1. art and entertainment
2. music
3. singing

By IDllson Mizner.
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married the middle-aged, nuiionaus widow pi Charka T. Yerk<
the minstrel t o a narrow tower roam.
y Isos* mountains
where the bats and the spiders had
beads
taa
; Of the centuries' Wars with
long been the only occupants. There
I , JL ments told.
they left him, with nothing tat • c a r
'fijtl* be recked of tlie <laas«OTU»*
~Ttba£"KUSett" At ghu&at ««• p u v w U OT PfSJIBJI* w * CDVJBT H111, • ••*! •*••* ^^K^r
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ory of the sound of the key turning
' Boldly his voice Jans" obt, and clear—
in the lock for inspiration. He lost
• O»cr the -Mf» lies Italy!" *
Deep Is the meaning those few Words no time in examining his quarters, but
hold
spent the rest of the day and part of
Deeper than careless «ye* may see. the night arranging a song, which
Dlirerlnr us onward, whate'er botlde—
sounded like nothing so much as the
"Over the Alps Ues Italy!"
1MB belongs to no union. He never goei 'Aa a strike. While
we sleep our enemy is ever at work.. I S p o n e r ^ i J ^ J g '
[If heart can wl»h for of honor attd fame.
gets ill all. Life is always a disappolj^ttSe'nt. Iris 7 a
Of love and Joy and earth's beautiful
. • practical Joke. '•' •" thing*.
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Work! Don't speak of i t It is the poorest excuse of Oh. the world la fair and life la sweet
an occupation I know. of. No one ever got a snapshot, at
And deep In youth's heart Is a wordme doing manual labor. I hate. work. Hko the Lord" hates
-St Loula. But why should I work? I never ciormmltietljiin" Out hi* spirit'leaps forward, tha< future
, crime. Ugh! I wouldn't mind getting up at 7 in the mornto greet—
•'Over th« Alpa lie. Italy!"
' .lag. But U I had to.I couldn't I'd lie awako air night long thinking about Manhood
comes on as years depart:
It Work is a curse. I can't understand peoplo making such work out of * Heavier cares now oppress the •but:
Toe work of the world must be dona each
pleasure.
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And all too, swiftly the seasons roll.
There1* this skating rink fad in New York. It's too much effort And I
. never could understand a man's going to a dance with four collars in his bat Poet and painter, merchant and priest;
Noblos and men of low degree, •
•extracting pleasure hopping around' and perspiring. I'd get operated on for They
strive and they struggle, from
anything that would make moenergetlc. The ideal state of existence is rest.
greatest to least—
For
"Over
the Alpa lies Italy."
Sleep and food; then food and sleep, and then reverse the prSceaa. Be sure it's
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Ugbt, then go to bod. The sun Just lulla me to sleep.
People take mb for a clothes-rack; -a namby-pamby Jackass; a peaceful 1 3»d grant for us all, when the time shall,
baboon who wouldn't raiso his hand to help, a fellow, capable of only thn most 'Thatcome
our weak hands drop the burdens
elementary knowledge, two Ideas being -on unlawful assemblage. Dress is a
they bear.
the words we have spoken, the
secondary consideration with me. I'm a perfect slob. I.only go- around BO Whendeeds
we have done.
the health commissioners'won't complain. As for money, I don't care for that
Are remembered only as things of yore.
either. I havo always inade a lot, but I never can keep It .If I had i$ at the That when we -shall enter that new,
end of^ayear I'd break out in a rash.
strange aphero
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Where no thought of time or of chance
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We may nnd all we labored and longed
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for h e r e Over death's Alps our Italy.
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—Eleanor Jenkins.
Over and over again he twanged the
notes on his Into. Over and over again j
he tried to sins them. At last, tired
put, and satisfied with his effort, he
lay down and slept. When at last he awoke, the sun was
Knowing Everybody.. cy work and sewing.
high in the heavens, and the gaoler
When one thinks of all the people may be folded and placed i ]
was pounding at his door.
leaves cards on, the ones we nod way against the wall br ia i,
'•What ho, there!" he called, undo- to,' and the1 ones we shake hands' with, lent corner.
ing the lock. "Sir Minstrel, art awake? and when we realize how little we
With the .handwork sb ,
The Queen awaits thee!"
know about any of them, the absolute .waists and gowns these i_
Hastily swinging his lute across bis banality of a large acquaintance be- every woman is tempted to'h
shoulder, he followed the gaoler into comes apparent' Tet to increase needlework as a matter of i
the royal -presence.
