Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1892, Page 7

EM Ae ah te D.C. “THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, fairies attired for fancy dress balls, and just FOR LITTLE FOLKS. Sse erty seeuceiess| A MISSIONARY CAMERA | sustsseeser meta anttons ' i orchestra he knows the reason of the silence GLIDE. |~“*<*==* f t THE LOVERS some with the until the horsemen ‘THE DAYTIME TRIPS. officer of the law raised his hand and for his ticket, his services were considered valuable enough ‘who came swing- ® a a sopred the per ualicions mechiet. “Te is ‘e terths agont aabiug for’ the Soket the agent re: | "The nett Tre took Bear! (because Mrs. Med- Tsughter andthe too mnen the mati totes They ore vel . . : Ke bent yas mi yn lor Te- ne} : Common-Sense Advice in Children’s | Pally too bai? But fortunately these grim. | Octeve Thanet in “Two Tales.” pie that no money and no such lark was ‘and preparing for Christmas), road before they | How Oupid, With Folded Wings, | tic in aavtight because, ax every one knows, is goblins will have no power to enter the LL THE MEDLARKS mn received. Mi raged, but what could her in the rude wagon which his father together, including the . Washington is the meoca of the newly wedde:l, Summer Dresses. hotel parlors and stop the dancing there; so knew about Christmas| he do? He had no money; there was no time to made for her, and trudged away to the and red’ flannel gown. | - Floats Up and Down the River. | ana Me'Vernon being town in the pele books many a little elfin is looking forward to her and Ambrose, the old-| ¢atn anything before drawing. No use, | store. How ablaze it was with gayety and pom and army blankets were used where as one of the sights they conscientiously eet ee debut this summer, with eyes full of flowers est boy, knew who was | Sow’ yery Rall that whe bad mare { seed wii piers ‘bae.© aeseeeee tis nl | sonatas End neat sia a eee ‘hore than Washington and ene eae tal tess . A more wi I a man SIMPLICITY IN STYLE. Santa Claus, But that | hoardelis an old stocking and buried under wagons and [omping Jocks and dolls wang from or woman or child ‘here who had not | ROMANCE ON THE WATER. | Shem than Neshington and ‘one can tell them a AS 4a secret which the| the fireplace), because was pre} 8 rope across the shelves. There were | brought a gift for some one else. cultivate toward one another, but which « elders always keep and = }, a8 a result of her uncle's expe- | new hats and bonnets and piles of beautiful, The pa oo wemge pagy > fame na practiced eye can see is only a veil thinly con- Garniture Tastefully Applied—Outdoor Cos- Asabeose told , who hadspent $115 intwo year® ir ready-made clathes, and cups and saucers with | ture’s own gift to Arkansas—the | The Potomac Excursions as Rivals of the cealing the most unbounded mutual interest. tumes Appropriate for the Summer Sea- — tickets and never had received a cent’s worth | ‘‘Love the Giver,” or ‘To a Good Boy,” or “To | holly and the mistletoe; and enormous cotton Parks—Effect of Beautiful Surroundings— | One canalso detect them by their goo! clothes. na baht) Clay, who was eight, | back. Mrs, Medlark used to say bitter thi ‘9 Good Girl,” on them, and gilt jew- | letters starting out of the green bade every one| are op in Love?—The A ok de | Time was when one could select a bride from a son—Long Skirts Not Suitable for’ dren nor Pearl, who was| about them. But she had no sense anyhow, in | elry—a dazzling Foe ge The was full, | “Welcome” and “Merry Christmas.” On the crowd by her white hat and gloves and gray Becoming Hats. three, and firmly be-| the doctor's opinion. She would ery and say | too; everzbody, black and white, and | platform stood the noblest fir of the hills, laden | Drimkere—Bridal Couples in Day Time. wn. ‘These would not be reliable mile posts lieved Santa Claus lived | that it was for the children, when she was just oe . it the only person that Am! saw | with candles and tinsel ornaments, and splen- 2 for fi one nowadays, as if one «l ate pea ie Me es aaah xa ee oasis coatings ‘Miss Carroll. Before he en ieee bas ae knives with temgt to guided by these tottntiens be Brecial of The Ev. Star. where made it vat couk livers be apt to tak. hs of the » nM ease oe snow was, because be scum "possum, she had itr merkinry Atte by wet ede om | New You, July 1, 1892. was said to down the chimney just as the in her sweet, stepping with rc. ARE — going to send parcels. aa eerran oe Erne = weet kim All the Medlarks were present—Mrs. Medlark ies thounninc neta oceubemai tome a coo sstin ob ai ara seocaace eae Ambrose scala de oleate ind Mediank. rote! dest, i as bowl that Love alights in the | 4 tir immaculate sf airs Pp begs no in the um by om to 100, oe ont Seenoon he with mud, plaster andstone. Dr. Thomas Jef- | arything on earth,” he declared. stoutly, when | politeness barely tole of is hair cut Sach magnificent heap Pee ne mmm | and, if thes aro visiting Mount Vernon, by just as troublesome as ferson Medlark, Ambrose’s father, had been a| the temptation first appeared. Then: - "T'wad may. Traly enough, ae lay on Mrs. Mediark’s lap! A = sha evenings, he by n0/ overhearing her whisper as she garos at “#weot big. In fact, I'm in- bricklayer (just as he had been a carpenter and | sirve her no more than right, snoopin’ raoun’ horse, the wagon from the Francises; a bonnet from Miss Car- ‘means limite himself to | Eleanor Custis’ toilet table: dined to think Gt butcher and a blackemith and a vetinary sur- | and hidin’ sy ‘way from her own husband!” | river, but what awful change had roll; plated from Mrs. Carroll. She these patches of artifi- | ~I don't think that Mount Vernon's furniture rag £07),.24; early in the summer, he had prom-| And then for Thomas Jefferson Medlark, | faces? : would touch treasures occasionally and cial nature, but every | looks antiqne—it's modern. That toilet table scene Medlark that he would “git the chim- | who had always been an honest man'—then he | Little Pearl laughed aloud. “Pitty niggers!” | draw a deep breath, but it was the little things night as well folds his | # Just like the one your uncle gave ua.” slender means raises @ bly in shape soon’s ever he come raoun’ to it.” to think of ways to steal all the