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v BE— 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1895. T0 SING 1T IN SCHOOLS, “The Golden Corn,” a New National Song, May Be Introduced. AS SUNG IN EASTERN CITIES School Directors Interested in Placing It Before the Children. The Board of Education will be asked at its next meet to introduce into the schools a new national song, “The Golden which has been sung for some time he gublic schcols of Boston and Some members of the board and are highly pleased h the proposition to have the school nd make them familiar with the nal emblem, and some in- fluential Jadies interested in it have received ances of support from those directors. When the national convention composed met in Washing- corn was selected above all tlowers | as emblem of Americ: of Con plants the | The Cost Held to Be a Small One Com- | three of its aspects. | regard to its naval history, from which it Professor Carlos Troyer, Composer of “The Golden Corn.” = anthem in e poetically e following tasseled its natal hour with men 1 the ¥ loved air: e farthest seas ure and grace, slden Corn.” the sea, eur stands slém of the § untold, as born, s set to music by Professor or of this city, who, as_well as | ician and composer of an « e A an arc t of science uni songs are Carlos T being ar rank quently are on file | tates Bureau of Ethnology. in the ited “The Golden ( a song well adapted to festive and N occasions, and ‘bas alr idespread recogni- tion throug schools and choral sc original in concepti a classical cast it b National song, reflectir sublimit dna De The melody is of ¢ medium com; forms juartet for rhythm renders | y_for this | “The Star- spung Heave: sung churche that “A an English r ) bia" can be the melodies of the ancient WEBSTER ON POTATOES. A Lecture to a Party of Traveling Com- panions. It was in the year 1849, the year of the gold fever, that I was on a train returning to Philadelphia from H sbhurg, Pa., and Daniel Webster was in the same car. Every one on board not only felt the influ- | ence of Webster's overpowering person- | ality but the majesty of his thoughtful Jook and speech, as well as that grandeur of simplicity in the familiar ease shown toward some plain but intell farmers | whom he was entertaining, while they at- tentively listened to his agreeable talk upon the subject of the simple and unam- bitious potato. Others upon the train hearing of Mr. Webster's presence on board, before his talk was over he had an audience of nearly a carful of people. Said one of the farmers from Lancaster: “Have vou noticed how the Meshanocks and the S 1 r foothold and be- e ki bad and tasteless? They are not dry and mealy, as they were a few seasons ago. I believe they are run- ning out.” Then some one remarked that it was almost time for new varieties to appear. < Mr. Webster at this point took a modest hand in the talk, apologetically excusing himself, and told his listeners how he had warked upon his father’s farm in his youth, and also upon his own at Franklin, N. H., and he bad had some experience With the potato; knew something about it, although perhaps not enough to hurt, but he considered himself the better from hav- ing had some agricultural experience. Having gained their attention, he now Jaunched into a pleasant little potato his- tory and held their interest in the subject until the end. Mr. Webster went back to the remote times of the close of the fifteenth century, when the potato was a scrub lant and the crew of the Pinta, with Jolumbus, had landed upon the Western continent, and founa comfort in itas an article of food; how it was afterward carried to Europe by the Spaniards and cultivated with the” tomato, merely as a garden curiosity; how Sir Francis Drake, Hawkins and Raleigh in 1583 trans- {the estimate is fairly and "honestly pre- | pared with the great value of the scie | are identical. | upon the delic liké that of perfume, | wise so noticeable, nor identify the flavors of diffe t kinds of food and | tronomy a fine art, said that of all the planted it in Ireland and Bngland, all the time undervaluing its ment, and how long a while it took to awaken within the public mind a knowledge of its worth; Low finally a confession was extorted from European high authority that the potato and Indian corn were the two greatest blessings America ever gave tothe world; how, notwithstanding all this, they were still used as food for cattle and horses, though in a pinch it was thought they might help bridge over a starving people who had met with failure in the crop of cereals. Mr. Webster related that even in Wash- ington’s day the Father of his Country had proclaimed loudly against the vile “and vulgar horse food,” as he called it, known then and now as corn meal, and which was not considered good enough for the soldier. Mr. Webster spoke of the German and