•,' '' their acquaintance is the aim and if nothing else. Portunateij i
'How now. Sir Minstrel." said the object of half the women who do theamateur much of the onuat
Queen, as he bowed low before her. London season.—Ladies' Field.
now used on thin, material, j
"hast succeeded-with thy song?" And
require great skill; It is qu]
all the Court leaned forward eagerly.
and always looks pretty.
The
Return
of
Foulard.
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'.'Most beauteous Queen." he anfrom all indications it looki aia_
The greatest of all sensations seems the thimble: would be moreil
swered, "harken to my sons: and only
to
be
the
return
to
favor
of
foulard.
a voice such as yours can sing it." and
deuce this summer than it |
with a bow which bent him doable, he French women are possessed by thofor many years.
struck the opening chords upon h i s idea that for morning wear the sim'
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lute, and began to sing.
Give Women a Chihct
So like the Queen's own voice did hardly be improved upon, and the
How much, longer will u , |
It sound, that all the Court gazed couturiers are almost overwhelmed
comparison last of woman atfl
open-mouthed at one another, and She -with orders for costumes of this description. When elaborately trimmed to the i v y nnd the oak?
herself leaned forward In amaze.
foulard
can be made to do almost any mean that the woman is 1
"Sir Minstrel," said she. "that song
parasite, that it is graceful auM
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can I surely sing, and -rising to her
leal to be a parasite, to be 1
feet, she opened' wide her lips, and
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to be untrained, unfit to 1
poured forth note on note Just as'the _ ; •.,..„•,S.lub*. *?r.,.JPeilf.,,.fc3d,i£|v^v,...-.;
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harmony did he accompany her upon: record has recently been formed by Will the kind father always 1
his lute, that before the day was over, society ladles in Berlin. The princl- protect her? And should she •
Are there no widows'left'will
every man. woman and child in the • nal.conOI
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IB a hundred members, cat bread in the sweat o[ tbcfj
sons.
and earn bread' for their chlldn
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By Major-Gen. Sir Alexander Tulldch.
The Queen was beside herself for ' who meet ''regularly1 ones a: '.week/, in It Is a normal fact that there j
the Peacocks' was seized by a desire joy.
handsomely furnished rooms in the this country 3,000,000 womfjl
OMB fifteen yearn ago,-when there waa a 'possibility of the to learn how to, sing. Never in "all the
'Sir Minstrel/' said she. "thou hast Wiihelmstrasse. where they converse must work for their dally bread|
annals
of
the
kingdom,
had.
there
been
manufacturers of warlike stores being: too busy In England
made me most happy, for there is n o by means of ear-trumpets and sign the girls a chance, then; .to i
to supply .what we might require'in Australia, I got oni born inlp the royal family anyone who one so miserable aa a woman who canand drink-tea:
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their own feet and learn the
minister of defense In "Victoria to try what Japan could tic ;duid do aught but scream, but not- not do what s h e wishes. Stay and
and sanctity of work. In woi
in making rifles to special patterns. We sent a cadofs withstanding this, and the-fact that share the Peacock kingdom with me."
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rifle (Frnncott) and a-Wilkinson oulcpr-'-s sword.r- In a won- her own voice was•worse,_if..ppssthle,i.,
Lace of all kinds has never been ness, solf-reliuneo.-strcnstli of t
derfully abort time we got a dozen 'perfcctly-made-'rlflen "at" Ihan-any ofth'e"oth"ers, proclamations a great honor, and gladly will I stay
ter, a keener Intelligence and a t
the same price we had hitherto given, and a dozen swords were issued to the effect that an In- with so lovely a Queen. But one faror so fashionable as at the present writ- appreciation of values and a I
ing.
Eveny day one hears of a new
quite equal t» the Wilkinson for £ 1 each—Just one-thlrdof structor was. wanted, to teach the must I ask—-"
use to make of lace. It seems almost ened practicality. The educated)
Queen of the Peacocks the art of "And that Is?" smiled the Queen.
our contract price for the same article from England.
to have taken the. place of ribbon as an should be trained for ini
singing.
In articles of ordinary use, such things a3 cricket bats and tennis racquets
"That no one, save I, in all the a trimming. Any one who has old
ence, potential independence, I
made in Japan are In Australia cutting out slmllnr articles mails in England.