money. | cried the baby '. from the children—Ambrose’s oiicloth and Or perhaps by deserying them in a remote large family of chil- | sek nanan eitcaceon algiadeae: The season was now late in December, but ap-| No “You hush!" admonished Ambrose; but he | Clay's sancer—that had kindled the happy light Sings and permits him- | corner of the grounds seated on « rustic bench Se a gpa foto ely hy map meee gta per Prine la a SE wp and down tas Fotw-| Tabee ak incl as Comty Seanad tao | y. $ ‘ m ‘oto~ ‘ing it ali this watery boulevard. ae ae a ee eee ee Thomas Jeffernon Mediark way ax “trifin’ ae he | “l” had ean More, Keerfal, Wk” he| Mt forgoh said Mise Carrol, “yom don't ExTpoOMs A thei tacos shone; but, though be = Wo ts an impar-| Potoron, ie mont ws tnterenting thoreghfage, cently c! was smart.” tunately, Mrs. Medlark was | thor » penit . “He tchelly wi wi negative anew gloves brose’s - | where one ce sorts of human nature, higher monument | performers es she, will appear when distin °¢ | “stirrin”” and Ambrose was “as willin’ w boy | akeered up, an’ folks allers get ill when they are | comes black in the print: and the other way. | his hand, Dr. Medlark’s face was far lose ‘cheer- | tial traveler, too, taking this boat now and then | brides, business men, lovers, ecientiste and than legislator, war-| jovely little costume, own being in white | p.ever lived.” Thus, in spite of Thomas Jef-| skeered. Waal. I wisht I got suthin’ nicer for | too. You will like the print; better. Theoo are | ful than it used to be. H¢ was thinking of the| that. In fact, one is led to believe that each | balier, satmttey mets lovers. Reie girt and ster or artist. Bagged | olth goasn, quiandel with chdte netee, wiihe ¢| Sah tion to Inbor, the Medlarks | him Christmas!” yours, Ambrose—one for your father, one for | money, which he could not remember without | evening he tries them all before making a final paved by all sorts of unalloved nature skh ‘6 had risen out of the condition of “movers” into | It was not very long before they emerged | Your mother, one for you. "Look at them.” frocks make ragged | et ee aan, ccicclas her weiss | “roniats,” andowsed a boron, a herd of oowe | frota te sed Views on the river bank. ‘Though oll had taken great pains and at a manners, and it is stockings and gloves are gray and her Cinderella | ®4 innumerable fowls. It was Mrs. Medlark | it was December there was a genial warmth in | time when she had little leisure, but she felt for a child ans who told the children about Christmas. She| the air and the moist earth had a smell like | repaid by the look of speechless ecstacy that very hard slippers white, of course, To complete the ss aad be 0| abe woceattely eand eiteane der Bar managed to have a show of Christmas cheer for | spring. The waves of the river were a dark | stole over Ambrose’s face. He thought that to sit up wearing a sugar-loaf hat, watching over her dinner and always took them to the Chfistmas | green, winding between willow-topped banks | he had never seen an} 80 beaut ‘The; Little lady when she | tice fairy godmother and ready to-enatch her | ‘feat the school house. What a wonderful | and disappearing in the vast and somber cy-| were, indeed, admircble reine toned to arrie basa hole in the too| SWar shen the clock strikes midsight tree was that to children who hardly tasted | press forcsta. Over the river was the little set- | brown, and the lens bad caught the children's of her shoe. The|” candy twice a year! A whole beautiful red or | tlement. The low, white houses, the dull, gray | faces in their moment of abendon with charm. he material neces- Mere green or yellow tarlatan bag, overflowing with | mill, from which ‘came an incessant buzz of | ing fidelity. “Luckily it was the stiff one that money outlay is so small for the mat ae lowest | 1" the way of headgear for little heads the | candy, and one gittvat least, beside, were handed | toiling machinery, and the brighter tints of | was destroved and not the other,” said Miss Wilke of life ne ase jessitied fa assuming that | Mothers shonld be careful not to make choice of | by Santa Clays in person to overy child. Neither | Mra Carroll's ‘house had no relief of green | Carroll, “Wall, Ambrose, will you carry my Thatbiny decwed thivizcnase ‘the result eather | large flowers for garniture, so that the child | did our plantation Santa Claus think it fair to | foliage, now that even the water oak beaghe | camera to the ester eae fimisience than ef poverty, It doesn’t take | may not seem to be wearing her big sister’s hat, | Httle boys and girls to halt fill a candy bag with | were’ bare. But there was ‘a sober richness | "I never kin thant you, ma'am,” said Am- a to | Ie up hast oaamen nate eee Popcorn, as, it is painfuf to consider, is done by | about the landscape with its morning shadows— | brose. He walked along ‘by her aide, holding ¢ ph ! 3 # vec a stenight daietan a Little voken eat ont | example ef eee et fon little caise ng | Some unscrupulous Sunday school Santa Clauses | the sun burning on the whitish brown stocks of | the legs of the camera with an awful sense of | Miss Carroll had printed for him. “Oh, ain't | attributable entirely to philanthropy—the | Out-of-door wraps of her child. “Baby want a gather a straight skirt Sela sng Gre Rome po anaes oe ot | im the north. the cotton fields, the purple hues’of the willows | responsibility. He had sent all his other weall got beautiful presents!” he cried; “the | initial appearance, as it were, of that much-| nice drink of milk?” as she holds the eup to his or ens! iim deer, co aatta, When time | daisies and bows of steaw-colared ribton, Cex. | Not he; his candy bags were candy bags, and | in the foreground, the peal shades in the blurr | ents away to the school house, but the photo- | beautifulest presents ever was.” talked-of condition, the brotherhood of man. onan a is | that are varyingly «unlight, me se ned ery at ipeqetead | yi Presence is enid to cast are econ onevery | gpring’s brown, through June's steamer. | autumn’s red and yellow, and chameleon wat. Or at least the effect that a discerning eye | that adopts the shifting moods of its fair neigh- perceives on such occasions is mably due | bors, the sunlight and the air. to