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STAR BALL PLAYER OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cjj Winifred Elact:.
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POOR laborer received a message the other night telling him
that his mother o?r in Norway had left him a legacy of
$rooo.
t The laborer was so overjoyed at the news that he threw
down his pick, climbed out of the ditch he was helping to
. dig, called together such of nis companions as would listen
to him and went and got so drunk that within two hours
he was lying in a cell trying to remember what had hap
pened to him.
And we look upon money as the only legacy!
If that poor, hard-working, saving, self-deaying mother over there across
the sea had spent every penny of that one thousand dollars on herself or on
come one who would have known how to use it, how much better off that poor
stupid son of hews would have been!
Wihat an Inexorable hand seems to stretch between us and our foolish
hopes and wishes sometimes!
If that mother could have willed her boy common sense or self-control, she
would have left a will worth the treasuring.
I wonder how many millionaires there are who wish they could write a
last will and testament which would bequeath to their children the qualities
which made the millions instead of the millions themselves.
I'd rather be born with common sense and a level head for an inheritance
than to come into any kind of an estate that any human being can leave an
other. ,
Don't fret about that boy of yours, little anxious-eyed mother.
You won't be able to'leave him a ceixt.Glory be; but you've already given
aim his inheritance.
He wears the proud sign of it in his bright, clear eyes and bis head held
high in honest pride.
Don't worry over that girl, either.
The gentle heart and steady brain her father gave her will outlast and
outbargain a thousand fortunes cast in mere dollars.
There's too much wealth in the world now, Mr. Successful Business Man.
Stop piling up gold, like a monkey with a "bundle of sticks.
Spend what you have generously, but sensibly, and let that boy of yours
go out and earn what he needs.
Tear up. your last will and testament and try to give him something real
to inherit, so that wEen he is your age he will go and look at the headstone
that marks the place where you lie buried and say: "My father left his chil
dren something worth the leaving when he died something that no court or
law and no will contest can take away from us, something that cannot be
wasted, and spent and thrown away."
Poor laborer, with your rioting thousands! I wonder if 3rou were so much
more foolish than a lot of us who laugh at you, after all. New York American.
The
Craze of Home Owning
S To be Thought of Only When Prosperous S
By Jfugust Van Dyck.
HIS craze of home owning is widespread, and is especially
rampant among naturalized Americans. It is one of the
first impulses that they get after reaching this country. The
reason is clear. The possibilities of home owning on the
Continent are remote, with the result that the ownership of
a home is a cherished longing. They perceive that such
ownership is possible in this country, and they set about it
actively, securing it eventually at great personal sacrifice
and prcftable extinction of freedom. The children of many
a family have grown up in want owing to the insatiable longing of the par
ents to own the home that they ltve in. They save nothing by it, but on the
other hand fun the risk of Incumbering themselves with unsalable property.
They have the delusion that they are not paying rent; but they are paying
rent and probably more than they can afford.
The advice that I would give ia to select a house or flat well within one's
means and put the balance of the savings regularly in the bank. If an oppor
tunity in another part of the country then comes one will not find his move
ments hampered by the necessity of maintaining an unprofitable investment.
The American people are essentially nomadic. They cannot be otherwise,
with new regions to exploit, new towns fo found, and new opportunities to
grasp.
Take the advice of one who has passed the allotted years of three-score
and ten and who has been a home owner ever since he was twenty-three, dis
carding from time to time what appeared to be perfectly satisfactory when it
was bought, and usually, interest computed, at a loss. It is my firm Convic
tion that no man shown own his own home until he has prosperously passed
the age of sixty years.
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Is Conciseness a Virtue?
By Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury.
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HE gospel of conciseness, like the gospel of silence, is pro
claimed in hundreds of articles and books. Every one,
however little he himself follows its precepts, recommends
them to his friends and charges disregard of them upon his
fofts. Now. conciseness is neither a good thing nor a bad
H thing in itself. Its value, like its appropriateness, depends
upon the subject, upon the occasion, upon the audience ad
dressed. But the success of it depends most of all upon the
personality of the speaker. If terseness cat; be united with
vigor of expression which convey-s the idea powerfully to the mind and with
point which fixes it there, nothing can be more all-sufficient. Conciseness,
then, has done its perfect work. But to effect this result requires great abil
ity, if not genius; and great ability, to say nothing of genius,
Is very exceptional. On the other hand, when brevity is
united with dullness as it is very apt to be it loses not merely
the power to Influence and to inspire, but to inform. To be concise, without
being bald and jejune, is granted only to the highest order of minds. On the
other hand, condensation, even when the matter i particularly valuable, is
rarely entertaining. Intellectual fare can no more be made palatable by com
pression than can bodily. Pemmlcan is described as a food intended to com
prise the greatest amount of nutrition in the smallest space. It is useful
in fact, invaluable on certain occasions and in certain places. But no one
Is likely to choose it as a regular article of diet, still less to entertain hid
friends with it at a feast. Prom Harper's.
Ey Joseph B. Bowles.