French people, who wouldn’t eat either of these articles of food; that when Antoine Parmentier, a philan- thropist, had helped on and ims»ro\'ed their cultivation and urged their daily use, Johnny Crapaud would not listen to him. Finally the Government felt the need of aiding this business, and the gendarmes were placed around the potato field, plenti- fully planted with them, as if to guard a highly precious commodity, and Louis ordered the potato blossom to be worn by the ladies of the court. Thisdone the tide turned in favor of the poor, perse- cuted potato, and under the loftier name of pomme de terre it came out of the fire of opposition cooked, as it is now said to be by the French cuisine, in some 300 dif- 1t ways. By this compulsory recog- nition it now holds an honored place upon the table, an indispensable adjunct. In- terrupted occasionally, but respectfully, however, by some questions his_hearers now and then put to him, Mr. Webster cheerfully continued his potato talk for nearly an hour, and it was an admirable help to lessening the monotony of the trip, I can assure you.—Baltimore American. ANTAROTIO EXPEDITIONS. paratively. The naval point of view which Mr. Clements Markham took in his address at the Royal United Service Institution re- viewed an Antarctic expedition under The first was with appeared that every adventure into the frozen south has been taken under the auspices of our navy; the second, with re- gard to its effect on the service; and the 1, with regard to its expense. Its his- v is thrilling and worthy of the best al traditions, and some of the adven- tures of Sir John Ross with the Erebus d the Terror might have inspired a 1son to give us something memor- his accoust of the great gale at ays the London Graphi antages to the s i sum p in Mr. Markl An Antarctic expedition ic t ng squadron of great value to a training squadron with double romotion and openings for gain- nd distinction. 1t will supp! tors to return to the ated by n on the score of | nse. t the most it would cost £90,000—the cost of two ships like the Alert nd Discovery—and as a matter of fact we | uld have two serviceable ships for use hen the expedition came to an | . in the cases of the | , the Arctic expedition | sisted had the use of them | y for eighteen months. | “Butsince then the Alert has been in | constant use, doing valuable service in Ma- lan ¢ in Hudson Bay and else- wing twenty years, | as been incessantly used during the same period | and still in use. Consequently | the expedition ought only to be charged | 1bout a_twentieth of the £80.000, or | ed over three years in the case | i ,or £1500 a y same applies to s¢ 1s of all kinds. It is mislead the whole cost to the expedi- | timate should only be for the | wear and tear during three years. When | = for dock 1. is t wiil be found that the real cost is pared, mere trifle about £ om- ific ults, and with the other benefits to the ¢ and to the nation, that will be de- ed from the Antarcticexpedition.” e e ARE THE SENSES IDIENTIGAL? It Is Claimed That the Power to Taste and Smell Have the Same Source. The man who smoked in the dark one night and discovered that when he couldn’t see the smoke all the pleasure of burning tobacco was lost is not more remarkable than the individual who has now discov- ered that the senses of taste and of smell This gentleman advances the theory that the sense of taste depends number of minute tentacles which constitute the surface of the tongue, and he says that some men have three times as many of these as others. The latter never become gourmands, and their | e of smell is, says the observer, de- | ficient. | In proof of these assertions it is said that | when you have a bad cold you almost lose | both th ou can neither de- 20,000 & year—a Ti ser drinks, The smoker who has a severe cold finds that his cigar or cigarette vields but little pleasure, and he finds that his glass of claret or champagne at dinner is almost as flat to the taste as so much water. Brillat-Savarin, who lifted cooking from the kitchen to the library and made gas- senses in their natural state taste procures us the greatest number of enjoyments, For this he gives six reasons, as follows: 1se the pleasure of eating, taken in tion, is the only one that is not followed by fatigue. Because it is common to every age, time and condition. Becanse it must return once at least every day, and may during that space of m;\r pe y repeated two or three times. Becau i i other ple their abser Because its sensations are at once more ]"‘E"ii“g than others and more subject to our will. Because we have a certain special but in- definable satisfaction, arising from the in- stinet nowledge that, by the very act | of eating, we are making good our losses and prolonging our existence. | These are the reasons advanced by this eminent writer to prove that taste is the most important of the senses. He wasalso one of the first to suspect the identity of the senses of taste and smell, and hg said that of two guests seated at the same ban- quet one may have delicious sensations while the other seems to eat only because compelled, the reason being that the latter has tongue and nostrils only poorly fur- nished for enjoyment. It is thus that the empire of taste has its blind men and its deaf.