love, as it would be both sad and unreason: > able to think that the drooping attitudes on the TALKS TO MOTHERS, rt of some of the young women, which the ight Of passing steamers now and then reveals, The Evtl fects of Cultivating a Child's was due to the only other alternative of failing | wi. health, and it would as well be rash to conclude | Written for The Evenine ‘Star by Olive Thorne Miller. in —— imperfect state of the world that | ¢¢ F>ABY WANT TO GO OUT?” SAYS THE the nium was at hand and that that in- | think bh terested air of the young woman's escort was unthinking mother as she pute on the \lips. Baby want this or that, she continually . not what the old negro aunties would call “‘a | of distant gum trees, through which the syca-| graphs he would not allow to out of his| His father tly his head and his . my My ‘ and taste permit the Cuffs and yoke may be set | tnin flowers have a young look about them even | os torn Bro more trunks showed like chalk Kinos, the splashes | fight, or rather out of hie fecling for" heron | mother anwered eat at her Pal ae I MUST RE Lovr. ani ae she ministers to hin nonds. off with a little neat embroidery of some kind. | when full blown and they are the ones to mal pa a 7 wate the dark | ied feeli Diess the Lord!” No; it must be love, but who can blame them? | It is done, of course, without thought, but it - enet let tie cama yohe | hetsa af Ser ckinivanivicke, AM ouudoman rose Medlark knew very well why Santa | of green holly or mistletoe among rk | ried them carefully in his hands. There were | We has, son, bless the Lord!" A 7 : jeguta very pretty effect sschpg by rh te Claus’ jolly red face‘ never sto; smiling, | tracery against the blue sky and the ruby-like | reasons why he should not trust them to his| But the best present that she received that | For, indeed, the environments are romantic indicates a. blindness toc msequences that is hg taper fat legen bebagbrentg) ese and why it sometimes ‘was litte crooked on | glitter of tw mp hackberries making their own | pockets. night was the present given in socret, but | enough to make the cold prose of = iaw book truly marvelous, What he is really doing ix PB oe omane apreege Lecrapepincbags grt and then abruptly seemed to get | brilliant effect in every pool or bayou. A slouching yet athletic shape was loun ag ete: the vow that her | melt into liquid poetry, and love it is well | Cultivating his will, sowing the wind to reap a iis dees for a chibA of eight to ton. 1S mer yind he knew why he wore a sealskin | | ““Ain’tit pretty. Sis? "said Ambrose. “‘Most's | on the river bank when they approached. Much | husband made because of her eon, and has | Plt 4 invariably follows upon romance. whirlwind indeed. A baby mi ae Ten ca os as hed Glad an thames and a buffalo robe like | pretty as the Christmas tree. My word, that's , Ambrose greeted his father. Medlark | faithfully kept to this day. It is better than all the lovers’ walks in | What is given to him and goc it ‘with bands or embroidery. "There is also an and talked in a voice precisely ‘ise Carroll's, wore, Miss Carroll thought, rather a M hangd ——-- eee : 7 or but to Tied without thought of protest. But like Unele Billy Ruffner's. And he knew about | _ He could have shouted for Joy, because at the | look.’ He explained that he had been te the | Witten for The Evening Star. bpere ant Srlatiarad enon deicions undn-| little training of ‘this sort, this const the gifte for the different friends being sent in | sight of Misa Carroll there flashed over him a| store and was now on his way up country to Reck Creek. lating movement, parks or what readily pass | festion that he may have an’ opinio to the school house. He, too. bought Christ- | scheme for obtaining the most beautiful Christ- | sell a few turkeys. As vouching Tor his words 5 i ri embroidered plastron and collar. The plastron is framed with folded braces and the belt is also one his mind. made in the same style. bade r i i 1A DREAM OF THE PAST. for parks—the i < eed l de me sty presents, Like most Arkansas children | mas gift for his father, the turkeys cackied and fluttered under his banks—drift by in kaleidoscopic succession, While simplicity should always be the key- éantied.a Willa casos by canna a - rift by in kalei pie muccession, While sim ; ‘ i cotton, | Miss Carroll's graceful figure was poised with | hand. Nevertheless Miss Carroll suspected the | Fond fancy shows me a fair scene of yore: f walking t note in fashions for children. for nothing looks For years the lad had paid for'his annual euit | alittle backward bond bettas amcor end ne, t ee oe ae more ridiculous than an overdressed child, yet, fowls to be no better than a pretext and that| Far up our winding creek, from wigwams rise, if tastefully applied and the tones be kept quiet of clothes and his annual pair of shoes out of | head was hidden under a black velvet focussing his real errand would take him to a certain dis-} In a green vale, blue smoke-wreaths to the his own earnings. What he could save went | cloth. She waved her hand at the children to | tillery in the hills. But she wronged him, for skies; see them, while in the rear the capital city and slaps and stretches delicate and dim, like some air-hung fe the nursery. Do i jount of ge 1 i " ” dq transparent photograph, ite memorial shaft y childre i (egos promtorector eS eae into his Christmas hoard. One proud year he | get out of the way. “Or I'll take you,” she | Dr. Medlark was going to no worse place than | Young, dark-haired girls weave, at each open| growing fuinter and fazater, till from dwindling or taken Gnish, tattectr, a Gqecmcines of heavinen: actually bought his father a pair of boots. This | cried. ‘ the post office. Yet she did not altogether door, it is mistaken for the mast of a boat, it Out of their carriage, and annoying ® whole br apm lear at” eae te per year a sessicl haa in charge a table i <_Whore'll she take weuns?” asked Pearl, anx- wrong him, since pinned under his flannel shirt | White willow baskets, while, from shore to shore, | finally fades into invisibility. And that bubble —— ro Pome Priced because ryt or i sa: Oa = sad cover for his mother, a little red rocking chair | iously. a letter to the lottery agent