. The waist is made with the fitted lining that serves as a foundation. This lining is faced to form the back of the chemisette and the front por tion is arranged over it. The blouse and sleeves are cut in one and are tucked and arranged over the lining, while the girdle finishes the lower edge. Cuffs complete the lower por tions of the sleeves. .the New Skirts. The new skirts are long. They fit the hips smoothly. They sweep into generous curves at the foot. Color Schemes. Peacock blue and green shadings are among the loveliest of the color schemes employed for the fine feath ers, and these peacock tones are em phatically modish, though they do not combine well with other colors. Newest Colors. The newest colors are strong in tone, and are either very becoming or quite the opposite. Lines of black serve to tone down the vividness of many of the ne w materials. The quantity of material required for the nedium size is six and th quarter yards twenty-seven, iouri 4mm one-quarter yards forty-four or fifty two inches w ide. Tiny Folds of Taffeta. Tiny folds of satin or of taffeta are used to trim semi-dress costumes, and lend themselves admirably to original effects. They may be applfjd in broadening designs and also lVVer pentine lines and sharp zigzags on hems and waistcoats, and are also used to frame motifs. All Kinds of Skirts. Long skirts, short skirts, skirts clinging or skirts ample, all are to b seen.
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