—New York World. sures, and even console us for . Enjoying Unearned Glory. The boa constrictor who some months a{z_o astounded humanity by swallowing alive his seven-foot mate, digesting him as u_)mp]:tccnl]zy as if he had been an oyster, died at the Zoological Gardens on Tuesday. Another snake has been_transferred to his case, and is accepting without explanation the admiration bestowed upon him, in ignorance of the fact that he is not the llmrolof the memorable incident.—London Truth. S e | Bryant, and those s Pror. Haixes, chemist to the Chicago Board of Health, says he has found the Royal Baking Powder the purest and strongest, and superior to all others in every respect. DRESSMAKING N SCHOOL How the Girls at the Franklin Grammar Stitch, Darn and Buy. PRINCIPAL KENNEDY'S SUCCESS One of the Most Interesting Prac- tical Features of the Public Schools. The Franklin Grammar School may be a little hard on the dressmakers and on smart shopkeepers who want to make extra profits, but it affords a magnificent jllustration of what practical education may be in the public schools. | ‘There are 225 young girls becoming ex- | pert with the needle on scientific prin- and bring all sorts of mending from home. They are engecrl‘;:]ly encouraged to bring to a school any jobs of repairing, such as a mother’s torn silk dress or a torn lace curtain. The girls learn to put on patches that can hardly be seen, and to darn rents with exquisite deftness. Stocking-darning is made of special importance, and they do work that few of their grandmothers could match. From repairing the girls go to making undergarments and then handkerchiefs, aprons and almost everything made of cloth belonging to a home, and_ they learn how to cut them and make them well and pretty. Finally dresses are reached, and most of the dresses that the girls now wear were made by themselves. So far they have been tanght only how to select patterns and cut from theni, but a system of dress-cutting will soon be taught. There is plenty of material to work on besides seraps of goods, for the girls bring from home every kind of material to make up. Names of materials are among the mnn‘yz things taught constantly besides the worl with the needle. From'the first day every scrap and piece of goods is named, studied and criticized, and now most of the Frank- lin School girls are experts on cloths. The; learn where the different kinds of clot: come from and how they are made. ‘They can tell just {mw much cotton, wool, “silk or linen is in a sample, just about what it ought to cost, how likely it work began 8733 garments have been made. Most of Franklin School girls must soon go to earning a living. Since the sewing class was started eight of the girls have had to quit schooland go tosewing. Dress- makers require of apprentices six months’ service without wages, and tailors and mill- iners will pay a girl nothing, as a rule, for a good while. Of five of the girls who went to work at once for dressmakers but one had to work two weeks without re- ceiving wages, so delighted were their em- ployers with their unexpected skill with the necedle. Two, who went into a millin- ery-shop, got wages at once. One, who went into a tailor-shop, was paid after the first month. Some time ago Principal Kennedy ad- dressed 300 letters to mothers, asking if the instruction in sewing had been of assistance to “their daughters in_the per- formance of household duties; if it had developed habits of neatness and order in them, and if the mothers addressed fav- ored teaching sewing in the public schools. But one negative reply was received to any question. Every reply testified to the ap- preciation of the mothers. Some wrote that the work made their daughters neat and orderly; others that it made them helpful at home; that they had no time to teach their danghters themselves;'that the girls took more interest in sewing at school than at home, ete. The value of this educational work in AN B 7 THE SEWING CLASS IN SESSION. [From a photograph by Mason.] ciples down there on Eighth street, near | are one of the most interesting features of the | special work being done in the public schools. A comprehensive exhibition of the sewing work done there, with accom- | anying statistics and other information, would excite interest among educators anywhere. i Sewing is slowly being adged to the | work of some other schools, but it is not as extensive as cooking, though it may be- come