containing €5 2 de of the distance-diminished Capitol dome jed instead of riding, or to go this way Poe pap ipranerto eared apelin for Pearl, the baby,a wagon for Clay anda pipe| “She won't take us anywhere,” answered Medlark’s hard-earned savin iseipett wild songs apart, with Goaing een, | modo of the distance-diméel agers Soft tints should be chosen, such as meit into the pink and white of the complexion, match the soft gulden of the hair or the sky blue of | ‘nope: vom rzTr22 utes. the eyes. Whatever we may be in disposition | Pees ‘cope secintin nd wild scowle when we have become vekiliven: of at later | 80 well with youthful faces and are Particularly | for paw. Ain't it tew bad I done spent all my | hogs and the “black man,” who carry “mean” | the others. Meanwhile. no. sooner had Pearl that we enw bat a momentage must’ now have | instead of thet. Wobave cli oven tune Biaio and package of tobacco for Dr. Medlark. Ambrose, ‘I's that ar trick with the black| Come on in, if you’ goin',” called the ferry-| wnose arian lie tng see eet monarch | Dursh tines Ht ix ne longet te be noon ond con. ‘Yes, I got ‘em all settled, slick,” Ambrose | cloth, and it takes folkses.”" man roughly to Medlark. He was a hard-work- — - All this is beginning to have its effect on the thought complacently one morning near Christ-| | “Good little children, tow?” said Pearl, at | ing, prosperous man, who had emall regard for | zune, .°2°S : lovers, and by the time darkness, which has | the! “apoiled childre mas, “only ‘cept paw. I must git suthin’ more | once associating a camera with bears and wild | the doctor. | Medlark acowled and strate after o Dt eek ee ee gor. | been hovering like great dusk birds in the| BAD TEMPER INCREASED nY INDULORNCE. = But Ambrose hardly heard the plaintive little | gloomy kind of reverie, bawled, “Let ’er alone, | _ Sit smoking, lost in deeds of old emprise, ift ment, there is his physical health to be con- ‘SOME STOP OFF. 2 , deeper branches of the trees, finally broods | Besides the irreparable harm to a child’ beec becoming for such as have the wik ‘money, kase paw did borry that ar dollar I| little Arkansas children off bodil: scrambled out of the wagon than sh: ht Beous dyes, ods: ored | “ Sromsh we certainly are more like angels’ in| air about them. No one would think of setting | ‘lowed fur ter spend on him! - Honey, don't yo | the wathon say’ way began to be “mean” Ambrose to | Or wade the stream; scarred chiefs, of years four | $15 anvally’ becotse oblicisus te evecytaing | #'mPeF, and in consequence to his whole ear Physical sppearance while we are still in our | Grchids. or peonies, or tulips ‘or, poppies, of | git so nigh that hoss' feet or his heels l jest | “Baby's good; baby ain't mean, control her until Medlark, awakening out of = score, but themselves, 7 | acter, caused by this premature will dovelop- childhood, and it should, therefore, Me tiger lilies on a child's hat. Would not daisies | spatter out on y He stopped _in his occu | parent's constant study and effort to dress ebild in such a manner as to emphasize and ac- | OT beather or wild roses or forget-me-nots or | tion of ‘loading the wagon with cotton to tones, he was so absorbed in his daring scheme. | caunt ye! How come ye everlastingly pest. | Or to each other boast their woodland . | sidered. We all know that « mother's fit of this celestial Deante this delicacy of | PaBsies or apple blossoms be more appropriate? | the child and place her at a safe distanc. He drove the wagon nearer Miss Carroll until | erin’ that child? Set daown!” © P| “ana, high o'erheaa, the 1iay cogs ai, It the enchantment is not upon them too | anger will make her baby ill, how much worse cae eee cents ee ee ereaey of | Awery becoming bit of headgear for some chil-| She was a rosy little creature, very fair, with | he could speak to her. Ambrose, directing a glance of entreaty at deep some of therg come to their senses enough must be the effect on his delicate nization coloring and features known as ¥Pe an- | dren is the wide-brimmed fancy straw, with | her yellow curls blown about her shoulders and | Pearl began to whimper. “Baby ‘faid.’ Bud | Miss Carroll, did sit down, but only to regret ML—ABOVE ARGYLE MILL. atthe sight of River View and Marshall Hall, | 0f # fit of anger in the baby himself! Moreower, lie. Sicilian crown, which is of ilk or woolen stuff, | her eyes as blue as sap Ambrose thought | hold baby! disobedience; because, as Miss Curroll moved | With many a rock and many a wild cascade, whose lights sparkle like jewels aguinst the | t™Per, as well as other bad things, rw i striped something like a liberty cap, and has #/| that she was the most beautiful being on earth. | He was in a great haste, but he put his arms | the camera little to rest it more firmly, one| Above the Argyle Mill, there first its name ight @ end icin Ob that is | PAtiwence. and what is merely pitiful im the silk tase that falls gracefully over the brim. | Today she was skoing to the settlement with him, | sbout her in the box. She clung to him and | leg of the tripod was caused to make motion| Ourcteek obisined, of may, with Moat claim centage peal wpe | Se ee S Se mae + SCOTCH PLAIDS wore her frock of plaided woolen | instantly began to smile. resembling a step forward. st a Gh fraps - ud uitful cause of disaster and cri make up very prettily for little misses, the | stuff nearly covered with white apron, and her | "“-Mis Carrol,” said Ambrose, with his heart | “Pearl thought the monster who took ‘mean | A& dishing. Soe eel er pee ee Bh rep ard wool 0 gp a ge Yokes being cut straight and the drese being set | 300 Curia were crowned bya red toboggan MIME ae ee Sen arnpl ane ner nom HS | Ileape the barriers rough that fain would tame | stern of the boat and indulge in a feast of rea- | Met comtrol almost inevitably resorts to * map off by a deep velvet corselet, harmonizing with |“Erpere ain't a patch nor a tear on_ her,” | Pen dee we ey nate roll. no railing, and the little body toppled back | »!t S&F Tace, and, laughing at the same, son anda flow of soul, at least that is presam-| with him. Managing is done by promisw@@r one of the colors of the plaid, and made with thought the “prow d he did not| “They—they ain't