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The Birth of "MottfercHarth." Thirty-six Thousand Pounds of Marble. eo CauseforHigh Prices Jafaf to Be Pncte and Pamfy on the Part of the People. ? By Dr. Le Grand Powers, Agricultural Statistician gwVS o the Census Bureau. fi''& EOPLE nowadays I mean the average people, common peo ple, if you will insist upon having the best of everything, said Dr. Powers. "The workingman insists upon the finest cuts of meat, and he buys better meat, perhaps, than the I I salaried or professional man. He does not subscrihe to uie P I shinbone doctrine of Edward Atkinson. He has a feeling that he is as good as anybody else, ana una leemib itself in his purchases. That is vanity. You remember the time, perhaps, wnen a m.u wanted to buy a steak threw his basket over his arm and went to the grocery after it. But he won't carry a bundle now. His meat must be sent to him. That is pride. It is safe to estimate that it costs 0 cents per steak for every cut that is delivered to a house. The same is true with other commodities of every-day necessity. The man whose food is delivered to him by the green grocer or the butcher pays the freight. You may take any article you please and you will find that the margin between the manufacturer and the consumer is constantly increasing. The middleman or dealer is the gainer, to a considerable degree, although he is not responsible altogether for the high prices of foods. He must meet the consumers fancies; he must make his goods look attractive, and he must lay them at the door of the household. All of this costs money, and, of course, the consumer pays the freight. People want prepared breakfast fooWs now where they used to be satis fled with oatmeal and mush, or dishes or cakes made of flour. A barrel of flour sells anywhere from $4 to $G for a barrel of 190 pounds, according to the price of wheat, but people do not buy barrels of flour as of yore. They demand it in fancy packages and sometimes get it In the form of prepared foods. The flour that goes into a one-pound package costs about a quarter of a cent. The consumer pays much more, of course. The price for tins one-pound package is higher than it ought to be. It probably cost eight or ten cents where it should not cost more than five or six. The higher price to the consumer is the result of the fancy package, demanded by widely spreading national vanity, and further to the fact that the article must be delivered, a service that is demanded by the pride of the purchaser. People are spending money nowadays and they are spending it fast. Our prosperity depends upon the spending. If everybody hoarded what lie earned prosperity would cease. We would fry in our own fat. Horror of Needless floises Ey IV. D. Howells. T is the heedlessD?ss of most noises that renders them in sufferable. You sleep very well through the roar of a win trv storm, but i' some one has forgotten to fasten a blind, and it begins to bang, then you are lost; you might as well get up and locate that blind and fasten it first as last. The manifold noises of your steamer's plunge through the night, with the perpetual wash of the sea. unite in a lul laby to which the worst conscience sinks into repose; but ., i..-pnl.-inir fmni the next stateroom recallsthe memory of all one's sins. The rush and leap and incessant but varied grind and clang of the sleeping car become soothing at last, but a radiator, beginning to fizz and click after the steam has been turned off. seems to leave the would lu sleeper no resource but suicide; if you could get at the second engineer, and leave him weltering in his gore, you could snatch a few cat-naps before morn ing; but you cannot get at the second engineer after midnight in most ho tels. Continuous noise3 and necessary noises are things you can adjust senses or vour spirits to; but the noise without a reason, without an appar ent right, like the gnawing of a rat in the wainscot, is what drives so many to perdition; and the clatter of the power-dory will probably ere long fill the asylum from the seaside cottages. It Is not impossible, however, that many summer cottages are now being equipped with machine-guns that will sweep every power-dory from the sea. These guns will be worked on a pivot and will equallv clear the roads of unmuffled automobiles, and blow to atoms ' . . . r . .-1, II M i. i uny motorman about to sound uie wnisne oi a irouey lai - i v. o zine. y Superstitions of i Mndern limes ? i Ey Lady Violet Greuilte. WW s 1 B-' I V ' . "'I , ' - 'a.. I 7mirZ.. K .... ... Si..." : .. M wii,;'' The Norwegian sculptor, Stephan Sindling, has already devoted eight years to the making of his colossal-statue, "Mother Earth," which has necessitated the use of 36,000 pounds of Carrara marble. Our photograph shows the sculptor at work in the yard of the Sculpture Gallery at Copenhagen. COUNTESS CARLISLE. New World Head of the Women's Teniieraiice I'nion. To be known as Mrs. Rosalind Car lisle, Instead of "My Lady," is the de sire of the democratic Countess of Carlisle, who has recently been elect ed World W. C. T. U. President. Only the united protests and appeals of her entire family and consideration for their wishes have kept her from, long ago, abrogating the titles which are hers by both birth and marriage. The Countess was Lady