so. The first sewing, as well as the | first cooking, in the public schools, was done in the Franklin Grammar School | nearly three years ago, asa result of the | efforts and ideas of Principal James G. Kennedy, who believes in practical educa- tion as well as in culture. It was largely the success of Mr. Kennedy’s experiment that led to extending the work to other along with the otherfeatures of the | training work that is steadily In only one other school has t been employed a special teacher | ing. | A visit to the Franklin Grammar School would remove any one’s doubts as to the propriety of teaching girls in school how to use needles as well as fractions. The Jocation of the school in a community of working people adds to the interest. The instruction is given by Mrs. Kennedy, the | principal’s wife, who is employed as a spe- cial teacher of sewing. Sne isa cultured | lady, who has had several years’ successful experience as a regular teacher, and these ualifications have been very important factors in her success with the sewin classes. Such a teacher should be muc| more than an expert needlewoman. A large, light, neat classroom is devoted to the sewing. Thirty-five low chairs sur- round a number of Jow tables. The black- boards are used to illustrate every variety of stitch, the way to cut patterns, ways to | g, how garments should hang, | e ideas, etc. There is one sewing- | machine, but it is little used. Thereisa | good supply of needles, thread, scissors, tapes and other working materials. The | instruction is given now to the first four grammar grades, and in the two higher | grades attention is devoted to cooking. | Each girl spends about three-quarters of | an hour in the sewing-room twice a week, | the different classes going to the sewing- room by turn, and Mrs. Kennedy has sev- eral different classes before her each day. | The course has been extended to cover three years of school work, so that with | is to fade, how much it will shrink and how it will wear, aged to do the_shopping for themsely and their families, and they are most of them now keen and intelligent shoppers that small, sharp storekeepers do not get ahead of for a cent. Sometimes a girl brings in some starched muslin that was bought for linen, or some other evidence of a petty swindle, but no girl in that class will ever get fooled again that way. The girls discover and discuss bargains with as much interest and probably as much i telligence as any of their mothers. 1l be great. A great number of houses will be more thrifty, tidy and _full of com- fort because of the sewing classes in the Franklin Grammar School, and many lives | will be brighter and better. I A ROUGH SHAVE. The Natives of Jamaica Use Broken | Bottles for Razors. The natives of Jamaica have no need to | buy soap, for the woods abound with | (7 IN THE DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT. Good taste is constantly developed. The girls are taught what kinds and colors of goods are best and most appropriate for different uses. They are taught harmony of color and the artistic appropriateness of figures in goods, and of buttons and trim- mings on a dress. Personal neatness is rigidly insisted on. Embroidery and other decorative work is riven as a reward, and the girls take a de- ighted interest in every step of the course. Few are taught to sew, even crudely, at home, and most would grow into woman- hood hardly able to do more than sew on a SAMPLES OF STITCHES ILLUSTRATED ON THE BLACKBOARD. the two years of cooking the Franklin Grammar School girls study domestic econ- omr for five years. Some of the classes will be found doing elementary stitching and some making dresses. The little girls learn stitches first, and there are more kinds of stitches shown in working drawings and samples of work than most people have heard of. Basting scraps together comes first, and the basting the irls soon do looks too pretty to undo. 'wo short stitches and one lan‘g1 one are re- peated as though done by machinery. The girls advance to the simple running stitch, and then on to overcasting, backstitching, hemstitehing, felling, overhanding, button- hole working and all the rest of the pri- mary operations of a needle. They learn just how to put in gussets and facings, and pretty soon they enter the great domain of mendil Mrs, That igs where the work soon tells. Kennedy allows no torn or buttonless clothes among the girls of that school. The girls mend their own clathes in the class, hutton. Before the work was begun many of the girls would come to school with torn and dirty clothes, buttons off shoes and a careless as:wenrance, or would dress nicely with no_display of taste. Now every girl in the school Jooks neat and bright, wears an apron she made herself and would be ashamed of a rent or a missing button. The influence of the sewing classes has been felt