fur a present, exzactly,” | into the swift current, ‘With foam-wreaths girt, speeds on through sun | ably their em lorment, as, though inaudible, | by threats. “If you'll be good and do not ery braces having bows on the shoulders. The | care in the least that his own’ shirt was ragged | anid Ambrose, very red and miserable, “I want | Ambrose kicked off his shoes and sprang after and shade. Se ee fe with their | mamme'll bring you something nice, AT uffed sleeves should be cut straight and the | and that his thin, bare ankles showed above his | ye todo suthin’ fur me for "em, Kh kin ve her. One had not even time to scream before | D&*K+ mossy, and steep, the slopes by which it ee ine mine, Hair-—with (their | haps the most common promise, The ¢l cep Thave not presumed to talk | coarse shoes, because he had spent his stocking | draw folkses good iz treesan’ haouses, ma'am?” | he was cleaving the waters, and they could hear goes, SS f eteer Gee tine: heves, for natural faith ina mother's trathful- a oe —— bigger men | money for the copper-toed shoes on Pear! ‘Do you want me to ‘draw’ you Ambrose?” | his high, sweet childish voice, ‘Hol’ up, | _ Not stops in shadowy nook tc rest and dream, eo lonely expense, of river se they aut, | ness is hard to eradicate, than their fathers nowadays and scorn to have | f w,ma’am. Pearl there—fur a Christmas | honey. Bud'’sa comin’! Bud'll tote ye ashore. | $0 s00n to put its shoulder to the wheel. of human ostriches, fbel that because they see | and she leaves him. t. ‘Bleeged ter keep paw an’ the little tricks ” 7 - hence invisible. The deck the family seamstress experiment upon them. gift to paw.” His eyes were sparkling with| Medlark would have flung himeelf into the | When summer days its floral friends reveal, no one they are 4 FORGETTING PROMISES. Even their knickerbockers must be tailor-made | comfortable,” said Ambrose. ‘an’ maw's | eagerness. ian water had ‘not the ferrymen grabbed his| On one tall knob the checkerberry blows, Seay ane aah, Sethe eae Ceaeens | Slow the snothor lomusselingly aphto Reagi and their ties have nothing of the home-made | ruggider an’ ki the weather.” “Well, Ihave taken one photograph,” said shoulder. “Ye cayn't swim a stroke and tho| And the red Illy lights, below the stream, ally seule out the sltantlns eegetaiedt ta | ten puasien Gistn athans sant teaneha Sb look about them. he were rugged his looks gave the lic to his | Mise Carroll, kindly. “But never mind; you | boy kin, Learned. him myseff. By thunder, W. T. Guomeange: |] Pony seks ont che situation, <qpecelly £f Ses | ber promion, + ¢+____ strength. For in spite of his fourteen years | shall have one taken your own way. Get Pearl Hook at him!” Medlark lifted his blanched face ———_-2-—__—_ Zine ihe alightect deflection frome strictly | 21tue might give asugarplum to keep him quie® NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. lads of twelve are often taller; and he was worn | out and stand up.” for a single dreadful gli ough to see a micitersinaie acc came —. slig! — singe me blo ueveral nade | moment, and here creeps in another onsen ae by hard work until his sharp little elbows and| Ambrose knew what it was to have “his picter | yellow head whirled op the waves, aad just be: ne St ee Seay akduan ts metas ehatent Sat Se a ane Field Work in the South Under the Agri- | shoulder blades looked ready to prick throngh | drawed,” and he pulled out the folds of Pearl's | kinda twisted hend oe ee From the 8t Louis Globe-Democrat. away eo ie me igh psd | She ought—of coursg—at whatever sacrificr, cultural Department. his thin clothes. Yet his face kept a childish | frock and brushed her hair with his hand and | ered his eyeballaas if they were blasted. Su, ‘I was once kidnaped by a pretty woman,” | yor ALL IN LOVE AS MUCH AS THEY BELIEVE. | Secure something to keep her word: at the very Corresy ondence of The Evening Star. innocence and beauty in the clear skin and | crossed her hands stiffly in front of her, pre- those crooked could not hold! | was the way George W. Louthan of the smoky] Not.all of these young people, it would be | lesst she should explain seriously thet she for- Suaxveronr, La, June 19, 1992, | <Url¥,,dert-brown ale and trusting brown| clscly ashe remembered his mother's baving Wi ad brataly broken Shem? ther! city began a story at the Lindell yesterday. | safe to assert, are as much in love as they f0\hutissors. He wall be disappointed, : : 4 ey ougl rows had a contin uucker | done when went to oat,| “Oh, ! 'n a bad, cruel father! But | «y , Pi . ha amy. T have been making quite « tour of| of anxiety and. determination and hisouecth | Cat ae hooks EAI obs a6 mane?” | tains bee Reale” orien Ho Es ea geet Dut | “I was standing in front of popular resort in | fondly: believe, for mature is the greatest of | Dee chee pee te oe Ole eat the southern states in the interests of | was too firm. Ashe lifted his cotton basket to | said he. And Miss Carroll had not the heart to | let my baby drown!” that division of the Agricultural Depart-| empty it you could see that the fingers of one | change anything, she merely told him tocome| ‘Ambrose has caught her”—Miss Carroll's| When the lady marched up to me and eaid | mer nights as s love philter with signal succes, | importance, and say 1 wae over eneds | ment established for the studying eo aa| anh ware cocked. Miallyy tar kas oes |e picture ‘also, “He said that his clothes | voice reached him now——“he’s a eplendid eva: | severely, ‘asocge, 1 halve een tosking far yon,” | Masases ot winter weGings wet Senbseee-/ TN Mer De ee ae ae eee | aeclweathhen “wortdicaten' of North America, | broken and were set by the veterinary surgeon | were not right, but when she explained that she | mer! He is trying to make for the shore.”" and before I could make reply she took my arm | Ting in the summer amply proving its efficacy | “next time” is at ey! pe etry i . etal OUTDOOR COSTUMES FOR YOUNG AND oLp. | air 4 N ®- | so unskillfully that they were a sorry aight; but y take the picture to his knees, above | —“+Cayn't we paddle out t’ him?” called Med-| and marched ‘me off ton eacrie ge. Mechanic-|98alove charm. For naturally more engage- | follows the dreadful sight of achild in fea In the