Rosalind Frances Stanley, youngest daughter of Baron Stanley, of Adderley, before her mar riage to the Earl of Carlisle, forty years ago. She has always been sim ple and unaffected in manner and style and the soul of kindliness and charity. She goes about among her tenants much as the late Queen Vic toria did when on her visits to her favorite home, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. The people are all known to her by name and all respect f.nd love her. The cares of a large family atjd households seems to have strength ened and developed Lady Carlisle's natural administrative genius. While she is known in England as a woman of most pronouncedly radical views on all subjects, she is respected as a splendid type of English womanhood. Her success in reclaiming several thousand acres of barren lands on the big family estate of Castle Har vard, at York, has attracted the at tention of scientific agriculturists. Handy Egg Ruck. The accompanying photograph showns an egg rack which I find of great convenience, as It enables the family to know on just what day the eggs on hand were laid, writes D. II. Buell in Suburban Life. The idea was brought to ray mind while getting a lot of eggs dally, as we occasionally had a spoiled one oa RACK if jwjji riJWJ ' -.( ii. , , . .H 1 on the table, due to the fact that all of the eggs, as fast as collected, were placed in an egg basket, there being no way of telling the oldest eggs from those just laid. The rack is very simple, and any man handy with tools can put it to gether In a few hours. A cabinet maker near me has made them for $1.25. T RE story of the prima donna who would not sing until her mascot, the stag's head, was installed over her chimney piece is a type of modern superstiition. We are quite as credulous this 2Cth century as our forefathers of mediaeval times. HWhat woman does not believe one of her gowns to be lucky and the other unlucky? How many refuse to don I opals, while others carry a fetich In the shape of a crooked six-pence or rusty nail, a lucky shamrock, or a hideous lit tle silver pig- about them? Everywhere superstition meets one. It is awfully unlucky to break a looking glass, Friday is a bad day to start on a journey, Sunday is the day that all the best things in life have happened to one; these are some of the sayings that reach one's ears habit u 'ally. I even know some who think the letter of a person's name lucky or the contrary, and refuse to make acquaintance with people bearing the fatal letter. Curious legends and curses hang about houses and families. In one case a belief was current that the owners of a particular place would never have male heirs to sncceed them in direct line. The house was sold twice to different owners, and the curse always came true. The present pro prietor has only daughters and no male relative to continue the line. These are, no doubt, coincidences, but they arc curious nevertheless and probably have originated from some definite cause. i US"!"! J The Wife Who 7- r-: T::-n4 I 15 uruLuui jui33uii3jivu. By Mary Stewart Cutting. OW, many a girl is taught dissatisfaction from the moment she marries not an ennobling spirit, but the contrary. She starts life from a false point of view. ' Marriage and the "happy ever after' give way to . prospective pity.: She is pitied for everything; pitied because "a woman has so much : to go through;" pitied for having a house to look after whea hohm i hihv Inn, und for havinit the sewlnr tin her hands. J ndTorbetng"tled down;" pitied because "her husband , .. ,. doesn't reauze all sne goes inrougn ; inpugn, gooaness knows, H isn't because she doesn't tell him, and it's heir right to tell him If she wants to. She is pitied because she can't go to parties and make calls, and pitied for every, ache and pain and limitation, a if that ache or pain, or limitation were In itself an -end cf life, not something that In its rery- na ture is fleeting and changeable as if each cause for pity had not its root In seme Joy or some gain or some privilege. : Sympathy helps, but the thing that makes, this mistaken pity blight Instead of restore is the fact that it accentuates unduly where it cannot alleviate. .In spite of the pity of her world, the married girl ha to keep np with; the; work and the responsibility and the pains and aches Just the same; uey are ncrs, no one can take them ii ffi ft V- hi ( 4--"' ilSlfcttiil'.:,., A FAMOUS WOMAN COUNTESS CARLISLE. New York City. The close fitting little cap ot the Dutch sort is one of the best liked head coverings for the smaller children and is always be coming, while it can be made from a variety of materials. Here are two that allow of almost every possible variation. The two-piece cap can be made of taffeta, of velvet, of cloth or silk, while the one-piece cap is adapt ed to the, thinner materials and Is peculiarly desirable for lawn and other washable fabrics. When made from this or from thin silk it can be lined throughout and consequently be made as warm and snug as need be. As illustrated the two-piece cap is made of white silk with the revers. In true Dutch style, daintily embroid ered by hand while Its points are held by rosettes of ribbon and there is a little frill of ribbon finishing the edge of the cap; the one-piece model is made of lawn with the revers of em broidery