in the homes of the children in many ways, practically and morall{. Every idea gathered and every bit of sk 11 acquired will be of constant use throufi life, and many homes and lives will substantially bettered. uring the first six months of the pres- ent school year, besides all the purely practice work done, there were worked in the classes 1200 button-holes, 446 stockings brought from home were darned, and there were made 100 undergarments, 63 aprons, 93 handkerchiefs, 39 stocking-bags, 6 wrap- pers, 4 petticoats, 8 suits, 3 dress skirts, 8 tidies and a lot of pillow-shams, cushions, splashers, doll dresses, etc. BSince the plants whose Jeaves and buds supply very well the place of that indispensable article. Among these is the soap tree, so called, though it is more a bush than a tree. Its bulb, when rubbed on wet clothes, makes a beautiful lather, which smells much _ like common brown s0ap. The Jamaica negroes, some of them who are great dandies n their way, make a soap ont of a cocoanut oil and homemade lye; and a fine soap it is, smooth and fragrant. This cocoanut-oil soap is used for shaving. When a man wists to shave he starts out with his cocoanut-shell cup and his donkey-tail brush and bottle. It is never any trouble to find an empty bottle in Jamaica, even in the mountains, says a writer in Pearson’s Weekly. At least twenty generations of thirsty people have lived there, and thrown away the empty bottles. The man carries no mirror, because he has none to carry. Not one negro cabin in a dozen hasa cheap looking- glass. But nature supplies the mirror as well as the soap. The man goes to a con- venient pool in the mountain stream, where the water is still, and there is his mirror. He breaks his bottle on a stone, and picks out a good sharp piece. Then he lathers his face profusely and begins to “mfie away with his piece of glass, which works almost as well as a sharp razor. The men rarely cut themselves in this operation. ‘At first,” says a writer, ‘I trembled for them, but afterward I tried the method for myself, and soon became almost an expert at it.” ———————— A NEW WAY TO DINE. The Jolly Fellow Who Invites Himself and Then Disappears. I happened to be one of a party of six dining the other night at an uptown res- taurant. Most of us were strangers to each other, having met only in the afternoon in the course of business. They were a banker, a politician, a lawyer, a theatrical manager and a something else, [ do not yet know wkat, in that company. The something else made himself exceedingly agreeable. He was, in fact, the life of the party. He was politeness itself, and his wit and epigrams were fetching. After dinner he rather suddenly and mysteri- ously dropped out of sight and was missed, says a writer in the New York Press. “Who was the gentleman?”’ I asked of the theatrical manager. “I'm sure I don’t know,’” he replied. I thought he was a friend of yours.” “No, I never saw him ~before. I sup- osed_he was a friend of yours,” I said. hen I put the same question to each of the others and found that the man was un- known to any of the party. He had simply invited himself to dine with us, behaved like a jolly good fellow and disappeared at the right moment. The only thing we ggvg _fl;sinn him is that he forgot to pay is bill. B Vs Tue Royal Baking Powder avoids all de- composition of the flour as caused by yeast rising, thereby saving a large percentage of its most nutritive elements, making the flour go one-fourth further. - | practical life cannot be measured, but it | The girls are encour- | wi | PAINE'S CELERY GOMPOURD Best Spring Remed y in the World-— It Makes People Well. There is one true specific for diseases ar and that is Paine’s celery compound, so generally prescribed by physi ing from a debilitated nervous system, ans. It is probably the most remarkable remedy that the scientific research of this country has produced. Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M.D., LL.D., of Dartmouth Coliege first prescribed what is now known the world over as Paine’. s celery compound, a positive cure for dys- pepsia, biliousness, liver complaint, neuralgia, rheumatism, all nervous diseases and kidney troubles. For the latter Paine’s celery compound has succeeded again and again where everything else has failed. The medical journals of th ountry have given more space in the last few years to the many remarkable cases where the use of Paine’s celery compound has made people well than to any other one subject. TEA AS AN INTOXICANT. i Tipplers Who Find in It a Substitute for Alcohol. | No longer, it appears, may we speak of tea as the cup which cheers, but does not inebriate, says the New York Tribune. It | ,indeed, still cheer. It certainly does inebriate with most deplorable effects; | ranking, as an intoxicant, a good second | to alcohol itself. Many lay observers have | long