second picture a very charming out- | Although the work of the field agents of the di-| you must not make such a criticwmt patch, was he consented, and put-| lark. He grabbed an oar and began to pull | ally I got in, and she drove off with me, berat- | ™ments would be made under the mild summer | temper, carried off screaming, possibly whip- door costume for a tiny miss is represented in vision is the pursuit of all the native animals | brose—he was proud of “paw's bone-settin’ ” | ting his left hand on his sister's shoulder bo feverishly. ing me soundly meanwhile for drinking and | tars to the accompaniment of softly fluttering | ped, protesting—poor, outraged little soul-~ figure in the right. The material necessary to | of the country except deer, no exciting encoun- | as he was of everything that the worthless fel-| spread the right close to his side, stood very | “Naw, sir, Jecayn't,” said theferryman; ‘the | gambling. Iwas not altogether innocent of | leaves than in a sleigh to the accompaniment of — fashion it are two kinds of woolen stuff,one| ters have been enjoyed. It is about as | low did. i“ straight and glared sternly into the lens. “Now. | current’s a blamed sight tew strong. ‘The bov'll | these vices, 00 I said nothing, but kept wonder-| the “tintinnabulation of the bells,” where the Pisin and the other lozenge dotted. | The plas-| busy a fine of employment as is to be| q,¥?*Medlark had bred her children in the | don't ye wink nur move, Sis,” said he, ‘tell | be drowndid or on shore-one—afore we kin | ing who she could be. See appeared to have a | Occupants are vainly trring to delude them- tron, which is the same back and front. and the sl Liar firm faith that their father was Miss Carroll tells ye, an’ I'll give ye my pretty | git t’ him. But pull away. ’Twill ease yon’ | roster of my faults, for she enumerated them | Selves into believing that the temperature is all are, if possible, worse when, as is usual, they wlets and cuffs are of the plain material. | fllowed—no sinecure—requiring close spplica- 3 gourd quit now!” cout Pearl squirmed and | mind sorter. Hark to the boy, will ye? Ef he | all. Presentiy she stopped before a rather pre-| that could be desired; or.as the other alterna” sre’ J scrupulously carried out, Even if they The ribbon belt. is tied on one side. The hat | tion from sunrise often until late in the night. | and ‘hurtin’ in the leader of his left leg” kept | wanted to turn her head. * ain't tellin’ the baby ¢’ play hoss in the water | tentious dwelling, and I thought it time to ask | tive. ina prosaic gas-lighted parlor, to whi seb Man San Maas On ibe Ahan OF eee which goes with this costume isa red straw | One of the chief delights of the work is the | him from making a shining mark. “Pearl, ye got ter keep still, an’ quit you’ | an’ hole on t’ his wether! He's the schemiest | for an explanation. She turned upon me quite | Tefuge the inhospitality of the outer world ‘ trimmed with white crepe, in a band arourd | satisfaction of cleaning one’s cuticle after | , Ambrose glorified in his father’s versatile | meanness!” whispered Ambrose in anger; he | boy I ever did see.” indignantly, si ‘at_me, then | Arives lovers like ordinary mortals. eres! 0] rome m1 talent, in his fluent, bra; jis | was desperate lest the picture should be jiled. “She's doing it, too,” cried Miss Carroll, al-| stammered forth ai . She is ¥ fhe crown, and also cet crostirsg gn the tp Of visitation by mosquitoes, red. buga, ick and | Ment, in his fluent, braganrt spe Pi spo ' doing cried Mi aL for an apology. She ad) ae Ix LOva Wits THE sDORT. 7 * . r " ‘ly threatens: the will not ! “Ef ye don't, ye won't git drawed! most with a sob of exultation; ‘be has swum| taken me for her “hi her i preys Ape ne > gray princess walking dress trimmed. with fs, The red bug isa Joy peculiar to the south. | which, truly enough, wore considera “Baby don’ wanter be drawed,” eaid the in- | with her in the water before. See! Se?” apology on condition that the lecture she had | ;, 727 jubuow believe themselves to be in| do? If sou don't stop that instantly Sear loon, as indicated. The hat worn with thi | H® i & minute creature, abounding in pot disturb the boy's blind hero worship that | tractable Pearl, “baby wants 't’ ride in the| ‘The boy was swimming straight with the cur-| given me should not be warmed over for the | 10ve with each o legate Pee n,, | a veined, indy-tihe locking wamen on her’ own ress is in open-work straw. bise brown. garni- | (rd*, but makes up for lack of size by magni: | his father bad a violent temper and would have | waggin.” rent. Ho had wisely chosen to swim across | man who looked like me. She promised, and I | mains that they are in love with the night—the | # refined. lady pouebinr iam S00 Ge bey tured witha garland of mauve flowreta. At craps ‘d the pong piss tort. Perales mary fury. in which he wasas| Ambrose was at his wit’s end; he thought of | where the land jutted out, with the current, | escaped.” night which wraps the plainest and the most | Of \iy laying in the gutter and run for the front thereare jet wings and lace aigrette: | Obie irritation.© Butter or bacon is used to dis: ‘as not to beat his children eruelly. When | the childish dread of the camera and, I am | rather than at right angles to the nearer shore. ———+2+—_____ practical in its alluring veil till the illusion is | his life? By no means; he went calmly on; be at the back a bow of mauve .elvet and strings | Cou, " Leubicen feraddhes ‘sizes | SUCH excesses occurred, Mrs. Mediark would pet | torry to say, he whispered fiercely in the little | Even in his mortal fear Medlark, who wasas| How the Lucifer Match Was Invented. mistaken for the reality and the two for one. | knew his mother was telling an untruth. @f same material. [ope cecs CEE cmratet te niet | te vietias and say. a an excuse: “You' paw |ear: “Ef ye don’t be good the black trick’ ‘aman as lived and who had owed his | prom the Pall Mall Gusetts. In some later years, when they no longer float | "When this mother punished him for « false KATE GREENAWAY SKIRTS. | tom lands that outdoor work in the evening isa | pe" beppettengtirts seiretogtsy codlralp | 7 tof Poor Peart | crmife mote than orice to hia cool head, felt ®| “Tris not generally known that it isto Mr. | down the Potomec in starlight and moonlight, | hood. ache doubtlon did when, hie preva Long skirts of the Kate Greenaway style | torture. does suffer terribul in them spells.” . G@mothered her sobs anh cared witha most “Laven TS sever tha teed a1 in him if he | Isaac Holden, M. P., that we owe the invention sath pre ay they win pochtreee aie.