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T has been indisputably proved by experiment that animal
foods are more easily, more readily and more completely
digested than vegetable; milk, eggs and beef being the most
readily so of all foods in use, having a minimum of residue
(from 3 to G percent) remaining undigested, while from 29 to
70 percent of nil vegetable foods pass through the alimen
tary tract undigpsted. While it makes little difference a3
regards the obtaining of nourishment, the question, from
the view-point of digestion and non-fermentation is decided
ly in favor of a mixed diet not wholly one or the other. It is claimed that
the eating of meat clogs the system with uric acid, producing rheumatism,
etc. There is no gain, however, in changing to a vegtable diet, because the
vegetables that are substituted for meat (those furnishing the protein beans,
peas and lentils) contain xanthin, a substance closely allied to the uric acid
In meats and producing the same results. Summing up the pros and cons of
vegetarianism ayi mixed diet, carefully and without prejudice weighing the
one over against the other, we may safely say that it i3 not altogether the
kind of material that enter the being, but the kind of being the materials en
ter, From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Smokeless Griddle.
A smokeless and odorless griddle
and broiler, which has been lately
patented, has advantages which will
be readily recognized at a glance of
the accompanying cut. The front
plates of the stove being removed, the
new griddle sets in and at the same
time falls below the stove top. In
Odor Goes Up the Chimney.
this manner the heating surface Is
brought nearer to the fire, and all
smoke, vapors and odors are carried
up the chimney. The griddle is open
at the top, but for the purposes of
broiling it is desirable that a greater
heat should be secured, and this Is
brought about by making a lid over
the top. When the latter is lowered
the meat being cooked gets the full
benefit of the heat, but when it is
raised every opportunity is offered for
its examination. Philadelphia Record.
Genuine Indifference.
Jack Abertheney, the Rough Rider,
can catch a wolf alive by grabbing its
lower jaw with his bare hands.
Mr. Abertheney, on his last visit
here, was asked by a reporter for his
opinion on a certain political ques
tion. "I can't give you an opinion on that
question," the Rough Rider replied,
"because it's a question I pay no at
tention to. I am indifferent to it
as indifferent as the backwoodsman's
wife.
"That lady, you know, looked on
while her husband had a fierce hand-to-hand
tussle "with a bear, and after
ward she said it was 'the only fight
she ever saw where she didn't care
who won.' " Washington Star.
A New Use For the Queue.
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Microscopic.
The best microscopes are warranted
to magnify about 16,000 times. Those
are the kind most people would make
use of in examining their neighbors'
faults. Washington Post.
Paint the Lowest Step.
Paint the lowest cellar step white
if the cellar is dark. .This plan may
save a fall, and will do away with
feeling for the last step when going
downstairs.
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His Pig-Tail For a Radius.
H. S. Elliott, in Leslie's Weekly.
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New York City. The coat that is
made in butterfly style, or with the
sleeves that are cut In one with it, is
peculiarly becoming to young girls.
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while it is in the very height of pres
ent styles. This one is shown in
Btriped material and is, perhaps, es
pecially effective when such material
Is used, but it is quite correct for
everything seasonable, the pongees
Head Itours in Fashion.
That bead bags keep in fashion IS
not to be wondered at since the flow
er dress-borders upon skirts as well
as other skirt trimmings in embossed
rows give to the bead bag, in its soft
ly blended variety of colors, its rea
son for hanging from the belt or be
ing carried gracefully. Both bag
and bead-trimmed skirt3 are re
vivals of old days.
Tucked Shirt Waist.
The waist that is trimmed with
buttons is one o the novelties of the
season and is exceedingly effective.
This one is tucked in a way to be 60
treated with exceptional success and
is exceedingly chic and smart, while
it is absolutely simple. In the illus
tration white linen is trimmed with
pearl buttons, but colored linens and
white materials strfped with color
both are being extensively used this
season, and the cotton voiles are
much liked for shirt waists. Again,
if button trimming is not liked, disc
could be embroidered either with the
same on contrasting color and give
an exceedingly smart and altogether
up-to-date effect with very little
labor, the simple shirt waist that is
treated in this way being one of the
notable features of the present
season.
The waist is made with fronts and
back. It is tucked to give exceedingly
jnd silks that will be so extensively
rorn throughout the warm season, as
rell as for the wool suitings. The
;est portions and the prettily shaped
pilar and cuffs allow of effective con
rast and can be utilized in a variety
if ways. In this instance plain cloth
$ braided with soutache and trimmed
rith bits of velvet, but banding would
ie quite correct.
The coat is made with fronts,
jacks, the under-arm portions and
ileeves. The sleeves are arranged
inder the pleats and Joined to the
inder-arm portions and finished with
roll-over cuffs. The vest portions are
jtitched to the fronts and the collar
Inlshes the neck.
The quantity of material required
for the sixteen year size is three and
seven-eighth yards twenty-one, two
jmd three-fourth yards twenty-seven,
or one and seven-eighth yards forty
four inches wide, with one-half yard
fifty-two inches wide, or two and fire
eighth yards of banding two inches
wide for vest, collar and cuffs.
DESIGNS FOIi CIHLDIIEX'S FANCY DRESSES.
Shoulder Scam Important.
The ,new shirtwaist is distinctive
on account of the width of the
shoulders. Do not imagine for ona
moment that this effect may be ob
tained by cutting the shoulder seam
extra long that is to say, by running
it down on the arm. It can't. The
proper width must be given by the
correct line of the shoulder seam,
otherwise the sleeve can not be prop
erly put in and will droop in an ugly
way over the arm, giving an ill-fitting,
thoroughly home-made appear
ance to the shirtwaist.
becoming lines to the figure and is
finished with a neck-band and with &
separate turn-over collar, but if liked
a regulation stock can be worn in
place of the latter. There are the
usual shirt sleeves that are finished
with over laps and straight cuffs.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and one
half yards twenty-one or twenty-four,
three and three-eighth yards thirty-
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