suspected that such was the case. Their suspicions are now confirmed by pro- fessional authorities in a manner so start- ling as to make it seem desirable that certed action should be taken to check the evil. To some, perhaps, the idea of a tem- perance crusade against the teapot will ap- pear grotesque. Yet, in all seriousness, that very thing is urgently needed. According to stati. recently furnished to the Medical News by Dr. James Wood of Brooklyn, of all the patients applying for treatment at the chief dispensary of that citv no less than 10 per cent are tea drunkards. They are not aware of the fact. No one asks to be cured of what we | may call theamania. But the symptoms | of their cases point unmistakably to over- | indulgence in tea and that presumption on | inquiry is confirmed by their confession They suffer from headache, vertigo, somnia, palpitation of the heart, mental | confusion, nightmares, nausea, hallucin- | ations, morbid depression of spiri sometimes from suicidal impulses, a formidably list of symptoms. patients are of both = sexes and ages, and confess drinking a pintand a half to fifteen pints of tea each day. Another interesting fact is that nearly one-third of them are of Irish birth, and it is safe to assume that of the nearly two-thirds of American birth a large pro- ortion are of Irish parentage. For inlIre- and itself tea-poisoning has long been rec- ognized as a widely prevalent evil, con- tributing largely to the number of inmates of insane asylums, and here, as most housekeepers know, the most inveterate | and inordinate tea-drinkers are the domes- tic servants of Irish origin. Itis an inter- esting question, worthy of investigation, whetger this prevalence of tea intoxication among that race is because they use tea more ?reely than other people, or because their nervous temperament is more sus- cegtible to its effects. he evil of tea-drinking is due, however, not only to the amount consumed, but also to the manner in which it is prepared. An unmeasured quantity of the leaves, says Dr. Wood, is thrown into the teapot and an unmeasured quantity of boiling water added. In any time from ten to thirty minutes this infusion is used. Then new leaves are thrown in with the old, which have been left to soak, and more water is added, and so on. Sometimes leaves are thus kept soaking for a day or more. The result is that the decoction isloaded, not only with thein, but with from 7 to 17 per cent of tannin, and with _other even more deleterious substances. This form of prep- aration is almost universal among kitchen servants and among shopand factory girls, who also are great tea-drinkers, and is too | often practiced among other people of small means, who do not wish to waste a singleleaf so long asthereisany ‘“‘strength” in it. Against this particular phase of the evil | a crusade may well be directed. Tea- | drinkers should be taught how to prepare | the beverage properly, so that it will be | comparatively innocuous, and should be | warned that such decoctions as they are making are nothing else than rank poisons. Physicians doubtless give such advice to their patients whom they find suffering | {from tea intoxication. But the mistress of | the household should give it to her domes- | tics and enforce it upon them, too; and the | city missionary and dispenser of charity | among the poor uhouh})emake the same | facts known to all whom they visit. This is no light matter. There is serious reason | to believe that many cases of suicide and ‘L insanity are directly due to tea-poisoning, | while the number of chronic invalids from | the same cause in this city alone are to be reckoned by thousands. It is high time for the evil to be recognized and checked. ———— Begged a Thousand Pardons. A charming young woman, who lives | the West Side, and her youx‘l man iour?(r; the Summit-street cars packed to the doors last Friduy evening when they started | home from the Auditorium. " Nothing | daunted, Miss West Side sought a place upon the sfie‘p of the platform. She had barely room for one foot, and, as the car lurched and heeled, she clung to Charley’s big, strong hand. Occasionally, under cover of the darkness, she squeezed it ten- derly, because—well. because she and Char- ley are engaged. And so she held on to the hand for many blocks. “‘Charley,” said she, “‘aren’t you about worn out holding me on the car with your on or, tired hand?”’ “What?" cried Charley, in a horrified M denioisalinloch ademoiselle looked up and then dropped the hand frantically. Sge had been llx);)led ing to amd squeezing the hand of an entire stranger, a young fellow with black mus- mc}lue gnd a pl?asing eye. 5 “I beg a thousan ms!” gasped mademo%seile. iy el “Don’t mention it,"” replied the stranger. ‘‘You were entirely welcome.”’