| ad mega dy ~~ veo ~~ 1 in should be used with great discretion even in | te ee ee ried gine jittle party with | "Ambrose simply dodged the blows and for-| wretched expression at the three-legged ‘mon- | gits off” rowed ane fester, “Oh, Lord, I'll do | of the lucifer match. This discovery was, he | enchanted; but even then they will hot direct | se nO jmProm upon the indignant soul cold weather. Such gowns are really not fitted Which I started Ga. Mal pr, iota as j- | gave and kept Clay out of his father’s way if|ster. Ina second it was all over, and Miss | better by ‘em all!” himeelf has told us, the result of = happy’ the blame toward the right quarter, but will, | fearful lemon that, besides being untruthful, bis for waiting purposes at all. and manya child Riceboro’, Ga. at iene on the latter seemed “ill"—the charitable Arkan- | Carroll was shouldering the camera. “It's a right smart of a ways,” said the ferry- thought. “In the morning I used to get up at | instead, insist on believing that the other has | mother was unjust: that she punished bis for Gets its first lessons in stiff and awkward car- OO ee Of deep interest, Thotgh only «| #8 name for ill-temper. “Pore paw; reckon he | Ambrose bashfully offered to “tote” it for| man. ‘an he looks sorter puny-like—he's | 4. Pit| deteriorated, when, in reality. the other is| wherehe hema did cher tone thas ihe 08 Fiage by being rolled up im thewe picturesque | 3% Object, of Ne tee ee aoly, 2 | cayn't holp it!” he thought. “Ain't it mussiful | her to the ferry boat. worked tow hard. But mebbe he kin make | #®'clock in order to pursue my studies, and I) Civ the came and is receiving very unjust | Som fica qaven pumen to iin 3 costumes. Every child in good health has far, — ee, o ae eb ae A Roach o- “of | $004 luck he never does hit Pegrl.” ‘The ferry was an old scow, un} ted by | ou! used at that time the flint and the steel, in the punishment for sins that he or she never com-| If Say moties Thien e child ‘of that age in- more vitality than he or she has any use for, | falling to pieces, it ee It was true; the baby carried the key of her | guards of any kind. Miss was busy | _ ‘He was always eo willin’,” said Medlark | use of which I found very great inconvenience. | Fitted They each, unaware to themselves, capable of drawing an inference #he underest\- and it must be worked off in swift motions and | former Peo elegance. that eth agmne; | father’s heart and he was never impatient with | with her camera, focusing a mid-river view; | wretshediy. Of course I knew, as other chemists did, the ex-| Wore in love with something else than the qestes his intelligence. lle may mot cay any- semi-boisterous play. the limbs particularly be- cen ie cee eek a —_ . that is how she came to lay her plate holder on | "Trouble is he tried t' do his work an’ yourn, | Plosive material that was necessary in order to| Other. That is all. thing, childcen havea way ef pet telling Gear ing left free and untrammeled. Short skirts, | 2!0"8 = Ee ~ ices the interesting | “Reckon he don't guess how powerful hard | the wagon, where it was’ a great pleasure to|tew,” retorted the inexorable fe a instantaneous light; but “it was very | °'Rot they are happy now. at any rate. So they | 28. ha Radkahn ceerhe auaie aaa therefore. should be the rule as the warm | Sower beds and un —_ he kin hit,” Ambrose considered. To tell the | Pearl, who carefully removed the top slide. | “Reckon I mout's well let "im hev buth bar , it to obtain a light on wood by that ex- i 4 Weather comes on. and gowns should be live oak and other southern trees about ¥ | mental processes, r ue ¢ rift up or down the Potomac, as the case may | ‘not forget, nor fail to judge her conduct, z truth, although Ambrose hid it even from his | ‘All wite an’ pitty!” cried Pearl, gleefully. | seein’ iz how T'd good ,sight on him, plosive material, and the ides occurred to me to | Grif UP ot ping Aneggvor straight and loose and not loaded down with | foTmer residence of the old naturalist and the ed L- ai ri (adc paps fe a a ~ Denver, chatting with some boon companions, | match makersand uses the witchery of her sum- She looks upon it carclessly asa matter of no 5 mother, he owed those broken fingers to « Mins Carroll's exclamation of horror struck | said in his subsequent narrative at the store. it sulphur under the explosive mixture. intillations from i ‘ rong scm aan beavy sashes. Very pretty effects are attained | b0¥hood home of his son, oe ——_ sionate random blow from his father. la keeeee wen “They ain't no|. “Waal,” he continued, ‘all we kin do fer him | did ¢ and showed it in my next lecture on _ eee A eigen struck of from ths | Last of this melancholy crop is fear. nd by trimming the skirt and cuffs with bands of , LeConte. On = decaying floors I — sev- | “Law me! Ye didn’t go to do it, picter on this one,” he ventured to plead, “it’s | is t' put our trus’ in the Lord. Naw, we don’ | chemistry, a course of which I was delivering at | °° Purnsby ins t, with absolutely noth- | the weapon of the servant to manage the child, velvet ribbon of a darker shade than the dress, ——— he hel rare ae ee his frst words, while he grinned tl is | plumb white!” need ter, nuther, kase he done got his footin’. | ® academy. ing to mar their felicity except when they now | and she is not'so much in fault as the mother the ribbon ulso being used to simulate the yoke. | ! Presume, belonged par! tears of pain, ‘an’ ye ken set it good . “Yes, it's ruined,” said Miss Carroll; and if| Will ye look a’ him a wavin’ his han’ at us?