The town-criers of all the cities of kingdom, be allowed to sing my sons-" laces should have them cleaned and actual. . How it would solve'i
Last summer,-when in the Highlands, I was informed that a consignment of the kingdom called it aloud, embas'Granted," said the Queen. "Sow- mentled and use them to trim her best matrimonial anxieties where tte|
lapanesc-mado nail-brusliea similar to English ones had actually found Ha aadors were sent to distant countries that I know I can sins—" here the costume. The use of lace has become tim i s led to the altar from an
to proclaim it, and if possible bring minstrel smiled (With "happiness, of a perfect fad among fashionable worn- en sense of duty! How this:
way to a town in the east of Scotland.
I found Japanese boots made to measure when I was in Yokohama so professors back with them, and, as the
good that I now getrayboots from Jajia;
WBke-ii fhe-echoes wfth warbling?trimmed with seven different kinds of tually or potentially, would
"ICan leatner—and tho make are both excellent; tho price. Including car- era! one, singing masters came from,
And so, after giving orders that the lace, and another had a theatre waist invigorate and give life a new I
riage, Just one-half of what I have hitherto paid for similar boots in London.' far and near.
other fifty-nine instructors should be made of four kinds of lace, Cluny, tance. Interest and compelling; <
But the Queen was very particular. set at liberty, the Queen and the min- Irish point, Valenciennes, and KenNot indeed that our scheme of c
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One was by fartoougly, one was too strei were married, and the sixtieth in- alssanco Iaca It is needless to say is to be simply for brca4-i
fat, this one's eyes were not of the structor became King of all the Pea. the effect was very handsome. Lace Education does not really mot I
right shade, and that one's nose was
belts-and-bows for-the hair nro'among" rich-quicfc"' it-ls-better to*ei
tih;ch ico Iorii?; 'so 'that out of all those
the latest uses to make of lace. The strument of ten strings than f
who came flocking to her gates, there
NOW PINEAPPLE CLOTH.
belts arc lined, with heavy chiffon string. It Is better (o Its
were only fifty-nine who pleased her,
and boned and are made with a point than Instrumental. So educ
and these she let try her voice, each Not Alone Valued as a Fruit is This in front, and bow and long ends in not simply for pay work, for I
work; it reaches,out far beyojl|
In his turn.
the back.—New Idea.
Exotic.
to ultimate ends, approached I
Oneldeclared her rivaled only by the
One day recently, while on a shopbeauty in art, music and- lit
nightingale. Another was sure that ping tour, some very beautiful silkyTlw Mother's "NO."
in six lessons she would be able to looking material was admired very
There are few things more condu- through the fruitful truths in 1
sing the most difficult operas by heart, much by one of the shoppers, who was cive to disobedience and stubbornness through pure thoughts in scle
and a third pronounced her possessed informed by the saleswoman that the in children than the constant use of les, economics. A human
of vocal powers unlike any he had material was "Pina Cloth." Bhe had the -words "no" and "don't" The thus more of a man, In touch !
By Professor James Walter Crook,
ever
heard.
-mother should1 hesitate more than life at a thousand points, wltlj
a very beautiful gown made of 1L
of Jtmherst College.
pat hies everywhere. The poof I
So the Queen set to work practisUpon investigation it transpired that once before saying them. Listen paing trills and. scales and arias, operas, "Pina Cloth" was made from t h e fi- tiently to a little one's request before with culture is inexpressibly rKi|
saying "no," no matter how trivial It are- the treasures of artistic '
madrigals and serenades, but at the bers of the leaves of the pine-apple.
the stores of precious learning I
] ********* FORTUNES may be considered as swollen beyond healthy end of a term of lessons from each of
In Manila, girls and women are ar- may seem to you. It may mean much arc Orion and tho Pleiades, the |
If the request is reasonable,
=;; limits which yield from J5,O0O,0O0 to $20,000,000 a year. the fifty-nine instructors, i t was still rayed in this material on special occa- to him.
• >. The methods of relief sometimes proposed are an arbitrary (sipossible to distinguish the trills and sions, and it is said that their weddins even though it may cause you some vela of the world opening
little ineAvenience. try to grant It. windows into the Infinite!