and the trimming of lawn rosettes and strings. The two-piece cap consists of the head portion and the crown, which are joined one to the other and can be finished with the revers or without as may be liked. The one-piece cap is shirred to form the crown and New Rain Cont. One of the new rain coat designs shows a loose back, the fulness of which ' is arranged in a deep box pleat held in place by tho rounded lower edge of the yoke. Worn With Blue. Many of the furs are used almost entirely for trimmings. The natural lynx makes a very handsome fur set. It does delightfully as a boa, and it is very becoming made up into a big, fiat pillow muff. It also trims a coat well, and it goes nicely with brown or with blue. It is Just the fur for wear with a navy blue serge. Nine-Gored Skirt. Tho nine-gored skirt that is made with inverted pleats is a most satis factory one from every point ot view. It provides sufficient fulness for grace and flare at the lower edge, while it Is stitched flat over tho hips and is without bulk at that point. Again. It requires only a small amount ot material where the gores can be cut In and out, and even where material must all be cut one way, leaves suffi ciently large pieces to allow ot cut ting the suit or the gowu from a com paratively small pattern. In this In stance the material is a novelty goods of wool with threads of silk and the trimming Is bands of taffeta, but braid can be similarly applied. Bands of broadcloth are well liked on rough material or on velvet or velveteen and again the skirt can be finished with a stitched hein only. All sea sonable materials that are used for walking skirts are appropriate. The skirt is cut In nine gores, these gores ail being cut with extensions' below the stitchlngs that arc laid in inverted pleats and pressed flat. from her. Harper's Baaar. Lady Carlisle began her public life in the Interests 'of woman's enfran chisement, of which she is a pioneer advocate. She has no neutral tints, ' but is stralght-hued In all her efforts. y The extermination Of the liquor traffic is her ideal.' "' The accompanying portrait shows the Countess of Carlisle as she ap pears at the present-time. -The pis- lure, however, does not do herJu-. tlce: She has the rosy complexion of the British matron and the genial Smile and kindly look of the optimist and humanitarian.- - Although her figure approaches embonploint, she carries herself with dignity and it a fine-looking- ; woman.- - Lady Carlisle is . about sixty years of age and , at the height of her power. - 4.?. '; - ? Carroll D. Wrient pronoaneea pea ilmlsm our greatest menace. Warm Winters In Europe. - - A Russian meteorollglst, Woelkof, has been studying" the temperature recorded at Stockholm. Sweden, for the 150 years which precede 1906. He finds that there, is a disposition toward warm, winters there about once in eight years. This period does not-corrsspottd with that of sun spot frequency or any other phenomenon external to the ' earth. ' - Woelkof therefore ' attributes 4 . It to such changes in the distribution, of air pressure as alter the .direction; of the prevailing winds. ' . He has discov ered that the situation at St Peters burg corresponds rather closely to that of Stockholm, but he declares tbat-when the winters are mild In Northern Europe they are usually severe la the south; and 'especially la the southwest. . , - ': x v - , - - . these shlrrings can be drawn, up by means of ribbons inserted In casings or simply formed by gathers as liked. There is a seam at the centre back of the head portion which can be joined or tied together at the edges, this lat ter plan being by far the better one when washable material is usea, as tho pan run then he laid onen Quite smooth and flat and laundered with perfect ease. It also allows a cnoice of a plain finish or the revers and the revers for either cape caa be cut on ih, mitllnoa lltimtrAted ' The quantity of material required"! for the medium size , (one year; is, for either cap one-half yard of mate rial twenty-one or three-eighth yard thirty-six Inches wide with ope and, a half yards or ruffling., ,. -:;,.,. .- v.( . Festoon Xwklaces In Favor.' Festoon necklaces, which ere "all the rage" In, Paris, are equally high in favor on this side of the water. The new necklaces are accepted as welcome substitutes for Jeweled dog collar and rope of pearls. . They would be a boon to scraggy Becks. .nlMH nf tho new inwnlrv mar. if lhaibeauty doctor really have left any such necks. 7 sere is sun a ae "unviable ileoderneaa extant to which the gracefully looped neck laces proDanty win appeal. , , '-X. m . ' , ' : i.H;,,inj niMta a t" til A- ." hmnaath wtllfh the ClOS-v'. UCULig UCIW UCMt ,. - ; iuk ii nikuo iuvidiui, The quantity pt material requires , tnr thn medium size is thirteen and a v nunrter vards twenty-seven, sis uu a. , - Quarter yaras ioriy-rour. ,or uu three-quarter yards fifty-two Inches- una ir tnnroriai nas iixure ui uau. Seven aiid three-duarter yards twen- ; LJ-DCICU, nuu vm v.0 W . m . ... , flrivJvn1. ' t :m Kim ' a ium,h .-m .tit ..t a --.-u.t - Min Utll J. .. il'B'l'. lL l-A'.-r II lflfl . t f . V1 ts s. a. it. v.; it - iy sva?r, ---- ' v.."-.' : Inches wide If it has not, with nine yards of banding to trim m illus trated. , --" '
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