| “’ was, 12 YOURE | and then feel a twinge of sympathetic suffering | who has let him get the upper hand by culu- DR. MERRIAM AND HIS CORPS. Medlark was affected by the child's bravery. | ever in'this life Ambrose wanted to slap Say, Mediark, "ll take that ar boy off you’ | man in the room whose chemist in | tor the fishes, that may be are lovers, too, I. The ic Under the able direction of a learned and | He had never been so harsh with him sce; | sister it was then. “*Lucki hands ony day ye say, an’ engage t’ treat Yim . immediat to the search light of some steamer directs its | brilliant chief, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, small | but this morning his patience failed at the I'll develop it directly. After you ba better’n ye done, tew. brilliant eye toward their watery rendezvous. | cocpaer aaa are economically cover- | Sight of Pearl straying under the beast’s hoofs. | loaded your cotton come over to the house; and | Medlark eald not a word to these taunts; issued to the | compe workers ly He shook Ambrose and cuffed his ears before | if the negative isn't good we must try again.” | haps he couldn't, for the ‘tears were t Loesiee renee jing « _— deal of —— enabling the | he placed the child tenderly ina box among| You may be sure Ambrose lost no fine ta gat down his cheeks. When they finall known. Many persons have passed mammalogical and ornithological division to | the Potton, ting back to the big house. He was greeted at | the children Pearl was no worse for her bath, e give to the public the deeply interesting and | © ««; . ‘ rf _ | ciel Rl seo eres aire ‘Looks like you fixin’ to kill the little trick,”’ | the kitchen door by Aunt Caledonia, the cook. | but Ambrose looked. read; tocry. His firet | reer de was his surly parting word. ‘e don’t "pear | “Ye seekin’ Miss Dora? Wall, I don’ reckon words were: “Oh, Miss Carroll I | ene country and) their distribution with ® | 49 keer fer nothin’ nor nary, ‘cept havin’ yer | kin see her. Miss Dora, is yo {n de dark room" | ‘cont - iS one oe days ina etate of nervous dread of they knew cause of | time and yer Ye look out for you" ;|,, “Lost what, Bud?” cried the forryman, man, is one of the foremost | little sister or I'll scorch ye! I expect ye'll kill | act fn no) mene OMT | re ye both safe an’ coun’? Doge weat the | authorities in the country, and is an interesting | her'some day with you" Keerlee aioe body BE A a | Teter an rcll tie is ably assisted at Washing~| “The tears smarted under Ambrose’s eyelids, | emnly. “Yo all betta be gwine.” Ambrose| ‘They was beautiful pict | vision by Mr. T'S. Palmer of California, one of “Heckou not," aid only ‘shuled his fect and beld Pet's hand ppt digadieg Carmarp gem those engaged in the famous Death valley re- : tighth Sa canes you Lm sits, paw, an’ it search. Likewise was Mr. Vernon Bailey, the “it's @ Picter.” he ventured. “She done | plumb gone.” I war so sot on gitin’ tor Sis, I | ly ‘consorted drawed Pearl's picter.”” t ‘em 'twell we ——_| chief field agent, with whom I came info the tare Geek ne, . Oe atl aero ed eineulshed himealt | "Bresently the nd hull settlement ‘low ¢’ git Miss Dora draw dar ‘i mals than any other collector. | emerged. figure. | picters fer nuthin’,”’ she remarked sarcasticall; | in FAlden Loring, ‘who accompanied ‘ae ns | First one elbow made an angle in the air,then | "Taint a Brie t have Pearl drawed far far as Riceboro', has doubtless before him a| the other. “Ef the little fool ain't a cryin’,” | nuthin’,” said Ambrose, trying to propitiate, | the rominent career as a naturalist. He proceeded | snarled Medlark. “I gwine fitch her a big pail scaly bark hickory From Georgia to Arizona, there asswting Dr. |_ He walked back tothe house, kicking the | nuts. Will I fotch ye one, tow?’ Fisher, another experienced and efficient worker | frozenearth with his heel and grumbling to him-| * “Do hush the critter! shout phy eal ay self, Usually he was gay. open-tempered and | peased Caledonia, in her ‘The results of this work, aé made significant but today he felt himeelf aggrieved. | &Sealy bark hickory water , by the comparisons and generalizations far-| Every year he invested what money he could | lerin’ in scaly bark hickory nuts nished by the labors of the skilled scientists in | Spare in lotteries and always 85 went to the| Poor Ambrose was duml | the Washington office, arg of great end varied | Louisiana lottery. Nobody knew of it, for he| ‘Trackin’ | utility to the intelligeut ageiculturist. But | walked six miles ao ania | above the merely financially profitable con- SS money, years | steecation is the educational value of this re- pater weg ots n PICTURESQUE COSTUMES. | search. The propriety of having it done at sci a ‘Yor will find a picturesque little gown repre- | —_ — is one 3: Pag books sented in the third illustration. It may be for ablic a £ E te i Fy Ls 5 [ 5 s Y iu i : i ag ge H ty i! : 3 At ag | Fi 1 i : made up in various materials, but more appro- Re eerie nn Bi eeh ens eee Bie Wi te ha (ety Sms asta beset | “per ie Pei eineen, Sse jouse a sleeves shot plain t was ‘undemonstrativeness, geo The particular charm of this costufse Heng work of publi mere i properly a | with his lottery quit you' ince souibaeain tin esenae "Bheee — © original use made of a fichu effect. | matter for public sup} Gon. bere ¥ het back vis }. showing how it 4 board come to him he. . Yer all will now and be @ lull, it.is true, in ‘ou get here a row of 28 repped Rvsserx. J Tuomrsox. | 1 ea. Z As they hed welch ono wt wach scraps of converes- Eva bis ecret s PeatL .“I'ms cipberin’ suthin’ “and just think, he walked st ten months brooght work was due 5 aa o ‘work was due to is SBaicus ney Cote Scena el ea rate mene datges | 5 | He was going fob money be three in knee — This, hike coped oes prong Ap liad Lag congas “When the Marine Band plays the ‘Chariot | follows: ¢hild elocutionists and child dancers will follow Hot compute. He hummed Bace’'—_' for it will the throngs which betake themselves to the rhyme: we Se Famenters of Gee stenaner ase by no | surpeion resorts and we shall have and —s and ee rural 7. acting and tableaux in the hotel parlors. This sound yeep won- ry eraze has not only come upon the parents, but as ceased at all, until floor. ‘upon the little ones, 00, and they have uttered, lag ge Pe —— s tive wail when the strong hana of oe So eee a the interfered to prevent them from ‘lemonade made from the ice that | station ia public. These tiny Carmenelias Sietée tue teats ~ Toco beteed us on cll siden tees sean little *