1J limit to the amount ah individual may accumulate; j.ro- arias from the hoarse screams in which gowns are often made of if.
rich man without culture of 1
• < gressive taxation of incomes, and progressive inheritance. Bho had indulged before,
Many species of the pineapple leaves ir. however, saying "yes" to the child soul Is a beggar—within.—Rabbll
; 'taxes. Where should the limit be drawn? The limitation
Whereupon she caused : them aft to yield fiber that can be span like flax is s o l e s to cause a great deal of disricon la SL Louis Republic."
:< • la repressive and is meant to bo so. It would put a i>re- be thrown into prison.
when bleached.
A very, fine muslin comfort to some one else, if i t Is not
',) mium upon relative inefficiency and deprive society of the At last, o n e day, there arrived at
be made of i t and the Very finest for tho child's good, or if after delibadvantage of beneficial enterprises. A progressive tax on the gates of the city a wandering min- handkerchiefs. In some parts of Mex- eration what i s asked seems wrong In
Fashion Notet.
Incomes high enough to accomplish the purpose aimed at has the same Ola- strel, .who, having heard, In bis travels ico, China and Africa, .the fibers are your Judgment, give the child a short
It pays to buy good laces.
advantages. There Is left the progrensii|; tax on inheritance. As a tax meas- of the Queen's desire, resolved to try used for d o t h , cordage, fishing net* but intelligent reason for a denial, can be used over, and over c?'
then let no amount'of teasing; chango. alwajs look nice.
ure aiming at revenue, I approve of It. It la easily collected. As a measure
is luck. ' " ' . .
and ropes.
to limit fortunes, however. It seems to mo more doubtful. To accomplish the
"Art willing to' attempt to teach
In the West Indies a sort of Uquor your decision. It is not nee wary to
Several styles for. fiill 'shov 1
.^ef^.to-to^^^e^ut,!^:^ skirts,
purpose tho rato must be very high. A tax.heavy enough would Involve a me the art of singing after so many
and all. girdle»'se*iii tf I* !
.•«e}"child v a t soon'v'learnr to.' accept
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problem of administration. Even s o low a rate aa 30 percent:would^ean,a,,
t r t p i t t ^ a ^ : r u ^ " l n ^ s a d i ^ ^ = your judgment without fretting, satis- givlnr hfeh-Dusted eiffccU
Queen,"ia 'the'"minstrel 'knelt before coctjon is,used as a medicine for fe>
It seems as if there had i
fled in the feeling that you- know best.
tunes of that size.
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Always think twice before sayi&g so large a sale of parasols' n 1
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There are said to bo fifty men in Pittsburg alone whose fortunes exceed f thou dost not succeed. *
From experience' it Is known that "no." but once said, stick t o it; do not season as there has been tJis
"Majesty," he said, "I can do naught the juice of the pine-apple i s an ex'Chat amount/ and in the.case of some well known' fortunes the tax - would
Have you seen the wJOl
'' Amount to upward of $43,000,000. The greatest objection Is the encouragement' but try, and I am most willing to do cellent remedy for sore throat, and K retreat—Marianna Wheeler, In Harthat look like huge chrysaithei
trhlch the heavy taxation of the wealthy will give to extravagant public ex- that!" and, having bownd low, he has even been used i n esses o f diph- per'a Bazar.
bright color on the end of a
struck a few chords On bis lute.
penditures.
theria.
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The Queen rose from her throne,
One way of serving the fruit on tho. For The. Up-tc-Oate Needlewoman. handle wound w|th great to look I
and, opening her raby lips, she uttered table for dessert i s to cat it ap One
In making napkins the initial or astern?; •' ' • ' ,•"•, y '
one long, piercing note. . The poor min- with a cote-slaw cutter and sugar i t monogram i s still put In'the corner,
Diamonds are always a la mod*|
strel staggered back and dropped his freely.
It Is more appetizing than tiwugh an occasional housewife pre-r tho jewellers have aa-angeine:"
lute in horror.
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when merely sliced, a s sometimes, fora marking them in the centre. The which they place othei stones in 4
"Ah,"
cried -the Queen, In anger,
hen in slices, it i s very tough. Some letters vary-from'an. inch to an inch positions that .they stem to estl
th6:oasemhle;'w' *:"" '*•''""' •••;:;"V'J
"what is the meaning of that? Thou fine specimens- of pineapples have and a half In height
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hast not ever jthe grace of Uie ntbes been grown-te^Borttena^l W***0'.'!r** *
fifty-nine1 Off to prison with htm!'* In
the Botanical
Botanical lOardens
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th UniO i embroidered
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on o n e side, the tnono^ sponslUe for the nimber of bn
and two sturdy warders grasped the versity of Pennsylvania.
gram so placed that it i s near the' designs now appearfcig. Odd br*
poor minstrel, one on either side.