—Kansas City Star. ————— | a ruin, an absolute wreek, The Story of a Second Husband and a Tailor, “Oh, what a perfectly adorable diamond pin!” cried the young woman with the bonnet. , and my husband gave it to me of own accord,” replied the young woman with the black silk gown. “You mean he thought he did.” “I mean nothing of the kind. T'1l1 die if T -don’t tell somebody, and it might just as well be you as anybody else; but don’t tell your husband. “I won’t. I’ll let him think your hus- band gave it to you out of pure generos- ity—he hates to have anyboay get ahead of him.” “I know. Well, my ne W gown came home and, to tell the truth, I took most of my rage out on An- tonius, because I wasn't afraid of him, and 1 was of her. A day or two later his new suit came home from the tailor. It wasa perfect fit, except that the coat sleeves were half an inch or so too long. Itold him that it didn’t really matter much, for they could easily be shortened. He replied that he wasn’t afraid of his tailor if I was of my dressmaker.”’ "Humph! He would be if his tailor was a woman.’ ‘ “M’hm. He said he.would go right downand give him a piece of his mind— 8, 1 | that he'd tell him he wasn’t fit to make a pair of bicycle bloomers, Indeed, he used language that I was really That made him more ferocious such awful alarmed. | yet. and I trembled for the consequences.’” “Oh, well, you know it takes nine tailors to make a man.” “‘So Antonius remarked. I tried to calm him by reminding him that the poor man was probably a weak, nervous creature, with a large family depending upon him, but he refused to listen and rushed o downtown.” “Then he sent a messenger with the coat and a polite note saying the sleeves were too long.” *‘Nothing of the kind. He came back in a cab an hour or so later with his overcoat torn, a piece of court plaster on his cheek, and, oh, such an eye!”’ “*How cross he must have been!” “Oh, not as much so as you might imag- ine. I didn’tlose my presence of mind. I just cried out: ‘* ‘Antonius Bittersweet, I hope you didn’t quite kill that poor tailor?" ” “‘And he got you the pin the first day his eye was fit for him to go out? Well, I'm sure you are a remarkable woman.” “Oh, well, not as remarkable as you might think,” modestly replied the yoing woman with the black silk gown. “You must remember that Antonius is my sec- ond husband.”—Chicago Tribune. HOW WOMEN LUNCH When They Are Downtown on Shop- ping Excursions. “I suppose no man ought to complain of | that Which puts money in his pocket,’” re- marked a well-known doctor to me the other day, “and therefore it is not a matter that I am going to move heaven and earth to reform, but at the same time I don't mind giving anybody the benefit of my opinion that the lunch parlors that have sprung up in the shopping districts have been productive of much dyspepsia among women, especially that class whom I might call ‘chronic shoppers.’” But that such is the case is, of course, purely the fault of the women themselves, who persist in gorging themselves on pies and cakes and meringues and creams and pul , and all manper of concoctions that are vrepared with an eye single to their capacity for tickling the palate, without regard to ‘their digestive qualities. “It is a fact which has brought many dollars to my pocket that when it comes to ordering what they call a light lunch most women will order the very things that they ought most to avoid. Instead of the plain and wholesome they will choose the variegated and bilious. They are much worse sinners than men in this respect. ‘Where a man would take a ham or tongue sandwich, a woman, nine times out of ten, wounld select, by way of a starter, a cream puff or a_tart, or some indigestible com- pound witha * highfaiutin’ name. Though at home they feed with some regard to the eternal fitness of things, when on these < luncheon orgies,’ as I call them, women seem to abandon themselves to a reckless desire to gratify their tastes, utterly re- gardless of the pains and penalties which it entails on their stomachs. Everythin, %5 sweet and sour viands, hot and cold uids, light and solid compounds, without any regard to natural order and precedence. “There is something coming, too, that is going to make matters worse. That is the ‘rapid_transit lunch,’ for women in the shopping district, as we have it in the downtown business districts for men. Then when women have simply to stretch out their hands to get whatever tempts their appetites most, and in an at- mosphere where fast feeding is conta- gious, many will soon fall to wonder- ing what makes them so cross and ir- ritable, and their husbands will be rackin, their brains for excuses for stayingou% late more frequently. But as a doctor with. a keen appreciation of the good things There are five miles of shelving in the new Boston public library. that money will buy, the prospect is that I can at least regard with Efiiloso;&? cal resignation.”—New York Herald.