Pine-apples are sent to us in larg? edso of the table. The .marking on are i n vogue, genemlly the kind I
"Toar most gracious majesty," he quantities from the West Indies. In some of the prettiest cloths is often is male-in sections :.:
gasped, "give me but leave to .ex- former tunes, when transportation waa repeated on "the other. side. -The, poTh« woman who hasi a ..
plain, and of a surety thou wilt not be Blower than it Is now, the.fruit w a s sition of the < monogram depends
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In her wardrobe the comlnjC
By Walter Bevertey Crane.
"Speak, then." scowled the Queen. ' most of the markets b u t week th» lame women preferring the exact cen- Bon one- ofr^the Mack-and-whlre *
"Oh, gracious sovereign," he began, moat luscious.pine-apples were dis- tre, and others the corner, to match bimtions which are to have a 1
"I staggered In wonder at such volume played at very reasonable prices sad
HE first and most- conspicuous of the moral m a t i n e e s of and richness of tone. I dropped my could be purchased by the poor. A •he napkins, but just a t prfesent the vafue.
!ad i s for placing i t at the side. - .
money, as they are developing themselves in our actual soblue figures largely Is '
great.many come from Florida. T h o )
ciety, is a consequence of the-undeniable but prodigious fact lute, as. a worthless thing; when I -plants- are raised there- under sheds to" The lUUe sewuig Ecreen8.now_seea.
. that most rich people are radically" convinced1 that to be rich heard thy- voice, and If Oiou- woaldst guard against frost. They s%s a b o•n an of the large shops are a boon
appropriate {shade for the I
but grant me leave to compose a acng
a> the woman whp does only fancy
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It Is amazing, but it is so.
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India,
.tropical-Africa,
ana
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light
blue
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an
especlsOUj
ability, not, only would I be, the most
needlewoman. They are so' complete
There are persons of- this description who positivelylargo quantities i n Mexico.,
*id they occupy such a small space rorod trimming.
scorn other people because they are not rich, too; who look grateful creature in all the world, but
There' are many species of ' pine- that aa a woman said not long aeou If you are observing you hare'
upon dollars as the one test of merit, and *fto regard pov- thou wouldst enable, me to hand down
''as a condition of low Inferiority) if not, indeed, of absolute degradation to posterity a work which no one else apple, which differ from one another they must, b s a part of the natural that the colored linen EOWBB «I» "
ever could or ever will be able to sing." In flavor, just a3 do vakous kinds of 3utcda>s of the question of living Ir
therj
r elaborately trimmed, butt6efj
: disgrace.
[ The Queen's face once more assum- apples or other cultivated fruit.—Pau- flats. They are pretty, too. Ttovery, very fashionable,- notwitf
i deplorable, bnt it Is so.
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adclphia Record.'
iwo panels jolnsd^hy^hinges are cf- ing the fact that white has I
) To ask such persons, men or women, to believe, that the'lr money is noth"I grant thy request. Sir Minstrel,
sred. with.plaui denim, studded.•wth more than on any previous i
| bnt;a mere accident, a simple hazard of the game of life, would be like but remember, if this vaunted work
The Real Thing.
brass
nails or with &y colored ke- • >FuH 'bloomers- are very ser
'" yihaa that two and two make five: they could not comprehend it—the does not please our - fancy, further
"We had a sensational case of kid- nmnc In the small ip|i6B. bet^cn for children of both sexes for <
[-'would surpass th«Ir understanding. Of course, j your plutocratic morej Is not finished In twenty-rout napping-In
our house lately."
*em are Ingeniously stowed aw* all day wear: F b r l l t t l e girls.
-'" - \ quote Voltaire* "It is more easy to write about «oney hour*, thou. and the other fifty-nine
"You don't ten mot Bow did * the comforts of. sewing, while i! ths made of material like.the dns>'
" kh»ve 4t laugh at those who can only write
iutracton now UniuUMnc. In JalL happen?"
sentre Is a ^ e i f that" folds' unirhen worn in "Ihe^lace^of
shall-dla! i a n weary ttto fe
"sot te ose. 1*ere are xdrett^J the ing the lanndress much labor*
.-The baby : slept t W whole
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